Good evening, as we come on air, 199,819,816 people in this country have been killed by coronavirus.

Some of their names are on the screen, you see next to me.

That number from Johns Hopkins University will rise on average, about 800 people are dying

every day, so within hours, perhaps within this hour, or the next several hours, it'll

cross 200,000.

It makes you want to stop every clock on Earth.

Instead, tonight we remember.

The first recorded fatalities were back in February, and the projections show many more of us

will die in the months ahead.

Mask wearing and social distancing could have saved many of those lives on that list if

more of us were willing to wear masks and maintain distance.

The numbers are staggering, the list of names staggering.

It's easy to start viewing them as just numbers, but each is a person with a family and

people who love them and miss them terribly.

There are mothers and fathers on that list.

There are wives and husbands and sons and daughters and beloved grandparents.

There are doctors and police officers and musicians and teachers and nurses.

There is young as five months old, some are more than a hundred years old.

Over the next hour, we're going to show you as many of their names as we can.

We pulled them from our own scene and reporting as well as local and national listings from

all over the country.

That list that we are showing you, that's just a fraction of the 200,000 plus people who

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