record time. four hospitals, four medical centers, and speaking with the governor this morning, we're giving them an additional four large tents which they need very badly. and the emergency medical stations in new york are top of the line, you have them in not only new york but in california and illinois. we'll be adding some to other states also. i've empowered our nation's governors with the resources to call up the national guard and authorized the activation of ready reserves. two big words, ready reserves. fema has shipped or delivered 11.6 million n95 respirators, 36 million surgical masks, 5.2 million face shields and a lot are being made of the things i just named right now. we have millions and millions of

new medical items being made as we speak and purchased. 4.3 million surgical gowns. 22 million gloves and 8,100 ventilators. we have moved rapidly to mobilize every instrument of american power. this week i invoked the defense production act to compel general motors to carry out federal contracts for ventilators and i think they're going to do a great job. i have to say that. we're also working with the major ventilator companies in the united states, all big name companies, all companies that do ventilators so they won't need extra time and they're gearing up and they'll be working 24 hours, around the clock, and they have been. they've been doing a fantastic job, to accomplish a historic ramp-up and a ramp-up in the kind of numbers we're talking about and if we make too many, that's going to be okay because

i spoke with the prime minister of the u.k. yesterday, boris johnson, he tested as you know positive and before i even was able to get a word ott of him, he said -- i said how are you doing, he said we need ventilators. the u.k. needs ventilators. a lot of countries need ventilators badly. it's a tough thing to make, it's a complicated and expensive piece of equipment. i would say more so than a car. you're talking about expensive complicated equipment. so i hope we soon will have enough that we can help other countries with ventilators. a lot of countries need them. in the next 100 days, america will make or acquire three times more ventilators than we do in an entire year. we are so geared up. at boeing, ford, honeywell, 3m, haynes and other great american companies, factory floors and manufacturing lines are being converted to produce the

respirators, protective masks, face shields and other vital equipment and those companies have been amazing and boeing is giving us their cargo moving planes, the biggest cargo movers anywhere in the world and we're going to be using them to ship certain types of equipment to various states. hundreds of millions of americans are also making tremendous sacrifices on the home front, in an historic drive to support our workers and businesses, i signed into law the single largest economic relief package in american history. you saw that yesterday. the 2.2 trillion, and think of that, 2.2 trillion but it goes to 6.2 trillion depending on what we decide, this legislation delivers job retention loans for small businesses to help them keep workers on payroll, expanded unemployment benefits, and direct cash payments to

american citizens. and these are very substantial payments. a family of four will be getting approximately $3,400. this legislation also provides massive increases in funding for hospitals who need it, for disaster relief fund and critical life-saving medical supplies. we're spending a tremendous amount of money on medical supplies. we're trying to get it to the point needed directly as opposed to our supply lines, so it can go directly to where they need it without having to go through a long process. i don't want to say bureaucratic but we have not -- this group of people has worked so incredibly hard and the energy and the speed with which they're delivering everything has been really admired by everybody. everybody's talking about it, the job they're doing. my administration is also taking action to dispend and suspend

federal student loan payments. so we're suspending -- and that means suspending in every sense of the world -- student loan payments so that the studentses thastudentsthat are not able toe advantage of what's going on, obviously for obvious reasons, they will be the payment suspended. we've temporarily stopped federal evictions and foreclosures. we postponed tax day until july, which is a big thing, first time that's happened. and waived regulations to speed new treatments to the market and we have new treatments coming on rapidly. we're doing very well, we think, with vaccines and we're doing very, very well with hopefully or potentially cures. we're looking at a lot of different alternatives, a lot of different medicines. that would be game-changer. the battle in which we're now engaged has inflected many hardships on our nation and our

families, tremendous hardship on some families and much death, much death. through it all, the world has witnessed the unyieldinyieldinge of our incredible american people. we are not only a country of vast resources, we're a nation of com strength, towering spiri, soaring pasoaring patriotism anr and you're showing it to the entire world. at this moment there are 151 countries throughout the world that are under attack by this horrible invisible enemy. 151 countries. and we're in touch with a lot of them, our of professionals are the best in the world. but who would ever think, 151 countries are under attack. we are one family bound together by love and loyalty. the eternal trade so perfectly

embodied by the ex straightforwarextraordinarymen p and the men and women at this beautiful, scenic but really tough base. this base is something. thank you very much. this base is something very, very special. with the occurrin courage of ths and nurses, with the skill of our scientists and innovators, with the determination of the american people, and with the grace of god, we will win this war and we will win this war quickly. with as little death as possible. and when we achieve our victory, this victory, your victory, we will emerge stronger and more united than ever before. we are going to be at a level of preparedness in case something like this should ever happen again, and god willing it won't,

but we are prepared. what we've done in building systems, we're now the number one tester anywhere in the world by far. we're testing more in one day than other countries are testing in weeks and months. we've learned a lot and i cannot be more thankful to the american people and i can say this and i can say this from the bottom of my heart, i am very proud to be your president. thank you very much and god bless you all. thank you. thank you very much. [ applause ] leland: all right. the president wrapping up remarks there. you see the defense secretary as well. they are sending off the usns comfort hospital ship from naval station norfolk. it's going to head out to sea here in a couple of hours and go north up the east coast, past washington, d.c., docking in new

york where it will provide about 1,000 beds of hospital space, overflow space as the president described its for folks who don't have the coronavirus to get them out of new york hospitals and then send them onto this ship, freeing up space in the hospitals for the corona patients. throughout the speech that went on for give or take 30 minutes, the president talked at length about the accomplishments so far in the fight against the coronavirus and what lies ahead. two points probably, gillian, as we think about these and listen to some of the military band play, we'll listen in on that and then come back on the other side. ♪

leland: we'll check back in if the president gives orders to take her out to sea or something like that. gillian, you and i were watching this speech, first on style and this was pointed out by politico's gabby orr who was down there with the white house pool. there was nobody in the audience. there were a couple of television cameras, what we would call the close pool. one television correspondent and that was it. there was -- you heard it or lack of it. there was no applause when the president came up to the podium. and no applause afterwards. he was essentially speaking to the country via tv but ordinarily with the military you would have hundreds, if not thousands of sailors and soldiers who would come out to listen, anybody on station who could. gillian: a sign of the times, really. leland: very much a sign of the times. a much smaller pool traveling

with the president. you saw on the podium just him and the defense secretary and they're standing watching the comfort head out to sea and then there's the issue of the big news that you and i talked about, he talked -- the president talked about it as he left the white house, again at the steps of air force one and in that speech, he talked about a short quarantine which in his words would be 14 days of new york, new jersey and connecticut, he called it an enforced quarantine. interestingly enough, andrew cuomo, the governor of new york, said i don't even know what that means. i don't know how that could be legally enforceable. and from a medical point of view, i don't know what you would be accomplishing. i don't like the sound of it. evidently, this idea came from the governor of florida, ron de santis, a republican, and now president trump says he's going to talk about it, think about it and decide later today. this is the first time we've really seen a showdown here in

the coronavirus crisis between two governors, the governor of new york saying no, and seemingly like i'm going to have a problem with this and then ron de santis saying the problem in florida is all these new yorkers coming down who have been exposed. gillian: you know, one of the things the president has been saying for weeks now is that he doesn't want to have to enforce quarantines anywhere in the united states beyond these very small, tiny pockets. we saw one like that in new york state a couple weeks ago, he said he doesn't want to have to do repeats of this. so probably not a decision he's coming to lightly. he also said he hasn't necessarily made a final decision. lately he seemed to be teasing it today. he mentioned it before he boarded marine one ton south lawn a couple hours ago for the first time. he said we're looking at new

york, new jersey, connecticut, he started thinking about it more seriously after talking to governors from states saying folks from new york are coming there, creating new pockets of contamination. clearly something he'll be talking about with the coronavirus task force all day today, tomorrow. i believe he said during his remarks that he would be making a decision in the next couple of days. so we'll all be standing by waiting to see what that is because really a quarantine order in those three states would affect all of us. leland: it would change the face of america in so many ways. the president said it would not impede commerce or trade and trucking and supply lines, et cetera. zeke miller traveling with the president, the federal government is empowered under the law to take measures to prevent the spread of communicable diseases between states but it's not clear that means trump can order state residents to stay put and you would think about the idea of

simply trying to enforce a quarantine around new york, new jersey and parts of connecticut. you've got doctors who have got to go between places. you've got people who are going to be going to work at supermarkets that would cross the quarantine lines. seems to be a pretty difficult thing to do, just practically. gillian: what we've seen in some states and some cities already where there are these sort of shelter in place recommendations is that people who are considered essential personnel of one type or another, whether they are medical front line workers, whether they work at grocery stores, whether they work at pharmacies that need to distribute medication to patients, is they have these sort of badges, they are issued certification that shows, that proves where they work, that shows their employment is needed and they're allowed to circumvent the rules that are put in place. we could see, talking to sources in law enforcement, they tell me

we could see something similar like that, we could see cities and states issue passes to people who they want to be able to move about during a quarantine, a bit more freely. leland: we've been talking so much lately, gillian, about how much life has changed in america in really the two weeks from two saturdays ago when the president came out with this coronavirus task force, initial briefing, and talked about the possibility of domestic travel restrictions. that was the news that came out of that briefing with vice president pence and now you're beginning to see discussions of it, ron de santis, the governor of florida saying he didn't like people coming from new york who potentially had been exposed. you heard the president talk about this as well if you're from new york, new jersey or connecticut, the cdc says wherever you go, you have to quarantine for 14 days. the governor of south carolina trying to enforce that from his standpoint, not saying you can't come but once you get here, you've got to quarantine. there is the president and the defense secretary watching the

usns comfort hospital ship head out to sea, a couple days en route to new york city where she will become an overflow for the hospitals in new york that are already dealing with the coronavirus patients. back on the other side of this break, with insights and analysis on the president's speech and a little more about the possible, quote, enforceable quarantine.

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♪ gillian: we just heard from president trump who is in norfolk, virginia. he saw off the deploy machine of the usns comfort as it heads to new york city to help with covid-19 patients there. meanwhile, the pentagon now reporting more than 12,000 troops are being mobileized across the nation, all working hard to help stop the spread of covid-19. lucas tomlinson is live from the pentagon with the latest. good afternoon, lucas. >> reporter: good afternoon, gillian. those are 12,000 national guard troops that have been mobileized in all 50 states, including -- in addition to thousands of u.s. active duty soldiers to make makeshift field hospitals in new york. president trump said he will plan to use the defense authorization act again, one day after ordering gm to make more

ventilators. >> i would say we'll use it again, maybe once or twice. we have a couple of little problem children and we'll use it when we have to but overall, i tell you, the private free enterprise system is at work like nobody's seen in a long time. we're looking at two companies that have not lived up to what they said. i would say they're in a 1% group, okay. >> reporter: the army corps of engineer transformed the abbott center to a makeshift hospital with over 3,000 beds, one of the largest hospitals in the united states. the hospital ship comfort arrives monday, a few blocks away, to add another 1,000 hospital beds and 12 operating rooms. they are looking at 100 locations across the country and they're concerned about the rapid rise of the virus in new orleans. >> 114 facilities, 81 of those assessments, these are assessments, are complete. we continue to do probably 15 or 20 a day. i would think that the 114 is

going to keep going up by 20 or 30 every day. >> we've never done a pandemic capability. we don't have on the shelf designs of how to modify hotels into covid centers. >> reporter: and late last night the pentagon says president trump gave defense secretary esper the ability to bring back former army medics to active duty to help battle the coronavirus. gillian: no word on when those officials would get in the mix, what they would do but we're standing by to find out. lucas, we'll turn to you for the latest on that. thanks so much. leland: with that we bring in two lawmakers on the front lines of the local level fight against the coronavirus. new york city council member, chair of the council committee on health, mark levine. he is currently self isolatingnd and louisiana state senator sharon hewitt. mark, how are you feeling? are you okay? >> thank you. i'm doing much better. i was down for three or four days with fever and cough but i

think i got off easy. leland: we're glad to hear you're doing well. evidently if you listen to the president he's thinking of quarantining in his words, an enforceable quarantine. new york, new jersey and parts of connecticut. what do you think about that? >> i don't really understand what he would mean by that in practice. but -- leland: i think what he means, he's saying anybody from new york, new jersey, connecticut, if you're not a truck driver, you ain't leaving. >> well, i think that would have enormously negative implications for the health and well-being of the region. if it means he's taking it seriously and therefore will mobilize to send ventilators and supplies we desperately need, then i welcome the attention. we need that help and i hope it's coming. leland: sharon hewitt now in louisiana, eventually the governor of floor who has been growing about people coming in

from new york and near jersey and people from louisiana, he said they need to quarantine, how bad are things in louisiana right now? >> well, first of all, thank you for having us here. louisiana's citizens, we're used to adversity and we've overcome many adversities in the past. you know, when the president and the governor asked our families to stay home, we did. and when they asked our small businesses that were nonessential to shut down, they did. and now we're stepping up. many of our small businesses are doing very unique things like making distilleries that are manufacturing hand sanitizers and furniture makers that are making masks. we've graduated our nursing students a couple months early so they can fill the gap on the health care front. the louisiana lsu vet school has developed a testing protocol that's allowing us to accelerate the turnaround time. leland: there's no question, the worst of times brings out

the best in americans and brings us all together, mark. you know that better than anybody being in new york city and obviously we saw that among new yorkers in 9/11 and other crisises and now today. it does bring the important point though in terms of preparedness from new york. we want to put this up. this was a tweet that was done by the health department in new york and the health commissioner there, a physician. the important thing for new yorkers to know is that this city is currently -- their risk is low, city preparedness is high. we're telling new yorkers go about their lives but practice everyday precautions. if it were like throw be transmitted casually, we would see more cases, that is the new york health commissioner on february 6th who tweeted that out. the health commission tweeted it out. okay. they didn't, i'm being told even though it says here that the new york health commissioner -- we'll figure it out, in terms of who the tweet came from. the tweet went out, it was a statement that went out. this is the question.

what happens now as new yorkers are being told things from these very same health commissioners? how do they have faith you guys have it right this time. >> the job of public health experts is to be direct with people, not to overstate the risk and not to understate it. and at that point in early february the risk was low and at this point it's very high. we moved much more quickly than other parts of the country to initiate lockdown measures in our schools, our businesses, and beyond and we do believe it started to slow the spread. of course, there was a 14 day delay. so we're still getting a surge in our hospitals. but there are some faint signs it's yielding benefits. leland: conceivably if people had more aggressive about it then, we wouldn't be at this place now. is there a time of responsibility of people who gave bad advice before should say hey, look, maybe i shouldn't give advice now, i'm going to step back and allow somebody else to come in and give it? how do you ask new yorkers to

have confidence in somebody who was so clearly wrong before? >> things in retrospect there are things we could have done differently. you're picking a bizarre one that no one who is serious as a public health professional is questioning. the risk was extremely low in february. it wouldn't have made sense to shut down the city seven weeks ago. but when the risk elevated -- leland: it may not have made sense to shut down the city. it might have made sense to tell people they need to be more careful, this is a coming possible pandemic, you that need to wash your hands every time you get on and off the subway. it might have made sense to say those things then, might have made sense don't go into crowds. doesn't there have to be responsibility? >> sure, we started advice on hygiene very early. but we were not going to tell people to avoid neighborhoods because they're predominantly asian. that was the context in which that message was delivered. it was sound advice them. it's borne out to be accurate in

the seven weeks since. leland: okay. i'm not -- i'm a little lost in terms of how it was accurate if the likeliness -- if the risk is low and our city's preparedness is high, doesn't seem as though the preparedness part was exactly accurate given what people in new york are saying now about ventilators and gowns and all that. but a discussion for another time. mark, sharon, we appreciate your time. thank you both. >> thank you. leland: gillian. gillian: now to some sad news, fox news can confirm former oklahoma senator tom coburn has passed away. coburn died friday night after a lengthy battle with prostate cancer. he served in the senate for nearly two terms before he retired in 2015 and before that three term congressman. he was 72 years old. leland: also sad news as civil rights leader reverend joseph lowry has died. he worked closely with other leaders like reverend martin

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and touching your face. there are everyday actions to help prevent the spread of respiratory diseases. visit cdc.gov/covid19. brought to you by the national association of broadcasters and this station. leland: one of america's favorite actors is back home, tom hanks and his wife rita wilson were spotted driving away from the air force in los angeles friday, two weeks after being diagnosed with the coronavirus in australia. the couple shared their diagnosis and updates on social media. we wish them well. gillian: the number of covid-19 cases around the world has now surpassed 600,000, in italy a coronavirus so-called hot spot cases continue to climb this weekend, as much of the nation remains home bound. amy kellogg joins us from florence, italy. amy.

>> reporter: hi, gillian. well, yesterday, believe it or not, after our quarantines and lockdown, we had our highest death toll since this outbreak began at 919 people, gillian. today it was 889 and so we are over 10,000 deaths here in italy, which is very upsetting and still somewhat mysterious as to why the death rate here is so high. the numbers of infections are slightly going down but still we're far from out of the hot water right now and the pope yesterday asked god to make this all go away. in some very eerie and very moving and a deserted saint peter's square he gave a homely in which he said we are, quote, in a storm which exposes our vulnerabilities and covers false uncertainties around which we constructed habits and priorities and it also shows he says the extent to which we have

been allowed to become dull and feeble, the very things that sustain our lives and communities. he prayed to a crucifix said to have stopped a plague in the past. here you can see people being pulled over because only one in a family is supposed to go shopping. the owning thin that you're allowed -- the only thing you're allowed to do, other than going to the doctor. mayors have gone on rants about quarantine offenders. drawing particular ire are those that began walking their dogs since this began and since the beauty salons have been closed are calling hairdressers into their homes. yesterday, italy saw the biggest daily death toll from coronavirus anywhere in the world, if china's numbers are accurate. and here in this one hard-hit town, a priest turned his church into a morgue. the priest, father maria, said

he opened the house of the lord so he and god could look after the dead as they await a proper burial and we have seen many of these makeshift morgues, gillian, as the bodies pile up and it's mysterious as to why the death toll in northern italy has been about 9% and there's even concern according to some local officials that the death toll may be higher because there are people they say who are dying at home, in hospices and never actually getting the test for covid-19. so that is something they're looking into here because the death toll is really much higher than these covid numbers are pointing to and whether it is connected to covid remains to be seen. gillian: world health organization epidemiologists saying this week they think the united states looking at the numbers and the patterns of the virus had spread only about 13 days behind italy. so a stark warning for americans here at home as well.

amy, stay safe there. thank you. leland: medical workers across the country are facing a shortage of personal protective equipment, gowns, masks, et cetera. one state we're told is taking new measures to help increase production. we have details on how colorado is helping out. >> reporter: we heard the president talking specifically about this one piece of equipment, we'll get to the video right here, you can see the shields. they have two components, the shield and the halo that holds it in place. genesis plastics technologies in colorado manufacturers on a normal basis medical food packaging and lighting products. last week, the governor's innovation response team called for help. >> the first thing that we gathered shortly after that call and realized that we could help immediately and again, because of our acquisition of raw materials and our ability to achieve that and gain those raw

materials quickly was an avenue for us to help respond and help what is a very intense and anxiety-driven issue at this point. but we are happy to be able to help the people of colorado initially. >> reporter: genesis hopes to turn out 5,000 masks per hour. they are working with another company to create that halo which was also asked by the governor's task force. >> i haven't heard one company say no. what i've heard is what can we do more? and so people are thinking outside the box. they're repurposing their facilities. they're working in sewing groups for surgical masks in rural parts of the state. so literally colorado is standing up to do whatever is necessary. >> reporter: and nationwide, companies are really stepping up from defense contractors to ski mask makers, all repurposing their production lines to contribute to the front lines of this fight. same goes for other elements of

much needed ppe, personal protective equipment like the surgical masks that need to be sewn together. in chattanooga, seamstresses got together to help out, their plan is to have 1,000 masks ready for anyone who needs them. we've seen a lot of difficult news. we're also seeing an equal number if not greater the number of people in our society coming together for the common good. leland. leland: excellent point, really important stories to tell that in the worst of times we bring out the best in americans and the best in colorado, thanks, alyssa. tomorrow, fox news sunday, chris wallace talks to treasury secretary steven mnuchin, just days after the president signed that relief bill that mnuchin had a huge part in negotiating. check your local listing for time and channel. howard curst will take a look at the coverage of the coronavirus and the u.s. response on media buzz, 11:00 a.m. eastern tomorrow and then gillian and i are back at 1:00 p.m. if you're

interested. gillian. gillian: schools across the country remain closed. teachers and administrators now being forced to come up with creative new ways for their students -- when we face adversity,

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gillian: families across the u.s. are now trying to get used to new routines at home as they're spending more and more time there with their kids and schools are pivoting to online learning because of the outbreak of covid-19. for more insight on how to help kids keep on learning at home, let's bring in our education panel, we have associate superintendent michelle rubin, also a mom of seven who has been now home schooling for over 25 years, so she knows a thing or two about what americans are experiencing for the first time, maria chamberlain. maria, i'm going to go to you first. what are the top challenges for at-home learning for young kids, grade school kids?

>> the first challenge would be just getting into a routine and of course having everybody around. there's a lot of upheaval because maybe even daddies home, so it's trying to get a structure to the day. the top priority is just to establish a structure, get some type of schedule and not just for academics but for allowing the house to run with everybody around. there's going to be more mess because everybody is all in one place. so it would take some time, just to sit down and for mom and dad to think, okay, what needs to get done and approximately when and then calling a family meeting and get the kids involved. all right, these are the jobs -- gillian: that's a great suggestion. i like that. maria says one of the top challenges is structure and routine, infusing the day with that, something that public schools excel at. what can you tell all these parents struggling to keep their kids focused at home about

routine? >> so thank you. it's such a huge part of what not only parents are facing, but our entire nation, right. and one of the things that we did at the beginning of this was to send a routine schedule out to parents. it's so important, the structure for students, i mean, even though they push against struck churks it's really important to -- against struck churks it's ss really important to them. you set that out, you get up a certain time in the morning, hygiene, breakfast, learning, time for recess, an opportunity for them to either take a walk outside, ride their bike outside, still social distancing and then enrichment activities at the end of the day. that can look like a bu puzzle, coloring, reading, even having students read to you, those teachable moments have to continue even in home life. so those are some of the things that we're recommending to our families in montgomery county

public schools that we think work really well. gillian: maria, being the front line pro that you are with this, what are your tips and tricks for parents who are new to this? what can they do in moments where the kids are kind of not going along with the program or maybe falling off of the agenda? how do you refocus everybody, regroup everyone and get them back on the same page? >> so momentarily take a break and do something that needs to get done. so sometimes i would tell my kids all right, two minute tidy, let's clean up and let's refocus and get back to work. sometimes learning doesn't necessarily always have to be with a book. you can do a lot of math games with cards. bicycle, the people who make bicycle playing cards on their website have all kinds of games. so sometimes just taking a break, doing something different, making learning fun and then going back to the book and say okay, i'm going to set a timer and for 15 minutes you're

going to sit here and we'll try to finish off your assignment. and we'll see how much we get done in 15 minutes and then we'll re-evaluate and dog something else. gillian: rochell are there any -- obviously having kids in school with each other, with their teachers every day, five days a week is optimal. is there any silver lining to this? can you see any way in which having kids at home could actually be helpful to some children, maybe they could end up kind of even doing better academically at the end of this than had they been physically in the classroom every day? >> that's a wonderful question. i think many including our school system, many of the schools school systems are lawn launching distance learning. i think some of our students, keep in mind, they excel so it's bridging that gap. we have many gen-zers out there and that's a medium in which they're really comfortable. part of it is making sure they

have the tools at hand to do that. so from that perspective, we feel like they can actually lead a new age of learning in terms of how we digitally learn and connect. we also look at it as under our be well 365 umbrella, how do we build those relationships. this is a fantastic opportunity for families to really connect or for students to connect with family members that go beyond maybe their immediate family, they're connecting with grandparents and uncles and aunts and they're learning. they're hearing stories, maybe traditional stories, things that they haven't heard in a long time or maybe ever before. that really helps enhance the curriculum aspect of things that we normally teach. gillian: i love it. that's a wonderful, wonderful silver lining. i was not anticipating. thank you for that. kids connecting with their parents and grandparents, maybe even siblings in a way they wouldn't if they were gone out of the house for eight hours

every day. they're also likelier maybe to remember things that they learn from grandparents and they'll learn from reading textbooks and that kind of thing. ladies, thanks so much for your time and expertise today. we will definitely have you back because we will need more of it in the coming days and weeks. thank you. leland. leland: they say every dog has its day. these pups had an incredible day at the aquarium. more on these adorable little puppies, how it happened, why, and who wouldn't want one of them to keep you company during quarantine, when we come back. i like liberty mutual. they get that no two people are alike and customize your car insurance so you only pay for what you need. what do you think? i don't see it. only pay for what you need. ♪ liberty. liberty. liberty. liberty. ♪

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gillian: everyone from president trump to state and local officials have been telling americans about the importance of social distancing, staying home, staying away from everybody else. not everyone appears to be taking the recommendations. phil murphy writes last night, ewing township's police broke up a party request 47 people including a dj crammed into an apartment. the organizer was charged as they should have been and deserved to be. this is not a game. stay home and be smart. leland: good advice there. some good news from the coronavirus outbreak.

gillian: finally. leland: it exists. more furry friends are finding their forever homes as humans are turning to adoption during self-isolation. people are not only adopting dogs during this time, many are taking time to provide foster homes for dogs who are waiting their forever homes. we know once you begin a fostering of a dog, you just can't give it up. these also are dogs from the atlanta humane society. they got to take a special trip to the georgia aquarium while it was closed to the public. very interesting fish there. we received these from lucky dog animal rescue. they are continuing to rescue pups and bring them to the area, the dc area, from florence, south carolina and other places where they are in kill shelters and bringing them up north to find their forever homes. lucky dog animal rescue dot org. we have talked about this organization. they do an absolutely fantastic job and good news, so many of these dogs are getting adopted

and they figured out even though there is social distancing that you can have an adoption by facetime or skype. so if you're interested in puppies, go look through and you can see which one you have the closest connection to. gillian: i don't know what i would do during this time without my dogs. not only are they the best stress relief there is, but they allow you -- they force you to get out of the house, go do things. they force you to get fresh air. they're really good for your health. i think everybody should go out, adopt pets during thing time you're going to love it. leland: who wouldn't love a couple of those guys at the aquarium. we leave you with dogs and fish on this saturday and see you tomorrow. it's a sit-up, banana! bend at the waist! i'm tryin'! keep it up. you'll get there. whoa-hoa-hoa! 30 grams of protein, and one gram of sugar. ensure max protein. and one gram of sugar. at t-mobile, we know that connection is more important than ever.

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arthel: president trump considering even more drastic measures in the fight against coronavirus saying he might impose a quarantine in new york and parts of new jersey and connecticut. this as cases of the virus around the world skyrocketing past 620,000 with new cases increasing here in the u.s. and across europe. hello, everyone, welcome to america's news headquarters, i'm arthel neville. eric: hello, arthel, thank you for joining us on this saturday afternoon, i'm eric sean. president trump seeing the u.s. naval ship the comfort in the last hour in norfolk, virginia, that ship on its w