i'm lesley stahl. >> i'm bill whitaker. >> i'm anderson cooper. >> i'm sharyn alfonsi. >> i'm scott pelley. those stories, tonight, on "60 minutes." ( ticking ) >> this portion of "60 minutes" is sponsored by progressive insurance. save when you bundle auto, home, or motorcycle insurance. visit progressive.com. >> scott pelley: as may begins, millions of americans delete another month of calendar events for the job they never expected to lose. they made plans; graduates entering the hottest economy in a generation, entrepreneurs with their dream in sight and workplace veterans tuning their retirement. 30 million americans have filed for unemployment in six weeks. the people you're about to meet signed up last month for a philadelphia online job fair. it was just four hours of local businesses with open positions but 1300 people waited in chat rooms for a chance. they wonder how fast the economy should open and find themselves in a strange place, with hours on their hands and time running out. >> philad

lesley stahl has the story for "60 minutes." >> reporter: south dakota is soybean, corn and wheat countryt now it's reeling. >> the people really want to jump off a building about what the stock market is doing. we've been doing that for three years now. we did everything right. we raised great crops, but we're still losing our rear ends because of what's happening with the sanctions, and now with the coronavirus it's going to be another hit, without a doubt. >> imagine three years ago you lost 30% of your paycheck. and then the next year you lost another an, tt'sain we're feeling. >> when we bought that, we talked to the salesman -- >> reporter: doug and bob oversee the farmers unions in north and south dakota with more than 50,000 farmers and livestock producers. the average farm here is less than 1500 acres. >>> can you hear me, is this okay, this level? >>> we interviewed them remotely. >>> what is happening to your farmers with this virus? >> it's just accelerating the problem. and we are not being able to sell because everyone is worried if the plants are going to stay open. >> repo

. >>> lesley stahl has revealed she was hospitalized with the virus. she says some of her infected colleagues had no symptoms while others had every symptom you can imagine. >> after two weeks at home in bed, weak, fighting pneumonia and really scared, i went to the hospital. i found an overworked, nearly overwhelmed staff. days later when i was wheeled out through a gauntlet of cheering medical workers. in the face of so much death, they celebrate their triumphs. >> she thanked the medical workers who took care of her. >>> we turn now to president trump taking aim at china. he sat down last night to answer questions about the pandemic amid new allegations that china was hiding the severity of the virus so it could hoard medical supplies. the president also acknowledged the u.s. death toll could reach 100,000. abc's alex presha has the latest. >> reporter: this morning the trump administration doubling down on claims that the coronavirus came from a lab in wuhan, china. >> there is a significant amount of evidence that this came from that laboratory in

. >> so they ( ticking ) >> i'm lesley stahl. >> i'm bill whitaker. >> i'm anderson cooper. >> i'm scott pelley. those stories, tonight, on "60 minutes." ( ticking ) >> this portion of "60 minutes" is sponsored by progressive insurance. save when you bundle awtd, home, or motorcycle insurance. visit progressive.com. >> pelley: peter daszak is a scientist whose work is helping in the search for a covid-19 cure. so, why did the president just dasndin it's the kind of politics which might seem ill-advised in a health crisis. president trump is blaming china's government for the pandemic. the outbreak was first detected in the city of wuhan. the administration has said, at times, the virus is man-made or that, if it's natural, it must have leaked out of a chinese government lab. both the white house and the chinese communist party have been less than honest. and so, in china and in the u.s., the work of scientists like peter daszak is being undercut by pandemic politics. peter daszak is a british-born american ph.d. who's spent a career discovering dangerous viruses in wildlife, especially b

lesley stahl is revealing her battle with the coronavirus.uring last night's broadcast that she was recently hospitalized after testing positive. here's part of what she said. >> after two weeks at home in bed, weak, fighting pneumonia, and really scared, i went to the hospital. i found an overworked, nearly overwhelmed staff. every one of them was kind and sympathetic, gentle and caring from the moment i arrived until the moment days later when i was wheeled out through a gauntlet of cheering medical workers. in the face of so much death, they celebrate their triumphs. >> i've got toy public of lesley on the wall in my office from her time covering the white house. she's one of my journal heroes. we applaud the medical professionals who battle every day on the front lines of this pandemic. >> we certainly do. and we applauds lesley. i was eati ining my chicken din and dropped my fork. i'm glad she's okay and glad she applauded the medical workers. we all feel that. so 2020 is off to a rough start already -- now we're hearing about a potentia

pandemic bringing with it the tragic loss of 300,000 lives worldwide and counting. ( ticking ) >> i'm lesley stahl. >> i'm bill whitaker. >> i'm anderson cooper. >> i'm scott pelley. those stories, tonight, on "60 minutes." ( ticking ) >> this portion of "60 minutes" is sponsored by progressive insurance. save when you bundle auto, home, or motorcycle insurance. visit progressive.com. >> pelley: jerome powell shook washington, wall street and the world this past week when he warned the pandemic crisis threatens "lasting damage" to american prosperity. as chairman of the federal reserve, powell is among the most powerful people in the economy. he acted swiftly in the sharpest collapse since the great depression, but he fears congress's initial three trillion dollar bailout will not be enough to save a generation from low growth and stagnant incomes. we asked chairman powell how high unemployment will go and how long it will take to see a recovery. he spoke to us this past wednesday after a blunt speech that gave markets a shove. mr. chairman, i just got a push notification on my phone: "dow tanks m

. >>> "60 minutes" correspondent lesley stahl has revealed her fight against coronavirus. said at the end of last night's broadcast she suffered from pneumonia for two weeks at home before going to the hospital and was, quote, really scared. stahl said she is finally feeling well. >> and we are thankful for that. >>> an animated barber found business on a brooklyn street. >> as in right on the street. the barber set up shop on a sidewalk and had a few people waiting, keeping their social distance. barbershops and hair salons have been closed in new york for more than a month. yeah, apparently a barber in maine, i believe they opened there, said a lot of people came in, he described them as very shaggy, very grateful. we can attest to that. also barbers in other areas we've seen, i believe in texas before they started rolling back restrictions, a lot of people there were just defying social distancing, or excuse me, the lockdown orders. >> i'm sure there are a lot of people watching right now who really want to get their husbands, their sons, their brothers, into that chair