Disparity and poverty are fueling the outbreak. Plus, one on one with new york congresswoman, alexandria ocasiocortez. How she plans to fight against inequality during the pandemic. Even clashing over ideas within the democratic party. Are you a lone democrat, voting against the c. A. R. E. S act. What was your rationale . This is a special edition of nightline, pri nightline, pandemic, a nation divided. Transit runs 24 7, seven days a week. Cant stay home. Buses dont drive themselves. First light has yet to break. But at this bus depot in the south bronx, wayne lasarti has already been behind the wheel for hours, shouldering a heavier work load since the coronavirus. These extra buses running to compensate for the four hours subways arent running. So i pick up a trip from 2 00 to 5 00. His bread and butter, shuttling essential workers across new york city at all hours, now a covid front line. Were all putting our lives out there. If you were going to tell me that we were going to have
And later, this mothers day, a woman whos always on the front lines. She saves peoples lives. Reporter do you think your mom is a superhero . Yeah. I love her so much announcer this is the cbs overnight news. Good evening. Im Bob Donaldson at wttv cbs 4 reporting in indianapolis. Happy mothers day. We begin with new warnings about the virusinfected economy. Today, the Trump Administration said the number of unemployed americans could get worse. Also today, new projections show coronavirus deaths in this country could reach 137,000 by august. Illinois, arizona, florida and california examples of states where cases and deaths going up faster than expected. Even the white house, one of the worlds most secure buildings, is not immune from the virus. Nikole killion begins our coverage. Reporter the president s Economic Team warns things could get worse before they get better, and they insist its important to reopen the economy safely, even as more Administration Officials selfquarantine. On
So these yellow lines reflect the nonstop flights going out of wuhan, and then the blue circles reflect the final destinations of travelers. The larger the circle, the larger number of travelers going to that location. These were many of the first cities that received cases of covid19 as it spread out of mainland china. Reporter you can do that in a matter of seconds . We can analyze and visualize all this information across the globe in just a few seconds. Reporter the virus wasnt just spreading to east asia. Thousands of travelers were heading to the united states, too. Most of the travel came into california and San Francisco and los angeles. Also into new york city. And we analyzed that way back on december 31st. Our Surveillance System that picked up the outbreak of wuhan automatically talks to the system that is looking at how travelers might go to various airports around wuhan. Reporter so when you see that map, you dont just see flight patterns. If you think of an outbreak a bi
Briefing, but did announce what he calls a significant change to the states stay at home order. Hospitals cannot resume surgeries not considered emergencies. It does not apply to purely cosmetic cedars. These are surgeries that are scheduled, but also essential. Tumors, heart valves. This comes a week after him build a plan that must be met before the state can get back to business. Among those goals, testing more californians. Which the governor said averaged about 2000 per day at the end of march. 16,000 on average currently with the forecast an average of 25,000 people tested by the end of the month. The minimum being 60,000 per day. Spin he said to me the need many of the testing sites need to swap testing kits from the federal government and during a phone call with President Trump on wednesday he was promised a shipment thats already on the way. He said we will be provided 250,000 swabs next week. He saidin the 3rd week expect to see a substantial increase above the 250,003 the g
Our nbc news exclusive with a top chinese official lashing out morning some governors are starting to lay out plans for reopening, in fact, their economies days and weeks ahead others are extending after the president raises the stakes demanding china stayathome orders. Compensate the world for the at least 11 states now are personally reopened. Virus. It should have been stopped we can also tell you six states, including florida, texas, and at the source, china. It should have been stopped very nevada have stayathome orders that expire tomorrow much at the source but it California Governor Gavin Newsom is announcing a four phase plan wasnt. Now we have 184 countries going to slowly reopen the state through hell. Here is what he told savannah earlier this morning on today. Just ahead, why the chinese im worried we could erase all the gains in a short period of time. Weve made so much process and are accusing the president of we dont want to run the 90yard blackmail. Dash new hope. You