better to be six feet apart than six feet under. more than 600 dead in one day. masks required if you're not in public in new york. and governor cuomo firing back at president trump. also tonight, the horror unfolding for some of the most vulnerable, the nursing homes. in new jersey, new york and massachusetts. and tonight we've learned six people die after attending the same funeral. stories th fa arriving yesterd afaninee mes. us doesn't know what tohe his children ask w dinner tonight? the news just in tonight. diane sawyer reporting about how many in a community may have been exposed to coronavirus. far more people than first thought. and the scientist telling diane, this may be the tip of the iceberg. the race for any kind of treatment that works and the drug already being used, remdesivir, would it hold promise. one patient. after so much talk of chloroquine and hi hydroxychloroqui hydroxychloroquine, the study halted. the death toll in wuhan revised up dramatically. the world health organization says they do in the have proof that with you immunity. good evening. we have just about made it through another week here together and it was another trying week here in america. the deadliest since that crisis began. with new york reaching its peak, leveling out, but at an awful level. another 600 people dead in just the last 24 hours. massachusetts trample hitting their peak just now. and governors across the country must decide how and when to slowly re-open their states. the president speaking late today on all of this. we take note of the numbers tonight of lives lost. more than 36,000 people lost, doubling in a week. on the front lines the battle against the virus rages on in so many parts of this country. you can see there the emts in protective gear thohosed off, bg decontaminated. that's in yonkers, new york. the fast moving investigation in at least one nursing home. but at so many senior centers residents passing away with nobody from their family at their side. we wanted to hear the stories behind the face. the family member in the long lines across the country, and you will be moved by the who ne would have to can for food them line here in san antonio. now tonight, the war of words erupting. just 24 hours after the president said governor would make that call he is now encouraging protesters in several states who want to re-open now. this evening, governor cuomo lashing out after the president took aim at some governors. whit johnson leading us off here in new york. . >> reporter: tonight, a heavy toll. emts transporting suspected covid patients and decontaminating only to do it again. >> i can't sleep with the lights off. i sleep with my lights on. >> reporter: for a new york paramedic arc relentless cycle delivering bad news. >> it's real hard. for a young kid, youngest boy is three, and you can't do nothing. >> reporter: in new york, at least 630 people dying in a single day. >> you're not going to hear any day soon, it's over, the nightmare ends and you wake up. it's going to be incremental and we have to be smart. >> reporter: in new jersey, 300 lives lost, the death toll doubling since last week. >> this is five times the number of new jerseyens we lost on 9/11. >> reporter: the pandemiclekying senior citizens in nursing homes at an alarming rate. 55 residents dying at this home in brooklyn and in new jersey, 49% of patients are in nursing homes massachusetts it's 50%. across the country, thousands cut off from their family members, feeling helpless. >> i know she's fighting and i just need her to know i'm fighting for her. >> reporter: amid tragedy, there is triumph. janet mendez could hardly breathe when she was brought to the hospital a month ago. she was told she would be put on a ventilator. >> i had less than 20 minutes to say good-bye to everybody. >> reporter: but now she is going home. that high five from the doctor who helped save her life. tonight, many states now looking for their next steps too. in las vegas, where the famed strip lied empty, the mayor pleading to re-open. >> i fear that we're going to have deaths caused by people just throwing their hands up -- i can't handle this anymore. >> reporter: today, the texas governor becoming the first to announce machines to re-open some stores next week, but only for curbside pickups, no customers inside. >> we must put health and safety first. >> reporter: it's been 24 hours since president trump announced guidelines for re-opening the country, applauding his relationships with governors of both parties, saying they would call the shots. today he egged on protesters defying stay-at-home orders in several states with democratic governors, states that will be key to his re-election. >> they listen to me. they seem to be protesters that like me. >> reporter: michigan's governor with a warning. >> better to be six photo apart right now than six feet under. >> reporter: hours later the president tweeting out, liberate michigan, minnesota, and virginia. he also took aim at new york's governor who has pleaded for federal help to expand crucial testing. >> is there any funding so i can do these things that you want us to do? no. that is passing the buck without passing the bucks. >> the president was watching and tweeted, cuomo should spend more time doing and less time complaining. >> first of all, if he's setting home watching tv maybe he should get up and go work, right? >> reporter: cuomo also had no use for the claim he should be more thankful for the federal help new york received. >> you want me to say thank you? thank you for doing your job. thank you for participating in a modicum of federal responsibility in a national crisis. >> whit johnson back with us at the top of the broadcast tonight. so many governors across the country sounding the alarm, whit, saying there's not enough testing for families to get back out in society to get back to work, send the kids become to school. we took note late today vice president pence in a new interview saying there is, quote, a significant amount of unused testing capacity in this country. sounds like he says there's testing available, even as we know there are complaints in several parts of the country that there are not enough tests. >> reporter: david, in that interview the vice president said the administration has no higher priority than expanded testing right now and that unused testing capacity you just mentioned pence said is something that could be activated, potentially doubling the amount of the tests taking place in this country every day. >> whit johnson leading us off. thank you. now at least 22 million american have now lost their jobs since this all started. tonight, the americans, the parents in line for food. the father who told us he doesn't know what to say to the children when they ask what's for dinner. marcus moore with those families in line in san antonio. >> thank you, god bless you all. >> reporter: these are the faces of hunger and their voices. >> my name is christa flores. i'm furloughed from my job. i'm a single mom. >> disabled, and i never thought i'd need help. >> my name is tana hendrix. unfortunately my unemployment was denied. >> i never needed to get assistance before. >> reporter: as the deadly pandemic grips the country, this week marks one month without income for millions of americans. in san antonio, an army of volunteers from the food bank working through the niieisandem to get help simply to feed their families, and this is what the desperation looks like -- a line of cars filling the stadium parking lot. >> reporter: many are like matthew, who was laid off from his warehouse job at the start of the shutdown. he's utilizing the food bank for the first time ever to feed his three teenage kids. >> it's not easy to ask for help. nobody likes it when your kids ask what's for dinner and you're not sure what to tell them. >> reporter: beatrice ortiz was the first car in line. she waited 18 hours to get this food, reading the bible to pass the time. she is no less grateful for the nourishment, the piece of mind loaded into the trunk of her car. >> thank you for the san antonio food bank and for all the essential workers doing their jobs, because without them where would we all be? >> i'm just proud of our -- of our staff for such sacrifices. they're the finest human beings i have the privilege of working with. >> all those family extraordinarily brave to not only get in line for that food, but to share their stories with you tonight. marcus back with us live from san antonio. we were struck when you were reporting all day that you told us many of these families told you they have never had to ask for food before. >> yeah, david. 2,000 people came here to get food today and majority of them -- 70% we are told -- were first-time visitors to the food bank. they have never before needed to ask for this help and it was a site, this parking lot. >> we appreciate those stories. we'll stay on it every night. new results in tonight and the world health organization saying it does not have proof that the presence of antibodies means you will have immunity from this. although that is the hope. what we do know is those antibodies show if you have been exposed to the virus. there's new results on that. dia diane sawyer is back with a study of one county in america. just how many of us in the community have been exposed to the virus, far more people than first thought. what it will say about the rest of the country. what the scientists leading the study are telling diane tonight. >> reporter: the results are in. from 3,300 volunteers tested in santa clara, california, just a finger prick, a drop of blood which reveals if you have antibodies left behind because you had the coronavirus. i am so excited to talk to you. what can you tell us about what you found? dr. eran bendavid of stanford says when they did the testing, official records showed 1,000 cases of the virus in their county, but he says the study of the antibodies indicates the estimated number could be up to 80,000. is that more or less than you expected? >> our findings suggest that there are somewhere between 50 and 80-fold more infections in our county than what's known by the number cases than are reported by our department of public health. what we're seeing is the tip of a big iceberg. >> reporter: he says it will take more research to know how many people with those antibodies never knew they had the virus because they had no symptoms. and here's a reality check -- even if as many as 80,000 people in santa clara have the antibodies, that's less than 5% of the total population there. so even if the antibodies offer meaningful protection, 95% could be vulnerable returning to schools or to jobs or to life. >> we don't know if this confers immunity, we don't know if you still are or if this is really a past infection, if you're currently infected. the most important thing is to keep following public health guidelines. >> reporter: tests from one community, another study underway in los angeles and reporting in soon. when we first talked you told me that this was kind of a mission for you and your team to show that we can gather information, we don't have to wait to gather information. do you still feel that way? >> oh, absolutely. even more so. >> reporter: and at the very least, these scientists have shown it's possible to move quickly and carefully and get some real information right now. >> diane sawyer reporting tonight. diane, thank you. in the meantime there's also a race tonight for any kind of treatment that works. the drug already being used. could it hold promise? one patient saying he showed immediate improvement. he had been on oxygen. after so much talk about another drug, hydroxychloroquine, that study halt in the brazil. we asked dr. anthony fauci, where does the u.s. stand on this right now? here's alex perez. >> reporter: tonight, a new report from doctors at the university of chicago showing a drug, once tested for ebola, shows promise in some covid-19 patients. slawomir michalak says he's one of them. he was hospitalized with severe pain, high fever, and put on oxygen when doctors gave him the drug. >> then my body start to recover. i had no more high fever. and then from day one, i didn't have -- didn't get any more medicine to reduce my temperature. >> reporter: he was home recovering in just four days. nearly all of 113 patients with severe symptoms were reportedly given remdesivir and have since been taken off ventilators or discharged. two of the patients have died. researchers urging caution, saying the report offers a small snapshot of a wider study involving more than 100 locations and shouldn't be used to draw conclusions. the drug just one of at least 30 in clinical trials, including hydroxychloroquine, often touted by the president. >> i think it could be something really incredible. >> reporter: but there are concerns about hydroxychloroquine's safety. a study in brazil halted after signs of adverse effects on the heart. here in the u.s., studies underway. david pressing dr. anthony fauci on where the trials stand. >> you had said weeks back that there was no scientific proof that this, in fact, was working. it's a drug mentioned by the president often in recent weeks. where do we stand on that right now? >> well, there are still no clinical trials to definitively show if it works or does not work. there are a number of clinical trials that are ongoing, and hopefully, we'll get an answer to this question that's very much on the mind of a lot of people. >> reporter: and, david, officials here say what we're seeing of remdesivir is only partial data. the trial is not yet complete so it's simply too soon to draw any conluci conclusions. overseas tonight, china is out with new numbers this evening am a dramatic rise in the death toll there. here's abc's 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