3:30 p.m. eastern. i will stream live on foxnews.com, facebook and youtube. i will see you there, and then on "the five." in the meantime, here's bill hemmer. he'musical medical >> bill: dan, thank you. 3:00 in new york at noon in california, i'm bill hemmer and our reporting starts this hour right here at home in the united states, in new york city. cases in the empire state have now topped 30,000 which is roughly half the total number of cases across the country and a higher account and all but five countries around the world. there was some good news from the new york governor. >> this past sunday with the projection was that hospitalizations were doubling every two days. okay, on monday the number suggested that the hospitalizations were doubling every 3.4 days.

on tuesday, projection suggested that the hospitalization were doubling every 4.7 days. now, that is almost too good to be true. >> bill: so we have to keep that going. governor cuomo saying the state still needs more medical supplies and more money. meanwhile in other parts of the country, who is he saying the governor there is saying his state is experiencing the fastest growth rate of the virus in the world. he set to give an update in about 30 minutes and we are covering all angles. we begin this hour with the fate of the stemless bill on the hill to a member of the royal family coming down with the virus. but first, david lee miller has the latest from here in manhattan. >> governor andrew cuomo held his daily briefing a short time ago and he is has the has enough gloves, gowns and masks on hand at least for the moment but that could change in the next few weeks. he stressed the biggest problem is a shortage of ventilators.

he's telling washington that new york should be the priority for getting assistance, specifically ventilators, based on the number of cases and a 21 day projected timeline when it is expected that this crisis in new york city is going to peak. he says other locations at various times will be hard-hit and should be providing help as needed. he described his plan as "a rolling deployment." >> once you address that hot spot with that intensity, intense equipment and intense personnel, then shift to the next hot spot. and have more of a rolling deployment across the country than a static deploymen deploym. >> the governor also said the state faces a critical shortage of hospital beds and it's anticipated that new york state will need 140,000 and the state is requiring now all hospitals to increase capacity by 50%. there are also plans to use of vacant hotels and school dorms.

the governor says 31,000 coronavirus cases in the state, and a 12% need hospitalization. >> bill: what else are you hearing out there on fighting this fire is here at home? >> as you might notice here on the upper east side, very little traffic. one of the plans it's now being implemented, to open some of the streets to pedestrian traffic. to give new yorkers of breathing room and give them an opportunity to get some exercise and some air. the past few days the government and mayor have been very critical of this lack of soquel distancinsocialdistancing in ciw they are talking of closing some playgrounds. subway service has been cut back by 25%. getting on a bus here in new york city is no longer the same. now all passengers are being told that they have to enter through the back door only away from the driver.

the city has released 75 inmates from local jails and efforts are now underway to release another 300 offenders. one upside to the virus is the latest crime statistics reveal that serious felonies are down 17% and that is especially good news, considering the fact that 177 uniformed officers on the nypd have now tested positive for the coronavirus. we are told that officers are now calling in sick at three times the normal rate. >> bill: david, thanks for that. check out my twitter feed if you want to see midtown manhattan at 10:30 a.m. this morning. fox news coverage continues in louisiana. they say mardi gras celebrations could be the cause of that state surging number of cases. jonathan serrie picks things up at the cdc headquarters in atlanta. >> mardi gras every year

attracts huge numbers of revelers top packed into tight spaces which is why louisiana's governor believes that's why his state, new orleans in particular has such a high infection rate. >> i happen to believe with people coming from all over the country and all over the world and to new orleans that a fair amount of coronavirus was seated in that area, if that's the right word. but that is a theory at this point. it may or may not prove correct. but what isn't a theory, what's fact is what's happening on the ground. >> governor edwards projects that they lead the nation in raw numbers of cases and louisiana officials say you also have to look at the proportion of the population being affected because the population size it roughly determines the number of

hospitals and hospital beds you have in a community. on a per capita basis louisiana ranks fourth in the nation for the number of confirmed cases per 100,000 residents and that is 28.7 in louisiana. to help the situation, president trump has granted the request for a federal disaster declaration freeing up emergency aid to. the guard is running several drive-through test sites and more than half of ems employees in the wheezing and have been exposed to coronavirus and are awaiting test results. bill, the mayor of new orleans has ordered residents to stay indoors except for critically important activities. >> bill: think you jonathan serrie, cdc in atlanta on the board behind me. john hopkins university and we look at this map every hour of every day trying to pick up trends. i want to focus here at home in the united states, about 61,000 total confirmed cases and 849 deaths. we have recovery of about 354 at the moment. let's go deeper into the numbers, is what we are trying

to figure out. the testing shot way up in the last week or so. this goes back through the 12th of march, up until yesterday, the 24th of march. so you have a stretch of 12 days. this is the ark of the testing and public facilities across the country. as of last night we are right around 360,000 and we are told that number has surpassed itself already today come up over 400,000. right around the 20th of march you can see this curve started to go. with more testing, you will find more cases, some positive and some negative but here's what we are finding across the u.s. the yellow line total cases in our country and here at home, new york state 27,000. new york city about half of that, right around 17,000. so all the cases around the country are right around the halfway mark and in the city of new york is about the halfway mark of that. death rates, something that i have talked about quite extensively, this is where italy

is and, those infected with the virus are at 10% in italy and the u.s. right now is still around 10.5, almost nearing south korea at 1.4. the more testing we get the likelihood and the hope is that 1.5 percentage point drops further. then there is this from the senate floor today, here's mitch mcconnell. >> this is not even a stimulus package. it is emergency relief. emergency relief, that's what this is. >> failure to reach an agreement in this time of deepening serious painful national crisis is simply not an option. we have before us an imperfect bill but an necessary one. >> senate leader striking a deal on what could be an historic and massive stemless package. senate still needs to vote on it and some republican senators are raising concerns about some of

the language and chad pergram is all over that again today. what's the holdup? >> they struck the steel about 14 hours ago but here's the problem. they don't have a final bill text and they probably won't vote on that until they get to that point. so here is what three senators said. you have lindsey graham of south carolina, you have tim scott of south carolina, rick scott is also florida and then -- hold on just a second here. we are getting a lot of background, so i'm going to drop off my ifb and just talk. you had the senator is saying that unless this bill is fixed there's a strong incentive for employees to be laid off instead of going to work and they say that they are not going to pass this bill or allow it to be passed until they work out the final agreement here. we are expecting a vote in the united states senate sometime later today. mitch mcconnell is adamant about that. what's in this bill? we know that there is about

$150 million, a billion dollars for state and local government and about $130 billion to deal with hospitals. they are right up against this, and also extended unemployment benefits which would extend that by about four months. one of the other questions here bill is when this might move through the house of representatives. steny hoyer indicated this afternoon that they would still give members 24 hours to get back to washington before they consider this. the house of representatives was in session briefly today, this morning. you might say, why did they go into session and then come out? this is counterintuitive but it probably accelerates the process. the idea that this afternoon republicans and democrats in the house are going to have conference calls with their leaders so they have universal buy-in they hope and may be vote sometime tomorrow or potentially friday afternoon. again, this is congress moving quickly. don't forget they had to have these house democrats on board

because chuck schumer, the minority leader in the senate, he was spending a lot of time negotiating with steven mnuchin and that was done on behalf of house speaker nancy pelosi. >> bill: thank you chad, chad pergram up in a hill. to our viewers at home if you have not noticed now, you will notice very soon. we are reinventing television news by the hour with our staff and our crews spread out across the country, many of us are operating equipment on our own. so be patient or work through this together. the white house yesterday asked president trump if he had any reservations about spending $2 trillion and also at what he thought about critics calling to big bailout for big business. >> president trump: these are companies that are great companies that employ tens of thousands and in some cases hundreds of thousands of people. we have to keep them in business, and what's going to happen is they will pay it back, pay it back with me be stock in the company for shareholders, we look at stock for the people of

our country, for the taxpayers of our country. >> bill: so a bit later this hour we will take that question to larry kudlow, the white house advisor and talk about the stimulus plan and talk about what's in it to trillion dollar bill. larry kudlow coming up in moments. in the meantime the president is also telling us it's about doing what's right for the country. i will talk to leon panetta and karl rove about that issue. both worked in the west wing during times of crisis and they are coming up in a moment. also, these scientists are working with a live sample of the coronavirus in hopes of finding a treatment. you will find out their story in a moment when we speak with them, next. ♪ i opened a sofi money account and it was the first time that i realized that i could be earning interest back on my money. this is amazing. i just discovered sofi, and i'm an investor with a diversified portfolio. who am i? they make you feel like it's an honor for them to help you out.

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of the ebola, not scared to work with this. thank you for your time, i know you are on skype so we will try in the next 3 minutes try to figure out what you are doing at the moment. you have the virus, and what can you do? >> one of the handful of laps around the country that can screen thousands of drugs to find a treatment for this disease. >> bill: so you started testing on monkey cells. what did you learn from that? >> so we learned how to grow tof the virus, good to get to know your enemy. and we will start testing on human cells later on. >> bill: can you tell us anything about the forecasted potential once you start testing on the human cell? >> it will be as soon a this friday and we are very hopeful that things will work. >> bill: so you can take various drugs, right, robert, and use them in different capacity to see whether or not they have an effect on the

virus. is that essentially what you are trying to perform? >> exactly. we will take drugs that are already out there on the market to test them and see if they are effective, and then see if there are new chemicals to see if they have any ability. >> bill: okay are some of those drugs what we have talked about, chloroquine and z pak? or are there others? >> deals are in the library we will for testing but there could be many others that are even better. >> bill: do you think this is a strong virus or a week virus in the scientific sense? >> it's a strong virus because it's easily transmitted and we have no treatment. and we don't have any vaccines. that's the reason we have to be worried about it. >> bill: with that answer, highly contagious, we can all agree on that. but will it kill you? what we have found all over the world, and i guess it kind of depends on where you are at the

time but the elderly are vulnerable to this. why would that be? why can we answer that? >> as we get older our immune systems get weaker and i think that's generally what's going on there. >> bill: i want to check on you at the end of the week, or maybe we will give it until next week to see what kind of progress you make. are you optimistic today as you look at this? >> i'm extremely optimistic. the fact that we have this facility here at boston university and we can do things safely and efficiently, i'm very optimistic we can find something as quickly as possible. >> bill: it's good to know your enemy, as you say. thank you so much for being here and best of luck. we will check back. thank you, and your team. in the meantime, the heir to the british throne testing positive for covid-19. what we know about prince charles' condition today. and how charities are stepping up to keep food on the table for

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>> bill: at the number of cases around the world now listing at 454,000 in the deaths topping 20,000. more people have now died in spain than in china. so far italy has the most reported deaths with about 7500. in south africa cases have been rising as a country gets ready for a possible lock down there and china reopening some of the train and bus stations and who thein whothey province. prince charles testing positive for the virus and he says he is self isolating. he said he feels okay. his wife camilla has tested negative.

benjamin hall tracks that for us today. >> it doesn't matter who you are, young or older, royal or not, no one can avoid the virus. prince charles announced this morning that he had a tested positive and he is now self isolating in one of the royal estates in scotland. he released a statement earlier saying the prince of wales has tested positive for coronavirus. he's displayed mild symptoms but otherwise remains in good health and has been working from home throughout the last few days as usual. prince charles last saw his mother queen elizabeth on march 12th. i was a lot of concern for her and the palace announcing that the 93-year-old is in good health. she's at windsor castle with her husband prince philip who is 99 and it's unclear at this point if either of them have been tested. other world leaders are also now taking precautions. vladimir putin donning a full hazmat suit when he visited a hospital earlier and many people have been curious about russia and how few cases there have

been, only 253. russia claims it's because they acted very quickly, although others believe the state may be masking the true figure. prince charles is one of many prominent figures that we've seen caching this virus. politicians, sports figures and positions all coming down with it. >> bill: also now that virus is affecting britain's parliament. >> it is. parliament announced it would shut down totally for the next few weeks. they have moved the easter break forward because there were fears that both politicians and staff were being put at risk. it had already been closed to visitors and how to reduce the amount of lawmakers allowed in the chamber at any one time but they felt they hadn't gone far enough. the house also passed emergency measures giving authority more power to enforce some of these restrictions, so the police as of today can now crackdown and make sure that people are inside and self isolating, and can be

fined even more if they don't adhere to those. >> bill: think you benjamin hall in london. president trump hoping to return people to work by easter sunday. some medical experts advising against that. i will talk with two people who have worked side-by-side with presidents during times of crisis in the west wing. leon panetta and karl rove are next. >> president trump: look, we have to do what's right ultimately for the country and the people and it's not even a question of optimism or pessimism, we have to do what's right for our country. you know, we have a very optimistic country but this was a very sad thing that happened. ♪

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america back working again by easter sunday. it's an idea he says he hopes can happen, despite concerns for the health experts. president trump's old task force member dr. anthony fauci saying an easter timeline will be "very flexible." two people who worked with me in the west wing in times of crisis join me. karl rove, former deputy chief of staff for george bush and fox news contributor. i don't know how it is in monterey or austin but, thanks for being here, it's it sure is in new york city. let's begin with you, mr. secretary. what is your sense of what he's trying to project in that interview from yesterday? >> look. i think those of us, carl and i who have worked for presidents know that presidents have great hopes about what they want to achieve. but at the same time they also

have to confront the reality is that they are dealing with. and ultimately the reality prevails. so i think the president has expressed his hope for where he would like to go but i think he also understands that the first priority in this country is to save lives. if we save lives i think we ultimately can save our economy as well. >> bill: carl, what do you think of -- let's just take the headline on its face right ther. >> i think it's a goal in aspiration and as secretary panetta said if we want to protect our optimism. when franklin roosevelt set of the height of the depression, we have nothing to fear but fear itself. that wasn't exactly true but it gave people a sense of optimism that they could overcome. the president has done something i think that's very important. in a moment of crisis like this, sometimes, not always but sometimes you need to have somebody designated inside the white house who's going to

basically run heard on the issue and that's vice president pence. then you have to have someone who's got an accomplished background with a specific issue to be the staff director and you have investor who is a terrific individual. between the two of them they are doing something that every president has done, which is pulled together everybody. pull together everybody so they can hone it and agree upon a set of facts, may be fined of the areas where they disagree about the facts but then hone the arguments on both sides of any questions so that when they go forward and say mr. president, the decision needs to be made to, they can give him the best possible options on either side and the best possible arguments in favor or against a particular position. i think the president has a structure in place to up them. >> bill: my experience yesterday was similar to what your observation was from afar. that is, you have your team on both sides of you but you are pushing your team toward a

certain goal and objective. what he stated yesterday is that we can't stay close forever. we are america. and what we watched were in agreement. with that, you haven't set back the against that you've achieved already. the sense that he's pushing the positive and the science falls back on that data. mr. panetta, i think we could understand both sides at work here. >> i don't think there's any question. and you have to understand both sides, that's the president's responsibility. to try to get this country to respond to what is a national crisis, and that's what he is focused on. and at the same time he himself has some hopes about what we can do in order to deal with that crisis. he is dealing with his advisors

and as carl points out, you have close advisors that are hopefully presenting him with the facts, with the reality is and with the options. and ultimately, the president has to decide what course he is going to take. but it's pretty clear right now that in dealing with a national crisis, it requires a national response and frankly, there's only one person who can provide that national response and that is the president of the united states. so i think it's important now to be very clear about what our strategy is and where we are going so that the american people who are resilient can pull together and support that strategy. >> bill: let's go to last nights briefing, this is dr. anthony fauci. a lot of people had questions about the relationship of the president said they are good. here he is when asked about the easter sunday timeline. >> we have to be very flexible,

literally on a day by day and week by week basis, you have to evaluate the feasibility of what you are trying to do. john, you asked what kind of metrics, what kind of data. when you look at the country obviously no one wants to tone things down when you see what's going on in it a place like new york city. that's just a good public health practice and common sense. >> bill: when i listen to that i almost hear them thinking out loud. just like we watched that johns hopkins map every hour of every day, they are doing the same thing. and they are making decisions based on the numbers that they are coming up with and that's what i take from that answer. >> i also go back a little bit. if the president talked about the importance of flattening the curve, he's clearly taking the important principle before you reignite economic activity in any area of the country, you have to be careful about making certain that you are on the downward side of that curve. that is to say if you know longer have the number of

incidences and hospitalizations rising, but instead they've plateaued and beginning to decline. but instead you want to get to a point where you have a good sense that you are on the downward side of the curve and allowing people to move more freely and beginning economic activity will not jab that number right back up. he has imbibed that obviously at the beginning and in the years that i was at the white house some of the scariest briefings i can remember attending were not necessarily the ones about the war on terror, they were the ones about the sars epidemic in 20,002,003 and the possibility of pandemics. these are very difficult to manage and very difficult once unleashed to get control of. >> bill: vice president pence yesterday held up that sign, 15 days to slow the spread. i think he held it up probably 16 times during the time we spent with him. if that's the message, today is day ten and monday is day 15. how do you look at the way that

they are putting that message out there to remind people constantly about what their plan was, starting a week and a half ago? >> i think it's important to focus on what steps need to be taken in order to contain this virus. as carl pointed out the most important goal right now is to flatten the curve. if we are still rising in new york and new orleans and other parts of the country then obviously it's very difficult even after 50 days to suddenly say we shouldn't pay attention to the problems we are facing. so i think as dr. fouts he himself said, we got to be flexible here. to do that, obviously we have to implement social distancing of the guidelines with the vice president held up. we have to provide the supplies

necessary for hospitals and we have to provide the testing necessary. that ought to be a principal focus and now we have this economic plan, thank god that republicans and democrats have come together to provide this assistance to get companies and businesses back on their feet. all of that is extremely important, and i'm not sure you can kind of put a timeline to that. you got to look at the conditions and look at the facts and then decide with the strategy should be. >> bill: i thank you sir, very much. leon panetta in monterey and karl rove in texas, thank you for coming on today. in a moment to come at the senate is working to pass a massive stimulus package. in a moment, larry kudlow's life. what is in the bill? and at $2 trillion, is it enough? imusical♪ robinhood believes now is the time to do money.

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>> shape the bipartisan agreement on the largest rescue package in history which was sealed last night a few minutes after one in the morning when leader mcconnell and i came to the floor to announce we had an agreement. it was not a moment of celebration, but rather one of necessity. >> bill: there was senate minority leader chuck schumer's earlier saying help is on the way for americans after the chamber apparently reached a deal on this massive aid package, and it is massive. stocks are back in the green for the second day, one day after the dow had its largest ever single point gain ever and it could be up 15 percentage points in two days. white house advisor larry kudlow with me now, but to see you here and good afternoon. i understand there's a glitch in the language. it can be worked out were not at the moment? republicans say we have an issue

with it. >> it will be worked out. if it's what i think it is, he's referring to, unemployment compensation? >> bill: yes, the incentive to lay off workers i guess there is a correction to language. here's what's in it. $500 billion in assistance for corporations. 15 and a half billion in food stamps, 130 billion for hospitals. 150 billion for local governments and warty 6 billion for the airlines. where do you start? >> the total package is $2 trillion in direct assistance and on top of that we are giving the federal reserve the resources to put up as much as $4 trillion to stabilize financial markets and backup loan guarantees and help some distressed industries. this is all on a short-term basis because this will be weeks and months, not years. so when you add the two together

you are looking at $6 trillion package bill which is roughly 30% or 31% of gdp and it is the largest mainstream financial assistance plan and history of the united states. >> bill: let me stop you right there. i've been listening to you for a long time, larry. let's think about what you just out there. larry, what will this do to get the greatest economy in the world afloat? >> look. the assistance goes to individuals, families, and we are trying to keep people off of unemployment so the small business assistance a is contingent on holding payroll study. so on that point we are guaranteeing loans to the small businesses, taking up their expenses and lost revenues. we will try to make up for that. here is a very challenging economic story right in front of

us which is beginning now. individuals, look. there's $500 billion of assistance, direct checks as well as unemployment compensation which really equals wages in some states that may be a above, and i think that's what the glitch is about. so this is a widespread package and we are trying to do the best we can to cushion the economic consequences of the virus. that's what we are trying to do. >> bill: what's the chance we come back in a couple of months and say, you put what in the bill? >> i'm not sure quite what you mean on that, but i think that -- >> bill: i know you and fellow republicans, you are banging on the up obama administration for a long time about shovel-ready jobs and green energy deals. a lot of that went into the recovery act that was passed in february of 2009. when you pulled back the curtain, a lot of people didn't like what was behind it. are we going to find a lot of

that, or some of that in this? >> i don't think so. i mean there are no shovel-ready jobs and there is no green new deal. this is aimed directly, targeted directly at individuals, at families, at small businesses. that's the key point and it is targeted directly at them either through direct assistance, tax incentives or both. and let's not forget the federal reserve piece because it questions the entire economy and stabilizes the financial markets. we are seeing better trading as you noted in the stock market which is a good sign. there are credit market issues but we are helping everybody. don't forget, you have deferred income tax payments. that's a new wrinkle on this kind of story. for at least three months. you have deferred payments on interest and principal for student loans and that has been a burden. if the youngsters aren't working we want to help them out.

in fact generally speaking, let me say this. generally speaking if you are not working, either because you are sick or because you get laid off, this is not a function of the economy per se. this is a function of this massive external problem called the coronavirus. and this is also temporary relief. we believe, and i hope prayerfully this comes true, we believe we are talking about weeks and months, not years. so big differences from the prayer packages. >> bill: we got 40 seconds, lightning round. what's the jobs number look like? >> very large numbers increase. >> bill: is it millions? >> i'm not at liberty to say, but it will be a big increase in everyone in the market knows that. >> bill: will the house passed this? >> i believe it will.

in one week. bill hemmer, and one week we put this package together with the help of the conference stomach congress and that's a good thi thing. >> bill: thank you sir, we will talk soon. the nation's largest hunger relief organization launching a new effort to help support communities. we are involved in this and, here's how you can be, too. coming up next. veterans can refinance with no income verification, no appraisal, and no out of pocket costs. one call could save you $2000 a year.

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food banks throughout the nation are trying to help those in need as the virus shattered the u.s. economy. a lot of workers facing layoffs. what to do next. the ceo of feeding america is with me now. welcome. you got a great message. i want our audience to know that all the fox platforms will air a benefit living room concert hosted by elton john to help support feeding america. that is great news. tell me about the program on sunday night first. what do we need to know? >> well, i think it will be a remarkable opportunity for our organization, the people that we serve, as well as for the people who tune in. big name acts like elton john and a whole list of others who are going to be televising from their own homes in the first ever -- i believe. concert of this nature.

i think it reinforces a lot of what we need right now. and i'm so excited and thrilled, one, that you would have me on the program. and also that fox is going to provide the support that it is. >> bill: we are honored to join you in the cause. thank you for saying that. i want people to know about your organization, the largest hunger relief organization in the country. what do you experience now? >> well, i will give a little bit more context if you don't mind. we have 200 food banks, 60,000 0 soup kitchens. under normal circumstances, we have over 2 million volunteers. so, what are we experiencing now? one, a significant increase in demand. we're seeing at almost every one of our food banks -- by the way, all are still open and serving

the public against a really, really challenging god's. we are seeing across our food bank no matter where they are, significant increases in demand. sometimes as much as more people that are in need of the service -- food in particular. among those 60,000 involved pantries and agencies, the significant majority of the volunteers come out there 2 million that i mentioned are elderly. as a consequence, for their own safety, many of those volunteers are not able to help us right now. we are seeing contraction in terms of our volunteer base. we are seeing more need and demand for our services. so we are trying to meet that demand under really challenging circumstances. >> bill: i've got about 30 seconds left. i know our viewers, and they are so generous. i see the website

feedingamerica.com >> never want to, go to the website and let what you can about the work that we do. we have a locator on the website. you can go to your community, find that community right there and reach out to them and find out what they need. and go out and -- >> bill: awesome work. thank you for sharing the message. >> thank you. >> bill: we will speak again. the fox family is proud to support feeding america. on sunday, catch the benefit living room concert hosted by elton john. you will see tim mcgraw and mariah carey put there one hour special air across all of the fox platforms including right here on the fox news channel. it will be difficult to miss this one especially now. we are here every day monday through friday at 3:00 eastern time. set your dvr and never miss a

report. in the meantime from the white house yesterday back to a strange new york today. the markets liked what they saw. i hope you do, too. [closing bellringing] >> neil: all right, we interrupt that for a little bit of a bump in the road beginning with bernie sanders and four other republican senators who are not too keen on some language in that measure. just wear it out this and i'll bump along the way it is all they are calling it was enough to take a lot of the juice out of the dow. impressive as the gains where, less than half that they were, remarkable gains. close to 3,000 points at one point. now more like 2700 points over the last couple of days. again, well off the highs on just the fear that