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Difference. Its friday, march 27th, 2020. Heres todays eye opener, your world in 90 seconds. We have tens of thousands of cases. This is a pandemic that we havent even seen since for over 100 years. Unthinkable just weeks ago, the u. S. Has more confirmed cases of the deadly coronavirus than any other country in the world. Its a tribute to the testing. Were testing tremendous numbers of people. The house expected to follow the senate in passing a 2 trillion stimulus package designed to address the coronavirus pandemic. Well have debate, and then well have a voice vote. U. S. Markets rallied yesterday. The Third Straight day of gains. The most hideous jobless claims number in history, this is the best threeday run since 1931. Nichololas maduro has been charged. R. Kelly is asking for a judge to release him from jail because of the covid19 outbreak. A new york doughnut shop is honoring dr. Anthony fauci trying to help america through the coronavirus pandemic. And all that matters. Hello, joe biden. Whats that hat you have on . New york mets. Supposed to be opening day. Opening day. Wow. You know what this is not the way to win voters, mr. Vice president. I tell you what, its the way to be able to sleep with my wife. Shes a philly girl. On cbs this morning. One little girl isnt particularly pleased with the thought of more home cooking. Chinese food. Chinese is closed, too. That is literally all of us. Its amazing. Bless her heart. All deliveries. Youve got to eat mommys cooking now. Im sorry. Im so sorry. This mornings eye opener is presented by toyota. Just a glimpse into whats going on in homes all around the world with this home isolation. Welcome to cbs this morning. Its been a very long week but were really glad to be here. We are. Even if theres a little distance between us. Were coming to you from the historic ed sullivan theater in new york. Its usually home to the late show with Stephen Colbert which is on hiatus. The cbs Broadcast Center where we normally do the news is closed out of an abundance of caution. The late show returns on monday but they wont be here. Stephen and his team will be working remotely. And there are only two of us here because Anthony Mason is aokay but hes joining us from home throughout this show. Hes there because a Family Member may have a symptom of the virus but everyone is fine. And anthony has not forgotten us. Weve not forgotten him. Well see him later in the broadcast. The u. S. Now has more reported cases of the coronavirus than any other country in the world. Think about that for just a second. There are more than 85,000 across all 50 states. The death toll is about 1300. There are stayathome orders in at least 23 different states. New york city remains the national epicenter of the pandemic. It has more than a quarter of those sickened so far. And this is overwhelming the citys hospitals and first responders. Our lead National Correspondent David Begnaud is in new york. Dafrksd good morning. What are you hearing . The number of hospital zags s hospitalizations in new york jumped. We continue to make calls to doctors and nurses around the city telling us harrowing stories of whats happening inside. But a lot of them dont feel comfortable talking on camera because theyre worried about either being fired. And some of them are worried their hospital may not tell the truth of what is happening inside. But there are some who do feel comfortable coming forward. And thats where were going to start this morning. The hospitals look like a war zone. Dr. Ibbad youseff says the emergency room is overwhelmed and medical staff hes been talking to across new york city are describing similar scenes. People lining up out of the hallway through the ambulance bay with masks on themselves, with oxygen on their nose, oxygen on their face. Elmhurst hospital in queens saw 13 people die in 24 hours on wednesday. To relieve the overcrowding, some patients have been moved to other facilities. And the hospital has added more than 50 additional staff. People come in. They get intubated. They die. The cycle repeats. Its a catastrophe. Reporter marya sherrons brother worked as an assistant nurse manager at mt. Sinai in manhattan. As a child, he suffered from severe asthma. He died after testing positive for the coronavirus. He didnt want his parents to know, so he sent his sister a text saying, cant talk because i choke and cant breathe. He was on a ventilator then. The last thing he did was send her an i love you emoji. The sentiment from inside the workers at that hospital was that he was un as well as everyone else, theyre unnecessarily exposed. And essentially it could have been prevented. Yesterday, in a 24hour time period over 6500 calls which is a record for ems. Reporter Anthony Almojera is a Senior Executive with an ems Officers Union in new york. Emergency workers are being stretched thin. And he is afraid of the exposure his workers are facing consistently. This is what his worst Case Scenario is. Somebody dies. A paramedic or emt is going to die. We have members who work with us who have underlying medical conditions. We have them go home. They go home and grandma is home and they have emphysema, grandma gets it. Grandma dies. Reporter regarding that nurse who died at mt. Sinai hospital, a doctor sent me an internal memo from the hospital which says we have always provided and will always provide our staff with proper protective equipment and we van adequate supply. We also heard from a doctor who says he tested positive, went home for a week, had no fever for three days, and was asked to come back to work. So we wanted to know what are hospitals telling their doctors . We called 20 of them around the city. We heard back from 8. This is what they told us. If a worker has symptoms, they go home for 7 days. Once that worker is asymptomatic, has no more symptoms and once theyre feverfree for three days, they can come back to work. Even if theyre positive. Oh, boy, david. Thats so hard to hear. Its really tough when even the people that we need to help us now need help. Its very, very troubling situation. Thank you very much. Monday marks the end of the administrations 15day slow the spread initiative. President trump has said hell then make a decision about how he wants to move the country forward. Paula reid is at the white house with more on this story. Good morning, paula. Where does the president currently stand on this . Good morning, gayle. The president still appears to want to send at least some americans back to work, but in order to do that, he needs help from state and local leaders who do not appear to be fully on board, especially now that the u. S. Leads the world in the number of confirmed cases of coronavirus. We have to go back. This is the United States of america. Reporter on thursday, President Trump deflected blame for an historic surge in unemployment. Well, its nobodys fault. Certainly not in this country. Reporter and revealed new details about how he plans to encourage state and local leaders to reopen businesses. In a letter to state governors, he said the white house plans to categorize every county in america as high, medium or low risk. We may take large sections of our country that arent so seriously affected and we may do it that way. But weve got to start the process pretty soon. Reporter but one of his top coronavirus experts, dr. Deborah birx, says counties should not resume normal life until theres more data from expanded testing. This will be critical for our future as we Work Together to really understand where the virus is and where it isnt in realtime. Reporter as an increasing number of states issue shelter in place or stayathome orders, the president s push to loosen restrictions was met with some resistance. Im concerned about the desire of the president to ignore potentially the science. Reporter cbs news learned that washington governor jay inslee, whose state has been especially hard hit by the outbreak had a Contentious Exchange with President Trump on a Conference Call with other governors thursday. After the president told the governors the federal government was a backup for them, inslee told them, we dont need a backup. We need a tom brady. The president also criticized michigans governor gretchen whitmer, referring to her as the woman governor and saying that she failed to step up in her response to the virus. She shot back on twitter saying that she has asked repeatedly and respectfully for assistance and called for no more political attacks. Paula, thank you. U. S. Surgeon general dr. Jerome adams is a member of the Coronavirus Task force and joins us from washington. Dr. Adams, good morning to you. Thank you for being here. Good morning. On this program on monday you warned americans that it was going to be a bad week, and that proved to be true. There was normal a tenfold increase in the number of official cases of coronavirus. Can you say now on friday that the worst is still yet to come . Well, its important for people to know that everyones curve is going to be different. New york is going to look different than boise, idaho, or jackson, mississippi, or new orleans. And we know that this week was a particularly bad week for new york. The good news is that china, south korea, are reopening. Italy looks like deaths and cases are going down and in washington and you heard the governor of new york actually say yesterday that their cases have actually leveled off in terms of new cases day by day. So we know we can get through this. Definitely we can get through this, but as a country, should americans gird themselves for whats ahead . Is the worst of this still ahead of us . Well, again, it depends on where you are. Were hopeful next week new york will start to come down because their cases have started to level off. And thats because theyve been aggressive about their mitigation efforts. We see that now the places that have been aggressive about staying at home, about keeping under groups of ten, have been successful. We also see hot spots like detroit, like chicago, like new orleans, that will have a worse week next week than what they had this week. So again, as tony fauci said, the virus and local community are going to determine the timeline. Its not going to be us from washington, d. C. People need to follow their data, make the right decisions based on what their data is telling them. And the good news here is that we have seen testing increase significantly. Were approaching a million tests. Were trying to give people the data so they can make informed decisions about where they are on their timeline and what they should be doing. Dr. Adams, lets talk about ventilators. Doctors and nurses around the country are saying, hello, government, we need ventilators. We need ventilators now. But President Trump seems to have a different take on that. I want you to hear what he said last night and get your response to that. But i have a feeling that a lot of the numbers that are being said in some areas are just bigger than they are going to be. I dont believe you need 40,000 or 30,000 ventilators. You know, you go into major hospitals sometimes, theyll have two ventilators and now all of a sudden theyre saying can we order 30,000 ventilators . Dr. Adams, the president , to our knowledge, has no medical training yet he continues to question the advice from the medical experts and professionals. Is that frustrating to you . Well, you mentioned ventilators. And dr. Birx said this. When you look at some of the projections out there, they are based on worst Case Scenarios and doing something. I heard a reporter yelling at Peter Navarro yesterday, where are the million ventilators. A million ventilators would mean 1 in 300 people in this country were on a ventilator at once. There is nowhere in the world where weve seen that type of spread of coronavirus, not even close. And so some of these projections are a way off. But were leaning into supply. I was on a meeting with the American Society of anesth anesthesiologists. And theyre in communities we heard andrew cuomo ask for ventilators. He gave very specific numbers. Do you think he doesnt know what hes talking about when it comes to this, when hes in Constant Contact with the top new york hospitals, by the way . Well, i think that if you i think thats a fair question and if you talk to experts, dr. Fauci, dr. Birx and others, the models in many cases are way off. New york city, we have people on the ground who have told us there are 1,000 ventilators sitting in a warehouse right now that havent been used. Governor cuomo yesterday said we have resources. Theyre just mismatched. So we sent a fema team to help new york city make sure the resources are getting to where they need. I talked to people in western new york who say theyre furloughing hospitals in western new york state while people in new york city are suffering. We need to make sure we get the right resources to the right people. Were you pleased with the governments response based on what youre saying to us . Are you pleased with how things are going . Pleased is i dont think a fair word because, gosh, there are people dying. My colleagues out there are suffering. Im not pleased with the entirety of the okay, satisfied . Are you satisfied . Take out pleased. Are you satisfied . Pardon . Your satisfied with how things are going . Im not going to be satisfied until we get to the end of this and we see cooperation at every level and Health Care Workers getting what they need. Dr. Adams, you mentioned hot spots. And at the same time, the administration is putting out a letter to governors saying they may have tiers for risk. Different areas of the country would open, others would not. Given the lack of testing in many areas and given that one patient moving from one hot spot to a nonhot spot can ignite a whole new outbreak, how realistic to have those tiers . Are there going to be bans on movement . You heard dr. Birx say 19 out of our 50 states has been doing surveillance testing. And has shown consistently low rates of spread of coronavirus. We also know that the local authorities are the ones who make those decisions. I used to run a state Health Department for three years. We want to give people the tools they need to make the right decisions. Right now there are some places that are going to be new york city. Other places that are going to see low spread. And we want them to have the information to make the right decisions. Were not going to make those decisions from d. C. Well give them the tools, the advice, the data and its guessing to be up to them to decide what they do. Thank you very much, dr. Adams, for being with us. We are hearing emotional stories from some of the Record Number of americans who filed for unemployment because of the pandemic. Our National Correspondent Jericka Duncan has been talking to people who are out of work. Good morning. How are they coping . Good morning to you anthony. Theyre doing the best that they can. We spoke to three people, two of them said they were laid off. Another person said they were forced to lay off most of the employees. Now while thousands of people in this country have tested positive for coronavirus, millions are feeling its effect on the workforce. Im very scared. Reporter 42yearold Michelle Jarol of chicago is normally focused on fitness, but these days this wife and mother of two is worried about her familys finances. The studio where she works as a Fitness Instructor shut down last week. Her husbands pay has been cut, too. Whats the biggest bill your family is facing . My mortgage. Am i going to be able to stay in this house knowing, you know, if i have credit card bills, car pyments, all those things add up. Reporter monday she filed for unemployment for the first time. Took over an hour to get my information in the system. Reporter its a reality millions of americans are now facing. A lot of them are struggling. A lot of them are scared. Reporter 40yearold nyasha johnson also filed for unemployment and is trying to help her coworkers with that process. Its overwhelming and frustrating because i want to give them some type of closure because i know how i feel. You are in the trenches with these people every day. And closure is something that matt bell says hes trying to get his employees. In 2017, he opened a car club and restaurant called the shop club in seattle. Bell was set to expand to dallas this summer and double his staff. But because of coronavirus concerns, he laid off nearly 40 employees. I thought, whats the worst thing that can happen . Theres no way we could have anticipated how things have changed lately. Reporter Fitness Instructor Michelle Jarol says she worries about what her industry looks like when this pandemic is over. Will people feel comfortable working out in small places and crowds, if you will . Shes so worried that she even said shes considering going back to her old job as a pharmaceutical sales rep, but fitness is her passion. So very concerned but most importantly about how shes going to pay how her family is going to pay those big bills. Its a question that everybody wants to know the answer to. Yes im stuck in the middle with you, no one likes to feel stuck, boxed in, or held back. Especially by Something Like your cloud. Its a problem. But the ibm cloud is different. Its the most open and secure public cloud for business. It can manage all your apps and data from anywhere. 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