body bags line the hallway. one doctor called conditions there catastrophic. after another 16-hour day, jacoby medical center's dr. tepperman cameto to us exhausted. we maintain social distancing, each in a different location. >> covid comes in waves. it comes in waves. so, it could be manageable in the emergency room at a given moment. and then, we're hit with a terrible wave. >> reporter: hwhen that wave washes in, what is it like in the e.r.? >> emergency medicine physicians, and nurses, they have got to stare into the faces of the very scared citizens in new york. and at a certain point, when they can no longer breathe for themselves, they have to have a tube put down their throat and they have to be put on on the ventilator. >> you told us it was like hell

on earth. >> yes. well, i'm -- you know, i'm calibrating what i'm saying here. right? we -- people need to stay home. new york city is on fire. our neighbors are dying. health care workers are being affected. right now, you know, my boss, my second in command, my nephew, senior nurse, second senior nurse. >> reporter: the people you just mentioned have fallen ill from covid-19? >> yes. and some are quite sick. >> reporter: dr. tepperman and his colleagues are repeatedly exposed. he told us, he sees the virus in hot zones around the hospital. >> i'm speaking metaphorically that i see the virus. it's also a protective mechanism. there's moments in the hospital

when the virus, conceivably, is pluming into the air because a procedure is being done that creates an airs serosolizing of virus. those are the true n95 moments. >> reporter: n95 are the coin of the realm in this crisis, respirator masks that filter 95% of airborne particles. just as important are the gloves, gowns, goggles, face shields, serge curgical masks, ppe, designed to be discarded after an encounter with an infected patient. do you have enough masks? >> no. >> reporter: do you have enough face shields? >> no. >> reporter: g an emer patnts and do it safely. >> reporter: -- who led a protest to draw attention at the lack of ppe at hospitals nationwide. the problem has gotten so bad, there's a #getmeppe, on twitter,

with posts like, i'm a physician at a new york city hospital and this is the ppe i was just handed for my shift, a yankee souvenir rain poncho. >> my neck is i >>eporter: cabrera is filming diaries but is speaking out relucta reluctantly. we conducted the interview remotely. >> every health care worker infection, every health care worker death is preventable. >> reporter: how do you feel about going into work every day? are you safe? >> no. absolutely not. if you do a simple google search, look at what other countries are wearing in comparison to us. i mean, it makes -- i mean, it makes sense that we're getting infected. how could we expect not to? >> reporter: more than 900 doctors and nurses in boston have tested positive for

covid-19. yet, as of last week, in hong kong, where masks are not refused, there were no reported infections of hospital workers. >> prior to this, prior to coronavirus, we would have been reprimanded for doing the things that we're doing now. we're walking around with medical waste from room-to-room, from patient-to-patient. >> reporter: did i hear you say, you're walking around from room-to-room wearing medical waste? >> that's correct. that's what it is. we're wearing stuff that is -- it's dirty. the fact that we're given a mask to wear for five days, it's wrong. >> reporter: one of her fellow nurses, frida, has otherut on l. and yet, you go back to that hospital every, single day. >> if we don't go, who is going to take care of these patients? i mean, i think we're getting to a spot where people are

really -- i mean, it's a very difficult moral question, you know? do i not show up to work and protect myself? or do i show up and do the best that i can with what i have to help other people? a lot of us are speaking out, because we realize that this problem is so much bigger than our individual hospitals. >> reporter: cabrera says she and her fellow nurses are skeptical about the shifting centers for disease control guidance on the use of personal protective equipment when treating patients with covid-19. >> we're looking to the cdc for answers and initially, they had certain recommendations for what we should wear. we watched those recommendations be scaled back. not based on science. not because of miraculously coronavirus wasn't as contagious. they scaled those back because they knew that we didn't have the proper supplies. >> we'll have more of our report >> we'll have more of our report in two minutes. a lot of folks ask me why their dishwasher doesn't get everything clean. i tell them, it may be your detergent...

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navarro is special assistant to president trump for trade and manufacturing, tasked with getting ppe to america's medical workers. >> we wouldn't be having this problem if we had the domestic production of essential medicines, medical count countermeasures, and medical equipment. if we made it here, we wouldn't with faced with this. that was the original sin. >> reporter: know vnavarro spoks from washington, d.c. with the national stockpile now depleted, he was put in charge of the defense, to mobilize to meet the demand for medical supplies. i'm here in new york. and we hearunning of masks. they're running out of gowns. they're running out of gloves. my question is, how did we, the united states, the most powerful, the wealthiest country on earth, get blind sisided lik

this? >> it's the global -- globalization of , roions tt salut n cheap sweatsh labor, and love what is thrown at production from here to there. >> reporter: navarro is an architect of the trump administration's trade war with china and one of the biggest proponents of its america-first policies. now, in the wake of the outbreak, more than 70 countries across the world are restricting the export of products u.s. doctors and nurses desperately need to treat covid-19. we have a nurse that we have been speaking to. the nurse asked, what is taking you so long? >> what is taking -- you're talking about ramping up in the defense production act. and she's on the front lines, having to reuse masks and gowns. >> we're moving in trump time,

which is, as swiftly as possible. if you look at the trajectory of events, we learn about the potential for a pandemic. we're not sure what the scope of it will be. the trump administration starts rapidly mobilizing, but this is the ata >> reporte i h seenepts sotifnghe back in january, that this was happening. >> this is like the fake news stuff. okay. somebody said -- >> reporter: it's not fake news, sir. >> it's like, show me the money here. what exactly did they say? did they say, there's going to be a global pandemic that's going to shut down the entire global economy? >> reporter: well, it turns out navarro himself said almost exactly that. a few days after our interview, the news site axios published this memo that navarro wrote in

late january, that he warned the national security council, that the china virus could cause a global pandemic, and cost the economy $5.7 trillion. he told us, he does not contest its authenticity. >> no apologies from this administration. we are doing better and more than any other president could have done. >> reporter: sir, this is the best you can? >> you say this is the best you can, like somebody could have done better. really? who could have done better on this? really? think about this. >> i know it's a pandemic. and we -- it's just really hard for us to accept the fact that this is the best that we can do. i wou anybody. we're running out of supplies that, it's not just the ppe and ventilators. we're running out of i.v. pumps. we're running out of stuff that we never ran out of before. and it is unacceptable that in the united states of america,

the richest country in the world, we are struggling like this. >> you can see the full "60 minutes" report on our website, cbsnews.com. when you humble yourself under the mighty hand of god, in due time he will

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zoos across the country are closed because of the coronavirus. but unlike concert halls and stadiums, they cannot go dark. the animals still need to be cared for. and some are even in danger of contracting the virus. i paid a visit to the national zoo in washington to see how the animals and their keepers are getting along. like zoos across the nation, the smithsonian's national zoo in washington, is closed. but behind the d animals are as busy as, well, a beaver. a top priority here, now, is keeping the animals and the people safe from the coronavirus. brandy smith is the zoo's deputy director. so, we have this tiger that

tested positive for covid-19 at the bronx zoo. are you worried about your tiger s? are you doing anything special for them? >> when the tiger at the bronx zoo tested positive, we immediately implemented proto l protocols to keep all of our cats safe. our tigers, lions, cheetahs, all of them safe. >> reporter: and it's not just the big cats. the gorillas and big apes are susceptible to human diseases. for somebody that needs a break from the bad news, take a lesson of lily walters of virginia, who loves taking virtual field trips to the zoo. >> normally people come here and they see animals and there's a sense of wonder and awe and inspiration. we don't want them to lose that. that's really important in a time like this. >> reporter: the wonder of life is on display on the cheetah cam, where echo gave birth to four healthy cubs. and there's an unusual take on

motherhood, with a wallaby joey, in his mother's pouch. the 3-year-old orangutan and his mom are a bit more outgoing, on the high wire. and this being spring, the wonder of love has infected many animals here, including the flamingos who are doing their synchronized mating dance. if you missed the party scene, maybe a lemur birthday party will help. tyler johnson and his family are disappointed that the zoos are closed. but the fact that the keepers are still on the job brightened his day. >> it's nice to know they care so much, they will keep working during anything. >> reporter: even a pandemic. eventually, we'll get through this. and zoos will reopen. then, we we can all join alice,e nationalcingrane, in jumping for joy. nothing like ending the half-hour with a dancing crane. and that's "the overnight news" for this tuesday. for some of you, the news continues. for others, check back later for

"cbs this morning." or follow us online at captioning sponsored by cbs ory >> o'donnell: breaking news tonight, 23,000 dead. the death toll rises as new york's governor says the tide is turning. >> the worst is over. >> o'donnell: but he warns the state not to let its guard down. and tonight the heavy wind that could threaten hospital tents built for covid-19 patients. catastrophic storm. nearly 60 million americans under watches and warnings after dozens are killed in tornadoes that tore across the south. hundreds forced into shelters in the middle of a pandemic, and the dramatic race to save others from rising wa from rising water. risking their lives: thousands of healthcare workers now infected with coronavirus. after weeks of complaints, what's behind the lack of desperately needed protective

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