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across the country. 75 million americans now live in a state with a stay-at-home order. new jersey, connecticut and illinois have joined california and new york in ordering nonessential workers to remain at home to slow the spread of coronavirus and the staff member in my parents's office has tested positive for coronavirus, the first white house staff are known to have this virus. "fox and friends first" continues right now. good morning, you are watching "fox and friends first" on saturday morning. thanks for getting up early with us today, a busy show covering all angles of this pandemic. we have some of the latebreaking developments this morning. >> more small businesses in and around new york taking a hard hit later tonight. effective 8:00 pm, nail and hair salons with barbershops and any other personal care

service business will have to shut its doors. governor cuomo and the governors of new jersey, pennsylvania and connecticut says this is just a way of stopping the spread of covid-19. most of those services do require close contact or even touching. of the governors acknowledged this will be very difficult for small businesses but is necessary and they are working with the federal government to make sure there's a financial cushion. matilda's law protects the most vulnerable people including those who are 70 years or older or people with underlying illnesses or compromised immune systems, requires these people to stay home and only allows them to be around immediate family members or close friends if they have an emergency. if someone comes to visit these people they have to be prescreened meaning they have to take their temperature and not have flulike symptoms and also requires people to wear masks during face-to-face contact. that goes into effect at 8:00 pm. there will be a 90 day ban on

residential and commercial evictions, new rules going into effect this weekend. rob: making people not pay mortgages or rent. as the number of covid-19 cases increase so does the anxiety around this virus. headlines like this one not helping, the journal writing global viral outbreak like coronavirus once rare will become more common. here to talk about that at all of this is a panel of medical experts, infectious disease disease and doctor hussein, orthopedic surgeon and doctor kevin campbell, cardiologist and author of losing our way in healthcare. thanks for getting up early on saturday morning. we start with you. do you agree with that headline that we will see more of these types of viruses moving around

the world? >> >> unfortunately i totally agree with that line. we have already seen numerous viral pandemics in this new millennium, we had multiples people are aware of, we had sars, h1n1 swine flu, middle eastern respiratory syndrome, sica, dengue fever and now this deadly coronavirus. we had avian flu, don't forget about that. as we start encroaching more and more into the dark jungles of the world we should expect to see more and more of these viral pandemics. >> are we overpopulated? is that part of the problem. if you look at population numbers around the world over the last 50 years you wouldn't believe how many more people there are then when our parents were around. >> what i hope to see what all of this is done, viruses are not going away and the genetic

confinement we are exposed to is quite complex. what i hope to see is we recognize how transmissible these are and we learned something when all is said and done, we can get through this that can help us to develop a rapid global response when it happens again. >> same issue to you. what do you make of this? more viruses, more pandemics like this? >> it is obvious as our colleagues have said that this is not the pandemic in my lifetime and won't be the last. really what ideas for me is we have to do something to put more funding into research to deal with these types of things so that we have a more rapid global response, we are able to develop vaccines more quickly and the university of north carolina developed the microbiology lab a test for

covid-19 but the red tape and the fda took an extra 3 weeks to have this commercially available. i think we've got to do a lot more to streamline the response to pandemics like this. >> how much do you think the numbers will continue to spike? we are testing more. how bad is going to get? >> unfortunately we are in the steep slope of the curve as i predicted for almost 6 weeks. we should continue to expect to see an explosion of cases over the next i would say four weeks. hopefully by then with increasing lockdown and we will see a flattening of the curve. everyone is familiar with that but until we lock things down we are going to continue to see this acceleration of cases. >> when you look at italy it just keeps getting worse and worse and feels like they had been locked up for at least a

few weeks now, close to a month. should we expect that? >> italy is starting to see a flattening of the curve. likely what happened in italy, people were infected at home and infecting other members of the household but over the past 45 days we are starting to see that curve flatten. we are still seeing new cases but they are not accelerating like they are in the united states so think of it is 10 to 14 days behind italy. >> that is a good thing to think about if you're trying to plan this. doctor hussein, back to you. this chloroquine, the president was really optimistic the last couple days. what do you think about that? >> the data is interesting. we still have a lot to learn. we are at the steep end of the curve.

many in my neighborhood tell you where this is heading. we don't have enough data. it looks promising. a lot of people are talking about a but time will tell. rob: everybody wants to know when can i get out of my house and get back to life that would be some kind of normal. the fear a lot of people have is even if this thing is starting to flatten out and cases are going down the moment you come back outside everybody's back together they should back up. do you expect that? >> i'm hoping we do our due diligence as a nation and continue to self quarantine, continue to practice social distancing because like our colleagues said this is going to peek. we are couple weeks behind italy but we are looking at a situation in our country for the next probably 6 weeks or 8 weeks we still need to stay inside.

we have potential treatments, these drugs don't treat the disease in terms of curing the disease, they mitigate what the disease does to the bodies and shorten the duration of the disease and lessen the effects of the disease and certain people. with those two things together this may tighten up the time window a little bit. >> we appreciate it. checking other headlines, evacuations underway to bring home hundreds of americans trapped overseas. the us military airlifting the woman's football team back to south carolina after they were stranded in honduras. flights being arranged to eventuate hundreds of americans trapped in peru and morocco after the country closed their borders in response to covid-19.

good news for procrastinators, the irs extending the tax filing deadline by 90 days for everybody in response to be outbreak. you now have until july 15th to make payments without interest or penalties if you expect a refund you can still file now to get that payment. some really sad news from overnight country's icon kenny rogers passed away at the age of 84. he died at his home last night from natural causes. an incredible voice, kenny rogers, the gambler and islands and stream with taliban. the family plans to hold a small private service out of concern for covid-19 and will have something more public at a later date. kenny rogers, music started at the age of 81. 10 minutes after the hour, still lead on the special saturday edition of "fox and friends first" the trump administration issues new travel restrictions as coronavirus cases spike in the us. what does it mean for spring or summer plans.

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all around the world. friday alone there were 30,000 new cases of coronavirus reported around the globe as the disease continues to grow and spread. a few countries have maintained lower numbers, those include south korea and china. they are seeing some decline to the peak they reached earlier this month across europe hundreds of millions in their homes locked down trying to avoid getting covid-19. in italy, 4000 people have died as the country handles 40,000 active cases. italian doctors completely overwhelmed having his makeshift rooms and intensive care units, new training underway to get more medical professionals up to speed in italy to assist with new patients coming in each day. in spain police are enforcing a nationwide lockdown. new images show law enforcement stopping people outside their homes, spain's interior ministry has taken control of a quarter million police officers who are making arrests and

giving out fines to those who break the new rules. moving to the middle east, and israel country reported its first death as a result of coronavirus overnight. is remains in lockdown only allowing people to leave their homes for essential work, medical reasons and short exercise. the implemented drive-through testing for coronavirus after reports indicated intelligence officials brought 100,000 testing kits back to the country. in peru there are an estimated 1500 americans stranded due to coronavirus travel restrictions, us secretary of state mike pompeo to help bring them home, us military has assisted in recovery americans trapped in other locations like morocco. these developed, as the state department dishes a level iv travel warning thursday urging all americans to come back immediately or be stranded abroad. since we talked last hour in american couple reached out to me saying they are stranded in honduras, they reached out to the state department following guidelines put out by the trump administration and are told at best they will return to the united states at the end of the

month. rob: they will see a lot more of that too. we appreciate it. andrew cuomo announcing new york state will move to join california in confining nearly all of its 19 million residents stating we are closing the valves to limit the outbreak. cuomo's executive order mandates 100% of non-essential workforce must stay home. the order takes effect sunday evening but some questions remain about this. former lieutenant governor of new york and chairwoman of the committee to reduce infection deaths and also joe borelli, for the 50 first district, spokesman for the state gop. i want to start with you real quick because we got a bit of a story with you. we heard you were sick, not feeling too good and you got tested for covid-19. >> we have a few people in our

office building that tested positive and i had a few symptoms the other day so to because this took the test, having gotten the results yet. it is good in that respect. rob: please let us know how the test goes, hopefully you are okay. talking about what you're going to implement starting sunday night in new york city, all nonessential business shutdown. that's going to be a real strain on this town. >> it is going to be a tremendous economic strain on this town, on all new yorkers as well as people in california, nevada and illinois are going to be doing this too. 80 million people will be affected but there is compelling science behind this. new data out of europe shows infected patients should the most virus in days one through 5 of the infection, generally

before they have symptoms so telling people who don't feel well to stay home isn't enough. new data in the us shows people dying from the coronavirus are adults between 20-54, telling older people and baby boomers to stay home isn't enough. we can look at these suggestions and see the health system will be overwhelmed. two ic unit that ventilators for healthcare workers. for all those reasons please regulations are being imposed. i feel for all the people who are economically effective but imagine if you spent 30 years building a mom and pop diner or a drycleaner or any kind of small business and suddenly you are close and face bankruptcy if you can't open soon. let's hope this does not last more than 3 or 4 weeks.

kim jong un that there's enough money in the stimulus plan to keep these guys going because when you ride around the city right now you see countless little mom and pop shops which are the backbone of this country shutdown and you got to think how can they get through this time with the rent they have to pay in the overhead. it is unbelievable. when we implemented now, there has been a back-and-forth between the mayor of new york city and the governor, the mayor wants to go further with this. he wants to lock things down, the governor i don't think want to take it as far. is right? >> you have to deal with the specific difference for me to weigh in on that but when we look at history all the way back to the spanish flu of 1918, the cities that acted soonest and most conclusively to close down saved the largest number of lives. but the key is it shouldn't last too long.

the incubation for this disease is 14 days at most. of the people who are infected but don't have symptoms now stay home for 14 days it should be at some point obvious now, the transition should stop. rob: thank you, looks like new york city could be an epicenter for all of this and we will wait and see how this goes with this lockdown coming up. we appreciate it. small businesses go into survival mode amid coronavirus closures. one of those owners is here with this story coming up. so you only pay for what you need! [squawks] only pay for what you need. ♪ liberty. liberty. liberty. liberty. ♪

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hammering out a deal on the stimulus plan. mitch mcconnell pushing for a deal that will give $1,200 to most americans up to a certain income level. many were forced to shut their doors closing up shop until further notice and that includes my next guest. he was just forced to close his facilities just this week, thanks for coming on. just making sure can you hear me over a? thank you for coming on. tell us how this week is impacting you, your gin is now closed. >> it was impacted before this

week, this started last week. they started talking about coronavirus spreading and rapid speed, they released articles, gyms were one of the highest contamination contacts so we impacted this week to two weeks ago and yesterday was when governor cuomo issued 100% of closing businesses, now i am home just waiting on what is going to happen. rob: with a gym you have a membership, you can't charge them. how long can you keep this business alive? >> looking at another week or two without any revenue. we haven't had a membership fee. that is what distinguished me from other big-box shipments. those fees as you said we can't charge them or make income so

the guys who work with me, we are currently unemployed. we cannot get unemployment assistance because we are so independence, entrepreneurs, we don't qualify for that. all the other programs, i have done many research hours, spent hours and hours. i can't find it going through the fda, those forms are ridiculous and i found out if you don't do that correctly the first time your business gets denied the loan. rob: that is so frustrating. the amount of red tape you go through is so frustrating especially when paying taxes. you have trainers there as well. the story doesn't stop with you. you have personal trainers who can't make a living. >> i have personal trainers that are currently unemployed. as soon as the started

happening when i try to do is it takes a long time, try to fill out loans in the beginning of this so what i was trying to do was give my guys what they usually make on a weekly basis. at least they provide work. as soon as everything got closed in new york city those loans i was in the process of getting, because they state my business is shutdown, how do i take that back? how am i supposed to stay afloat, that is my question. rob: we are you optimistic about the plan to pump a lot of money into small business, forgivable loans of $300 billion? >> i don't see it because i have many loans i have done before the process i'm doing now, i'm scared i'm about to lose everything i worked so hard for. and establishment i haven't seen in years on the upper west side. rob: we hate to hear these

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testing has spiked up. 246 deaths in the us, 5 states ordering residents to stay indoors, joining california and new york, urging everybody to stay inside. now deal on a stimulus package, lawmakers returned to the hill trying to hammer out compromise sending checks all-americans impacted up to a certain income level. $1 trillion economic rescue plan, 500 for them for a child. another side of the story, remote learning begins for millions of kids across america as schools closed their doors to prevent the spread of this infection but despite the disruption how can parents keep their kids engaged when they are learning at home. joining us with helpful

homeschooling techniques is actress and radio talkshow host and author of they are your kids, and inspirational journey from self-doubt or to homeschool advocate. i have no clue what to do with these kids as far as teaching them in the home. >> it is a sad state parents don't know. because they have been taught they don't know how to educate their kids and that is the result of our education system. i ask parents, if you go through high school and have a third grader, feeling capable of teaching the third grader, what does that say about the system you went through, or send your pride and joy back into the system that made you feel so incapable. rob: what are your tips? i can't remember out deborah for the most part, some of the things you picked up, you go

through school, get through it and forget most of it. what do you tell parents? >> that is the way we define education. i'm urging people to take a look at how we define education because i think we have been doing it wrong. the nation agrees our education system is broken but only seems to be capable of fixing it, i think this crisis we are in while it is tragic on one side on the other side i'm very optimistic because parents will realize how capable they are despite what they have been taught in school and if you don't know how to do algebra there is a textbook that can teach you how to do it so if your student comes to you, i don't understand how to do this problem you can page back two pages to the beginning of the chapter where it explains how to do the problem. rob: you make a good point, you buy them on amazon if you need to get new ones. how do you keep the kids

focused? they don't have that environment with other toys and other things? >> who is to say they are focused with what that environment is but we are so geared toward this idea there must be a schedule, there has to be focused when what we ought to be doing is engendering the innate curiosity of individuals that are born curious and guiding them in how to discover new things and create new things and explore and learn themselves. it is said that we think there is -- that we have to cause them to focus when they are capable of focusing if we only stimulate them with the things that interest them.

i get that math is hard or this other thing, studying biology is hard, why do we have to write a lab report, that is just one small component, we need to find out what they are interested in and facilitating that to become learning machines that can learn their whole life long because the fact is your kids change careers 5 times by the time they are 30. rob: those are the averages. thank you so much. >> i want to encourage people to go to my website. i put a lot of videos to encourage parents, we are to be empowering parents in this time and tell parents you're more than capable, they are your kids. rob: don't be afraid. you can do it. we appreciate it. >> thanks for having me. rob: up next big changes coming to starbucks in the wake of the virus, brett larson is your

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stop the spread of coronavirus announcing banning tweets to downplay the severity of the global pandemic or put people at risk for contracting this virus but is this enough to slow the spread of misinformation? brett larson is here to break down the story. >> good to be here. social media has tried to stay at of the curve on the misinformation surrounding the coronavirus. what twitter has said basically is they are going to start scanning through these tweets and if you are saying things like a dry cough is a cold, not coronavirus or what cough is coronavirus, not a cold, if you are putting out misinformation they will block you. they will alert you your tweet needs to be removed, twitter will not start deleting tweets,

they will tell you you need to remove the tweet and if you don't your account will be shutdown for a while so anything you tweet including misinformation will not be clean. it is an important thing to do. a lot of tech companies stepping up the efforts. on facebook you will see at the top information from the who and cdc on the coronavirus, apple and google said if you go to their respective apps stores or google play store and search for coronavirus related apps you will not find anything. they will direct you to government services, apps provided by the cdc or other government officials so you're getting the right information. rob: we just saw at the end of the week mike pompeo say you got to look at who you're listening to because there are factions that want to spread misinformation and cause panic. >> exactly.

you don't want people -- there's good information out there. the site fox news put up is a great place for information, foxnews.com is a great place for information if you want the most current information you can always be watching us on television. it is important for social media sites to stay ahead of it. when talking about they are looking through tweets or making sure you're not weeding out misinformation these are computer programs, not people doing this so inevitably there will be some people caught up mistakenly in the fray here but that is to be expected. if it happens don't take it personally. if you put out a joke about coronavirus, tweet a picture of yourself holding a corona and saying something sweet those will get blocked as well. they are trying to be as good about this is possible. rob: what you are doing right

now working from home, a lot of americans are adjusting to this. you have your tie on and your webcam up. what tips do you have? a big problem is trying to stay productive when you have the distraction of comforts at home. >> that is part of the problem of working from home. i have to keep the tv on to see what is going on. it is a good idea to have structure when working from home, give yourself time to take breaks. a lot of people will find your internet connection is not as fast as you thought it was. the kids will be staying home so they will be doing interactive learning, face timing with their classmates to go over their class work. keep your router up high and unobstructed so it is sitting behind the tv or in your entertainment center you will want to move it out of there.

the higher up and unobstructed it is the biggest the signal will be for everyone. everyone can't be streaming netflix at the same time. worst-case if you have a mobile phone, a phone from work or smartphone it can be used as a mobile hotspot. if you have critical work you need to get done go through the settings, turn the mobile hotspot on, connect to that. you will use your cellular data network so it will not be the home broadband connection for important things kids are watching on netflix. rob: we appreciate it. thanks for working from home. 46 minutes after the hour. up next we go live to italy where franklin graham and his charity are providing vital medical relief to the country perhaps hardest hit by the coronavirus pandemic.

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rob: we go to pete hegseth about what is coming up in ten minutes. >> great job. we will try to continue it and do our humble best. a lot of great guests including the acting dhs secretary. a lot of talk about what is happening at the border, are we closing them? how strong will that action the? we bring that to you on "fox and friends" saturday morning. as well as mark short, chief of staff to the vice president who is running the entire effort around addressing the pandemic. we will ask the latest on what states will be taking what action including the state of new york, don't go anywhere.

we have four straight hours on "fox and friends" on saturday morning. rob: how are things going? you have family and everything else. >> thriving and surviving. you take the silver lining is this you can, teach things you always wanted to, doing the best, everyone who is vulnerable in this moment in our thoughts and prayers. rob: as the coronavirus pandemic spreads across the us as more tests are made available we see italy recorded its highest daily death toll, 627 was really scary what is happening. franklin graham's charity deployed its emergency field hospital, critical medical relief and life-saving capabilities to families affected by this deadly outbreak and in a place where it is needed the most.

joining us is a samaritan first disaster response, thank you for coming on today, appreciate it. i want to ask what is the atmosphere. tell us what it is like where you are. >> reporter: we are in milan, italy. there is a lot going on in this city. we are partnering with cremona hospital. we are in their parking lot set up with the respiratory care unit. the hospital is a 600 bed hospital and -- rob: this is like i said the hotspot for all of this. how many people do you see that need help? it must be pretty severe.

>> it is scary. we are outside the hospital triage center and all day every day we hear ambulances bringing patients struggling with the covid-19 virus. it is surreal to be here. rob: tell us what you brought with you. you brought 68 bed mobile hospital all the way to northern italy. how do you do that? >> there is this emergency field hospital that can be adapted to any kind of situation. in iraq and other places, after the earthquake and recently in the bahamas but for this we created our disaster specialist created a respiratory care unit that has 58 beds and we can adapt our field hospital and put it on our dca and arrive on tuesday and it went up 56 hours.

rob: that is unbelievable. you have a mask on in your cover pretty well, what precautions are you taking? you are in a place where the virus is very active. >> we had 60 disaster response specialists on the ground. a lot of those are doctors and nurses taking care of the patients. we have an intensive care unit with ventilators was when we are in the unit we have personal protective equipment that all staff everywhere needs to wear a mask at all times. everyone you see walking around on the streets are wearing masks and everyone in the hospital are wearing masks. when we go in we wear special equipment. rob: italy, one of my favorite places to go and i love the italian people. what is the demeanor like? how has this impacted? they have such good spirit, such friendly people who love to enjoy life. how are they dealing with it?

>> absolutely right. this is my first time here and they are incredibly lovely and gracious. we have had nothing but rolled out the red carpet for the italians. they have been so thankful. every person we run into anywhere comes up to us, they now we are here. the hospital staff especially we are partnering with to support them literally crying when they see us in the halls or pass by us. they thank us constantly. rob: any message for americans at home? can you tell us? >> it is very hard. a lot of us are from the united states. it is typical for our line of work to come to the disaster and in my 10 years of experience this is the first time i left a disaster to come to a disaster. it is very challenging but i want to encourage people to follow guidelines, who

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