Louisiana, which now has nearly ten times as many cases as a week ago. New yorks governor says he is seeing some signs that those unprecedented stayathome orders now in 20 states may be working and helping to slow the rate of the virus spreading. But he warns hospitals are still not ready for the dramatic increase in infections expected to come in the next three weeks. On wall street today, an agreement on that 2 trillion Financial Relief package now working through congress sent stocks soaring, but tonight on capitol hill, theres this news. It appears the deal may have hit a snag. Our team is covering every angle of this, and meg oliver leads us off tonight from new york city. Meg . Reporter norah, we just learned that 13 covid19 patients at one New York Hospital died in the last 24 hours. This after the governor said today that the aggressive social distancing enacted this week appears to be making a difference. We can slow it, and we have slowed it. Reporter Governor Andrew Cuomo sa
Slowing infections in the empire state, but no one is immune. Prince charles, the heir to the throne, tests positive. Is Queen Elizabeth now at risk . And as spain surpasses chinas death toll, surprising good news from italy. The growing Mental Health crisis. As stress and anxiety rise, medical advice on how to get through it. And portraits on the porch. Photographers lifting spirits and capturing memories using a slightly wider lens to capture this new world. This is the cbs evening news with Norah Odonnell reporting from the nations capital. Good evening, and thank you for joining us. Were going to begin with breaking news and a grim milestone. This has been the deadliest 24 hours in the u. S. Since the pandemic began. More than 900 people have been killed by the coronavirus nationwide, and cases here now top 64,000. While the majority of infections are still in new york, tonight there are new hot spots emerging including in louisiana which now has nearly ten times as many cases than
This is your world. Lets get the latest on where this starts with charles watson. Woe just got an update from the atlanta miss department. We learned that officers believe Deon Patterson is the possible shooter that walked in to the medical facility behind me this afternoon and opened fire with multiple people. Were told at least five victims were shot, one person was killed. Four others were wounded. Theyre at an area hospital being treated as we speak. The last 20 minutes or so, we learned more about the victims. We learned theyre all women. Their ages range from 25 years old to 71 years old. A 39yearold woman was killed in this shooting today. Neil, in the last 45 minutes or so, weve seen probably the most movement weve seen out here at the scene since the shooting was reported earlier today. We saw several officers, many on motorcycles, many in the armored swat cars move east of 14th street where were standing right now and make ten minutes or so, we saw another group of officers m
more serious treatment, to grady hospital or trauma treatment. civilians have been pushed back quite a ways and being here in downtown atlanta, a sense even of those not directly victimized by this, a sense of fear. this is wednesday, middle of the day, downtown atlanta, and now a huge police presence, shots fired, an hour later the shooter still at large. so, people are afraid and they are wondering what is happening in the heart of their city. john: and again, we asked the question of joe cardnellie do we know any specific area or danger posed by the person on the loose if he encountered someone, or are they just casting a net far and wide across the city as we see some pictures of you mentioned medical personnel exiting the building. some are wearing hair nets, may indicate they were involved in administering medical procedures at the time. again, this is an office building, it s not an actual hospital. northside hospital, the affiliated hospital is up at the intersectio
as far as sightings of the suspect, who is still on the run, they re getting multiple reports of sightings of this individual but different locations that they haven t been able to confirm. they re saying basically anyone who is a black male on the street right now with a hoodie, someone is calling about them. they are trying to follow up these credible leads. no status on those victims that were shot and, again, a hard perimeter of about a mile has been put up around this area where the incident initially happened during the lunchtime hour in midtown. this is still very much an active situation and a very fluid situation. no update on the conditions of those victims but the mother is cooperating with police and he was there for a medical appointment for himself. they declined to give further details because of hipa. they want people to pay attention that about a mile around that area is locked down currently. your understanding is that the suspect is on the run, that the s