Him. And saving fashion. Only on cbs this morning, there she is, anna wintour explains an effort to save an industry facing global devastation. But first, heres todays eye opener. Your world in 90 seconds. We may may be reaching the point where the impact of the coronavirus is beginning to level off. The death toll from the pandemic continues to rise. Even as there are signs the spread of the virus is slowing. The mitigation weve been doing is having a positive effect but you dont see it until weeks later. Another really ugly week. 6,600,000 jobless claims. This is a savage number. And this is probably still an underestimate of what the unemployment situation is. Big news from campaign 2020. Joe biden is now the Presumptive Democratic nominee after senator Bernie Sanders announced the end of his campaign. Before you made this announcement, did anyone notify larry david . Tyler perry teamed up with wynn dixie to pay the grocery bills for dozens of grocery customers. The Series Finale of modern family. 11season run. Will you ever speak to any of these people again . Probably not. All that matters. New zealands Prime Minister is putting childrens minds at ease when it comes to the Easter Holiday because of the coronavirus. We do consider both the tooth fairy and the easter bunny to be essential workers. On cbs this morning. Heres your quarantine tip of the day. Sticking to a daily schedule will help to keep you motivated. Yeah. Thats why every day i get up at 3 00 in the afternoon, shower and then immediately take a nap. It keeps me going. This mornings eye opener is presented by toyota. I like trevors daily schedule. You wake up in the west, welcome to cbs this morning. Were broadcasting as you see straight from our homes to yours. Were all staying in as much as we possibly can. And we hope we really hope youre doing the same. It goes without saying, we are still committed to bringing you the news you need during this crisis, and we begin with breaking news this morning on the coronavirus. And unemployment. Anthony, the new jobless numbers came out this morning, and the numbers are bad. They sure are, gayle. Another 6. 6 million americans filed for unemployment last week. According to the labor department, thats almost as many as the previous week, which was revised up to 6. 8. When you put those three weeks together, the past three weeks, the jobless claims cover about 10 of the entire u. S. Workforce. Cbs News Business analyst Jill Schlesinger joins us. What do these new numbers tell us about the state of the economy right now . Well, a pretty deep recession for the economy and for the jobs market. And these near 17 million jobs that were lost just over three weeks, put that in context in a couple of different ways. We added 20 million jobs over the course of the 11year recovery from 2009 to 2020. I also should note that this claims spike, this is a 2,500 increase from before the pandemic. We actually were at alltime low levels of claims back in february. So its sudden. Its dramatic. Its staggering. And its just awful for the people going through it. Jill, the treasury and Federal Reserve board just this morning announced a new Lending Program to provide an additional 2. 3 trillion in financing for Small Businesses. Thats a lot of money. But a lot of Small Businesses are having real trouble getting these loans. Whats up . Yes, were hearing a lot of frustration. We dont know whether its the Financial Institutions, the sba. We do know that things are startingng to ease up. This Federal Reserve program is an additional 600 billion in main street loans. But these are for slightly Larger Companies because the loan amounts are 1 million to 25 million. For Small Businesses, keep at it. Be persistent. Do not give up because the money is there for you, and were probably going to see another 250 billion added by congress. All right, Jill Schlesinger, thank you. Gayle . Thank you both. Turning to the pandemic itself, theres reason again this morning to believe that together we may be slowing it down. There are now more than 432,000 reported cases in the u. S. At least 14,800 people have died, and that is a big number and that may be an underestimate because of a lack of testing. But take a look at these numbers. On sunday, one widely cited model predicted 81,000 americans will die in this outbreak by august with a peak around april 16th. But just two days later, that projection dropped to around 60,000, peaking four days sooner. Now we should note this model is optimistic compared to some of the others. Our lead National CorrespondentDavid Begnaud is in new york city near the u. S. Navy hospital ship comfort. This is certainly a pandemic of numbers. And the question now, how many patients are there at the comfort . 60. Thats it, gayle. We heard in the past they could hold 1,000 but thats been reduced to 500 because what theyve done is spaced out each of the beds within six feet for proper social distancing for the staff who are treating the patients. But it doesnt explain why they only have 60 patients on board right now. A Navy Official just told me if you want to know, you ought to ask the Mayors Office because he is in charge of deciding who comes here and when. So weve placed a call to the Mayors Office and are awaiting that answer. New york just had the deadliest day yet. The bad news isnt just bad. The bad news is actually terrible. Highest single day death toll yet, 779 people. Reporter yet another sobering report from new york governor andrew cuomo. But he did add a silver lining. Theres no doubt that we are now bending the curve, and theres no doubt that we cant stop doing what were doing. Thats the good news. Reporter as that curve flattens, concern for those enforcing law and order remains high. The nypd says a 15th member of the force has died. 2,500 are infected. Nearly 20 of the force is out sick. In chicago, overburdened hospitals already deal with covid19 patients have now had to contend with more gun violence. Seven people were shot to death in that city tuesday. 14 more were wounded. Including a 5yearold girl. Lori lightfoot is the mayor of chicago. If our icu are filled with gunshot victims, our ability to respond to this covid19 crisis will necessarily be compromised. Reporter chicagos Cook County Jail reportedly has the highest number of cases that can be traced back to a single site. Thats more than the nursing home in kirkland, washington, where the Coronavirus Crisis started. The jails active cases now number more than 400. Although many nonviolent offenders have been freed. Protests or tuesday demanded a mass release of inmates after one of them died from covid19. Cook county sheriff says shutting down the jail is not an option. They certainly cant call the Chicago Police department and say listen, those people you picked up for murder last night, the brutal murders, yeah, just keep them locked up in your office. Handcuff them to a desk. Reporter in southern californias riverside county, 84 patients were moved from the magnolia nursing center. There are 34 cases of covid19 among the residents. Five among the employees. The patients had to be relocated after employees there refused to show up for a second straight day. I think their fear might have led them to make a decision that might not have been the right decision for the patient. Reporter californias governor said he was going to send ventilators to states around the country that needed them. And new jersey got some. The governor tweeted yesterday the ventilators came with a handwritten note. Prayers from new jersey is what the note read. Prayers from california. Tony, this comes at a good time because the federal stockpile, that the federal government runs and supplies, its practically empty now. Prayers indeed. David begnaud, thank you very much. President trumps medical experts say they are seeing signs that social distancing and other efforts to slow the spread of the coronavirus have been working. But they also warn that the next few weeks are critical and americans should not get complacent. Still, yesterday the president said he thinks the country will reopen sooner rather than later. We can do it in phases. We can go to some areas which you know, some areas are much less affected than others, but it would be nice to be able to open with a big bang and open up our country or certainly most of our country. I think were going to do that soon. Now those decisions will largely rest with state and local officials. Earlier, we spoke with dr. Anthony fauci of the Coronavirus Task force and asked him about the improving projections. The models, as ive often said, are as good as the assumptions you put into the models. And those assumptions sometimes, when you tweak them a little, they really change the range of the kinds of projections that you have heard. Remember, we were talking about 100,000 to 200,000 deaths. Whats happening is that we are doing a very good job on mitigation, on the physical separation, the adherence to the guidelines. And as new data comes in, what you do, you integrate that data into the model to modify the model. And thats why youre seeing those projections coming down somewhat. Thats good news. But the thing we have to be careful of that we dont take that good news tong think we m be able to pull back. We have to continue in many respects to redouble our efforts at the mitigation of physical separation in order to keep those numbers down and hopefully even get them lower than what youve heard recently. So dr. Fauci, lets talk about that redoubling of our efforts because what a lot of americans are thinking right now is, okay, so ive made it to april. Im going to go through the spring. What about the summer . Virtually everybody in this country has some kind of thing planned for this summer. Can they expect to go forward with those plans or will we still be in some sort of a shelter in place or lockdown condition . You know, it looks like things are going to be improving. If you look at the curves that we talk about, we often talk about flattening the curve and then getting around the corner and coming down. If, in fact, we see that, and it will be differential in different parts of the country. New york city, the terrible ordeal that theyve gone through, is very different from some of the places in the middle of the country or in the mountain regions. So when you say get back to normal, its not going to be a light switch that you turn on and off. Its going to be differential and gradual depending upon where you are and where the burden of infection is. But the bottom line of it all is that we see looking forward, it is very likely that we will progress towards the steps towards normalization as we get to the end of this 30 days. And i think thats going to be a good time to look and see how quickly can we make that move to try and normalize . But hopefully, and hopefully by the time we get to the summer, we will have taken many steps in that direction. So dr. Fauci, when you Start Talking about that progress toward normalization, can you envision a summer, at this point, based on the modells, where people are going back to beaches, going to baseball games, weddings are happening, reunions are happening . Is that in the cards right now . It can be in the cards, and i say that with some caution because, as i said, when we do that, when we pull back and try to open up the country as we often use that terminology, we have to be prepared that when the infections start to rear their heads again that we have in place a very aggressive and effective way to identify, isolate, Contact Trace and make sure we dont have those spikes that we see now. So the answer to your question is, yes. If we do the things that we need to do to prevent the resurgence. Are you personally expecting to take a Summer Vacation somewhere other than washington, d. C. , this summer . Well, youre talking to the wrong person. I dont take vacations. I just want to look at what we have in front of us right now. Im not thinking about vacations. Well, lets talk about one other thing that you say you dont think anyone should be doing and thats shaking hands. I think a lot of people heard that yesterday and thought to themselves, as you said yourself, sounds crazy. Were never shaking hands again . Walk us through your thinking there. No, i did it almost a little tongue and cheek but not really. There was a bit of reality to it. What i really meant is we really now need to be aware of, because it has hit us smack in the face that respiratory infections, particularly brandnew ominous respiratory infections like were going through right now are clearly spread very much, not only by droplets but by people touching their face, shaking hands and thats the reason why we talk about washing hands so often. I dont think in reality were going to all of a sudden never again shake hands. But i think i threw that out there to get people to start thinking much more about personal hygiene and the way that impacts the spread of a really deadly infection like were going through right now. All right. Dr. Fauci, i hope you and i can meet face to face some time soon and ill shake your hand if i get that opportunity. Appreciate you being on with us this morning. Yeah, looking forward to it. Take care. Former Vice President joe biden has a clear path to the democratic president ial nomination. His last opponent, senator Bernie Sanders, suspended his campaign yesterday. He told supporters his path to victory was virtually impossible and continuing his campaign would interfere with the fight against the coronavirus. As ed okeefe reports, the vermont independent is still focused on defeating the president. We are talking to joe, and were talking to his team about how we can Work Together. Reporter last night, senator Bernie Sanders told Stephen Colbert hed do everything to stop President Trump but stopped short of endorsing joe biden. Hes not going to adopt my platform, but if he can move in that direction, i think people will say this is a guy we can support. Reporter it was exacerbated by the coronavirus. Sanders trails the former Vice President by more than 300 delegates. The pandemic put a stop to Campaign Rallies and any hope of breaking through. I have concluded that this battle for the democratic nomination will not be successful. Reporter but sanders plans to keep his name on the ballot in states yet to hold primary contests in hopes of influencing the partys 2020 platform. His leadership is going to continue, including working to address the incredible challenges were now facing. Reporter biden, who spoke to sanders wednesday, acknowledged the senators appeal to younger voters. He didnt just run a political campaign. He created a movement. And thats a good thing for the nation and for our future. Reporter biden advisers now believe the contest against President Trump will come down to an argument over competent, experience, compassion and empathy. Mr. Trumps Reelection Campaign on wednesday released this ad trying to link biden to sanders. Theyre more alike than you think. Reporter as the presumptive nominee, biden can focus on picking a running mate. His team is expected to start the formal process of picking a Vice President ial running mate next week. We are also expecting a formal endorsement from former president barack obama very soon. Gayle . Everybody is waiting for that one. Thank you very much, ed okeefe. Good to see you. Linda tripp, one of the prominent figures in the scandal that led to bill clintons impeachment died yesterday. Tripp was a pentagon official when she met Monica Lewinsky, the former white house intern who had an affair with bill clinton. Tripp secretly recorded her conversations with lewinsky and gave the tapes to the independent prosecutor ken starr. Shortly before tripp died yesterday afternoon, Monica Lewinsky tweeted this. 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