so. jillian: he had one. >> that is how they met. all of this documented on social media. a lot of people of course are -- rob: look at her cracking up when he shows up. rob: carley, thank you so much. ainsley: a fox news alert. more than three quarters of our entire united states population is now under stay at home orders. 31 states. washington, d.c. and puerto rico demanding that people do not go outside. brian: right. at least 10 states and d.c. are threatening jail time or fines if the order is violated. people getting a little fed up. right now there are more than 164,000 coronavirus cases nationwide. more than 3,000 have died. steve: here's the good news, brian. the number of recovered americans is nearly 6,000. that number jumping by more than 1,000 in the last 24 hours. and welcome to another one of

our split "fox & friends" show. we're scattered throughout the tri-state area. and it's good to have you. good morning to you ainsley and good morning to you, brian. ainsley: good morning to you, steve and brian and to everyone at home. we have dr. nicole saphier on our show today dr. mehmet oz the surgeon general dr. jerome atkrapls. adams. dr. marc siegel and senator lindsey graham. brian: should did you go back to small business and take some of these loans. of course we have three doctors on the show and got to get yeses and nos. should would he be wearing a mask or not? if we are not wearing a mask if we're sacrificing for medical professionals but we would like to know the answer to that we will talk to the surgeon general because i think it matters so much. and we will talk about all of that as thr is going to lock don and doing what we are -- we have been doing and it's standing in place. in just hours.

the usns comfort will begin serving america's covid-19 epicenter here in new york city. i watched sean do a show from there last night. pretty tremendous. todd piro joins us live. is this a game changer, todd? todd: i do think it is, brian for the entire metropolitan area steve and ainsley. good morning to you as well. the comfort was undergoing maintenance when the president ordered it to new york. a trip that was supposed to take two weeks sped up to just 8 days. the navy hospital ship has a thousand beds. a dozen operating rooms. a lab, pharmacy. two oxygen producing plants and a helicopter deck. its crew of 1200 will deal with non-coronavirus cases as hospitals on land deal with the influx of covid-19 patients. the new york city mayor saying 750 hospital beds will be put into use immediately. here's a little history on the comfort. it was built in the 1970s and originally deployed as a oil tanker before being concerted to a hospital ship in the 1980s.

yesterday's arrival marks the first time it sailed into new york city since 9/11. >> we have capability a pacu. a gally serve thousands of meals per day and provide support to the crew as well as our patient population. it's enormous. todd: amid the positivity these images of crowds ignoring social distancing standing shoulder to shoulder to take photos of the comfort. there you see them right there really really close in that picture right there. the nypd warning the crowds to disperse but not issuing any tickets. meantime staying in the big apple. the sight of the us tennis tournament used for beds. kitchens used to prepare 25,000 meals per day for patients, workers, volunteers. and kids. steve, ainsley, brian, back to you. steve: all right, todd, thank you very much for that report from our newsroom.

when the comfort pulled in to town yesterday, they referred to it as 70,000 tons of i love new york. and you are not alone, new york. and there it is right there. now, today, later today, the white house is going to lay out the data for exactly why they decided to extend the social distancing for at least one more month. but it was very clear in the new york city area that it is a desperate time because in a six-hour period yesterday, there was a death every 2.9 minutes. even though the governor says it will peak next week, this week and next week are going to be rough. and as brian said earlier, about three in every four americans are right now under lockdown orders in some measure. in d.c. and maryland and virginia as well they they have don't leave your house orders and in fact in washington, ainsley, the mayor there is suggesting if you leave your house, you could get arrested or

fined 500 bucks a day -- 500 bucks. ainsley: we all have to do our part. so sad to see the biggest government, the biggest economic government going through this. i mean, this is new york city. we are -- or this is america and we are seeing hospitals, samaritans purse building hospitals in central park. we usually see that in countries that don't have advanced medical systems. they are doing that here. i saw an interinterview with billy graham's grandson. he said this is what we are called to do. we are called to help. you have the governor in new york and mayor in new york. they are working together with the president. have you andrew cuomo our governor begging other states to come and help our people here in new york because this is the epicenter. we have a three hour show. imagine what that means over the course of the next three hours how many people are fighting for their lives at this very moment it. is very sad. our hearts are very heavy for our country and this world. you have our mayor here saying i have a message for the

president, thank you. but we need more help. here is our governor. governor here in new york has been giving a briefing every day just like our president has and this is what governor cuomo said yesterday. >> the president is helping the state of new york. i will be the first person to say so if we have a difference, i will be the first person to say so and the president has been very helpful. the comfort has been very helpful. the javits center 12500 beds. i have will tell you, criminals, the army corps of engineers did a phenomenal job one week and came and did the job at center and built basically an entire field hospital and they are staffing it. so those two facilities alone right there you are talking about a valve. ainsley: brian, fda is relaxing rules for drugs. normally you hav drugs released. trying malaria drugs and breast cancer drug. two people in icu and two people taken off a ventilator in new

york because those two drugs were working. ford and g.e. agreed to make 50,000 ventilators in the next 100 days. brian and steve will, the president was in the rose garden and he rolled out that new test, the rapid test. those are going out today, which is wonderful. brian: yeah. so what the governor is doing the governor is doing a good job. he is communicating but also stockpiling. and a lot of those beds and a lot of those ventilators aren't needed yet. is he looking for the apex which should be in a few days, i think. i don't blame him but for the president of the united states it makes a lot more sense what he has been saying. he said i'm not suring they need the respirators yet. i'm not sure they need this. if i'm the governor i'm pushing and pulling. if i'm the president, i have 49 states with needs. now louisiana, maryland and illinois, especially chipping are going to say i need them. so, the governor is doing what i think governors should do but it's the president that has got to make the tough decisions i

know what you need and what they need and texas needs and california wants. talk about innovations where we are at medically with dr. janette nesheiwat, she is a fox news contributor. seen her all over the channel. specializing in family emergency and medicine doctor. doctor. we see the president rolling out in the box rapid tests. how soon until we are seeing them everywhere? >> this is great. i'm hoping to see it soon. they said they are going to send them out today. this is phenomenal, amazing, incredible technology that brian, gives me the tools to help better manage my patients. if i'm able to test my patient and within minutes, within minutes give them a positive or a negative diagnosis. if they go home with a -- they are more likely to self-isolate and quarantine. able to take that opportunity to council them and educate them and their families. how this is potentially be life threatening, there can be severe complication if we don't adhere

to guidelines of self-isolation and quarantine and also not only to protect themselves but to prevent the spread, transmission of this virus to others. so it really does make a difference. especially a patient having definitive information. so, very much looking forward for this unit to be in our area soon. i know abbott is distributing about 18,000 units. definitely looking forward to it. in the meantime right now what we have is the sort of old fashioned methods swab in nose send it to the lab, takes seven to 10 days having the results come back. having it rapidly an expanded test will make a difference in the community. on top of that, brian, we are able to possibly maybe eventually in the next month or two relax on the social distancing in and the physical distancing guidelines if we are able to determine who is positive, who is negative. those who are negative, okay, put them back in the workforce and get our economy going again. steve: there was actually a lot of news, doctor, regarding medicines in addition to the five-minute test from abbott.

johnson and johnson i.d. a vaccine candidate. start testing in september. which would be really good. the fda did okay a number of those antimalarial drugs which could be a game changer when it comes to treater various people with various stages of this particular disease. here is a soundbite with the president and the secretary of health and human services yesterday talking about who kind of a milestone we are looking at right now with testing. >> milestone in our war against the coronavirus. over 1 million americans have now been tested. more than any other country by far. not even close. and tested accurately. >> as the president mentioned today the united states hit more than 1 million samples tested. a number that no other country has reached. we're now testing nearly 100,000

samples a day. also a level that no other country has reached. steve: doctor? >> yeah. this is amazing. i'm looking forward to the numbers going up higher. but i do have to admit. we are still limited on our tests. my last shift i ran out halfway between halfway in the middle of my shift. i wasn't age to do any more swabs. we didn't have the swabs and reagents. i do have other tools using a chest x-ray, for example. there is a specific panel you can see. on top of that, we use our clinical judgment and decision-making skills to determine, look, you have all the signs and symptoms of coronavirus. let's take precautions. phenomenal technology. it's going to really make a difference in the lives of so many americans. we need it but we need it quickly. hopefully we can, you know, get back on our feet again and reducing the transmission. we are expected to reach this

peak around april 15th estimated by the data and graph that dr. birx put out. 3500 deaths by april 15th. by august 30,000. we need this expanded testing to expand the trajectory of the spread of this virus. ainsley: dr. nesheiwat, what is your message to the rest of the country. you live in new york and we are all in the tristate area where so many of our friends are affected by. this i have heard some different stories. a friend was at a baseball game a few weeks ago. her husband shook hands with another dad. that dad at 47 years old died and infected my friend sandra. that's one of nine stories that i can tell you right now of personal situations in my life. what does it look like at an urgent care and what is your urgent message to the rest of the country that is not taking it seriously? >> first and foremost, so critical to understand that you alone, one person can truly have an impact and make a difference and save lives. we each need to be individually

accountable for our actions and really adhere to the strict guidelines of staying home, don't leave your house unless it's critical, unless you have to go run anner rand. get baby food, shopping for your grandparents, that sort of thing. physical distancing. social distancing, meaning you can still call and face time your friends and family. just keep that distance of 6 to 10 feet away. that on top of having protective equipment are tools to help us prevent the spread of this virus. but, in my urgent care, you know, i have to admit, ainsley, it's scary sometimes. it's challenging. you have to wear a mask to protect yourself so that you don't bring this virus home to your family. waiting rooms are full. majority of my patients are covid patients. they have trouble breathing. they are, you negotiation hunching over, gasping for air. some of them are just mild symptoms. some of them on the brink of death where i have to get the ambulance in right away. my last patient said to me doctor, i feel like i'm going to

die. i feel like i'm going to die. no, you are not going to die. i was worried. i was scared. am i going to have to start doing cpr on this patient? when i finish this interview with you i will head back to work and check on him and see how he is doing. it is overwhelming and challenging. i have think if we do our part, stay positive, work hard, pray, have faith, we will get through this together i do believe. brian: right. well, doctor, just in terms of you getting the answers to your questions. when are you getting more tests? you are waiting for the five-day test. abbott says they start distributing these rapid tests today. what do you do? do you call the hospital management and when you do that to tell them hey i'm out of tests, i'm out of swabz, what do they tell you and who do they ask? >> we are constantly getting in with. >> morgan: suppliers. nurses that have the best, you know, bosses as well. and so we are constantly every day getting in more supplies.

and we are using them. we get a lot of patients that come in. part of our job, brian, we are offloading and reducing the burden on the local hospital and er. many patients do come to us we do ask, please, unless have you significant symptoms, don't come in for a sniffle or runny nose. if you really can't breathe and you are coughing and you have high fevers, then seek medical care. we want to save those swabs for those who truly need it those most vulnerable and have heart disease and lung disease and diabetes. those are the patients i'm seeing that are really struggling. we are constantly daily getting in supplies and shipments of tests and reagents. but as fast as we are getting them. in they are being used. that's how many patients are ill. that's how fast this virus is spreading. but we do have the tools we need. [broken audio]

does the rest the community. steve: all right, doctor, we thank you very much. nobody knows what it's like on the front lines more than you. because you have to triage the people that come in every day. we thank you very much for joining us live. >> thank you, be safe. steve: 6:16 now on the east coast. jillian joins us with a news alert out of new jersey. jillian: good morning. get right to the fox news alert. a new jersey national guardsman first american servicemen to die from the coronavirus. captain douglas lynn hick cock served as drilling guards man and physician's assistant. did he not get the virus on active duty. more than 600 service members have contracted covid-19. congresswoman vasquez self-isolating with a presumed case of coronavirus. the representative says she did not take a test at the advice of the doctor. she came into contact with house speaker nancy pelosi at the stimulus bill signing last week.

a spokesperson for nancy pelosi says she consulted with a doctor who determined that her contact was low risk and she does not need to take any action. we will keep you updated if there is new information there in the meantime, this ford is joining the fight against the coronavirus. the car company is partnering with general electric to build 50,000 new ventilators in 100 days. the machines will be manufactured at a plant in michigan in half the time it normally takes. at least three other automakers have also pledged to make ventilators. well, fox's i heart radio living room concert raises nearly $8 million for coronavirus charities. ♪ you will always be a part of me ♪ i'm part of you ♪ there goes my hero ♪ watch him as he goes ♪ ♪ try to tear me down ♪ i will be rising from the

ground jillian: it really was incredible. about 9 million people tuned in to see stars like mariah carey, alicia keys and back street boys. elton john hosted the event. money raised children's foundation. ainsley: $8 million. people are awesome. thank you so much, jillian. secretary of state mike pompeo sending a warning to the world about the coronavirus. listen. >> we need every country to step up and provide accurate transparent information. if we have disinformation instead, there are more lives that will be at risk. ainsley: and he was just getting started. that story is coming up, brian. brian: china on that. plus, as so many struggle financially right now. walmart is stepping up. vowing to hire 150,000 workers. one of those company executives will join us next.

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ainsley: some big businesses are playing a crucial role in the fight against the coronavirus. walmart says it's going to hire 150,000 temporary employees by the end of may. so far the company has hired more than 30,000. the stores are staying open more than 12 hours a day so that you and i, the shoppers, can get exactly what we need in emergency situation. how do these big businesses staying hope help small businesses in the long run? here to respond is walmart's executive vice president of corporate affairs and former counselor to the president george w. bush dan bartlett. good morning, dan. >> i'm good how are you doing? ainsley: i'm good. tell me what waterma walmart is.

>> we have hired more. we hired about 50,000 additional employees in the last 10 days. those will be starting part time. most of them or a lot of them will become full-time associates as well. the reason is just like our heroes the first responders and healthcare workers all across america deserve the credit they are getting, the unsung heroes are these more than a million employees at walmart and in other retailers who are showing up every day, making sure that the american people have the food they need to survive during this virus outbreak. so, we are doing multiple things to make sure not only our associates are protected but also our customers so they get the food they need during this time. ainsley: where are you finding most of these employees? are they people laid off from the restaurant industry or something like that? >> we have worked with some of these affected industries like the restaurant industry or the hotel industry. we also have a lot of college students with now quite a bit of time on their hands. across the board across the country. we are finding people are showing up. we are hiring about 5,000 people

a day right now. ainsley: that's incredible. i know when i'm at the register i always thank the person that's working. they are in harm's way. they are touching money and face to face with the folks that are in line. any rules for us to follow? yesterday i had to make an emergency run and people in front of me we were all 6 feet apart waiting in line. >> well, that's a very good point. one of the things we really are trying to stress not only to our customers but also to our associates following that 6-foot rule is really important. telling our associates to repeatedly wash their hands 20 seconds and one of the things we will be implementing today is across our fleet is we will be starting to take temperature checks of all of our associates as they come on the clock. the other thing we're doing i know there is a debate in this country and the cdc right now is saying that it's not necessary for people not showing symptoms to wear masks. but we have been listening to our associates. we care about them. so we'll start deploying masks to all 1 million plus employees across the country over the several weeks to make sure that

they feel safe it. will be voluntary for them to wear those masks. but we feel it would be important for them to know that they have those masks at their availability. we are putting plexy glass up as well in front of cashiers and our pharmacies. all of these things are important steps we can take to not only protect our associates but also customers. ask our customer break only come if you really need food. don't bring the whole family to the store. i know sometimes that becomes a social occurrence. now we want to get, in get out, get what you need and keep your distance. ainsley: dan, what about wipes? everyone is looking for wipes, lysol, clorox wipes they are always out on the shelves and hand sanitizer, how are you getting more supplies or are they making enough? >> well, we are working really hard with our manufacturing partners, our suppliers to get those type of disinfectants and other types of cleaning supplies aavailable to our customers. as soon as it is made or manufactured it's going straight

to the shelves. there was an early run on those and the supply chain is catching up. obviously there has also been a lot of pressure on food and other types of consumable goods. but as we -- -- the american people get into new normal cadence, we believe the supply chain will continue to catch up. so we appreciate our customers' patience, we are working closely with those manufacturers to get those products on the shelves as quickly as possible. ainsley: one more question for you, dan, how is it these big box stores a lot of people give you flack for taking the business away from these smaller mom and pop stores, but i understand they are actually benefiting from this. by you hiring more people tell the folks at home how. >> in this period of time when small businesses can't provide a paycheck or payroll to those associates, those employees, this is a time where we can step in and help. the other thing we are doing, have you probably known in the front end of our big super centers there are small businesses that rent space for m

us. 10,000 small business, 10 across the united states and relieving their rent for the month of april. that's just another way in which we are helping small businesses. this is a time when everybody has to do their part. walmart is trying to do its part not only for own employees but for our communities and we will continue to to do that through the course of the next. ainsley: like contact lens wearers and hair places. >> yes, ma'am. ainsley: thank you, daniel. got bledsogod bless you and allr employees. >> thank you. ainsley: next guest 28 years old. she got the coronavirus anyone o is not taking this pandemic seriously.

brian: our next guest is a 28-year-old woman who says she tested positive for the coronavirus. on facebook she wrote. this. she started more tired than normal. began to have a cough. felt like her chest was filled with water. now she is warning others who might not be taking this pandemic seriously. joining us now to share her experience is amanda bono. amanda, one of the big things about this i'm glad you are okay. i also think your message is important. because you are very young. 28 years old. we were told in the beginning you know, if you got it, the symptoms were so mild what's the big deal. right? >> right. yeah. in the beginning my doctor told me that i actually had tonsillitis, so i was going to work and having symptoms and not even knowing that i was

positive. i really had to advocate for myself to even get tested. brian: what were the symptoms early. >> i had a wrapsy throat, my throat hurt. i felt like i had a lot of fluid in my lungs. so i went to the doctor. and told them what my symptoms were because my boyfriend does work for the state of new york. at the time one of his patients actually tested positive. but i didn't know until the sunday before. so i did go to the doctor. i let them know that they tested me for the flu. and they tested me for strep. they told me that i had tonsillitis and put me on an anti biotic but three days after being on antibiotic my symptoms got worse. i felt like i had a brick on my chest. i had really bad muscle aches, very fatigued. my cough worsened.

i just didn't feel right. so, wednesday, on march 18th, i called my doctor again. i let her know that my symptoms were progressing. the medication wasn't working. they switched my medication to a different antibiotic. and that night once i left work, i came home and i found out i did have a fever. so i was at work presenting with a fever. do i work in ai do work in outp. i was concerned because at that time we were still seeing patients. i was given a number to the coronavirus hotline. i waited an hour and 45 minutes to speak to somebody. they did tell me off my symptoms and what i described i was eligible for a test. i never received a phone call. i had to advocate for myself. i called the hotline again on that friday and they gave me the

number to suffolk county department of health where then they told me i needed a script from my doctor to get a test. then i called my doctor. my doctor told me they don't do that so it was really frustrating. brian: can i get this straight? you get this, this is over a two week period. your symptoms gradually got worse. they gave you the wrong type of medicine. and in the end you couldn't even get a result when you called the number to get the result of a test after five days. so, in the end did you finally get the treatment and how do you feel now? >> yeah. so, after calling my doctor a few times, they gave me a number to a testing location through northwell health. so that was friday the 20th. they were very nice. i called them, they got me an appointment right away. and then that following monday actually found out i had the virus. so, i went about a week without

even knowing that i had it. i did quarantine myself just to be safe. the symptoms did get worse but by sunday sunday of last week i was feeling much better. brian: amanda, real quick did, your boyfriend have it and did he know he had it and how is he? >> >> so my boyfriend is completely fine. he was exposed but i'm pretty sure that he is a carrier. he had no symptoms ever, so he was not eligible for a test at all. even though he was exposed to someone who did have it. so he was stuck at work for quite some time. so i didn't see him for a majority of the time i was sick. but he is well. brian: wow, so he is well, is he a carrier. i think it's -- listen to your story and people can resonate

what do you mean i gave it to you? i didn't have any symptoms. in this case you believe that he did. keep in mind, they told us early young people didn't have to worry about it. that's just not the case. 38% of the cases that need to be hospitalized are people between the ages of 20 to 54 and people who say it's just the flu. this is considered five to ten times more deadly than the flu. amanda, i think you helped a lot of people by telling your story. so glad you are okay. appreciate you joining us. >> thank you so much. brian: all right. and continued health. meanwhile straight ahead, the trump administration could soon recommend that all americans wear masks in public. is that a good idea? and man is that a different story than we have been hearing? we are going to ask dr. nicole saphier that. (woman) somebody would ask her something and she would just walk right

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♪ is the land of cotton ♪ first time you leave ♪ it can be strange ♪ ainsley: brad paysly is teaming up with country music stars to say thank you to will those on the front line of covid-19. brian: kicking off gratiitunes. steve: new artist will send a grati tune every day sarah evans, laura elena and jewel. national doctor's day. president trump giving update on the private sector's efforts as american companies step up to manufacture much needed medical supplies. watch this. >> ford just announced just a little while ago that they will produce, along with general

electric healthcare, 50,000 ventilators. >> we have doubled our production of n-95 masks already. it's going to double again within the next 60 days. >> we expect to begin delivering 30 to 50,000 gowns per week. >> we will be able to produce approximately 10,000 shields in the next four weeks. ainsley: and globally ikea announcing this morning they're also making face masks and aprons for healthcare workers. brian: doesn't end there so how will this help those fighting on the front lines. when can they see some of the stuff. here to weigh in is fox news contributor dr. nicole saphier. dr. saphier, i imagine you are kind of torn. you are happy this is happening but wondering where is this? we just had another doctor on earlier nesheiwat she is like yeah, we need this stuff, we hear it's coming but it's just not there yet. >> very true, brian. we are short on ppe, we continue

to be. the president mentioned we have been over 1 million tests that means we have used at minimum 1 million masks. and we have nearly 200,000 people hospitalized which means that every time someone comes to see that patient they have to change their mask because it's a highly contagious virus. yes, masks are in short supply. outside of our hospital right now each staffer have to work through a certain entrance to get our mask of the day. supposed to be reusing that throughout the day. that is not standard practice. that's what we have to do right now. we need to be wearing masks to protect ourselves and protect those around us. steve: dr. saphier, apparently the president and the cdc are thinking about recommending masks for people in public. just average people going to the grocery store and things like that. that is different than what we have heard before. they are saying it would not be the medical grade n-95 masks but could be a do it yourself cloth thing. the whole idea is to help

flatten the curve. there are obviously risks involved. but the worry, apparently the cdc is that if people wear masks in public, they are going to think okay. i'm protected. i can get closer to people and they don't want that message of can you stop social distancing out there right now. >> well, that's right, steve. and wearing masks in public is highly controversial. and i can show you one person that says it's a good idea and another person that says it's a bad idea. the truth is the biggest benefit to people wearing masks in public is to get rid of the stigma around those who actually are having to wear masks in public immarco rubi immunocomprn or real sick person. there is no study that say wearing masks will lower infection. non-pharmaceutical such as washing hands those do help lower infection.

however there have been studies looked at how wearing masks in public affected the original sars. there was less than 65% decrease transmission. you know, wearing makeshift masks in public help lower the risk of you getting infected or if you are stao*pl tom is a asy. carrier. help getting you back to work yes. by biggest concern like our own federal regulations as well as the world health organization give people false sense. wearing a mask. majority of people are not wearing masks appropriately. they didn't undergot training that healthcare workers did. they will be touching things. more likely to get infected by touching something or touch their face. most people touch their face about 52 times a day. i challenge everyone to video themselves all day and count how many times you touch your face. you will be shocked and may make you wash your hands a little bit

more. ainsley: dr. saphier, how does this effect going forward once we have gotten this under control? how many masks hospitals are going to stock. 5eu7 problems, protective gear, the gloves? >> this is a really big learning curve, ainsley. you know, it seems that we -- we're short of ppe with the ebola crisis. and in some of the training exercises. [broken audio] united states needs to acknowledge that we fell short when it came to ppe. now, when we are looking to fill up our supplies, you have other companies hoarding them and not exporting ppe because they want to keep them for themselves. at this point the united states better have a big stockpile of our own ppe the next time this happens. this is going to happen again. lessons learned. take what is happening now and make sure this doesn't happen again and get the ppe to the healthcare workers right now. that looks like that's what the private sector here is doing. stepping up.

getting it done. and i hope we see these masks and hope we see these masks now. brian: all right. dr. saphier. thanks so much. i hear you. also keep in mind spain is saying the same thing. *eults is saying the same thing. germany is saying the same thing. they are all out of this stuff it seems so basic. we better buy it. put it in new mexico and leave it there in case of emergency. meanwhile jillian mele is always there in case of emergency. right now we need to you give the news, jillian. will you do that? jillian: i will gladly do that for you. following this story. a man who shot and killed a phoenix police commander is now identified. jacob emery nick lavigne opened fire on three officers as they responded to a call about a fight to his home. he was with the department 31 years months away from retiring. he leaves behind a wife and four children. two other officers were shot but expected to recover. the suspect was shot and killed by police. secretary of state mike pompeo is warning other countries against withholding coronavirus

statistics. >> we need every country to step up and provide accurate transpatientranstransparent inf. if we have disinformation instead there will be more lives at risk not only today but in the weeks ahead. jillian: pompeo says the data helps scientists make models of the virus' spread. he promises to share u.s. information with any country that cooperates. a pastor is charged for holding a crowded sunday service despite social distancing orders. rodney howard brown argues his mega church in tampa, florida is essential. law enforcement though disagrees. the evangelical pastor is charged with unlawful assembly and violating an emergency health order. he posted bond and is out of jail. a police department doesn't let the coronavirus rain on a neighbor's parade. watch this birthday surprise. >> happy birthday 12346789 cheers] >> police officers and

firefighters joining loved ones to wish christopher ely a happy 70th birthday from a safe distance of course. you can see his smile. waived at the parade of cars driving by his home. very happy birthday. sir. steve: that is just terrific. he reminds me of the guy who lives two doors down who does exactly the same thing. jillian, thank you very much. steve: meanwhile, the state of rhode island pulling over all ought of state drivers and visitors during this pandemic. is that legal? judge napolitano says absolutely not. he will explain next.

>> to keep all rhode islanders safe imposed an order imposing quarantine on all visitors from any state by any mode of transportation. steve: the governor of rhode island expanding her mandate to stop all out-of-state drivers and visitors during the pandemic. she initially singled out new york but changed course after governor andrew cuomo threatened to sue. so is what she doing legal? here to answer that we have fox news senior judicial analyst and host of liberty file on fox nation judge andrew napolitano. judge, good morning to you. >> good morning, steve. so the answer is absolutely not. steve: started where they were stopping people with new york plates. now it's anybody coming into the state. does she have that authority? >> no, she doesn't. i mean, she modified her plan as you said after governor cuomo quite properly threatened to sue her for singling out new york. the problem is the states can't close their borders.

why not? because the constitution was written largely to keep those borders open. so, the 14th amendment, after the civil war was written expressly to prevent a state from treating out-of-staters differently than it treats its own people. so, she has no ability under the law to stop anyone from coming in to the state. unless there is some unique circumstance. a bank robber being chased by connecticut cops into rhode island, obviously that personal can be stopped or a person engaged in some crime that the government can prove to a jury but stopping a human being because of the place of their origin is expressly prohibited by the constitution. and if i might say, this governor raimondo who is a graduate of yale law school must know. this this is obviously a political move on her part because she knows it won't last as soon as it's challenged before a federal judge.

steve: well, judge, you have got the case down in florida where governor desantis ordered that anybody coming in from initially the tristate area where we are right now had to self-quarantine for 14 days. and, you know, there were people at the airport. they had great big traffic stops on 95 and the interstates going. in and now it sounds like -- but, is that within his power? >> no. he is essentially doing the same thing. it's not as draconian in sound as what governor raimondo has done. she even state police knock on doors to show residents proof of i.d. where they were from. if they were from new york or new jersey they were going to yank them out. i don't think she has actually done that. but what governor desantis is doing, a little late in the day, is almost the same thing. he doesn't have that power as well. you can't stop someone without proving fault. and being from a particular area

is not evidence of fault. you can't assume that just because someone is from new york that they are a carrier. the government doesn't have that authority under the constitution. it doesn't have the authority for many of these things that are being ordered by governors. many of these things that the governors are ordering, steve, are the use of their bully pulpit to educate the public. nobody is doing it better than andrew cuomo. but when the bully pulpit turns into the police power that's where they are going too far. steve: okay. well, let's see what happens. certainly now everybody knows what's going on. judge, thank you very much. we are going to step aside. dr. oz is going to join us in two minutes. right back. i've always focused on my career,

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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. brian: fox news alert. more than three quarters of the u.s. population now under stay-at-home orders. washington and puerto rico demanding people not go out. steve: at least 10 states and the district of columbia are even threatening jail time or fines if the order is violated. right now there are more than 164,000 coronavirus cases that we know of nationwide. more than 3,000 people have died, ainsley. ainsley: yeah. that's right, steve, but here is the good news. the number of recovered americans nearing 6,000, that number jumping by more than

1,000 in the last 24 hours. we all need to do our part. and if you stay at home, i know it's hard. you are actually saving lives. you just said, steve, 3,000 people dead in our country. 1,000 of those. steve: yeah. ainsley: 1/3 of those in new york city the death toll going up here. in new york during a six hour period there was a death every 2.9 minutes. in d.c. the cases there have quadrupled, brian. brian: yeah. on top of that keep in mind there is good news. "new york times" writes today one of these thermometers linked to the internet able to monitor in new york how many people have fevers shows over the last two weeks dramatically down since we started this soerpbld. liksocial distancing. slingshot. most of our citizens begin paying off see most of the numbers going down after the apex. this hour joined by true professionals george general dr. jerome adams, what's the story with the masks, are we getting two different stories

and should we all be wearing them. dr. marc siegel on the latest technologies as well as how the new york hospital system is standing up to. this senator lindsey graham, get, this they are talking about a fourth stimulus. should we first be waiting to see how the third one goes before we do that again? it's estimated the third one saved 47 million jobs. as we start to get some money in the next three weeks, steve. steve: right. well, brian, it does -- nancy pelosi was asked about this fourth phase or whatever they are going to call it yesterday. and essentially said the new legislation would be aimed at infrastructure, protection of front line workers and aid to the district of columbia. and the situation in the district of columbia so desperate right now. the mayor is saying if you don't stay at home, you could wind up in jail or get a $5,000 fine. so the country and localities

are very serious about us hunkering down in place. that's one of the reasons the president yesterday said rather than talking about the number of lives lost, he said we could save more than 1 million american lives. and that is a good thing. meanwhile, in just a couple of hours. the usns comfort will begin serving america's covid-19 epicenter which is new york city, ainsley. ainsley: that's right. 1200 medical personnel will serve non-coronavirus patients. free up space at our city hospitals grappling with a skyrocketing number of covid-19 cases. brian: here is what is good about it. 1,000 beds on board the comfort with 80 intensive care beds and operating rooms come with doctors. people in new york appearing to ignore social distancing to get a glimpse of its arrival. you can understand that they are excited. they also know help is on the way. they showed up and got people upset around the country and then the cops had to come and break it all up.

steve: they were too close. we know what the rules are right now. let's bring in dr. mehmet oz, host of the dr. oz show. he has been joining us every day during the pandemic. dr. oz, it is terrific that the comfort is now in the new york city area. yesterday they said it was 70,000 tons of i love new york. but they are going to be serving people who don't have covid. here's the problem it. just takes one case of covid-19 on that ship to potentially turn it into something that we have seen in cruise lines, doesn't it? >> >> you are right. but they are pretty careful about this. first of all, it's a great example of you who the federal government can play a positive role just from the vision having a navy ship come into port to help you out. it raises morale. and there are risks no, question about covid-19 come in. they are meticulously monitoring everybody. that's the whole point of separate facilities for covid-19 patients and folks who have the

ailment. another field hospital that's in central park built by samaritan's purse that's only taking covid-19 patients. we are pretty careful about this. there are ways of screening it. as soon as any symptoms are demonstrated at least in that setting can you rapidly change that all a positive from my perspective. but the big issue is the testing. they have to test in that hospital. and the president spoke about this yesterday. we have a million tests now in this country. that's the solution that all of us need. because without that testing, you just don't know. so the commander of the comfort doesn't know. the hospital doesn't know. the governors don't know and the president doesn't know if you don't test people adequately. ainsley: dr. oz, it's fun i couldn't mentioned that the president yesterday in his press briefing he pulled out one of his rapid tests being distributed starting today. listen to what he said if you missed it at home. >> today we reached historic milestone in our war against the coronavirus. over 1 million americans have now been tested. more than any other country by

far. not even close. and tested accurately. >> as the president mentioned today, the united states hit more than 1 million samples tested. a number that no other country has reached. we're now testing nearly 100,000 samples a day. also a level that no other country has reached. ainsley: dr. oz, i want you to respond to that also brian mentioned the masks, you could see where people, the fevers are going down. why is that if you have dr. fauci saying the peak is going to be in a week or two? what do we believe? are we getting better? are we going to see a peak in a week? >> i think both are true. the reality is the fever comes first. the person then sort of struggles for a couple days. then they finally go to the hospital in new york city because there is no room. we will do everything we can to keep you out of the hospital. when you finally get admitted a week or 10 days later it shows up a statistic that the governor can show and say listen here is

some data on hospital mission or mortalities another week or two down the road. you don't go to the hospital and die go to icu intubated and struggle and god forbid you die. the numbers make perfect sense. maybe brian can be an environmental protection agency deemologist going forward. he is right. what we see is a slow decline of the rise we are seeing. no longer double numbers of the hospital every two days it's every six days. that should peak next two weeks. the most important number is what the president just said, 1 million tests done that number means we can finally decide in a targeted way exactly what we are going to do. we can take sniper shots at problems rather than having to blast everything with a shotgun that gives us so much more opportunity to correct the problems we are facing. brian: that box. get that box out get quick results don't need reagents. how do we build immunity in our system to kill the virus early? what can you tell us about

examples of progress there? >> i will go through the risk. four different categories i will leave immunizations to the side very happy johnson and johnson got a big government contract to really scale this up we have a bunch of companies doing this god bless them all they all work in slightly different ways. i am very confident some of these will pan out next year. meantime four different categories first thing build up innate immune system. couple ways of doing. this list put up on screen. first item i'm going to point out and this is critical that can you enhance the immune system with convalescent plasma therapy antibodies made by someone recovered into someone who is deathly ill. that seems to jump start them. there is a nice article in jama biggest medical journals four out of five patients did well with this program. these people were all dying basically and fifth person still alive. that's good news. interesting high dose vitamin c

might play a role here. vitamin c helps shorten the duration of a common cold. probably worth considering new york hospital and other facilities still testing it. jury still out. going to go through this list. all on foxnews.com. put it on social media feeds as well. 100 different ideas out there that are being tried. next up, you want to prevent the virus. if your immune system is not strong enough. you don't want the virus to get into the cell. how do you block it from getting into the cell. that's where hydroxychloroquine plays a role. we have been talking about it a lot. antimalarial drug. plays a role. i corresponded with the physician in france leading the trials. they will have 500 patients on combination with azithromycin c pack this week if he could he would add zinc. high dose zinc could potent united states the action. that's something can you do at home, actually. take a low dose if you desire. don't have evidence. high dose if you are ill might

make sense. if your immune system can't catch and it penetrates into your cells, then the question is how you block its replication? how do you stop it from doing damage? there is a bunch remdesivir is a good example. promising therapies. some of them have not shown these are designed for other illnesses like hiv and ebola and being utilized in more aggressive fashion in trials. they should work. block the overresponse of our inflammatory system. the complement storm so to speak where the body can't keep up with the virus and two medications put on here which are both still experimental a bunch of others that work in this area. remember, if we have a drug that works with people have horrible infections or bad cancers to block the overresponse of the body. you could use those same drugs for coronavirus for covid-19. that's our hope. one last idea that i quickly ran by low sar tan which is a medication that's a blood pressure medication it works as

the same receptor that this virus uses to sneak into your cells. the jury is still out. we don't want people going off those meds may help you from blocking the virus from come in. those trials. fda approved products have to show they work. this might be an opportunity as well. steve: sure, so dr. oz, the medical community is is looking at all these various drugs. i know they used some super computers to try to figure out what druggings might work with this particular version of covid-19. steve: does every doctor know these potential drugs that could potentially help their patient? >> no. categorically not. one drug gotten mine share of. i know this because i have talked to so many doctors in so many states high tkrobgs i

didn't chloroquine when combined with azithromycin. elevated conversation point by discussions by our public officials and medical community expects they are probably safe enough we are not doing any harm and the governor of kansas told me recently he said you go to war with the army flint firefighters union and this is all we have right now. but some of these other products have been used clinically in other. low sar tan family of drugs, blood pressure drugs. those drugs could be rapidly transitioned over because doctors know how to use them and use them safely. if there is any clue they may be beneficial and the right patient start to experiment. what dr. fauci said is right. you want to simultaneously test these. when the i president insisted clinical testing in the meantime pushed the fda to approve these products for doctors to prescribe that was the right move. trust that they might work. verify that they work with clinical trials. in the meantime don't hold the doctors back. don't tie the hands of doctors for doing the most for their patients. if you apparent and get

covid-19, it is worth asking your doctor about any of the products on this list. especially hydroxychloroquine. we don't know for sure if the chloroquine is effective. you might try it. ainsley: dr. oz, brian was interviewing a girl in her 20's who had it. she was so frustrated called the hotline waited an hour and 445 minutes. then they told her they would call her back with the test. she called again. on hold for a while. and then they said you need to call your physician and get a test. she called her physician and she said no, that's not what you are supposed to do. i know we are figuring this out right now and a lot of unknowns. where will would he be at a point in the country we have all the drugs and masks we need and we have all the supplies for the hospitals? we have the ventilators. when will we get to that point? >> well, you were kind enough to ask my question of the president yesterday because it's all driven by testing. i will give you an example why that is so important. right now if i order a test and this is true all over the country. i can probably wait five or six days to get the result back. imagine going to a hospital as a

patient. you are not sure, have a fever and cough and feel tired. classic signs but you don't know what that means. you get admitted they order the test. for five to seven days you stay in isolation room with all the nursing wasting caps, gowns, masks because it turns out you didn't have covid-19. because most of the time the test comes back negative. all those resources thrown away because we didn't have a test. likewise, our ability to target people and make sure the right ones are given priority to get to the icu or get intubated is wasting when we don't know for sure what we're dealing with once we have the testing, all the other opportunities become augmented because we will use our resources more efficiently. the ventilator, i do believe by the middle of april we will have g.m. and other companies making enough that that problem goes away. brian: i hope. so so, you have talked more than anybody else about hydroxychloroquine. and you want to get the result of this study. so, is one way to get the result of this study if i can say this effectively is the people that are on it now for whatever it is

lupus or with everything else, can you find out how this virus is acting in them and quickly get their record from medicare and medicaid because it's paid for by them and see how it's acting? get the results of that study and see if it can be mass produced from coast to coast? >> you know what? that is such a brilliant idea. the khao*eubz actually did it. the reason they began using this drug as part of their routine in china is they looked at a hospital that had a very big volume of cases. it turns out that none of the patients who were on the chloroquine for their lupus or rheumatoid arthritis which is the reason you would be on it got covid-19 and conversely none on it got. one of them was medication use. that was one of the key clues that got them moving forward on making this part of their formula so to speak. that is a wonderful concept.

cms -- seema verma could do this immediately. rapidly recall check to see if having protective effect that would give the medical community case reports and large groups of patients being data collected as opposed to traditional randomized trial more comfortable acting on. steve: thank you very much for giving us an update on things that are going on on the cutting edge of medicine right now there are patients in the states of louisiana and michigan and new jersey. it locks like those are the states that are going to be impacted next. sir, we thank you very much for joining us live. > all right. meanwhile, 7:16 now here in the east coast. jillian joins us with news about a passenger on a ship. jillian: passengers aboard a coronavirus stricken cruise

line. this is what we are talking about. they are begging officials to let them come ashore. the holland america mass jerusalem have been stranded 10 days. they hope to dock in older. lori begging for help saying quote, florida continues to receive flights from new york and it allowed spring break gatherings to go on as planned. why turn their backs on us? local leaders though are pushing back. >> we think it's a mistake. >> people are out of work. people are staying at home. we don't need any more infection in our communities. jillian: four people on the ship have died. more than 130 have flu-like symptoms. a man facing federal charges for coughing on fbi agents and hoarding medical splice. if he would heim told agents he had covid-19 as they con fronted him about selling a stockpile of masks, gowns and cleaning supplies in new york city. one doctor tells agents he had enough supplies for an entire hospital. the man is accused of selling supplies at 700 percent markup.

today whole food employees will protest working conditions and pay. according to online petition the employees are demanding things like healthcare coverage for part time and seasonal workers. paid leave for workers in quarantine as well as extra hazard pay and adequate sanitation equipment. the sick-out was originally planned for may 1st but the petition says they had to act sooner. a doctor bursts into tears for a very good reason pulled over for speeding. instead of a ticket, a minnesota state trooper handed the woman five face masks that he was supposed to use for protection. the officer says he felt compelled to give the masks after learning the woman was a doctor who only had two masks with her. for more inspiring stories like this. people going the extra mile to help one another. visit foxnews.com/america together. threw will also find information on how you can help. a lot of people doing their part in their communities to help out

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brian: u.s. treasury secretary steve mnuchin on with stuart varney talking about $350 billion on its way to help america's small businesses struggling on the sideline with this pandemic. here with what they need to do and need to know is stuart varney host of varney and company. stuart, we see the broad base. we hear about it being a thousand pages. but for the small business owner they zero in on what is in it for them. what's in it for them? >> okay. let me go through. this first of all, it's coming to small business directly through direct deposit. you don't have to go through a small business bureaucracy of government. you go straight to your bank. your credit union your small business lender and apply for the money directly through them. private enterprise, efficient, fast. private enterprise. the money should start arriving by friday of this week. that is lightning fast. for a program of this size, to get the money out within a week, that is a really remarkable performance. get the money by friday.

so, you go to the bank, credit union, small business lender, no government bureaucracy. you get the money, direct to your deposit. you get 8 weeks of payroll. that's important. that means the government is paying you, the small business owner to your employees. they are paying the employees indirectly for 8 full weeks. and it's not a loan. it's if the smallbusiness does y off. it's a grant. you get the money. goes directly tout workers. plus, you get 25% of your overhead, that's rent or insurance. so 8 weeks of payroll, 25% of your overhead by direct deposits. half of all private work workforce is covered by. this more money is available. mr. mnuchin, secretary mnuchin told me the president son board with this plan. the republicans are. the democrats are. and if more is needed, more help will be on the way very quickly.

brian: and if you did let go of your employees right away you bring them back you could still qualify. stuart, you might not know the answer to this. how do you know the. if i have a small business, restaurant business. who is going to decide how much money i need? >> well, that will be a dependent upon your workforce. what is their payroll? as i understand it, you run a small business, you will get your payroll taken care of. i don't know whether there is a cap or not. i don't think there is. look, the objective here is to keep small business running. keep people with a paycheck. keep the money flowing. i don't think they have any desire to put caps on and restrictions. they want to flood that money out there to keep small business going it. will be else in. essentially april has been cancelled economically and we don't know what happens in may and june. so it's likely that we'll go back for more money as this 377 billion runs out and i think

it will be made very readily available. brian: all right. if you don't mind, i don't have the business mind, that's why i haven't been hired on fbn. who gives the money who is giving the money to the banks in the government gives the money to the banks which by the way they don't have. right, federal reserve. they are giving it to the banks. >> primarily the federal reserve. brian: if you give it to me i will give it to them in one end and out the other. do they make interest? >> well, look, there may be a small payment to the banks for the pass through deal. i mean, there is some there is some computer network there may be a small payment. let's not start quibbling about wicked bankers getting their piece. let's get the money out there, please. that's what is required. let's no quibble about an interest here or a little fee there i don't believe they will be operating that way anyway. let's just get the money out

there. it's available. the tpraoefrbl has got 4 trillion to do this. get it out there. get going. brian: we will see what happens. saint lewis fed says 32 million people could be applying for unemployment in the second quarter. that's pretty stunning. stuart, i will talk to you on radio. we will do a simulcast. >> you got it. thanks, brian. brian: meanwhile, coming up straight ahead a former nfl safety left the league to become a doctor. now is he fighting the coronavirus on the front lines. former tennessee titan dr. myron joins us live next.

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pandemic, our next guest is a former nfl player turned neurosurgery resident facing the chaos of the coronavirus firsthand. former tennessee titan dr. meyer rodr. dr. dr. dr. myron rolle. >> good morning. steve: on march 1st, no one had no idea what was coming towards america's hospitals. when did you notice there at mass general that something was going on? >> i noticed about two or three weeks ago the influx of patients that we saw with either symptoms or positive tests. it was staggering. and i noticed our hospital adjusted and changed policies based on this number to try to mitigate and handle these stations. it affected even our neurosurgical department in a way where our neurosurgical floor has now been transformed into a covid-19 patient only floor.

so, i started to notice it then and people on high alert and try to activate as best as possible. steve: now, if people are coming in to see you in the neurosurgery department, that's a pretty significant concern they have got. but during this pandemic, what have your patients been doing? >> that's a great question. you know, we have patients who have degenerative spine disease, disks, howard k herniations deah neurodisease and have scheduled surgeries around this month. we have had to tell them that their clinic appointments have to be cancelled and they have to postpone their surgery based on the fact that sometimes hospitals are infection and more pressing need dealing with more vulnerable patient population that is very sick and if we have to be activated as neurosurgery doctors to either take care of these covid patients or transform our icus -- i'm sorry

transform our ors into icus then we have to do it and that's the call. steve: dr. rolle, let me ask you this. you are a road scholar. you were a safety for tennessee titans, how did you wind up in neurosurgery? >> i have always wanted to do neurosurgery. i read dr. ben carson's book gifted hands when i was in fifth grade. he became my role model. i had him on my wall as academic and deanne sanders as football hero. i continued those parallel roads of academic and sports. when football was done, i got it all out of my body. my hands were still okay to physically operate in the operating room and i didn't have any traumatic brain injury. it's exciting for me i it get to help concussion and brain injury some of my former teammates become patients i can advocate for. it's been an amazing journey.

steve: that is amazing indeed. for the people who are looking. in what is your message about what's going on in boston at mass general there on the front lines? >> i would say that it's bad right now. it's difficult right now. for a great hospital like mass general that is taxed and strained and stretched with resources but we are dealing with it. i would say to the public adhere to what the healthcare professionals and the politicians are saying right now which is, you know, have lifestyle behavior modification. stay at home. physical distance right now. do your part. play an active role. i know i mentor a lot of kids at florida state. young student athletes. sometimes we feel invincible when we are young that nothing can hit us. there is a buy-in that needs to happen a collective buy in flatten the curve, slow it down give the epidemiologists scientists, doctors, physicians, pharmacists all these people time to mitigate, find therapies, find vaccinations and find ways for us to get over.

this we will. i'm optimistic that we can. steve: well, we all are dr. rolle thank you very much, we know you are busy these days. thank you for taking time to talk with us today. >> thank you for having me. i appreciate it, thanks. steve: you bet. thank you, sir. 7:36 here in the east coast. president trump says the next month is going to be critical in stopping this virus. >> challenging times are ahead for the next 30 days. we're sort of putting it all on the line. steve: so what does all in line mean? we're going to talk to the surgeon general of the united states, dr. jerome adams next. , i need all the breaks that i can get. at liberty butchumal- cut. liberty biberty- cut. we'll dub it. liberty mutual customizes your car insurance so you only pay for what you need. only pay for what you need. ♪ liberty. liberty. liberty. liberty. ♪

♪ >> yesterday i announced that we would be extending our social distancing guidelines through the end of april. this is based on modeling that shows the peak in fatalities will not arrive for another two weeks. the same modeling also shows that by very vigorously following these guidelines we could save more than 1 million american lives. every citizen, family, and business can make the difference in stopping the virus. this is our shared patriotic duty. challenging times are ahead for the next 30 days. and this is a very vital 30 days. ainsley: this really have a

vital 30 days, guys. let's bring in dr. jerome adams our united states surgeon general as you know. good morning to you. >> good morning, ainsley. great interview with dr. rolle a great i hope he heeds everyone's advice about staying home. ainsley: thank you. what can we expect over the next 30 days. >> what we hope and expect people will listen to the extended guidance putting out today first 15 days to stop the spread virus. people need to stay at home. you have heard me say it many times. we are working around the clock to get supplies to cities across the country to mayors and governors. we aren't going to supply our way out of this problem. the way we solve this problem is by everyone coming together, stopping the spread, by limiting large gathers, by staying at home. i'm a little bit frustrated because you are still seeing pictures on twitter, on tv of people getting together, being too close. putting themselves in a situation where they could end up in the hospital and the best way to make sure you don't run

out of ventilators is to make sure you don't need so many people who need to get on ventilators in the first place. brian: dr. adams, maybe you can help us with this, early on you told us a couple weeks ago don't walk around with masks. they are not going to help. if you are sick, it might stop you from getting other people sick. but we shouldn't do it. have you changed your recommendation now because the president seems to think that maybe eventually we are all going to be walking around with masks do. they help or not? >> brian, you and i have talked about this a lot. it's important to understand that we're looking at the data every single day and we make the best recommendations to the american people we can based on what we know. what the world health organization and the cdc have reaffirmed in the last few days is that they do not recommend the general public wear masks. here's why. on an individual level, there was a study in 2015 looking at medical students. and medical students wearing surgical masks touch their face on average 23 times.

we know a major way that you can get respiratory diseases like coronavirus is by touching a surface and then touching your face. so wearing a mask improperly can actually increase your risk of getting disease. it can also give you a smallies sense of security and you see many of these pictures with people out and about closer than six feet to each other but still wearing a mask. on a population level, that's important for people to know that we tell sick people to wear masks so that you can't transmit disease to others. again, if that encourages people to get together to close. you may mitigate or cancel out the effect of people wearing masks. consequences. we still have ppe shortages across the country. the w.h.o. mentioned this in their statement. we want to make sure we are reserving ppe for the people who most need it. that's how you are going to get the largest effect because if healthcare workers get sick they can't take care of you when you get sick. brian: okay. we will leave that aside for now because, you know, if you want to put that aside for healthcare workers, we get that but if it

could actually help us, we would love to know. >> again, the data doesn't show it helps individuals. brian: gotcha. >> if you are sick, wear a mask. brian: we know in cline they walk around with them. >> they have a culture of wearing masks and everyone already has one and they are more accustomed to wearing them without touching their face. if you have a mask and makes you feel better then by all means wear it. know the more you touch your face the more you put yourself at risk. know right now the data isn't quite there to say that there is a net benefit of individuals to the individual of wearing a mask. brian: yeah. let me just follow up quick. do you see a time where we all, if we have the n-95 masks. we do wear them everywhere? is that part of us getting back to normalcy the n-5 masks, mass produced to the general public? >> well, certainly not the n-95s. you have to get fit-tested. a medical professional i can't just go out and wear an n-95. i have to make sure it's right fitted and right size in order

for it to work properly there may be a day where we change our recommendations particularly for areas that have large spread going on about wearing cotton masks but again the data is not there yet. we are continuing to follow it. cdc is looking at. and we will put out new recommendations if the good night dance warrants. that's the w.h.o. and centers for disease control is not what they recommend. steve: that's right. doctor, currently new york is the epicenter. i know down in washington and virginia and maryland they have stay ought home orders. although virginia governor says that they will extend through june 10th, which is further than what the federal government is doing. we know that the east coast is a hot spot right now. but what about emerging hot spots? i have heard michigan and new orleans and places like that. what can you tell us? >> well, great question. and when we look at the data and dr. birx mentioned this last night. the rest of the country is following a similar trajectory right now as new york. they are at different places on the curve. but their curves are starting to

look the same. and so he would want people to understand that when you lean in to aggressive mitigation efforts early, you can flatten the curve. can you blunt it. and in washington we are seeing their cases level off and hopefully start to come down. even in italy one of the hardest hit places we are seeing cases start to come down. we wanted to make sure of the whole country embraces these guidelines so that they don't see their death rates and case counts group as high as places like new york. when you look at new orleans and indianapolis and l.a. and miami and detroit, we want to make sure that they are doing the things right now so that they don't get overwhelmed in their healthcare systems. ainsley: okay, dr. adams, thank you so much for being with us this morning. >> thank you and still coronavirus.gov, check out those guidelines. we need everyone doing their part. ainsley: good deal. thank you. 46 minutes after the top of the hour. coming up, meet a golf club manager helping our heroes on the front lines on the fight against the coronavirus. his mission and how you can help. that's next.

♪ ainsley: countless americans going above and beyond to help their local communities amid the pandemic. have you probably done some things in your community. this guy is a new jersey man or woman in new jersey. there is a golf club. they are pledging to pay it forward by collecting supplies to donate to emergency room workers and they have plans to expand the push this week. joining us now is the general manager of spring brook country club david bachmann. hey, david. >> good morning, ainsley. how are you? ainsley: good morning. i'm great. i know you have a team, men and women alike that are a member of your club or members of your club. and they are doing wonderful things for the community. telling folks at home what they are doing. >> well, we couple members certainly spring brook country club is part of the morristown community in some discussions

with. so children that work at the hospital and some of our members that work there we found out they are working 12 hour shifts and unable to get to the cafeteria and take a break. the head of our foundation asked if we could donate sandwiches where they could, you know, wrap them up and why would put them in the hallway and they would be able to grab them as they were walking past. ainsley: that is so amazing. what was the reaction from the folks that work at the hospital? >> the reaction was overwhelmingly positive. we -- during that first delivery last week, somebody expressed a request to get bottled water and gatorade. a couple men from our weekend men's golf group stepped up to the plate. on sunday, we ended up donating four pickup truck loads worth of water and gatorade to the hospital. ainsley: that's amazing. how can we help? we all live in our own little

communities and we want to be able to do things like this. >> you know. i would encourage everyone to, you know, help your own community. you know, we all have hospitals and people that are, you know, the front line workers out there really the ones that are out there fighting this. we just did a little thing to help support them do that you know, we didn't want to sit back and do nothing. we really felt like, you know, we are a part of the community. we really need to help our local hospital. i would encourage everyone to help their local hospital and medical workers. ainsley: david, technically you are my neighbor. i live in the neighboring state and the tristate area has been really affected by all of this. how are you and your family holding up? >> my family is doing well. you know, they are working from home. we the yard is starting to look pretty good as would take care of work around the house. we are doing what we can and doing what we have. to say we want to get through this as quickly as possible.

ainsley: why is it important for you to remember others during this time? >> well, we all -- we want to give back. you know, some of us we are doing well, life is good. i have my health. my family has their health. we want to help those in the community who are not as well off. ainsley: how is your community doing? do you have friends that are in the hospital or friends that have been exposed to this? >> i know some people who have been exposed. but my friends are doing fine. my family is doing fine. as far as i know, everybody at the club is doing well. i don't know of anybody who has it. ainsley: that's wonderful. thank you so much for what you are doing. you are giving us all some great ideas. go to our elderly neighbors, knock on their doors or from a social distancing standpoint or ring a doorbell and stand in the yard and ask if we can get anything from the grocery store. thanks for being a good person and doing your part. you are a good man. >> thank you so much, ainsley. ainsley: you are welcome.

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steve: a fox news alert more than three-quarters of the american population now under stay at home orders. thirty-one states pictured there plus the district of columbia and puerto rico demanding people not go out unless it is essential. at least 10 states and d.c. are even threatening jail time or fines if the order is violated. ainsley: right now there are more than 164,000 coronavirus cases nationwide, more than 3,000 people have died, but here is the good news, the number of recovered americans is numbering 6,000 that number jumping by more than 1,000 in the last 24 hours. brian: what a 24 hours, meanwhile, new york welcoming the usns comfort to help relieve healthcare workers in the pandemic center, but take a look at hundreds of people, from

around the country, packing into watch the ship while violating social distance rules obviously. police eventually disbursed the crowd. people are acting on instinct and they are in awe what they see and there's magestic shots of the ship going by the statue of liberty going over social media that are pretty cool because they are helping and guys welcome to the final hour here on the tuesday edition thanks so much for watching us and this is the one-time in which we know many of you are home from school, from work, you don't have to be dressed, we urge you to be dressed. one of the things we'll be talking about today is where the hotspots are going and also if you're in a small business whether you're an employee or employer, what the best move for you going forward is, john tapper is standing on the other side of things. ainsley: that's right, brian. that ship is magnificent, it is huge, people who have seen it said it's massive. it's going to be great relief for our hospitals in the new york area, that way the hospital s can focus on coronavirus and then you have other hospitals that are being

setup elsewhere, like the javot center which will have thousands of beds and then the ship and those are for folks that don't have coronavirus and it kind of relieves the nurses and the doctors at the hospitals so they can focus on saving those live, steve. steve: it does, indeed, ainsley that's right and you know what's interesting is we're on the last day of march right now, march 31 we're going to have one month more of the social distancing that will run through the month of april but the president yesterday made it very clear in the rose garden, he could say, he said that by what we are doing, he said we could say more than 1 million american lives and that's the idea. ainsley: it is worth it. steve: to stay as healthy as we can. absolutely the president could even impose tougher national guidelines as well to slow the spread of covid-19. mark meredith joins us right now from the white house to explain

what that could look like for everybody. mark? >> steve good morning to you. you're right the white house has made it very clear they are happy to see people doing these social distancing guidelines they've had in place but as you mentioned they are spending them until the end of april saving as many lives as possible as the administration works to slow the spread ofll be very mu, maybe even toughened up a little bit but they are having a big td we're starting to see it and that's the key we're starting to see the impact they are having. reporter: now, several states have already started to order their residents to stay home to avoid any non-essential travel unless you have to visit grocery stores medical appointments. the presidents advisors say as this drags on now at least through the month of april it's important for states to heed the advice coming from federal officials. >> when you look at all of the states together, all of them

are moving in exactly the same curves, and so that's why we really believe this needs to be federal guidance, so that every state understands that it may look like two cases today, that become 20 that become 200 that become 2,000, and that's what we're trying to prevent. >> today the president is expected to speak by phone with executives from americas network service providers. also want to mention that at the white house today a little bit of a staff shakeup, we'll be seeing new chief of staff, mark meadows is expected to begin his new role here today, and we are expecting another update from the white house from the coronavirus task force in the 5:00 hour this afternoon so we'll be keeping an eye on that. steve, ainsley and brian back to you guys. ainsley: thank you so much, mark let's bring in another mark, dr. mark siegel whose a medical contributor for fox, hey, dr. siegel. >> good morning, ainsley.

ainsley: good morning, we're great so yesterday the president did say the next 30 days going to be challenging for our country but why is it so important for people to really hunker down, stay with their families, social distance, stay inside as much as possible. >> and not go to group gatherings and the reason for that is because we're trying to flatten the curve which means decrease the amount of virus that's spreading and in new york , particularly an epicenter we've seen a lot of cases where people are not obeying those rules, where they're not being careful enough and we need this across-the-board and country. we're seeing other hotspots emerge now in detroit, atlanta, new orleans. some new cities on the west coast, in denver, in atlanta. i think that we've seen 20,000 cases over the past day, and let me tell you what's going to be a game changer here, ainsley. it's the idea of testing much better than we've been doing. the president said we've done over 1 million tests so far but we have emerging a new testing ability that's going to be what we call point of care, where we

can tell right away whether somebody has this or not and then we can separate them out from the general community. that will help. brian: i just want to see it go from the rose garden to the hospital and i just want to feel confident that's going to be happening. they said it's as soon as today but until i hear from you and our doctors that you're seeing it in the hospitals, i'm going to be skeptical. meanwhile our surgeon general feels very frustrated by some actions of some people in this country who don't think this is actually happening. watch. the way we solve this problem is by everyone coming together and stopping the spread by limiting large gatherings and staying at home and i'm a little bit frustrated because you're still seeing pictures on twitter on tv of people getting together, being too close, putting themselves in a situation where they could end up in the hospital and the best way to make sure you don't run out of

ventilators is to make sure you don't need so many people who need to get on ventilators in the first place. brian: your thoughts dr. siegel >> i agree with him totally, brian. i think it's a matter of a mentality if you will. everybody has to comply with this and your other point is totally right which is it's one thing to promise these tests. the abbott platform called the now platform can test 50,000 people a day and it can do it right on the shot. you don't have to send a specimen from the lab. i can test something from your nose and put it in the machine and 5-13 minutes i go through molecular genetics, state-of-the-art, you have it or you don't have it but we need to get it to the hospitals and get it to the clinics and doctor ' office. it needs to be those mobile unit s. they can do 50,000 specimens a day we right away need the 50,000 specimens now. if i know you have it i can tell you to stay home and then i can really tell who you've been in

contact with. it's the people walking around with covid-19 that we don't know about that are spreading it. steve: absolutely, but doctor, when you think about how far we have come in the last month, you know, initially the federal government said yes, we've got the kits but they didn't have any way to do the actual test. yesterday in the rose garden, the president and the health and human services secretary talked about what a landmark we have finally passed and we've been waiting for this one. president trump: today we reached a historic milestone in our war against the coronavirus. over 1 million americans have now been tested, more than any other country by far. not even close, and tested accurately. >> as the president mentioned today the united states hit more than 1 million samples tested, a number that no other country has reached. we're now testing nearly 100,000

samples a day, also a level that no other country has reached. >> you know the reason there's so many more people than we were earlier, something that gets lost sometimes is the fact that the number of positive results are so low when you actually look at a percentage. >> you know that's really true and by the way that's also the reasons the numbers are going up so high. americans should understand that the reason that we have over 150,000 cases now is because we're testing and because we've done 1 million tests but these days, with them still being the flu season going on and other respiratory viruses around , the idea that you're going to test positive, about two-thirds of the time the test comes up negative across the country in some areas as much as 90-95% and that part is good news. with the rapid testing i'm going to be able to do even better

than that because i can test flu at the same time. i can test you for a panel of different viruses and know right away what you have and coming down the pike, steve, very shortly, is going to be an immunity test where i'm going to be able to tell whether you have antibodies to this virus and whether you're likely to be immune and then whether you can reenter the community which is also going to get control over this in a better way. ainsley: dr. siegel we have questions from our viewers an e-mail that says my husband and i are 63. we have a pool in our backyard. we keep it heated between 84 and 86 fahrenheit. is it safe to have our grandkids age 6 and 3 swim it? of course they are social distancing from us. well, ainsley, i'm hoping and i don't know where in the u.s. this is but when we see pool season here in the late spring and summer here in the east, i'm hoping that this virus will have diminished because of seasonal changes. we're hoping that it follows the seasonal pattern. in the meantime, i'm not in favor of pools right now, because of the amount of

changing of clothes back and forth, all of the chances of spreading and not to mention the fact that those are elderly individuals and we're trying to keep them hunker down and shelter in place and that's the group i don't necessarily want to be with younger people as much, so i have to vote no on the pool for right now, within that 30 day period that the president said until april 30. brian: but if you want to be in the olympics it doesn't apply to you. now this is an e-mail from carol are frozen fruits and vegetables less likely to have any covid-19 particles on them than fresh produce? what do you think? >> that's one of those great questions from your producers. they're testing me and the answer is that this virus lives on frozen fruits and it lives in the freezer and the refrigerator, so you know, it's not line you would think about with bacteria. you have to watch it with frozen food as well and just if you're in the grocery you have to be careful, wash your hands use the

sanitizer especially if you're handling products but of course you have to buy what's in the freezer that's for sure and what's not in the freezer. ainsley: that's so interesting, i was at the grocery store yesterday and picked up a tomato and i thought who else held this because you're looking for the ripe one so i washed it with soap. was that the right move? brian: that's disgusting. ainsley: i know, but i had to buy a tomato. brian: you ruined the whole taste of it. >> i have confidence in your ability to choose the best tomatoes but you're right you don't know whose been handling it before. it absolutely should be washed more thoroughly these days and wash your hands also after handling the produce. steve: 100% meanwhile we've got a lot of people who are watching who are golfers and rob e-mailed this. if a golfer walks or has his or her own golf cart, couldn't we open golf courses so people could get some exercise?

what do you think, doctor? >> you know, i've been thinking about that question for a while because i like the idea of the exercise and i like the idea of the solo golfer and i like the whole thing and not using the golf cart. i like it theoretically. my problem is the clubhouse. the problem with reopening the golf course is theres going to be too much in the clubhouses and impossible to really keep the social distancing but if you are asking me whether golfing itself is a great thing to do right now absolutely so if there's a way to do it and maintain social distancing and not have group gatherings, i be for it. if you have access to a golf course in that way, the answer is yes. ainsley: a lot of them out here on long island, dr. siegel and probably where you are too they are opening the courses but you're not allowed to go in the clubhouse or use facilities you have to stay outside. this is from peter an e-mail. will all the sanitizing ultimately have a negative impact on our natural immune system? >> so that's a fantastic

question, because in fact, when you subject your native bacteria and two sanitizers too much it does wear down your surfaces and impact your immune system and it's supposed toteria and viruses when you're younger by something called the hygiene hypothesis, but right now, we can't be considering that, ainsley, because short-term, we need to do this. i am not worried about the impact of this with short-term use. i don't want people using so much hand sanitizer over the next 10 years that they wear down their natural defenses. you've got to keep your hands moist too by the way because the sanitizers don't work as well with dry hands. keep your hands moist, use the sanitizers, wash your hands thoroughly, right now all day long, i'm not worried about the long term impact on the immune system. not now. brian: right okay, and an e-mail from phil. is it a good idea to wear disposable gloves in the market so that i'm not touching the card or products with my bare hands?

>> so brian, ainsley and i just went over those tomatoes but i don't like glove use. i like the hand washing and sanitizers and i'll tell you why because the gloves accumulate germs and viruses so you are not even going to relationshippize when you touch something then it's on the gloves and transfer it to your face and then you could get infected so i don't think gloves are the right answer because you can't change them frequently enough to make a difference so i vote no on that one yes on the continued hand washing. brian: all right steve: to that point, dr. siegel, my wife was listening on the radio and they were talking about if you're going to wear the gloves is you've got to roll them off otherwise contaminate yourself. >> you know that's so true. your wife is very smart, steve. that applies to these facial masks too which again i'm still not telling people to wear but we're taking a close look at that as more virus spreads the masks in close quarters may

become something we say to use. let me tell you about the mask. you have to take it off from behind your ears the surgical mask because if you touch it you may have virus on it and you transfer it to somewhere else. you have to have a tight seal on on the mask, it doesn't work if it's wet and remove it this way same with the gloves remove it this way, not touching the surface or you defeat the whole purpose. steve: no kidding alright lot of wise advice dr. siegel thank you very much for joining us. ainsley: thanks, steve: all right 8:14 here on the east coast. jillian jones joins us with a fox news alert. jillian: good morning let's get to this a new jersey national guardsmen is the first american service member to die from the coronavirus. captain douglas lynn hickock served as a physicians assistant and he did not get the virus on active duty we're told. he leaves behind a wife and four kids more than 600 service members have contracted covid-19

>> congresswoman is self-isolat ing with a presumed case of coronavirus. the new york representative did not take a test at the advice of a doctor. she came into contact with house speaker nancy pelosi at the stimulus bill signing last week, and a spokesperson for pelosi says she consulted with a doctor who determined that her contact was low risk and she did not need to take any action. >> the la county sheriff backing down overnight on a plan to shut down gun shops during the pandemic. the nra sued sheriff for allegedly violating the second amendment after he ordered the stores to close last week. he's now changed his decision after the federal government lists the gun dealers as essential workers. stores can stay open to sell products to security guard companies and gun owners with safety certificates. >> then take a look at this , the empire state building lights up to honor emergency workers during the pandemic.

you can see the red and white lights, just like a ringing siren on an ambulance. new york is at the epicenter of the coronavirus pandemic. the official empire state building twitter account calls it the heartbeat of america. for more inspiring stories like this make sure to visit foxnews .com/americatogether. there you'll also find information on how you can help. those are your headlines sending it back to you. ainsley: thanks jillian. restaurants across our country closing their doors and collectively losing billions of dollars. so can they recover as the stimulus money flows in? bar rescue john taffer says there's one thing nobody is talking about, his predictions, coming up, next. ♪ limu emu & doug

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brian: the restaurant industry is taking a big hit amid the pandemic losing over 3 million jobs over $25 billion in sales this month alone. they mean so much to our national economy, so will these restaurants be able to cover and recover with these stimulus dollars, everything they have lost and be able to keep their employees employed? here to react, bar rescue's own john taffer a small business expert and a self-made success story. john, now that we've recognized

the role of small business in the future of our economy and currently in the economy, should i be, should i be pleased about what the government has put aside in this rescue package, if i could borrow your word, as a restaurant owner? >> yes, i think, it's a good start brian. what they are doing is taking the amount of payroll that we've spent the past 60 days taking a look at that average expenditure , giving us enough payroll for eight weeks and if we use those dollars only for payroll, that loan is forgiven. so in essence, all restaurants are getting about eight weeks worth of free payroll paid for by government. sounds good we get to keep our employees working but brian there are things it doesn't cover. every refrigerator in every restaurant now has bad food in it, complete new inventories need to be purchased. not every employee comes back we need employee training, there's a number of things that have to happen that are very very expensive for restaurants to open and i worry about that but

brian, the biggest worry that i have is the premise of spacing continuing into retail environments. for example, people aren't going to want to sit shoulder to shoulder right at the endoscopy of this. they are still going to be cautious and want spacing so when restaurants start to space out their tables it reduces seattleing capacity by 40-50% and nobody is cuomo tariffing about this , brian so when we come out of the pandemic and we go back into business, we're not going to do the same revenue we did beforehand, because of spacing. when we consider the change in capacity, this could effect sports arenas brian, movie theaters, broad way, so if the seating capacity of these businesses is going to get changed, and our overall revenue capacity lowered as a result of it that's really powerful and what worried me brian is when these restaurants reopen, we must connect with consumers. they have to come back in. it's critical that they have a

trust in the restaurant so that they will come back and spend money. it's critical and it has to happen right away. the only way we're going to develop that relationship with the consumer is by taking expectations and making them demands, the kitchen will be clean. we are treating our people in a surgical fashion. food doesn't get touched by human hands. it is maintained at the right temperature. we do have spacing to keep you safe when you are in our environment. these are the steps that we need to take to assure the consumer comes back, but yet these costs are expected, brian. brian: right and i don't know anybody whose been inside more small and big businesses across the country than you over the last 10 years and we watch bar rescue every hour on paramount and you've got a brand new season out by the way today is the great american takeout, so if you do have the money, pat ronize your local establishment especially today. so john, when i go into the bank , i'm a small business owner i got shut down overnight

how much money should i ask for and should i figure all these costs into it now? >> well there's a formula you need to follow, brian and they will ask you to go back about eight weeks in your payroll to show what your average payroll was over those eight weeks. and then they will match that payroll number for you, for eight weeks going forward. it's a very reasonable payroll program that they put together. what scares me is this no provision for inventory. all the food in the walk-ins needs to be thrown away brian it's not fresh any more so a restaurant has to build a complete new starting inventory as well as clean and train and get the kitchens all in line, get new kitchen equipment and pp e gear so that expense hasn't been covered now, and if you use the payroll dollars for other things, then you have to pay it back. you only don't pay it back if you use it for payroll dollars. brian: but i need to pay my lease and my landlord has to understand i have no revenue coming in and that bank, who maybe the landlord financed

their strip mall, they need to be easy. how do you see the chain of events taking place? i mean, can i use that money to pay my lease, which i'm basically not using? >> well there is certain states that are making moves like that. where i am for example, in the state of nevada there's a moratorium on rent, so no eviction processes can occur, those courts are shutdown, so nobody has said that rent is going to be forgiven but for right now it doesn't need to be paid within the state of nevada and i believe the state of california has the same basic program in place, so we can cover the rent, we can cover the payroll on those numbers, brian it's the operating cost but what scares me the most is the restaurant that used to serve let's say 100 covers in an hour for lunch, with spacing and lowered capacities, might only serve 50 or 60 people during that same hour for lunch. that's a massive reduction in revenue, with the same general operating costs. so that scares me, brian, what is the operating model of the future, and how does it

effect our revenues, and can we run these businesses with 30, 40 % less revenues, because of spacing? and nobody is talking about that i'm focused on restarting america. i get that we have to make it through the pandemic but we need a plan, brian, to jump start these businesses and make sure they're solvent when they begin, and get the consumer back. brian: right and they got to talk to people like you that understand a way forward. john taffer thanks so much we'll be watching bar rescue on paramount every moment which we have a lot of them now. thanks, john. >> thanks brian. brian: meanwhile, still ahead, the picture of georgia healthcare workers going viral. the group in new york, the coronavirus epicenter to treat their patients and one of these awesome nurses decided to help us out here in new york, joins us live, next. this is ava. these are ava's shoulders. they square off, hold firm, bear it all.

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ainsley: we saw this photo of georgia healthcare worker smiling and forming hearts with their hands and it went viral. this was taken on friday. the group was heading here to new york at the epicenter of the coronavirus outbreak to help treat the patients that are most in need of our country. our next guest is one of those nurses, who was on that plane, and says that they are so

glad that they are able to help. her name is lisa love and she's a nurse from atlanta good morning to you thanks for being with us. >> good morning. ainsley: good morning, lisa. so tell me what you're doing right now. are you just leaving work? >> i am. i just got off a 12 hour shift from 7:00 p 7:30 a.m., i'm i kno you're in a cabel. which many of us take in new york city and protecting yourself. the governor is begging and pleading with nurses and doctors all over the country to please come to new york and help. that's a tall task, to ask someone to do. i'm sure your family has something to say about that, right? >> oh, yeah, my son is a little bit sad i'm gone but he also was happy about me coming to help, so he said to me mom, i'm going to miss you.

ainsley: you are a missionary for the folks here in new york city that really need you, and your expertise and talents that god gave you to bless other peoples lives and you're putting people ahead of yourself and that's such a great lesson for your son to learn and if he's watching he needs to know what obviously i'm sure he knows that you are so selfless. a lot of people are not going to answer this call because they are worried about their own safety. what's it like in the hospital in new york where you're working >> oh, it's very scary. you don't know what it is until you walk into what it is. ainsley: it looks like we're having some trouble. she's on her iphone and we're getting her i think through face time. hopefully, we'll get another connection she might be going through a tunnel which sometimes the connection is lost. unfortunately we're being told that we, oh, i think she's back, hey lisa can you hear me? >> can you hear me? ainsley: yeah, we can, so tell

us what you're seeing, yes, ma'am, tell us what you're see ing. go ahead. >> what i was saying was it is very serious. i didn't know how serious it was until we actually got into the hospital. they need all the help they can get. this virus is dangerous. we need to take it serious. it does not discriminate. there's young, there's old, there's middle age, and there's a lot dying. please, america, take this virus seriously, please. ainsley: what are some of the stories you can share? >> i can't share any of the stories because of privacy, but i can say that from the families that can not be there for your loved oare there?

ainsley: it sounds like you're getting emotional lisa and our hearts are with you we're all praying for you right now. i pray that god puts his arms and his protection and his angel s around you. thank you for what you're doing. this is america coming together. >> thank you. ainsley: why is it so important for people to answer the call? >> it's so important because next week, next month, it could be small town america. right now it's new york. next week it could be atlanta. it's a lot of people getting sick from this virus. so yes, answer that call because your family may need one of us or we may need them. ainsley: well please thank everyone that i assume those are all your friends on that plane or somehow that was a group that was organized out of the atlanta area. please thank them all. you're helping the folks that live in our city and we're so

grateful to you. >> thank you very much and just know how important it is for us to be there for each other. ainsley: that's right. >> at this time. ainsley: that's right. lisa god bless you. everyone at home if you pray, say a prayer for her, please. >> thank you. ainsley: you're welcome. for more on how you can help, plus more stories of people just like lisa that are taking extra lengths to help each other during this pandemic go to fox news.com/americatogether. what an incredible individual. lawmakers on capitol hill talking about phase iv of the coronavirus relief. what would that look like? we're going to ask senator lindsey graham coming up, next.

the american red cross urgently needs blood and platelet donations and asks healthy donors to schedule an appointment to give. during this corona virus outbreak, patients are counting on lifesaving transfusions. visit redcrossblood.org steve: as americans wait for their stimulus checks and small businesses get ready to file for loans, lawmakers are firming up plans for a fourth phase of the coronavirus relief bill. griff jenkins joins us live from washington when you can expect to see money in your mailbox, griff? griff: that's right good morning , steve, ainsley and brian, the white house says the checks will come in the form of a direct deposit and should

hit bank accounts by mid april and businesses small and large are being en can you're aged by the adam schiff to apply for those payroll support loans as soon as possible given the airlines a friday 5 p.m. deadline to be guaranteed meanwhile on a conference call with reporters speaker pelosi laid out the priorities of a fourth phase stimulus package. >> the fourth will be that recovery that would include in it some of the emergency and mitigation factors but also about where we go from here. their infrastructure needs that our country had that directly relate to how we are proceeding with the coronavirus. griff: in that package obviously infrastructure funding along with assistance for states and the district of colombia, aid for frontline healthcare workers in helping home bound parents as well as supporting coronavirus patients, we're told pelosi also eying a retroactive rollback of the tax, now republicans have shown little or no support for a fourth phase, minority leader mccarthy says

let's wait and see how phase iii plays out and it's unclear when she may roll it out because congress is in recess until april 20 and the sargent in arms issuing guidance yesterday advising members to stay at home or telework when possible , brian, ainsley, steve? brian: good job, griff as usual let's bring in south carolina senator lindsey graham. always great to see you. can i get your take on what the speaker wants to do? do we need a fourth rescue package? >> well we need to make sure that phase iii actually works, we don't have any checks out yet the unemployment part of phase iii, i'm very worried about. every state has the unemployment commission to issue unemployment checks. there were 3 million people who filed for unemployment last week and there will be more this week i'm very concerned that it may take six to eight weeks to get an unemployment check, and down the road, you're paying people more than they actually make. we've got to fix both of those things so i think the train wreck in this bill is going to be the unemployment

insurance benefit, because it's administered by state systems that are stuck in the 70s so i want to get phase iii right before we go to phase iv. ainsley: senator there was talk of people getting a second check down the road, if there is a phase iv, would that be a part of it, do you think there will be another check that individuals will get? >> it might be but these checks go to people with jobs. i want to focus on the people who are out of work. i got a niece working in south carolina makes about $40,000 a year, you know, quite frankly, she's okay. but somebody laid off needs the money, so these direct payments go to people with income. i want to focus on people without income. the unemployment insurance system in this country is broken i'm going to spend a lot of time trying to fix it. six to eight weeks to get a check is what i'm hearing and that's not acceptable and end unemployment under this bill you're actually increasing people's wages which will deter growing the economy.

we got to fix both of those things. steve: absolutely but senator you know, you've been in washington for a long time, you know how when a big bill like phase iv comes along, suddenly it's like what's in it for me? and you know, for nancy pelosi, we talked about she would like to see infrastructure, frontline workers, aid to washington d.c. is that appropriate given what you just described? well what i want to do is address the problem. what have we learned in the last 48 hours that the disease is worse than the cure? i don't want to hear anybody else compare this to the flu any more. president trump has decided to extend social distancing through the end of april. why? because if we do nothing 2.2 billion people are going to die of the coronavirus. that's 40 years of flu deaths in one year. so this is a terrible disease.

the cure has to be tough, so the idea of creating phase iv before you understand if phase iii works doesn't make any sense to me. i'm hoping that what we're doing now in april and may will slow the disease down, come summer, the heat will stop its spread and by the fall we'll be ready to go at it with therapies and vaccines but before i want to talk about phase iv, i want to make sure phase iii works and if anybody puts a dime in phase iv unrelated to the virus, they're going to be very famous because people are dying in this country now is not the time to do the green new deal. if there's any green new deal stuff in phase iv, if there is a phase iv, there will be one hell of a fight because 2.2 million americans lives are at risk here brian: absolutely but the gun was to everybody's head. senator this started in china and china has not owned up to this. what do you want to do about this? how much control do we have of

stopping the next virus from coming through? >> well i'm going to write a letter to the world health organization into the chinese ambassador asking them to close the chinese wet market. these are open air markets where they sell monkey, they sell bat, we think this whole thing started with a transmission from a bat to a human, about the last three or four pandemics have come from the chinese wet markets. i don't think this came from a chinese military lab, but these wet markets are gross, they are just absolutely disgusting, selling exotic animals that transmit viruses from animals to human beings. those things need to shut down. ainsley: do you think that's going to do any good? there's been controversy with the world health organization through all of this. do you think china is really going to listen? >> well i think we should, i'm going to write a letter to the chinese ambassador saying if you don't shut those wet markets

down our trading relationship is going to change. the source of this virus is the chinese wet markets but when you have doctors who come on and ask them how many diseases have come from china through these wet markets where you inter mingle all kinds of exotic animals, it's just really a gross display of how you prepare food, that needs to stop. what can china do to help the world? shut those markets down. steve: speaking of shut down, senator what about your office? is it the social distancing thing? is everybody working from home or what's going on? >> we have most people working from home but we have all the offices manned, we're trying to communicate the best we can but we have people at the offices, our governors done a good job here, we're trying to abide by the guidelines. i hope by april 30 we'll have turned the corner here, but the president's decision to

extend social distancing through april 30 was based on sound science, and here is what the president realized. this is not the flu. 2.2 million people could die in a single year. that is flu deaths so the cure in this case has to be draconian because the disease is so deadly testing has changed, that's good news. we have millions of tests available not thousands. we do it in minutes not days so we're turning the corner in testing and the sooner we get more tests the more normal america will become. brian: yeah, i can not wait for that day. senator lindsey graham, thanks for leading the charge on this. appreciate you joining us this morning. >> thanks. thank you. brian: let's go out to jillian who also has been updating us with the news she started at 4:00 a.m. this morning still going strong. jillian: good morning to you guys good to see you and at home as well. president trump says we will send excess ventilators to europe as production ramps up in the u.s.. the majority of the equipment will go to italy where covid-19

has claimed over 11,000 lives, the most in the world. in spain more than 12,000 healthcare workers have gotten the virus while treating patients and inference the phil is flying patients from crowded hospitals to hard hit areas. >> the army researchers who help ed develop vaccines for anthrax and ebola are now working overtime on covid-19. scientists at fort diedrich tests hundreds of drug mixtures every day. a vaccine could take 18 months but army secretary ryan mccarthy is confident they will succeed. >> these men and women have been here before, and they prevailed and we're going to find this vaccine. we're going to win in the end. >> it is only one of 13 level four biohazard research labs in the country. a sheriff has a rather cheesy plan to help small businesses in his community. watch this. >> you guys must really be board that you want the sheriff

to deliver your pizza. >> that's sheriff mike chitwood delivering piping hot pizzas to neighbors in volucia county, florida. he did it to deliver food for local restaurants struggling during the pandemic. for more inspiring stories, you can visit foxnews.com/americatogether. there you'll find information on how you can help. send it back to you. ainsley: thanks, jillian. well, a grandfather and his granddaughter aren't letting social distancing stop them from having fun. >> ♪abc, 123 ainsley: that is making everyone laugh. janice dean has that and other positive stories in the pandemic coming up, next. steve: but first let's check in with sandra smith for a preview of what happens on this channel in 11 minutes good morning to

you, sandra. >> sandra: hey, steve, ainsley and brian good morning everyone. well the death toll in the u.s. rising by 1,000 in just the last two days, as the world health organization is now warning more testing is needed to slow the spread. dr. peter hotes is here on that and a brand new study that says the virus may be contagious for up to eight days after symptoms disappear and plus a member of the white house coronavirus task force team is here on where this fight goes next and a ford motor company executive is our guest on answering the call for more ventilators. big three hours coming up join ed and me top of the hour. [ "one more time" by daft punk ]

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and supporting one another in some amazing ways and joining us right now to share some positive stories is fox news senior meteorologist janice dean. you know, janice there's so much bad news. it's nice that every day we're able to look at some good news and we start with a family. the daughter lives across the street, and then you've got her family living across from that, and that was good, for a six-year-old girl wasn't it? >> janice: yes, they live in nashville and this is her grandpa, marvin, whose 81. they are social distancing but at the same time, they are having a dance-off to abc, 123, so heartwarming we love it. steve: that is awesome. i'm sure she doesn't quite understand why she's got to stay so far away from grandpa but she's doing it nonetheless. meanwhile let's talk about one health care workers one degree of kevin bacon. >> janice: [laughter] so great i saw this on social

media and i just had to pass it along. jonathan thompson, who lives in cape cod, he is a nurse's aid and he decided to recreate that famous scene from footloose, and kevin bacon saw it and posted it and it went viral. take a look. [laughter] it's so cute. you go jonathan! steve: that's awesome, and kevin bacon actually saw that and had a comment. i think he said this guy has the moves. i hope this brings you as much joy as it does me and also we're so lucky to have so many special folks like him working so hard to keep us safe and well during this time, how about we have a big dance party after this is all over. and janice, you love a good dance party anyway don't you?

>> janice: of course i do. he is mr. positive on social media today. steve: all right, well so are you. thank you so much for all the good news and we look for that every day. all right, j. d. >> janice: love you steve. steve: see you tomorrow. all right, we're going to step aside, more fox & friends in just a couple of minutes.

>> thanks so much for watching, everybody. we appreciate it as usual.

check out the radio show from 9:00 to noon. >> i want to tell you all thank you so much for being with us during this difficult time. say prayers for everyone on the front lines, steve. >> all right. see you tomorrow. >> sandra: fox news alert the nation hitting a grim milestone. more than 3,000 americans have now died from coronavirus after the deadliest day of this pandemic yet. i'm sandra smith. >> ed: good morning to you. there are over 164,000 confirmed cases in america. new data suggests social distancing restrictions are beginning to slow that spread in some areas. at least 30 states have issued stay at home orders now. new york still the epicenter of the outbreak. reporting over 1300 deaths across the state as governor andrew cuomo asks healthcare workers across the nation to come to new york and help warning this is not an is