Where people are already suffering during the pandemic. And ritas recovery. Actress and singer rita wilson speaks for the First Time Since she and husband tom hanks recovered from the coronavirus and tells us what it was like. But first, heres todays eye opener, your world in 90 seconds. The number of daily new infections remained flat. This is clear evidence that our aggressive strategy to combat the virus is working. Another grim milestone in new york. The coronavirus death toll now more than 10,000 across the state. Basically flat at a horrific level of pain and grief and sorrow. A contentious Coronavirus Task force briefing between President Trump and the media. You bought yourself some time. You didnt prepare hospitals. You didnt use it to ramp up testing. Youre so disgraceful. Its so disgraceful the way you say that. Weve got to make trump a oneterm president and we need you in the white house. Senator Bernie Sanders officially endorsing joe biden for president. We are apart on some issues but awfully close on a whole bunch of others. The south is recovering after being hit by tornadoes where more than 30 people were killed. Like a bomb went off. All that this quarantine mario cart video is the perfect reallife mario cart twist for all the sfai at home orders. And all that matters. No rally, no handshakes. Sanders threw his support behind biden via this live stream. If two 80yearold men can successfully log into a zoom meeting, anything is possible. On cbs this morning. Finally time to play ball in china. One team is trying to create a lively atmosphere with robot fans. Take me out to the ball game use my plasma as fuel strap me into a nutrient prod bleep, bleep, blurp for the home team with cold mechanical brains well cheer one, one, zero, one, one, unless it rains this mornings eye opener is presented by toyota. Welcome to cbs this morning. We all want to cheer for something, anthony. Any time. Any time, any time. Were ready to cheer. But we all know now is not the time. We all get that. Yeah, but i would take robotic baseball at this point. Anything at all. Yes. Im with you. From our homes to yours, as you see, were social distancing. And we hope that you are doing the same. If youre able to do that. If youre not and you are one of these people who are out keeping the country running, we thank you, thank you for that, too. As you know, were committed to bringing you the news throughout this crisis, and that, of course, is where we begin. With an allout effort by President Trump to rewrite the administrations response to the coronavirus outbreak. At his longest White House Briefing so far, this thing was over two hours. He showed a campaignstyle video highlighting what he says are his accomplishments. Millions of americans are feeling the pain of the pandemic. More than 1,000 died yesterday bringing the total to 23,000. Since the crisis began, at least 17 million americans have applied for unemployment benefits. Paula reid questioned the president at yesterdays briefing. She joins us now from the white house. Good morning, paula. Good morning, anthony. Yesterdays briefing began with the president insisting that dr. Anthony faucis job is not in jeopardy despite retweeting calls for him to be fired just hours earlier. Fauci was then called to the podium where he recanted statements made over the weekend that appeared to criticize the administrations response to coronavirus. With that out of the way, the lights in the room were dimmed and a video was played criticizing the media and praising the president s response. Everything we did was right. Reporter President Trump was adamant that neither he nor his administration did anything wrong in their response to the coronavirus pandemic. He lashed out at what he called unfair reporting. And i dont mind being criticized. But not when theyre wrong. Reporter the president played this more than threeminute campaignstyle video produced by white house staff. It shows a timeline suggesting his response to the virus was ahead of the curve. But the video also includes a monthlong gap in the administrations response jumping from february 6th when the cdc first shipped test kits to march 2nd when Companies Began testing a vaccine. The argument is that you bought yourself some time and you didnt prepare hospitals, you didnt use it to ramp up testing. Youre so disgraceful. Its so disgraceful the way you say that. Listen, i just went over it. I just went over it. An unprecedented crisis. Nobody thought we should do it, and when i did it what did you do with the time that you bought . The month of february . That video was a gap. The entire month of february. What do you do when you have no case in the whole United States, when you excuse me. You reported it. Zero cases, zero deaths on january 17th. The entire month of february i said in january. Your video has a complete gap. What did the administration do in february for the time your travel ban bought you . A lot. A lot. Well give you a list. What we did, in fact, part of it was up there. It wasnt. You had a gap look. You know youre a fake. You know that. Your whole network, the way you cover it is fake. Reporter in february, the president held several Campaign Rallies and continued to downplay the threat. Looks like by april, you know in theory, when it gets a little warmer it miraculously goes away. Reporter but more than 1600 people tested positive in 47 states before the president declared the outbreak a National Emergency on march 13th. When somebody is the president of the United States, the authority is total. Reporter the president also insisted that he has the authority to lift stayathome orders issued by states. Has any governor agreed that you have the authority to decide when their state i havent asked anybody because, you know why, because i dont have to. Who told you the president has the total authority . Enough. Reporter new York Governor Andrew Cuomo pushed back on the president saying the constitution says we do not have a king. And in a direct challenge to the president s authority, two groups of state governors, one on the east coast, one on the west coast, states hit hardest by the virus, announced theyll ban together to make their own decisions about how to roll back these restrictions. Tony . Well be following those as well. Paula reid, thank you. In new york state, more than 10,000 people have died in just over a month, most of them in new york city. Our lead National CorrespondentDavid Begnaud is there. Whats the latest on hospitalizations in the new york city area . Reporter the governor said that coronavirus has not overwhelmed the Hospital Systems here in the state and that they have controlled the spread. But ill tell you, 2,000 people are still entering the hospitals here in new york state every day with coronavirus symptoms. The latest 24hour death toll was 671. New yorks Governor Andrew Cuomo provided the graph which appears to show hospitalizations statewide have plateaued. And i believe we can now start on the path to normalcy. If we continue to be smart Going Forward. Reporter yesterday we told you that Public Health officials in new york city are telling medical providers to only test people who are hospitalized with covid symptoms because the swabs they use to perform the tests are running low. We called the only u. S. Manufacturer for those swabs which is a Company Based in maine. Puritan medical products. You have staff working 24 hours a day six days a week. Is that enough . No. But you have to you have to respect your employees. Today the demand is greater than what we could produce in a weekly basis. Reporter more than 1,000 miles west of new york city in sioux falls, south dakota, coronavirus has closed a pork processing plant. And that could affect the nations meat supply chain, according to the companys ceo. Almost 300 people working at Smithfield Foods tested positive for the coronavirus. South dakotas governor is resisting a stayathome order for sioux falls. Even as the states cases rose by more than 200 two days in a row. Back in new york where the daily death toll has been at or above 700 for most of the last week. Im losing control. Im getting everything done at the wire. Reporter pat marmo is struggling to meet the demand. Hes a funeral director who owns six Funeral Homes in new york city. My phone is ringing probably like twice a minute. Reporter he calls himself were moving between 30 and 40 cases a day. Trying to get caught up. Im playing catch up. When this first started, i was just pushing social distancing. As long as they stood apart from themselves in the chapel, id prepare their loved one and wed do an embalming and an open casket. We even had a cosmetition come and a hair dresser. Now we dont have time for that. Because we have another family waiting to use that chapel. Its not slowing up. It seems like its getting worse. It may just be me. I am hoping im wrong. This is one time i want to be wrong. Reporter outside of one of pats Funeral Homes yesterday, we met a woman who told us she waited nearly 30 days to find a funeral home who could receive her sisters body and prepare it for burial. Tony . David, thank you very much. We want to let our viewers know that Governor Andrew Cuomo, new York Governor Andrew Cuomo, will join us in our next hour to talk about what it will take to bring new york state back to normal. Anthony . China reported 108 new coronavirus cases yesterday. Its highest number in almost six weeks. Thats bad news for the country where the outbreak began and where most travel restrictions ended just last week. As Ramy Inocencio reports from tokyo, Health Officials in other countries warn that the virus is returning. Reporter this new popup hospital in northeast china is the latest battleground against coronavirus. With 600 beds, state media show workers setting up rooms for infected patients. Chinese Officials Say most of the countrys new infections are imported. This town of 80,000 right on the border with russia is now on lockdown. Less than a week ago, wuhan celebrated its liberation from a 76day lockdown. We are out. Reporter but that joy came with a warning from some still there like professor sara platto. The virus will not disappear. Its among us and will be among us forever. Reporter an up tick in infection numbers is being reported across asia. And now a new worry, viral reactivation. More than 100 people who recovered in south korea have tested positive again. In terms of a second surge, are you nervous right now . I am nervous. Reporter dr. Jerome kim san epidemiologist based in seoul. What i hope is what we see instead are little blips. So its like putting out a fire. You know there are going to be embers that are blowing or smoking. You want to stamp those out before the fire starts again. Reporter and here in japan, a fire has started again. The Northern Island of hokkaido has redeclared a state of emergency because of a resurgence of infections there. Japan now has more than 7500 reported infections. Thats three times as many as april 1st. For cbs this morning, ramie incense no, tokyo. We have other news this morning starting with the devastating storms now blamed for 33 deaths across the south. Dozens of reported tornadoes left a path of destruction in several states on sunday and monday. The deaths included at least 11 people in mississippi, 9 in South Carolina and 8 in georgia. Jessi mitchell is in north carolina, about 90 miles west of charleston. Good morning to you. I cant imagine worse timing, dealing with a deadly pandemic and now these storms. What is happening there . Good morning, gayle. The pile of rubble behind me was a home just days ago. But as the storm blew through, you can see the destruction. Cars are mangled in the trees back there. And across the street, the rest of the house blown away. This is in the town of estelle. They are being forces to put their lives back together again. The spring storms were unrelenting in their march across the region, literally uprooting some communities in South Carolina. All i heard was a crack. And then the house shook really badly. Reporter 10yearold Charity Woods was trapped by a tree that crashed into her room as she slept. Her father struggled to get her free. I dont understand how we got out of there. Reporter governors in several affected states are concerned about recovering from these storms amid the coronavirus pandemic. And many of those georgians are already suffering from being out of work due to the covid19 virus. And now they have literally lost everything that they own. Reporter in georgia, where more than 400 people have died from the coronavirus, tornadoes added to the death toll as they tore across the state shredding through buildings like emma and charles pritchetts home. We cant even get in the living room. Reporter amanda pace nearly lost her mom and stepdad. Their mobile home was destroyed by a tornado sunday. I dont know how she made it out. God is the only reason she made it out alive. Reporter in mississippi, nearly a dozen people were killed by the storms. Among them, Lawrence County sheriffs Deputy Robert ainsworth and his wife paula, a former Justice Deputy clerk. Really fine people. Come from really fine families. Theyll be missed by all. Reporter and the sheriffs deputy who died is being remembered as a hero today. He was a marine corps veteran and a longtime employee. His Department Says he died shielding his wife from the tornado. Tony . Just harrowing pictures down there, jessi. Thank you very much. Lets get a check of camp pain 2020. Nearly a week after dropping out of the president ial race, senator Bernie Sanders endorsed former Vice President joe biden. The two men appeared on a live stream yesterday. No handshake, no rally. Sanders pledged to help biden defeat President Trump in november. The Political Correspondent ed okeefe joins us from washington. Good morning. This is unity pretty early for the democrats. What does it mean for the Democratic PartyGoing Forward . It sure is, tony. A big step toward party unity. Sanders endorsement comes three months earlier than the one he gave Hillary Clinton four years ago and gives biden about 200 days to take on President Trump. Listen here to some of what sanders and biden had to say. I am asking all americans, im asking every democrat, im asking every independent. Im asking a lot of republicans to come together in this campaign to support your candidacy which i endorse. Im going to need you. Not just to win the campaign, but to govern. Biden and sanders say they are forming task forces to discuss issues like health care, immigration and climate change. The former Vice President , of course, still faces a lot of skepticism from younger liberal voters who are wary of the democratic establishment and his career. So the senators endorsement is designed to bring his fiercely loyal supporters under the biden umbrella. The former Vice President last night easily won the wisconsin primary as expected. You know, ed, under normal circumstances, that would have been the lead story today but things have not been normal for quite some time. Thats why its so important to be reminded there is a very important president ial Campaign Going on, 2020. I think sometimes we lose sight of that. Lets not do that. I appreciate you pointing that out. Yes. Would you call that yesterday, would you call that a fullthroated endorsement what we heard . Absolutely. They are confined to doing what you and i do. Sitting here in our own homes and talking to each other. That may be what campaign 2020 looks like between now and november. Well see. But absolutely designed to be an explicit endorsement and remove any doubt that sanders is now backing his friend joe biden. All right. Party unity as tony said coming early. And now we have conventions coming up, too. We shall see. Thank you, ed okeefe. Really good to see you. The coronavirus has led to a new era of surveillance as some governments now track citizens to slow the spread. Ahead, well show you what this could mean for your privacy. 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