Good evening and welcome to msnbcs continuing special coverage of the coronavirus pandemic. Im lawrence odonnell. We begin tonight with the numbers. The number of reported coronavirus cases in the United States is now over 963,000. As of tonight there are more than 54,000 reported deaths linked to the coronavirus in the United States. Those statistics get grimmer every day, but in some parts of the country the numbers do seem to be moving in the right direction. New york suffered 367 deaths in the last 24 hours, and that is about half of new yorks peak of deaths per day nearly three weeks ago. For Many Americans, this weekend actually felt like a weekend for the first time in a long time because they got a full weekend break from the tension of watching the president of the United States discuss the coronavirus pandemic in the White House Briefing room. That means the country has now lived through two consecutive days without having to watch the president of the United States suggest t