amy: that is visiting nurse lawanna rivers describing a hospital in el paso.l, for more, we go to el paso to speak with dr. emilio gonzalez ayala, a leading pulmonary disease and critical care specialist. thank you so much for taking the to usdr. ayala, to speak today. if you can start off by describing the situation in el paso, so extreme that the county administration or dried to put -- administrator try to put restrictions on el paso and the governor prevented them from being implemented? unfortunately, we have been facing these decisions by the government of the state and obviously, as you mentioned, before the mandate to close non-essential businesses has impacted us in a significant way because we continued to see the surge of numbers in the hospitals, in the er throughout the city, and we are at capacity. we are beyond the limit where we to admit to the hospital patients that come in critically ill and we are flying them out directly from the er to other hospitals in the state where they can be admitted and treated. we are keeping a large number of intu

nurse lawanna rivers posted this after finishing a shift. >> there is not a single patient that made it. y'all i just want to say this. it literally almost destroyed me. >> reporter: in minnesota, health officials want all 18-35-year-olds to get tested. they're seeing disproportionate spread among young people. 17-year-old resident ella winston was hospitalized 10 days and just got home. >> being in the hospital was so scary. just seeing my mom so sad, too. it was really hard for me. >> reporter: based on what you are going through, does that change your mind about how you think about your own thanksgiving plans? >> i think our family is going to have a small, tight-knit thanksgiving for ourselveses and probably some zoom calls. it's the perspective of how fragile life is and what we're thankful for. >> reporter: the restrictions taking effect here in new york city tonight include a 10 p.m. curfew on restaurants and gyms and limiting gatherings in private homes to 10 people. but the governor warns tighter restrictions are looming. major. >> garrett: nikki battiste wiar a comprehensiv