Im rob schmitt. Carley im Carley Shimkus in for jillian mele. Thanks for starting your day with us. The u. S. Is nearing its peak, the fda making that declaration as new york, the pandemic epicenter of the world, reports a drop in new cases. Rob that is some good news. Todd piro is live as the white house hopes to reopen the economy next month and thats still a big question, todd. Reporter still a big question, rob, good morning to you. Good morning to carley. With so many of those prepeak hospitalizations sadly becoming deaths, the numbers are truly staggering even if well below the initial worst Case Scenario. More than half a Million People infected throughout the country, with more than 22,000 dead. New york seeing almost 1 of thousand of those deaths alone. Youre also seeing a recurrence of the terrible news, which is the number of lives lost. Somebody asked the question once, can you ever get numb to these seeing these numbers . Unfortunately, no. Every one is a face and a name a
Steve they were so lucky to be able to get in there, anxiously. Fire started down the street over 200,000 people are still without power this morning. Four states under both a covid19 and Severe Weather emergency as well. Janice dean joins us. She is tracking the storms where they could hit later on today, and she joins us. Janice, i read one report that 1. 3 Million People are without electricity this morning all the way from texas right up through pennsylvania. Janice yeah. We had incredible winds across the northeast and the midatlantic as the apparent low pressure system moved across the great lakes and northeast with wind gusts of 81 Miles Per Hour. So, an incredible system. We still have the tail end of the cold front that is stationed across florida and georgia. So we will still have the threat for, you know, not the outbreak we saw over the last couple of days but hail, isolated tornadoes with that stalled boundary. Look at the tornado reports, over 80 organization are i 880. T
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