i wanted to throw that out there. i didn't get to see her for her birthday. we were supposed to have a big thing. it didn't happen. wish my mom a happy birthday, would you? janice: what's your mom's name? rob: farzane. janice: happy birthday, we love you. brian: here we go. it's a fox news alert. the u.s. leading the world with the most covid-19 cases. we don't want to be number one on that list. nearing 86,000 across the country. more than 1200 people have passed away from the virus. ainsley? ainsley: the number of u.s. cases surpassing both china and italy. the u.s. epicenter is right here in new york is new york city with more than 23,000 cases. take a look at this brand new video. it shows a nypd helicopter flying over city parks to enforce social distancing and look at that the parks are

empty, steve. steve: that is good. people are getting the message. meanwhile president trump told sean hannity last night on his program that the president is working very closely with china's president to contain the pandemic as global cases soar past half a million. it is 6:00 in the east coast. good morning, everybody. thank you very much for joining us. once again, a split show. we are practicing that social distancing thing. we are in day 12 of the administration's 15-days to slow the spread. and as we told you yesterday governor cuomo said by the looks of hospitalizations social distancing appears to be working because it is slowing that down. also news out of washington state, which has been so hard hit, apparently they are flattening the curve. the new numbers of cases is leveling off to a trickle. and some wonder whether it's just the calm before the storm or, brian, whether or not the

social distancing is actually working. and that's good news because we are all doing it. we are hoping, fingers crossed, it does work. brian: it's got to be working. i cannot believe, i have never seen so many people in one country be more in line with what to do than our country since this virus came to our shores. people are finding things to do with their family. i even noticed people are saying enough even with the neighbors in the beginning hang out with your neighbors. now saying not worth the risk as even younger and younger people seem to be getting it. there was one 49-year-old resident of a town right next to mine that passed away. the guy was a marathoner and no sign of u a starting to get the message now. coming up on our show we are going to talk to dr. nicole saphier about some of the dangers and challenges of getting back together and maybe lifting up the don't work, don't leave your house vale that's over most of america.

dr. oz will be with us, too as well. we are going to be with dr. marc siegel. stuart varney on the rise this week of the stock market and what we can expect especially as the house is about to pass that monster rescue bill. and senator ted cruz, he had a couple of statements where he wants the president to use the defense production act. sounded a little like governor cuomo. now that he is out of quarantine, how does he feel about how america is handling it to date as texas declares a state of emergency. so that's a little bit about what's coming up over the next three hours, ainsley. ainsley: yeah, brian. as this is spreading into pockets of the united states. the president and the white house has identified certain hot spots, louisiana is now getting hit hard. you have chicago is getting hard as well as detroit. and so good news is there are more tests out there and now they have these self-tests that you can take. they are not as invasive. you don't have to go to a doctor to do it. so it only involves you. so you don't have to worry about the gloves and that free's up those gloves and free's up the

masks that the hospitals can actually use that you only swab the inside of your nose, it doesn't have to go all the way into the back of the nasal cavity so it's not supposed to be as invasive. the president wants to classify each county in the united states as a high risk, medium risk or low risk and that's in an effort to reduce that social distancing we see here in new york. the house is expected to vote on 2 trillion-dollar covid-19 package to relieve million dollars of struggling workers. one person could hold out and delay this payout to everyone in need. griff jenkins is in washington to explain. good morning, griff. griff: good morning the president calling him a grandstander fox news has learned that grandstander is kentucky republican thomasy to tweet add cryptic reminder of article 1 of section 5 of the constitution requiring the house to have are a quorum. if massey objects to the lack of one during the voice vote then we are headed for a delay as members are scrambling to get

back here to washington it's decision to issue strict protocols here. regardless speaker pelosi is confident it will pass with, quote, strong bipartisan support. but the house seems anything but bipartisan after pelosi's delaying the process. >> oh, we did i didn' jew worket democratic workers first legislation. >> sadly some members of congress even in the midst of a pandemic think this is a tremendous opportunity to restructure things to fit their own vision. griff: meanwhile, the president is as you mentioned ainsley considering reopening parts of the country in areas of lower risk. here is what he told hannity last night. >> i am one that wants to get everyone back working it. will take three or four or five months. three or four months, our country is not designed for that everybody wants to go back to

work. the sooner we go back the better the lift that we're going to get. griff: when it comes to responding to the pandemic, a fox news -- new fox news poll shows 51% of americans approving of the way the president has handled it. now, when it comes to overall job performance, 48% approve of the job the president has done while only 31% approve of the job congress has done. and if congress can't deliver 2.2 trillion in emergency aid to these suffering americans, you can bet that number, brian, ainsley, and steve will not go up. steve: all right. griff, thank you very much. so we will be waiting to see what happens on capitol hill. meanwhile, yesterday, if you were watching governor cuomo with his daily briefing, essentially what he said is he wondered if the sweeping statewide quarantine had actually backfired where, you know, you kwaurpbgts with the young and the old all in the house together, that can cause problems. and he said he had been looking at dr. katz's materials out of

yale where the idea should be you isolate the most vulnerable and you don't isolate everybody because some people, most people are not vulnerable to it. so it will be interesting to see. he also said that new york state and this is good news has enough personal protective equipment for everybody at this point although some local hospitals in new york city differ, ainsley, with the governor. ainsley: if you look at louisiana they are worried because it's hitting there. i saw a quote this morning they said it's like preparing for an invisible hurricane. we all know what happened down there after katrina. they are racing to convert wings of the hospital into icu units. the governor says they are going to run out of ventilators on april 2nd and hospital beds on april 7th. therefore the federal government has sent in two medical stations with 250 beds each along with 60 doctors and nurses. brian, they have about 1100 beds in the convention center in new orleans as well to prepare for

this. brian: right, they are getting ready they are not a state that's awash in cash. this will need some help. one thing governor cuomo said listen if we're done with the ventilators and have any extra things we will send them to the next hot spot across the country. other thing that's clear especially being on the radio three days. if you her in new york, don't take. when they see new york license plates in virginia and florida. people get a little ticked off. what's going to happen as they begin to lift certain counties and certain states in saying hey in montana, perhaps, can you go back to work and sections of pennsylvania these counties seem fine. in new york, it's going to be a while before we are allowed to travel where people feel okay about it. the one thing is pretty dr. clear, good to see governor cuomo say hey, i might have made a mistake. if did you go to new york people think around the country that new york is new york city. new york is new york city but upstate is like iowa and idaho. saratoga springs and buffalo you

are saying really i can't go to work? we don't have a problem up here. i think that's what the president is getting at. some economists are getting at. that's what governor cuomo is getting at. stephen moore is getting at and saying maybe it's our obligation to help the hot spots by going back to work. so that's one of the things we are talking about. so let's bring in so those are some of the things that we are talking about today. steve: that's right. let's bring in dr. nicole saphier fox news medical contributor. she is joining us from a separate location as well. good morning to you, doctor. the president. >> good morning. steve: president is talking about how he would like to open up parts of the country in weeks. he is aiming for easter. he told last night sean hannity he said nebraska, texas, and iowa in the farm belt. parts of the country might be able to open up sooner than others. but it's all about the data. because, apparently they, to ainsley's earlier point, doctor, it sounds like they would classify each county in the united states, whether it is a low risk, medium risk, or high

risk area. does that sound like a good idea to you? nicole: steve, what we found with the letter the president wrote to the governors is a data risk base strafbgs. something that is going to happen. we are not going to have a universal open-closing of our country. we are very diverse nation and it isn't going to be on a statewide basis or municipality or in this instance now county by county. i do think this is a smart action. because, you know, as you were alluding to the county in certain areas of new york is very different than a certain county in wyoming or in texas and every area is hit very differently. i like the fact that they're going to be focusing on the data and be able to say certain counties may be able to loosen up their restrictions. here is the only issue though. we have vast interstate travel in the united states. we also have international travel which is why we have seen increasing cases kind of going anywhere. that's going to be the problem. if you want to open up municipalities and get people

going back to work, you are still going to have to have some restrictions on travel. if you open up one county somewhere, then people are going to try to flock there and then they are going to be bringing stuff back in and see an uptick of cases. i do expect this to happen in the future anyway, however, we have to be smart about this. i do believe they are being smart in the sense that they want to start risk stratifying people who make sure we can open up our country again in the safest way possible. ainsley: dr. deborah birx was talking about the rumors. 20% of our population is going to be affected. she said the data is not watch matching up. watch this. >> there is enough data now of the real experience with the coronavirus on the ground to really make these predictions much more sound. so when people start talking about 20% of a population getting infected. it's very scary. but we don't have data that matches that based on the experience. and no reality on the ground where we can see that 60% to 70%

of americans are going to get infected in the next 8 to 12 weeks. 550,000 tests. you can do the math. but we're still running somewhere about 14% overall. so, still 86% are negative. ainsley: dr. saphier as a physician, does that make you feel better? >> of course. this is an important point to remember, ainsley. is that new york city, where we are doing more tests than anywhere else in the country, they still are having a far majority of tests coming back negative. yes, when people hear those numbers that you are going to have 50% of the population pop d that is based on very loose modeling that are essentially guesses that is meaning not self-checked not isolating and taking appropriate measures. the truth is we did the travel ban and socially isolating for almost two weeks.

we have done things to decrease the amount of cases that we're going to see in this country. and so those numbers, people, i keep saying have you got to stop focusing on the numbers. bottom line doing everything we can to reduce the risk of community spread and the president his administration and the task force are watching the data very closely and they are going to open things up as soon as we possibly can. brian: right. but you know it's up to the president to push the ball forward, he feels, or not. so, he has got to look at the economists and he has got to look at the doctors and decide what's best. so a lot of pressure on his shoulders, let's go to some of the emails and correspondence we are getting and questions for you, dr. saphier you, after someone has tested positive, dennis writes. how is it determined they have recovered? do they need an additional test? the answer is. >> so it depends on if you tested positive or you are just presumptive positive based on your symptoms. the bottom line is if you are asymptomatic but it's been at least seven days since your

symptoms began they say you assume have you recovered or gone three days without a fever, without taking any tylenol or motrin, just three days no fever. if you have tested positive and you actually are be tested again, then it's two negative tests within 24 hours apart. at this point we are going based off symptoms. again, it's at least seven days after the start of your symptoms have began and three days without fever that without fever reducing agents. steve: all right. dr. cathy emailed us she said in our house i have an air purifier that has charcoal hepa filter with ultraviolet light. why isn't it possible to have these in populated areas like waiting or testing rooms, testinnurse's stations et ceter. some feel ultraviolet light can kill the virus. >> sure, a lot of the systems are throughout the country. i actually have some of those in my home. a lot of hospitals have them.

a lot of private businesses have them. it's just hard to say who has them and who doesn't. uv rays have shown to have antiviral properties. so it is a way of cleaning certain devices. but, yes, i agree, i think everyone needs to make sure that their ventilation systems are up to date and modernized medical facilities and facilities already have that in place. ainsley: this is email dr. saphier from chris. as the virus passes from person to person does it weaken, strengthen or stay the same? that's a good question. >> that's a great question. so what we see with viruses an shifts and change from animals to humans. oftentimes the virus will weaken as it goes on longer and longer. we have to remember the virus wants to live and the virus needs your body to live. if it finds it is weakening you far too fast and people are dying from it. it will mutate to live longer.

oftentimes we see the virus will weaken over time. brian: and then we will see dr. fauci indicated yesterday maybe once have you it you are immune to it. it looks like that. and that's what governor cuomo wants those immunity tests to see if maybe you are strong enough to go back to work. dr. saphier, thanks again. >> thank you, guys. brian: all right. let's go out to jillian fresh off her two hour show threatening to update us. is it true? jillian: update you with news we are following. we begin with this fox news alert. the navy is diverting one of its biggest warships as coronavirus cases sore. case cases soar. the first american warship with confirmed cases heading to guam where it will stay isolated at the dock. nearly 5,000 people on board. the ship only has 800 tests. relief is finally on the way for

hospitals unindated by covid-19. two hospitals. the mercy ship set to arrive in los angeles in just a few hours and its sister ship comfort will head to new york. earlier the ship's commanding officer explained the mission. >> the mission for the ship is to relieve some of the pressure on the health systems of new york city to take care of non-covid-19 patients. jillian: the uss comfort scheduled to arrive next week. u.s. super stars are banning together for a concert. the back street boys will join mariah carey, tim mcgraw and billie eilish. living room concert for america.

elton john will host from his home. it will this sunday at 9 p.m. eastern all platforms including here on the fox news channel. feeding america and first responders children's foundation. night of music everyone can get together for from their homes. guys. steve: that's right. jillian, the thing is by seeing the celebrities livestreaming from their homes, just using their iphones to watch them sing songs it reminds us we are all in this together. they are essentially sheltering in place just like we all are. jillian: absolutely. ainsley: thank you, jillian. steve: jillian, thank you very much. ainsley: as coronavirus spreads, how do we make sure our veterans are taken care of. especially when the v.a. is already overwhelmed. our own pete hegseth takes a look when he joins us live next. want to brain better? unlike ordinary memory supplements neuriva has clinically proven ingredients that fuel 5 indicators of brain performance. memory, focus,

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>> we are being very protective of our veteran they don't have to wait in line. they go to their private doctor and get well. they don't have to wait. a lot of times they waited so long that they would have a problem and end up being terminal because they couldn't get the kind of treatment they deserve. steve: president trump vowing to protect veterans amid the cv 19 pandemic. but is the v.a. prepared to give them the care that they actually need? "fox & friends weekend" co-host and author of the upcoming book american crusade right there pete hegseth joins us right now live from new jersey. pete, good morning to you. >> steve, good morning. jersey to jersey. good to see you. steve: indeed. tell us what's up with the v.a. a lot of people who do use the

services of the v.a. are in that particular high risk age category. >> that's right it. is actually well-positioned to care for the elderly and people who would be more susceptible to covid-19. a lot of people don't know the v.a. actually has a fourth mission. it is the national back-up healthcare system. in a element modify emergency, any extra capacity the v.a. has can be triggered and be used by people who are not veterans in a national emergency. that has not been triggered yet. but the sort of the concern some folks have had. the sound you played was the president on sunday talking about veterans choice. something a lot of us believe in big time if you can't be seen, at a v.a. facility promptly or in a quality way you can go to the community or for private care. well, the v.a. was signaling they were going to put a 90-day pause on veterans using that choice or going out in to the community for reasons confusing there was a lot of push back. the v.a. is deciding what they

will do or whether it really have a pause or not because the president has adamantly talked about choice and going even further and it feels like some of the bureaucrats at the v.a. who have never liked the choice have always wanted to slow walk that implementation. use covid-19 to prevent vets for going outside the system. they say it's because they don't want them infected in private care. as a vet wouldn't you rather do something locally if you can especially if there aren't. i know there are affecting community care. the v.a. remains a system that doesn't work for many. but the one thing the government should not take away is the ability for a veteran to choose, which the president has fought for. steve: absolutely. that's been one ever his core issues. the governor and the mayor called on anybody who is retired from the medical services to

volunteer to be on stand by if they needed extra help. and i understand, pete, apparently the army is apparently doing the same. if you have a specialty in healthcare, we would like to hear from you because we might need you. pete: pretty unique thing not the individual ready reserve on a list. these are retirees reaching them through the pension system that they have earned and saying if you have a background in medicine, we could use you they say if you are still working in medicine in a hospital or a nurse, then please stay where you are, but ultimately gathering the information of people with those critical skills to use them if need be. i wouldn't be surprised if they are activated. as of right now they are gathering who can raise their hand. who is in a place in their life where they are capable to augment civilian or military efforts in the new york city area. it's a pretty cool thing that you can reach these people a lot of them obviously signed up because they have a sense of

duty and those skills are ones that go with you for your entire life. so in moment like this you actually start to realize how deep our reservoir of skill and goodness is when we need to tap into it. this is one of those examples. steve: right now. , pete, last week you appeared on the program and we showed some of the images of you being the principal there at the hegseth institute of higher learning. you are just teaching your children during this time out. people are wondering how are you doing now a couple of weeks in. >> listen, i'm telling you. people talk about it all the time the silver lining of these moments. it's been one of the most wonderful moments of my life to have the opportunity to focus on the education of my kids, something i care so much about. shamelessly i wrote all about education in american crusade. i love it. listen, our lectures this week were on capitalism vs. socialism. political views left vs. right right. we did the history of andrew

jackson. we went on the range and fired air rifle. they learned how to do proper trigger technique and of course ball-handling basketball camp all week as well out on the driveway and then all the additional schoolwork they have from school as well. so i literally am the principal from about 9 -- 8:55 we don't start late until about 3:30 when we cut them loose. it's been a pretty cool deal. hegseth school for higher learning. steve: there you go. all right. i have a feeling that jen has a lot to do with the instruction there at the hegseth house. pete: she is the academic dean, yes. steve: all right. pete, thank you very much. we will be watching for you tomorrow on "fox & friends." pete: you got it all weekend. steve: meanwhile, yes, sir. meanwhile as coronavirus cases surge one company is turning its production lines from making menswear to masks. and they have already delivered thousands to the men and women on the front line. that company's ceo is going to

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far because they were asked to. steve, is the ceo of hickey freeman tailored clothing. he got the call from rochester, general, what did you do, steve? >> reramped up production as quickly as we could in a matter of days we built a prototype of of a surgical curtain supplied to us by rochester general. and within a week had delivered the first 10,000. we are ramping up it hopefully next week producing 300,000 as quickly as we can. brian: now you have got your machines ready to go. do do you have the material? >> we have been sourcing material. it's been a 24/7 activity. we have to go from learning how to design and produce menswear to learning hour to design and produce protective material. that's a whole new supply chain to us. and we sort of unleashed all of our senior executives on this project and we believe as of yesterday, we have now sourced the kind of quality and grade of protection that hospitals

require. we expect our first shipment of that fabric today so by next week we can be ramping up production. brian: you quickly did. we are seeing video there or still shots of all your men and women working to do these masks for rochester general. which is unbelievable. the question is are you doing this according to specifications? you are used to making custom shirts and they are great. you don't have anyone looking over your shoulder except the customer deciding if they like it or not. do we know that these masks are effective? >> so, it is the million-dollar question. we have a lot of manufacturers across the country making very different prototypes and different designs using different materials. everybody is trying their best. the biggest challenge is getting those prototypes appropriately approved and rolled out to hospitals. in our case we obviously don't run an fda facility. we obviously are not a clean factory and not sterilized.

so, what we are doinged in the case of rochester general, is producing masks acrossing to their specifications, they then sterilize them. those masks for use. going forward, i believe we are in a position to use fda approved fabric, but the hospital ultimately is going to have to test those masks, whichever local hospital it is, test those masks, tailorrize those masks for use. brian: steve, i'm just watching, not only do you deserve a lot of credit. what about the men and women who work for you, who have adjusted and are making these masks. and working around the clock to do it. and here's the kicker. you are losing money on every mask you send out. and rochester general doesn't have an open checkbook. and the state is not writing a lot of checks and government notoriously is slow. do you worry about how much longer you can do this and stay in business? >> you bet i do. let me address your first point

first of all that the incredibly overwhelming response not only from our workers but from the community has been incredibly inspiring and fueling our energy right now. we are lose money every mask we make today because we couldn't wait for the government to fund this adequately. we said to rochester general look it, we will get these masks in our hands. we it will take a loss on first shipment and buy us time to figure out what we're going to do going forward. it has been a challenge getting the money from whether we are talking in this case about the state government or fema or other organizations down to the local hospital where the actual purchasing is happening today. we desperately need a buyer that is either statewide or even better national that can coordinate not only approving prototypes but providing the budget required. because, let's face it, american

manufacturing is more expensive than the traditional chinese manufacturing that this industry is used to. and while this is an unbelievably valuable exercise for us to be engaged in on such short notice, we do have to be careful not to lose our shirt doing it. brian: pun intended. >> yeah. brian: listen, steve, people watching right now who can get you the material and fema directors and state people who watch the show, what email can they use to get in touch with you right now to get you the things you need to keep it going and to get you paid? >> they can email me directly at any time at sgranovsky at -- retail.com. we are talking to anybody any hour of any day. brian: hold on in the break. i have got someone at fema that is a person get things done and i will give you their number

because they should be helping you out as well because you are providing the answer and they should be helping you because you could help a lot of other people. thanks, steve, great job. >> thank you, brian. brian: you got it. knox is considered the epicenter of the coronavirus. how are the doctors and nurses handling the sudden surges of cases. we will hear from a doctor who is on the front line. that story next. my psoriatic arthritis pain? i had enough!

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of respiratory diseases. wash your hands. avoid close contact with people who are sick. avoid touching your eyes, nose and mouth. stay home when you are sick. cover your cough or sneeze. clean and disinfect frequently touched objects with household cleaning spray. for more information, visit cdc.gov/covid19. this message brought to you by the national association of broadcasters and this station. steve: according to the numbers right now. new york city is the epicenter of the coronavirus outbreak. so how are health workers on the front lines coping with the surge as people come through the doors every day, ainsley? ainsley: yeah, steve. joining us now is dr. mordell attending physician in nyu langone hospital thank you for

joining us. >> good morning. thank you for having me. ainsley: we have been hearing stories. especially new york city someone earns experiencing this maybe more than one. you are on the front line. tell us what you are doing at nyu langone. >> you are right. we are seeing a surge of cases. seems to be very prevalent on the population. the number of people coming in with complaints of cough, shortness of breath fever coronavirus rising both in the er and telehealth platform as well. steve: doctor, yesterday we heard from the governor of new york, governor kwo*ebg and he said for right now the hospitals have enough of the personal protective equipment is that correct in your estimation? >> yes, for now is the key word. i had equipment last night. i had equipment for my prior shift. i cannot tell you -- can i only hope i will keep having enough equipment for the shift to come.

brian: so, doctor, yesterday the president mentioned to sean hannity he does not think new york really needs 30,000 ventilators. i know you have a view of what your experience at nyu. but is there a need for ventilators? >> i can't tell you on the citywide level what the exact need is. i can tell you that cases are still rising. we are seeing more and more people. and resources stay limited. it's obviously going to -- there is going to be inflection point in which we run out. ainsley: what exactly do you need at your hospital? >> again, i would tell you we need more of everything. because we have prepared for more of everything. we have to prepare for more people coming in every single day. steve: all right. doctor, i was reading in the "new york times" this morning that apparently women, you know, aside from covid-19 cases coming

in your front door, women who come in to the hospitals, some of the hospitals in new york are being told that they can't bring their spouse or their partner or anybody with them because the hospitals are treating everybody expectant mothers as if they have covid-19. that's something that didn't dawn on a lot of people but have you got to figure every single person who walks in the door could have it? >> that's right. and we are surprised. not everyone raising their hand and says they have cough and fever. some people come with weakness and leg pain and end up having symptoms. our job is to protect as many people as we can. to help as many people as we can and as trying and challenging as it is both for families and for us. we have to separate people so we can minimize exposure. brian: doctor, you know what amazes me and nyu is one of the most well financed respected

hospitals in the country. why were you not ready for something like this? why wasn't there a basement area for just in case. >> i don't think anyone in the world was ready for the expense that this pandemic presented. i think it caught the entire world by surprise. it's been a learning experience for everyone across the board. and i think what we learned from this will translate into a different approach for years to come. and can i tell you we are seeing things with use of technology and platforms like tell health platforms that have had unprecedented need now that will probably carry on for many years to come dr. moredel you are a hero. >> thank for having me. ainsley: you are welcome. 46 minutes after the hour and jillian mele has headlines for us. jillian: sad story. a nurse who treated coronavirus

patients in new york city died from the disease. she worked at mount sinai west hospital. some say a lack of protective gear led to his death as andrew cuomo says hospitals have what they need. >> equipment and ppe is an ongoing issue. right now we do have enough ppe for the immediate future. jillian: kelly could be the first new york city nurse to die from covid-19. his sister says he had asthma but was otherwise healthy. venezuela's president calls president trump a, quote: ratessist cowboy as the doj offers $15 million for his arrest. nicolas maduro calls the drug trafficking and money laundering charges a conspiracy to, quote: fill venezuela with violence. attorney general bill barr hopes the charges will help venezuelas see the criminality in their country. >> we think the best way to support the venezuelan people during this period is to do all

we can to rid the country of this corrupt cabal. >> federal prosecutors say maduro and senior officials worked with guerrillas to traffic cocaine into the u.s. severe storms pushing through the midwest overnight. take a look at this video showing golf ball size hail falling in kansas city. thunderstorms, heavy rain, possible flash flooding expected in the area today right now the powerful storms pushing east. expected to push from the northeast down to louisiana. as the south record breaking temperatures this weekend. a grateful city shows appreciation for healthcare workers on the front lines of the coronavirus outbreak. watch this. [cheers] jillian: that is people cheering from their balconies as hospital workers change shifts in atlanta. it's been happening every night at 8:00 p.m.

a look at your headlines. send it to you. steve: that's awesome. they are toiling, they are right there on the front line and it's great graphics to know that some people appreciate what they do. jillian, thank you very much for that all right. meanwhile, you know, kids may be home from school. but they can still continue to learn, obviously. our week long series continues with fun tips from a teacher turned stay-at-home mom and that is coming up next. sure, principal is a financial company.

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♪ ainsley: with children home from school we are sharing fun activities to keep them busy. back with ideas is teacher and author upcoming book actual parenting susie alison. >> hey, how are you. ainsley: today you are teaching us how to use our recyclables. >> i love recyclable play so fun. ainsley: first one is recycle station governmental to recycle bin and bring in good stuff. egg cartons, cereal boxes cardboard from amazon packages. bring it inside and let your kids tinker with it and play with it. build, create, design using tape, scissors, glue.

kids this imaginations go wild. ainsley: a lot of us are neat freaks. this is the time to get messy and pull out recyclables and have fun with it. my dad used to say you spend money buying hayden these toys and all they want is tissue paper and more fun with cardboard boxes than anything. >> absolutely. ainsley: the second one susie is a ball ramp. how do you do this? >> i love this. you take a big box. cut it down. put your broom handle on the back side. tape it down and then just kind of roll off the end. lay it on your couch and let your kids roll balls down it into a target. this is great. it is a stem activity. science, experimenting, engineering, it is wonderful for our children. ainsley: that's a great idea. and then what is the tube ramp? >> this is where we took all of those extra toilet paper tubes in our house, they taped them to the wall. made kind of like a ramp system for my son.

we gave him a bowl of pompom balls and experiment how he could drop them down, super fun, we had this up on our wall for a week i think so great. ainsley: that is a great exercise. and i have a friend that she took the plastic water bottles and she put them up and set them up as bowling pins so then the kids would roll the ball. isn't that a great idea? final thought on exercising. many of us are doing youtube exercises at home. should we involve the kids in that and how important is that for the children? >> absolutely. get the kids moving. find those youtube channels where they have got yoga or the exercises for kids. my kids are doing those two right now. coming back upstairs all sweaty and loving it. ainsley: do you recommend any sites? >> yes. i recommend cosmic kids and i also recommend go noodle. those are so great for kids. they are used in schools around the country and now we can use them at home, too. ainsley: the kids are used to recess. most kids go out to the playground every single day. >> they are. so build that time back into

their schedule. they are used to going outside two or three times a day. send them outside. yesterday it was 45 degrees here. and a little bit misty. and my kids still wanted to have snack outside because it's what they are used to. so i sent them on out. they love it. ainsley: as long as they are social distancing or just staying within the family unit. >> yes. in our backyard. ainsley: thanks, susie. if you want to check out our website busy toddler.com. do #busy toddler for posting pictures. ainsley: thanks, susie, you kept our children very busy. >> thank you. ainsley: we have dr. oz, senator ted cruz, stuart varney and geraldo. plus, celebrities are teeming up to recommend cascade platinum... -- cascade platinum. the network has to be prepared to absorb

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police patrolling with that urgent message. steve: meanwhile, president trump told fox news overnight he is working very closely with china's president to contain the pandemic as global cases soar past half a million. it is 7:00 in the new york city area. thank you very much for joining us on this friday morning. man, has this been a long week. we are now officially up to day 12 of the administration's 15 days to slow the spread. brian and ainsley. and it expires on monday. it will be interesting to see what the president decides whether or not they are going to go forward with a plan, at least announcing a plan where parts of the country start to reopen. >> yeah. i know that axios is writing today that there is some aids to the president who are coming out and saying they are worried the president is hard and fast on a thanksgiving open up the curtains for the country. and if we don't do it. the markets right react

negatively by easter. and if they react negatively, obviously, this would be a self-imposed hurt. meanwhile, give blood. we're out of blood everywhere. if you want to do something positive. you don't know how, there is not much we can do. that would be one way to do it. meanwhile talk to dr. oz as well as everybody else will about what he says we should be careful about reopening the country. dr. marc siegel about the new things we now know about this virus and why some people are concerned about a second saoeublg. stuart varney on the rise in the market during the week the stimulus package that could get tripped up today in the house. and we are privileged to have with us general jack keane. early estimates showed how bad this would get. so far it's not nearly as bad as someone people have predicted. what does that mean? also, what does it mean for the military when the u.s. says teddy roosevelt is really forced to go into port where some have tested positive for the coronavirus in a very closed tight environment as senator ted cruz his first interview after coming off quarantine, he will be with us live as he knows the

senate has passed that vote and now it's up to the house. ainsley: first tv interview. yeah, you are right, brian. i read a story this morning about navy sailors that went on their ship in san diego and then their leader said you are not getting off the ship for at least two weeks because so many people have tested positive for the coronavirus. and so their families were just notified that your loved one is not coming back for a few weeks. pretend you are being deployed is what they're told. we are all making sacrifices. the president wants to get the economy up and running again at the same time he wants to keep people safe. therefore, he is trying to classify each county in the united states as high risk, mid risk and low risk. as brian pointed out in the last hour. new york city is the hot spot for our country. it's the worse city that's experiencing this coronavirus out of all the cities in the country. then have you like saratoga springs. different areas in the north of us. in the upper part of new york that are doing just fine. maybe that would be an area where the president says it's safer, you can go back to work. we will have to see you are

right, steve on monday the 15 days are up. the president said this will probably maybe go through easter or maybe easter he will start to reopen businesses. dr. fauci says you don't make a timeline, the virus does. this is just a fluid situation. and we're all just going to have to take it one day at a time, steve. steve: we will. and it's friday. and we have been taking it easy. we have been self-isolating so let's see how the weekend goes. in the meantime, the house of representatives is expected to vote on that 2 trillion-dollar covid-19 rescue package because millions of people are struggling financially to help the american workers. but president trump is warning one person could hold out the vote. we have got mark meredith. he is live at the white house. and, mark, it sounds like there is one grandstander as the president referred to him who could make things a little complicated. >> steve, that's right. the white house all week long

really all along has been pushing on congress to pass this emergency stimulus it. does look like that is about to happen. the house is expected to vote fairly soon. both parties have been urging for what is known as a voice vote to get this done quickly. as you mentioned there may have to be a role call vote something the president alluded to last night. >> could be one vote. one vote. one grandstander maybe. you might have one grandstander and for that we will have to come back and take a little more time but it will pass. it will just take a little longer. let's see whether or not we have a grandstander. >> now, this stimulus is a 2 trillion-dollar boost for the economy meant to help people that are struggling now because of the virus. it includes several provisions, including stimulus checks for some americans based on income. help for small businesses to keep people on the payroll and loans for some of those industries that have been hardest hit. >> everybody wants to go back to work. the sooner we go back. the better the lift that we're

going to get. >> the president after that interview with sean hannity last night tweeted. this he said just finished a very good conversation with president xi of china. discussed in great detail the coronavirus that is ravaging a large part of our planet. china has been through much and has developed a strong understanding of the virus. we are working closely together. much respect. this week the president is expected to leave washington to head to norfolk briefly as the usns comfort will be heading from virginia up to new york bringing much needed medical supplies and additional resources at entire tri-state area deal with the coronavirus. steve, ainsley and brian, back to you guys. brian: the problem is, mark. thanks so much. so much pork in this bill but no one wants to stop and say why 3 million for forest and range land research. the bill shovels 75 million to the national foundation for arts and humanities. why is that an emergency? 78,000 payment to the institute of american indians and alaska native culture and in kentucky the fda has approved an

innovative sunscreen. so they are going to get money from this to work on sunscreen. unbelievable. that's some of the things. that's not why massi will vote against it. but these are. so reasons why americans get fed up. ainsley: that's why the approval rating is not so good for congress. the president has a higher approval rating. it breaks our heart. i heard a story yesterday a man fell in his house and he had to go to the hospital for treatment because he it was a really bad fall. caught coronavirus and died a few days later. you know, we have all heard so many stories. i was reading this morning that they tried to identify where this started and they have now linked it to a lady the first person to test positive for corona in wuhan. 57 years old. she said she went to the doctor. she thought she had the flu. he gave her some pills. went back to work. sold live shrink at the market and one week later was barely conscious and clinging to life. she felt sick on december 10th. and then on december 16th she

was clinging for life. so we will learn more about this lady as time progresses. let's bring in dr. oz who is the host of dr. oz show. he is with us this morning. dr. oz, the white house is identifying hot spots. i know new york city and washington state we have known those to be hot spots. now there is louisiana, chicago, detroit. what's your reaction to that? >> actually, it's empowering, i hope, to many americans to at least know if they are in a hot spot or not. until now we didn't have enough information to decide decisions. they are trying to make the public understand what the risks are. and they were shooting in the dark. now we actually have enough data with the increased numbers of swabs being done and kits being deployed to be able to figure out where the problem is here is the beauty of this. and dr. birx spoke eloquently about this yesterday. you don't have to wait until there is outbreak. obviously new york is a hot spot. we are seeing it every single day. if we had known it was about to hit us early warning system for earthquake or tsunami. pull people off the shore and

get people protected and up the ante and get folks to really focus detroit and chicago probably didn't realize they were seeing increasing numbers of cases. >> it's not that the absolute number is that great but the trend is heading in the wrong direction. you want to intervene early. steve: that's right. and dr. oz, over the last week, you know, washington state has been one of the hot spots. and they are now saying that it appears that new cases are leveling off over the last two weeks. so they're essentially flattening the curve. they don't know if it's the calm before the storm they say or if the self-social distancing is actually working. and we heard from governor cuomo in new york two days ago. he said that he felt that because the number of hospitalizations was stabilizing in new york that the, you know, the social distancing was working there. as well. so, for the people who are at home. who have been doing their best, dr. oz, to keep away from people, does it seem to you like

it's working? >> we know it's going to work. how long will it take to work. it's worked in the countries that have done it. china probably being the best example. unfortunate that it's been as painful as it has been. i'm witnessing it firsthand as you all are. it is really destructive to seat amount of pain and angst and yet i'm reinforced and given strength by the people on the front lines being able to keep it together. governor cuomo has provided spectacular leadership in our state and i'm seeing it from other leaders as well. but they can't make these decisions. so for the governor to be forced to make a decision based on what people think is happening in hospital admissions is not the ideal way to do anything. that's why new swabs have been developed and i have got to hand it to insurance companies actually doing trials now to figure out there are better ways of protecting healthcare workers and save on protective equipment. they developed a swab that's as effective as the one a doctor would do. not as uncomfortable because you can only swab the front of the nose and get the exact same

accuracy rate that will dramatically increase the amount of people who can get. cities doing poor liberation give people confidence in they are doing the right thing. but, at the end of the day, we will win by self-segregating by pulling ourselves out and unfortunately social distancing is the best way to win and that's up to the people, the american people. brian: right. i guess we got to do that and we also got to find out when we can all get this stuff. we hear about these tests. where are they? are we going to be able to get them at cvs soon? that's going to be the key. nice to know they are working on stuff but like to get practical. open up to the people here is what they are writing. judy writes this to us i'm 71 years old. my nephew warned me not to take ibuprofen or naproxen as it may kick start covid-19. is this true? i heard a lot about that. that's why you can't get tylenol when you go to rite-aid but you can get everything else.

>> you know, there was a report from france that expressed concern because ibuprofen effects the receptor in the lung the virus uses to get into your body. there was a fear raised for that reason. but i have got to say the world health organization come out pretty firmly saying they don't think there is enough data to make that claim. they are not asking people to stop using ibuprofen on my show i said until we have clarity on this. one thing avoid having a headache over just use asset minutacetaminophen. i'm not that worked up about it. so early we don't understand enough about the subtlies why the virus is so more aggressive than others. understand the genes how they are different will be part of this. some genetic risk factors will do poorly with ibuprofen and others won't. too early to tell. ainsley: lisa writes for those of us considered essential how do we stay safe while at work? >> the reason this issue is so

vital because if we do begin sending people to work, they are going to have to figure out ways of being that more vigilant. at home you work out a system and limits who comes to visited you it's a lot easier. in the workplace the 6-foot rule is going to be actually ironclad. folks are going to have to be in different offices if at all possible. working at home so there is more room in the office so folks aren't on top of each other. especially urban areas like new york is getting to work is a risk. that's where a lot of people got caught up in the subways and buses a spoke to the head of the mta they worked aggressively to clean these facilities up. it's hard when you have that many people using public transportation. we will figure out new ways and with the new normal people will ultimately get comfortable. we will never be shaking hands like we used. to say very different ways of getting to work and performing at work. steve: one of the other things, dr. oz, i saw a video that you did, i think it was on your program yesterday where, you know, how everything seems to be changing.

once upon a time it was real easy to go to the grocery store, buy your groceries, take them home and put them in the subboard. i sasubboard -- cupboard. whole system how to unpack your grocery bag after you come back from the grocery store after the guy delivers the stuff to you. >> well, i will post it on dr. oz.com so everyone can watch it, steve. fundamentally the boxes, the containers themselves you can't tell if they are clean or not. when we get takeout we dump the food into a separate container that's ours and get rid of the boxes immediately. grocery shopping you have to bring containers in. clean them with a little detergent or water or other product you are using or soap and water will work as well. you don't want to trip up on something as simple as an individual by mistake touched a box of strawberries that you just purchased. that's a foolish reason to get sick. brian: dr. oz, exit question. do we need the masks or not? do the masks help or not? i'm watching other countries using the masks.

people say wear the mask. some say it doesn't help unless you are sick. do we need them if we can get them? >> brian, if you had the right mask, the n-95s that you are seeing in short supply, yes. but it's your patriotic duty not to use the mask. we need them in the front lines. the doctors and nurses risking their lives every single day. they need those masks. for now stay inside and away from everybody else and let other people benefit from the mask. the surgical masks that i wear in the operating room are not designed to protected you they are designed to protect the patient from me so i don't cough in the wound. most people with n-95 masks don't put them on right anyway. they have to be fitted. wasting them by not using them correctly. i will give you something you can do. i went this past weekend with my family and we all donated blood. i think that's a good thing to do and that's productive. look for things can you do to help this country. we need the support and one other idea for the weekend. get in touch with some older

folks in the neighborhood. they are going to be on lockdown for a long time. when we figure the rest of this out, i'm not going to be comfortable having my in-laws or parents go out for a while. make sure they have what they need. they need loving conversation. ainsley: i thought about that. people are still going to be on edge and self-distancing. thank you so much, dr. oz, for being with us. we will look for that video on your website. and maybe we can link it to ours. >> god bless you. ainsley: thank you. god bless you. jillian is back in the studio. she has headlines for us. jillian: we spoke to the red cross this morning. if you are going to donate blood make sure you make an appointment to do so. an nypd custodian dies from coronavirus marking the first death in the department. 351 nypd employees have tested positive for the virus. 294 are uniformed officers about 3700 cops called off sick on thursday that's over 10% of the force. the head of counter-terrorism now hospitalized with covid-19.

the "new york post" reports deputy commissioner john miller is in serious commissioner. florida preparing for a surge in coronavirus cases by setting up makeshift hospitals. this one in miami has 250 beds. it comes as florida's governor doubles down on making travelers from new york self-isolate. >> and if you are somebody that left, if you are in new york state. you left when you were told to shelter in place you defied that and got on a plane and came here. so we don't want there to be any fallout here in the state of florida from that. jillian: florida national guard is helping to screen airline passengers from new york, new jersey and connecticut. super stars are banding together for a concert to benefit coronavirus charities ♪ baby don't go breaking my heart ♪ breaking my heart ♪ though you got mountains to climb ♪ always stay humble and kind

♪ jillian: back street boys will join tim mcgraw alicia keys livestreaming from their home to yours. i heart living room concert for america. elton john. air all fox platforms including on the fox news channel. money raised will benefit feeding america and first responders children's foundation. sure to be a great event. guys? brian: i agree, jillian. it's going to be fantastic. we all need some entertainment. what about top notch musicians doing it. what about the big news you broke this morning that elton john doesn't have a piano at his house. jillian: in his california home. brian: how can that be? brian: brian, ship him one. brian: it's like all of us not having teleprompters in our house. ainsley: which we don't. brian: that's right. all right. so that's going to be great. watch from 9 to 10:00 is going

to be great. i imagine we could do this every sunday so many super stars with nothing to do. steve? steve: well, it will be great. a national camp fire we will all gather around to see that everybody, even those famous folks are in the same boat we are. all right. meanwhile, 7:18 in the east coast. coming up as hospitals run out of room in some cases, our next guest is leading the charge to transform everything from dorm rooms to hotels to accommodate the influx of patients. here from the u.s. army corps of engineers commanding general after the break. ♪

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♪ brian: here we go. a fox news alert. get. this. british prime minister boris johnson has tested positive for the coronavirus. johnson only had mild symptoms.

and he will self-isolate in downing street. we will bring you the latest. we are scrambling to get a reporter and get additional insight on that. huge news. angela merkel has been self-quarantining because she was around -- eyeing locations that can be converted to makeshift hospitals. you heard about this story. new york cityaftenew york city r ahead of plans already being converted to a want who. now college campuses, hotels are being considered to accommodate hospital's overflow. joining me with a man on this mission commanding general chief engineers for the u.s. army corps of engineers todd semonite. general, first off, this has not been done before. what gave you the idea that you guys should be converting

hospitals? >> first of all, what i want to really say upfront is that all of us in the department of defense, our thoughts and prayers go out to all of the victims of this terrible virus. and really our respect to all those first responders and that medical personnel who are putting their lives on the line to be able to get us out of this. the idea came from about 10 days ago with governor cuomo said we are going to have a massive shortage of capability here in the new york. and as we continue to look across the nation. fema have 50 different states affected here. we knew we had a significant deficit of hospital beds. we said there is no way we can build hospitals in three weeks. we said we have got to take an existing facility where the standard design. let the hhs guys. let the fema guys. let all the docs take a look at it and once we have that we are going it make four different options of you who to apply that standard design either into a hotel or a dormitory or into a stadium or like a field house.

brian: i know right behind is you a graphic you wanted to show me. what about we can take a look what you mean. big convention center big open space. make it a hospital. >> first of all talk about a hotel. hundreds of hotels all over the united states. they are empty. there is a lot of places we can put people. take the people out of the hospitals that are the non-covid and put them in hotels. what we do is basically have the hotel, all the regular furniture there. put the person. in if we had to make some modifications to the hotel, and if there was a desire to make a non--to be able to make a covid hotel, in other words to maintain that virus in there we would adjust the hvac system to bring the pressure down and then there has got to be the rest of the state that comes in and this that has to put the equipment. in the nice thing is this is where we would need vendors to step up go. into the hotel and lease the hotel for three months. the state would do it. we would make those modifications just think of all those rooms that would be

released. here is the other part that's really the most important one great big soccer stadiums. in seattle stadium to be able take where th the seahawks play. take existing hospital like fema hospital, bring it into one of these existing structures. brian, here is the power of the idea. you have already got everything to code. have you god electricity. have you got fire. you have got water. have you got parking lots. have you got the entire area around. this particular one is skwra*fts center our guys working with new york city, the governor's team the mayor's team are in there now putting up 2900 hospital like rooms. nurses stations scattering them out. we can do this in a convention center and any type of a big open facility. brian: gotcha. general, no wonder when people talk to you they feel better. you are doing this out of the box. hasn't been done before but doing it here not just in new

york. that was just an example you brought to the table. vendors want to get ahold of you that want to help out and be part of this, especially hotels that want to offer their empty buildings, how do they do it her.>> here is what everybody sg take care of the virus stay at home i would say get on the phone. help out a facility whether it's the corps of engineers whatever we with do to help out. the last thing is we can't go for the perfect solution. we have about two to three weeks to really turn the corner. we need a good enough solution done now and executed ruthlessly. brian: lieutenant general i'm convinced you can do it. right man on the job. thanks so much for joining us this morning and helping our viewers understand what you are doing behind the scenes. >> thanks for having me, brian. brian: my pleasure. meanwhile want to clarify. justin trudeau's wife tested positive but he had to be quarantined because he was around him. amy klobuchar's husband had it

but they weren't around each other she was running for president. he is doing better i understand. and now the big news when we started this segment boris johnson, prime minister of u.k. he has tested positive. so he will quarantine himself. the symptoms are mild. so we will bring you the latest on that in just a moment. meanwhile big names teeming up to encourage americans to stay home. also providing some much needed entertainment. the veteran in country music star behind the star studded music video john joins us live in just a moment. ♪ social distancing ♪ quarantine, quarantine ♪ when you own horses,

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quarantine singer and song writer tim montana screen left and army ranger and co-founder of black rifle coffee matt best. gentlemen, good morning to you who realizing that you could rhyme social distancing with quarantine matt was that you or tim. >> team work makes the dream work. sitting over face time everything that raoeupld with quarantine. >> every word raoeupld with quarantine important to do that. steve: the way you guys do it does. matt, ultimately what you were trying to do like everybody else, song writers, coffee providers are stuck at home trying to figure a way how to encourage people that they're not alone, stay at home. best way to flatten the curve, right? >> absolutely. you know, we have so much

organic traffic that we have on our social media so we thought it would be a great idea to promote the quarantine and social distancing stop the spread of the disease and raise awareness for medical professionals. as a coffee company we are donating coffee from black rifle coffee to medical professionals. right now is the time to unite together to support the people with the disease and then stop the spread of it as well as individual. steve: tim, i know there are a number of celebrities who appear in this. it's kind of fun to see who is -- oh, there is charlie sheen, there is marcus luttrell. but one of the heroes in your life is your brother who is actually a doctor who is doing, what? >> he is a ph.d. virologist in washington, d.c. that is actually on the front lines reviewing medications. he is a virallology review. i'm talking to him every day.

he is staying up to 1:00 2:00 in the morning to rushing this stuff through. he is busting his butt and i couldn't be more proud of him. he is the rock star today. steve: matt, you have a brother who is a nurse and brother who a firefighter as well. that's probably why one more clip to show, folks, you take special issue with the people who are on the front lines a and you thank them in this clip. watch this. >> stpho*ut shout out to the heroes ♪ it's time to come together now ♪ as one society ♪ wait a minute. >> stop, stop. i meant that in like a metaphor call sense if we came together that want antithesis of what quarantine means. good time we have face time we can hang out and make songs like this. steve: matt, it's not a song

unity. best way we can do right now is keep our distance. >> absolutely. making fun of ourselves. having such close family in the medical world, that's what they are advising us, stay home, social distancing and any way we can provide whether it's coffee because they are putting in the long, long hours. that's what we are going to do. steve: right. tim, the lyrics are funny. the music is insanely catchy. at the same time, have you got these famous vets, and first responders in this particular video that just makes a little more powerful, doesn't it? >> yeah. i have been showing folks those recognizable faces and, hey, man, we are all in this together. stay home. let's get through this and that's the best we can do right now. steve: and, matt, tell us more about how you are donating to the red cross.

>> absolutely. go to black rifle coffee.com/support. every cup we serve we will donate one to first responders uso, red cross and other organizations. if you go to the website it will provide exactly what we're doing there that's just our way of contributing one way we are doing it. steve: and our website post the entire video because as everybody is hold up wherever they are. it's great to see what you guys did to encourage social distancing and sho*epl. thanstockstay at home.21 minutef the hour. we have just learned some breaking news. and that is that british prime minister boris johnson has tested positively for cv-19. and moments ago he spoke out.

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brian: all right. we are back with a fox news alert. we have just learned. this british prime minister boris johnson has tested positive for the coronavirus. ainsley: trey yingst joins us live from our jerusalem bureau with more. trey, the prime minister just spoke about it, right? >> ainsley, brian, steve, good morning. that's right. we are just learning now that u.k. prime minister boris johnson has tested positive for coronavirus, announced earlier today by downing street and the prime minister himself releasing a statement saying this, quote: i'm now self-isolating but i will continue to lead the government's response via

video-conference as we fight this virus. johnson's condition is well. is he only displaying symptoms. all of this hours after boris johnson participated in a g-20 summit call with world leaders including prime minister. that call yesterday johnson pledging 210 million pounds to develop a vaccine for coronavirus. all of this coming as johnson has now committed to fighting this inside the u.k. we do know there is currently more than 11,000 cases in the united kingdom with more than 600 dead. i do want you to take a listen what johnson had to say earlier today regarding this positive diagnosis. >> i have developed mild symptoms of the coronavirus that's to say a temperature and a persistent cough. and on the advice of the chief medical officer, i have taken a test. that has come out positive. so i am working from home. i'm self-isolating and that's

entirely the right thing to do. >> prime minister johnson does join prince charles who tested positive when it comes to the list of notable brits who are now fighting this battle personally. when you look at the broader perspective for the united kingdom. right now in london, they are converting a large expo center tgo to a makeshift field hospital. 500 hospital beds are going to be put into the center in an effort to try to slow the spread of the coronavirus in the united kingdom. we can expect some criticism for johnson today who early on had some policy differences with some of his top advisors about how exactly the united kingdom should approach the battle of this virus. again, what we can confirm today is that the united kingdom prime minister boris johnson has tested positive for coronavirus. he will continue to lead the efforts in the u.k. to fight this covid-19 disease if it does continue to spread and countries around the world working together to clamp down and find

a vaccine. brian, ainsley, steve? steve: trey yingst reporting live from jerusalem. thank you very much. let's bring in dr. marc siegel fox news medical contributor. dr. siegel, we have heard in his own words he had the mild symptoms. the prime minister did. and so what he is going to do is he is going to self-isolate at home so he is taking the right precautions. however, home is 10 downing street which is also his office. >> no, steve. that's a good point. he is 55 years old. as far as we know he is in good health. is he describing mild symptoms of a cough and fever. classic symptoms. the real question is going to be can he self-isolate appropriately so that people do not come in contact with him. and then, of course, even though he is the prime minister. we have to contact who had close contact with him the last couple of weeks. of course he has had contact with a lot of people. it's not just being near somebody it's a question of within six feet, sneezing and

coughing, hand-shaking which obviously nobody is doing right now. social distancing is extremely important. and also important in the prime minister's case. brian: right. so dr. siegel, we will see how that goes. when a famous figure gets it and they recover from it like tom hanks has done. i think it sends a positive message around the world that it's not -- it's far from a death sentence. so we will see what's happening in the u.k. so the president of the united states. >> very good point, brian. brian: yeah. he also took one of these tests. he has tested negative. the vice president took a test he has tested negative. here he is the president says i might be updating new guidelines for governors when it comes to social distancing. he kind of wants to get back to work. listen. we will be using data to update guidance on social distancing which will be developed in close coordination with our nation's public health officials and scientists. i know we will achieve victory and quickly return to the pat of

exceptional health safety and prosperity for all of our citizens. we have to get back to work. our people want to work. they want to go back. they have to go back. brian: dr. siegel, do the people want to go back? >> yeah. you know, of course the economy is really in trouble here with what's going on. i think the point that the president is making is that we have 19 states in the united states that have very low amounts of this virus. 12 states that have much higher amounts and the epicenter is new york right now with over 23,000 cases. and social distancing makes sense. in all states we are learning new approach to the whole idea of spreading viruses which is terrific. but the idea of locking down states that don't have a lot of this is not necessarily ideal. especially, brian, since i have breaking news today which is that henry shine is going -- that's a medical company of supplies. a medical supply company is going to be releasing widely is

blood test which i have been asking for, a pinprick test where can i tell in a matter of minutes whether have you been exposed to this covid-19 or not or whether have you had a recent infection. if we have that information. we can take the epicenter, isolate people out. have them stay in hotels or universities that are closed or other areas and separate them out from the general population and do a better job clamping down in the epicenters and relieve things a little bit in areas where there isn't a lot of spread right now. ainsley: thank you, dr. siegel. it is 49 minutes after the top of the hour. wall street appearing to shrug off yesterday's unemployment numbers. what is next? stuart varney is on deck. discomfort back there? instead of using aloe, or baby wipes, or powders, try the cooling, soothing relief or preparation h, because your derriere deserves expert care. preparation h. get comfortable with it.

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ainsley: president trump hoping the nation can get back to work soon as the markets surge ahead of the house vote on the coronavirus relief package. just hours away. what else can be done to help the economy? let's bring in stuart varney host of varney and company on fox business. hey, stuart. stuart: good morning, ainsley. you asked what else can be done to help the economy. i have got a list for you. number one, get back to work early as the president says, getting back to work will

clearly help the economy. is he going to reclassify counties in terms of risk, low risk counties may be able to open unfairly soon. don't know a time frame. but that would clearly help the economy. secondly, more money may be required for small businesses. at the moment, businesses are being paid, not to lay off their people. taxpayer money, government money going straight through the company to the employee more money needed, even though $360 billion has been allocated. more money might be needed and it would clearly help slow down the lay off rate. number 3. mortgage companies are going to need some money. a lot of people are not making their monthly payments for whatever reason, the mortgage companies need that money. they need a cash infusion because they have got it pay off their bond holders. the treasury secretary is organizing a rescue of the mortgage organizations. and number 4, bend the curve. if you can bend the curve on new cases then you inspire

confidence that we're going to come out of this soon. at the moment, the market has nicely rallied. biggest rally in the last three days since 1933. this morning we will open a bit lower. where we go from here i'm not going to forecast. the market wants to look to the other side. ainsley: stuart right below you can you see the futures are down is that because of news of boris johnson. >> no, that's not because of boris johnson. it's a natural response to the three day huge rally. you are going to get some people taking profits and we all expect bad news economically in april. the market is trying to figure out how bad that news is going to be and when we could appear on the other side. ainsley: all right. what's your reaction? you are from great britain. >> stuart: what a mess. boris jobs has it. he is now going to have to be traced all of his contacts over the last couple of weeks. that's enormous number of people. quite a task for the brits.

can they continue business as usual, government as usual when the prime minister is self-quarantining? it's a difficult problem for the brits and they have a real problem is on their hands. and boris johnson is going to get a lot of criticism because his policy towards the lockdown has shifted. ainsley: thank you so much, stuart. we will be watching you at 9:00 on the fox business channel. have a good one. we have a big hour still ahead. we have geraldo. we have general jack keane, senator ted cruz and country music star john rich. stay with us. at cancer treatment centers of america, i had six, seven doctors that work together to take me through this journey. they're not just treating the cancer, they're treating me as a whole person. call us at cancer treatment centers of america

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brien: here we go. straight to fox news alert. the u.s. leading the world with most covid-19 cases, nearing 86,000. ahead of china and ahead of italy. four more u.s. deaths reported in just the last hour, ainsley. ainsley: the epicenter is in new york city with more than 23,000 cases. look at that, looks like a ghost town. >> the new york city police department. remind tore keep safe distance from 6 feet in public spaces to reduce spread of coronavirus. steve: president trump telling fox news overnight, sean hannity, he's working with

china's president to control the pandemic as global cases soar past half a million. brian: wow. more breaking news now, prime minister boris johnson announced he tested positive for the covid-19 virus. trey yngst from jerusalem bureau and he spoke publicly about this. he looked fine, trey, right? >> good morning, he did look fine when speaking about this. we were to confirm with downing street that boris johnson tested positive for covid-19. the prime minister himself making a statement reassuring the public that he will continue to lead the united kingdom efforts in combating the virus. take a listen to what johnson had earlier today when talking about his own diagnosis. >> i developed mild symptoms of the coronavirus, tests that say temperature and persistent cough

and on the advice of chief medical officer i have taken a test and that has come out of positive and i'm working from home. i'm self-isolating and that's entirely the right thing to do. >> this comes hours just after boris johnson participated in g20 video conference call with world leaders. during the call he pledged 210 million pounds to look for a coronavirus vaccine. all of this as london and the entire united kingdom are clamping down on procedures, most of the country remains on lockdown and we do know that one of the main expo centers with 500 beds. united kingdom as more than 11,000 cases of coronavirus. nearly 600 people have lost their lives as a result of this disease, but, again, the news breaking this morning, uk prime

minister boris johnson tested positive for coronavirus hours after pledging millions of pounds to try to look for a vaccine along side other world leaders, brian, ainsley, steve. ainsley: thanks, trey. the house is expected to vote on the 2 trillion-dollar covid-19 package to relief millions of struggling american workers but president trump is warning one person could hold out and delay the payout. griff jenkins live in washington to explain for us, hey, griff. griff: hey, ainsley, the house convenes in about 55 minutes. the u.s. leading the world in coronavirus cases, the last thing that you'd expect in the building behind me more drama but appears one member could do just that. >> one vote, you might have one grand-stander. for that we will have to come back and take time. it'll pass, it'll take little longer. let's see whether we have a

grand-stander. >> the member is kentucky republican bob masse. sources tell fox news masse intends to object to lack voice vote hencing 250 members to scramble back to washington. i've been communicating with members. one not happy but willing to do what it takes. the president is considering reopening parts of the country telling handily -- hannity, it's time to get back to work. areas of low risk, listen. >> we do have 19 out of 50 states to be reminded that had early cases but have persistently low level of cases an at this point have less than 200 cases. that's almost 40% of the country with extraordinarily low numbers and they are testing. griff: we will see what the president advises come monday when the first 15 days, we will

wait and see what the house does in the building behind me, brian, ainsley, steve. steve: we will, indeed. griff, thank you very much. let's bring in geraldo rivera, he join us every friday. thank you very much for being with us today from your social location as well. ainsley: hi, geraldo. steve: what do you make of lone member of congress, republican from kentucky thomas masse, the president referred to him as a grand-stander. he's concerned that without a quorum present it would violate the constitution and sounds like they would have to have a voice vote. it would be much more complicated. what do you make of this? >> i understand that he may be sincerely motivated and talking from the bottom of his heart. this may not be a political

play, i urge him to reconsider. we have to get the money in the the hands of working people. they are desperate without benefits, layed off, we have to give them hope, hope takes the forum in this instance of cash. you give money to workers, beef up the medical, you know, professionals, the heros. i also want to say, you know, how deeply affected, how deeply touched i am and you don't notice it most of the time, the doctors, the nurses, the emt's, the people on the front lines of pandemics in the hot beds in the epicenter of the city of my birth. i mourn for my city. i applaud and have deep respect for the medical service's workers. i wish the congressman would see it. nothing is perfect in life. you know, you compromise. life is about compromise. let's not be political. let's get this done for the

american people but the president today be able to sign this bill because fear if this process is extended not only would it help feed the epidemic of center which is real effect of epidemic in new york and other hot spots, but also tank the markets, crash the markets, unsettle everything and everybody, time of the essence and i urge him to reconsider. brian: yeah, i will get into details. just a quick comment. on this, if massie votes against it, 216 for a quorum. that means lawmakers around the country have to fly in and they are worried about being contaminating. you're not standing on principle, you're being selfish, don't tell me you're a libertarian standing for what's right and doing that just going to put people in danger. >> amen, amen.

brian: $2.2 trillion package together and nancy pelosi is playing it and promises to play it more. listen to her yesterday and then listen to kevin mccarthy's response. >> it went from a corporate first proposal, the republicans put forth on the senate, to democratic legislation. so many things we didn't get in the bills yet in the way that we need to. >> 99% of the bill was already decided on sunday. almost 3.3 million americans just lost their job last week while she was holding this bill up for why, she wanted to change election law. she wanted planned parenthood to be funded. she wanted the green new deal and wanted more money for sanctuary cities. that's her jiu-jitsu. brian: $78,000 for the institute

of american indian and alaskan native culture and they got utah got $500,000 for a water project. so someone stuffing this thing. this is the type of stuff that drives americans crazy, geraldo. >> geraldo, there's big pot of money, $2.3 trillion slush fund essentially, every lobbyist in town, every special interest group in town. everybody wants to dip in. everybody wants, you know, yes, i understand you are trying to solve the pandemic but how about my water project in utah or wherever. you know, unfortunately that's the way they make this -- this sausage and it is distressing. you know, the -- the opponents have manage today pair the worst excesses off the request of either sides but now get the

damn thing done. we have to get it passed. we have to restore confidence. the president's approval rating at 60%. he's urging the popular president who is briefing, who is wild and unruly briefings are resinating with the american people. he's urging the congress of the united states to do the right thing so he can sign the bill, meaningful step, not perfect. we will be paying for it for generations, but let's get it done, let's calm this down. let's try to put this -- this epidemic in the rear-view mirror. when i say, for instance, andrew cuomo saying 4,000 ventilators, what am i going to do with 4,000 ventilators. take the 4,000, governor cuomo, it's a start. i understand from the dr. birx, from the president's task force that there's still available hospital beds in new york. still available icu space and ventilators. i understand -- my city has been hurt and people are really

afraid, but let's get on the same page when it comes to telling the american people what we are doing and where we are going. this is not the time for partisanship. not the time for politics. let's win this war. ainsley: they are all playing the blame game. i was watching sean hannity interview the president. 30,000 ventilators, i would love to give you those but some hospitals only have one. he said you really need 30,000? if you do we will do our best. it's complicated. they are expensive to make, so i agree with you, geraldo, it's not time to do the blame game, take what you can get and we will worry about the rest in the upcoming days. it's starting to spread and trickle through the country. we have been seeing it in weeks in new york, are they equipped?

>> geraldo: ample equipped, ainsley, being safety and shadow of university hospital systems, they have geared it up because of social distancing and washing hands and blunting the hot spot in new york and with not that much commerce and travel between ohio and new york going on right now, we have been given time here in the midwest to gear up. now it's a different story in wayne county and detroit it's a different hot spot. there's problems there. chicago also, much more dense than cleveland. i think the president is right. it's county by county. there are different, you know, levels of the circumstance. here we have ample beds right now. obviously we look to the future. i am delighted that the mercy, a

thousand beds there, the noncorona patients. the government is gearing up. the federal government, sometimes it's slow to get going and sometimes it's frustrating watching them but now they are moving. they are moving in the right direction. i think that -- i don't want to keep people false optimism but seems to me that all the right moves are being taken, particularly when you have on the scientific side so many breakthrough imminent and potential medications available. that i think we can in the relative short term see that we can turn this thing around. steve: fingers crossed. have a safe weekend there in cleveland with your family. we will see you next friday. 8:13 on the east coast and jillian joins us with some news, good news for some hospitals, right? jillian: you have that right. relief is finally on the way to the hospitals.

two massive navy hospital ships heading to major u.s. cities for noncoronavirus patients. the mercy ship to arrive in los angeles in just a 2 hours, sistership comfort to new york. the officer explains the mission. >> the mission to relieve the pressure on the systems of new york city by taking care of noncovid-19 patients. >> the navy diverting warships as coronavirus cases soar. 25 sailors tested positive in aircraft carrier, the first american warship to have confirmed cases is heading to guam where i will say isolated at the dock.

there are nearly 5,000 people on board and the ship has 800 test tests. super stars are gathering together for a concert for coronavirus charities. ♪ ♪ jillian: alicia keys will join backstreet boys, tim mcgraw. elton john will host from his home. it will air at sunday 9:00 p.m. eastern on all fox platforms including right here on fox news channel. money raised will benefit feeding america and first responders children foundation. good night, guys. brian: jillian, absolutely. i like the fact that they'll be a lot of surprises. elton john not going anywhere

and we will see sir paul at some point. president trump declaring the battle against the coronavirus is a medical war. what advice does four-star general jack keane has? we will ask him next. there's no place like home. especially when xfinity

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>> we are at war and we are fighting an invisible enemy. brian: well, president trump declaring war against the coronavirus, a medical war. what advice does retired four-star general and fox news senior strategic analyst have for the president now, general, thanks so much for joining us. are you okay with talking about this as a war?

jack: absolutely. i do believe that we are at war with an invisible enemy and to be successful at war, to be successful with this invisible enemy, one of the major characteristics you have to have flexibility to adapt to change in environment and then execute vigorously towards that end and that's already been demonstrated right before our eyes when the president and his team shut down travel from china and then from europe and when the cdc testing initially failed as matter of just trying to fix that, they switched gears, had adaptability to go to private sector and has produce testing kits and now we are producing more tests than any country in the world. but what is in front of us, brian, is the most significant flexibility that the president and his team will have to demonstrate because we know for a fact that shutting down this economy is not sustainable over the long haul.

it will produce depression like numbers in unemployment in weeks and months, not 3 years as it took in great depression and we are already seeing that given the figures we have received yesterday. so i think we are on a path to bring some of the american workforce back to work based on scientific data likely in different places and at different times based on the analysis that's taken place by the president's task force and i think it's the right approach. we have to start moving in that direction and at the same time vigorously protect the american people and the good news there, brian, is that the massive testing that we are doing is going to be very helpful because it'll also increase the denominator i believe in terms of so many people have had the virus and did -- or asymptomatic and were mild and that will bring fatality rate in numbers, but more importantly it will

help us in doing contract tracking and some countries, enormously successful. south korea, taiwan, singapore, never shut down their economies and using outside video, using credit card history, gps from phones, gps from cars, successful for them. they have a lot of social trust in government much more so than americans historically have to be frank about it, but there are lessons for us. and i do think the antiviral therapeutic drugs and introducing plasma with antibodies will help turn the corner. so we are on a path, i think, to eventually turn the corner and also make tough decisions based on analysis, where can we gradually start to bring the american workforce back to strengthen our economy again brien: general, you know about leadership and challenges especially leading people who are experts in certain areas.

the president in the united states by easter will be in the oval office and have medical experts here and economists here and maybe people worried about politics and he has to listen to them and make a decision. how do you go about that? people are going to be angry and they will pick up the phone and call reporters and you know you still have to make the toughest decisions any president has to make to start putting the keys back into the country and get us started to a degree again. how do you go about that decision? >> well you never are going to have the information to make that decision to your own satisfaction. that's usually the case and history has shown us that with the tough decisions the previous presidents have made. what it comes down to own judgment, own life experiences. your own instincts and then you have to have the courage if it

isn't going right demonstrate flexibility and adapt the change but the leadership is not just about being smart, it's also about having some spine and that's the reality of it. and this president has demonstrated the capability with the assistance from his task force who i think are truly remarkable people in assisting him and you're absolutely right. he's going to get advice from economic team and advice from scientific health professionals and make tough calls. brian: listen, cdc wasn't obviously ready for this. obviously even anthony fauci, i was listening to an interview in january on radio show and he talked about this -- this virus in china and he says, we don't have anything to worry about here so when your experts give you their expertise and it ends up being wrong, you're only as good as the people that are giving you the intelligence, but i have to bring it to this final thought and that is in the

stimulus bill we don't have much money for overseas causes, leaders i think that you respect say this is important time in america like the marshal plan like world war ii, we help out other countries. is that important now? jack: america is exercising leadership. you can see that with the president and talking to leaders around the world, organizing discussions so we can share information, scientists and doctors are also sharing that information, so helping the fight the disease by being completely transparent and exercise and leadership is one of the most important things america does. we are a global leader and we are exercising that leadership. there's also things military can do to assist, for sure. you have seen military travel all over the world helping people in other countries but the focus of the secretary of defense and the chairman of joint chief of staff has assigned top priority to american military, and that's to help the american people and believe me, this is the same

military that put its life on the line in afghanistan and i will weak and syria and now they are eager, eager to support the american people and get them out of harm's way as best as they can. brian: right, we certainly need them, the uss mercy and i asked commanding officer and he said, no, we've never really had to help america like this and it's always other countries and they are anxious to do it. congratulations on the u.s. medal of freedom. that's the last time we saw you at the white house and you are still serving, helping out when -- you can, thanks, general. jack: good talking to you, brian, same here. brian: country music star john rich is doing that but he will join us live next with his plan to go big while being home and helpinger you.

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>> good morning, steve. steve: okay, so tonight at 8:00 o'clock streaming live on fox nation it's free and on all of the platforms. you are going to be live at your house doing what? >> i am going to be playing a set list of songs, some of my favorite old songs, some big and rich songs. i will sing shut up about politics which i wrote with the five, greg gutfeld and cap the whole thing song with brand-new song that i wrote 2 or 3 days ago with friends with larry who is watching right now called stay home. that's the title. steve: well, that's great. do you have a guitar nearby and could give us a preview? just a little taste. >> you know, steve, i always have a guitar standing by.

stay home, stay home, no reason in the world, we are all in this together, all you have to do is stay home. ♪ >> stay home. how about that man? let's have fun here for a minute. [laughter] steve: that's crazy. now, john, two things, one i hope that you and your entire family are leaning the house because we will have cameras there tonight, not a big crew but nonetheless we will be live and we will see all the dust bunnies and what not and two, i understand the governor actually asked you there in tennessee to help get out the message to do just that, stay home, right? >> yeah, governor reached out and to the music community, all

the great song writers, hey, if you have any good psa's, we would love to put those out. recorded stay home yesterday in quarantine in separate booths. we have never done it that way before. we recorded it. that's our psa for tennessee and maybe the psa for the whole united states. you never know the president might put up and go here is the perfect psa. stay home. that really is the key right now. stay home. my granny rich is 88. i went out and bought her groceries and before i put the groceries in her house i got rubbing alcohol and spread everything down, spread my hands down and gave her groceries. you can't be too careful right now. steve: no, you cannot. once again check it out tonight the world premier of stay home. when you all stay home to watch a night with john rich, live streaming concert on fox nation and all of the fox platforms.

john rich, thank you very much for joining us, thank you for doing that tonight giving us a good reason to stay home, john. >> you bet, i will see you tonight, guys. steve: we will be watching. the house is set to vote on massive 2 trillion-dollar stimulus bill as the president warns there's a republican holdout. would there be a delay in getting checks to the american people, that's the question, we will talk to senator ted cruz coming up next. when it comes to autism,

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package. john. >> ainsley, steve, brian, president trump looking forward to a positive vote some time he hopes this morning but now indications that kentucky republican congressman massie may vote no on the bill which means members have to fly in to create a quorum. yesterday president trump indicating he hoped -- he hopes it doesn't comes to that and that this bill needs to get passed now and we need to get money to taxpayers and loans available to businesses. listen to what the president said. >> it could be one vote, one vote, one grand-stander maybe, you might have one grand-stander and for that it'll take more time. it'll take longer. john: the president is going get advice from coronavirus task force, where to go the guidelines, 15 days expires on monday. we don't know if he will renew

guidelines or modify them for certain areas of the country. medical experts say east e may not be feasible as date to reopen the country. another interesting bit of news yesterday at the briefing from dr. anthony fauci at the national institute for allergies and infectious diseases. he said unlike in the past when you develop a vaccine for the virus you go through testing phase, you know it works, you go out to companies to school up production and delay to getting it out to people who really need it. fauci says they will do it differently. listen here. >> but one of the things that we are going to do that you need to understand that has been a stumbling block for previous development of vaccines and that is even before you know something works, at risk, you have to start producing it, because once you know it works, you can't say, great, it works, now give me another 6 months to

produce it. so we are working with a variety of companies to take that risk. john: fauci indicated yesterday that under that premise they could start producing vaccine maybe toward the end of the summer so that by early next year if they find out they're testing, ainsley, steve and brian that this works they can get it out to the country like the flu shot. the president is suggesting too that tomorrow he may be going to virginia to send off the u.s. naval, will be watching for announcement on that as well. brian, ainsley and steve. brian: thanks so much, mercy will be in los angeles this weekend. let's bring in senator ted cruz fresh off quarantine. ted, the president of the united states yesterday in a letter to america's governors, he will basically give them an idea -- he's going to create some of the counties on how dangerous they are and how overrun they are and the ones untouched, maybe

gradually phase in economic progress again. are you for a phase-in standing america up again or lock down to have it more under control? >> well, listen, any health response needs to learn facts from the ground and they are different from one location to another. our approach to global pandemic. we need to be guided by the science and physicians and medical professionals and i fully expect the circumstances are different in manhattan than perhaps they are in rural idaho and so you wouldn't expect the same rules to apply everywhere. that recognizes the diversity of the country and where there's direct and serious threat. of course, steps need to be taken to protect lives but those can vary in different parts of the country. steve: exactly right. in fact, senator cruz the president said that nebraska, texas, your state, iowa, some

parts might be able to open up sooner than others. of course, the entire country is looking to congress and i know that the corona rescue bill has passed your chamber, the senate. it's questionable what's going to happen with the bill today because as we heard this hour there's one congressman, he's a republican from kentucky, his name is thomas massie, he's opposed to the bill because it would add to national debt and concerned that voting without a quorum present would violate the constitution. the problem is when you have members of congress flying back from all over the country, they're in airports, back into the chambers, it does seem as if you are putting members of congress at risk to do this even though we know everybody knows this thing is going to pass. >> yeah, you know, i would not be terribly concerned about the procedural question. it's clear the house is going to pass it. it's clear the house will pass it with an overwhelming

bipartisan majority. if it so happens that a member or two or three decide they want to vote no, they can do that. thomas believes strongly in his principles. i saw also alexandria ocasio-cortez tweet out that that he was unhappy that the checks that are going out, the 1200 relief checks, that they are not going to illegal immigrants and she was unhappy about this. people can have disagreements. this is going to pass. this is going to pass and pass overwhelmingly which means relief will be in the hands of the people that are hurting and in the senate the day before yesterday we passed it unanimously. 96 to nothing, every single senator, republican and democrat voted yes, bernie sanders voted yes, so did i and everybody in between and -- and the reason, listen, this is a 2 trillion-dollar bill. that's about a tenth of our national debt. that's a big deal. that's not something that would pass in any ordinary

circumstances. but these are extraordinary circumstances, the magnitude of the health threat is massive and the magnitude of the economic threat, we lost 3 and a half million jobs last week, small businesses are shuttering all across this country and so this emergency relief package is designed to put real relief in the hands of people, the two most important parts of it are that every person making $100,000 or less, or every couple making a hundred thousand dollars or less will get a check in the mail $1,200 per adult and 2500 for couple and 500 for child. all of the checks will be coming out. the treasury department says in the next 2 or 3 weeks. secondly, for small businesses, there's $377 billion in loans guarantying loan, businesses 500 employees or less. small businesses up to

$10 million each on the loans and if they use the loans to pay for payroll, to keep their employees on payroll, if they use the loans for mortgage or rent or utility, those loans will be forgiven. that's designed to be immediate infusion of cash for the restaurant, the bar, the nail salon, the movie theater or hardware store, all of the small businesses and the way you get it if you're a small business owner, grow to local bank or community financial institutions, administered through the local banking system. ainsley: okay, we only have one minute. i have two questions for you, if you furlough employees do you still get benefits and secondly how are you doing after self-quarantining? >> on the first point yes, if you rehire them. you can get the benefits regardless but the loan is only forgiven if you rehire the employees. if you have already furloughed the employees, get the loan and rehire them and their payroll would be forgivable. ainsley: how are you doing?

>> i'm doing terrific. i spent 11 days self-quarantine at home and went to dc and went to the senate and active in -- in passing this bill and now back home with the family. feeling healthy and terrific and working actively from home. ainsley: excellent, thank you so much, senator, for being with us, we are glad that you're doing well. >> thank you, god bless. ainsley: have a good weekend. social distancing not enough to stop community from celebrating a brave little girl who just beat cancer. janice dean has the good news, hey, janice, first let's check with sandra smith to check what's coming up at the top of the hour, hey, sandra. sandra: great to see you this morning, the u.s. now leading the world in confirmed cases of the coronavirus. hospitals stretched thin in new york city and now growing concerns around the country, new orleans now seeing a surge in number of cases, waiting on the house on the vote this morning

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ainsley: communities across the nation are fighting coronavirus fears and uncertainty with kindness. joining us to share positive stories fox news senior meteorologist janice dean. janice: hey, ainsley, we are covering great stories today. ainsley: let's start with the messages that the patients left for doctors and nurses. janice: right, this is the cleveland clinic in cleveland ohio. they use the glass wall to communicate with patients and staff. the patient recovered from covid-19 said this window has been the most impactful window of my life. god bless caregivers.

ainsley: we know people aren't traveling now, hotels are sitting empty. what is four seasons is doing? janice: they are opening up doors for free, free stays for the hotel in the hotel for hospital workers, doctors and nurses so they are close to their hospitals in new york city, amazing. ainsley: that is awesome. andrew cuomo tweeted about that congratulating them. talk about the girl that came back from final chemotherapy. janice: wonderful actor has amazing tweeter feed and asked give me good news. april was the mom and tweeted out video of her daughter, last chemo treatment and her travel through the community, how people are on the streets and they are waving to her with signs and just amazing outpouring of community in this day of social distancing. ainsley: i love that story. she's in the front seat waving

to everyone in her community. your son did something amazing. janice: so matthew last year he shaved head in order to receive donations and give awareness to kids with cancer. he did this last year. they canceled this year because of obviously covid-19 outbreak but we decided to do it anyway on our front lawn and sean shaved his head and it was an emotional moment and i wanted to share that on social media as well for all to see. ainsley: what a heart, you're really raising your children right, janice. janice: thank you, ainsley, back to you, great time to support our local charities as well. ainsley: yeah, a lot of emotions running through all of us and happy to spend time with our kids, my gosh, really praying for all of our friends that have the disease -- the virus or their loved ones and anyone around the world that have lost their lives because of it,

families forever affected. have a great weekend, janice, we will see you monday. janice: much love. ainsley: more "fox & friends" moments away. y, buddy. what's the damage? i bought it! the waterfall? nope! a new volkswagen. a volkswagen?! i think we're having a breakthrough here. welcome to caesar's palace. thank you.

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the living room concert for america by iheart. >> airing this sunday at 9:00 p.m. eastern. set your clocks for all fox platforms. we'll be watching it sunday night and we'll see you monday morning. goodbye, have a good weekend. >> sandra: the u.s. now has more confirmed coronavirus cases than any other country in the world as the house gets set to vote on a $2 trillion relief package for americans. >> i'm ed henry. new this morning the british prime minister boris johnson has now tested positive for coronavirus showing mild symptoms, though. meanwhile the u.s. surpassing italy and china in the total number of cases, more than 85,000 americans have now contracted covid-19. the death toll topping 1200. in hard-hit new york city hospitals near the breaking

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