and for their parents who may just need a moment, it will stream live on foxnews.com, facebook and youtube. it will also be available on demand, fox nation. i will see you there and i will see you "on the five" and now, bill hemmer. ♪ >> bill: thank you, dana commit is monday and we are still at it, i am bill hemmer. here is where we are at this hour, a fiery showdown on the senate floor moments ago. they are debating this massive stimulus package stuck in limbo and republicans accusing democrats of stonewalling and changing the deal. democrats say in negotiating a better deal with the white house and might strike an agreement by the end of the day. a life look at the dow the worst month since the great depressi great depression. the fire researching past 41,000 cases at home. let's begin on the hill, chad pergram watching on the

hill, chad, what have you seen? speak with a moment on the floor and the level of tension has been rare until today. it will be witnessed. >> it was pretty more remarkable to see senators openly brawling with one another shouting across the chamber, getting up in one another's faces, jabbing fingers at one another, a lot of accusations as the senate for the second time in as many days failed to begin debate on the phase three coronavirus. and some senator sharon brown and tom cotton. >> that is not the point. the point is that -- speak with the senator will yield. >> will you answer my question? >> i don't know that day but it was a day or two later. >> where has the hill spend the last two weeks? where has the house been the last week? >> i have the floor and i will keep the floor. >> they needed 60 votes to advance to begin debate on the

bill. they only got 49. here is the problem, bill, republicans are down because they have several senators quarantined. at least one senator rand paul tested positive for the coronavirus. on a good day, only 53 republicans in the senate. so you need seven more democrats to get to the 60 vote threshold. that is why the democrats seem to have the leverage in these negotiations which continue behind closed doors, bill. >> bill: democrats and the republican plan has bailouts for big companies with no strange attached. there is an answer to that, chad, what is it? >> republicans say this is not going to be the final piece of legislation. chuck schumer has been able to continue to engage the treasury secretary steven mnuchin behind closed doors. mitch mcconnell says it must be an open, bizarre right now because the democratic continues to grow. and republicans kennedy of indiana has heard enough. >> you know what it's come at

the american people are thinking right now, mr. president, they e thinking this country was founded by geniuses. but is being run by a bunch of idiots. >> right now there is no agreement, and if they get something through the united states senate, which is very unlikely today, they have to bring the house of representatives back to sync up, bill. >> bill: thank you, chad, john korner from texas, good afternoon to you. what is the hold up here? >> it appears to be that the democratic colleagues see this as a moving vehicle to spend a lot of money on their ideological wish list, everything from global warming to private businesses on the boards of directors to tax credits to solar wind energy. none of that is what we ought to be working on now. we can deal with those later on. what we need to work on now is getting money to the people who were not getting a paycheck and

make sure they have a job to go back to after this crisis passes. >> bill: senator take the democratic argument out of it. if you pass it in this form what would be the effect of the moment, on the american situation? >> right now, we see all the money that people have seen accumulated in their 401(k) or retirement savings go down the tubes because the markets are uncertain that the congress is up to the task and can do this job. the president has, i think, lead well. this is an unprecedented crisis. nobody has encountered anything like this before. but it requires cooperation and really come put in our patriotism and our common american citizenship before we r partisan political ideological agendas. that is what's holding it up. >> bill: what do you believe is the outcome? there are so many unknowns, senator. it is not entirely guesswork but close to it.

if you don't do it now and you get further delayed, what is the expectation for the situation there? >> i think it now, the objections coming to the forefront or not about getting money to the people who need it or making sure that they have jobs to go back to. but more about this ideological wish list or outbox that they are trying to use as leverage for. i think the democrats will come to the table. senator schumer needs face-saving device. that is why he's talking about continuing to have negotiations with secretary mnuchin. but they know when their heart of hearts that we have to get this done for the american people because our economy, which is the envy of the world, is going down the tubes unless we can rise to this moment. >> bill: senator, secretary mnuchin said yes, they will provide $4 trillion of aid. think about that, $4 trillion. my question to you is, as you look at this, as absurd as this

may sound, is that enough? >> well, i don't think we know, and i think what we are trying to do is send a message that this is shock and old. we want to reassure investors and we want to assure the job creators that we are serious about our part but unfortunately, the partisan gamesmanship undermines that confidence. but yeah, we will get through this. our health care providers are the best in the world. our scientists are the best in the world. we will fix and find a way to defeat the virus but we have to make sure people have jobs. we have to make sure people have a paycheck coming in because they don't have work. >> bill: senator, yes or no? will it get passed? >> i would like to hope so but i cannot tell you with confidence. i think it will get done next 48 hours. >> bill: thank you. new york's governor says this week the state will start drug trials for possible treatments. rick leventhal reports on that in new york as well, rick,

hello. >> hey, bill. the caseload continues to grow in new york. new york state and new york city has the number of tests continue to rise. more than 20,000 elsik with a virus statewide, and more than 12,000 here in new york city, less than 6,000 on friday but some of that because people are being tested so we know now more people are sick and new york city. and it is another cold, rainy day here, bill. trader joe's, fortunately one of the stores that remains open, but you can see the streets and sidewalks nearly empty as you will see 3:00 on a weekday afternoon. and that will continue for some time now. the big focus here in manhattan and across the state, adding hospital beds. there were concerns the health care system could break without more resources. so to try to prevent it the governor is putting out an urgent call to sign up more nurses. there are multiple temporary hospitals being built with thousands more including a

new facility inside the javitz convention center, which the governor toured a time ago. >> find more beds coming use more rooms, you must increase your capacity 50%. we would ask you to try to increase your capacity for 100%. okay? so we now at 53,000 beds but we need 110,000 beds. if they increase the capacity 100%, that solves the mathematical projection. >> the governor said the state has trusted more people per capita than any other state more than south korea. we will begin those experimental drug trials this week. the city's mayor says things are going to get worse in new york city through april and into may. bill, what you see on the streets now could be our new normal for some time to come. >> bill: strange town, rick leventhal in new york, very different city today. rick, thank you.

big global map, total deaths around the world and more than 16,000. out of the total of 367 come from cases. and this is about 4% of the total confirmed around the world. over the weekend, this has really got rich eating headlines out of italy. their death rate shot up 500, 600 a day friday, saturday and sunday and well over 6,000. for us here at home in the u.s., right around 41,500 or right now just shy of 500. let's put in perspective. come on over here. because you have an infection does not mean that you will die. what we have seen is an incredible recovery rate based on the data we have been crunching around the world. again, we look at that map because we are trying to figure out trends. as we stand right now on this monday afternoon, this is the trend between italy, south korea, italy and spain. this is the italian line in yellow and that's not where you want to be. here is the redline and we are

mirroring that right now and we want to get that number down. spain with us as well. south korea is flat on the curve. that is where they are as of today. what is the number of cases going back over the last two weeks, march 9th to march 22nd on a sunday? this though is the number of deaths in these various states to date that we can say based on the information that we are getting. johns hopkins, the cdc, the world health organization. in italy they've had a brutal death rate of 9%. watch as we go down the line, iran 80%, spain 6.7%, china 6.4% and they have been holding for a week now. here is where we are 1.3% next to south korea 1.2%. that is where you want to be and for the moment, that is where we are. so hold onto this number and we will see the social distancing can do for us and millions across the country. in the meantime the vice president with the nations governor this afternoon, the

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>> bill: another concern, the local jail and federal prisons, new york city will release

people from rikers island, which is a renowned prison here in new york. dr. jonathan gift oh the clinical director at rikers island until january. doctor, good to see you and thank you for your time. here is what we have here. in california, five workers carrying the virus and georgia, three prisoners in new york. 21 inmates and 17 workers. most of them at rikers island. what should we do about this as we try to protect the population and if trying to kill the virus? what do you think, doctor? >> thank you for having me bill. so simply the jails cannot protect patients and staff from viral pandemic in the city. jails are not closed distance and thousands of people coming in and out of facilities around the country every day. in new york city alone, they were as health care workers and officers working 24/7 on rikers island. in addition, mitigating efforts, physical distancing, frequent

hand washing and others near impossible in jails. and coupled with the fact that they tend to have in their custody higher risk of complications from infection including people over the age of 60 of which, actually almost a thousand at rikers island right now and over 500 at the federal jail in brooklyn. and you have a recipe for disaster. in my view, i think the only way to reduce the harm of rapid spread of coronavirus in correctional settings is to depopulate, to release as many people as possible to the community to continue the cases with focus on those at highest risk. >> bill: how would you do that, doctor? this is unprecedented territory. >> so i think the reason we are focusing on jails in particular is that jails largely hold people who are pretrial. they have open cases where

people with short city sentences for low-level misdemeanors or people with violations of parole, which tend to be largely technical. all three of these populations have ongoing cases that can be continued in the community so that we are not completely eliminating or dismissing cases. we are simply changing the status so the case in the community. >> bill: if that is the resolution in this, then you have to keep the others who are still locked up from getting the virus. there are thousands of people that come in every day. and for places like rikers island and places around the country, they have to do something. they have to take temperatures and some sort of policy that allows people to come and leave. >> correct, yes. what is unique about new york city, correctional health care system is won by health services which is the city's hospital services. and they have talented health care workforce doing a

lot of work to screen and isolate people. what is challenging when you have a lot of people at high risk, it is almost impossible to screen and isolate people who are symptomatic. if you can depopulate the people at the highest risk, it will create more opportunity for isolation for those that remain. >> bill: what a challenge that is, doctor, we will stay on the story, okay? thank you, jonathan giftos here in new york. the summer games, will they go on? the olympic committee facing pressure to answer that question has many more country say they don't want to participate. plus breaking down case-by-case, a closer look at the numbers and what they can tell us about where we are all heading. ♪ ... and staying active? on it! audrey thinks she's doing all she can to manage her type 2 diabetes and heart disease, but is her treatment doing enough to lower her heart risk? maybe not. jardiance can reduce the risk of cardiovascular death for adults

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he's been with us this several times in the past few weeks. doctor, how are you in good monday to you. we are crunching numbers to try to figure out trends. what trend do you see for the u.s. at the moment, doctor? >> bill thanks for having me back. look, we are still in a rising phase. we will see a lot more cases, 40,000 cases as you said earlier in your broadcast. i think we have some running room there and a lot more cases that are out there that we have been identified. the good news, bill, testing is starting to get better. we did 45,000 test yesterday. we probably need to do three times as many as that so we have a ways to go but slowly making a difference. so i see the light at the end of the tunnel here. but we still have some ways to go. >> bill: interesting, what do you mean light at the end of the tunnel? how would you do find that medically? >> yeah, now, look what we need to be able to do in order to really get our arms around this

is we have got to have extensive testing happening all across america. we need to be able to test every single person who has got symptoms, test people they have been in contact with, everybody needs a test should be able to get a test. we are not there. i think we are probably, i don't know, ten days from being able to get there. at that point, we will have a much better sense of where the disease is and then we can make decisions about what we do next. >> bill: you know what, based on all of the sky falling analysis from so many doctors across the country, that would appear to be a glimmer of every don't make good news. because what you are seeing is data come in, you are analyzing it and then making a forecast. and if i hear you correctly, the social distancing, you will know if that policy has worked in about a week and a half. >> yeah, look, social distancing takes about two weeks to show up in data in terms of reducing,

reducing infections. we are catching up with all the infections we did not identify before. but i am hopeful and let's say, ten days, maybe two weeks, we will have much better testing. we will have much better data, and we won't know what it working or not. and how hard things will be the next couple of weeks. a lot more people will get sick. unfortunately, a lot of people will die. a lot of hospitals will struggle. we still have many things to do, a long list. but i want to tell people, there is light at the end of the tunnel. we have to focus on getting more testing happening. we have to focus. >> bill: i'm really focused on the death rate. the death rate in new york is about what it is in south korea 1.3% nationally. same here in new york, south korea i think 1.2% to 1.4% in that range. what would that tell you if that number stays there or even goes possible more? >> i would love it if it went

lower. but i think right now i'm worried because we are still early in our trajectory in italy. remember, italy the death rates have really gone up the last week or so. a week or ten days we have been behind them. so i'm worried those numbers will go up. obviously, if they don't, it means two things. a good job testing and identifying low risk people. the second is the health care system capacity is holding up. bill, i have to tell you that i'm worried that will not happen here the numbers will go up, obviously, fingers crossed that they don't. we have to see over the next week or ten days or what have you. >> bill: doctor, you can speak later in the week, thank you so much. technically day nine, technically we can say president trump will make a decision after 15 days of social distancing that was recommended to him. that was put into play saturday, we could go. to white house john roberts reports live from the north lawn, john. >> good afternoon to you. the big topics of discussion and elsewhere around the country about the country's executives,

how much longer can you keep the economy shattered before the temporary pain that we are feeling and it becomes permanent? you mentioned halfway through the president's 15 days to slow the spread of the virus. the president tweeting last night you cannot go on forever "we cannot let the cure be worse than the problem itself. at the end of the 15-day period we will make a decision which way we want to go." a potential glimmer of where that might be was this morning from new york governor andrew cuomo who said this: >> you also have to start to plan the pipit back to econoc functionality, right? you can't stop the economy forever. so we have to start to think about does everyone stay out of work? should young people go back to work sooner? >> bill: andrew cuomo said you have to open the valve because

the oxygen for the economy sustainable to keep things and some of the things people are talking about, bill, taking steo quarantine or at least isolate people who are most at risk andf people back to work. nobody is ready to pull the trigger on that just yet, but that is been considered. >> bill: meanwhile the president made a decision about the national guard. what is up with that headlines? >> with the president is paralyzing and 100% of new york, california, as well as washington state. the president talking about that yesterday the coronavirus, listen to this. >> through fema the federal government will be putting 100% of the cost of deploying national guard units to carry out missions to stop the virus while those governors remain in command. so the governors locally are going to be in command, and we will be following them. we hope they can do the job.

and i think they will. >> bill: the national guard will be mostly assisting with logistics. they are allowed to under title 32 which is what they will be deployed under to engage in law enforcement activity. we saw some of that in baltimore during the recent troubles there. something like a large public disturbance. the guard to step in and take care of it. >> bill: thank you, john speaking of baltimore, larry hogan, nonessential business to close in his state. he is coming up live here. he said the decision was made after people refused to get the distance between themselves and others in a crowd. plus the history making a move by the fed to keep the economy afloat. i will speak with president reagan's advisor, the senate battle over the stimulus bill heats up this hour. ♪ insufor what you need.pay almost done. what do you think?

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>> bill: and other governor signing an executive order closing nonessential businesses in his state. he joins me now. republican governor larry hogan

and chairs the national governors association. governor, nice to see you. what a different world we have today. you are closing your state down. you just got off of the phone leaving the governors conference. what did you tell them and conversely, what questions did they have for you, governor? >> well, first of all, i want to thank the president, the vice president for doing a good job of communicating to all the governors. this was our fifth straight call over the past couple of weeks. we had 52 governors on the call and led by vice president pence. just hung up before going on the air with you. we address the number of priorities for the governors. we were talking a moment ago about title 32 and the national guard's it is not the president calling up the national guard. the individual governors calling up the guard. we have 2200 guard members activated in maryland. title 32 gives us flexibility and allows the federal government to pay for these soldiers. here we have them doing humanitarian missions setting up hospitals and feeding hungry kids and things like that.

it is really helpful to have title 30 to assist the governors and paid for those. >> bill: you know what i'm trying to figure out, governor, outside of maryland or the state of new york, washington state of california, how are governors taking this news in utah and nebraska and minnesota? >> so it is interesting. we had an ongoing discussion of all of the governors. i talked to many of them individually. we've had these calls with the president and vice president and 13. we have had calls with just the governors on conference calls. on a regular basis commit is a different response and a different amount of activity in each state so many are completely in different situations. look, this has in fact, every single state we now have cases in all 50 states and different governors are responding in different ways. different states are in different parts of this curve and have obviously, new york, most impact on followed by california and washington, but

other states are starting to have serious problems. some of the ones not quite as effective are starting to pay more attention. >> bill: governor, you are closing nonessential business and about 90 minutes. in your state. think about the impact that is going to have on so many millions of people there. why do you think it is necessary? >> well, so it is necessary to save the lives of thousands of people in the state. look, i declared a state of emergency about 18 days ago. i was i think the second governor in america to clos cloe schools statewide. we closed all the bars and restaurants about a week ago. and we have taken continual steps that seemed almost unheard of. these unprecedented steps that we could not have possibly imagined a week or two ago. but now, they become absolutely necessary. as we talk to the expert doctors from place like john hopkins and the university of maryland, nih, they talk to us about catastrophic failures of the health care system. if we don't do something to stop this bike in the curve, the fact

we will not have icu beds and ventilators and be able to protect. you look at what happen in places like italy and what is happening in new york. we don't want that to happen in each of our states. >> bill: northern italy was the coal mine here and perhaps the italian experience who lied to thousands of people at home and around the world and even a higher number. is that possibly the outcome for all of this? >> well, that is a really good point, bill. we saw what happened in china. we see the example of italy. none of us want to be in that kind of situation. now we see what is happening in washington state, california, new york and the other states are saying, hey, we want to make sure we do what we can to not be the next place like that. so we are taking steps. we don't want to do it. obviously, it is disruptive to the economy and people's lives. but we also don't want to have hundreds of thousands of people sick and thousands of people dying. >> bill: let's talk later in

the late, larry hogan of maryland, thank you, sir. i want to check on the dell here at almost 4% now, 770, plunging even after the fed announced plans to buy limited bonds to boost the economy. let's bring in former economic advisor for president reagan, good day to you. this is something else. what would be your plan for the next step based on what you heard over the weekend and based on the ongoing struggle that is following capitol hill? >> i think there are two things you have to do. you have to discount and make loans to solvent companies that have liquidity crisis. what you don't want is the liquidity crisis to morph into a solvency crisis. that is one. the fed can do that, the treasury and a bunch of other departments and agencies have the authorization to guarantee make these loans. the second thing is you do, you have a federal pay loan tax waiver for the next seven or eight months to make sure that

more attractive for people to work and more attractive for companies to hire and it's broad-based. this will be scored at $750 billion. that is it peer that will bring the economy back as fast as it possibly can. this is not basically an economic problem. it is a coronavirus problem that had a big impact on the economy. this will bring it back. anything beyond that, bill, is silly. this helicopter money proposal stuff is crazy. for all of these people, it never works. it just causes the problems to get worse and worse. >> bill: sorry about the interruption. i will try to make this clean. are you suggesting the checks that go out to family will not have much of an impact? >> oh, they will have an impact, but it will be the negative. what we need now is jobs. everyone has suffered terribly from the coronavirus impact. they really have. stock market down 34%, 35%. that is really bad for people.

and a lot of people suffering. what we want to make sure is to bring them back to work as quickly as possible. to do that, you want to make work as attractive as attractive as imaginable and you want to make hiring as attractive as imaginable. the payroll tax waiver will do just that, and it will be broad-based. every family has a worker and it peer that will raise the wages dramatically. in bring the economy back. >> bill: i hope, you do relay $750 billion, that is $2008. 2009. people are not stopping at $750 billion. >> we had a wonderful economy, wonderful economy before obama. by far the virus hit. >> they go back to the way the policies were then. these people are causing all sorts of problems. you know, when politicians make decisions when either panicked

or drunk. the consequences are rarely attractive. i have been involved in all of these crises on the inside from nixon 1971, 1972 camp david, watergate all the way through jerry ford. all the way up to the president on the inside and frankly, very few worked out well. the only one that did was reagan. reagan decided not to eliminate the third year of the tax cut 1982 and $98 million tax increase. he did that. we had the biggest boom ever and then in '87 huge crash, reagan said don't just stand there. undo something. and we continued on this prosperity for years to come. you don't do the silly, silly things. sorry. >> bill: it's okay. i need a quick answer. would you pass what was proposed this week and in the senate? >> i think the senate did a great job on not approving what was proposed. i don't want helicopter money. i don't want just the payroll

tax cuts. liquidity lending, that is all you need and stand back. this economy will do very well. they are trying to do altogether too much in the stuff. i think the administration is starting to move very much in the right direction, but they need to move and they need to move to the right plan. and i think they will do it. this president, and my mind, the single best president in my lifetime. and he's a clear, thinking man who knows how to do things. and you don't tax people who work in people who are not working and expect more work. you just don't. >> bill: thanks, art, thank you. >> thank you very much bill. >> bill: protecting those on the front line and in a moment the fire commission and how the city is dealing with first responders who test positive. ♪ fact is, every insurance company hopes you drive safely.

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♪ >> bill: hospitals across the country trying to deal with shortages of supplies. nurses in seattle and anybody who can so to start making a mask. in seattle with more on that, dan. >> hey, bill, some washington state days away from running out of protective masks in the states warehouse empty. that dire situation with providence hospital to issue 100 million mask challenge seeking anyone's help. the response has been really strong. people are literally sowing surgical masks and face shields in their homes. the hospital providing the raw material and sewing kits and the volunteers have stepped in. providence with the first known case of coronavirus in the country back in january. now the state has 2,000 people infected and 9595 deaths. the outbreak applies to the breaking point. >> ahead of prevention sounding an alarm for a few of us to say the shortage of personal protective equipment has gotten

so critical that we will start to make our own. >> but before doing that, providence with a mask challenge in stunned by the the results not only from businesses but a furniture manufacturer shut down normal operations to make safety equipment for health care workers. the first two days, 5600 masks and 1,000 face shields and for from alone. so many mask being made but pulled the plug on the challenge thinking volunteers and sing on the website it will no longer issue the material and sewing kits. business leaders and everyday americans were rising to the challenge. >> bill: like to see that dan springer from seattle, back in new york those on the front line testing positive, many of them including firefighters and police officers. daniel niekro from the police commissioner in new york city, how are you and good afternoon to you.

>> i'm fine today. it is a difficult time, but we are doing well in the fire department. >> bill: you put a video out a little bit earlier work according to "the new york post" reporting. what did you tell your fellow firefighters? >> talking about how things are, conditions here in the city. it was basically to tell them if they are sick to stay home because they would only infect others. but if they have no symptoms, we need them to come to work. that is exactly what they are doing. >> bill: i am seeing nypd come from 20 cases of the virus while the 14 members of the fire department have been infected. do those numbers stand at this hour? >> oh, no, those numbers don't have the police. off at the top of my head my thoughts 70. our numbers stand at 46. >> bill: how can you protect those men and women? >> well, you have been hearing about the personal protective equipment that is very short supply around the country. that is what we depend on to

affect people, gloves, masks, eye protection and gallons. >> bill: do you have what you need? >> we have what we need for a short period of time. but i would say we have weeks of supplies, not months or more and here in new york, the entire medics working. we have just about a third of the patients in the united states right here. >> bill: are you getting more calls or less out of the city that is not entirely in lockdown but pretty close to it? >> our calls continue to grow. they have been ratcheting up for the last few weeks. and, of course, many are for respiratory issues. not all of them are for this covid-19 virus but many of them are. >> bill: daniel, what do you think of new york city as you drive around now? how would you describe it to

people who are not in your town? >> well, you know, i sort of have many friends in italy and in the last few weeks, i was watching web cams from there. and there were empty streets and was very surreal. and now right here, the same thing. former busy areas like times square. it is still too many people out and about. i would like to see fewer and fewer people out because that is how we are going to be this. >> bill: daniel, thank you. hang in there. a couple of weeks of supplies and we will try to get you more, okay? thank you. daniel nigro, commissioner of the fire department here in new york. a very different city today. in a moment nfl legend rumors and a lot of experiences with viruses. he grew up with it with his son and his son taught his father a ton. you will hear his words and advice here in a moment. ♪ veterans, how can one phone call save you $2000 a year?

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>> bill: top olympic officials saying the summer olympic games will be postponed more likely until next year. as reported by least two new orleans saints head coach sean payton saying that he tested positive as the world of sports goes on a hiatus. my next guest has been dealing with viruses for 28 years. he has a rather personal and unique story. boomer esiason, former nfl quarterback. nice to see you. thanks for spending time with us today. >> we go back all the way to the days in cincinnati. >> bill: i was about that big back then. your son, gunnar, was three years old back then. he's 20 now. he has lived with cystic fibrosis. you set up a foundation to help that organization and your son

as well. your family has been running from viruses from almost 30 years. what is that like? >> as i wrote in the usa today editorial, we've been fighting for 27 years and now. when you become a see if parent, the first thing you learn about is virus and how they intermingle and what they can do to your kids lungs and why it's so important to stay as clean and hyper focused on hygiene as you possibly can. when gunnar was diagnosed with a quarterback with the new york jets, they called it a quarterback screw slate. it's really a parents crusade that may have made such a difference. gunnar is benefiting from so many bioscience breakthroughs that it's amazing. that's why i believe we will have an answer for covid-19 whether it is in the next months or somewhere in that range. we will have a vaccine or answer for it because we have great

scientists all around the world that are working on it. he's at the school of business. when he started his new drug, he told me, dad, this joke is unlocked my future. but now, he's had to self isolate away from other people because as we know, the virus is a parasite that needs a host. if he's around around anyone that is carrying that and it hits him, he is among the most vulnerable with an underlying cause of cystic fibrosis with what is a genetic lung disease and unfortunately he had no choice in the matter. >> bill: what a life it is. i remember what you went through as a family. what do you think of the country -- the social distancing itself from one another now? >> i live in new york. i know what the streets of new york look like right now. they are empty. most people are trying to stay away from each other. it will be interesting when

memorial day gets here if, in fact, we are under these orders from our governor and president. the fact of the matter is that we have to continue to do this. we have to protect our elderly and those with underlying issues. we hear the messages from celebrities, athletes, actors, singers. i'm here to echo those sentiments. it's one of the reasons why gunnar has lived so long. he has been very careful and does have a future. >> bill: that has a remarkable story. you more about this cystic fibrosis then you do about quarterbacking the nfl. thank you for sharing. i still think we should have won that super bowl. >> so do i. i wish i knew as much about quarterbacking as patrick my home styles. >> bill: thank you. my best to your family. thank you for sharing your story. boomer esiason they are. we are here every day monday through friday, 3:00 eastern.

make sure you set your dvr and never miss a report. the surgeon general said this morning this week is going to get bad. how bad? in the meantime, that thou trading lower off the lows, a few moments ago. here is neil. >> neil: if at first you don't succeed, try, try, keep trying again and again. welcome everybody. i am neil cavuto and this is "your world." the stimulus measure that they want to see done by now it is not anywhere close to being done by now. we are following all of these developments very, very quickly on capitol hill. we have john roberts at the white house. senator chuck grassley will be joining us. we will hear from this admonition to those in washington. get off your -- and do something. he is here