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  • and we begin tonight.

  • With America bracing for what could be the worst of the Corona virus outbreak in the days ahead, the Trump administration warning it could be quote the hardest and satis week.

  • Yet as we come on the air tonight, a major spike in US cases now more than 331,000 roughly 30,000 more than this time last night and the country now with more than 9400 deaths New York Governor Andrew Cuomo reporting more than 4000 deaths in his state and saying the state could be very near the apex.

  • All hospitals in New York City, if they're not already will be at or near capacity.

  • This week.

  • Detroit Reporting its deadliest day so far, including the city's first death of a postal carrier, the nation's top infectious disease expert, Dr Anthony Fauci, urging everyone to buckle down the virus is not under control.

  • ABC Trevor all leads us off tonight, with the nation already reeling from covert nineteen's catastrophic death toll, the surgeon general warning Americans to brace for what could be the hardest and saddest week of their lives.

  • The next week is going to be our Pearl Harbor moment.

  • It's going to be our 9 11 moment.

  • It's gonna be the hardest moment for many Americans in their entire lives, officials say Three hot zones across the country New York, Detroit and Louisiana are likely a week from hitting the apex leaders.

  • They're pleading for help, saying their health care systems are on the brink of disaster.

  • The system is overcapacity all, of course.

  • The board.

  • It's just overcapacity.

  • You're asking a system to do more than it has ever done before, more than it was designed to do with less.

  • With every New York City hospital expected to be at or near total capacity this week, Governor Andrew Cuomo says frontline workers are being asked to do the impossible video from The New York Times showing Brooklyn Hospital Center's I See You pushed to the limit, hospital staff telling the Times Other departments are jumping in to help, and the staff there is not immune the hospital, estimating 1/3 of its doctors and nurses are out sick.

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  • Themselves, with more than 1700 New Yorkers dead in three days, the governor saying the status still in grave need of crucial equipment despite reinforcements from around the country and the world.

  • So right now, 1000 military medical personnel are on their way here to the Javits Center to help treat Coben 19 patients.

  • Just weeks ago, this was a convention center.

  • It's now one of the largest hospitals in the entire country.

  • Michigan's governor, Gretchen Whitmer, says the virus is spreading exponentially in her state, especially around Detroit.

  • We've got hospitals that are already at capacity.

  • We don't have enough personal protection equipment.

  • At least three Detroit area nurses on the front lines have died from the virus, including Lisa E.

  • Whoa, who'd been isolating by herself.

  • Dying at home just days before her 54th birthday, she gave no care or concern for herself, but only care of himself.

  • For others, Louisiana has the highest death rate per capita in the country.

  • Governor John Bel Edwards says his state is on track to run out of ventilators on Thursday if this pace continues.

  • New Orleans Morial Convention Center now set to open as a temporary hospital officials urging all Americans to take precautions before the virus peaks in their area the next two weeks critical for places like Pennsylvania, Colorado in Washington, D.

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  • This is the moment to not be going to the grocery store, not going to the pharmacy, but doing everything you can to keep your family and your friends safe.

  • With the second highest number of cases in the country, New Jersey now ordering 20 temporary morgues to prepare for the viruses, toll models show the state about a week behind.

  • New York Washington State today announcing they're sending back 400 ventilators to the dwindling national stockpile.

  • Governor, seeing the pain in the current hot zones, fear when their time comes, equipment and personnel will be in short supply.

  • The president continuing to go after governors who criticized the administration's response.

  • If they had started in February building ventilators, getting ready for this pandemic, we would not have the problems that we have today and, frankly, very many fewer people would die.

  • Illinois's governor says he asked for 4000 ventilators to save his state in a worst case scenario, But he says the vice president told him, Illinois on Lee needs 1400 here.

  • He's always complaining, and yet I just said Give me a list of a couple of the things we've done in Illinois, he's not able to do what you're supposed to be able to do is a governor.

  • He has not performed well.

  • More than 9400 people have died in this country from Corona virus, with more than 330,000 confirmed cases.

  • But even in the hardest hit New York, 75% of those hospitalized have been discharged and are on.

  • The men like Christina Past, who survived her 15 day battle with covert 19 mother of five, wheeled out of a New York City hospital through a sea of applauding workers, reuniting at last with her husband.

  • Such a powerful and reassuring moment right there.

  • Trevor all joins us live from the Javits Center and Trevor with New York City's seen so many cases they were anticipated to run of ventilators as early as Tonight.

  • But Mayor de Blasio says they haven't run out yet.

  • That's right, Tom, the mayor says that New York City has 135 ventilators left in its stockpile, so they have a few extra days, but a dire shortage could still becoming.

  • They're expected to run out Tuesday or Wednesday, and the mayor continues to plead with the federal government to get more ventilators sent to New York City.

  • Tom Trevor all leading us off tonight, Trevor.

  • Thank you.

  • Hi, everyone.

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