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immunologist anthony fauci, he's out with a sobering and stark estimate saying we could see as many as 200,000 deaths across the country from the coronavirus in the most extreme. >> so it's difficult to predict, looking at what we are seeing 200,000 cases. i don't want to be held to that -- excuse me, deaths. i just don't think that we really need to make a projection when it's such a moving target that you could so easily be wrong. eric: well, he certainly hope it does not reach that. fox news coverage for you. on latest international response to all of this, u.s. ambassador kelly kraft, she's with us later in the hour. first let's begin with steve harrigan live in atlanta.

steve: eric, as the numbers continue to rise, one-third of all the counties in the u.s. there has yet to be one positive test for the virus. now most of these counties are rural, they are often older populations, often poor, what's not clear is whether this is some sort of national social distancing going on or whether, in fact, it's simply a lack of testing. here is dr. fauci. >> we have a window of opportunity there as speaker pelosi said to get out there and test and if we do testing, identification, isolation, getting people out of circulation that are infected and contact tracing, we might be able to prevent those areas from getting to that stage where we have to do mitigation. steve: cdc has issued travel advisory for parts of northeast, new york, new jersey and connecticut urging residents of those states not to travel domestically, that move comes one day after president trump

raised the possibility of an enforced quarantine on those states, a decision he decided not to take but in the meantime several governors are taking their own steps to try to make sure that people from hot spots do not make it into their states. the governor of florida issuing an executive order. now there are checkpoints on international -- on interstate roads going into florida and also the national guard has been sent to florida airports. they are checking arrivals from new york, maybing sure new yorkers live up two-week quarantine once they arrive in florida. eric: steve, thank you so much. arthel: president trump striking optimistic tone reassuring the public that the economy will bounce back when the crisis have past. he's walking back comments about a 14-day quarantine on new york, new jersey and connecticut as cdc issues new travel advisers for those hard-hit states.

mark meredith live at the white house, mark. mark: in about 2 hours we expect to get update on the efforts including the question that you were talking about, the decision to back away from quarantine for parts of the northeast. this was something that the president talked a lot about on saturday but we heard from the treasury secretary serialier -- earlier today and he was on fox news with chris wallace. >> the president wanted to consider all of the options. he was concerned what was going on with new york and spoke to task force and spoke to governors and he was comfortable that people would take this advisory very seriously. mark: later this hour the president is expected to meet with supply chain distributors, we have not yet gotten the list of who will be in attendance for the meeting but the president has held similar events with business groups and interest groups ever since the crisis began. also at the briefing we'll be looking to see if there's any updates to slow the spread. remember they had the 15-day

guidelines, we are getting close to 15-day timeline. we will be waiting to see if there's new instructions that the they want the american people to follow and we are looking to see at the briefing, if we get more information about the financial effort to make sure people impacted by this are going to be okay, they'll be able to pay mortgages and rent. on friday the president signed 2 trillion-dollar stimulus bill. last week 3 million people filed for unemployment. clear from the economic's advisers that made it clear that more help is on the way. >> by next friday we will be in shape to implement the small business assistance plan, that's another 350, $400 billion provided, maria, provided that they keep folks on their payroll. >> but lawmakers from both parties say more help may be needed, house speaker nancy pelosi says while the stimulus does provide a lot of help, the government does have other tools at its disposal. >> we have to do more. i think this bill was just a down payment.

i've talked to the chairman of the fed, the federal reserve bank, mr. powell, and asked chairman powell and asked him to do much more because they have the authority to do so, even more authority since we passed this bill. mark: we have been trying to get an idea of what the unemployment rate could look like in the next several weeks but officials at the white house said it's very hard to predict those numbers. we will be looking to see if we have a better idea of when americans will be able to get back to work. this can come up at the briefing at 5:00 o'clock, a lot of questions to be answered, arthel. arthel: of course, we will have the briefing live right here on fox news channel. eric. eric: well, arthel, one of the city's travel advisory, the streets of new york, nation's most popular city, take a look, virtually empty. new york's governor say that is hospitalizations are doubling every 6 days, it is showing sign

of slowdown but andrew cuomo cautions that the number of deaths will continue to increase. aisha with the very latest on that, aisha. >> eric, governor cuomo had a lot to say in press conference today also emphasizing that the new travel advisory from the cdc is not a lockdown, it's simply the same thing the state has already been doing for a couple of weeks. cdc as you know asking the states of new york, new jersey and connecticut, the residents there to refrain from nonessential domestic travel and cuomo extending new york stay at home order for nonessential workers for 2 more weeks starting today as well and asked over idea of quarantine for the 3 states, cuomo said earlier that the idea really rattled a lot of new yorkers.

>> i have to tell you how many people called about the president's quarantine comment that he made. 965 deaths with peak infections still weeks away, new jersey is up to 11,000 cases, 140 deaths and connecticut now has 1524 cases, 33 deaths. by the way, fema approved connecticut's disaster declaration, that would freeze up federal assistance programs for that state and more relief insight now. the new field hospital at javits center will be ready offering beds to covid patients and u.s. comfort is expected to arrive on monday. it would be used for patient who is do not have covid-19. as for the questions for people here in new york continue to keep asking, when will this end,

governor cuomo hinted that answers may lie in rapid testing. so far 172,000 new yorkers have been tested. he's to test millions of people and maybe then he'll be able to let those people go back to work, eric. eric: somewhat reassuring that extra help has arrived. arthel. arthel: another area of concern of pandemic long-term care facilities. nursing home first u.s. hot spot and many facilities have been shut to visitors across the country and now dozens infected in home in maryland lauren blanchard with more on the story. lauren. >> lauren: according to county health department the mount pleasant nursing home has reported 66 confirmed

coronavirus cases more than half of residents and so far one death, a man in his 90's. >> we are trying to isolate folks that are in the facility because there are quite a number of people who are sick and they need to be taken care of. lauren: continue to have good social distancing, stay home, stay home so we can stop the spread of this virus. according to carol county health 11 are being hospitalized and asking people to stay away from the facility and say community shouldn't be alarmed. here in dc, 342 people have tested positive, 5 have died, in maryland 1,239 positive cases and 11 deaths and in virginia 890 cases, they have had 22 deaths. maryland governor larry hogan who was on fox news sunday has a

grim prediction for the whole dmv area. >> the washington metropolitan area has maryland dc and virginia quadruple in the past week and we see that continuing to grow and we think in two weeks around easter we will be looking a lot like new york. lauren: they have given additional protective gear to the staff and waiting for test results for the remaining residents. arthel: such a difficult situation, lauren blanchard, thank you so much, eric. eric: the new york governor andrew cuomo say that is one of the states rhode island will no longer stop residents of the empire state at its border, effort to try and limit spread of the virus this comes after governor threatened to sue over the policy. ron desantis among other states enacting it, christina coleman

following it. >> national guard could collect contact i was and inform them of a mandatory 14-day quarantine. that policy was repealed yesterday. governor cuomo touched on this today in daily coronavirus briefing and thanked rhode island officials for their corporation. >> yeah, new york is the epicenter and these are different times and many people are frightened, some of the reactions you get from individuals even from the governments are frightening and suggesting that they'll take abrupt actions against new york, but, look, this is new york and we are going to make it through this.

christina: that suggestion was met with quick backlash, new york governor andrew cuomo says quarantine would be illegal and catastrophic and would amount federal declaration of war and connecticut's governor said that trump's talk could have led to panic. cdc issue did new travel advisory yesterday and urges residents of new york and connecticut to refrain from nonessential travel for 14 days effective immediately. governors of texas, florida, south carolina have all ordered people arriving from the hard-hit new york area to self-quarantine 14 days upon arrival. and florida governor ron desantis announced in press conference yesterday that a man with covid-19 was stopped by the national guard at

jacksonville airport off of getting flight from new york city airport. >> i think it's an issue when you have folks who are in the hot zone and leaving the hot zone to come to different parts of the country so we instituted 14-day self-quarantine in new york city area. every time they come in, they are now met by national gird and -- guard personnel and screened and given the instructions about self-isolation. >> so there you have it, a number of different cities, counties and states across the nation implementing different orders and travel restrictions to try and stop the spread of this virus and some of those suggestions being met with quick criticism so we will have to see how this all plays out in the days ahead, eric. eric: on an airplane with coronavirus, great. thank you, christina, arthel. arthel: tonight music legends

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arthel: the autopsies performed on coronavirus victims giving scientists more insight as to how the virus attacks the lungs and many questions still remain why some people are asymptomatic and why some are not, let's bring in dr. bodon, first, if you could explain the mechanics of how covid-19 attacks the lungs? >> right. we breathe in the viruses, they get into the nose and bites the lungs. they get into the air sacks, cause inflammation in air sacks where oxygen goes from the air

into the bloodstream and the infection prevents that and causes fluid to build up in the air sacks and that's why ventilators are needed in those people who have severe lung infection to push air -- to push the oxygen under pressure through the fluid into the blood stream. arthel: what type of conditions are more vulnerable or easier target for coronavirus? >> well, if people have copd from cigarette smoking, if people have asthma, if people have heart disease in which fluid can begin to get into the lungs and congest heart failure where fluid gets into the air sacks because the heart is not pumping effectively enough, all those people are more at risk when the inflammation from the

virus in the lungs creates additional fluid, additional difficulty of oxygen to get, that we take for granted. the oxygen we are breathing right now goes into the air sacks, across into the bloodstream and they can't get past the fluid and the inflammation is causing and that causes thick fluid to develop that ventilators can't get through and those people are subject to dying. arthel: do -- do chances for recover differ and if it does, how so, and also we keep hearing copd, is that the new enfazima? >> copd is damage caused largely

by cigarette smoking. it causes general damage to the lungs and any additional injury like from the viruses makes it more severe and causes the -- these are people who are walking around with less oxygen than normal and the additional viral infection causes additional damage and makes them more vulnerable and this happens in people 10, 20, 30 years, 40 years of smoking. it's surprising that more present in the older population than younger population. just like heart disease is more common as we get older. those two factors contribute to filling up the air sacks with fluid that the normal breathing can't get the oxygen to get into the bloodstream.

arthel: i have a couple more questions if i could get dr. baden with you. >> sure. arthel: one is why do some people have symptoms and others don't? >> well, that's -- remember, this is 3 months that we are looking into this virus and that's a very important question because as far as we can tell from the autopsy findings and x-rays from the chinese experience and around europe and the united states, maybe a third of people who get the infection normally upper respiratory infection by the nose and a third don't have any symptoms. others have symptoms but can control it just by self-quarantine and the danger even before they are the symptoms the infection is going on a week or two during which time people are spreaders. they may be the super spreaders, people who don't feel sick and have the infection in the nose

and may or may not, maybe 10% will have to be hospitalized eventually because of the lung damage, but the great majority of people who are infected who can spread the infection are -- know trivial infections and that's why we have to identify people other than by symptoms because a lot of people with no symptoms are -- will only be picked up by further testing. arthel: testing is key. you're so full of information, i could go on with you forever but i do have to leave it here for now and i'm sure we will be seeing you very soon. dr. michael baden. >> thank you. eric: today marks first u.s. death related to the virus, coming up how things have changed since then? we will have update from the first coronavirus hot spot.

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arthel: it's kind of hard to believe it's been exactly one month since the first person in the u.s. died from coronavirus, the diseased man is in his 50's, mid-50's, living at the center in kirkland outside of seattle. since his death more than 2,300 other people in the united states have been killed by the virus. dan springer is live right outside the center in kirkland with more on the story, dan. >> dan: you're right, arthel, we were reporting at the time the first known coronavirus death in the u.s. and since then every american has been impacted in some way by what came next. here at the life care center in

kirkland, 34 other patients have died as it became increasingly clear that covid-19, most deadly when it affects the elderly and those with underlying health problems. 160 people have become infected at this one facility but new cases also started popping up in west coast cities. northern california was the next area to see the death. the cases spread and so did the stay at home orders which are coast to coast which are impacting 200 million americans about two-thirds of everyone in the u.s. >> we are seeing now in actual realtime something that's unprecedented. this is something that we have never seen before at least in our generation. they've seen something maybe like this a 1020 years ago and we are being challenged to not only learn in realtime to be able to respond in a way that is

helpful and effective, but we are also in unchartered water. >> the economy has taken a blow as hard and as swift as we've ever seen. restaurants and retailers big and small were forced to close. the stock market rose 30% after record highs and still down 3,722 points from march first. millions of americans either lost their jobs or lost hours. 3.3 million people filed for unemployment last week alone. many of those still working or stuck in their homes as every american is asked to practice what had never been heard of before social distancing. >> you're engaged in the most significant industrialization, we have the president fighting invisible enemy and private

enterprise on this problem. >> kids are in the fight too, schools across america are closed and most of the learning happening while they are stuck at homes as well, arthel. arthel: profound impact on multiple levels, dan springer, thank you. eric. eric: well, pandemic started in china. reports say they tried to cover it up and then it spread testing organizations that are supposed to protect us. for our response and the international effort we are now joined live by the united states ambassador to the united nations kelly craft, first american division interview, ambassador, welcome back and thank you for joining us. you know, we are under a global threat. the international system was supposed to prevent this and stop this from happening, is the global system up to it? >> thank you, eric and thank you for having me on today. i think it's really important that every country plays a

constructive role in being part of the solution. you know, we've had incredible leadership and that's where it all start. it all started with president trump and the team that he has assembled led by our vice president mike pence and i think that each country, you know, we are 193 countries at the un, although we all feel as if we are new yorkers, each of us has a responsibility to work together which is one of the reasons security council has been adamant about continuing routine, our mandates and making certain that we work together to try to mitigate this -- this virus. eric: we know one of the countries is china on the security council and they are accused of -- they have culpability obviously of lying about it and not doing enough. here is a tweet which is astounding in january. the world health organization

tweet, preliminary investigations conducted by the chinese authorities have found no clear evidence of human to human transmission of the novo coronavirus. the chinese are culpable, what should the consequences for the chinese should be? >> eric, this is not the time to have a blame game but it is time to understand that this isn't our first pandemic and this would not be our last. i think that we need to learn from the mistakes that china made. we need to be more transparent and more thoughtful with following through with information. we also need to learn for what china has done that has worked and built upon that. we as the nation have come together and we understand the importance of bringing everyone into the fold because the u.s. cannot do this alone and that the entire world, this virus has no borders, it sees no

boundaries and we have situations, crisis all over the world that are not going to be put on hold because of the pandemic, so it's been very important at the u, in that we -- un that we set aside blame and mitigate this virus because in the areas of conflict around the world we will be discussing syria on monday we have our own issues there and if we don't echo the secretary general for the cease fire where there's vacuum or conflict they'll be another virus. that's my main concern at the moment, trying to mitigate the virus in areas of conflict. eric: we just talked about the in fact, you have refugee camps and came back from turkey in syria and we talked about it spreading across the nation. what about the most vulnerable? >> you know, we were in turkey and visited the refugee camp. the syrian refugees are very vulnerable as they are in yemen and other countries but

especially in areas of idlib where there's population living in small area and i think it's important that we echo the general's call for cease fire. turkey has taken on as many refugees as they can and my concern is once the refugees start crossing borders into other countries that we are going to see a spread of this virus and even more health issues. so with the world health program and usaid and other ngo's it's really important that we come together and support the ngo's and we also as you well know cross-border issues and allowing humanitarian aid that goes across the borders, that we keep those open so we can try to take care of the current issues and not allow this particular covid-19, this pandemic to fill the vacuum in these areas. eric: and finally, would the

security council be taking this up and what about if you can for a moment talk personally, the sense of the american spirit, we are facing this and we have gone through this before with the spanish flu, the depression facing these challenges, how about -- how about what we can do and how it can affect us as a country and as a nation? >> you know, when the president said we are all in this together and those were very, very comforting words and a time like this americans do come together and in a global area we are the first to arrive and the last to leave and we also realized that being home with one another and there's a silver lining to this. you always want to leave your children and your grandchildren a better world, a better place and i know that we are leaving the next generation more equipped and -- and obviously better aware that this can happen anywhere because it knows

no borders and this virus will continue and i have great faith in our nation. president trump has assembled an incredible group of epidemiologists led by the vice president and secretary pompeo and he has really set an example for the world in how to mitigate not only this pandemic but future ones. eric: and finally, some of the criticism nancy pelosi, the speaker, saying the administration delayed actions and critics are saying that more should have been done early on and we would not be in this situation. state and local governments too caught short. your response to that. >> you know, i think that very early on back in february the state department i believe it was 17.8 tons of medical supplies into china when we first heard about the pandemic that we were able to immediately supply china with the necessary to try to mitigate and i think

that's why it's important and speaker pelosi has been instrumental and our package signed this weekend. each american deserves a big debt of gratitude because we as american taxpayers are the most generous country in the world and we need to focus on the positive and know that we are going to lead our -- leave our future generations better equipped to handle the next virus that comes around and we have learned a lot from this issue. it's not time for a blame game, it's just really time to pick up and be together and focus on the positive and remember the emerging countries, the places that we need to focus on making sure we mitigate this virus. eric: that is the number 1 to stop this and prevent this and

learn from it so this does not happen again. ambassador kelly craft, thank you for joining us and thank you for being a new yorker while here at the un. kelly: thank you, eric, stay safe. arthel: stay safe, thank you. soldiers being deployed across the country building field hospitals in a matter of days to help with overflow of patients. up next we will talk with the army's chief of staff about the army's role in the front lines to have pandemic. sure, principal is a financial company. but think of us as a "protect your family as it grows" company. a "put enough away for college" company. and a "take care of your employees" company.

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the field hospitals is general janes conville, u.s. army chief of staff, general, thank you very much for joining us. >> thanks for having me. arthel: absolutely. if we could start by telling us what's happening with the javits center which is home to field hospital? yeah, i'm at the javits convention center in new york city and what i have seen before my eyes in 5 days, they have stood up a 1,000 bed hospital ad this is a war on invisible enemy and the heros are the doctors, the nurses, the scientists and medical professionals i see here and they will defeat this virus. arthel: absolutely. we agree with you about the heros. you're a hero as well as all of our military. what capabilities does the army bring? >> well, the army has extensive medical capability, probably set up for a combat-type operations

but what we are seeing here is a great case of team work with new york national guard, with fema, with state and local officials, we've been able to take field hospitals, use existing infrastructure that core of engineers have worked on and turn into a thousand bed hospital with capability to go to 2 to 3,000 over the next couple of weeks. arthel: wow. is there any way and i hear so far you've explained, is there any way to walk us through all it takes to get crews ready for patients? >> it start with having a site, facility. our engineers came in here, corp of engineers came in and worked with local officials and they want amount of infrastructure that we could actually set up the beds and the stations in and we have -- there were almost

like hospitals in a box so to speak and they were quickly able to set up the equipment, they come in 250 bed segments and they were able to set them up and what we do is bring in staffing and command infrastructure to set in place at the hospital and that's what i'm seeing right before my eyes. arthel: wow, so the staffing includes obviously medical doctors and who else? >> yeah, the doctors, there's nurses, there's medics and then they're not just from the army but also public health and once we have the infrastructure set up here, there's many volunteers. i was talking to the local officials here and as people that are volunteering to serve we also have retired medical soldiers that are willing to serve also and once we have infrastructure set up, we can bring those people in if they are required. arthel: and then will the army be doing this at other locations? >> we are in the process of doing the same thing in

washington out at industry link field or arena, stadium right now, we are setting that up right now. we have two field hospitals going in there. wealso corp. of engineers met wh governors, alternate health assessments. these could be hotels, arenas like that where they can set up capacity to take the pressure off some of the hospitals in the big cities where they might be feeling a lot of pressure with the covid-19 virus. arthel: and how do you make sure that -- because i know the idea is to help and serve the patients who are not covid-19, but i'd imagine the army and other personnel working at the field hospital are taking extra cautions just in case there's any exposure. >> absolutely. as we enter the building we all had our temperatures taken and went through a screening process. we want to be very, very careful and also social distancing to

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eric: this virus is strong, this virus is horrible, the virus is unlike something we have ever seen so says the sister of 42-year-old woman who said died of covid-19 in little rock, arkansas, that cities like many across the nation bracing for what experts say is coming and in some cities has arrived. with us the city of little rock mayor, mayor scott, first of all, how are you trying to flattening the curve? are you taking some proactive action? >> well, a will be to be here with you today. we are doing everything to flatten the curve. so far restricted restaurants and bars to takeout, delivery and curb-side service and secondly we instituted midnight to 5:00 a.m. curfew and extended to 9:00 p.m. to 5:00 a.m. in

addition to enforcing our day curfew for minor who is are now at home doing virtual education from 9:00 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. eric: you know, that's terrific. why did you decide to take such a step so early? a lot of other cities have been caught unaware and you really seem to be going the extra step in little rock that other cities can replicate. >> well, we are receiving a lot of great information from our state's top health experts. little rock has the majority of the healthcare institutions that are located in the state's capitol city. early on we convened with dr. dean, brought together a little rock covid-19 healthcare task force that helped us understand the wide range and effects this virus will have, has been having with our current city and we are looking to do all we can to flatten the curve and ensure the public healthcare and welfare of citizens and

residents of the city of little rock. eric: and finally, what's your advice to other cities to take the action that is -- actions that you have taken? >> continue to be prepare and do all that you can to flatten the curve because what we want to do ensure that when we get through this that every city is able to bounce back and rebuild its city. eric: mayor frank scott down in little rock, they'll be some economic consequences, obviously bank building will close, you don't have such a horrible impact as you are preparing for coronavirus around the country. major frank scott of little rock, arkansas, thank you, we will be right back ness in need, or want to help a local business, go to quickbooks.com/smallbusinesshelp intuit quickbooks.

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america's news headquarters. arthel: hello, i'm arthel neville. the cdc issuing a two week travel advisory for new york, new jersey and connecticut, as the white house considers rolling back restrictions from some parts of the country with fewer cases. let's go to our fox team coverage right now, covering all of the parts here, domestic and international. we begin with mark meredith. he is live reporting from the white house. mark, what can you tell us? >> reporter: the white house backed off the idea of a partial quarantine for the northeast, instead going with the travel advisory for new york, new jersey and connecticut that you were talking about. the idea of a quarantine was something that the president talked a lot about yesterday. we heard from treasury secretary steven mnuchin, he told our chris wallace about why they decided to go into a different direction. >> the president wanted to consider all the options. he was obviously concerned what was going on with new york. he spoke to the task force, he spoke to the governors and he

was comfortable that people would take this advisory very seriously. >> reporter: certainly a question that will come up, the president has been tweeting saying he'll do a press conference at 5:00 at the white house. people are working harder than i've ever seen them work. it is a beautiful thing to watch. since saturday, the president approved three more disaster declarations, the white house is allowing additional aid for or oregon, georgia and connecticut. governors have said they need help from the federal government as competition increases for the medical supplies. among the states looking for help is ohio, we heard from ohio's governor on twitter, he said this today. i called the president this morning. the president called me back. i explained to him what is happening. we had a good conversation. he understands that we want to protect our first responders, hospital employees, he was great. he said i'm moving. i'll get this done. governor mike dewine of ohio. for those americans worried about the economic impact of all this, the administration has been trying to make it clear that relief is on the way.

the president signing that stimulus bill on friday that will allow some stimulus checks to go out for people that make potentially less than $75,000 for an individual, $150,000 for families. and depending on whether or not you have kids, you may get more money. but help is on the way. the president has also been tweeting several times today. he issued a tweet within the last hour not related to the coronavirus. this is what he said about 3:00. he goes i am a great friend and adadmirer of the queen and the united kingdom, the u.s. will not pay for prince harry's security protection. the president is also criticizing the media and honoring veterans, a day marked in their honor. arthel: thank you very much. eric: local officials across the country are sounding the alarm as new coronavirus hot

spots are starting to emerge, spreading throughout the south and the farm belt. steve harrigan is at the centers for disease control headquarters in atlanta with the latest. steve. >> reporter: the cdc continues to urge people who live in new york, new jersey and connecticut not to leave their homes and go to other states for at least the next two weeks. the travel advisory from the cdc comes one day after president trump floated the possibility of enforcing a quarantine on those states for two weeks and then deciding not to do so. but a number of governors are taking steps to try to prevent people from hot spots from entering their states. in the case of florida, the governor issued an executive order, there are checkpoints on some highways, the national guard have been sent to some airports to make sure people who arrive from places like new york do self quarantine for at least two weeks and members of the task force say the threat of the spread from new york to other places is real. >> a lot of people who could

leave new york left new york and so we immediately saw cases rising out on long island and cases rising in southern florida. what we're trying to say to everyone is when this virus comes to your metro area, please stay in your metro area where your care can be provided because it's spreading virus more quickly around the united states. >> reporter: one small bright spot from this virus, arkansas 5:00 p.m. saturday, a massive tornado just crushed a shopping center, normally 5:00 p.m. on a saturday some of those stores would have been packed. instead because of the virus they were all closed, just six minor injuries from this tornado. eric, back to you. eric: they really are lucky and thankful for that. arthel. arthel: as we know, first responders face a number of serious risks on the front lines of the coronavirus pandemic. a new york city police detective has become the first uniformed

nypd officer and third member of the force to die from the virus. more than 500 other officers with the nypd have tested positive. jacqui heinrich is following this part of the story and she is live in new york city, covering it here and the rest of the country. jacqui. >> reporter: hey, arthel. in new york city more than 76 -- new york state, rather, 76,000 volunteers answering the call for more medical workers to support the coronavirus response as police, fire and ems are fielding record call volume. on thursday, dispatchers received more than 6,000 911 calls, the highest ever for individual medical incidents, nearly double the normal rate. the fdny is urging new yorkers to only call 911 if it's a true emergency, saying many calls they receive are from those that are concerned they have the

coronavirus. only ems units are being sent to sick calls. there's an enormous risk for exposure of essential workers. >> if you have difficulty breathing and very high fever, go to an emergency department. only call 911 if you need help right away. >> reporter: right now, more than 4300 members of the nypd are out sick, that's nearly quadruple the average, with 700 testing positive for coronavirus. 243 members of the fdny also tested positive and yesterday a third coronavirus death within the nypd, detective cedric dickson died of the virus after a janitor and administrative worker also passed away. >> please help us help you and stay inside. we have lost three members of our family in a little over 48 hours. as i stand here, i cannot begin to describe what we are feeling.

>> reporter: it's a similar scene across the country. fire house staffing shortages have forced smaller communities to rely on mutual aid from other towns when their first responders fall ill and some police department are reducing in-person calls. cincinnati announced they would no longer respond to calls for assaults without injuries, break break-ins, dog bites and criminal damaging. the department is allowing officers who have pre-existing conditions or high risk to request a modified assignment if they feel like they need to. arthel. arthel: that sounds good. meanwhile, too many gone too soon. jacqui heinrich, thank you. eric? eric: that is for sure. well, meanwhile, new york's governor, andrew cuomo, says rhode island will no longer stop new yorkers at its borders, it's an effort brin by the state to o limit the spread of the virus, after the governor threatened to

sue over the policy. it's being carried out by florida, governor ron de santis down there. christina coleman has the latest on the move in los angeles. hi, christina. >> reporter: the policy was repealed yesterday and governor cuomo thanked rhode island officials for their cooperation. cuomo did not approve of the policy of stopping drivers with new york plates in rhode island. the governors of texas, maryland, south carolina and florida have all ordered people arriving from the hard-hit new york area to self-quarantine for at least 14 days upon arrival. a man with covid-19 was stopped by the national guard at jacksonville airport after getting off a flight from a new york city airport. florida governor ron de santis says the national guard is helping to make sure arriving travelers get screened. >> i think it's an issue when you have folks who are in the hot zone and leaving the hot zone to come to different parts of the country. so we instituted a 14-day self-quarantine for everyone coming in from those airports and the new york city area. every time they come in, they're

now met by national guard and department of health personnel, they're screened, they provide information and they are given the instructions about self isolation. >> reporter: yesterday a norfolk virginia before the navy hospital ship the comfort left for new york, president trump mentioned that possible quarantine of the entire states of new york, new jersey and parts of connecticut. now, that suggestion was met with quick backlash and that suggested quarantine was not carried out. as for texas, state officials are ordering travelers who fly to texas from new orleans to self-quarantine for two weeks. there's been 225 new cases of covid-19 in louisiana just since yesterday, bringing louisiana's total to more than 3500 cases. >> as americans, we tend to keep looking to the president to micro manage our situation. that's really not how our system works. it never has and it never will. every city has different needs. every city has different

preferences, different problems and governors and mayors are running the show and i think it behoove americans to understand that a little bit more. >> reporter: so different travel restrictions and orders in different cities, counties and states continue to be rolled out and it definitely is an evolving situation for our nation. as officials are trying to stop the spread of this deadly virus. eric. eric: christina, thanks so much. arthel. arthel: well, italy still the nation with the highest number of deaths, eric. pope francis incorporating the theme of weeping into mass earlier today. while he tested -- he has tested negative for coronavirus, he singled out people who are isolated and quarantined, the elderly, people who are alone in the hospital. amy kellogg is live in florence, italy with more. amy. >> reporter: hi, arthel. and the people who work in the hospitals and the unsung heros,

arthel, who are the people who are cleaning those hospitals day and night, a spanish cleaner was interviewed just today saying he is giving this project 200%. now, italy's overall cases since the beginning are very close at this point arthel to 100,000 with 10,000 deaths. spain has about half the number of deaths at this point and the virus is being particularly cruel to a generation who lived through just think about it the civil war, the post war period, the franco years and it goes on. meantime, it seems all but certain that italy's draconian measures will be extended past april 3rd. people here have been shocked by the vee spread of the coronavirs but they're missing human contact. the head of the red cross recounted how one of the volunteers came to work after losing her mother that morning and he said he felt absolutely helpless to console her. >> and i couldn't hug her.

she was crying in front of me, two meters apart from me, she was crying desperately and i couldn't hug. we grew up hugging. >> reporter: spain's health service is over-taxed as italy's is and at this point we hear stories of medical workers, 9,000 of whom have been infected with the virus, resorting to wearing plastic trash bags at times for protection. finally, some supermarket workers are striking, demanding sunday closures. they say they need a break and arthel, again, talk about people on the front line who are not necessarily those overworked nurses and doctors, also the people in the supermarkets who don't have the luxury of self-quarantining and who are in contact with people every single day. lots of people. it's very stressful for them and they have not been untouched by all of this.

another story out of italy is hunger right now because there are a lot of people who maybe don't have salaries, are freelancers or even kind of in the what they call the black economy here, off the records all together, doing day work. they are not being -- they're not able to bring home money right now to pay for food so there's a big project to put 400 million euros into circulation to help people in different communities put food on their tables. i will end with a little bit of good news out of italy. the rate of infections, arthel, has gone down ever so slightly over the last few days but it is on a downward trend and also the number of people landing in intensive care has been down in the last few days. so those are two things that we will be watching very closely of course this week. arthel. arthel: thank you for covering all those elements of that very crucial angle of this story, amy kellogg, thank you. eric. eric: well, arthel, iran is one

of the countries hit hardest by coronavirus. tehran says more than 2,600 iranians have died, infections nearing 40,000 but now the regime is coming under harsh criticism for not doing enough and is accused of covering up the true toll. the government lied, that's what the iranian top resistance group says, it obtained documents from the government's national emergency organization showing iranian officials knew of the spread in early february but the national council of resistance of iran says the regime covered it up to ensure a high turnout at the rallies that marked the anniversary of the 1979 revolution as well as parliamentary elections that were held later that month. iran's president said the government learned of the spread of the virus to iran on februart public then but the opposition group says the government's own documents show six patients had the virus earlier and the real

death toll now stands they say at six times what the government claims about a 3,600 or so and climbing. the group told fox news, quote, the supreme leader and the president knew of the spread of the virus to iran at least two weeks before making it public. the only thing they care about is to preserve their corrupt and criminal rule, undoubtedly this criminal coverup played a critical role in the rapid spread of the coronavirus in iran and to the middle east says the national council of resistance of iran. meanwhile, iranian authorities refused our help from the u.s. to fight the virus. arthel. arthel: while most severe cases of coronavirus involve the lungs, we've been reporting, there is new research suggesting virus can attack other parts of the body as well. a pulmonary disease doctor explains how and why, up next. about making choices.

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eric: researchers are discovering new details about the deadly covid-19. a recent studies suggests the virus which we know attacks a patient's respiratory system, it can also cause fatal damage to

the heart, this comes as some medical experts are shifting from the official guidance, saying that healthy people may be able to better protect themselves if you do wear a mask. dr. brian gelb is with us, he is a pulmonary disease doctor. what type of heart damage are doctors seeing? >> eric, thanks for having me on again. so the studies that were published in jama show that in patients who are critically ill and admitted to the icu, 25% were exhibiting signs ott heartt damage. they are seeing molecules released from the heart when they've been damaged, a sign of cardiac injury. eric: is this typical for a virus like if you have the flu, can the flu damage the heart? why does this damage the heart as well as the lungs? >> good question, eric. no, it's not typical for

viruses. we're not 100% sure the mechanism of why this is happening but we have a couple of good theories. there's probably two explanations for why this is happening. in patients who are critically ill, there's a lot of demand placed on the heart, these patients usually have very high heart rates, their hearts are working overtime. and when that happens, if the blood supply to the heart is a little bit limited, it can strain the heart and we can see a release in these enzymes, something we refer to as demand ischemia. that's probably the most likely explanation and would certainly explain why anyone with an underlying cardiac condition may be at increased risk for this. the other possible explanation is that the virus itself can infect the heart. that seems less common but there are cases where it does seem like that is the case. eric: they say the death rate if you have heart disease is about 10% from the coronavirus. folks watching right now who have heart disease or maybe have

angina, that sort of thing, what advice would you give them? >> well, it's the same advice i would probably give to anyone at this point which is do everything you can to protect yourself. and that's the advice you probably heard over and over again about social distancing, hand hygiene, staying away from anyone who has been sick and just to self quarantine in your home. but a lot of patients even with those pre-existing conditions, the majority of those do stay out of the hospital and don't require hospitalization. eric: finally, there's some argument and debate about the mask, we originally were told that if you're healthy don't wear a mask. you want to save them for the medical professionals. should you wear a mask do you think if you go out? what's the latest thinking on that? >> this is something that has been evolving and the answer to that does largely depend on our supply of masks. it seems we have a less critical

worry about the number of just basic surgical masks, the kind that cover your mouth and nose. i think given the widespread prevelance of this disease in the community, i don't think it's a bad idea to wear a mask, just a regular surgical mask, if you must go out, if you have to go grocery shopping, you're going to be in an area where you're close to other people. the point of the masks is to protect others from yourself and you from others. basically is a way to cover your mouth and nose from sneezing or coughing and propelling virus into the air if you may be asymptomatic. eric: we are all in this together. dr. gelman, pulmonary specialist in new york city. doctor, thank you for your advice. speaking of masks, of course i want to point out that because of the medical need here are three nonprofits that you can address and direct money to and help with donations for our

medical heros, they are the ofia foundation, match mask and mask for docs, if you have masks or medical equipment, please reach out to those organizations. arthel. arthel: i'm so glad you asked the doctor about should we wear a mask or should we not because as you said, the information is evolving. i'm happy to know that if we're going to the grocery store and the limited things we're allowed to do, it's better to wear one. so i'm glad you cleared that up. all right. eric: we have to protect all of us. arthel: yes. sorry. we're not next to each other, obviously. president trump backing down from his proposed quarantine for the new york region after governor cuomo dismissed the idea. but does the president or state leaders have the ultimate authority when it comes to keeping people in their homes? we're going to take that up next. tv sports announcer: oh! let's go to a commercial. not another commercial! when you bundle your home, auto and life insurance with allstate

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eric: the centers for disease control are urging people who live in new york, new jersey and connecticut not to travel unless it's absolutely necessary for at least the next 14 days, this as new york's governor, andrew cuomo, says the death toll will continue he says to rise with hospitalizations now doubling every six days. that is encouraging the governor says because the number is spreading out and it is slowing but health care workers still continue to face supply shortages. they could run out by next week. aishah hasnie is live here in new york with more. aishah. >> reporter: eric, midtown manhattan is nearly empty. some new yorkers left the state all together and that's exactly what the cdc says needs to stop right now. the cdc of course issuing that travel advisory for new york, new jersey and connecticut, asking all residents to refrain from nonessential domestic travel for the next 14 days.

andrew cuomo extending the stay at home order for two more weeks. uncertainty peaked over the weekend as president trump mulled over the idea of a quarantine for the three states. cuomo said the idea really rattled new yorkers. >> i can't tell you how many people called all night long about the mandatory quarantine comment that the president made but people are so on edge, i mean, it really panicked people. >> reporter: there are now nearly 60,000 confirmed cases in new york state, 965 deaths with peak infections still weeks away. new jersey up to more than 11,000 cases, 140 deaths. and connecticut now has 1524 cases with 33 deaths. fema approved connecticut's disaster dec declaration.

more relief is in sight as a new field hospital at the javits center will be ready if the need arises and it will offer 1,000 beds and the usns comfort expected to arrive on monday, that will be used for patients who do not have covid-19. good news to report today, that patient zero as he's been called, the lawyer from new rochelle, he is out of the hospital and back at home. eric. eric: that is very encouraging. aishah, thank you. arthel: the president's backing off his idea of a potential quarantine in the new york tri-state area, now supporting the cdc's travel advisory instead. some state leaders also agreeing. >> i support what the president did because it affirms what we've been doing. it also affirms what new jersey and connecticut have been doing. arthel: joining me now via

skype is former assistant attorney general with the new york state attorney general's office and former senior investigative council on the house committee oversight and reform, chris sadak is here. you heard andrew cuomo says he supports president trump's change of heart from ordering a quarantine for residents of new york, new jersey and connecticut amid the coronavirus outbreak to now a travel advisory which urges residents of these states to avoid all but essential travel. for two weeks. but before the resolution, governor cuomo questioned the legality of the president's original order. is the original order legal? >> there's no question, arthel, that the president of the united states, any president who is serving under these circumstances does have the legal authority. now, as you pointed out, president trump decided not to take the step forward and impose any type of quarantine but under

the constitution and there are a lot of arguments that support his authority to do that, the commerce clause, the supremacy clause and his inherent authority as the commander in chief, he does without question have the authority to do it if he chooses to. now, we can debate and others can debate whether or not he should do it as a matter of policy. but the other law that would give him the authority to do it is the public health service act which the president of the united states through the secretary of health and human services would have the authority to stop the spread of communicable diseases from state to state or from outside the country to in our country including examining people to determine if they have that disease. so there's no question. and if you think of it this way, arthel, one example might be forget coronavirus, if we found out that there were 1,000 russian soldiers who infiltrated the united states wearing regular clothes and they were

living in new york city and they were planning an attack, it's going to be up to president trump to fight that attack. it's not going to be up to the governor of connecticut or to the governor of new york. and one last thing i'd say, arthel, is i think governor cuomo, and i'm in new york, i lived in new york sticks i'm a new yorker, i think governor cuomo is doing an celebrit exce. i also think president trump is doing an excellent job. he sent the trips to california and new york. the important thing is, we are all in this together. this isn't about a republican virus or democrat virus. this is something we all have to fight together. arthel: oh, indeed. indeed. so the reason why we're going over this, because everything has been resolved, but this is for our education in terms of what's legal and what's not. so president trump did not forewarn or give governor cuomo a heads up that he was going to consider this quarantine for the region and then governor cuomo he was initially -- he criticized the idea, calling it

a, quote, declaration of war on the state. do states have any legal authority to challenge the federal government? >> i mean, everybody can challenge anything in court, arthel. but i think that what is going to win the day and hopefully this never comes up again, but the fact is, we're still in the middle of this. and it's good that you're having this as a topic. because although the issue is aborted for now in new york and hopefully will be, it can come up in another state. so in this case, it's the supremacy clause of the united states constitution that basically boils down to this. where you have a federal law on one hand and a state law on the other hand and those two conflict, always, it's the federal law that will prevail. that's why we have a united states constitution. that's what the founding fathers debated way back when, whether we should have separate states that have more authority or we should have a centralized powerful federal government and every time when state and federal laws conflict, the supremacy clause will always prevail. arthel: so as you said, the travel ban is in the region.

this region, here in new york, new jersey, connecticut, effective immediately, again, only essential employees or essential business travel from or to the tri-state area. as you said, it could potentially, these types of bans could spread across the country or be applied to different parts of the country. with that in mind, and i hear what you're telling us in terms of the federal authority over state authority, still do you anticipate any legal challenges because it seems to me it's likely to happen. >> i agree with you, i think it is likely to happen and i just hope that if it does happen, it's not based on politics from either side. hopefully it will be an honest disagreement about what the policy would be. if you think about it also this way, arthel, 50 different governors, if you have a governor -- and i don't know of one, but hypothetically if have you a governor who is not doing a good job fighting the spread of this virus, that affects

neighboring states and affects the country. so i think not only legally is the president's actions in that regard would be supported, but just common sense. the country is obviously more important as a whole than one state and if you have one governor who simply is not doing a good job, you need the president of the united states to come in and make the tough decisions. arthel: understood. thank you very much for explaining. chris, thank you very much. take care. >> stay safe. arthel: thanks, stay safe. we want to bring something to you. the president has been very busy today. he and the vice president just finished a meeting with the supply chain distributors across the country for about 30 minutes. we have playback of that meeting right now. let's take a listen. >> fema and everybody else in the federal government working with state government, but on the incredible job that the army corps and fema did on building the hospital in new york at the

javits center. 2,900 beds, they built them ahead of schedule. they did it in four days and these are mobile hospitals that are very complex and very good, highest level. i want to thank in particular general seminite who many of you know and ad admiral paulcheck. what you're doing here is unbelievable. we really appreciate it. i'm going to have you say a couple of words in a minute but we really do, admiral, the whole military, the way they stepped up is just great. so we did a 2,900 bedroom hospital. we're also doing something in new jersey. we're doing something in louisiana. we're actually now occupying all 50 states, some of them need little work but some of them need a lot of work, more work than anybody who have ever

dreamed of. nobody could have imagined a thing like this, a tragedy like this would have happened, the invisible enemy. we will open -- they'll be opening the hospital tomorrow in new york and i just wanted to tonight, when they go to bed, if they go to bed, they probably won't bother because they're not sleeping at all but they're going out to build additional mobile hospitals and to get hospitals built in three days and four days, top of the line facilities, too, when you look at them, they're really incredible. thank you very much, general and admiral, thank you for the work you're doing over here. today we're glad to be joined by leaders of america's medical supply and shipping companies, big people. i know their names very well, from watching business and studying business all my life. we're waging a war against the invisible enemy. we are grateful for your tremendous partnership. it's been incredible and the work you've done so far and i know you're not only -- so far, you're geared up, i know that for a fact and we thank you for

the amazing job you're doing and your amazing workers and truckers for delivering record amount of life-saving equipment. we've set every record you could set. the federal government has done something that nobody's done anything like this other than perhaps war time and that's what we're in. we're in a war. my administration is mobilizing the entire nation to vanquish the virus. we're working to get the supplies that are needed. we're getting them tremendous amounts of supplies. we have a problem of hoarding. we have some health care workers, some hospitals, frankly, individual hospitals and hospital chains, we have them hoarding equipment including ventilators. we have to release those ventilators, especially hospitals that are never going to use them. they have to release them. it's no different than people going into grocery stores and hoarding certain products. we have to release the

ventilators. i spoke to a couple people today, i don't want to mention their names but there is hoarding going on. it's not really something that you wouldn't understand. they don't want to lose their ventilators in case they need them but these are areas in some cases that probably will not need them and in some cases even if they do, they have too many. so they have to release ventilators if they have them. they have to release certain medical supplies and equipment. my administration has done a job on really working across government and with the private sector and it's been incredible. it's a beautiful thing to watch, i have to say. unfortunately, the end result of the group we're fighting, which are hundreds of billions and trillions of germs or whatever you want to call them, they are bad news. this virus is bad news. it moves quickly. and it spreads as easily as anything anyone's ever seen. fema and hhs have shipped or

delivered 11.6 million n95 respirators, 26 million surgical masks, 52 million face shields, 43 million surgical gowns, 22 million gloves and 8,100 ventilators just over the last very short period. we shipped many ventilators, we shipped many to new york. we just shipped some new ones to new york city for the mayor. we've just shipped a lot of ventilators to louisiana, new jersey, we're shipping a lot of ventilators. we're grabbing them and getting them and doing it anyway with have to. whether we use the act or use the act as a threat. yesterday i visited norfolk to see off the usns comfort which will arrive in new york on monday. it's very exciting. i think the governor will meet it, greet it. it's stocked with equipment and goods and all sorts of -- anything medical, they've got. and as you know, they're not

going to be using that for covid, they're going to be using that for other people so that room is made for covid. so we're not going to have covid patients, covid-19 patients. we're going to have people that will unoccupy hospitals on land and then those hospitals are going to be filled up with covid-19 patients. so i just want to thank all the people. as you know, the usns mercy is now in los angeles and the governor has been very terrific, governor gavin newsom, he's been very nice and we're working together really well on this. very important. the mercy arrived and the comfort will be arriving on monday and it will be hopefully greeted with great fannare fan . it's three weeks ahead of schedule. we formed a partnership with companies to bring massive amounts of medical supplies from other countries to the united states and you're bringing big

amounts. this morning our first project, we call it air bridge, it's air bridge, that's the name and it was a flight that landed at jfk, it contains nearly 2 million masks and gowns, over 10 million gloves, and over 70,000 thermometers. this is the first of 50 flights. we're going to have a total of 51 flights. that will probably increase substantially but at this moment looks like about 51 flights and these are big, great planes and they are bringing a lot of equipment into the country. and also intercountry things too but these are the 51 from outside. and in the next 100 days, america will make or acquire three times more ventilators than we normally do in an entire year and far more than that. depending on what happens with the defense production act and some of the companies where we're using it or threatening to use it have been really responsible and stepped up. i want to thank general motors.

as you know, we called general motors for defense production act deeds and they really seem to be working very, very hard. i think i'm getting very good reports about general motors. and they're carrying out contracts to build ventilators and they started already. they've opened a big plant. boeing, ford, honeywell, haynes, many others are repurposing factories to produce respirators and protective masks and face shield plus we have many other people. even mike the pillow man, right? mike is great. he's doing a good job. he closed one of his buildings and he's doing face masks. we are testing nearly 100,000 people a day which is more than any other country in the world and the reason we have more cases than anybody is because we're finding more people because we're testing much more. so when the fake news goes and says we have more, the fact is

if you look at other countries, you have countries with 1.5 billion people, those countries if they tested everybody it would be a whole different story. but we're fine with it. we're testing tremendous numbers of people and as you know we have a test coming out on monday or tuesday that we just -- the company came up with the idea. i'll let somebody talk about it in a second. but that's a fantastic thing. you'll be able to get almost instainstantaneous results instf waiting for days to get it from labs and hospitals. i look forward to hearing from you about what you're doing, what you're experiencing, how we're doing and if any country is causing problems. if we have excess we want to give it to other countries. we're working along with italy, france and spain. i spoke with angela merkel yesterday, spoke with as you know, i spoke with leaders of most of the countries over there. they're having a tremendous

problem. they're doing a great job but they're having a tremendous problem. so it's a very sad thing. we're up to 151 countries as you people know, 151 countries. nobody would have thought this was possible. so with that, i think i'd like to start with the admiral. you can tell us a little about what's happening and then we'll go around to some of the executives if that's okay. >> yes, sir, thank you mr. president. thank you for allowing me to bring this group in. the supply chain task force. you gave us one metric, get more to the hospitals for health care workers. that's what we're doing. four lines of effort, we're going to figure out how to preserve and make things last longer than we have, accelerate, find stuff and get it here and that's what this group is doing. find ways to make more in america and this group is helping for that. also, make better allocations as this group is giving us their data, what they have, where it is, marrying that up with state

needs. this group of industry, government partnership is key to that. one of the first things that we worked on was these are the supply chain experts for the medical supply chain. i heard their ask and worked with us to get products that they're sourcing, get it here faster. so the air bridge is designed to beat the 37 days it normallies takes to get from that part of the world to here. it's been a very collaborative relationship with all doing one thing, get more for the health care workers. >> i think he's doing a fantastic job. is he doing well? if he's not, let me know. we'll reduce his rank by one notch. can i ask gina adams of fed ex to say a few words. >> hello. how are you? i just want to say on behalf of

our 475,000 fed ex employees that we are very proud to be a part of helping to keep the supply chains open. i think you know that we've been working with the administration, hhs and fema from the very beginning and so we're proud to do that. we're proud of our employees and we're definitely here to help. >> thank you very much. great. say hello to fred pour me. >> i will, absolutely. >> doing a fantastic job. mike kaufman from cardinal health, it's i think the biggest or one of the biggest, certainly, mike, where do you stand in the chain? >> one of the biggest. both on the medical side and the pharmaceutical side. thank you so much for your leadership on this. because of that, the folks in our industry have been working together incredibly well with fema, cdc, hhs, it's just improved immensely over the last several weeks. we're identifying the hot spots.

we know where the product needs to go. and it really shows how well the supply chain is working and so we really appreciate the efforts that we've seen from the admiral and others -- >> you're finding good coordination. >> very good coordination. there's bumps in the road but we all get together, there's calls every day and sometimes multiple times a day and people sit down, talk about it, solve it and we move forward. so really good. >> i appreciate it. thank you very much. please. >> i'm laura lane with ups. what you didn't know is that you have another branch of service, it's the brown army and we're ready to deliver everywhere. and in terms of our support for that air bridge, we've seen almost 50% increase in the cargo that is being loaded out of asia and bringing that here so that it can be distributed to places that need it. we've got great partners in cardinal and mckesson and henry

shein, couldn't ask for better partners in terms of getting the products where they're needed. i'm going to let you know, we're going to do what you need. >> i know you are. thank you very much. >> henry schein is honored to work with your administration. a lot of stuff is going on. the ppe distribution is key. we have 100% focus on that. kind of outside the four walls of hospital, we need to get these products also into the front line care providers that are taking care of the spread and stopping it. we're working with the administration of buying american. that's a key initiative on this. what you touched on on testing, be brought two products into the market which is a rapid test. we need more rapid tests in the country. we need to get people back to work. we'll be working closely with the administration to get this test through. it will get americans back to work faster. >> thank you.

if i could, brian tyler from mckesson, great company. >> thank you mr. president. thank you for having us here today. i've spent most of my career in the pharmaceutical and medical supply chain and it's been a rare day that our products were front and center. we're usually behind the scenes, always on utility, making sure health care works and we do a terrific job in this room. the issue recently has not been the supply chain per se but it's been supply. i would love to compliment the admiral, fema, the teams are working, hhs and really all across the administration for the energy, communication and facilitation and willingness to listen because i know i speak on behalf of all of the associates, represented by the companies in this room, particularly our warehouse workers, our transportation drivers who are right next to the front line of the caregivers we all spend most of our time thinking about and

we're ready, willing and able to bring the collective resources of this industry to help address that and the admiral and his team has been a very big part of our early success. >> thank you very much. i appreciate it. ed, please. >> sure. first of all, mr. president, thank you. thank you for everything that your administration has done. thank you for your leadership and thank you for what you're continuing to do. you have enabled us to work closely as a group, in addition to that, do what we need to do which is get those products to those on the front line. in addition to that, you've enabled us to continue to leverage our manufacturing capability in america, specifically in lexington, north carolina. i want to thank the administration for helping us, assisting us as we've gone through the process with fda approval in record time of additional approvals of equipment. >> it's going fast. >> the barriers that have been eliminated are significant. >> what about the sterilization of masks? i'm hearing that's a process that absolutely can happen if they have the right equipment. how is that going, sterilization

of masks? >> so the sterilization of masks is in process. from that aspect of it, it's really getting the masks from the facility, back and having those people who are experts in the sterilization help that to extend the life of the mask. >> but they can do that? >> they can. >> for some reason they're not doing that. there's some companies that make the equipment, can bring it direct throw the hospital. >> that's in the preservation line of effort and we will be bringing to the white house task force early this week ways to go accelerate that to make a mask be five masks. >> i spoke with the great governor of ohio who is doing a fantastic job by the way and he said there's a company in ohio that can do 10,000 masks but they want to do 80,000 masks but they need approval from the fda and i'd like to get them that approval, assuming it's good, i'd like to get them the approval immediately. that would be a tremendous thing. they make machinery to

sterileize masks and they can't get the approval for more than 10 and it sounds to me like something. so i spoke to the head of the fda, dr. hahn, who is doing a fantastic job and i think he's working on it. could you push that for me. >> sure. >> because that's a game changer in a way. >> we brought that together and i wrote that down and we'll knock down that barrier. >> they've been approved for 10. they'd like to be approved for 80,000. that would be great. please. >> thank you l president. >> thank you. >> we are reprocessing now 100,000 masks a day and we think we can go to triple that in the next few months. we do have sterilization capacity. we also distribute other ppe. we started manufacturing hand sanitizer and then a lot of our other business is medical but not related to this, so as that drops off, hopefully this will

pick up and we'll have the capacity to do a loot o -- lot r things. >> i appreciate it. i love what you said about the masks. because never made sense, i look at this -- some of these things, certain level are sophisticated and they're not just cloth. cloth is different. i look at it, i say why aren't they just reusing them, sterileize and reuse them and it can be done. i think that's fantastic. media, thank you very much. appreciate it. thank you. thank you. >> mr. president -- >> you signed an executive order regarding the hoarding of medical supplies -- >> i don't want people to hoard. okay? thank you. eric: i don't want people to hoard, said the president, his final comment after that

meeting. we've been watching the president and vice president pence meeting with supply chain executives in the cabinet room, making sure that the hospitals that need vend la developed lay- ventilators get them and food and other supplies are in the stores. they are setting up hospitals for the hard hit areas. there's new emergency air lifts, he called it the air bridge, getting medical supplies from shanghai to us. it's encouraging that other cous are helping us. he said there's a rapid test, henry schein, the medical company has that developed, saying they will have hundreds of thousands available, arthel. so that is great news. it seems that the government is stepping up because we are certainly in a fight considering the odds that we have been facing. arthel: it seemed, eric, like a very productive meeting and we are wishing the white house well because when the president succeeds, we succeed as a country and right now we are in

this together and our front liners need those supplies. so again, looked like some good things were happening there in that room. i was happy to see the female executives at the table, gina adams with fed ex and laura lane of ups. the president said he is getting ventilators to louisiana, thank you mr., president for that my home state. eric, let me promote our concert tonight that's going to warm our hearts with music. here it is. tonight, some music legends will live stream performances from their homes to yours, it's a benefit concert to help coronavirus charities. fox presents the iheart living room concert for america hosted by sir elton john and featuring tim mcgraw, alicia keys, mariah carey and others. star studded event. it's going to run one hour, no commercials. it begins at 9:00 p.m. eastern on all fox platforms, including right here on the fox news

channel. so i will be watching that for sure tonight, eric. and i'm sure you will be as well. and thank you for joining us. eric: it should be terrific. arthel: we've got to go. jon scott is up next. jon: we are awaiting an update on the federal response to the coronavirus pandemic as the death toll surpasses 2,000 in the united states, doubling in days. good evening, i'm jon scott, this is a special two hour edition of the fox report. ♪ about 30 minutes from now we expect to hear from president trump and the white house coronavirus task force. a news conference scheduled in the rose garden. the president backing off his initial push to quarantine hot spots in new york, new jersey and connecticut. instead, the centers for disease control is advising people living in those states to avoid nonessential domestic travel for two weeks. this as the u.s. continues to lead the world i