janice: every day we get up and i'm a teacher as well. i'm putting it on my resume home schooling here at the dean newman household. jillian: sounds great. i would love you as my teacher. rob: love to see you. janice: love you both. happy friday. steve: it is 6:00, friday, april 3rd. and straight to a fox news alert. the white house preparing to release nationwide recommendations for wearing cloth face masks as coronavirus cases grow across the united states of america. brian: it might just be in hot spots. comes as president trump slams 3 m after a whistleblower claims the company is selling medical masks to foreign countries. get that the n-59 masks are crucial for doctors and nurses on the coronavirus front lines. ainsley: covid-19 cases now topping 1 million worldwide. more than 245,000 patients are

here in the united states. the virus claiming more than 900 american lives in just the past 24 hours. washington, one of the hardest hit states now extending its stay at home order through may 4th. good morning, everyone. we are going to get you up to speed on all the numbers. what else happening down in washington. there is some good news. the administration saying you are going to get those checks deposited into your account within the next two weeks. the president tested negative for covid-19 again. and there is a vaccine, steve that is testing positive -- or is successful in these mice at the university of pittsburgh, which is great news for everyone. steve: that's right. also, the fact that this hydroxychloroquine seems to be the number one choice of doctors around the world in a brand new poll that we're going to be talking about with coming up on our program today we have got dr. mehmet oz. he sent this highlighted it to us early last night. also we have dr. nicol nicole sr

coming up and dr. also marc siegel and the number one authority in the country dr. anthony fauci live from d.c. and we're going to talk a little politics with house minority leader kevin mccarthy. so, we have a very busy friday, brian, that starts right now. brian: yeah, and some of the politics is just sickening and we are so tired of it. meanwhile democrats and house speaker nancy pelosi get this introducing a committee to oversee the coronavirus response in the middle of the response. griff jenkins is live in washington with reaction. griff, this will not help. griff: politics, surprise, surprise. house select committee on the coronavirus crisis. it is intended pro--to-preside oversight and empowered to examine all as

we need to put the onus on the governors to look at their states and make sure they are taking responsibility for their states and also call out their own spins stoppings spread of this illness. take responsibility for their

states. they know their citizens and what needs to be done. we still have hot spots in states that are rapidly increasing cases faster than they would expect. everyone thinks that new york city is the hot spot and that's the only one that's going to be but that's not true anywhere can be like new york city we are seeing right now. just a few weeks behind. brian: some of the governors that haven't done it yet, kaye i'vey the republican governor of alabama said i put down a marker last week affirming that we are not having an order to stay in place. we are not louisiana, we are not new york state and we are not california. >> look what's happening in the state right now. brian: make a blanket policy. louisiana is bad but alabama isn't. so, and missouri. >> alabama is starting to have increase in cases too. i agree that each state needs to do what's best for their state however, you are starting to see those cases increase and what's happening in louisiana is going to happen in alabama, too.

brian: let me follow up with that so here we are, we have done this for two and a half weeks now. dr. saphier. why isn't our curve bending? the people that were infected are infected. at the very least. wouldn't you think in theory the numbers should be going down? i don't think the going down yet. this virus itself has a long incubation period and prolonged space and you say we should be seeing numbers going down but we are seeing the numbers changing because of these mitigation efforts. you hear governor cuomo talk about all the time dr. birx talk about that the doubling time elongated. started out at 2 a while ago. now over 6, 7, meaning there are fewer people going into the hospital. but we are not going to see that decline for a few weeks. the people who are in the hospital right now were infected with this virus some seven to 21 to 28 days ago. those are weeks ago. we are seeing the elongation because of the efforts we have done in the last several weeks.

what we are doing right now, we are not going to seat results of that for another one to three weeks. have you got to give it some time. i tell you in the next one to three weeks. we are going to start seeing that down as long as we continue on the pat that we are on. when i'm saying that i mean that for new york city. other places in the united states right now such as california, they are doubling time is getting faster. we really need to keep a close eye on other places across the country. ainsley: when it comes to this wednesday we saw 1047 here and on thursday 111. that's gone down a little bit. what about this antibodies test. is that the same thing? it's approved by the fda. going to determine if you have had it or not the blood test. is that the thing as the serology test i'm reading about, too? >> a lot of people are getting confused because the verbiage kind of overlaps serology test meaning blood essentially is the blood test. they are looking for antibody in your body. that antibody says whether or

not have you already been exposed to this virus and your body's immune system has already kicked. in the leading theory right now is once have you had this infection that confers immunity meaning you probably can't get it again. and if you do you probably have less severe case with the illness. that's very different from that nasal swab which we have been doing which is actually looking for virus particles in itself. and the serology test, the blood test, looking for the antibodies is going to be approved and start getting it out there. the good thing about this is we can start doing it on our healthcare workers and the people who, you know, potentially can go back to work. we need to know who has immunity before we can start opening up businesses. we have to open up businesses. you know, ainsley, you touched on the fatality rate or people that are dying. one thing that is very important right now, is the fact that the people who go on ventilators studies all across the globe including the united states are showing less than 50% of the people who go on these ventilators are actually being discharged alive. a lot of people on the

ventilators are dying. and that is something that we have to tackle and that's why looking at these treatments from the serum antibodies to the hydroxychloroquine and azithromycin combination the antivirals like remdesivir are crucial because we need to avoid putting people on the ventilators not only because we have a shorter supply of ventilators because people are not surviving. and so we have to focus on these treatments. steve: yeah. well, dr. saphier, you have done such a good job explaining generally how everything is working people are watching and they have specific questions about their situations. we have an email from cindy. she says i work in grocery retail. and i have a family member who is at risk. what precautions should i take not to get the virus and bring it home because that is the big worry, isn't it? bringing it to somebody that never would suspect that you are the carrier.

>> cindy, you are on the front line in my opinion. you are there. you are continuing to help people get their food. you have a lot of interaction with people. i implore you to consider wearing a mask. but the important thing is to really make sure that there is a tight seal around your mask. because if it's just a loosely fitted or your nose is hanging out there, it's not doing you any good. because you are in such close contact with some people. i think it's in your best interest to wear a mask, make sure you are washing your hands a lot. maybe even 20 minutes. when you get home, change your clothes immediately, get in the shower and really wash off everything that you've come in contact with that day before you bring it into your home. brian: all right. let's go to another question. and this is from laura. how often should masks be changed? i guess the regular mask and the n-95. >> unfortunately, that's changing a little bit right now because of the short supply of them. typically we should only wear a

mask for one instance at a time. for a physician when we see a patient, we wear a mask and we throw it away. right now what we are doing is trying to keep one mask throughout the entire day. these are just surge masks. n-95 masks can last longer until they are visibly soiled on the outside. right now you try to use at least one mask a day. we like to put it out in the sunlight, the uv rays can help sanitize it. if you want, you can spray it down with a disinfectant but make sure that it's dry. even wait maybe 24 hours before you put it on your face. i do not want you inhaling those chemicals because that in itself can cause lung injury. brian: this was an email from cheryl. she says i want to plan for life after the virus. when can i host a baby shower? is mid may too soon? >> don't we all want to plan for life after this? i like thinking in the future. i like thinking of things that we're going to do. mid may may be just a little too

soon. especially if we're talking about a pregnant woman who is somewhat high risk. so i would just hold ooff on that. for me i'm planning things for after the summer. i do think we will get out and be able to do a lot of things during the summer, absolutely. but really, if you are planning any solidify that you want to invite people to, i would wait until after the summer months. brian: one day at a time. steve: dr. saphier, thank you for joining us. some people have questions. if you do, email us friends@foxnews.com. dr. saphier, thank you. it is 6:15 now here in the east coast, and jillian joins us from the fox news world headquarters with a look at what else is happening. jillian: that's right. good morning. today, the navy will finish evacuating sailors from the uss here to door roosevelt. comes after captain breath crozier relieved 6 his duty after writing a memo on the virus stricken ship. navy officials say he created unnecessary panic when resources were already on the way. >> the captain's actions made

his sailors, their families, and many in the public believe that his letter was the only reason help from our larger navy family was forthcoming which was hardly the case. jillian: more than 100 sailors on the nuclear aircraft carrier have tested positive for covid-19. the white house is expected to announce plans today to make direct payments to hospitals for uninsured coronavirus patients. some estimates say the average cost for uninsured patient could be more than $20,000. according to the census bureau, more than 27 million americans may be eninsured. the democratic national committee is postponing its national convention to august. frontrunner joe biden asked the party to delay the july's milwaukee convention over covid-19 concerns. but no postponing wisconsin's primary set for next week. a federal judge ruling against postponing it from april 7th. but voters will get an additional six days to return -- to turn in absentee ballots.

timothy cardinal dolland sending in heart felt support to officers during the pandemic. listen to. this they are telling all of us to stay put, to stay, in to stay secluded. not you men and women. you are out there. have you got to be with the folks, have you got to protect us believe me when i say i'm grateful to you. i love you more than ever. i respect you. i appreciate you. and i'm going to stay close to you. god bless. jillian: that's great. the y psd calls the message truly inspiring and that it is. back to you guys. brian: try to keep everyone on the streets and not sick. thanks a lot. appreciate it. the white house helping out the nypd yesterday with a whole bunch of material. mean while financial relief is on the way for america's small businesses with billions of dollars in aid available starting today. so will this put americans back to work? coming up next, hear from a

pizzeria owner forced to shut down half of his restaurants and plan to rebuild right after the break.

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nearly $350 billion in loans will be available to small businesses. loans up to 100 percent forgiven as long as employers keep paying their workers. steve: president trump announcing help is on the way as today for america's small businesses with billions and billions of dollars becoming available starting this morning. here to react we have got a small business owner of andolini's pizzeria mike barbarh

joins us. >> hi, steve. steve: tell us about your business. a month ago you had 11 restaurants tell us where you are now and if you have had to let people go. >> yes, we are down to five purely doing curbside and delivery. we did have to furlough about 150 employees overnight, disseminated overnight. that was a hard pill to swallow. steve: i can imagine. now, you know, with this paycheck protection program that officially gets started today, we're going to detail it and then get your reaction. about $350 billion is available starting today for companies with less than 500, which you would be eligible for. apparently you can apply for up to $10 million in loans or 2 and a half times your payroll. here's the key, mike. the loan will be forgiven if you are able to retain or hire more workers. so how are you going to take

advantage of this? >> well, we immediately jumped on filling out the loan and getting with the sba. it's not the easiest of processes. we understand why. nonetheless, we wish it was easier getting over20 documents together immediately so our bankers are fully prepared. so that that way, when everyone does come back to work, we can go back to status normal. and lieandolini's is our goal. it is going to be hard to get everybody back on payroll because some people -- it's a transient industry some people come back or move on for whatever reason. we want them to cock ba when it's safe or appropriate. also we want to do it as quickly as we can while still doing it safe. steve: yeah. you know, nobody saw this coming. you know, three months ago, six months ago. you built up a business with 11 pizzerias it must break your heart that you have had to furlough these people who not

only work for you but are your best friends. >> let me put it into perspective the word furlough or lay off has never been in my professional vocab buoy layer. it's not what we do. especially small businesses independent operators like myself. we love. this we love going out. getting people to have jobs. just making food for the culture. and without doing anything wrong, just overnight, you know, your legs are cut out from under you. the goal here is to fix it and we're very happy that congress and as a whole mobilize quickly but that was done on the federal level. this is a band-aid. this is a 68 week band-aid that will fix what we have going on right now. if it continues, we are going to need more from the states. because currently the states have just shut stuff down and done the safety measures. but the fed is what is taking care of us right now. and it's not going to be enough.

steve: well, you know, that's a dire suggestion if the situation does get worse. what about the people you have had to furlough. they get what's going on. but they understand your hands are tied because, you know, have you closed half your restaurants. the people aren't ordering a lot of to go food anymore, right? >> i -- especially for our staff, that knows us intimately, knows that we care about them. we could do a few things. and it breaks our heart. it truly does. so things we have done is make a staff fund of 20% of all gift cards we can sell. we have free food for our staff members. as well as a pantry that we have created. those are things that independents who truly do care about their staffs are doing across this nation. and we look to do these things so that we are still seeing ourselves here and there and touching base and making sure that they are taken care of. having to say to someone sorry we don't have a job for you anymore. again, when we were a thriving restaurant doing everything

well, it's just -- it it's an up sane proposition. steve: exit question. if i'm in the tulsa area how do i get one of your pizzas to help you go to ando pizza.com. order online. very easy to find in tulsa and we look forward to the day you come. steve: all right. well, good luck to you, mike. >> thank you very much. steve: all right. almost 6:30 here on the east coast. still to come, could recovered covid-19 patients hold the key to a potential cure? a doctor on the front lines shares his brand new findings coming up next.

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using plasma from patients who just recovered from the virus. joining us right now with his findings is hematologist and director for the director of cancer prevention and treatment at st. joseph's hospital dr.. what prompted you to go to the plasma treatment? >> good morning, brian. thanks for having me. so we have to consider this option for this patient who is very sick who happened to be a patient of mine. ended up on ventilator support. we have tried other options including hydroxychloroquine, azithromycin and efforts have not improved their condition. really had very little option to consider we happened to find a

plasma from a recovered person willing to donate. that's how it all started. brian: so that person donated. you gave this patient who is not in good condition the plasma. have you seen any change in their condition? >> he has gotten a little bit better in terms of his oxygenation setting. he was able to get off the nasal pressure to increase the blood pressure. he was able to stop that it's really too early to tell whether this treatment has been working. brian: doctors, how many days has it been since you gave him the plasma? >> we gave the plasma two days ago. brian: okay. so what -- when is the big turning point day where you think okay, if it doesn't work by now, it's not going to work?

what's the day? >> i honestly don't know. we are measuring his clinical parameters which would include blood pressure, his organ functions his -- setting. we are also following laboratory parameters such as inflammatory biomarkers to see inflammation in his body is surprises. brian: lastly, doctor, do you believe in this treatment? >> i think there are some evidence to suggest based on other pandemic, epidemic experiences dating back to spanish flu pandemic sars or mers epidemic. there is some evidence that this

kind of approach may work. we don't have a whole lot of data whether it's going to work in this particular virus, most recently chinese doctors have reported increasing outcome in a small group of patients. and others in this country were not the worst one but houston methodist hospital as well as couple of other hospitals in new york has tried it. brian: all right. so, what we're going to do is we'll track you and hopefully you will have some great news for us with this patient who had very few options dr. byun, thank you very much. >> thanks, brian. thanks for having me. brian: go to red cross if you want to donate plasma if you are somebody has he recovered from this and they can use your plasma to help others recover from their covid-19. new york city firefighters pulling right up to a hospital's front door saluting healthcare

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[sirens] steve: look at that. the fire department of new york salutes healthcare workers on the front lines of the coronavirus battle. brian. brian: yeah. you can see new york's bravest pack the streets elm hurst hospital in queens brutal there large number of coronavirus patients. at least 13 people have died over the last 24 hours. that was last week, too. ainsley: similar signs of gratitude are being seen at hospitals throughout the city and actually across the country.

let's bring in "fox & friends weekend" co-host and author of the upcoming book "american crusade pete hegseth. hey, pete. pete: good morning. good morning. ainsley: good morning. how about, this america banning together? pete: amazing to see. not surprising. think i can liken it to a military deployment having been on a few myself. you don't know when they are going to end. you are there with the guys you are with no matter what. and there is an enemy out there lurking and you ban together you find ways to draw strength from each other, and you have a share missioned. that's what america has right now a shared mission. we haven't in the past. and we.com play sent. that's when the grievances get deeper and petty. when all of that gets washed away able to remember the people doing the most important work and it's your nurses and your firefighters and police officers and all these people who are on the front lines for all of us. we are just rooting for them.

small ways we can tell their stories. that's what's so cool about america together on this channel we have a special on sunday night highlighting even more stories. we have to tell those stories to the people realize hey, there is light on the other side. steve: yeah. you know, pete, i was listening to governor murphy yesterday here in new jersey where you and i are situated. he told the story of some of the many new jersey citizens who have lost their battle to covid-19 and one of them was a firefighter. and you know that when a member of the fire fighting squad or the police loses their battle invariably gigantic turnout of firearm from throughout the area and surrounding states but because of the coronavirus they are not going to be able to have that until this is over. what they're suggesting instead is for companies in nearby areas to, if they have the time, drive their fire equipment past the

funeral home. pete: i saw a similar video of a woman who beat cancer and no one was able to be there in the final weeks and months of that fight. when she finally rung the bell and left the hospital she thought she was just driving home and instead the freeway was packed with people holding up signs cheering her all the way home, reminding her that while we are separate, man, we are close. and if that's the silver lining of this, that we remember family and friends and the time it takes to build relationships, that's a good thing. brian: right. absolutely. pete hegseth during the week wears the gel and keeps his hair a little tighter than on the weekends. learning more about you. and what it's like being in your hours and part of the hegseth school for higher learning where you have taken the little house on the prairie concept to where all grades and all ages go to the same schoolhouse and learn

the same curriculum. all right. let me hear some of the topics, pete, that you have been running through with your family. pete: we have been running through a bunch of them. this week we decided put a few on tape and sheraton fox nation. monday next week five episode at the hegseth school for higher learning and went back to the basics. they heard some of it already. they think they're smarty pants and had. so answers. it was the founding of america. politics 101 left vs. right, economics 101, socialism vs. capitalism. war and peace with a little bit more emphasis on war because my background. and american exceptionalism and so, listen, when you have to explain it to kids of different ages, they learn in different ways and have different types of questions. i believe we have a clip of me starting out one of those lectures a part of which will be airing on fox nation. here's a clip. >> drop and give me 10. >> we do have a rule in this

class drop and 10, you have to do 10 pushups. 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10. i will say this is the first time the structure has had to do pushups so far in the library lectures. usually pencils and notebooks only disincentive pushup rural if i have to use it. so far doing very well. that was not the right clip. [laughter] ainsley: what were you doing? pete: you have to maintain discipline in the classroom, of course. these monkeys are wiggling around their drop notebook or pencil you have to do 10 pushups one of these episodes i drop my marker and so i dropped down and did a few pushups. brian: any math or spelling is it all history? pete: no science. i will have to bring in a substitute teacher. i got nothing on those subjects.

i did at one point write capitalism is greater than socialism. that's the closest i got to math. ainsley: just make them read all of brian's books. brian: i got from that clip when is gym? steve: i was wondering where that steve penally painting with all the presidents went. i guess it went to your house. pete: it did. i did ask permission. i don't know that it was full on permission but steve penally said sure, all the presidents. jen may have been part of that. all there. i'm taking a moment like you are to give to my kids what i can't always give them. i know people are going through tough times. listen, we still do the regular schoolwork from their school in the morning and then in the afternoon we do that and a basketball camp or a football camp. so you can catch ton fox nation. hope folks enjoy it. brian: nice. ainsley: hosting fox nation. i know it's palm sunday this sunday. talk about what you are doing on fox nation for the faith

episode. pete: two things in particular. we have a holy week series which is four parts. the last days of jesus and we take you there to vivid imagery in jerusalem and around israel. there is also the third part of my battle in the holy land series. and we are talking about judea and samaria and the fight over the homeland and settlements and israel. very complex political environment and religious environment. we went back. i'm telling threw is a portion on one of these clips where we were caught in ryu mal ramallahe middle of a will riot. will battle in the holy land on sunday. a lot of things coming. battle in the holy land. holy week and hegseth school for higher learning all on fox nation. i think it's time to binge, guys. brian: on hegseth. ainsley: definitely. thanks, pete. you are doing a great job. 47 minutes after the top of the hour. some of you have been showing us how you are spending your quarantine time like one woman who is using the easter bunny to

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many have found creative ways to connect with our community. here to share stories "fox & friends" viewers across the nation. fox news headlines 24/7 reporter carley shimkus. carley: hey, ainsley. americans are stepping up and taking care of each other. all these glimmers of light across the country in this dark time. i love this first one from laura, one of our viewers all of these stories are emailed to us from "fox & friends" viewers. and laura has this easter display and she emailed us this picture that says week three of quarantine and home schooling in wisconsin thought we would try and improve neighborhood morale with this yard display hang in there and don't lose hope but emphasis on the hop. amazes thing, ainsley, it seems like there is a greater sense of community now in a lot of places, even though we are all apart from each other. and in my neighborhood we are doing the clapping for nurses and doctors. that's something that i have started to look forward to every single day. such a beautiful thing to

experience. ainsley: all doing it at 7:00 p.m. >> schumaker hospitals in the city you know those nurses and doctors are hearing it which is amazing. ainsley: that's awesome. what about shay. >> shay emailed this picture of his two grandsons and they are holding signs saying nanna and papa. he said this picture, this made him cry and that's so understandable even though those kids can't hug grandma and grandpa. they gave him the gift of time by doing that it's just so beautiful to see. i have seen a lot of other grand kids and parents do this for older people, so, keep this tradition going as well. ainsley: yeah. it's really tough for the little ones and grandparents. what about donna in maryland? >> donna sent. this reverse of that. older person making two younger feel special. my granddaughter needed much distant from day care provider. sign saying i miss you. how sweet is that?

ainsley: that is so great. you have an email from blythe in idaho? carley: my husband and i dancing for our granddaughter lark. she is so small. just like able to peek through and see grandma and grandpa dancing for her through the window. and this last one from joanne is so important as well. because, you know, those much needed masks, need to be made, and a lot of people are doing it in their own homes. this is joanne, keeping busy sewing masks for healthcare workers. so god bless her. she has the ability to s sew. she is a greater lady than i am. how amazing are those stories you? can find them on the fox news website. keep them coming because we all need to smile in this tough time? ainsley: absolutely. you know, our country is hurting and so many of us have heavy hearts. all of us have heavy hearts. seeing positive stories really sweet and going to keep us together even though we are apart.

carley: absolutely. thanks, ainsley. ainsley: you are welcome. more stories of people going the extra length to help one another deal with this pandemic and stay together as a country. can you find all of that at foxnews.com/america together and keep sending in those photos to friends@foxnews.com. we love to know that you are still there and getting through. this we will get through this. there is a lot of hope. palm sunday this sunday and then easter the next sunday. okay. it is 55 minutes after the top of the hour. and still ahead. dr. oz, house minority leader kevin mccarthy and we have dr. anthony fauci. we have some questions for all of them coming up. help is on the way. to support you during the current health situation... cvs pharmacy is now offering free one to two-day delivery of prescriptions and everyday essentials you need to stay well in the days ahead. visit cvs.com/delivery or call your local cvs pharmacy to learn more.

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brian: straight to a fox news alert. the white house preparing to release nationwide recommendations for wearing face masks as the coronavirus cases grow across the u.s., ainsley. ainsley: iit has now infected 1 million people worldwide. more than 245,000 patients are right here in the united states. the virus claiming more than 900 american lives in just 24 hours; steve. steve: meanwhile, washington, one of the hardest hit states in the pacific northwest now extending its stay at home order through may the 4th. welcome aboard, folks, it is friday, april 3rd, 2020. and once again we are doing our

show. it's split. ainsley, you mentioned that this sunday is going to be palm sunday. in the last week, a number -- and today is a friday in lent. and this last week a number of catholic bishops said because so many roman catholics have already sacrificed so much, they are giving them dispensation and they can eat meat on friday, which is, you know, i don't remember that in my entire life. there are some bishops though that are sayin saying they haveo draw the line on first friday you still must observe. that's out there for a lot of people who follow the catholic faith, brian. brian: and i was in good straits anyway i was going with the impossible burger which they claim, according to the menu not meat. meanwhile, coming up on this hour waiting in the wings just about ready, dr. oz will be with us live. i always look forward to those segments, feengsd out why that ship parked in ne harbor doesn't have any patients. has five patients.

dr. marc siegel is here has encouraging news. maybe best in the business, best in the world dr. anthony fauci on where we are at with this disease. what he said yesterday he wants all 50 states to have a stay at home stand in place order. kevin mccarthy outraged presidents politics coming into play with the speaker of the house and adam schiff and jack keane how does he feel about the uss teddy roosevelt firing out commander sending out mass commanders mass email how bad things were aboard that ship. stuart varner will be here trying to make sense of what will be the march job numbers coming out about 8:30 today eastern time, ainsley. ainsley: so many people have lost their jobs. the good news is those checks are going to start going out. the administration saying yesterday they will be in your account in about two weeks. they will put them right in there based on your social security number and your bank account information from your taxes. so that's great news. also, to piggy back on what you were saying, steve, this email is going around saying it is

palm sunday, so put a branch on your door of your house or in your window to celebrate palm sunday. it says we may be physically isolated but not separated. we are united as the body of christ. so many people go to church, obviously, on palm sunday and this sunday that won't be happening. if you want to remember the meaning behind easter and palm sunday, then just put one of those branches. it's a good project for your children. get your kids involved as well. 7:02 here on the east coast. alarming report claims distributers for an american company are selling in demand masks to foreign countries first. brian: unbelievable. ainsley: mark meredith is live at the white house with president trump's response. mark, tell us more. >> ainsley, good morning to you president trump is ordering minnesota based 3 m to produce more of those n-95 masks. no surprise that demand has skyrocketed. the white house appears to have an issue with 3 m and trying to

make sure that those masks end up in american hands. >> we anticipate issuing more orders under the defense production act in the very near future. in addition to the one that i just signed against 3 m for face masks. we have signed an element of the act against 3 m and hopefully they will be able to do what they are supposed to do 378 says said recent there had ramped up to production levels of the masks and doubled output. output is not ending up where it may be needed the most. >> the idea that an american company is selling masks away from our hospitals, away from our doctors, away from the real heroes on the front lines is something that will long be investigated after this but is really criminal. >> now 3 m tweeted yesterday as

this coronavirus briefing was getting started around 5:00. to say get critical supplies to front line workers we are working with partners to expedite distribution. this includes air shipping n-95 respirators to south dakota plant to areas in the u.s. where they are needed most. we may get another statement from 3 m later today. the president back on twitter himself wrote we hit 3 m hard today after seeing what they were doing with their masks. production act all the way. big surprise to many in government as to what they were doing, will have a big price to pay. as for the president, another busy day in washington ahead of the meeting with energy executives later on today. there is another briefing scheduled for 5:00 this afternoon. steve, ainsley and brian, back to you guys in new york. ainsley: all right. mark meredith live in lafayette square just across from the white house. thank you very much. meanwhile, it's the 7:00 hour. in the east, let's bring in dr. mehmet oz. host of the dr. oz show who has been with us every day during the pandemic.

doctor, it sounds as if the white house is on the verge of releasing information to encourage americans to wear cloth masks or face coverings, a bandanna,something when they are out and about. it's not to protect you necessarily from the coronavirus but keep people who have no symptoms from becoming spreaders at the grocery store and elsewhere. is this a good idea? >> i think it's a great idea. also reflects nimbleness in our government in the time of urgent decision making. i say that because usually it takes a while for the cdc and the task force and the different branches of the federal government to get together. this has been a longstanding belief that masks weren't necessary. culturally americans don't believe in masks. looks at folks in asia and scoff at the idea of putting a mask on. turns out the way that the covid-19 virus is spread is not what we initially expected. at least i didn't expect. it doesn't go deep into your lungs it comes in larger droplets and gets in the front of your nose and goes through like a key openings up doors and gets in there through little

cells in your nose. the idea of blocking those droplets with a mask begins to make sense. not as good as a surgical mask and that's not as good as a n-95 masks. as you pointed out we don't have enough of those. as long as you are thoughtful about the maverick. as long as you don't think it keeps you social distancing stop playing with all the time. facial coverings of khat. use ba bandannas, scarves. if you don't feel well or concerned you may be a spreader. you don't know who is. so everyone may end up especially when you come out of lock journey be urged appropriately to wear some kind of covering on their face. brian: all right. let's go to hydroxychloroquine, you have been talking about this drug and why isn't it not used with more prevalence? they did a survey. they talked to 30 different countries. 37% of physicians find hydroxychloroquine to be the most effective treatment for the coronavirus. that's pretty impressive. they go on to say it's only used

in 23% of the cases in the u.s. in spain in particular, 72% -- 72% of cases they use hydroxychloroquine in spain. the rest of the world seems impressed by. this we are not using it in great volume. why is that? >> i think we are still getting comfortable with the data. number one solution used by physicians. now, we don't know for sure how effective it's going to be. we have one randomized trial that's positive. one negative. we have a bunch of data collected. i just got a note this morning from the french almost up to 1,000 patients now. he is going to share that with us next week on the show. it's coming in quickly and generally speaking, seems to be safe. first thing you want to assess. american physicians desire large randomized trials. i will tell you, you have dr. fauci coming on. if you could ask a question for him for me, i wonder if he was

impressed or what his thoughts are about the chinese study we discussed yesterday from wuhan that reflected significantly improvement from recovery from fever and cough and pneumonia as well. the three things you sort of want to see in a randomized trial. admittedly it was small. actually that might be an asset. if it only took 62 patients to show significantly significant benefit which means it wasn't just a random chance. that reflects a pretty powerful solution. it's still early. we need more done. since we are marching into war it could be work with this army and wring them along. ainsley: dr. oz, with so many people infected in new york there were reports that governors were not awill youing this unless had you lupus or unless you had arthritis and you really needed it. what's the status on that now? are governors releasing that and now allowing doctors to write the script? >> there were three states that had issues. michigan and nevada have rescinded the orders. and they decided to allow

doctors to practice medicine and advise patients as they feel most appropriate. recognizing how difficult a decision it is right now. in new york state we are still not allowed to prescribe hydroxychloroquine for patients who are covid-19 positive. you have to go to the hospital, actually, you have to be admitted, i think, to get the medication. you can't do clinical trials either outside of whatever state mandated efforts are out there. those aren't clear to us. i have been searching for 10 days now and i have asked all these people who should know. no one seems to know about what these clinical trials might look like or be. i'm not quite sure how i can refer patients into the trials so we can quickly get a lot of patients and learn from their experience whether these meds work or not. i'm all for being careful about these meds, people are lupus and rheumatoid arthritis don't want to run out of these meds. fascinating the chinese say in their experience patients taking these medications don't take covid-19. it may be prophylactic. we are study that as well colombia.

but we have to get access to the med. steve: sounds like the we are catching up with the rest of the world regarding. this it sounds as if we have been talking about different companies looking for a vehicle seevaccineearlier in the week. johnson and johnson had a potential vaccine they were going to start trials with nut month of as i want. dr. oz, it sounds like the university of pittsburgh also may now have found a vaccine. >> this group had been working on the sars virus in 2002. they understood this thing about the spike protein which is how the virus penetrates through receptors in our cells. they jump stuart add new initiative learning from what they had done before that accelerated the program. it's a great idea. very different approach and they both have advantages and disadvantages. you want multiple companies developing tactics. the idea in pittsburgh you put basically gum in the mechanism.

the key that unlocks those doors of our nose cells that i mentioned earlier that let's the virus, you guck it up. put gum in it so it doesn't work so well. that approach could work. so could some of the other ones have. a bunch of vaccine companies working. we need federal support. you have to take the risk out of these cups. you should be funding aggressive initiatives in order to develop the fastest vaccine possible. i still think we are at least a year away from a vaccine which means we need better treatment on the ground like other countries are mandating protocols who are to you to best manage patients we need that here as well. brian: the country cannot wait a year. it's going to be some type of treatment or remedy. email pouring in questions for you. one from fe. dr. oz, will states in the smaller number of coronavirus cases be open for business sooner than those states with higher number of cases? now, you can't set policy, but would you recommend that? >> i have been speaking with

members of the task force. i had dr. berks on yesterday. i think they are thinking that idea is good. can you do experimentation. go to a state not a lot of coronavirus covid-19 patients and begin to aggressively monitor them. as soon as one person comes in, which will happen. then you quickly contain that infection by getting all their contacts like other countries that have been successful, germany, south korea have done very carefully. if it works figure it out. right detectives and technology tools to identify and contain coronavirus spread it will make it more comfortable to open up other states with more you are began density. new york city is not going to do it. you know, the tristate area here is far far away from that concept. if did you go to west virginia or other rural states, it might make sense just to go there first and try it out. ainsley: i heard south korea the reason their numbers were low is because they were -- every time someone even tried to go into the office or grocery store had you to have your temperature taken but it's hard to get thermometers now. this is email from norma. i became ill last week with high temperature, cough, joint pain,

i'm feeling much better now. how long should i self-quarantine? >> you are generally sick for either -- i should say you have to meet all these criteria. you can't have had a fever for three days. you can't have had a cough for three days. whatever your symptoms were and then have to be at least a week from when the whole thing started. that he was the minimum before can you start interacting with other people. the data we have supports that virus load gone down low enough that you are not infectious. steve: okay. good to know. we have got another question for you, dr. oz from, priscilla. she writes i have heard the patients with type a blood are more likely to have coronavirus very badly. and patients with o type of blood do not appear to be as stricken as bad with the disease. is that true? do we know enough about that yet? >> it appears to be true. we're not sure why. there are very clear genetic differences the ones between men and women as well.

women seem to get sicker, men seem to die more. blood type a and o. for reasons we are not clear on. type o folks seem a bit more spared from covid-19. i'm sure we will identify over time that locking key mechanism is different or some other genetic ability to block the virus without overdoing it is probably going to be the key. and some bodies do it better than others genetically. brian: dr. oz, can't thank you enough. appreciate these visits. >> thanks, my friends. brian: you got it. meanwhile, i always appreciate when jillian mele scrambles to put together a newscast a news update for us. i often time take notes. hey, jillian. jillian: i appreciate when you toss to me. good to see the three of you. mills you guys. get you started with this story we are following. today the navy will finish evacuating sailors from the uss hertheodore roosevelt. bret crozier was relieved of his duties after writing a memo

pleading for the help on the ship. he created unnecessary panic when resources were already on the way. >> the captain's actions made his sailors, their families, and many in the public believe that his letter was the only reason help from our larger navy family was forthcoming, which was hardly the case. jillian: more than 100 sailors on the nuclear aircraft carrier have tested positive for covid-19. the department of health and human services distributes more than 190,000 masks from a man suspected of hoarding medical supplies. he is accused of selling the n-95 masks to healthcare workers in new york at as much as 700 percent markup. the fbi says if he would heim coughed on agents saying he had the coronavirus and they arrested him earlier this week. crenshaw queeght remember when

you were vp and lived through h1n1 and ebola. you could have added more personal protective equipment to stock miles but you didn't. these kind of comments add nothing. called out senior advisor valerie jarrett. she claims the obama administration would have handled the crisis better. teens giving neighbors a daily reminder that we are all in this together. ♪ ainsley: every day at noon, the boys play the national anthem. neighbors come together with hands over their hearts while social distancing, of course. we have more stories like this on our website plus information on how you can help. head to foxnews.com,/america together. we would also like to see how you are coping. send us your pictures with the #america together or email us at friends@foxnews.com. send it back to you. ainsley: i love that last story

because they are youngsters, teenagers. that's great. doing some good things. jillian: absolutely. ainsley: thanks so much, jillian. nancy pelosi creating an oversight committee for the trump administration's coronavirus response. house minority leader kevin mccarthy is going to weigh in on that coming up next. is changing things up.

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>> the reason i announced this house select committee to address the corona -- crisis, so we can end the hear and now address as we go forward with transparency and accountability. steve: house speaker nancy pelosi launching an oversight

committee with subpoena power to oversee the trump administration's response to covid-19. here with reaction is house minority leader kevin mccarthy. he joins us from capitol hill. leader, isn't that what congress is supposed to do? aren't they supposed to provide oversight to the administration? >> yes. and we are all providing that think for one moment you have the oversight committee that that's all they focus upon. in the last bill that we just passed the cares act we created three new oversight entities, right in the pandemic oversight, that is a set-up of inspector generals gwinn fine is running that individual appointed by the president, confirmed by the senate and actually created a congressional oversight is that is appointed by all the leaders from schumer to mcconnell to pelosi and myself. is redundant. but what's most telling here is who she appointed. she didn't go with the oversight committee chair, her own. she appointed clyburn.

remember what clyburn said that her majority whip. he said this is the time to restructure into their vision government. this isn't about oversight. sounds like pure politics. really the speaker should be focused on what we need to deliver to the american public let's take care of the crisis at hand right now. we have five different oversights already looking at this. and this is what she comes up with? we need to implement the trillions of dollars that we just said that we passed. let's get it to small business. let's get people continuing to work. let's make sure we get that 140 billion out to the hospitals who actually need it. our modern day soldiers in the medical community. steve: yeah. you know, it sounds like there are a number of democrats, including speaker pelosi who is already talking about phase 4. we have just gotten phase 3 started right now. when you listen to some of her -- some of her agenda items regarding phase 4. it does sound like it's a lot of

what the democrats proposed in january. the only difference is now they have added money for hospitals and community clinics. right? >> what she is proposing is the things she was denied in the last bill. things that had nothing to do with coronavirus. the green new deal. changing election law. bailing out states on pensions that were spent incorrectly. providing more money to sanctuary cities. everything that doesn't deal with the coronavirus, planned parenthood, these are the things that why she held this bill up for more than four days. i mean, already be implemented today. we would be talking about how we are getting the money out had she not held the bill up earlier. steve: you know, since phase 3 is now underway and it sounds like some people are going to wind up getting checks as early as next week. as a former small business owner yourself, you know, i think you started a business when you are about 20 years old, how important is it for people who

are finding these times so challenging with their small business that they get on the website and start the process of getting the money that is out there for them today? >> this is the most important thing to do. this bill does a number of things. what it does with small business is important. if you are a sole proprietor. a small business where i was when i was 20 years old. government has shut you down to most of those small businesses so you have no income. we want to provide you liquidity. it's only a two page form that you have to fill out. it's out there. go to my twitter page, i will have it up there. gop leader to be able to send it to you. what do is pay your employee he is and pay your rent and pay your utilities, that's no longer a loan. a portion of that is a grant. we want to keep people working. we want to supply you the resource. if you are a larger business we will secure a loan and give you retention tax credit to pay for half of your employees. individuals will get a check directly to them if they are making $99,000 or less and hospitals get resources that's

what the cares act did. that's what we should be focused on making sure we are implementing instead of looking at some other bill or some other oversight we just instatued three new oversight committees to oversee this. steve: speaking of oversight will help save lives and taxpayer dollars in realtime not after it's too late to make a difference and that's something everyone should welcome. your response to that? >> that's just not true. halls she not learned from the impeachment and maybe that's what she is thinking about here. you cannot create a new select committee without congress voting. i'm here because i'm meeting with the president today. but nobody is here in washington. when will we come back and vote on this? it would be too late. that's why in the cares act we implemented three new oversight entities within there that she has an appointment. to say but we already have the oversight committee only to focus on this and we also have every single committee has an

oversight subcommittee. it seems to me this is just politics as usual instead of focused on the crisis that we need to be today delivering for the american public. making sure we are getting the resources to them. steve: well, kevin mccarthy standing alone on capitol hill. thank you very much. >> thank you. steve: good to hear from you regarding all these things in the news. thank you, sir. 7:27 here on the east coast. country music star john rich brought us a livestream concert on fox nation last week. now he is back for an encore tonight. is he bringing big kenny with him. that's going to be great. country music duo big and rich join us live with a preview after a time-out. ♪ my patients

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♪ stay home ♪ stay home ♪ no reason in the world for you to roam ♪ we're all in this together ♪ no, friend, you ain't alone ♪ all you got to do is stay home ♪ brian: all right. last friday country music star john rich encouraged us all to stay home by bringing a livestreaming concert straight into our living rooms fox nation. tonight he is doing it all over again this time with the big money guy big kenny here with a preview big kenny live from nashville. kenny. good job. nice hat. are you pumped up for tonight? [laughter] >> yeah. absolutely. absolutely. how are you doing, brian? brian: i'm doing great, kenny. last time we saw you were helping out when you guys got -- nashville just got slammed by

that hurricane -- by the tornado, excuse me. and then you guys recovering and then the whole country gets hit with this with hundred thousand cases and 44 deaths. what do you plan on doing tonight with stay home? >> well, plan on trying to get the word out to everybody. everywhere that the best thing that we can do right now is stay home, stay wherever we are. not collecting big groups of people and not spread this thing any further. we need to stop it right where it is so that we can get on with our lives later on this year. so, you know, it's crazy how this thing got written. you know, we had just gotten a note from the governor's office wanting us all to do psas for him, telling everybody to stay home. i'm reading this note as i'm walking from my studio into the house. all of a sudden my phone rings and there is john on the phone going listen to this. and he had just basically written the psa stay home, stay home.

friends, no need for you to roam, we are all in this together, no friends are alone. all you got to do is stay home. this is like the perfect public psa announcement for our times put into song. and we will gladly play it for everyone tonight. brian: that will be great. the way it comes together. what was fascinating about it because i know i can't do it write a song. he gets an idea. he calls larry gatlin and calls his buddy t.j. mcdaniel put something together and run it by you and you say we have got to record it. that's what happens. they create a process not in person via the phone. >> yep. that's how it happened. that's how it happened. brian: so. what -- tonight it's going on fox nation live at 8:00. post so people can get it. how hard has it been for imarns? i mean your audience is gone. the collaboration is not possible. what do you do with those

creative juices? are you using that time to plot and plan what you will do when you get out? is it possible to be creative when you are locked down like this? >> absolutely. i mean, the real shame of this is that we aren't all able to do what we do which is travel around the country the world and perform and it's definitely putting a crimp in our business for this year. but, you know, as far as the creativity goes, as far as the work goes, you know, i find this is a time to just hunker down and get things done that you have been putting off for a while or, you know, all the piddle ling you need to do maintenance you need to do around your house, your yard. i think just staying busy brings the creativity and keeps the creativity coming. so, you know, for us as artists. i see folks other artists out there constantly, you know, posting new creativity and new songs and new things that they are doing. so i think everyone is finding a

way to spend their time productively. brian: last question real quick. will you guys be together tonight? >> well, i guess we got to figure that one out, brian. i know this social distancing thing and, you know, just got to keep that distance real good. but, you know, i'm thinking -- i first thought we were going to be trying to do it from two different locations. i haven't heard the entire technical aspect for how this is going down yet, brother. brian: i think you got six feet between you and maybe we will get a spit shield piece of fiberglass or plexiglass to make sure you are both safe or take some tests before you go. john rich, shot went down right before we went on. big kenny privilege to talk to you. >> john didn't oversleep again. brian: i am covering for it now you blew it the whole country knows. >> brian, he has got to get that

beauty rest. brian: i know you are too pretty and he isn't. big kenny, thanks so much. livestream tonight at 8:00 only on the fox nation app. thanks, guys. meanwhile, coming up straight ahead as we move ahead. if you want a chance to be included in the stay at home music video, send your clips to stay home video at gmail.com so john rich and big kenny will make even more famous. coming up on our show next. we have information how can you help plus more stories of people going to extra lengths to help each other through this pandemic. find all that on foxnews.com/america together back in a moment. so roll up those sleeves. and help heal your skin from within with dupixent. dupixent is the first treatment of its kind that continuously treats moderate-to-severe eczema, or atopic dermatitis, even between flare ups.

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the fed will be giving out. good morning to you, edward. >> good morning, ainsley. we are waiting for the labor numbers actually in less than an hour. really those numbers won't show the truex tent of the economic damage because they measure the first two weeks of march. we know the second two weeks of march we had 10 million new people file unemployment claims. as for those loans, those are active right now. in fact, those loans are retroactive back to february 15th. that means that small business can actually go back and rehire the people they let go of. any company under 500 people can borrow two and a half times the monthly payroll. up to $10 million. the loans will be at interest of 1% with payments deferred for six months. however, if a small business does not reduce the average payroll by more than 25% during those 8 weeks of the loan, it's forgiven. now, the money can be used for payroll it. can be used to pay lease, rent, or mortgage, also utilities. >> these loans are up to 100 percent forgiven as long as employers keep paying their

workers. >> any fdic institution will be able to do. this any credit union, existing sba learned and finn tech learned. >> application paired down so they can fill out the application and get the money the same day. as for direct check informs americans, those will be sent out as we first crorted on fox business network early next week. april 17th is the date that the irs is shooting for and most eligible americans don't have to do anything to get it. back to you guys. brian: all right. thanks so much. we will follow up on all that personal finance stuff. meanwhile, recovered covid-19 patients answering the call to donate plasma to potentially help those currently fighting the virus. now, one of those doctors experimenting with the new treatment joined us earlier on his findings. >> i think there are some evidence to suggest based on other pandemic, epidemic experiences dating back to the

chinese pandemic, sars and mers epidemic. there is some evidence that this kind of approach may work. steve: here to discuss we have fox news medical contributor. he is joining us every day. dr. marc siegel. dr. siegel, good morning to you. you know, we have been talking a little bit. >> good morning. steve: about this how after you have recovered from covid -- good morning. you go ahead and you go back to the hospital to, i think there are 36 hospitals and clinics that are involved in this particular project to see whether or not these antibodies from somebody who has recovered can actually help somebody suffering from covid. explain how it works. >> steve, it's called the national convalescent plasma project. covid-19. it's in 34 different medical centers around the country. it's led by dr. arturo cass so he deval ohio trained with at

nyu back in the day. one of the top infectious disease specialists in the country. this idea of doing. this taking a patient who has recovered from a disease in this case covid-19 taking their plasma and use the antibodies to fight the infection in someone very sick very promising been used throughout history. as your next guest said. do you know when it started? it actually started in the late 1800s to fight diphtheria and tetanus. it went on to be used for measles, for polio, for pneumonia, before we had antibiotics, before we had vaccines. it was extremely useful. and looks very, very good now. five patients have already received it in new york and houston and have shown dramatic effects. it's amazing about people come together, bringing their plasma, bringing their recovered antibodies and using it to help others. what's missing still is a test to prove that you are immune. that's where we are heading.

we need to see that antibody test so we know you are immune and absolutely positive that your plasma will work. ainsley: how close are we to finding that test or getting that test and distributing it out to people to find out if we are immune? >> that's an excellent question, ainsley. i spoke to admiral about that on the president's task force yesterday who is in charge for testing for hhs. what he pointed out is we are there. we have the antibody test. they are coming out. starting to get approved one called cell x approved under emergency usage yesterday. universities are putting out antibody tests. what he said is we need a consistent rapid point of care test where we know that we can be sure that there is immunity, where he thinks we are about a couple weeks a way. a week or two away from that point where can you literally have point of care. do a finger republican. get blood. have it tested on the spot and know if you are immune or whether you have been exposed. he thinks we are only a couple

weeks away from that. brian: all right. dr. siegel, thanks so much. providing some hope there. the immunotherapy will be our ticket back to work. meanwhile, let's go out to jillian mele. thanks, doctor -- who is poised to give us the rest of the news. you. jillian: we begin with this story overnight former campaign staffers said mike bloomberg made promises he could not keep. a regional director is now speaking out claiming workers were guaranteed jobs through the november election but that didn't happen. that director claims, quote: mike borrowed my credibility and abused it in that moment since he also made job guarantees when hiring staff. about 80 people are involved in class action lawsuits. bloomberg's campaign manager says they have reached out to organizing staffers about working with the dnc. workers will protest today at the very same hospital system where this photo went viral. you see it here showing nurses wearing trash bags. since the photo was taken employees at mount sinai in new

york say they have gotten proper equipment but today's demonstration will address concerns about the splice. similar protests were planned at at least 15 hospitals across six states this week. timothy cardinal dolan sending a heart felt message of support to the nypd as officers protect the city during the pandemic. listen to this. >> they are telling us all to stay put to stay in to stay secluded. not you men and women. you are out there. you have got to be with the folks and protect us. believe me when i say i'm grateful to you. i love you more than ever. i respect you. i appreciate you. and i'm going to stay close to you. god bless. jillian: i think we all share that we are grateful. the nypd calls the message truly inspiring. that's a look at your headlines. send it back to you. steve: very nice. all right. jillian, thank you very much. meanwhile, heroes thanking heroes. firefighters saluting healthcare workers on the front lines of

the fight against covid-19. [cheers] steve: this is very personal for janice dean. her husband is a firefighter and she joins us live with some more positive stories on this friday. that's next. [cheers]

ainsley: during these hard times in our country, americans are coming together to share pot of during this pandemic. back with heart-warming stories senior meteorologist janice dean. hi, janice. janice: hi, happy friday. ainsley: you too. the patriots are living up to their name, aren't they? janice: we are all patriot fans this morning because yesterday, on the patriot's plane, n-95 masks, 1.2 million of them came home to the u.s. from china courtesy of robert kraft who is the owner of the patriots and governor charlie baker. so they around for 1.2 million masks to be transported to the u.s. for our healthcare workers. not only that but robert kraft ensured that 300,000 masks, additional masks will go to new york state and they're arriving in new york today. we are all patriots fans. this is america coming together

at its finest. ainsley: that's amazing. that's great. what about this dog named sundance? janice: sundance is amaze ago story out of colorado. 71-year-old renee helmand has been indoors quawrn teensd over the last couple of weeks. she can't go out to get other groceries so sundance's owner karen who has been the neighbor for 10 years has trained sundance to deliver groceries to the next door neighbor renee, not only that but she is also going to get her mail and bringing it to her. so that is just an amazing story of you who wonderful our dogs are. ainsley: that's awesome. what about this story out of new york? i know this is near and dear to your heart. your husband is a firefighter. janice: i saw this yesterday, ainsley. and i have to admit that it brought me to tears. fdny were gathered around mooring side heights lower manhattan, near mount sinai they applauded and cheered for our

healthcare workers that were coming out of their shift. they lined up in a row and someone caught this video. just heroes saluting heroes and helping others during this time of crisis. it's, you know, it brought tears to my eyes as i'm sure it's doing for all of our at home viewers wonderful story of fdny members just appreciating our staff that are also helping in our healthcare worker environment. ainsley: that's so awesome. a lot of people are doing this hanging out of their windows, cheering from their driveways 7:00. >> 7:00 p.m. that's when the shifts change nurses work from 7:00 to 7:00. they are all working tirelessly, 12 hour shifts every day. janice: absolutely. they are the ones that are going out there amidst the social distancing and they are the true heros in this our first responders and healthcare workers working tirelessly in some cases not getting a day off. we thank you and we thank you for from the bottom of our hearts and this is the way we share it.

ainsley: like cardinal dolan saying we are told we have to stay home or quarantine and not supposed to go out or social distance they are on the front lines. that's why it makes us feel guilty. do our part. thank you. janice: they do it out of their responsibility and the goodness of their heart. they are serving hearts. ainsley: they are amazing. thanks so much, janice. janice: love you. ainsley: love you, too. four minutes before the top of the hour still ahead anthony fauci, geraldo, jack keane stuart varney and justin moore is going to perform. ...

ainsley: straight to a fox news alert the white house preparing to release nationwide recommendations for wearing those face masks as coronavirus cases grow across the u.s.. steve: this comes as president trump slams 3m after a whistleblower claims the company is selling medical masks to other countries. the n 95 masks are crucial for doctors and nurses on the coronavirus frontlines and we do not have enough of them here in the united states, brian brian: that is criminal. meanwhile, covid-19 we got about 100 million patients worldwide, 245,000 patients are in the u.s. and the virus claiming more than 900 lives in the u.s. in just 24 hours, worst day of death yesterday took place on thursday. washington one of the hardest hit states now extending its stay at home through may 4 but

there is positive signs there. ainsley: let's bring in dr. fauci the director of national institute of allergy infectious diseases and member of the white house coronavirus task force, dr. fauci great to see you thank you for being with us i know you're probably exhausted. let's start with the face mask topic because cdc is advising all americans now to wear a cloth mask but not the surgical masks save those for the healthcare officials. why the change now? most of us have not been wearing a mask because that was the original recommendation. >> we have to make sure we don't forget the most important thing is to keep the six foot physical distance from individuals but its become clear that even when you try to do that, with certain necessities of life, going out to get food, or going to a pharmacy to get your medications you may come into closer contact. because of that and because of some recent information, that

the virus can actually be spread even when people just speak as opposed to coughing and sneezing, the better part of that is when you're out and you can't maintain that six foot distance, to wear some sort of facial covering. the important point to emphasize though is that that should in no way ever takeaway from the availability of macheteses that are needed for the healthcare providers who are in real and present danger of getting infected from the people they are taking care of. so this is an addendum and an addition to the physical separation. not as a substitute for it. steve: all right, dr. fauci, there was a worldwide study made of 6,000 doctors in 30 different countries, and the final percentage was 37% of the doctors said that hydroxy.

>> laura: o quinn was the most effective treatment against covid-19. here in the united states right now only about 23% of the doctors prescribe it which is far less than other countries , and we had dr. oz on just one hour ago, and he actually was taking about this story, and dr. oz, dr. fauci, has this question to you, about the study. >> i wonder if he was impressed or what his thoughts are about the chinese study that we discussed yesterday from wuhan that reflected statistically significant improvement in recovery from fever, from cough, and in pneumonia as well. >> yeah, you want my response to that? steve: so there you go. >> yeah, so that was not a very robust study. it is still possible there was a beneficial effect but the study just quoted on a scale of strength of evidence that's not

overwhelmingly strong. it's an indication, a hint of it but getting back to what you said just a moment ago that if they could fit 37% of doctors feel that it's beneficial, we don't operate on how you feel. we operate on what evidence is, and data is, so although there is some suggestion with the study that was just mentioned by dr. oz, granted there is a suggestion that there's a benefit i think we have to be careful that we don't make that leap to assume this is a knockout drug. we still need to do the kinds of studies that prove that not just this one, but any intervention is truly safe and effective, but when you don't have that information it's understandable and i grant that it's understandable why people may want to take something anyway

even with the slightest hint of it being effective and i have no problem with that. brian: 75% of everyone in spain is taking it with success and the french and the chinese and the doctors are taking it there's a lot of positive things i'd be curious if anyone is taking this for arthritis has gotten it because of the coronavirus but let's talk about some way to get , do you want to respond to that? >> no, i mean, obviously this is a good drug in many respects for some of the diseases you mentioned and the one thing that we don't want to happen is that individuals who really need a drug with a proven indication don't have it a vail available but i can't escape to you getting back you said 75% of doctors think that it works. we don't really care what 75% think it works. that's not the issue. brian: no, no, i should clarify because i said spain, 72% of the

doctors in spain are prescribing it. >> okay, good. well that's fine. ainsley: dr. fauci when it comes to that drug, we're hearing different reports, i'm hearing we're getting millions of these from israel and then i'm hearing some of these governors are not allowing doctors to write those prescriptions because they want to save them for those patients, the lupus and the arthritis patients. can the president say, i know there's a fight between the president and some of these democratic leaders, president wants states to decide, democratic leaders want him to come out with the requirements for the entire country. is there some, i'm just wondering if that drug is available, if we do have enough of those drugs, why aren't we giving that to people in new york that are so hit hard here and people are dying. >> well first of all, this is an approved drug for another

indication and doctors can and the fda has made it very clear that doctors can prescribe it on what we call off label. there's no inhibition for that so a considerable amount of drug was made available as you remember just a few days ago but the fda was very clear that they're not going to be inhibiting anyone from doing an off label prescription of the drug so they're free to do that if they want to. steve: dr. fauci let's talk a little bit about this , obviously and nobody knows better than you our frontline defense right now is our healthcare workers and a lot have become infected and the question becomes when can we send them back to work to go back to this , to fighting this evil enemy, and that's why when the fda has now approved an antibody test that's going to be helpful in getting them back to work. can you explain for the rest of us how it's going to work? >> well, an antibody test is

not a test for the virus itself. it a test for the response that you make to the virus in other words what's the bodies natural response to the virus, so if an individual has an antibody response, that is robust that having recovered that's an indication that someone is actually now protected and almost certainly would not be transmitting but you've got to be careful because there's going to be an overlap someone still mesas they develop an antibody response, still be able to secrete virus, unlinely because of the antibody response gets better and better, it's the press of the virus. what really is is a way to determine out there, those who have been infected and those who are now presumably and almost certainly likely now protected themselves from reinfected and also won't infect anybody else, so it's a test that we're trying to get out there as quickly as possible. brian: dr. fauci we have to find out how this disease

started, and it's believed we could say this , from the wet markets in china, are you calling because this is the second major disease that's poisoned the world from this area, are you calling for the closure of the wet markets that has for sale monkey s and bats and horrible things like that? >> well, i have no authority to call for anything but i can certainly tell you how i feel. i think we should shut down those things right away. it's just, it boggles my mind how when we have so many diseases that emanate out of that unusual human animal interface that we don't just shut it down. i don't know what else has to happen to get us to appreciate that, and i think there are certain countries in which this is very common place. i would like to see the rest of the world really lean with a lot of pressure on those countries that have that, because what we're going through right now is a direct result of that.

ainsley: dr. fauci, washington state they're saying their stay at home order now they have to stay at home folks through the beginning of may, that first week of may i think it's may 4. do you think the nation needs to follow suit? >> well that's very similar to what the president has done by extending the 30 days until the end of april, so there's not much space between those two recommendations. i mean, we have a strong recommendation to abide by the guidelines that were at first 15 days and then as you'll recall the president extended it to another 30 days so that's really on the mark with what washington is doing. steve: dr. fauci, talking about the 15 days and then extending it to 30 days, you know, there are millions of people who arehu nkeringdown at home doing exactly what you're calling for and on this friday it was a long week. i think they would like to know that you have some optimism that

what they are doing is somehow blunting the impact of it. are we climbing up that mountain how close are we getting to going around that curve that you guys talk about? >> well you know it's going to vary. we have a large country with different cities. new york has gotten hit very badly, so unfortunately, but they will likely turn that corner and start coming down sooner than other cities that started a bit later, so what you're going to see is not just a uniform turning around it's going to probably be in phases but if you average out the country, we will turn the corner and it will get better and you're right, we've had a terrible week, and as i've said on this show just a few days ago, it's going to get worse, much worse, before it gets better, and that just is an unfortunate fact that we have to deal with, but it will turn around and the question you initially asked i'd lake to address. there's no doubt in my mind, or anyone, who knows anything

about this , that the mitigation activities, the physical separation that we're doing clearly is having a positive impact. you don't see it dramatically yet, because there's the dynamic with the virus doing what the virus wants to do, and we're trying to suppress it with mitigation but there's no doubt it's having an effect and for that reason, the entire nation needs to continue to lean forward and absolutely adhere to those recommendations, because that is the answer and quite frankly that is the only two that we really have that we know is effective. brian: well, if we're doing everything you say we're doing and you also say things are getting worse, how do i wrap my head around both those things? >> yeah, you wrap your head around it by realizing there's a dynamic here. things could be continuing to get worse as we see it but what's feeding into the outbreak , you're starting to

dampen, and absolutely sooner or later hopefully sooner, you're going to see that turnaround so it's not incompatible. things are getting worse at the same time that you are having a positive effect. ainsley: dr. fauci this is positive news this morning that vaccine tested successfully in mice at the university of pittsburgh. when do we expect to see a vaccine? >> well the pittsburgh one is one that there's one of several candidates. i spoke to you about one that we've been dealing with where we already in phase i trials, and are two-thirds of the way through the phase i trial and then i explained to you a few times that you then go into the next phase which is phase ii to determine further immunogenicity doesn't give the kind of response that you'd like it to and ultimate does it work. that whole process still is going to take at least a year to year and a half and any candidate that is out there will likely be on the same timeline.

steve: dr. fauci as we head into the weekend, on this friday morning, a lot of people are watching. what are your marching orders for us for the weekend and beyond? >> well the marching orders is really a summary of what i just said over the last couple of minutes. we've got to continue, as i always say, the metaphor, keep your foot on the accelerator and not on the brake. continue to the best of your possible capability, to do the adherence to those physical separations, those guidelines, those guidelines that have been expressed that have been extended to 30 days. that will be the process, that will get us through that no doubt in my mind. steve: okay. brian: dr. fauci tell me about this bobblehead of yours that would help raise money for maybe a good cause. >> you know i'm sorry. i can't get involved with that peripheral stuff, bobbleheads

that's nice if people want to do it but i have other things to worry about. brian: i think they are raising money for medical gear. >> if they are that's great if they are doing it for a good purpose that's great. ainsley: dr. fauci let me ask you about the numbers so wednesday we had the most deaths here, 1,047, and then thursday, yesterday, 911 deaths, so 136 fewer deaths over the course of 48 hours. why is that? >> 136 fewer deaths you're saying? ainsley: yes, sir. >> yeah, that's what happens when you have an evolution that as you start getting less cases, less hospitalizations, less intensive care and ultimately less deaths. the issue is that the deaths generally lag behind the other aspects of it so you could start seeing peoples in the less number of new cases per day and at the same time that you're still seeing an increase in

deaths. when you start seeing a decrease in deaths, that's really very good news. steve: dr. fauci thank you very much for joining us from bethesda and of course it seems like every day you're working late into the afternoon appearing with the president. we really appreciate your insight into this invisible enemy. thank you, sir. >> good to be with you. steve: okay, all right, meanwhile 8:16 here on the east coast the u.s. military ramping up surface to air missiles in iraq, following attacks on our troops and coalition forces. retired four star army general jack keane on this big show of force, coming up, next.

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brian: all right here we go as the battle against the coronavirus raises in the united states, are men and women in uniform continue fighting on another front, iraq. the u.s. military saying it's moving air defenses into the country, following attacks on american coalition forces over the last few weeks, over the last couple of months. let's bring in fox news senior strategic analyst, general jack keane, four star general, and chairman of the institute for the study of war. general, do you like this move? will it help? >> well, yes, most definitely. there's a couple things the united states is doing. for a year now we've been planning and actually consolidating from five bases in iraq down to two. one in al assad out in the west and the other base inside of baghdad and that consolidation in and of itself will help protect our forces, and then obviously, we're bringing in some air defense systems to be able to deal with the rockets

that the iranian proxies are firing at these bases and evidently, the president, as he tweeted out and made a statement to that effect, they have some intelligence that the iranians are attempting conduct another attack on u.s. forces, and believe me, brian, while this is military escalation by iran, what their objective is political, they want to drive the united states out of iraq, and that will be a major strategic victory for them if they're able to achieve that, so military escalation, requiring a u.s. response is a vehicle to achieve that, because it excites the population to the level of violence, they blame all of that on the united states. that's a bold face lie to be sure and then they're bribing the members of the council of representatives which is their name for a parliament as well as trying to bribe the next governor that's going

to eventually sit in iraq so they are pulling out all the stops to achieve a major political victory to get the united states military out of iraq. brian: it seems to me, general, that the president did a pretty cool move saying hey by the way we know what you're trying to do and we're on top of it and it makes them wonder, oops they're listening, they have intelligence maybe we should call it off because they support the malitias but the elements that seem to be missing in this version of iraq is the ambassador crocker element the ones that provided information, intelligence and guidance for the new government to stand up. right now iran has all the influence. i'm not sure we're even trying. what do you think? >> no, we are trying and we are taking a political hand as we should. we have interests in what the political outcome. you're talking about something that did happen for eight years under the obama administration and quite frankly, they did not

get involved in iraq politically and we had huge opportunities to turn things around. i mean, everything was turned around by the bush administration and then we had to consolidate politically and we pulled away from them and guess what? the iranians gained more influence as a result of it. we're engaged politically. make no mistake about that, but the iranians are pulling out all the stops particularly after was killed. this is a major victory they want to achieve in the region and send a loud message to all of our allies in the region, that the united states is not going to stay in the region to protect you. brian: would you also say that iran has never been more vulnerable from shooting down that passenger jet, the people protesting in the streets, many people and their government have been stricken with the coronavirus, the economic sanctions are strangling them, the china trade is making them doubt their government even more , so this is a time at which

they're most vulnerable and it be the wrong time to let up on the sanctions? >> oh, we should not let up on the sanctions whatsoever, find every opportunity to increase those sanctions. the iranians have never been back on their heels as much as they are now. listen, the iranian people were so frustrated with them before the virus broke out and now even more so, because they haven't handled very well, they haven't been transparent, they aren't protecting their population the way they should, yes. iran is absolutely under the gun from their own population and also as an international pariah as we ll. they have never been as isolated as they are now. brian: i know you're an army guy and this is a navy question but it's an american military question. the uss teddy roosevelt has sailors with coronavirus on it, a large number, the commander wanted to alert people, alerted the acting secretary of the navy but he alerted other people along with it and he's been

dismissed and essentially fired. was that the right move? >> well it's tough for us to make that call sitting here without knowing the facts. look, i admire the commander for writing a letter to his boss , and telling him how serious his situation is and that he actually needed some help. i think i would have made a phone call, as opposed to a letter, given what letters are like in this day and age, they always seem to get into the media. it's alleged, brian, that he shared that letter with many of his friends, and if that allegation is indeed a fact, then there be justification for his removal because that is highly inappropriate to do that on such a sensitive manner that deals with the life and death of his sailors, but we don't know the facts and we're only speculating. brian: right. the secretary of navy did make that move. general jack keane always great to see you thanks, general. >> good talking to you, brian. brian: you got it.

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steve: it is 8:31 on the east coast and we have a fox news alert. the march jobs report is out and it is not good. it shows 701,000 jobs were lost, the unemployment rate is at 4.4% ainsley: that's exactly right. let's bring in stuart varney host of varney & company on fox business network.

stuart what's your reaction to this? stuart: okay let me repeat those numbers because they are indeed pretty bad. we lost 701,000 jobs in the month of march and the unemployment rate went up to 4.4%. now that's bad, but it doesn't really paint a true picture of the employment market as we speak. this survey weak for the march jobs report was early in the month of march so it didn't really capture the full impact of the virus on our economy, so you can expect later in april, these jobless numbers will go way up. perhaps a better indicator of the true state of employment is the fact that 10 million people applied for jobless benefits, just in the last two weeks, and i might add, that maria, was just told by a fed governor, maria bartiromo on fox business, that the unemployment rate now is actually closer to 10% already, and by the way, we've got a big investment firm, msnbc

suggesting that the economy, which we now say will shrink by 38%, now that is dire, indeed. steve: you know, stuart, what is dire as well, is when the next number comes out, keep in mind, when the president ordered people to stay at home, currently there are, and various governors have as well, currently there are stay at home orders in states that account for 82% of our gdp. if you got 82% of the gdp, people not going to work, that's going to be ugly. stuart: oh, you can see this. i mean, we've got at tsa check points at airports, 2 million fewer passengers are being processed every day than one year ago. the flights that take off are essentially empty. ridership on public transportation is down 75%

because if people aren't going to work they're not commuting. traffic has even eased up throughout california. that's extraordinary. all across the country, you stopped people going to work so the economy is at a dead stop and as morgan stanley suggests it's actually shrinking. we've never seen anything like this before and we won't get over it until such time as those stay at home orders begin to be relaxed. at that point, you might see things improve, but not until then. brian: so stuart in 2008 these numbers were intriguing because we wanted to find out how the banking system would repair itself, how many people were effected and how to fix it with tarp. now these are not intriguing, this is a self-inflicted wound and a slow motion car wreck that we brought on ourselves because we've been told this is the only way to do it. we should reverse it and talk about how many people are working because the number will get terrible and this is only going to reinforce what was

demanded by our government and the world body that we stop working, stop talking to each other, stop being productive, stop going to gym, stop going out to dinner, so to me, i'm even surprised i'd rather find out the 20% still on their jobs how lick lucky we are to be doing this. we're an anomaly now. stuart: that makes a fair point brian but you can't sugar coat exactly where we are. the government has ordered shut down of the economy, on medical grounds and there will be an enormous political battle when we start to see that curve bending in the right direction. when that happens there will be a political battle as to how soon, we relax these stay at home orders. that'll be a monumental battle because people who care about the economy and the damage being done to the economy will want to open it again as soon as possible. on the other side you'll have people who say look you open up the economy, you open up the

stay at home rules too soon and you'll have a second wave of the virus go through with even more damage. there's a political battle coming. it's based on the state of the economy, which at this point , brian, is dire. flat out, on its back, dire situation. ainsley: stuart we look at that number and it's sad but does that include the people in the restaurant industry let's say who were laid off but they're going to get their jobs back and through this stimulus money, the restaurant owners aren't going to have to pay that money it's coming from the federal government? stuart: okay let's be clear. the money that's starting to go out today, this $2.2 trillion, that is not stimulus. that is rescue. that's money going to the people who have been laid off, or out of work, through no fault of their own. it's money going to their paychecks. it's called a paycheck protection thing, and small businesses can go to their banks as of today, and get a loan, which transfers into a grant if they don't lay people off. so the money is being pushed out

there now, but don't get the idea that somehow or other this stimulates the economy. it doesn't. it rescues millions of individuals. the stimulus comes later, when we start to relax the stay at home rules and the economy can expand. that's when you need the stimulus. that's when it kicks in. steve: i like the way that you put it, that it is a rescue package to rescue the businesses , and for all of the americans, stuart as well, who were simply doing what dr. fauci told us in about 35 minutes ago and that is the only way at this stage before there is a vaccine that we are uncertain about treatments the only way to turn that corner on this deadly thing is to stay at home, and that's why governor s and the federal government have mobilized to not only order people to stay in place, but also they've got this rescue bill, and today, is

the day that small businesses officially can start applying and provided they keep the people on the books which is going to help the people who they have furloughed they may not have to, they will not have to repay those loans. stuart: that's true. they become a grant. if you take this government money and you don't lay people off, if you do that, you don't lay people off, then it's not a loan which has to be repaid. it's a grant, which doesn't have to be repaid. there's an enormous amount of money going out here, i think it's $377 billion, and treasury secretary mnuchin says look, if we run out of that 377 billion, we'll go back to congress, we'll get some more. it's a rescue operation and it starts today. ainsley: but stuart really quickly that number we see at the bottom of the screen does that include the people laid off that will come back to work once this is all over? stuart: you mean the 701,000? ainsley: uh-huh, yes.

because the majority of people get their jobs back. stuart: we don't know that. i suspect they will. ainsley: well if you use that grant money, the only way to use that grant money is if you give them their jobs back, so all those small businesses, they're going to have to pay those loans back if they don't rehire so of course they are going to rehire, you'd think. stuart: look there is some confusion here. there is some confusion here. you're a small business operator , you're in deep trouble , you go to the bank today and you say look, here is my payroll for the last eight weeks. they will give you that money as a grant if you don't lay people off. they will give it to you as a loan, if you do lay people off and you've got to repay that loan, so let's not get any confusion here. i don't know whose included in which number but the rescue operation starts today and it's a big operation. brian: there might be another. thanks stuart varney. we'll watch you on fbn from 9:00

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concerns about 3m. nonetheless, brian, he is ordering them via the defense production act to make more. brian: geraldo rivera is here to comment on this , geraldo 3m, there's rumors about what they were doing not selling to us their distributors going to the highest bidder. now it looks like they basically confirmed it. what's your reaction? geraldo: well first of all, i have to give you full disclosure , i'm a minor stockholder in 3m, just bought the stock some weeks ago for my children and their trust, so i'm shocked that i'm embarrassed by it. 3m, when i bought it, it's a 1902 formed company, st. paul, minnesota, red blooded american company, been around forever, manufacturing company but they have plants now around the world , and one of their biggest plants manufacturing the n95 mask that is in such crucial demand in the united states is located in shanghai,

china. china says to 3m, you make them here, they stay here, we want them, you can not export them. so 3m is caught between a rock and a hard place between president trump and president xi , he's saying no export and trump is saying you're an american company, you know, sell your goods to america. this is a classic example of why we've become addicted to chinese politics, chinese manufacturing, they are holding us hostage, even an american company can't export its masks from their chinese plants to the united states. it's outrageous. brian: it's not just china, geraldo. ainsley: critics are calling it criminal. some of the brands that are under 3m, scotch, post-it, brand s we all use, and these n95 masks are in short supply the gold standard and what's keeping many healthcare workers

on the frontlines alive. it's needed, we need them here in america and they're made in america, doesn't matter how much money the country will offer them. they need to keep them here in america. now they do have a statement, a full statement on their twitter page but let me read a portion of it. it says we look forward to working closely with the administration to implement yesterday' defense protection act order. we will continue to maximize the amount of respirators we can produce on behalf of u.s. health care workers as we have every day since the crisis began. so geraldo? geraldo: well said. i think they have to be busted and squeezed, the president has got to take the ceo of 3m and shake them up and say you've got to make a stand here. your chinese landlords let you sell these masks back to your own country i think it's outrageous and a scandal. but i also think that the president has to go to the chinese president and say listen , you're holding our masks

hostage. not only that, just to add to the outrage, in early january, when the chinese figured out what the hell was going on with this virus, they bought out mask s that were outside china and brought them into china. so not only are they not letting our masks leave china, they've taken, you know, from the world marketplace, they've taken all the masks that are available for sale and brought them into china. steve: well now 3m says they are going to go full bore and make as many as they possibly can, but they've been doing that all along they say. geraldo thank you very much for joining us. geraldo: okay. steve: meanwhile a dozen minutes before the top of the hour coming up justin moore is going to perform a live living room concert on fox & friends and do "why we drink." you doing okay?

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steve: we may all be apart right now but america is always together, country music star justin moore out with a brand new music video for his hit single "why we drink" as millions of americans stay at home to help fight covid-19 and that's how you do it and justin moore who has been in his house

with his four kids and his two big dogs joins us live from arkansas, with a live exclusive living room performance, ladies and gentlemen, here is justin moore from his living room singing about why we drink. >> ♪ it's charcoal burning sunday, and we ain't gonna get to monday, that's why we drink. because the suns up, it's sun down, because i need a little love now because we've been working all day and we're done now, yeah, that's why we

drink. because because the job is sitting with a line out, because it's cheaper than that, because it's grown up, because love the things that our daddies did, because if you pour one down the sink, that's why we drink ♪ ♪ the sweet home alabama just came home, was brought up for a reason to raise one, yeah, that's why we drink.

does the job don't sit with a line out, because the little man is cheaper than that, because the grown up, doesn't love the things that our daddies did, because you pour one down the sink, that's why we drink ♪ ♪ to the red white and blue boys , because it's hot out, because the john boats sitting with a line out, because we're a little messed up but it's cheaper than that, that's why we

drink, because we're grown up, because we love doing things because our daddies did, because if you pour one down the sink, that's why we drink ♪ yeah, that's why we drink ♪

>> justin moore, that was great, thank you. >> thank you, appreciate you having me. >> sandra: fox news alert as we learn that coronavirus may be even more contagious than scientists originally thought. as one million cases are now confirmed worldwide. good morning, everyone, i'm sandra smith. >> ed: i'm ed henry. more than 6,000 americans have died. the mayors of los angeles and new york city are encouraging everyone to wear some sort of facial covering outside in public. the white house expected to make that same recommendation nationwide as the country's top infectious disease expert anthony fauci is urging all states to have stay at home orders to stop the spread.