. >> new york city's jacob javitz convention center being converted to an thousand bed facility, freeing up hospital space for patients with the virus. similar measures in chicago. the mccormick place convention center will have 3,000 beds but that center will only treat covid-19 patients. president trump has signed the $2 trillion aid package. millions americans will get a check from the government. it expands unemployment benefits and extends forgivable loans for small businesses that keep workers and creates bail-out funds for the airlines and hotels and accept-- and sends $ billion to hospitals. on the front lines in the fight against the virus, healthcare workers with a plea for critical equipment. >> if you have any, um, face masks, supplies, please -- please consider donating them. >> dramatic video posted on facebook shows an emergency room in new york city filled with bed ridden patients. >> who was the sickest patient to go up? >> i don't know. >> this nurse says she patients are dying alone. >> if we don't change our behavior and we don't provide our healthcare providers to at

state and its national guard assembling 4,000 bed overflow hospitals, including at manhattan's jacob javitz center, convention center. he is asking the president to approve four more. doctors and nurses begging for help. governors and mayors begging for supplies. like i said, we need to get them everything they need to save our lives and their lives before it is too late. kaitlan collins is cnn's white house correspondent, and she joins us now from the white house. kaitlan, good evening to you. the president is saying the u.s. will make 100,000 ventilators in the next 100 days. 100 days seems like a long way off considering that he wants the country up and running again in the next few weeks. >> yeah, and considering what you were just talking about with the new york governor has said, he thinks they're going to hit their worst phase of this in about 21 days. that's a lot sooner than that 100-day mark that president gave today. and of course the ventilate verse been the number one thing that has been talked about, because these are machines that will literally determine -- they're life-savi