>> ask questions on fox news facebook or instagram page. ainsley, are you going to say goodbye? >> thank you so much for joining us. >> sandra: fox news alert after negotiations went well into the night, senate minority leader chuck schumer says democrats and republicans are close to a deal on a 2 trillion dollar stimulus package. i'm sandra smith. >> ed: a lot of people waiting for that package. schumer says he expects a vote sometime day raising hopes for quickly getting cash to individuals and small businesses as covid-19 tests the u.s. economy and healthcare systems. it's up 32% from just yesterday who have the coronavirus. the rise coming from a ramp-up

in testing. 593 americans have now died. president trump declaring the time to act is now. >> president trump: this shouldn't be a time for political agends but rather one for focus squairl on the needs of the american people. >> the country is facing the crisis in our healthcare system and our economy. we have an obligation to get the details right. >> they've put us in a position where one senator out of 100, one, could keep us here until friday or saturday. and our constituents are saying act now. >> sandra: fox team coverage this morning. kristin fisher is tracking the federal response effort. we begin with jonathan serrie. he is reporting live from atlanta for us this morning. good morning, jonathan. >> good morning, sandra. braerking news out of tokyo, the summer olympics will be delayed. they won't be held this year but no later than summer of

2021. also, early this morning a new executive order took effect in florida requiring all air passengers arriving from the new york tri-state area to quarantine for 14 days or for the duration of their florida visit, whichever time period is shorter. federal health officials say the coronavirus is attacking 1 of every 1,000 people, five times higher than other parts of the country. >> to all of my friends and colleagues in new york, this is the group that needs to absolutely social distance and self-isolate at this time. >> the director general of the world health organization says asking people to stay at home and other social distancing measures can help slow the spread of the virus and buy time. in order to stop the pandemic, he says every suspected case must be tested, every confirmed case isolated and treated, and every close contact traced and

quarantined. >> to win, we need to attack the virus with aggressive and targeted tactics. >> the justice department has launched investigations into people hoarding protective equipment and price gouging and new guidance on testing people showing symptoms allowing for a less invasive swab of just the front part of the nose rather than the entire nasal cavity. this is more than just making it comfortable for patients. it allows patients to self-swab and that reduces their exposure to healthcare workers and also the amount of protective gear that healthcare workers have to go through while administering these tests. >> sandra: jonathan serrie live from atlanta this morning. thank you. >> ed: meanwhile president trump considers easing coronavirus guidelines hurting the u.s. economy now. a point new york governor cuomo was pushing yesterday as well.

he wants to open the country for business in weeks, not months. >> president trump: at the end of the 15-day period we'll make a decision as to which way we want to go, where we want to go, the timing, and essentially we're referring to the timing of the opening -- essentially the opening of our country. >> ed: kristin fisher is live from the white house this morning. the president is looking at a delicate balancing act. >> he is indeed. president trump says america will now be open for business a lot sooner than three or four months. it is very clear that he is growing increasingly concerned about the economic toll this virus is taking. so he is now very publicly weighing and wrestling with is this shutdown worth it? we saw it first with that tweet where he said the cure can't be worse than the disease. then yesterday at that briefing he said it's possible that more people may commit suicide due to financial hardships than die from the virus itself. he noted that tens of thousands

of people that will die this year from the flu and he talked about this. >> president trump: and you look at automobile accidents, which are far greater than any numbers we're talking about. it doesn't mean we're going to tell everybody no more driving of cars. so we have to do things to get our country open. >> keep in mind president trump is making those remarks at the same time the world health organization says the pandemic is accelerating. here in the u.s. more than 100 people died just yesterday and that number is only expected to go up. democratic senator joe manchin accused the president this morning of rushing to restart the economy and confusing people. >> people are saying wait a minute. you told me to shelter in place. now you tell me to go out. give me some direction. i'm saying shelter in place. let's wait until we know we can give you the protection you need and make sure our health deliver resist tem is solid. >> for the first time in days there is no briefing on the

calendar with the white house's task force. keep in mind we'll hear from a lot of them, including from president trump himself, on fox news from 12:00 to 2:00 p.m. eastern with the virtual town hall with bill hemmer and harris faulkner. >> ed: big event. we'll talk about it all morning. thank you. >> sandra: thank you, ed. we could be seeing a senate vote on a massive economic stimulus bill later today. for more on where negotiations stand at this moment on capitol hill let's bring in republican senator kevin cramer. good morning, senator. >> good to be with you. >> sandra: how much closer are we this morning to seeing a deal made for the american people? >> we're closer because it is another day. the unfortunate thing is the exact same thing we heard on saturday and sunday, same thing we heard monday and hearing it again today. i think i was encouraged by the president's tweet last night where enough is enough. time to vote.

we should have cut that off a long time ago. democrats will try to add to the pile as long as the pile is left unattended. so i'm optimistic, i'm also willing to wait and see what happens because i just can't be sure where chuck schumer's head is right now. >> sandra: there certainly is a sense of optimism out there. we're looking at the u.s. stock market futures. they're up 930 points in anticipation of a deal getting done. chuck schumer you mentioned in these negotiations says they're closer this morning. but there are still some differences. now you have nancy pelosi unveiling the $2 1/2 trillion counter proposal. what are the major sticking points preventing a deal from getting done now. >> the one major sticking point is nancy pelosi's interruption of all of this. her coming into town, proposing her own deal that's a disney world wish list instead of

reality check and chuck schumer yielding to her quite frankly and i think it's time for the senate to be the senate. chuck schumer has to pull up his big boy pants and take control of his own conference instead of her having control of it. that's a biggest sticking point. we have to stop it at some point. we've lost two days unnecessarily doing this. when you extrapolate that two days out. what will those two days be worth a week or two from now as it gets worse and every day lives are lost, people get sick and losing their jobs. the urgency seems to be lost on this speaker. >> sandra: what is your message, then, to the american people who see congress fighting back and forth on this issue? what you hear from democrats when they look at republican proposal is this targets large corporations. that this helps the american companies more than it helps the american workers. that's why you have nancy

pelosi now laying out her plan. so what do you tell the american people is the ability for congress to finally come to a compromise on this? >> usually compromise people give a little. here the compromise seems to me be keep adding. what i would say to the american people, if you have a democratic senator, call that person and tell them to get to work, vote, bring up the vote, pass the bill wherever it is at this current time. one trillion bake 1.6 which is 2 trillion. with regard to their arguments remember, democrats were at the table throughout the weekend sitting across from republicans hashing this stuff out. there is a lot in there for companies for sure. but there is a lot in there for workers. companies hire workers. i think you need to get back to what you recall from economics 101 and how wealth is created. and some of the disagreements are legitimate.

i frankly like the democrats' push for more money in the unemployment insurance fund for example. at the same time we want to provide incentives that keep people working, not incentives for companies to lay people off. i think we had a good compromise package sunday night. i wish we would have voted right away. today is the day to do that. a few more things get added in we'll pass it because the american people need help now. the timing is just as important. >> sandra: senator, to that point when you look at the timing of this, you've got hours passing by, days passing by where there are families in this country really struggling. either they've been laid off or they don't know where their next check will come from. i point to the u.s. stock market this morning. it is indicating some sort of optimism. do you see a vote happening later today as chuck schumer indicated? >> well, i do but again chuck schumer has said that over the weekend. he said that monday. so -- but i do feel like here is what i think. there is a maximum pressure

campaign put on schumer by senate republicans. 37 of us made it clear we won't tolerate any more of this and we aren't going to let the american people forget whose fault this was and that pressure seems to be working. i think he is hearing from his rank and file members saying i can't stand with you anymore. they lost one yesterday on a vote. and so i think that's working. so i am optimistic, sandra. i think people should be and the markets are. by the way, this package has a lot in it for small business, medium size business and large business but most importantly the employees that work for them and there are plenty of safeguards. there are guardrails in a lot of this money so that for example ceos can't get pay raises. you can't buy stocks back. we use existing credit facilities, the credit terms will be commensurate with the risk we take with the american people's dollars and allowing enough flexibility to make sure

it is industry neutral. aren't industries left out of the packages. these are the signals that the stock market wants to see and the signals small business needs to see so they can keep people hired. >> sandra: really appreciate your time this morning and we'll see where it all goes over the next couple minutes. we'll see where the hours take us today. senator, thank you. >> thank you for the opportunity. >> ed: president trump signaling he is open to easing federal guidelines urging americans now to limit social contact and largely stay home. what could the medical fallout be. dean of the national school of tropical medicine and microbiology at baylor college of medicine and a frequent guest for us and joins us on the phone. doctor, good morning. talk about the balance that the president has to meet right now in terms of getting this economy going again but doing it in a way that does not spike the number of deaths.

>> yeah, i mean the president is in a tight spot. he is dealing with something that's unprecedented. here is the situation. the reason we are doing the social distancing is because you want to avoid huge number of patients in any particular city that is being affected from coming into the hospital at once. this is what is happening in new york city right now. hospitals are being overwhelmed by covid positive patients and you have healthcare workers getting sick at the same time. so it is very easy for a group of hospitals to get completely overwhelmed to the point where they can't take care of patients. by social distancing you sort of spread that out over time. and make it manageable. i -- i understand why the presidents is frustrated and a lot of americans are frustrated and want to restart the economy and he is doing a lot of things at the legislative level. he is pressing hard on all

those fronts. my take on it is this. we're just seeing now what the full impact of the epidemic looks like in new york city. let's let it play out. let's see what it looks like in a few more weeks. and what we really witness when hospital systems get overwhelmed and let's get the victory under our belt in terms of controlling it. then we can reassess and say okay, how did that go? what went right and what went wrong and then make a decision whether we want to relax some of the social distancing. don't do it now. >> ed: here is the president yesterday talking about the balance and how different areas of the country have different rates of people being exposed to coronavirus. watch. >> president trump: you have areas which are troubling and we'll be working with the governor, mayor and everybody else on those spots. but at the same time at a certain point we have to get open and we have to be -- to

get moving. we don't want to lose these companies or workers. >> ed: on top of that dr. burks at the same news conference said the best estimate right now of the mortality rate here in the united states is .7 or .8%. less than 1%. every life matters but when the mortality rate is that low what would be your advice to the president if, say, he is trying to make this decision this coming weekend ahead of the expiration of the 15 days to slow the spread? >> so what i would tell the president and say mr. president, the mortality rate may sound like a row rate. it is five or six times higher than influenza. it is not just older individuals. we have -- we're seeing according to the centers for disease control a third of the patients who are hospitalized under the age of 40 or 44.

even though they aren't necessarily dying, their lives are being saved because they are in icus being taken care of. the risk -- like italy now, you have so many patients in icus they can't take care of them all and high mortality. i would say look, let's get one public health victory under our belt here in terms of what's going on in new york, maybe we're looking at another month. and then reassess. and i agree we can't stop our economy forever or even for two years, but i think if you do it now, while the numbers are still steeply climbing in new york, remember now we're seeing a new epidemic coming up in new orleans. we don't fully understand how the epidemic will play out. a brand-new virus and give it a new month and reassess. >> ed: 30 seconds, doctor. in terms of mortality rates, you talked about we have to learn from italy and south

korea, china. we've been looking at these places around the world. germany the mortality rate is .4%. a lot of doctors are looking at that trying to figure it out. my understanding is a lot of young people at the beginning of the outbreak in germany got it and showed mild symptoms. >> the germans got on top of it early and testing early and the hospitals were ready and did it in a way where hospitals weren't going to get overwhelmed. that's when mortality rates go up. in the difference between wuhan and central china and other parts of china it is because the hospitals got overwhelmed. can't take care of the patients and the doctors are getting sick and versus in korea. and it's all about making certain a hospital can handle

the surge. we haven't shown that new york can do that. let's hold on. >> ed: we appreciate your time. dr. peter hotez has been a voice of calm. fox news will host a virtual town hall with president trump and the task force. they'll answer text and video questions from you. facebook, instagram and twitter and email at live-blog @ foxnews.com. our colleagues will monitor the event joined by dr. oz and dr. saphier and siegel. stream the town hall online foxnews.com at 12:00 p.m. eastern time. >> sandra: we're looking forward to all that. meanwhile, a fox news alert. the summer olympics in tokyo will not happen this year. the games have officially been postponed. we'll have the brand-new details just ahead and sparks flying on the senate floor over

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>> sandra: fox news alert. the summer olympics in tokyo has officially been postponed until next year. the first time in modern history the games have been pushed back. the international olympic committee has faced backlash over its handling of the coronavirus crisis. france prime minister saying the head of the ioc is fully on board with this decision to delay the games by about a year. a new date has not yet been set. >> ed: coronavirus cases here in new york city surging again as manhattan's javits convention center is being transformed to a field hospital. debra burks urging new yorkers

to stay home. >> new york metro area of new jersey, new york city and parts of long island have an attack rate close to 1 in 1,000. this is five times what the other areas are seeing. >> ed: five times the other areas. david lee miller joins us from new york city with the latest details. good morning, david. >> good morning, ed. new york hospitals are scrambling including mt. sinai hospital on the east side which is where we are now. they're scrambling to increase patient capacity. this after governor cuomo ordered all hospitals to increase by at least 50% the number of beds they can provide in order to accommodate the growing number of coronavirus patients. there are now more than 13,000 cases of coronavirus in new york city. the death toll stands at least 125 have lost their lives. some help has arrived. the army corps of engineers are

constructing a 2,000 bed medical facility at the javits convention center. it could be up and running as soon as as a week. mayor deblasio has sent the city 400 ventilators. only a fraction of what he fears will be needed he was grateful. >> our need for ventilators is in the thousands. but we're going to fight every day to stay ahead of this curve. we're going to be in a race against time. so even 400 ventilators is a huge step forward to help us get through this week and into next. >> starting today new york state will start experimental use of hydroxychloroquine to treat the most seriously ill and another new treatment after the fda approved taking plasma from company one who has recovered to someone who is sick. is city is shut down. statewide order closing the doors to all non-essential

businesses. governor cuomo has reiterated he takes full responsibility for whatever damage there is to the economy. but he is now saying that the city has to plan ahead and the state has to plan ahead for its recovery. in his own words he said you can't stop the economy forever. >> ed: we're expecting the hear from the governor about 11 this morning. >> sandra: we'll see that soon. across the atlantic more european countries shutting down businesses in this growing pandemic but there is some good news from one of the hardest-hit areas. plus treasury secretary mnuchin saying he is close to a deal with democrats on this massive stimulus package. a senate vote could come today and that is certainly some welcome news on wall street. stock index futures indicating a big open a few moments from now. maria bartiromo will join us for the opening bell next. >> president trump: we're going

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>> sandra: fox news alert now, we're a couple minutes into trading on wall street and what a day this is. a welcome sight for many. this market is opening to the up side.

the dow futures overnight surging nearly 1,000 points. here we go. maria bartiromo joining us, host of sunday morning futures on the fox news channels and mornings with maria on fbn. good morning. why are we seeing this big rally this morning? 1120 point gain. >> listen, let's not forget we are 37% below the all-time all. so we've been, you know, rolling around the bottom here for a couple of weeks. so there is a little pent-up demand in this. also there are a couple of things going on this morning. number one yesterday president trump said that look, we can't stay closed forever, right? he said we'll make a determination at the end of this two-week period on what to do next. but for sure we are not going to have businesses close down for three months or more. we will get back to business as soon as we can. i think that enthusiasm and optimism from the president saying we don't want the cure to be worse than the virus is certainly resonating with

investors. there is one thing going on. don't forget there are technical things going on at the end of the quarter. this week is the end of the first quarter. and big money pockets like pension funds, institutional investors do what is called rebalancing at the end of the quarter. and i was told by some trading desk sources there is a trillion delays to buy at j.p. morgan. half a trillion dollars to buy at goldman sachs from some of the big pension funds. they're buying looking for opportunities as this market has plummeted 37% from the high. so all of that together is certainly boosting markets this morning and that optimism from the president looking forward. look, at the end of the day we talked about this the other day, sandra. business needs an end date. we need to know we're going through something but we'll get through this. once business has clarity, they can plan their businesses better. they can plan the rest of the year. and i think that's what wall street is hoping for. that's why one of the reasons

markets are rallying today. i'm not going to say we're out of the woods just yet, you know that. >> sandra: right. because there is that balance, right, maria? when you said that there was optimism on wall street but also concern we can't reopen for business until we've got a hold on the medical side and flatten that wave that we hear andrew cuomo talking about. we'll hear from him in about an hour and a half. another news conference this morning. when it comes to the economy shutting down and you look at the sectors of this economy that have been so brutally hit maria, the airlines. we know people aren't traveling. they aren't selling airplane tickets. the "wall street journal" this morning, u.s. domestic passenger flights could virtually shut down voluntarily or by government order. what is being considered for the airlines as you've seen travel come to basically a stand still? >> well, as you know, the question being asked today and this week is should the government shut down the

country all together for a set period of time for 30 days or so? so again business and consumers have clarity that there is an endpoint here. what we're hearing so far. i spoke with the ceo of boeing this morning on mornings with maria on fox business and what dave calhoun said to me was look, it is pretty much shut down as it is. traffic levels in the air are down 70%. so he is expecting domestic travel to also be cut. in so many words he said to me yeah, i know there is conversation about a shutdown and i'm not going to give you the conversations i'm having with my customers. that being the airlines. having said that 70% of travel is already shut down. it looks like that's where we're going. i will say this. i interviewed the homeland secretary on sunday and he said we aren't considering shutting down domestic travel at this time. you also have a president there that is saying look, we don't want the cure to be worse than the virus.

so i think it's an important worry to know that planes are not filled. you have a very small population of people actually even getting on a plane. 70% of traffic shut down already. it is going that way regardless. it feels that way. there will be a number of industries that need assistance in this environment. some companies won't be able to get through this even if it is a set time and 30-day period. we will see bankruptcies rising for sure. >> sandra: because so many of us are staying home and not traveling the domestic travel the "wall street journal" talking about an example of a flight new york laguardia to washington, d.c. had three passengers on it. canceling thousands of flights. some of the passengers number in the single digits on some of these airplanes. we'll see what's next with that. our eyes are focusing on the optimism on wall street. a big rally as we begin tuesday morning. thank you, maria bartiromo. >> ed: britain now issuing stay

at home orders as well banning gatherings of more than two people. those are the harshest restrictions since world war ii. italy the number of deaths exceeding 6,000. but doctors there see a slight slowdown in the overall new cases. senior foreign affairs correspondent greg palkot is live in london with a look at the global impact. greg, good morning. >> that's right. coming into the london bureau today i have to tell you this bustling metropolis was notched down a bit here due to the new measures against coronavirus. u.k. prime minister boris johnson giving in to pressure from a lot of sides putting the did you know tree to lock down. they are ordered to stay and work at home unless absolutely necessary. minimum trips outside. small gatherings. here is a bit of what he had to say in a major prime time tv address last night. take a listen. >> the way ahead is hard and it is still true that many lives

will sadly be lost. and yet it is also true that there is a clear way through. >> the u.k. joining most of the main western european countries something like 360 million people here are now in some form of shelter in place including spain which saw a record number of fatalities in cases overnight. italy remains the hot spot for covid-19. there are now 195,000 cases over 10,250 deaths. that's more than double the cases triple the deaths from less than a week ago. thankfully for italy at least the rate of increase in all of this horror is slowing. ed, one final note. we're hearing from chinese officials and they have now lifted the restrictions on travel in hubei province where it all started and about to lift restrictions in two weeks

in wuhan, the epicenter of this. that was after months of lockdown. lessons perhaps for not just western europe but united states as well. back to you. >> ed: absolutely. a lot of people wonder if we can trust what the chinese government is saying about all that. we'll watch it closely. >> sandra: with the sports world on hiatus one famous team owner is sharing advice and trying to help his fellow americans. mark cuban will join us next hour to discuss the coronavirus response. plus senate negotiators making progress on the $2 trillion stimulus bill. senator joe manchin opposed the initial package. >> the senate republican bill put corporations first. because of democrats insistence progress has been made.

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>> we were this close, this close, and yesterday morning the speaker of the house flew back from san francisco and suddenly the senate's serious bipartisan process turned into this left wing episode of supermarket sweep. >> ed: there were some tense moments on the senate floor yesterday. democrats and republicans say they've since made progress on the coronavirus stimulus bill. the house unveiled its very own $2.5 trillion proposal. joining us now is senator joe manchin. you were one of the folks who got hot in the senate chamber yesterday. you and senator mcconnell got into the details of it. our viewers are waking up saying due guys finally have a deal? the markets are up today on that optimism. will there be a deal today? >> they should be optimistic.

we're all optimistic. as late as midnight last night things have been worked out. there might be a few things finishing up today. hopefully they'll get past that and drafting the bill as we speak. we'll have the bill in front of us before we vote. working on that. it should be sometime today. we're hopeful. here is the thing. we'll suspend the rules. we don't have to wait 30 hours or two or three days the way it was played out yesterday on the floor. that's not accurateal at all. democrats won't hold anything up. no filibuster. we'll use unanimous consent everything. once we have an agreement, ed. i'm hopeful we have a good bill. >> ed: can you understand why some of our viewers and people around the country in your home state in west virginia are frustrated. they have seen democrats block it. one of the things that you were pressing senator mcconnell on was a cash flow to hospitals in your state in particular. a poor state. you want to get people the healthcare they need. there are people watching this saying wait a second.

your party, sir, blocked this bill twice and it has $100 billion for hospitals. weren't you slowing down the cash flow to those hospitals? >> ed, when we did not vote to advance the bill the first two times you are talking about that money wasn't there. that's what the negotiations were all about. where is the priority? you can print all the money you want right now, ed. we want to avert a financial meltdown, okay? we want to all do that. we have a medical meltdown now and if you don't at least put money on the front end of this for our medical providers, protecting our medical workers and if the basically significance of this bill should be based around can we find the treatment for the virus, can we basically have a vaccine that we can hopefully as quickly as possible. that could be at least a year or more. keeping people safe. if they contract this disease they know they'll be able to have a treatment to cure them and with a vaccine that will hopefully prevent it from

happening. we're working on that. the first bill that came out they keep talking about bipartisan. we had two bills when we got back here on monday, we had two bills that we moved through in a truly developed in a bipartisan way. no squabbling at all, wonderful. >> ed: you said the focus is we have to get the economy going but you have to kill this virus. how does adding the wind and solar tax credits and other good ease that democrats wanted in this bill kill the virus? >> well, first of all that's not my negotiations on that. that's from the finance committee. if that's in there i haven't seen that in there. there will be tax credits for an awful lot of things, probably you have a bill this big. 2 1/2 trillion dollars. never seen anything like it. everybody is trying to, i guess. you know why? the system hasn't been working. we haven't had a lot of amendments on the bills or bills on the floor that we can even work. so i blame both sides when the democrats were in the majority

they shut things down. the republicans were the minority and wouldn't let bills go forward and vice versa. let's get something done. the bill we have in front of us is a bill that i think is balanced and has transparency. there was $500 billion, half a trillion dollars that had very little oversight. at least somebody has to answer to the -- >> ed: let's move beyond the bickering. i have 30 seconds. push it forward. you think there may be a deal. most importantly, what are you hearing about what dr. fauci and others may be advising the president about balancing the health issues and needs for this country with getting the economy going again, sir? >> if you can't get people out of their homes you can forget about the economy going back as robust as it was. the economy was good and i think it will get good again. i'm not worried about that. the timing is a concern.

do we have enough capital to get businesses ?raou can we help the small businesses that had to close and lay everybody off. that's our driving point. do we have enough capital in the system with banking protections and things of that sort that can keep the larger corporations abreast also and alive? that's what we're trying to do, ed. it is a balanced bill but had to be negotiated and couldn't come from one side. this bill didn't get to us until saturday night. the third bill was not negotiated in a bipartisan. >> hopefully it will help a lot of workers in your state and the country. thank you. >> sandra: the military's role in the pandemic is expanding. a live report from the pentagon is next. what's important to you? saving for ava's college. financial security. being able to retire. on our terms. no matter what your goals are, our trusted advisors can help you reach them.

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>> sandra: the defense department taking new action to limit the spread of coronavirus cases in its ranks and setting new rules for who exactly can enter the pentagon. lucas tomlinson is live there with more this morning. >> good morning. walking in here this morning was like walk sbaong a ghost town. many entrances closed. thousands told to stay home as the pentagon says the number of coronavirus cases in the u.s. military has more than doubled in the past four days. u.s. military now reporting 174 virus cases, 59d.o.d. civilians, 61 military dependents are infected. the hospital ship mercy put to sea from san diego bound for los angeles. this voyage usually takes nine hours. the ship would not be arriving for about a week because of training requirements. the ship's commanding officer says his mission is to help

local hospitals with trauma patients. he spoke on the pier before setting sail. >> we're not deploying to treat covid-19 patients that are taking measures to assure anyone coming aboard is properly screened for covid-19 to mitigate the chance for a case on board. >> u.s. army is putting up field hospitals in the hardest hit areas. >> the president has approved mobilizing national guard troops that provides them full access to federal resources but allows them to be managed by the state government. to be clear, this is not a move toward martial law. we anticipate sending a hospital to seattle and to new york city and beyond that once that's confirmed we'll look at sending to other places. >> esper and top military

advisor millie as well as top enlisted advisor will talk about the coronavirus to military forces around the world. >> sandra: thank you. >> ed: fox news alert. washington ramping up its response to the coronavirus. army field hospitals moving to los angeles and new york as congress begins to hammer out a massive stimulus deal. the latest details coming up next. plus the world health organization warning the pandemic is accelerating. how the outbreak in america compares to the rest of the world when our medical experts the doctors are in the house next hour. >> president trump: from the beginning we've been working closely with our nation's medical professionals and scientists. we'll continue to do so until we've defeated the virus. announcer: wash your hands...

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and touching your face. there are everyday actions to help prevent the spread of respiratory diseases. visit cdc.gov/covid19. brought to you by the national association of broadcasters and this station. >> ed: fox news alert. new cases of coronavirus rising sharply around the world and across the united states as testing ramps up. for the first time u.s. fatalities related to the outbreak hitting triple digits in a single day. the white house and congress negotiate a rescue package on healthcare and economic aid. welcome to a brand-new hour of "america's newsroom," i'm ed henry. good morning, sandra. >> sandra: good morning. i'm sandra smith. doctors and nurses pleading for critical supplies to fight this surging pandemic as governments continue to roll out new measures to slow the spread of covid-19 and keep health care centers from becoming overwhelmed. here are some of the latest

numbers. new cases jumping nearly 13% worldwide. here at home in the u.s. up 32%. more than 11,000 new cases since yesterday morning. confirmed cases in the u.s. now about 46,000. half in new york alone with nearly 600 deaths across 34 states and washington, d.c. more than 100 in the past 24 hours, ed. >> ed: meantime defense secretary mark esper announcing army field hospitals are moving to seattle and new york city where there are major outbreaks. >> we have a number of military field hospitals and medical units prepared to deploy orders moving out this week. the army corps of engineers is set to begin work to convert hotels, dormitories and other buildings into temporary medical facilities across the country. >> sandra: fox team coverage for you this morning. griff jenkins with more on the

national response. mike emanuel on capitol hill covering congressional action and we begin with griff jenkins. he is live in washington for us this morning. >> good morning. some places this is turning into a race against the clock to get desperately needed medical supplies as the world health organization warns the outbreak is accelerating. if you go a little deeper into those numbers at home you'll see that we have 11,226 new cases since this time yesterday morning. in the new total of u.s. deaths is 593. 123 are just from yesterday. the first time we've exceeded 100 deaths in a single day. the epicenter of new york city with more than 13,000 cases and 125 deaths so far the president tweets 400 ventilators are on the way. the mayor thanking the president highlighting the life or death urgency of receiving these. >> that is the difference, steve, between someone who is suffering in one of our

hospitals who might make it if they have access to a ventilator. if we can't have the ventilator at the right time we could lose a lot of lives who otherwise could pull through. >> on the front lines of the supply chain fema working around the clock to meet demand. but when asked this morning for an exact date of arrival the director could not nail down the timing. >> again, i can't give you shipping dates. it is a priority and how critical these items are. i have the best team in america working on this today. >> by tonight, sandra, 17 states will have some form of at-home orders. wisconsin, hawaii, michigan, oregon among the latest. a big question after the president hinted he is considering lifting some limitations if the economic impact becomes too severe. >> ed: talks in the senate set

to resume on a coronavirus stimulus bill to jump start the economy. chuck schumer telling reporters he experts an agreement on the estimated $2 trillion package with a vote sometime today. that coming after a day of simply looked like fireworks on the floor. >> they've put us in a position where one senator out of 100, one, could keep us here until friday or saturday. and our constituents are saying act now. >> spare me the righteous indignation about democrats trying to settle outside political scores in the context of this legislation. let me tell you what i care about. what i care about is making sure that we'll spend $2 trillion that we spend it wisely. >> ed: mike emanuel is live on the hill. mike, a key part of that $2 trillion. the 500 billion going to corporations sounds like there may be a deal on an oversight structure that democrats want

to make sure the money is spent wisely. >> democrats were worried this could turn into some kind of slush fund. our colleague at fox business says there has been agreement in terms of oversight to make sure that there are not corporate giveaways, to make sure lawmakers are happy with how this money is being distributed to corporate america to make sure that millions of jobs are not loss. today seems more hopeful. new white house chief of staff mark meadows and steve mnuchin on the hill this morning trying to close the deal after tempers flared a great deal yesterday. >> you are angry and we're angry. we're angry from being shut out at the beginning and being shut out at the end. because our colleagues knew you couldn't pass anything without 60 votes. >> the normally unflap able -- back to you for breaking news. >> ed: senator mcconnell is live on the senate floor now giving us an update. let's go there live. >> they are grappling

small business closures, mass lay office and uncertainty for their families. for the last several dailies in the midst of all that, in the midst of all that they've had to watch the united states senate spin its wheels. as we convene this morning, roughly 40% of our population is under stay at home orders from state leaders. employers across america are wondering how they'll keep the lights on. doctors, nurses, and healthcare professionals are literally crying out for support. we literally have army field hospitals on the way to being set up in our major american cities. in the space of just a few weeks, this has become unfortunately our new normal. this is a national crisis.

it's the most serious threat to americans' health in over a century and quite likely the greatest risk to america's jobs and prosperity that we've seen since the great depression. hundreds of thousands of americans have already lost their jobs because so much of our commerce has been put on pause. families are wondering how they are going to pay their rent or mortgage. in eight days, rent is due on april 1st. people don't know how they are going to pay bills. or make their car payment. any other hard-working americans are still employed for now. but fall asleep every night wondering if it will be there when they wake up to that email or phone call tomorrow.

american seniors who have seen decades of savings cut down in the space of days as the markets literally tumbled. our national life has been transformed in less than a month. the urgency and gravity of this moment cannot be lost on anyone. every day, every hour the congress delays in passing a significant relief package, we risk more american livelihoods and the safety of more healthcare professionals. that's why right after i fast tracked the democrat house relief bill through the senate i turned the senate to do a bigger and bolder relief package for the american people. nine days ago, i laid out the key objectives of our work.

we had to send direct financial assistance to americans, direct assistance to americans. we had to help main street small businesses. we had to act to stabilize the foundations of our economy for workers. and of course we had to send more resources to medical professionals and our healthcare system. five days ago, senate republicans released our initial framework for the cares act. we put forward bold policies like sending cash directly to americans. pouring money into small businesses, lending to national industries to prevent mass layoffs and surge resources for doctors, nurses, and patients. we knew we needed a proposal to address our nation's pain at literally every level. now in the past few days some voices have tried to pit some

americans against other americans and argue that strengthening businesses and helping workers are conflicting priorities. that is utter nonsense. american workers need paychecks, they need jobs. the working men and women of this country do need direct relief from government in this crisis but for goodness sakes, they also need their paychecks. they need to be able to resume their lives and their jobs. once this is over. two things can't be separated. there is a term for when you separate employees from employers. there is a term for that. it is called unemployment. let me say that again. there is a term for when you separate employees from employers. it's called unemployment.

that's what we're trying to avoid. so this is no time to point fingers or stoke these culture wars. this is the time to unify. perhaps now more than at any moment in living memory all of us americans are in this together. this pandemic is not the fault of the american workers who make this country run. it is not the fault of small business owners. it is not the fault of major national employers. everyone needs help. we're all in this together. we need an all of the above approach. and that's what our framework put forward. help for workers, and families, and employers, and healthcare providers. as soon as republicans put out

a draft proposal to treat every aspect of this crisis, i immediately called for bipartisan talks. that's not something you see often in washington as soon as i released our first draft i immediately invited the other side, these folks over here, to make their suggestions. that's what you call urgency. we set up bipartisan working groups. i asked negotiators to work together to turn our rough draft into something that could pass the senate with overwhelming bipartisan support. republicans and democrats traded ideas, democrats asked for many changes to the initial draft and received many. updated text included proposals from the other side and, of course, as our colleagues have dragged out the last several days, even further changes have been made at their request. this majority has gone out of

its way to make this process as bipartisan and as open as possible. the administration has bent over backwards to work with democrats and address their concerns. now at last i believe we're on the five-yard line. it's taken a lot of noise and a lot of rhetoric to get us here. that, of course, sometimes happens in this town. at different times, we received democrat counteroffers that demanded things like new emission standards, or tax credits for solar panels. the speaker of the house released an encyclopedia of unrelated demands as though it were a coronavirus proposal somehow. in spite of all that, we are

very close. we are close to a bill that takes our bold republican framework, integrates further ideas from both parties, and delivers huge progress on each of the four core priorities i laid out a week ago. so today madam president, today the senate has a chance to get back on track. today we can make all of the washington drama fade away if we act today, what americans will remember and what history will record is that the senate did the right thing. that we came together. that we took a lesson from the way americans are uniting all across the country and working together. that we combined ideas from both sides and took a bold step to protect americans and help our nation through this crisis.

i'm not sure how many ways to say it, madam president, but the clock has run out. the buzzer is sounding. the hour for bargaining has though this were a business as usual has expired. the american people need our democratic friends to take yes for an answer. now, i hope that will happen today. doctors and nurses need masks. families need help. small businesses need cash. hospitals need funding. the senate majority is ready to deliver those things. we've been ready to deliver those things for a while. i hope today is the day this

body will get it done. >> ed: you hear him there the senate republican leader mitch mcconnell hoping today is the day of action for the senate. we'll keep an eye on the floor. a few moments ago we had joe manchin on the program and expressed optimism that we're getting closer to a deal. the markets -- the dow up over 1300 points over the optimism of a possibility of a deal. let's get to sandra with more. >> sandra: the world health organization warning the u.s. could become the new epicenter of this pandemic with the intensity of the outbreak accelerating day-by-day now. >> the pandemic is accelerating. it took 67 days from the first reported case to reach the first 100,000 cases. 11 days for the second 100,000

cases. and just four days for the third 100,000 cases. >> sandra: dr. nicole saphier is joining us now, a fox news contributor. good morning to you. you were listening to mitch mcconnell on the senate floor talking about the importance and urgency in getting those medical supplies to our front lines. how important is that? >> sandra, i'll be honest. it is a big concern now. i have colleagues across the nation that we're just calling and saying the one thing we need right now are the protective equipment. you've seen what has happened in china and italy where you have up to a third of people being hospitalized because of the healthcare workers. who will take care of us if all of our doctors, nurses and technicians get sick? the bottom line is they have to get the funding package through. the stimulus bill is important for the longevity of our nation. immediately right now we need

these masks and we need them now. we're having to ration, cdc putting out the recommendation to wear a bandana in the hospital. you can't imagine the uproar this is causing. they are continuing to ask doctors and nurses, please go work. work extended hours and reducing their pay to do so but saying we won't protect you? this is not the way we want to treat our healthcare professionals right now. >> sandra: dr. saphier, how concerned are you now after the world health organization warns that the u.s. has the potential to become the new epicenter of the covid-19 pandemic? talk about the mortality rate and what we're learning on that front now. >> you know, sandra, i try not to get caught up with some of the verbiage used. it creates panic in a lot of people. think about the day the world health organization declared this a pandemic. i tried to tell people it didn't mean anything. we knew we have virus and we

knew it is spreading. in the united states we have a large population. of course we could be the epicenter because we are a very large nation. we have a very diverse population and continuing to see increasing numbers because we have community spread. we know that. that's why these strict measures are being taken to decrease the numbers. we have to think about it. the bottom line is for the next couple of weeks we won't know if our efforts are really working because the people who have severe illness needing to be hospitalized or in the icu. thoefs are people exposed to the virus up to two weeks ago. we're going to see these numbers increase. we know it is a contagious virus and we know we didn't have a lot of social isolation in the beginning. now that we're doing it i think we'll get in front of this virus. >> sandra: such a delicate balance. dr. saphier, appreciate your time. thank you for coming on this morning. >> ed: many companies retooling

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>> ed: well, as lawmakers try to finish up put the finishing

touches on the coronavirus virus relief package my next guest is encouraging logical arguments in place of partisan politics. mark cuban. entrepreneur and owner of the dallas mavericks. he said dear government, here is why you require companies to retain 100% of their employees. the cost of the bail-out loan, eventual repayments will cost taxpayers less than the cost of government assistance programs for fired employees. case closed. mark cuban joins us by phone from dallas. good morning. >> how are you? >> ed: doing fantastic. good of you to join us again. big picture here. you've been calling for an era of action. i assume that expands beyond government. businesses, people in our audience right now. what do you want the american people to do? >> look, we all need to pitch in. we're in this together. the government can only do so much. helping each other, supporting each other, reinforcing to stay

home and to deal with social distancing. it is no fun for anybody. everybody is freaked out. employers need to communicate with their employees realizing the people who work for them are freaked out and vice versa. we just have to open ourselves up to each other and try to help as best we can. for those of us who are well off financially, do what you can. keep employees retained. don't fire people unless you absolutely have to. this is something we all have to be in together. >> ed: absolutely. let's talk about congress for a moment. markets are reacting this morning with the idea it appears the senate is getting close tore a deal. mark, i don't have to tell you. they've been bickering for days. the democrats have been adding all these different provisions, wind and solar tax credits. pieces of the green new deal. nancy pelosi is talking about millions of dollars for the kennedy center. i'm all for the arts but right now when we're trying to kill the virus, why are lawmakers trying to add these pet

projects? >> both sides are getting it wrong. no such thing as a perfect deal. perfection is the enemy of progress. while everybody is trying to throw in the kitchen sink, one side all the things you've mentioned which is crazy, on the other side they're trying to do everything to support corporations who have no bargaining power and asking for things as if they have all the power. both sides are wrong. we need to get a deal that gets money in the american people's hands and into the hands of small businesses in particular. you deal with the rest later. big corporations have options. they have a lot of options. even the industries decimated. hospitality, airlines, they have options, right? there is private equity people. rich investors who look at deals and at the right price would invest. government isn't the only alternative. both sides need to focus on what we need to do to get money in the hands of people now. what really matters are the people who can't pay rent, bills, terrified what comes next because maybe they have enough to get through this month but if this goes on for

two months or whatever they have no idea what will happen in their life? that's wrong and this should have been done three days ago if not sooner. >> ed: i mention the democrats. i promise to get to the republicans. the president, look. this is not a political gamesmanship. the question is he now has a big decision before him. you are closely looking at the economy. what is your advice to the president about balancing getting the economy going again but at the same time making sure that people are healthy and that we've got this virus killed? >> so we're all dealing with imperfect information. nobody knows exactly what the facts are. that's the unfortunate reality of what we're addressing right now. and so no matter what decision the president makes, it will be wrong and it will be right. so in terms of when do we start to own up business? when do we deal with the issue of keeping people indoors? you'll have to defer to the experts that have the best intuition about these issues. i'm a huge fan of dr. fauci, he

can give the president great indications that how long we need to keep people indoors versus when it's time to come out. i'm not a medical expert. i don't have information that other people don't so i can't guess. all i can tell the president is work on these other things that we just were discussing. getting money in people's hands so they aren't freaked out. as much as we're concerned about the medical issues, as much as we're concerned about the economic issues, we also have to be concerned about the social issues. when people are not able to feel confident that they can pay their bills or that they can live their lives without, you know, without going bankrupt, then you get the issues of social unrest. and so that's why money comes first. we need to give people the comfort that they can pay their bills and that $1,000 or $1200 check and money for kids has to happen first. small business money so people can retain their jobs. that has to happen first.

you can deal with everything else after jards. -- afterwards. >> you've been sending food to healthcare workers and doing that and reaching out to people making sure the employees are paid. mark cuban, you set an example for a lot of people and thank you for coming in. >> sandra: fox news alert now from wall street, take a look. stocks are up in early trading. not even an hour into trading. 8% gain. back above 20,000 for the dow as the senate tries to hammer out the roughly $2 trillion coronavirus stimulus deal. what a deal be a game changer for the markets? we're watching. >> you know what the american people are thinking right now, mr. president? they're thinking that this country was founded by geniuses but it is being run by a bunch of idiots.

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>> ed: fox news alert. after days of some heavy selloffs, stocks are actually in positive territory right now. you can see the dow up over 1400 points. connell mcshane joins us now. there is a lot of optimism about the senate finally finishing the stimulus package. let's be clear. they have to get the job done. they aren't there yet. >> they do. we've been waiting for quite some time for that. that's one of at least three

things working their way into the market today i would say. the most important one you hear the comments from likes of mitch mcconnell saying we're on the 5-yard line at this point. progress is being made. treasury secretary was optimistic and senator schumer. the other things happening here are the price action, right? stocks have fallen so much the dow coming into today 37% off its high at some point -- we've seen it a few times in the period we've been going through. you'll see short term rallies. not to say stocks couldn't fall more and the financial crisis of 2008 and 2009 it fell 57%. the third thing i would point to is all the talk. i heard you and mark cuban getting into it, reopening the economy. the president had another tweet in the last few minutes about it. that's probably the most precarious of the three factors. you have to get the timing right there and there is the

clash between the medical advice and some of the economic concerns. when you start to talk about that it is possible it could help some beaten down stocks in the short term. we'll take it up 7 1/2%. >> ed: airline stocks are up today, an anticipation washington will get them money in this stimulus package. but also nike is up and i understand they're about to report earnings. that's important to look at maybe some economic factors. >> maybe. the thing about earnings reports in this environment. they'll report after the bell today. is that many times we don't get guidance from companies. if you report your earnings for the last quarter that ended in february, they are expected to say profit fell 12%. everybody is in a tough time. just beginning then. what we want to start finding out from some of these companies is what do they think for the next three months? or the rest of the year? and in fairness it the very difficult for them to give

guidance. we'll see if nike is the exception to the rule. stores are closing overseas and the u.s. like everybody else caught up in this as tied to the consumer like nike is. if we get anything at all from nike in terms of outlook that will be what people are paying attention to. we'll cover it after the bell. >> ed: wal-mart is not just big box stores. they have a big online operation, people bringing shopping there more and more in this environment. companies like zoom have been up, for example. with people working from home. what are you seeing big picture? >> well, i think one of the things about those companies, ed, how long does this change in behavior that we're all experiencing last, right? so presume that company has been around and a lot of people are using it already. a lot of people who hadn't been involved in the videoconferencing are. after we get through this and as we say we will, the timing is unclear, do we continue some

of those practices and if you are zoom or slack or these other companies that make working remotely easier, then you can certainly capitalize on that? a question of how people adopt these changes that they've already made and how permanent they become. we'll see. >> ed: we've seen the dow up 7 1/2% at this hour. thank you for your insights this morning. >> sandra: thank you, guys. we've heard so much about how doctors and nurses across the country are running out of supplies. now two nonprofits that usually provide medical equipment to countries around the world are focusing their efforts here at home. organizing a nationwide push to give vital masks to healthcare workers on the front lines. eric shawn is outside lennox hospital in new york with more on that. >> hi. i've been told that dozens and dozens of doctors in new york city hospitals around the city are ill. at least one has been intubated

because of coronavirus, they need the ppes. if you work in a nail salon, construction, contractor, a painter, auto body shop, you can get them here to new york and across the country. desperate effort now going on for that. new york city says that predicts perhaps hospitals will run out of this equipment by next week and several groups are helping. one is the nonprofit ifa foundation. it stands for help in swahili asking people to donate masks they don't need. they swaopd into 72 countries around the globe in other disasters and now needed here at home. >> i am getting emails that from nurses and doctors who we've worked with for over 10 years and they're saying what do you have and what can you help us with? and every single time one of

these emails comes n it is heart wrenching. >> on the other side of the country in oakland, california. two women have started mask match. they distribute protective gear directly trying to focus on small towns and cities that they say are often overlooked by the larger drives. >> we have people in urgent care clinics on their last mask. people stapling their masks together to be able to reuse them through the end of the week and also like smaller rural clinics who their office managers just don't have the ability to order -- make an order of masks for people in their hospitals who protect their community. >> here is how you can help. go to ofra foundation .org and

masks .com. mask match is growing to get this out. they point out that these masks, whatever anyone has they don't need in the kitchen cabinet or in the garage or basement, contact them to get it to folks behind me who really need it. back to you. >> sandra: really important part of this whole story, eric shawn in new york for us. thank you. >> ed: meantime an experiment altherr pee for treating covid-19 starting clinical trials and an antibody cocktail to prevent new infections. how supermarkets are working to keep shelves full as customers are still going out to stock up on supplies.

>> sandra: coronavirus pandemic playing havoc with some of the grocery store supply chains. the strategy of stocking enough supplies to last a few weeks

keeping stores efficient now backfiring as nervous customers clear shelves leaving stores to play catch-up. joining us now is stu leonard junior, a ceo of a chain of supermarkets. how are you doing? >> good morning. i think the storm is over. good morning, how are you? i think the storm is over right now. we felt it for the last three or four weeks. we've seen all the empty shelves and other places and a tough time getting supplies. just a huge spike like that that came. things look normal in our stores now. our customers are looking for social spacing. they don't want to stay near each other. they want to stay at least six feet away. we put some plexiglas on the

registers now so you aren't in contact with the cashier. our bagels -- go ahead. bagels, we always had big loose bins of them. we now have put a person in front of that and you order your bagel so it is served. we've also known to have a lot of sampling and unfortunately there is no samples going on now because we've discontinued them during this crisis that we're having. >> sandra: i apologize for a little bit of the delay between you and me. when you say the storm is over, i assume you aren't talking about the pandemic, you are talking about the rush on the grocery stores that you are seeing in your chains. >> right. >> sandra: really interesting piece that we saw in the "wall street journal" we wanted to ask you about. grocers stop stockpiling food, then came the coronavirus.

supermarkets once kept months of inventory but cut that to save on costs, the shoppers are buying all that they can get. it really talks about that supply chain management that just recently some of the grocery store chains were able to master and it benefited their bottom line. then this pandemic came and people rushed out to the stores and we noticed that we just didn't see that availability on the store shelves. talk to that point, stu, if you could. >> i think what you saw was -- i don't know how to use an example with everybody just in a normal day households. but we saw this tremendous spike where we went from for instance selling 10,000 cans of tuna fish a week. all of a sudden it was 40,000 cans of tuna fish a week. you can't quickly adjust that fast. the holidays have come. we have had hurricane sandy,

we've had snowstorms, we've had to stock up for a lot of things. a lot of times you'll see a double but rarely see a triple or quadruple. and that put a tremendous pressure on the food chain and a lot of it they couldn't get enough drivers and trucks to deliver the food. >> sandra: that's a great point, stu. we thank those drivers, the trains, the trucks that continued through this process. stu leonard, we appreciate checking in with you. we wish you and your business the best and your customers. that social distancing benefits everybody. thank you very much. stu. >> also, one of the things we've also given, we've $2 an hour extra to all our people to work through this time. we have full shelves. >> sandra: that's great. thank you, stu. >> ed: small businesses like that struggling to remain afloat as the coronavirus

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>> ed: president trump set to hold a virtual town hall on the coronavirus an hour from now. we're here with a preview. harris and bill will be hosting this. harris, wonderful to see you first of all. we had breaking news i want to get in and fold in there. you have a tough job to try to stay on top of something and ask these questions and pull it together so quickly when india

just announced the prime minister they are going into lockdown. 1.3 billion people for 21 days. >> yeah. you know, we'll get into that. the first half hour we'll have all to ourselves, the vice president, mike pence and then the president and his task force, ed, will come out of their big meeting and we'll be fresh from them having planned ahead for the day and for the days and weeks ahead. that's what they do each day is a moving target for them in terms of their response. we'll get task force members along with president trump for 90 minutes. that is an extended period of time. we can hit the breaking news today. india as you know, the president was just there recently and was touting the friendship that he and the indian leader have. so i would imagine that's top of mind with him. i would also imagine the pressing news today, ed, when will we know in those economic sectors that the president is

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>> sandra: fox news alert now. new york governor andrew cuomo is speaking at the javits center in manhattan. >> we want to thank all the army core of engineer people who are here today who have done an outstanding job. they came in very quickly and are setting up this emergency hospital, which is going to be badly needed. i want to thank allen steele and all the people of the javits center. this is a great exhibition hall but this is not what they normally do. they have really stepped up and risen to the occasion. so i want to thank them. let me take you through some facts today.

we have some new facts, changes in circumstances that are not encouraging. i want to make sure people understand them and we react accordingly. the increase in the number of cases continues unabated. as a matter of fact, the rate of increase has gone up. we have the most sophisticated people you can get doing projections on this. they've been studying projections from china, south korea, italy, places all across this country. and what they're now seeing is that the rate of cases -- the rate of new infections is doubling about every three days. that is a dramatic increase in the rate of infection. and this whole discussion all along has been how fast does

the rate of increase spread? and can we slow the rate of increase? we're not slowing it and it is accelerating on its own. one of the forecasters said to me we were looking at a freight train coming across the country. we're now looking at a bullet train because the numbers are going up that quickly. and the most challenging point about the increasing numbers is where the numbers will apex. what is the high point of the numbers? and the apex is the point where we have to be able to manage the capacity. we have projected the apex at about 110,000 hospital beds. the number i've been talking about. the new projections suggest the number of hospital beds needed could be as high as 140,000

hospital beds. so flatten the curve. we haven't flattened the curve and the curve is actually increasing. that means the number of hospital beds, which is at 53,000 beds, 3,000 icu beds, the anticipated need now for the height of the curve is 140,000 hospital beds and approximately 40,000 intensive care unit beds. those are troubling and astronomical numbers. as i mentioned are higher numbers that had been previously projected. we are exercising all options as aggressively as we can. that rate of increase, that apex, they project at this time could be approximately 14 to 21 days away.

so not only do we have a spike in the increase. when you spike the increase in cases, it accelerates the apex to a point where it could be as close as 14 to 21 days. we're exercising all options. we're doing everything we can on every level to quote, unquote, slow the spread, flatten the curve. we've closed businesses, reduced street density. we had an issue in new york city, i spoke to mayor deblasio and city counsel speaker corey johnson. we'll have a plan that i believe will be in place by noon today. and we have increased testing to the highest level in the united states and the highest per capita level on the globe. no one is testing more than we are testing.

so in many ways we have exhausted every option available to us. we've closed all the businesses, we've reduced the street density, and we've increased testing to the highest level in the country. we're also trying all the new drug therapies, the hydroxychloroquine which is president speaks about and is optimistic about and we hope for optimistic results also. we're actually starting that today. the president and the fda accelerated that drug coming to new york. so the hospitals will start using that drug today. the fda also authorized an experimental procedure by the new york state department of health where we -- the department of health actually takes plasma from people who are infected, who have the antibodies and will try putting

that plasma into a person who is still struggling with the disease hoping that the antibodies make a difference. we're also pursuing a new level of testing which will test people's blood to see if they have antibodies for the coronavirus, which means they may have been infected and resolved and never knew it, but if you had the coronavirus and resolved, you now have an immunity to the coronavirus for some period of time. most expert suggest it's a significant amount of time. that would be very important for us to know because these are then healthcare workers who could go back to work. these are workers who could return back to the private sector. but the inescapable conclusion is that the rate of infection is going up. it is spiking. the apex is higher than we thought and the apex is sooner

than we thought. that is a bad combination of facts. so slow the spread. we'll still keep doing everything we can. but it is clear that we must dramatically increase the hospital capacity to meet that highest apex. and we have to do it very quickly. again, the apex could be here in as little as 14 to 21 days. you are talking about a very significant logistical operational movement to increase that number of hospital beds and do everything that you need to do related to the increase in hospital beds. there are three elements that are necessary to increase the hospital capacity. first are obviously the availability of the beds. a bed without staff is virtually useless. and a bed and a staff without the right equipment is virtually useless. so you have to complete all three at the same time.

as far as beds, we have told the hospitals -- i'll speak to every hospital administrator today. hospitals must increase their capacity by 50%. the goal is to ask them to try to increase it by 100%. remember, we have 53,000 beds. we need 140,000 beds. even if they did increase it by 100%, you would only be at about 100,000 beds. you need 140,000 beds. emergency hospitals like the 1,000-bed facility that's being built here will be helpful. the emergency hospitals that we're building in westbury and stony brook at the west chester convention center will be helpful. but they are nowhere near the number of beds that we're going to need. i have no problem using the

dormitory across our state university campuses. i'm speaking to hotel owners taking over their hotels to put patients in. i will turn this state upside down to get the number of beds we need. but we need the staff for those beds. and we're calling and contacting all retirees in the healthcare field. we're calling all professionals in the healthcare field whether or not they work in an hospital. they can work in an insurance company, clinic, whatever, but we want to enlist as many staff as we can and as many backup staff. healthcare workers will get sick. this is going to go on for weeks and you can't ask a person to work for 14 days consecutive or around the clock shift. so we'll need a backup reserve staff. and equipment, equipment, equipment.

masks, ppes and ventilators. and of those three, the greatest critical need are ventilators. now, ventilators, nobody really knows what you are talking about. the people who are going to come in, the people who will have acute needs, these are people who have -- are under respiratory distress. they need a ventilator. the ventilator will make the difference between life and death literally for these people. this is a piece of equipment that in the normal course of business you don't have a need for high levels of ventilators. and our hospital system has about 3,000 or 4,000. that has always met the need. this is a dramatic increase in the number of ventilators that you need. we have been working around the

clock scouring the globe. we've procured about 7,000 ventilators. we need at a minimum an additional 30,000 ventilators. you cannot buy them, you cannot find them. every state is trying to get them. other countries are trying to get them. the capacity is limited. the technical pieces of equipment. not manufactured in two days or four days or seven days or 10 days. so this is a critical and desperate need for ventilators. we are going so far as to trying an experimental procedure where we split the ventilator. we use one ventilator for two patients. it is difficult to perform. it is experimental. at this point we have no alternative so we're working on

this experimental application, picture two hospital beds, two people in beds, one ventilator between the two of them but with two sets of tubes, two sets of pipes going to the two patients. again, it is experimental but necessity is the mother of invention and we're working on this as we speak. because life is options and we don't have any other options. there is no other way for us to get these ventilators. we've tried everything else. the only way we can obtain these ventilators is from the federal government, period. and there are two ways the federal government can do it. one is to use the federal defense production act. there is a federal law where the federal government can say to manufacturers, you must produce this product. i understand the federal government's point that many companies have come forward and

said we want to help and general motors and ford and people are willing to get into the ventilator business. it does us no good if they start to create a ventilator in three weeks or four weeks or five weeks. we're looking at an apex of 14 days. if we don't have the ventilators in 14 days, it does us no good. the federal defense procurement act can actually help companies because the federal government can say look, i need you to go into this business. i'll contract with you today for x number of ventilators. here is the startup capital you need. here is the startup capital you need to hire workers who do it around the clock. but i need the ventilators in 14 days. only the federal government has that power. and not to exercise that power is inexplicable to me. volunteerism is nice and a

beautiful thing and it is nice these companies are coming forward and saying they want to help. that is not going to get us there. and i do not for the life of me understand the reluctance to use the federal defense production act. also the federal government has 20,000 ventilators or thereabouts in the federal stockpile. secretary azar runs an agency called hhs health and human services. i asked the secretary look at the first word in the title of the agency you run. it is health. your first priority is health. you have 20,000 ventilators in the stockpile. release the ventilators to new york. how can we be in a situation where you can have new yorkers possibly dying because they can't get a ventilator, but a

federal agency saying i'm going to leave the ventilators in the stockpile? i mean, have we really come to that point? also, we have to be smarter about the way this is being done. the federal government has to prioritize the resources. look at where the problems are across this nation. california has 2800 cases, washington state 2200 cases. florida 1200 cases. massachusetts about 800 cases. new york 25,000 cases. new york has 25,000 cases. it has 10 times the problem that california has. 10 times the problem that washington state has. you prioritize resources and your activity and your actions to where they are needed. and new york, you are looking

at a problem that is of a totally different magnitude and dimension. the problem is the volume. dealing with 2,000 cases is one thing. 2,000 cases frankly we could deal with in this building with the capacity that we're providing. we have 25,000 cases. we need the federal help and we need the federal help now. also, there is a smart way to do this. deploy the ventilators around the country as they are needed. different regions have different curves of the infection. new york is the canary in the coal mine. new york is going first. we have the highest and fastest rate of infection. what happens to new york is going to wind up happening to california and washington state

and illinois. it is just a matter of time. we're just getting there first. deal with the issue here. deploy the resources, deploy the ventilators here in new york for our apex, and then after the apex passes here, once we're passed that critical point, deploy the ventilators to the other parts of the country where they are needed. i'm not asking for 20,000 ventilators and they stay in new york and they live in new york and change their residence. as soon as we finish with the ventilators, then you move them to the next part of the country that has the critical problem. and then after that region hits its apex you move to the next part of the country that has its critical problems. i will take personal responsibility for transporting

the 20,000 ventilators anywhere in this country that they want once we are past our apex. but don't leave them sitting in the stockpile and say we're going to wait to see how we allocate them across the country. that's not how this works. they aren't simultaneous apexs. they are a curve that is individual to that region. deploy to that region, address that region, and then move on to the next. i'm not only talking about ventilators. we get past the apex, we get over that curve, that curve starts to come down, we get to a level where we can handle it, i'll send ventilators, i'll send healthcare workers, i'll send our professionals who dealt with it and who know all around the country. and that's how this should be done. you know it's going to be on a different calendar. it will be a different sequence.

let's help each other. new york because new york is first. and then after new york and after the curve breaks in new york, let's all rush to whoever is second. and then let's all rush to whoever is third. and let's learn from each other and help each other. i want to make a point on the president's point about the economy and public health. i understand what the president is saying. this is unsustainable that we close down the economy and we continue to spend money. there is no doubt about that. no one is going to argue about that. but if you ask the american people to choose between public health and the economy, then it is no contest. no american is going to say accelerate the economy at the cost of human life. because no american is going to say how much a life is worth.

job one has to be save lives. that has to be the priority. and there is a smarter approach to this. we don't have to choose between the two. you can develop a more refined public health strategy that is also an economic strategy. what do i mean by that? our public health strategy was a blunt instrument. what we said at a moment of crisis is isolate everyone, close the schools, close the colleges, send everyone home, isolate everybody in their home. in truth, that was not the most refined public strategy. why? because it wasn't even smart frankly to isolate younger people with older people. but at that moment we didn't have the knowledge, we needed

to act. that's what we did. you can now start to refine that public health strategy. you can start to say look, the lower risk individuals do not need to be quarantined. and they shouldn't be quarantined with an older person who they may be transferring it to. people who test them, you test the antibodies and find out that they resolved themselves of the virus, and i believe once we get that test you are going to find hundreds of thousands of people who have had the coronavirus and resolved. once they are resolved, they can go back to work. develop that test, it's in testing now. once they are resolved let them go back to work. let the younger people go back to work. let the recovered people go back to work. it's even better for the older vulnerable people who you are

trying to protect. and then ramp up the economy with those individuals. so you are refining your public health strategy and at the same time you are restarting your economy. those two can be consistent if done intelligently. restart the economy with our younger, recovered, tested workers. don't make us choose between a smart health strategy and a smart economic strategy. we can do both and we must do both. it is not the economy or public health. it is restarting the economy and protecting public health. it is both. but i understand restarting the economy. the crisis today, focus on the crisis at hand.

focus on the looming wave of cases that is about to break in 14 days. that has to be the priority. and that is hospital capacity. and that is about providing hospital beds, providing staff, and providing equipment and providing ppe and providing ventilators coming back to that number of 30,000. and needing federal action to address it now. if the federal government said today i will deploy all 20,000 ventilators, it will take us two weeks to get those ventilators into hospitals and to create icu beds and to locate the staff. so there is no time to waste. the time to do this is now. fema is sending us 400 ventilators. that was on the news this morning.

we're sending 400 ventilators to new york. 400 ventilators? i need 30,000 ventilators. you want a pat on the back for sending 400 ventilators? what are we going to do with 400 ventilators when we need 30,000? you are missing the magnitude of the problem, and the problem is defined by the magnitude. these are the numbers from today. you can see our testing rate is now over 90,000 people who have been tested. the highest rate of testing in the country and per capita around the globe. we did 12,000 new tests since yesterday. number of positive cases state of new york 25,665. 4700 new cases of those tested. you see the entire state county by county. more and more counties are being covered.

we have 3,000 people currently who are hospitalized. 756 people in icu units. the icu units are the ventilated units. that's 23% of the hospitalizations. that's the problem. as the number of cases go up, the number of people in hospital beds goes up. the number of people who need an icu bed and a ventilator goes up, and we cannot address that increasing curve. again, you look at the number of cases in the country. you will see that new york is an outlier in the number of cases. it is not even close. what is happening in new york is not a new york phenomenon, right? people in new york don't have a different immune system than other americans. it's not higher in new york

because we are new yorkers. it is higher in new york because it started here first. because we have global travelers coming here first. because we have more density than most places. but you will see this in cities all across the country. and you will see this in suburban communities all across the country. we are just a test case. we are just a test case. and that's how the nation should look at it. look at us today. where we are today you will be in three weeks or four weeks or five weeks or six weeks. we are your future. and what we do here will chart the course for what we do in your city and in your community. i'm not asking you to help new york just to help new york.

i'm asking you to help new york to help yourselves. let's learn how to do it right and let's learn how to do it right here. and let's learn how to act as one nation and let's learn how to act as one nation here. and we learn the lesson here, we will save lives in your community. i promise you that. we're delivering supplies that we've been able to purchase today. new york city has had a critical problem. i spoke to mayor deblast yoe. he is right. he had a critical problem on ppe, gowns, masks, etc. the equipment we're bringing today will resolve that immediate need. there will be no hospital in the city of new york who will say today their nurses or doctors can't get equipment. and we're addressing that need not just for new york city but long island and west chester. we have acquired everything on

the market there is to acquire. we've had a full team purchasing from companies all across this globe buying everything that can be purchased. and we're bringing that here to distribute to new york city, long island, west chester because that's the greatest need. this number of supplies will take care of our immediate need. it does not take care of the need going forward three, four, five, six weeks. the burn rate on this equipment is very, very high. i can't find anymore equipment. it is not a question of money. i don't care what you are willing to pay. you just can't find the equipment now. but this will take care of the immediate need. i don't want our healthcare workers who are doing god's work, they are doing god's work. can you imagine the nurses who leave their homes in the

morning, who kiss their children goodbye, go to a hospital, put on gowns, deal with people who have the coronavirus, they are thinking all day long oh my god, i hope i don't get this. oh my god, i hope i don't get this and bring this home to my children. you want to talk about extraordinary individuals. extraordinary. it's the nurses and the doctors and the healthcare workers, the police officers who show up every day and go out there and walk into a situation that they don't even know what they're walking into. it's the firefighters and the transportation workers and the people who are running the grocery stores and the pharmacies and providing all those essential services. most of us are in our home hunkered down, worried. they're worried, and they're going out there every day.

despite their fear. despite their fear. overcoming their fear. not for their family. they are doing it for your family. when you see them on the street, when you see them in a hospital, please just say thank you and smile and say i know what you are doing. what happens? all these facts, all these numbers, am i strong in my language vis-a-vis the federal government? yes, i am. but what happens at the end of the day? what does it all mean? that's what people want to know. what does it all mean? what it all means is what we said it all means the first day this started. the first day i went before the people of new york state and i said i'm going to tell you the

truth. i'm going to tell you the facts the way i know it. those facts have not changed. those facts are not going to change. this is not a new situation. we've watched this through china. there are hundreds of thousands of cases. 80% will self-resolve. that's why experts say to me tens of thousands or hundreds of thousands of people have had the virus, didn't know they did it and resolved. that's why we have to get that test that shows you had the virus, because you have the antibodies. and you did resolve and once we do that, that's how you get the economy back to work. 80% will self-resolve. 20% will need hospitals. it is not about that. it is about a very small group

of people in this population who are the most vulnerable. they are older, they have compromised immune systems. they are h.i.v. positive or have, underlying heart condition or asthma or recovering from cancer. those are the people who are going to be vulnerable to the mortality of this disease. and it is only 1% or 2% of the population. but then why all of this? because it's 1% or 2% of the population. it's lives, it's grandmothers and grandfathers and sisters and brothers and you start to see the cases on tv. a 40-year-old woman who recovered from breast cancer

but had a compromised immune system and four children at home. that's what this is about. it's about our vulnerable population. i called the executive order i passed matilda's law, my mother. about my mother. it's about my mother. it's about your mother. it's about your loved one. and we will do anything we can to make sure that they are protected. again, keeping it in perspective johns hopkins 387,000 cases studied, 16,000 deaths on 387,000. 100,000 recover reese worldwide, 268,000 pending. last point. it is about the vulnerable. it is not about 95% of us.

it's about a few percent who are vulnerable. that's all this is about. bring down that anxiety, bring down that fear, bring down that paranoia. it is not about 95% of us. and we are going to get through it because we are new york. and because we've dealt with a lot of things. and because we are smart. you have to be smart to make it in new york. and we are resourceful and we are showing how resourceful we are. and because we are united. and when you are united there is nothing you can't do. and because we are new york tough, we are tough. you have to be tough. this place makes you tough. but it makes you tough in a good way. we are going to make it because i love new york and i love new

york because new york loves you. new york loves all of you, black and white and brown and asian and short and tall and gay and straight. new york loves everyone. that's why i love new york. it always has and it always will. and at the end of the day, my friends, even if it is a long day and this is a long day, love wins. always and it will win again through this virus. thank you. >> [inaudible question] >> the preliminary plan, zach, is it will backfill hospitals.

you take the situation we're looking at. we need ventilators and icu beds. those can only really be created in the hospital. but then you will have to move people out of a hospital, where do you put them? this facility, 1,000 beds, can backfill from a hospital. this facility also has acute care capacity. but we're not anticipating that we do acute care here. we're anticipating that is a backfill for the hospital beds. >> [inaudible question] >> my mother is not expendable. and your mother is not expendable. and our brothers and sisters are not expendable. and we're not going to accept a

premise that human life is disposable. and we're not going to put a dollar figure on human life. first order of business is save lives period, whatever it costs. now, i also don't believe it is an either/or. i believe you can have an intelligent, refined public health strategy. you talk about risk stratification. you can have people go to work. you can test people and find out that they are resolved from the virus. let them go back to work. you can have younger people go back to work. you can have an economic startup strategy that is consistent with the public health strategy. it is smart, it is complicated, it is sophisticated, but that's what government is supposed to do, right? the whole concept of develop government policy and

programming. you can do both. but not in a clumsy, ham handed way. we'll just sacrifice old people. they are old people anyway. and the old get left behind. what is this, some modern darwinian theory of natural selection? you can't keep up, so the band is going to leave you behind. we're going to move on. and if you can't keep up, then you just fall by the wayside of life. god forbid. >> [inaudible question]

>> yeah, yeah. people say, people say, people say, politicians say. i look at actions, not words. they are doing the supplies. here is my question. where are they? where are the ventilators? where are the gowns? where is the ppes and the masks, where are they? where are they if they're doing it? by the way, peter navarro, well, we want to work with companies, fine, work with companies. when what the defense procurement act was about, the country needed materials to go to war. they didn't -- when we went to war we didn't say any company out there want to build a battleship? who wants to build a battleship? maybe a couple of you guys can get together and build a battleship and get together and build us some missiles. anybody want to build a plane? we need planes.

they are sending planes at us and dropping bombs. anybody want to do that? it's not how you did it. president said it's a war. it is a war. act like it's a war. it's not anti-business. nobody is talking about change the governmental philosophy. the businesses would welcome it by the way. i speak to the businesses. you know what they say? i'll do it. but i need startup capital. i can't turn my factory overnight into a ventilator manufacturing company. i have to buy equipment and find personnel. i have a lot of startup capital. will you give me the startup capital? will you give me an order that says if i go through all this you will buy x number of units? it is actually a pro-business mentality. not an anti-business mentality. we don't want to tell business what to do.

it's a false distinct. that's our philosophy. you know what business wants? they want to make money. they want to put people to work, open their factories and make money. let them open their factory and make money. help them do that. by ordering the supplies you need. it's a war. you're right. say zach, you are building battleships. here is your contract, god bless you. that's how -- that's what the defense procurement act was all about. at the rate they are going, it is not happening. fema says we're sending 400 ventilators. really? what am i going to do with with 400 ventilators when i need 30,000? you pick the 26,000 people who are going to die because you only sent 400 ventilators.

>> [inaudible question] >> you have to ask the federal government. what do i know? i don't know. their answer is we don't need to do it because companies are coming forward who want to do it. and by the way, i am sure that is true. it's just the timeline doesn't work. i don't need ventilators in six months or five months, four months, or three months. and by the way, california is not going to need ventilators in six months. it is now. so you are asking a business to produce what is a sophisticated piece of electric ron i can equipment and do it in 14 days. that's an enormous undertaking. they can't do that on a

voluntary basis. if you use the defense procurement act then you say i'll pay for it. i'll give you the startup capital. i'll fund you buying the equipment. i'll fund you hiring workers. otherwise it doesn't work on a normal business timetable. and the businesses want to know look, if i go through all of this, somebody has to buy 40,000 ventilators. a ventilator is on average $20,000 to $25,000 per ventilator. this is an expensive item. nobody is going to build 40,000 ventilators unless they know someone is buying 40,000 ventilators. and that's what the federal government can give them with a dpa. i would buy 40,000 ventilators. caveat, they have to be here in 21 days. use them here. we hit the apex first.

i will transport them anywhere you want in the country. i'm not asking you to give us 40,000 ventilators. address the curve here and then that curve will be going across the country. you hear what i'm saying here today? you'll have the governor of california, several weeks from now saying the same thing. you'll have the governor of illinois saying the same thing. the governor of the state of washington saying the same thing. do it right here. we're just the first case. we're just the first template. do it right here and then we'll move the goods. i'll move the professionals. i'll move the doctors and the nurse efs who can say we can teach you how to do this because we went through it and we saw this in new york. we can actually help one another. that's smart, that's right, that's the american way.

>> [inaudible question] >> i spoke to the mayor this morning. i spoke to the mayor yesterday. whatever need he has, we'll figure out how to address. you have a lot of situations that develop here that just nobody -- no one could have expected, right? these are uncharted waters for all us. quick, smart, agile. we'll solve the problem, we'll do it together. >> [inaudible question] >> i haven't even thought about it, zach. >> [inaudible question]

>> multi-part question. there are two different types of facilities here. one is an emergency hospital, four separate components. equaling 1,000 in an emergency hospital that could be used for acute care. there is a second facility if you will, which is 1,000 beds. a lower-level of medical care for people who don't need as intense service. but let me ask the generals, pat. you want to comment on that pat, general shield. >> what the governor provide exactly what it is. the first phase of the build-out is the 1,000 beds from health and human services, comes in with a kit. we lay medical professionals over the top of that. we go to phase two and we

continue to build out bed capacity so that we can provide a little higher level of care potentially. as we move forward but we have an immediate level. and then there is a third phase that we continue to build out beds in the facility to get to the capacity that the governor is getting after, which does not address the entire number but starts in that path and then the other strategies to go along with it. so we expect in the end to be above 2,000 but the basic number is 1,000 and 1,000 and working towards being above that number by the time we're done dressing it out. >> [inaudible question] >> i'm sorry? the four -- the hospitals will be staffed by federal medical personnel for the 250-bed --

the 1,000, 320 medical federal personnel. >> [inaudible question] how soon is the test for the coronavirus antibodies to be used on that scale? >> they're working on it now. they're developing it. it is a fairly simple test. i'm not a medical -- it is only testing your blood for the antibodies, right? so it's a fairly simple test. i don't have an answer. i can get you an estimate. let me just say because these all come back to the same point. the reason i've always said to new yorkers relax is because this is not a major issue for 95, 96, 98% of the population.

it is only those vulnerable people, 1% or 2% of the population. this conversation about the economy, your question blunt and jarring in its bluntness. if if we're only talking about 1% or 2% of the population. if they're old, vulnerable and sick anyway, why stop the economy? how much are we paying for this 1% or 2%? they're old, vulnerable, they'll die anyway. why stop the train for the 1% or 2%? it's the same point i've been saying on 98% of the people will be fine. don't worry unless you are in that vulnerable category and then take a high level of precaution. but we're not willing to sacrifice that 1% or 2%.

we're not willing to do that. that is not who we are. it's not what we are. it is not what we believe. we are going to fight every way we can to save every life that we can because that's what, i think, it means to be an american. i know that's what it means to be a new yorker. i'm not going to leave any stone unturned until we can make sure everyone is protected. that's what i was trying to communicate by calling it matilda's law, right? that's why i gave it my mother's name. she didn't want me to give it her name. she have was a little annoyed at me. but i wanted to personalize it for people. 1% or 2%. don't worry, go live your life. but the 1 or 2% is matilda,

sally, jane, and sarah and your uncle and my uncle and they are precious. and i'm not giving up. i am not giving up. >> [inaudible question] >> sandra: you've been listening to the governor andrew cuomo there in new york city asking for more hospital beds and ventilators. chuck schumer speaking on the senate floor. let's listen to the senator, chuck schumer. >> average americans ahead of anybody else. they are losing their jobs, through no fault of their own. their kids are being sent -- are staying home because there is no school. there are so many, so many problems that are befalling

average people. we want to put them first. that's been our number one goal along with the marshall plan for hospitals. in this bill, as a comes forward, as it is now at least being agreed-upon, has a lot of that. it has unemployment insurance on steroids. this is a great plan. what it says is, if you lose your job in this crisis, you can be furloughed by your employer. that means you stay on that employer's work list, if you have health benefits with the employer you can keep getting them. but most importantly the federal government will pay your salary, your full salary, for now four months. we had asked for four months, and four months looks like we are going to get. when you come to this agreement.

it will mean two things. most of all, it will put money into the hands of those who need it so much, because they've lost their jobs. as i've said, through no fault of their own. so that is vitally important, and that will pump money into the economy and probably a better way than anything else could do it. but it also has the second benefit. it'll keep companies intact. the small restaurant owners, the middle sized business. even the large businesses worried that, if they just have to remove your workers, fire them, because they don't have ay money coming in, that those workers would scatter to the winds. they would look for other jobs. and when, god willing, this level crisis is over, these businesses would not be able to reassemble. with our plan, since they stay on the payroll of their employer, as soon a the crisis

is over, they all can come back together in that small restaurant, that middle sized manufacturing facility. the service business will be able to reassemble quickly, and we can get the economy going again. that's another thing we've been fighting for. we've been fighting very hard for any --dash that any bailout fund, money to industries that have trouble, hl oversight and transparency. that's vitally important. we cannot have a situation where, when a company is getting money from the treasury, federal reserve, that we don't know about it. and we've been pushing hard that any contract that the federal government makes with a company

to give it loans, that we know of that contract in a very short period of time. that we can examine it. we in the senate, those in the house, the press, and the american public will see that these things are on the level, because we all know there was a load of satisfaction with tarp. in addition we are fighting for oversight. a new inspector general to be able to look into these contracts. we would like very much, and believe we should have, it congressional oversight board, as well. and we are fighting for transparency, oversight, disclosure, when the federal government gives corporations money. we are also wanting to make sure that workers are put first in

this situation, so when there are direct federal grants, and direct federal loans to these companies, they either have incentive or mandate to keep their employees. >> bill: you been listening to the senate democratic leader chuck schumer making his points as we try to get all sides here, as the senate inches closer to an actual deal on a stimulus plan to help workers all across america. we'll be right back after this break. tthat i can get. at liberty butchemel... cut. liberty mu... line? cut. liberty mutual customizes your car insurance so you only pay for what you need. cut. liberty m... am i allowed to riff? what if i come out of the water? liberty biberty... cut. we'll dub it. liberty mutual customizes your car insurance so you only pay for what you need. only pay for what you need. ♪ liberty. liberty. liberty. liberty. ♪ here hold this.

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