the tension between saving jobs and saving lives on full display. the protesters, with the man in scrubs standing right before them. and the concern now over your heart. blood clots, the potential for heart attacks. we'll carefully get to it all. we'll start with whit johnson leading us off in new york. >> reporter: tonight, these stark images from denver illustrating the difficult decisions facing leaders at all levels of government, how to balance the pressure to reopen with the need to protect public safety. in the new york epicenter where the pandemic has inflicted weeks of pain and heartbreak, tonight, signs the state has turned a corner. look at the curve over the last month. the number of people admitted to the hospital trending downward. governor cuomo urging caution. >> the question is now, how long is the descent and how steep is the descent? and nobody knows. >> reporter: one doctor seeing that decline firsthand. when we first met dr. matthew bai almost a month