It's a Tuesday morning in Brooklyn and well it's a strange scene.

Usually this part of New York City is packed with busy office workers and pedestrians

bumping into each other rushing to their daily commutes.

Today the streets are nearly empty.

And as the threat of the novel coronavirus pandemic continues, many people have stayed home.

But not everyone.

We wanted to know who was out in the street working when so many others had been asked

by the government and even by their own employers to avoid being outside.

Here's our producer Joana D'Aluna talking to a construction worker.

He says the only directions he's gotten so far have been to show up to work.

I trust God, nothing else.

I don't know.

I don't know.

It's true.

A woman collecting bottles on the sidewalk says she's leaving her fate in God's hands.

And then there's a delivery man who says he's worried he could come into contact with the virus at any time.

We have to leave.

There's the flower vendor.

He says he needs to keep going out.

Because he can't make money by staying home.

Those of us who can have probably been obsessively following the headlines about the virus.

The Centers for Disease Control says the coronavirus could soon turn into a pandemic.

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