protests against stay at home orders breaking out in denver and other parts of the country. some crowding ignoring social distancing, not wearing masks. we're there on the ground. being sent out to trace how the virus spreads from one person to another, who infected whom? one state tracking down 85% of its cases. and new york planning to roll out massive antibody testing in the next week. our dr. jen ashton standing by. more money? the white house and speaker nancy pelosi close to a new deal to get more money to americans in need. paper stimulus checks expected to go out next week, and whose idea was it to print president trump's name on those checks? also breaking tonight, the images coming in. a city bus hijacked in dallas. the gunman allegedly firing shots out the window. two officers wounded. the suspect taken down by police.>>we're also tracking th tornado threat at this hour.re . possible ts,ail and flash flooding. some drive-through testing sites shut down. and the positive trend amid the crisis. new company. pet adoptions soaring at record rates. time to make room at home for the newest members of the family. and good evening. thank you for joining us on this sunday. i'm tom llamas. and we begin tonight with the coronavirus crossing a stark milestone in the u.s. as the state at the epicenter of america's outbreak reaches a possible turning point. the u.s. now with more than 755,000 confirmed cases and more than 40,000 deaths. new york governor andrew cuomo revealing 507 deaths in the thgovernor ahours. dropping and if the trend continues, the state may be past the high point. governor cuomo moving to the next phase, before trying to reopen the state, launching aggressive antibody testing within the next week. other states bracing for their surge. boston, you see it here, rolling out these sound trucks, urging everyone to stay in their homes. south carolina preparing to ease restrictions on some businesses and public beaches, despite a rise in cases. and protesters turning out in denver, demanding the governor lift restrictions and reopen businesses there. abc's trevor ault leads us off. >> reporter: tonight, the coronavirus wreaking havoc on families across the country. >> thank you for putting someone like nick in our lives. >> reporter: amanda kloots sharing the story of her husband, nick cordero, the broadway star and new father, losing his right leg to coronavirus complications. he's been on a ventilator for nearly two weeks. >> we are here for him and he is strong and he can do this. and he's got a whole lot of living to do. >> reporter: cordero just one face of the virus's enormous and brutal toll. >> every number is a face and a family and a brother and a sister and a mother and a father. >> reporter: in new york today, another devastating 24 hours, 507 more new yorkers lost. but the governor says if the data holds, the state may be on the descent. look at the daily hospitalizations over the last month. the curve seemingly past its plateau and starting to go down. >> we controlled the beast. we apexed, we plateaued, it's coming down the other side. but the beast is still alive. >> reporter: 1,300 more people hospitalized with covid-19 in new york saturday alone. but with the virus seemingly under control for the moment, new york now standing by to help other states. governor cuomo saying 400 ventilators are ready to be deployed to massachusetts. >> we're in a very different place here in massachusetts than other states are. wee right in theid surge now. >> reporter: with more than 36,000 confirmed cases, the state's now had more than 100 deaths a day in the past five days. >> mayor walsh has declared a public health emergency in the city of boston. >> reporter: in boston, these trucks blasting messages, urging residents to stay inside. michigan's governor says her state's sweeping stay at home order is working. >> we are seeing the curve start to flatten, and that means we're saving lives. >> reporter: but the virus hitting michigan's economy disproportionately hard. reports indicating nearly 1 in 4 workers there have filed for unemployment. >> i'm the one that puts a roof over my head. i'm the one that gets my own groceries. if i don't have an income, how am i supposed to do this? >> reporter: but despite the pain, nurse lauren condeni, who battled with covid-19 herself, has this emotional plea for her community. >> people are dying. a lot of people are dying. and we're trying our best, but for some reason, our best isn't good enough right now. just please, if you do anything, just stay home. >> fighting the virus and trying to help so many also. trevor ault joins us now from times square. and in this crisis across the country, we're seen troubling numbers out of nursing homes. we've reported on this. today, new york releasing new stats about how many covid deaths are from nursing homes here in the state? >> reporter: yeah, tom, the latest numbers say 25% of the death toll in new york is people who were living in nursing homes or long-term care facilities. that's more than 3,400 people. governor cuomo says in these facilities, the virus can spread like fire through dry grass. he says of all the things they're managing right now, nursing homes are his number one concern. tom? >> the rates at nursing homes have been horrific. all right, trevor, thank you. and you can see the mounting anger, frustration and worry building in some states. protesters in denver coming out against stay at home orders, demanding the governor reopen the state for business. demonstrators ignoring social distancing rules, some refusing to wear masks. abc's clayton sandell is there in denver. >> reporter: in denver tonight, they came with and without masks, hundreds throwing social cing t >> lra! r:te coronavirus closures that have society and the economy shut down and john smith out of work. >> so, the coronavirus is very real, it's very scary and it's affecting a lot of families and it's very tragic. but the means that we are implementing are not justifying the ends. we're going to hurt millions more people than the tens of thousands that may die from coronavirus. >> reporter: in denver, counter protesters wearing hospital scrubs blocked traffic. similar scenes this weekend in california, florida, texas and washington, in defiance of stay at home orderers and warnings from health officials. >> i certainly can understand the frustration of people, but my main role in the task force is to make recommendations to protect the health and the safety of the american people. >> reporter: president trump friday tweeted, "liberate michigan, minnesota and virginia." maryland's republican governor telling cnn the president is encouraging protests that go against his own policy, sending mixed messages. >> to encourage people to go protest the plan that you just made recommendations on on thursday, it just doesn't make any sense. >> reporter: vice president pence, who leads the coronavirus task force, was in colorado greeting the governor without a mask, against white house recommendations. >> we have rights! >> reporter: colorado and other states including vermont and montana have announced plans to reopen the economy, but warn those plans will only unfold gradually. and tom, tonight, colorado's governor says he supports the right to protest, but says people still need to stay home. also, we should note, in a recent poll, a vast majority of respondents say they are concerned that states will reopen too quickly. tom? >> clayton sandell from the center of one of those protests, we can hear it right there. clayton, thank you. next tonight, two of the key ning the country, testing and traci statescrs the country now iseas detectives. their mission? to find infected patients and learn who else may have been exposed and determine where it may spread next. here's abc's kaylee hartung. >> reporter: tonight, the keys to reopening america, ramping up testing on a massive scale, and tracing the virus. president trump tonight preparing to procure more testing swabs, but saying the states are responsible. >> you must remember that the governors wanted to have total control over the opening of their states, but now they want to have us, the federal government, do the testing and, again, testing is local, you can't have it both ways. >> reporter: mia williams is a contact tracer in kentucky, finding people who have been exposed. a so-called disease detective. >> it's hard to tell, you know, where the disease has been or where it's going and how it's spreading. >> reporter: williams is part of a small army of 20 tracers warning citizens to quarantine for 14 days from their last exposure. much of the work is done over the phone. >> it's like an emotional roller coaster, in a way, because what you're trying to do is connect all these cases and from >> reporter: similar work is under way in utah. >> i work for salt lake county health department. >> reporter: salt lake county deploying a team of 130 tracers who have successfully tracked 85% of the community's known cases. and for weeks, california authorities have been tracing the movements of thousands of passengers who may be been exposed on those giant cruise ships. >> we can not only isolate you if you've been exposed, but quarantine those that are part of that tracing regime and make >> reporter: just as crucial as diagnosing infection and isolating is antibody testing, to determine who has had exposure to the virus and may have immunity. tonight, new york announcing a massive antibody study beginning this week to track the true spread of the virus. but critics say the federal government is allowing these tests, many coming from china, on the market too quickly, before they've been proven reliable. >> all right, kaylee hartung joins us now from los angeles, and kaylee, you've finally been cleared to report outside after recovering from covid-19. i want to go back to your reporting. we know how important contract tracing is to the puzzle of reopening the country. and you are learning more about that tracing app both apple and google have teamed up on? >> reporter: that's right, tom. apple and google could roll out those apps in a matter of weeks. they are also working together to develop a system that will rely simply on the bluetooth technology on our phones to determine if we have been in contact with somebody who's been infected. the aclu is monitoring that work to protect our privacy. tom? >> kaylee, great to have you back out in the field. thank you. i want to bring in abc chief medical editor dr. jen ashton for a reality check tonight on testing. jen, so many experts are saying testing is the key to recovery, but there still remains chronic problems on conducting widespread mass testing. and now this new reporting by "the new york times" and others about the problems with antibody tests. >> well, tom, there are questions about the ability to scale up quickly to hundreds of millions of tests, and there's still scientific questions that need to be answered, when you talk about past infection testing versus active infection testing. the antibody testing for evidence of past infection, we don't know the accuracy of those tests, whether they can have false positives. we don't know how often to retest someone, whether it should be 14 days, because that's the thought, incubation period of this coronavirus. and we still don't know how to use the results of that test. and in medicine, before you do a test, you should know what you're going to do with the results of that test and right now, that's still being figured out. >> still so many questions. as we enter a new week in this cry is. all right, dr. jen, thank you. next tonight, congress and the trump administration nearing a deal on a new emergency funding plan. president trump moments ago saying it could happen by tomorrow. the package worth up to $450 billion, providing money to small businesses, hospitals and testing. abc's rachel scott is in washington. >> reporter: tonight, lawmakers signaling they may be just hours away from a deal on the next round of relief. >> we're close. again, we have common ground. >> i'm very hopeful we could come to an agreement tonight or early tomorrow morning. >> reporter: this bipartisan deal would include roughly $300 billion in funding for small business loans, plus billions more for hospitals, disaster loans and covid-19 testing. but some small businesses are running out of time. the government's rescue loan fund, the paycheck protection program, maxed out days ago. marcos rivera in chicago says he is running out of options while waiting for congress to act. >> if i don't get those funds, i don't, you know, i don't know, we keep on trying to push through and see how long we can make it. >> reporter: treasury secretary steve mnuchin says he hopes the new bill will be on the president's desk by wednesday. and while millions of americans have received their stimulus direct deposits, many americans are still waiting for paper checks to arrive in the mail. today, mnuchin said the decision to add the president's signature to those paper checks did not cause a delay and they should go out next week. >> we did put the president's name on the check. that was my idea. he is the president, and i think it's a -- it's a terrific symbol to the american public. >> reporter: and tom, as you said, the president speaking just minutes ago, said a deal could come by tomorrow. democrats are still pushing to include funding for state and local governments, but republicans are not budging on this. they want to get this bill over the finish line first and consider that request on the next round. tom? >> rachel scott with that late breaking news tonight. rachel, thank you. now, to the severe weather slamming the south. tornado watches across several states, as millions of americans are sheltering at home. a large super cell hovering over houston, take a look at that. turning the sky dark. the threat stretching from texas all the way to the carolinas into tonight. abc's marcus moore in jackson, mississippi. >> reporter: tonight, millions of families across the south bracing for a dangerous night ahead. damaging winds, large hail and nighttime tornadoes all possible. in the houston area, the storms forcing covid-19 testing sites to shut down. >> the call has been made for all four testing sites in harris county to close for the day. they will not reopen until tomorrow. >> reporter: here in mississippi, officials urging residents to bring hand sanitizer with them to storm shelters. >> if you have to go into a shelter and you don't have a mask, you know, a scarf is certainly fine to wear, just cover your mouth. >> we got debris on the ground! >> reporter: this comes just one week after a deadly tornado outbreak hit the region. more than 130 tornadoes claiming at leastivter near more than two miles wide at times with winds up to 190 mul s mules per hour. >> all right, marcus moore joins us now live from jackson, mississippi. and marcus, the threat is not over. i understand that 18 wheeler you're in front of just went off an overpass and you spoke to the driver? >> reporter: yeah, that's right, tom. storms, severe weather already hitting the jackson area. the man who was driving this truck lost control of the 18 wheeler as it was traveling across interstate 55 here in jackson. the entire truck, tom, plunged about 25 feet onto the road below. i talked to the driver tonight, he is obviously shaken but he is alive and unhurt. in the meantime, officials are urging residents here to have a way to receive weather alerts tonight and to have a storm plan in place. tom? >> good advice. incredible that driver survived. glad you were able to talk to him. let's get right to abc's senior meteorologist rob marciano who is tracking these storms tonight. >> reporter: hi, tom. you see how dangerous the storms are. relative to last weekend, the tornado risk is a little lower, but the support winds are strengthening, so, the risk is really real overnight. let's show you where the radar is showing the most intense storms, across louisiana, rnhetg state. and flash flood watches, as well. so, big hail, big wind and big rain with this as it moves rapidly to the east overnight, through alabama and georgia. by the carolina coast tomorrow morning, where also tornadoes are a possibility. got to mention tuesday, a little clipper coming through the northeast, and we could see some rough storms here. tom? 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