Ordered to not leave their homes. Why a top official warns the death toll could still reach hundreds of thousands. Nursing home danger. Eight dead in a new jersey home for seniors as hundreds test positive in homes in maryland and tennessee. Whats being done to help the most vulnerable. 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 testing, 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 taken much too soon. How her spirit lives on in what we do. This is the cbs evening news with Norah Odonnell r 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 york city overwhelmed, today the u. S. Navy sailed the hospital ship comfort int
York city overwhelmed, today 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. 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 u. S. , 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, joining 28 other states. That means three out of every four americans have now been told not to go out. 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
Thank you for joining us, im ken rosato, and you are never more than 7 minutes away from weather and traffic. Good morning everybody. Happy friday. If youre about to head out the door, grab your umbrella. You are going to need that. We have rain across the area, we have temperatures in the upper 70s. Its a morning where we start out with a muggy morning out here and a morning where were looking at whats going to be these showers and thunderstorms. 76 right now and passing through the area, its muggy. Were looking at the line from kingston to poughkeepsie down the toms river. Western jersey is shower free now and so is manhattan. Theres a little shower coming across Staten Island heading towards brooklyn and queens. Theres showers and thunderstorms up there at newburgh, and those are heavy along 84 and 87 and back to our west, drier, cooler air for tomorrow, which will be delightful. Well talk about that coming up in just a moment. Im doing okay. Southern state parkway, different story,
Heres our camera in brooklyn where the rain has ended and is pushing eastward. The heaviest rain is across long island. Theres a lone police boat way underneath the brooklyn bridge. 74 degrees, cloudy skies northwest at 3. Crazily wild across the five boroughs. That Flood Warning until 7 15 is really right there, queens and Nassau County and western suffolk, heavy rain across the l. I. E. And rain that has been causing flooding in monmouth county. The line of the rain is really now Litchfield County connecticut still another Lightning Strike in duchess. Now thats the rain ending in queens ask you see that heavy rain thats going duchess to Litchfield County. Behind that is beautiful weather that will be coming midday. The suns out, and there will be sunshine. The winds going north, northeast and northwest. Drier air pours in and makes for delightful weather. Heather another got a big issue on Staten Island. If youre trying to get to Staten Island via new jersey we have this issue on the
Scene which literally happens on route en route to the tunnel along varick street with the intersection of west houston so keep in mind as you travel through if you can take it to the lincoln tunnel, one of those nights where i would say it would be a better bet for you. Reporting live over lower manhattan, shannon sohn, Eyewitness News. Please keep on top of that and keep us in touch with the situation going on right there. We are tracking breaking news that happened within the hour, this happened down in lower manhattan. There was a shooting inside the Federal Building at 201 varick street from, a Security Guard has been shot. He has been taken to lenox hill hospital. We have been told by the nypd that the gunman then turned the gun on himself and killed himself. There has been a Massive Police presence down there and traffic, as you can imagine, on a friday night in the summer, traffic is at a stand still but again we are continuing to follow all of the developments. As soon as we g