that. >> he has become a social media celebrity. good for him. >> that's funny. rob: very funny. that's what dads are for. jillian: thanks for joining us today. see you back here tomorrow. "fox & friends" starts right now. brian: let's get going. president trump pushing back on calls for a nationwide stay at home order. comes as deaths pass 5,000 florida and pennsylvania the latest state to declare stay at home. 36 states and washington, d.c. have issued the order. two thirds of the country. >> meanwhile looking at the mayor of los angeles. he is urging everyone to cover their face with a nonmedical grade scamp or something if they go outside. maskwise. right now michigan is emerging as the third deadliest hot spot across the u.s.a. for coronavirus military building a

filed hospital in downtown detroit, ainsley. >> as first responders and medical professionals work tirelessly around the country you see an outpouring of support from coast to coast. here in morning. people seen cheering and clapping from their apartment windows, thanking those heroes for their help. more than 8600 people have recovered in the united states. that's 1500 more than yesterday. so that is the good news. we saw more than 1,000 die yesterday in one day in a 24-hour period bringing the death total to more than 5,000 here in the united states. yesterday the presidents had a press conference talking about how smugglers are also taking advantage of the drug situation. bringing drugs into our country. he has a solution for that, brian. saying to everybody we are consumed by this but we can do multiple things at one time. we will talk about it from iran threatening us to what is happenings at our border illegal

drugs and rattling the cage of venezuela to what is happening with the oil prices. meanwhile on this show, dr. nicole saphier with a message of hope because she is seeing some advances when it comes to this plasma for those who have recovered from the crohn's. dr. oz exciting news about hydroxychloroquine, he is going to be coming here to talk about that could be a game changer. congressman doug collins is going to fight to be the next senator from georgia but in the meantime he is trying to find out what is happening with damnm schiff and what happened leading up. great. florida senator marco rubio on the new state at home order and china still not being honest about the scope of the virus that sickened the world and dr. marc siegel on all those things and more coming our way. while it is 6:00 in the east right now. at 8:30 this morning the labor department is going to release the latest unemployment numbers.

we know a lot of people are staying at home. how many exactly have filed for first time unemployment the estimate is 5 million. busy three hours. president trump makes the call about stay at home orders. state governments should decide, not the president. griff jenkins is live in d.c. with the president's explanation, griff? griff: good morning, steve, ainsley and brian. that's right, florida, georgia and pennsylvania the latest states to join state at home order. will the president is resisting the call for a national order. there are some states that are different. there are some states that don't have much of a problem. griff: leaving the decision to the governors on the front line but he says i he will absolutely answer another call and that's from former vice president joe biden who has criticized the president's handling of the

pandemic. biden's team says our teams will be in touch and we will arrange a call. no word on when that will take place. meanwhile, another critic of the president, congressman adam schiff, remember him? he led the impeachment inquiry calling for a 9/11 style panel after pearl harbor and 9/11 we looked at what went wrong to look at our mistakes. once we recovered we need a nonpartisan commission to review our response and how we can better prepare for the next pandemic. i'm working on a bill to do it. that will get push back because devin nunes hesitate co-collusion hoax failed. his ukraine scam failed. and his efforts to cover up fisa abuse failed. finally one more call, guys, schumer appoint a military official as a czar to oversee the dpa in the production of much needed medical equipment. we will see if that happens. brian, ainsley and steve? ainsley: thank you so much. yesterday we were asking for for

what was happening with the drug cartels. yesterday in headlines jillian did a story about the millions of -- $30 million worth of drugs found san diego-mexico tunnel. a very sophisticated tunnel found had a rail system in it. some sort of an airconditioning system in it as well. they found so many drugs down there. and the president was saying yesterday that these drug cartels are taking advantage of the fact that our administration and all of us are so focused on the coronavirus that they're seeing this as an opportunity. so the president has formed this counter narcotics operation. so in the eastern pacific ocean, the caribbean sea, is he going to combat the flow of illicit drugs into the united states. with the forces, navy destroyers, other combat ships. air force surveillance and planes and helicopters. 10 coast guard cutter ships, so is he really tackling this problem. 70,000 americans i do every single year because of drug overdoses. so this is something that we

have to think about because when you compare those numbers to what's happening with corona. those numbers are so far significantly higher. brian: yeah. a couple of things with this. number one, the president wants to say i got my eye on you. the other thing is for the first time in decades, we have a clean border. because we are under this coronavirus watch, and we are trying to stop everything on the inside and coming in fro from te outside. we can say hard and fast politics aside, no one is coming in unless it's commerce. being that anyone trying to get in is sneaking in and now we know exactly where the pathways are for the narcotics trafficking. it actually makes it easier, maybe once in a generation opportunity to clean it up. here is the president with his team around him. >> today the united states is launching enhanced counter narcotics operations in the western hemisphere to protect the american people from the deadly scorch of illegal

narcotics. we must not let the drug cartels exploit the pandemic to threaten american lives. >> we are at war with covid-19. we are at war with terrorists. and we are at war with the drug cartels as well. now is not the time to try to penetrate the united states with illegal drugs to kill americans. we are the united states military and we will defend our country regardless of the cost. steve: okay. so that was briefing room at the white house yesterday it. is still at this point unclear exactly how the drug cartels are taking advantage or utilizing this particular pandemic for their benefit. while so many millions of americans are stuck in their houses essentially staying at home there is information are in a story in the "the washington post" this morning how mandatory social distancing appears to be working. two weeks ago that the state of california and washington state started that where it was mandatory, people stay inside their houses.

and so far it looks as if the earlier people start the better because the curve seems to be flattening in california and in washington state which is great because it then slows the spread and it's all about containing it so that our hospitals are not overrun. meanwhile, our next guest has been inside one of the busiest hospitals in new york city every day. and frge hospitals are in dire need of more help. ainsley: this week he wrote an urgent letter to president trump and to no,'s governor cuomo saying, quote: we are near breaking point in brooklyn and queens. lives being lost by the hour. you have the opportunity to avert disaster here in brooklyn and queens that will clips that of 9/11. currently the towers are on fire but have not yet fallen we can get more of our people out now. brian: we got to get some help in there dr. stuart ditcheck

attending physician at nyu langone. thanks for joining us. we see the ambulances and additional medical professionals come in. you are sayingly as of now when we are not at the apex yet it's not enough? >> it's absolutely not enough. we are losing lives every day right now here in brooklyn and in queens. we know that the inner city poorer communities are being impacted in a greater fashion than other communities. and we are rapidly running out of vital equipment. we need vital equipment now. we need vent later. we need high flow nasal cannula machines and staffs to man those machines with taking care of those patients. >> why, dr. did i did ditcheck. >> i'm sorry i didn't hear you. ainsley: why is it affecting that sect. why is it affecting the inner city more than the rest because i have heard it doesn't

discriminate. >> i think areas -- we are learning about covid as days go on this. is my point. the models are only as good as the assumptions. every community is different. every city is different. in new york city, it appears that the poorer populations are suffering at a greater rate. certainly of hospitalizations and certainly of poorer outcomes. that may have to do with nutrition. it may have to do with smoking. there are many factors that play a role. folks speak for themselves. depositionly populated areas of brooklyn and queens being impacted in a greater fashion. steve: doctor at the top of this newscast we referred to the mayor of los angeles asked for residents out and about in public to cover faces not with n-95 masks because those should be saved for the healthcare workers with something whether it's a scarf as the president said last night or just something. the whole idea is so that they

can slow the spread to protect healthcare workers so that if somebody is out in the grocery store or somebody that works next to them if they're a spreader they don't give it to somebody who is on our front lines? do you think that's a good idea? good suggestion? >> i think the president's suggestion of starting to wear masks in public is actually a very good idea that we should implement immediately that will help slow spread. my problem with this is that masks give a false sense of security. many infections picked up by touching items, by covid that lives on products. masks are not the only solution, they are only a part of the solution at this point. brian: 1226 people hospitalized since 250us in new york. 9979 cases. they rose by 3936 from queens to manhattan to staten island to brooklyn. you are being slammed in every sing go burrough. i asked the government to ask upstate hospitals not getting

much action to come down. has that been been executed with travel and getting these people some money, usually paycheck to paycheck in some cases to get them down here, have a place to stay and put them into the lineup? >> brian, the staff is only one third of the problem right now in brooklyn. i have to be honest with you. we need staff. but before we get staff, we need ventilators and we need equipment like high flow nasal cannula machines which we are out of in the hospital where i work at now. we just don't have any more. those machines are keeping people off ventilators. once we have the equipment, we can then welcome the staff in, make sure they are vetted and qualified to deal with these patients. but they need to throw all assets now on brooklyn and queens. that's where the fire is burning right now. and i want to impress upon this. the president and the governor have unprecedented excellent understanding of the problem. they are both on top of it. they are both highly quick learners in this process; however, we need to throw the

assets here now and by the way there should be no ownership of these assets. in other words, the machines that are being brought to new york city right now in my estimate is 16,000 vent later that are needed immediately, 8,000 to the new york city area. 8,000 for the rest of the state. those machines should not be owned by any one entity. they should be moved from state to state. will teaching other states right now with innovations just as other hospitals are and we don't think we own these assets. they need to be moved to where the enemy is the enemy is covid. brian: i hear you. right now the enemy is in new york city. it's still by far the biggest hot spot. but, doctor, tell me about the campaign of command. are you on with us because no one is listening to you? is there a break in the command? are you talking to the head of your hospital are they frustrated with the answers they are getting back? how can they help? >>

>> the chain of command within our hospital is excellent. we are talking to the new york city department of health. they are in touch with the department -- with the new york state governor; however, there seems to be reluctance because we hear the term apex. we keep on hearing from the governor that they're waiting for the apex to hit before bringing us that equipment. you cannot wait for the apex to hit. what that means in terms is loss of human lives until we reach the apex. we don't want to reach the apex without the equipment. furthermore, the ventilators that are delivered often coming from stockpiles or warehouses and they are not always in working condition. they need to be vetted as well. they need to be repaired and they need to be maintain wanted. so you just don't show up with a ventilator on monday and ready to use monday afternoon. some of them need repair and need maintenance. we can't wait foray pecs to hit. quite frankly we don't know where the apex is going to hit. it's a two and a half week area

at this point did you predict this? did you see the need for ventilators and masks and gloves years ago? >> not years ago but going back about six weeks now i was part of a working group that was critical here in getting the word out in brooklyn to close the schools, close the houses of worship immediately and lock down with the non-pharmaceutical interventions that we all call social distancing now. our group was able to get the parochial schools in new york to close a full week earlier than new york city had declared through the department of education. that week saved lives. we are seeing those results now. we are not looking backwards. we are looking forward from. here forward it's all about equipment and staffing. yes, we predicted this over six weeks ago. steve: well, you know, you made it loud and clear you need help equipment-wise. we hope we can get you answers and somebody rises to the occasion to help you there at

maimodess. [broken audio] >> battlefield ventilators. we are now training both northwell hospital and maimodes. we are coming up with innovations fema ordered over 10,000 of these last week. and training hospitals here in new york to use ventilators. we are coming up with our own innovations. we need more help. whatever we learn we are passing on to other states. we want to do this unified as a country. not just here in brooklyn. not just in queens. brian: wow. steve: the message is loud and clear. they need more help. doctor, indeed. good luck to you and thank you to everybody in healthcare what you are doing today to help all of us. thank you, sir. >> thank you. steve: it is 6:16 here in the east coast now and jillian joins us from the fox news world headquarters with a fox news alert. jillian: that's right. good morning. a court in pakistan just overturned the death sentence

and murder conviction for a man linked to the killing of an personal journalist daniel pearl. british born militant. the sentence was reduced to seven years for kidnapping pearl in 2002. that will now be counted as time served. three others have also had their convictions overturned. an investigation by georgetown university says many of the men were wrongly convicted and claimed khalid sheikh mohammed the alleged master mind of the 9/11 attacks killed pearl. all eyes are on iran after president trump reveals plans for a sneak attack on american troops. the president says if that happens, iran will pay a very heavy price. >> just giving them a warning. it's not a head's up. i'm giving them a warning. i'm saying if you do anything to hurt our troops, they are going to pay a price. jillian: iran's foreign minister responding on twitter saying quote don't be mislead by usual warmongers again iran starts no wars but teaches lessons to those who do. sources tell fox news the u.s.

believes iran-backed proxies were planning the attack. overnight 2020 hopeful joe biden is calling for a democratic national convention to be pushed back amid the coronavirus crisis. >> i doubt whether the democratic convention is going to be able to be held in july, early july. i think it's going to have to move into august. jillian: a spokesperson for the dnc says the committee will reveal more about chances -- about changes to the convention in milwaukee by the end of the week. we will keep you updated when we know. in the meantime, there's this. look at this photo. nurses on the front lines of the coronavirus fight leaning on their faith. a group of nurses holding a prayer circle in miami asking god for protection and guidance. and a similar and very powerful scene in nashville. labor and delivery nurses at vanderbilt university medical center praying on the hospital's helipad. we have more stories like this on our website. a ton of them plus information on how you can help head to

foxnews.com/america together. we would also like to know how you are coping. send us your pictures friends@foxnews.com. and we continually thank all the medical workers for unwavering work right now that is going on. brian: yeah. do us a favor. send those pictures of what you are doing, whether it's yahtzee, monopoly or whether it's socially acceptable distancing tag, however you are doing it. basketball. we would love to see how you are able to get through 16 days of isolation with just your family members and humanize this a little. jillian: exactly. brian: thanks, jillian. hope is on the way for small businesses. tomorrow a nearly 350 billion-dollar relief package goes into effect. so, we break down what business owners need to know before applying for a loan/grant next.

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steve: nearly 350 billion-dollar relief program designed for small business owners suffering under the coronavirus outbreak is set to go into effect tomorrow on friday. so what should people know before applying for a loan. well, cpa gene marx joins us now from the philly area. tell us about the paycheck protection program that so many small businesses are looking at to protect the paycheck of their employees. >> sure thing, steve. if you are watching this program and you are a small business owner, or a friend of a small business owner or a family of a small business owner this information is very, very important to you. steve is right there. is something called the paycheck protection program. it is part of a stimulus bill. and it is basically free money that the government is offering

for you to use to see your business through this pandemic. you get the money from a bank. most banks are participating although i recommend a bank that is a member -- a member bank of the small business administration. you can borrow up to $10 million. a formula based on payroll. very low interest rates. here's the thing, steve, you get to submit at a certain point in time whatever expenses had you for payroll, for utilities, for mortgage interest and for rent and those amounts for a two month period will be forgiven as part of the loan. which basically means that the government is giving you funding to operate your business at least through june 30th and hopefully there will be an extension after that. so you want to talk to a banker about this. particularly i recommend a small business association member bank, although secretary mnuchin says many banks are available to participate. talk to a banker now, get your

application in so can you apply to this loan and may go a long way to helping you survive through this pandemic. steve: well, gene, yesterday, on one of my two very long walks where i socially isolated myself from everybody in my neighborhood, i saw a small businessman who operates a jewelry store in my town. and asked him about what he was going to do, he said that he was probably going to be doing just exactly what you are saying to protect his employees. so it's critical that everybody who is interested do. that is there a timetable on when that window closes for people? >> >> it's a great question. the program ends on june 30th. you can apply up until then. be careful there is a fund and the fund is limited. you had mentioned about 350 billion which sounds like a lot but a lot of small business owners are going to apply. hopefully the government will see to extend that fund but right now we don't know. it behooves you to get your application in as soon as possible. also, steve, a lot of the banks

themselves, i know they are being inundated with applications. they have a lot of work to do get in the queue. u. will be asked to provide certain documentation, prove your payroll expenses, your utilities, your rent expenses and other things to come up with how much money is that can you have available for you and then after the fact you are going to need to submit documentation to get that forgiven. very important to get the ball underway now. if you have questions, by all means i'm on twitter. my twitter address is gene marks, tweet me specific questions and i can help you through the process if you need. steve: that is terrific. the key for the government's incentive is to keep everybody on the payroll. and that's if the businesses do just that then the loans are forgiven. they don't have to pay them back. meanwhile, just exactly two hours and two minutes from right now, gene, the march jobs report is going to come out.

there are estimation that the unemployment number could be anywhere from 3 to 5 million. what are you looking for? >> i'm looking for something in that range as well. like most economists are doing. we could see an unemployment rate being close to 30%. clean-up is unprecedented since the time of the depression. but, honestly, my angle, steve, is that this is going to be a short-term thing. we know that there is an ending to this. and most of the small business owners that i talk to know they will be back to work in a recovery sometime in the next few months which is why by the way the stimulus program is designed the way it is. it is designed to get small businesses, in particular, who employ more than half of the people in this country through this wave so that they can navigate themselves and recover afterwards and get back to work. steve: okay. so just for folks who are watching, two hours from now, the weekly jobless claims and tomorrow at the same time, the monthly number.

gene marks. once again if people are interested in asking you a question what's your handle. >> gene marks. and i'm on twitter and i have been answering hundreds of questions this week. feel free to tweet at me and i will do my best to answer your question specifically. steve: well, thanks for answering my question specifically. gene marks. thank you, sir. it is about 6:30 here on the east coast. hundreds of americans once stranded overseas during the pandemic are back home this morning. thanks to help from one major airline. we're going to talk to one of those americans impacted coming up next. ♪ in nearly 100 years serving the military community, we've seen you go through tough times and every time, you've shown us, you're much tougher

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brian: here we go. thousands of americans stranded overseas as countries close their borders because guess what the pandemic. eastern airlines is one of the carriers going out of their way to bring these people home. the airline brought home 240 americans who were stuck in ecuador and brought them back to the united states. so, we are joined now by one of those passengers, mike michael bret and ceo steve, steve, first off, what was your responds? did you reach out to the state department or did the state department reach out to you to help? >> good morning, brian. thank you for having me. actually, we got our first call from an embassy in the country of guyana needing to get american citizens home. after we operated that flight we

reached out to the repatriatation task force and put an email blast out to all embassies and posts in central and south america and then our phone started ringing and since then we phoned from 12 different countries and brought home 7700 people. one of those was michael why were you there. >> i was there visiting a buddy who lives there now. i got there the 7th and supposed to leave the 24th. i was there about six days when everything got shut down. brian: what are your thoughts? okay, i have got to get out of here. then what? >> well, i didn't know what to do really because i was afraid to get, you know, take a taxi and go in the airport and get on a plane and the embassy kept sending me emails saying you better get out of there. you better get out of there. i finally got a plane out of there with steve he sent a plane

over there to get us home. brian: how many people were on the flight with you and what is your message to steve? >> oh, just thanks a lot. it was a big relief pulled up to where we were going to board. certainly doing now better than i was a couple days ago. it was getting a little stressful. it's been a long couple days, couple weeks, thanks a lot, buddy, thank you. appreciate it. brian: so you listened to put your tray table like that and paid attention and grateful, right? buckled up. >> you better believe it. brian: steve, there are about 13,000 americans at least stuck overseas. the state department has gotten tens of thousands home already. what is going to be your role in the future. >> we will do everything we can to bring them home. a story about people. we are a small company. we have 187 employees and 8 airplanes. they have all volunteered to go out and selfishly serve our

country and get these people home. we have flown over 7700 people and done the bulk of that work. it's about getting people home. i can't say enough about our employees selfishly put themselves out there to get our people home. i couldn't be more proud of our people. brian: absolutely. michael, do you have to stay. one of the requests that you sequester and quarantine yourself two weeks? >> no, no. we got off the plane. we weren't monitoring or anything. i'm trying to get back to chicago. but everything has been cancelled flight tentatively speaking. i'm not so to aoptimistic. brian: you can be stuck in worse places than miami. what's it like to be back in america? >> it was a relief. i'm not going to lie. the heart rate went down. the heart rate went down.

brian: understood. >> it's been pretty stressful. it's the unknowing, you know. it's been a long couple days. it was a long day yesterday. i left where i was at about 5:30 in the morning. i didn't get to miami until like 12:00 or something like that. and i went through a lot of checkpoints with the taxi to get to the airport. the military is out and it's scary. brian: i hear you. michael this president, the governor of florida, basically stay at home order. so just listen and sooner or later you will be back in chicago and it will be spring. feel like spring anyway. >> right. right. brian: thanks so much. steve, it's a great thing you are doing a lot of other people need help. look forward to talking to you again when you complete your next mission. >> thank you, brian, thank you for having us. >> thank you, steve. >> it's our pleasure. thank you, guys. brian: thanks. meanwhile, straight ahead, the

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save lives his name is jason garcia and donated plasma to intensive care patient battling the disease. steve: that out in orange county, california. doctors hope his antibodies can help other patients in southern california. he donated enough plasma to treat three different people win fusion. brian: how great is that garcia answered the call to donate after being cleared by the san diego department of public health. yesterday we also told you about a texas hospital that did the same thing. so, it's very intriguing but let's bring in dr. nicole saphier fox news medical contributor. one of her great responsibilities to see the reports and brings us back to reality. dr. saphier, are we wrong to have hope in this? >> this is what we call convalescent plasma. not novel, nothing new. nobel prize was given to it in

18901 forever diphtheria and spanish flu in 1918 reduced mortality rate of the disease and people who received it by 50%. quite exciting. very different than what you would say of a vaccine. a vaccine is something that we call active immunity where we are injecting someone with an inactive virus so your own virus can produce antibodies to it. in convalescent plasma freeze sis infecting n somebody else already recovered from the virus. those antibodies are going to help the person now fight this viral infection. it isn't necessarily a cure. but definitely going to potentially decrease the severity of illness as well as the duration of illness, especially if it's given in the early onset of symptoms. so, we are seeing this now given in a couple of hospitals. first one i believe was saturday in fort worth. we don't necessarily have the results of you who that turned out. but the good news is that this has had massive success in the past. and as long as, you know, everything is done correctly and

all the i's are dotted and checks and t's crossed and all that everything is going to be great. you have to do blood typing to make sure that the donor person has the same blood type as the person receiving it because you can have transfusion reaction. but one person who don't united states can treat three to four people. and you are allowed to donate every 28 days. we heard governor cuomo say yesterday that 4,000 people have been discharged and recovering from the virus in new york alone. so imagine all the potentials for plasma donation. ainsley: that is amazing. incredible. the white house is calling for new blood test to determine immunity. here is dr. deborah birx who is part of his task force. listen to this, dr. saphier. >> i think we owe it to the front line healthcare providers. not only to provide them rna tests but many of them have been on the front line now for four weeks. the appeals of mind that would come from knowing you already were infected, you have an body, you are safe from reinfection,

99.9% of the time and our universities can do that by friday. we're not waiting. we are asking for help now. ainsley: how, dr. saphier, does that help if you know you are immune to this. what is she asking people to do to go not hospitals and help or do whatever can you in your community? >> well, this is just going to give us a really good idea of who has already been infected with the virus. this is very different than what we first talked about. that's antibody treatment. now we have switched to antibody testing. that is the test for the presence of antibodies within a person. you look for what's called igm or igg. igm shows up immediately after the infection and igg gives more of a longer term immunity. so the theory is if we do this blood test and we are testing people for the presence of these antibodies, especially iggs that means they have already recovered for their infection which potentially confers they may be immune to future infections and possibly they can

go back to work sooner and potential candidates for donors for people who are still veerly infected and needing treatment. steve: exactly. and that's one of the good things about that is that way, doctor, we can tell which of our healthcare workers have recovered and can go back to fight the war on the front lines. meanwhile, we have got a bunch of viewers who have questions for you because you appear every day. an email from jeanine says we are told respiratory droplets spread the infection. so, if these folks are not coughing or sneezing, how exactly are asymptomatic people able to spread it they ask. >> well, i hate to say it, but, you know, the saying say it, don't spray it, that's because a lot of times when people are talking they are actually expelling microparticles of spit when they are speaking. that spit itself can still be in the air. yes, correct, there is a lot more virus particles if you are

coughing or sneezing but just speaking and heavy breathing can expel some respiratory droplets. brian: no panting. email from atlanta ray how long can a virus live on facial hair and are men who have facial hair more likely to get infected? what about that? >> interesting question and they actually haven't tested facial hair for how long asking can stay on it. we know the virus can live on inanimate surfaces for 24 to 72 hours. i would say sometime during that timeline. facial hair although can protect the underlying skin can also hold on to certain dust and respiratory droplets, virus particles. maybe you consider shaving just like, you know, the exact opposite of movember maybe in

april consider shaving. ainsley: a lot don't shave because they don't have to go to work. >> i didn't hear that. ainsley: i said a lot of guys are not shaving because they are staying at home from work. >> yeah. well, maybe we keep it up though. let's have that fresh shaven look. ainsley: brian said hear that geraldo? thanks, dr. saphier. well, who needs a party when you can have a parade? neighbors find a way to celebrate a milestone birthday with a world war ii hero at a safe social distancing. people behind the parade are going to join us next. announcer: wash your hands... avoid sick people... and touching your face. there are everyday actions to help prevent the spread of respiratory diseases.

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ainsley: a community comes together to celebrate a milestone with a world war ii hero at a safe social distance. neighbors gathering outside of frank new jersey house to wish him a happy 100th birthday. put the together party had to be canceled because of the coronavirus. joining us with more is frank's nephew and susan lombardo who is frank's neighbor who helped organize this parade. good morning to you both. >> good morning. >> good morning. ainsley: susan, tell us why you organized this parade. >> well, i have been neighbors

with -- we call him mr. frank here in the neighborhood for over 50 years. i grew up on the same street in my parent's house and then when i got married i moved into the house across the street. and his family was celebrating his 100th birthday with a big party. and since his 95th birthday he has been looking forward to this 100th birthday really wanted to meet the president. he has been talking about it. he lives on his own. makes his own meals. he is great. i called a long time friend of mine sue that also grew up on the street and our neighbor tina and said we have got to do something. we can't let this guy by for mr. frank without doing something. at that time i recruited my husband jim who is a hamilton township firefighter. he got in touched with a friend kyle thornton, sergeant kyle thornton from the hamilton police department. they took it from there organizing the fire trucks and the police department. ainsley: that's great. >> then i called his niece who was organizing 100th birthday

party and she told about our idea all of a sudden the vfw had contacted her commanders charles oswald and jeff and they were doing the same thing. we took it from there and it turned out to be great. ainsley: dave, what was your uncle's reaction? we saw the video and aired it yesterday of him holding up the beer and thanking everyone. you talked to him what did he say? >> he was overwhelmed and very very appreciative. he is a very humble man. anyone that meets him whether you have known him your whole life like us or you meet him for a first visit, he warms your heart. he is a little man that no one can say no to and everybody wants to do something for. it's not surprising but he was very overwhelmed and humbled. he kept telling me this is unbelievable. and i guess it's because he never expects anything in return. but he is always willing to give to everyone.

ainsley: well, he is a good man. frank is a purple heart recipient. bronze star medal veteran. please give him our best. tell him happy birthday from the fox family and thank you for his service. thank you both. y'all did a good thing. >> thank you. >> thank you so much. ainsley: you are welcome. god bless you. we have information on how you can help plus more stories of people going to actual links to help one another to get through this pandemic can you find all the information on foxnews.com/america together. dr. oz is going to join us at the top of the hour. stay with us. that works at liquid speed. you'll ask... what pain? advil liqui-gels minis.

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we spoke up and it made all the difference. ask your parkinson's specialist about nuplazid. steve: 7:00 on the east coast. fox news alert. president trump pushing back on calls for a nationwide stay at home order. it comes as coronavirus deaths in the united states pass 5,000, that milestone meanwhile the states of florida and pennsylvania the latest states to declare stay at home orders. in total, as you see by the map, 36 states and the district of columbia have issued that kind of order. the governor of georgia will issue a shelter in place order later today, ainsley. ainsley: the mayor of los angeles is urging everyone to cover their faces if they go outside and right now michigan is emerging as the third deadliest hot spot for coronavirus. the military is building a field

hospital in downtown detroit now. brian: wow, meanwhile, as first responders and medical professionals work tirelessly around the country. we are seeing an outpouring of support coast to coast. members of the fdny who usually get standing ovations line the streets while clapping and cheering to show their appreciation here in new york city. more than 8600 people have recovered in the u.s. 1500 more than yesterday. and we know there were a lot of hits yesterday. meanwhile as people look around and watch us, many of them are some of the 280 million now living at stay at home orders. the president says i'm not going to mandate it because every state is different and president has been remarkably measured. people like to criticize him and say he wants all the power and he likes dictator. every time he has the opportunity to take massive control especially after a pandemic like this in which all bets are off, he pushes back and lets other people take the lead

in the areas they know best. he gets very little credit for that. steve: well, there is no doubt, brian, that people around the world are isolating. i was listening to a press conference yesterday by the governor of the great state of new jersey where i live. he had a couple of quotes that i thought were worth sharing. he said stay at home so it doesn't hit home. he also said that social distancing is leading to social solidarity. but then my friend, scott said to me yesterday, he said we will get through this together apart. we have got a great hour coming up right now starting with dr. oz who is going to be with us very shortly to talk about what could be a complete game changer with this chloroquine stuff. doug collins and marco rubio is joining us shortly after the jobless number is released and dr. siegel is going to join us

in about an hour to answer your questions, ainsley. ainsley: there is promising news when you look at drugs being used as antimalaria drugs. we will talk to dr. oz about that in a few minutes. joe biden is asking for the democratic convention to be moved from july maybe to august. some states are talking about not going back to school at all. they are kind of weighing their options. you have moms at home that many of them are still working, trying to do their jobs from home and teach their kids. so we're just all trying to navigate this together. governor cuomo here in new york has said that the models are now showing the apex could be at the end of this month now. so it might extend longer than those two more weeks. the white house is launching new narcotics operations to fight the flow of illegal drugs. president trump is slamming the cartels, accusing them of exploiting this pandemic. kristin fisher joins us live from the white house with a plan to boost surveillance. criticizkristin. >> president trump and top

military leaders are worried that drug cartels and people like the president of venezuela nikolas maduro will use this coronavirus pandemic to try to smuggle more narcotics. what the united states is doing is essentially doubling its military resources in the region. we are talking about deploying navy warships and aircraft to the caribbean sea and, perhaps, even closer to venezuela. defense secretary mark he is esd the chairman of the joint chiefs of staff general mark mille joined president trump in the briefing room yesterday. and the reason for this massive new operation, well, general mille says the united states had obtained intelligence that cartels were seeking to quote, unquote, take advantage of the coronavirus. but he did not explain what the intelligence was. here is president trump making the announcement yesterday afternoon. listen here. >> the united states is launching enhanced counter narcotics operations in the western hemisphere to protect the american people from the

deadly scourge of illegal narcotics. we must not let the drug cartels exploit the pandemic to dresden america --threaten american liv. the president of venezuela was singled out at that briefing yesterday. remember, maduro because indicted on narco-terrorism conspiracy and drug trafficking charges by the department of justice just last week, ainsley. brian: yeah, thanks, kristin. yeah, i was kind of surprised the president started with that obviously very important. brought in one team. and then brought in his pandemic team. let's bring in a member of our a team dr. mehmet oz joins us. the dr. oz show back in taping. covering very important topics. dr. oz, first off, what could you tell us, i read in the "new york times" today heard about your show yesterday. hijackers. whydroxychloroquine great hope a

week ago then we didn't hear much of it. what can you tell us about this now? >> well, there is an important randomized study still unplushed from wuhan, china, dr. ian joined us virus hunter. vetted the study. we think it's real. here's what they showed. 62 patients randomized. half of them get the traditional therapy they are offering in china. half of them get traditional therapy plus they added hydroxychloroquine, the medication the malaria drug we have been talking about. put up the stud i can't understand look and digest it. in terms of symptoms, their temperatures or fevers broken stead of three days which is the norm over there on this treatment they got two days. cutting it 50% reduction. in terms of coughing, the other big symptom you have takes three days oftentimes for that to go away and dropped to two days. those symptoms correlate with infectivity. the fact that they were dropping the amount of time they have

those symptoms may also reflect a reduction of infectivity but they didn't measure that and here's the part that really caught my attention they did ct scans of the chest in all the patients. all the patients had pneumonia when they started. over the course of the five day treatment with the hydroxychloroquine and 55 members o55% ofthe control popue therapy there was resolve and resolution of the pneumonia in 81% of the patients on the hydroxychloroquine there was improvement in the lung's images. in addition, and all those, by the way, everything i have said is statistically significant even at 62 patients. despite being small, they still got the measures we like to see. we need a bigger clinical trial. this is an early effort to try to show a lookout of people whether there is the right way or wrong way to go. i should point out in the 31 patients that were the control group, four patients had bad outcomes. they got significantly worse. none of the patients in the hydroxychloroquine group got significantly worse. so the chinese are using this as part of their routine treatment.

they have a national protocol for measuring covid-19. i think we ought to consider something like that in this country but at least pg physicis and patients should be able to discuss more comfortably until we have the randomized data from studies done in this country. steve: you have been with us over the last couple of weeks where you said this could be a game changer. you are not alone. we will play a sound bite infectious disease specialist dr. stephen smith. he is very optimistic about this as well. because, as you said, it was randomized. there was a control group. here is dr. smith last night with laura. listen. >> no person has received five days or more of the hydroxychloroquine-smith throw combination. if the regiment didn't work, why would it just be the people that didn't get nearly complete the religion you meant really

support the french data. intracohort comparison saying this religion many works. this is the beginning of the end of the pandemic. steve: that is an extraordinary sound bite right there. dr. oz, we have heard from people who have kind of down played this cocktail with the:0e chloroquine and z pack as well. >> this is randomized trial. not as large and comprehensive and still not published but it's important to recognize that these guys have done a little bit of what we are expecting. a couple points, they added anti-bottoananti biotics. let me offer one more bit of insight. the reason they did this study, i interviewed the french doctor who did the studies, he is the one who alerted me to this

chinese work. we contacted the chinese. they think the mechanismism action reduction of inflammation. although it does we believe help prevent the virus from getting into your cells. so the drug has a mechanism of action. here's the big part that really caught my attention. this is how astute doctors work. they noticed in their hospital in wuhan they had 80 patients admitted with lieu pus taking this medication hydroxychloroquine a common medication for that condition. no, ma'am of them had covid-19. they noticed 190 patients came in with covid-19. early course of the disease none of them had lupus. what's the difference. they thought it was medication. based on brian's astute question yesterday on this show goes to the influence you guys have i had contacted a team member of a incredibly capable talented medicaid patients in the database. i asked would you do what brian kilmeade asked compare patients in our national database who take hydroxychloroquine, we know from -- the fact they filled

their prescriptions and compare them to people who don't? is there a difference how often they get the covid-19 infection? it's a rough and tumble study, but she is agreeing to do it or look into it anyway. i think it wills fascinating to replicate what the chinese have done. look wha what they have done. let's not reinvent the wheel. if they think it's good enough for the chinese people to get examine it carefully in this country so we don't lose opportunities. brian: dr. oz, i don't get this. let's reframe this, ready? so the french say it works. the chinese say it works. you are getting studies to show it works. you are trying to tell people in new york to test this. you said you were going. to say have you been able to get an answer if they are testing this or not? do you think, perhaps, even though you don't know for sure, politics is playing a role in this. the fact that the president thought he could be optimistic on it. did that actually bring politics into this and is this cure not moving forward because people don't like the president?

>> you know, brian, it's very hard to judge motivation. can i only judge action. i know in new york state now you are not allowed to prescribe this medication to patients. the believe the reason governor cuomo did that to protect patients who have lupus and rheumatoid arthritis because he was worried folks with hoard the medication. take people who would benefit and theoretically benefiting patients who would hoard it. i don't know the medication. recommendation -- on the town hall we did on fox news last week, the vice president said that the fda was okay with patients getting this from their doctors over the weekend the fda passed a ruling say being okay. it's off label but go ahead and do it. and then we are not allowed to prescribe as it physicians in new york. which means members of my staff, friends of mine i tell them to get hirk thehydroxychloroquine t legally in new york. we should have doctors practices best data. it doesn't prove anything.

definitively, but it's valuable. when i have top notch doctors saying i'm using it. the famous virus hunter on the show he got covid-19 last week. he called all of his friends including chinese doctors and they recommended to him what he ended up doing which is as a world expert he took hydroxychloroquine himself. that should be allowed in states in several states in america. brian: of course. >> that's being blocked. i don't think that's right. brian: unbelievable. ainsley: guy on your show we interviewed as well. i think he was down in florida. he said goodbye to his family already. he took the drug and within 24 hours said he didn't even have any stowms. it made him feel so much better. so, and i thought we were getting a huge shipment from israel. so are we going to run out of this drug? aren't other countries helping us? brian: what's going on? >> i have talked to other members of the task force. i mentioned the study of dr. birx yesterday when i was interviewing her. this is all breaking news for them as well. we are getting the shipments. the task force assured me they are going to get over

100 million pills in. that's enough to treat at least 5 million americans which is more than have contracted the illness. go back to one second brian's question and the observation the chinese made. they have noticed that people already taking the medication didn't get the illness. so, we ought to think about looking at it for doctors and nurses and the loved ones of people who get ill. we have a clinical trial at newark presbyterian my hospital to study that exact question. going to take a while to get the answer. meantime worth trying widely used for 65, 70 years? brian: of course. steve: certainly optimistic for a lot of people. >> i think most. steve: dr. oz, thank you for joining us today. >> feel comfortable talking to their patients about it the question -- the issue for all the viewers out there if you have a loved one with covid-19 early in the course of the illness these patients were relatively healthy, you should raise it with your doc.

brian: absolutely. steve: 100 percent. all right. dr. oz, thank you very much. all right. brian: great work. steve: 7:15 in the east coast. jillian joins us from new york with the very latest. jillian? jillian: that's right. let's start with a fox news alert. a court in pakistan overturning the death sentence and murder conviction for a man linked to the killing of american journalist daniel pearl. british born militant sheikh's sentence reduced to seven years for kidnapping pearl in 2002. three others have also had their convictions tossed out. an investigation by georgetown university says many of the men were wrongly convicted and claimed khalid sheikh mohammed the alleged master mind of the 9/11 attacks is the one who killed pearl. also breaking right now, the patriot's team plane is in the air carrying much needed medical protection equipment. robert kraft sent his team's plane to china to pick up masks, gloves and other supplies. massachusetts governor will be there to greet the plane when it lands later today. the national guard will unload

the supplies and bring them to the state's strategic stockpile. suspects could face years behind bars for coughing or spitting on police officers. and saying they have coronavirus. the new jersey attorney general taking over six cases charging the suspects with aggravated assault. four of them also charged with making terroristic threats the a.g. says any attempt to infect a police officer will be taken very seriously. more than 300 cops have the virus. hitting the pavement with patriotism. take a look. a florida man runs through florida with a giant american flag all to say thank you to first responders on the coronavirus front lines. >> anybody out there who is feeling depressed, stressed and in despair. i want everybody to remember the words of eleanor roosevelt you must do what you think you cannot do. ainsley: hdo.

jillian: he finished his run in seven hours. go to foxnews.com/america together. we asked you how you are coping and jean sharing this photo of james who walks every day with his american flag. got to love that keep your pictures coming. send them to us using the #america together or can you email us at friends@foxnews.com. brian, you asked and people are delivering on the photos. brian: i hear it's overwhelming. i cannot wait to see how america is handling hanging out with their family or all alone for weeks on end. where everyday is the same. jillian: every day is what you make of it brian. brian: thank you, jillian for straightening me out. ainsley: thank you so much, jillian. congressman adam schiff calling for a 9/11 style commission now to investigate the white house's response to the pandemic. congressman doug collins says we should focus on china's government first and he is on deck. you doing okay?

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♪ brian: chairman adam schiff now calling for independent commission to investigate the federal government's response to the covid-19 pandemic. the congressman tweeting after pearl harbor and 9/11 we looked at what went wrong to learn from our mistakes. once we recovered we need a nonpartisan commission to review our response and how we can be better prepared for the next pandemic. i'm working on a bill to do that. joining us now to react ranking member of the house judiciary committee congressman doug collins often by adam schiff's side but maybe not on the same side. congressman, is this the time to bring up a commission? >> no. it's not. and i think, look, there is going to be enough with the packages we passed of aid going

to people in the starting in the next few weeks. we have oversight in that we have inspector general, there is stuff put in there to make sure. and look at a certain point in time there will be a book back at thithere will be a look backk back i'm not sure he wants to talk about. china's role in this as intelligence committee chairman he was so wrapped up in impeachment when that you will hit i'm not sure there was a slow response on both sides no one was looking at this because he was so focused on the president and what he was trying to do in the election we were missing china and others. we have seen this before. i'm not sure he would like the outcome of this report any more than any of the other reports he had this year. brian: absolutely. and the rise of al-qaeda was muted by the fact that president clinton was so caught up in his own impeachment. i hope we start learning from. this meanwhile, on the terms of impeachment, adam schiff was asked, did your impeachment inquiry hurt the president being able to look after the potential pandemic? here is his response. >> mitch mcconnell said that

he believes that the impeachment trial in the senate slowed down the federal government's response. >> the person said something similar which, you know, was an interesting acknowledgment that the administration has screwed up this response. and i think the facts are quite clear that the president weeks' long maybe months long delay in taking this seriously has had catastrophic consequences. brian: what's your response to that. >> brian, he can't help himself. this is man who for a year has done nothing over a year has attacked this president. tried to go through the mueller report, the impeachment he said the president did in plain sight did wrongdoing. he can't help himself. he is even in isolation it sounds like all he wants to do is focus on the president. the president has done a good job as is he focused on this. we have all learned from this crisis and the president has been listening to the advisors and moving forward.

but there can be no mistake that in the month of january and december when adam schiff was leading this country down a sham impeachment that there was distraction on capitol hill. you saw it on both sides of the aisle that they were so focused on this. you know, for him to come back at this point and try to regain the spotlight from his failed attempts at impeachment is sad for the american people. we need to be focusing on what's happening now. getting the drugs that you just talked about with dr. oz. getting these folks the money that they need so that our economy can recover as we go through this and being taking care of the people who are losing family members and losing lives and losing businesses right now. again, this is so premature but frankly it's not nothing new for adam schiff. brian: the thing is, congressman collins, anthony fauci was on the radio show january 26th saying i don't think that virus from what they know is going to be a big problem here. so the best in the business who basically pushed america towards a cure for aides wa for aids way

surprise. how do you expect the president and civilians to pick up the magnitude of what we are experiencing. one group of people to blame. it's the chinese government who still is not telling us the truth. this is one time in which we don't have to be democrats and republicans we can be americans and, again, we are back to the same old divide. i wish people would start growing up. >> i agree with you completely. i think the president was very diplomatic yesterday when he said those numbers were like -- i think we can agree republican and democrats the numbers were wrong. dr. fauci's statement and others it just shows they were not being forth right in the outcoming of this -- of their reports and what they were seeing and now it's time for us to come together, acknowledge that and move toward taking care of the people who need the help of each other as americans. we always pull together. we are in this together and we have got to continue this fight right now. brian: good luck with your senate run. i know it's vetting very hard remote but everyone is dealing with the same thing. congressman, thanks so much.

>> thank you. brian: meanwhile, started as a movement to support local restaurants and feed healthcare workers. now it's spreading around the country. the co-founder of the first line appreciation group joining us live next.

ainsley: what started as a local effort in new jersey has turned into a nationwide campaign to help feed front line healthcare workers while supporting local businesses. in just two weeks the newly founded first line appreciation group, it's called flag, raised $78,000 using that money to buy meals from local restaurants to feed local healthcare workers. joining us now to share more about their mission, the co-founders of flag of chatam of madison in new jersey liz and gina maguire. hey, ladies, thanks for being with us. >> hi, thanks for having us. >> good morning. thanks for having us. ainsley: you are welcome. liz, we will start with you. you went on social media. tell the folks at home what you did. >> sure. so, on thursday, march 19th, i had seen a note from my friend from home suggesting that they were sending meals to the huntington hospital team there. and i thought what a great idea. we could do that for our hospital up here in new jersey. so i put a quick note on our

chat ham community forum facebook page saying if anyone would want to join up. a couple hours later my computer and phone was blowing up. everyone was. in so we got that rolling. we got donations rolling in that night to put together 50 meals for the er that following night. i had tapped one of our local ems members to find out how many people were on staff at any one given time. and he was able to connect me with an er nurse directly who filled me in that there were 50 people on at night and they would love some meals and love some love. so we got it going right away. ainsley: so nice of you. gina, how did you get involved? >> once i saw liz's post, we are the neighboring town of madison, new jersey, and i knew immediately that this has madison's name written all over it. this community is second to none as is chatham when it comes to

jumping in and being helpers. i shot her a message. i had never met her before. i said listen, i'm next door in madison. i'm happy to kind of start my own thing if you want me to come and stay out of your way. we both agreed it was better for us to join forces. and i think the outcome shows that that was the right move. and we got working together that next day. ainsley: so cool. america working together. the two of you i don't think knew each other before. this you happened to be neighbors, neighboring towns. >> that's right. that's right. >> restaurant. so, liz, tell me how much have you raised and how many meals total now? >> so we raised over $91,000 between our towns plus we have a neighboring town join in. we have served ove over 3,000 m. last night 3030. pushed back 20,000 to those local restaurants and more is

coming. we have restaurants in the routine every day, night shift, day shift, a couple different locations. so, actively pushing the money right back out to those small business owners. ainsley: gina, if we want to do the same thing in our community, how do we do it? >> you can go ahead -- we have a website. it's flag 2020.org. there is a lot of information on there. liz kind of did an interview with a local mom's website called the pickup line. and she outlined steps on how you can start this in your own community. that would be the first step visit the website and see if you can find the information there. ainsley: y'all are some of the heroes out there helping other americans. thank you so much. you are good role models to your community, to your children, to your families. thanks for what you are doing. it's really appreciated. there is the website at the bottom of the screen flag 2020.org and the 2020 those are all numbers.

2020. thanks, ladies. we have information on how you can help plus more stories of people going the extra lengths to help each other to fight this pandemic. find all that information at foxnews.com/america together. it is 34 minutes after the top of the hour. and president trump putting iran on notice after saying the rogue regime is planning a sneak attack on u.s. troops. how real is that threat? pete hegseth is up next. ♪ in nearly 100 years serving the military community, we've seen you go through tough times and every time, you've shown us, you're much tougher your heart, courage and commitment has always inspired us and now it's no different so, we're here with financial strength, stability and experience you can depend on and the online tools you need because you have always set the highest standard and reaching that standard is what we're made for ♪

brian: fox news alert now. president trump putting iran on notice tweeting, quote this: upon information or belief iran or its proxies are planning a sneak attack on u.s. troops and/or assets in iraq. if this happens, iran will pay a very heavy price, indeed. ainsley: the president expanding on his warning at the white house press briefing yesterday. listen.

>> we just have information that they were planning something and it's very good information. it was led by iran. not necessarily iran but by groups supported by iran. but to me is iran and we are just saying don't do it. don't do it. >> that would be a very bad thing for them if they did it. let's bring in "fox & friends weekend" co-host and author of the upcoming book "american crusade" pete hegseth to weigh in: the president tweeted that out and unclear what he was referring to the announcement via twitter did come just one hour after he had a foreign intelligence briefing and made it very clear don't do it. so, obviously, we know something's up. pete: yeah. good morning guys. of course we do. apparently a combination of human intelligence and signal intelligence. communication intercepts that we

got that there was a sneak attack coming. listen, iran knows from this president they will pay a heavy price. ask the ghost of kassem absolutely. he has taken very seriously the threat iran faces directly and indirectly iran's troops and proxies. here is one thing we know coronavirus has hit iran extremely hard and they have been very deceptive about the numbers there and how they have impacted them and we also know that iran thinks maybe at this moment as we are shutting down bases in iraq we have left three in the last couple of months to consolidate larger bases maybe we are more vulnerable and also distracted by coronavirus. so they -- why would they not want to try to distract their own people as well with an attack against american troops for propaganda value. so i'm sure the president is acting on intelligence and look at the open source news reports it all fits together. brian: pete, i love the tactic

of taking the intelligence and telling the world we know what you are up to. as opposed to how we usually do it and just bulk up our defenses and maybe put some patriot missiles around the bases. how do you feel about that tactic? >> yeah, which we are also doing. we are recently added patriot missile batteries around some of the larger bases in iraq. we have been having missile tit-for-tat. i love it. it is different from the way other presidents have operated. you can also do that because have you shown such strength in the past with the iran deal, with the way we responded to other attacks and, of course, ugly kassem soleimani you put iran on notice we know what you are up to. iran haas to realize their operations are compromised, who in there is spying on them and giving us intelligence. what weak link do they have? that gets inside their own head and now the whole world knows we know. the next move is theirs. we have seen that their bite is not as big as their bark even though they are a dangerous

radical islamic regime. ainsley: watching other networks and some were critical of the patient making that announcement yesterday. he saying i don't want people to take advantage of our country. i don't want iran taking advantage and i don't want drug cartels taking advantage of this country while we are suffering view this this pandemic. he is putting it out there. also has a message for military families. he was thanking the military families who have folks that are serving you our country overseas during this pandemic and thanking the 17,000 plus men and women that are out there serving in the national guard that are deployed to different states for help during this crisis that our country is experiencing. listen to the president. >> as we deploy, our service members to combat both threats abroad, invisible enemy at home earlier today, i spoke to our nation's incredible warriors and military families in order to stop the spread of the virus. some of these families have

delayed planned moves to their next duty station and? other cases military families are also waiting longer to welcome home the heroes from deployment. there is a tremendous burden to bear. and i must say protecting our military families is our top priority. steve: about the kids. ainsley: hey, pete, you served in the military, how meaningful is this? >> it's extremely meaningful. i had multiple people reach out to me yesterday saying how much it meant to them that the president specifically talked about how they call for veterans and military families and impact so much and rightfully so about the front line folks in hospitals and nurses and doctors up against this pandemic right now. if you think about a guy or gal deployed for six months, nine months, 10 months, a year or they have been in a certain part of a country and planning to move to another and all put on pause or they are being asked to do even nor right now where they're at because people are

stretched thin, that's a whole another line in this battle we are facing. and the president has always been outright and proactive about his love for the military. certainly at this moment. that doesn't change. it was great to see. steve: indeed. all right. pete, thank you very much. by the way, we will be watching you this weekend on "fox & friends weekend" edition. plus, the newest season of battle in the holy land premiers on fox nation coming up on monday. pete: yes it does. battle in the holy land i went back to israel and talked about the settlements and battle there. great footage. we have gotten a dicey situation. you are not going to want to miss it on fox nation sunday or monday. brian: all right. steve: thank you, pete hegseth. tonight. go ahead, brian. brian: yeah, tonight at 7:00, commercial free town hall covid-19 pandemic featuring a virtual audience using portal devices on facebook. it's going to be mod der rate offed by the great martha

maccallum commercial free. it's going to be great. make sure everybody watches tonight. meanwhile, let's go over and watch jillian mele. jillian, you are going to give us the rest of the news that was taking place while we were talking. >> that is right. good morning to you you talked about this. china accused of grossly under reporting the number of cases abdomen and deaths. found china purposefully hid covid-19 data from the rest of the world. >> we really don't know i don't know whether they under reported or reported however they report. their numbers seem to be a little bit on the light side. and i'm being nice when i say that relative to what we witnessed and what was reported. jillian: china is reporting just over 80,000 cases and 3,000 deaths. in the u.s. there are 200,000 case200,000200,000and 5,000 dea.

passengers will be sent to their home countries while the u.s. focuses on helping americans on board. more than 6,000 people are on board the holland america cruise ship standed at sea. 200 are experiencing flu like symptoms. 8 of them testing positive for covid-19. four people have died. inmates are suing a d.c. jail for not doing enough to protect them from the coronavirus. accuses the dying inmates covid-19 tests after some of them started showing symptoms. it also accuses them of not providing free soap and only allowing staff to use hand sanitizer. the corrections department has not commented hospital workers are lifting spirits with the power of music. listen to this ♪ let it be ♪ let it be ♪ lord, let it be ♪ let it be ♪ there will be an answer ♪ let it be ♪

jillian: that's great medical workers singing let it be for patients and co-workers at huntington hospital in new york. for more inspiring stories like this visit foxnews.com/america together. and don't forget we want to see how you are coping. mark from washington sent us this photo of his grand kids avery and matthew social distancing. that is adorable. make sure you send us your pictures guys. so great. love that one. ainsley: that is really cute. thank you, jillian. from the classroom to the front lines, medical schools are letting students graduate early to help overwhelmed hospitals including our next guest who specializes in a vital role for the fight against this virus.

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♪ steve: from the classroom to the front lines, medical and health science schools are letting is students graduate early to help overwhelmed hospitals across the country. berry university in miami, florida is one of those schools allowing the entire senior class of its cardiovascular profusion program, about 12 of its kind nut country, to graduate next week on april the 11th. about a month early. joining us right now is barry university student diaz and the dean of the college of nursing and health sciences at barry university dr. john mcfadden. good morning. dr. mcfadden, let's start with you, why was this something that you thought you should do at barry? >> well, our relationships with our clinical partners run pretty deep and when they called and asked us to help support the

effort, we knew we had to be creative. and so we knew expediting the graduation of these very much needed professionals would help the pipeline and continue to put forth some healthcare providers in this crisis. steve: indeed. so, you are going to be graduating about a month early. tell us what you are going to do. >> well profusionists we mainly operate the cardiopulmonary bypass during cardiac surgeries we also play a crucial rule in the intensive care unit and in relation to the coronavirus, we give patients that are critically ill a fighting chance. steve: and your machines that you learned how to operate there at barry actually can help people who have trouble breathing and that's obviously what we have been hearing a lot about, right? >> yes, correct. crease covid-19 patients unfortunately the ones that do

become critically ill, they have poor lung function. they can no longer breathe on their own. and in the instance where the ventilator is just not enough to support these patients, we place them on the echo machine that we use and this artificially oxygenates the patient. steve: that makes sense. let me ask you this. you have been in college and this is not how you dreamed it was going to end. are you apprehensive about what happens next? >> >> you know, just the fact that i'm going to start my career in a time where i'm needed the most, you know, i can't think of a better time. steve: terrific. all right. and, john, you know, i know you have never seen anything like what we are going through in your 35 years. but, right now the teachers continue to teach remotely. i mean, they are going to graduate a month early but they are still learning at home,

right? >> yes. so, they are still a little bit more coursework that has to be completed. but we figured out a way of making sure that all of the students, not only meet but exceed all the requirements that we test for and that their and able. steve: that is fantastic. good luck to both of you. >> thank you. >> thank you. steve: meanwhile, a busy third hour straight ahead on "fox & friends," we're joined by senator marco rubio, dr. marc siegel and tom homan. stay with us.

ainsley: we are starting with a fox news alert, president trump pushing back on calls for a nationwide stay-at-home order, it comes as coronavirus deaths in the united states passed 5000, florida and pennsylvania are the latest states to declare stay-at-home orders. in total 36 states and washington, d.c. have issued the orders, the governor of georgia will sign a shelter in place order today. brian: the mayor of los angeles urging everyone to cover their faces. he is doing it. right now michigan is emerging that third deadliest hotspot of the coronavirus, the military is

building a hospital in downtown detroit i hope it is enough. first responders and medical professionals work tirelessly around the country, we are seeing an outpouring of support from "coast to coast", and new york city people seen cheering and clapping from their apartment windows as you can see right there. thinking the heroes for their help, more than 8600 people have recovered in the united states, that is 1500 more than yesterday. that is good news, welcome now to fox and friends, we are socially distancing as everybody is in this country and you might start to get tired of it, do you know what they're doing in the country of panama, they are actually socially isolating by gender, their enforcing according team where they restrict the days of men and women can go out of the house, women can leave the house in panama, they are allowed to go outdoors monday, wednesday and

friday, men can go out on tuesday, thursday and saturday and everybody has to stay in the house in panama on sunday. ainsley: very interesting. we are going to have doctor mike siegel and will ask him about plasma, a lot of people donating plasma or thinking about doing that if they have been infected. we have florida senator marco rubio, we will talk to him about the shelter in place in florida. brian: the president says he is resisting lockdown order because the whole country, the government should not make the choice is the federal level, she will leave it to the states, live in washington, many have already taken the initiative, two thirds of the country is already lockdown. >> that is exactly right, good morning, the governor just saw yesterday that the number of cases crossed the 1000 mark in his state, he too could have another one, 37 states including

mississippi, florida georgia pennsylvania with some form of a stay-at-home order, about 80% of the country's population, more than two to 50 million on lockdown. at the press conference, the president resisted the calls for the national order. >> there are some states that are different, there are some states that do not have much of a problem. >> saying he will leave the decision to the governors on the front line. another call he says he will answer is from former vice president joe biden who has criticized the president's handling of the pandemic saying absolutely i will take that call, biden was responding saying our teams will be in touch and they arranged a call but no word when that will take place. another critic of the president, adam schiff, he led the impeachment inquiry, calling for 9/11 soft piano, saying after pearl harbor and 9/11 we look at where we are wrong to learn from our room enter mistakes, once we recover we needed the better prepare for the next pandemic. i'm working on a built to do

that but it drew harsh response from devin nunes who said the russian collusion failed, and the fisa abuse fail, he's launching another dumb stunt operation. now we can also add adam schiff tweeted that he is calling for a national stay-at-home order. ainsley: we turn to washington, d.c. again at 830 eastern time because the weekly job numbers are going to come out, remember last week it was a big number, it was about 3.3 million, today's number, the analysts are saying it could be anywhere between three and 5 million and you will see that number coming up very shortly. let's bring in doctor marc siegel, we have been highlighting the story, a man out of orange county california who had to cope with last month

recovered and now has donated his plasma as a treatment in the amount of plasma he has been able to give could actually benefit three different people who currently have covid. there is the man right there. explain how this works and why people are optimistic. >> this is a terrific story, we have done that through diseases throughout the last couple hundreds of years, 1b and hepatitis b. before you have a vaccine, you are able to do something where you collect antibodies from someone who has recovered and infuse them into someone who is suffering severe illness. you can decrease the amount of symptoms that they have and save their lives, it is called passive immunity, it is not a vaccine, it is not a cure, you can imagine if you're on a ventilator read great risk, it's exactly what you need to do, as we develop more testing, we are

going to be able to figure out more and more people who had this who were exposed, who got over it, who developed antibodies and we see you are immune, we can use your plasma to help others with the antibodies were carried. ainsley: how long does it take once antibodies are infused into a patient in icu to see good results. >> that is a great question, that should be within a day or so, it is pretty dramatic. the antibodies work right away and you have to understand that this virus in your body is replicating, it is spreading, it is causing damage over time. so if you can hold to in its tracks and decrease the damage you will see an immediate effect. it will not be a cure because it's already done thanks to your lungs with hyper immune responses, 30 because the facts but you need to slow in its tracks, you can see the results within the first day. brian: germany is handing out

immunity certificates to get people back to work, maybe we can have the same tasks and we can go out there and help out the economy. the big challenge with this virus, some get in their lives are never the same or they are over, others have it, lose it and never know they were infected. the cdc has a study that shows 25% infected with coronavirus do not show any symptoms. does that never surprise you? >> not at all. i would add to that, another 25% have vague symptoms, the symptoms they think are allergies or cough or not feeling themselves. not a big fever, not a huge shortness of breath, that 25% i hear about all the time. and they are not diagnosed. so about half of the people who have covid-19 don't know that they have anything or think they have something else then there in the community and spreading it. which is why the other test you referred to is something i really want to see.

dr. birx talked about at the press conference, we want to give all of our healthcare workers the blood test and maybe into the community to see who has it, who is exposed, who is in wound in the immune people we can use their plasma at the point is, people that are immune are people that can walk around and people not exposed are people we want to keep safe. steve: the problem is a 25% who have it and do not know what because they do not have any symptoms and that's one of the reasons the mayor of los angeles said if you're going to leave your house, you have to put on a mask of some sort, not a medical grade mask, it could be a scarf as the president suggested yesterday to keep our first responder safe so if you're in the grocery store or something like that, if you've got it, you don't spread it to somebody whose job to take care of the people who are sick.

>> that's a great point, i completely agree, now that the virus has spread as much as a house in an evolving situation with so many people being out there that have it or were exposed to it, we don't know, we have to do things to protect ourselves more than we would've before. i want everybody that is in close quarters with other people to have a masks and to use it properly with nose between the mask in the face. let me tell you the point you're making, we don't want to take the mass away from her doctors and nurses in people on the front lines have the proper masks in the proper outfitting and then i will tell you, i want to use it more widely at that point. if you're walking down the street with it, i don't want you to be taking it away from the healthcare worker. ainsley: we have some e-mails from folks at home, this is from roxbury, i have asthma would have difficulty breathing how do i know if it dabs my or covid- covid-19. >> that is a great question, were getting all the time.

people with asthma concerned me because are more at risk or any lung condition are more at risk for complications of covid-19. i have them on my radar. but generally speaking, if you have shortness of breath from your asthma, you will have other symptoms with covid-19, at loss of sense of smell or taste, diarrhea, prominent dry cough, in addition to the shortness of breath. and you just don't feel like yourself or you have a fever or some chills, those are some symptoms we are seeing more commonly, just your asthma alone you may not be talking about covid-19 but i want you to be checked right away. brian: , this is from allison with a stay at home directive, is it okay to let the kids have socially distant bike rights with a friend through the neighborhood. it seems okay right? >> well, this one really gave me

a lot of pause and a lot of thinking because as you know i'm a cyclist and a mountain biker and it's the thing i want everybody but she to do. but if you let your kids in the neighborhood, your losing track of them, you're losing track of who they're touching, who they're interacting with. i like the idea in theory, maybe the parent should go along, i want the social distancing to be maintained at all cost and that means very limited interaction or no interaction, the best way to avoid catching the virus is to stay on your property and stay at home. i don't want people out of the view of adults and that kind of a situation. steve: so many people have been playing basketball in new york city that they decided to go ahead and close all of the parks. so that does not happen. meanwhile we have a question from dave, can the latex gloves the washes soap and water why still be worn as well as using sanitizer on them while still be

worn as well. what do you say to dave. >> another fantastic question from your producer, i will tell you that on the surface, the answer would be yes but a better answer -- yes because washing your gloves, you will wash off the virus and we talked about how soap kills the virus. , sanitizer kills the virus but we prefer that they change their gloves or not use them. gloves are not meant to be reused and used in different search engine situations. therefore specific search circumstances. if you're getting to the point where you're washing your gloves, your better changing to another part. ainsley: this is an e-mail from jamie with the deadline being extended, it is safe to say that we will not be returning to school until september. >> my kids are all on online school right now, it is actually going better than i expected. i don't want to make predictions about the future because i think the thing that is being brought

home is an evolving situation, were reacting, state home is very safe and smart right now, were extending into more and more states. i would not be optimistic if schools are going to reopen this year. it is possible but is becoming less likely because we have to unify public health and stamp down this virus, i would not rule it out but it's becoming unlikely. ainsley: can ask a follow-up, what about summer camps, many signed our kids up and pay the tuition, what do you think about that and what about the conventions. >> i've heard from the summer camp that i actually helped fight the swine flu in 2009, will we be open. the problem with pandemics, even though we are looking for seasonal change in dr. fauci has said this too, we expected to diminish as the weather gets hotter, there may not be enough immunity in the community to completely drop it off the

radar, it is too soon to say was going to happen with summer camps but these are great collecting grounds and very optimistic and great fun and great places, i would not rule them out yet but i would start to be thinking about maybe we will have to continue this into the early summer. the answer is, we don't know yet, i am hopeful that maybe they can reopen but i'm not there. i would not cancel your payment at this point but i'm not sure i can say they will be open. steve: , america your things to do list is on pause maybe for the summer. thank you so much. >> thank you guys. brian: i want to go over to julian, he has the world news. >> must begin with the fox news alert, according to pakistan overturning the death sentence and murder conviction for a man linked to the killing of an american journalist daniel pearl, he was reduced to seven years for kidnapping him into

thousand two. three others have also had their convictions tossed out. investigation by georgetown university says many of the men were wrongly convicted in claims the alleged mastermind of the 9/11 attack is the one who killed pearl. all eyes on iran after president trump reveals plans for a sneak attack on american troops. the president says if that happens, iran will pay a very heavy price. >> just giving them a warning, is not a heads up. i'm saying if you do anything to hurt our troops, they will pay a price. ainsley: around foreign minister saying don't be misled by usual war numbers again, they start no wars but teaches lessons to those who do. sources tell fox news that the u.s. believes iran back proxies were planning the attack. we will keep you updated when we get new information. an important reminder wife social distancing is so important. take a look at this, registered

nurse sharing a photo of his hand on his daughter separated by a glass door. this is the closest he is gone to his family and for weeks, he wants to keep them safe as he treats covid-19 patients. he shared the photos to remind americans about the sacrifice all of our healthcare workers are making right now. we would ask you to share how you are coping. take a look at this family, stephanie stewart and her husband are both nypd detectives, their coworkers tested positive for covid-19. to keep their young safe they are staying with her grandmother. keep sending us your pictures, visit fox news.com/america together for more inspiring messages. steve: we will get through this together apart. thank you very much. meanwhile straight ahead president trump launching a new narcotics operation to stop the

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>> the united states is launching enhanced counter narcotics operation in the western hemisphere to protect the american people from the deadly scorch of illegal narcotics. we must not let the drug cartels exploit the pandemic to threaten american lives.

brian: president trump unveiling a very interesting counterterrorist narcotics mission to fight the drug cartels exploit in the pandemic like they always exploit us to begin with. here is a guy right now who knows firsthand the challenges of working the border and stopping the drug folk fox news contributor and iced retired tom homan. about his career in law enforcement. tom homan still giving back to the country, through knowledge to us, congratulations on the book, what were you thinking yesterday when the president came on the middle of the pandemic saying we are still watching the border concerned about the volume of drugs crossing the border. >> i thought it was a great call, he is letting the world know we will still be on the border. it makes sense that the cartels, i said it many times in the show, when we have the surgical family unit, the cartels sends

large groups of family units in one sector so they can use their drugs and bad people to the other sector. there was a time when border patrol said 50 or 60% on the border. but now because the president has stopped illegal immigration on the southern border because of the pandemic, they will switch to maritime think they did in the early '80s with florida and the keys. they will smuggle through the caribbean, they will make their money so they have to find a way to do it. brian: in a way, they're doing it at the border, crackdowns, zero-tolerance, now commerce to go back and forth, that is mark morgan's job, how did that change the drug cartels calculus on when they should come across? >> as i said a minute ago, the border patrol does not have hundreds of thousand illegal immigrants there dealing with everyday especially the family units, and the family units, the border patrol making meals, changing diapers, making hospital rounds but now the president has stopped illegal immigration which is a great

move to begin with so now the border patrol can be more vigilant on the borders, the cartels cannot mask the smuggling between the ports of entry because they don't have any groups tying up the border patrol. that's why they are going through cargo which they boys done but a lot of cargo gets intercepted because it stopped at the port of entry or maritime which the president talked about yesterday saying they will start going back to the caribbean and smuggling maritime and the coast guard will get busier but the president made a great move yesterday by putting them on notice, they will not get away with it. steve: you talk about your career and in law enforcement, you talk about your days in law enforcement as a cop and nypd, what are your thoughts, we've lost five members of the nypd to this coronavirus, so many are testing positive, we don't have enough ppe for the nurses and doctors let alone the police officers, how do you tackle this challenge.

>> it is hard, i wrote a op-ed about this, the men and women in blue, the first responders that the police officers and the drivers in the border patrol agents, these people are on the frontline, they cannot quarantine, they cannot stay at home, they have a job to defend the nation. they have guns to the hip everyday and do the job and put their lives on the line every moment but here is a dangerous because of the covid. what is your answer, there is no answer, they will keep doing their job, they get infected they will get sick and keep doing it but they will not stop going to work because of the international crisis and condemn it, they will keep going to work, they will leave their homes and families every day to go to the job and possibly get infected and take it back to their families. this is why i dedicated this book to the minute woman of law enforcement, these are american heroes or patriots and what they're going through, every american in this country should salute them.

it is incredible what these men and women do every day for this nation. >> i was talking to jay johnson and he told me he is former homan secretary over president obama, he worked for several different presidents, now he works for president trump but you are about the country and that's what comes out in this book. >> i spent time writing this book so i want to educate the american people that illegal immigration is not an easy come, i cannot expand it when i testify on the hill but i use the eruption's. i want to expand to the american people there is an underbelly to illegal immigration, women are being raped, children are dying, cartels are getting rich, i do dedicate one chapter about president trump because i worked for six presidents, every president talks the talk but this president has walked the walk and he is a game changer when it came to illegal immigration, president trump was a game changer and i explained that in this book, he is doing a terrific job on the border and we need him for another four

years. brian: and 161 miles of wall are built. tom homan thank you so much and best of luck with the book, we will talk again. >> thank you, thank you for having me. brian: meanwhile as churches close in the pandemic, one church is keeping the faith and the social distance with driving services, the pastor joins us next.

come on jesus, jesus is being lifted up, hope is being lifted up. steve: as churches across the country close their doors during the pandemic, one church in oklahoma is keeping the faith in a new way with driving services, as you can see right there in the church parking lot, their outreach has also fed more than 50000 people with groceries and hot meals. here is the lead pastor of victory church in tulsa oklahoma. paul, good morning to you. it is a very innovative idea at

your church which i know has started by your parents. i hear that what you noticed is you are seeing and hearing from people who have never gone to your church before and now because they are looking for something, they say this is the perfect time to go. >> i have been telling our church, it's time for the church to leave the building, i have been saying that for years, when my dad died of cancer almost ten years ago there was hopelessness, description us in our church and i said the way that we will move forward is we have to go to the streets, the highways, the byways and share the love of god and the mission of our church in the mission of every church is love god, love people in desperate times calls for desperate measures, we started doing our driving services last week and we

started seeing so many unchurched people come into our parking lot in desperation saying i got laid off from work, i got reduced to my hours, i've not been a church in 20 years or i've never been to church in the coming term parking lot on getting help and hope, were giving them groceries and what is so amazing the city of tosa is rallying around, at first i was afraid, will we get in trouble and i called on mayor and her chief of police in our governor and i said we are helping thousands of people and i think we don't want to stop this, and they said you're absolutely right, you're an essential business and what you're doing for the poor in the city is exactly what our world needs to cope and help. steve: pastor, i heard that apparently some people have come up to you and bring you notes and saying i was so close to suicide but i heard your message and went to your church and also is available online. i know that you also said that when you're on the scissor lift, you cannot hear the people in the cars but when they started honking their horns you started

to cry. >> i lost it. i was up on that lift and i said if you need help tonight, give me a honk and the honks started going off in the parking lot, hundreds of honking of cars and later that night i got direct messages on instagram and people said i was losing hope, going to throw in the towel, when you talked about how you almost ended it when you're going through depression, part of my testimony, i walked through depression and anxiety and uncertainty and i talked to them about how the only place we can put our hope is not in the government, not in the law that's pass, not the president, our hope is in the name of jesus christ and so. steve: if people would like to watch your online stream, what is your website real quick. >> victory.com.

victory.com. steve: could not be easier than that. thank you very much. thank you and good luck to you. we have 25 minutes before the top of the hour. the fox news alert, the weekly jobless claims numbers are out and as you can see 6.648 million, that is a record right there, senator marco rubio shares the committee on small businesses and he will be joining us live next.

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ainsley: we are back with a fox news alert, weekly jobless claims soared to a record-breaking 6.6 million as the economy reels over the coronavirus. steve: that number is much higher than a communist had predicted, they were thinking between three tec 3 - 5000000 pe losing their jobs and strict measures to contain the disease of closed businesses and brought the country to a standstill and many parts. brian: this number equips the last weeks job claims were 3.3 filed for on appointment, let's bring in senator marco rubio. i know you work extremely hard especially when it goes a small business with a 2.2 trillion.

does this number represent the previous move by the employers to get rid of these employees and could they be brought back to get some of the money brought aside for them. >> it is a stunning number in it represents the people of lost their jobs all throughout last week which is what we were warning, can i say something else that was frightening everybody or freaking everyone out, the true number is much higher, we know for example there is probably no state in the country who has an on appointment system that is prepared to taken the vast volume of people that are trying to reach them, and florida and all over the country they are being overwhelmed, no system is set up for 50000 people to call in a day or reach them. the number is probably much higher than that, the true number and that's why there's a sense of urgency to get that bill passed and why we have such a sense of urgency to get the paycheck protection program up and running.

ainsley: senator, what's your recommendation to small business owners, i have a friend i was talking to her and she said she wanted to pay her employees, how do i get that money, we'd gone to the banks and the banks are not familiar with what were supposed to be doing, she's gone to the website and still has questions. >> the banks should be familiar by now, i would tell you my advice i give every small business, if you have an existing banking relationship especially with the larger national banks but it can be community bank as well, reach out to them immediately, i know last night all the various different large banks and the branches all over the country and a growing number of community banks are preparing to gear up

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ainsley: americans are coming together and sharing positivity amidst the pandemic, here to share heartwarming stomachs, fox news senior meteorologist janice. >> we have some great stories

today. ainsley: let's start in new york, what is happening. >> this is been happening for a number of days, 7:00 p.m. every night people are coming out on their balconies clap because we care, that is the # and they are clapping and banging pots and pans to show or healthcare workers and our first responders how much we appreciate them. we have been seeing this all over social media, to heartwarming and the thing that we can do altogether to show our appreciation. ainsley: they picked 7:00 p.m. because that shift changed, these nurses are working 12 hour shifts, what happened with assisted living facility in washington. >> this is spokane, washington, a residence there are saying this is what we want to do to trade for toilet paper, we will give you guys toilet paper if you give us these wishes, very heartwarming thing that they are doing at the nursing home. some of the people are holding up signs, all trade toilet paper for a perm, i will trade toilet

paper for a klondike bar. the good news, they'll have to trade anything, they are getting all of their wishes. ainsley: what about the pennsylvania neighborhood, the patriotic neighborhood. >> amazing. this is in pennsylvania where people are gathering at 9:00 a.m. but social distancing around the flagpole and saying the pledge of allegiance every single morning and also sam sing patriotic songs. a beautiful gesture. social distancing but america together. ainsley: that is so precious, then the police officer reading bedtime stories. >> yes detective, this is happening in greensburg, new york where this police officer is reading bedtime stories every night to the little citizens online and this is just another great gesture of going above and beyond the call of duty from our men and women in blue doing this for the littlest citizens. ainsley: we read your books at night and we love that book too,

the pigeon, the puppy in the pigeon books are so cute. how are you doing, how are your boys handling all of this. >> it has been tough, we just lost a grandparent a few days ago so we are trying to mourn but we are all coming together, the notes, messages from people at work like you, i'm very grateful, we are hanging in, america is going to the summer altogether. ainsley: we are remembering you, thank you so much. >> i love you babe. ainsley: i love you too. more fox and friends straight ahead. please visit coronavirus.gov for more information.