How citizen soldiers from the National Guard are helping to combat the coronavirus. But first, heres todays eye opener, your world in 90 seconds. Every day when i go to work, i feel like a sheep going to slaughter. Confirmed coronavirus cases now top 1 million worldwide. I know you have seen the slope in the United States versus the slope in italy. And we have to change that slope. Certain areas of michigan, detroit, looked like it was doing pretty good and then all of a sudden, it went up. The nations top Infectious Disease expert says the whole country should already be under orders to stay at home. If you look at whats going on in this country, i just dont understand why were not doing that. We really should be. Another historic surge in unemployment claims. More than 6. 6 Million People filed for benefits. A mindblowingly horrible, recordbreaking number. Two cruise ships carrying passengers with flulike symptoms have been allowed to dock in florida. After coming to an agreement with authorities. All that how is it . Good . This little girl youre about to see is pretending to like something that her mom just cooked and fed her. Yeah, okay, mom. And all that matters. Heres something i learned in quarantine. You could save a lot of time and bread if you eat the Peanut Butter straight out of the jar. Hello . Is anyone listening to me . You know, i never really knew what loneliness was until i started telling jokes to an empty room. On cbs this morning. Republican governors in 11 states refuse to issue stayathome orders. Some republicans are coming around like Florida Governor ron desantis. He issued a stayathome order and explained what changed his mind. Its very serious situation. I mean, when you see the president up there. Youve seen his demeanor the last couple of days. So it wasnt the data or scientists. It was trumps demeanor. How does that work . Is he the coronavirus groundhog . Legend says if punxsutawney trump folds his arm and frowns, six more weeks of quarantine. This mornings eye opener is presented by toyota. Welcome to cbs this morning. Its been a long week. I know we all feel it. I know you feel it, too. But we are really happy to be here coming from our house to yours. Out of an abundance of caution as you know. Were coming to you once again this morning from each of our homes. So we may be social distancing, but that will not stop us from bringing you the news. We promise you that. Thats where we begin with coronavirus. The scale of the Coronavirus Crisis is growing dramatically all over the world. There are now more than 1 million reported cases of illnesses. Anthony, in nearly one quarter of those cases are here in the United States. The numbers continue to surge in hot spots like california, michigan, louisiana, florida and especially, of course, new york. Medical resources are stretched to capacity and beyond. In new york, the Navy Hospital ship comfort was supposed to help relieve that pressure by handling noncoronavirus patients. But as of now, just 20 of its 1,000 beds are being used. We start with our lead National CorrespondentDavid Begnaud who is at new yorks Javits Convention center which is now a military Field Hospital. David . It was never supposed to be a hospital that accepted Covid Patients. The idea is this would accept the overflow. Yesterday the governor of new york asked the president , mr. President , will you accept Covid Patients here and let the military run it, and the president said yes. About 25 blocks north of where we are is where the u. S. Naval ship comfort is docked here in manhattan. One Hospital Executive told the New York Times its absurd that the military would send a big old ship like that and park it here and not accept Covid Patients. The hospitals are overloaded. The ship has 1,000 beds but only 20 patients. The question now is, will the governor of new york go back to the president and ask him, will you let that ship start accepting Covid Patients . The things that i see in the e. R. Are scary. Reporter this is a video diary from dr. Matthew bai. In it, hes describing what he says he sees every day at mt. Sinai hospital in queens. You can see all the rooms are filled. Usually these halls are very neat and empty. You can see theres patients everywhere because of this. Reporter some nurses in the bronx took to the streets thursday to protest the lack of personal protective equipment. Every day when i go to work, i feel like a sheep going to slaughter. Reporter new york is one of several states where the governor continues to say they are low on ventilators. At the current burn rate, we have about six days of ventilators in our stockpile. Reporter take louisiana. They requested 14,000 ventilators. But they have received fewer than 500 from the federal government. An admiral who is leading femas supply Chain Task Force confirmed federal supplies are not going directly to the states. They are going to a middle man distributor and governors say thats when theyre forced to bid against each other for the equipment. We have not gotten a line on any additional ventilators. Reporter in richmond, virginia, 16 people have died at a Rehab Facility where more than 100 residents there tested positive. Despite the best efforts of the medical staff, were still seeing really significant spread. Reporter in new jersey, nearly 1 in 3 of the longterm care facilities have at least one positive case. This crisis has hit very close to home for daniel dromm. A member of the new york city council. Five of his friends have died from the virus so far. Whenever somebody goes into the hospital, my thinking is, will i ever see them again . Will they ever come out . Reporter the mayors of new york and los angeles are now asking their residents to wear masks. Scarves. Anything they have to cover their faces. And were waiting to see if the president and the cdc may issue that same guidance today. Tony, here in new york state, the need for personal protective equipment is still so real that yesterday the governor posted a tweet saying if you can manufacture ppe, i implore you to do so. We will pay you a premium and please email us at this address. Thats the state of where things are right now. It says a lot there, David Begnaud, for us in new york. Public Health Officials tell us the way new york is going now could come to the rest of the country. But theres a patchwork of stayathome orders and directives all around this nation that have created dramatic differences in the way we live and the way we travel. The New York Times made this map using anonymous cell phone data. The red areas show states where travel patterns are normal or close to normal. Take a look at the northeast and parts of the midwest. Theres little or no travel in states that imposed very strict stayathome orders. Ed okeefe is in washington where he typically covers politics, not pandemics, but these days theres some overlap between the two. Ed, good morning. What do you make of this contrast . Well, look, President Trump isnt issuing a National Stayathome order saying that each state should act on its own. But that isnt stopping some local officials from pushing for more. This will go down in history as our profound failure of our national government. Reporter governors like illinois jb pritzker want a National Stay at home order. Weve nearly exhausted every avenue available. Reporter the calls are coming despite the constitution leaving most health and Public Safety concerns to state and local officials. The tension between federally mandated versus states rights to do what they want is something i dont want to get into. Reporter even dr. Anthony fauci agreed there should be a national order. If you look at whats going on in this country, i dont understand why were not doing that. Reporter 40 states and the District Of Columbia have issued some kind of stayathome order over the past month. Despite information as far back as february about patients being asymptomatic, the governor of georgia waited until wednesday to issue his statewide order. Individuals can be infected and begin to spread coronavirus earlier than previously thought. Even if they have no symptoms. From a Public Health standpoint, this is a revelation. Reporter this week, Texas Governor greg abbott ordered schools closed through may 4th and said only essential services can remain open. But he insisted this is not a stayathome strategy. Reporter local officials like Dallas County leader clay jenkins say abbott should have acted sooner. He issued a countywide order back on march 22nd. Why did you decide to do it . You have to follow the science in situations like this. And the hospitals and doctors uniformally told me that safer at home would save lives. Reporter and mark dewine has earned prize for acting quickly. You seemed insistent from the start that there was a real genuine Public Health and safety concern. Everything i was told by the experts was that you have to act early. And that even waiting a week or two weeks before you act really sets you way, way back and increases the number of deaths. Reporter all of these stayathome orders are, of course, causing the rescheduling of events, even in campaign politics. The Democratic Party now says that its convention to nominate someone to take on President Trump will be held in midaugust in milwaukee. Gayle . Thats interesting. Ed, may i just say its very good to see you. Thank you, sir. The fda authorized the first blood test for the coronavirus. It could identify people who have been exposed to the virus even those who did not show any symptoms. Our dr. David agus joins us from los angeles with more on this story. What does this blood test detect and how is it different from the available tests we have on the market now . The current tests look, if you have the virus. They look for the rna of the virus and say whether its there. This looks at immunity. By taking a drop of blood they can know whether youve been exposed to the virus. Symptomatic or asymptomatic, which is critical because it means you can no longer get the virus, at least in the short term. In countries like england and germany theyre talking about giving out immunity certificates because those people can leave their home and maybe get their economy started. So how will people get the test, though, david . We keep hearing you are at ribi risk for infection by going to a medical facility. You hit the key question. This test will initially be at medical facilities because you have to draw blood. The white house has said repeatedly that their hope is it can be a finger prick where you can just put a dot on a piece of paper and mail it in and have a result right away. So it takes about 15 minutes to run this test. So the hope is were going to transition to doing this in other places other than the medical system. But right now its confined to the Doctors Office. Pretty soon every time you go to the Doctors Office theyll check to see if you have immunity or not. And you think this test is important in fighting the virus, why . I think its critical. We have to say who has been exposed and not because theyll be treated differently. And they can actually be on our front lines. They cant get infected again. They can be our ambulance drivers, people working in the emergency room, people working at cash registers. And at the same time, we can use it to develop vaccines. This is the same test to say, are vaccines working . Are we giving immunity by giving someone a vaccine to this deadly virus . David, can we please talk about the mask situation. I think it is so confusing. The beginning we were told you dont really need to wear a mask if you are a healthy person Walking Around but a person who is infected should. The white house is signaling theyre going to encourage all of us to wear a mask or some kind of face covering. In los angeles and the city of new york, they are already telling us we should. Why is this changing now . Well, its our understanding of the virus. When you are asymptomatic or presymptomatic, you can spread the virus. The days before you get symptoms you can spread the virus. And also people never have symptoms. Those people from the droplets in their mouth when they breathe or cough can spread the virus. So the mandating of the masks, i think, makes total sense across the country. And what it does, it protects other people. So you wont spread the virus. Even if you dont know you have it. So all of us should wear a covering when we go out. Can be a bandanna. Doesnt have to be an n95 mask, and it shouldnt be. It should just be a covering. Please let people know that people who are wearing ban dans are not up to no good now. Its really a safety issue. When i heard yesterday for the first time that now you can get it, it can be spread by talking or breathing i went, huh . The coronavirus seems to be such a moving target with the rules always seeming to change. Yeah, i mean, were learning as we go because this is a totally new virus. But when you breathe on a mirror, those droplets, thats what they are, the fog on the mirror, you have to block them. So wearing something when you go out is a sign of respect for others. And i think critically important in stopping the virus. All right. Dr. Agus, thank you very much. Tony . All right, gayle, thank you very much. We want to give people an update on the hundreds of passengers from two Holland America cruise ships with confirmed coronavirus cases. They are flying home without being quarantined in the United States. Now they do not have symptoms. The rotter dam and zaandam docked at port everglades, florida, yesterday after weeks at sea. The zaandam had been denied entry to several countries. Nine people tested positive for coronavirus and four people have died. As Manuel Bojorquez reports, there are some worries some people may be going home as silent carriers. Its going to be a very controlled exit. Reporter Florida Governor ron desantis applauded local and federal officials for finalizing what he called a thoughtful plan. More than a dozen passengers who needed immediate medical assistance were already transferred to nearby hospitals. Passengers on board both ships received Health Screenings yesterday. Those cleared for travel would be taken by private bus to charter planes over the next few days. Some local Officials Say this was the best possible outcome. How do you allow the ship to come in without affecting our community . I think the deal today that we struck was a winwin. Reporter Broward County commissioner mark bogen advocated for a 14day quarantine at a local air force base, but that fell through. Do you feel comfortable with the way the situation has been handled right now . Absolutely not. I really have a lack of trust in what the cruise line was telling us. Reporter another ship, the coral princess plans to arrive on saturday. In a statement, Princess Cruises said 12 people on board tested positive for covid19. Commissioner bogen says they may need to go elsewhere. We just cannot have more people with our medical system. We dont have capacity. Reporter and capacity is part of the reason some passengers will stay on the zaandam. Those who are sick but not critically ill will receive treatment there. And the cruise line says many passengers going home have been selfquarantined in their state rooms since march 22nd. Both Holland America and Princess Cruises say they are complying with cdc guidelines for offloading those passengers. Anthony . Manuel, thank you. The latest unemployment numbers show just how hard the economy has been hit by the coronavirus. The 6. 6 million americans who filed for jobless benefits last week is at least 20 times what we normally see. Food banks and other resources are being pushed to their limits by people in need. My bills are going to back up and im going to be in trouble here in a couple of weeks. Ive got to pay my rent, my gas for my car. Normally its hard, but now its totally hard. We have a food connection hotline that gets 180 calls a day. Right now were getting more than 1,000 calls a day. I dont personally see a situation where im back behind the bar full time in full swing until maybe early october. Weijia jiang is at the white house as a 350 billion Small BusinessLending Program begins this morning. Weijia, whats the president have to say about the job losses so far . Good morning, anthony. President trump described those numbers as terrible, but then claimed we dont have a massive recession because the economic downturn is artificial. But the pain is very real for nearly 10 million americans who have filed for unemployment climbs in the last two weeks alone. Treasury secretary Steve Mnuchin said stimulus checks will start being sent out in about two weeks. And he pushed back against allegations that some may have to wait up to five months if they dont have direct deposit saying the irs is working on a portal for people to enter their banking information allowing them to get their checks in a matter