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just hearing at this moment, the prime minister has been taken into intensive care unit a stunning announcement today, the first global leader stricken with Corona virus now in intensive care.
British Prime Minister Boris Johnson handing over control of the government here in the U.
S.
Expectations.
This will be the toughest week yet.
You're on the front lines inside in New York City hospital, ground zero for this pandemic.
While other hot spots, including New Orleans, continue to flare.
That city has some of the highest cove in 19 death rates anywhere.
And yet we continue to see images of packed public places.
In rare instances.
Churches still holding service, some refusing to realize flattening the curve requires cooperation from a soul.
Good evening, everyone.
I'm Lindsay Davis.
Thank you so much for streaming with us.
Well, this is the week it is being compared to Pearl Harbor, D Day and 9 11 While top officials warn that we will see the worst of the pandemic this week, it is also Holy Week, and regardless of your religion or belief system in the midst of fear, there is hope here in hard hit New York.
Both the governor and mayor of New York City, suggests it is possible we're starting to flatten the curve.
The U.
S death toll now tops 10,000.
And then there's this astounding number in New York state this weekend, a victim of Corona virus died every 2.5 minutes.
We begin here in New York City, the epicenter of this worldwide pandemic.
Governor Cuomo's message today the curve might be flattening, But don't let down your guard.
ABC News Live anchor Tom Thomas leads us off tonight with a look at the battle being waged inside hospitals across this city tonight, a look inside the cavernous Javits Convention Center in Manhattan.
Nowthe largest hospital in the nation.
Teams of military doctors taking in patients checking temperatures, monitoring ventilators.
But New York Governor Andrew Cuomo says even this will not be enough.
He's calling for the Navy hospital ship the Comfort to start accepting covert cases.
Today there are only about 40 patients of any kind on the massive ship.
I'm going to call the president this afternoon and ask him to shift the comfort from non co vid to covert, The surgeon general says.
The U.
S.
Is now entering the period.
We have all been dreading.
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.
In New York state, more than 4700 have died from the Corona virus.
It's very hard to see the number of deaths were having.
It's frightening, and it's disturbing that amount of loss.
Still, today, a glimmer of hope.
The death rate here may be slowing the rigorous social distancing possibly paying off.
The governor say New York is nearing the apex and the curve, maybe flattening total number of hospitalizations or down the ice.
You admissions air down and the daily intubation zehr down those a roll.
Good signs.
But Cuomo also warning, we get reckless.
Uh, we change or we're not compliant on social distancing.
You will see those numbers go up again.
But even so, hospitals here are overwhelmed, pushed a capacity and beyond pretty much the entire emergency departments of hot sound of this trial, Dr John Marshall took ABC News inside my monitors hospital in Brooklyn.
Ventilator update for the morning 50.
Right now, the doctor's team now includes volunteers from a SW far away is Utah.
We're working on the assumption it almost every picture from at this point, one of the health care workers on the front lines.
Nurse riff commence Her day starts at 5 a.m. Managing other nurses and caring for endless patients work that stresses the mind, body and soul.
Has a patient with covert ask you?
Am I gonna die?
Absolutely.
Absolutely.
And it's scary.
I mean, we don't know the answers across the country off battle to save lives This is Dr Ali Raja in Boston.
Just a couple of days ago, in 18 hour shift, I intubated 10 patients, which is more than I've ever done it.
One shift in my entire life to Dr Michael Cuba in New Orleans.
The only mistake we could make as a as a department in the emergency room or a hospital or health system in this region is to be under underprepared and things to continue to get worse.
New Jersey today reaching a grim milestone, 1000 deaths.
This is not over.
And not by a long, sharp ABC.
Stephanie Ramos out with E.
M.
T s in Teaneck, New Jersey, working around the clock, this crude just picked up a person who has tested positive for Pope in 19.
They tell me they're how that person is having some trouble breathing.
Right now.
They're taking them to the hospital.
But they say they respond to calls like this every couple of minutes.
Throughout the day.
Each case is different.
In Iowa City, Irena Yoder brought her 18 year old son, Dmitri, to the E.
R.
I wouldn't let anything happen to my son.
We're fighting right now for him.
Twice they went, and twice Dmitri was admitted, his mother says Doctor sent him home, not wanting him to possibly infect other patients there.
She says he later tested positive, but slowly he got better.
I'm just glad to be recovering finally, and Tom Yama joins us now from Brooklyn.
So Tom Howard, doctors and nurses of the Brooklyn Hospital, describing the situation that's playing out in front of them every day.
You know, Lindsay, it stay.
Say it's like something they've never seen before.
One doctor here, the head of the surgery department, says it's both inspiring and terrifying.
I asked him what he means.
He says it's inspiring to see his workers, his staff come here 30 days without a day off and treat endless patients.
But he says it's terrifying because of the way this virus attacks some people and how in tax So quickly.
Lindsay.
Terrifying I could imagine.
In tonight, Governor Cuomo announced that the president agreed to make additional hospital beds available to treat Kobe 19 patients.
Yeah, that's right.
You gotta remember the comfort has 1000 beds in that naval hospital ship.
But when we checked early today, there were only about 40 patients.
So Governor Cuomo made it crystal clear.
They need that ship to be able to see Kobe.
19 patients.
The president approved it.
The president also saying patients from New Jersey will also be brought in.
So that's great for both states.
But, Lindsay, we have to remember the ship came here with a different mission to treat non covert 19 patients.
They're gonna have to adapt like so many across this country who are now meeting this challenge.
Tommy Thomas for us in Brooklyn, New York, tonight.
Thanks, Tom.
And now to the hot zone that is New Orleans, the city with the highest death rate in the country, streets typically vibrant with music and tourists empty tonight.
Meantime, the hospitals are filled and rapidly running out of supplies.
15 years after Hurricane Katrina, residents are hunkered down once again in their homes, weathering a radically different storm.
Our markets more reports.
The narrow streets of New Orleans are empty.
Boards block the sun rays that ordinarily would shine right into the now shuttered stores and shops here, the balconies above, lonely and the unmistakable sound of New Orleans, the birthplace of jazz, silenced.
It was much like this 15 years ago when Mother Nature's fury came in the form of Hurricane Katrina.
Today, the city is enduring a different kind of storm, this one invisible but no less crippling nor vicious.
And the health care workers on the front line of the raging war against Kobe, 19 are embroiled in the struggles of a city on the precipice of catastrophe once again.
And each day you think, OK, it's the hurricane here.
Is this it?
And you don't know if it this is it, and it's gonna be a Category three or if it's coming and it's gonna turn into a five or way, don't know.
Louisiana is one of the epicenters of the global pandemic for than 14,000 cases reported so far across the state, most of them right here in New Orleans, this city known for its charm and attitude.
The virus has killed at least 512 people statewide, the death toll up 38% over the weekend.
One economics professor telling the Wall Street Journal The virus is killing 38 out of every 100,000 people in New Orleans and is nearly twice as much as New York City.
And in their fight to save lives.
Health care workers one of the potential for the hospital system to be overwhelmed by cases.
It's the reason the city's mayor in Louisiana's governor have ordered residents to stay home at this time.
We need you to stay at home.
The obvious question is why, why so many cases in Louisiana and this remarkable city?
Health officials fear that Mardi Gras that brought thousands of people right here to Bourbon Street may have helped to spread this highly contagious virus.
Now the tourism industry the city depends on for about 240,000 jobs is left stagnant and life in the Big Easy is getting harder every day.
Being inside as much as possible has been, unfortunately, right.
Middle of crawfish season normally, when you're going to boils all the time, But as the local economy, like in so many other cities, hemorrhages jobs, doctors at ash no hospitals describe an onslaught of Corona virus cases.
Every single icy you bet at their West Bank hospital is taken.
The patients all suffering from Cove it 19 the convention center once again being transformed to take care of the needy, a virus that discriminates neither by race nor age.
We've intubated 23 year olds.
We've put, uh, put 27 year olds on the ventilator.
One of the sickest people I've seen since this all began was the nicest 42 year old manager of a hotel downtown.
And he just came in feeling kind of tired, just tired, Doc.
I just feel tired.
And he was on a ventilator within about 24 hours, 24 hours, and as they meet the challenge every day, they're faced with the real possibility that they themselves could get infected.
It's a scary time for everybody.
I think that it's scary because we are seeing so many of our patients get so sick.
It's scary because we recognize that we made ourselves get sick.
And it's even scarier knowing that our friends and our family and our loved ones have the potential of getting sick as well.
The enormity of it all is exhausting.
Often working 14 hour days.
The losses are justice taxing.
Seeing the numbers of patients that are getting so sick so quickly does impact us both both physically and emotionally.
You know, it's it's psychologically draining at times.
But once again we understand that that is our duty.
And so I think that we in health care are going to continue to press on.
We're gonna fight the fight.
They certainly know about fighting in this city.
After having endured one of the most devastating storms in recent memory, I think it's actually worse than Katrina.
Given the uncertainty given the nature of how long will this go on the acuity of patients that we're seeing in our hospital?
It certainly is a big challenge for nurses, a big challenge for a physician, but the doctors and nurses keep coming back and much like 15 years ago, when the music stopped and the streets emptied, the flood waters did recede.
Many of the shops reopened and life returned.
A new find threatens the city once again, but the belief here is this, too.
Show Pass.
Marcus Moore, ABC News, New Orleans, Our thanks to Marcus for that report.
And as we mentioned at the top of the show, some stunning news from overseas.
UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson is now in intensive care after being hospitalized for Corona virus.
Ah spokesman said that his condition has worsened and he was admitted this evening.
Local time.
ABC is James Longman has the latest from London tonight.
Prime Minister Boris Johnson, now in intensive care less than 24 hours after being hospitalized in his battle with Corona virus.
Just hearing at this moment that the prime minister has been taken into on intensive care unit Downing Street, saying Johnson's condition has worsened over the course of this afternoon and he's been moved to the i c.
U.
On the advice of his medical team.
Officials say the 55 year old prime minister was conscious and did not require a ventilator at the moment, but was moved as a precaution.
In case he did, Johnson asked Britain's foreign secretary, Dominic Raab, to temporarily take over his duties while he's hospitalized.
President Trump offering support tonight to his ally.
We're very saddened to hear that he was taken into intensive care this afternoon, a little while ago and, uh, Americans aerial praying for his recovery.
But when you get brought into intensive care, that gets very, very serious with this particular disease.
Just hours earlier, Johnson was tweeting that he was in good spirits, adding, I went for some routine tests and I'm still experiencing Corona virus symptoms.
And it was just three days ago he was posting from his home.
Asshole Have a temperature.
The stunning turn for Johnson comes as more than 50,000 covert 19 cases have been confirmed in Britain over 5000 now dead the Corona virus crisis, prompting the queen to make just her fifth address to the nation outside her annual Christmas Day message.
We should take comfort that while we may have more still to endure, better days will return.
We will be with our friends again.
We will be with our families again.
We will meet again those last words inspired by lyrics from a World War two era song evoking Britain's fighting spirit.
And James joins me Now live outside of the hospital where Johnson is right now.
James.
We know he's 55 years old, but it's unclear if he had any underlying conditions.
We do know that his fiance is seven months pregnant, and she's experiencing some symptoms as well.
Yeah, it's a very worrying time, I think, for her and for the country.
I think this has come as a real shock to most Britons.
Lindsay, We were told repeatedly over the last week that Johnson's symptoms were mild.
He was frequently appearing on Twitter from isolation from at 10 Downing Street, the apartment that the prime minister lives in above the shop.
If you like saying that he just needed to have out of routine procedures, it was all a precaution that he was going into hospital on who told repeatedly by his advisers repeatedly by his colleagues in Cabinet that that he was still leading the fight against Corona virus from isolation.
He talked about having had mild symptoms like a high temperature on a cough.
So I think for that to have been the case for the week.
That's just gone by.
And then suddenly tonight, for us to be standing outside this hospital talking about the prime minister being in I C.
U is a really shock for most Britons.
Think there is a sense, possibly that he just hasn't rested enough?
There's been a lot of reporting in the tabloids over this past week about how just the prime minister wouldn't listen to Thea advice off his medical team.
There's something Churchillian about him.
Winston Churchill, of course, his great idol, a very stubborn, strong willed leader in his own right.
And Boris Johnson, see that sees himself in that ill can.
Perhaps has wanted to continue, even though this Corona virus needed a little bit more rest, perhaps.
And yes, his girlfriend, his partner Carrie Simmons, seven months pregnant, her name tonight is trending on Twitter.
There is a lot of sympathy for her.
She is pregnant with a child, as I say on her.
The father of that child is in the I C u.
Behind me.
A worrying, worrying time for her on the country worrying time indeed.
James Long, man, Thank you so much.
for that report.
And we're joined now by Dr Erik Feig building for the latest on how doctors are responding to the growing Corona virus pandemic.
We just heard that UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson is in the I C about 10 days after starting to show symptoms.
Does that seem typical of how this can progress in serious cases?
Yeah, that is pretty typical.
You first start with a confident fever and about a week we can have in many people on average, develop shortness of breath.
And that shortness of breath is probably what led to his opulent hospitalization because they said he needed oxygen when he was admitted to the I c U.
So I think that's why I'm taking a precaution.
But again, this virus, this is the natural course of the virus.
And the next week we can have will tell how he progresses, either improvements or further deterioration.
So we just have to pray and hope that he recovers.
Indeed, so New York Governor Andrew Cuomo said today that there are some good signs of the states.
Curve is flattening.
What do you make of the data coming out of this state and what does it tell us about where we're going?
Yeah, I'm cautiously hopeful about the improvement of data.
The only thing is that we know from past experiences in many states in many countries that on weekends there's always a reporting low on Saturdays and Sundays.
And then it goes back to the normal regular recording on weekends weekdays.
So I'm hopeful that lookin trend continues, but I want to see several more days of continued drop before I feel confident that the numbers air, really.
And why do you speculate that is about the weekends?
Well, it's just, you know, people, sometimes just up to not to go to the hospital then or there's less staffing.
And then the hospitals are much more basically stress Like, for example, there was one hospital E R.
Midnight shift yesterday in New York that only five of the 25 the usual shift nurses showed up for that shift.
That's a lot of absenteeism or potential illness, so I'm hopeful.
I want to see the whole week stayed up before I am.
Start cheering for victory will be flying the Kurt, and we also have to crush the curve a lot more before we can really claim away right before we consent Llobregat in anyway.
So we're seeing the number of cases globally and in the US continue to soar.
Is that partially because of increased testing?
Or do you think that we still need to be doing more testing?
We definitely need to do more.
Testing.
Testing testing is always good, and what would be even better is as you increase your tests, the number percent positive starts dropping.
That would be a good sign, but so far that has not been happening everywhere which you need is not just hospital testing, which right now in New York City is restricting, too.
If you're hospitalized, will give you a test.
If you're not hospitalized, we're not giving you test.
That's not what you need.
You need to test people as soon as they developed symptoms out the outpatient centers because as soon as you do that, you could isolate them, contact, trace them and finally put out the fire.
Because right now all the lockdowns for on Lee just slow the fire won't put out the fire.
And the director of the CDC also said today that the death toll will be quote much, much, much lower, then would have been predicted by the models because of effective social distancing measures.
So what's the danger if those efforts are relaxed too soon?
Yeah, a danger is a resurgence.
Basically, you know this epidemic.
It's like time it marches forward, and it will keep marching unless you put brakes on it on a constant faces.
And our worry is that once we let off the brake, you'll get a resurgence.
And right now, China, they unlocked their lockdowns and there suddenly having a resurgence of the largest number they have had in over a month.
So we have to be very careful.
It's not just mitigation, but also testing off brand new cases as soon as they to disappear, not just testing at the hospital.
And lastly, doctor, more people are wearing masks now, after the new CDC guidance late last week.
What kind of effect or mass gonna have at this stage in slowing the spread?
I think master really good, because it actually stops your spread to other people because we're still constantly going to doctors, offices, pharmacies, parks as well and grocery stores and grocery stores.
It's really hard to maintain your distance, and there's thousands of people go through the grocery stores each day, so the mass actually prevents you spraying your droplets everywhere, and that is actually good.
That is a really, really effective for preventing people from spreading into others always so helpful to have you on Dr Fei building.
We thank you for your insight.
We turn now to you.
New fallout From the firing of Navy captain Brett Kroger, who sounded the alarm about Corona virus spreading on his ship, Theat ting navy secretary has blasted closure to his former crew, calling him quote too naive or too stupid for command.
This after those crew members loudly cheered for their ousted captain in the video that went viral.
A veces Martha Raddatz has the latest These Air.
The videos posted by sailors from the Roosevelt just days ago cheering in support of their departing captain, Brett Crozier, a scene causing a major embarrassment for the Navy.
The acting Navy secretary who fired closure flying to Guam to address those same sailors.
Thomas Mobley, sometimes profane speech over the ship's public address system, was recorded in one of the rooms and shared with a military focused media site Taschen Purpose Mobley belittling the captain into the public that he was a too naive or too stupid to be the commanding officer of a ship like this.
Several times in the recording, you hear voices on the tape sounding disgusted with mobilise accusations, although he would not have heard them at the time.
That way, it's now become a big controversy.
So think about that when you cheer the man off the ship mode.
Lee says his comments were heartfelt, but that all volunteer force aboard that ship is sure to remember one more line from the secretary.
You are under no obligation toe like your job on Lee.
Do it.
The acting secretaries words.
You are under no obligation toe like your job on Lee to do it.
How did that land with sailors still on board that virus stricken ship?
Martha?
Well, well, it didn't land well, to say the least, and I think there are a lot of junior officer chat boards, as they're called in.
The military have been talking about that, putting it kind of on a recruiting poster with those words.
But all in all saying that the Crozier was betraying them.
They, I think a good number of them.
And that was so obvious in those videos posted online by by some of those sailors so obvious they support Captain Crozier.
So I think, uh, the acting secretary of the Navy's words really landed with giant thump to some of those sailors on board.
And President Trump today said that the captain's letter showed quote weakness.
Could all of this have a chilling effect with other Navy captains?
I think it's had a chilling effect with with a lot of leaders in the Navy.
I think this is probably the most disastrous at the very least public affairs problem the Navy has had in decades and decades.
And there are a lot of young officers out there saying, Wait a minute, we want to speak up If we if we have to speak up in something's getting is not getting done now, you could argue the way he did it.
Whatever he did in the end, in the middle of a crisis, they removed a Navy captain, and that is not great for morale.
President Trump's surprisingly said he's gonna look into this late this afternoon at his press conference, said, Look, I'm gonna take a look at this.
This Navy captain's career was very good before this, and I don't want to destroy somebody for just having a bad days.
You know, Lindsay, the president has, if you will interfered in several military cases, so will we'll see what he does about this one.
It's not like Captain Kircher has been kicked out of the Navy.
He has not.
He would likely get another job.
But what is most likely in any situation like this where you are relieved of command for a particular duty you have then is you don't get promoted.
So that's what we really have to watch here.
Martha Raddatz for us in Washington, D.
C Martha, Thank you.
And when we come back, it's the malaria draw that's touted is being promising against Kobe, 19 by the president, while at the same time leading administration health official Anthony Fauci has urged caution.
So where do things stand with that?
Another state embroiled in a fight over what to do about their election?
Of course, this is, after all, an election year on Later in the show, what the airline industry is doing to help first responders as it struggles to survive.
But first, here's some of the trending stories on ABC news dot com.
We're working on the assumption that almost every patient has thrown at this point on the number of Corona patients have vastly outnumbered non Corona patients and so much the entire emergency departments of Hot Zone.
At this point, it's really an all hands on deck situation.
Everyone's putting in a really long hours here every day, you know, 12 to 14 hours a day.
You're seeing, you know, staff having to work in totally different in a totally different environment, totally different way than they used to prior to this, you know, we would put on PEOPIE for one or two patients here.
They're somebody came in with tuberculosis or measles or something else that required us tow gown up.
We'd have family around.
We've had a lot of visitors around.
What you're seeing now is you're seeing, you know, everyone's in pee pee all of the time, and the patients, unfortunately, aren't able to have the kind of support that we'd like them to have it.
All we're trying to do is if we keep her head above the water.
We keep a CZ many patients as we can in a proper hospital bed with proper ventilator.
And, you know, we could do this for hopefully the next 3 to 4 weeks, Hopefully will have gotten over that crest and done the best we could for our patients.
And for our staff changes that come out of this, they're gonna be changed that they're gonna be long.
Last second.
We're not really gonna know what that shape is until we're on the other side.
But I'm society is never gonna be exactly the same as it Waas.
That was a Brooklyn doctor going through their struggles.
As this pandemic continues, doctors and scientists are desperately searching for some kind of effective treatment.
President Trump continues to town.
One treatment in particular.
Ah, malaria drug called hydroxide.
Chlorine.
Quinn.
Now the big question.
Does that drug actually help?
Is it worth any potential risks?
ABC is Kaylee.
Hartung reports tonight questions about that drug enthusiastically promoted by the President.
What are the risks and does it work?
And there are signs that it works on this somber, strong signs.
His own medical experts warn the anti malaria drug hydrochloric Wynn hasn't been proven effective against Cove it 19 and carries potentially serious side effects.
The president even stepping in yesterday to stop Dr Anthony Fauci from answering questions about the drug, weigh in on this issue.
What would you think about this?
And what is What is the matter with that question?
Maybe your doctor?
15.
Is there a medical expert?
Correct.
Some patients report they have seen promising results like Yvette Pats hospitalized with pneumonia, a complication from Kobe.
19.
The effects, unfortunately, got so bad that we did start looking for outside answers, and I felt like I was drowning in, you know, my own airway, she says.
Her doctors put her on the drug for five days, and she believes it contributed to her recovery.
Now I feel amazing.
I feel fantastic, and I have all of this energy, and I feel like I'm ready to burst.
Whether the drug is what helped her is not known.
Jim Cassis was given hydrochloric win and has not improved.
He's fighting for his life on a ventilator, his daughter desperate for alternative treatments.
So many thousands of people's lives are at risk because there is nothing set in place for people like my dad.
This is a plea and a cry for help.
Another of those experimental treatments using plasma from people who've recovered from Kobe, 19 rich with antibodies to the virus to see if it can help those infected.
The FDA has authorized trials at only a few institutions throughout the country.
At ST Joseph's Hospital here in California, 36 year old Jason Garcia, one of the first to donate, Get and Kaylee joins us Now live with more.
We just heard the president talking about this drug, he says.
Quote.
What do you have to lose?
Do we know the answer to that question?
What are the possible side effects here?
Well, Lindsay, the side effects can include lightheadedness, dizziness and tingling fingers.
But in very rare cases, there was a risk of sudden death.
This drug can cause people's heart to suddenly stop, so doctors have to very carefully weigh these risks with the potential reward case by case.
I spoke with one man today whose brother is among the more than 500 people on ventilators in Louisiana fighting this virus, and he said, When you are at the end of your rope.
You are gonna try to grab anything you can.
His brother has been given this drug, and they are glad that he has been given it, and they're holding out hope that it will help.
But the scientific community is cautioning Lindsay that it could be weeks, even months before this drug that is typically used to treat malaria and Lupus could be actually effective in treating Cove in 19.
Still, some time needed there.
OK, Kaylie, thanks so much for that report, and we still have a lot to get into here on ABC News Prime, a Detroit bus driver who days earlier went viral, is now dead tonight his family's emotional plea.
But first our tweet of the day.
The NYPD welcoming one of its officers first sickened with Corona virus back on the beat.
Welcome back.
The Corona virus pandemic has upended to the presidential primary calendar in recent weeks.
Today, Wisconsin Governor Tony Evers issued an executive order attempting to postpone tomorrow's planned in person voting in Wisconsin.
Ah, move later blocked by the state Supreme Court.
So let's take a look at the pandemics impact on voting in 2020 vie vin numbers presidential primaries and 16 states have now been postponed because of the cove.
It 19 pandemic Democratic National Convention has also been postponed until mid August.
Many advocates want everyone to have the right to vote by mail in order to increase voter participation and maintain social distancing.
Ah, move that President Trump says would only lead to more voter fraud.
Just five states conduct all voting by mail in voting by mail can be difficult in the 16 states that require a lawful excuse to do so.
In 2016 nearly 20% of votes were cast by mail in the November general election.
Recognizing the cove it 19 poses new election challenges.
Congress recently allocated $400 million for election administration, but some advocates say more than $2 billion is needed and much more to come on.
ABC News, Live Faith and the Corona Virus.
Why are some religious leaders continuing to hold large service's way?
Talk with a pastor who had more than 1000 people at his church on Sunday.
Also 101 years young, she survived the Spanish flu pandemic, the Depression and World War Two ahead in our good news segment.
The advice this resilient woman has for you a somber milestone for the U.
S.
The number of Americans who have died from Corona virus, now topping 10,000 hospitals are bracing for what could be a surgeon.
Serious patients in many states around the country, including New York deaths are still high, nearly 600 a day in the state.
But in the past two days, Governor Andrew Cuomo says those numbers are starting to slightly flatten total number of hospitalizations down through the icy, you admissions air down and the daily intubation zehr down those rules.
Good signs.
So if this is a plateau, Governor Cuomo says, it's a high plateau.
It's a social distancing must for mated place.
Louisiana, Illinois and Florida.
Among states showing a rise in cases on Wall Street stocks rallying in late day trading, the Dow up more than 1000 points still have one of the finest I have a temperature.
Britain's prime Minister, Boris Johnson, has been moved to the I.
C.
U in the London hospital.
He spent the night there after being admitted for tests because of testing positive for Corona virus.
His fever and cough persistent 10 days after he was diagnosed.
When was a prime minister last in intensive care on.
We've heard about Churchill during the war getting ill and so on, but this is dramatic, the prime minister has asked Dominic Raab, first sexual state deputizing when foreign, where necessary.
The prime minister is in safe hands with brilliant e across the continent.
There is hope in Italy and Spain, recent data suggesting the outbreak could finally be slowing due to social distancing.
But both countries moving to extend their locked down period.
We expect more cases.
We expect more deaths.
We expect more tragedy.
Confusion over Wisconsin's upcoming primary set for tomorrow.
The state's Democratic governor issued an executive order postponing in person voting until June, citing Corona virus concerns.
I cannot in good conscience allow any types of gathering that would further the spread of this disease and to put more lives at risk.
But hours later, the state Supreme Court ruled against him, saying the vote will go as planned.
Wisconsin's Republican lawmakers celebrated the news.
He's now speaking out former inspector general for the intelligence community who handled the whistle blower complaint that led to the president's impeachment.
Michael Atkinson was fired by the president on Friday night.
It's hard not to think that the president's loss of confidence in him comes from his faithfully discharging his legal duties as Intel inspector general, says Michael Atkinson in an e mailed statement.
He denies Mr Trump's public implication that he Atkinson is a political partisan and urges employees of Intel agencies to continue to report possible wrongdoing, saying the need for secrecy in the process is not a grant of power but a grant of trust.
Welcome back hot spots continue to emerge across the country.
Earlier, we told you about the fight in Louisiana.
The situation in Michigan is also taking a turn out A B C's Matt Gutman has a story of a grieving family of a Detroit bus driver, and they're pleased to the public.
We all here as public workers doing the job.
The family of Detroit bus driver Jason Hargrove is grieving tonight and pleading with the public.
This is not a game out here.
This is not a joke.
Out here.
I am missing my husband.
My Children don't have their get anymore.
There's a serious Hargrove's Facebook posting about a passenger coughing on him went viral, and days later he got sick.
But you get on the bus and stand on the bus.
It costs several times.
That lets me know that's some folks don't care.
He's one of over 700 to die in Michigan, where the disease has impacted the African American community especially hard.
They comprise only 14% of the population but 40% of the deaths.
With the national death toll topping 10,000 some still ignoring state home orders, this park in San Francisco packed people piling into this market in Washington, D.
C.
And on Palm Sunday over 1200 gathering for church in Louisiana, the pastor telling us they practiced social distancing.
And so far nine governors have still not issued statewide shelter at home orders.
Just today, Iowa's governor ordering businesses shut down after cases spiked about 35% since the weekend.
This virus doesn't discriminate whether you're in a small town versus whether you're in a big city tonight.
The urgent need to test people for the virus, intensifying the federal government's saying at least 1.6 million tests have been done.
But that's only about half of 1% of all Americans You at the Malibu.
Urgent care clinic.
Dr.
Dan Cats will administer 450 tests over the next 48 hours, all of them toe high risk people.
The swabs only take a few seconds to administer, but it's already months into this epidemic, and this is the first time that tests have been done here outside Los Angeles.
And they're waiting in the rain was Lisa Joe Magee, a Lupus survivor who depends on a drug now used against Cove.
It, even though it's effectiveness against the virus, is unproven.
So basically, people started buying out hydrochloric pharmacy.
But it was, but a dear friend of mine found pharmacist.
Really, I finally got it.
Our thanks to Matt for that report.
Three weeks ago, the White House recommended avoiding gatherings of more than 10 people to slow the spread of Corona virus.
Well, since then, many churches air now streaming and holding on line worship service is But one church in Baton Rouge has continued to hold large, gathering some with more than 1200 people.
A few states have exempted.
Religious service is from their state wide stay at home orders.
But Louisiana is not one of them.
The leader of Life Tabernacle Church Pastor Tony Spell joins us now live.
Thanks so much for being with us, Pastor.
Thank you, Lindsay, for handing us on today.
We're honored to be here speaking with you.
So you were arrested and charged with misdemeanors for holding service is last week and that violated the governor's orders.
Yet you allowed well over 1000 people into your church again yesterday.
I see that you follow other law, so why not follow this one?
We have had to service is since my arrest.
Because we hold these truths to be self evident that all men are created equal and we're in doubt but writes from our creator.
Our rights are not derived from my local and national governments.
But our rights will be ride and given to us by divine creator God.
Our foreign missionaries sewer in Communist nations and Islamic nations today are preaching the gospel who also go against their governing bodies to preach the gospel of Jesus Christ which is essential for people salvation and will be.
You have said that people have quote nothing to fear.
As of today, Louisiana has more than 14,000 cases, and more than 500 people in your state have died from the virus.
So isn't there a difference between fear and wisdom as far as taking precautions based on actions that can put lives at risk?
Yes, that's great point.
The Bible actually teaches.
The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom.
We have nothing to fear but fear itself.
What is worse, people who are imprisoned in their homes for the past 23 days are people that are saying We can't stay indoors anymore.
We need to get out and the churches that place that is their third place to get out, too.
You know that everybody who gets out is defying the governor's orders because he has a stay at home order.
But it seems like the narrative is the church is the one under attack, while our large retailers have people in there by the thousands right now.
Yet there's a double standard in our nation, one for retailers and one for churches.
We want people.
Yesterday was Palm Sunday.
We're six days from the largest Christian holiday of the year.
People are gonna be coming in from across America as they did yesterday to our service is because they never missed an Easter Sunday worship in their life.
And we promised them that our church doors would be open for a worship experience.
Okay, so you will be back open again on Easter Sunday?
No question asked, no questions asked.
We have three service's weekly.
We have our next one tomorrow night at 7 30 The majority of my church members have been laid off because they're being non essential workers in the petrochemical industry.
Others are a section eight and a very impoverished group of people in our city who depend on us for food and clothing and shelter.
So this is why we continue to operate not only under our constitutional rights, but under our God given mandate.
Sure, but let's just say that you have the right to do it.
At what point is it irresponsible?
You've just said that a large portion of your congregation that they're impoverished and so they likely don't have health care.
And so if they do get sick, then what?
I mean, at what point are you responsible?
What point is there kind of blood on your hands, so to speak?
There would never be blood on our hands.
We screen everyone that comes through the door.
We checked them for we check their temperatures.
We asked them a series of questions that has been getting to us from the Senate of disease and control of lead.
So way.
This in fact, I'd be old England day to day basis because we operate seven days per week.
So you would have to prove that people who have only left their homes and come to our church got the sickness.
Here we practice better social distancing our sanctuary that is being practiced in the hundreds of storms that remain open in our city, which mosh pits of violent people who were irate and fighting over rolls of toilet paper.
Right now, well, you brought up the stores and you said that your church is imposing any more of a threat than grocery stores that air.
They're open right now, But stores are, in theory, limiting how many people can come inside in order to enforce social distancing.
And 1200 people were inside your church at one time yesterday.
So why is going thio your church less of a risk that go in a Wal Mart, for example.
It less of a risk because this is an attack on the freedoms of Americans.
And this is in persecution of the faith.
This is about shutting the doors to the church.
We'll see that narrative come to be true in just a short while.
America's economy.
They never recover from this Lindsay.
But we know the church is going to continue to operate.
Even if every business shudders in America, the church will go underground and continue to operate.
So we're breaking no laws.
No laws can be put upon, um, worshippers and religious gatherings.
Who had the right to assemble our rights to assemble are your rights of the press and freedom of speech?
So the narrative is false.
If this was about deaths, the 10,000 deaths than 150,000 babies who were innocently murdered yesterday in abortion clinics across the world would be spoken up for.
This isn't about deaths.
This is about taking freedoms from the greatest nation in the world.
You're saying you're not breaking any laws, but you were arrested, right?
And and I guess I guess my question to you is it sounds like you're taking this personally that this is an affront to religion in particular.
But a lot of churches have moved.
Their worship service is toe online.
So So why wouldn't you do that?
I mean, it seems like something you could consider to do that you're still able to get the word out about God.
Well, we have.
We have live streamed.
Our service is a cz well, and we have about 300,000 viewers in those service is from what I gather.
However, we still assembled because the word of God commands us to and Hebrews 10 25 seconds.
Timothy 3 15 and some 35 18 among a few verses.
It's not the same Lindsay to sit behind a computer screen and worship as it is to go into a great congregation and shell the spirit of unity in one mind and one accord in one place.
It is not the same because, yes, center up really quickly, because, I mean, the Bible also said there were two or more are gathered there.
Am I in the midst, so I'm just curious.
Why is that not sufficient?
Then it's not sufficient because that is one verse that says together, however, an axe, too.
And one, it says they were all with one mind and one accord.
And in one place that was about 500 on Dhe then and then in some 27 4 This is our desire to assemble into the house of God.
So I have two attorneys that are that have presently filed suit against the man who has arrested me, not for breaking the law, because I asked him which law I broke.
And they said you had defied the governor's emergency orders.
What those air not lost those air not lost their strong recommendations.
I strongly recommend that my grandchildren pick up their toys, but they don't do it.
Okay, Pastor spell, we really appreciate your time.
Thank you for joining us.
God bless America.
And now to our nation's airlines, they're facing a daunting challenges.
Stay at home orders have left many airports around the country virtually empty, with both domestic and international travel at new lows.
But as they grapple with the damage to their business, the airlines have also been stepping up to assist in the battle against Kobe.
19.
NBC's Geo Benitez has that story Tonight.
Hundreds of planes are sitting at airports all across the country.
This is what it looks like at Pittsburgh International Airport, Delta and American Airlines planning to ground more than 1000 planes combined.
The nation's airlines are some of the hardest hit businesses during the covert 19 crisis.
Theo TSA, reporting passenger traffic has hit its lowest point in over a decade.
Today were fined less than half of our previously scheduled domestic flights, and those aircraft are flying with fewer than 15% of the seats.
Folks.
Madam President Before last month's rescue bill, lawmakers hit the airlines for not using their profits in recent years to prepare for a potential crisis.
One of the reasons Let's not forget that many airlines air so short of cash right now is they spent billions on stock buybacks, money they had to send out when they should have been saving it for a rainy day for their workers and customers.
But with the global airline industry taking an estimated $252 billion hit and lost revenue this year, the U.
S government is giving US airlines Ah, $58 billion bailouts with strict conditions, and now these airlines are working to help address the covert 19 prices in unique ways.
Delta releasing this video announcing it would manufacture protective face shields for health care workers on the front lines of the pandemic.
Then there's JetBlue, delivering cots and business class blankets and pillows.
Toe hospitals in the New York area, where the company is headquartered, and overt.
Alaska Airlines on effort to rush facemask materials to make hundreds of thousands of masks.
The materials in these boxes on this one flight can make more than 200,000 masks.
This is part of our culture in Alaska and be able to be part of the solution here and helping shipping massed down to get produced in downtown Phoenix or something we're excited to be part of, and we look forward to working with more people to take care of this United also telling ABC News it's offering free round trip tickets for medical volunteers hoping to help out in the hard hit New York City area, with plans to expand the program to include New Jersey and Connecticut and now images from abroad.
Americans stranded internationally within closed borders united, sending us this photo from a repatriation flight boarding in Lima, Peru, bound for Washington, D. 00:51:10.4