>> i hope she sings that song. among the other performers alisha keys, tim mcgraw and others. >> sandra: fox news alert now the senate passing the largest relief bill in u.s. history, the $2 trillion measure going for a vote that is expected tomorrow. all of this comes as those weekly jobless numbers are out this morning and they shattered records. more than 3 million americans filing unemployment claims last week alone. good morning, everyone. i'm sandra smith. >> ed: ed henry, good morning. the senate passing the stimulus bill in unanimous vote just before midnight following days of heated negotiations, 880 pages of details will result in checks going out to most americans. $1200 for individuals, $2400 for married couples.

payments of $500 per child. the vote prompting a sigh of relief from senate leaders and president trump. >> the strange new reality has forced our nation to something like wartime. >> a proud moment of the united states senate. and for the country, and we're going to win this war. >> hopefully we can have ultimately the same bipartisanship. >> president trump: send to bill to my desk for signature without delay. i'll sign it immediately. >> sandra: the u.s. seeing its most deadly out break so far. the deaths are past 1,000. around 70,000 confirmed cases nationwide. we begin with fox team coverage for you this morning. kristin fisher is standing by at the white house. we begin with jonathan serrie live in atlanta this morning. >> good morning, sandra. new york remains the epicenter of the outbreak in the u.s. accounting for approximately

60% of new cases. governor andrew cuomo is urging the federal government to flood his state with emergency medical equipment which then can be passed on to other states after new york cases peak. >> once you address that hot spot with that intensity, intense equipment, intense personnel, then shift to the next hot spot. >> although the number of covid-19 cases continues to grow in new york federal health officials say the curve of new cases is showing signs of flattening out suggesting aggressive social distancing efforts are starting to take effect. >> this is a real call to every person in new york city and the new york metro area to continue every one of these 15 days to slow the spread. >> u.s. health officials are watching and increasing cases in the southern hemisphere as that part of the world approaches its winter season. this is following a similar

pattern to seasonal flu suggesting covid-19 may become a cyclical illness and that's why developing a vaccine for covid-19 will be crucial. back to you. >> sandra: thank you, jonathan. >> president trump praising the passage of a $2 trillion relief bill in the senate. as a member of the white house task force warns we could see another coronavirus outbreak if the disease turns out to be seasonal. >> what we're starting to see now in the southern hemisphere in southern africa and in the southern hemisphere countries is that we're having cases that are appearing as they go into their winter season. and if, in fact, they have a substantial outbreak, it will be inevitable that we need to be prepared that we'll get a cycle around the second time. what does that mean for us and what we're doing? it totally emphasizes the need to do what we're doing in

developing a vaccine. >> ed: kristin fisher is live from the white house this morning. another busy morning on the north lawn. good morning. >> it took longer than president trump would have liked the senate finally passed this massive $2.2 trillion relief bill. the biggest in history. to give you an idea how big, that's about 10% of u.s. gdp. president trump tweeted 96-0 in the u.s. senate. congratulations america. let's dive into it. here is what's in the bill. direct payments to millions of americans you've heard so much about. $1200 a person, $500 per child. 350 billion for small businesses and 550 billion for critical industries like hospitals. the numbers are almost too big to wrap your head around and some republicans and democrats are already saying that it may not be enough. >> i think the odds are we'll need new legislation, more

legislation. first we don't know the extent of the crisis in terms of the magnitude. so that could rise but there will be problems we don't realize now we'll have to grapple with. the odds are high there will be a covid 4. >> the problem is the possible second wave. he is worried about that. president trump is still targeting easter as the date he would like to reopen at least some parts of the country. >> president trump: it will be sections of our country. there are big sections of our country that are little affected by what has taken place. other sections that are very heavily affected. there is a big difference. i would say by easter we'll have a recommendation and maybe before easter. and at the end of the 15th day or even during the 15th day i think we'll have some kind of a recommendation. our country wants to get back to work. >> president trump back to work

this morning the same way many americans are forced to work during the pandemic. a virtual conference call with g20 leaders from all over the world coordinating this global response to the coronavirus pandemic and then we have another briefing with the coronavirus task force slated for this afternoon at 5:00 p.m. >> ed: a lot of briefings, conference calls and a couple days to go covering it all for us. thank you. >> sandra: let's bring dr. oz, thanks for being here this morning. kick things off what we heard from dr. fauci suggesting the disease could be seasonal. it could come back. how do we prepare for that? >> well there are probably 100 trials ongoing around medications that have some promise for reducing the infectiousness or complications

which we need desperately. what he is saying is 100% on target and echoed by all the other experts i trust in the field. they're saying it for more than a month. because the virus spread so quickly, he said it's the most infectious virus he has come into contact with in his life and announce he has covid-19 himself. he was called to china in january. he still caught it this late in the game. arguments they're all making is it's endemic. it's in our population and it will always be in our population the way the influenza virus is. it's the pain in the neck and you have to deal with it. southern hemisphere is starting to see more cases as that virus circles the cold. it likes the cold weather. it is more contagious. when it comes to the winter months here we'll see a recurrence of this. conceivable we wouldn't have somebody carrying it along that far. we have to be prepared.

the vaccine won't be here yet. it will be here in a year. meantime we need therapies. >> sandra: meanwhile when it comes to the situation at hand the top pentagon doctor is warning as of now this disease is not showing any signs of letting up. so he is warning against easing up on restrictions. listen. >> this is a pandemic. this is a significant infectious disease outbreak and it is going to be weeks, not days. it will take intensive measures as we're implementing to mitigate it. and it's difficult to be surprised by that. until we go through it, we aren't going to know exactly how long it takes. >> sandra: so dr. oz, what is your message to the american people who are hunkering down at home right now and maybe where they are it is not that bad or they don't know a brother or sister or aunt or uncle or friend who has contracted the disease so they might start to think about going to the park or going to

visit a friend. what do you tell them? >> i'm here in new york at the epicenter. you do not want to be in new york. this is had a devastating impact on this community. the virus spreads quickly. we never thought it would hit us like this. when i speak to friends around the country i respect the fact it hasn't hit your times. thank goodness if we hunker down and suffocate this virus over the next few weeks it won't hit your town. they did it in china. the main problem is where the outbreak started was separated from the other provinces. a huge country, they could do this and prevented others from getting it. we can do the same thing. we shouldn't take our foot off the gas pedal yet. >> sandra: such an important message to hear and you see the pictures coming out of the epicenter, new york city you look at the hospitals. here is the cover of the "new york post" this morning, dr. oz. pictures of nurses and medical personnel who have now run out of hospital gowns and they're wearing garbage bags. in some cases if they have at a

as a shortage of medical supplies in our hospitals, dr. oz? >> i've been trying to message this clearly. it is your patriotic duty not to wear a mask unless you are a doctor. we have to make the products. i'm at new york presbyterian. the biggest hospital in the city. it is overwhelming. i want to reemphasize this, the biggest shortage will be people. we need enough nurses and doctors healthy which is why the more we can do to keep them healthy with the protective gear makes sense. we push hard to graduate medical students and nurses early. that will push young people into the system. recruiting older doctors in telemedicine to take some of the heat off the other medical professionals to go to the front lines of the clinic. we can fix it. we need time. staying hunkered down is mandatory and essential for us

to beat this pandemic. >> sandra: there are her -- heroic efforts doctors and nurses showing up at work every day to battle the pandemic. great to have you here this morning, dr. oz. thank you. >> ed: speaker nancy pelosi reacting to the senate passage of the economic relief bill saying this in a statement. tonight the senate vote on legislation which thanks to the leadership of congressional democrats has been turned upside down from a republican corporate focus to a democratic workers first foix. on friday the house will take up the legislation with strong bipartisan report. mike mccall is ranking member of the house foreign affairs committee. i want to get to the meat and substance of the bill. when nancy pelosi frames it as the speaker it was all about the democrats going for workers how does she explain the fact the bill includes $13 million

for howard university, $25 million for the kennedy center for the performing arts. wonderful institutions but not sure what it has to do with the coronavirus and $75 million for the national endowment for the humanities. how can she frame it that way when the reality looks different? >> the reality is we stripped most of her little pet projects out of this bill in the senate. i think a couple remained in there but have nothing to do with coronavirus or stopping the threat of coronavirus. for her to claim victory in the senate i think is not accurate. i think the senate did take most of that stuff that was unrelated out. you saw the senate passed it. it is coming to the house on friday. we will have a debate on it and we fully expect to have this passed by a voice vote and go to the president's desk on friday where he will sign it into law. >> ed: here is the most important question for our

viewers. they hear $2 trillion. big number. a lot of industries will be helped and need it now but the workers need it most. how quickly to get out the checks. people are wondering about the money for families. we hear it could get weeks and are you worried? how quickly can people get the money? >> i was told two to three weeks. the bipartisan agreement is the working man needs help right now. that's what the direct check assistance is designed to do. but we think within a matter of weeks people will have the $1200 for children 500. but ed, the most important provision in my judgment is the small business loans that involves both loans and tax provisions. they can help small businesses stay afloat with cash flow and liquidity so they don't lay off

all the workers. we're trying to get through the next 15 days, i say two months really of a crisis where we can keep them afloat so they don't go under so that when we do rebound out of this crisis, these companies will still be in existence and the jobs will still be there and people will not be on the streets. we also have a pandemic unemployment assistance for those who do not qualify under that provision. and so we want to make the working man whole. right now we want to keep the jobs intact and keep the small businesses afloat until we get through this. >> ed: a lot of numbers flying around. we put one on the screen. 3.3 million unemployment claims in the last week. that's coast to coast in your state of texas and here in new york. all around this country so it's important to get economic relief as you say. it is also important to help the people on the front lines. sandra just noted this with dr. oz. i want to ask you this is the front page of the "new york

post." it says treated like trash. these are nurses, doctors on the front lines. these in particular are at mt. sinai nurses wearing garbage bags because they don't have gowns. they don't have the medical supplies they need. i'm not pointing fingers. we don't know who is to blame. everybody says they're trying whether the governor, mayor, president and you congressman mccaul. how can we have nurses on the front lines now wearing trash bags? >> it is unacceptable. we gave 100 billion to 150 billion in the bill to provide for that. the ppe has been a big issue along with the test kits to get these things out. the front line people need it first. you know what happened in italy is very insightful. this coronavirus impacted the healthcare provider, the doctors and nurses on the front lines and their infrastructure collapsed because they weren't able to not only hospital beds, but when your front line

workers cannot protect themselves and they come down, then we have a real problem. that's one of the biggest priorities and it is in this bill that we will pass on friday. >> ed: last 30 seconds we have putting aside politics the democratic governor in new york saying amid the crisis -- there are crises in hospitals in new york city right now, they're trying to deal with it. he said there is some optimism that social distancing here in new york is working. we heard the same from the president's side of this and his task force last night. are you hearing that as well in congress, that some of these measures we've taken, still a desperate, difficult situation, but that there is some light at the end of the tunnel, that some of these measures are starting to work? >> i know it's hard but the social distancing i think is working. we have to flaten the curve more in the short term. the more we do it the more it will flatten. lastly the therapeutics coming

out are very promising, the antivirals i've seen. some of the fda clinical trials and the vaccine itself. i think it provides a lot of hope. if they have a tamaflu to calm people down. you'll see major announcement anti-virals tested on humans that will make a difference moving forward in the pandemic. >> ed: a lot of optimism amid a storm that's happening now. no doubt about it. we appreciate you covering all that grounld. next hour we speak with the house chief deputy whip on the democratic side. his thoughts on whether progressive democrats will get behind this bill and whether another relief package could already be in the works. >> sandra: all eyes on wall street this morning where stock futures have been trading slightly higher after a surge in weekly unemployment claims. we'll have more on all that in just moments. at the opening bell about 12

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america. >> you've heard people talk about the hope that we can get back to normal really quickly in this city and in this country. i want to tell you that we should not cling to that false hope. i want to get back to normal as much as anyone. but we're seeing right now unfortunately a growing challenge, a growing crisis that is clearly going to take us into april. >> >> sandra: mayor bill deblasio warning half of the city's residents could become infected with the coronavirus. hospitals overwhelmed with patients as the number of deaths nears 300. david lee miller is live at mt. sinai hospital in manhattan with the latest. >> new york city hospitals are bracing for an increase in the number of coronavirus patients. according to the latest stat 12% of people who test positive statewide have to be hospitalized. now, here at mt. sinai

hospital, new york's east side, we just got a statement that said seven hospitals within the mt. sinai system will set up triage tents outside the emergency room. according to the statement it will help limit the spread of the disease including from patients to doctors. hospitals like this taking measures to do whatever they can to cope with the increasing number of patients. new york city accounts for more than half the cases in the country. mayor bill deblasio says although half of new yorkers will get the disease, he is calling it a very limited experience. now let's take a live look at elm hurst hospital in nearby queens, new york, they have more coronavirus cases than any other part of new york city, the epicenter of this crisis and the epicenter of the epicenter is elm hurst hospital there.

officials say 13 patients died over a 24-hour span including a 38-year-old. refrigeration truck that can store bodies is parked outside of that hospital. a doctor there told "the new york times" the scene is apocalyptic. mayor deblasio says the city has only a fraction of the 15,000 ventilators as the apex of the virus. he is calling on the fed to manufacture ventilators and help get them distributed. >> we need the military to be directly involved in getting supplies all over this country on a really rapid basis starting with those ventilators. putting into play their extraordinary medical personnel on a much higher level and bringing medical personnel civilian medical personnel from all over the country to serve here quickly. >> deblasio says the senate stimulus legislation is immoral because it provides only $1 billion for new york city.

he says he is asking president trump to intervene or guarantee there is going to be another stimulus bill. the city meanwhile taking significant measures to try to reduce the spread of the disease. the nypd is inspecting parks and playgrounds to try to reduce public gathering. according to governor cuomo yesterday, the reduction in public gatherings is making a difference in reducing the spread of the disease. but the governor also said this is very sobering, the worst is yet to come. sandra. >> sandra: david lee miller on the ground in manhattan for us. thank you for your reporting. >> ed: a serious situation on the east coast. millions in los angeles to be bracing for a lockdown. what they might do to stop the virus from spreading in the city of angels. jobless claims shattering record. more than three million americans applying for unemployment insurance last

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street on thursday morning after a record number of jobless claims. the number is out. 3.2 million americans filing for unemployment insurance last week. that is what markets are reacting to this morning. dow up 450 points to start off the first couple of minutes here. maria bartiromo, anchor of mornings with maria on fox business network is joining us. that's a huge number. four times the record set back in october 1982 for those filing those unemployment insurance claims. the dow is up. why? >> you're right. this is an incredible number. it will tell us the unemployment rate will worsen in the coming months. i think the market traded higher on the news that the house moved up its vote. the house is going to debate the stimulus package that was passed by the senate last night and the house moved up the time to early morning tomorrow rather than mid afternoon. that was a positive for the markets. i also think that there were

some dire predictions out there. the worst expectation was 4 million unemployment claims. we got 3.28 million jobless claims and much of this was expected, sandra. we were looking for a number in the millions. last week we had 281,000 unemployment benefits but in the last week, in the last month companies have been furloughing employees, unemployment has actually picked up in the last week as this coronavirus situation worsens. at these numbers 3.28 million unemployment claims you are talking about an unemployment rate of above 5% for sure. right now we're at an unemployment rate of 3.6%. 50 year low going into this crisis. you are talking about an unemployment rate that will no doubt move up and get the jobs numbers the first friday of the new month. i suspect you will see a 5% unemployment number, sandra. >> sandra: so the first few minutes of trading here the dow coming off its highs of the

morning. still up 330 points. to your point it wasn't as bad as expected, it is a record number of jobless claims but some had an estimate it would be four million. markets could be somewhat encouraged by that. it was service industry that took the biggest hit, food, accommodation, healthcare. people in manufacturing, entertainment, arts. these were some of the numbers that showed up in those weekly jobless claims. we're talking about a week. march 14th-21st. after march 21st you had a lot more of the country go in lockdown. a lot more of these industries go in shutdown. what are we expected to see from here as jay powell at the federal reserve says even though interest rates are near zero the central bank will not run out of ammunition trying to reassure markets even though more bad news may be coming. >> that's right. the federal reserve does have more tools. they can expand their balance sheet further. we already have some interest

rates in negative territory. they could also cut interests rates. there isn't an appetite for negative interests rates. the last week has been dreadful for business. it was the restaurants that were told to close down. you can only do take-out. there were people told look, you can't have anymore groups than two people. 10 people was the initial expectation, the governor said no groups higher than 10 people, then a guidance because of the u.k. maybe it is just two people. little by little you see businesses like restaurants, service businesses close down because of these guidelines and that's why you have so many people applying for unemployment benefits. look, the good news here is it wasn't as bad as we thought and also that we know that this is temporary. remember the markets rallied the other day because the president gave us some clarity. he is hoping that things get back to normal by easter. he is hoping that some parts of the economy can get back to work in the next several weeks. but look, it is all about the

coronavirus cases, where are those cases standing now. the governor of new york said things will probably peak within three weeks. it will be a tough couple of weeks. we'll be getting numbers of unemployment benefits for the coming weeks until we have clarity on the crisis. markets may rally now but a nervous feeling from the investor class. we could go up and down. it will be fits and starts, ups, downs for several weeks until we get more clarity where we are on a vaccine and anti-virals that are coming. >> sandra: absolutely. priority is obviously for the administration and country on the medical side. the markets will be trying to anticipate daily and weekly when the economy will start to come back online. a guessing game for a while. maria bartiromo, thank you. >> thank you so much. >> sandra: for much more on all this next hour white house trade advisor peter navarro will be our guest. his reaction to today's spike in jobless claims and get his

reaction to that and the historic stimulus package, $2 trillion. when the checks will go out. he will come up at 10:00 a.m. eastern time 25 minutes from now. >> ed: meantime millions in the los angeles area are preparing for quarantine. officials are asking residents to buy groceries and medicine ahead of new measures to stop the virus from spreading. >> let's meet this moment. let's follow through. halfway is no way. it is absolutely incumbent that we take seriously these orders. we're already seeing a little movement even in the state of california. and we just want folks to make the appropriate movement for essential business, essential support and services and with intention go outside, not to congregate. >> ed: that is in los angeles where we find our correspondent william la jeunesse. what's happening on the ground. >> the mayor says l.a. is 6 to 12 days behind new york.

l.a. counties 800 positive cases would jump to 10,000 in two weeks. where will they go? parking lot near lax is a quarantine zone filled with 100 trailers and rvs for those who test positive but can't go home. currently 38 live there but the county also leased a hotel, which is now empty. likely not for long. yesterday officials told 10 million people in the county to prepare to be quarantined. stock up on groceries and medications now since anyone testing positive or presumed positives must be quarantined or self-isolated. >> even if you're not positive now, and you have no close contact with people who are positive, we're asking every single resident in l.a. county to be prepared to isolate and to quarantine. have your plans in place.

>> nearby glendale offduty firefighters are going shopping for senior citizens. they place their orders the night before and delivers re the next morning. they get dozens of requests. trader joes allows them to shop early. millions have filed for unemployment benefits paying them up to $1,000 a week. >> we provide on a weekly basis unemployment insurance grants anywhere from $40 to as much as $450. and this package would provide for an additional $600 on top of that so for over $1,000 a week for many californians. >> so five of the nation's largest banks have agreed to suspend mortgage payments for those affected by the viers, ed. we're expecting good warm weather this weekend. there is evidence that warm weather can help slow the virus and keep our fingers crossed. >> absolutely. we'll be watching that for sure.

william la jeunesse, we appreciate your report. >> sandra: amazon workers testing positive for coronavirus at 10 different u.s. warehouses. at locations including new york, michigan, texas. the company shutting down those facilities for cleaning. the news coming as amazon tries to meet the surging demand as customers keep shopping online while they're hunkered down at home. amazon trying to hire 100,000 additional workers while all this continues. >> ed: louisiana seeing a big surge of infections. why new orleans could be the next epicenter for coronavirus cases in america. >> you have a long way to go. we have to do better at our mitigation measures and we need for those mitigation measures to start showing up in this data before we can draw an easy breath. ancing now, you can save $2000 a year.

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that are coming in on a daily basis. and it is a slow process every day more add up. a lot of the problem with this disease many have already heard about and know is especially when they end up in the icu where i work, they will end up being there for one, two, three weeks sometimes. and so -- >> ed: that's a long time. governor cuomo yesterday caught my attention said something. he said what they're really worried about in the state of new york is 3% of those infected because the majority of cases they're seeing people will get better. it may take time as you say, and there are serious deaths and serious situations going on here in new york, i assume in louisiana as well. talk about that 3%. does that ring true to you? it's a small percentage but it is a real serious number of cases where people are struggling with the coronavirus. >> i think that definitely rings true. in what i do i see a lot of

critical illness. these patients get sick, very sick and it lasts a long time. all age groups. the other thing that hasn't been talked about as much is not only do people that may get sick and ultimately die but there is a large amount of the population that suffer disability from being in the icu for sometime. that's a group that i'm worried about personally. we're seeing this ramping up and people aren't getting better immediately. some do but -- majority do. the ones that don't is a long process. >> ed: in terms of facts that i just stressed we have to focus on. i believe i said in the lead-in there are 18,000 cases in louisiana. it is 1800 cases. big pictures you see on the screen. 69,000 cases in america. 1800 in your state. too many. but i don't want to overstate it. let's stick with facts as well. you see the number there. we want to clarify and get it right. 1795 cases in louisiana. per capita that's a lot and why we're highlighting it. another big issue in the louisiana and around the

country is a lack of medical supplies. here is your governor on that and i want you to react, doctor. >> we are already placing severe demand on our hospitals and personal protective equipment. our ventilator capacity is far from okay in louisiana. the problem isn't just that the cases are growing every day, it is that they're growing rapidly every day. this alarming growth has a devastatingly fast impact on our resources and the ability to take care of people. >> ed: i got two quick final questions. first is react to that on medical supplies. in new york we've been highlighting the front page of the "new york post" has nurses quote, unquote, treated like trash because they're wearing trash bags. hefty bags. they don't have enough gowns. they don't have enough masks. what is the supply situation first of all on the ground there? >> right now we're hanging in there. i do want to make a point that any support that we can get in new orleans would be greatly

appreciated. we are strategizing with city and state officials on best means to conserve the supplies and allocate them appropriately across different systems the best we can. so right now we're doing okay. but i clearly agree with the governor in the sense that we will continue to run out of supplies if we're not allocating appropriately. >> ed: a big backlash in the state of florida with people staying on the beach. mardi gras happened recently. did that have anything to do with the spike? people were still partying. is that a factor? >> you know, personally mardi gras happened at an unfortunate time. i think it was the fact of a gathering of a crowd. i don't think it was necessarily the spread within the crowd more than just a lot of people visiting from out of town at bad timing. >> ed: dr. joshua denson, appreciate you bringing us that information. we'll check back with you in the days ahead and appreciate your heroic work.

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>> sandra: new york becoming the first state to test an experimental covid-19 treatment. doctors will treat current patients are blood plasma from recovered patients. alex hogan is here to explain that. good morning. >> good morning, sandra. the process takes the plasma from the blood from someone who recovered from covid-19 and injects it into someone trying to fight the illness. hundreds of physicians and

scientists around the country are working on this project. among them is one who says it is not a vaccine. >> this is very different. this is taking the antibodies from someone who has beaten the virus and recovered and then transferred them to the person. so the antibodies is coming in and they provide immediate protection. one doesn't have to wait for this to happen. as soon as they go into the body the antibodies are able to protect against the virus. >> since the announcement in china in february that doctors began using plasma from recovered covid-19 patients. hospitals in the u.s. taking on the same approach the convalescent plasma project. it dates back more than 100 years and used in previous en

demics. the fda approved what is known as compassionate use for people very ill around the country. at this point it is not available for everyone, just the patients that are very ill, sandra, around the country, not just here in new york. but there is still a lot of clinical trials that are need. something they're hoping will be available so that again this could help more people in the future. sandra. >> sandra: alex, thank you for that. >> ed: fox news alert. senate approving the historic relief bill. $2 trillion to keep the economy afloat. how long with american workers and businesses wait for the checks? peter navarro coming up from the white house. so you only pay for what you need. only pay for what you need. ♪ liberty. liberty. liberty. liberty. ♪ our mission is to provide complete, balanced nutrition... for strength and energy! whoo-hoo!

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put your va home loan benefits to good use. call my team at newday usa. >> ed: we begin with a fox news alert. covid-19 claiming more american lives. the u.s. total reaping a grime milestone surging above 1,000. 200 deaths in the past 24 hours alone. the most deadly day since the virus hit our shores. welcome to a new hour of "america's newsroom," i'm ed henry. good morning, sandra. >> sandra: good morning, everyone, i'm sandra smith. the u.s. on the verge of surpassing china where the pandemic began as congress moves to stabilize the battered u.s. economy. senate sending an economic package to the house now where a vote could happen as soon as tomorrow. it couldn't come a moment too soon. some brand-new numbers this morning. new jobless claims soaring to a

new record, 3.3 million as layoffs jump in the face of a near total economic shutdown. meanwhile confirmed u.s. cases above 69,000 as the number of deaths continues to grow and the white house task force warning the outbreak could become seasonal returning stronger the next time around. >> would this possibly become a seasonal cyclic thing? i've always indicated to you i think it very well might. the southern hemisphere countries, we're having cases that are appearing as they go into their winter season. and if, in fact, they have a substantial outbreak, it will be inevitable that we need to be prepared. >> sandra: fox team coverage this morning. griff jenkins with more on the latest guidance from the task force and white house reaction. mike emanuel on capitol hill ding out details of the emergency aid bill. we begin with griff jenkins live in washington for us this morning.

>> good morning to you and that vaccine couldn't come a moment too soon, either. the economic and death toll put together shows the havoc the virus is wreaking on life as we know it. we have now broken the unemployment record four times over but for the fourth consecutive day we see the largest increase in deaths by a significant amount, 236. 104 more than we reported right here yesterday. we expect another big jump tomorrow. new york remaining the epicenter here in the u.s. accounting for about 60% of the cases. worldwide cases approach the half million mark. more than 487,000 with the u.s. on the verge of passing china. deaths topping 22,000 as spain overtakes china in total deaths. president trump has just concluded an emergency videoconference call with g20 leaders trying to coordinate a global effort to combat the pandemic and avoid the global

recession. the meeting was closed to the press. we're trying to get more out of it. the blame game is growing between the u.s. and china where the virus began. the president continuing to suggest he may be looking to lift restrictions here at home sooner rather than later to get the country back to work in the face of this health threat. >> president trump: the more lives we can save and the sooner we can get people back to work, back to school and back to normal. there are large sections of our country probably can go back much sooner than other sections. and we're obviously looking at that also. people are asking is that an alternative? i say absolutely it is an alternative. >> some good news welcome on the west coast. the usms mercy ship is scheduled to arrive in los angeles tomorrow. they're ahead of schedule. 1,000 beds or more on the way

to a grateful governor newsom. >> sandra: thank you. >> ed: the senate passing that massive $2 trillion stimulus bill. the largest package in u.s. history giving money to americans coping with the fallout from the coronavirus crisis. the bill moving to the house which is expected to vote on it tomorrow. top senators from both parties praising the agreement. >> senate has pivoted from one of the most contentious, partisan periods in the nation's history to passing this rescue package 100-0. all in one quarter. >> it's a historic day because it matches a historic crisis. and our people need help. >> ed: mike emanuel is live on capitol hill with the details. good morning, mike. >> good morning to you. expect to hear more about action in the house of representatives when speaker nancy pelosi addresses reporters later this hour.

the house republican leader spoke about next steps. >> it will pass but this time not with unanimous consent with no debate. we'll have debate, a voice vote to bring it up and move it to the president's desk. >> the senate vote was 96-0. four republican senators are in various stages of quarantine. john thune flew back to south dakota after an abundance of caution after not feeling well. mitt romney and mike lee are still in self-quarantine after spending time with senator paul who has covid-19. the benefit this package will have on small businesses. >> since the government demanded basically that you close your shops, your restaurants, your hotels, your tourism-related businesses, it is impacting and reverberating throughout the entire economy and one of the reasons why we face an economic tsunami.

this small business piece is incentive to keep their employees attached. >> others emphasize the impact it will have on families of those who have lost their jobs through no fault of their own. >> at this moment in history facing this national emergency we would rather err on the side of you being able to pay your bills and keeping your family together. future needs we can discuss. we can debate and see what we can do with the state systems. for the time being, no apologies. >> mitch mcconnell announced the senate is expected to be out of session until april 20th unless there is a pressing emergency. the house may do similar once they approve that package tomorrow. >> ed: >> ed: everyone is watching. >> sandra: not to the other ends of pennsylvania avenue. the white house trade advisor peter navarro joining us now. thank you for being here. >> never heard that the other end of pennsylvania avenue. that's good.

>> sandra: here we go. you're on the screen now. 3.3 million people filing for those jobless claims. that is a new record, peter. as our economy has come to a near standstill. what is the white house reaction to that this morning? >> this is to be totally expected because the whole strategy of president trump is to get social distancing so we can combat the virus. we put public health above economics in the very short run. this is no surprise. this is expected and we should accept the news because we are doing what we need to do to combat the virus, sandra. >> sandra: seems the market -- >> we just got $2 trillion worth of stimulus. four points of the compass. targeted relief particularly for the low-income workers, a

big fiscal stimulus itself. targeted industry relief and we have a liquidity piece to it which is unprecedented in history. so president trump and his team doing everything we possibly can to deal both with the public health emergency and the economic crisis. and we just have to be like the british, i guess, in world war ii, a stiff upper lip and fight this virus. >> sandra: so let's dig into some of what you just said. the dow seems to be accepting what it is seeing. it is up 731 points right now. but first to the american worker. as we see 3.3 million people in a week filing for jobless claims, you understand the pain that so many americans are in right now. >> no body understands the pain more than this white house. this is a president who has transformed the republican party into the party of the

working class. i spend every day trying to help americans who work with their hands. we are attuned to their plight and we are going to try to get them that cash cushion as soon as possible. we'll try to get them the loan window open for small businesses, and look, it is trump time here as rapidly as possible we'll do this. what we've been waiting for is congress to do their thing and we're still waiting. >> sandra: right. to that point we understand that there will be a vote in the house tomorrow. but the senate supported this, $2 trillion. as far as the checks are concerned, we hear such varied estimates about when the american people that will be getting those checks will actually get them. we have heard a week, 15 days, three weeks. when will people get those checks, peter? >> it's not my lane, sandra. we'll know that later in the day. have secretary mnuchin on. what i'm trying to do, sandra, is to make sure our supply

chain for the protective gear that our healthcare workers need, the gloves, masks, goggles, ventilators are moving briskly into places like new york city and new orleans and detroit and places like that. that's what i'm consumed with 24/7. working with fema, working with hhs. we're fully engaging that process. and we're working double time. we have planes in the air, we have fedex planes and fema planes, military planes, we have the full force of the american government. but we also have the full force of private enterprise and that's what we're doing here and that's what i'm focused on. we'll get the checks to the people as soon as possible. the treasury department is already getting ready to do that. >> sandra: on that note when you look at some of the key parts of the cares act you are talking about that $2 trillion relief package, $500 billion

for hard-hit industries of which you're talking $377 billion for the small business aid and back to your point, the priority, the medical side of things right now. those on the front lines in our hospitals, $100 billion for hospitals. how will that money be used, accounted for as, peter, we referenced the "new york post" cover this morning, a nurse covered in garbage bags because they're running out of hospital gowns. how do we make sure the dollars are spent appropriately and get into the hands of the people who need them most. >> the dollars don't mean anything unless they are converted into things like personal protective equipment, and they have to cover the hospitals tremendous surge now particularly in new york city. they have bills to pay, things to buy. that's how that money will be used. >> sandra: okay. i want to dig a little further into how some of the industry

will be affected. reporting in the "wall street journal" that steve mutschin is coming up with some sort of plan to take a stake in u.s. airlines in return for grants. can you confirm that that's a possibility? >> i can't confirm or deny that. again, this is not my lane. things are moving very rapidly in secretary mutschin's lane. not unprecedented to have the government take equity shares in companies. it was done some years ago. but let's see what happens there. i suggest that you have secretary mutschin or larry kudlow on. >> sandra: we invite them on every single day. >> they're a little busy negotiating the biggest package for the american people in the history of the world. forgive them. >> sandra: understood. it's fine. we're thankful you are here. >> i have to emphasize my role in this crisis is to help hhs

and fema and hospitals around the country get what they need and we're just getting that done. >> sandra: so on that note, how would you characterize the progress that you are making on that front as so badly you are hearing from the new york governor, we might hear from him in a little bit. he has been taking on about this time every single day to say that they're not getting the ventilators that they need. send them his way. so what update can you give us on that, if that is very specifically your lane this morning? >> just a day or so ago when he was talking about not getting the ventilators he needed, that morning fema had sent 2,000 additional ventilators. that afternoon there were 2,000 additional ventilators sent. my office personally had shepherded 400 ventilators the day before. and there will be more to follow. we're sending -- fema has an

update now. we're sending half a million gloves, thousands -- hundreds of thousands of facemasks. sandra, these are great questions you are asking. what i can tell you is that we're jamming the channel as fast as we can. we know that new york is not only a hot spot, but the hospital system there is overburdened now because of this surge. we're basically sending everything we can to help. but we've also got an emerging problem in new orleans. we have detroit, chicago, seattle, california, my home state. like i said, there are planes in the air everywhere now and as we speak we're gearing up. let me tell you another kind of thing which i think should be heartening to the american people. what i've been doing is working with private industry to repurpose some of their factories. so for example, the national

council of textile organizations, which includes companies like hanes, fruit of the loom, parkdale mills, as we speak they have repurposed some of their garment factories to making masks. they will start churning off the assembly line by the millions per week. honeywell, we were able to fast track a new plant in smithfield, rhode island for the things that are gold, the n-95 masks. that will be ramping up quickly. we've had general dynamics, i called the ceo there over the weekend. give us whatever you have in inventory of whatever you have for equipment. she mobilized their team and yesterday we delivered 4500 tyvek suits. they're gold. a couple kimberly clark a-series suits and this is what

is happening here. i couldn't be prouder of america right now. i couldn't be prouder of the federal government and private enterprise and president trump for bringing that effort together because every time i call somebody. if i call 1,000 people today, 999 of them in the private sector will be more than willing to do whatever we ask. whatever we ask. >> sandra: i know that there is a delicate balance. you already hear the president talking about wanting to reopen aspects of the economy while we're still battling on the front lines this disease. that is going to be the story going forward. love to check back in with you soon, peter navarro at the white house. thank you, peter. thank you. >> ed: good stuff there as the house gets ready to vote on that big economic rescue package they were just talking about. democrats are looking ahead to another relief bill. chief deputy whip in the house dan kildee can tell us what democrats are looking for.

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>> ed: fox news alert. new cases of covid-19 spiking in louisiana. new orleans in danger of becoming a new epicenter of the outbreak. the state readying to do makeshift hospitals as increased testing, the ballooning infections among the highest growth rates in the nation would be coming. the governor calling the rapid spread alarming. >> fastest growth rate in positive covid-19 cases in the first two weeks than just about anywhere else in the world. i am troubled because if you just look at this from a perspective we're staying on the curve that we were on before. >> ed: dr. rebecca gee is the state's former secretary of health and now ceo of the lsu health care center. we appreciate you coming in today. what are you seeing on the ground? >> first of all, our doctors, nurses and students are putting their lives on the line making

sure those who are infected with this virus live through their disease. i want to thank them and all the first responders in the city of new orleans and beyond in louisiana who are doing the lord's work every day. on that being said as the governor said it's a sobering situation. we had one of the largest growth rates in the world in the initial two weeks. we had mardi gras and many, many visitors from all over the world here who were able to through those conditions spread this virus very quickly. we have not seen a down tick. measures that have been put into place to create social distancing. school closures haven't taken time. we don't have enough time to see the results yet. the data is alarming. we'll run out of ventilators. we need 600 more. only yesterday the number of patients we had on breathing machines doubled and our capacity is only 50% and we haven't even seen the beginning of the height of this. so there is a large concern

both by city leaders and the governor. >> ed: a lot to break down there. let's start with mardi gras. we asked one of your colleagues at the tulane medical center about that. he said it was inconclusive but there were concerns that mardi gras fell as the crisis was starting to really bubble up. what is your sense about people failing to get into the community spread that is needed now? clearly we've been showing pictures of downtown new orleans and people are heeding those warnings now. you can see bourbon street. were people not heeding warnings? what was the situation with mardi gras? >> listen, at that point we did not know the viers was spreading in this country. if we had we would have changed how mardi gras was done. that being said it is too late to figure that out. now we need to focus on saving lives and making sure we have the right equipment. our personnel are protected. some researcher will get a

ph.d. figuring that out. other cities highly populated with similar conditions don't have this virus. it is unclear what happened. what we are realizing we're overloading our capacity. the governor said it is a gross understatement to say that the supply the not meeting the demand. if you don't have a ventilator and a patient needs one that person will die. and so my message is look, we have 10 days until this spikes. the governor has said april 7th. we have time before then. we aren't new york yet. we will look like new york. we have time to prepare. our folks are ordering bunny suits on e-bay, the suits that cover your clothing to protect you. we're having to manufacture masks and shields. there has been a lot of discussion about that. that should be easy. you can manufacture a mask in a day. my hope is you've heard from federal leaders we'll get those supplies we need. it is hard to get ventilators. that's a big challenge.

that's a national strategy to deploy ventilators where they're needed when they're needed and have appropriate oversight. you can't manufacture pulmonary critical care doctors. we need to use doctors in other states where they aren't having the level of problems and help use telemedicine and teletechnology to help create a national response to this problem. >> ed: you've made it clear what you need particularly with ventilators. the last 30 seconds or so that we have, what is your plea to the federal government this morning if you have anybody in the add min traition at fema or other places watching now, what do you need most in your hospitals? >> so we're fighting a war and we have the on the ground troops. they need to be armed with protective equipment. they have to have the protective equipment. we shouldn't be focused on that. the supply chain needs to be run by the federal leaders. we should be focused on the workforce, how to keep them

healthy and how to take care of patients. the supply chain is beyond any one state to manage. we need to make sure the federal stockpiles and major disaster declaration approved by president trump is heeded and that we are able to move those resources here and when the governor asks for things, he is using data to inform what he is asking for. so our hope and expectation is what he asks for will be delivered here in time for us to meet the needs that we will have. >> ed: doctor. you're doing a lot of hard work now. the problem is growing there and we're trying to highlight that around the country, not just here in new york. hopefully the federal government is listening to some of your calls. doctor, appreciate you coming in. thank you. >> sandra: thank you. also in the southern united states florida now bracing for a sharp increase in coronavirus cases. is a statewide lockdown in the works there? we're live from miami next. plus the senate passing a massive coronavirus stimulus. now it is on to the vote in the

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>> the bipartisan agreement is the working man needs help right now and that's what that

direct check assistance is designed to do. but we think within a matter of weeks people will have the 1200 for children, 500 -- >> sandra: that was republican congressman michael mccaul on this program last hour. as the house gears up to vote tomorrow on the senate's massive $2 trillion coronavirus bill. let's hear from the other side. congressman dan kildee, the chief deputy whip. good morning and thank you for being here. >> good morning. thanks for having me on. >> sandra: first question, will you and members of the house go along with this? >> yes. obviously any piece of legislation will have elements that require compromise. and if we were to write this bill by ourselves it may have some different elements but this is a product of democrats and republicans setting aside something that i think is long overdue. setting aside our differences

in the interest of the country and getting something done that will help us not only get through the immediate crisis but will support families to continue to pay their bills and take care of their families and set up what i think will probably be a large next step to make sure we can get the economy back on its feet as soon as possible. but this really is making sure that american families have the financial tools to follow the medical guidance, to stay home, to protect themselves without having to put their livelihoods or the lives of their families at risk. >> sandra: it's interesting after this passed in the senate yesterday after we got that jobless claims number out of the way this morning, 3.3 million filing jobless claims in one week, it was a record. the dow is surging almost 1,000 points this morning. so it is almost like there is some certainty being provided the market with this stimulus package. i hear you saying this will at least stabilize things. as far as jump starting the

economy, do you believe another stimulus package will be needed? >> i think it's very likely. i would hope that that stimulus package would come in the form of something that democrats and republicans and the president have all said is long overdue. that is a major sustained investment in america's infrastructure. this will stabilize things in the short term hopefully. there is nothing we can do to undo the tragedies about to take place but minimize them with what we're about to do. in the long term because we do need to have 21st century infrastructure it would be a stimulant to the economy. my hope is democrats, republicans and president would continue the bipartisanship that this terrible crisis has forced upon us. thankfully the bipartisanship is in place. hopefully we can do the big things we should have been

doing all along and helping to grow the economy. the most important goal right now is to help american families, this will do that. >> sandra: absolutely. congressman, there is obviously the question over where this virus goes next. new york certainly the epicenter as far as united states is concerned. you look at where that next wave may be. how is your state doing? >> well, we're seeing really quick increases in the number of cases, sadly quite a number of deaths. michigan is one of those key states that has seen a dramatic increase in the number of covid-19 cases. it is a real concern. obviously we want to make sure the resources go where they're needed and make sure in michigan we have the tools it takes to deal with this. so i think we need to do better and do more to make sure that we have the resources, particularly the personal protective equipment, the ventilators that will be required to deal with unfortunately and sadly

inevitably will be a significant increase in cases in michigan in the coming days. >> sandra: congressman, our best to you and your state as you grapple with the situation there. tough times across this nation and we all need to come together. so we'll watch how this all plays out as this $2 trillion bill heads to the house with a vote tomorrow. appreciate your time this morning, congressman, thank you. >> thanks for having me on. >> ed: now let's go to florida. authorities there say the worst of covid-19 cases yet to come for the sunshine state. some of the 21 million residents facing stay at home orders, closed beaches and shuttered businesses. a statewide lockdown is not the answer according to the governor. >> how much within the next week, how many masks do you think? over a million n-95 masks. millions more over the weeks after that.

>> ed: phil keating is live from miami with the latest. >> good morning, ed. the president has now declared florida a major disaster freeing up federal funds the governor can now use to buy things like millions more facemasks, test swabs for the virus as well as beds for makeshift field hospitals just like this one. take a look inside. this is soon to be open for the potential that other hospitals get overwhelmed. it is going to have 250 beds. you can see all the cubicles right here. it will be stockpiled with everything needed to care for patients. the state is also acquiring and stockpiling medical supplies in warehouses preparing for a worse and escalating situation in the sunshine state. as of this morning florida currently has 2,000 positive covid-19 cases, 23 deaths. but the bulk of all these cases is down south in miami, dade and broward counties.

all the counties in florida with minimal cases. despite congressional democrats and others including former vice president joe biden calling on the governor to issue a statewide stay at home order which is the case in miami beach. the beaches are totally empty. the governor says it's not necessary everywhere. he is scolding new york's tristaters fleeing to florida instead of staying put. >> you can't get a flight from milan to florida or china to florida. somehow you can do 200 direct flights to various points of florida from a hot spot more significant than milan and china? >> to deal specifically with possible coronavirus calls miami beach and others around the country, the fire departments are suiting up head-to-toe with facemasks included before they get to the person's house or apartment.

every paramedic on the special units volunteer for this. also florida's national guard is not only helping set up this field hospital, they are also now being deployed to hospitals to greet incoming new york flights at the gate taking down names, destinations and reminding passengers they must by law do a two-week self-quarantine or face prosecution. >> phil keating in florida. thank you. >> sandra: we're awaiting a news conference with house speaker nancy pelosi that should be happening any moment. she is expected to discuss the $2 trillion stimulus package. the house set to vote on stage 3 tomorrow morning. we'll be listening and watching for that. everything that you need to know about fox's upcoming living room benefit concert hosted by elton john featuring tim mcgraw and more. how you can help healthcare workers on the front lines

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>> ed: coming this sunday elton john will host a new benefit special. fox presents, the iheart living room concert for america airing on all fox platforms including right here at fox news. it will feature performances by music's biggest artists. alicia keys and many others. it will air commercial-free to pay tribute to those on the front lines working to fight this virus and seek donations from viewers and listeners. joining me now is gillian crane president of the first responders children foundation, one of the many charities supported by the benefit. good morning to you. let's talk about first responders. i remember well after 9/11 there was a big focus in this country and rightly so the

firefighters, ems technicians, the police officers who were risking their lives and many gave their lives to help save other lives, strangers they didn't even know. we're seeing the same thing play out right now in emergency rooms and icus across america. >> absolutely. this foundation was started in the aftermath of 9/11 when 800 children lost a first responder parent at the world trade center and it was founded by a resident of new york city who was very concerned about these children and knew that day we lost 403 first responders but from that point on until now almost 20 years we have grown as an organization and we're helping first responders all over the united states. we're in 33 states. we help with grants, health grants, scholarships. we know these first responders often rush into danger for us and we are here and have been

here to protect them and their families. and now with this deadly virus again all the first responders are rushing in to help. in all of the states. and they are at risk. they're at risk of getting the virus and at risk of being killed by it or possibly having to be quarantined away from their family and we have been here for 19 years for these families of first responders and we're committed to continue that process. we're so happy to be part of the show that's coming up. >> ed: we're glad you are part of it and you know better than most that many of those first responders didn't just risk their lives and get injured around 9/11, many years later the 9/11-related illnesses they're still fighting. let's talk a little bit about this concert essentially because the iheart radio music awards were supposed to be in this time slot sunday. it was canceled because of social distancing. an interesting element is that

as i understand it, elton john and others will essentially be shooting their own performances in their living room. we're calling it a living room benefit so they aren't around big crews at a big event site. it will be very organic. >> yes, thank you to these amazing talented artists who have said we care about the first responder community and we'll open our homes and use our i-phone and not really have a lot of production value and share our talent and show our support for the first responder community and the first responder children's foundation. we're grateful for that. it's a fact that 70% of the ems firefighters in this country are volunteer. so if they lose their job and get sick and have to be quarantined they don't have a safety net. we are their safety net. we've put all our resources and turned them to the emergency covid-19 grant and we want people to visit our website to donate and visit our website if you are a first responder or

agency, first responder community and apply for help. >> ed: tell us about your website. we've been talking all morning about this cover in the "new york post" where it says treated like trash. you have nurses at mt. sinai hospital in new york city wearing hefty trash bags because they don't have enough gowns. they don't have the masks they need. this is something we're all trying to pull together and get these nurses, emts, doctors what they need. talk about your website and the work you do so we can play at least a small part in moving all this forward. >> thank you so much. the website is first rcf.org, the number 1strcf.org. go to our website and see all the work we do. all these health workers, the people on the front lines, the nurses, doctors, emts and ems are on the front lines of this. we must support them getting

the safety gear that they need. first responders need them, the healthcare workers need them, and it is of absolute utter importance that if there isn't enough safety gear for these people who take care of us and rush in to help when we're in danger, then i think that this virus will become a much bigger national disaster than it is already. we must all do what we can even if it's $1, $5, $10 or whatever. everyone is sacrificing right now and everyone is facing financial hardship and we know that as an organization. we want to maintain our commitment to the first responders that we've had for over 19 years and determined to help them. >> these are the people who may help us. they may help our grandparents or relatives and they are rushing to danger when others might be afraid right now. they are the ones rushing to danger as you noted just as they did after 9/11. we appreciate all the hard work you do not just today but throughout the year and looking forward to sunday night. thank you for being part of it.

>> thank you for having me this morning. thank you. >> ed: that special fox presents the iheart living room concert for america airing commercial free this sunday on fox platforms and iheart radio stations all around america. >> sandra: really looking forward to that. coming up, how one couple is using technology to help protect healthcare workers on the front lines as the protective gear supply dwindles down across many hospitals. what this couple is doing to help curb that shortage at no cost at all.

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>> sandra: speaker nancy pelosi holding her weekly news conference. she just began. >> tens of thousands of people are -- we have tens of thousands of cases. this is a pandemic that we

haven't even seen for over 100 years in our country. it's really such a tragedy. so we had to take important action. we had to take action, though, that puts families first and workers first and that's what we did when we did our first legislation. the first two bills were about addressing the emergency directly. 8.3 billion for research for vaccine, for a cure, and that's, of course, the light at the end of the tunnel. but funding for testing, testing, testing, very important so we know we can take inventory of the challenge that we face and more importantly that we can address each family's concerns about this. the next bill was about masks, masks so we can test, test, test among other things. emergency. the bill that was passed in the

senate last night and that we'll take up tomorrow is about mitigation. mitigation for all the walls that we have in our economy while still addressing the emergency health needs we have in our country and next we'll go from emergency mitigation to recovery in terms of where we go to grow the economy. create more jobs in light of the reality that we've just been through. so right now we have the legislation that will come to the floor tomorrow. i anticipate and feel certain that we'll have a strong bipartisan vote. we take some pride in the fact that as i said earlier, congressional democrats in the senate and in the house were able to slip this over from corporate trickle down republican version to bubble up for families first legislation. so again, we have some other things we want to do but first

we want to take pride in what happens there. for workers, we were able to get, of course, extended and expanded -- extended from what the republicans wanted and expanded unemployment insurance. so very, very important. of course, in terms of funds that go to major corporations or companies or anyone, the direct condition is that, for example, with the airlines, that the money that is given to the airlines is given to the workers directly. just a pass through and has conditions on for other money that goes to any of these companies that they have no buy backs, no dividends or bonuses, all of those kinds of concerns that happened before with federal funds infused into their entities.

so we're very happy about all of that. one of the differences as i said, they're corporate down. we're bubble up from workers. it was demonstrated last night can you believe i think it was every republican, 49 republicans last night voted in the senate to deprive those on unemployment insurance of the additional $600 a week. how could it be that in this time of stress and strain and uncertainty about health and life and livelihood that they would vote that way? but i think it does demonstrate the point that i made that not about workers first. but the bill got to be there and i thank the senate democrats for using the leverage they have with the 60 votes. i take pride of what we had in our house bill that is in the senate bill now. so for workers and for families with all three of our bills we

have put families and workers first. the -- we again i hope that the ui will -- we want people to take advantage of all of this quickly. the ui will depend on how the states do it and they aren't all uniform but we want people to know exactly how they can benefit from that and we're putting that all together. so all of our members from both sides can know how they can facilitate enabling their constituents to take advantage of the opportunities there. so again, the bill last night and tomorrow will be a large infusion of funds for hospitals, health systems and state and local governments. we want more. and this is a big strong step. we need more. small businesses, so proud of the work of all of our chairmen. they were dazzling in their knowledge, their strategy, they

are just -- their experience in getting the right kind of bill passed. even though again compromising like in everything we want. recognizing that we won the day. small business want fast relief. small business they have met for rent, mortgage, utility costs, eligible for sba loans, forgiveness. i salute madam chair velasquez for what she was able to accomplish there. students with emergency education funding. thank you, bobbie scott on our team and our appropriators doing so much work there. don't get me started on naming my members. i will be talking about all of them. i will and you'll see how they present tomorrow on the floor. we have oversight. you know, there was this idea that they put forth that there would be a $500 billion slush fund for the secretary of the

treasury with no accountability whatsoever. are you kidding? with all respect in the world for this secretary. that was a complete non-starter. i'm pleased that language that was in the house and in the senate bill has an inspector general specifically for that account and also congressional panel of five people appointed by leaders to oversee how that funding is disbursed. it comes back down, though, to the fact that people are at risk. as i say tens of thousands of cases, nearly 1,000 deaths in the united states. i said from the start we must have a proposal that is government-wide, science-based so we can address the challenge

we face in a science-based, evidence-based way. not necessarily the course advocated by some but where we must be if we end this. from a scientific standpoint we have the best minds working 24/7 all hands on deck to find a cure. which is, of course, the light at the end of the tunnel. but if we do not heed the advice of the scientific community about isolation and not -- and avoiding as much communal contact as possible, in fact none, then the light at the end of the tunnel may be a train coming at us, the proverbial train. every day and week that is wasted on not taking that warning seriously is a problem. it is a problem. so let us thank our men and women who -- our healthcare providers, first responders, emergency service people,

firefighters and the rest who are not only responding to this but initiating their own efforts. sometimes risking their lives to save others' lives. we need to get them more personal protective equipment. it is essential and it is a shortfall right now. we would hope the government production -- defense production office agency would be called upon to call upon industry to convert to making ventilators and the rest. testing, testing, testing. masks, masks, masks, ventilators, ventilators, ventilators. what's the mystery? we need many more. the ventilators for your information is not about making you breathe easier, it is making you breathe, period. it is vital. it is vital to life and death in many, many, many cases.

so we need an unlimited number. let's think of it that way. endless number of ventilators just to name one thing. but everyone, the farmers, producers, grocers, everyone who is keeping america fed, our truck drivers, postal workers, delivery people, everyone who is making this survival possible, we thank and again we thank our scientists for striving to find a cure. so tomorrow we will go to the floor for this legislation. but as i have said, there are so many things we didn't get in any of these bills yet in the way that we need to. so the next step would be among other things we want to have more -- better definition of who qualifies for family and medical leave. i can give you some examples if you wish. a stronger osha protections for our workers essential. essential to life.

pensions. we had a proposal on pensions in the legislation that my understanding was and i trust that it's true, that the president supported, but senator mcconnell wouldn't do it but said we'll do it in the next bill. so we're ready for that. increase snap. one disappointment in the bill was they would not increase -- we were asking for a 15% increase in food stamps at this fragile time for many families. they wouldn't do that in this bill. more money for state and local governments. that could be -- i spoke with the secretary this morning about how we're not doing enough for state and local government. that's just the way it is. we had $200 billion in our bill. we ended up with 150. neither of those figures is really enough. but we're hoping, i mentioned to him the fed and talked to chairman powell about this, that they would expand the opportunity for shall we say helping out state and local

government, municipalities and the rest. in the bill we called for that but really per missively enabling the secretary to do it but not requiring him to do it. the administration did not want the requirement. they say that that is what they intend to do. we'll see. we'll still need to have more money for state and local governments and municipalities and the rest. then one of the important things that i just -- we have to insist upon. we said free testing, free testing, free testing. with free testing is the visit to the doctor's office. the treatment that goes with it. that has to be free as well. so that we encourage people to be tested and if they are and they need treatment they are not fearing the test because they can't afford the treatment. this is all a public health issue. it is an every one's issue that

everyone needs to be tested. not everyone. but who qualifies to be tested but that they don't incur a huge deductible or whatever co-payment whatever for being tested and have the follow-up treatment. then just one other -- this came as kind of i almost say a surprise, nothing surprises me around here. it was curious that in this bill they decided to treat the district of columbia in a very discriminatory way. it makes no sense. unless you have some other motivation. the district of columbia has always been treated like a state in terms of distribution of funds and under that formulation they would have gotten well over a million dollars and under the formula they decided to treat them like a territory now. and they get maybe half a million dollars less.

i don't know exact figures but it is very significant. a third less than what they're getting when they are fighting this challenge here in the district of columbia. it doesn't make any sense and we have to have legislation on it. if you saw senator chris van hollen last night during the debate spelling this out. i know it's of concern to our colleagues from this region. the list goes on but it is -- it's just -- it doesn't face the realities of a public health crisis that we have in our country and goes out of its way to do something so out of the ordinary. let's just hope it was -- it was a decision. it wasn't an accident, it was a decision. let's make a decision to correct that. but again let us all be very

prayerful about how we go forward. i want the american people not only to wash their hands regularly and hydrate, hydrate, hydrate all the time but to understand that we view them as our bosses. they are our bosses. we are responsible to them. on sunday morning when we met with the mcconnell, mnuchin, mccarthy, chuck and i were there. i said since it's sunday morning why don't we begin with a prayer. my part of it. my part. i began with a prayer of his holy pope francis called for world prayer. i don't -- what he did was to pray that those who have the responsibility to care for others would be enlightened to take that responsibility and act upon it. when i finish -- >> sandra: you've been listening to nancy pelosi the speaker of the house on capitol hill this morning holding her weekly news conference after the passage in the senate of

the $2 trillion stimulus relief package for the american people. joining us now is senator joni ernst republican from iowa who serves on the judiciary committee. great to have you here this morning. you've been listening to the speaker of the house. your reaction? >> well, i think what the democrats are trying to do at this point is take credit for most of the provisions that were already in the underlying bill, the bill that we had worked on last week and through the weekend. we had five task forces bipartisan that had put together a very strong, very good bill for the american people. twice blocked by senate democrats. we were able to push back on the provisions that the speaker was talking about. she doesn't talk about the way they wanted to federalize our election system. she didn't talk about what they wanted to do by inserting the provisions of the green new deal into the package. there was a lot of policies

that we pushed back on. we were able to get enough of us together and we passed the bill late, late last nie. it was a bipartisan effort. i do hope the house does the same. >> sandra: she did give it a lot of praise, though. she started out by saying that she won't celebrate, however, until she can hug her grandchildren and of course talking about the social distancing aspect that we're all engaging in in this country now. she said there will be a strong bipartisan vote in the house tomorrow for the bill. she called on more to be done at the state and local level, however. do you expect there will be additional legislation called on? >> i think if there is a need for additional legislation, we will certainly move that direction. we'll have to evaluate as we go. of course, we did pass last night the nearly $2 trillion rescue package. and we are very hopeful that

this will support our american families. all of the great healthcare workers. those that are in our healthcare systems. those that are responding on the first line of effort making sure we're protecting them. i think it is a substantial package that will support small businesses, though employers that desperately want to keep their employees employed. there are so many great things we were able to do in this package. we hope it will sustain not only our american families, but our businesses if we need to re-evaluate after this pandemic has subsided we will certainly do that. >> sandra: all right. senator, you have been instrumental in getting a lot of americans home that are stuck overseas because of the coronavirus. what is your progress on that and are we getting some of those americans home? >> we are. and thank you so much. i know there are a lot of families not only concerned about coronavirus, but they are concerned because they have loved ones overseas stuck in

locations because of the cancellation of flights and the virus itself. so we're working desperately to get those folks home. my office is in contact with the state department multiple times every day working through the various situations we have. so far we have over half of our iowa families that have been out of the united states, we have half of them back in the united states. i get reports every day of the movement of those iowans as they travel back home from those countries abroad. so we'll continue working with the state department. they are valiantly trying to get into remote areas to make sure that our americans are safe and getting them home to their loved ones. >> sandra: senator, a few seconds left. how is your state doing? we've talked to so many members of congress throughout the country this morning on how their state is handling the coronavirus. what is the update in iowa this morning? >> well, we're fortunate. we have an extra order leader

in our governor, kim reynolds and her wonderful team that works at our state emergency operation center. we are, of course, seeing the pandemic touch our lives as well. we have a spike in unemployment nearly 42,000 iowans apply for unemployment this last week. it is devastating but we'll stay strong. >> sandra: senator joni ernst from iowa. appreciate your time this morning and great to see you. >> thank you. >> ed: thank you, sandra. meantime coronavirus cases worldwide approaching the half million mark now. the president and other g20 leaders holding an emergency meeting. conference call on an international response to the pandemic. we'll get into that. a top pentagon doctor issuing a grim warning things could get much worse. more on that straight ahead. >> i don't think it matters what day things start to get better. what matters is what we're doing right now to mitigate

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>> we think we'll continue to see this continue to grow. no surprise. i don't think there is a great deal in speculating on a particular date. what i would ask for everyone's

help with is worry about today. because if we stop doing the right thing today because we think something is going to happen in four weeks, we will make this worse. >> ed: a top pentagon doctor warning the pandemic could get worse with the number of cases around the world approaching half a million. 21,000 deaths around the world. let's bring in dr. devi. director of metropolis pain medicine and author of coronavirus made simple. thank you for coming in. >> nice to see you. >> ed: let's start with what the pentagon doctor was saying how it could get worse. important advice as the president and others weigh whether or not to take the pedal off the metal if you will. they've been pushing forward on all fronts saying maybe in a few weeks we'll open up parts of the economy. the pentagon doctor is saying move forward very carefully.

>> well i agree we have to move forward carefully. what we do today is critical and could change things. it's a moving target. one of the most important things we have to do is put money in the hands of the american people. i was speaking to a patient just this week who had mild flu-like symptoms but was talking about going to work as an essential worker. not in the healthcare area but a different area. i was trying to urge this person to stay home. what's the risk i have coronavirus versus something else? what's the chance that i would infect someone else if i kept my distance and washed my hands? and if i did get someone else sick, what's the chance that person would have a serious complication? so the person is balancing those questions against what's the risk i can't afford my medication keeping me alive or the food i need to put on the table? we need to make it easier for people to do the right thing. we need to incentivize them to stay home and help slow this

thing down. >> ed: let's talk about the balance that's happening here in terms of statistics. you know, we talked a moment ago about how many cases around the world. now we have the diagnosed cases in half a million around the world. u.s. death toll at 1046. a third of the world's population is on lockdown, nearly 90% of the world's student population is out of school due to the virus. here in new york city, for example as we try to weigh that balance, 13 deaths in 24 hours at this hospital in elm hurst, queens. it suggests an alarm bell, real problem in new york city's hospital. the governor andrew cuomo said yesterday look, there are real problems but we're making progress because of social distancing. and he sees that things could be getting better. how do you balance all that out? some of the alarm bells and some of the positive

developments? >> both are true. as we progress through this we're seeing new problems coming up but at the same time we are seeing a slowing down in terms of the rate of people dying. the problems i see when you are treating any kind of medical problem. you have issues with space, staffing, equipment and then you have supplies, whether medical or not medical, right? so in terms of the space there was an issue, there weren't enough icus, not enough isolation rooms, there weren't enough rooms really for people who had non-coronavirus-related problems. we saw progress on that. everybody is chipping in whether the makeshift hospitals, javits center, talking about hotels chiming in to quarantine people. if we look at staffing, too, healthcare workers aren't interchangeable. so there is an issue because not everyone knows how to use the ventilator, how to use some of these things that are lifesaving, right? it is a special skill set.

so people are jumping in and coming out of retirement. you see people shift from certain areas, an as -- an -- so there are related problems here. there was a meme going around before things got this dark where people, you know, social media for doctors said stay at home if you don't want unless you want to be intubated by a gynecologist. different people can do different things. the other issues we're seeing with medical supplies, protective gear, of course, the swabs and testing and then the non-medical supplies an issue coming up there as well. you need special detergents to clean surfaces. people in housekeeping and doing the laundry, people who are managing the silverware,

cleaning the computers, all this stuff is critical. >> ed: it is indeed. you talked about retired medical workers coming in all hands on deck. very inspiring to see there is still a lot of challenges ahead. we appreciate you coming in. thank you. >> thank you. >> sandra: the senate approving that $2 trillion relief bill not a moment too soon as jobless claims soar in the u.s. it is up to the house. what happens with that? house minority whip steve scalise joins us next. new york grappling with more coronavirus cases by any state by far. the numbers keep growing. the mayor sees a long road ahead. >> we should not cling to that false hope. i want to get back to normal as much as anyone. but we're seeing now a growing challenge, a growing crisis that's clearly going to take us into april. i need a ride.

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>> sandra: fox news alert coronavirus cases spiking sharply in new york state. the number of infections topping 33,000 now with at least 366 people dying from the virus. new york city the epicenter of this outbreak accounting for more than half the state's cases. david lee miller is live outside mt. sinai hospital in manhattan with the latest from there.

>> hospitals throughout all of new york city are now really bracing for this continued uptick in the number of coronavirus cases. we are at mt. sinai hospital on the east side of manhattan. authorities say this hospital system is now planning to set up triage tents outside at least seven locations where there are emergency rooms. this is to better accommodate the growing number of coronavirus patients. meanwhile, at another mt. sinai hospital location, nurses have posted a photo on social media. take a look at this photo. the nurses are wearing trash bags as protection against the virus because they say there is a shortage of gowns and other equipment at the facility. fox hasn't been able to independently confirm the authenticity of the photo. in statement the hospital we provide our staff with the important ppe to do their job. if an individual doesn't have the proper ppe should not go on

the floor. any suggestion otherwise is not accurate. assistant nurse manager died from the virus. some of his colleagues have suggested the shortage of equipment contributed to his death. he suffered from severe asthma. let's look at elm hurst hospital in the new york city bureau of queens. 13 patients died there in a span of 24 hours. a doctor tells "the new york times" the facility is overrealmed. he said each facility is unique. all hospitals had what they needed for the moment according to deblasio. >> it varies by hospital but i think what we can say right now is again every hospital has the personnel, equipment and supplies and the beds but we know in a week or two it is going to be a much tougher situation. i do think we see some real

variation in terms of some hospitals having a lot of activity, others less. >> the mayor is calling the senate stimulus bill immoral. he says it all -- allocates less than 1% for new york city. lastly now we're learning as many as 322 new york city police officers have now tested positive for the coronavirus. that is a 36% increase in one day. the new york city police department now setting up a special task force that will allocate officers to replace those who call in sick. the sick rate now, sandra, is three times what it is normally. back to you. >> sandra: reporting from mt. sinai for us this morning. david lee miller, thank you. >> ed: the senate meanwhile voting unanimously to approve the $2 trillion stimulus package to fight coronavirus.

the plan now heads to the house for a vote expected to happen tomorrow. house speaker nancy pelosi signaled her support as you heard a while ago in the nurse conference. we'll get the other side from steve scalise, the house republican whip. he will join us right after this break.

>> ed: fox news alert. more breaking news. you see there the governor of new york andrew cuomo having his daily briefing. let's listen in.

>> in a situation like this not knowing the facts is worse because that's when you feel out of control or when you feel that you are getting selective facts or you are being deceived by the information you're getting. that is actually the worst situation. so i say to my people in every situation, just give me the facts first and then let me understand what the situation and the reality is. and then we'll go from there. so that's what i try to do. the facts on this situation are increasingly important on two levels, public health but also the economic facts. we've been focusing on the public health facts. and the response of the public health system to the virus. more and more we now have to deal on two fronts. we have to deal with the public health situation but we also have to deal with the economic situation. and i'll get to that in a

moment. public health we're still -- we've had a two-prong agenda which we've been pursuing aggressively. we still have. flatten the curve so you reduce the flow into the hospital system. at the same time increase the hospital capacity. what we're looking for is not a reduction in the number of cases, we're looking for a reduction in the rate of the increase in the number of cases, right? that's what comes first when you are starting to make progress, the rate of increase should reduce. as opposed to the number of absolute cases. so that's what we're looking for. the optimum. when they talk about the apex of the curve is not to have an apex. that's what the flattening is. not to have that spike because the spike is where you would overwhelm the hospital systems.

try to get down that rate of increase so you can actually handle it in the hospital system, right? and that's what they talk about by the flattening of the curve. just as an aside, dr. anthony fauci has been so kind and helpful to me. i speak to healthcare professionals all across the globe literally. but dr. fauci, i think, is just brilliant at this. and he has been so personally kind. i call him late at night. i call him in the middle of the night. i call him in the morning and he has been really a friend to me personally and the state of new york. this is all about getting that curve down and not overwhelming the hospital system. almost any scenario that is

realistic will overwhelm the capacity of the current healthcare system. so a little reality. keep the curve down as low as you can. but you cannot get the curve down low enough so that you don't overwhelm the hospital capacity. so any of these scenarios we have to increase the hospital capacity. and that's why we're literally adding to the hospital capacity everywhere we can. that's what the javits hospital is about and stony brook and westchester convention center and the old westbury additional site is. we're also scouting new sites now all across primarily the down state area of this state for possible sites. our goal is to have a 1,000 plus overflow facility in each

of the -- all of the counties and westchester and rockland. so every county has a 1,000 plus bed overflow facility and that's what we're working on at the same time. as well as increasing the capacity of the existing hospital system. as we've said, the hospitals have a 53,000 bed capacity. we're trying to get to 140,000 bed capacity between the hospitals and overflow facilities. we've mandated that the hospitals increase their capacity by 50%. we've asked them to try to increase it 100%. but they have to increase it 50%. we're also scouting dorms, scouting hotels, for emergency beds and that's going well.

equipment and ppe is an ongoing issue. right now we have enough ppe for the immediate future. the new york city hospital system confirmed that so we have enough in stock now for the immediate need. ventilators, ventilators, ventilators. i didn't know what they were a few weeks ago besides the cursory knowledge. i know too much about them now. we're shopping for them across the country. we've approved the technology that allows one ventilator to help two patients. you add a second set of tubes to a ventilator to do two patients. it is not ideal but we believe it is workable. we are also converting anesthesia machines to ventilators. we have a couple thousand

anesthesia machines in our hospitals and we're converting them to work as ventilators. why is there such a demand on ventilators and where did this come from? it's a respiratory illness for a large number of people so they all need ventilators. also, non-covid patients are normally on ventilators for three to four days. covid patients are on ventilators for 11 to 21 days. think about that. you don't have the same turnaround in the number of ventilators. if somebody is on ventilator for three or four days that's one level of ventilators you need. if somebody is on for 1 to 21 days it's a different equation. that's what we're dealing with. the high number of covid patients and the long period of time they actually need a

ventilator. we're also working on equalizing and distributing the load of patients. right now the number of cases is highest down state new york so we're working on a collaboration where we distribute the load between down state hospitals and upstate hospitals and we're also working on increasing the capacity for upstate hospitals. shifting now to a totally different field. the economic consequences of what is going on. which have just really gelled after what the federal government has done and we were waiting for the federal action to determine where we were from a point of revenues and economics. what's happening to a state government, any state, what's happening to a city government is a double whammy. you have increased expenses

because of the covid virus and you have a tremendous loss of revenue because all those businesses are closed, right? all those people are out of work. people are out of work, they aren't earning income and not paying income tax. businesses are closed, they aren't making money and they're not paying business revenue. so we're spending more to take care of the covid virus, and we're receiving less. in the middle of all this, we have to balance the budget. so how do you do a budget when you have expenses going out and a loss of revenue? we estimate the loss of revenue somewhere between $10 to $15 billion, which all these numbers are hard to give a context. that is a ton of money for the state of new york's budget. we were waiting to see what the federal government did before we determined what we had to

do, because water flows downstream, right? if the federal government had taken an action that helped state governments, city governments, etc., that would have put us in one situation. we now know what they've done. they passed their $2 trillion stimulus bill. they say there may be another bill. we know what they did do with the stimulus bill. the stimulus bill helped unemployment insurance. that's a good thing. it helps more businesses and that's a good thing. it did not help local governments or state governments and it did not address the governmental loss. and the federal officials are the ones being honest will admit that. new york state receives $5 billion from the stimulus. new york state government. and it is earmarked only for

covid virus expenses, which means it does absolutely nothing for us in terms of lost revenue to the state. the only thing it is doing is helping us on the covid virus expenses, which is nice but the bigger problem is on the lost revenues. the congressional action in my opinion simply failed to address the governmental need. i spoke to all the officials involved. i spoke to our house delegation, i spoke to our senators, and i believe what they did failed to meet the governmental need. i'm disappointed. i said i was disappointed. i find it irresponsible. i find it reckless. emotion is a luxury and we don't have the luxury at this

time of being emotional about what they did. when this is over, i promise you i'm going to give them a piece of my mind. i would say to them today, this is an extraordinary time in this nation and it is an extraordinary time for government. this was the time to put politics aside and partisanship aside. this is the time for governmental leaders to stop making excuses and just do your job. do your job. we're one nation. you know the places in this nation that have the most intense problems. address the places that need the help. this is not a time to point fingers, this is not to make excuses or blame everyone else. we've lived in that with washington for years. now is the time to actually

step up, do the right thing, and do your job. they haven't as far as i'm concerned, especially when it comes to the governmental need. in any event we have to do a budget. and the budget is due april 1. so the only responsible course for us is number one, we have to address this revenue loss. we know the revenues are down. we don't know how much. we don't know when the economy comes back. we don't know the rate at which the economy comes back. and we don't know what washington may do to address the situation in the future, if anything. so you don't know, you don't know, you don't know, and you don't know but you have to do a budget with all those unknowns. address them realistically. and how do you address them realistically? first we're going to adjust

down our revenue projections for the initial budget. and then what we're going to do, which is something we've never done, is we're going to adjust the budget through the years to reflect the actual revenue. meaning we'll say on day one okay, we intended to give you $100. we don't have $100 so we're going to give you $95. but i can only give you $95 if i get $95. and i'll let you know quarterly, whatever the period of time is, how much money i'm getting and how much i can give you of the 95 and therefore you can plan accordingly. and that's frankly the only way that you can do this budget when you have so many unknowns. so adjust the initial number

down. and then have periods through the course of the year where you say to school districts, local governments, etc., this is how much we actually received. this is what the federal government did and what the federal government didn't do. the economy is coming back faster, the economy is coming back slower, but these are the actual numbers so you can adjust your budget accordingly. on the public health numbers, our testing numbers are up again. we did 18,650 tests. this was just a massive mobilization, operational undertaking. we had never done it before. you now have to set up all these drive-thrus and testing facilities. we're testing more than any state in the country. we're testing more per capita than south korea, more per

capita than china. it really is amazing what we're doing. and the testing is important. the testing is still helping you identify the positives and isolate the positives. the testing is not telling you how many people have the virus. and i think a lot of people conflate the two. that's a mistake. it is not in telling you the increase in the rate of infection. all it is telling you is you are increasing the number of tests. the more tests you do the more positives you will find. and we're working very hard to increase the number of tests because we want to find the positives. this is the really bad news. the number of deaths is increasing. it's bad news because people are dying. that's the worst news you can have. it is not bad news in terms of

it being unexpected. what is happening is people who were infected who came into the healthcare system have been on ventilators. the longer you are on a ventilator, the more probability of a bad outcome. we now have people who have been on a ventilator for 20 days, 30 days. the longer you are on a ventilator, the more likely you are not going to come off the ventilator. and that is what is happening. because we do have people who have been on for quite a period of time. and those are the people who we are losing. that has always been the way. the longer stays without recovery lead to a higher death rate, right? that's not just covid, that's

any medical situation that you're dealt with. that's the natural consequence. you have older, sicker patients who are staying on ventilators longer, they usually have a worse outcome, right? and i think people get that from their usual experience. what we're seeing now is that is happening. we've had people on for a very long time. and they haven't gotten better. and they are passing away. so the number of deaths is at 385, up from 285 and since we still have a large number of people on ventilators for a long period of time, the experts expect that number to continue to increase, right? and we've said this from day one. you get the infection, 80% self-resolve, they don't go

into the hospital. some percentage going to the hospital get treated and go home. some percentage going to the hospital need a ventilator, they're on the ventilator and they never come off the ventilator. and that is a situation where people just deteriorate over time and that's what we're seeing. that is that vulnerable population, that very small percentage, 2 or 3% of the population who we've always worried about. that's what we're seeing. and again, we expect it to increase. as time goes on, by definition we have more and more people on ventilators for a longer period of time. total number of people tested 18,000. that's the breakdown.

number of positive cases total 37,000. new cases 6400. the curve continues to go up. the spread across the state continues, which is also what we expected just the way it spread all across the country. we now just have several counties that don't have a single case. the overall number, 37,000 tested positive. 5,000 people -- 37,000 tested positive. 5,000 currently hospitalized t.1200 icu patients, which is what we watch most carefully because those are people who need ventilators, 1500 patients who were discharged after being hospitalized. okay? so not to be redundant but people get sick, 80% of the people don't go to the

hospital, they stay home. they just self-resolve. some people get sick and stay home. some people check into the hospital. now you are talking about 15 to 20%. of that, a percentage get treated and leave. of that the smallest percentage get put on a ventilator. that's the 1290 icu patients. some of those people on a ventilator get better and come off the ventilator, some people don't get better, stay on the ventilator and when you are on the ventilator for a prolonged period of time the outcome is not positive. but the percentage of people who wind up in that situation it starts with a 1290 icu patients. those are the people who are put on a ventilator. and that is of the 37,000 that tested positive, right? so we're talking about a very

small population. they are put on a ventilator. some recover, and some don't. the most impacted states, new york is still number one. louisiana has a quote, unquote hot spot and has a cluster that is growing. the people in louisiana and in new orleans are in our thoughts and prayers. we know what they're going through. and we feel for them. and we pray for them and we know the difficulty they're under because we're dealing with the same type of situation. so our best to them. any way we can help them, we stand ready. again, total perspective is the johns hopkins count that has gone from day one 487,000, 21,000 deaths worldwide. my personal opinion, not facts,

i gave you the facts. my two cents, which is probably worth a penny and a half, this is a life moment. it is a moment in the life of this country, it's a moment in the life of the world. it is the moment in our family lives, it is a moment for each of us. each of us is dealing with it in our own way. and my observation has been that when the pressure is on is when you really see what people are made of. in a personal relationship, in a business relationship, people can be great when everything is great. the question is what does a person do when things aren't great and what does a person do when the pressure is on them? and that's when you can see a little crack in the foundation

of a person. but when the pressure is on that little crack, that little crack can explode and that foundation can crumble. or you can see the exact opposite. you can see them get stronger. but you get to see what they are really made of and you get to see the best and you get to see the worst. you get to see the beauty in people, and you get to see the opposite. the outpouring of support for the people of new york has been so inspiring. not just from new yorkers, i'm telling you from across the country, from across the world you would be amazed at how many phone calls we get, how many offers of support, how many creative ideas from everyone. we've asked medical staffs to volunteer. retired medical staff who are

no longer practicing. 40,000 had volunteered. we now have 12,000 more people in one day volunteering to help on the medical staff. we asked mental health professionals to come forward to volunteer to offer free mental health services for people who are dealing with the stress and trauma of this situation. we had 6,000 people. we now have 8600 people. we have mental health professionals from other states calling up and saying they will provide mental health services electronically through skype or over the telephone. i mean, it really is -- it's just -- it gives me such strength and such inspiration. but i don't want to sugar coat the situation. the situation is not easy.

but easy times don't forge character. it is the tough times that forge character. and that's what we're looking at right now. people say to me, you know, people are getting tired of this situation. they've been home, it's going on a couple of weeks, they're getting tired. well, the truth is that this is not a sprint, this is a marathon. we always said this is not going to be over quickly. i understand people are tired but i also understand that people in this situation are really stepping up to the plate and are doing phenomenal work. so the next time you feel tired and believe me, i feel tired, but when i feel tired, i think of the first responders who are out there every day showing up. i think of the police officers. i think of th