i cried. >> cordelia lynch, u.s. correspondent for sky news, has been kind enough to join us tonight. cordelia, we keep saying some version of this. grocers could have never guessed they would be heroic in this. they would be considered essential members of our society, nor could the people working in this hospital know they were going to have quite this sensitive a role. >> absolutely, brian. and you heard there from lisa kilfeather, a woman who normally looks after the administrative side of the work there in the morgue. and yet because they are so tragically overrun with bodies at the moment, she is being drafted into to try and help move them. it is physical work. it is emotionally very demanding work. they are, as you say, working seven days a week. she hasn't seen her daughter for three weeks. such is the risk of possible infection. they were a very tight-knit team and that is no surprise because of the nature of the work that they have to do, brian. but they were concerned, too, about the very small percentage

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two very different experiences. >> cordelia lynch, thank you for your work. thanks for always being willing to come on this broadcast and talk about it. >>> coming up for us, congress moves one step closer to giving more much needed relief to the backbone of the american economy, but will it be enough this time? more on that when we come back. ♪ state farm is announcing the good neighbor relief program we're returning $2 billion dollars to our auto policyholders through may 31st. because now, more than ever, being a good neighbor means everything. like a good neighbor, state farm is there. >>> my view was that we needed obviously to work together on a bipartisan basis as close as we could to try to develop a rescue package that would make sense for the country. >> so the bill we passed was greatly improved. leader mcconnell simply tried to steamroll us, and we've tried to tell him it's much better to talk with us than steamroll us. and because we had input into the bill, it's a much better bill. >> another wave of coronavirus relief will soon be on its way to

sky news correspondent cordelia lynch gets amazing access as the pandemic hit the city. then she takes us to the deep south where the virus is affecting a community that has already seen its share of hardships. you'll hear from a first responders who says he is not the last line of defense but the first, as he puts it, first responders are 911 and there is no 912. >> this is a moment that is going to change this nation. this is a moment that forges character. >> 9/11 was nothing compared to this. people come in, get intubated, they die, the cycle repeats. >> we are new york tough. we are tough. you have to be tough. this place makes you tough. >> we're going to overcome this, and america will be the greater for it. >> times square, normally a manic massive people, now almost totally devoid of them. this is a city many of us feel we know. the one that never sleeps. and now look at it. once again, it is ground zero. >> this is going to be weeks and weeks and weeks. this is going to be a long day. and it's going to be a hard day, and it's going to be an ugly day, and it's g

correspondent cordelia lynch has this report from a hospital in the city's most populous borough. >> can you open the valve, please? >> reporter: brooklyn's biggest hospital is flat out. an emergency room that's become a battle zone where there's a constant stream of covid-19 casualties. >> so, we're now in the critical care area of the emergency department. everyone that's in here today is here due to breathing problems, almost uniformly all from covid. we're seeing such a large increase on a day-to-day basis on a number of patients who are presenting in critical condition, requiring really all the resources that we have to provide in order to help them. >> reporter: dr. eitan dickman says there are normally 17 beds in this room at maimonides medical center. today there are 32 patients, and the numbers are rising rapidly every hour. >> we have opened up new icus, new intensive care units. we've opened up new medical units in order to accommodate for this increased demand of patients who are coming in so ill. >> reporter: in a city of extremes, this pandemic has been a painful equali

sky news correspondent cordelia lynch gets amazing access as the pandemic hit the city.the deep south where the virus is affecting a community that has already seen its share of hardships. you'll hear from a first responders who says he is not the last line of defense but the first, as

here's more from our partners at sky news and correspondent cordelia lynch. ♪ >>> across america, whatnow see is that certain groups are disproportionately affected. in louisiana, 70% of those who have died are african-americans. yet they represent only 32% of the population. in the lower ninth ward, destroyed by hurricane katrina, they're bracing for another disaster. anita's mother, mary, has fluid on her lungs. but she took her out of hospital, fearful she might also get coronavirus. >> to make sure she don't die from it. because another thing, you know, your people dying from it and they're alone. they're alone. who want to go out like that? you can't have a proper burial for them. you know, and it's -- it's sad. so we just said we'll stay here with mom until this pass over. >> it's quite a risk you took. >> right, it's very risky for her, and for us just as well, because it's a monster. we can't even see it. but we know it's here. so basically that's all we've been doing. keep the house bleached, clean, everything. so we can have more time with my mom. she's 75 years old. >> how s