I went through my stuff and i grabbed a pair and dropped them off. And later, this war veteran walked to help fight the virus, inspiring a nation. The sun will shine on you again. Announcer this is the cbs overnight news. Good evening. Im shon gables, reporting from wgcl cbs 46 in atlanta. More federal money could be on the way to struggling Small Businesses. At the same time, the debate over the reopening of the country is getting sharply political. The virus is still killing more than 3,600 americans in the last 24 hours. The u. S. Death toll now tops 41,000. There are over 746,000 cases. We have correspondents covering all aspects of this crisis. Meg oliver in new jersey starts us off. Reporter well, the army has been supporting several hospitals in new york city. They moved to new jersey for the first time this week to help an overwhelmed staff here at University Hospital. But its a different scene sh back te protests demanding coronavirus reopen intense identified sunday. Im fighting for my rights. Reporter some are concerned they will reopen too quickly. Whats your reaction to the protests . A high extreme of concern. Reporter he runs the university in newark. With the help of the army they are just starting to feel the flattening of the curve. We just need to make sure that we stay the course with social distancing. We dont want to see another surge come in that would be overwhelming. Reporter restrictions in some states are easing. Marinas and boat yards in connecticut, new york and new jersey are opening with strict social distancing measures. Beaches in florida have reopened. Theres hope in new york. Governor cuomo says the outbreak is slowing, but they still need to reduce the infection rate before restrictions are eased. But watch that hospitalization rate and that infection rate because if that starts going up again, and you dont immediately correct or you made such a Dramatic Movement that the virus infection spreads, you could go right back to where you were in one weeks time. Reporter as americans wait, the lines grow longer outside food banks like this one in california. The need has been massive. Reporter this month University Hospital has lost five Staff Members to covid19, with more than 200 patients with the virus right now, they are hoping they have reached the peak. Shon . Meg oliver, thank you. Tonight the white house and Congressional Democrats say they are close to a deal. For more money to help struggling Small Businesses, this as the finger pointing over testing intensifies. Nikole killion at the white house. Reporter the white house indicated relief could be on the way to Small Businesses this week after money for a popular loan program ran out. The senate can pass this tomorrow and that the house can take it up tuesday. And wednesday we would be back up and running. Reporter the measure, negotiated with democratic leaders, would include at least 300 billion for the paycheck protection program, as well as funding for hospitals and testing. The very things that we democrats have been fighting for are now going into the bill. Reporter amid the cooperation were doing about 150,000 tests a day. Reporter a growing divide over the administrations claims of sufficient testing. The president gets an f on failure, on the testing. Reporter the president fired off a series of tweets calling nancy pelosi an inherently dumb person. She will be overthrown. He added, just like i was right onventilators, im right on testing. Governors must be able to step up and get the job done. Thats just delusional, to say that the governors have plenty of testing and they should get to work on testing. Somehow we arent doing our job is just absolutely false. Reporter some governors say even if the tests are there, theyre short on supplies. The reagents and the swabs are absolutely essential. You cant process all of these tests if you cant take the sample and protect it. Reporter the governor of michigan is among those calling on the federal government to use the defense production act again to make those testing supplies. The Vice President says he continues to work with the governors and is holding a call with them monday to lay out how they can activate more tests in their states. Shon . Nikole, thanks. As of today, there are now 198 days until the president ial election. Lets check in with cbs news Political Correspondent ed okeefe. And ed, President Trump and joe bidens campaigns are now accusing each other of being soft on china and how to respond to the coronaVirus Outbreak. What is really going on here . Reporter well, look, both sides the American Public blames china to some extent for not doing more to stop the spread of this disease. The Trump Campaign is trying to use comments that biden made last year that seem to suggest that the rise of china isnt that big of a deal. They also point out that his son had done some business work in china. The Biden Campaign says, look, while the president wasnt responsible for coronavirus itself, he is responsible for the response. The next big story that were waiting for is that what joe biden needs to do is select a running mate. What do you know about that so far . Reporter thats right, cbs news has learned that that process will formally begin this coming week. Remember, biden himself has said hes going to pick a woman to be his running mate and that group of people that he will look into is expected to include governors like Gretchen Whitmire and potentially others like Stacey Abrams, the former state senator from your home state. Well see. And Stacey Abrams has not been coy about wanting this position. All of georgia watching. Thank you very much. You can follow eds reporting online and on air and on cbsn. There is breaking news in canada tonight. The Royal Canadian mounted police say a gunman went on a shooting rampage outside of halifax, nova scotia. One of the dead is a mountie. Authorities say the gunman is dead. The cbs news will be right back. Announcer this is the cbs overnight news. Now, in this pandemic, theres no such thing as working from home for the nations farm workers doing essential work with little or no protective gear. Their lives and the nations food supply are at risk. Heres manuel bojorquez. Reporter for workers on floridas farms, getting to the fields starts with a bus ride, making social distancing ac. Expecee an essential labor. When were absolutely abandoned in terms of resources to protect ourselves. Theres no personal protective equipment. For farm workers. Reporter here, the nearest hospital is about an hour away. This man is with the coalition of workers which has been distributing flyers on covid precautions, in spanish and creole. And answering questions on a radio talk show. Some growers have set up hand washing stations, but reyes fears thats not enough. If you think about the virus as a wild fire, were dry tinder, in a way. If there are no workers, because we get all sick and its impossible to sustain the work because of that, then theres no food. What are people going to do . Reporter the vast majority of the nations farm workers Lack Health Insurance or sick paid leave. And though its estimated undocumented immigrants paid 20 billion in federal taxes in 2018, they arent eligible for stimulus checks. Because of our needs, we have to go to work, says gloria carrera. Though she recently made the tough decision to leave the fields and her income for the health of her two children. Work or stay safe, a daily don lemon a for laborers like her across the country. But carreras situation exposes another problem. More than one Family Living under one roof. She says its the only way she can afford the rent but increases their chance of exposure even if she continues to stay home. Manuel bojorquez, cbs news, miami. Now to louisiana, one of the nations virus hot spots. With no cure and limited treatment options, patients are often isolated from loved ones. Even in death. One louisiana hospital is trying to change that. Mireya villareal have more from new orleans. Reporter arzelia smith drove from houston to new orleans to reunite with her grandfather. Immediately i want to get to my grandfather. Thats my first thought, i need to be with my grandfather. Reporter Willie Gordon was a world war ii veteran, a family man that helped raise his azalia. The coronavirus combined with Underlying Health issues left him lying helpless in a hospital bed. Its heart warming and also heartbreaking at the same time. I believe that hes at peace. Reporter this visit was made possible through a popup program created by heart of hospice. The agency rented out a vacant wing inside this hospital exclusively treating covid19 patients. Youre bringing Healthy Family members in to a place where there is coronavirus. How do you ensure their health and safety . So, we took that very, very seriously. Our Staff Members are actually educating them on the proper utilization of the p. P. E. , how to put the p. P. E. On, what is safe, what is not safe. Theyre fully gowned out. Reporter arkansas nurse Melissa Moody was part of the team treating arzalias grandfather. I think the best medicine that were giving them right now, better than anything i can give them through their i. V. , is to bring their son, their daughter or their grandchild to their bedside. How are you doing . Reporter some would find these moments difficult. But for Willie Gordons family, this was a gift. We didnt want him to feel alone during this time. Reporter are you ready to let go . I am. I am. Reporter heart of hospice is fielding phone calls from across the country. Providers saying how can we help . And others saying, how can we do this for our patients . The popup was planning to be here through june 30. But they are already in discussions to see if they can extend past that date to see if they can meet the needs here in new orleans. Shon . Mireya, thanks. Today marks one of the darkest days in our nations history. 25 years ago, a rightwing extremist bomb destroyed the Federal Building in oklahoma ci them children. Today, the pandemic forced the annual memorial to happen online. Ing some creatures hard. Gh milld by more tornadoes from arkansas to the carolinas and florida panhandle. And here in atlanta, Opera Singers are delivering emotional pickmeups right to your front porch. 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Reporter theyre documenting how life has changed during the coronavirus married to the road blog. We have our face masks there, and our purell. We keep it with us at all times so that its handy. They gave us a big box of gloves. Reporter whats the hardest part of your job now . Trying to stay safe. Reporter finding bathrooms, showers and a place to rest has gotten harder as many small truck stops and some rest stops are closed. About the only restaurants open now are drivethroughs, ad big rigs dont fit. Two or three nights we didnt eat. Truckers move 71 of all domestic freight, and virtually all consumer goods. They are essential workers, especially now. A little girl said i love truck drivers. Madedave. More fivefinger waves than onefinger waves. Reporter Whites Travel Center calls itself the largest on the east coast. Theyre staying open and busy, and stepping up sanitation efforts, and has an onsite urgent care. But drivers worry. Do you worry about getting sick . Me more than him. Because hes got a compromised immune system. He doesnt get out of the truck unless its to pump gas it. Reporter so its weighing on you a lot. Yeah, a lot. My kids are worried. Reporter does it make you think about just staying home . Wish we could. Absolutely. Reporter but for now, the trailers are full and theyll keep on driving, hoping we all outrun coronavirus soon. Kris van cleave, cbs news, christianburg, virginia. Still ahead, how a grassroots eyewear idea by sidelined snow lovers has gone global. Super emma just about sleeps in her cape. But when we realized she was battling sensitive skin, we switched to new tide plus downy free. Its gentle on her skin, and dermatologist recommended. New tide pods plus downy free. Safe for sensitive skin with eczema and psoriasis. May contain disodium distyrylbiphenyl disulfonate. Clean clothes, no unnecessary chemicals. I dont have to worry about that, do i . Are irritated. Ate. Harmful bacteria lurk just below the gum line. 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Reporter they were ski goggles from a group called goggles for docs, that has been taken in donations from sidelined skiers and snowboarders around the world. Did you ever think that you uldh personal protective equipment . No. I dont think anyone would have thought it would have came that far, and so fast. Reporter signs are popping up in ski towns everywhere. We found page rausch making a dropoff in salt lake city. We saw this goggles for docs. So i went through my stuff and i grabbed a pair and dropped some off. Reporter in the last few months, goggles for docs has delivered more than 30,000 pairs to medical workers in need. Its like going fishing. You come down and say whoa what do we have . Reporter Nathan Rafferty is an organizer, volunteers at a time when ski resorts like park city are shut down. We estimate our industry lost close to a quarter billion dollars in revenue. Reporter the work that they replaced it with . Priceless, says dr. Glass. I am so touched. Its really an inspiration for me to think about stopping and doing a totally selfless gif reporter in this case, its the gift of safety, with a little bit of style. Carter evans, cbs news, los angeles. Up this virus is testing all of us. And its testing the people on the front lines of this fight most of all. So abbott is getting new tests into their hands, delivering the critical results they need. And until this fight is over, we. Will. Never. Quit. Because they never quit. Y tonieteran who is nearly a century old is doing his part to help britain battle the coronavirus. What he didnt count on was the overwhelming reaction. Heres charlie dagata. Reporter a couple of weeks ago, world war ii veteran captain tom moore came up with a new way to serve his country. 100 laps in his garden, ten a day, in times for his 100th birthday. A way of saying thank you to Britains NationalHealth Service for his new hip, hoping 1,200, a little morale boost in a country hurting for inspiration. Tomorrow, you will find out everything will be better than today, even if today was all right. Reporter captain tom had no idea how good his tomorrow was about to become. The donations began touring in. So he upped the ante. Why not 500,000 pounds . Soon he sprinted past that, too. Geing daupdateis ple progress. [ honking and cheers ] because heres what captain tom tapped into. A national outpouring of support for britains straining health workers. So with each step, captain tom was carrying the country along with him and not just britain. Soon people from more than 50 nations, including the United States pitched in. One million became two million, four million, eight million. By the morning of his last day, captain tom had rais