And good evening from New York, a city which is now the epicenter of the virus in this country

with more than 15,000 people here known to be infected. We begin with breaking news the

end of a day that saw the number of coronavirus cases in the country, top 52,000, and the death

toll rise by 150. Nearly 700 people in this country have died of the virus so far. Nearly

700 men, women, and now at least one young person have died. That person believed to be a teenager.

The case numbers are spiking in states across the country, Louisiana, Georgia, and Florida.

But the epicenter, the new ground zero, as I said, is here in New York City. Hospital

officials and everyone who makes them run are telling anyone who listen that they're approaching

the breaking point. Low on supplies, they're reusing mass, doubling up patients on ventilators.

In a moment, we're going to be joined by Dr. Working, one of the city's biggest and

busiest ERs. But the message from the president of the United States today seemed at odds

with what doctors and governors are telling us what they are seeing. Today, the president

of the United States stood a few feet in front of his scientific advisors, but was really

miles away from them in his stunningly rosy assessment of what is happening and how his

administration has responded to it. The president said, and I quote, we begin to see the light

at the end of the tunnel. I just want to repeat that. The president of the United States

today said we begin to see the light at the end of the tunnel. Perhaps the president

had actually served in Vietnam instead of getting deferments. He might remember another

White House eager for a war to hand that talked about lights at the end of the tunnel.

That was in 1967. Half a million Americans were then fighting in Vietnam, and the claims

made by the generals in the White House about the light at the end of the tunnel turned

out to be very wrong indeed. Turned out to be a very long and deadly tunnel. Saigon finally

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