about once-weekly ozempic®. good morning, america. the number of coronavirus cases in the u.s. increasing dramatically overnight. at least 26,000 americans now diagnosed with covid-19. with the epicenter of this crisis, new york city. hours away from the state's stay at home order, governor cuomo's warning to the young and healthy. >> you're not superman and you're not superwoman. you can get this virus. >> the nation's tourist attractions deserted. stores boarded up and the virus even forcing a ground stop at one of the nation's busiest airports. the battles at the hospital, fighting the virus and the lack of supplies. medical workers sounding the alarm. private businesses now answering

the call, how they're pitching pr supply and demand. the white house responding to the urgent need for more masks. >> when exactly can they expect to receive these masks? >> we'll prioritize -- >> the president's press -- >> when will the masks start coming in? >> how they'll be distributed across the country. fighting the pandemic. researchers around the globe scrambling for a treatment. this morning a new approach. will shifting the focus be the key to a cure? and home court advantage. the athletes showing off their skills all through the house. how they're rolling on and still making baskets. to make the best of their situation. hey, good morning. as you can see, whit is not on the desk with us this morning. we'll hear from him in just a

moment. first, though, let's dive into the latest on the coronavirus pandemic, now hittin eeciay here are the latest numbers. overnight, cases of covid-19 surpassed 300,000 worldwide with nearly 13,000 deaths. here in the u.s., the numbers are soaring, more than 26,000 cases and 340 deaths. >> the epicenter in the u.s. is now clearly new york, with more than 12,000 cases, most of them here in new york city. most are between the ages of 18 and 49. and by tonight, new york state's 19 million residents will be under a stay at home order. we have team coverage of this global crisis with abc's stephanie ramos in times square, mona kosar abdi at mount sinai hospital in new york, trevor ault at the white house and julia macfarlane in london. we begin with stephanie ramos. good morning you, stephanie. >> reporter: eva, good morning. new york city's times square is

cleared out and that's exactly what the mayor and governor of new york want to see, people staying at home. especially now that nearly a hundred people have died here in new york due to the coronavirus. coronavirus cases in new york state exploding. at least 11,000 new yorkers diagnosed with the virus, more than half of those cases in new york city. what officials now consider the epicenter of the pandemic in america. >> i know people want to hear it's going to be a matter of weeks and everything's going to be fine. i believe it's going to be a matter of months. >> reporter: new york conducting more tests than any other state. the governor announcing new numbers showing more than half of the state's covid-19 patients are between the ages of 18 and 49. reminding the young they're not immune. >> you're not superman and you're not superwoman. you can get this virus. >> reporter: governor cuomo adding four sites here are on the army corp. of engineers list of temporary hospitals.

this as an air traffic control trainee tested positive for coronavirus. causing the ground stop at jfk international. americans urged not to travel unless necessary. new york's stay at home order taking effect tonight as neighboring new jersey joins in, cancelling gatherings, ordering residents to do their part and stay home. >> we're at war, if that's not apparent already. any place people congregate is a place where coronavirus can spread. >> reporter: the garden state, the latest to join states like illinois, nevada and california ordering residents to stay at home to slow the spread of covid-19. >> every american has a role to play in defending our country from this invisible, horrible enemy. we say stay at home and say lives. >> reporter: in california, outside of l.a., health officials trying to slow the spread of the virus this weekend by hosting drive-through testing

to limit human contact. most americans are hunkering down, grappling with a new reality. tourist attractions across the country deserted. in l.a. the iconic grauman's chinese theatre empty. >> not sure if you have heard yet, but we're closing after today. >> reporter: businesses boarded up from texas to new york, uncertain when they'll reopen their doors as millions of americans prepare to file for unemployment. >> when you have no idea how long that will be, how can you predict if you'll make it? >> reporter: and we're now learning that hawaii's governor has put in place a 14-day self-quarantine for anyone traveling into the state as part of their efforts to fight the virus. eva? >> thank you, stephanie. and on the front lines of this, medical workers in emergency rooms and hospitals that are already on the verge of being overwhelmed.abc' kosaris e of mount sinai hospital in new york city. good morning, mona. >> reporter: good morning to you, eva. experts say the most surprising

pa ithe drastic surge in patients that have fallen ill from coronavirus. at this rate medical professionals say it's only a matter of time before they run out of essential supplies. this morning, some doctors sounding the alarm as the number of confirmed coronavirus cases grows. >> even over the past day or two, we're seeing a real increase in the seriousness of patients coming in. >> reporter: the influx of patients growing in boston, emergency room doctors at mass general hospital seeing a big change. doctors there are concerned about running out of beds. a concern in new york as well. in boston, physicians are seeing more and more young people seriously ill. >> there are a significant number of people under 50 who have required intubation and have required admission to the hospital. we don't want anybody to think that just because you're young and you don't have any medical problems that you're somehow eyonavou splies to take care of their patients. they say they need more now.

>> we're the united states of america. we shouldn't have to be in a position that we have people die simply because we don't have adequate supplies, or adequate beds, or adequate workforce. >> reporter: across the nation, lawmakers making efforts to provide the needed equipment. officials in new york purchasing more than 2 million masks and 6,000 ventilators. the city now limiting testing for covid-19 to patients who have already been hospitalized. officials warn, that may not be enough. >> this is concerning, without those we can't do more of the common life-saving things like intubation, cpr, other things without a significant risk to us healthcare workers. >> reporter: now, the federal government asking people and businesses to donate any equipment they have. apple sending 2 million n95 masks to hospitals. hanes stepping in to make masks and tesla donating equipment that could be used as ventilators. sun's recycling is

pitching in too. his business donating tens of thousands to retirement homes as well. >> the director of the nursing home was in tears. she was so excited to get them. >> reporter: and officials say due to blood drives being cancelled they're in desperate need of donations. if you would like to help, they suggest going to the red cross website or reaching out to your local blood bank. dan? >> a great idea, mona, thank you. just moments ago, i spoke with dr. jolion mcgreevy, the medical director of the emergency department at mount sinai hospital right here in new york. dr. mcgreevy, thank you very much for joining us. thank you for all the work you and your team are doing. >> thank you for having me. >> so as i mentioned on the air yesterday, my wife is a former icu doctor here in new york city. and she and i have been in touch with doctors throughout the city. what we're hearing is really bracing. we're hearing quotes like, the situation is insane. it's like a tsunami forming over us. it's a national catastrophe, we're hearing about lack of

supplies, doctors getting sick. what's the situation like for you and your team? >> thankfully we're doing better than that. we're certainly prepared for this situation to get worse. at the moment we're doing okay. >> do you worry about not having enough supplies to protect your staff and then as a consequence to protect the rest of the patients? >> it's not really at the front of my mind. i'm not worried about that. the thing i'm more worried about is making sure people are following the precautions of the public health officials, trying to stay home, if they have mild symptoms, if they have no symptoms, stay home and take care of themselves. that's probably the most important thing. >> let me ask you finally, there's now a lot of talk that one of the ways we're going to get through this is to scale up our capacity for intensive care across the country. building new hospital beds, possibly bringing in ships that can anchor off the coast and we can have hospital beds there. but working in an intensive care unit for the doctors and nurses and the rest of staff requires

really specific skills. how prepared are we as a country to scale up intensive care? >> i've been surprised in the ways that people have been able to expand the skills they use on a daily basis. you know, i think we have enough critical care capacity, certainly enough emergency medicine capacity. i think some of these other folks can serve a lot of other roles. taking care of people to sort of off load those who are needed to provide that critical care. that's probably the most effective and certainly what we're seeing. >> on a personal note, thank you. i want to check in and take your temperature and see how you're feeling as we head into an extremely busy, to put it mildly, period. >> on the whole, i'm feeling inspired just being able to watch the stuff my colleagues are doing. it's absolutely incredible what people have done over the last month. we know there's at least a month or more ahead that's going to be pretty tough. healthcare workers are taking care of each other to take good care of the patients. it's really wonderful to see. >> i'll agree with that.

it's wonderful to see. again, i want to thank you and your team for all the work you're doing. thank you very much, dr. mcgreevy. >> thank you so much. >> we can't thank those healthcare professionals enough for what they're doing right now. from the questions of basic medical equipment to the availability of tests, the trump administration continues to face questions about its handling of this crisis. abc's trevor ault has more now from the white house. good morning, trevor. >> reporter: eva, good morning. it's really a critical day here in washington and time is of the essence. the final negotiations are expected on that trillion dollar stimulus package as the president and his task force say they're trying to support our health care workers who are being pushed to the limit. as the healthcare system faces unprecedented strain and alarmingly depleted supplies, the president's coronavirus task force has announced they're making massive purchasing to try to meet demand. >> hhs is completing an order of n95 masks.

all of this is being coordinated through fema. >> reporter: that's $500 million of medical masks spread out over the next year and a half. the task force didn't give a timeline for exactly when those masks will be delivered to the nurses and doctors who so desperately need them. when exactly can they expect to receive these masks? >> we'll prioritize because every governor is looking for the exact same thing. >> reporter: even the president asking the task force for a direct answer. >> when will the masks start coming in? >> they're out there now. we want to get out of the middle. so we're trying to match supply with demand. that's what we're doing right now. it's happening today. >> reporter: the president also continues to tout a medicinal pairing that could be one of the biggest game-changers in the history of medicine. malaria drug, hydroxychloroquine

and antibiotic azithromycin that doesn't have fda approval for use against the virus. >> to me, this would be the greatest thing that could happen. this would be a gift from heaven. this would be a gift from god. >> reporter: dr. anthony fauci said the president is trying to be hopeful. though he made a point to clarify that neither drug has undergone necessary testing for recommended use. the fda also confirming that a new rapid test for covid-19 test will be available at the end of the month, providing results in 45 minutes instead of days. overnight, we learned that the vice president and his wife tested negative for covid-19. they were given the test after a member of the vice president's staff tested positive. as far as the negotiations for that stimulus package, they're scheduled to resume this morning at 11:00. dan? >> glad to hear the vice president tested negative. thank you very much, trevor. really appreciate that. let's bring in abc's martha raddatz who is going to be hosting "this week" later this morning from washington. martha, good morning. governor officials are making moves to address the lack of

supplies including masks. can they move fast enough where doctors and nurses start get sick and can no longer treat patients? it's a problem i happen to know has already begun. >> exactly, dan, and your very eloquent interview with dr. mcgreevy, it's heartening to see a doctor feeling positive about things. but you have heard those stories from other doctors. i have heard those stories from other doctors. there's an urgent need to get these medical masks, these ventilators to hospitals right now. there's already guidance being discussed about what they do in these hospitals if they don't get them in time, how they adapt if they don't get their urgent needs met. i loved seeing trevor ault there pushing that task force on when those masks would be distributed, when they would be delivered, but he got no answer. even president trump didn't get an answer. >> speaking of trevor, we saw him reporting there that

congress seems to be on the cusp of passing this massive stimulus plan. a lot of us are worried about the economy. can a stimulus like this help given that the economy has gone into a deep freeze? >> it certainly would help in the short term. the bigger question is, long term, what do they do? we still have no idea really how long this might last. i think we'll get a better indication in the next two, three weeks. but if this is long term, month after month, the president has said there might be another check, but we'll have to see that and that's really an urgent need as well. you've got a health crisis, you've got an economic crisis and both need to be solved. >> exactly right. martha raddatz, we appreciate your insight on a sunday morning. thank you very much. i want to remind everybody to tune into "this week" later this morning. martha raddatz will go one-on-one with the fema administrator pete gaynor. plus new jersey governor phil murphy and michigan governor gretchen whitmer join martha.

they'll discuss how their states are responding to this crisis. that's all coming up on "this week." while i have you, for the latest on all the news in this busy time, tune into our new streaming service, abc news live. you may have noticed that whit johnson isn't in his regular seat. he happens to be home today because he came in contact with someone who has tested positive for coronavirus. whit tells us that he feels fine. he joins us live from his home. whit, what's the story? >> eva, i feel like papa dan put me in bit of a time-out this morning. i'm here. i want to make clear i'm feeling fine. i have no symptoms whatsoever. but we learned yesterday that i interviewed someone recently who has since tested positive for covid-19. this has been the protocol. if you come in contact with someone who tested positive, you're supposed to self-isolate. it also happened to fall within that 14-day window. we're working with management

and our medical team to sort out exactly how long i should stay in this self-isolation. it's the right thing to do, an important thing to do. i'm not feeling anything wh whatsoev whatsoever. my wife, my kids, we all feel fine. out of an abundance of caution i'm here in my living room talking to you. >> you're doing the right thing and we're all glad that you're feeling okay, although i will say on a selfish note, we miss you. the show isn't the same without you. one last question before we let you go. you're not getting tested and there's a good reason for that. >> dan, we've been talking about the shortages of supplies and testing kits and materials. yesterday governor cuomo and mayor de blasio made it clear if you're not feeling symptoms, they want you to stay home and act as if you are positive. that's what i'm doing. we don't want to strain those resources. they are prioritizing right now. they want to test people who are hospitalized and feeling symptoms and came in contact with somebody. they also want to test healthcare workers who are on the front lines and then people

who are older and may have underlying health issues. i'm here, feeling fine and we'll see when i can come back and join you there in the studio. >> okay, whit. thank you very much. before i let you go, you want to do the honors and send it over to rob for the weather? >> oh, yeah. our senior meteorologist rob marciano, especially agonizing that i'm not sitting next to him. rob, how's the weather going out there? >> by the way, i love how you think that dan has all power here. we'll wait for the time-out from your doctors and the medical officials. thanks so much, buddy. good to see you. we do miss our boy, whit, and want to keep everybody safe. and on the weather front, a little bit of severe weather coming in the next few days but nothing we can't handle here. rain across the southeast, and look at this, snow expected across the northeast, maybe chicago, detroit, into parts of the northeast where we have winter storm watches posted. springfield north into vermont,

later tomorrow, looking for rain, maybe some thunder and lightning across parts of nashville. snow starting out to get the kids at home excited in the metro areas and then turning good sunday morning. we've got some clouds here in san francisco, and also some showers will be arriving late other than today. for some of you, but it's a sunny start in the north bay. tomorrow will be much cooler, so today it's mild, despite the shower activity, and when we see some of this rain, could even see an embedded thunderstorm. so some heavy downpours certainly the possibility later on today from the south bay to the east bay. numbers warmer in the north bay, upper 60s here, and the accuweatatatatatatatatatatatatat all right, all right, i'll t go into my time-out for the next 15 minutes. >> no, you can't. we've already got one -- we're one man down. thank you, rob, appreciate it. let's bring in now dr.

rich besser, former acting director of the cdc, and most importantly from our perspective, former abc news medical director. dr. besser, so great to have you back. we really appreciate it. >> great to see you, dan and eva. >> let's start here unfortunately we're bringing you back at a stressful time. i'd love to hear your thoughts about the stress on the medical system. can the system handle the massive influx of patients, the possibility of staff getting sick, the emotional toll on staff having to treat their own colleagues, on top of that the likely uptick of medical errors in the midst of this? >> you know, it all depends on what we do in society. this is early days in the pandemic. you have places like new york and l.a. that are in the acceleration phase. most of america is still in the early initiative phase. we have ideas of what people should do in terms of social distancing and hopefully that takes pressure off the health

care system. it's go it's only going to work if we give people the tools to be able to do that. for millions of americans, most people live paycheck to paycheck. it means putting money in people's pockets every week so they can stay home and stay away from other people. >> dr. b, we're hearing about this test. do you think this new rapid test that the fda approved giving results within hours rather than days will make any kind of difference in this? >> i think it will help. it's one of those incremental things. if you're a healthcare provider and you're trying to decide whether to put somebody on the floor with other people who have covid-19 or on the floor with people who have pneumonia for another reason, having this test will be very useful in that decision making. >> dr. besser, we have just a couple of seconds here. can you give your take on why we're seeing younger cases than we thought we'd see in this disease? >> i mean, i think the overarching message is that most people will do well with this, but everyone has the risk of having severe disease. even young people shouldn't be

cavalier, shouldn't be out there partying. they need to follow these directions as well because they'll protect old people as well as themselves. >> dr. besser, thank you so much. great to see you. wish it was under happier circumstances. coming up, we'll talk about the global effort to develop a treatment for covid-19. how scientists are collaborating in the search. stranded americans dealing with the wait to get home during this pandemic. pandemic.

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closing centers in san ramon, concord and orinda. staff will shift to centers in berkeley, brentwood, walnut creek and pleasanton. let's send it over to meteorologist argen for a look at the forecast. >> jovina, good morning to you. starting out in emeryville, a nice looking start with some clouds, we're dry, 52 downtown. 55 half moon bay and from sutro, increasing clouds today. it will be mild, mid and upper 60s. afternoon thunderstorms possibly. jovina? >> thank you, lisa. thank you for joining us. the news continues right now "good morning america."

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hello and welcome back to "gma" hello and welcome back to "gma" on a very busy sunday morning. as you can see right here, the eiffel tower lighting up the sky overnight. a tribute to healthcare workers on the front lines, working tirelessly to save lives during this coronavirus crisis. and i think i can speak on behalf of the doctors the tributes are nice but they'd also like to have protective gear and ventilators as well. >> and for people to stay home when they're told to stay home. >> absolutely right. now to some of stories we're following this morning, happening right now, cases of covid-19 have surpassed 300,000 worldwide with nearly 13,000 deaths. here in the u.s., the numbers are soaring, more than 26,000 cases and 340 deaths. the epicenter in the u.s. is now clearly new york with more than 12,000 cases, most of them here in new york city. we do want to highlight a bright spot, this outbreak bringing out the best in some

people. including a mailman in little rock, arkansas, who left a $2,200 tip on a $12 bill at his favorite lunch spot. that's $100 for each employee. he said that when he saw more workers than customers he realized he needed to help. very cool. although, we probably should be staying out of restaurants at this point generally. >> but nice to see people supporting each other. >> absolutely. we start this half-hour with the race to find a treatment for covid-19. scientists investigating whether any drugs already in our arsenal can be effective. a frantic fight is under way to slow a global pandemic. >> we stockpile for wars, but we don't stockpile for infections. >> reporter: this is the front lines of a round the clock fight against a silent killer. >> it's just not clear, and for that reason, it's been a race against the clock. >> reporter: nevin krogan's on a

critical mission trying to find any already fda-approved drugs that can slow the coronavirus. >> there's a lot of effort out there trying to develop drugs to target the virus which is great, we're taking a different approach. >> reporter: nevin's not focusing on the virus but its host, us. he broke dna of the virus, 29 proteins and find which of the 20,000 proteins it interacts with, he found about 40, that information critical narrowing down where to focus. a road map for scientists. this man said that he's already found 60 drugs, more than 20 that are fda approved that interact with the same protein as the virus. he's still looking for more. >> we're starting at the exact protein, but we're branching out and expanding that list to see what we have to corner off the virus.

>> reporter: the mhe first round of those drugs have been shipped across the world to two labs that can test the live virus. paris and new york's mt. sinai's hospital. you said this is all hands on deck? >> absolutely. this is all hands on deck. we really have to prioritize right now. >> reporter: these scientists just part of the hundreds in labs around the world working together in this new normal of social distancing. >> urgency is making us realize that we need to collaborate and i think we're changing the paradigm of how to do science. >> reporter: krogan is hoping to post this map online for all scientists to see and use. this unprecedented international collaboration he hopes will help flatten the curve. >> a chance to have an impact on something that's a worldwide public health crisis. >> and joining us this morning

from san francisco is nevin krogan. thank you so much for being with us this morning. i know you haven't been sleeping. i want to start, first, tell us more about the help you're getting from scientists all over the world in this search for a treatment? >> yeah, it's actually been quite astounding. starting here in san francisco, there's been 22 laboratories that have essentially dropped everything they're doing. this is at the quantitative institute at the university, of california san francisco, corresponding hundreds of scientists to focus on studying this virus together. as you alluded to, we're trying to generate this map. we finalized this map. there are several hundred proteins we identified in the human cell that the virus hijacks during the course of the infection. now we have identified as you said over 60 drugs and compounds that we think can have an effect. unfortunately we don't have the virus growing here. but scientists in new york and in paris, do.

we're testing those drugs. they were key in identifying those drugs and compounds. >> i know you're waiting on test results from that first batch of drugs that you shipped out. when will have those results and what's your next step that scientists like you will take? >> well, we sent out ten drugs last week to both new york and paris, and i'm waiting on a phone call in the next couple of hours from mount sinai, i'm hoping to hear some positive results. scientists in paris said, tomorrow, they'll have the first set. we sent another 12 drugs, they'll be testing those shortly thereafter. we're posting all of our findings by the end of the day on opensource publication so that people can see our proteins and our drug predictions, see if they want to test them and come up with other predictions. so this information will be available to the community very, very soon. >> such amazing work you guys are doing. thank you so much for your time

this morning, nevin. he's posting that map online for all scientists to see. a rare moment in time they put aside their egos and working together on one cause. >> it's beautiful to see. just like the health care workers. if we can find treatment it's possible not just flatten the curve, bend the curve. and kudos to you, your science background shining through this morning. high level nerdry from eva pilgrim. we love it. let's check the weather with our weather nerd, rob marciano. >> yes. good morning, everybody. mt. washington, over 6,000 feet in the air. couple things to look at here. that's not the moon. that's venus amplified by thin clouds and that little streak is the international space station coming in over a little bit of a time exposure there. clear skies over mt. washington. cool across much of the northeast today. let's go to the southwest, the next storm coming in, continued cool showery weather over southern california will continue. this will get into the plains, monday, tuesday.

good sunday morning. waking up to some sun. we'll see increasing clouds. temperature pretty mild. by the afternoon a few showers. 60s with light showers and maybe a thunderstorm towards the later afternoon, and early evening hour this weath this weather report is sponsored by state farm insurance. guys, back over to you. >> thank you, rob. thank you. again, just so inspired by these scientists doing that amazing work. thank you for bringing that to us. >> all of these amazing people working on this right now. just incredible. >> they're helping tens of millions of us. coming up "gma," the americans stuck abroad. their struggle to get back home how the government is helping. and the celebrity guests at a virtual dance party. yeah, i'm married. does it matter? you'd do that for me? really? yeah, i'd like that. who are you talking to? ...uh, it's jake from state farm. sounds like a really good deal. jake from state farm at 3 in the morning!?

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back that's exactly what they're trying to do. this was the scene flooding airports just a week ago, americans racing to the united states. but this morning, as the coronavirus spreads, and more nations hunker down on travel restrictions, thousands of americans abroad are still struggling to get home. >> it's just been very, very traumatic. >> with the world changing before us we want to be able to get home. >> reporter: the u.s. is pledging to help americans who have been halted by airlines' drastically cutting flights and countries closing their borders. >> we're going to continue to work very diligently to get our americans homernight the u.s. arranging two chartered flights for hundreds of americans from peru. with more than 1,800 still stuck in the country, it's a race against time. >> we're going to work to get people back. >> reporter: as peru prepares to close its borders today, this

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creative ways to stay busy at home and putting on a show for fans. when times are good, they pack stadiums and hit game-winning shots. but this morning, they're finding a way to weather the unthinkable at home. >> the only logical thing for me to do is start making tiktok. >> reporter: matise from the philadelphia 76ers has shared several videos. just passing the time from trick shots to putting together legos, even dancing. stephen curry responding to a call from callaway golf on how he's quote playing through. the two-time mvp hitting this shot. >> that was it. that was it! >> reporter: in her own stay at home channel, liv cooke juggles a roll of toilet paper 30 times in a row. and trey young is encouraging fans to join his challenge, with

this video, tossing socks into a trash can. the internet responding. and the recently retired dwyane wade offered a window into how his family is passing the time. i want to acknowledge times square behind me, it's so quiet. this morning. it's almost eerie. nothing like i've ever seen before. i want to acknowledge all the uncertainty that so many of you are wrestling with at home. keeping putting up those shots and stay positive. dan, eva? >> i mean, i think we can -- it's silly obviously the athletes are doing but it's really important on some level. loneliness is dangerous. the internet is a great way to connect. they're using it in a smart way. >> all the facetimes and zooms and group chats definitely help. stay with us. "pop news" is next.

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she is preggers, so taking precautions and staying home. all right, what's going on, janai? >> i'm preggers and i'm reporting live from my living room. eva, nice to see you. all right, it's time for "pop news." we start with rihanna, the latest celebrity to support the fight against the coronavirus, her foundation announcing it's donating $5 million to rapid response efforts to fight covid-19 in the u.s. and across the globe. and some other big names have been highlighting the roles of medical workers. lin manuel-miranda, robert de niro, and so many others appearing in videos to thank first responders and we want to thank them for their tireless work for this. >> they're taking a lot of risks. great stuff. >> they really are. now to the success of kevin bacon's campaign. it all started when he posted this video saying who he stays home for and asking people to post their own videos and tag six people.

of course he's got some famous friends. demi lovato, elton john also answering the call with this picture naming his family. david beckham sharing this picture with his family as well. all of this a take off from that popular six degree separation that kevin bacon is the poster boy for. now, dan, you said loneliness can be dangerous, in these days of social distancing, anything we're craving more than connection? that is what we got last night when a dj invited everyone to his house for a virtual social distancing dance party. basically the whole world showed up. so many celebrities. america ferrera. oprah tweeted about it. former first lady michelle obama. ellen degeneres. justin timberlake. everybody was at this dance party, all online. >> thank you, janai.

it's an important distinction, physical distancing shouldn't mean social distancing. we need the social connections. janai, great to see you and you guys. happy sunday, everybody. stay tuned for martha. >> thanks, dan! good morning. i'm jovina fordson. one south bay company received emergency approval for its coronavirus test with a 45-minute detection time. that is really good news. current tests take days. a specialist with cepheid explains how this will be a vast improvement. >> you collect a specimen, it can be out of a car or pretty much anywhere, but then it gets

batched with a bunch of other specimens, sent in reference to the lab which takes time and the reference lab takes time to build up the batches and run the batches and all that adds up to days of turn-around time. what we've received is a reference lab quality test that could be run at the point of care in about 45 minutes or less. >> an automated system made by cepheid will read the tests and many hospitals in the u.s. already have that device. let's check in with meteorologist lisa argen for a look at our weekend forecast. hi, lisa. >> jovina, good morning. starting out with live doppler system a system offshore, counterclockwise motion spinning up showers along the central coast. monterey has been wet and looking for rain in the south bay first, in fact, the north bay probably will stay mostly dry, beautiful view from mt. tam. 50 in san jose, and the golden gate bridge you can see clear here. 39 in petaluma, 45 in livermore.

so everyone has a chance of showers today, a level one system but the north bay maybe a couple hundredths, maybe a quarter inch in the east bay, maybe even a half inch if you get underneath a thunderstorm throughout the afternoon. it's mild, mid and upper 60s. the accuweather seven-day forecast, rain ends for a dry monday, and more cold showers tuesday and wednesday. >> all right, thank you, lisa. requests this week with george stephanopolous" is next.

"this week" with george stephanopoulos starts right now. the coronavirus crisis deepens. millions now ordered to stay at home. >> this is a moment we need to make tough decisions. >> only essential businesses will be functioning. >> congress racing to finalize a trillion-dollar rescue plan. as unemployment surges across the country. >> i think we're getting closer and closer to an agreement. >> we are making very good progress. >> president trump faced with a growing economic and health emergency. >> i view it in a sense a wartime president. >> amid mixed messages about possible treatments. >> i'm a big fan, we'll see what happens.