march 16th. this is a fox news alert. americans bracing for life under lockdown. leaders across major u.s. cities announced sweeping new restrictions to keep people out of bars, restaurants, in some cases casinos. it's an unpresprecedented coronavirus effort. jillian: a much different reality for those racing to get home from abroad before travel restrictions take effect. we have how the white house is responding to the log jam of passenger screenings. >> this is a crisis. we're at war with a virus. we need unprecedentedded action right now to deal with the unprecedented crisis. rob: covid-19 takes center stage during a crowdless democratic debate. jillian: what each of the 2020 hopefuls say he'd be doing differently. "fox & friends first" continues right now. ♪

jillian: good morning to you. you are watching "fox & friends first" on this monday morning. i'm jillian mele. rob: i'm rob schmitt. schools and businesses from coast to coast closing for weeks as the united states tries to curb the coronavirus pandemic. jillian: 68 people have died and at least 3200 have gotten sick across 49 states. the white house vowing to protect americans. >> we are using the full power of the federal government to defeat the coronavirus and we will do whatever it takes. >> as the american people know, testing is now available in all 50 states. >> we'll do everything that we can to make sure we safeguard the health and well-being of the american people. rob: city leaders implementing curfew as a new covid-19 reality sets in, even the busiest streets if the world looking rather empty. the eu reporting its highest number of deaths in a single day. and this chilling video out of italy shows how a newspaper's

obituary section grew from one to 10 pages long. and travelers returning to u.s. airports, waiting up to six hours to go through customs. we have fox news team coverage beginning with aishah hasnie here live with a major announcement overnight. >> reporter: good morning, rob, gillian. we've -- jillian. we've been talking about this all night. the cdc has been calling for an eight-week ban of large gatherings in cities and states, and they're already taking action. new york city, night life is over. restaurants and bars began closing tuesday, take-out and delivery still allowed. same thing in los angeles, nightclubs, movie theaters, gyms closed at midnight for the rest of the month. other cities like miami have begun issuing curfews. illinois, massachusetts, ohio and washington also setting down bars and restaurants, only allowing take-out and delivery. state and local leaders are emphasizing that these orders are absolutely necessary as

covid-19 cases spike to more than 3,000, more than 60 people across the nation now dead. >> i want to stress that i have not taken these steps lightly. to some, it may feel wrong. but i would say it's exactly when things feel wrong that it is the right time to do them. and when things feel right, it's too late. >> reporter: president trump calling on state leaders to step up local containment efforts, tweeting individual governors of states and local officials must step up their efforts on drive-up testing and testing sites, working in conjunction with the cdc and the federal government. and that coronavirus relief bill, remember that, still not on the president's desk. senate majority leader mitch mcconnell announcing the senate will convene again today but it's still waiting to get its hands on the house's final version. the snag here might be this, treasury secretary steve mnuchin telling fox news small

businesses have been worried about how they're going to pay sick leave to their full-time workers. mcconnell also adding that more bills are needed and may be coming down the pipeline very soon. rob, jil jillian. jillian: than for the update. the covid-19 pandemic taking a toll on the airline industry, united airline cutting flights in half starting next month. rob: this comes as international passengers wait in jam-packed customs lines for hours. jillian: todd, 24 hours ago i was standing where you are and passengers said they weren't getting screened. i'm curious when flights come in this morning if that's any different. >> reporter: that is the big question, jillian, good morning to you. good morning to you, rob. we're about 90 minutes away from the first international flight of the morning landing here but as you said, jillian, it was a much different scene yesterday. check this out. just a few hours ago, travelers

packed together here, waiting in customs lines. the exact opposite of the social distancing authorities are pushing. that scene repeated at airports throughout the country including in chicago. 13 airports currently processing travelers from overseas with homeland security chief chad wolf promising improvements in the days ahead. >> to be clear, the lines again that we saw at a limited number of airports including chicago are unacceptable. we did make necessary adjustments at 12 of the funneling airports and we are glad to see certain airports and certain airlines step up, partner with us and help address this unprecedented situation. >> reporter: one of those airlines, united, which announced a cut in flight capacity by 50% in april and may while predicting cuts would last well into the summer travel season. delta announcing reduced flights to europe including suspensions of certain routes. american reducing its international capacity by 75%.

while rushing back from overseas is understanding, dr. anthony fauci, the man on the front lines of this crisis, says it is not necessary. >> we would like to not see crowds like that. i mean, i think what people need to understand, if you're an american citizen, if you are a family member, that you can get back. you don't need to rush back. >> reporter: and to help travelers better prepare, tsa has a new website specifically devoted to coronavirus to help with security screening. we'll know in a few hours whether any improvements will happen today. guys, back to you. jillian: keep us updated, todd. thank you. rob: the other side of the story, the dow futures plunging more than 1,000 points overnight. it could be another rough day, even as the federal reserve slashed interest rates. the benchmark now nearly zero. the futures sinking by nearly 5%, triggering a limit down so they cannot fall any further.

this sharp dive coming as the fed cuts rates by a full percentage point in an emergency move. they haven't been this low since the 2008 financial crash. rates are expected to remain this way until the economy recovers. jillian: overnight, mickey and the rest of the disney characters waved good-bye as theme parks closed for the rest of the month. the company shuttering all disney parks and cruises around the world amiss the coronavirus pandemic. this will be the longest closure ever for dismy world in floor -- disney world in florida. rob: coronavirus taking center stage during the first one on one debate between bernie sanders and joe biden last night. the candidates wasting no time slamming the president's response to this outbreak. >> first thing we have got to do, whether or not i'm president, is to shut this president up right now. it is an acceptable for him to be blabbering with unfactual

information. >> the world health organization offered testing kits that they have available and to give it to us now. we refused them. >> clearly, we are not prepared. trump only exacerbates the crisis. jillian: griff jenkins is in washington, d.c. >> reporter: the were united in bashing the president but divided on almost every issue, givenning the american people a contrast between the candidates. it was a historic debate that began with that first ever elbow bump. we've never seen that. of course, the they retreated to their positions which was separated by six feet. once they began to square off with the backdrop of the global pandemic, medicare for all was center stage. >> it has nothing to do with medicare for all. that would not solve the problem at all. >> we don't have a system. we've got thousands of private insurance plans. that is not a system that is

prepared to provide health care to all people. >> you have a single payer system in italy. it doesn't work there. >> we need unprecedented action right now to deal with the unprecedented crisis. >> people are looking for results, not a revolution. >> reporter: biden made a mostly pragmatic case to the sanders' progressive positions but took several opportunities to reach out to left-leaning democrat on immigration, fracking and his running mate. >> i would pick a woman to be my vice president. i will send to the desk immediately a bill that requires access to citizenship for 11 million undocumented folks. the first 100 days of my administration, no one will be deported at all. no more -- no new fracking. no more drilling on federal lands. >> reporter: here's where the race stands. biden has a healthy lead in the current delegate count, 890 to sanders' 736. now it's all eyes on tomorrow's

primaries, there's 577 del i gait--gel gaits up for -- del dp for grabs in four states. georgia and louisiana are delaying their primaries. rob, jillian. rob: griff, thank you so much. jillian: the remains of an army specialist killed in a rocket attack in iraq now back on american soil. a dignified transfer held overnight at dover air force base in delaware. juan miguel kaorubi was killed in a defense strike along with marshall roberts and a british service member. the u.s. plans to reposition troops out of iraq as iraqi security forces see success in their fight against isis. rob: today the senate will vote on legislation to renew and update parts of the foreign intelligence surveillance act.

fisa. the bill will add new privacy protections and address misconduct concerns in the fisa court system. republicans say fisa was used illegally to spy on the trump campaign and former trump advisor carter page. the renewal passed with large bipartisan support in the house. the president has not indicated whether he plans to sign it. a fox news alert, the first dose in a clinical trial for a potential covid-19 vaccine will be given today. it is a major step forward but still it could take up to a year to get this to market. jillian: fox news medical contributor dr. marc siegel is here with ways to discuss that and ways to stay safe as we wait for a medical breakthrough. we're coming right back. ♪

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least a year to validate any vaccines. rob: how should americans keep safe while we wait for that and hopefully it does work. joining us now is fox news medical contributor, dr. marc siegel. let's start with this potential vaccine. it is good news but we have to wait. >> it's a very, very promising vac seen. it's based on prior technology. it's genetic. it's advanced. it's modern. it hasn't been shown to be useful in animals. it's safe in animals. we haven't had preliminary data that know for sure it's going to work. but it's based on a prior vaccine that did work and nih is very, very excited about this vaccine and very hopeful that it will work. why would it take a year when we're about to start clinical trials? the answer is, because we always go slow before we give something to millions of people. you don't want to make the problem worse. you don't want the solution to be worse than the problem. thousands of people are infected clearly across the country but millions are going to get this vaccine. you want to make sure it's safe and it works. jillian: i think a lot of people have this weird feeling right now, they're a little

confused, so much information is coming at you at lightning speed in the last week. all of a sudden bars and restaurants and public places are closed and people are wondering like what is happening. their heads are spinning. is this the right move, to close everything down, to keep everyone quarantined in your home so-to-speak for a period of time? are we doing it right. >> here's the answer to this. it's a very, very important question. the purpose of this is to decrease the amount of virus that's spreading around the country. it's not because the virus is right here up to your door. it's that if we can decrease the amount of virus spreading, we can slow it down long enough until warm weather hits, we can protect elderly people, people more at risk. while we're doing that, this is the most important piece, we can figure out how many people have the virus which we do not know. rob: let's look at some of the numbers right now. you can see 68 deaths in the u.s. testing is the big question for us here in the united states. when are we going to get our act

together with the testing and you've got some good news on that. >> i have a lot of answers on that. i spoke to admiral gerard, the assistant secretary of hhi, in terms of health, in charge of this, in charge of testing. he's a pediatrician. it was a joy to talk to him. he's been working for the last three days on this only. no sleep, over and over, until they figured it out. they're going to be launching mobile units, about 50 of them around the country to the hot spot areas where they know a lot of cases are and they're going to be testing the elderly, those with chronic conditions, those that are most at risk that have symptoms and health care workers which is a very big piece of this we haven't talked about. health care workers coming into contact with covid-19 are much more at risk no matter what protective equipment they have. they're going to be tested if they have symptoms. i think they'll be able to test over 100,000 people a week within the first week or so. this is really going to ramp up. that's my view of this.

after he gave me a walk-through on this. the workers are going to be wearing protective equipment. they're going to be changing aprons, using clorox, they're going to be changing gloves, they're going to be safe and careful. they can do it at a high rate. once they have the specimen, there will be ra rapid test ress back in four hours. jillian: in your opinion, how much time does something like this take to be able to flatten that curve so-to-speak? >> first answer is knowing how many people and i'll tell you how that's related to your question. if i know who has this, i put them in a separate area, a hotel or some kind of quarantine area. i've got to be able to quarantine the right people. once i have people that have it out of the way and i talked to-i talked to admiral gerard about this very point. we're going to start with high risk people. i want everybody to -- i want everybody who has it to be diagnosed. you know why? i may be worried about an

elderly person. what about a young person who has coronavirus who would pass it on and may be living with someone elderly. as soon as we know how many people have it, we can properly quarantine them and then the curve will flatten. rob: that's the million dollar question, how many people have this thing and don't know it yet. >> it's way more than -- rob: way higher than we know. >> absolutely. jillian: you will be back later this hour to answer questions from our viewers at home. >> absolutely. rob: a plea to take the concept of social distancing seriously. >> we need people to stay home. there's no question about it. >> get some instructions about how to get tested but stay home. >> you are not helpless, america. rob: americans are urged to learn from the hard lessons from italy and other coronavirus hot spots. our next guest is senior fellow at johns hopkins universities with mistakes you probably don't know you're making. these days you need faster internet that does all you

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>> if you're sick with a respiratory ailment, stay home. >> we need people to stay home, no question about it. >> get instructions about how to get tested but stay home. >> you are not helpless, america. you are wash hands. you can social distance, go home, stay away from. robpeople.rob: leaders across . cities are rolling out sweeping changes. jillian: many americans find their normal lives screeching to a halt. what does it mean to self isolate and what are mistakes we might not know we're making. rob: crystal watson joins us to break it down for us this morning. thank you for coming.

we'll start with a question a lot of people have right now. should you still attend dinner plans with other people? >> now is the time to cancel dinner plans. we need to stay home and protect the vulnerable people in our society. stop the virus from tran transmitting. jillian: a lot of restaurants will be closing down, offering take-out service. the next question is your kids, should they still have play dates? >> unfortunately, i think this is also a no. i have a toddler and we're stuck in the house together. so i understand this is going to be a hard one. but we really don't want to pass the virus along to other kids and you don't know whose relatives are vulnerable to this. if you get together, that may be the consequence that somebody gets really sick. so stay home. rob: absolutely. one thing i think is interesting is that gyms have not all been closed down yet, fitness centers, things like that that seems like a place where something like this could spread like wildfire, everybody

sweating and touching the same stuff. >> especially if you're in big classes together, so definitely avoid those. i understand the need to work out. it's really important for our physical and mental health but go for a run if you can, get outside, away from other people. that's a better option than going to a gym right now. jillian: my friends and i were on a group text earlier this morning, we're like okay, any at-home videos you can suggest to exercise. the next question, is it safe to be around extended family. >> this is kind of a maybe. it depends on your situation. you don't want to visit somebody if you think you might be ill and pass something on to them, especially if they're older relatives or somebody that's vulnerable to the virus. there are extenuating circumstances in your family, if you need to go see someone, be careful and don't go if you're feeling ill at all. rob: you've seen the videos coming out of italy, it's almost just unbelievable to see everyone locked in apartments and homes, no b out -- nobody's out. is that going to be necessary in

the united states? do you think that's coming? some people say we're 10 to 15 days behind what italy is facing. >> i really hope we don't have to take that extreme of measures but if people can stay home now and avoid crowds and slow the transmission of this virus, hopefully we won't get to the point that italy is at right now. their hospitals are overwhelmed and really all of these measures are to avoid that. jillian: dr. crystal watson, thank you for joining us. >> thanks very much. jillian: i've seen videos out of italy, that at certain times people are going on their balconies to work out, to sing, whatever, to see people from a distance. rob: if you're an apartment dweller, this is really tough. you don't have a yard. it's tough. jillian: a fox news alert, washington working on a way to help wall street as markets plummet over fears of the coronavirus pandemic. rob: peter maue morici joins us

coming up next.

jillian: good morning. we're back with a fox news alert. from schools to museums, even restaurants, businesses all across the u.s. forced to close their doors as the coronavirus epidemic worsens from coast to coast. >> we're mitigating the spread of the virus, is a responsibility for all of us. >> there were warnings given, attempts to educate. the nature of the crisis, it's time for violation toss be written, violations come with penalty. rob: so covid-19 cases spiking to more than 3200 across the nation. that we know of. 68 people have died. worldwide, the eu reporting the highest number of deaths in a single day. jillian: the world's most popular tourist destinations empty as health officials urge people to stay home. travelers returning to u.s. airports waiting in some spots sometimes up to six hours to go

through customs. rob: so many angles to this story. let's get to aishah hasnie with a major announcement from overnight. >> reporter: we've never seen anything like this. we'll start with new york city where restaurants and bars begin closing tomorrow, tuesday. take-out and delivery is still going to be allowed. same thing in los angeles, nightclubs, movie theaters, gyms, they're all closed, they closed at midnight for the rest of the month. miami is issuing curfews, even mgm closing off of its las vegas properties indefinitely. illinois, massachusetts, ohio, washington, those are among the states also shutting down dining inside bars, restaurants. state and local leaders are emphasizing that this is necessary as covid-19 cases spike to more than 3,000 across the nation with more than 60 deaths. new york city mayor bill de blasio writing our lives are all changing in way that's we're unimaginable just a week ago. we are taking a series of actions that we never would have taken otherwise in an effort to

save the lives of loved ones and other neighbors. now it is time to take yet another drastic step. president trump also calling in state leaders to step up local containment efforts, tweeting the individual governors of states and local officials must step up their efforts on drive-up testing and testing sites, working in conjunction with the cdc and the federal government. and by the way, that coronavirus relief bill, it's still not on the president's desk. senate majority leader mitch mcconnell announcing that the senate will convene again today and may come up with its own version of the bilker adding more covid-19 bills are needed and may be coming down the pipeline very soon. rob: covid-19 pandemic taking a toll on the airline industry. united airlines cutting flight schedules in half and that starts next month. they predict cuts will last into the summer travel season. the trump administration is

sounding off over massive customs delays at 13 designated airports that are taking in international travelers. >> to be clear, the lines again that we saw at a limited number of airports including chicago are unacceptable. we did make necessary adjustments at 12 of the funneling airports and are glad to see certain airports and certain airlines step up, partner with us and help address this unprecedented situation. rob: the tsa launching a new website to ease travel and answer questions about security screenings. jillian.jillian: the navy addsw testing and cleaning measures after a sailor tests positive for coronavirus. this marks the first u.s. service member to be diagnosed on-board a war ship. the sailor is now being quarantined at home. the ship is undergoing a thorough cleaning. anyone who was in close contact with the infected sailor will be held in self isolation at their

home. the u.s. treasury secretary says he is confident that the market will bounce back after the fed slashed the key interest rate to near zero amid the dead lynn covid-19 outbreak. >> what i would focus on is that we need to get economic relief to the people that are impacted by this. we passed bipartisan legislation to make sure that workers that need to be home and small and medium size businesses will get paid. i have every confidence that this market will be higher down the road and the u.s. is still the greatest place to invest. rob: joining us now to weigh in on investor fears and what happens next, peter morici. thank you for coming back to the show. we've cut interest rates again. if you look at the futures, for today the dow is down more than 1,000 points. this doesn't really seem to be working. why do you think they keep doing this? >> well, i think it's out of exasperation and not knowing what to do chairman powell

basically rearranged the chairs on the deck of the titanic. lowering interest rates will do as much for holding the economic crisis as, for example, playing to people without seats or without fans in yankee stadium. it's absurd. jillian: peter, what would you do, then? >> i think we need a larger stimulus package than either secretary mnuchin nor nancy pelosi are considering. it's very nice for the federal reserve to give cash to the banks and for folks to get sick pay and so forth. that's needed. but they're underestimating the gravity of the crisis. the president is quite correct when he says we need a payroll tax cut. we need something larger than that. in hong kong, they're putting cash directly in people's hands. this is like a national disaster, when you have a hurricane or something and they give people debit cards so they can buy meals and so forth. the reality is, as soon as people are released from their homes the economy will be terribly depressed. put more cash in their hands. if you did that, they would

spend it. even if it's not on stuff that comes from china. they would spend it. that would be a good thing. rob: looking at the markets right now, 21, almost 22,000. people have lost a lot of money and they've lost a lot of their 401-k. how low do you think this will go and do you think it will rebound and go back to where it was once hopefully this is all over. >> i think markets are agreeing with me. as soon as chairman power announces interest rate cuts, the futures market tanked. they recognized this is a futile effort and the wrong thing to do. my feeling is the markets won't turn around in a fundamental way until the government, in particular nancy pelosi and sect mnuchin, recognize the magnitude of this problem. this is similar to what happened in the financial crisis. all along, president bush and secretary paulson didn't recognize how serious a problem they had until the economy was in a deep tank. the same thing in congress on the democratic side. jillian: peter, last night you

heard bernie sanders and joe biden debating medicare for all as a response to the coronavirus. what did you make of what they had to say? >> bernie sanders has been in an idea logical fish tank for four years now. he doesn't look much at facts. the two countries that have medicare for all, the same system, are the u.k. and italy. and they have the fewest icu beds, the fewest res prate tores, they're -- respirators, they're least prepared for the crisis. the country that is best prepared is germany. the health care system looks similar to obamacare and the replacement that republicans have proposed. the problem here is not the system. it's just the gravity -- you cannot prepare for these crisis in advance. they're always going to be bigger than you expect. rob: let's listen to a bit of the debate from last night. >> one of the reasons that we are unprepared, is we don't have

a system. we've got thousands of private insurance plans. that is not a system. >> with all due respect to medicare for all, you have a single payer system in italy. it doesn't work there. rob: pe there would be an argument, the best way to solve the problem is an incentive for a company to make money by figuring out a solution. >> that's exactly what's happening. engineering firms in britain are trying to come up with ways to produce respirators inside the country. we do have a system in place, mr. sanders, it's the free market system. history has shown over and over again that the united states has prospered with that system where other countries have failed. unfortunately, mr. sanders is more dedicated to imposing socialism by whatever means is necessary and using this crisis as a stocking horse, a idealogical cudgell. his response to joe biden when

he raised the italy issue was disgraceful. if i ever saw evidence that mr. sanders should not be president of the united states it was his response when joe biden hit him with the facts on italy, he simply ignored it. rob: he didn't have a response. peter, thank you so much. >> the market system will not adequately take care of this but it will more adequately take care of it than any planned government enterprise like the health care system in britain. jillian: peter morici, thank you for joining us. your questions answered by the doctor coming up next. we'll be right back.

rob: welcome back. the number of confirmed coronavirus cases spiking in the u.s. with numbers climbing almost hourly. jillian: your questions have been pouring in on social media. here to answer them, dr. marc siegel. we have a number of questions. let's jump into this. this is a question about hospitals which has been a great discussion lately. this is from kim, hospitals across the country are seeing an

influx of patients with common cold symptoms. what symptoms should you be showing to avoid mass chaos. because as we know, these hospital beds should be reserved for the sic sickest. >> this is a huge problem. several hospitals have areas that are roped off where people go who have symptoms and wait for their tests. you may be there with other people with the coronavirus. you don't want to go to the hospital, you can get exposed, health care workers can get exposed. when would you think you might have this, when you have a cough, deep cough, phlegmy cough, shortness of breath and can't catch your breath and a high fever. those are classic symptoms. i wouldn't necessarily go to the hospital unless you're in a high risk group. >> we keep hearing dry cough. >> it's more of a productive cough. it's not the kind of productive cough you have with a bacterial thing. so it's -- you feel a phlegmy cough. high fever, we're seeing higher fevers than the flu. 103, 104. classically, it's a high fever.

now, you could have a variation of any of that. you could have a lower fever, a lesser cough and lesser shortness of breath. classic symptoms is higher fever than the flu. rob: one question, can you recatch this thing or when you get it, are you done. >> most of the time what you're experiencing is a case that didn't totally go away. it's not that you're recatching it, it's that you thought you got over it but you're having a recurrence. most of the time you end up immune with this at the end of the process, you're not able to catch it again. which is a good thing. immunity will go through the community but that's going to take a really long time and one of our fears here is that we don't have a lot of immunity. chances are when you get over this, you're over this. heather:it.jillian: there are s where people recaught it. >> or they never got out of it. jillian: a facebook post, how long does the virus stay alive on surfaces, how long should --

>> there's a study that came out last week on this. we've been talking about it. how long can the virus live on surfaces. that's not the point. it's how long can it be viable, how lock ca long can it infect . it's several hours. most of the time you're going to get it from sneezing and coughing. we talk too much about asymptomatic -- asymptomatic people spreading it. most of the time people spread it by sneezing and coughing. i think disinfecting surfaces with clorox wipes frequently is a good idea. i think social distancing is a good idea. i think frequent hand washing is a good idea. if you're sick, even more so in the area where someone might have it. rob: for parents that work, if schools are closing, should we send our kids to day-care, doesn't that defeat the purpose of closing down the schools. >> that's a huge problem. i think that's a really important point. i'm not going to go on tv and

say that i think day-care is safer than schools. i think schools may have been safer than day-care. schools closed because of a domino effect. they didn't necessarily ask the question, where are the kids going to go now. rob: that's why the mayor of new york put it off for so long. he knew it would be a huge problem. >> they have to close schools if there's covid-19 around. otherwise, it becomes a question of -- the reason they close schools is they think kids would spread it rapidly from one to the other. that's the purpose. rob: they clearly could. thank you so much. jillian: time to check in with steve doocy to see what's coming up on "fox & friends." >> coming up on o our monday program, a big program. we brought in dr. oz, a special guest for one entire hour, starting in an hour and 15 minutes, answering your questions and helping us navigate the very latest on the coronavirus and figure out what's going on. also, the u.s. surgeon general, dr. jerome adams, will be

stopping by with the latest on the federal government response. also, guests today, newt gingrich who wrote a column about living in rome, that's where he is right now which has been impacted greatly. also, stuart varney on the markets and senator tom cotton as the senate prepares to take up the coronavirus relief bill from the house and finally dr. nicole sapphire will be with us all morning, sitting next to us, answering our questions and yours as well. we have a busy three hours, kicking off twelve and-a-half minutes from now right here on the channel you trust with your morning news. rob and jillian, back in about two minutes. good morning, mr. . good morning, blair. [ chuckles ] whoo. i'm gonna grow big and strong. yes, you are. i'm gonna get this place all clean. i'll give you a hand. and i'm gonna put lisa on crutches! wait, what? said she's gonna need crutches. she fell pretty hard. you might want to clean that up, girl. excuse us.

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jillian: we're back with a fox news alert. drive-through testing centers are popping up nationwide to fight the growing v covid-19

epidemic. rob: casey bowen from our fox affiliate in austin joins us live from one of those locations this morning. casey. >> reporter: good morning, jillian and rob. that's right, austin now has five cases of covid-19, but city officials here are saying that the most important thing is to be prepared and not to panic. part of those preparation% the drive-through clinics like this behind me. this is for people that might have the coronavirus. patients must answer an online questionnaire to cal qualify. if they meet certain requirements they're able to drive through to take the test. positive tests will be reported to local and state departments and the patient will be contacted as soon as the results are available and of course the cdc is always reminding people to make sure you're washing your hands for more than 20 seconds, covering your cough or sneeze when you do, and if you are sick, to stay away from home.

reporting to you tonight or this morning in austin, casey bowen, fox news. rob: thank so much. the coronavirus forces the academy of country music awards to be postponed, originally scheduled for april 5th in las vegas. it will now take place in september. the ceo says the decision was made after constant conversations with everybody involved. keith urban will eventually host the show. jillian: nba players and teams are stepping up efforts to fight the pandemic. carl anthony towns is donating $100,000 to the mayo clinic to boost daily tests from 200 to 1,000. and nba legend and mor hornets r michael jordan will establish a fund for staffers. three nba players have tested positive for covid-19. athletes all across the board donating so much money to these staffers who are out of a job now. rob: it's so true. hourly workers, it's a big

problem. neighbors caring for neighbors during a pandemic, the system, a group of ladies worked on to lend a hand to seniors in need. jillian: coronavirus anxiety becoming all too common, so the internet stepping in to give folks a reason to laugh again. carley shim cus shimkus here wil media posts that are helping to lighten the mood a bit. . . guys, it's time to step up your game.

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>> my lord, bernie, you are running an ad is that says i'm against social security that politifact says it s. a flat lie. rob: joe biden pointed the finger accusing him of lying in his ads. the social media pointing the finger right back. jillian: carley shimkus sirius fm 115. >> carley: joe biden said he never called for cuts to security. footage of his time in the senate tells a much different story. watch this. >> when i said cut federal spending i meant social security as well. i not only tried it once, i tried it twice. i tried it a third time and i tried it a fourth time. >> the idea of changing and changing being in this case to cut the benefits for people without taking other action, you could do to make it work is absolutely the wrong way.

way. carley: biden has called to raising the social security age. as you saw in his bebait with paul ryan he told a much different story and changed his policy position. a lot of people on social media saying liar liar pants on fire. now is running for the big seat at the table a willing to say anything for a vote. joe biden repeatedly lied to every american watching the dem debate. if he is lying to us now. he will lie to us in the white house. weigh can't trust him. that was his policy position now he is calling to raise social security. jillian: tougsecurity.jill tougr elder lerly to get groceries. carley: group in women in dallas dallas-fort worth put fliers under the doors of senior citizens and asking if they need anything. any of the essentials like hand sanitizer, medicine delivery,

food. and city councilman out this posted this on facebook where it's gone viral. one person on facebook says i love. this such a beautiful example of loving your neighbor. and another commenter says she loved it so much that she is going to do this in her neighborhood as well. love that paying it forward. rob: if i'm going to go nuts sitting in my apartment i will need something to last. carley: people posting that apocalypse. one person day one of corona apocalypse found some christmas cookies and ate them. morale is temporarily higher. brother and sister coming over for my birthday dinner this is what my house is giving as a party favor. those people who came over for dinner hit the jackpot with one. that's what everybody wants. jillian: i stucked up on stuff and as you know i'm in a raefrp rather apartment in new york i

forgot all the toilet paper i bought at home. carley: give you some rolls. we will help you out. thanks, carley. rob: all going crazy. jillian: "fox & friends" starts right now. bye-bye. steve: thanks rob and jillian. 6:00 in new york city. start with a fox news alert. all too familiar already. shocking sight coast to coast major cities turned into virtual coast towns as new covid-19 reality is starting to set in across the country. brian: in unprecedented move city leaders shutting down bars, restaurants, even schools until further notice. california's governor gavin newsom begging all residents older than 65 to just stay home. katie: so far 68 people have died.