julie: thursday march 19th and this is a fox news alert, dozens now sick on a cruise ship approaching france overnight, more than 200 americans on board. what we know about another potential covid-19 cluster. cases double in new york in just one day as the big apple braces for stricter quarantine rules and amazon worker tests positive for the virus. with the company is saying overnight about their warehouse. >> they are feeling invincible, don't realize they can be

carried lots of bad things home. >> a warning for millennials, young people refusing to social justice could put more people in danger. "fox and friends first" starts right now. good morning to you once again. you are watching "fox and friends first" on thursday morning, thank you for starting your day or renting it with us wherever you are joining us. straight to that fox news alert, the coronavirus spreading exponentially from coast-to-coast threatening the lives of americans in every single state. empty street and see lockdowns, thousands of new cases are confirmed in the past 24 hours. todd pyro joins us with the devastating numbers. >> so much has changed in 24 hours, that is a phrase we can expect to say a lot in the coming weeks. on the east coast, connecticut and pennsylvania reporting their first death with new york city cases doubling to nearly 2000.

bill diblasio calling for donald trump to mobilize the military for their logistical and medical teams while clarifying what a shelter in place order would entail. >> very clear rules about staying home with only minimal activity, get rid of all nonessential work necessary to slow the growth of this disease. it is a smart plan. >> reporter: the cdc is admitting some health officials working to contain the virus and of spreading it. staff members that multiple long-term care facilities contributed to the spread of the virus among the elderly. las vegas casinos shutdown. the vegas strip closed for the first time since the jfk assassination into county offering a shelter in place, bay area rapid transit cutting train services, commuting dropped 87%, 20% of californians under a

shelter in place order, 9 million people. nationwide the numbers rise, 10,000 cases, 150 death, the president teasing a major announcement involving the fda, updating the public on a possible vaccine. >> thanks to the partnership between the fda, nih and private sector, we reached human trials for the vaccine just eight weeks later. a record by many many months. >> the president getting the medical community is working on a self swap the here than the current test. the goal to free up space in hospitals are expected to struggle as they tried to care for patients. heather: we will talk about all of that. ' case of covid-19 shuts down the control tower at tarrant international airport in las vegas overnight, temporary

closing is to create a safe environment for other workers after an air traffic controller was infected. another tower taking over the place. it remains open at a reduced rate. the kind of a cruise ship carrying 200 americans and dozens of sick passengers is expected to dock in france to take and reportedly has 24 isolated crewmembers, 50 passengers are sick or sharing a room with a sick person. it is unclear what will happen once the cruise ship docks. since france is under a lockdown the cruise was scheduled to end on march 2, '05, forced to bypass several ports. two congressman test positive.

lawmakers working to pass donald trump's stimulus package to provide much-needed relief to americans. more aid is on the way. >> the president described himself as a wartime president and it gives him a lot of authority like the ability to deploy navy hospital ship says we have been seeing and the power of their generations old act to compel private industry to ramp up production of critically needed medical supplies, the president vowing the us will achieve total victory and says he's not afraid to use it. >> we have tremendous numbers of ventilators but there's never been instance like this where no matter what you have it is not enough. if we need to use a we will use it. it. >> after signing the corona package into law that includes free testing at emergency leave the president is counting on lawmakers to pass a stimulus

package, the centerpiece being issuing checks directly to americans as soon as april and $300 billion to businesses facing financial ruin. on capitol hill they are bracing as representative a lot of florida and utah for test positive for covid-19, one a republican and the other democrat, a stark reminder the virus capitol hill its victims are. both are doing okay and so quarantining. i want everyone to know i am feeling much better but it is important that everyone take this seriously and follow cdc guidelines to avoid getting sick admitted gate the spread of this virus. we must work together to emerge stronger as a country during these trying times. will the senate get things done today? lindsey graham saying yesterday he hasn't seen this spirit on capitol hill since 9/11.

>> to the stock exchange, closing its trading floor and going online starting monday, the move comes after a traitor and stock exchange staff are tested positive for coronavirus, stockbrokers will transition online over the next two days, this will be the first time the floor is closed with all trading going completely online. 7 automakers suspending us production over coronavirus concerns, car sales down after a record run. detroit victory automaker, ford, gm and fiat chrysler idling, 150,000 workers, toyota and honda shutting down factories. sunday has suspended production at its alabama plant after worker tested positive coronavirus, nissan will close its us plant tomorrow. country music star brad paisley is doing his part amid the pandemic. >> we are mobilizing a group of

volunteers to deliver groceries to elderly people that should not be shopping on their own in these times. >> paisley and his wife are opening their new free grocery store early to bring relief to national residents. if you have loved ones in email the address on your screen. it is called the store, to serve families going through hard times. it is 8 minutes after the top of the hour. our children not as safe from coronavirus as we thought? new study shows some can suffer severe symptoms. of doctor joins us live to set the record straight. as covid-19 forces americans socially distance, a priest wants your confession at the drive-through. the all-new silverado hd adds to the legendary capability of the strongest, most advanced silverados ever. with best in class camera technology and larger,

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>> i hope they listen to what we have been saying over the last period of time. we don't want them gathering. they are feeling invincible but they could be carrying bad things home to grandmother and grandfather and even parents. >> we are back with a fox news alert, donald from morning millennial to follow cdc guidelines as young people hit spring break as normal. this is a new study shows young

children not spared from severe covid-19 cases as previously thought. joining us, we appreciate it. let's take a look at this study of 19 cases in china. one in 20, 94% showed asymptomatic or mild cases but one in 20 showed critical or severe cases. what is your message to parents who are looking at this concern because previously we heard children could not be impacted. >> the message the children cannot be impacted has been misunderstood. the chance of death is much much lower. in china they had no deaths in children but they still got sick, the age groups that are most affected by young babies

and children with certain immune disorders but the message the children are not getting sick has been misconstrued all along. they are not getting as sick. >> what the parents need to do to keep their children safe? >> same things they are doing for themselves. it is much harder with children, much harder to not spread droplets. they are sneezing a lot, wiping their face, hand washing is important, it is very hard to do when children are toddlers running around. there is also a question i'm hearing a lot about whether children should play with each other when everyone is staying at home with their families and children get bored and want to play with other children from across the street. they are spreading it that way as well. it is very hard, and was is important and there are a lot of

other things you can do, action peroxide, vinegar, soap can call the virus, the virus itself isn't that hearty. it is what happens when he gets into your system and causes all the problems. >> the problem is with people's immune systems being compromised previously but in young healthy children that would not be the case. >> there are cases where children are getting very sick, nobody understands why those children are getting sick, there are theories the children have a less developed immune system so in very young children they are not able to mount as big an immune response is older people. the virus itself isn't what is causing doesn't make you sick. it is what it does to your immune system that makes you sick. when the virus gets into the

body some people's immune system mount such a huge response that it creates the inflammation mostly in the lungs and later it can attack the hearts and there is some believe, a lot of theories why children don't get a sick but there is one theory that children don't have a receptor that allows the virus into the body as easily as adults as older adults. and another theory is -- >> i was going to try to move ahead and get to some of these questions. doctors, medical experts, questions that they have concerns about. one of these questions, the first one, my family, this is from jacob mainer on facebook, my family has a planned vacation to florida in two weeks, should we cancel? what do you think? >> i think it will be hard to travel. besides the health risks it will be hard to travel in the

upcoming weeks, mostly logistically, not just getting to the place where you are but being in the airport, being in hotels. if something happens and you do get ill, where do you go? what hospital do you go to? there a lot of logistical concerns which i don't know if travel is going to be allowed in the next few weeks. >> jane leroy on facebook says i am running an air purifier in my home. is that helping against the virus or am i wasting electricity? >> i think it is a great idea. there are certain types of air purifiers that are more effective against viruses and bacteria. if they use heat sterilization, ultraviolet rays within them they can kill the virus. >> do not drive on instagram asks will the virus continue to spread as we go into spring and summer? a lot of people concerned about that when they are the president

talk about stretching into august or july. >> those are hard predictions. viruses are around year round, they just tend to have a lifespan. they show up in a population and then die off. this virus is starting to peak during the spring into summer which is good and bad. during the spring people experience allergies so that an increased transmission if they are sneezing and coughing but as the weather warms up, the ultraviolet radiation can kill the virus. the heat alone or the sun alone can kill the virus off as well. it is harder point to make, usually when the weather warms up people around side and not in cramped spaces but we are socially isolating so that is a

complicated point but the effects of the virus are definitely going to be with us for a while. >> at the point about warmer temperatures. a lot of people have been asking that question as well. >> thank you for joining us, appreciate your time, thank you and stay safe. the times 19 after the top of the hour. one month ago we spoke with a passenger on the first coronavirus infected cruise ship, the diamond princess. he refused to be evacuated. >> it was best for us to remain here. there were 14 people with the virus. before they got on the plane, they allowed them to board. >> matthew smith said that saved him and changed his life forever. he joins us live with an update. you doing okay?

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heather: democrats suing to make it easier to vote in the upcoming wisconsin primary, for the state to extend the deadline for electronic and mail registration. they also want the deadline for absentee ballots extended. people worried about their health can still vote. the primary election is april 7th. amy klobuchar addressing rumors of joining joe biden's ticket, she for her support behind the democratic front runner after dropping out of the race. >> there are great women throughout this country and no one knows better about being vice president than joe biden. he did the job really well with barack obama for eight years so you will make that decision. >> biden city will pick a woman as his running mate.

one month ago you may remember we spoke with a passenger on the first coronavirus infected cruise ship, the diamond princess. at the time matthew smith felt coronavirus was easier to steer clear of while staying on board. >> it was best for us to remain here. they discovered they were 14 people with the virus before they got on the plane and they allow them to board. >> now he is finally back home in california where containment measures have reached strict new levels as well. what is it like to leave one isolation just to enter another? matthew smith joins me with more on that. thank you for joining us, we are glad you're finally back home. are you glad? what is the light? you went from one containment to another.

>> it is strange. we had so been looking forward for weeks to coming back to some normalcy here and it is bizarre to think, we fully been back a week and a half and seems like forever and things have changed so fast. sometimes i think i would rather be back in tokyo. >> the customer what happened, you were on the diamond princess cruise ship just to refresh people's memories, 3700 passengers and crew on board. of that 712 confirmed cases, resulting in 7 debts, 325 of those folks recovered you being one of them but as we said we you decided to stay on board when they were taking americans off and you thought that was safer. why? >> they were exposing the people, others who were carrying the virus, putting them in a

situation that seems to us if you are likely to get in anywhere you would get on board that plane flight back from japan to the us shoulder to shoulder on the plane so we preferred to remain in the quarantine and we did that, tested negative for the virus and they left us off the ship and we went and stayed in tokyo for another two weeks until the cdc was satisfied we weren't infected and they took us off the do not board list so we could return to the us. >> what did it take for them to take you off that list so you were finally able to return? >> we were required to take our temperatures twice a day, report those temperatures to the cdc once a day along with a report of whether we were experiencing any symptoms of the virus. >> that you go back home to california which is the third highest in terms of number of cases in the us, 870 or so

reported so far, 16 deaths in the state of california. what is happening there? what can you tell us about what you see? >> we came back a week and a half ago, went briefly back to our home and then had to travel to southern california to las vegas to get our car from where we left it from when we flew out and in the days, just over a week it has changed so rapidly and it varies from county to county, city to city exactly how restrictive they are being but we are in a situation where even without local restrictions being imposed so many businesses are closed and the streets are becoming like ghost town so it is really bizarre and with sports shutting down it has become another world in just a week. jillian: what about where you are now in terms of what you are allowed to do or not allowed to

do? any restrictions? >> the immediate vicinity there aren't restrictions other than statewide, not an order but a direction restaurants should close and a lot of them have and even other businesses that are subject to requirements are closing down voluntarily to whether this out. heather: we are glad you are home, glad you did not get the coronavirus, your healthy and appreciate you joining us, stay safe now that you are in california. breaking news on the coronavirus from overnight, amazon warehouse worker testing positive. what you need to know about the company's response coming up. >> we need millions of masks, respirators, ventilators is a big thing. heather: the president taking

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jillian: we are watching "fox and friends first" and back with a fox news alert. mike pompeo vowing to bring americans home who are stranded abroad amid the coronavirus pandemic as donald trump takes extra steps tightening our borders. in jerusalem, israel rolls out controversial technology to track down covid-19 carriers. >> the us government is currently working to bring home a number of americans who are trapped abroad due to coronavirus travel restrictions.

there are americans stuck in places like morocco, peru, tunisia and honduras among other places. israel did send four of its planes to pick up a large number of citizens in the country of peru. senate democrats sent a letter to mike pompeo wednesday urging him to take action immediately on behalf of americans stuck there and other places. mobile responded last night on fox news, take a listen. >> it will take some amount of time but now donald trump made clear we will do everything we can to get every american home safely. >> reporter: the global impact of coronavirus getting greater each day, some areas the death toll is rapidly rising. in the western world the united states and canada have mutually agreed to close down the border in an effort to slow the spread of the virus. it will not affect trading relationship between the two countries as goods will still be allowed to cross as well as essential workers. in the middle east cases throughout the gulf and across

iran us ally israel is taking more extreme measures to present prevent coronavirus, no foreigners will be allowed to enter the country for two weeks which is real is sending text messages to anyone who came in contact with a person infected with coronavirus, the alerts are the result of controversial technology that monitors the movement of civilians, new images show european cities like paris, london and rome completely empty as people stay home avoiding as much interaction as possible. in italy the death toll is approaching 3000. the entire country remains on lockdown with countless stories of eric doctors and nurses working hard to save lives. as the coronavirus continues to ravage italy there was a slight moment of humanity this week as we saw a video release of people on their rooftops and balconies sinking goodbye beautiful, something many of the italians had to say to their relatives as the survivors does continue to

hit very hard in italy. >> such a wonderful video, so many things being done, the flyover and all of that. we appreciate your round-the-clock coverage for us too. thank you and stay safe. navy hospital ships mercy and comfort will be deployed to the east and west coast to respond to the coronavirus pandemic. the ships will bring 2000 additional beds for patients without the virus freeing up hospitals to treat covid-19. the pentagon says it could take weeks before they are in place. overnight and amazon warehouse worker tests positive for the coronavirus in new york city, the first known case among amazon warehouse employees in the us. the infected person's quarantines, the building is temporarily shut down for cleaning. in seattle two amazon office workers tested positive. the company is giving all diagnosed and quarantines employees two weeks pay.

10 to 34 million coronavirus related hospital visits nationwide during the covid-19 pandemic and medical supplies are already in dire need. >> we need millions of masks, respirators, ventilators is a big thing. we have a lot of ventilators but we will be ordering one. >> doctor ryan hospital, admitted the very first case of covid-19 and she seed the steen -- the strain firsthand. we appreciate it. if you could give us an update on that particular case, the first case admitted to a us hospital. how is that person doing? >> he recovered well and is at home without any symptoms at this point. >> that's great news, something people, would make them feel more positive but at the same time we have these increasing

numbers for people at home in washington state where you are, you have over 1100 plus cases, new york, where i am, 3000, california, one of the top 3 with over 870 cases reported at this point. tell us about the shortages you are experiencing and as you are seeing firsthand means to be done to be able to treat all these people. >> we are seeing shortages of masks, i protection and concerns about shortages on gowns and all of this agreement is essential for medical personnel who need to be at the bedside caring for these patients. we talked about ventilator capacity and our hospital, the breathing machines that are needed when patients start having respiratory failure of their lungs through the course of severe covid-19 illness. right now we are doing okay but

what if we end up with three times as many patients in the hospital in a week or two like projections are saying, and what are the next steps, what is our next backup plan? these are things that keep us up at night but we worry about. >> expected hospital visits for the coronavirus outbreak, #seeing, 10-34 million hospital visits coming from the harvard global health institute. when you talk into patient ratio and bring those numbers up for people as well. how do we compare and what do we need to be doing better? talking about bringing in military ships off the coast in some of these areas that may be in the most dire need. >> the best thing we can do as a country to prevent the need for

the beds is stricter social isolation. we are a week behind in terms of telling people to shelter at home, stay away from other people, don't go to the store if you don't need to. we need to prevent the rise of positive cases in order to not overwhelm the capacity of the hospitals. covid-19 is here, people are infected. it is something that if you are low risk and not elderly is a bad cold, but there are 20% of patients to get admission for severe symptoms. >> we are out of time. should everyone be tested? we keep hearing about test kits, i went in to get tested yesterday and all they did was a

nasal swab to see if i had the flu, checked my temperature, didn't reach the threshold of 103.5 so i don't get a test but i cough and everybody freaks out. what is the deal with whether you are tested or not? >> we focus criteria on temperature, cough, difficulty breathing, that is the threshold for when people are shedding virus and we tried to stick to those criteria for testing and there is limited number of viral swabs. >> best case, stay at home and follow instructions and self isolate if you can for sure. thank you so much, appreciate what you are doing, putting yourself in harm's when your entire staff, thank you. we will be right back. guys, it's that time... and nothin's happenin'.

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jillian: the coronavirus threatening young people more than previously thought, donald trump the white house coronavirus task was urging millennials to take their health and safety seriously. ashley joins us with more on the warning. >> a doctor working in the fake of coronavirus says the young people he has seen are suffering major lung damage. a lot of them also have a clean slate as far as medical record goes. what he saw on the lung scans was nothing short of terrifying, this on the heels of a spike in vaping 4 cases in young healthy people between the ages of 30 and 50. the centers for disease control and prevention released a new report showing 40% of patients sick enough to be put in hospital between 20-54 years old, 19 was the youngest age

group, less then one% put in the hospital, donald trump telling millennials to stay at home. >> they don't realize they can be carried a lot of bad things home to grandmother and grandfather and even their parents. we want them to heed the advice. >> reporter: the white house task force coordinators asking millennial age people to take their health and safety more seriously, keep in mind younger people coming in with severe cases don't have a history of smoking, diabetes or heart failure, all the things we originally thought made someone more susceptible to falling seriously ill to covid-19. jillian: sounds like all age groups potentially impacted and welcome to fox news. appreciate having you here but i saw you all night long. another story we are following.

catholics can have their sins forgiven during social distancing. two churches in maryland offering drive-through confessions, a priest offered to blindfold himself so people can remain anonymous. a church in san antonio offering a similar service. a good idea. the time is a little past after spr and according to the cdc, one third of all covid-19 cases are adults 65 or older. that continues to be the case, one police department in new jersey is making sure those most at risk are not forgotten, two officers involved in the 0 giffords join us live.

>> glimmer of hope for the most vulnerable during the coronavirus pandemic, when many

can't head out to shop the new jersey police about unpacking up essential supplies for seniors in delivering them to their door. two of those heroes join me live to talk about their outstanding effort. james novak and tom sheehan, thank you for joining us, we really appreciate it. let's begin by letting people know why this is so important as if we don't already know, we have new cdc guidelines the reveals the coronavirus really is in terms of vulnerability for 65 and older, 31% of the cases are in that age group, 45% of the hospitalizations, 53% of icu admissions and 80% of the fatalities adults over the age of 65, you're doing your part and going door-to-door putting yourself at risk at the same time. tell me what you are doing.

>> like you said it is scary for them to come out of their house. we saw the issue and work with local food pantries and said how can we help, reaching out and bring them some supplies. >> what type of response have you gotten so far? >> it has been resounding, overwhelming how there's nothing negative coming from this. in this line of work we see that a lot but everybody's onboard. we had a lot of people offering to help out and start replenishing the food pantries to keep this going. uma: heather: a lot of senior citizens don't have facebook or the capacity to do a lot of

social media interaction in this new day and age, seeing smiling faces a will make a difference not to mention supplies you are bringing. >> the fact they don't have social media and facebook, to reach those vulnerable people that don't have access to information most of the people we talk to, a neighbor, friend or family member doesn't know -- the police department is doing that, check it out. we have a drive-up for people to get out of the house and drive and then also a drop off for people with home delivery for those home who can't make it out of the house. jillian: what can anyone else do to help you out in this effort? >> people want to help in situations like this. best thing we can tell them is contact your local food bank to help members of the community all the time.

especially this time if they are afraid to go out of the house or can't make it to a shopping center because they don't want interaction with people, contact your local food bank or church if you have extra to, essentials the people can't get too. heather: we should appreciate first responders who put yourself in danger every single day, but especially appreciate it during this time. all those folks appreciate it too, stay safe yourself and thank you very much. >> thank you. heather: we will be right back, stay with us. wash your hands. avoid close contact with people who are sick. avoid touching your eyes, nose and mouth. stay home when you are sick. cover your cough or sneeze. clean and disinfect frequently touched objects with household cleaning spray. for more information, visit cdc.gov/covid19.

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heather: millions of americans left without jobs as state unemployment websites crashing with influx of applicants and social media sounding off, carly shimkus is here with the online complaint and if losing a job as an jargon of, state an appointment websites across the country are crashing, they weren't built to handle this demand. in pennsylvania alone 70,000 people sought unemployment in a single day. a lot of states trying to deal with all this demand by asking

people to file in certain days. a lot of people are frustrated and scared and turning to social media. one twitter user telling his story saying everyone i told i lost my job due to this i said just file for unemployment, their website is crashed 62 times and i called 28 times. jennifer says got halfway through it was told to hold for a representative, then it in did because everyone was busy. donald trump hoping to send checks directly to people, will that be enough? heather: lots of folks wants to hear about that. speaking of hearing from people, lsu's football coaches, his speech on beating the coronavirus inspiring everybody. listen to this. >> i encourage you to follow the game plan.

everybody holding to gather like this. nobody gets in between us. bring it on. >> it is a game plan lsu's coach never expected he would deliver but the state asked him to speak to young people who may not be taking it seriously, it went viral on social media, jamie says just when i thought i couldn't love him anymore than i already did. he preaches about the coronavirus the same way he does to his team before games. listen to this legend. a lot of people are helping in every way they can. julie: we appreciate it. that wraps up this hour of "fox and friends first," lots of additional information coming your way.

"fox and friends first" continues, stay safe, everybody. jillian: it is thursday march 19th. a look inside the nightmare on board a cruise ship carrying americans and 6 passengers. >> the ship is expected to dock in the hotspot of friends. covid-19 unleashing mayhem in the us mainland. we have new developments from the last 24 hours. heather: it is no longer a talking point on capitol hill. there are confirmed cases in congress. in washington donald trump is ready to cut checks for workers ahead of his expected announcement. rob: a story going viral for all the right reasons, we introduce you to a north carolina couple behind this tearjerking engagement. >> "fox and friends first" continues right now.