Good evening. I'm Anderson Cooper. Thanks very much for joining us. A lot to cover tonight.

We heard earlier from the President's Coronavirus Task Force, the U.S. death toll. Now, top 18,000

people so far in this country, from the White House believing that the peak may have been reached

or it will soon be reached, although there is some discrepanied about that on the Coronavirus Task Force.

Let's go first to CNN's Erica Hill, who is standing by Erica.

I'm sorry, Nick Watt is standing by Nick. What's the latest?

Hey, Anderson. So we had a strange afternoon here in California. We had the governor of the state

saying that the peak is not going to be as high as feared. And then we heard from LA County and

they extended the so-called Safer at Home Order through May 15th. That's another five weeks

from now. And they were at pain to say that May 15th is not some magic date. They're not promising

to lift all the restrictions when that rolls around. And of course, meanwhile, Anderson, there are still

so many people fighting a daily life and death battle with this virus.

There are triumphs, cheers for the recovery.

Numbers in New York's ICUs are actually down for the first time, some encouraging signs.

We're starting to level on the logarithmic phase like Italy did about a week ago because of the

impact of what the citizens of New York and New Jersey and across Connecticut and now Rhode

Island are doing to really change the course of this pandemic. But still so much pain.

Tara Gabriel's mum now gone, but more than just a statistic.

My mother was a real person. She was loving and selfless and kind.

In New York now, the bodies have unclaimed COVID-19 victims being taken to heart island for burial.

The official death count of more than 5,000 in the city could be undercounted with people dying

untested at home, according to the New York Times. That state now has more confirmed reported cases

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