Another Staggering Number nearly 3. 3 million americans filed for unemployment last week. Thats more than the population of chicago. And this graph says it all. Since 2,000, weekly claims had been in the hundreds of thousands. Last weeks numbers are off the chart. Today should have been opening day for americas favorite pastime, major league baseball. Instead, tonight the president is talking about reopening the economy, saying the country has got to get back to work. The president says he will be giving states new guidelines on social distancing, getting some people back on the job in places that havent been hard hit by the virus. Our team is covering every angle of this crisis, and Mark Strassmann leads us off from just outside atlanta. , and mark, is it possible that those jobless numbers could be even higher . Reporter well, heres what you have to coder, norah. As grim as those numbers are, the reality is likely worse. Americas latest jobless numbers hit like an overnight gut punch
Economy. Thats where well begin this morning. First things first with money correspondent jill schlesinger. And then at a time when all of us are using the internet, we ask our david pogue if the internet can handle all of us logging on at the same time. Thats our cover story. Reporter as more and more americans do their work and take their classes at home, over video, more of them are having problems with the internet. It is almost as though it were buffering, and i hear every third or fourth word, then it would freeze completely, and that would be it. There are a lot of signs that traffic is increasing pretty dramatically, especially during working hours. Reporter as we move our entire lives online, can the internet hold up . Ahead on sunday morning. Pauley and then it is on to the toll all of this is taking on our emotional health. Susan spencer is on the case. The stress, the anxiety, the emotions that are provoked by this crisis are truly significant. As new York Governor Andrew C
Side. But we begin at the beginning. Good morning. Here begins something new. Im Charles Kuralt, and this is sunday morning. We dreamed up a program about music and art and nature. Because of its necessary preoccupation with politics and wars and calamities, tv journalism doesnt get around to those gentler subjects very often. Pauley from the very beginning, sunday morning has stayed true to Charles Kuralts vision to make sure those gentler subjects got their due. You think this is me . Oh, definitely. Pauley we traveled the ley traveled tack roads, taking our audience places and showing them things rht t a the lors ithe universe. Right tre. Pomnts shared, where we take off and land. Pauley places we visited and people we met. We come together. Pauley all with the perfect traveling companion. Is there an emergency brake on this guy . Pauley as the world changed, so did we. Time for us to part, you and i. Pauley in 1994, after 15 years at sunday morning, Charles Kuralt said goodbye in h
Not surprisingly, fear is the subject of a school of research all its own as well be hearing from david pogue, in our cover story. Coronavirus fear is normal even healthy right up to the point it gets dangerous. Most dont have the expert knowledge so when are afraid we engage in behaviors like putting on a mask that may not work. The fear is using judgment in ways that arent useful. The rational and the rational, and irrational responses to an invisible threat, ahead on sunday morning. Much as we might not want to think about it a rapid increase in coronavirus cases could soon force doctors to make extremely difficult medical and ethical choices as well be hearing from ted koppel. Hospitals are desperately short of ventilators and as the numbea decisions. So youve got me in your hospital. And youve got a 22 year old, and both of us need that piece of equipment. Who gets it . I think by most the younger person would be assigned that ventilator. Then look in the camera and say, ted, you
Hour of sleep so many of us lost last night. It turns out many experts are saying it is okay to make up for that lost slumber with naps, even on the job. With susan spencer, well be catching some zzzzs. Its daylight savings hour. When was the last time you took a nice, long nap. What do you think the reputation of naps is . I think a lot of people who take them dont admit it. What about you, do you nap . When im tired, i absolutely do. But i set alarms so i make sure i dont sleep past 15 minutes. Are you ready for your nap . Later on sunday morning. No regrets, no apologies. As good a description as any of the dixie chicks, as they launch a new album that leaves some controversy from their past behind. Theyre talking about that and more with our tracy smith. Take me away the dixie chicks were one of the most popular female groups in history before one onstage comment nearly ended their careers. Look out but now theyre back with their first new studio album in forever. I did a lot of li