Two weeks with members of his team scientists, the doctor's right there with him saying that Americans should be prepared for more than 100,000 deaths before we get through this.

In fact, at one point they said that the current projections show that even if we all adhere to the social distancing guidelines, that number could still be even higher.

As many as 240,000 dead, according to the models they're looking at right now.

All of this as the number of confirmed cases grows exponentially.

Two weeks ago, there were just under 6000 reported cases.

Tonight there are 184,000.

The death toll more than 3700 now, more deaths in the U S.

Than what was reported in China.

And as the virus spreads at least 42 states and Washington D.

C now order enclosures of nonessential businesses.

South Carolina in Texas.

Just today, tonight, New York City, the epicenter, the deaths mounting here, and I asked Governor Andrew Cuomo when he sees the peak of this and you will hear what the governor said in just a moment.

Those images today.

Bodies being loaded into trucks, the Navy hospital ship Comfort now taking patients without Corona virus to help hospitals already overwhelmed by this and equipment still in short supply.

Tonight, New York's governor saying the system as is set up right now, leading to bidding against other governors for ventilator, saying it's like being on eBay with 50 other states bidding on those ventilators tonight, we stay on the testing here, Maryland's Republican governor saying No state has enough tests, and tonight we're on the front lines with the paramedics answering the calls.

Here in New York, they are often the first to come in contact with patients with Kuroda virus.

And of course, as we do every night, Dr Jen Aston standing by with your questions.

We're gonna get to it all tonight, and we begin this evening with that message from the White House just moments ago.

ABC is Tom Yama as leading us off tonight.

The growing warning the surge is coming.

New York, already feeling it with victims of the virus being loaded into makeshift morgues and more than 1500 now dead across the state.

We have to look at this pattern and conclude that the worst is certainly in the next few weeks minimum I could see it going into May with city hospitals pushed to the max, the Navy's hospital ship, the Comfort, already receiving overflow non cove in 19 patients today, the ship's commander said he would speak to us.

We quickly learned they are taking no chances at the dock, a military checkpoint.

They take our temperature asking us a series of questions.

Mom Way have to Skype with the commander from land on Lee, naval and medical personnel allowed on board.

He tells me the magnitude of this mission hit him when they sailed past Lady Liberty.

It's unbelievable.

It really hits home the impact of what we can do to help the citizens of New York.

This is This is absolutely huge and meant so much to me.

I've been in the service for 36 years, and this is the most significant and heartfelt welcome of anything that I've ever done in my life.

The gravity of the crisis felt across the country as hospitals and state governments battle to get ventilators one of the critical tools in the fight against the Corona virus.

It's like being on E Bay with 50 other states bidding on a ventilator.

That's literally what we're doing overnight, Governor Cuomo asked by David about the timeline.

And when this virus will peak in New York.

Governor, you talk about the apex, the peak of this.

I know you were lying on your own.

Scientists behind the scenes What do the numbers tell you about when New York City, when New York State could see this apex?

You know that that's that's the hard part.

But we have a range of anywhere from about one week for the apex, some people saying another 21 days everyone.

Every model, however, shows it well over the capacity of the health care system.

So we're putting together stockpiles were trying to get the equipment together, ventilators, which everyone has heard about our key to this battle because the people who come in with acute illness they almost all need a ventilator.

Eso every projection says it's over capacity when we don't know, seven days to 21 days.

I love you in Queens, doctors and nurses scrambling around the clock.

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

There has been no I see you beds without 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.

The most disconcerting thing is that we're losing.

Staff members are nurses air sick, doctor loose.

Odysseus and her husband, a doctor, have been working at their practice to ease the crush of patients at nearby hospitals.

These virus, it's so contagious.

It's like fighting a monster with a water gun.

Her husband now hospitalized with the virus.

I think that was that was the heart of the same.

We're like we've been together for so many years.

So So the president today calling the virus a plague warning the country faces tough days ahead.

I want every American to be prepared for the hard days that lie ahead.

We're gonna go through a very tough two weeks.

You're going to start seeing some real light at the end of the tunnel, but this is gonna be a very painful, very, very painful two weeks cases popping up across the country in Austin, Texas, 28 college students returning from spring break in Mexico and testing positive for the virus.

Tonight, the Army Corps of Engineers racing to build more than 340 field hospitals across the country.

This one in a convention center in Detroit where cases are already spiking.

The mayor hearing they're facing a crisis like in New York.

We could be in that situation in two weeks if we don't keep our distance from each other.

And the governor of Maryland now pushing back against the president's claims the problems with testing have been resolved.

Yeah, that's just not true.

I mean, I know that they've taken some steps to create new test, but they're not actually produced and distributed after the state's no state has enough testing.

But tonight signs of hope for some patients, like 44 year old T to Puma Chan Ah, father of three who has been on a ventilator and was put on that experimental Ebola drug, rendez severe.

Tonight he's awake and talking.

It was devastating, and knowing he was there all by himself was really hard.

Um, but yeah, we almost we almost lost him.

And it was It was a really release.

Scary time.

Very scary time.

Tommy.

Ah, misleading us off again tonight, Tom.

We heard the president there in your piece just moments before we came on the air tonight.

Telling Americans to expect a very painful a very, very painful time in the next two weeks were his words Governor Andrew Cuomo telling me overnight in that interview that he's expected that these guidelines could go beyond April 30th that they're prepared for that possibility and the president even talking about the images this country is now seeing out of New York, Of course, the makeshift morgues all over the city.

That's right, David, actually the president addressing the images our viewers just saw in the report.

We just aired right there, talking about the doctors and nurses going to those hospitals and queens like they're walking into battle and then describing the moment when he saw those Americans, those Americans who have died from Kobe 19 being loaded into the freezer trucks.

He called them tractor trailer, saying nobody could imagine that David Tommy Thomas leading us off again tonight, Tom.

Thank you.

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