ability to to regain the status of living to which i think all of us want to or gradually have to asia sam listen to your father. that's right and i thought about it myself and i'm up in years of it not as young spring chicken anymore i mean one of those vulnerable categories but the reality is that that i think that's something that is difficult for everybody when when somebody passes and i had a friend a very good friend very recently who died. i read it in the newspaper didn't realize it's that happened and what did that sad yes it did and i think all of us are going to know somebody who's been touched by the illness and probably somebody who's passed away from it and are going to be more deaths but that's inevitable that's going to happen whether to shut down or not and unless we get some miracle drug in the next few months and we hope we do we just can't sustain a shutdown for as long as it would take to get a vaccine congress has approved nearly 3 trillion dollars in cove in $1000.00 relief is this going to be enough do you think. i don't know what the right dollar amount is but i th

asia. the india disaster agency says one part of west bengal was, quote, pulverized. the cyclone bringing huge loss and damage to every coastal district of bangladesh. waves reached as high as 15 feet. cnn's sam live in abu dhabi with a monster storm. >> reporter: yeah, it could have been a whole lot worse. when it made landfall it was called a level 2 hurricane. now they know it got up to level 5. it is that energy that is coming out from deep in the sea that is producing these very high, very damaging levels of waves. they are 15 feet high. low lying bangladesh is particularly susceptible to disasters. not just because 2.5 million people have been evacuated. crops get destroyed. the rice crop is being harvested. more than 650,000 people have been evacuated on the east coast. in both countries they're already trying to spread the control of the coronavirus in highly overpopulated areas where social distancing is very, very difficult. so the death toll fairly low, but the real issues are going to be the short-term recovery. first of all, the effects on the evacuated people of having to be crowded as a result of the evacuation and spreading the coronavirus and the longer term humanitarian resu

asia, is about the size of iowa but hass 50 timesny people. that makes containing coronavirus a huge challenge. as does e recent influx of a million refugees from neighboring myanmar. special correspondt fred de samaro reports on efforts by one banglaedshi non-gornmental group trying to tackle the problem. it's part of his series, agents for change. >> reporter: testing is only now ramping up in bangladesh, so the 20,000-odd covid cases and 300 deaths reported so far couldly rise significan the days ahead.ll that's espectrue in dhaka, a bustling, chock-a-block capital city, home to more than 20 million people like the rest of the country, dhaka has been in lockdown since late march, squeezinople into even less space. the infection control challenge s plain to see. there's so little stancing when or hand-washing when most homesr >> wtrying to plug holes in the public healthcare system to support the government. >> reporter: from my home in minnesota, i reached asif salehi the bangladesh rural advancement committee or brac, government aid grot non- brac plans to set up 600 testing kiosks across the country and is working with the military to expand quarantine facilities. mo urgently it's also suppl