Transfer your service in minutes, making moving with xfinity a breeze. Visit xfinity. Com moving today. This is cnn tonight im don lemon. 11 00 p. M. On the east coast. Latest on the coronavirus pandemic. Over 1. 6 million cases worldwide. And more than 95,000 deaths around the globe. Here in the u. S. , there are now more than 465,000 confirmed cases and more than 16,000 deaths. Tonight, the director of the cdc robert red field tells us that the u. S. Is nearing the peak of this virus. In new york, the death toll reached a new hi of 800 deaths. A sign of hope in the hardest hit state. The numb of hospitalizations in new york state dropped from 600 to 200 in one day. The director and Vice President pence credited americans vigilance saying social distancing is working. As of to want 97 of the country is under stay at home orders. We bring in cnn White House Correspondent and resident fact checker. President trump keeps talking about opening up the economy. Theres clearly tension between his economic adviser and the medical community. Who do you think hell listen to . If you take the most recent case we have, which is what happened around the easter date that the president was talking about before. You would say that he will ultimately listen to his Health Policy adviser. In this case chaeted he wanted to get the country open and go back to church on easter. Dr. Fauci went to him and said that wont be possible. We have to sustain those social distancing guidelines. And extended them through the end of april. He may walk up to the line again. At the end of april. Flirt with the idea of reopening the economy. At once or stages. And yield to the data at the end. Vice president pence was asked about that today. The president himself is not committed to may 1. Were following the data. Thats the way it reopen the economy put the coronavirus behind us and right now the data suggests they should not reopen the economy on may 1. The president was asked about the country getting back to normal earlier tonight. Take a listen. How could the administration discuss the possibility of reopening the country when the administration doesnt have an adequate nationwide tesing system for this virus in dont you need a testing system for the virus before you reopen we have the best testing system in the world. There are certain sections in the country that are in phenomenal shape already. Other sections are come lg online. Other sections are going down. We in addition are giving out millions of tests and every day were doing it exponentially and picking up. And going to certain areas of the country and do massive testing. Its not necessary but its a good thing to have. Its not necessary . What are the facts . This is matter of opinion. President s opinion is at odds with the opinions of experts around the worltd. That includes dr. Fauci. And a whole bunch of others who say the only way to responsibly safely reopen the economy is massive system of what they call testing and tracing. You need to be able to test at least everyone with symptoms. Ideally many more people than that. And see if they are positive quick will isolate them. And then trace their contact. Go to the people they had contact with. Quickly test those people. Isolate them if necessary. And avoid another wave of infection in the area and around the country. If you dont have that testing in place what you do is risk multiple waves where you keep opening and closing and cant get going economically. The attorney general bill barr is saying that he opposes changing election practices this year. Citing the trump opposition to increasing mail in voting opportunities. While were in a pandemic. Its not the right time to be experimenting with the way elections are conducted. Through mail in and other techniques. By november well be dealing with different circumstances. We can adapt the election practices at the polls to accommodate Public Health concerns. This administration doesnt want vote by mail to happen. Its not an experiment. Many people have been doing it. The president has done it. The country has been adapting towards early voting. Mail in. Absentee voegt for decade. Its sounds like a partisan statement who seems to think changing lt way we do elections is somehow a threat to republicans. This is something that President Trump is uttered as well. Saying you can have levels of voting that no republican could survive. More than 30 states have either all mail in voting. Or no excuse absentee. Really, what i think were talking about in this election is ramping up the process that already exists to make absentee ballots readily available. There are another 18 or 19 states that dont permit no excuse absentee the question would be do you move from no excuse excuse required. Explains why youre away from your polling place on election day. To make it more broadly available. Cant you just write in there is a pandemic . I would rather vote by mail. Isnt that an excuse. Well, you would think. Yes. That could be the answer. It could be simple. Im afraid to go to my polling place. Thats what were talking about. Something which procedures already exist already in very widespread use. That seems like a legitimate excuse to me. Worldwide pandemic that could be harmful to my health. Here is my ballot. And sign it. Thank you both. Appreciate it. Dr. Fauci responding to studies that indicate new york coronavirus cases came from europe saying hes not surprised given travel from italy. Joining me now coauthor of the study. Thank you, doctor. Your research is fascinating. 87 of the viruss that you have studied in new york city are similar to european cases and came not just from one place but many countries . Yes. Essentially what we did is we had a Pathogen Surveillance Program in place. For quite sometime. Normally we apply the program to studying seasonal flu to studying pathogens. And we leverage the resources and look at coronavirus cases. In the initial study that we have done we sequence and look at the genes of the coronavirus for 84 patients and comparing that to a large in Different Countries looking at the cases that they saw there, that basically tells us by looking at those cases and comparing them to ours is the gee gnomes of the viruss here in new york are similar to the cases from present in europe. The cases in New York Group with cases from multiple countries in europe. And indicates that there are multiple origins of the virus coming from europe and shows that the path of the virus as it left asia, spreading around the world, didnt go directly to new york. But it took a detour through europe. And from europe the cases that we saw there through travel this could be people returning from travel to europe. Into new york. Also people visiting new york. And brought the virus into the city. Your team thinks the virus has been circulating in new york city since january. How are we able to determine that . What we can do is look at the diversity of the virus we see here in new york. As the virus spreads as its passed between people and sort of replicating itself. Its accumulates small errors they function as a molecule. The diversity that arises in the virus population can tell us something about the length of time the virus has been circulating in a population. What we saw here for the cases that we identified and examed in new york, we can see in the weeks prior to that there has been on track spread of the virus. Meaning that we do not have sort of the the virus that are present at the moment. Because of the diversity of the virus now, we can say that the virus has been circulating for several weeks prior to the study. Speaking of circulating. I found it interesting your team found a new york coronavirus that was identical to one of the virus found in Washington State by a different team. Does that suggest that the coronavirus was traversing across the United States or just they had the same original origin point in china . It is so both are essentially possible. With we think its probably an indication it may have been local spread. Within the United States. So what we need to do to confirm that is sequence adish cases in new york. And need to fill in some of the blanks in the math were having. Other cities, other states. And start sequencing more cases across the country. So we can identify some of the missi missing links that maybe in the transmission. Thank you so much. I appreciate it. At least 1,800 coronavirus deaths were reported in this country in just the last 24 hours. Erica hill has the story of what states are doing to get the death toll down. Reporter empty streets shutered businesses. Lives on hold. Signs of a long road ahead. The flattening of the curve last night happened because of what we did yesterday. If we stop acting the way were acting you will see the numbers go up. California earl lifrt gaining praise for slowing the spread. One Northern County says sports are likely on hold through thanksgiving. In chicago 400 cases are linked to the cook county jail. Making it the largest source of infection. The city opens up a 66,000 square foot warehouse to ease over crowding at morgues. Positive cases now confirmed aboard three aircraft carriers. And the National Guard deployed to two new jersey veterans homes with dozens of positive cases and at least 12 deaths. Meantime the city of philadelphia pushing back on claim its a potential new hot spot. Were not by any means. Im hopeful the social distancing steps in place are showing signs of working. New jersey tightening statewide measures. Face covering for customers and employees at essential businesses. Strict limits on capacity and gatherings. Nevada limiting the size of religious gatherings. As louisiana doubles down. Theres no easter exemption. Only to be overruled by the legislative coordinating counsel. Which claimed it went too far by singling out one entity and limiting the free exercise of religion. Every american in every state, first to listen to state and local authorities. But right after that, avoid gatherings of more than ten. Know in so doing well hasten the day that we put the coronavirus in the past. And we reopen the country. The White House Task force already working on a plan for the reopening. Possibly in matter of weeks. As experts and those on the front lines urge caution. Im concerned that were setting dates and not listening to the virus. 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When you combine that with the data from the priest two weeks, thats 16. 8 Million People filing. Think about that. Now almost 17 million americans who are now out of work in just a few weeks. Joining many now former secretary of labor and author of the system, who rigged it. How we tfix it. Good evening, sir. What a mess. 6 million americans filing for unemployment. 11 of the labor force out of work. You were labor secretary. How would you describe the emergency . This is unprecedented. Certainly unprecedent ld in anyones lifetime. Today. And i worry that theres no let up here. Were hemorrhaging jobs. Small businesses are closing at a rapid rate. We could easily see 30 of the entire American Work force out of work at this rate. Wow. 30 . Okay, how are these weekly jobless reports even capturing the whole picture of what is happening then . Because they will have to be revisions if youre saying well see 30 of people out of work. They dont capture everyone. Many people are not eligible for unemployment insurance. People cant get through. Because the phone lines are jammed. Long lines. And the web sites are crashing. Beyond that, we are seeing more and more businesses closing. And especially Small Businesses. Small businesses really are the employers of the most of the hourly workers. And im talking about restaurants, retail establishments, hotels, huge numbers of relatively low wage workers are losing their jobs and astounding rate. So, robert, if this is unp s unprecedented and 30 of the work force . Right . How do we quantify this . How do yo put it into perspective . Is there a way to do it . What does this mean for us . For the economy . The worst area the grease depression of the 1930s. 25 of the work force was unemployed. Its important to understand this is not your typical recession or depression. This is a pandemic. This is brought on by a Public Health crisis. Most important thing we can do is have people stay home. The way to stay home for most people is either losing their job or getting furloughed. And the problem is that its a selffulfilling prophesy. Obviously the more people scared, justifiably about the pandemic. The less shopping theyll do and less willing to get out there. Their own incomes are jeopardized. You can see how the interlocking relationship of the Public Health crisis with an economic crisis makes everything worse and worse. We wont be able to do anything about the job problem right now. We have a Public Health problem that takes precedence. Its vitally porimportant to ge money to people to pay bills and buy food. And keep a roof over their heads. Economic funding the rescue package that congress is work on, what do they need to do . What should be in it . Both the Democrats Ask republicans seem to agree there needs to be Small Business funding. 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