Navy Hospital ship Comfort has now pulled into port here in New York City, with 1000 beds to help overwhelmed hospitals.

Ah Field Hospital has been built in New York's Central Park for patients with Corona virus, the virus spreading into the Heartland amid disturbing images of large groups in defiance of those orders to stay at home in a moment right here, New York's governor, Andrew Cuomo, joins me on the new numbers just out from New York City.

The death toll.

The numbers are alarming.

Tonight, we asked to health care workers have the supplies, the protection they need as they fight this, we'll ask the governor in a moment.

As the number of deaths in the U.

S now tops 3000 tonight across this country, the grim images in New York City a body loaded into a refrigerated truck outside this Brooklyn hospital, please things that please pray for the people.

New York City, bracing for a mounting death toll more than 1200 lives lost 250 lost in just the last 24 hours we've lost over 1000 New Yorkers to me, were beyond staggering.

Already we've reached staggering.

Just today, the Navy hospital ship Comfort pulling into New York Harbor, the 1000 bed facility ready to take on Non Cove in 19 patients to relieve the pressure on the city's overwhelmed hospitals.

And, in the heart of Manhattan, a new field hospital specifically for Corona virus patients set up in Central Park As New York is pushed to the brink, the president's own team now warning the potential U.

S death toll could soar as high as 100,000 to 200,000 in this country.

I think it's entirely conceivable that if we do not mitigate to the extent that we're trying to do that, you could reach that number.

And tonight, President Trump has now reversed his hope to reopen the country by Easter, now extending social distancing guidelines to April 30th.

This is what the president said just tonight, challenging times are ahead for the next 30 days, and this is a very vital 30 days.

We're sort of putting it all in the line.

This 30 days, doctors across this country struggling to help families unable to visit their loved ones, kept from the I C U for fear they would be infected, too.

We make it a point to, uh, call families twice a day.

But I can't imagine being that person on the other end having to wait for the phone call, never knowing what sort of news you're going to get an emotional toll on nurses who are so often the critical link between a patient alone in the I.

C.

U and their family.

I just came from a patient's room.

He's actively dying.

Positive diagnosis of Copan, 19 on Dhe.

His family can't come, so I had to face time.

It's family 911 Call centers stretched thin, too.

In New York, a record 6000 calls in one day first responders have been hit hard to.

About 5000 members of the NYPD are out sick.

More than 900 officers and 260 firefighters testing positive for Corona virus cities, including Chicago.

Detroit watching cases spike to this convention center in Detroit will be turned into a 900 bed hospital.

And in Philadelphia tonight, this arena Temple University will be transformed into an overflow hospital after cases there have topped 1000.

And tonight in Los Angeles, the Navy Hospital Mercy already taking on extra patients to ease pressure on the hospitals.

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.

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 my parents 38th wedding anniversary.

This is the first time they couldn't spend it together.

Tonight, 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.

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're being set up for this Mary MacDonald recording this video, saying It's not just supplies, it's basic medication.

Word of Tylenol right of Tylenol.

I don't know what I can do to save people anymore.

And tonight, California officials are now warning that they're on the verge of a spike to the state, has a least 5700 cases.

And in New Orleans for the first time since Hurricane Katrina, the convention center there now transformed a deal with an unfolding catastrophe over the weekend cases in Louisiana, jumping from roughly 2700 on Friday to more than 4000 today.

Stunning to see the convention center prepared for something like this all these years later again.

Tonight we're hearing from the front lines America's medical hero sharing their stories.

The doctors, nurses, the health care workers fighting this battle, risking their lives to save others, some separated from their own loved ones and fearful, of course, that they might bring the virus home to their families.

Here's ABC smack up in tonight E love You never did I ever think that I was going to be on the front lines fighting a war.

I shaved my head as a rally, crying as a personal reminder that this is life and death.

It's incredible.

Degree of illness.

Doctor Ed Lathan is one of the thousands of doctors and nurses who are part of the battle against the covert pandemic.

Lathan says those harrowing images posted on Facebook of overcrowded e.

R.

At Jamaica hospital in Queens have been mirrored at hospitals all over his area.

It's been 17 towers since I got here this morning at seven o'clock arrived.

There has been no I see you beds with multiple resuscitation tze and innovations patients critically ill.

You don't have opportunity to sit down, to eat, to drink, barely to go to the bathroom.

This virus has affected everybody swarm sleeping in the garage because I don't want to bring the enemy home with me way.

Bring them tour.

I see we put him on the ventilator.

Problem is, is that every single coding patient that we get isn't leaving.

Every patient is still on the ventilator, still incredibly ill.

That's another bed.

Another nurse and the nurses.

They're rate.

I don't want to bring it home to my kids.

I don't want to bring it home to my family.

Most disconcerting thing is that we're losing.

Staff members are nurses are sick.

But despite that risk, every day, nurses are still answering the call to deal with the flood of cove.

It patients right here like a fish l.

A hospital.

This is beginning the check in process for patients that will drive in.

Nurses are ready, geared up and ready for whatever is to come.

This I'm just getting to my car now after a long, almost 14 hour day, but the intensity of the long hours take a toll.

Years ago I took on it, Oh, to care for patients, and they're dying alone in a hospital room without family.

And then their families are grieving alone because there are in isolation.

It hurts.

And Georgia nurse Carly Rice told us about a facetime call she had with dying patients family who were unable to see their loved one in person.

It's so hard to sit there and hold your patients.

And while her family members were sitting there telling them they love them and it's not good byes.

See you later.

He was just amazing connection, you know, although it was just face, there's Charlie grabbed grandma hand and Grandma started to sleep her.

I started to say, I love you.

Issue.

Nurse.

Carly is amazing.

The world In times of Nurse Carly's, we couldn't fix it, but you certainly gave the family maybe a little bit of peace.

I hope so.

I really do.

I pray about a lot but, um, it's still wears you down.

Families are put in such a difficult position right now.

So what keeps ago?

Never dam.

And this just sounds like it's so utterly depressing.

My patients, honestly, just today, you know, as we were, are rooting on our patient as he was going to be excavated.

Our first cove, it patient to be excavated, meaning that breathing tube taken out.

And we're giving him thumbs up.

And we're dancing in front of his room that I mean, that's what keeps me going first excavation.

The best moment when I get home.

See these little you can't touch her.

How was your day?

Okay, but I can't get close to you.

Let me go change.

Okay?

It's a difficult time, but we're rising too, to the challenge.

And, uh, we're going to stay in this.

We cannot forget our health care workers.

And when you see those parents go home and they can't even hug their own Children until they get that gear off, Matt government or thanks to you.

Hi, everyone.

George Stephanopoulos here.

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