Metro area where your care can a be provided. Its spreading virus more quickly around the United States. On capitol hill, nancy pelosi speaking out against the president s response. What the president , his denial at the beginning was deadly. His delaying of getting equipment to where it continues his delaying getting equipment to where it is needed is deadly. And now i think the best thing would be to do is to prevent more loss of life rather than open things up. A stark warning from dr. Fauci on just how Many Americans may die from this virus. Looking at what we are seeing now, i would say between 100,000 and 200,000 cases. But i dont want to be held to that. Excuse me, deaths. Were going to have millions of cases. But i just dont think that we really need to make a projection when its such a moving target that you could so easily be wrong and mislead people. What we do know, jake, is that we have a serious problem in new york. We have a serious problem in new orleans. Lets just look
Hospitals. President trump describes two desperate governors this way. I want them to be appreciative. If they dont treat me right, i dont call. The governors of washington and nebraska join me in a moment. Plus Congress Passes a bill to help workers. Every dollar we spend will make a difference in the lives of the american people. Will it be enough . Ill speak with House Speaker nancy pelosi, next. Hello, im jake tapper in washington where the state of our union is staying at home. Today marks exactly one month since the first coronavirus death in the United States. There have now been more than 2,000 deaths in america, a Staggering Number thats doubled in the last two days. For some context, the current number of deaths is more than six times the number of deaths this time last week. More than six times. Overnight President Trump backed off an idea to put an enforceable quarantine on the new york region. Instead the cdc is issuing a Domestic Travel advisory recommending that resident
The country, in his words, struggling to control the spread. On the one hand, things are going to get bad and we need to be prepared for that. It is going to be shocking to some. It certainly is really disturbing to see that, but thats whats going to happen before it turns around, so just buckle down, continue to mitigate, continue to do the physical separation because we got to get through this week coming up because it is going to be a bad week. That message pushed by new yorks andrew cuomo. He said there has been a slight flattening of the curve about two days after a slight rise two new report today from the health and Human Services watchdog after talking to hundreds of hospitals, the i. T. Days in a row. The Javits Center with more. Says what weve been hearing for weeks now, hospitals and front erica . Anderson, he was very clear though. Line workers dealing with severe while it could be good, meaning, and widespread shortages of were seeing this plateau, that needed supplies and
Reopening america for business. Captains salute a dramatice e icer was fired why the Commanding Officer was fired after sounding the alarm about coronavirus on board. Loss of a legend lean on me when youre not strong odonnell we remember bill withers, whose soul anthems inspired so many. And we end this friday night with Steve Hartman who tells the love story of a young couple in the time of social distancing, and youll want to hear how they met. This is the cbs evening news with norah odonnell, reporting from the nations e nations ca odonnell good evening, and thank you for joining us. We begin with breaking news because tonight, the c. D. C. Is recommending that all americans cover their faces in public to stop the spread of the coronavirus. Though that guidance may have little impact because the president says it is voluntary and he wont follow it. That new recommendation comes as the virus continues to spread nationwide. The governor now says they are so short on ventilators, he is
A new poll shows where Many Americans stand at stay at home. Preliminary results of a government experiment on what the sun can do. Lets get going with the facts. As of this hour, there are nearly 730,000 confirmed cases of coronavirus across this country. More than 38,000 people have died. A new poll out today shows a majority of americans support keeping the stay at home restrictions, 58 say they are more worried about the fallout from loosening restrictions too quickly than they are of the economic consequences. We will have a live report on this from the white house in a moment. First, on capitol hill, lawmakers say a deal for a fourth Coronavirus Relief package could come as soon as tonight. We have common ground. Our package was something we worked together in a bipartisan way, springing from that and making it more effective and stronger so that more people are benefitting from it. And protecting by it. I think were very close to agreement. Im hopeful that we can reach an agreem