But Madrid's grief for its departed is far less seen, let alone heard it happens in crematoria like this one, or like so much else here behind closed doors with over 2000 dead in Spain so far, the municipal funeral home here says it's run out of equipment to safely collect bodies, and it will stop from tomorrow.

The Spanish capital has now begun its second week in lock down, the most obvious presence on otherwise empty streets of the police, finding motorists if they can't justify the importance of their journey.

Only trips to work to a supermarket, to a pharmacy or to a hospital are permitted, with Spain's prime minister now planning to extend this state of emergency until April, the 11 Spanish soldiers entered nursing homes today to disinfect them.

In some places it was too late.

The Ministry of Defense says troops have found dead people inside, almost 400,000 elderly residents are cut off from their families in homes, which often lack ventilators.

And some care home staff are too scared or too sick to come to work themselves.

The knowing fear here, as in so much of Europe, is that if cases continue to rise, the hospital's may not be able to cope.

This conference center on the outskirts of Madrid is being turned into a giant military hospital.

1000 beds are due to be in place in the next 48 hours there.

Eventually, they hope to have space for five and 1/2 1000 patients.

This morning, the first ambulance is bringing new cases started to arrive.

I'm in a terrible state, but we have to go on.

We have to fight.

May everyone find the courage in holiday resorts, hotels there now emptying after the government ordered them all to close by tomorrow.

Yet with so many planes grounded and flights canceled, many foreign tourists who left it too late.

We're still trying to find a way of getting home.

Police on the island of my orca offered their own antidote to enforced isolation, serenading local residents, confined to their homes, standing in doorways and watching from windows.

But Italy remains Europe's epicenter.

This is a social distancing queue for a supermarket in Railly, Sicily, after the island's grocery shops closed at the weekend.

They're waiting above all to be able to say the worst is over for the discernable trend of a slowing death rate finally to emerge.

And in one crematorium in northern Italy, over 100 coffins lined up and awaiting disposal.

So many Italians dying that army trucks are on standby to help remove the dead.

Where'd annoy In theory, we're used to seeing this because our job is dealing with coffins.

But this situation is also difficult for us now.

We understand the exceptional nature of this crisis way.

Realize how many families in the most affected areas are suffering now.

It sure ain't the goingto be quantified.

Just a friend of the 1,000,000 people, Peter.

In France, the army has bean deployed to build a field hospital in the eastern city of balloons.

30 intensive care beds have bean read it after local hospitals were overwhelmed.

Neighboring Germany and Switzerland have said they will take French patients if necessary, and the French Navy has been sent to the island of Corsica, evacuating those with breathing problems those patients on drips or ventilators or in need of oxygen in order to give breathing space to intensive care units, which otherwise could not cope when they're in the United States.

In the last hours, senators have again blocked a $1.8 trillion economic stimulus package as Democrats say that they were still negotiating with the Trump administration about what it should include.

Our Washington correspondents film Kennedy has more, well, John.

There are now 41,000 cases of the virus here in the U.

S.

Third only to China and Italy, and incredibly, more than half of those cases in one single state.

That's New York that is grappling to deal with this crisis, which really makes the Senate's failure to pass this emergency funding bill even Maur Stark.

The Democrats say that they won't let it pass because it focuses more on the welfare of corporations than it does on hospitals on ordinary people.

The talks are ongoing.

Hopefully, they will come to some agreement later on today.

That's what they're promising.

We know that President Trump is desperate for them to reach an agreement.

He really wants to flood the market with billions and billions worth of dollars.

We know how worried he is about the impact.

All of this is having on the economy, incidentally, is Paul was mentioning They're here to the economy, that Wall Street has wiped out practically all of its gains since the president came to power.

In fact, all of those gains have now been completely wiped out, and he has tweeted today.

We cannot let the cure be worse than the problem itself, though I have to say there are many people, including the medical experts within his own inner circle.

Who would say that the cure, given the spread of this virus, cannot be tough enough.

Medical supplies being loaded onto the U.

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Naval ship Mercy, a giant floating hospital with 1000 beds headed for the Port of Los Angeles, the epicenter of the viral crisis in California.

Over the weekend, the state was declared a major disaster zone, freeing up billions in federal funding as its name.

40 million residents remain in lock down further north.

The National Guard was deployed alongside the young in a food bank in Sacramento is usually man by elderly volunteers.

But with them now in isolation on demand for food supplies rising, they had to call in the military something that I never thought would happen in my lifetime.

And just to know, like them being out here just shows how serious this issue is.

Just because the world shut down doesn't mean that need has shut down.

In New York City, a huge conference center is being converted into an emergency hospital amid warnings that 3000 intensive care beds will somehow need to grow to 30,000 across the state to cope with the massive influx of infected patients.

Its biggest challenge.

The dwindling supply of critical medical equipment like masks and ventilators.

We're a country not based on nationalizing our business.

And despite proudly signing the Defense Production Act to require companies to make those supplies, President Trump remains reluctant to use it for fear it will look to socialists.

Call a person over in Venezuela, Ask him, How did nationalization of their businesses work out?

Not too well.

But with nearly 21,000 cases in New York state alone and 157 deaths, it's governor said now was not the time to worry about perceptions.

Yes, it is in a social of government power on private sector companies, Yes, but so what?

This is a national emergency.

Over on Wall Street, an eerie quiet descended as traders for the first time ever began an indefinite period of trading from home.

But that didn't stop the screens from turning red is a promise.

Trillion dollar plus economic relief bill failed to materialize.

Democrats in Congress said the new law favored corporations over ordinary people and voted against it.

Republicans predictably said they were playing party politics.

The bill now contains a huge number of changes that our Democratic colleagues requested, including major changes.

We were this close.

It's not just Wall Street waiting for economic relief toe lay off 50 people.

It it's just mind boggling.

I had a layoff.

My husband.

Across America, millions of small businesses like this comedy club in Washington, D.

C.

Have made the agonizing decision to shut up shop.

They hope temporarily, I can't keep people employed here if I'm gonna weather as a business.

This storm, I don't wanna cry now and I was China practices, so I wouldn't.

But it was just heart wrenching and the uncertainty for my staff and I can't help.

Hm.

And I want to help.

Um, is, um, it's brutal.

Her staff now among the near 700,000 Americans making unemployment claims a tiny fraction of what's expected in the weeks to come.

And it was students on spring break sunbathing, not social distancing, in Florida last week, that led to this state government taking matters into its own hands and banning baiters from the beaches.