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we need john prine now more than ever. story about a retired athlete what is now on the front lines of the coronavirus fight? >> reporter: that is right. we've got former nfl player myron rolle. he is tackling the health crisis gripping the world. the former florida state and tennessee titans safety is now a doctor. he's a third-year neurosurgery resident at massachusetts general hospital in boston. and dr. rolle told our skrak us need to take this serious and need to listen. >> this is a team sport to try to get us over the curve, get us to a point where we can go back to a normal life and live for the next time. we can have best practices on how to fix this and prevent it from happening again. >> reporter: and gayle, he's also talking about some of the lessons he learned in football like learning on the fly, adapting, staying calm. all are helping him as a doctor. >> i love that. i also heard that he said football has never left him. he still wakes up in the morning and thinks of operating room like a game. that you get

and then, andrew, some of these names are familiar to me i don't know if you know john prine, he's more from my time than yours but the country music world mourning the loss of number one artist joe diffy. whose name was mentioned in a more popular country song. 61 years ago, died from complications of coronavirus i think he was a big country music star in the early '90s i don't remember specifically but he had some big hits back then another grammy winner in critical condition, john prine, a gentleman i remember well from my youth, hospitalized over the week after a sudden onset of coronavirus symptoms he was intubated on saturday night and then did you know this gentleman, had you talked to him, 56-year-old cfo of jeffries, peg broadbent. >> i had many, many years ago, peg broadbent. >> he spent 16 years at morgan stanley and then at jeffries he had been cfo since 2007. you know, as this -- as this whole pandemic progresses, i guess, unfortunately, we may be familiar with some of the other names. one thing that -- i don't know if it's a positive, andrew, but there are people that have

musician john prine also hospitalized with symptoms. t his family says his situation is critical. joining me now is cnn's white house correspondent john harwood and daniel dale. good evening to both of you. john, you first. the president is extending social distancing until at least the end of april acknowledging 100,000 people or more could die in this coronavirus. what is behind this change? >> what's behind the change, don, is the overwhelming medical and scientific evidence that was presented to the president by debra burkes, by anthony fauci that says the absolute worst thing you can do is declare victory at easter time, pull back, see the virus mushroom after that, inflect even worse damage from a second shutdown of the economy than you do from the one that we're soldiering through right now. so credit where due. the president made the correct decision from all the medical and scientific evidence, his behavior at the press conference was very bad and talked about it since then but if you have to choose between good behavior and goo

meanwhile, legendary singer/songwriter john prine had been hospitalized.me cancer survive was intubated on saturday and continues to receive care, but his situation is critical. this news comes on the heels of prine's wife and manager fiona announcing she had the coronavirus a few weeks earlier. and back now to new york, where the stories are getting more disturbing by the day. a video might be difficult to watch. this is the new grim reality at a brooklyn hospital. this video appears to show a forklift placing bodies on to a refrigerated truck being used as a make-shift morgue. it is a similar scene if you look at the city's fiveboros which has shaken first responders to their cores, describing this experience with the overflow scene of bodies, one registered nurse in manhattan who declined to be identified, cold buzzfeed, the two may be related to the holocaust, never seen anything like it. a 26-year veteran paramedic who responded to the 9/11 terrorist attacks and later served in the iraq war told the "new york times," quote, i'm terrified. i honestly d

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