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Now, there are across the state makeshift icus. icu patients in hallways, icu patients being held in e.r.s, med-surge patients on high flow oxygen and more invasive devices that are in nontraditional areas that they should be. look, in terms of the state of the hospital system, we're standing in a garage with field hospitals. i think that speaks for itself. i mean health care in mississippi is not good right now in terms of what we can do just from -- just from the standpoint of being able to care for the patients the way that we as physicians would expect to care for a patient. these are not ...

Limits. that field hospital, though, in the basement at the university of mississippi medical center is still not enough in mississippi. today mississippi health officials held a press conference to announce a second field hospital being opened in a second parking garage at the university of mississippi medical center. one of the doctors at the press conference today, dr. alan jones, said last week that the state was on the brink of the state's hospital system failing. a reporter today asked him to give an update on that, to let people know if that was still the case. this is what he said. >> ...

Opened in a second parking garage at the university of mississippi medical center. another doctor said that last week the state was on the brink of the states hospital system failing. a reporter today asked him to give an update on that to let people know if that was still the case. this is what he said. >> in the systems of care right now, there are, across the state, makeshift icus, icu patients in hallways, icu patients being held in yards. patients on high flow oxygen and other invasive devices. in terms of the state of the hospital system, we're standing in a garage with field hospitals. ...

The death toll now above 14,000. another 2,000 american lives lost since yesterday. and this animation put together by "the new york times," charting the number of deaths since the first death in washington state. the red there on the map, new york clearly the epicenter. you can really see all of the hot spots, the red from south florida to louisiana, detroit, chicago, of course washington state and california. so much of this country fighting this. tonight, we're on the front lines. in a new york city hospital, those recovery rooms turned into makeshift icus. st. john the divine cathedral, no...

Tonight, the new and staggering numbers just in. nearly 2,000 deaths in the u.s. in just the last 24 hours. more than 14,000 dead in the u.s. the president speaking moments ago. new york reporting its deadliest day. 779 deaths in 24 hours. tonight, the difficult images inside a new york city hospital. recovery rooms turned into icus. you will see the moment, doctors making difficult calls to loved ones waiting for news. we go inside the cathedral of st. john the divine. during holy week, it's now a makeshift hospital. and the american workers risking their lives. tonight in new york city, ...