Death toll could still reach hundreds of thousands. Nursing home danger. Eight dead in a new jersey home nor seniors as hundreds test positive in homes in maryland and tennessee. Lhats being done to help the most vulnerable. Economic catastrophe. Economic catastrophe the stark warning the Unemployment Rate could reach 32 . Tonight struggling Restaurant Owners on why the relief bill may not be enough. Lessons from south korea resting, tracing, and treating. Plus an app used to save lives. What america can learn about containing the spread. And close to home, a beloved cbs news colleague and journalist take how her spirit lives on in what we do. This is the cbs evening news with Norah Odonnell reporting from the nations capital. Odonnell good evening, and thank you for joining us. We begin tonight with breaking news. With intensive care units in new helmed, today thelmed, today the u. S. Navy sailed the u. S. Navy sailed the hospital ship comfort into new york harbor. And tonight that states governor is issuing a nationwide call to doctors and nurses to join what he calls the front lines of the war on the crisis. And with the u. S. Still several weeks away from the peak of infections, he warned new york is a canary in the coal mine. And as we come on the air, there are already more than 160,000 confirmed cases here in the dis. , more than 2,900 have died. There is also some movement tonight when it comes to testing. Abbott labs says next week it will roll out a diagnostic test with results in five minutes. Also, virginia, maryland, arizona, and tennessee issued new stayathome orders today, joining 28 other states. That means three out of every t. Ur americans have now beento. And all of that is leading to a sobering assessment from the Federal Reserve in st. Louis that as many as 47 million americans could be laid off in the coming months. Theres a lot of headlines to get to tonight with our correspondents, and mola lenghi leads us off tonight from central park. Reporter well, norah, reporter well, norah, there have been nearly 100 coronavirus deaths in new york city in just a sevenhour period. Perhaps that best illustrates just how dire this situation is, enough so that the city has put up four makeshift hospitals, these popup hospitals, field l,spitals. Including this one right here in central park. About a dozen of these tents are designed to give some much needed relief to hospitals across the city. Help floated into new york harbor today. The u. S. Naval ship comfort with its 1,000 beds will treat noncovid19 patients to free up muchneeded hospital beds in the city. Crowds disregarded social distancing guidelines to get a rare look. Another unprecedented sight, this 68bed Field Hospital right in manhattans central park. The faithbased nonprofit samaritans first set up the facility. How desperately is this needed . Facility. How desp so, were being told its significantly needed, especially fo offload hospitals in brooklyn and queens where theyre really ns whereng. Reporter Nursing Team Leader tim mosher says the hospital has ten ventilators in their makeshift i. C. U. Our goal is to get them off of the ventilator and move them on out of the hospital. Reporter the video appears to show a gruesome sight, bodies being put into refrigerated trucks that serve as makeshift morgues. sirens the citys medical supplies running out, and intensive care units running low. Its like working in a war zone. Reporter brookedale university medicalemom dtor arab pediatric e. R. Ift flooto help protect nurses and doctors from covid19. Were fighting for your lives, but were fighting for our lives, too. We are also scared. Reporter tonight across the country, Nursing Homes are in crisis. At lakeland nursing home, Health Officials say eight people have died from coronavirus. At least nine have died at the family of care nursing home in montclair, including alix handys mother lona erwin. The fact that she passed away, i can accept that. But the fact that i didnt get to say goodbye is what is still eating me up inside. Reporter First Responders are also being dealt a blow. The n. Y. P. D. Says nearly 900 are in quarantine with infections, and the Fire Department saw its first covid19 death. Today workers at amazons Staten Island warehouse walked out, demanding the facility be shut down and cleaned after a worker tested positive. Amazon says they have taken extreme measures to keep workers fe. We believe in laying hands on the sick, and they shall ieve you reporter and theres this, pastor howard brown was arrested today after he Held Services at his tampa bay church. Brown is accused of reckless disregard of human life. The safety and wellbeing or our Community Must always come first. Reporter we have to go all the way back to the civil war for the last time that central park was used for makeshift hospitals. Just a surreal sight out here. And they will begin taking patients as early as tomorrow. Meanwhile, across the country, officials in Los Angeles County are investigating coronavirus cases at 18 Nursing Homes. More than half of those facilities have three or more confirmed cases, norah. Odonnell mola there in central park. Surreal to see that. Thank you, thank you, mola. S with you this video. It is just coming in. Take a look. Long lines of cars waiting to receive food in pennsylvania. The Greater Pittsburgh Community Food bank is giving out meals to about 1,700 families. Also late this afternoon, the atesident with an update about about tests. One million of them have been administered, but there are still questions tonight about the government response and the distribution of supplies. Paula reid is at the white house. Paula . Reporter state leaders told President Trump today they are still having trouble getting in supplies, not just in the sordesthit areas, but also in rural states trying to stay ahead of the virus. Cbs news has learned that the nations governors used a Video Conference call with the president today to sound the r arm about the need for more medical supplies, including test kits. But the president touted the number of tests taken so far. Today we reached an historic milestone in our war against the coronavirus. Over one million americans have now been tested. Reporter the president has lid an ongoing public dispute over the medical supplies issue with new york governor andrew cuomo, most recently implying that thousands of surgical masks were being stolen by the states healthcare workers. Where are the masks going . Are they going out the back door . Reporter Governor Cuomo was asked about that accusation today. I dont know what hes trying to say by inference. Reporter a severe shortage of ventilators also continues to be an issue in the hardesthit states. Ue we need more ventilators. And i will continue to say these four words in every phone call i have with the president. The prerter supplies like masks and surgical gowns are also running low, endangering the lives of healthcare workers on the front lines. We are making gowns last an entire day, and were making masks last hopefully five days. Reporter some distributors of medical supplies say they have shipments ready to go, but the Trump Administration and specifically fema have yet to provide guidance on where to send those goods. So, we have been working with fema for about a week or so now to try to get the allocation instructions that we think we would benefit from. Were expecting news from them in the next 2448 hours on that guidance. Reporter more than 14,000 members of the National Guard have been activated, and tonight the president said they may be able to help distribute some of those supplies. Norah . Norah . Odonnell all right, paula, thank you. And on this National Doctors day, there are urgent calls for help from doctors and nurses who are risking their lives while treating patients. Jonathan vigliotti now with an inside look at the battle yo inside look at the battle youll only see here. Video diaries from the front lines of the crisis. Sirens reporter the endless echo of sirens a grim alarm for the state of our nations hospitals. People need to believe that this is happening. Reporter from illinois to arizona. We are in a crisis state. We desperately need help. Reporter worst hit, new york. Its a war without bullets. Reporter dr. Morante is an i. C. U. Doctor at jacobi medical people died overnight. Being covered in covid is, its walking into the hospital and feeling like every part of the hospital is a dirty zone. Reporter covered in covid without enough protection to stay healthy. All 24 of jacobis i. C. U. Beds are full. Jacobis i. C. U. Beds new york protested the lack of protection. Dr. Morante is forced to washmh c. Edal s us the lm before the surge. Heres our checkin team. Reporter her hospitals entire supply of protective equipment enough for just one week is stored here. We have them in a file cabinets. Reporter you have doctors there who are writing their wills and nurses who are afraid of dying. Reporter afraid of dying, but even more worried about bringing covid home. Theres no way that were winning. Reporter while doctors and nurses are being hailed as hees, i can tell you many of them feel like they have been abandoned. Case in point, the federal government sent 170 ventilators here to los angeles over the weekend. They arrived broken, norah. There is now a rush to get them fixed. Norah . Odonnell jonathan, thank you. Joining us now is reverend tim cole, the leader of the historic christchurch in georgetown. He was the first person in washington, d. C. , to test positive for the coronavirus. First, father tim. So good to see you. How are you feeling . Thank you. Ndlittle stronger each day, and i think i have got a little bit of a road to physical recovery, but in my mind and my heart and 0y soul, i am 100 times better than i was a few days ago when i was in hospital. Odonnell i know you spent three weeks in the hospital. Tell us about your fight against the virus. It was a sort of sudden surprise of course to be diagnosed and a bit of a shock and a little bit frightening. I was greatly supported by wonderful people from christchurch and people indeed praying for me from all over the world, so i never felt alone. Odonnell what was the fight like physically against coronavirus . There are times when you cant do anything very much at all, because the doctors and nurses, wonderful as they are, they dont really have anything to treat this with. They just have to wait and watch with you. Odonnell what would you s ke to say to the nurses and doctors who treated you . They were absolutely wonderful. I would never recognize them in the street, im afraid, because they were all covered in masks and things. My real sincere gratitude goes to the staff of georgetown rgdstar. Odonnell what can people use in terms of their faith in order to get through these very diff the main thing is the the main thing is the people that are around you, that youre not standing there alone. Of course, i have been through ghny things in my life and god have eve expectaon that he tothi are united soon. All right. Kiure very kind, norah. God bless you. Thank you. dnell today macys d its 130,000person workforce. F we also learned the Restaurant Industry lost an estimated 25 billion in sales in the first three weeks of march. More than three million jobs were lost. It is a devastating blow to an industry where many survive paycheck to paycheck. Adriana diaz reports. Reporter this delivery man in tarrytown, new york, is none other than a top chef. Dale talde reporter dale talde had to lay off 44 employees at his restaurant goosefeather, and is barely surviving on takeout and deliveries. I when he got a 50 tip, it was overwhelming. You know, you have, like, yove people left in the restaurant. T u just were just doing our best to, you know, keep they have families to feed, they have mortgages to pay. Reporter 57 Million People could lose their jobs in the od in mo ar,tartnd server emily looking at another career, but, you know, this has been my whole life. So. I dont want to. Paage is being served to restaurants. The governments now offering restaurants loans with interest to cover 2. 5 months of payroll and tax breaks. Delfina cardona has owned cardonas in chicago for 18 years. She laid off ten of her 12 employees. I feel like i want to help them, but i dont have enough money to help them. I feel like this is a nightmare. Reporter she doesnt think the stimulus will be enough. Ogrill,ve n sheysorks her own fohe odonnell with all that pain tonight, we wanted to take a closer look at south korea, because its considered the gold dtandard. The rate of new cases there peaked late last month and are still under 10,000, fewer than 160 people have died. Nonight Ramy Inocencio reports on how south korea slowed the spread. Reporter in south koreas war against the coronavirus, there has been no shortage of personal protective gear, and just 121 healthcare workers have fallen sick in the whole country versus more than 200 in boston alone. For patients, there has been a bed and ventilator for everyone. Vest, trace, treat has been south koreas mantra. The mers outbreak of 2015 gave them some experience with how things can go wrong. Eptere planning, allowing for tracing and identification. The system for letting people know that they might have been exposed, which is really exposed, whi remarkable. If you have been to the supermarket between 10 00 and 10 15 on the following date, you might have been exposed. Reporter anyone quarantined must download an app that tracks their movement. Fines for violations run as high as 2,500. The strategy has worked. South korea and the u. S. Thsame daynuary. Irst coronavirus more than six weeks later, south korea tested 137,000 people shile the u. S. Had tested nearly 1,000. A week later, the u. S. Had tested 10,000, south korea 235,000. With new york city now the u. S. Epicenter, kim says its still tot too late for the United States to follow south koreas lead. 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