secretary of state mike pompeo and devin anyone's and dr. anthony fauci among our guests tomorrow. see you tomorrow. lauren: it is 5:00 a.m. here are your top stories at this hour. the first ballots in the first in the nation primary you state have been cast and the race is nothing like iowa. we're live in new hampshire with the surprising surge from the new leading candidate. cheryl: breaking overnight, another american has contracted the deadly coronavirus as the global death toll tops 1,000. how will this affect u.s. economic growth. we may get a clue from chair jay powell when he testifies before congress today. lauren: getting political doesn't always pay off. the new low the of oscars just hit and the celebrity that's saying i told you so. it is tuesday, february 11th and "fbn: a.m." starts right

now. ♪ ♪ joy to the world. ♪ all the boys and girls. ♪ joy to the fishes in the deep blue sea. ♪ joy to you and me. ♪ cheryl: what a joyous way to kick off our tuesday morning with all of you. welcome to "fbn: a.m.." good morning, i'm cheryl casone. lauren: we were saying how much we love that song. thank you for joining us. i'm lauren simonetti. cheryl: investors continue to monitor any news on the coronavirus. under armour reporting before the bell today, the s&p is up 7, nasdaq up 33 and a quarter. lauren: stocks in asia, mostly higher r despite the coronavirus

death toll rising. cheryl: we have positive numbers across the pond, the ftse, da dashing dax and cabbi . president trump holding a l rall--holding a rally before pry voting. lauren: hillary vaughn has more. the president really had another explosive rally last night. >> reporter: lauren and cheryl, good morning. that's right, the president on the stump in manchester, new hampshire, warning his thousands of supporters that turned out last night about putting a socialist in the white house. >> the democrat party wants to run your healthcare but they can't even run a caucus in iowa. does anybody know who won iowa. flip a coin, they're going to run your healthcare. >> reporter: that's something joe biden and amy klobuchar have

warned bowed. while bernie sanders continues to surge. biden made the final pitch to voters last night and spent his final stop on the campaign trail visiting firefighters in londo londondairy. >> thank you for how much you've done. stick with me. 24 more hours. i promise you we're going to do just fine heading south and across this country. we're going to win this nomination. [ cheering and applause ] >> reporter: bernie sanders ended his night with a star-studded lineup and played the opening act for a rock band. sanders introduced the strokes on steakon stage last night wita record breaking crowd turnout of 7,500 people, asking them to vote for him today. >> tomorrow is an historically important day. let us go forward, let us have the largest he voter turnout in the history of the new hampshire

primary. let's win this thing! >> reporter: midnight voting is a primary tradition in new hampshire and kicks off with the town of dicksville notch. two wrote in michael bloomberg which means, lauren and cheryl, for a brief moment here in new hampshire, a billionaire who was not on the ballot was in the lead for the democratic primary. lauren and cheryl. cheryl: five votes cast, here we go, hillary. the day is kicked off. lauren: it's true, but then the national poll, bloomberg has a quantum leap into third place. stay with us throughout the day for special coverage of several. cheryl: tune in for a special edition of cavuto coast to coast at 8:00 p.m. eastern time tonight on fox business. breaking overnight, the u.s. has its 13th confirmed case of the coronavirus. the california patient had been

released by mistake after initially testing and showing no signs of infection after arriving on a charter flight from wuhan last thursday. the patient is in isolation in a san diego hospital. the first group of evacuees are set to be released as soon as today. officials say no one on the january flight has tested positive. lauren: the death toll is now topping 1,000. there are more than 42,000 cases confirmed in china and in hong kong new worries about the mode of transmission as dozens of people quarantined at a hong kong building complex, two cases suggest the virus may have spread through the building's plumbing according to a report in the new york times. the trump administration is blaming china for the 2017 hack of equifax. four chinese military officers indicted for breaking into the credit reporting agency and stealing the personal data of nearly 150 million americans.

the justice department says trade secrets were also stolen from equifax. the attorney general called the scale of the theft staggering. there has been no response from chinese ochinese officials. cheryl: jay powell will be on capitol hill today to begin two days of hearings on potential threats to the u.s. economy. what investors want to hear is how china's coronavirus outbreak could affect the global economy this year and how the fed might have to he respond to that. president trump told trish regan that china has the coronavirus under com control but then he criticized chairman powell for raising interest rates three times last year. >> we should not have tightened like we did. we should have a lower fed rate right now. he's let me down. i think he's done the wrong thing. cheryl: the be president telling trish he would welcome negative interest rates in the u.s. in order to remain

competitive with other countries, like germany and japan. lauren: more troops are suffering from brain injuries after iran's missile attack last month. cheryl: this is a devastating story. tracee carrasco has that story. tracee: more than 100 american troops have been diagnosed with traumatic brain injuries. the pentagon confirmed 109 soldiers were hurt, that's 50% jump from the 64 reported just last month. almost three quarters of the service members are back on active duty. the january attack is considered retaliation after u.s. forces killed a top iranian general. president trump traveled to delaware following his rally in new hampshire last night. he went to dover air force base to pay respects to two u.s. soldiers killed in afghanistan on saturday. president trump saluted the fallen heros, sergean as their s were carried out of the plane. vice president pence was also

there to honor the service men. last week, uber said it would be profitable by the end of the year. after the bell, lyft reports earnings and it's questionable when it will see profitability. the ride share company has lost about two and a quarter billion dollars over the past three quarters. last month, lyft announced changes, laying off 90 people in its marketing and enterprising operations as part of a restructuring effort. analysts are expecting lyft's revenue to come in at $984.7 million and earnings per share loss of $1.39. estes la's cyber truck has a new competitor from a company named after the same scientist. auto maker nikola what has plans to offer a full size electric pickup. badger will compete for customers with upcoming models from tesla, gmc and ford. they are working on several

electric and fuel cell powered semitractors that it claims to have $14 billion worth of orders for and will begin producing at a factory it's building in coolidge, arizona starting in 2022. lauren: meanwhile, gas prices are down 20 days in a row. cheryl: tracee, thank you so much. let's take a look at what is not down, we have green arrows this morning. the dow is higher by 58 points, s&p is up by 6, nasdaq up 31 and a quarter. coronavirus headlines, everybody's watching and also we have earnings before the bell, tracee is talking about that. iowa democrats still can't get it together. the sign the party is still in disarray after last week's caucus chaos. what will today's pry mayor youly in new hampshire bring -- primary in new hampshire bring. lauren: is your kid asking for a broom. don't get too excited. they're not going to clean up. the new viral challenge that is

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lauren: if this isn't irony, take a look at this video. it shows a sign for the iowa democratic party falling from a podium. it happened as the chairman troy price gave an update on last week's chaotic caucuses there. both campaigns for bernie sanders and pete buttigieg have requested a total of 85 a

precincts to be recanvassed. look at that, the sign fell. is that a sign. cheryl: hopefully that doesn't foreshadow what's to come today in new hampshire. especially for the democrats. obviously with the democrats hoping for less problems today in the new hampshire primary, what can we expect for that, we turn to democratic strategist spencer and chairman for the community to defend the president, ted harvey. spencer, your party needs to recover from iowa. new hampshire is the big showing. the crazy story is the intense competition between sanders and buttigieg. sanders beat hillary clinton in this primary four years ago. what are the tea leaves telling you today? >> -- tea leafs telling you today. >> sanders is a really strong campaigner. he keeps surprising people that want to write him off. it happened in 2016. it appears to be happening again this time around.

538 had him 50% forecast probability of winning the nomination. that has dipped a little bit to 40%. we shouldn't put too much faith in forecasts like this. anything can happen as we have found repeatedly, especially in primaries. yeah, sanders is strong. at the same time, buttigieg is also very strong and represents the more moderate wing of the party. what they have in common is a strong sense of who they are and voters are hungry for authenticity. they want somebody they can trust to fight for them. i think both of those candidates project that in their own ways. cheryl: it's interesting, we're looking at the latest quinnipiac poll. the new hampshire primary, the national poll as well, sanders is ahead of joe biden. this is an interesting turn of events for joe biden. obviously, the concern is will he start to lose donors if he doesn't show strong in new hampshire and does this mean that his campaign is really in trouble? >> well, i think his campaign's been in trouble for months now.

i've been saying what that he won't make it through -- to super tuesday. cheryl: remind me why, ted? >> one, i think that he is getting on in age and he's not doing as well as he had been in the past. but i also think that the ukraine impeachment fiasco that the democrats are trying to use to bring down trump is actually going to backfire on them and bring down biden. i think he's going to be hurting going into super tuesday and i think that opens up a huge door for michael bloomberg to come forward with all of his billions of dollars that he's been spending in the super tuesday states to jump into the lead and as you were saying earlier, he jumped into third place in the national polling. so i think after these primaries and these four states, nobody's going of to come out as a leader. they're all going to be marked up, they're all going to be doing everything they can to run to the left as far as they can, and they're not going to be electable and they're going to be out of money and that's going to leave open a door for michael

bloomberg to jump into the lead. cheryl: michael bloomberg has spent $300 million on advertising across the country. he's spending bill money in big states like california, texas, that of course is super tuesday, that is march 3rd. bloomberg got three write-in votes of the five that were cast at midnight in the first primary in new hampshire. what do you make of the bloomberg surge? >> it's really impressive. i want to say quickly that the impeachment thing wasn't a fiasco, it was a constitutional duty and the story about biden and ukraine is a story. it's russian propaganda. the bloomberg surge is an example of a really start candidate who has a great story. money won't do it by itself as we're seeing with tom steyer, also also a strong candidate. i've seen what bloomberg is

doing. if we look at one of the lessons from president trump's election, a lot of people on both sides of the aisle are sick of the system as it is. they were looking for somebody who is an effective businessman who can shake things up and bring confidence and mike bloomberg is that for real instead of for pretend. ii think he has a strong story o tell. cheryl: the parallels for president trump who had a strong rally, he has strong support for new hampshire, the economy is doing really well, looking at new information that the economy is strong, americans are more confident about the economy, he we'll talk about that later in the show but that economy seems to be powering ahead this president. is michael bloomberg the business answer on the democratic side to president trump? >> well, i definitely think he is going to energize the base of the democrat party that are moderate and the unaffiliated voters that are moderate that might be able to vote in some of the swing states. i think in the end it is the president's policies that are

going to win out. he is revolutionizing the economy, he is going out there and setting new trade policies with china, with mexico, with canada. he is winning these efforts on behalf of the american people and the american workers. and i think he's going to be he rewarded with that. i'll make a prediction right here. i will bet that bloomberg will win the nomination and i bet that he will pick hillary clinton as his running mate. if he does that, that will be a formidable ticket for the democrats coming into november. cheryl: she has said she doesn't want to do that but ted, you're on tape and we're going to keep that. ted, spencer, thank you very much. appreciate it. we're going to talk more about how confident americans are on the economy. thanks, guys. lauren: the student who was at the receiving end of that comment from joe biden is now speaking out. >> so how do you explain the performance in iowa and why should the voters believe that you can win the national election?

>> ever been to a caucus? no, you haven't. you're a lying dog faced pony soldier. you said you were, but now you've got to be honest. i'm going to be honest with you. lauren: that comment got a lot of attention, it was an interview where the student, that young girl, madison moore, said the moment left her feeling humiliated. biden's campaign said it was a joke with the reference coming from a john wayne movie, that you nonow people he know about . cheryl: it fell flat and people said he was condescending. lauren: let's take a look at your money. any gain today will be a new record for the s&p 500 and nasdaq, dow up 75 points. the phone wars are heating up. samsung is about to unveil its first flagship phone of the new year. we have all the details. cheryl: a couple quarantined on a cruise ship because of the coronavirus, trying to make the best of a very bad situation. how the they used drone

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♪ my telephone. ♪ cheryl: get your phones out. today is the day samsung is set to reveal the latest foldable smartphone. lauren: that always sounds like trouble to he me. joining us now, trouble himself, brett larson. >> i was going to say, don't i sound like trouble. a foldable phone by samsung. they did an advertisement at the oscars. when we reached out for comment, they said we have no comment

about anything coming out today. glad the right hand know what the left hand's doing. speaking of hands, look at this thing. this is finally -- i feel like this is the foldable phone that everybody wants of. it folds down into a clam shell so it becomes a flip phone. for those of us alive in the '90s, that's the phones we want. it's got a beautiful screen. samsung had issues with the foldable phone that they shipped last year in terms of the screen -- what they fought was the screen protecter being able to be peeled off. there were issues with the hinge. they delayed the phone by three to six months. but they figured everything out and this is the next level. lauren: price tag for us? >> over $1,000. cheryl: do you think apple will come out with one? >> i hope so. i hope so. apple is never one to be sort of first in the market with a new type of technology. they want to make sure the technology works. they want to make sure the consumer experience is going to be better.

i think if these foldable -- so far the foldable phones haven't been big hits. the samsung one opened up to be a tablet. everyone said that's great but i want a smaller phone, not a smaller tablet. so hopefully apple will take a peek at what -- motorola has the razr coming out that's also a flip phone but also $1,500. lauren: sometimes apple does things later but better. one couple has a genius idea for delivery. >> a couple on a cruise ship in japan that's been quarantined because of the coronavirus found a unique way to keep themselves entertained, drone delivery of wine. they were able to do this, there they are, stuck on the cruise ship. i think they've been extended to 28 days. there it is. they had a bottle of wine delivered by drone. they were able to do that and i guess when you think about it, when you -- in these sort of situations, and not to make light of a situation, but if you have a situation where people are being quarantined in place, you don't want to risk infecting

other people by sending them in with deliveries. now we have drones that can deliver obviou objectly -- obviy wine can be delivered but this can be used in any type of situation. lauren: it's been a tough week plus for those passengers on the ship. >> looking on the bright side. cheryl: you can catch brett on fox news 24/7, sirius xm channel 115. a phony resume allegedly used by lori loughlin and her husband to get their daughter into usc has been revealed. lauren: a popular kids show about rescue dogs under fire for promoting capitalism. >> thanks to sky and the pups. >> whenever you get into a tumble, just yell for help. lauren: why a professor says the private corporation of pups is sending a message that we can't trust our government. the answer coming up on "fbn:

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lauren: here is your morning cheat sheet, the top headlines to get you through the day. the first results of the new hampshire primary are in, midnight voting took place, which went to former new york city mayor michael bloomberg. in millsfield, they went for senator amy klobuchar. a 13 case of coronavirus confirmed in the u.s. overnight. the patient was released by mistake after they initially tested negative. the viruses has killed more than 1,000 people worldwide. more than 100 people died just yesterday alone. and today the best in show prize will be awarded at the 144th annual westminster ken he'll club dog -- kennel sho club dogw in new york city. while there are no bad dogs in

this competition, only one will come out on top. cheryl: i have to say, the hallmark channel is doing the rescue dog show, best in show for rescue dogs. just saying, there's a little bit of competition in the dog world. lauren: he yes, there is. cheryl: back to washington. the trump administration is cracking down on the issue of sanctuary cities. the doj announced significant escalation, handing down lawsuits and sanctions against other states. lauren: we have issues on what's driving the white house push. >> reporter: a stern warning from the do to leaders of sanctuary cities. the attorney general announcing a round of lawsuits against california, new jersey and washington for allowing criminal aliens to escape and undermining i.c.e. by coming up with way toss circumvent federal law. >> in various jurisdictions, so called progressive politicians

are jeopardizing the public safety by putting the are interest of criminal aliens before those of law-abiding citizens. >> reporter: president trump during last week's state of the union address citing several cases of illegal immigrants committing serious crimes because they were sheltered by sanctuaries. also calling for a ban. >> the ban as you know, we won at the supreme court, we lost in the lower courts out in the ninth circuit and we won in the supreme court, but, no, i think some of them go and some of them don't but the people are on our side. >> reporter: the doj also implementing unprecedented reviews of the government's and prosecutor's in those sanctuary cities. state and local leaders are hitting back. new jersey's attorney general said once again, the trump administration is sacrificing public safety for political expedience. what's disappointing is my form colleagues at the justice department have agreed to go along with this election year

stunt. gavin newsom's office said they won't back down in defending their laws. this is not the first time the government sued over sanctuary policies. in 2018 there was a lawsuit against california, the federal district judge sided with the state on that one. cheryl: we'll see how this plays out in the courts. we are getting a look at the fake resume used by lori loughlin for her daughters in the college add a missions scandal-admissions scandal. prosecutors released the document yesterday. it doesn't name which daughter it refers to. the high school graduation date does align with the age of olivia jade. said she was an award winning crew athlete, mentioned her sister was on the university of southern california's team. they are accused of paying $50

to tr5 --50,000 to try to get tr daughters into the school. lauren: the founder of theranos trying to get the case against her tossed out. her attorneys filed three motions to have the case dismissed before it goes to trial this summer. holmes' attorneys argue the indictment is short on details and holmes doesn't know what she is defending against. she is charged with felony conspiracy and massive fraud for allegedly misleading patients and doctors about blood testing technology. jay powell on capitol hill today and tomorrow to deliver his address to congress. he will discuss potential threats to the u.s. economy, but will the deadly coronavirus in china change his tone? pwc partner mitch roschelle joins us now. mitch, good morning. >> good morning. lauren: what do you expect to hear? >> i think he will wave the cautionary flag a little bit. heres' my working line, just when you think it's safe to go back to importing and exporting,

now we have this. two years of trade uncertainty, businesses didn't know what to do, tariff tit-for-tat, now we have this. it's really a threat to the global economy. think about it. china's economy used to be very manufacturing dependent. that's the way we think about it. now it's very consumer dependent, like our economy. so if you have their consumer not shopping because they're quarantined, the lunar new year was a big shopping event, a big travel event for the chinese people, that really didn't happen. so their first quarter gdp is going to be slow. there's no importing and exporting because manufacturing facilities are shut down this really could be the thing that does slow down global growth. i think he's going to talk about that. lauren: and how temporary it could be. >> it could very well be temporary. lauren: i want to talk about this gallup poll. it says 59% of americans say they're better off today, finance selection than they were a year ago and they're optimistic they're going to be even better one year from now. how do democrats run against

that? >> i think, listen, it's not impossible. you can look at any set of facts and pick apart them and make your own narrative. but the fact of the matter is, the stock market is you up, interest rates are down, home values are up. wages are up. net take-home pay is up. all of the things -- we look at gdp and numbers like that. the average american feels lying they have more money to spend and they're doing it. i think it's very hard to run against that sentiment. lauren: it's optimism that gives people enthusiasm to go out and vote. the president released his budget yesterday. this is his priority for re-election, if you will. of course, he's getting criticized for the way he chooses to spend money. i wanted to bring up one instance of this. okay, yes, we're spending a lot of money. but look at democrats' plans or the plans of socialism and the price tags that go with them, if you will. the green new deal, $93 trillion over 10 years, medicare for all,

$32 trillion in the first decade. s that's expensive. do you think voters see that? >> 100%. i think this document, the budget, is largely a political one. it's laying out the agenda for the next four years. the fact of the matter is, he's combating in that budget against progressive rhetoric on the campaign trail. he's saying look, i'm going to reduce the national debt by trillions of dollars. every one of these candidates wants to increase the national debt and republicans have been you attacked, appropriately, for spending when they campaign against that. but i think he's trying to put a stake in the ground, saying listen, those progressives are talking about spending their way into high debt. i'm going to cut it. lauren: speaking of progressives, there's a professor who won't let his 2-year-old watch paw patrol because he says it's an army of dogs, they're capitalistic, that

it promotes a message of capitalism, have you ever in your life -- >> capitalism puts bread and food on everybody's table. it's not the government they that does it. so i don't really get that. lauren: these cute little dogs are capitalists. how dare they. >> my kids are too old. i dodged the paw patrol bullet. it was the wiggles. cheryl: there were other bullets you didn't dodge. >> they're not awake. lauren: thank you, as as alway. cheryl: take a look at futures this morning. dow is up 78, s&p up 8 and a quarter, nasdaq up 37 and-a-half. well, while the economy soars, a new survey shows that small business owners support one 2020 democrat over president trump. we'll tell you who and what the democrats' pete buttigieg would

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lauren: small business owners are closely following the 2020 l election. our next guest says they will review the policies now of pete buttigieg, especially when it comes to taxes, regulation,

healthcare, after he narrowly won the iowa caucuses and is showing up strong nationally as well. let's bring in doug lieuellen, business.com ceo. he is here with us this morning. you're paying attention to pete? >> absolutely. i think after iowa everybody's paying attention to mayor pete. lauren.lauren: he supports a $5 minimum wage, support for rural communities, canceling some student debt. how do any of his policies and positions affect you as a small business owner and the community? >> you know, small business owners really think about one thing and that's money. they go to bed every night, worried about money. as we at business.com understand the small business community, they really vote with their wallets, right. so they're much more interested in policy over politics and i think with mayor pete he's got some conflicting policies out there. he's spent a lot of time in south bend really thinking about the small business owner,

working with opportunity zones. he has put forth in his policy agenda the walker lewis entrepreneurship fund but also as you mentioned, has conflicting policies around $15 minimum wage, bargaining power for unions, et cetera. i think they're really going to have to look at the policies and make a choice on their own. lauren: did you think that you would actually have to be considered mayor pete. >> because interest there is a -- there is a gallup poll and it shows small business owners show a preference for joe biden, followed by michael bloomberg, person ben and elizabeth warren. the -- bernie sanders and elizabeth warren. the surge that mayor pete had recently, are you just recently considering him? >> i think it's very recent, obviously. but that's why everybody goes to the polls. today new hampshire will be really interesting. i saw this morning on your show there were three write-in votes

for mayor bloomberg. i think mayor bloomberg is going to upend the conversation, especially after super tuesday. he is pro-business faux k his policies aren't 100% aligned with trump. we have a similar poll from business.com in 2019 that has heavy support for president trump and high sentiment of 73% of small business owners feeling very good about president trump's policies. lauren: why exactly do you like mayor mike bloomberg? >> well, i think it's not about me, particularly. it's about the small business community. and i think a lot of them really understand that mike bloomberg understands business owners, understands they need working capital, they need money to fund and grow their businesses. we know that's the most important thing on business owners' minds. they trust that michael bloomberg has been in their shoes and really understands what they want and i think they're going to have to do their research. bloomberg against buttigieg

against the others. lauren: doug, thank you so much for joining us this morning. >> thank you. cheryl: well, retailers are taking a you new approach when it comes to selling clothing and it's sounding like a real estate strategy. lauren: tracee carrasco is here to explain. tracee: good morning. renting is the newest trend. several stores like blooming bloomingdales and urban outfitters are offering clothing for a monthly fee. experts expec expect it to reach $2.5 billion by 2023. the ratings are in for the xfl are in. the first game drew an average of 3.3 million viewers during its abc broadcast. all four games had more than 17,000 fans and revenue from ticket sales was greater than that of the now defunct alliance of american football league.

the xfl was considering having l colin kaepernick join one of its teams but the commissioner told npr that the league and representatives for the former 49ers quarterback couldn't come to an agreement on salary. the xfl is a startup that has significant restrictions. most players for the league make only about $500,000. finally, one boss make it pretty clear he doesn't like it when employees show up late. a woman posted a faux o photo os outside of an ohio taco bell. it says the dining room was closed until workers could he show up for their shift on time. they say management has been retrained on proper t protocol. what about those employees. cheryl: what about people wait waiting for their taco bell. it is a business. aren't you paid to be there on

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cheryl: the coronavirus continues to spread throughout china and around the world, more than 1 you thousand deaths confirmed -- 1,000 deaths confirmed. let's bring in dr. louise petra. some are saying warmer temperatures could kill the virus. is that possible? >> good morning, cheryl.

yes, warmer temperatures tend to slow down the spreading of a viral infection, that's because people don't stay as much inside spaces. because these respiratory viruses do spread through respiratory droplets. you sneeze and you can share 100,000 droplets. that's why they're so contagious in winter months, we see a surge of cases. cheryl: are you surprised there's more deaths now, this is more of a deadly virus than sars and that it's also 20% more deadly than the flu, which usually that targets young children with weak immune systems and the elderly, this is young people are dying from the coronavirus. >> right. coronavirus is much more aggressive virus than flu. the fatality rate as you said is 20% higher. also, it spreads faster, like one coronavirus case can spread to three people versus flu which

spreads to 1.3 people. so therefore, it spreads much faster. you actually can see a doubling of the caseses in seven days. cheryl: amazing. hopefully they can get a handle on this. i know there's a vaccine maybe soon. let's go to the other issue, it is heart health month, this is february. heart disease is the number one killer in the united states. what are things we can do to change this? 80% of cardiac events are actually preventable. >> that's true. this is a great reminder for women to prioritize our hearts. because we can do something to prevent this cardiac event, basically one in three women die of a cardiac event and we get our mammograms every year but one in 30 women die of breast cancer. so there are two points i would recommend everyone to take home. number one is prevention.

implementing what's called american heart association seven steps, very simple lifestyle modification steps, you can search more, learn about, can lead to 80% reduction. second is awareness. women do not seek medical attention. we don't want to be complainers, we dismiss our symptoms as stress and anxiety and you know your body, if it's different just go to your. cheryl: i want to show a full screen, it's smoking, it's alcohol use, it's watching your diet, physical inactivity is a poor thing, you want to be at a healthy weight and your blood pressure and we know these things, we need to do more to advance these things. >> exactly. cheryl: thank you so much for being here. >> thank you for having me. cheryl: over to you. lauren: if your child asks you for a broom don't get excited. the viral challenge literally sweeping the internet. get it? cheryl: it even has our own lou dobbs joining in on the fun. keep it here, "fbn: a.m."

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lauren: it was a bad day for the oscars. cheryl: mike gunzelman is here for the fad -- bad day.

let's just say it that way. >> people are saying, perhaps politics, they are tired of celebrities shoving it down our throats, including comedian ricky gervais, he tweeted before the show started, i can't wait to hear all our inspirational speeches about equality and it's great that the 3 hours is the only time your badly paid migrant staff will get a break. he followed up, he said, i had nothing against the most famous people in the world using privilege, tell the world what they believe, i even agree with most of it, i just tried to warn them if they lecture everyday hard-working family it has the opposite effect and it seems that is true. cheryl: what seems true that it

was a boring show. >> it's called the broomage, nasa said if you had a broom that it would balance because gravitational forces were on the earth, nobody can fine out if nasa ever actually said this and we have a broom and we can try. we want to see if we can balance. lou dobbs did it yesterday. we want to see if that would stand up on its own and if it was yesterday alone. lauren: take a picture of it. >> seems like it had nothing to do with the earth yesterday, it can happen all year round. cheryl: thank nasa. lauren: is that a trick broom,

i'm going try it. try it in the break. thank you very much for joining us. cheryl: that is it for us. good morning; maria. maria: good morning to you, happy tuesday, everybody, thanks for joining us, i'm maria bartiromo, top stories right now just before 6:00 a.m. on the east coast, the first in the nation primary is underway, the first votes have been cast, who could gain momentum and who could be nearing the end of the road, i've to new hampshire for the very latest this morning, president trump is firing up the crowds in the granite state, last night touting the strong economy going after democrats right when they are about the vote, coronavirus, outbreak continues, the death toll in china has past 1,000, 42,000 confirmed cases across the world. 13 americans have been diagnosed. plus cruise ship denied port, denied in 5 countries.

dow futures up 77, nasdaq futures up 40 and the s&p up 8 and a half, federal judge expected to give the okay to the sprint-t-mobile merger, shares of sprint soaring on the news, stock sup 64% and investors, jay powell is going to be testifying before the house financial service's committee this morning, the first of 2-day testimony, he will focus on the strength of the economy and impact of coronavirus, all the highlights. attorney general bill barr getting tough on sanctuary cities saying they are jeopardizing national security. four members of the chinese military have been charged with the massive equifax hack, china is denying this. fallout coming up. look at lori loughlin's daughter, gold silver bronze