Ordered to not leave their homes. Why a top official warns the death toll could still reach hundreds of thousands. Nursing home danger. Eight dead in a new jersey home for seniors as hundreds test positive in homes in maryland and tennessee. Whats being done to help the most vulnerable. Economic catastrophe. The stark warning the Unemployment Rate could reach 32 . Tonight struggling Restaurant Owners on why the relief bill may not be enough. Lessons from south korea testing, tracing, and treating. Plus an app used to save lives. What america can learn about containing the spread. And close to home, a beloved cbs news colleague and journalist taken much too soon. How her spirit lives on in what we do. This is the cbs evening news with Norah Odonnell r reporting from the nations capital. Odonnell good evening, and thank you for joining us. We begin tonight with breaking news. With intensive care units in new york city overwhelmed, today the u. S. Navy sailed the hospital ship comfort int
York city overwhelmed, today the u. S. Navy sailed the hospital ship comfort into new york harbor. And tonight that states governor is issuing a nationwide call to doctors and nurses to join what he calls the front lines of the war on the crisis. With the u. S. Still several weeks away from the peak of infections, he warned new york is a canary in the coal mine. And as we come on the air, there are already more than 160,000 confirmed cases here in the u. S. , more than 2,900 have died. There is also some movement. Tonight when it comes to testing. Abbott labs says next week it will roll out a diagnostic test with results in five minutes. Also, virginia, maryland, arizona, and tennessee issued new stayathome orders, joining 28 other states. That means three out of every four americans have now been told not to go out. All of that is leading to a sobering assessment from the Federal Reserve in st. Louis that as many as 47 million americans could be laid off in the coming months. Theres a
Its 11 00 a. M. Out west and 2 00 p. M. Here in new york. University of Colorado Center across the country right now, for bioethics and humanities, Health Care Workers say they are scared. They are wondering if they dr. Matthew winnia. Properly sanitize their mask, gentlemen, thank you very much. Because they only have one. Dr. Winnia, i do want to start theyre wondering if their gowns with you. Are compromised and when theyll how do you make that decision about who gets a ventilator and get another. Theyre worried about treating who does not . Sick patients they cant test. Well, theres been actually theyre worried about ventilators and having to make more thought given to this than decisions on the fly about who you might imagine over the next lives and who dies. And theyre worried about going decade or so. Dr. White has been very much home and putting their own involved in these conversations families in danger. We asked them for their stories for many years. And well share them thro
Beginning. A report this morning that doctors at a Major Hospital right here in new york city are being told to think very carefully about who does and does not get a ventilator. It is another symptom of a nationwide problem hospitals just dont have what they need. Yeah. Rationing, amazing were getting there. In cities across the country, Field Hospitals are now going operational because of the expected overflow at hospitals in Convention Centers, even in new york citys central park. And next hour the Navy Hospital ship comfort will take on its first noncoronavirus patients to help take the pressure off other new york hospitals. Cases are surging across the country, in new emerging hot spots. Three out of four americans now are under stay at home or shelter in place orders. And signs in california that the social distancing guidelines may be working. We have got a lot to get to this hour. All of us here doing our part. Lets begin in new york with cnn National Correspondent brynn gingra
Death toll could still reach hundreds of thousands. Nursing home danger. Eight dead in a new jersey home nor seniors as hundreds test positive in homes in maryland and tennessee. Lhats being done to help the most vulnerable. Economic catastrophe. Economic catastrophe the stark warning the Unemployment Rate could reach 32 . Tonight struggling Restaurant Owners on why the relief bill may not be enough. Lessons from south korea resting, tracing, and treating. Plus an app used to save lives. What america can learn about containing the spread. And close to home, a beloved cbs news colleague and journalist take how her spirit lives on in what we do. 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 tonight with breaking news. With intensive care units in new helmed, today thelmed, today the u. S. Navy sailed the u. S. Navy sailed the hospital ship comfort into new york harbor. And tonight that st