Though some say theyve been told to keep quiet. And spirit of giving. Tyler perry explain yes he has been so generous during this crisis and why he hopes others will do the same. First, heres todays eye opener, your world in 90 seconds. Given the fact that the sun is out, it would be really human for us to take our foot off the pedal here. But that is just too dangerous. There are signs the curve may be flattening. Fewer people are being admitted to the hospital but more people are still dying each day. That means what were doing is working and, therefore, we need to continue to do it. New yorks governor reporting a record high number of new covid19 deelts amid the surge in fatalities, more bodies are being buried on new yorks heart island. We lose 2753 lives on 9 11. Weve lost over 7,000 lives through this crisis. I think the economy is going to do very well. Now thats just my feeling. Its a strong feeling. 6. 6 million americans filed for unemployment. The Federal Reserve announced 2. 3 trillion of programs. Keeping this economy afloat. I say cheers. Hundreds of buildings across the country lighting up in blue. To say thank you to those working the front lines of the pandemic. All that the sandbar is famous for having dollar bills stapled to the walls. They are giving the cash to the employees. We have money on the walls and time on our hands. And all that matters. If youre observing passover, youre holding a seder. A lot of people are hosting their seder on zoom. Tonight was the traditional prayer of, nana, youre muted. On cbs this morning. I know people who are having virtual seder and easter dinners which is the best we can, do i guess, but also very weird. Its odd to end a Holiday Family dinner by pressing leave meeting. Easter doesnt feel at all exciting this year. Probably because ive spent the last three weeks driving around looking for eggs already. Thodays eye opener presented by toyota. Welcome to cbs this morning on this good friday. Were broadcasting from our homes bringing you the news. Though it will be much different this easter weekend for all of us. Jimmy kimmel said it right, anthony. He said this is all very weird. I have to say thank god its friday took on a whole different meaning for me today. How about you . But my wife did say to me last night, can we get the family together on zoom on sunday . And i was like thats just so weird. But its we saw so many people did it for passover with the seder. So im going to consult some of my jewish friends and say, how do you make this work . Tony, its very reassuring to see peoples faces. It is. Were not together but its reassuring. It does help. I think that matters. Certainly helps. We begin today it really does. We begin with an alarming new milestone right here in america. New york state now has more reported coronavirus cases than any country in the world. Let that sink in. New pictures are a disturbing reminder of the human toll of that. This is a mass grave being dug for coronavirus victims at potters field where unclaimed bodies are laid to rest. Its a reminder that the poorest and most marginal are bearing the greatest burden in this crisis. Its a widening crisis. More than 466,000 covid cases reported nationwide. And the death toll is now well above 16,000. But there are signs of improvement. Hospital admissions from the virus are declining in new york and california, two of the hardest hit states. Our lead National CorrespondentDavid Begnaud is here in new york at the u. S. Naval hospital ship the comfort. Good morning. Weve been hearing about deadliest days in new york for several days in a row. But we may be hearing hitting a turning point, turning a corner . How so . Maybe so. Let me tell you why. In speaking with one of the commanders on the ship, i said, how come youve only treated 100 patients when you have capacity for so much more . He said, sir, were just not getting that many patients coming to us. The need doesnt exist. We called the Governors Office. The Governors Office told us there are 90,000 hospital beds statewide because theyve had to add so many in recent weeks but only 18,000 of them are actually filled. So, yeah, this is really good news. But every time we get good news like that it seems to be said right alongside something thats stunning. Like this. So many people are dying in new york city due to coronavirus complications that the morgues are crowded. To the point where new graves are being dug off heart island near the bronx. Crews are burying unclaimed bodies that have been at the morgue for more than two weeks. Still, the states new hospitalizations are the lowest they have been since the Coronavirus Crisis started. And icu admissions are at their lowest level in more than three weeks. All of this data suggests that we are flattening the curve so far. And thats why one place that was supposed to be a Field Hospital is scaling back. Beds had been set up two days ago at this manhattan cathedral. Theyve been packed away. Meanwhile, logistical issues appear to be part of the reason why the 500bed hospital ship comfort has treated only 80 patients so far. What do you say to people in manhattan who are looking at this saying, youve got this big beautiful ship with a lot of room and its empty . The optics may not be great . Weve been working with the city of new york, fema, any Disaster Emergency Response takes a little bit from a coordination perspective. Reporter there are moments of joy happening around the country. In missouri, 87yearold Don Lockmiller has survived the coronavirus. He spent ten days in the hospital and is now home. The virus continues to spread in the midwest. In michigan, the number of deaths in a single day was expected to peak on thursday. Detroit nurse jennifer ralko saw three bodies taken to the morgue in one shift. Thats a bad day, but unfortunately, there are days that that has become a normal. Reporter in flint, michigan, sandy brown lost her husband freddy brown jr. And her 20yearold son. They both died from the coronavirus in a span of just three days. They are two of four parishioners from pastor kiemba knowlins church that died this month. Speechless. I get a little emotional because of the effects that is happening in america, but then come again, here it is in the black community. Reporter freddy iii hoped to walk onto the Michigan State football team. His dad helped to organize church services. Heres an example of our new normal in america. L bury her so husband. Groundsmen will carry their caskets to the grave while sandy is asked to sit in her car and watch. Anthony . David, thank you. And as you alluded to, theres new evidence that the virus has had a troubling racial impact. An Associated Press analysis of nearly 3300 coronavirus patients who died found 42 of them were africanamerican. Blacks only make up about 21 of the total population in that study. The white house says philadelphia could be a new hot spot. Errol barnett asked city leaders what theyre doing to flatten the curve in minority neighborhoods. Even our census takers, are they doing outreach reporter philadelphia the Health Commission eer sounded t alarm bells as the infections passed 5,000 confirming new data showing africanamericans are most at risk. The problem is affecting people who have disadvantages even more. Reporter the real Socio Economic barriers when if comes to messaging in places like this in north philadelphia. Roughly half the people here dont have access to the internet. And a majority of people in this part of town live below the poverty line. Thats why some are resorting to creative ways of getting the word out. A lot of them are vulnerable. Reporter theres a nonprofit serving 70,000 low to middle income residents in f s is in philadelphia. Were calling them on the telephone directly. The new ways were trying to reach out to people are kind of we use them anyway, but social media on all platforms, including the ways younger people use it on ig. Reporter councilman Darrell Clarke says there are many reasons people of kocolor of bearing the brunt of covid19. You look at all the structural issues around the health care inequalities, lower income jobs. It tends to impact individuals in neighborhoods of color a lot more than it does in other neighborhoods. Reporter and clarke says people of color tend to be on the front lines with jobs leaving them exposed. We have individuals that are working in these jobs in retail, in supermarkets, in stores around that are still allowed to be open. Those people have to deal with the public on a consistent basis. They are more likely to come in contact with somebody that may be affected than other people. Were also told generalized mistrust in the government from generations are feeling marginalized, may be playing a role of why its more difficult to get these messages to minority groups which is why you see folks like Majeedah Rashid using phone banks to speak to the elderly. They just want to hear a trusted local voice and they are afraid right now. You can understand that, errol. Thank you very much. Lets get clarity on a variety of issues from dr. David agus who is going to join us from his home in los angeles. Dr. Agus, good morning. I want to start with something that came out of the White House Coronavirus briefing yesterday. The president himself did not think we need widespread testing. That seems to contradict the advice of many of his medical experts. From your perspective, from where youre sitting, what do we need to have in place from a testing perspective before we lift the social distancing guidelines at the end of the month . Were going to need three things. One is were going to need the ability to do millions of tests a week. And that word was right. Millions of tests. When we open up, there are still going to be cases. We also need to do what we call immune surveillance. Thats a blood test to see whether you actually have the virus or not. So not whether you have it. Thats the dna test or rna test. But actually whether you have it. And then the third is we need to do social tracing. That is, we need the ability if you do test positive to go back and say, who did you interact with over the past few days because those people need to be kept at home. And so when you have three of them in place and low numbers of cases, were going to be able to let people out in a graded way and well get back to a new normal. But we need those in place. How much progress have we made to having those in place . Are they in place today . Well, we are getting a capacity of tests. Were not there yet with testing who has the virus. We have a ways to go. There was data that the abbott machines are out there but not everybody is using them yet. So the infrastructure needs to grow to do the test. The tests for who had the virus in the past tense, that blood test, were nowhere with it. We really have not scaled that across the country and theres a couple of small tests being done, but very little. The idea of social tracing, well have to talk about privacy issues going forward. Do you need to know who i interact with over the last two days . I think you do to do true social distancing quarantining of those individuals. Those conversations have to start happening now and technologies have to be scaled. On the subject of immunity, what are we learning about whether once youve had this, if you recover, can you get it a second time . Its a great question. And there is data that came out of south korea that showed that individuals who had it tested negative twice. Then tested positive again. So was it a false negative on the test . Did the virus reactivate . Their answer is we just dont know. Theres a separate study out of china which i think was really illuminating in that they looked at the level of immunity in the blood of people. About 30 didnt have enough immunity after they recovered from the virus. And most of those were the younger ones with the milder symptoms. So what does that mean in the scale of things . We just dont know yet and those studies while in south korea and china, we need them to be done here in the United States. Its time now we started to do our own studies and had our own data so we can make the right decisions based on that data. All right. Dr. David agus, progress clearly has been made but theres still more ground to cover. Appreciate your perspective. Gayle, back to you. Boy, tony. So much unknown, and the unknown is so scary. The Economic Impact of the coronavirus is getting worse every single day affecting households all over this country. The newest numbers reveal that 6. 8 million americans have filed for Unemployment Benefits since midmarch. And that nearly wipes out the more than 18 million jobs created in the past 11 years. Thats the largest and fastest string of u. S. Job losses in generations. You can see the damage almost everywhere you look. Seemingly endless mass of cars lined up at the San Antonio Food Bank just yesterday. It served around 10,000 families. Staff say they are struggling to keep up with the rise in demand. Weve also heard from florida residents who waited to pick up unemployment papers this week from a popup drivethrough in hialeah. Its tough. It is tough. As of now, im living day by day. I have savings, but theres so much money you can use. The United Nations has locked down measures around the world affect nearly 2. 7 billion workers. Anthony . Stunning numbers. The latest cbs news poll Shows Americans expect longlasting economic pain. Nearly twothirds of people we spoke to believe some businesses will bounce back fast, but others will not. We also found more americans disapprove of President Trumps handling of the crisis as it wears on. Ben tracy is at the white house. Ben, the president is still pushing for businesses to reopen as soon as possible . Good morning. He is. The president says he would prefer to open up the country all at once with what he calls a big bang. Cbs news has now learned the president is considering forming an Economic Task force. This would focus on how you get the economy back up and running once the worst of this pandemic is over. But for right now, both parties agree that more Financial Relief is needed. They just cant agree on how much. The Republicancontrolled Senate tried to pass an additional 250 billion in Small Business loans on thursday. But democrats want double that. They want to include money for food stamp programs, hospitals and state and local governments. Now as for the widespread nationwide coronavirus testing that you were talking about with dr. Agus, President Trump was asked if thats needed before the country reopens. Heres what he said. We want to have it and were going to see if we have it. Do you need it . No. Is it a nice thing to do . Yes. Were talking about 325 million people, and thats not going to happen, as you can imagine. Reporter now, the governments own experts including Anthony Fauci have said that widespread testing and monitoring is essential before the country reopens. The federal government had planned to end funding for some of those drivethrough test sites popping up in states across the country. In a reversal, Vice President mike pence says the federal funding will continue for those sites, and it will be up to the states if they want to take them over themselves. Tony . All right, ben. Thank you very much. We want to give people an update on a coronavirus case weve been following. Thats the case of british Prime Minister boris johnson. Hes out of intensive care but continues to have coronavirus treatments. A Spokesman Says johnson is still hospitalized and under close observation. But is in, quote, extremely good spirits. The acting Prime Minister is signaling that the nationwide lockdown in place for the prior three weeks will be extended. Officials fear the country has yet to see the peak of the virus impact in that country. Ahead, the financial fallout from the pandemic. Why Small Business owners say the government loans theyve been promised are not coming fast enough. 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