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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 gri ....
Hospitals also in crisis. Were at one center serving 55,000 vets with only 102 beds. Is the v. A. Prepared if infection spikes . Supermarket safety with america shut down, theyre still on the job inside americas Grocery Stores. What theyre doing to keep workers and you safe. And helping hands keeping Health Care Heroes fed while also giving a lifeline to struggling restaurants. This is the cbs evening news with Norah Odonnell, reporting from the nations capital. Odonnell good evening, and thank you for joining us. We begin with breaking news, and something unthinkable just weeks ago tonight, the u. S. Has more confirmed cases of the deadly coronavirus than any other country in the world, surpassing even china and italy. Since we were with you last night, cases nationwide have surged, growing by more than 17,000 in jus ....
Tampa and orlando areas. Hears the governor. March. Atre this point, even though theres a lot of place in florida with very low infection rates, it makes sense to make this move now, and i did consult with those in the white house, i did speak with the president about it. He agreed with the approach of focusing on the hot spots. In the meantime, Surgeon General dr. Jerome adams praising californias efforts, saying we look at places like california that aggressively mitigated and social distance, they were able to level and fight in their curve. California has more than 9600 cases and 207te deaths, but over the past three days, the states numbers have been very steady. But michigan is seeing the opposite effect with the curve getting steeper. Today marks the single highest day increase of cases, pushing the totales to more than 9,000, with 337 total deaths. And finally, we should note that orleans ande jefferson parishes, which ar ....