Skype or zoom with distant family members who would otherwise usually try to be physically together for that holiday. This is holy week for people of the christian faith, as well. Todays holy thursday. Tomorrow is the most somber day of the year in the christian calendar, good friday, the commemoration of the crucifixion. For members of the episcopal church, the cathedral of the st. John the divine is sort of the mother ship. Its uptown in new york city. I think its at 112th street. By coincidence, that puts it right next to one of the hospitals in the mt. Sinai system, which has been so key the frontline response the Coronavirus Crisis in new york. In the midst of holy week, particularly if this building looks like the place you are used to celebrating the holy days of your faith, but even if theyre not, even if this is the first time you have ever seep the inside of a cathedral, these images we got today of the name of st. John the divine being set up with hospital beds, with the blu
Hello and welcome to audiences in the uk and around the world. Were focusing on the latest coronavirus developments nationally and globally. And new figures show that the United States has suffered its largest one day death toll. According to numbers compiled byjohns hopkins university, 2,108 people died in the past 2a hours. The United States has the highest number of cases this is bbc news. In the world nearly half a million. The headlines it has also suffered the second highest number of deaths 18,500. New york starts to bury some its onlyjust behind italy. Of the dead in a mass grave, as the city tries to deal new york state alone now with the rapidly growing has more confirmed cases of coronavirus than any single number of deceased. Country in the world. Pictures have now emerged of a mass grave being used in new york city as the death toll there the state now has more coronavirus cases than any single country. Continues to rise. Latest figures record that over 7,000 have died fro
Hello and welcome to audiences in the uk and around the world, were focusing on all the latest coronavirus nationally and globally. New figures show the United States has suffered its largest one day death toll, according to numbers byJohns Hopkins university, 2108 people have died injust the past university, 2108 people have died in just the past 2a hours. The United States has the highest number of cases in the world, nearly half a million. It has also suffered the second highest number of deaths, 18,000, it is onlyjust behind out of italy. 18,500. And new york state alone now has more confirmed cases of coronavirus than any single country in the world. Pictures have now emerged of a mass grave being used in new york city as the death toll there continues to rise. Hart island has long been used for people with no next of kin, or by families who cant afford a funeral. Heres our north america editorjohn sopel. It is somehow unimaginable, unbelievable, that in the most famous city of th
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74,000 by august in part because of all of the signs weve seen out there that people are heading back out into public. The sobering numbers are just one reason the top doctor behind the model cited by the white house tells cnn right now is not the time to be reopening. And dr. Fauci seems to share that concern in a new interview just this morning. Listen. If we are unsuccessful or prematurely try to open up, and we have additional outbreaks that are out of control, it could be much more than that. It could be a rebound to get us right back in the same boat that we were in a few weeks ago. A few weeks ago was not a good place. Lets get to florida. Rosa flores in miami. Rosa, Florida Governor ron desantis was just meeting with the president at the white house and talking about his reopening plans for florida, for the state. What are you hearing about those plans . Reporter you know, what we heard from the oval office is that Governor Ron Desantis will be announcing the reopening plan for