Celebration separation. Easter weekend is transformed with empty churches, services on computer screens, and families limiting their gatherings. How even the peoples pope is without his people. And surprise in the sky. With millions of businesses shut down, it seems the lights are on in the heavens above. What stargazers are seeing now that hasnt been seen in generations. First, we begin this morning with a look at todays eye opener, your world in 90 seconds. We have not reached the peak. Every day, we need to continue to do what we did yesterday and the week before and the week before that. Reporter the u. S. Reaches half a million coronavirus cases. The actual curve is much, much lower than any of them projected. Now is not the time to stop the social distancing. It is working. This cannot be a weekend to think we can let our foot off the gas. Were not even close, folks. We have to keep with it until this war is won. I dont know what ive had a bigger decision. Im going to surround myself with the greatest minds. Reporter the president is eyeing may 1st to get the country back to business. What metrics you will use to make that decision . The metrics right here. Reporter after a promising start, the xfl laying off employees saying it has no plans for a season in 2021. Anyone who wants to bet on any other professional Football League besides the nfl working ever, just give me your money. Reporter pope francis celebrated mass on good friday in a nearly empty st. Peters basilica because of the coronavirus outbreak. Reporter getting used to working out at home. If you need new exercises, the president of uganda has you covered. All that when a femme ski trip to the family ski trip to the alps was canceled because of the pandemic, this father got creative. I binge watched tv. I have food delivered. Oh, god, im becoming a millennial. And all that matters in sports now college mascots. Man, meets up for a special zoom facetime. Since theres no facetime, these pups have quite a bit of time. On cbs this Morning Saturday. So excited a lot of people are a little bit stir crazy these days. Like even if you open the window all the way to the top, it does not make me feel better. I need to go like outside. This mornings eye opener is presented by toyota. We all feel that way right now. I think we all can relate. Welcome to the weekend, everyone. I am Dana Jacobson along with Michelle Miller and jeff glor. We obviously are hoping youre staying safe out there. Once again, were coming to you, trying to stay safe, from our socially distant positions. Michelle and i are at our homes. Jeff kind of at home. The ed sullivan theater is becoming home. Also the home of the latest show with stephen colbert, which means you had long commute. I hope you got more sleep than i did. We wish we could be back together on our usual set in studio 57, but we are continuing to stay cautious as new york and the nation tries to flatten that conserve. Yes. And thankfully new york, the epicenter, has been seeing some good signs lately. We will get to that in a moment. First, we begin with the tragic news of americas deadliest day since the start of this pandemic. Yesterday, the u. S. Became the first country to record more than 2,000 deaths in 24 hours. Other headlines there are now more than half a million infections in the u. S. President trump says he is eager to reopen the country but wont lift restrictions until conditions are safe. And Tech Giants Apple and google are teaming up to develop tracing software. It will allow Public Health officials to get a better sense of people who may have been infected by coronavirus, carriers. Well talk more about that in a moment. There are signs the infection rate is slowing in new york. The epicenter of the coronavirus. For the First Time Since the outbreak began, there are fewer people in intensive care units than the day before. Michael george is in new york city. Good morning. Reporter good morning. Everyone is looking for those encouraging signs of hope, and one of them is right behind me. The naval ship comfort was brought in to take on 1,000 overflow patients, but new yorks governor says most of those beds may not be needed. But officials caution we still have a long fight ahead. This is the end of the week, that famous week we spoke about last weekend in which we what was predicted to happen happened, were starting to see the leveling off and the coming down. Reporter while the rate of new cases slowed, the virus killed more than 11,000 in the United States this week. Nearly half in new york where an old public cemeterys onceaweek burials became a daily operation. And no one is saying its advisable to end stayathome orders, particularly the doctors on the White House Coronavirus task force. There is not the time this is not the time to feel that since we have made such important advance in the sense of success of the mitigation that we need to be pulling back at all. We still see cases occurring in the boston area and in chicago. But their rate of increase seems to be stabilizing. Reporter but data released this week shows underserved communities are being disproportionately hit hard. In illinois, 28 of those who tested positive are africanamericans. Though they make up 15 of the states population. In michigan, blacks account for 40 of the positive cases, but just 14 of the population. Look at all of the structural issues around, all of these health care inequalities, all of these lower income jobs, it tends to impact individuals in neighborhoods of color a lot more than it does in other neighborhoods. Reporter overall, the number of confirmed cases in the u. S. Has now exceeded half a million. There cannot be a this cannot be a weekend to let our foot off the gas. Were not even close, folks. We have to keep with it. Reporter battle grounds have been drawn on gatherings for sundays easter services. In kansas, the president took the legislature to court after it overturned her order to limiting religious services to fewer than ten people. We do not have time to play political games during a pandemic. Reporter of 43 states that have issued stayathome orders, at least 18 consider traveling to or from places of worship to be essential. Not father carl ocaso in livermore, california. My first time as a priest and as a catholic and a christian, im not i wont be in the church. Reporter hell be on line with parishioners praying right along. On line is okay at this moment. If we survive for this catastrophic time, if we believe in god, its okay at this moment. Reporter and Health Experts say this weekend is not the time to abandon social distancing. Dr. Birx said this gives us great heart that were seeing change. The World Health Organization says stopping now would only prolong the crisis. Dana . All right, michael. Patience for everyone. Thank you. Getting the nations all but stopped economy working again is high on President Trumps list. Mr. Trump describes the effort as, quote, the biggest decision hes ever had to make. The president has signaled interest in may 1st as a possible day to start easing restrictions. He says hell let the facts determine what he does. Nikole killion is at the white house this morning with more. Good morning. Reporter good morning to you. President trump said he plans to name a new task force tuesday to examine when and how to reopen the country, and he said its a decision he wont make lightly. I call it the opening our Country Task Force or opening our country councils. Reporter President Trump said hes assembling a panel of experts including doctors, business leaders, and governors to help guide his decision on when to restart the economy. Im going to have to make a decision, and i only hope to god that its the right decision. But i would say without question its the biggest decision ive ever had to make. Reporter after the Surgeon General warned this week could be the nations equivalent of pearl harbor or 9 11, the president said the u. S. Death toll could be substantially lower than original estimates of 100,000 or more. Its really about the encouraging signs that we see, but as encouraging as they are, we have not reached the peak. Reporter the New York Times obtained projections from the departments of Homeland Security and health and Human Services that show cases could spike if stayathome orders are lifted after 30 days. Officials with both agencies declined to comment on the documents to cbs news. Dont let anyone get any false ideas that when we decide at a proper time when were going to be relaxing some of the restrictions, theres no doubt youre going to see cases. Reporter as millions of unemployed workers hang in the balance, the irs announced automatic stimulus payments will start going out next week. Many Small Business owners anxiously awaited loans from the Payment Protection Program to cover payroll. Cbs news obtained this notice from wells fargo warning of possible delays due to high demand and limited funds that could run out. So the money is getting out. The applications are far beyond what we ever anticipate. Reporter the treasury secretary has requested more money for the loan program and has restarted talks with congressional leaders. The president also said there would be a meeting with airlines over the weekend. Theyre eligible for 25 billion in cash grants, but multiple sources tell cbs news that treasury told them they may have to pay some of it back. Michelle . Thank you. Nikole killion at the white house. Here to discuss the medical aspects of the crisis is dr. David agus. He joins us now from los angeles. Dr. Agus, good morning. Reporter good morning to you. Ripe new york is currently reporter new york currently the highe efest epicenter. What phase are we at in flattening this curve . Reporter we hope and pray that the data reflect a trend. Theyre going to continue. Theyre showing fewer hospitalizations, fewer icu intensive care unit admissions, and fewer people going on a ventilator on a daily basis. They were going up, now theyve flattened. The deaths had not yet flattened, but theres a delay of about a week between hospital admissions and decrease in deaths. We hope thats going to continue, and its not a slowing of the curve but a flattening of the curve. The virus isnt going to magically disappear. If the rate of the new cases continues to decline, how do we determine when the right time is to ease those stayathome orders . Reporter there are two components. Theres getting the disease incidence very low, then theres us getting ready as a society, as a country. We need testing, that is who has the virus to be in the millions per week. Were not threat why. We need the ability of testing who has been exposed and has immunity so doesnt have to worry about catching it again or spreading the virus. That test has not yet launched. Then we need the ability to social trace. That is, there will be people who test positive, and when you do, we want to go back and see who you interacted with the days prior because all of you need to be back put in your homes, and we will wait a period until you go back out again, and were going to stop the virus. There needs to be a threepronged plan which isnt ready yet. Slowing the cases together with technology and our plan together. Then were going to be able to let the dogs out and all of us go out. It will be graded. Well go out with masks at first, higher risk people will stay in. Its not going to happen all at once. What about treatment . Weve heard about obviously the search for a vaccine but also how to treat the virus. Where are we within those two things, in terms of those two things . Reporter well, there were two big things that happened. The new england journal of medicine reported on the drug that was developed for ebola, that had success in multiple laboratory study, and the first human study showed in about 56 people, about twothirds actually got better. These were people on a ventilator. So it didnt have a control arm. That is, we dont know who it gotten better on their own. But the drug was well tolerated and appeared to have activity in the studio. The second is, you know, this is a virus where its not a live organism. It actually goes into our cells and uses our own machinery to divide. And there is a drug called a protease inhibitor that blocks protein from interacting with us. It was developed for this virus. Pfizer has made it and the data looks encouraging. Those to me are exciting. Were nowhere where we need to be with the drugs, but were taking baby steps forward. My hope and prayers are one of the drugs will work. That will dramatically change our stress level if we can treat this disease. It sure would. Thank you so much. We have never seen a Silicon ValleyProduct Launch quite like the one on friday. The ceos of apple and google released this joint logo signifying their combined effort to combat the coronavirus. Next months each Company Plans to roll a technology on their operating systems that can notify someone if theyve been in contact with a person whos tested positive for covid19. It is called contact tracing. Wired editorinchief and contributor nick. Toston has details on Nick Thompson has details on this. A lot of questions. First, how does it work . The idea is that apple and google have made it possible to run this on top of their phones. Youll download an app, probably from the cdc, some other organization, and then what will happen is that youll through bluetoo bluetooth, it will keep track of all the phones youve been near during the course of the day. It will give me a number and will give my parentsinlaw the other room, in range of my phone, will build a log of every home youve been fiscal year for probably a period of, say, five minutes continuously. Everybody will have a unique number, and the data will be stored on their phone. A lot of people then what will happen let me a lot of people have big privacy concerns about this. One of the issues here is the optin part. You have to opt in if you want to do this. If people arent opting in, does it still work . Yes. So you do have to opt in. What has to happen is enough people have to opt in. If my phone has been near yours, you test positive and you havented opted in, i dont learn about it. The system works where when somebody tests positive, their phone tells the cloud, hey, i tested positive, i have these numbers. The other people then check in the cloud and say, oh, have i been near somebody whos positive. If youve been near someone who tested positive for more than five minutes, youll get an alert. The privacy stuff is important. You wont know who it was. You wont know where it was. And if you havent tested positive, all of your data stays on the phone. So youre protected that way. So its a complicated system built in a way to try to protect your privacy as much as possible. Along those lines, though, obviously privacy is such a key factor for so many people. Who might be able to access any of that data if it is collected . I know you say its on your phone. Anyone else that would be able to get that data . Well, the worrisome thing is that when you test positive your data is uploaded to the app, to whoever has built the app. The data thats being uploaded is pretty benign. Its just a series of numbers. But it will come from a phone that is based in a location that is using an ip address. Whoever runs the app would have the ability if they acted badly to figure out some of the locations of people who test positive. Ideally its a company that builds a system in such a way that information is stripped out and people are protected. But thats the weakness. But it is much better that they built it this way than most of the other options that had much grander weaknesses. And obviously at this point people are just looking for something to help in this fight we have. Nick thompson, thank you for interesting information and insight. Many parts of the world remain under lockdown in the battle to contain covid19. The global death toll has passed 100,000 with nearly two million reported cases. The World Health Organization warns that lifting any lockdown measures too early could lead to a deadly resurgence in infections. Holly williams is in istanbul, turkey, the latest country to restrict the movement of its citizens. Holly, good morning. Reporter good morning. Well, the government here in turkey announced very late last night that 31 cities around the country would go into a 48hour curfew beginning at midnight. Effectively banning most people from leaving their homes and allowing only pharmacies, bakeries, and essential Services Like hospitals to remain open. As a result, people rushed to supermarkets to stock up. Although things remained orderly in places, some panicked shoppers ignored social distancing advice, and there were even multiple reports of fights breaking out. This morning here in istanbul, the streets are eerily quiet, and Security Forces have been deployed to enforce the curfew. In the united kingdom, the death toll stands at almost 9,000. And yesterday, 980 people died. Surpassing the worst daily figures even from places like italy and spain. One rare piece of good news from the country is that the prime minister, boris johnson, who was treated in an icu this week, is now apparently up and walking again. And reportedly filling his time by doing puzzles. For people around the world who have been living under lockdown sometimes for weeks, the big question is how and when life might go back to normal. Well, austria has announced that it is allowing some shops to reopen next week. And denmark says that if its infection rate remains stable, it will reopen Elementary Schools mid month. Michelle . That would be some good news, sudoko definitely my goto, too. Thank you so much. As if the pandemic hasnt upended life enough, some parts of the u. S. Are now bracing for the biggest Weather Threat so far of the spring season. A powerful storm cell unleashed lightning and hail in southwest texas friday. Flood warnings stretched from california to the deep south. Tornadoes and damaging winds are expected through monday, with the most