♪ a tragic day in america, lives lost, doctors, nurses running on fumes. equipment badly needed and the worst is yet to come. >> this will be probably the toughest week, between this week and next week. there will be a lot of death,

unfortunately. >> also this hour, cnn goes inside a seattle, washington, icu, the tiring process medics go through just to prepare to save a coronavirus patient. plus, millions struggling to pay the bills and put food on the table. the real-life pain behind those unemployment numbers. live from cnn world headquarters in our atlanta studios. welcome to our viewers in the united states and around the world. i'm natalie allen. "cnn newsroom" starts right now. thank you, again, for joining us. it's 5:00 a.m. here in atlanta and here are our top stories. president trump has a stark warning for the united states now where the coronavirus is most out of control. first, the global perspective. johns hopkins university has tracked 1.2 million cases of

coronavirus worldwide. a number that ticks up hour after hour. the global death toll is approaching 65,000. in the past month, the disease has spread to more than 312,000 people in the united states. most of them will recover. but so far, 8,500 have died. mr. trump telling the country to be prepared for the crisis to worsen. >> this will be probably the toughest week between this week and next week. and there will be a lot of death, unfortunately. but a lot less death than if this wasn't done. but there will be death. >> saying it straight forward to the american people there. staying home is the surest way to protect yourself and your loved ones from becoming infected yet mr. trump has resisted that has a national policy.

as a result, eight states all with republic governors have not told their residents to stay home. but the president's top health advisers are saying exactly that. >> this is the moment to not be going to the grocery, not going to the pharmacy, but doing everything you can to keep your family and your friends safe. and that means everybody doing the 6-feet distancing, washing your hands. >> not going to the pharmacy, not going to the gaucrocery sto. that's how dangerous it's becoming. infectious disease expert dr. anthony fauci was kick to reinforce that message only to have the president suggest that shutting down the economy is the bigger threat. >> but the one thing i am confident in, let's take this to the bank, that mitigation works. so it does. we've seen it in other countries. we've seen it in our own country. that's the reason why i keep coming up to plea with the

american people to please take a look at those guidelines that the vice president keeps putting up with his chart. because every single one of those points has something to do with physical separation. >> mitigation does work. but we're not going to destroy our country. we have to get back because, you know, at a certain point, you lose more people this way through all of the problems caused than you will with what we're doing right now. >> more than one-third of all u.s. coronavirus infections are in new york. 114,000 cases and counting with new york city hit the hardest. the governor predicts the next week will see the sharpest rise in sick and dying patients, a scenario that threatened to overload the city's hospitals which are already struggling. you're seeing the javits convention center, very well known conference center.

it has been turned into a 2500-bed hospital to take some of the patients, the loads they will be seeing of people. a u.s. navy hospital ship is on duty to take non-coronavirus patients. but most of those beds are still empty. the navy says a few of the patients who have been brought to the ship have tested positive. at least one hospital has been setting up a makeshift morgue. others have been storing the deceased in refrigerated trucks. the mayor says the city is going to need massive amounts of help and equipment to get through these tough weeks ahead. he talked about it earlier with cnn's wolf blitzer. >> we think at some point next week, we could have 5,000 people on ventilators. we're going to need 45,000 doctors, nurses, therapists, et cetera.

we have to add 60,000 more beds in the course of the next month or so. >> throughout this crisis, there's been a lot of focus, of course, on ventilators. a crucial piece of equipment that can mean life or death for people with the virus and it's coming down to a verbal tug-of-war between the white house and state officials over how many ventilators actually exist and who will get them. when asked about it by cnn's jeremy diamond, president trump finally conceded there might not be enough to go around. >> is it time for you to level with the american public that there likely will be shortages of ventilators in some cases? >> could be. could be you have shortages and you have some that have overestimated the number of ventilators they need. >> andrew cuomo has been publicly pleaing for ventilators

saying hospitals only have enough to make it through this coming week. now, though, a wealthy ben factor has stepped up, joe tsai donated 2,000 ventilators as well as millions of pieces of protective gear. and the state of oregon is sending 140 of its ventilators, a gesture that earned a public thank you from new york's governor. >> i want to thank governor brown, i want to thank all of the people in the state of oregon for their thoughtfulness. again, this was unsolicited. but the 140 ventilators will make a difference. we're all in the same battle here. and the battle is stopping the spread of the virus, right? >> we've also been telling you how the new york police department has been waging its own battle against the coronavirus. sadly, a tenth officer has now

died of the disease. more than 1,600 uniformed police, about 18% of the city's force, and hundreds of civilian employees have tested positive for the virus. now we go south to louisiana. horrific words from the mayor of new orleans. the city's morgues have reached their limit and cannot pick up anymore bodies. the mayor has asked the federal government for additional refrigeration to store the deceased. this comes as the case count went up by more than 2,000 in louisiana on saturday alone. ed lavandera is in new orleans. >> reporter: the state of louisiana is bracing for what could be the very difficult week. these are the coming days where the governor of this state and medical officials have been warning that the onslaught of coronavirus cases in the state could begin to tax hospitals

across the state with a shortage of beds, ventilators, medical equipment that they need. the latest numbers we have is that there are nearly 12,500 cases of coronavirus in the state. just over 400 deaths as well. and the numbers that the state officials and medical officials look at the most is the number of beds willing used and ventilators being used and that continues on an upward trend as well. to prepare for all of this, medical teams here have unveiled and say that the makeshift hospital at the new orleans convention center, it will be up and ready to go by monday morning and accept its first patients. that thousand-bed hospital unit will treat coronavirus patients but not necessarily the ones that need the most acute and most serious attention. these are people who are not quite ready to go home. still need around the clock medical attention. the first patients will begin aremovi arriving there and the hope is

it will relieve pressure on the hospitals. this is the area that's seen the most cases in this case and it's become so dire here, this is what the mayor has said in recent days of how dire the situation is in this city. >> our corner's office is at capacity. morgues cannot pick them up and store because they're out of capacity. i've had to ask the federal government for additional refrigeration so that we can take care of our people while they're resting in god's peace. but not resting well because they haven't been laid to rest as they deserve. >> medical officials say they have been facing a lot of their projections as to what might happen in these hospitals on the scientific models and all the data that is coming into these

teams. and one of the grim predictions that they're looking at in these numbers is the projected death toll that could be reached here in the state of louisiana and that total that they're seeing right now is just over 1,800 and that is the same number of people that died during hurricane katrina 15 years ago. ed lavandera, cnn, new orleans. and now another hot spot, the state of michigan, a staggering rise in numbers there. nearly 1,500 new cases of covid-19 were reported on saturday alone. michigan's national guard has almost finished building 1,000-bed field hospital inside detroit's convention center. 540 people have died due to the virus in michigan with more than 14,000 cases, the state is second only to new york and new jersey. representative debbie dingell had a message when she spoke

with cnn earlier. >> too many people aren't taking this seriously and every last one of us has a job to do. for most of us who don't have the skill set to be on the front line as a nurse or doctor, and i'm grateful to those grocery store workers and those drugstore workers and the amazon workers and the drivers of these trucks and the mail people. our job is to stay home and not enough of us are. they don't understand how important it is and the only way we mitigate this is for each and every one of us to stay home, sit on the couch and stop mingling with other people. >> if you think about it, that's not asking too much, is it, to save lives. so important, especially right now as the u.s. will see a horribly ravaging spike in the next two weeks. we have been covering the race to create a vaccine, but scientists are investigating other treatments including existing medications. one of them is the malaria drug

hydroxychloroquine. scientists report it has benefits in covid-19 patients but u.s. officials say the research on its effectiveness is anecdotal. that has not stopped president trump from pushing for it. >> there's a possibility, a possibility -- and i say it, what do you have to lose? what do you have to lose? take it. i think they should take it. but it's their choice and it's their doctor's choice or the doctor's and the hospital. but hydroxychloroquine, try it, if you'd like. >> for now, no product is approved by u.s. authorities to prevent covid-19. let's bring in now a clinical lecturer at king's college. president trump there expressing a lot of optimism around this

anti-malarial drug. he talked a lot about it, but only anecdotal reports and one small clinical trial have shown any benefits. i want to talk about your reaction to the president's support of this. >> so i think we have to be careful with any experimental medication about what we assume it can do. we saw during ebola that there were several medications that showed great promise in cell studies and animal studies but when rolled out had no benefit whatsoever. i'm not saying hydroxychloroquine doesn't have benefit. there's some good data from cell studies. but we don't have any data in human trials in covid-19 that is robust for us to say it's effective. >> for that reason, could it be dangerous if someone took it, someone who was positive for coronavirus? >> well, i think we don't know

that yet. we know that hydroxychloroquine, as a medication, is a safe medication. it's been around for a long time. it's widely available and cheap and we use it in inflammatory conditions such as lupus and joint conditions and we know it's safe in those. but we haven't trialed it widely in people with covid-19 yet. i think we need to be cautious and determine it is safe in people with covid-19 but we also have to see if it demonstrates efficacy and we need to caution that people shouldn't be using it unless they have tested positive for covid-19 and advised to try it by their doctor who is looking after them. there have been reports from nigeria that because of what's been said, people have been stocking up on chloroquine and taking it and chloroquine is an earlier form of hydroxychloroquine. it's a slightly different drug

and it's highly toxic if taken at too high of a dose. there has been inadvertent cause caused to people in nigeria for people taking this. >> it shows the confounding -- the way that this disease is and the mysteries surrounding it that some people are looking for anything to try to help them overcome it. you, doctor, have significant experience. you mentioned nigeria in medical responses to disaster in africa and asia. where do you put this pandemic in relation to others right now? >> so i think that this pandemic is unprecedented, certainly in our time, in its nature. it is a virus that is very adept at spreading between people and we've seen that and it also seems to be fairly adept at spreading before people show significant symptoms.

and any virus that can behave like that is more difficult to contain because people don't know they're infected with it yet to prevent them from spreading it to others. that's why we've seen these measures put in place of the lockdowns of entire populations just to try and reduce the spread. >> hopefully at this point people are getting the message. as we've heard, the next two weeks could be really horrendous for people there in the uk and the united states. we appreciate you joining us. thank you so much, doctor. thanks. >> thank you. coming next, the uk is pleading with people to follow the social distancing rules as the queen is set to deliver a rare, televised address on the coronavirus. before we go to a break, amid the coronavirus pandemic, some new york grocery stores are creating special express lanes for first responders. it's a move welcomed by brooklyn's borough president.

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for the virus. mr. johnson has tested positive and continues to self-isolate. and just a bit later today, queen elizabeth will address the british people about the coronavirus in a rare televised speech. the queen's message will be broadcast at 8:00 p.m. london time. nick paton walsh joins me now from london with the latest from there. interesting that the queen feels moved to speak to the british people and will encourage them to cooperate with all the safety measures. >> yeah. a difficult fortnight ahead as we expect the surge in deaths to continue. she's thanking every for their resolve and urging them to continue social distancing here at this busy park in london. it doesn't seem that message is getting through that much. it's crowded in there. a lot of runners and prompting the government to say if you do

not obey the rules, we will ban exercise. advice is to do it once a day. but there's another race in the united kingdom and that's to test as many workers as they can so they can get back to work and assist with the nightmare ahead here. >> it is no longer needed for us to identify every case. >> reporter: for the uk, testing was not a priority a month ago, yet now it is. >> it's so important -- >> reporter: why not? the rush to testing explained by a health care testing center behind me here. nearly a tenth of health care workers aren't turning up to work because they're not sure if they have the disease and that's a question that is increasingly difficult for britains to answer in general. it's a gold standard. it is named after the dance, results in 90 minutes and it's easy to test and process.

>> i can teach it to you if you know how to cook, you know how to do this test, which leaves half of the men out. >> reporter: one line means negative, two a slight infection, three a bad one. >> you're negative. >> reporter: kick started by $3 million from a wealthy donor, the company says it costs $24,000 a machine and $38 a test. but they can't make enough of them to ensure it's 99% accuracy fast enough. the uk health service wants a lot now, they say. health workers, officials, everyone, all want to test. but that's just not possible. >> this is really -- i said, like a worldwide tsunami and you don't have the life jacket for the whole world. >> reporter: here in a cramped airless office in london, a life jacket is for sale. this company used to do health dna testing and it repurposing its kits to test the

coronavirus. for about $250, less if you're a health care worker, you receive it at home and express mail it to their lab. the results come about three days later. >> we're talking thousands in the period of time of one week since by launched. >> that's 200,000 pounds at least worth of inventory. >> we're talking about bulk orders coming from private clinics. >> you opened this straight forward, put it in your mouth, back of your throat. >> back of your throat and gag, and keep doing this for a minute. >> reporter: it's cramped here. they decline to name the lab they use say it has government approval. no home testing method does yet. uk officials told cnn, we don't have confidence in their reliability, they told us. what would you say to anyone who looked at what you are doing here and is torn with whether

you're a good samaritan or whether or not you're making money out of a crisis. what would you say? >> we say we're offering a service at a very reduced price from what other providers are doing. >> reporter: the uk behind in a race to test with no mass solution at hand. it's startling hearing the government warnings to see the volume of people coming out behind me. it's their one bit of exercise a day. but one figure matters and that's that yesterday there were over 700 deaths reported in 24 hours. this warm weather getting people out when they should be in at just the worst possible time for the united kingdom. it's the fortnight ahead and the death toll to see how prepared the united kingdom is prepared for this crisis. >> and we see people talking behind you and they're not

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day yet in the united states for coronavirus. more than 1,300 people died from the disease. and more than 312,000 people in the u.s. have now tested positive. with those surging numbers, u.s. president trump now admits many americans will die of the virus in the days and weeks ahead. that stands in stark contrast to his optimistic predictions a few weeks ago. his top health advisers continue to stress social distancing and staying at home as the most effective ways to keep the virus from spreading, especially in these next two weeks. pleas from new york officials for hospital ventilators has led to a sizable donation. that's some good news. joe tsai, the co-founder of alibaba sent 2,000 of the life-saving machines to new york. on saturday, president trump conceded there might not be enough ventilators in the weeks

ahead. you're about to see inside a frontline hospital, a place where only doctors, nurses and infected patients experience. it is where the physical fight against the virus is going on day and night. they don't have enough protection. we talk about the lack of ventilators as well. they don't have enough space. and they don't know how long all of this will last. our sara snider has this report from seattle, washington. >> it's changed. >> nurses and doctors at this medical center suit up to go to battle with coronavirus, they have to go through an exhaustive dressing regimen, hoods, tubes, masks and gowns, just to enter a patient's room. >> the greatest risk for health care workers is when they remove things that they contaminate themselves. >> they have a checklist and spotter helping with every step. they also have to adapt to new

realities. >> these are the hoods that look up to these machines that filter air. >> that's the hose that looks up. >> they get cleaned inside and out so they can be reused. the way they were built was for a one-time use. if we did that, we would already be out. >> reporter: they have completely revamped two intensive care units. >> this unit was supposed to be for people with brain injuries and strokes. now we have to move them someplace else. >> reporter: this was turned into a covid-19 icu unit? >> correct. >> reporter: all to try and help coronavirus patients live, isolate them from others, and keep the staff safe too. >> i am not wearing the full personal protection equipment because in these rooms where the actual covid-19 patients are, these are considered negative pressure rooms. that means that we are considered in a safe space not

wearing full personal protection. patients are being cared for but we don't need to wear the full apparatus unless you're a doctor or nurse who has to go into the room to care for the patient. inside the rooms, patients are hooked up to a shocking number of tubes, using those pressure ventilators, the only thing keeping them breathing. >> for the icu patients, they get very sick and they stay sick very long. they may require a ventilator for weeks at a time. >> across their four hospitals, 60 coronavirus patients were hospitalized last week. already this week, it's at least 100. for each one, a delicate dance to keep staff healthy and patients alive. it is just coming in here and seeing the work that's being done and seeing the patients being cared for, it's stressful.

it's -- i'm scared for their families as well and so as you walk through and you see the hard work being done and people doing everything they need to take care of patients, it's awe-inspiring considering the fact that they too could be putting themselves in harm's way. >> reporter: outside the hospital, a large tent has been erected to assess potential coronavirus patients and this is happening before the anticipated surge here. >> i feel dread and fear and i'm not working on the front lines. what are you feeling as you're dealing with all of these covid-19 patients? >> it's a sense of anxiety because we -- right now, we're kind of wondering what it's going to be like when that peak comes and when people are flooding in. >> reporter: while the number of new infections in washington seems to be slowing down, there's a growing sense they haven't seen the worst of it yet.

>> what they do every day is heroic. taking care of patients without gear is not acceptable. president trump warned that the next two weeks are going to be very deadly for the united states. but just days after extending social distancing guidelines, the president is, once again, talking about getting america back to work. he says he's considering putting together a task force focused on reopening the economy. a staggering 6.6 million americans filed for unemployment in the past week alone. that doesn't even include millions of workers in the so-called gig economy. here's some of the stories. >> average worker, what are we going to do? >> by the time we get, they're not going to be any help. >> this lyft driver says it's too late for washington stimulus checks. he's down to his last $65.

>> currently, unemployed. there's no rides. i don't know how to feel right now. definitely lost one. >> reporter: the calls and cash flow have stopped for williams and millions more who earn their living in the gig economy. the workforce that relies on booking appointments for their income. >> you have to be out every day working and thinking about where the next job is going to come. something like this where we're unable to get out and work it's making us realize how fragile it is. >> reporter: in los angeles, this actor is used to gig after gig after gig. but now the married father of twins is experiencing a frightening new scene. >> i wake up without any auditions in my email, without my manager calling, without my agent calling and it's kind of a shock to the system. >> reporter: and a shock to the u.s. economy. according to a 2018 research

poll, nearly a quarter of the american workforce relies on gigs for their income. now all but gone. employers that are still busy from supermarkets to drugstores and online retailers have stepped up their hiring efforts, but ns not enough to absorb the 10 million unemployment claims made last month. >> we're low on the chart. >> reporter: this family used to clean 10 to 15 homes a week in houston, texas. >> we have seen a 50% drop. it feels like we're in the desert. it feels really, really tough. >> reporter: while they're grateful for the few clients that continue to support them, they've had to speak frankly about what might come next. >> the thing that we agree on is the worst is to come and we can't pay stuff and we end up being without a home or car, it's going to be okay. >> within two weeks, the first

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we want to bring you the latest on two european countries hard hit by the virus, spain's state of emergency will be extended by two weeks. the death toll there stands at nearly 12,000. that's according to numbers from johns hopkins university in the u.s. there are more than 126,000 confirmed cases in spain and more than italy and second only to the u.s. but there are signs that the rate of new infections may be slowing. let's go to our journalist who is in madrid, where he's been covering this for weeks. al, that's a bit of good news that people will take on this palm sunday.

>> reporter: the spanish people and the spanish health authorities, they've been waiting for this moment for about two weeks, talking that they would be getting close to the peak to they can start to push that curve of new infections and the number of deaths downward. as you say, natalie, the -- there are still a number of new infections. there are numbers of deaths. there were 809 deaths in the most recent 24 hours for the records, but the percentage increases of those are both going down into the single digits whereas at the height of this crisis here, they had been in the double digits at 20%. now we're saying single digits. and specifically, the new entries into the intensive care ward in the most recent 24-hour period, 116 new patients went into the really overburdened extensive care wards across the country and that's good news. we see nearby field hospital set up next to one of the major

hospitals is ready to go but hasn't taken on patients. the prime minister announcing on saturday that he's asking parliament this week, approval is expected, to extend this lockdown stay-at-home order for another two weeks. but they will tweak it a bit. what they call nonessential workers, like construction workers, these kinds of workers may be able to go back to work under this order. this all coming as it is palm sunday here in spain and around the world. spaniards would normally be doing to church. this is a heavily romen catholic country. it will include easter. it's a major impact healthwise, economicwise and on the very culture and traditions of the country. natalie? >> a glimmer of hope there. we'll take it. al goodman for us in madrid. thank you for your reporting. italy has been extremely hit

hard in this pandemic. the country reporting the most deaths from coronavirus in the world. more than 15,000, according to johns hopkins university. but that number seems to be leveling off as well as the number of coronavirus patients needing icu beds. we're in rome with that glimmer of hope. we'll take it as you've been reporting now for weeks and it hasn't been good. >> italy had some good news yesterday with the question of new patients in their icu for the first time they saw a drop in that by 74 patients. that's a small but significant number because it's the first time it's happened and the authorities here say that that has lessened the pressure on those hospitals and on the doctors and nurses that are working so hard to confront these cases. that was a little glimmer of hope.

in addition to the total number of new cases, we see daily increases now that are far fewer than in weeks past. that's giving hope that this curve is flattening. of course, as in spain, here in rome, palm sunday, this would normally be a time where we would see thousands of people in saint peter's square. he's saying it from inside an empty saint peter's square. this is a scene you're going to see around the world for christians who can't go to mass today and in the next few days leading up to easter weekend. we know of one priest in the north of italy who has asked his members to send in their photos and taping them to the seats. we'll see if priests around the

world come up with other creative ways for christians at this easter time to feel part of their congregations even if they can't be together. >> that is a cute idea and certainly hope it catches on. no doubt, people listening very closely to the pope even though they cannot be there. as always, thank you. the world is already at a standstill because of the coronavirus but the upcoming hurricane season in the u.s. could make things worse. our metrologist will have that for us in a moment. you should be mad at forced camaraderie. and you should be mad at tech that makes things worse. but you're not mad, because you have e*trade, who's tech makes life easier by automatically adding technical patterns on charts and helping you understand what they mean. don't get mad. get e*trade's simplified technical analysis.

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new york's governor andrew cuomo has a warning for u.s. residents about covid-19. in a tweet, he said this, the virus will roll across the country like a slow-moving hurricane. he meant that in a symbolic way, but there are growing concerns about actual hurricanes. forecasters are predicting an above-average season. normally data would be collected with the help of airplanes, but that is proving difficult with the airline industry at a standstill. our metrologist and my good friend derek van dam joins me

now live. so good to see you. you're here to complain what this data loss could mean as the hurricane season approaches in the next couple of months. >> yeah, well, natalie, good to see you as well. you know what this does mean, or the potential for meaning is a less reliable weather forecast going forward into the hurricane season which is the last thing that we want right now considering that we're mitigating a crisis with the potential of another crisis coming down the line with an above-average hurricane season. here's the reason why we're concerned. there's been a marked difference in the amount of commercial airline travel across the world. we know it's well advertised. you can see it in this graph. here's 2019, that green line. here's 2020. here's that sharp decline. look at the dramatic decrease on airplanes you can see on my tv screen behind me. this is significant because airlines capture weather data as they travel over the oceans

where there's actually a lack of weather information, where hurricanes form. 250 million weather observations annually captured by these commercial airliners. in march alone, there was a reduction of about 50% of these important critical weather data that goes into the weather models that metrologists like myself look at. what this equates to you at home is the potential for a 15% reduction in forecast accuracy. not what we want to see heading into the brink of severe weather seasons which starts about right now. there are other various ways that we receive weather information, satellite data, sea ships, cargo ships, which are on the decline because of the basic stop in our economy across the planet. nonetheless, the interesting thing here is the crisis on top of a crisis that potentially

looms with the potential of more hurricanes unveiled under a veil of climate change, which we consider as a threat multiplier, all of these are just a recipe, really, natalie, for a potential for a disaster in the making with our resources spread so thin. back to you. >> i canceled my wedding. was thinking of rescheduling for october. got to rethink that. >> you rethink that one, that's right. >> thank you. now we have this, a woman traveling to see her dying mother got a surprising show of support from very sweet strangers. sheryl was flying from washington to boston last week when she found herself the only passenger on the plane. just what derek was saying about air travel is down. the flight was empty because of the coronavirus crisis. the crew lavished her with attention and gave her an upgrade to the front of the plane. >> good morning, welcome board

american eagle. my name is jessica. we have sheryl as our passenger. you're living it up in first class. give everybody a shout-out to sheryl, the only passenger on the plane. thank you so much for joining us today. we appreciate and value your business and we open you fly with us again. >> she certainly deserved that. sheryl was able to spend the day with her mother before she died and she said she's grateful to the flight attendants for making her journey a bit easier. thank you so much for watching "cnn newsroom." i'm natalie allen. "new day" is just ahead. stay safe out there. robinhood believes now is the time to do money.

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this will be probably the toughest week between this week and next week, and there will be a lot of death, unfortunately. >> this is the moment not going to the grocery store, not going to the pharmacy, but doing everything you can to keep your family and friends safe. >> john hopkins reporting that almost 8,500 people have died here, and that number is rising. >> our coroner's office is at capacity as it relates to our dead bodies of our loved ones. >> we think at some point next week about 5,000 people on ventilators. that's a real potential horrible milestone. >> we have to get back to work. we have to get -- we have