fatalities governor andrew cuomo has described the situation there as frightening and disturbing ati's 20 chavis reports today the javits center now america's largest hospital officially taking coronavirus patients. originally dedicated to non kovan 1000 patients now 2500 bed facility is staffed with over a 1000 doctors nurses and other medical staff to help care for the drastic influx of infected patients governor andrew cuomo reporting the total number of confirmed cases in new york now surpasses 130000 with over 4700 confirmed deaths nearly 3000 new cases in new york city alone overnight it's very hard to see the number of deaths we're having. it's frightening it's disturbing that amount of loss the undeniable truth here is that this virus is a deadly enemy and we will lose and we are losing people who are vulnerable to the virus new york city hospitals feeling the crush many overflowing facilities having to store bodies of virus victims in street trailers this as officials warn they may begin burying the city's code in 1000 dead in local parks but i'm not going to go into those kind of detai

really the ground 0 in all of this in the united states here is our team correspondent trying to chavis. as the 2nd month of the krona virus outbreak begins and the nation is bracing for the worst of it i want every america. to be prepared for the hard days that lie ahead the number of deaths from coronavirus nearly doubling in the last 3 days new york being hit the hardest accounting for nearly half of all cases in the u.s. hospitals and morgues hitting capacity this disturbing video showing several bodies being moved from a brooklyn hospital treating covert 1000 patients the number of deaths expected to grow as we approach the anticipated apex the range on the apex is somewhere between. let's say 7 to 21. makeshift hospitals are wrecked to across new york city the javits center central park and now parts of the tennis center that host the u.s. open transforming into medical facilities to help accommodate the influx of patients this particular bank of corners 6 courts and to be the 1st phase of construction for what ultimately be $350.00 hospital beds in the indoor trade center the u.s

country's infection rate has now pig and is unveiled plans to gradually ease the log down on his trinity chavis reports. white house pushing to get the economy moving again our approach outlines 3 phases in restoring our economic life and we are not opening all at once but one careful step at a time issuing new guidelines to get the country up and running the 1st phase officials must see a 2 week decline in the number of people with cold it symptoms and the percentage of people testing positive for the virus must also decrease than face to allowing all non-essential travel school activities and elective surgeries to continue some states will be able to open up sooner than others. but hard hit new york and new jersey have to wait the state continues to see an increase in covert cases new york governor andrew cuomo extending stay at home orders he calls new york pause until may 15th but it could be longer what is the final conclusion of this rb chapter i still believe it when we have a vaccine with more than 226000 infections and more than 16000 deaths new york is still seeing around 2000 new cas

their livelihoods because of the pandemic some are even unable to just put food on the table to mr chavis reports from the city. today new york city mayor bill de blasio shifting focus to food insecurity during the coronavirus pandemic this crisis is now adding to that number of people who are food insecure every day because literally people run out of money every single day well over a 1000000 people in new york city where food and secure before kovan 1000 including one in every 5 children as unemployment grows many are going hungry we need to. keep our family eating. and we have to take a rest the mayor announcing a $170000000.00 initiative to fight hunger in the city $50000000.00 of which will go to building up an emergency food reserve for back up saying that since the pandemic more than 500000 people lost their livelihood when it comes to something like unemployment the effects get felt more deeply week after week it doesn't all happen to want to get actually gets tougher as we go along so. i think what's coming up is going to be even more of a challenge and that's why we're preparin

the area has traditionally been used to bury those with no known relatives in the story is trinity chavis. that i want to bring. you all the ticket here today the coronavirus continuing to take a dramatic toll on new york it's like a battlefield behind your house the number of coronavirus cases and now more than 150000 with more than 7000 deaths. the virus having the biggest impact on some of new york city's poorest areas the disparities that have plagued this city this nation that are all about fundamental inequality are once again causing such pain. and causing people innocent people to lose their lives it's just abundantly clear it's sick it's troubling it's wrong new data showing jackson heights elmhurst and corona queens have higher numbers of coronavirus cases than in wealthy mostly white parts of manhattan. people here. it's terrifying here because we're downwind of this of a hospital that's a percentage of the death of the national crisis while queens the epicenter of the outbreak in new york city accounts for more than 3200 factions many are still forced to continue to go to work

stationed near overwhelmed hospitals to cope with the rising amount of deaths as america's trinity chavis reports. as the 2nd month of the corona virus outbreak begins in the nation is bracing for the worst of it i want every american to be prepared for the hard days that lie ahead this disturbing video showing several bodies being moved from a brooklyn hospital treating kovan 1000 patients the number of deaths expected to grow as we approach the anticipated apex the range on the apex is somewhere between. let's say 7 to 21. makeshift hospitals are wrecked across new york city the javits center central park and now parts of the tennis center that host the u.s. open this as concerns grow that hospitals will soon run out of protective equipment for staff and medical supplies including those lifesaving ventilators which governor cuomo says are nearly impossible to get it's like being on e bay with 50 other states bidding on a ventilator. and you see the big go up because california. illinois bit florida bid new york bids california rebids that's literally what we're doing new york city mayor