we were very early with respect to china. we would have a whole different situation in this country if we didn't do that i would rate it very, very, i would rate ourselves and the professionals, i think the professionals have done a fantastic job. as far as the testing you heard the admiral, i think the testing that we've done, we really took over an obsolete system, or put it maybe in a different way, a system that wasn't meant to do anything like this. we took it over and we're doing that has never been done in this country and i think that we are doing very well. we took the system, we worked with the system we had and we broke down the system purposely. we broke it down in order to do what we're doing now and within a short period of time, even now, we're testing tremendous numbers of people. ultimately you're saying it will be what, it will be up to how many people we would be able to test? >> we certainly expect with the high through-put test tag at that is no longer a barrier. the barrier is doing the test on

a person. and i'm sure the person would inform you, in order to do a best a health care provider needs to address in full personal protective equipment. full personal protective equipment. there is a swab put in bag of the nose all the way to the back of the throat who is put in media. the next person tested that health care provider has to change all the personal protective equipment. when you put that in, highly likely a person coughs or sneezes is at risk. we're trying to fix now by mobile platforms, enable high through-put of the swabbing. we're doing technological things that might be break throughs to make it much faster but we certainly expect that from thousands of people per day we will be at the tens of thousands of people per day this week according to those who are. >> buck stop with you, mr. president? the buck stop with you? >> normally.

when you hear this, has never been done before in this country, if you look back at take a look at some things that took place in '09 or 11, whatever it may have been, they never did, nobody has ever done anything like what we're doing. i will also say, admiral, i think we can say we're also getting this ready for the future so that when we have a future problem, if and when hopefully we don't have anything like this, but if there is we'll be very, we'll be starting off from a much higher plateau we were at a very, very low base. we had a system that was not meant for this. it was a smaller system. it was meant for much different purpose and for that purpose it was fine but not for this purpose. so we broke down the system. now we have something that is going to be and is very special and, is ready for future problems. i think we can say that very strongly. yeah? [porters shouting questions] reporter: how close are you to shutting down america's northern

border with canada and could you also speak to the fact about the elections that are supposed to be taking place tomorrow? is it your advice those states postpone those elections? >> i would leave that up to the states. it is a big thing postponing the election. that really goes to the heart of what we're all about. i think postponing an election is a very tough thing. i know they're doing, because they have been in touch with us, they are doing it very carefully. they're spreading people out at great distances as you can see. i think they will do it very safely. i hope they do it very safely. but i think postponing elections is not a very good thing. they have lots of room, and a lot of electoral places. i think that, they will do it very well but i think postponing is unnecessary. reporter: northern border sir, how close are you to shutting it down? >> we're thinking about it. if we don't have to do it that would be a good thing. we have emergency powers when it comes to something like this both the southern and northern borders. we are talking about different things but we'll see.

right now we have not decided to do that, steve. reporter: dr. fauci talking about the vaccine file today, whether the timetable for a vaccine, is it possible accelerate is 12 to 18 months? >> thank you for that question. the vaccine candidate that was given the first injection to the first person took place today. you might recall when we first started i said it would be two to three month and if we did that that would be the fastest we ever gone from obtaining the sequence to being able to do a phase one trial. this has been now 65 days, which i believe is the record. what it is, it is the trial of 45 normal individuals between the ages of 18 and 55. the trial is taking place in seattle. there will be two injections. one at zero day, first one. then 28 days, there will be three separate doses. 25 milligrams, 100 mill grams, 250 milligrams, and individuals will be followed for one year, both for safety and whether it

induces the kind of response we predict would be protective. that is exactly what i've been telling this group over and over again. so it happened. the first injection was today. reporter: dow down 3,000. response to the market close, sir? >> dr. fauci. reporter: is there guidance for someone who felt sick but you have symptoms and fever gone away, how long would you stay home after that point? that is not clear from the -- >> if you were positive for the infection, if you have coronavirus it is less how you feel than whether or not you're still shedding virus. so the general issue about letting people out of a facility who for example, a hospital, whatever, who have been infected, you need two negative cultures, the same way that was just described, 24 hours apart. [reporters shouting questions]

>> the market will take care of itself. the market will be very strong as soon as we get rid of the virus. yes. reporter: clarify about pregnant women? the uk said today the pregnancy was one of those underlying conditions. do we say that too? >> there is very little data on pregnant women. i think about a week ago i said reports that came in from china, from the chinese cdc, of the nine women who were documented to be pregnant and have coronavirus in their last trisemester delivered healthy children and they themselves were healthy and recovered. that is our total sample size. we will be getting more data from countries. while countries are in the midst of this crisis, i try not to bother them frequently, to get us their data. we get them weekly from

countries in the midst of responding to the epidemic so the focus is on individuals in their country. reporter: any comment what people like devin nunes, governor of oklahoma saying, encouraging people to go out to restaurants which goes directly against the advice in your guidelines says? >> i haven't heard that from devin or anybody else. reporter: should they stop saying that? >> i will say what they said. reporter: they encouraged people to go to restaurants if they -- >> i would disagree with it. we don't have a order one way or the other. i think it is important if you don't, oklahoma doesn't have tremendous problems. you said the governor of oklahoma. reporter: devin nunes? >> i hadn't heard that. reporter: should they -- >> that is adverse to what the professionals are saying. reporter: what you're saying in the guidelines and -- >> i will take a look at it. i don't know who. reporter: i don't know who would be best to answer the question,

mr. secretary or dr. fauci. school districts across the country closing down, but for most part day care centers remain open. considering that children sometimes be asymptomatic carriers and go home to older individuals, are there recommendations about day care centers? >> i prefer one of the professionals -- >> that is a good question. in the original guidelines as they were presented it was schools, not day care. i think it is very important we should look, to go back to discuss that in some detail whether or not that is equivalent to school. good question. reporter: the question about underlying health strategy to public guidelines, telling people to avoid restaurants and bars and different thing saying that bars and restaurants shut down for 15 days. why is that prudent or not necessary to take that additional step off the additional guidance. >> do you want to answer that?

>> the data has been coming out, i'm sure you are all up to date how long the virus lives on hard surfaces. that has been our concern over the last two weeks. >> go ahead. >> i want to read, there is answer to this. >> go ahead. >> he was my mentor so i will have to let him speak. >> the small print here, really small print, in states with evidence of community transmission bars, restaurants, food courts, gyms and other indoor and outdoor venues where groups of people congregate should be closed. reporter: mr. president, are you telling, are you telling, are you telling governors in those states then to close all their restaurants and -- >> we haven't said that yet. reporter: why not. >> we're recommending things. we haven't gone to that step yet. that could happen, we haven't gone they're yet. please. reporter: on the election, saying about things about the

opponent, 10 person maximum guidelines, you are packed, having rallies. >> hopefully this will pass through and hopefully we'll have everybody, everybody will be going to restaurants and flying and being on cruise ships all different things we do and, it will very, very hopefully be a day fairly quick period of time. but we're taking a tough stance. we may make certain other decisions. we may enhance those decisions. we're going to find out. as for the question you were asking, some ever those decisions may be -- how about one more? reporter: on cyberattack on hhs is there any reason to believe they were trying to hack into the system and gather information from the system? also is there any reason, were they trying to hack to get information? do you have -- could have been iran, russia? do you have any reason to believe it was a foreign actor. >> in the previous 24 hours we saw great deal of enhanced activity in relation to the hhs

computer systems and website. fortunately we have extremely strong barriers. we had no penetration into our networks. we had no degradation over functioning of networks. no limitation of people to telework. we have taken strong defensive auctions. the source of this enhanced activity is remains under investigation. i wouldn't want to speculate about the source of it. there was no data breach or degradation or our ability to function. reporter: stimulus, sir. >> mike point the out, what we're talking about for the next 15 days. mike, go ahead. reporter: have you been tested? >> i've not been tested yet. i'm in regular consultation with the white house physician. he said i have not been exposed to anyone for any period of time, that had the coronavirus and that my wife and i have no

symptoms but we're checking our temperature regularly every day. we'll continue to follow guidance. which i think may be a good place to land at the end of the day. that is as we expand testing rapidly around the country through the new public/private partnership the president facilitated we want the tests to be available for people who have stops. people that who have symptoms and are in vulnerable populations and our health care workers to make sure they have the peace of mind they're doing their jobs and they're properly protected. and so our best counsel, the counsel of the experts is, if you have a question, call your doctor, call your health care provider, ask whether or not you should be tested. that is what my family is doing as well. let me just emphasize one more point if i can, the president asked the task force to continuously review the data and the information that we have not only in this country but from

around the world to give the best guidance to state leadership and local health care leadership and all of the american people about how to keep themselves, their family and their community safe. this guidance for the next 15 days is what our experts say is the best opportunity we have to lower the infection rate over the entire course of the coronavirus. just as the president did by suspending travel from china, just as he did with travel advisories and screening, from italy and south korea. just as we've done with europe and and at midnight tonight with the uk and ireland, we'll continue to take very decisive steps to lower the spread of the coronavirus but we want every american to know, we would ask all of you in the media, to spread the word to the american people this is advice on behalf of the president of the united states to every american, what you can do over the next 15 days

to prevent the spread of the coronavirus. we're call on every american to do your part because together, we'll get through this, and we'll find our way forward. >> steve, go ahead. >> g7. reporter: what was the up shot. are you going to be able to meet at camp david? are you confident in their response. >> i'm very confident in a position that some of them are in a rough position, if you look at a couple of them. some are heading toward pretty rough territory. we had a very good conference t was a teleconference. everybody was on the phone. every leader. almost 100% was devoted to the subject we're talking about today and they're working very hard. and you know, they're very concerned obviously but they're working very hard but i would say just about all of it, steve,

all of it was devoted to what we're talking about. reporter: holding at summit at camp david? >> so far. we haven't even discussed that. still aways off but it was a very good discussion. they have, there is a great comradery and a great togetherness. i think i can say that very, very strongly. thank you all very much. thank you very much. [reporters shouting questions] melissa: a lot of really important information there. the president starting out by saying they're putting forward these guidelines in order to stop the spread over the next 15 days. this includes telling people they should avoid travel, school from home, avoid bars and restaurants, avoid getting together in groups of 10 or more. saying they're not considering a national curfew right now but they could consider it in hot spots and looking to expand paid sick leave for companies with more than 500 employees. but again stay very sober and somber, answering questions and

saying, this is what we should do as americans, take personal responsibility. what you can do over the next 15 days in order to help the rest of the country contain this. i am melissa francis. connell: i'm connell mcshane. welcome, everybody to "after the bell." you know, something that caught a lot of people's attention when john roberts asked him about that. welcome to "after the bell." we point out even two of us practicing what we preach in two different studios both in new york. melissa: hey, connell. connell: social distancing thing going on here. and we were down nearly 3,000 points on the dow. there is only one day in the history of the dow jones industrial average when we've had a bigger decline and it was october the 19th of 1987. that is where we are. we'll cover it all. fox business team coverage with cries tina partsinevelos on

floor. phil flynn, no floor for him to go to. hillary vaughn at the white house. hillary, we'll start with you. reporter: social distancing was the what the coronavirus task force issued people not to gather in groups of 10 or more. that is change of tune last night, when the cdc urged people not to father in groups of 50 or more. that is an extreme step today. they're asking people not to eat at bars and restaurants, not to go on shopping trips. restrictness travel. this is guide lines for 15 days. the task force review the guidelines to see if they need to crack down even further or ease up from there. the president and dr. fauci saying today. this is not about overreacting but being prepared. >> we've made a decision to further toughen the guidelines and blunt the infection now.

we would much rather be ahead of the curve than behind it. that is where we are. >> it isn't a overreaction. it is a reaction we feel is commensurate which is actually going on in reality. so take a look at the guidelines. read them carefully and we hope that the people of the united states will take them very seriously because they will fail if people don't adhere to them. we have to have as a whole country cooperate and collaborate. reporter: the president says they do have a vaccine candidate in phase one of a trial. they're working on anti-viral therapies. they have those in the works. the president saying the best thing he can do for the stock market reaction to the coronavirus so far is really to solve the virus and stop the virus from spreading even further and getting out of control. he did say that he would back up certain industries like the airlines. >> well it may be. we're not thinking in terms of recession. we're thinking in terms of the virus. once we stop, i think there is a

tremendous pent-up demand both in terms of the stock market and in terms of the economy. once it goes away, we're done with it, i think you will see a tremendous surge. reporter: connell the president said he talked with governors around the country. the reason why he is urging states to get their own ventilators, their own respirators, their own masks, they can work with existing supply chains faster than government react but they're working on their own to gather resources for them. connell. connell: hillary, thanks. kristina partsinevelos on how traders reacted to all this with the dow falling three thousand points. kristina: most traders came in very strong. calm. you saw the stimulus from the federal reserve 24 hours ago. we're talking about all of the markets. you had the circuit breaker enacted early this morning. the third one in less than two

weeks. because the s&p dropped more than 7% just within the first 9:30 a.m. open. overall we're seeing nasdaq have the worst day in history. the s&p 500 as well as the dow had the worst point, i should say percentage drop, the biggest percentage drop since 1987. you're seeing own the screens there, the dow down almost 3,000 points in just one day. if we look at some of the sectors, the worst-performing sectors on the s&p feel hundred, financials, that has to do with fact interest rates so low. energy, crude, we'll bring it up on the screen. last i checked it was 28.70. wti. west texas instrument. last but not least, vix, another barometer, fear gauge. the fact it closed at 82. the last time we had a intraday high for the vix which measures what investors think the volatility on the markets next 30 days, that high was in 89.

that was back in 2008 during the financial recession. we're not too far off of it. one final story we got last 15 minutes of the trading day. amazon said they were facing more, out of stock household supplies but they did announce this, is according to the dow jones, they're hiring an additional 100,000 workers for their warehouse as well as delivery services to help with all of those people ordering stuff online. throw it back to you. from the new york stock exchange floor. melissa: okay. connell: kristina, wow, what a day. melissa? melissa: here to react, let's bring in dan henninger from "the wall street journal" he is also a fox news contributor. given everything we've heard, looking at this great piece in the "wall street journal" kevin warsh who is brilliant. i like his opening line, if you've seen one financial crisis, you've seen one financial crisis, meaning this is a different a lot of ways

from 2008 and the response from the fed has to be different and frankly for the rest of washington. what are your thoughts, dan? >> i agree with kevin warsh, former member of the federal reserve board and this thing is unique what we're going through right now. 2008 was a crisis but here we're talking about virtually shutting down the u.s. economy, at least for 15 days. they're telling everybody to essentially shelter in place, stay home, stay away from other people. so obviously a lot of businesses such as here, new york city, is pretty much shut down, melissa, as you well know. there is virtually minimal amount of economic activity going on. if this situation is going to con at some level like this as we try to flat own out the curve of the virus, some additional steps need to be taken to flatten the economic curve as well, so we don't have a spike in bankruptcies of companies as coronavirus proceeds. melissa: like what?

like what? >> he was suggesting that the fed ought to act under its 13.3 authority to create something like a government-backed credit facility. this would be a facility with the backing of the federal reserve and the government by which companies at risk could come to the government and request loans. at some rate of interest. those loans would be approved by the regional federal reserve banks and in an orderly process, so at least companies could have some assurance there would aback stop. ultimately a federal congressional fiscal backstop if necessary to get them through this crisis. melissa: now when you look at something like that, in essence, if i was trying to stay it in very plain terms, correct me if i'm wrong, you're cutting out the middleman, rather than fed lending money to banks, having banks go out and sba, this and that, the sba giving money to the banks, saying put it to work.

this is really about, small businesses being able to say, i am not going to be able to make payroll. so all of the people in my payroll who have worked aren't going to have a paycheck that will cause a massive hardship. i need a line ever credit so i can do that. getting that from the local federal reserve. how long would it take? is that the right interpretation, is it hard to set that up? >> basically the right interpretation. i think the federal reserve like the people we saw on the screen, anthony fauci and dr. blix who have been working around the clock with the federal reserve, if they dedicate themselves ought to be able to set up credit facility like this to start processing loans from companies clearly are under stress like this. i think most companies would prefer a line ever credit like this to a straightforward bailout from congress which is always fraught with political problems. melissa: so i know you're in the know, you're talking to everybody, i kind ever think you know, i know as you said, kevin

warsh from the federal reserve board, we know he is friends with larry kudlow, do you think that this is a signaling mechanickism, the fact he would put this in the ws-j? they're already think about this, administration already pushing for it? where do you think we stand on this actually happening? >> well look i don't know don't for sure this conversation is taking place, after all melissa, the federal reserve took steps they did late yesterday afternoon, pushing rates down close to zero. the stock market lost 3,000 points today. clearly there is a lot of doubt out in the market but there is a lot of conversation about big companies, big and small, having problems getting through this period and it looks like something more is going to be required. i kind of disagree with the president saying that the market will take care of itself. i don't think the private economy is quite taking care of

itself. the government expects we out here to withdraw fort economy right now, i think the economy will need additional help of the sort kevin warsh is proposing with a credit backed facility. melissa: for the president he is domed if he does, damned if he doesn't. if he says the market will take care of itself, obviously that is not true but at the same time, if he talks about the market, they were he is not focusing on people's health. which is, that is the number one thing, even if you're looking at it through a economic lens, people have to get better in order for the economy to get better, right? i will give you the last word, dan. >> i'm saying we do need to take the steps to flatten the curve of the virus but we also need to take some steps to flatten the curve of the economic crisis. we do not want a spike going forward like this the next month or so. we can survive it if we flatten out with facility i'm suggesting over next six months. melissa: dann, always brilliant,

thank you. >> always great to talk to you. connell: melissa, to follow up on that, there is some thinking about what role congress might play in flattening that economic curve to use dan's terminology. our own chad pergram is reporting today, expecting the house to try to reapprove the coronavirus package that was passed early saturday morning after technical changes had to be made. they would try to do that by unanimous consent. that is all it would take unless one objection blocks it. that is what they're dealing with in washington, people all over the country wondering why it is taking so long, that is essentially why. republican senator john barosso joins us now. senator, what is your level of frustration how this is all playing out, and tell us what you would like to see once it does play out? what are the top priorities, talking about what dan henninger was talking about to quote,

unquote help people to flatten the economic curve. >> being a senator from wyoming, i'm also a physician, practiced in wyoming for 25 years. my focus as the president's was, on the virus and well being of the american people. we took the first step in congress, passing legislation to make sure doctors and hospitals had resources that they need. the president was right to focus on the disease, as he has said and others until we get the health aspect of this behind us, the economy will not recover. in terms of what congress can do now? i'm waiting from the bill to come from the house to the senate. i want to do something targeted, timely, focus on people that need it most. connell: who are those people specifically? is it small business? is it individuals? is it a combination of the two? the other way i guess maybe to ask it is, who gets left out there? are you leaving out big businesses who you think can shoulder this, to have capital to work their way through it

more effectively? >> from wyoming i'm thinking of small business owners i was talking to this weekend. susan bosco, from the italian restaurant, i've been going there 37 years. she always takes care of her employees. if they have to shut down because of constraints, who can go, businesses an restaurants open, how will employees take care of themselves? i'm think about the working families. connell: my do you do it? what the is mechanics. how does it work? >> that is the key issue a couple of republican senators saying what the house passed doesn't go far enough fast enough. you want to make sure there is money in the pockets of those people without putting additional burden on the small businesses because you want those businesses to be still viable to open up again once the country opens up for business. after we get the health care crisis behind us. connell: is it some sort of a special lending facility which was just discussed which would have to work its way through the federal reserve most likely,

authorized by the treasury department or is the role that you play in the congress become more important and there is something congress must do correctly or possibly a combination of the two, senator? >> congress can do it correctly. we need to do it further and faster than the house bill. do it in the way to make sure the money is in people's hands. people with holdings through social security, we know who they are. get money directly to them, without an additional burden on the businesses that is the concern i have. you know 70% of all the employees in the united states work through small businesses. in wyoming i think it is about 100% of the workers in wyoming work for small businesses. connell: sure. >> we need to make sure those families, i agree with everything the president is doing saying, 14 days off. if you need to quarantine yourself, take care ever of somebody else. if you're sick, don't go to work. the focus needs to be as president said stopping the

spread of the virus that is the way we keep the total number of cases down. that is why we don't have a big surge on our medical communities and hospitals and respirators and -- connell: by definition that hurts the economy, right? timeline, really quick before we let you go, when will you have the bill passed do you know? >> i like it done today but not likely today. we need the house to give us the bill to work on it in the senate. meet with more senators and will be on the floor of the united states tomorrow. connell: senator barrasso. thanks for the time. we'll check back with you. adam lashinsky from "forbes," out in san francisco co. wow. down 3,000 points on the dow. one day we were down more than this literally october 1987. that is literally what we see on market. as you heard conversations with

dan henninger, senator barrasso, wall street, main street, everybody is looking for washington to see what government's role is not fixing but helping people to get through all of this, what do you see the next few days? >> here is what i was thinking, especially while the senator was speaking. we had this religious debate at the time, then afterwards, about tarp, during the financial crisis of 2018 and 2009 and people who support i had it, i was absolutely one of them i said we need to stablize the economy. the way we do that protect the banks and massive companies. it was unpopular but it worked. i think that is not sufficient now. i fundamentally agree with what the senator was saying. he got to some of the politics in an interesting way, connell to say that some of his colleagues on the republican side don't think what the house is doing is enough. well they have to cut that nonsense out as quickly as possible and compromise on a package. they can always come back to do another one. i will, let me make one last observation with you.

connell: sure. >> what is called for now is creativity and imagination. maybe pushing out tax payments. maybe it is putting money through the social security system into everybody's pockets for a couple weeks. the federal government needs to be creative and quickly. connell: quickly. i was going to say as well, which is it your last point, a lot of people were i thissing that today. we have to run. adam lashinsky in san francisco. melissa: great ideas by adam. good stuff. day five of self-quarantine. the miami mayor is fighting to recover after testing positive for the virus as the state hit its largest single day increase in cases. we're going to talk to him this hour. plus travel chaos. u.s. airlines seeking billions of dollars in financial aid amid a pandemic. we are live at o'hare international airport with the latest. i...decided to take the dna test.

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connell: warning they could completely run out of money by june, the major u.s. airlines seeking more than $50 billion in government assistance at the outbreak worsens. the president talked about this a little bit in the briefing. grady trimble outside of o'hare in chicago with more on this. grady? reporter: connell, there are no domestic travel restrictions right now but with the latest coronavirus task force recommendation to avoid groups of more than 10 people, tough wonder how much longer that can be the case? there are certainly more than 10 people in the airport.

there are more than 10 people in most flights taking off. a 737 alone has 166 seats. that down include the cabin and crew. that doesn't say they're all full. the airport was full of people waiting to get through customs. they waited in long lines, in some cases up to four hours to get through enhanced screening and they were in tight corners. things are much better as people i talked to from the international terminal. things are not better to the airlines. trump said help is on the way for them. >> we'll be helping, we'll be backstopping the airlines. we'll help them very much. it is very important. reporter: all of the major airlines have cut capacity in a big way and are going to continue to do so going forward. united cutting capacity by up to 50%. delta doing the same by about 40%. and american airlines cutting capacity by 75% for international flights. they're hoping for that

50 billion-dollars, 25 billion in loans, 25 billion in grants, whether they will get exactly what they're asking for, we'll have to wait and see. connell? connell: still waiting on a lot of that. grady trimble from the airport in chicago. melissa: a "fox business alert." a spokesperson for florida's secretary of state saying they are moving forward with the presidential primary. after the ohio governor called for a delay in the state's primary in june, amid the outbreak, it is impossible for in person voting to conform to cdc guidelines on gatherings of the people. we'll talk with a miami mayor about the current state of play in florida. that's next. just wasting time. i'm wasted time is wasted opportunity. >>exactly. that's why td ameritrade designed a first-of-its-kind, personalized education center.

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♪. melissa: stepping into the gap, some dallas area schools are coming up with creative solutions to feed students who are ordered to stay home due to the coronavirus outbreak. fox news's casey stegall is live for us in dallas where thousands of students are out of school or about to be extended, about to be on an extended spring break. reporter: this has become a growing challenge for school districts all across america. here at the dallas independent

school district, for example, a little more than 90% of the total student population qualifies for the meal assistance program. in other words, coming from low income households and while students are out on spring break this week, the school district as well as many others across the country, are working hard to continue feeding students for as long as it takes. they're stocking food and making lunches to be handed out, breakfast and other meals, hand the out in a sack lunch fashion. this is dallas and other major cities are calling on the usda to take immediate reaction to relax some of the rules as districts in the u.s. grapple with the reality of covid-19 keeping schools well beyond spring break, possibly even through the end of the school year in some places. >> perhaps we could do a grab

box, that would have three days worth of breakfast, lunch and supper, at one time, for students to take. we believe that would maximize meal access while minimizing contact between staff and families. reporter: a lot of school districts starting to follow suit. folks here in dallas say that these are unprecedented times though they are holding weekly phone conferences with other major school districts around the country. they're sharing their ideas, what's working well in some districts. what's not working well. as everyone goes through these uncharted waters together. back to you. melissa: casey stegall, thank you. connell this, is the big concern, is, you know, there are all the places, here in new york city, so smart, the schools that are shutting down, our chancellor put in place grab-n-go meals. show up for breakfast and lunch.

they hand them out to the kids to go on the doorstep of the school because you don't want, you know there, is all the negative externalities to these things you don't have because of kids to go hungry because schools are out of school. connell: they're working on child care for health care workers, working on contingency plans. they were reluctant to close the school systems in this city, the largest city in the country. look at the city, nearly abandoned in times square. melissa: that is amazing. i don't think i've seen times square that empty. they're talking about facilities they have up next week to help take care of the children of our emergency workers, that you don't want to accidentally shut a hospital because you have shut a school. then that parent needs to stay home to take care of those children. so they can't go to the hospital and help people that are sick with this virus. we're all intertwined so tightly

in this society. you have to think about all these different things but you know, everybody is working around the clock to do it and coming together. connell: yes, they are. just for a note today, you and i we talked about we're in separate studios and social distancing people are taking it seriously, we were supposed to be in separate places today. we were supposed to be in miami to do the show today. we were covering primary in florida. we decided not to make the trip. between now and thens the mayor of miami, mayor suarez, tested positive for the virus. he is in self-quarantine. we're trying to go there, to set himself up by skype to talk to him from husband house to reduce the impact from the outbreak. simple things everybody can do to help people through the crisis. there is a lot at that you can do. hopefully we'll talk to mayor suarez about that and a little bit more as we continue on "after the bell." we'll be right back

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seniors living in facilities. you can tell the kids are not visiting them regularly. you see the same faces out on the street. look up hopefully to the bench. i was carrying groceries over the weekend. i happen to saw a woman, looked like she could use something. i gave her the chance to get something out of bag there is occasion to do people around us. maybe it is easier in manhattan where you have so many people about you. there are rules about social distancing. but that doesn't mean you can't actually go around and offer people something of what you have. a lot could really use the help. the contact, not physical contact but emotional contact means a lot to them. melissa: seeing a lot of acts of kindness out there. there is lot of selfishness and acts of kindness n new york, they look at you suspiciously, what do you want from me?

right now there is more of an open spirit as people feel scared, when you do something nice, it's more well-received. i challenge everybody out there to think about the people around you in your life that you would normally see every day. think about who is hurting as a result of this. who doesn't have something because of everything that is going on. if you do one kind thing, maybe you feel hopeful in a time that's tough and trying t lifts your own spirits selfishly. >> my folks are passed but anybody who has parents, this is really the time to reach out to them on a regular basis if you're not doing it already. melissa: david, we'll see you at top of the hour. >> stu leonard, the grocery chain owner will be on with us. >> good stuff. connell: good stuff that david asman. we're talking about the cases of

coronavirus around the country. one of them, the miami mayor juarez is in his fifth day of quarantine. the mayor joins us, joining us from miami. good tgood to see you, tell us e you feeling and how symptoms have pr progressed over the day. >> i am doing well, i have not had a fever yet, had a mild symptoms of runny nose, and what seems like on set of a cough. nothing too severe. hopefully, i am in a category of people that will experience mild symptoms, you know i have been -- had as you indicated, been in my fifth day and blogging about it i had a video blog on my twitter account. and my instagram account.

every day, chronicalling when i'm doing it has been helping people reduce their level of anxiety there is a tremendous amount of anxiety associated with the covid-19. connell: i am thinking while you speak, have you such mild symptoms in your 40s, as far as i know in good health, a talk about social distancing, they talk about people like you, right? you may not have known you had it or could have been passing it on and not known it. >> we suspect there are thousands of people in our community that have it, they don't know they have it or displaying mile symptoms they -- mild symptoms, i was second person that tested positive in miami-dade county. that is because as you mentioned i was in a delegation in close proximity with someone who had tested positive, dependence of

health asked me to come in take a test, before that, i would not have known, and may not have you know, just realized i was positive. connell: a public position like yours for the boas the best you. let me ask about your city and state. i mentioned we were supposed to have met, i am glad we still get to speak. i. too ask you about primary. secretary of state's office said that the florida state primary for president is going to move forward, your thoughts on whether that is a good idea? how to make it safe. >> it is going to be complicated because we have i.

think that lines have to be separated by se 6 feet or more. connell: too you think it a good idea, or postpone it. >> we're postponing everything, our meetings and public meetings for month of march, so, you know, i don't think it would have been a bad idea to postpone it i think you will have a far less participation. people are not going to feel safe. connell: we have 30 seconds. you talked about the president's briefing and encourage everyone to not go to gathers of 10 or more people, have you made any changes? i believe you had 11 p.m. curfew in some areas. >> we'll institute policy where clear closing bars and

nightclubs. for restaurants, they will be take out only. connell: how are the people complying so far, even if it is not mandated? >> people are complying you know we had issues with a couple of neighbors cities that didn't take some of the dramatic steps we took. we answered two major music festivals. that would have been 150,000 people in a moment. connell: mr. mary wish we were talking in person in heat in miami on this nice day, but instead it is this we wish you all of the best. >> thank you. connell: mayor frances suarez in miami. we can get through this. he could have been passing this along, not knowing without that

many symptoms. melissa: that is the problem with this. another problem, you look at market down almost 3,000 points, on the dow for the day. almost 13% that does it for us. connell: bears "bulls an players right now. >> best thing i can do for stock market, we have to get through the crisis, that is when i think about. once this virus is gone, i think you will have a stock market like nobody has severe before. david: president trump giving the nation latest update on the coronavirus pandemic, as lockdown fears plunge 3 major averages to biggest point loss in history. dow diving nearly 3,000 points, despite an emergency rate cut by federal reserve over weekend. and injection of hundreds of billions of dollar to calm the market, we have a live report from white house, president's tempered guidelines to slow the spread of the virus, coming