New models just released by the White House show as many as 240,000 people could die in the U.S. from coronavirus,

even with most Americans staying home.

And more than 2 million Americans could die if life returned to normal too soon.

That stark news comes on America's deadliest day of the pandemic.

In just the past 24 hours, more than 700 people have died,

raising the death toll here to more than 3,700. And tonight, the commanding officer of the USS

Theodore Roosevelt is making an extraordinary plea to evacuate a majority of the 4,000 sailors on his aircraft carrier. He says he fears the

virus is spreading on board so quickly that it is risking American lives. New York remains the

epicenter of the crisis. The governor there, Andrew Cuomo now says his state is heading into battle,

even as more health care professionals are getting sick themselves.

Our team is covering every angle of this story tonight, and Mola Langi leads us off from

New York's Central Park. Mola?

coronavirus cases, when they peak, we'll need twice the number of beds we currently have right now

in the state of New York, making these makeshift field hospitals like this one right here in Central

Park, all the more vital. At this Brooklyn hospital today, the grim ritual of bodies moved

into makeshift morgues is a stark reminder of COVID-19's toll on the nation's

largest city. So health officials are looking for hospital space anywhere they can. The home to the

U.S. Open is being converted into a 350-bed hospital, and this tent city in Central Park

started accepting patients today. Family nurse practitioner, Shelly Kelly, came to New York

from Tulsa, Oklahoma to volunteer. Ventilators are a crucial item in this response, and

hospital systems here in New York City especially are overwhelmed. We underestimated this virus.

New York Governor Andrew Cuomo said he's ordering 17,000 ventilators from China as he

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