E white house isuse is considering making that recommendation in hot sp acro s a dratic shift in guidance, designed to stop the spread of the virus. And it comes as confirmed cases now top one million worldwide. Nearly a quarter of all of those infections are right here in the u. S. More than 5,000 have died across the country. And theres another stunning number tonight, more than 6. 6 million americans filed for Unemployment Benefits last week. Thats double the number of claims from the week before, and it is historic. Take a look at this chart that puts it in perspective. Puts it in perspective. Earlier this year, weekly claims numbered in the thousands. Tonight, they reach into the millions. In the outbreaks epicenter, new york and new jersey, some hospitals are now diverting patients as those i. C. U. S fill pa. Our team is covering all of the headlines, and well get to that new guidance on the masks in just a moment, but Mark Strassmann leads us off tonight and, mark, we just heard from the treasury secretary, he said those first rounds of those 1200 relief checks could now come in two weeks. Reporter in two weeks, norah, but in the meantime, of course, unemployment is in free fall, and no one knows where the bottom is. Businesses keep closing, more people lose their jobs by the hour. Unemployment has super spread into americas second epidemic. Im zero right now. Its really stressful. Reporter without a vaccine in sight. Nearly 900,000 more californians filed claims last week. Juan luna lost jobs as a cashier and cook for los angeles twole. His girlfriend is also pregnant. I mean, iwas already stressing because im not i dont know how it is to, you know, provide for baby. Reporter job losses in the last two weeks compared to two years during the Great Recession of 20082009. New york had a 358 spike in claims, roughly 366,000 people. Florida, michigan, ohio, pennsylvania, and new jersey each had sixfigure job losses. Single day, they are scratching their heads as well. And that is the challenge here. Weve not been in this place before. Reporter todays official numbers could be higher. Throw your hands up. Reporter many jobless people ront get through overwhelmed state systems. Crash, crash, crash, crash, refresh, refresh, refresh, refresh. Reporter calls to new yorks unemployment hot line skyrocketed 16,000 . Paula robinson is a supervisor at georgias department of labor. It retrained dozens of employees to help process the states record claims, up 1,100 over last week. Ost their jobs,lost their jobs, and its very disheartening. Reporter tell that to lines at food banks in mesa, arizona, and st. Louis, people hungry for hope. Pretty sad, lonely, and really scared. Reporter scary for state unemployment workers too. Next weeks numbers could be worse. Were expecting it to be worst next week. Odonnell and Mark Strassmann joins us again. U,rk, i have to ask you, does that jobless number include gig workers and people who are self employed . Reporter it does not, norah and most of those people, of course, have a need for speed. Neey need money today. The problem is the states most states are not processing their applications for unemployment until they get more guidance from washington. So if there is any good news in all that, its what you mentioned at the beginning, that rectdeposit, direct, direct payments from washington, up to 1200, those should start arriving in about two weeks. Odonnell all right, mark, thank you so much. And now to the medical emergency unfolding across america, and yopecially in new york. Tonight, as we are learning more about the pathology of the virus, there are new recommendations about how to protect ourselves from infection. Mola lenghi is in the u. S. Epicenter of new york city. And the mayor has new guidance on who should be Wearing Masks in public. What did he say . Reporter yeah, norah, mayor bill de blasio in new york is advising all new yorkers, the general public, that they should wear face masks or some sort of facial covering any time they go outside. Not mandatory at this point, but it is encouraged. This, as we approach the peak of this virus. But in what might be the grimmest sign of things to come, the pentagon now supplying the fema response effort with 100,000 body bags. These massive makeshift morgues on new york citys east side are a sober sign of the coming weeks as the citys covid19 death toll rapidly climbs toward 2,000. At elmhurst hospital, the epicenter of the crisis, ambulances flood in. Is is on hardestit nehoods, hospital heerve of the pot patients. D. Eric wei oversees the city Public Hospital system. We are asking our fellow colleagues in business and manufacturing to please make more ventilators. Please, make more p. P. E. That we so desperately need to be able to save as many lives as possible. Reporter its so dire, s m. T. S have been told to stop transporting some patients in cardiac arrest that cant be revived in the field. Today, new York Governor Andrew Cuomo said the states available ventilator supply could run out within six days. We need what we need. If a person comes in and needs a ventilator, and you dont have a ventilator, the person dies. Thats the blunt equation here. We are strong. Reporter today, nurses across the country, risked their own jobs to demand more protective gear. Im worried about dying a lot more than im worried about repercussions. Reporter more supplies are coming. Medical supplies from rund thof using th plane to bring in onyotti is also going beyond federal guidelines suggesting more people wear masks. Back here in queens, city councilman daniel dromm lost five friends to the virus. Whenever somebody goes into the hospital, my thinking is, will i ever see them again . Will they ever come out . In these five cases we all know they had gone in and in fact, they never came out. Reporter im told elmhurst hospital here is only accepting coronavirus patients, nothing else. Meanwhile, across town, at the 1,000bed Javits Convention center field hospital, after initially saying no coronavirus patients, theyve now reversed course and will begin treating them. Norah. Odonnell thats quite a t, mola. Ent, mola. Thank you. Thank you. Now to a developing story in south florida, where two cruise ships carrying passengers with coronavirus have been allowed to dock. For some on board, its the end of a nightmarish odyssey. Or. Reporter after nearly a month at sea, the zaandams voyage ended at fort everglades. Passenger val myntti couldnt wait for it to be over. Were so excited about it. Ld reporter the rotterdam, which took passengers with no symptoms from the zaandam arrived, too, a combined 2300 people. At one point, the zaandam had 200 reported ill, nine positive covid19 cases, and four deaths. The desperation grew as chile, argentina, and peru refused to let the ship dock. The zaandam was initially denied access to the panama canal as it adjusted its route to fort lauderdale. Arrival there was delayed, too, over the concerns of some local officials. The cruise line said fewer than 10 people would be taken to this hospital. Holland americas agreement with local authorities includes getting passengers who appear healthy on buses and planes and sent home quickly. Cbs news contributor dr. David agus it is the wrong move to send them home, even if theyre ing negative or testing negative now. They need to be in quarantine because of their exposure on the ship until the 14day period is up. Reporter they could be s of the virus. L mynhe virus. Val myntti says shell wait if she has to. She has to. If that would be to stay on board and quarantine in our windowless room, we would do atat. Reporter you just want to be on dry land. We want to see birds. We want to have fresh air. We want to see sunshine. Reporter Holland America says many passengers on those ships had already been self isolating in their staterooms since march 22. And anyone who is sick and not critically ill will remain on ivard and receive medical treatment there until they recover. Norah. Odonnell all right, manny, thank you. Tonight, muchneeded funding is on the way to fight a rapidly growing problem in this criis, and thats food insecurity. Oprah winfrey pledged 10 million to the battle against hunger. And amazon c. E. O. Jeff bezos donated 100 million to a network of food banks. But these generous donations are just a fraction of what they say is needed. Heres meg oliver. The National Guard is here with us. Reporter today, welcome relief as the National Guard verived to keep the Greater Pittsburgh food bank operating. They were activated after more than 800 families lined up for this emergency distribution monday. Any chance you could run out of food . Our food supply right now is strong, but i just learned this morning, that four or five of our food orders have been canceled. Reporter as demand intensifies, donations and volunteers are dropping rapidly. Weve got these salads. Reporter Pedro Rodriguez and his family have enough food to last one week. Would you be able to have dinner tonight if you didnt go to the food pantry . Not much, no. Lu reporter with the entire family laid off, theyre relying on this food pantry at Willing Heart Community Center in newark, but on tuesday, the food n n out. Youll run out of that today. Well run out of that today. Ouve already run out of eggs. Reporter last week, feeding america saw a 92 jump in demand for food. Food. Claire fontanelle. C. E. O. Claire fontanelle. We cant meet the challenge of this moment without additional help. Reporter which means, smaller pantries like this one have no idea if they can stay open. How worried are you about the future right now . A lot. Im trying to be calm, but its very, very hard. Eporter a dire situation families can only take day by day. Meg oliver, cbs news, newark, new jersey. Weve also gotweve also got some breaking news tonight about the captain of the u. S. S. Theodore roosevelt. He has been relieved of command just two days after he wrote an urgentetthat virus was spreading through the aircraft carrier. The acting Navy Secretary says captain Brett Crozier was removed for lack of confidence, and that the stress of dealing he outbreak hadak had overwhelmed h overwhelmed his professional judgment. The navy was also displeased that his letter had been leaked. The carrier is in guam tonight. 2700 will evacuate the ship. Also, weve got some more military news for you tonight. And thats on this particular story. Scientists at the u. S. Armys top Virus Research lab are working on vaccines and treatments. And our david martin paid a visit to fort detrick in maryland and saw firsthand the complexities of testing for that virus. Reporter while the rest of the country is trying to wipe out the coronavirus, this army lab is actually growing it. O were trying to grow it so we can wipe it out. Reporter dr. Kathleen gibson says you have to have samples of the actual virus to detect its presence in all those nasal swabs being collected. When you see what it takes to analyze them, you understand why testing has been so slow. From swab to tube to tube to plate to machine. Its very labor intensive. Just getting from the swab to a purified sample that we can test in this plate takes about an hour to an hour and a half. Reporter this analyzer can andle 27 at a time. But that process takes another hour and a half. Heres what the results look like so this line is the threshold. That means that the virus is detectable in a high enough concentration that we can confidently call it positive. Reporter but with the nations governors pleading for ore testing, none of these analyzers. One, two, three four. Or these smaller portable onear use. Fort detrick has not been asked to test civilians. David martin, cbs news, fort detrick, maryland. Odonnell even as the public is shut out of local parks across the country, Many National parks remain open with crowded trails and little social cistancing. Well, now, some former park employees and outside groups are demanding a shutdown of the entire National Park system. Chip reid reports. Reporter National Parks have been hailed as americas best idea, but in an era of social distancing, visiting one now could be a bad decision. I wound up walking out of my job. Epustin ste worked at klondike goh park in alaska. 48 that were telling me Horror Stories about their parks being overloaded with visitors. Reporter your decision to quit your job with the Parks Service isicly protest. Yes, it is. Reporter trails at zion recently looked like this after people flocked to the grand canyon, the park was closed y. Sterday. Crowds are expected this weekend at hundreds of open National Park sites across the country. I think its some pretty weird mixed messaging coming out of the white house to say, stay home, unless youre going to a National Park, in which case, go for it. Our park service waived all entrance fees. Reporter last week, Vice President mike pence promised a plan to keep parks safe. The c. D. C. Is developing guidance which well be publishing tomorrow about the best way to utilize our Natural Resources at our parks. Reporter no guidance has been published. Its insanity to have the parks open right now. Reporter joan anzelmo was a Parks Service. I think all the National Parks should be closed to the public to try and stop theviru reporr chip reid, cbs news, washington. 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