Thats where were at. The Senate Overwhelmingly passed a 2 trillion stimulus package hoping to ease the burden on families during this pandemic. Im proud to announce not a single senator voted against this 2 trillion rescue bill. A worst jobless numbers of all time. The u. S. Unemployment claims soared to 3. 3 million. A Health Pandemic has become a financial pandemic. There are now more than 60,000 cases in the united states. New york accounts for more than half of those cases. You wouldnt even think about putting the damper on whats going on in new york. That would be outlandish as its going up. No doubt. The family of former fbi agent Robert Levenson believes he died while in iranian custody. Even the easter bunny needs protection. Bakers are adding protective face masks to the easter treats. All that oh, my god. Oh, my god. A reporter bails after a Close Encounter with some bison. I aint messing with you. Oh, no. Oh, no. And all that matters. The nba with mike breen doing a psa about washing your hands. He turns around and drills this 15, 16foot jumper. On cbs this morning. The white houses Coronavirus Task force is advising that even people who left new york already should selfquarantine for 14 days, regardless of where they are in the country or in the world. And thats going to be hard for anyone who has to look after a new yorker who is like visiting them. Going to be people complaining about their quarantine friends. Like he wont eat. He says the pastrami is too try and the bagels arent boiled. I tried ordering pizza and he cussed at me for ten minutes. This mornings eye opener is presented by toyota. Trevor nails it again. Its really all part of the new normal, tony. This 14day quarantine. Even if you want to travel somewhere, you cant really. You dont want to either. Welcome to cbs this morning. Were coming to you once again from the historic ed sullivan theater in new york city. Home to the late show with stephen colbert. Stephen is on hiateus. The cbs Broadcast Center is temporarily closed out of the phrase were all getting to know very well, an abundance of caution. The late show will return on monday but not from here. Stephen and his team will be working remotely like so many of us are today. You might notice there are only two of us at the table. Anthony mason is joining us from home because someone in his family has a possible symptom, possible symptom of the virus. Everyone is okay. And thats good news. Important to stress. Anthony is fine. His kids are fine. His wife is fine and everybody wants to stay that way. Well begin with this. The news, of course, not so good. The u. S. Death toll in the coronavirus pandemic is soaring with a total number of deaths in this country rising to more than 1,000. The virus is also having a devastating impact on the american economy. The numbers out this morning also not good from the department of labor show that jobless claims rose to a new record, nearly 3. 3 million in the last week alone. Devastating is definitely the word for it. That number is more than 10 times the number from the week before and its nearly five times higher than the previous record set 38 years ago. To talk to us about how bad the coronavirus is slamming the economy, were joined by cbs News Business analyst Jill Schlesinger. Good morning. This is at the upper end of what most people were expecting this morning. Will it continue . I think it wishlll, unfortunately. We had this oneweek spike and this is really the tip of the iceberg. We know there have been countless layoffs in industries, sectors, Small Businesses and we also know that many of the state unemployment websites actually went down. So as they get more money and more federal relief to make sure those systems work smoothly, i think well see these claims numbers continue. To be at least for three weeks, four weeks, really until we understand how many of those folks who got laid off or furloughed might get back on to the payrolls of their employers. Remember, the federal government just said for companies that laid people off if they bring those people back, they may be entitled to loans that could be forgiven. So that could be a good aspect to get people back on to the payroll system. Jill, weve got a record unemployment number, but we also have a record 2 trillion stimulus. The largest in modern history, what one investor called a monetary bazooka. And that seems to have comforted the markets, despite these numbers. Yes, its amazing to imagine you get a horrible number like we got today, this over 3 million in weekly claims, and stocks are trading higher this morning by about 2. 5 . By the way, this would be the third up day for markets, which seems like a miracle considering s. Said, ipened in the last few mo the stock et, they are reflecting some hope that things could get better. We saw this trap actually back in 2008. Markets stabilized. They went higher. Only to fall further when more Economic Data were released. We need to understand the depth and length of this economic pandemic to really get a feel for how stocks and businesses and real people will be doing in the coming months. Jill schlesinger, thank you very much. Well see you later on. Before these unemployment numbers came out, the Senate Unanimously approved an historic 2 trillion relief bill meant to ease the economic pain of the coronavirus. Now it offers hundreds of billions of dollars to Big Companies and Small Businesses, too. Along with Cash Payments to Many Americans. Nancy, whats next here . Ol hil well, gayle, the bill now moves to the house. And senators tell us that once it passes there, some of this money could be put to use right away. Especially those Small Business loans that convert to grants. Banks that are already set up to turn those loans around could get that money to companies within 36 hours. Unemployment insurance for the 3 Million People who we now know have signed up. That insurance should go up by 600 a week. By next week. And those Cash Payments, 1200 for a lot of individuals, more for families, those could be directly deposited into your account within the next three weeks or so. Now if the irs doesnt have your account info on final it could take longer. Up to four months for the irs to mail you a paper check. Leaders are hoping that the bills overwhelming victory in the senate last night, 960 will pave the way for swift passage in the house tomorrow where leaders are hoping that they can pass it by something called a voice vote which will require only a portion of house members to take that journey back here to washington to cast a vote. Millions of people waiting for that vote, nancy. Dr. Anthony fauci, the top Infectious Disease expert, warned last night that we need to be prepared for a possible second cycle of coronavirus later in the year. Paula reid is at the white house following this growing health and economic crisis. Paula, good morning. The president watches the markets closely. We he watches that unemployment number closely. The president has not publicly responded to the unemployment numbers. The president was banking on a Strong Economy to propel him to reelection. These numbers represent a lot of hardship and, according to his top medical expert, this is far from over. Im not going to do anything rash or hastily. I dont do that. But the country wants to get back to work. Reporter after saying tuesday he wanted the country raring to go by easter, President Trump yesterday appeared to couch that goal. Instead suggesting a staggered approach. Well do sections of our country. Big sections of our country that are very little affected by whats taken place. There are other sections very heavily affected. Theres a big difference. Reporter as cases continue to rise, some state leaders remain hesitant to send people back to work. We begin to prematurely open things up, i believe we only throw gasoline on the fire of the virus. Reporter economists and lawmakers on both sides of the aisle have criticized his plan to open the country in just 2 1 2 weeks. But the president accused the media of wantiis chances of re. You tweeted. You said the media wants the country to remain closed. Financially poorly because they think that would be very good as far as defeating me at the polls. There are people in your profession that would like that to happen. Reporter but even the president s top medical experts have warned against setting arbitrary deadlines for resuming normal activities. Youve got to be realistic and youve got to understand that you dont make the timeline. The virus makes the timeline. So youve got to respond in what you see happen. Youve got to go with the situation on the ground is. We know our viewers have a lot of questions about how this virus will continue to impact schooling and the Vice President said education secretary betsy devos, who rarely talks to journalists, will make her debut at the Task Force Briefing on friday. Gayle . That will be very interesting, too. Thank you very much, paula. I wish we had better news for you this morning, but weve reached a grim milestone in the spread of the coronavirus in the u. S. With a nationwide death toll at more than 1,000 people. More than 69,000 reported cases across this country. Nowhere has been harder hit than where we are right now in the new york metro area. One hospital in particular in elmhurst queens had 13 deaths in just 24 hours. Our lead National CorrespondentDavid Begnaud has a look inside that particular hospital. David, its so important to hear from the people right there on the front lines. How are they coping . Gayle, they are struggling. The stories are sobering. If new york city is the epicenter of the coronavirus pandemic nationally, then elmhurst might be the epicenter of the epicenter. You are about to hear from an emergency room doctor who told the New York Times, i dont care if i get in trouble for talking to the media because the world needs to know what were dealing with right now. I dont have the support that i need. And even just the materials that i need physically to take care of my patients. Reporter thats dr. Colleen smith. She gave the New York Times a look inside elmhursts emergency room. All of the patients in this room, they all have covid. Today is getting worse and worse. We had to get a refrigerated truck to store the bodies of patients who are dying. The frustrating thing about all of this is it really just feels like its too little, too late. Like we knew. We knew it was coming. Reporter dr. Smith says they have been scrambling to get more ventilators. These few were this weeks third resupply. Unless people die, i suspect well be back to needing to beg for ventilators again in another day or two. Reporter the head of new yorks Public Hospital system claims that elmhurst has never come even close to running out of ventilators. He says getting supplies and personnel to its hospitals is the systems number one priority. Fema says the federal government delivered 2,000 ventilators to new york yesterday. But the governor of new york says he needs thousands more. We need 30,000. We have in the existing Hospital System 4,000 ventilators. Reporter the governor continues to ask people for mandatory social distancing and he says it may be working. Rates of hospitalizations have actually slowed this week. This is a very good sign and a positive sign. Reporter in nearby new jersey, medical personnel in protective gear evacuated nearly 80 People Living at a woodbridge nursing home after 11 people inside the building tested positive for covid19. Back in new york, the governor is preparing for things to get worse. Makeshift morgue has been built to house the bodies of those who die. Leaders in various offices saying things like were going to be fine. Everythings fine. And from our perspective, everything is not fine. Reporter the governor of new york has been asking hotels here in the new york city area to open their doors and rooms up to these medical Health Care Workers. And the four seasons is an example of one hotel thats said come on in. Well let you stay for free. I want you to know the governor says new york city is working on a plan to close down center streets. Most of them are empty. And open them up to pedestrians to give people a chance to get outside. Get some air so long as they stay socially distanced. That would be a goodvid. Thank you so much. Lets get to dr. David agus who joins us from his home in los angeles to shed light on why things have become so dire here in new york city. Doctor, good morning. We just heard in davids report that one hospital has rented a refrigerated truck to deal with the dead. Theres a makeshift morgue going up at another hospital. Why are things so bad here in new york city . In new york city, its the perfect storm. Flights come in to new york city from all over the world. Came in from china several months ago. Beginning of january. And youve got the subway and streets where people are right next to each other. Socially distancing was a term that was never heard of in new york city because everyone is packed in together. So the virus was able to spread person to person. And were seeing the ramifications of that now. Were seeing it be the epicenter of this country where hospitals are overloaded and literally patients are on gurneys in hallways because there arent places to put them. Its so important we heard from that doctor, dr. Smith who said, i may get in trouble, but people need to know whats going on. I appreciate and applaud her doing that. You also are hearing from medical workers. What are they telling you . Yeah, i mean, the idea that doctors cannot talk about whats happening in the emergency room, to me its just inappropriate. We have to be transparent and able to talk. Im getting calls regularly from doctors across the country and especially in areas that are hrder hit saying, we dont have the resources. Were being forced to reuse our masks. Some hospitals are asking people who have tested positive to come in and take care of other patients with covid. So this is a new era. And its an era of being at war in our own country. And the enemy we cant see. The enemy is this horrible virus. To underscore what you just said there, it stood out to you as well. There are nurses and other medical workers being asked to go into work, despite having tested positive for the virus itself and other reports of nurses where theyve been seeing wear trash bags because they dont have the protective gear necessary to keep going to work. Whats going on here and what could other cities and states dor to prevent that kind of scene . Obviously, we have to be prepared. New york city was the first to have this major, major up tick. Were seeing it in los angeles and San Francisco. We saw it in seattle. And now have to be prepared. And we have to start to pull in the forces. In new york city, they went out to retired doctors and nurses and said will you sign up and help us and over 10,000 signed up and said well go to the front lines and potentially jeopardize our families. If they go in and get sick, many of them had to sleep in their cars. Now hotels like four seasons have stepped up and said well give you a place to stay which is amazing because they cant go home. Thank you, four seasons. Is social distancing working . Well, i think thats the positive. I believe it is working, and i think toward the end of this coming week well see a plateau and then a fall in the numbers. We all our country has stepped up. We are making a difference and were going on offense now. We have drugs that we hope are working and are in trials. And i think were going to turn the tide here. And so we all have to keep doing what were doing. Its so difficult. Theres a delay from social distancing in effect but its going to happen soon. Lets remember that phrase stay home, stay safe. Thank you, dr. Agus. Turning to other news, robert levinson, the retired fbi agent who has been held in iran since 2007 is believed to have died. In a statement, his family said that it recently received information from u. S. Officials that has led both them and us to conclude that our wonderful husband and father died while in iranian custody. Its impossible to describe our pain. Its not clear how or when dr. Levinson died but it does not appear to be related to the coronavirus. Levinson was arrested while in iran on an unauthorized mission for the cia. Not a good day for the levinson family. 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