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politics aside and partisanship really grateful for aside. this is the time for government institutional knowledge as well as everyone working together. leaders to stop making excuses one of our long-term, stone maker, joe alonso who has been and just do your job, do your with the cathedral 35 years. when the story came about and job. we are one nation. the situation of the crisis began to rise, he remembered, you know the places in this nation that have the most actually the cathedral intense problems. purchasing masks several years addressed the places that need ago. and if it was not for his the help. memory, he went down to the pile >> so that was the criticism of my criticism today and today and christian joe a reaction and we and found these masks. will get to her in a moment. but first more examples how >> bill: 5,000? serious the situation is here. >> yes. this is a new video inside of a it is really one of the great hospital in queens, new york. blessings and miracles that you it reported at least 13 deaths would say is so timely that in one day there. meanwhile the hospital in these masks were purchased back manhattan, staff member seen wearing these trash bags. fox has not been able to in 2006 when the bird fluid was independently confirm the being talked about. authenticity of that photo, but and they were purchased with the a nursing manager at the idea of being able to spread hospital died after he was those out and relieve the cathedral as well as the treated for the coronavirus

patients. community, but it never rose to mount sinai hospital telling fox news we lost a member of our family, and that we always a crisis level. and after he came to this provide all of our staff particular moment in time, we critically important personal and protective equipment they are grateful that many were need to safely do their job. preparing for then and even preparing for something in the future and now the future is it is the largest rescue package now. >> bill: so 14 years later, in modern history. they are still good for use, cdc my next guest voted for the comic kirsten gillibrand, says it's okay? thank you for your time today. >> that is correct. 96, we don't see this everyday. we had to check that first. and of course we don't see we were thankful that when they were stored, those who stored $2 trillion every day either. how will it help, senator? >> this will help the people who them in the crips, with all the need it most. concern and care needed for it was an emergency release bill, not a stimulus bill it was storage. they were wrapped, never unboxed, sealed in cellophane, intended for the money to go to the original packaging and never people who are out of work and open the appearance of checking can't pay their bills come i with the appropriate can't keep their kids. the money went to hospitals, authorities, everyone moved quickly to make sure those masks can be used in the right manner. $150 billion to hospital, first responders, men and women, >> bill: georgetown university hospital. nurses and doctors at the front and they do a lot of good there. line of the crisis to get more >> there are some at georgetown, so protective equipment, so they and there were some that went to can get training for relief workers. children's medical center.

everything they need is there. so we are thankful that they allowed for many small were able to get into the hands businesses because as the viewers know from a lot of small of the front line workers who we businesses are closed. know now, of course, dealing so if you were closed, you can't with all parts of the community. make money and you can't pay your rent. unfortunately as we know this so it is vital that the small businesses stay open and they particular virus, it doesn't matter where you come from. continue to put those in place so we are getting to keep all we are, of course. the employees and they become >> bill: reverend, i have some breaking news for you. you might want to hear this, grants. that is how we will keep this country moving forward in this right? time of crisis. 3 minutes ago the vice president mike pence writes this and i do agree, this is a time like no other. "thank you to the washington it very much feels like we are national cathedral for donating 3,000 n95 masks and the crucial on war footing fighting a deadly gear will protect the virus that is invisible. but one thing about americans, health care workers to care for we are resilient. we are strong. we know how to overcome the american people." difficult challenges like this whether a war or a great that is a good touch there. >> we are very much appreciative depression, whether that dow turned economy. of the opportunity. we can do this. there is so much and so many out people are helping one another there who are looking for ways to be helpful. and that is exactly. >> bill: i hear you on that. we are grateful right now that a couple of details we will get our game wanted to move this to phase four in a moment quickly to make sure they are in the right hand and of course helping those who are 500 billion for corporations, serving up.

$750 billion local government, >> bill: reverend, thank you for sharing the story. really good to hear from you and $15.5 billion for food stamps. best to everyone in washington. i know you miss your home in $1200 check for most americans brooklyn, new york. it is a different place these and $600 for the unemployed. days. i know you are a well of that i heard steven mnuchin, treasury but you it will get back to where it was very soon, secretary said three weeks, the checks go out and they will go reverend. >> we have everyone in our prayers and thank you for the through direct deposit as work. >> bill: thank you, reverend nice to see you today. opposed to the u.s. postal service. i would imagine. cova 19 cases passing half a million around the world and >> i think it depends on how you experts say the soccer game could be to blame for outbreaks pay your taxes. if you are someone who pays your in europe. also this pandemic sidelining taxes online and submit it baseball's opening day. online, you can get your payment online. where do you place a bet on this if you are someone that doesn't one now? submit them in that way, you will likely get a check. ♪ so they will have to figure it out for all americans, but there is also an employment insurance. if you are furloughed or unemployed, you will be given $1200 for adults and then $500 per child. so a family of four could get $3400. >> you heard what the governor said, he was somewhat critical. i'm looking at the hospital

industry $100 billion and they got that. >> they got $150 billion actually. >> are his complaints legitimate, do you think? so governor cuomo is doing an excellent job, meeting the needs of his contest -- we have testing in a lot of places that have cases. he is getting the best available that needs to be met by turning the javits center into an overflow area appear the hospitals are coming together to turn more of the surgery rams into icu beds so they can meet the needs. and we are getting the masks and the ventilators we need to. with that said, the governor is doing his best to keep everything moving forward and with the whole state shut down, that shuts down the economy. when your economy is shut down, you can't have revenues and you won't be able to pass the budget. the truth is this is not intended to close budgets for state and cities. this is intended a triage emergency relief to the most at need, at risk, right away.

there will be another bill and probably another after that and another after that. this is not a short-term crisis but a long-term crisis. every state is going to see more and more cases. grow. >> bill: on that point, what is phase 4? >> right so a couple of things they were not able to do in the last bill. one of the most important things we can be doing is guaranteeing the person working at the grocery store, if she is sick she can stay home two weeks and be paid to pier the person working at the hospital, if they are sick they can stay home and be paid. we want sick people to stay home. it is the best thing you can do for the country. the best thing you can do as a citizen patriotic who wants to defeat this virus. stay home and you feel sick and you can shelter in place as the governor, the mayor's, the president have asked us to do. when you do go out to the store, grocery store, the pharmacy where you need to go, make sure you only go out if you feel well. that is what we can do. that says how we can fight this

virus one by one. >> bill: senator thank you for your time. kirsten gillibrand, thank you from new york. the johns hopkins map, as we do know a lot of data points we will show you that tell us an interesting story. dr. william shatner is back from vanderbilt university, i know you are listening at your office in tennessee. if i could come a doctor come i know you've examined as much as we do. and i just want to go through a scenario here, a trend i'm picking up on. then i will bounce it off of you. so here we are up over half a million, 500,000 around the world. this is what i see today my c120000 recovered, and i don't think we emphasize that enough. there are people that recover from this. here in china i'm key on this number too. you have 82,000 cases, dr. but you have a recovery number 74,000 which means we can debate whether we trust the numbers

from the chinese government, but you are about 7500 cases in china today. i find that very interesting. in the u.s. 76,000 where 1,000 have died as a result. i will show you a few more things, sir. this is the total test of a conducted u.s. through the public labs going back to the 13th of march where almost half a million from about 484,000, okay? come forward. remember folks like yourself, doctor, and everybody else saying the more we test, the greater the mortality rate will drop. >> bill: at the outbreak in here is the grab for the cases. here is the graph for the number europe now, champions league of deaths. soccer match. u.s. cases have gone up the more it happened on february 19th. test and the mortality rate goes the spanish club travel to take down currently holding around 1.5%. if i look at some of the other on the other team. countries around the world, that tens of thousands packed into is where i see the u.s. 1.5%, the stadium. a week after the game, cases started to turn up. the game is one of the reasons south korea 1.4%, italy up over

10% from among those in italy why northern italy as he calmed confirmed with the virus, the the epicenter virus. death rate is higher than 10%. both countries now have more so i take this information to deaths than the country of china. you now as the expert and say, what does it mean? where are we today, doctor? meanwhile, baseball was scheduled for today. >> wealth, we have this virus at the stadiums are empty. all over the united states and each team will keep its blank is progressing around the world, record until the season gets bill, no doubt about it. underway. we don't know when that gets i think by the time we are over underway. what does it mean for the world in this spiral season, and i of sports betting? think we will have a viral season come i think perhaps half a special place today. of the country's population wrigley field in chicago. hey, jeff. could have been infected. >> i have seen home openers however, you should remember that 70% of those people will rained out. i've seen them snowed out. either have no symptoms at all i've seen them frozen out. i have never seen them virussed or have very mild symptoms the mortality part is important as out until today. you look inside the stadium. you say, i think the mortality rates that we are counting still it is a unique perspective. that is not the way it are kind of hide because they wrigley field is supposed to are still aiming for testing at look behind the gates, the old the sickest people. when all is said and done, i green gates. if you wanted to bet on this think those mortality rates will game and the other league games drop even further, but

of major league baseball, tough nonetheless, watch the people infected, which means still lots luck. this would have been the year of people will be admitted to for it. this would have been the the hospital. >> bill: where do you see the breakout year for sports trend on the mortality rate betting. 18 states have legalized sports headed then? if it is going to go lower, will betting. you don't have to go to the book we drop below 1%? anymore. you go right to the internet. do you see that happening? >> my crystal ball is a little but not now. bit cloudy. i think it will have her 1% or there are some things that you can bet on. maybe drop a little bit lower. look at this. on opening day, no people. i'm not entirely sure, but that still means many, many you can bet on a few things. hospitalizations. so we still have lots of sick how about the belarus people to care for. be when i was watching zeke professional soccer league? emanuel earlier today, early this morning. apparently they are still playing soccer. what he was saying, if you you can also bet on the nfl follow the china model and if draft. you can bet on who cam newton you assume that the outbreak was in full force the last week in the quarterback will sign with or who is going to win the january, he believes you are in world series. for eight to ten weeks of bad that's not where they make their stuff. and if that is true, and i don't money. know if you agree with his games played on stadiums like reading on this or not, but china would be about eight or this. that would be something. nine weeks into that. clearly, you can see the amount

of cases they are dealing with we've got our fingers crossed. has dropped significantly. >> bill: that's clark and waveland right there at do you think that forecast is fair for us? where might we be better than wrigley field? >> clark and addison. that today, doctor? if you were here, you would be >> i don't know if we are better over there. than that, but i think the next >> not during lent, but after three, four weeks are going to be the biggest hit for the lent, for sure. thank you, jeff. united states. and we will see us this time rolls out whether all of our wrigley field. here in new york, a different staying at home, social scene. distancing has an impact on here is the midtown manhattan as a 10:30 yesterday morning, rush bending that curve down, flattening it down, stretching hour. it out so we are better able to care for the people that have come forth care that need care. >> bill: you see it that way because of what? what do you see in those numbers >> bill: that was on my camera. our camera at fox at that is not apparent to us? times square a few blocks away. >> welcome at the big thing is the image is the same. the chinese by absolutely having so now with no sports, they've got you covered. quarantining people, they were able to bend that curve, turn it elton john will host the i heart down and they have very few if living room conference. any case is now documented. south koreans did the same thing. a great lineup.

we are testing more now in alicia keys, backstreet boys. you can catch it on all fox south korea and we are doing a platforms. the benefit goes to help lot of social quarantining of american organizations. ourselves as the chinese did. so the combination of those two they are great groups that we things, i hope will kind of talked with the head of feeding flatten, bend that curve down so that things get better after america. another three, four, maybe five this is my donation. weeks. >> bill: i'm always looking for every dollar i put in, the for the silver lining in this. i'm an optimist by nature. company matches it with $2 so what i hear is the new york additionally. here is my donation. governor say about this, the number of the hospitalizations per day, they were doubling two children's foundation and everyone at home, you can join as well. every two days. 3.4 days and then 4.7 days as of this is a terrific group i was yesterday. and i take as a very good sign. born out of the roots of 9/11, helping thousands and thousands of people. and based on the hospital data we hope to make sure that we and the comments he made about social distancing, we are now a continue to do the awesome work that they do here every day across the country. good nine, ten days into that. check it out. can you see today whether or not 9:00 eastern time on sunday that is having an effect for us here? >> well, first of all, new york night. we will see you again tomorrow. i think that we will be at mile is at the advancing wave. they are instructive but of 12 about then. take care. course they are denser than

almost every other part of the bye-bye. country. it is just about the time when we might see some impact of the >> neil: what do you want to call at this? social distancing. it takes a little time for that to take place because you with the gain in the dow, we have made up of 4,000 points of remember, some people were ground over the last three days. infected just before we started social distancing. the biggest advance since 1931 and their reduction in risk is when i first began reporting. only now starting to become i'm just joking about that part. evident. >> bill: doctor you are welcome by a lot of people that terrific, william shaffner from are expecting more disturbing vanderbilt university, economic news. thank you. actually we did get disturbing >> you bet. >> bill: we appreciate the analysis and the jobless claims economic news. soaring a record 3 million we have a lot of stimulus coming americans with fed plans to down the pike. supporsupported an economy thatt welcome everybody, i was be in recession today. neil cavuto and this is "your world." what to make of this plus deployed aircraft carrier returning to port with a couple dozen sick sailors. the potential national security on board there. two navy hospital ships getting ready for duty. the expedited timeline that they are now meeting in a moment.ne ♪

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♪ >> bill: an alert now than covid-19 pandemic sent deployed airport care is back to port after two dozen crewmembers tested positive. the u.s. theodore roosevelt monitoring china from the south china sea. meanwhile, the pentagon reports covid-19 cases in the u.s. military have quadrupled in less than a week with 28 280 service members infected. jennifer griffin has that story and she reports light from the

pentagon with more on this, jennifer. >> bill this is unprecedented. the u.s. navy only has three deployed aircraft carriers at sea right now. only today, we learned one of them has an outbreak of coronavirus forcing it to a halt operation and head into port in the pacific. the acting navy secretary thomas mobley told reporters thursday morning the u.s. theodore roosevelt would be heading into port in guam as soon as possible in order for all 5,000 sailors and pilots on board to be tested for coronavirus. among the first to report that 24 sailors on board the massive worship have tested positive and triple the number from two days ago. >> i know the small ships don't have the ability to test on board. but it is my understanding on the larger ships, we do have the ability to do the testing on board. >> limited to, so are you short of test swabs on board something like that tr roosevelt? >> tr has approximately 800 kids

on board and we are flying more on board as we speak so we will have more to help solve this problem. >> the roosevelt had port call in vietnam over two weeks ago in recent weeks, roosevelt flying around the clock air operations in the south china sea to send a message to beijing. with the carrier important guam, those flight options will stop here three days ago, the three sailors tested positive peer they were flown off of the ship. then there were five more and now we learn today 24 more quarantined. the ships like the roosevelt had to fly those test to land bases which delayed getting results. it is the first time the coronavirus has affected a warship at c of this size. critics fear the carrier could be the next princess cruise liner. it is very difficult to protect sailors at sea given the tight quarters, build. >> bill: thank you jennifer we've been down that road and u.s. navy hospital ships expected to arrive soon in los angeles and maybe next week

in new york city. >> that is right, bill. we learned the u.s. mercy will be important in los angeles on friday. and ready to take noncoronavirus patients within 24 hours of docking. it has about 1,000 beds on board, and the hospital ship comfort will put this weekend and head to new york early and should be there as early this next week according to the navy secretary who briefed us this morning, bill. >> bill: thank you jennifer griffin the pentagon u.s. army, military doctors and arsons of the medical staff in new york. army officials say 200 medical workers are deploying to the hard-hit state to provide a full range of health care services. that move coming after the pentagon announced it was sending military field hospitals to new york and washington state on monday. in a moment year, we get a first look how hard this is hitting american workers and their economy, record jump in unemployment claims. they are staggering as of today. reaction from the white house

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>> bill: so stocks are up after jobless claims surged 3 million for the week. that is nearly five times the previous record. also in the last hour, the white house will release new guidelines. it may change the rules for social distancing. some might get tougher, some might get easier. kristin fisher with the story light from the white house now. kristin, good afternoon. >> good afternoon, this is an eye-popping number 3.3 million americans filing for unemployment and a single week. the white house peter navarro says they knew it was coming. this is not a surprise. he said this is what happens when you effectively shut down an entire country, even if the

underlying economy is strong. >> public health above economics and a very, very short run. this is no surprise. this is expected and you should accept the news because we are doing what we need to do to combat the virus. >> the $2.2 trillion police bill that the senate has yesterday should help all those people who just filed for unemployment. the house is set to vote on it tomorrow. president trump said he will sign it immediately, but even though it is the largest economic relief package in u.s. history, members of congress from both party and the president say it still may not be enough. >> we have to go back, we have to go back. we will take care of the american workers and we take care of these companies that fueled this country and make the country great. it is not their fault. it is not their fault. >> now, one of the biggest questions facing president trump

right now, what is he going to do on monday? that is day 15 of those 15 days to slow the spread guidelines. today, there are even more signs he is seriously considering easing them. just take a look at this letter to american governor, president trump sent today. it reads in part "my administration is working to publish new guidelines for state and local policymakers to use in making decisions about maintaining, increasing, or relaxing social distancing. and using data from extended capabilities the administration will offer guidelines, categorizing counties as high risk medium risk, or low risk" bill, expect a lot of question about that letter at today's coronavirus task force briefing. here is the white house. >> bill: kristen, thanks christian do my kristin fisher and i want to bring in chief investment officer, the managing firm and contributor for fox news, scott nice to see you. i see you on skype and looking

as handsome as ever. >> it might be the sky filter mike sky filter i'm using so keep it up. >> bill: the chairman fdic's says that the banks are safe. and here on the show, watch. at a certain point, we will get a spread of the virus under control and at that time, confidence will return, and people will come back to work. so you may well the significant rises in unemployment and negative declines in economic activities, but there can also be a good rebound on the other side of that. that is actually one of the main things we are trying to do but i assure the slow and the economy and keeping rates low and to assure the rebound comes as vigorous as possible. >> i tell you, scott i what's up this morning and a long way from alan greenspan. i understood what he was saying but his message was at the fed we have the back of everyone in the country.

that has a really strong message. but he also said, we may well be in a recession as of right now so go ahead with your analysis. >> yes, and it is a different message, bill then frankly we saw in 2007-2008 when everybody thought the banks were okay as well but also said, hey, there is no problems here. we only need to stimulate a little bit. really stimulate prime mortgage market when in reality and much bigger problem even in the prime mortgages that originally. so to me, the fact that the administration, the federal reserve, other executives on wall street have come out and said, we realize this is a big problem. we are shutting down the entire economy. this will be massive effect on business and the consumers. so we will do whatever it takes, whatever amount it takes to backstop some of these problems occurring. this shows you this time it is different in the sense of the rescue packages are here to be an actual benefactor of the

economy. >> bill: when i heard him say, scott, we will be there for the u.s. today, that was a strong message. the fed chair never does a morning news program, right? i mean come i don't know that has ever happened before. going back decades, however, you look at this unemployment number, and that is a lot of pain out there scott. at the moment, we don't know how deep it runs. what is your sense of that? >> it runs pretty deep and pretty wide, bill. it spreads throughout all sectors of the economy which is scary. but i will tell you what is funny is that the stock market already knows that data. the stock market already knows the unemployment rate will pick up above 10%. the stock market knows jobless claims will be in the millions. the stock market knows gdp will be down ten plus percent in the second quarter which is three quarters to come after we close out the first quarter at the end of march. so to me, the market is already looking forward to that hope that you talked about all our with respect what happens after.

we get rid of the virus and that is where the stimulus comes in big here because provided the money that is being voted on for the u.s. consumers and certainly u.s. businesses, providing that money shows up quickly and shows up strongly, i think a lot of this will bounce back faster than a lot of people originally thought it would. >> bill: the last question. when you hear the president talk about easter sunday, you are in chicago, right? >> i am. >> bill: how well is it there? >> it is a little scary. as an antidote from i was afraid to be out today. i was going to work and checking on the firm and the office location getting mail. and they say they will site people arrest them if doing nonessential tasks. so things are locked down hard. we are looking forward to april and may when we can get out and support these local businesses. >> bill: thank you, scott, scott martin, what a day it is. thank you for being here with us and take here in chicago, thank you, scott. in a moment, getting ready to

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>> bill: so across four different states, getting updates on the hardest hit areas. some of the states with more than a thousand cases. the alarm is rising in places like illinois, louisiana, texas. texas is issuing a 14 day self quarantine for those coming from new york, new jersey, connecticut or the city of new orleans. we will monitor that an update as we get significant updates from those states. meanwhile, new york doctor is the first to use blood from survivors of cocovid-19. and fighting the virus, doctors use the treatment during the

spanish flu of 1918 and more recently, they use it in some cases in china as well. alex hogan has that store, alex, good afternoon. >> good afternoon, bill. this is something we sell use more than 100 years ago. so long before we had the advanced medicine practices that we have today. but in the short term, scientists are saying this could really have a huge impact on some of the overcrowded hospitals we are seeing around the country. this is not a vaccine. in a vaccine we know that doctors inject a micro piece of activated virus into the body to fight a couple of weeks to a month. this approach takes the antibody of somebody who already beat the virus and covered so mike recovered transferred to someone six. china was starting this process in february. hundreds of scientists in position for the united states team up to create the covid-19 project, a number of cases in the world surpasses 500,000.

today's plasma collected routinely with hospitals in new york asking patients who recover to do their part and donate. >> the exciting aspect of this is that we may have something in the blood for citizens to recover that can be used for to treat those who follow them. and i think all touristic point of view, it is one way to survive. speak with her could be quick between donation and transportation with someone in need. the fda with needing the very sick. but to go other uses to come in the future, one to prevent people symptoms from getting worse and the other from people preventing people from getting sick all together but bill, that can only come if we have more clinical trials. so deftly something to follow. >> bill: thank you alex hogan and al dr. marc siegel with his reaction on this, fox news

medical correspondent, doctor, you were listening, is this a possibility in the early stages? >> this is not a cure but what it is is a way of decreasing symptoms especially severe cases where we are worried about that characteristic pneumonia or a patient with underlying conditions. we are worried about them getting really severe in the icu. this is used in a lot of diseases, hepatitis, as she mentioned, the spanish flu. it has been used for decades. it is a very good arrow to have in my quiver, it is not a cure better treatment. >> bill: the mayor in new york saying half of new york will have this virus, the city is peer that is 4 million people. is that going to happen? >> first of all, that is why the mayor is asking for 30,000 respirators because he understands 1.5% of cases end up needing a ventilator. 1.5%. but i actually think that is a ridiculous statement.

you know why? it's based on mathematical model. that is withhold their respect to the mayor, by the way who is not a physician. do you know what the problem is, bill? where is this mathematical model coming from? i'm not the only one to be concerned about that projection. an employee's numbers we don't know, rate of spread, who will get it, whether social distancing we are trying so dramatically is going to work? changes in the weather, changes in how the virus spreads. i would say that is completely and unnecessary, even a responsible statement. i don't think we need any more fear here. >> bill: two more questions in the u.k. they are doing rapid testing. what is that about and does it work? >> so that is what we really need, bill. we need to know how many people have this virus. how many people have been exposed to the virus. that will allow public health officials to segregate out people who are sick and those who have been exposed. we can use, if you will, coronavirus hotels or areas or even the universities we have

closed, bill, how about people stay in the universities who are sick and keep them from the general population question work then we not have to do as dramatically as we are doing quarantining off areas? we need what is being used in the united kingdom and in the state of washington. >> bill: what is it? >> if you do a pinprick a drop of blood, look at it under the microscope and you figure out whether a person has antibodies to the virus. if they have antibodies to covid-19 come it will be on the drop of blood. it is a much more effective test. >> bill: can we do that now? >> more effective than the nasal swab. we can do that now and i'm told by hhs we have the ability to do that now. i'm on tv with you today saying let's get this available to every lab and university in the country, today, not next week, not the week after. >> bill: very interesting. the surgeon general said on sunday, today is thursday, this week, it's going to get bad.

are you able to define bad four days later as you look at the numbers you're in new york and across the country, doctor? >> bill i interviewed the surgeon general and he has a big heart. he's a great official. as you know he's a practicing physician. what he means by back is what doctors worry about my bad. not the number of cases, because i think i said on your show before this. thousands and thousands of cases being missed on diagnoses, mild cases, asymptomatic cases, we are concerned about hospitalizations. people who end up in the icu and the characteristic pneumonia. those numbers, by the way at the rate of increase of those hospitalizations in new york. the epicenter is decreasing and thank god that rate is starting to go like this. as you have reported that too. he said it will get bad? i think it is already bad, and i think maybe we will see light at the end of the tunnel, just

maybe. if you weeks from now. >> bill: dr. marc siegel. thank you, doctor. in a moment, the national cathedral in washington found a miracle in the church's crypt and that discovery could now helped thousands. that story is coming up next. ♪ nooooooo! not another commercial! when you bundle your home, auto and life insurance with allstate you could save 25%. in fact, the more you bundle the more you can save. put the other game on if it's important to you allstate can protect it. ...home auto and life insurance you could save 25%. if it's important to you allstate can protect it. what? bundle and save with allstate. click or call for a quote today.

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