i have to give some love to my university, temple university, the ladies of excellence.s weekend in new york. infetayo, you guys, ladies of excellence, 19 years. - yes. so the ladies of elegance-- - elegance, i'm sorry. excellence and elegance. - yep, we are one of both. so we were founded in 2001 by janaia smith white, and we are on temple university's main campus.

[crowd cheering] happy to be here with you. ing-- so i went to temple university, god bless. in north philly, to my parents' house, 1,528 miles. how do i know? because i drove it. [laughter] by myself with my dog louie, going to college. i was the first in my family, my mother, went to paul quinn, hbcu, but for my family, to see me go off the temple university, it was such a big moment. so you know what it feels like when your kid gets that, "yes." - yes. - but there's always as we know, a challenging side to everything. we're gonna go inside this prep school who had incredible results with students. the videos went viral, the kids celebrating, they got into these huge ivy league schools. the kids work their tails off, but it turned out the school

also a former hospital administrator, including at the medical college of pennsylvania, temple universityand university of pennsylvania hospital. he joins us in philadelphia. bob is in el paso, texas. good evening. >> this is bob in el paso. i know that there is a food shortage. the stores and suppliers are overwhelmed. i'm wondering if we couldn't go back to the world war ii rationing type system we had then. it seemed to work very well. that way it would relieve the pressure on all of these suppliers. >> thank you for the call. are we reaching that point? shortages we will see of certain commodities, food and medication in various geographic regions in front ways. but i think bob's experience and what he is reminding us that many of our younger generations have never experienced in this country is that we have been through this before. world war ii, there was rationing of almost everything, including shoes, back in the 70's when we had the arab oil boycott, there was rationing of gasoline. americans adapted to that. they have begun to start rationing out medications. i think we could se

this convention center in beho and in philadelphia this arena at temple university transformed into an overflow hospital after cases there top 1,000. tonight in los angeles, the naval hospital the mercy already taking on extra patients to ease pressure on hospital >> that image from los angeles, we also took note of the image behind you today in new york city. tom is in front of the comfort tonight. we know this will be for other patients, as the hospitals in the city try to deal with the patients with coronavirus. when will the ship be able to take some patients? >> reporter: i'm told it will start tomorrow. it's a massive ship, it got here earlier than expected. one more note, you said more than 250 people died in new york. and every six minutes, someone in new york right now is dying of covid-19. david? >> just impossible to fathom. our thanks to you, tom, tonight. >>> the surge in cases is being seen across the country, not just in new york city. in california, chicago, to detroit, to new orleans. and the growing death toll for the health care workers. the well-known neurosurgeon,

and in philadelphia this arena at temple university transformed into an overflow hospital after cases there top 1,000. tonight in los angeles, the naval hospital the mercy already taking on extra patients to ease pressure on hospitals. >> tom, you reported that the ship can start taking patients without coronavirus tomorrow. but i wanted to get to something else this half-hour. there's another urgent push to get additional health care workers to help in this fight in new york? >> reporter: yeah, that's right, david. you saw in the report, the hospitals are up and running. they'll start tomorrow. but the governor says they need health ca health care workers to come to new york. he said he promises new york will return the favor. david? >> tom llamas, leading us off tonight. >>> and it's not just medical professionals, doctors and nurses. it's first responders, too, risking their lives. tonight, the terrible toll already on the nypd. detroit's police chief testing positive. boston's police force with more than a dozen cases. and the stressn here's liz cho of wabc >> reporter: tonight, t

and in philadelphia this arena at temple university will be transformed into an overflow hospital afteres there top 1,000. in los angeles the navy hospita patients to ease pressure. hospitals across this country are reporting drastic shortages of masks and protective gear. a national survey finding 88% of cities do not have an adequate supply. mary mcdonald recording this video saying it's not just supplies, it's basic medication. >> we're out of tylenol. i don't know what i can do to save people anymore. >> reporter: california officials warning they're on the verge of a spike too. the state has at least 5,700 cases. in new orleans for the first time since hurricane katrina, the convention center there now transformed to deal with an unfolding catastrophe. over the weekend cases in louisiana jumping from roughly 2,700 on friday to more than 4,000. david muir, abc news, new york. >> our thanks to david for that report. >>> more navy personnel will soon be on the move in the fight against the virus. a 450-person medical unit is preparing to deploy to new orleans and texas. it's believed

at temple, there are effortso assist food-insecu students, and a university care team helps connect studentsa housinger crisis to ncy funding. h we have been able to support them also then we resources of our counseling center. t sreenivasan: but one ofhe biggest challenges here, and at many other universities, is the campus. affordable housing on goldrick-rab says public colleges and universities, facing budget cuts, see food and using as revenue streams. >> if you begin to see housing as a profit center, then you begin to charge students more and more simply because you can. the other thing is that a growing number of schools are really trying to attract a certain kind of student and family. it's a family with a lot more disposable income, and it's a family that is going to pay more tuition with less financial aid. so the residence hall rooms fore studentsarger than they used to be. the amenities are more substantial. story off-campus.t's a similar new luxury buildings are catering to wealthier stude ts around temd other college campuses around the country. but not everyone can afford that

in philadelphia, this arena, temple university, will be transformed into an overflow hospital after casesre topped 1,000. and tonight in los angeles, the navy hospital "mercy" already taking on extra patients to ease pressure on the hospitals. and this virus is hitting doctors and nurses on the front lines too. dr. arnold weg believes he contracted the virus through a patient's cough. >> my father is truly in the fight for his life. >> reporter: the doctor is a 63-year-old grandfather of six and marathon runner. he's now in intensive care for the first time as a patient. >> yesterday was my parents' 38th wedding anniversary. 24 is the first time they couldn't spend it together. >> reporter: tonight hospitals across this country are reporting drastic shortages of masks and protective gear. 88% of cities don't have an adequate supply. >> i have nurses that call me on a daily basis to tell me that they're scared, to tell me they don't know what to do. we didn't sign up for this. >> reporter: mary mcdonald recording this video saying it's not just supplies. it's basic medication. >> we're out

universities. that was a really rich find for me. and of course, i conducted oral histories with people like coach ed temple, the storied coach from tennessee state university, who coached a number of olympians, most notably, omar rudolph. i talked to olympians whose book "tiger bell" is now out, available as of last year. she was a '64 and '68 olympian and also staged her own protest at the 1968 games. i've conducted a few interviews with her, for instance. so i think that using that -- and sosk, how could i forget black newspapers. the black press has a running chronicle of sporting events for black girls and black women in the community from the scores of local games from long-form articles about their achievements on the international stage in the olympic games. so mining the black press, looking at these primary sources at hbcus and conducting oral histories really gave me the primary source space that i used to conduct this research and do this project. >> and of course, teaching all of this on the campus of penn state university, what is your own background. >> yes, i am. >> my own background? >> where'd you study and how long have y

i conducted oral hist rears with people like coach ed temple, the storied coach from tennessee state university who coached olympians, most notably oma rudolph. i talked to whyommy tie rez. she was a '64 and '68 olympian and staged a protest at one of the games. i conducted a few interviews with her. i think using that -- and then of course black newspapers. the black press has a running chronicle of sporting events for black girls in the community from the scores of local games to long-form articles about their achievements on the international stage in the olympic games. so mining the black press, looking at these primary sources, hbcus, and conducting oral histories gave me the primary source base that i used to conduct this research and do this zbloj and of course teaching all of this on penn state university, what was your own background? >> my own background? >> where did you study? how long have you been teaching? >> yeah. so i did my doctorate at johns hopkins university in baltimore and came to penn state from there. i've been there for about four years. i've been living in happy valle

state and city health officials have closed down some schools, that kids have gone to, university campus, temple, where they will be tested and asked to self-quarantine by city and state health officials. >> this kind of thing happening in communities across the country now as they discover cases with real consequences. thank you very much. >>> in seattle, here is another one, amazon now says that any employee who can should stay home from work until the end of this month. that's without even testing positive for this. it is a precaution. let's go to correspondent stephanie elam in kirkland, washington. tell me how many people this will affect there. >> reporter: it is not going to just affect the employees, it will affect the businesses around it, the lunch spots around it, everyone will feel the effects of this in seattle. what you're talking about now is looking at these companies trying to protect their employees. so you said amazon, recommending people stay home from seattle and also their bellevue operations through the end of march and at facebook, they said one of their contract workers

american environmental historian dylan d'arcy wood from the university of illinois is in london tracking the global consequences of the temple or eruption and how it shaped the 19th century world. london's tate gallery houses the largest collection of british art works from that period including works by the famous romance. glantz k. painter john constable. constable's depictions of clouds make him an important quantock layer of the global weather catastrophe following 10 boars eruption. constable cece himself as a kind of scientist of the skies as a time to leave me here all of just the history of european landscape a to go up until this time the background of the horizon in the sky is being moralistic critical or mansell with generic depictions of clouds the way in which cost of all style converge as with the story of tambora is that owing to tam wars irruption the $18.00 teens the cloudy assist and witness decade of the millennium. but people in europe still didn't suspect that their misery had been caused by a natural disaster on the other side of the world on the indonesian island of sumatra. 200 years on the 2850 metre

american environmental historian gillen darcy wood from the university of illinois is in london tracking the global consequences of the temple or eruption and how it shaped the 19th century world. london's tate gallery houses the largest collection of british art works from that period including works by the famous romantic landscape painter john constable. constables depictions of clouds make him an important quantock layer of the global weather catastrophe following 10 boars eruption. closeable sees himself as a kind of saw interest of the skies as a pain to leave me here all issues the history of your pain. landscape it to go up until this time with the background of the horizon in the sky is being moralistic critical or mansell with generic depictions of clouds the way in which cost of all star converge is with the story of tim bora is that owing to tam wars eruption the 18 teens ah the cloudy assist and which just decade of the millennium. but people in europe still didn't suspect that their misery had been caused by a natural disaster on the other side of the world on the indonesian island of sumatra. 200 years on the

whether they worshipped with him at his temple, whether they worked with him at this law firm behind me, whether they went to school with their son at a university here in new york. it's a matter of tracing these people, tracking them down, telling them that they could be at risk and getting them tested before even knowing if they have the virus. >> brynn gingras thank you for the update there. we are at the top of the hour, i'm brooke baldwin. if you are just joining us, here's the big headline of the afternoon. this is coming from the vice president of the united states. he is saying that the u.s. current currently does not have enough coronavirus tests to meet the demand. let's go to our senior medical correspondent, elizabeth cohen with me. don't have the tests to meet the demand. like what should we make of this? >> well, you know, to read his full quote, he said we don't have enough tests today to meet what we anticipate will be the demand going forward. and this is, you know, a lot of people have been saying this. the vice president might have said or i'm sorry, he did say earlier, you know, any american who wants to get tested can get te

whether they worshipped with him at his temple, whether they worked with him at this law firm behind me, whether they went to school with their son at a universitye in new york. it's a matter of tracing these people, tracking them down, telling them that they could be at risk and getting them tested before even knowing if they have the virus. >> brynn gingras thank you for the update there. we are at the top of the hour, i'm brooke baldwin. if you are just joining us, here's the big headline of the afternoon. this is coming from the vice president of the united states. he is saying that the u.s. current currently does not have enough coronavirus tests to meet the demand. let's go to our senior medical