making news in america this morning, the coronavirus emergency entering a new chapter amid optimistic indications that we're starting to flatten the curve of new cases. >> but the hospital crisis in new york now escalate. word this morning a cathedral will now be used as a field hospital. plans are also being made for mass burials. also this morning, new information about when the white house was warned about the potential scale of this crisis. what a top adviser to president trump reportedly said months ago.e making a comeback sooner than we thoughty the major new plan for major league baseball. all the overnight developments right now on "america this morning."

good tuesday morning, everyone. there's hope this morning that we may be starting to flatten the curve of this coronavirus crisis. >> but experts say we're still in the middle of this historic fight. here's a map this morning. the u.s. death toll is approaching 11,000 people with more than 4,000 deaths in new york and over 1,000 in new jersey followed by michigan and louisiana. officials in california say cases there may not peak until next month. this morning "the new york times" reports president trump's trade adviser peter navarro warned back in january the virus could cause hundreds of thousands of deaths. also overnight we lumped a cathedral in new york may be used as an emergency field hospital. >> but there is some encouraging news. the cdc director says thanks to social distancing he's now expecting a much lower death toll than many feared. abc's andrea fujii begins our coverage. >> reporter: a look inside the now largest hospital in the

nation. new york city's javits center, once a convention center now turned hospital for covid-19 patients. but new york governor andrew cuomo says even this will not be enough. so president trump approved the governor's request to convert "comfort" to a covid-19 hospital. in new york state more than 4700 people have died from the virus. and city leaders are contemplating temporary mass burials for victims. some even in parks. but there is good news. the death rate here may be slowing. >> total number of hospitalizations are down. the icu admissions are down and the daily intubations are down. those are all good signs. >> reporter: news of a downward trend in hard hit louisiana but dr. anthony fauci warning we are not in the clear yet. >> i don't think that you're going to have to say that the country cannot get back to a real degree of normalcy until

you absolutely have a safe and effective vaccine. >> reporter: governor cuomo extending new york's stay-at-home order until the end of the month. >> we get reckless, we change or we're not compliant on social distancing, you will see those numbers go up again. >> reporter: hospitals here are overwhelmed. >> pretty much the entire emergency department is a hot zone at this point. >> reporter: help is on the way from california. the state sending 500 ventilators. and now revelations from a report by the inspector general of health and human services. after surveying more than 300 hospitals, the department found hospital staff are concerned not only with the lack of personal protective equipment and ventilators but also about running out of necessities like food, thermometers, and cleaning supplies, not having enough healthy staff and waiting up to a week for test results. it was conducted in march by christie grimm who's worked under four administrations. president trump questioning the report and who conducted it.

>> it still could be her opinion. when was she appointed? when was she appointed? >> i'm not sure. >> would you do me a favor, let me know now. i have to know now, jon. >> she did serve in the previous administration. >> oh, you didn't tell me that, oh, i see. you didn't tell me that, jon. you didn't tell me that. did serve in the previous -- you mean the obama administration. thank you for telling me that. see, there's a typical fake news deal. >> reporter: with more than 360,000 cases in the country, dr. deborah birx said we all make must sacrifices describing how she couldn't visit her 10-month-old granddaughter suffering with a 105-degree fever for fear of herself possibly getting sick and infecting others. dr. birx also clarified a warning she gave about not going out at all in the next two weeks for stakes that haven't yet hit their peaks and says families should just send one person to do the necessary shopping in order to keep everyone safe. kenneth and mona, back to you.

>> all right, andrea, thank you. a crew member on the navy hospital ship here in new york has tested positive for coronavirus. we're told the person is not a health care worker but was in with other crew members in the last ten days. authorities in new york are vowing to crack down on funerals like this one in brooklyn which violated social gathering rules. british prime minister boris johnson is in the intensive care unit with coronavirus. people are rallying behind his pregnant fiancee. andrew dymburt has the latest. >> reporter: boris johnson being treated and downing street saying his condition worsened after being diagnosed with coronavirus 11 days ago. the 55-year-old tweeted he was no good spirits and was keeping in touch with his team but officials say he was later placed in intensive care calling the move a precaution in case he needs a ventilator. late last week johnson was seen

in this video at his home. >> i still have a temperature. >> reporter: president trump now offering his support. >> americans are all praying for his recovery but when you get brought into intensive care, that gets very, very serious with this particular disease. >> reporter: now social media is rallying around his pregnant fiancee, symonds sooipdz who also tested positive. one person writing on twitter, thoughts are with carrie symonds. this must be terrifying and despite social distancing i hope hope she has someone's hand to hold. another user saying, she's so young, seven months pregnant for the first time. a massively vulnerable and emotional moment anyway and facing it alone ill herself with the father in icu. symonds says she's on the mend. as for the prime minister, we are expecting an update on his condition sometime later this morning. kenneth, mona. . back in this country, health care workers bracing for their worst days yet. >> one nurse described working a

16-hour shift with no food or water. this morning, hospitals in the epicenter of the pandemic swamped. >> this zip code you're standin >> reporr: dr. pat editnathhoit and it looks like a war zone. you've got the staff wearing ppes. you've got so many patients on ventilators and it really does look like a scene from a war movie up there. >> like every day i wake up, is this nightmare going to end? >> reporter: this nurse works at the same hospital caring for an endless number of patients. >> when you think about it, it's depressing. i have many days where i walk home and i'm crying, i'm sobbing because it's like what else can i do to make this better? >> reporter: as hospitals try to stay ahead of the flow of patients the chief executive at new york-presbyterian predicts the peak will not come until the middle of next week.

>> we are going to expand our icu capacity to a thousand beds converting ors into icus and anesthesia recovery areas into icus, ambulatory areas into icus. that puts an enormous stress on the system. >> reporter: it doesn't discriminate with race or age. >> we've intubated 23-year-olds and put 27-year-olds on the ventilator. one of the sickest people i've seen since this all began was the nicest 42-year-old manager of a hotel downtown and he just came in feeling kind of tired. i'm just tired, doc. i just feel tired and he was on a ventilator within 24 hours. >> reporter: as the number of deaths increase daily, funeral homes are now also overwhelmed. >> you know, we do three or four a week, you know, we're doing three or four a day. >> reporter: like the hospitals nearby, this new york city funeral home is growing more worried about the lack of

protective gear and space using chapels to store body. >> we don't have refrigeration to that capacity, we have cold air conditioning in chapels and converted them into cold air conditioned rooms. >> reporter: two miles away dr. borgen is vowing not to give up. >> we will absolutely keep going until this damn thing is over. >> reporter: 20% of the pd members are out sick, 200 members are back on the job after recovering. baseball could soon be making a comeback. it is reported that major league baseball is working on a plan to start the season as early as next month with all 30 tees playing in arizona and all players staying in hotels there. meanwhile golf's meese prestigious tournament the masters has been rescheduled for november. more coronavirus coverage ahead. first let's check your tuesday morning weather. some severe weather today across the middle of the country, cities like st. louis, indianapolis and cincinnati could take a direct hit.

the biggest threats are damaging winds and large hail, but some areas could see a tornado. temperatures will be much warmer than usual across the region. looking at today's high temperatures, chicago will get into the 70s. new orleans and dallas both reach 86 degrees. 60s for the northeast and the west coast and 70 degrees in denver, 85 down in miami. coming up, another change at the grocery store. also breaking news overnight about the navy captain who was fired for sounding the alarm about coronavirus on his ship. what his boss is now saying. and later an important warning for anyone who wants to

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back now with the supermarket chain kroger testing a new direction. it's planning to make aisles in the store one way to help people keep their social distance. walmart will also test the idea. we turn to the navy captain who was fired after sounding the alarm about a virus outbreak on his ship. the navy's top boss is now apologizing for calling the captain stupid. this morning, a stunning reversal from the acting secretary of the navy apologizing for calling the fired captain of the "uss theodore roosevelt" stupid and naive. video posted from the "roosevelt" just days ago shows shows sailors cheering in support of captain brett crozier. thomas modly just fired the captain for writing a letter which was leaked to the media criticizing the response to a covid-19 outbreak on his aircraft carrier. those images of cheering sailors prompted modly to fly to guam to address the crew

in a profanity laced speech. >> if he didn't think that information was going to get out into the public, then he was, a, too my off or too stupid to be captain. >> what the [ bleep ]. >> reporter: several times you hear voices on the ship sounding disgusted with modly's accusations. >> he put it in the public's forum and it's now become a big controversy. so think about that when you cheer the man off the ship. >> i did. >> who exposed you to that. >> reporter: but now modly's apologizing in a statement overnight writing, quote, i do not think captain brett crozier is naive or stupid. he sent his alarming email with the intention of getting it into in an effort to draw public attention to the situation on his ship. just hours before his apology, modly said his message on the ship was spoken from the heart.

meanwhile, president trump last night said he may get involved in the matter. >> so the letter shouldn't have been sent. with all of that said, his career prior to that was very good. so i'm going to get involved and see exactly what's going on there because i don't want to somebody for having a bad day. >> as for captain crozier he is recovering from the virus. coming up, the delivery delays at amazon. also ahead, new data showing who is most at risk from the coronavirus. our medical expert weighs in. later many people are getting take-out for dwayner these days. the most popular order coming up. mom! look! take something that can wipe you out? or don't, and fight through every second. new quick-dissolve nurtec™ can bring you back when migraines attack. just one dose can work fast and last so you can keep going. don't take if allergic to nurtec. the most common side effect was nausea. nurtec one migraine. one dose. onederful™ one migraine. one dose.

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need to take that walk out there today. let me put it into motion and give you an idea of some of the showers moving northeast to southwest, mainly across the north bay and they are light. and if we look at future radar, i extended it out to six hours, you can see how much quieter it gets today. expect to use the sunglasses more than the umbrella if you have to be out and temperatures on the mid-30s to mid-40s, and how about low to mid-60s outside of the coast. we will talk more about that warming trend coming up. two new coronavirus testing sites will be open in the bay area, one at kaiser at the

convention center and one in san francisco at the piers. amy hollyfield is joining us with more. >> reporter: this new testing site ar focusing on the city's first responders, and that's police officers and health-care workers. drone view 7 gives us a view of that, and later on it will be extended to shelter workers and others from the front lines. >> it's important we take care of them. one of the most basic things we can do is to ensure they have access totioss the bay in oakla second testing site is open, and it will include testing for

people vulnerable, so it will serve grocery store workers, people that work at the food banks, restaurants and child care workers. the facility has the capacity to connect about 240 tests a day. reporting live in san francisco, abc7 news. the death toll from covid-19 here in the bay area is 100. marin has 9, and santa clara added three fatal cases and their total is 42. total bay area cases, including santa cruz county, now at more than 3,800. we're keeping track of the cases at lake county, after getting its first case on sunday.