mar-a-lago. right now i think mar-a-lago i guess -- i haven't asked, but i imagine that's closed down like a lot of other businesses in florida. go ahead. >> do you expect your family companies to seek government assistance? >> i don't know. i mean, i just don't know what the government assistance would be for what i have. i have hotels. everybody knew i had hotels when i got elected. they knew i was a successful person when i got elected so it's one of those things. i guess i get paid $450,000 a year. i give it up. i put it back into the nation. i usually -- i have to -- by the way, you have to designate where you want it, i oftentimes give it to opioid research and things. as far as the hotels and everything, i have to do what everyone else is doing. i would probably decide to close things up. i think it's a good thing. you don't want people getting together and ho hotels and clubs

and everything, you get together. we want to beat this deal. i have many of them, hotels, clubs, things like that where people get together. i would think it would be a good practice to close them up. go ahead, please. >> mr. president, as you know, we've been talking about masks. we've also talked about how not everyone needs to take a test. what about a temperature test. we all came into this room and got tested before we entered. >> i do it. i have temperature tests. i didn't ask everybody here. i wouldn't be surprised if they had temperature tests. otherwise i'm going to run off the stage. >> should they be on a mass distribution basis too? >> i think they are, pretty much. the easiest thing is the temperature. i think they are. i don't know. are you learning a lot from the temperature test, tony? could you maybe discuss that for a second. >> they have a place. they're not infallible. right now, every time dar -- certainly, here -- every time i go into a different room i get

my temperature taken. we see that on the outside some people are doing that. >> i took his temperature. >> very low. there is a role for it under certain circumstances. what i don't see is a massive distribution of thermometers that are going to have a major impact on what i showed what we need to do. >> mr. president -- >> and i say -- i've seen things when tony mentions thermometers, they aim something at your you forehead. they say this far away, boom, and they tell you what your temperature is. i say i've never seen that before. i've learned a lot. i've learned a lot. it's incredible. >> thank you. this morning the washington post ran a story suggesting that you delay taking action on the virus in january and february. dr. fauci indicated your action imposing the travel ban helped america immensely. what do you say to the washington post. >> well, i love whoever you're with. i think that's such a nice question. no, i think the washington post

covers us very inaccurately, covers me very inaccurately. i saw the story. i think it's a disgrace. but it's the washington post and i guess we have to live with it. it's a very inaccurate -- quiet, quiet. it's a very inaccurate story. from many people i get a lot of credit for having closed our country very early to a very heavily infected country. china. unfortunately, china. i wish china would have told us more about what was going on in china long prior to us reading about it, even though the news isn't exactly disseminated as you know, china kicked the washington post out of china and it kicked the new york times out of china and i guess the wall street journal. that's okay. i mean, it's what they do and i think it's a terrible thing they did. but i also think it's terrible when people write inaccurately about you and they write inaccurately about me every single day, every single hour. and by the way, your group really -- i really think -- i just say fair, not good or bad.

i think you write very fairly and do fair reports about the great job that all of us are doing. that this group behind me is doing. it's so insulting when they write phony stories that they know are fake news because they're not insulting me, they're insulting everybody -- these incredible people that have worked so hard, so lock, that are thinking about other than this invisible enemy. they have done such an incredible job. and they will continue and we're going to win and there will be a lot of celebration when we win. and we're going to win with as few lives lost as possible. that's the game. win with as few lives lost as possible. it's a toughen my. it's -- tough enemy, it's a tough killer, more vicious than ever before. i appreciate you saying it. the fact we closed so early to china -- and most people -- look, i was called glee know xey sleep owe joe biden. y joe biden.i was called a racii

decided i didn't want people who could hurt our country come in. most people, even that worked in the white house disagreed with me very strongly. saving of those many weeks was a tremendous thing. when they keep talking about acting early, that was the ultimate act. that was the biggest act. because we didn't. and then i also closed europe early, very early. and i took a lot of heat for that too. but that was a good thing. now they're doing similar things that we're doing. i didn't act late. i acted early. i acted far before anybody thought i should be. i took tremendous criticism from the various papers, from many of the papers. i very much appreciate the question. it might have been more of a statement than a question but whatever it may have been, i appreciate it very much. >> mr. president -- >> number of the states have kind of done different measures. we've seen california order one thing, new york something

similar. do you want all the states to do one uniform -- >> no, they can do what they want to do. if california can get a mask sooner than we can get it for them through all of the things we're able to do, we're going to end up with an oversupply at some point. at some point this is going away and we'll have a big oversupply and you know what, in this case that's going to be okay. but if gavin can go out and order gowns faster or masks, good masks faster, or other things faster, that's good. we do have a lot of -- i mean, the coordination with the ships that we're sending in as you know, the medical ships that we're sending in, and even cruise liners, we're going to be sending in probably cruise liners into some areas, in particular california and in particular new york, but if somebody can do something faster, if they can order that mask faster than us, i want them to be able to do it. >> people can't leave their homes, certain business --

>> coordinate with them. >> you don't want that all to be the same. >> we have some states where they have two or three people and those people are in quarantine. you can't put on them what you're putting in new york where you do have a tremendous problem. we have large portions of the country, middle america, where they have a few people. so it may be a time -- i hope that never happens where we need to take very drastic action but right now that's not the same ballpark. go ahead, please. >> your 15 days of recommendations, a lot of people are following them. some people are not. do you think the american people are doing enough right now. >> i think they are. some people are not. i think they are. i think it's going to have a very profound effect. i mean, we'll know a little bit more on day 14 and 15. >> what's the plan? >> we have to see what the result is. we want to flatten that out and we're going to see what the result is. and i just want to say, i'm going to negotiate a very large transaction and i've been negotiating it for two days.

so i'm going to take one or two more questions and then i'm going to leave it to vice president pence on the hill, with the hill, the various elements of the package. steve, go ahead. >> a number of groups are calling for the postpone patient or cancellation of the -- postponemenpostponement or cancf the olympics. have you -- >> you take a look at shinzo abe, he's a great gentleman, he loves his country. we have an incredible relationship. we just finished a trade deal with them, $40 billion trade deal with japan and prime minister asbesto able has -- aba big decision to make. they're all ready to go. it's not late. it's not over-budget. it was done flawlessly and it's beautiful and they're sitting back and saying, you know, -- i told him, i said that's your decision. and it is his decision. and i know he's going to make it soon. i don't know what it's going to

be and i dhiengt i should be influencing it at all. the job that japan has done on that venue is incredible. so i mean, there are options, obviously including delay and maybe delay for next year but that's totally up to them. wee see what they do -- we'll see what they do. >> since the story keeps popping up, when did you first learn that this was going to be a problem? >> well, you know, when i learned i started doing the closings. so probably around that time. we didn't learn much. i think you're going to ask a little about china responsibility. i do think that -- again, i have great respect for china. i like china. i think the people of china are incredible. i have a tremendous relationship with president xi. i wish they could have told us earlier about what was going on inside. we didn't know about it until it started coming out publicly but i wish they could have told us earlier because we would have come up with a solution. tony fauci and all of the people, the talent that we have

would have loved to have had three or four months of additional time. if you knew that this was going to be happening. they didn't have that time. they read about it in the newspapers like everybody else. china was very secretive. okay. very, very secretive. and that's unfortunate. with that, i have great respect for that country. i have great respect for the leader of that country. and like him. he's a friend of mine. but i wish they were able to -- i wish they would have told us earlier, steve, that they were having a problem because they were having a big problem and they knew it and i wish they could have given us an advanced warning because we could have had a lot of things as an example, some of the things that we're talking about where we order them as quickly as we can. if we had a two or three-month difference in time, it would have been much better. yeah, please. >> can i follow up on that. because as you were saying, china was extremely secretive about this, several of your advisors have been warning -- have been critical of china,

secretary pompeo was talking about it yesterday and he had been saying so for quite some time. so why then on january 24th did you tweet that china has been working very hard to contain the coronavirus but the united states greatly appreciates their efforts and transparency. >> because it's true. >> it will all work out well. why were you saying that. >> china has worked very hard. china has lost thousands and thousands. >> you said they weren't transparent. >> the they were transparent t that time. they could have been transparent much earlier than they were. so you understand, china is not a beneficiary here. china lost thousands and thousands of people. china has gone through hell over this. they've gone through hell. and i've had conversations with president xi. i just wish they could have told us earlier. they knew they had a problem earlier. i wish they could have said that. >> are you able to share -- thank you for the numbers on the testing. are you able to share any other hard numbers on number of available tests, number of ventilators in the federal

stockpile. >> i'm going to leave that up to dr. fauci and everybody else and i think the answer is we want to share the numbers as -- add initial, do you want to -- adadmiral, do you want to share. >> 500 million masks, half a million masks, -- half a billion masks -- the number of ventilators we had was 12 to 13,000. >> a ventilator is a machine. it's a very complex machine. and to think we have to order hundreds of thousands. nobody's ever heard of a thing like this. when we had in the stockpile, we had thousands in a stockpile, thousands ready to go. that's a lot. all of a sudden, you need hundreds of thousands. and you're not talking about -- the mask is whether it's plastic or whether it's material, that's one thing. you're talking about a very sophisticated, heavily computerized machine and del del delicate and you need hundreds of thousands of them.

nobody heard of a thing like that general motors, ford, so many companies -- i had three calls yesterday directly, without having to institute like you will do this, these companies are making them right now. but to think of these numbers, it's pretty mind boggling. >> do you have numbers to share with us right now, the stockpile. >> please. >> we've spoken about masks this morning. the president's also given the task force a priority of assessing the availability and expanding the availability of ventilators and on monday we will detail some verye encouraging news for americans. you speak about the number of 13,000. it is a little more than that that we have in the national stockpile. but it's important to remember that that doesn't include the more than 100,000 ventilators that are in health care facilities and hospitals around america today.

it doesn't include what will be produced as the president said, we're seeing companies step forward. manufacturers tell us that a ventilator actually isn't a very complicated piece of equipment and many of them are literally surging forward to create more ventilators. one of the more exciting developments in the last week which we'll detail more on monday is that in the president's engagement with our health care community, we learned that ventilators that are currently used by anesthesiologists, that are used in outpatient clinics and other procedures can be converted to be used as ventilators for people struggling with the effects of the coronavirus. we've confirmed that a particular screen in that device can be changed readily. we're working with the fda to approve that. but again, this is a -- it's a great testament of the american people and our health care

professionals that are stepping forward and bringing ideas forward that literally as we'll document monday will increase the supply of ventilators by tens of thousands. but, look, the president's made it clear, we want to make sure that all the incredible courageous men and women who are serving in health care around america have the support they need, that our patients that are struggling with recovering from coronavirus have the equipment they need and we'll have a lot of detail on monday as we continue to assess. >> 1.4 million tests on-board by the end of this week, by today. do we have that? can you give us the number we have? >> let me let the admiral speak to that. >> i'm going to answer that question and try to persuade you to stop asking about a specific number. okay? so from march 2nd to march 14th, we have put over 10 million laboratory tests into the u.s. commercial market and

we expect that by march 28th to be well over 27 million into the market. so that answers your question. let me tell you why it's not the right question. not every lab can run every test. not every test is completely self-contained. so the more important question is not how many tests are in the market. we got them in the market. but it's to make sure that every segment of the market has the kind of test that they can use. >> we're using your numbers, trying to find out for the public if the things you've promised are happening. >> yes, they are happening. they are. we promised one or 4 million. there's 10 million tests in the market now. >> are the masks that are in the strategic reserve being deployed, mr. vice president. >> yes, the masks in the strategic national stockpile. >> it's not 13,000 anymore, it would be a lower number, is that fair to say. >> masks? >> ventilators. i'm sorry, the respirators. >> respirators. >> thank you. we're trying to understand if the things we have been told

through these briefings for many days are happening and getting into the hands of the health care providers. >> you understand it. you understand it. you understand exactly what he's saying. what he's saying is rather incredible. we inherited an obsolete, broken system. when you hear the number of tests that we'll be providing and are now, it's incredible. and i've heard a lot of governors say the same thing. we took over and obsolete, broken testing system that wouldn't have worked for even a small problem, let alone one of the biggest pandemics in history and what these gentlemen have done is incredible. i am going now to negotiate a great deal for our workers and our citizens. i'll be back tomorrow. we'll probably be doing this tomorrow. i'd like to ask vice president pence to take over and thank you all very much. >> thank you mr. president. >> mr. vice president -- >> thank you all. >> back here. >> mr. vice president, the military has complained to --

[]-- to pick up americans and bring them home. there are a lot of americans who are stranded and can't get home. does the military plan to send planes to pick them up. can you ensure americans that are stranded that they will be able to get home. >> we received a briefing this morning from the state department about their efforts and we want to be very clear. while the president has suspended all travel from europe including the u.k. and ireland, suspended all travel from china since january, any american who can get home can come home. they'll go through additional screening, that's all been implemented. and is working in an orderly way at a number of airports around the country. but there are instances, morocco being among them, where there simply are not flights to get home. our state department has been working very closely with our

embassies in those relevant countries. i was told this morning that all the way going back to bringing americans back from china that we have made individual efforts to bring home about 3,000 americans. i think there is an ongoing effort to address that with chartered commercial flights that the government is providing, obviously also military transport is available but our task force received a briefing this morning and we would just encourage any american that's looking on from overseas, contact the local u.s. embassy. let them know about your circumstances and know that we're going to work -- continue to work very diligently to get our americans home. >> last question. >> two quick ones. education and medication one. you guys have announced that standardized testing is essentially canceled in this country. to the tens of millions of

students out there, the teachers and their parents who are sort of scratching their head, wondering what does that mean, obviously a lot of this is driven by local school districts, by the state. is there any federal guidance on this? and if not today, could you have secretary di devos or somebody e and explain that to the millions that are sitting at home, trying to figure out what that means. >> i think it's a terrific question. and we will bring secretary betsy devos here tomorrow or on monday to address our efforts. the objective here was as people are embracing the president's 15 days to slow the spread, we have decisions by local school boards and local and state officials that have canceled school or suspended school for a time and we wanted the federal department of education to make it clear that the burden of standardizing testing, which back in my day as governor i remember takes a number of days and sometimes up to a week to administer, is not

going to be placed on schools but we'll have the secretary here to address that very specifically and it's a very good point on your part. >> i mentioned i have a medication question and i wanted to ask it while the president was here. because earlier he tweeted that there were two medications that when taken together, quote, have a real chance to be one of the biggest game changers in the history of medicine and they should be, quote, put in use immediately. since he's not here, i can't ask him what he meant but i'm wondering if dr. fauci or the admiral could clarify if you have any sense what he's talking about and whether his 74.5 million twitter followers should be taking medical advice from him or from someone else. >> the president brought together the top pharmaceutical companies in america and in the world a number of weeks ago.

and they formed a consortium to work on a range of responses, beginning with therapeutics, which for a layman like me that just means medicine to make you feel better. they're already going to work on that. we actually think that dr. fauci, i think there's some sense that our great pharmaceutical companies may actually be producing therapeutics that will give relief to americans struggling with coronavirus as soon as this spring. we also challenged them to work together as rapidly as possible to develop a vaccine going forward and as dr. fauci has indicated, we brought a vaccine to clinical trials, now the better part of a week ago, the fastest time in history. now, it's the first phase of the trials and people should understand as our health experts have described that there will be a period of as much as a year

and-a-half before we can make those vaccines available. but as the president said at this podium, there is some anecdotal evidence that several existing medicines may have brought relief to patients struggling in china and in europe and the president has tasked the fda to work very rapidly to allow what's called off-label use for those. one is a malaria medicine, but this morning i think the president reiterated that the hopefulness that he feels about this, that because these are medications that are time honored and tested, they've been taken for many, many years, that we want to pursue, number one, making those available if someone's doctor believes that it's appropriate, the doctor would be able to prescribe that medicine even though that's not indicated. that's call an off-label use. but the other piece is, as

dr. fauci said, and i'll yield to him, in deploying those medicines, we're working specifically with one state to do so in a way that represents a clinical trial. so it would not just be come cot compassionate use which is used in some jurisdictions today, but also we could study the viability of it. we're working with that supply chain to make sure those medicines are available. dr. fauci, do you want to speak to that? >> sure. it's essentially what i said multiple times on this podium is that when you have -- first of all, we're trying to develop de novo drugs that are not yet out there, not approved, that ultimately would be effective and the way you prove that is to do a randomized controlled trial to prove safety and efficacy. i'm not totally sure of what the

president was referring to but i believe he's referring to a report that used about high docksy chloroquine and -- hydroxy chloroquine and zythromyacin. the only thing i was saying is that if you really wanted to definitively know if something works that you've got to do the kind of trial that you get the good information. the president is talking about hope for people and it's not an unreasonable thing to hope for people. when you have approved drugs that physicians have the option and a decision between the physician and the patient, are you going to use a drug that someone says from an anecdotal standpoint, not completely proven. >>, but might have someeffect, n to the point of giving hope and say give that person the option of having access to that drug and then you have the other

group, which is my job as a scientist, to say my job is to ultimately prove without a doubt that a drug is not only safe, but that it actually works. those two things are really not incompatible when you think about it, particularly when you're in an arena where you don't have anything that's proven. we went through the same sort of thing with a little bit of a different twist during the hiv aids epidemic until we finally developed drugs that were absolutely knock-out drugs that were safe and that were effective. but in the beginning, there was that tension about that so you've got to have a balance. i've got to do my job as a scientists and others have other things to do. >> great. mr. vice president -- >> let me just, if i may, let me just say, i hope this morning has been informative. we will be back again tomorrow. and i hope the american people aree encouraged because of the incredible whole of government approach, because of our collaboration with states. you're seeing testing expanded

all across the country. that incredible public/private partnership with commercial labs is now making testing available by the tens of thousands, we're working diligently with an incredible response from american industry to make sure that personal protective equipment and ventilators and all the things that our health care providers need to meet this moment is there. but let me just say again, what every american can do today. and that is first and foremost, heed your state and local authorities. individual states, california, washington state and at this moment especially new york, that have issued guidance to their citizens and as the president said, we wholly support the leadership those governors are providing in their states. secondly, every single american can put into practice the principles of our 15 days to slow the spread.

the president's coronavirus glaxosmithkline as i said, -- guideline as i said we're six days in, and the purpose of thesis not because every american is at risk of serious illness. as we said before, all our experts tell us, all the data shows, that the risk of serious illness to the average american remains low but because the coronavirus is we think three times more contagious than the flu, to slow the spread, to literally lower that curve and spare americans around our country with being exposed to or contracting the coronavirus or worse, every single one of us can put these principles into practice. i recommend that you go to coronavirus.gov, sit your family down, call a neighbor and a friend, support efforts in your local community to put these (pells into practice -- principles into practice and as

people all across this country continue to do just that, i just know we'll get through this. and we'll get through this together. thank you all. leland: the president, the vice president and his team wrapping up an hour and-a-half long conference. the vice president saying this is a whole of america approach and we are in six days of 15 days to slow the spread, some discussion about how to do that, also some discussion about the number of testing kits that were available. so far, 200,000 americans have been tested, roughly 22,000 cases of the coronavirus confirmed here in the united states. please stay tuned to fox news channel and this station for continuing coverage of the story. i'm leland vittert in washington.

leland: welcome back as we continue coverage. the president left the news conference a couple minutes early, saying he was heading back to the office, the oval office, that is, to continue phone calls and negotiating a massive, what we now understand to be $2 trillion government bailout package that has been going around capitol hill for the past couple days joined by kristin fisher in the studio down the hall as we listened into this. kristin, as this has been going on, it feels like, and you spent a lot more time in the white house briefing room than i do, but it feels like it's getting more and more contentious between the press corps and pushing the president and his team on some of these issues. kristin: it is the press corps' job to ask officials the tough questions during times like this and one of the toughest questions is do we have enough ventilators, what's happening with the testing, why aren't there more tests and where are the masks. and that is absolutely critical. the ventilator issue will become increasingly critical. masks right now, nurses and doctors need these in hospitals across the country right now.

if you take a look at mount sinai hospital in new york state, nurses there were told today they're of usually out of -- officially out of all masks and most personal protective items. today, the president was asked about the shortage generally and he said you know, why aren't we reusing these masks. why aren't we sanitizing them. that is a big question and concern for doctors and nurses across the country. hopefully, we will get to ask some doctors and nurses those questions on our show a little later this hour. stay with us. we'll be right back. saturdays happen.

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management at john hopkins school of public health, dr. marty mccarey, who also treated the first u.s. coronavirus case, dr. george diaz. we are hearing about shortages of masks at hospitals across the country. just now, during this briefing in the white house briefing room, president trump said -- he said why aren't we sanitizing masks, reusing them. he said we have very good liquids for doing this. i know this is dire times. how would you feel if you were being asked to sanitize your masks and reuse them? >?i'll start with you, dr. diaz. >> yeah, within our health system we are definitely having issues with supply chain for masks. the cdc put out guidelines for potential reuse of masks or extended use of other masks. we've begun doing -- having

volunteers make masks using local products. our chief clinical officer has committed to manufacturing ourselves 100 million masks which we are receiving daily shipments from our own source internally. so we are certainly in need of additional masks and look forward to receiving these federal masks. kristin: would you be comfortable reusing your masks? >> well, we've all done it on a busy night of trauma call, we've all done it. i could certainly envision a situation where using certain alcohol-based solutions or bleach would make sense. there's different levels of mask and i think we need to remember that we can't be using peace time protocols at a time of war and if we're looking at rationing supplies which has already happened in italy at this stage before their peak, we need to get prepared which is why i was reassured to hear the vice president ask all hospitals to stop elective surgery.

unfortunately, that has been sucking up supplies that we need to save for this pandemic. it's really unethical for anyone to do elective surgery right now given our need for masks and gowns. kristin: not an ideal situation but obviously none of this is. all right, let's get to viewer questions. this one is from stephanie. she says i had a very interesting illness this past january, had similar symptoms as what i've heard with covid, was not tested for the flu but was treated for such. is it at all possible that hi the coronavirus? dr. diaz? >> yeah, it's very possible that that was coronavirus. in most patients, the syndrome is very mild, typical as what you would see with a common cold. relatively soon we will have antibody tests that will be able to determine if someone had exposure to coronavirus and that could be potentially confirmed down the road. kristin: all right. our next question is from

dr. sandra cosby. she writes we have plans to take care of our grandsons, ages 10 and 13 over their spring break the first week of april. they live in minnesota. we live in which is consistency. should we drive there -- wisconsin. should we drive there, bring them here. we have risk factors that put us in the high risk category and our age is 68 and 71. this is such a tough question for grandparents and parents all over the country right now. what would be your advice. >> i love it when grandparents get to play with grand winds grt right now for the next two or three months, please take extra precautions and the answer to that question is no. people age 68-71, especially with co-morbidity as they've described themselves, they are at high risk and they need to hunker down, please. kristin: not the answer that a lot of grandparents want to hear but the smart one. thank you. all right. our next question is from stan. he wants to know is it known that any of those who recovered,

all ages, have had any lasting medical effects after having the virus. dr. diaz? >> yeah, most people that get infected with this virus will recover without issue. the patients that will have potentially lasting issues are those people that end up on ventilators with severe disease. their immune system results in potential damage to their lung and can have prolonged recovery times which we've seen locally at my hospital as well. for most people, they should recover uneventfully without lasting issues. kristin: that's good to hear. our next question is from tatiana. she's says my husband is a truck driver. i'm really worried about him getting the coronavirus since he's making pick-ups and deliveries in the hot spot areas. what precautions can he take to protect himself? it's a great question and a question that so many people in that industry in particular are worried about.

dr. mccarey. >> i want to thank him for being a truck driver. right now, we are very dependent on our supply chains, we're very dependent on truck drivers. we need essential folks like him to be carrying essential products like pharmaceutical products, medical supplies, and food. we've got to keep our essential services going and for him i would say take those extra steps. first of all, if he's high risk, no one should be on the job. but i would ask him to wash his hands frequently, be careful when filling up gas. that's a common place when there's contact surfaces and be careful with your phones, of course, they are an extension of your hand. kristin: phones get so dirty. i've never thought about it nearly as much as i do now. one more question for you two and then i have to let you go. our next question is from barka and he or she writes how does coronavirus affect a pregnant woman? dr. diaz, it's a great question. >> yeah, so we really don't know exactly how this infection

will affect pregnancy or infants that are born to pregnant women. there have been some reports of possible early deliveries but we just don't know. we do know that there are potential complications with having infections during pregnancy, such as influenza or other viral infections so cdc guidelines would recommend pregnant women be careful and we are looking at within our health system having pregnant employees not be on the front lines and help in other ways. kristin: all right. dr. mccarey, dr. diaz, thank you so much for answering all these questions. for all of you at home, if you have questions, please continue to send them to us because we're going to be doing this again tomorrow during our coronavirus pandemic special, again at 1:00. thank you, doctors. leland: fox news alert. disturbing new information out of italy, the coronavirus

pandemic there is growing. here are the new numbers released over an hour ago. evening time, 6:00 p.m. in rome, the virus has killed 793 people in the past day. the country has more than 6500 new cases and you can see the pictures from the deserted streets in italy and the number of dead each day continues to rise. from rome, they say there are now more than 53,000 known cases of the coronavirus in that country and as we have reported just now and continuing over the past couple days, that number is growing. something to leave you with here in washington, d.c., as we take a break. the cherry bloc toms are in -- blossoms are in full bloom today. what's missing are the crowds. tens of thousands of visitors are staying away, they closed down metro stops and yet there are a couple people out there to smell the blooms on this

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kristin: three-time grammy winner and music star kenny rogers has died. the singer's family said he died last night at home from natural causes. he sold tens of millions of records with hits like the gambler and lady. his death is striking at the hearts of singers and musicians all over the country, including his long-time friend, dolly parton. >> i couldn't believe it this morning when i got up and turned on the tv, checking to see what the coronavirus was doing and they told me that my friend and singing partner kenny rogers had passed away and i know that we all know kenny is in a better

place than we are today. but i'm pretty sure he's going to be talking to god sometime today if he ain't already and he's going to be asking him to spread some light onto this darkness going on here. but i love kenny with all my heart and my heart's broken and a big chunk of it has gone with him today and i think that i can speak for all his family, his friends and fans, when i say that i will always love you. just happened to have this picture when i walked out this morning of us, i walked out and i thought maybe i'll hold that up to everybody. i know you're sad, as i am, but god bless you, kenny. fly high, straight to the arms of god and to the rest of you, keep the faith. kristin: dolly parton giving her condolences like only she can. rogers is survived by his wife, four sons and his grandchildren. he was 81 years old.

leland: i his music lives on d some of the lessons in the songs live on. ai was looking at the lyrics for the gambler. not a bad song to listen to. kristin: we have a lot of bad news today, from the coronavirus, to kenny rogers' death, hope any we can bring you something brighter tomorrow. we'll be doing this again tomorrow, from 1:00 to 2:00 p.m. eastern time. leland: we'll have your questions and our doctors back and we'll leave you with something a little bit brighter now, spring is upon us here in washington, dc. the crowds aren't there were the national cherry blossoms but there is this to listen to. >> we actually believed we were hunting humans for sport. >> who even comes up with that. my gums are irritated. i don't have to worry about that, do i? harmful bacteria lurk just below the gum line.

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eric: vice president mike pence saying more than 195,000 americans have been tested for coronavirus. this as federal, state and local governments are ramping up restrictions, all in an effort to try to stop the spread, now more than one-fifth of americans are being told to stay home. certainly hope you're doing that and abiding by those regulations and the recommendations. hello, i'm eric sean. this is america's news headquarters. arthel: i'm arthel neville. normally "the journal editorial report" is on at this hour. the show is on hiatus for the time being. new jersey is the latest state to order people to stay inside. some of america's largest