The trump administrations response to the coronavirus pandemic. President trump repeatedly claiming no one saw it coming. Top advisers and Health Officials reportedly trying to warn him six weeks before he took serious action. Also breaking tonight, the major tornado damage reported in the south. Up to 300 homes hit. Tornado threats in several states with millions already under stay at home orders. Severe storms from texas to the east coast. Overseas and life after quarantine in wuhan, china. An American Family emerging after two and a half months in lockdown, leaving their home together for the first time. The major fear in the city at thsse hope. Pope francis in a near empty st. Peters basilica, warning the coronavirus is testing our whole human family. Amazing grace and the heavenly voice singing amazing grace. The concert streamed around the world. And good evening. Thanks for joining us on this Easter Sunday. Im tom llamas. Well have more on that breaking news, those tornadoes touching down, hundreds of homes damaged. But we begin tonight with the battle against the coronavirus in the u. S. , and signs of hope amid some staggering and heartbreaking numbers. The u. S. With more than 550,000 cases. More than 21,000 deaths. New york state reporting 758 deaths in just 24 hours. The number of icu patients and patients on ventilators increasing, but the number of hospitalizations is dropping. Governor andrew cuomo revealing the curve is flattening, and today, he returned dozens of ventilators to a nursing home loaning them to the state. New jersey with more than 2,300 deaths including Police Officers on the front lines in bedbedbed bedminister and patterson. And police tracking license plates of parishioners attending Easter Service in hillview, kentucky. The governor warning them theyll have to quarantine for two weeks. Abcs trevor ault leads us off tonight. Reporter tonight, signs the spread of covid19 may be leveling off here in new york. But the virus still taking an incredible human toll. Thats the socalled flattening of the curve. The apex isnt just an apex, its a plateau. It has been flattening, but flattening at a terribly high level. Reporter more than 1,500 new yorkers dying from the virus this weekend alone. Brooklyn funeral director doris amen says the body count is devastating. We are upside down. We have never seen anything like this. We are deluged and were turning away families, which i am very disheartened to do. Reporter while the death rate remains high, the number of new hospitalizations here is trending down. Tonight, an update from an emergency physician on the front lines at mt. Sinai queens. Although were plateauing, the numbers themselves are still shockingly high. The hospital is constantly at capacity. Reporter leaders are weighing when life may begin returning to normal. Dr. Anthony fauci suggesting a rolling reentry may begin next month. It is not going to be a light switch that we say, okay, it is now june, july, or whatever, click, the light switch goes back on. Reporter though plans for new York City Schools and their 1. 1 Million Students still remain in limbo. Mayor bill de blasio said saturday schools will stay closed for the academic year. But Governor Andrew Cuomo still saying nothing has been decided. Schools, businesses, work force, transportation, it all has to be coordinated. Were not going to open any school until it is safe from a Public Health point of view. Reporter and Public Health concerns forcing millions of americans to stream Easter Sunday services instead of going to church. The church of the blessed sacrament in manhattans Upper West Side would typically have 3,000 people here for Easter Services. Today, the door is open and the organ is playing, but there are less than ten people inside. Its just inconceivable that you cant go to church. That you cant have mass. So, its its a challenging time. Reporter but some pastors preaching in person, regardless of restrictions. Welcome to church this morning on Easter Sunday. Reporter Calvary Baptist church in Kansas Holding a Service Despite the state Supreme Court upholding the governors order limiting religious gatherings to ten people. Police say it appears there were few in attendance. No citations were issued. In hillview, kentucky, police placing flyers on cars outside Maryville Baptist church. Across the state, officers taking down license plates of anyone attending a mass gathering. The governor saying Health Officials will order those people to selfquarantine for two weeks. If youre going to expose yourself to this virus and you make that decision to do it, its not fair to everybody else out there that you might spread it to. Reporter and in mississippi, a jackson city councilman handing out masks to people headed into worship. Amen amen reporter this pastor saying his church can still gather with caution. I am going to say to the congregation, lets be as safe as possible, lets not do anything foolish. And trevor ault joins us now from outside st. Patricks cathedral and manhattan. And trevor, as several states issued orders to try to stop Large Group Gatherings for Easter Sunday, tonight, the department of justice saying it may take action . Reporter thats right, tom. Several lawsuits have been filed by churches who claim these gathering bans arent being enforced equally and are singling out church services. One Mississippi Church said that police threatened to fine them for operating drivethrough service when Liquor Stores were still operating drivethroughs. A department of justice official says theyre looking at several of these cases and a spokesperson for the attorney general says expect action this week. Tom . Trevor ault from midtown manhattan for us. Trevor, thank you. As new york talks about flattening the curve, new hot zones are being tracked across the country. Several states, including massachusetts and pennsylvania, now bracing for their peaks, which could be days or weeks away. Heres abcs chief National Correspondent matt gutman. Reporter tonight, the virus on the attack. Several states predicting they are just days away from their peak. In massachusetts, the number of confirmed cases soaring by 21 in just 48 hours. 59yearold nurse maria krier quit her job at this Life Care Center in massachusetts earlier this month, saying management had no experience with the Infectious Disease, telling our affiliate wcvb in boston theres no initiative to protect the workers and the patients. Reporter and on friday, krier died after contracting covid19. And now more than 70 staff and residents have been infected. Ten residents have died. The center now asking all staff to be tested, saying in a statement, we are deeply saddened by the passing of one our associates. Adding, our nurses and front line workers are the heroes in the fight against this unprecedented outbreak. In pennsylvania, the governor predicting a surge this week after more than 2,800 new cases were reported this weekend. If we begin to slip in our efforts to distance ourselves socially, we could very easily see explosive growth rates. Reporter and texas showing a huge surge, though its only tested about 1 in every 240 people. In california, multiple studies testing for antibodies, those proteins in the blood that show a body has been exposed to the virus. But the fda is concerned about accuracy and reliability of some tests. At this Southern California fire station, one of the states first rounds of antibody testing. 50 front line workers getting tested, but there is still much unknown about the tests and the results. If the antibodies disappear after a certain period of time, we believe, that means, theoretically, you lose that immunity. You could be susceptible to a second infection. Reporter and tom, since testing for the virus has been so scattershot nationwide, a new nih study is going to look for the antibodies and it could tell us how many people in the country have been infected, how many of them went undetected, how fast this is spreading and how deadly it might really be. Tom . That testing so important. All right, matt gutman for us. Next tonight, the blistering report accusing the white house of missing crucial signals, as the coronavirus outbreak was spreading across the u. S. Heres abcs rachel scott from washington. Reporter tonight, the white houses leading Infectious Disease expert admits government inaction cost american lives. Obviously, you could logically say that if you had a process that was ongoing and you started mitigation earlier, you could have saved lives. Obviously, no one is going to deny that. But what goes into those kinds of decisions is complicated. Reporter the New York Times reports in a february 21st Coronavirus Task force meeting attended by fauci and hhs secretary alex azar, it was decided they would soon need to move toward aggressive social distancing. At this point, china had at least 75,000 cases and northern italy was closing public spaces. But the president did not announce those measures for more than three weeks. During that time, the number of known u. S. Coronavirus cases surging from 15 to over 4,000. Sources tell abc news, as far back as late november, u. S. Intelligence officials warned of a crisis. Over the next month, briefings included the National Security council at the white house. By early january, the contagion sweeping through china was in the president s security brief. The president saying he learned of the magnitude right before his decision on january 31st to limit travel with china. When did you first learn about the intelligence, and could you have acted on it then . Well, i learned when i started when i learned about the gravity of it, was some time just prior to closing the country to china. Reporter the administration is pushing back against reports of missing Early Warning signs. The white house has responded to that New York Times report, telling us the president took bold action to protect americans. Tom . All right, rachel, thank you. Now to breaking developments. Tornadoes striking the south tonight, as millions are already sheltering at home. Lets get right to Victor Oquendo in jackson, mississippi. Reporter tonight, sirens blaring across the south. An Easter Sunday Severe Weather outbreak under way. In monroe, louisiana, a tornado emergency. This neighborhood hit hard. Terrified families surveying the damage. Look, man. Reporter monroes mayor saying between 200 to 300 homes were damaged. The Regional Airport taking a direct hit. Planes tossed like toys. The National Weather service and meteorologists across the region warning families to take cover and have a plan. Find a small windowless room, wrap up in blankets and pillows, put on a helmet to protect yourself from debris and stay in that tornado safe place until we can give you the all clear. Reporter thousands losing power. Could this come at a worse possible time . I cant think of a worse possible time. Reporter here in mississippi, the coronavirus pandemic forcing families to take extra precautions when seeking shelter. Were asking people to wear a mask into those shelters, if you dont have a mask, anything, you can wear a handkerchief, a bandanna. Reporter north of here, inmates helping distribute sandbags amid flash flooding. Overnight, dozens of Severe Weather reports, including baseballsized hail. There is still a line of storms headed across the south, with the potential for even more tornadoes in the overnight hours. Now, with so many people already indoors following those coronavirus guidelines, wacials have tornado alerts ready to go on your phone, because you might not hear those sirens blaring outside. Tom . Victor oquendo in the path of the storm tonight. Victor, you and your team stay safe. Lets get right to abc senior meteorologist rob marciano, tracking those storms. Rob . Reporter hey, tom. This tornado outbreak just ongoing now. Lets get right to it. We have several watches that are posted, including a pds watch. Outlined in red. That is very dangerous. Weve already had not one, not two, but three damaging large tornadoes on the ground in louisiana, mississippi. Those will progress to the east. Flooding rains to the north. Snow on the back side of this. And a tornado threat tomorrow morning from north florida all the way up through the midatlantic. And then strong winds wrapping around that cyclone for the northeast, from detroit to boston. Winds 60 to 70 miles an hour. Those temporary tented cities in new york will be a dangerous spot tomorrow. Tom . All right, rob, thank you for that. Overseas now, british Prime Minister Boris Johnson out of the hospital and recovering from the coronavirus. Johnson thanking Health Care Workers for saving his life, saying it, quote, could have gone either way. He spent three nights in intensive care. New tonight, an American Family emerging from their home for the first time in 76 days. The reason . They live in wuhan. So, whats life like after quarantine . Heres abcs bob woodruff. Reporter tonight, this is wuhan, the chinese city where the Global Pandemic began. Now, its reopened, with a little bit of celebration. Oweeinameranaxeirt, his fe li dan and his 6monthold daughter, rachel, who are quarantined in their neighborhood. I felt like i cant even leave if i wanted to. Reporter we were there just when fears of the virus spread were growing. This is the International Section of the wuhan airport and theres basically almost no one here. Its empty. Days later, the airport shut down and wuhan became a ghost town. So, as you can see, were outside. I think its been, like, two months of wuhan being locked down. Te me thanwo months, maxs entire family went outside together for the first time. Residents can now walk this once empty city. Even max going to the store. Do you feel safe there . Yeah, definitely feel safe here, because, i mean, theyve taken such, like, stringent precautions. Reporter very stringent. Residents scan codes on their phones. Officials use technology to track peoples movements and check body temperatures. Police even wear helmets they claim can detect heat in a crowd. How long do you think this kind of lifestyle youve got there in wuhan will continue . Thats the big question. Thats the one that, you know, li dan and i talk about and we wonder about. Because at this point, we really are just looking forward to the day when we can kind of go back to our normal lives. Reporter now, china is certainly not out of lockdown, tom. Some areas have detected some more confirmed cases. Officials claim that these are with people who came from outside the country. Now that travel is banned. They are just wary of a resurgence, a second wave of covid19. Tom . Like so many places around the world. All right, bob, thank you for that new reporting. And around the world tonight, millions of people finding ways to celebrate easter. Tonight, on the holiest day of the year for christians around the world, these solemn images from the vatican. Pope francis addressing a nearly empty st. Peters basilica. Calling on the faithful to spread a new type of contagion. One he calls a contagion of hope. Around the world, cathedrals usually filled to the brim on easter, deserted. In spain, bolivia, australia, striking images of empty pews. Instead, parishioners watching livestreams from the safety of their homes. And across italy, a country devastated by the coronavirus, signs that contagion of hope is spreading. Priests taking to the rooftops, parishioners listening from a safe distance on their balconies. Amazing grace reporter and opera singer Andrea Bocelli holding a concert he called music for hope from an empty duomo in milan. The performance going viral. His voice filling the void across images of empty cityscapes. The goal, he said, to hug this wounded earths pulsing heart. But now i see the messages of hope tonight. And there is much more ahead on world news tonight. Your coronavirus questions. Could parts of the country start reopening next month . Dr. Jen ashton standing by. Or could it play out differently . 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Reporter Joanne Ritchie has been making auto parts at ford for 30 years, but now, a new call to arms. Shes helping ford make desperately needed masks for Health Care Workers. We were laid off and they asked me if i would be interested and im like, why wouldnt i want to do this . Reporter giving back is in her dna. In world war ii, her grandmother made Aircraft Parts at hudson motors, and today, this is joannes daughter, andrea. A nurse now on the front lines. For you, what shes doing is literally a lifeline. Sometimes youve got to go and beg this person and that person to get the right mask that fits your face. Reporter she knows that youre out there, really risking your health to do this work. My biggest concern for my parents is that, if i was to get it, that i would not be here. Reporter a daughters bravery is a mothers pride. I imagine youre very proud of your daughter. Very much. Very much so. Reporter i see youre getting emotional there, why . Well, you know, shes putting herself out there like so many other people and she has a little bit of my grandmother in her. Shes bound, shes determined. Nothings going to stop her. Reporter three ritchie women, generations apart, are america strong. Gio benitez, abc news, new york. Our thanks to the ritchie family for their service. And our thanks to you for watching. Im tom llamas in new york. Please stay safe. Good night. Tonight on abc7 news at 6 00, the bay area celebrates easter with social distancing. See how people manage to observe the holiday. Stimulus payments are coming, and some people may already have them. The update from the irs. And when did the coronavirus actually arrive in the bay area . A new report suggests it may have been here a lot longer than you may think. Abc7 news at 6 00 starts right now. Now your health, your safety, this is abc7 news. Well, easter goes on in the bay area, but with a much different tone this year as the coronavirus Pandemic Forces many churches to conduct virtual celebrations. Good evening and thank you so much for joining us. Im dion lim. Im eric thomas. There are more than 550,000 confirmed cases in the united states. Thats three times as many as the next highest country, spain. More than 21,000 deaths have been reported in the u. S. , which is also the highest of any country. New york city alone is nearing 7,000. Italy has the second most deaths from the virus. California is reporting just over 22,000 confirmed cases, which is the sixth most in the u. S. , just behind massachusetts and pennsylvania. More than 600 people have died in the state from the virus. The greater bay area now has more than 5,000 confirmed cases of coronavirus. The count right now stands at 5,3079. 140 people have died. Santa clara county still has the most cases with more than 1600. North of the bay area lake and mendocino counties report having four confirmed cases
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