people will get stir crazy real quick. jillian: if you caught us at the part of our show. apart on the show. social distancing as recommended. rob: see you later. jillian: have a good day, everyone. "fox & friends" starts right now. brian: good morning. we start with a fox news alert as you can hear in the background. president trump's task force issuing strict new guidelines to contain covid-19. states and cities across the nation now pretty much deserted. meanwhilemean. steve: meanwhile the tristate area where we are closed all bars, casinos gyms and movie theaters last night. garden state's governor in new jersey in fact called in the national guard. san francisco bay area on the other side of the country ordering people to shelter in place until april the 7th. ainsley: as police ordered party goers to go home. gamblers nowhere to be found at the mgm grand casino in las

vegas. brian: not allow you had. there are over 4600 covid-19 cases through 49 states. that means west virginia is the only one excluded at least 85 people have died. and meanwhile, one thing is clear. to be responsible, to show social distancing all three of us are apart same studio. plenty of distance. steve: that's right. ainsley, welcome back. ainsley: thank you. steve: this morning the cdc guidelines says you should be at least six feet apart. here on the curvey couch where i am on the mezzanine level, usually we sit about 128 inches apart. >> this morning ainsley is what we refer to as the fish bowl area. brian is there at the big plastic desk and i'm up here on the curvey couch all by myself. we are doing exactly the same thing. people all across america are trying to do and that is stay away from each other because you don't want to get infected and you don't want to spread infection. ainsley: we have a responsibility to slow down this virus and to think of other people during this time so if you can keep your distance and

prevent someone from getting close to you that might be sick, you can save your family, can you save the recalledly and help our country as nation. steve: all right. coming up. we have an all-star lineup. dr. fox news contributor dr. jennette measure watt is ned ambassador debra birx. ainsley: dr. nicole saphier and dr. marc siegel. brian: yesterday the white house made it clear they are ramping up their restrictions because they want to put this thing to bed as quick as possible. we do know they have put out guidelines. aren't hard to follow but worth emphasizing right now. for example, let's take a look at you will of them. if you feel sick, obviously stay home. we feel okay. ainsley: if your children are sick, keep them at home. steve: that's right. if somebody in your house tested positive, this is important. keep the entire household home. don't let anybody leave.

ainsley: if you are an older person you need to stay at home. stay away from others and what's the last one, brian? brian: if you are a person with serious underlying health conditions. stay home, stay away from others. basic responsibilities. we all have to do with 350 million people with no one excluded. with no one's lives not turned upside down. it's up to us to take individual responsibility for it, too. keep in mind for the longest time we heard young people you will get it. the symptoms will be mild. make sure you don't spread to old people. if you see what is happening in europe there are more younger people getting this and having some severe consequences. so, i don't think anyone should say i feel healthy. ainsley: young man 45 years old in louisiana. the president had press conference with doctors behind him. many going to be talking. to say two-page list 15 days to slow the spread. he shed this could go on through

august, possibly. >> we would much rather be ahead of the curve than behind it. and that's what we are. therefore, my administration is recommending that all americans, including the young and healthy, work to engage in schooling from home when possible. avoid gathering in groups of more than 10 people. avoid discretionary travel. and avoid eating and drinking at bars, restaurants, and public food courts. if everyone makes this change, or these critical changes and is a sacrifices now, we will rally together as one nation and we will defeat the virus and we're going to have a big celebration all together. will several weeks of focused action we can turn the corner and turn it quickly. steve: the key is to try to make this two weeks. these 15 days as powerful with our response as possible. governor cuomo here in new york

yesterday said the faster and better societies close down the sooner they open. that is why apparently the governors of new jersey and connecticut and new york all got together and they said we have got to close down all the bars and all the restaurants. the casinos and we're going to have to close down all the gyms as well. because, we are so close here in the tristate area, you know, if i'm in new jersey, but i know that the bars are open in new york, i'm just going to drive over the line. they didn't want people shopping around for different venues that are open. it is painful but at the same time, this is how you stop the virus at least that's how it's worked in the past like singapore. ainsley: amazon is trying to hire 100,000 employees. so many of us order tkeurg online. i was up over the night recall looking for puzzles and board games and things to keep them respond. i'm grateful that amazon is looking for extra employees so

that all of us can get our supplies. brian: what governor cuomo wants and other governors perhaps want although you wouldn't want to cede authority. he wants the president to ban people from all restaurants and casinos and all public events. but what the president is doing telling governors, you can call the shots. you know your people better. governor cuomo is also asking for the military to copy in. in terms of major events, not a surprise but officially announced in terms of sports, kentucky derby delayed until september. so it's at least back on the board. nascar events called off until may. they were one of the last holdouts and major league baseball pushed until mid may. fingers crossed go. to mid may get a whole season in. nfl cancelled draft. still going to have a public event. going to have it i guess via satellite. have a central location where people get together. used to be something that's the way it was done in the 1970s and partially the 1980s.

used to make the phone call to the draft pick. now they goal back to that and maybe set up some satellites or satellite viewing through the various top top picks. for the most part no one is going to be together. ainsley: you mentioned nascar. what about when all of them come back together? are we going to see every single sport being played at the same time now? brian: i'm not sure. the mls has delayed their season. they have got to get their season. in if everything goes through july. if we can't get ahold of this thing, you know, if china and south korea give us hope that we can get ahold of this thing and reverse the numbers, so, if we don't, they are going to have to wait. but, you can imagine the momentum we will feel as we start playing baseball again. as we start playing major league soccer again and nascar starts dominating the weekends again. steve: that will be good. there is so much uncertainty. that's why, yesterday, when the president surprised a lot of people by saying august. i think he probably was thinking

about august because he has probably been warned that the rnc convention, which is scheduled for the end of august may have to be completely different than it has ever been in the past. brian: sure. steve: meanwhile, as people look to washington, d.c. yesterday on the vote was overwhelming. it was super bipartisan, 363 to 40. the house passed and sent to the senate the families first coronavirus response act. what it involves is free tests, two weeks' paid sick leave. up to three months paid family leave and medical leave there was resistance from republicans because the impact on small business. nonetheless, steve mnuchin did sit down with the republicans in the senate later today. at lunch, and he is going to talk to them about how to go forward. brian: yeah. also, we can add to this. there will be medical leave to parents whose minor league children have children's care facilities or schools shut down due to the virus. also, they changed the language

because they screwed up the language over the weekend and made mandated benefits given to employ years cannot exceed the tax credit for employees receive. so the senate also, remember, we had-to-senator tom cotton yesterday. a lot of the resistance has melted away in the senate. they are concerned like all of you that the money has got to move with speed and help people so tax credits wouldn't really help people. steve: no. brian: they have got to get the money right away. secretary of treasury steve mnuchin said he has retooled the coronavirus bill. it's actually working a third, too. says, quote: we will be looking for support for small and medium sized businesses. we'll also be looking for support for certain industries that have been particularly hard hit like airlines, hotels and others will be looking to a general stimulus to get into the bloodstream. ainsley: is he having a lunch today with senators to go over third plan. you mentioned third plan. the first one was passed over the weekend they botched.

so language. they had to go in and correct it. both of those bills sent to the senate. they have-to-a prove both of them. if they don't approve both of them. the second bill will have to be sent back to the house and have to approve it because they botched that language. steve: mitt romney is one senator who says because of the uncertainty. because so many people are not working right now, everybody should just get $1,000 essentially a check from the government. he says that the government has done this in times of trouble in the past. and it's a good idea right now. we're going to talk to a couple u.s. senators from the great state of florida, marco rubio is going to be joining us and from missouri senator josh hawley on today's program. ainsley: people could use that money. i was watching "fox & friends" s first." he said he is not sure they are going to be able to pay rent. hopefully package will allow people who do have to stay home with their kids, aren't able to go to work, they will still get paid. steve: these are challenging times indeed.

brian: walking around the city yesterday, there was a scramble to get something quick before 8:00 when the gyms shut down, when the restaurants shut down. and when alls other events, night clubs have been shut down. so, people are saying okay. you are pretty much on your own. the disease control, they take priority. those are the people experts saying this is how you stop it. on the other hand, there is a push back saying we are not going to be able to stop much if our economy is flat on its back, so let's not shut down too much to the point where we can't stand up again. steve: well, i will say this. the last time i was in a nightclub was 179. not really going to impact me. by the way today is saint patrick's day. ainsley: we haven't even talked about the primaries. steve: it is also an election day. ohio's democratic primaries have been cancelled overnight. just hours before people were going to go to the polls. which will open very shortly. ainsley: despite the nationwide health emergency three states have decided to move forward with today's election.

brian: griff jenkins live in d.c. as base rallies from a safe distance. ohio is not playing today. griff: that's right, brian, ainsley, steve, good morning. the buckeye state will have to wait. let's at least address this campaign trail has never looked like this. yesterday sanders holding a virtual rally featuring rocker neil young and darrell anna telling supporters to, quote, stream the bern biden called a teletown hall answering questions over the phone. as it relate to ohio. they have to wait three months at least. ohio's governor and secretary of state announcing last night that the only thing more important than free and fair elections there is the health and safety of ohioans ordering the polls closed postponing the election at least until june. governor mike dewine had this to say. >> on one hand we are being told to stay home and take care of ourselves and, yet, we want to exercise our constitutional rights. so, that was something that, you know, we wanted to enable people to be able to do both.

griff: meanwhile three other states florida, illinois and arizona will head to the polls today where there is a total of 441 delegates up for grabs. florida has the most 219. governor ron desantis explains. >> the health officials say given the nature of this primary, given kind of the way you go in and do one for most of the times for most counties that can be done safely. >> in case you lost track, this is where the race lost track biden has a lead of 150 delegates. washington state just declared biden the winner of last week's primary giving him victory of five of six states that voted march 10th. looking ahead three other states that have already postponed, louisiana, georgia and kentucky i, guys. steve: griff, you've got to wonder, aside from the poll workers who will be exposed to everybody who comes, in who is actually going to go out and vote? and i heard one reporter say

yesterday that bernie sanders has a very young demographic. and they are less likely to get super sick according to the experts. meanwhile older voters, who have more likely to get seriously ill may actually be more in line with joe biden. so, who knows what's going to happen by the end of the polling today. griff: that's a great point, steve. let's not forget florida as well as arizonas have v. quite a large elderly population. may come into play. may hear more about that. steve: exactly. brian: they don't feel the restrictions we feel. going to cafes. if have you seen shots of the beaches. people are going to spring break for a reason. might be less of a feeling of an emergency like we have here in the northeast. ainsley: and keep in mind, brian, steve and griff what bernie said about castro. so a lot of those folks. brian: motivated. ainsley: older people might be motivated to gout and vote. steve: we will know at the end of the polling today.

griff, thank you very much. brian: jillian, you have the latest breaking news what's happening around the world? jillian: that's right. good morning. start with this story we are following. overnight a delta jet is grounded for several hours over coronavirus fears. a passenger reportedly alerted a flight attendant as the plane waited to take off from new york's jfk airport. everyone was forced to get off so the plane could be cleaned. of the passenger was taken to the hospital to get tested. the seattle bound flight took off later that night nearly four hours after it was supposed to. a cdc employee tests positive for coronavirus. a first for the agency. the headquarters are located in atlanta. but it's unclear where the employee worked. the cdc is sanitizing the office as the worker recovers at home. they are not involved with the coronavirus response and are said to be in good condition. attorney general bill barr cracking down on those trying to exploit virus fears. barr telling federal prosecutors to prioritize investigations

into people promoting fake stores and promoting as health officials and email scams. his memo reading in part, quote the pandemic is dangerous enough without wrong doers seeking to profit from public panic. the doj warned businesses against price gouging last week. and as brian mentioned thousands of spring breakers ignoring calls of social distancing and flooding a florida beach. these pictures show massive crowds at clearwater beach which hasn't restricted access yesterday. the city council may vote this week on whether to close the beaches following the lead of miami and fort lauderdale. a lot of people can't believe when they see these pictures. steve: apparently the same thing as south beach as well. all those people congregating and leave in a couple days. that's what community spread is all about. ainsley: one of my friend lives in those areas owns chicken is sal dad restaurants. stay open. brian: are you the governor of florida and is it up to you to

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today is the stock market heading into a recession. >> it may be. we are not thinking in terms of recession we are thinking of virus. >> pent up demand both in terms of the stock market and economy. once this goes away you will see a tremendous surge. ainsley: president trump addressing the economy as stocks suffered their worst day since 197. the dow dropping nearly 3,000 points. steve: all right. what can we expect when the markets reopen in 3 hours and 8 minutes in the host of varner and company, fox business joins us here in the studio. is he separated by over 10 feet social distancing. stuart, yesterday was a rough day on wall street. it was awful. a terrible day to retire if that was the day you had circled on your calendar. what's going on? stuart: this morning we are dead flat. now we were down 3,000 points on the dow industrials yesterday. you might expect a bit of a bounce at the opening bell today. we are not seeing it.

and that's kind of ominous. that means that the market is still searching for a bottom. we're down, what, 28, 30% in about four or five weeks. when you get that sharp a decline, people are thinking is this the bottom? shall i jump in now? that's what everybody is thinking. that's what everybody is looking for. and for much younger investors, those are going to wait a couple years before they see getting their money back in a good return. a lot of people are saying this is a generational buying opportunity. but, we have not seen the bottom just yet, steve. brian: you say the president's tweet last night was reassuring, you believe? stuart: the president tweeted last night said we are going to, quote, powerfully be supporting those industries hit by the chinese virus. i think here comes the mother of all rescue packages. the airlines are asking for $50 billion. airports asking for $10 billion. there will be other industries with their hand out and i don't mean that pejoratively but they

have been hit through no fault of their own and they are going to this administration asking for a major and i hate the word bailout. i'm going to call it a rescue package. it's going to stretch into trillions of dollars. as the president says, we are going to powerfully support those industries. powerfully support. that means a ton of money. ainsley: a lot of these small businesses are drawing on a line of credit to make payroll. great allowing with zero percentage rate money to be there gun and ammo sales. people are shopping on amazon. they don't want to hit the stores. what did you make of amazon saying they want to hire 100,000 new people and pay them $2 more an hour? stuart: a sign of switching going into stores, crowded stores and going to the amazons of this world to have it delivered to our door. they are having trouble keeping up with their order flow. so they're hiring an extra 100,000 people. that's a major hiring.

they already employ 800,000 people. that was as of december 31st. now another 100,000. they are a major employer. they are giving a pay raise. look, it's obvious, isn't it, when the stores are crowded, and we don't want to be in crowds, we go to amazon and have it delivered to us. they are trying to keep pace with the order. my question is what happens when this is all over? will we go back to the crowded stores or will we rely even more on amazon in will we go back to working in the office? or will we stay working from home? will we go back to the business travel to meet people face to face or will we keep with the teleconferencing business which is already booming? steve: i read this morning in the "new york post," one business in the new york city area that is booming is the liquor delivery service because it's just so handy that way. going back a topic though. regarding how washington is going to help these industries that have been so greatly impacted. you know, you don't want to call it a bailout.

instead, a rescue plan. but do you know how washington works. and this is an election year. and it's going to look to some as if they are trying to choose winners and losers. and there is going to be some head winds. >> going to be a question of who deserves. this i think you can make the case that the airlines have to stay in business. they are almost like a utility. have you got to have airlines. do you have to have cruise lines? they are in as much trouble as the airlines. should they get kind of bailout. there will be all kinds of questions like that. who gets it, who doesn't get it. to whom do you say no. that's where politics comes on board full time. brian: thousands will go unemployed if the cruise lines go belly up. ainsley: i saw yesterday, you are right about the alcohol thing, steve. people are gaining more weight because we are stuck inside, eating more junk food and nonperishables. steve: that's comfort food. ainsley: people are wondering if there is going to be a baby boom stuart stuart well, that's guaranteed -- well, far be it to

guarantee that i think highly unlikely. another forecast, gas prices tumbling, $2 and no more for a gallon of gas pretty soon. brian: which means drillers and freakers a bailout. do not let russia bring fracking stuart stuart oil $29 a barrel. you cannot make a profit drilling at $2 a barrel. they will be in line for help and relief. brian: they should get it. ainsley: thank you so much. we wil watch you at 9 and listeo you on the radio. power relieve group powered by veterans. usually cleaning up after national guard. now they are responding to covid-19. the co-founder joins us live a very powerful and patriotic message of hope for our great country.

ainsley: rushed in after tornadoes and tennessee. communities impacted by covid-19. here with more on their amazing efforts is team rubicon co-founder and ceo jake wood. hey, jake, so good to see you again. >> hi, ainsley, thanks for having me back on the show. ainsley: you are welcome. most of us are familiar with team rubicon but for those who

aren't tell us about your mission. >> a nonprofit organization. a network of over 100,000 military veterans and first responders that we have organized and trained. and that we deploy into communities following natural disasters. ainsley: what are you doing to help with this? i know have you gone in and helped with tornadoes and flooding. when it comes to a virus. how can your military experience help our country? >> well, it's a great question. you know, we responded to infectious disease outbreaks before but only in international capacity. this is the first time that we are, one, seeing this on a scale like we are seeing it here in the @and also the first timing that we have done anything domestically. we are currently mobilizing our teams to help communities all across the country. that's going to range from helping some of our national partners who are working in like a food banks with food distribution to those of our neighbors who aren't able to get the food that they need as they continue to shelter in place for fear of covid-19. to helping the federal

government set up testing clinics in communities all across the country. in one other effort, we are also going to be helping to plan and help with the logistics for returning some people who have been quarantined back to their homes after having been exposed to covid-19 on things like the cruise lines off the coast of the united states. ainsley: jake, you all are amazing. our veterans, medical teams out there, our first responders. you all are not afraid and put your fear in the back burner and did you go out there and fight and so resilient. many people are scared. a lot of people hold up in their houses because they are terrified to go out or infect a relative or themselves. give us a message of help. something that the military has taught you that we can all hold on to? >> i think one of the best messages or one of the best lessons from the military in a moment like this is the panic is contagious. we need to take this virus very seriously. this is going to be a whole of america response. you know, this entire country is now impacted by the effects of

covid-19. what we need to do is remain calm. we need to look out for one another. and we need to listen to the experts and the authorities. we have to take this very seriously in order to flatten this curve. if we do that. we can. when times are at their worse, americans rise to become their best and that's my expectation for my fellow citizen citizens s like this. ainsley: help team rubicon team rubicon u.s.a.org; that's correct, right, jake? >> that's correct. ainsley: please donate to them. most women aren't out there shopping and not buying clothes online anymore. we are buying the necessities. if you have a few extra bucks? wallet or bank account please give to this wonderful organization. god bless you. >> god bless you. ainsley: as so many adjust to new normal one woman going viral for her offer to help. joins us live next with the incredible response from around the world. there are good people out there. grocery stores offering special

shopping hours for seniors as struggling to keep their shelves full. todd piro in grocery stores as they are restocking this morning. hey,ed to. todd: good morning to you. empty store shelves like this right here a scene throughout the country in so many communities. but, numerous stores coming together to help the most vulnerable in our communities get what they need during this time of crisis. i'm todd piro. here in new york city i will have the latest coming up on "fox & friends." want to brain better?

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ainsley: the images are eerie as people run out to get supplies. brian: even though the president said relax. stores under pressure to accommodate the shoppers most vulnerable to covid-19. steve: todd piro inside grocery on the upper east side.

that used to be my grocery store. todd, there neighbors are facing strict new rules, aren't they? todd: not just here in new york city and all across the country. so many metropolitan communities for example really instituting restrictions. here in new york state governor cuomo saying only supermarkets and places like this should be open for business, quite frankly. other businesses should close. and take a look. supermarkets like this. this is the egg aisle. you don't see a lot in the way of eggs. take a look over here, frozen food not yet restocked. these stores like morton williams are trying their best. they are getting supplies. in you can see a whole new batch of cheese over there but, again, not on the store shelves just yet. come on offer here. and we are even reporting on paper products for so long. can you see that's not even a thought at this point. the folks here though are working hard. and the reason specifically, this store is trying to rush for 7:00 because that is when senior citizens and those who are the

most vulnerable during this crisis are going to get an hour to themselves to shop. that's important because oftentimes these are the individuals that we have been reporting on who are most vulnerable in this crisis. they don't need a huge rush. they need their supplies stocked on these store shelves and you can see down here and show more people they are trying their best to restock. you see the empty boxes, but, again, to my point earlier morton williams stores across the country trying their best to have senior-only hours to come and do what they need to do and get what they need and rest can go in later. that helps spread not spread the problem to those individuals, smaller crowds, they are safer. steve: all right. todd, they are not out of food. it's just a pro-si a process ofo get it back on the shelves in time. todd: exactly. you can see not a lot of meat here. meat is definitely one of the first things to go. i was in my store as they were getting the meat. we all need to be as patient as possible. could mean a number of trips to

the store. that's why they are trying to stock everything for senior hours so the seniors don't need to make multiple trips. ainsley: they rear stocking. even if you can only buy two packages of toilet paper or paper towels or meat or whatever it is. there will be more. you just have to hit at the right time. rob: they are asking people please don't hoard. that's the worse thing you can do. you have to think of fellow men and women. ainsley: a lot of the grocery stores hoard. only allowed to buy two paper towels at a time. steve: at love limits. todd, thank you from the upper east side. brian: young and healthy americans offering support for elderly neighbors and covid-19 pandemic victims. ainsley: look at that sign. this woman here in new york city, putting up that flier, offering to help get supplies for at risk residents and the responses are already pouring in. steve: here with more on the reaction is brooklyn resident maggie conley who joins us from

her home via skype. good morning to you. >> good morning, guys. steve: you know, where did you get this idea? i was sitting at home i think it was last thursday night. right after that first russia everybody went to the grocery store. and so when i went there, i noticed that you know, all the bread was gone, the meat, toilet paper, all these necessities and i live in carol gardens brooklyn very large elderly community here and worried those people weren't getting what they needed. steve: they were afraid to go out? >> pardon me, what? steve: they were afraid to go out. >> i mean, i'm not sure if they were afraid. if they weren't actually even able to get the stuff. you know, in brooklyn, we -- everyone has to walk to the grocery store and carry their stuff home. i was thinking, too, can these people carry two bags worth of stuff home. trudy and i decided to go on a

walk and post a flier to neighbors. they know her name more than mine. that's why i put her name and email address. steve: that was sweet. maggie, tell us. so stories. something that has touched you. there has been one person that you help that stands out. >> i think the biggest thing for me which i had no idea was a neighbor of mine posted that picture which then, you know, got reposted. and i had so many people reach out. both in the neighborhood to volunteer but then also all over the world sending me pictures of their signs that they are making which i think is so huge. evidence quite a few neighbors reach out, most of them are saying, you know, hi, i'm in my 60's or '70s, and, you know, right now i'm good. but i'm saving your information if i need anything, thank you so much. yesterday we helped a girl in brooklyn who is actually closer to my age that was sick, wasn't sure she -- if she had covid-19 or not, but she wanted to stay inside. we also got another email late

last night from a mom with a newborn in brooklyn whose husband is sick. we are setting up to get some stuff to her this morning, too. brian: vow a team working for you. out in new york is the epicenter of it really. more people than just about any other state. 950 confirmed cases and a lot of people who in their 60's feel vulnerable. do you think -- do you get the sense that you are going to have to grow your team? >> yeah. you know. that's like the really amazing thing. is right now i have a group of us just in my neighborhood of 70 volunteers that healthy divided by neighborhood. so hopefully the more emails that we get, we can send somebody that lives very close to them that they might even recognize or know. i have also been working with mimi and lima wh liam invisibles deliver.com. for all burrows in new york. the city, queens, also even new

jersey. steve: that's great. >> easy website to use. you can volunteer through there and request delivery if you need help. they are also looking to expand nationwide, so, if you are looking to volunteer, they could really use your help. ainsley: how do you do it without getting infected. do you let them leave money on the stoop and leave the bag on the stoop? how do you do it? >> what's great, i think the best safest way is to use venmo. i know a lot of elderly people don't do that but also i have gotten so many amazing sweet emails actually offering to help cover people's grocery tabs if they need it as well. so i think the last case resort would be great to, exchange money, but, i think right now i think it's safest to probably use venmo. or maybe even write a check to somebody. steve: all right. meghan connolly, if people are watching and would like help in your area. what's the website again. >> it's called invisible hands

deliver.com. it's also in my social media it's linked in there too. steve: we will also link it on our website as well. ainsley: maggie, you have a heart of gold and you are a dog lover. >> i am, i am. steve: trudy right s. is right there on her lap. >> also the best thing you can do if you know an elderly neighbor in your neighborhood. leave a note with your phone number easiest way for them to get ahold of you. steve: thank you for joining us and spreading the word and paying it forward. thank you so much, maggie. >> thank you so much. steve: meanwhile, do you have questions about the coronavirus? of course you do. we all do. up next, dr. janette nesheiwat answers questions like how worried should new moms be about their babies we will talk about that and ainsley, what else? ainsley: the senate will consider help for small businesses and medium sized business. senator josh hawley is going to

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steve: questions about coronavirus are pouring in as more than 4600 cases of cv 19 have been confirmed via test in the united states. fox news medical contributor and

family medicine dr. janette nesheiwat is joining us. she just joined the family. thank you for being here. >> good to be here. thank you, steve. steve: we have a lot of email we would like to go through. first one is by a fellow by the name of steve says i my daughter just had a baby a month ago. can her infant acquire the cv 19 and transmit it to parents or grandparents who are more at risk? >> first of all, congratulations on the newborn baby. although children we are blessed that we are not seeing a lot of cases of covid-19 in children. those under 10, it is still a possibility that newborn baby can have it and pass it to other people including grandparents. we had one case that we are aware of in china where a 30-hour old baby was found to test positive. fortunately is doing well. it is a possibility. you certainly want to practice social distancing with the grandparents. think close contact to the newborn baby should just be the

parents right now. steve: and social distancing is what you and i are doing. we are in the same studio but you are downstairs and i am upstairs. >> that's right. steve: meanwhile, an email from roger, my wife and i are four weeks into a six-week florida vacation. we have no symptoms. but would like to -- would it be wise to drive home early to indiana? what do you think? >> that's a great question. it depends on where you are. are you in a dense, crowded population? you know, are you in an area where there are many people around you? i'm glad you made it a whole entire month without any symptoms. do keep in mind you can be a symptomatic and still carry this virus and still pass it to other people it. depends on where you are. what your age group is. how are around and take those factors into consideration. it is a good idea to continue to take common sense precautions while you are traveling. steve: lisa emailed us this. i am currently recovering from shoulder surgery and need to go to physical therapy.

a lot of people do. question, is it safe to go to physical therapy? >> so this is a very good question. because physical therapy is a continuation of your surgery. we don't want to have any complications of your surgery. and you want to make sure we have full mobility and range of motion. so i think it is important that you continue with your physical therapy appointments. especially since you just had surgery. but, you need to take precautions as well. call your doctor's office ahead of time to make sure that there haven't been any changes in the office and they will give you protective measures to take to protect yourself and the employees. now, if you are just going for regular physical therapy and you didn't have any surgery. then that's something else might want to consider postponing. steve: what about postponing dental appointments? that's the eflail lawrence? >> another excellent question. so it's recommended that any non-you are jeanette and nonemergency procedures be postponed. at this time. now, if you chipped your tooth or you think you might have an infection or in severe pain,

call your dentist office because they can take precautions to have you come in and be seen in a safe manner. as of right now, it's recommended any nonurgent, non-emergent or elective procedures be postponed. but it's still important to brush your teeth and floss. steve: it is, indeed. final email from terry. my daughter is getting married in five weeks with 150 guests. should we postpone their wedding? i think we heard from the cdc on this one. >> congratulations. it's about five weeks out. so it is recommended that you avoid large groups of people for man 10 people. so, right now, that would be -- you would need to postpone it. but in five weeks the guidelines may change. so, i would say reassess in a couple more weeks but as it is right now, it's dangerous to engage in groups of people more than 10 because of the risk of close contact because the virus is highly infectious and highly contagious and spread easily from person to person. we want to minimize that spread.

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steve: 7:00 in new york city. president trump task force issuing new guidelines to contain covid-19 over the next 15 days. cities and states across the nation in some cases ghost towns. deserted. ainsley: you are right, steve. new york, new jersey, connecticut, they are closing all the bars and casinos, the gyms, the movie theaters. the garden state's governor calling in the national guard now. in san francisco, the bay area ordering people to shelter in place until april 7th. starbucks closing down dining room. take out in suburban areas. kentucky derby expected to be postponed. it's good though they will put it back on the calendar in september. nascar, major league baseball and nfl all postponing their events the nfl draft will take place but not in one location. steve: right now according to the experts there are over 4600

covid-19 cases across 49 states. at least 85 people have died. steve: welcome to "fox & friends." the cdc suggests social distancing we are doing that as well. the cdc says 6 feet you should be that separated when you are talking to somebody right now. i'm upstairs, ainsley is the no north side of the studio downstairs and brian is on the south side. brian: we're at the desk. meanwhile, i think the white house yesterday is showing more and more urgency while trying to keep calm. all my lives can i never remember one incident, even 9/11 included where everyone feels directly affected. you don't look over there and say that hurricane looks terrible. that didn't hit me or sandy hits us but nobody else. this is something that is hitting every single household. all 350 million americans. ainsley: yeah, brian, every

single american is coming up with a plan not only for food and water and paper products but also what if you get sick and trying to avoid getting other people sick by doing. this the social distancing. so that we don't infect each other or the elderly community. steve: the whole idea is the government is trying to restrict things for the next 15 days so if we have learned anything from south korea or singapore they are trying to flatten the curve. now that we have more tests. we have a greater number of covid-19 cases. the idea is the more restrictions the quicker we will get through. this some of the guidelines for the united states right now is, and these are important. if you feel sick, stay home. don't go out of the house. you are going to make other people sick. also, you will recover faster. also, if your children are sick, keep them at home. that is key. you don't want other kids wherever they congregate to get sickie your kids.

ainsley: you are right. if someone in your house tested positive. keep the entire household home, the president says. if you are an older person, you need to stay home, you need to stay away from others for your own sake. brian: a person with serious underlying conditions stay home and stay away from others. you are more vulnerable. also the president just needs people toe act responsibly. the question is should the mandates for all 50 states come washington? you saw andrew cuomo and the president sparring on twitter time to make universal statements about all restaurants, all gyms, all night clubs across the country. that's not the case in florida it. is the case in connecticut. it is the case in new york. it is the case over in new jersey. steve: it's a global problem. and there are no global rules. it's a national problem. and there are no national rules. you know. brian: for us. but other countries have. spain and italy have. steve: exactly. that's why the governors here in the tristate area all got together and they said you know

what? let's close down all the restaurants except for takeout. close all the bars, the casino, the gym, so we try to tamp this thing down as quickly as possible. did you go one state over, next thing you know, the bars are open. life goes on for them and the worry is that it will not stop the community spread. brian: should we get the other 46 states involved in this? steve: they are involved. brian: california is clamping down. but, pennsylvania isn't. and florida certainly isn't. steve: right. brian: south carolina isn't. i know west virginia hasn't been touched by it. maybe the president is happy letting the governors make decisions. i'm wondering at one point washington has to make the rules. ainsley: you might feel it. new york and washington state the first two states hit significantly here in the united states. i was watching a vaccine specialist last night on tucker's show he said the clinical trials up and running. five or six vaccines in the next few weeks.

he said the first shot for a trial was administered yesterday, hopefully we will be on the cutting edge when it comes to that. america pencil alan in world war ii. we defeated small pox and polio. the president released that two page list 15 days to slow the spread. he says america, please, work together. >> we would much rather be ahead of the curve than behind it. and that's what we are. therefore my administration is recommending that all americans, including the young and healthy, work to engage in schooling from home when possible, avoid gathering in groups of more than 10 people. avoid discretionary travel, and avoid eating and drinking at bars, restaurants, and public food courts. if everyone makes this change or these critical changes and sacrifices now, we will rally together as one nation and we will defeat the virus and we're

going to have a big celebration all together. with several weeks of focused action, we can turn the corner and turn it quickly. steve: so we will talk to deborah birx, the ambassador, about these 15 days of restrictions to try to flatten the curve. she, of course, one of the key people in the administration. meanwhile, let's take a live look at capitol hill where in just a couple hours the senate is set to take up the house's re-worked covid-19 relief package that was passed overwhelmingly last night. ainsley: the bill passing than newly on the house floor. brian: up to the senate now. mark meredith is live at the white house with the secretary treasury plans to push a third bill before the second one even passed. mark? >> brian, good morning to you. as health officials work to contain the outbreak. lawmakers in washington are working to contain the economic fallout from all of this. overnight the house tweaking and approving a bill that it worked on over the weekend to address.

so concerns americans have when it comes to covid-19. among the provisions in this bill would be paid emergency leave for some american workers two. weeks of paid sick leave for some workers. and up to three months of paid family and medical leave. >> senate republicans are absolutely convinced that the house's bill can only be the beginning, just the beginning of congress' efforts to secure our economy and support american families. >> we should be able to solve. this this is a significant challenge. but not an insurmountable one. >> white house says it fully supports the bill already approved by the house. treasury secretary steve mnuchin has been meeting face-to-face with lawmakers last night and expected to happen again today to discuss what comes next. look for support for small and medium-sized businesses support for the industry no surprise there airlines and hotels. and industries particularly hard-hit. we also heard from the senate

minority leade leader chuck schr they need a big bold to deal with the crisis. the kinds of put together families and directly into the hands of people that need it most. we expect treasury secretary will be able to speak with senate republicans later on today to give them an idea of how much that is all going to cost that is a big question still this morning. steve, ainsley and brian? steve: thank you, sir. brian: bring in majority g.o.p. senator josh hawley a member of the house judiciary committee and former attorney general of that state. senator, thanks for joining us. when you -- what have you seen of the house bill that's now in your lap, what do you like and what don't you like? >> well, i like the fact that it does move quickly. i like the fact that it gets relief quickly to businesses, particularly small to medium-sized businesses there are some aspects of it that i certainly wouldn't have drafted that way. my thought is we need to move quickly. my hope is in the senate

processed fast. we are in the middle of a national emergency. the president said and my view is we need to process the house bill which the white house negotiated as quickly as possible. and then move on. because there is a lot to do here. and families, in particular, families and working families, workers, individually, they need some support and relief. ainsley: yeah. tell us exactly what relief you are going to give to those parents. 30 million children out of school right now, my friends, they are having to cover their work shifts to stay home with their kids or trying to get babysitters or get their parents to fly in. what exactly are you doing to help those moms and dads that need extra money? >> it's crazy for parents right now. i mean, with again, 30 million kids out of school, my kids are out of school. schools all over my state are closing. i think we need to direct relief to working families right now. so today i'm going to propose an emergency family relief program. this would send relief to families based on the number of children that they have.

and the size of their income based on need. to help parents who are having to stay home and care for a child who are having to maybe care for a loved one. who are having to try and find some sort of child care, so that they can go on working. i think we need to get relief into the hands of working families right now. it's great to look to businesses. it's great to support business. we have got to do it. but let's not forget that it's workers and families who are the true backbone of our economy. and they need relief asap. steve: how much money looking to get into the hands of people and how quickly. the government isn't set up for that right now. >> well, the irs is set up to disperse reimbursement for income taxes for instance, there is a mechanism in place for the irs. one of the advantages, i suppose, of having to pave our taxes as we do every year that the irs does know how to contact

americans quickly. so i think we should use the irs dispersement process. as to the amount. the irs estimates that a family of four, a middle income family of four spends about $1,800 a month on basic expenses, that's not amenities. basic expenses. the idea would be to cover some increment of that to try to give working families some relief. brian: access to free testing. two weeks paid leave. enhanced unemployment insurance. strengthening food security initiatives. i imagine that's a school program which people aren't getting food if they are not going to school. increases federal medicaid funding to states. now, you are talking about, also, enhancing this and you are also talking about putting this for 37 states that have told their kids you can't go to school, it's too dangerous. do you think there should be one policy for the whole country or do you like the way the president is doing it empowering governors? >> you know, i would like to seat cdc, centers for disease control issue some uniform

guidance. i don't know that the federal government has the authority to order governors. they can strongly encourage. this is just our system of federalism, flight they can strongly encourage governors and mayors to take certain steps. i do think it would be helpful for the centers for disease control to issue uniform guidance and to say, listen, here is our strong recommendation across the board. i know as i talk to cities in my state and mayors. they are saying sometimes we are not sure what to do. we british that there was uniform guidance that we could follow. i think that would be helpful. steve: just out of curiosity, senator, you are from missouri, out in the middle next to kansas where i'm from. i have talked to my family out there, and they do not feel impacted whereas i'm sitting in new york along with brian and ainsley. you are in washington. two cities that have hot spots. what do you make of the people who are not infected not quite getting that this is such pressing, urgent item? >> well, i'm afraid it will soon

come to the whole country everyone will feel like this soon. i can tell you in missouri they are buying up the hand sanitizer. buying up two*eult toilet paper if you went around to stores this weekend in joplin missouri and springfield missouri several cases in the middle of the state. you are seeing people responding to. there is widespread concern. listen, there is no need to panic. fear doesn't do anybody any good. we are going to beat. this there is no doubt about it. we are going to beat it, period. the question is can we flatten that curve. can we make sure our healthcare system doesn't get overwhelmed and our economy continues to function well. that's what we have got to do. ainsley: do you have any power over the schools universities and colleges? a lot of people are saying am i going to get my tuition back? housing back? private schools? that kind of thing? >> i think this is something we need to strongly encourage and use whatever tools we have for universities, for instance, many of which are closing. or moving to online classes, which is prudent by the way.

that's good. but i think if students are told, you know, you need to go home, we need to close the dorms, how about those meal programs that they have bought. how about their dorm rent they are paying. ought to be a mechanism for them to get relief for those things. i want to say i applaud universities who are sending kids out and saying we are going to move to online. that i think, is very prudent. a number of schools and universities in the state of missouri, in fact, most of them have done that that is very smart. but, yes, and we also need to think about student loan relief and student debt relief. we are in an emergency situation. we need to think about relief to families, relief to students all across the board we all got to come together here. brian: the towns around those schools are now ghost towns because it might as well be summer. so, everybody is affected by. this i just wish there was a way to attack this without bringing the economy to its knees. >> yes. and i think that's one of the reasons that we need to take steps now to get relief into the

hands of workers and working families. and i come back to the fact that with 30 million kids and it's going to be more, by the way. it's going to be more kids out of school. parents having to stay home. we need to expand unemployment, for those who might have to lose their job. unfortunately at least in the short-term because of, this we needed to take care of those folks. parents having to stay home or having to care for a kid, they need relief too and that will help the economy. steve: it will indeed. josh hawley, thank you very much. we are ag are all looking to wan for guidance. thank you for joining us live. brian: and i look to jillian for the news. jillian: fox news alert. overnight ohio calls off its democratic primary hours before voters cast their ballots. >> on one hand we are being told to stay home and take care of ourselves and, yet, why want to exercise our constitutional rights. and so, that was something that, you know, we wanted to enable people to be able to do both. jillian: despite nationwide concerns, florida, illinois and

arizona are still holding primaries today. arizona g.o.p. chairwoman dr. kelli ward joins "fox & friends first" to explain extra safety steps at precincts. >> we are offering hand sanitizers before and after people vote. we are keeping those voting booth cleans and separating them a little further apart than they might have been in the past. we are encouraging people when they come to vote to engage in that social distancing. jillian: louisiana, georgia and kentucky have also postponed primaries. also breaking right now, two world health organization staffers test positive for covid-19. the organization says the workers started showing symptoms at home after leaving the office. it's unclear how or when they were exposed the world health organization is headquartered in switzerland. a navy sailor tests positive for the coronavirus after show nothing symptoms. the patient from naval base in california is being kwaoerpbd at

home. three sailors have covid-19. investigators believe the latest patient may have gotten the virus from another sailor. doctors are trying to determine if they had close contact with other personnel on the base. certainly keep you updated. that's a look at your headlines. send it back to you. steve: all right. jillian, thank you very much. it is 7:17 in new york city. next up the white house kron response coordinator, dr. deborah birx is going to join us live. you are not going to want to miss it. ♪

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see you standing behind the president. sometimes you approach the podium. yesterday at that press conference you said that millennials, they are the core group that will stop this virus. why do you think so? >> well, first, they make up a large part of our population particularly urban areas where we know there will be a potentially greater spread. also, they are the generation that can help the grandmothers, the grandfathers, the mothers and fathers, to be able to stay in touch with each other virtually. they can go out and set up their grandparents with the ability to stay and touch you know with face time and other elements. i think really they can help with the social isolation that could occur when we ask people to stay at home because they know how to innovatively stay in touch with each other without picking up the phone or being there personally. but also they are very good about communicating with each other and ensuring the clear message is that they-they have what they need to do themselves. you heard in the previous segment about the soldiers who are very mild or asymptomatic.

millennials may have very mild or asymptomatic disease and they have to make sure they are taking as great of precautions as they social distancing not going to bars and eating out and protecting their parents and grandparents. steve: yesterday the white house talked about guidelines, ambassador, where there are restrictions for the next 15 days which in some hotels are pretty significant. can't go to the gym and casinos are closed same the new york state or new jersey where there is actually a curfew and also in connecticut or state they don't have the same restrictions. why this is a problem there are no national rules. shouldn't there be national rules if you want to get this over with as quickly as possible? >> well, i believe when the president takes the bold is it step of putting out national tkpwhraoeups, can you read those

as national rules. that is what he is saying base on all the scientific data that will make a change in how this epidemic is spread. although it says presidential guidelines for all americans, take that as presidential rules for every american. we understand that we're a united states if you feel governors and mayors that have independent decision-making capacity. but this is what we are say from the national level that will make a difference in this epidemic. that will keep the hospitals from having to find more icu beds, more ventilators. if we can keep the older generation healthy and well, then our hospitals will not have the concerns that they are noting as you said in your previous segment. brian: so i'm looking at the story as you know the teaneck new jersey is a center, a huge hot spot. they basically cordoned off the whole thing and looking at the medical center ceo. he basically has given up on the cdc. he feels they are too slow and

labcorp as a private industry is beginning to respond but they have not gotten everything together. what is it going to take to get this test done on a massive level so people can get a test if they want a test? >> you know, thank you for noting that so, in the united states, we have public health surveillance platforms. and that's what the cdc worked on. and they were the first ones to get us that. they were the ones that made it possible for us to see those early cases. but as we are americans with innovation and we need to bring in the private sector. and i think that's what the president did exactly two weeks ago, asking labcorp and quest abbott, roche and they're that fisher to really step up and bring private sector lab capacity online can you see roche and thurman that fisher have done that they roach get the specimen collection devices tout people. they do the logistics transport. all of these pieces are

critical. the lab torians, i know you were mentioned nurses and doctors we have lab torians on the front lines running these day and night so they can get diagnosis. brian: says the labs are very, very slow. >> thurma fisher late friday and roche friday afternoon. these are the high throughput instruments and need wave running them. great way of getting safrplts. that's where you see that private partner partnership announced in the rose garden very much focused in making a community-centered client-centered so people in the hospitals are not overrun by continuous need for diagnosis. ainsley: ambassador, we have frequented restaurants. i know now most of them are closed, bars are closed. if you get in a taxicab and get in an uber, i know this is transmitted through drop elizabetplopdrop let.if you bred

someone has it next to you six feet away can you still contract it? >> those are very good scientific questions. the early data suggests the droplets dispense and fall large larger drop lets six feet. data suggests if you are within six feet for more than 10 minutes of someone coughing, you get exposed. so just the air coming in and out of cabs, no. but potentially the surfaces, the handles, the door handles. everybody needs to be very attentive where they're putting their hands and making sure they are doing continuous hand-washing or using sanitizers. steve: listen, i don't think you need to tell the country that so many people are doing that to the credit of the administration, which is -- ainsley has got it right there. everybody is very cognizant of that ambassador, the president said yesterday you should limit your exposure to groups to groups no bigger than 10.

which is different than 50 that we had heard the day before. but, if you are limiting your exposure to 10 people, when you are on an airplane, there are sometimes 150 people there, are we close to some sort of domestic travel restriction? >> you know, we are looking very carefully at the data every day. and that's why you see this escalation and guidelines from the president. every day he sits with the president and vice president, goes over all of our scientific evidence. and i have to say everybody on the team has understood all of the epidemiology very quickly. i mean, it's very much like economic numbers. so it's very straightforward in some ways. but, integrating that data and understanding how the hot -- how the new outbreaks are occurring isn't from travel between states, within states. is it exposure like was described with news reporters being in an epidemic area? and, again, i want to thank the

news reporters who are on the front lines. i know they are like our nurses and first responders to get information out to the american people. and putting themselves at risk. so, everybody needs to be super cautious and as we track down these outbreaks. if we see that that is happening from flight travel, then i think the president will react. but we don't have enough information right now to suggest that. steve: right now you are suggesting people are not getting sick on airplanes? >> we don't know. and i just want to be very clear. when we track and trace cases for where their exposure is. that's what becomes key. right now we know exposures are happening at the community level. and that's why we are being very clear and the governors and mayors are being very clear about what it will take at the community level. the level of sacrifices that we are making, everyone makes. the 10 we made very clear because we don't want large gatherings even in households. that exposes other family members to potentially this virus. so we think the rule of 10 right now is critical. but you can see some mayors went

to really self-isolations in homes. which we have asked our older generation and people with pre-existing medical conditions, particularly those that are getting cancer treatments to really self-isolate at home and all of their loved ones around them to protect them. brian: lastly, the governor of new york, this is the hot spot in the country right now, wants the military to start building hospitals. the president says he is considering it. is today the day he does it? >> the president is considering all of the options. we are looking at hospital beds, icu beds, informed by the data from seattle and santa clara. i really want to thank the governors and health commissioners from those states that are providing us the on-the-ground daily reports of hospital utilization. those came in overnight. there are multiple options in our reserve including the v.a. hospitals, the department of defense medical treatment facilities, and even hospital ships. there are a lot of things to consider. and all of those things are on

the table right now. ainsley: dr. best of my birx, ry quickly. no child under the age of 9 was getting this. is that still the case. >> no one under 9 serious case having to go on a ventilator or a fatality. we think they do get ill but we think they don't have symptoms in many cases or very mild symptoms. i think you will see when we talk about 96% of the people did not have the virus, because of testing in south korea. that means only 4% did. so there is a lot of respiratory disease out there that is not this virus. steve: ambassador, we know you are so biz i can't understand thank you for taking about 10 minutes of your day for talking to the folks at home today. >> thank you. ainsley: thank you for sacrificing sleep so we can get ours at night. thank you, dr. birx. >> thank you. ainsley: grocery stores struggling to restock outbreak. todd piro is live inside one of

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disaster. ainsley: grocery stores are under the pressure to accommodate all the shoppers who are the most vulnerable to the covid-19. todd piro is live inside morton williams grocery store in new york city where senior hour is now underway. what is that,e, todd? todd: ainsley, steve, good morning to you. senior hour is the hour from 7 a.m. to 8:00 a.m. when they are encouraging seniors and immunocompromised individuals to come into morton williams to do their shopping with fewer people to bump into. obviously you much 6 feet of social distancing help them through the process. make checkout easier for them so the overall experience is just more comfortable for them. they're the ones as we have been reporting most vulnerable right now. they want to make this process. not just here in morton williams, supermarkets throughout the country are doing this as well. last hour i want to point something out. we were in empty chevrolet isles this hour for different pears for days over here. take a look at this. you are not a salad person, now

is a good time to try to get some salad and become a salad person they have it at morton williams. pallets being unloaded. pallets of food, supplies, many things that people need and there is a concern out there that if this thing goes longer, or as long as expected, there is not going to be enough food. we spoke to the owner here of morton williams about those concerns. here's what he had to say. >> the volumes are obviously much higher but it's resulted in our need to develop redundancy and contingency plans whereas we get a few vendors delivering every day we are now relying on dozen of vendors, everything will be available and be okay. we will do everything humanly possible to ensure that our shelves are full. todd: one important point to remember, guys. when you go, they may not have every beginning ge single item e

patient. what all the supermarket owners are saying you will not starve during this crisis. there will be food. back to you. steve: exactly. but they are out of hand sanitizer today. todd: true. they don't have hand sanitizer here. the owner told us that exactly. when i went yesterday they do not have it. be patient. you know, ration your supplies. you don't have to do it every single time somebody looks at you. do it when you touch something. steve: exactly. all right. todd, thank you very much. ainsley: thanks, todd. steve meanwhile the covid-19 pandemic has sparked school closures all across america. ainsley: how can parents create a virtual school day at home? we have that advice coming up next. so when a hailstorm hit, usaa reached out before he could even inspect the damage. that's how you do it right. usaa insurance is made just the way martin's family needs it - with hassle-free claims, he got paid before

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virtual school day at home? let's ask director of leadership development at k-12 online schooling joel medley and his sons bret and campbell. bret is in sixth grade and campbell in 4th grade. good morning. >> good morning, how are you doing? ainsley: you have been doing this for a long time. can you give us advice? all of us are wondering if we will go stir-crazy and how to be the best teacher to our children who are stuck at home with us. >> sure. there are several things that i recommend and that i use with these two all the time. the first is to make sure that you set up a space that is purely devoted to education. where the laptop is sitting right now is campbell's desk and brant is behind us. so this is a room dedicated for them away from distractions. the second thing that i would say is make sure that you create a schedule together. you know your children better. so ask them what their passions are like pwrapt what's your favorite class. >> [inaudible] >> campbell?

>> >> we have them do history and -- that gives them momentum. the first thing i would say show and tell. not the games we will play during of the school. they will tell you they have done some work. ask them to show that to you. because sometimes they haven't done what they're supposed to do. ainsley: they are kids. >> they are kids. that's right. but the last thing that i would say is make sure that you resist that urge to help them when they are struggling. when they are wrestling with a difficult math problem or trying to balance equations in chemistry? that's okay. that's how they learn. and when do you come alongside to help them. don't take over the problem but ask them questions and lead them to that answer. and then you get the joy to see them learn. ainsley: how many hours a day? what's the best time to do it? >> well, they do about six hours every day. ainsley: woe. >> some days are longer because they could be a struggle with some of the classes. the best time to do it is really up to them. as soon as we finish this

interview, these kids are going to start their school day at 8:00 a.m., because they have assessments. there are some freedom to adjust the schedule to meet what they need to do with breaks. ainsley: brant, how do you like it? >> i love it. ainsley: why? >> well, my mom is my learning coach. and she is the best. because she usually helps me move forward with the problem instead of giving me a direct answer. ainsley: campbell, how about you? >> i love the school. i love the teachers. the teachers are like so kind and loving. ainsley: do you skype with these teachers? >> absolutely, they do. they are in the platform. they will be in live class connect sessions where they are able to see and hear the teacher. and there are some smaller groups, based upon need that they're able to meet with them as well to adjust to instruction accordingly. ainsley: joel, what's the number one question you get from folks who don't do this type of schooling? >> number one question i get is

this really school? and the answer is yes. it's public schooling at home. so we have state certified teachers that deliver a state aligned curriculum to these kids. they will take the same state assessment as everyone else. we have seen them grow tremendously. we are quite proud. ainsley: some benefits. you get to control what your children see and hear and what they are learning at school that many of us don't have that luxury. thank you so much for sharing that with us. we wish you all the best. >> thank you. you all have a great day. ainsley: you too. god bless you. visit k-12.com. k 12 for more information. thank you and have a wonderful day. hand it over to jillian. happy saint patrick's day in your green. >> same to you. thank you. let's start with this. france is on lockdown to try to spread the spread of the coronavirus. president macron calling the pandemic a health war as people are stayed to stay home. 100,000 police officers will enforce the lockdown at

checkpoints inside. protesters flooding the streetsg france france's ban over weekend. help move patients to hospitals. schools, restaurants and bars are all closed. the aclu i is suing ice. demanding nine sick and elderly immigrants be released from detention center in tacoma, washington. the aclu says the detainees are susceptible to the virus because of their underlying medical conditions. age and proximity to seattle one of the epicenters of the outbreak. inmates are released early as los angeles tries to curb the spread of coronavirus in jail. more than 600 people walking free in l.a. as police departments cut down on arrests. right now no confirmed cases at the county jails. which house more than 16,000 inmates. in new york city the legal society demanding immediate freeze on arrests claiming inmates don't have access to

basic sanitation needs. a look at your headlines. send it back to you. adam in the weather center. hi, adam. >> hey there, jillian. good morning everyone. tracking a couple of winter systems moving across the country. one of which happening along a frontal boundary. cooler temperatures to the north. this is the line where you see the temperatures get warmer to the south. we have been tracking a couple of systems running right along. soggy across the southeast last couple of days. unfortunately continues right now. another system we are paying attention to running back across the west. they have seen rounds and rounds of winter weather. rain moving across portions of central california. get this into the higher elevations and that suddenly turns into snowfall. we could be looking into another couple of feet of snowfall at some of these higher elevations. those will be systems watching for. ainsley, back out to you. ainsley: thanks so much, adam. the senate will consider coronavirus bills third one. senator joins us live with the preview.

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brian: welcome back. amid the covid-19 outbreak our next guest who run as grocery chain is blocking off certain hours for seniors to shop. here with more ceo of pachico and sons john. >> good morning, brian. >> how many stores do you have. >> 8 stores in west chester and putnam county. brian: you make an impact in your community. what has the response been that you open up early just for seniors. >> overwhelmingly positive. everyone appreciates we have been able to do it. brian: how are you doing the social distancing thing not only looking at seniors but other people in your community. >> yesterday we spoke with the county executive and many of the mayors and supervisors in the towns and they all asked to us reduce our occupancy down to 40%. keeping the occupancy lower in the stores to maintain the distance and makes a more comfortable experience for the customers and more comfortable for employees. >> what have customers been saying to you when they come. >> in so far appreciative of everything we have been doing.

trying to keep the stocks full. appreciate the hard work everyone has been doing and seem overall pretty happy and calm. brian: your employees are stressed, why. >> everyone is pretty worried. we are trying to do everything we can to prevent them from getting sick and hopefully social distancing will make a distance. brian: have you had to lay anybody off. >> no. we have not laid everybody off. everyone is definitely overtired and exhausted. brian: i'm sure this is the type of thing that wins people over. not just a business in the area. you care about the people in the area. especially the seniors who like consistency in their life. now, as you -- as people watch and see your store we see a stocked store. are you able to get supplies regularly when you want them? >> yeah. as i have been waiting for you guys to come on, i have been getting text messages from all my stores and saying happy all the chux came in full. i'm happy about that. all different avenues not only supermarket channels from food service, friends over there that

helping us out as much as they can. they have been basically shipping supplies from the restaurant industry over to ours to help keep the shelves full. brian: john, as you talk to other supermarket owners, same message? getting supplies that people should calm down, that you are convinced that you can replenish your shelves? >> yes. we can replenish. you may not find everything you want. we are getting supplies in and some categories and brands are reducing what they are making just to focus on the important items right now. so, yeah. we are getting product. brian: how has your area been hit? how many positive tests are you guys experiencing? >> i think west chester is around 500 cases. we are right at the epicenter. close to new rochelle. it's bad over here. brian: when you stock your shelves what precaution russ taking? >> sanitizing like crazy. cleaning. separate crew comes in and sanitizes on top of us get double coverage. provided gloves to everyone and doing everything we can to try

to keep everybody safe. brian: your stores, john decicco are okay. you are encouraging people to come in and helping out senior notice morning in order to get them in first without others around. so, john, thanks so much for doing that. >> thank you, brian. have a great day. thanks. brian: best of luck. keep stocking those shelves. >> thanks. brian: as we set set for the final hour of our show straight ahead. the president issuing new guidelines for everyday life. he did that yesterday afternoon. coronavirus pandemic grows what you need to know at the coach the hour. and dr. marc siegel joins us live to answer your virus questions. he's going to be with us. don't move. ...

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nowhere to be found at the mgm grand in las vegas. ainsley: right now there are more than 4,600 covid-19 cases across 49 states at least 85 people have died. brian: meanwhile we're social distancing here to emphasize the situation we should be doing at home they're doing it in washington even if you notice the washington briefing yesterday the white house, they had a little bit of distance, no one disliked john roberts in the front row but they wanted to create distance between them as he asked the president a series of questions as things really intensify in washington and around the country with this pandemic. steve: that's right and so yesterday, as more schools were closed millions of children were home yesterday, looking for guidance. they actually, the white house did come out with some guidelines for people just generally to try to flatten the curve. we're trying to get this thing over with as quickly as possible , some of the rules include avoid gathering in groups of more than 10 people.

that was different the day before it was 50. you should avoid discretionary travel. if you don't have to travel don't. avoid eating and drinking at bars, restaurants and public food courts if you can, and make your own food. ainsley: they are also saying that if you or your children are feeling sick, please stay at home. if your kids are sick you need to keep them at home and if someone in your house tested positive keep the entire household at home. brian: so these are the things the president underlined and said if you're an older person stay at home, a person with serious underlying health conditions stay away from home and away from all others stay home, and all americans including the young and healthy should engage in home schooling when possible, many people are on spring break it doesn't really kick in maybe perhaps until next week, and then a lot of these school districts who especially the ones on tight budgets aren't necessarily ready to go with online courses. whether it's google hangout or google classroom, or whatever they choose to use. ainsley: brian, steve you all

remember candyland? you remember sorry, you remember twister? steve: monopoly. ainsley: these are some of the things that i was buying lots of legos, arts and crafts making stained glass windows we used to may as kids you pop them in the oven anything like that is good to entertain your children. so many of my friends are sending out virtual classrooms and advice as to what we need to be teaching our kids depending on their ages. steve: it's time for a lot of families to be together and in that respect it's terrific, but at the same time when you look at all of the new restrictions, they are trying to get these restrictions out there and they are painful and trying to do them over the next 15 days, but you know, they are guidelines, right? they are not national rules. or is that the case? we had ambassador deborah burkes on with us, she's one of the point people on this and she framed it this way. when it comes to these guidelines we just detailed. >> when the president takes a bold step of putting out national guidelines, you could

read those as national rules. that's what he is saying, based on all the scientific data that will make a change in how this epidemic is spread so although it says presidential guidelines for all americans, take that as presidential rules for every american. we understand that we're united states full of governors and mayors that have independent decision-making capacity, but this is what we're seeing from the national level that will make a difference in this epidemic. brian: but they're not rules or taken as rules. you see the states doing things totally different very intense in certain parts of the bay area steve: the suggestions. brian: yeah, they are suggestions not rules, in pennsylvania and florida much different than connecticut, new york and new jersey, and anything that is going to prolong this , i think that we either got to get on the same page or let's stand the economy up in areas in which it can. we can't go half way with everything. ainsley: but brian even if they aren't really rules and they are just called guidelines, still people are going to follow these

if you haven't you don't want to go out and infect other people and your elderly parents, you're going to stay at home so even though they are called guideline , most people, any sensible people, would actually heed these warnings and follow them. steve: but the thing is, the different states have different rules. i mean, new york, new jersey and connecticut, the governors all got together and they came up. ainsley: because we're seeing it so much quicker here than they are in other states. steve: i understand that but at the same time, the way community spread works is it's invisible. you don't know where it is or when it's going to pop-up in a state in the midwest, and to brian, your point, i think it's right. i think she may ambassador birx may say consider the presidential rules but at the same time they are suggestions. there are other countries that have really cracked down, south korea, singapore they really cracked down and are on the back side of that curve. brian: china had one case

yesterday, south korea has turned the corner. if we're going to turn the corner, you just tell us how to do it and we'll do it. ainsley: they are several months ahead of us. china the last of the make shift hospitals in wuhan has official ly closed, according to some reports. brian: the reports out of china are that the new cases that they are getting are from people bringing it back in. steve: nonetheless the president was out front yesterday, there at the podium in the white house , talking about how this is a time for americans to unify. president trump: we would much rather be ahead of the curve than behind it and that's what we are, therefore my administration is recommending that all americans including the young and healthy work to engage in schooling from home when possible, avoid gathering in groups of more than 10 people , avoid discretionary travel, and avoid eating and drinking at bars, restaurants, and public food courts.

if everyone makes this change or these critical changes and sacrifices now, we will rally together as one nation and we will defeat the virus and we're going to have a big celebration altogether with several weeks of focused action we can turn the corner and turn it quickly. steve: let's hope so. let's bring in because you have so many questions fox news medical contributor dr. mark siegel with us again today. >> good morning. steve: dr. siegel we've got a whole bunch of questions from people the first question comes from a guy by the name of peter. he e-mailed us. what will be the criteria to determine when the crisis is over and all of these closing and extra precautions and restrictions can be reversed? >> well peter, steve has already given this answer earlier which is we want to flatten the curve. now, here is what this means. we have viral spread. why is it spreading so widely? because we don't have immunity to this virus. it's a new virus. it's a pandemic strain of a

virus we haven't seen before, and we don't have a vaccine, and one lesson to america here is how great vaccines are. boy do we wish we had one. what do we have? we have public health measures with distancing with all of the things you just heard that the president is suggesting today, and they are suggestions but they need to be followed to decrease and stand down on viral spread. when that happens, and the cases start to diminish, that's when we're on the back side and that's when we can start to relax some of these. we have to actually stay ahead of it by not relaxing any of these precautions too soon. brian: but if we don't start testing in great numbers we'll never know if we turn the corner >> that's so important that's what we call the denominator brian. we don't know idea how many cases we have that is so concerning and we're starting to ramp up testing now. we need to test millions of people to know where we are with this virus. brian: so here is laurie. laurie says this. what is the recommendation for pregnant women during the pandemic, should they consider to work in environments

where they are exposed to other people? >> laurie we have limited information so i'll give you my personal view. no. stay away from work environments if you're pregnant because pregnancy is a form of being slightly immune compromised your immune system is tied up, protecting you, protecting your unborn child, and i don't think you should put yourself at risk. now, it is also been shown that you can get sick from this virus it's not as clear that your unborn child can. nevertheless i say stay away and home. ainsley: this is from pastor joe , dr. siegel. our church offers child care, should we close? >> well, ainsley, first of all i would close the child care because of the ease of spread. as far as the church is concerned i want to say this. i don't know if churches need to be online. i don't know if you have to basically be listening to ainsley, but i'll tell you what we do need. we need prayer, we need to come together and need a spirit of hope and faith and courage,

so however we get that, we need to have it whether it's in an actual church or whether we do it online. steve: all right, marsha e-mailed us. is it safe to eat takeout prepared by chefs and handled by other people and she worries i don't know anything about the health status of the person who makes it. >> so that's a good point. they are wearing gloves now and i've been thinking about this myself since restaurants close. there's a lot of moving parts there and it wouldn't be my first choice. if you have no other choice you have to get your food somewhere right? i prefer that you prepare it yourself at home, and that you have control over it. still you have to go to a grocery to get your food but there's less moving parts, a much more favor in preparation at home. brian: but yet so the heart goes out to all these businesses now shut down from any foot traffic so you want to help out so i understand what you're saying. >> absolutely. brian: john says my wife owns a hair salon in a small community with no known cases of coronavirus. is it safe for her to stay open for business? >> that's a very tough question because she's not in a hotspot right?

she's not in a hot zone, but you know and i want as you just said , i want small businesses to stay open, but maybe temporarily i would close it because of the close contact with hair salons. you can obey the six foot rule, you can't necessarily even obey the 10 people in at one-time. i prefer that the hair salons close right now and again this is a personal opinion of mine, because of the close contact. mostly for sure in hot zones. for sure in areas where there's big outbreaks. ainsley: dr. siegel is it okay for us to be around elderly parents if we don't have it? >> well you have to be around your parents i prefer that we limit contact with the elderly right now, whether they have underlying conditions or not. we're seeing a high death rate in people over the age of 80. people over the age of 75. i think it's time to limit contact with the elderly, except for essential services but make sure they are taken care of. more important they are taken care of than anything else. steve: i just got a text from one of my friends susan, whose

watching. she says is it okay if a 75- year-old woman in good health goes to play golf with another person 65 and not use the locker room or the club facility down in florida where the weather is beautiful and it's like the coronavirus seems a million miles away? >> i like that see that one i'm voting for i like it but don't go into the clubhouse. limit contact, distancing, but you know, here is something we haven't talked about at all, steve. exercise. eating right. sleeping right. you know what that does? it wards off viruses. keeping well hydrated be happy wards off viruses. we have to do some things to bring ourselves pleasure now and golfing is one of them if you can limit contact. i'm for that. brian: especially if we can't find a health club that's open because it's not allowed in the new york area. real quick new york is now wondering if they should start getting the army they are asking for the army to come out and start building up hospitals. here in new york, dr. siegel, how bad is it, would you like to

see the military involved? >> well one things for sure the hospitals are filling up here i can tell you that and we need to figure out how how to divert hospitals and get areas, we have a lot of plans in place for people to be taking care of in areas other than the usual ic u. i think we need all the help we can get. i think the military is incredibly helpful in this type of a situation. i am not against that idea. i like the role that military plays in disasters and emergencies so i would vote yes. brian: that's what the governor wants he's asking the president for some help. >> i think he may be right. brian: dr. siegel great to talk to you and we'll do a half hour of these questions on radio all right? and he will be in that as well. ainsley: thanks, dr. siegel. let's hand it off to jillian with headlines. reporter: great advice there good morning to you guys breaking overnight, new world health organization staffers test positive for covid-19. the organization based in switzerland says the workers started showing symptoms at home after leaving the office. it's unclear how or when they

were exposed. this as the first cdc worker tested positive. it's unclear if the employee worked at the atlanta headquarters and the cdc is sanitizing the office as the worker recovers at home. they are not involved with the coronavirus response and are said to be in good condition. >> also overnight, a delta jet grounded for several hours over coronavirus fears. a passenger reportedly alerted a flight attendant they may have been exposed to someone who was sick as the plane was on the tarmac at new york's jfk airport. everyone was forced to get off so the plane could be cleaned. the passenger was taken to the hospital to get tested. the seattle-bound flight took off nearly four hours later. >> and attorney general bill barr cracking down on people trying to exploit virus fears. barr telling federal prosecutors to prioritize investigations into fake promotions and users posing as health officials and e-mail scams. his memo reading, "the pandemic is dangerous enough without

wrong doers seeking to profit from public panic." the doj warned businesses against price gouging last week. >> two more stars reveal they now have the virus. british actor says he is not showing symptoms but has isolated himself, and the game of thrones star, posting on instagram he is self-quarantin ing with his family in norway. tom hanks and rita wilson are out of the hospital following their diagnosis and they are now isolating themselves at home saying they feel like they have a cold. those are your headlines, back to you. steve: so if they are out of the hospital, does that mean they are testing negatively i wonder? >> that i don't know but i know they are out of the hospital and tell-quarantining. steve: jillian, thank you. 8:15 now here in new york city meanwhile the polls closed in the state of ohio. state leaders there canceled today's primary at the last minute over the corey of coronavirus. but three other states including

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brian: ohio's democrat primar ies canceling overnight, hours before the polls were set to open, at least in one state. steve: despite the nationwide health emergency, three states today are moving forward, with these tuesday elections. ainsley: griff jenkins is live in d.c. as voters head to the polls. griff: that's right good morning , ainsley, brian and steve despite the guidance to avoid gatherings of 10 or more people, for the next 15 days polls are open in florida and illinois. you can see a live location in

chicago, and now in illinois there's 155 delegates up for grabs, and florida is the biggest prize today, 219, and governor ron desantis had this to say about his decision to move forward. >> the health officials say given the nature of this primary , given kind of the way you go in and do one over most of the time for most counties that can be done safely griff: same in arizona as well meanwhile the battle to the buck eye state, and secretary of state ordering the polls closed due to a health emergency postponing things until june, governor mike dewine explains that decision. >> on the one hand we're being told to stay home and take care of ourselves and yet we want to exercise our constitutional rights, and so that was something that we wanted to enable people to be able to do both. griff: now biden comes into today with a lead of more than 150 over sanders but both campaigns are adjusting to this new normal under the coronavirus spread, sanders

held a virtual rally with neil young and actress darryl hannah while biden was answering vote en's questions over the phone, and looking ahead guys three more contests have been scrapped on the calendar, georgia, louisiana and kentucky all postponing, brian, ainsley, steve? steve: griff thank you very much as griff just mentioned three states still moving forward with today's primaries, despite the covid-19 concerns including the big state of florida. ainsley: here to weigh in is florida's gop senator marco rubio. good morning to you, senators. >> good morning. ainsley: so what is your opinion , do you think florida should still continue to have the primary? >> well i don't think it's fair for me to pass judgment on it because i wasn't in those meetings with the governor and the florida health authority to review it all, look at the disruption it would create and made that decision. as you heard in that clip that just played the governor was advised by the leading health authority that he relies on, that they thought that activity could go on without imposing a public health threat and so absent contrary information i'm

not going to question the decision that they've made at this point it's happening and i don't want to be out there discouraging people from voting at this point. brian: so let's talk about the relief bills working their way in your lap today, and then steven mnuchin will introduce a third relief bill coming your way. from what you've seen, what stands out that you like and don't like? >> well first of all let me just say this. we are not living in ordinary times. these are not ordinary times this is not a bunch of businesses who made a bad decision and are looking for the government to help them out. this is a virus that threatens our economy because in order to prevent this virus from killing a lot of people, we have to force people or ask people to stay home and not go to businesses, and the result is people are going to lose their jobs, businesses are going to close, and we're going to have to do something to buffer that. and so that's the way i would judge everything that we're talking about. what the house passed is not perfect, but i think the price is in action at this point is way too high in the meantime, whatever is wrong with that bill

, we will look to fix and a bill that will start here in the senate that we need to pass very quickly, and that i think will be focused on number one, getting allowing airlines to continue to operate because if we shut down the airlines, we're going to have a very different country we won't be able to move people around important trips that need to happen for public health and for national security and so forth, and the second is we need to get funds we need to get liquidity into the hands of small businesses who are not going to be able to meet payroll as required under the paid leave requirements of the house bill, and are going to struggle to be around for six, eight, 12 weeks from now, when everything sort of settles down a little bit and so that's the part that we're focused on. we've got a pretty good outline that's bipartisan obviously we need to hear from more colleague s but that's the piece i'll focus on and we need to move on that very very fast. steve: senator you just said we don't hear much these days from washington and that is bipartisan. it seems like lawmakers on both

sides of the aisles realize the gravity of this particular global pandemic and they are pulling out as many stops as is possible by washington standards >> you know, most of the things we do around here, despite the fact that we're driven to h yperbole, the vast majority of things we do aren't going to be remembered on a longview of history maybe not even a year from now. this is written about 100 years from now. this is a global event that will fundamentally change the structure of the world political order, the world economic order for a generation. this is a huge event that's happening and for our country it's very impactful. that makes partisan bickering and hot shots at this point trivial. we will have time later on in the future to examine all of the decisions that were made and to figure out who made mistakes so we can prevent it from happening again and people will be held to account. now is not that time. now is the time to act, to keep this from being worse than it needs to be, and we can't do that if we spend all our time

taking political shots or arguing. brian: the thing is could this be one of the last times you guys get together in this era of social distancing is it safe for the senators to be packed into a chamber or do you guys have plans? >> well that's a great question and i would say about that, the argument i've been making for two weeks now is that we cannot assume that we're going to be able to operate with business as usual. just think about how different the world looks today than just seven days ago and i think it will look fundamentally different seven days from now than it does today. we cannot operate here under the assumption we can keep coming back every week and passing bills. we're going to need to do as much as we can while we are here because we really don't know what happens seven, 10, 15 days from now we don't and we shouldn't pretend that we do and we should operate under the assumption that we can't just quickly come together again to act. brian: how do you vote? >> well that's a great question and it's one of the arguments about continuity of government that needs to be examined and looked at. our government has to continue

to operate. we're not going to suspect the constitution. we're going to, i believe that one of the things that needs to be focused on by the leadership of the house and the senate is how can congress continue to operate when a substantial number of their members may be in quarantine because they or a family member has been infected or because they frankly can't get here, because of travel arrangements become impossible. steve: that's right because a dozen members of congress are self-quarantining right now, none have tested positive. ainsley: do video conferencing. thank you so much senator for being with us good luck today. >> thank you, everybody hang in there. steve: you too. brian: coming up straight ahead , campuses clearing out, as classes move online across the country. our next guest is home from harvard, after the college canceled in-person classes for the semester, dr. oz's son, oliver will join us live, right after the break. sure, principal is a financial company.

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ainsley: and steve as you know san francisco just enforced a similar order in the bay area, and that will last up until at least april 7, if not longer. brian: that's why our hospitals are slowly getting overwhelmed. we do not have the beds, if this continues to spread, we just don't have the facilities for it. meanwhile, 28 minutes before the top of the hour, we'll obviously follow and see if that story moves today. the coronavirus shutting down college campuses across the country. probably effects you and your life, with many shifting to online classroom situations. steve: the move impacting millions of students including our next guest, who is a harvard junior, he's also the son of our friend, dr. oz. ainsley: oliver oz joins us now with advice for students that are in the same boat. good morning to you, oliver. >> good morning, thank you for having me. ainsley: you're welcome how are you getting through this? >> one step at a time right now i'm kind of finding out what my classes are going to look like, just trying to find out more

information as the week goes on. brian: oliver do you have an online situation, do you know where you're going to go? is it google classroom or something or zoom or something like that? >> so i spoke to one of my friends most colleges are using zoom right now. that works for lectures and stuff but the big question is for exams, for labs how is that going to work. some are using like $25 exam like online proctors so make sure kids aren't cheating, others like i think harvard is more towards a take home exam format, for labs i think they are filming a lot of film it and do the lab that's great but very few things more boring than a three hour film to organic chemistry exam. steve: no kidding. oliver, on this program, about an hour ago, we had ambassador deborah birx, whose is one of the point people for the president on the coronavirus disaster. she says that the key to this is with the millennials who are in your age demographic listen to

what she has to say. >> millennials may have very mild or asymptomatic disease and they have to make sure that they are taking as great a precaution as they can, doing the social distancing, not going to bars, not eating out and really protecting their parents and their grandparents. they can help with the social isolation that could occur when we ask people to stay at home because they know how to innovatively stay in touch with each other, without picking up the phone or being there personally. steve: so oliver do you get what she's saying that millennials, you know, are not used to these kinds of restrictions, but for right now, those are the rules. >> absolutely. i mean, we're the perfect vector s right? you have very few symptoms and we contribute the disease to everyone else so i think a lot of millennials were taking that for granted, and not doing as we were told, and taking advantage of very cheap travel tickets and accommodations but i think now as the situation has gotten a lot more serious, a lot more

millennials are understanding what she's saying and that we have to do our part as well to help spare a lot of our elderly brothers. ainsley: oliver how do you feel about it from a college standpoint? this is the prime of your life, you want to get the best out of that education especially at harvard, how do you feel about leaving school and not being with your friends and not having that experience, or are you just trying to have a good attitude and it is what it is? >> i mean, obviously, it's very disappointing, but no one is at fault here. there was not another decision they could have made. obviously i'd like to be at school my friends right now getting the most out of my education but these are unusual times and we also have to do our part. i'm going to try and pursue my education the best i can from home. obviously it's not ideal, and i'm going to have to try and keep structure in my life and wake up like i normally would on a monday and watch my online lecture and do my online work, just do it with cabin fever but

yeah, obviously, i think college students have unique struggles but everyone is facing pretty difficult times. brian: i hear you oliver oz thank you so much. >> thank you. steve: i have a feeling oliver was just sitting in his father's desk at home. brian: absolutely. steve: all right, meanwhile, straight ahead, a nurse has contracted the coronavirus after a trip to hawaii. her symptoms started just with sniffels but turned south quick. she is now isolated at home and she joins us live with an update coming up next. sis. she initiated tests and found out what was wrong. she's treated both my children since they were born. bridgette: i feel that my np cares about me as a person and not just if i'm sick or not. molly: and i really love my nurse practitioner because we have such a strong connection. i know that whenever i call, she'll be there for me. my name is molly and we choose nps. np: consider an np. when patients choose, patients win.

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s but from foodservice, friends over there that are making it and helps us out as much as we can. >> we get a few vendors delivering we're now relying on dozens of vendors getting daily deliveries,, dozens of trucks every day. todd: brian, you mentioned the senior hour, while it did just end, going forward that's going to be the case in a number of stores throughout the country , if you can, call your store, find out what the senior hour is, and please, if you are not a senior or an immunocompromiseed individual please pry to avoid those hours so in the worst case scenario you don't contaminate those individuals guys back to you. steve: it is a great idea. todd on the upper east side of manhattan, sir thank you. meanwhile our next guest is a healthcare professional who contracted the coronavirus after a trip to hawaii last month. ainsley: she says it started with the sniffels and escalated into far worse symptoms than she ever expected she's been quarantined at home now for 10 days. brian: that nurse, air force

veteran joins us now. lisa, so you got those minor symptoms but then you got the shortness of breath. when did you realize you might have it? >> i realized that i might have the coronavirus on march 7 and 8 march 8 is when i started feeling really bad, and that's when i asked my husband to final ly take me to the emergency room, as i felt like i wanted to collapse. i was having shortness of breath every time i'd sit up i got really sweaty so i asked him to take me in and i started having a little low back pain on both sides down by my lower rib area. steve: did you think to yourself , you know, i've been and the aches and pains started on the flight home from hawaii. did you think that it can't possibly be coronavirus. i've been in hawaii and it's not a problem there. >> right and we had a great time in hawaii. after i talked to the state that reached out to me around march

14 and she actually thinks that i contracted the coronavirus in colorado, not hawaii just going through symptoms with her. brian: so you got it and yet you are kind of young compared to those at risk it seems like your symptoms are pretty severe compared to some other people your age, that say you know they didn't even know they had it until they got tested. >> right. it just seemed like my symptoms waxed and waned. honestly one minute i felt really bad and then like my muscle aches, i had the muscle aches and pains. i had really bad joint pain and started having the shortness of breath and the fatigue, and i was having little headaches but then i might feel okay but then finally, the 7th and eighth is when it started going more down hill. ainsley: lisa, how long did it last in total and did doctors say once you've had it once you

won't be able to get it again? >> no that's a really good question. i feel like my symptoms, like looking back at everything, i feel like it all started around february 18-19, so and i just started feeling better around march 14, so i've had a long, its been kind of a long progress again those are the questions that i have is about re- infection as a healthcare provider and all of the stuff that i've read and some of the stuff on the news right now, it looks like you can get re infected with it again and i don't know how long i'll be a carrier. steve: i'm sure as a healthcare professional you feel terrible that you may have exposed people on the airplane, flying out and flying back. you didn't know. >> no, i didn't know and that's the sad thing about this is your asymptomatic for a while, you don't know that you could possibly be spreading the virus and as a healthcare provider you never want to hurt anybody.

i'm very dilly diligent about cleaning my office and washing my hands i have no idea where i picked it up, when, how, where, you know? it's just baffling to me. brian: when do you take the test to see if when you go negative? >> so that's a really good question because i was originally told that i had to do two covid-19 tests after isolation, 24 hours apart, and then the public health department just called me and said i only need 10 days of isolation and i don't need to be retested. steve: really? >> and so that's where i'm really confused because if i go back to work and i'm a carrier am i going to be exposing patients? brian: that's strange. ainsley: did anyone else in your family get it? >> so my husband had a little fever on the same days that i had a fiver, march 3, but he didn't have any symptoms. he was fine. he just had the fever and that was it. steve: so your family, your course of action after you were

in the hospital is that you're essentially sheltering at home, with your husband as well, and you're going to go through the quarantine period and then i'm sure you're going to call back again and say hey its been a period, how about if i come in for a test, because by then, there will be more tests out there. >> i hope so. i did send them an e-mail yesterday and they said that our quarantine was now 10 days instead of 14 days so we actually get out of isolation and can go out into the public on the 22nd, and that's just really scary for me too. we live in a really small community so i'm really worried about that but i am worried about re-infecting anybody. steve: how do you feel? >> right now i'm feeling good. i did some stretches this morning i've gotten my energy back. i still feel a little nauseous and i feel short of breath, so we got to go outside yesterday and just take a little walk down

our ally. we make sure we stay 20 feet away from everybody but i'm still feeling a little short of breath when i talk so overall, i'm getting much better and healthier every day. brian: lisa merck, thank you so much. ainsley: i'm glad you have your husband, thanks for joining us. >> thank you so much. ainsley: about what to expect. god bless you. >> thank you so much. ainsley: you're welcome. okay do you have any questions about the coronavirus? if you do you're not alone. i think all of us have questions dr. nicole sapphire will answer them coming up next but first let's check in with sandra smith >> sandra: ainsley good morning and great to see you. president trump is meeting with the corn task force at the white house at this hour, briefing is expected at 10:30 a.m. eastern time no word on whether the president will be speaking but we'll be watching for that and americans meanwhile are being told to hunker down for at least 15 days as ohio closes its polls hours before voting was

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ainsley: well your questions with pouring in as more than 4,600 cases of coronavirus are confirmed here in the u.s.. steve: you asked questions, now for answers let's turn to fox news medical contributor dr. nicole sapphire. good morning to you. >> good morning. steve: first up, we've got an e-mail from bruce that says my wife is scheduled for back surgery in 10 days at an orthopaedic and spine specialty hospital. she was in severe pain but currently is much better. should she postpone it? obviously, bruce is worried about some sort of infection in the hospital. >> well actually, the bigger concern right now is that trying to keep our beds open and the surgeon general over the weekend issued a warning saying and encouraging that we do cancel all non-urgent surger ies right now. spine surgery can be urgent or delayed especially if it was

for pain and her symptoms are improving then i would consider having a conversation with her surgeon about potentially postponing that surgery for a later date if necessary at all. steve: okay. ainsley: this e-mail is from kevin. he says are kids with downs syndrome and those with disabilities at a higher risk? >> sure, down syndrome in itself happens to be associated with heart defects and also immune system issues, so they are usually considered high risk , and all the time when it comes to flu and cold season and just other infections in general , so yes, i would take every precaution with those patients for sure, but the same that everyone is doing right now, socially distance. we're kind of pretending that everyone is high risk right now. brian: roger writes this. my daughter's pregnant, 32 weeks is she high risk, should she be more cautious, concerned? >> so when it comes to pregnant patients we don't necessarily know right now if pregnant patients in general are considered somewhat high risk

because they have a lower immune system during pregnancy and you can also transmit or pass an infection to the baby. there's no evidence showing us that you can transmit coronavirus via the placenta to the baby; however over the weekend the first case of a newborn with coronavirus was announced. now whether or not the baby got the infection soon after birth because the mother did come in with flu-like symptoms and tested positive, or if the baby contracted it while they were still in uterus, they aren't quite sure, but it is likely that they contracted it after birth. bottom line, pregnant patients are strongly urged to stay inside and socially isolate, but of course if you're having symptoms you need to stay in constant communication with your doctor. steve: indeed by the way, so many people have so many questions, check out her special pandemic and epidemics 101 available on fox news right now and march is true just this month get your first month

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(howling wind) (howling wind) >> fox news alert for you football fans. moments ago, tom brady, posting a statement on his social media thing "i don't know what my feud

football future holds, but it is time for a new stage for my life and career, playing with the patriots. the buccaneers, charters, and readers are apparently interested in him. we will see what happens. >> sandra: fox news alert. president trump warning that the coronavirus pandemic could stretch well into the summer now, as the white house issued its strictest guidelines yet to help to stop the spread of this. >> ed: the numbers topping 4600 right here. death toll now climbing to at least 85. thousands of businesses all across the country's closing their doors indefinitely. the virus also affecting today's political primaries. after ohio's governor announced bulls will remain close to avoid the risk of spread. >> sandra: president trump is advising to hunker down at your home for at least the next 15