Tonight, the fight for life versus the fight to reopen. Doctors inside a New York hospital are still overwhelmed by the battle against COVID-19.

It's been a nightmare. We have a volume of sick people like you can't believe. In one shift, I pronounce six people dead.

Meanwhile, across the country, the protests and pressure to get America back to work.

But tonight, the new research used by the White House about when it will be safe.

And one thing that needs to be in place, Governor Cuomo says he needs thousands of people to track the infected.

This is going to be a massive undertaking. And the new technology.

Could this drone be a tool to stop the spread?

The scientists silenced.

Did the Trump administration reassign the nation's top vaccine specialists over that drug the president calls a miracle treatment?

Tonight he says he's speaking out because science and not politics need to lead the way.

Danger at America's food plants.

New concerns tonight as major meat plants are forced to close because of workers testing

positive.

What this could mean for our food supply.

A reminder of good in this country,

health care heroes celebrated in New York.

And in Virginia, one teen's high-flying mission

to get much needed medical supplies to hospitals.

And it's Earth Day, tonight on the 50th anniversary,

why the skies are clear and the water is cleaner, the silver lining of a pandemic.

This is the CBS Evening News with Nora O'Don, reporting from the nation's capital.

Good evening and thank you for joining us. There are two major headlines as we come on the air tonight, putting scientists at odds with the Trump administration.

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