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in dallas, here's mireya villarreal. >> reporter: the stay-at-home orders nationwide are forcing familiesnside and most businesses to close their doors, making life for the most vulnerable even more difficult. >> they just began to push us to think of how can we take what we're doing and turn it into a solutior >> reporter: chad houser opened the restaurant cafe momentum in 2015, hiring recently released juvenile offender to work in the kitchen. abillyon barnnet is a successful graduate and current cook. if you are coming in and you weren't working here, what would you be doing? >> i have no idea. i can't-- probably be doing-- going down the wrong path, doing the wrong thing. >> reporter: without this job that sumentz his family, he's unsure where he'd turn. >> that's why i'm just so grateful for what they're doing here, because it's helping a lot of people in major ways in this circumstance. >> reporter: he's grateful for "getshiftdone" a partnership whn the north texas food bank and shiftsmart. the project developed when volunteers stopped showing up at the food bank that served 77 mill

mireya villarreal has this story. >> reporter: when you are fighting on the front lines, rest is oftening on your mind. yhaneek douglas-mattis is a nurse practitioner working with coronavirus patients in an and three young children at home she considered high risk, she wrestled with a very powerful fear. >> i called my husband, i don't think can i come home. the babies, i could get them sick. >> reporter: that is when a friend told her about this facebook page, r.v.'s for m.d.'s, a group that connects people in the medical profession needing to quarantine with someone who has a camper nearby, for free. >> i have been given this opportunity to protect my family and i'm just... just grateful. i am really filled with gratitude. >> reporter: emily phillips, the mother of three, was the first to post a plea for help. when you posted this, did you think anybody was going to respond? >> no, i thought somebody might have an r.v. or camper. we were in crisis mode, so we were throwing things out there. and i got an immediate response. >> reporter: emily's husband jason philips is an e.r. doctor

here's mireya villarreal. >> reporter: starving for work, jobless cooks, waiters, and bartenders waitline at the north texas food bank hoping to earn a paycheck. anna morris lost her bartending job a few weeks ago. >> this is great money and a good opportunity to keep my spirits high. >> reporter: this warehouse is typically filled with volunteers preparing the 77 million meals the bank distributes each year. but covid-19 has kept them away. the solution was a creative partnership between the food bank and shiftsmart, an online marketplace connecting workers with employers. b the best thing to do was to match these hospitality workers with the volunteer shifts so those meals could keep getting delivered. >> reporter: the partnership, called "get shift done," raised more than $2 million in just three days. the money created more than bs paying $10 an hour.an hour. >> this is a short-term fund and hopefully it gets us through this uncertain period. epheroject is relping 20 local pantries and school districts provide food during the pandemic, while keeping cooks, like marco cisneros, wor

here's mireya villarreal on what other states are doing. >> people are looking for answers. they're looking for peace. >> reporter: amid the pandemic, doors of the fountains fellowship church are closed, pastor don womble delivering his sermon from the parking lot as he will on easter sunday. was there ever a question that you would hold service? >> yes, there was a question we would hold service because wee needepr: but rtr on religious gatherings have become a political storm in kansas. the republican legislature overturned the democratic governor's order limiting services to fewer than 10 people. she's now fighting them in court. >> we do not have time to play political games during a pandemic. >> reporter: across the nation, of the 43 states that have issued stay-at-home orders, at least 18 consider places of worship or traveling to and from places of worship to be essential. this church in georgia vows to defy stay-at-home orders, joining a hand full of others that will be open for easter. in some states, defiance has led to mug shots of arrested pastors. still, most ch

mireya villarreal reports. >> reporter: for more than a century, the prestigious zulu krewe has been front and center at mardi gras celebrations. the historic group has roughly 800 members, most of them black. zulu social aid and pleasure club is known for their charity work and community outreach ♪ when the saints >> reporter: and jazz great louie armstrong served as zulu's king in 1949. in recent months, at least 25 members have tested positive for covid-19, and at least five have died. including 51-year-old cornell charles, known as "coach dickey." zulu president king elroy james. >> it was tough because the organization is a close-knit organization. and once we started learning about first the virus hitting our organization and members being tested positive and then subsequently dying as a result of the virus, it's had a tremendous impact on our organization. >> reporter: at one point, roughly 70% of coronavirus deaths in louisiana were in the african american community. >> louisiana is a microcosm of our country. >> reporter: dr. corey herbert isf zl >> what we do know is that o

norah. >> o'donnell: all right, mireya villarreal, thank you.ina continues to deny a cover-up in its handling of the outbreak, but today, it increased the death toll in the city of wuhan, raising it by 50%. and that's just adding to the mystery over how this virus spread and where it came from. so we asked "face the nation" moderator margaret brennan to look into it. >> reporter: chinese authorities claim the virus surfaced at a act market in wuhan, but independent chinese researchers say the first known patient had no exposure to the market. u.s. intelligence is investigating other theories, including whether the including whether the virus was accidentally released by a lab a few miles away that had been researching pathogens carried by bats. state department officials who visited that lab in 2018 raised safety concerns. secretary of state pompeo has called on china to share more information. >> this is a laboratory that contained highly contagious materials. we knew that. we knew that they were working on this program. >> reporter: there is n

mireya villarreal has the story. >> reporter: when you're fighting on the front lines, rest is oftenast thing on your mind. douglas mattis is a nurse practitioner working with coronavirus patients in an atlanta icu. with a husband and three young children at home, two considered high risk, she wrestled with a very powerful fear. >> i called my husband. i don't think i can come home. the babies i think i could get them sick. >> reporter: that's when a friend told her about this facebook page, rvs for mds, a group that connects people in the medical profession needing to quarantine with someone who has a camper nearby for free. >> hi, mommy. >> hey! >> i'm given this opportunity to protect my family, and i'm just grateful. i am really filled with gratitude. eportemily psmother of thr was o ple for help. when you posted this online, did you think anybody was going to respond? >> no. i just thought maybe somebody might have an rv or camper. we're kind of in crisis mode, so we were just throwing things out there. and i got an immediate response. >> reporter: emily's husband, jason phillip

mireya villarreal is in the hard-hit monroe, louisiana. hard-hit monroe, louisiana. mireya? >> reporter: norah, 12 homes in this neighborhood are completely destroyed. the family living here just had seconds to find cover before the tornado ripped right through their home, tearing apart the walls and the roof before moving east to do more damage. sunrise revealed a st sunrise revealed a stark new reality in mississippi. massive damage left behind a surreal scene after a powerful tornado packing 150 mph winds swept through 18 counties yesterday. hundreds of homes and businesses were swept off their s.undations. mississippi suffered the highest death toll of at least 11 killed. >> all of a sudden it quit. we were not out of it. it just went calm. >> reporter: some had no choice but to spend the night in a shelter, making concerns about coronavirus and social distancing an additional worry. overnight, the storm steam rolled through 12 states from texas to west virginia. cbs digital journalist jessi mitchell covered the devastation in georgia. >> this is the hardest-hit area in

mireya villarreal spoke with an iconic cultural group in new orleans to find out why the virus is soor more than a century the prestigious s ttigi krewe has been front and center at celebration. they are known for their charity work and community outreach. ♪ and jazz great louis armstrong served as the king in 1949. but in recent months at least 25 members have tested positive for covid-19 and at least five have died. including 51-year-old cornell charles, known as coach biggie to the charter school baseball team he coached. president king elroy james. >> it started with a ripple effect where we started losing within weeks or days apart zulu members. it was tough. >> reporter: at one point roughly 70% of coronavirus deaths in. louisiana were in the african-american community. >> louisiana is a microcosm of our country. any time there is a huge amount of african-americans in one place there's going to be health disparity. >> reporter: dr. corey hebert is a member of zulu. >> once this is over, diekabete high per tension and strokes will still be there. the grand mothers and grand fath

mireya villarreal reports. >> reporter: how long you been here?reporter: 8:15? like the lines for free food in new orleans, desperation is growing by the day. most of these first-time families are filled with fear and uncertainty. what are you missing at home? what's -- >> milk. like milk, eggs, bread. >> i need help. like probably every city does. >> reporter: across the country, scenes of gratitude for the most basic needs like at this food kitchen in washington, d.c. >> this program means that we get to eat today. >> reporter: the neighborhood helping with these lines in boston stretching several blocks. 17 million more americans could now face hunger because of the coronavirus pandemic. back in new orleans at a small church pantry, we met troy rolls and carolyn casten. >> everybody's got to share. >> reporter: both are newly unemployed. no shops, no tourists, no income. was it hard to go there? was there any sort of reluctance? >> not me. none whatsoever. it's nothing to be ashamed of. everybody sometimes get down on their luck. >> mashed pota

. >> reporter: for "cbs this morning," mireya villarreal, north texas. >> bravo. you know what's so wonderful about it, those vehicles are mobile, you can park them and walk out and wave to your family. >> yes. and you can see your family all the time. and they're comfortable. i not there's another epidemic going on, guys. it's an epidemic of compassion. compassion, kindness, always wins. >> yes. >> that will do it for us. . >>> is this is a kpix news morning update. >>> good morning. it's 8:55 let's goat you updated on three different traffic alerts that chp has been working on this morning. the first is southbound at 87. a couple cars tangled up there. there are lanes blocked. all lines are now clear and things should be moving better as we head through there. this is northbound 87. and this is blocking lanes. >>> take a look at the roadways on 17 northbound at the summit road. it looks like they're clearing things over to the shoulder. they'll continue to have a traffic advisory in effect there. it's on the northbound side. you can see that red on the map. keep