With the covid crisis. This way the patients mouth. Reporter protective gear is scarce here, dr. Samlin says, especially masks. When we use them for a shift we put them in a brown paper bag. Reporter this suspected covid patient coming in is coming by ambulance, i assume. How critical is he . Theyre doing cpr on him. Yeah. Hes dying alone, that is really sad. Reporter that is because suspected Covid Patients need to be isolated. Hes using a respirator from his previous job and a filter that his father who works in construction gave him. How are you doing . Frustrated. The cdc says we can use bandanas as a form of protection for ourselves instead of masks so i got one. Its frustrating because the government let us down. Reporter how are you doing . Um, thank you for asking. Im not well. Its not a joke. I want people to stay home. This is the real deal. Reporter are they still performing cpr . No, theyre dead. Reporter there was no time to even test that patient for covid. But the precautions were taken. Dr. Samlin said besides ppe and a break, this is what they need. If you have a friend or a colleague or anybody you know in the Health Care Industry who is working the front lines, just send them a text saying, thinking about you. God bless you. Love you. Thank you for what youre doing. Thats all we need. Reporter on behalf of a grateful country, thank you. Thanks, dave. Reporter thank you. That fight is far from over. Powerful reporting from our david begnaud. Perhaps the biggest economic casualties of the pandemic are the nations Small Businesses and their workers. Tony dokoupil has that part of the story. Reporter you know, i get it. This has never happened before. This has never happened before. Reporter gabe gets why his company let him go. But when we visited his house last week, he still hadnt figured out what to do about it. April 1st, are you going to make a mortgage payment or not . Good question. Reporter at the start of march, just four weeks ago, his company, corporate av, was scheduled to handle lighting and sound for dozens of events this spring. Joe gilderson is the owner. Before the virus, actually things were looking great. We were full steam. We had two probably of the best months weve ever had. Reporter ever . Yeah. And we were on track for a full spring season. Reporter then the pandemic and bans on large gatherings. Every day go to work, more jobs were being taken off the board. More, more jobs, more jobs, then it was like, okay, now theres a problem. Now there is a serious problem. Reporter those jobs represented about 800,000 in revenue, wt gilderson expected to take year. It faced owners across the country, with no money coming in and bills piling up, how many people to layoff. According to research by jpmorgan chase, the typical Small Business has less than a month of cash reserves to survive a situation like this. Its pretty gut wrenching to be honest. Not a lot of sleep the night before knowing what. Reporter overnight, corporate av went from 20 employees to six. What was it like to get the call from joe saying your position is not here any more . Um, i wasnt surprised. Reporter mo johnson had worked for the company for more than 20 years. Youve got to do something. And my thing is, do whatever you can to save the company. Save the ship. Well swim to shore. Save the ship. When we get back on the ship, we can go again. But if the ship is not there, you know, thats the problem. Reporter what kind of severance package do people get . Not much to be honest. We had a weeks worth of income basically to provide them. I think everyone in the group really said, listen, you have to keep this thing afloat. I neat someplace to come back to. And that i figure is my job. Reporter so you still have one more check or direct deposit coming . Pretty much, which was today actually. Reporter today . Yeah. Thats it. Reporter and then . Thats it. Reporter and he admits hes still processing the immediate shock of losing his job and his familys health insurance. His wife claudia says they were already living paycheck to. If you could get a meeting tomorrow with leaders in congress, what would you want them to know about what a family like yours needs . I think i would just ask them for a better sense of stability. Youre just constantly worried about can i make this payment . Can i put my kid can i get a doctor . Reporter even before . Even before. Reporter and now it underscores how important those things are. Absolutely. Reporter what kind of situation are you in in terms of money in the bank . Same as everybody. I dont really have a lot of money. Reporter theyll get help from Unemployment Insurance and the stimulus package. There may also be power in numbers with so many businesses closed and so many people idle, theres hope that out of work doesnt mean out of luck. As a nation, you know, they cant say, oh, these people were degenerate. We kick them out or take away this or take away that. Theres going to be some solace to it. So i believe that. They need to stop the mortgage payments, they need to stop all the phone payments. They need to stop all that for a couple months, at least 90 days on their feet, you know . Ple be reporter is it easier or harder to deal with this knowing theres nothing you did personally to cause it . I guess if there was a moral ground, that warner brothersoul. That doesnt help. When you reflect on kind of what youve had to go through in 14, 15 years to build something up and help all the people, youd like to think youve helped, its frustrating. Just one example of what millions of Small Businesses are going through. Tony dokoupil reporting. Thank you, tony. The overnight news will be right back. When our daughter and her kids moved in with us. Our bargain detergent couldnt keep up. Turns out its mostly water. So, we switched back to tide. One wash, stains are gone. Daughter slurping dont pay for water. Pay for clean. Its got to be tide. You try to stay ahead of the mess. But scrubbing still takes time. Now theres new powerwash dish spray. Its the faster way to clean as you go. Just spray, wipe and rinse. It cleans grease five times faster. New dawn powerwash. Spray, wipe, rinse. It wasnt so long ago that many of us hadnt even heard of the Hand Sanitizer purell. Now its a key weapon in the war against coronavirus and the company is working around the clock trying to keep up with demand. Heres lee cowan. I guess you could describe it as a tenyear overnight success story. Reporte telalt becar greater success than they would have imagined at the outset. Reporter that idea was purell, whats become a pretty prized possession in our desperate attempt to keep our hands virus free. Its made by go joe industries, a familyend business. Rebecca jar advice talked to the c. E. O. Back in 2013. My uncle jerry at the beginning of 19467 develop deve hand cleaner called go jo. Reporter uncle jerry gave him half the company when he was just in his 20s. Then he perfected an alcohol Hand Sanitizer easy on the skin. What do you call it . Purell, as in pure, won out. But it took awhilp on the invention. Go jo lost money on purell for years, until 2002 when the cdc determined that alcoholbased products were, indeed, effective in cleansing hands. Today purell really isnt a luxury. Most families wonder what they would do without it. Vindicating in a sense when joe told us seven years ago about the virtues of having your own company. I probably would have been fired if i were working for anybody else. But eventually it paid off. It certainly did payoff, for all of us. Lee cowan with that story. Youre watching the cbs overnight news. Social distancing is taking a toll on shuttered bars and restaurants from coast to coast. The jack rose dining saw loon in d. C. Is not immune. Its famous for its extensive vintage collection of whiskeys. Now those treasured libations are for sale. Reporter bill thomas is taking stock. Are there any bottles that were on the walls that you are not quite rea t yet . There were a few hundred we squared away. Reporter he has the largest Whiskey Library in the western hemisphere. At least it did until last week when he started selling it off. 39. Reporter it sounds like this collection means a lot to you. Did you ever think about just holding onto it and closing your doors . That was never an option. You cant leave an asset like this on the wall when people need help. Reporter help came by the dram. After coronavirus shuttered the citys dinein restaurants, thomas started doing takeout. And liquidating 2700 prized bottles to help support his staff. Either whiskey fans social distanced down the block. Whats the most expensive bottle youve sold . Generally we sold a lot of bottles at 1,000. A lot of rare stuff. Reporter john bought a vintage bottle from the 1980s. Patrons snatched up more than 1,000 others, stripping these once stocked shelves. Its a win win situation if i get to get some rare bourbons and they support their employees, its the best thing in the world. Reporter even the good stuff isnt enough to keep everyone on the payroll. Thomas had just opened a second restaurant down the block. This is totally shutdown . Totally shutdown. When we reopen it will be more difficult. Well get there. Reporter he estimates as many as 35 of the citys restaurants might not be so lucky. Or many of the small sinesses around the city, they didnt have a 100year plan they could pivot into six months. Reporter they didnt have an asset to keep selling off. In Uncertain Times its always smart to have liquid assets. And to do a little inventory, of the good stuff youve already got. That great bottle you were thinking about saving for that special occasion, this is the special occasion. Crack it open, drink it, share it with whoever youre sequestered with. Reporter now is the time . This is the time. Reporter christina rafini, washington. Thats the overnight news for this thursday. For some of you, the news continues. For others, check back a little later for cbs this morning or follow us online any time at cbsnews. Com. Reporting from the cbs studios ine. Captioning sponsored by cb captioning sponsored by cbs odonnell breaking news tonight the staggering numbers. The u. S. Now tops 200,000 cases, and in the epicenter, the death toll in new york has almost quadrupled in five days as Governor Cuomo closes playgrounds, he warns that social distancing is a matter of life and death. Who else has to die for you to understand you have a responsibility in this . Odonnell and in illinois, where the death toll is rising, we hear from a chicago doctor on the front lines. This is most scared ive ever been being an e. R. Doctor. Odonnell new stayathome orders. Floridas governor reverses course and tells the people of the Sunshine State to stay inside. What he thinks sparked the outbreak in florida, and why yhurches and synagogues are churches and synagogues are exempt
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