>> 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. >> if you look at what's in the

30-day recommendations of the guidelines, that's essentially what it is. i mean i know it's difficult but we're having a lot of suffering, a lot of death. this is inconvenient from an economic and personal standpoint but we just have to do it. that's our major weapon against this virus right now. we don't have a vaccine that's deployable. this is the only thing we have. we can get through it. >> sandra: first responders have arrived in new york city from all over the country to tackle the unprecedented amount of 911 phone calls in the city. fox team coverage for you this morning, john roberts has more on the white house response. we begin with david lee miller live in new york city for us this morning. hey, david lee. >> sandra, it seems that each day here in new york is worse than the last and today is no exception. statewide the number of people infected with the coronavirus is now approaching 100,000.

just a short time ago here at mt. sinai hospital in new york's east side nurses and other healthcare workers held a rally. they say that each day they put their lives at risk because they simply do not have the necessary supplies and staffing. listen. >> i don't want to be your body bag. i want you to take this seriously. i want you to give us the equipment we need to provide safe quality care for our patients. >> statewide here in new york 2,468 people have died because of the coronavirus. another nurse talked about the spike in intubations. >> this is something that's really concerning and really scary to a lot of front line healthcare workers here in the city, around the country and around the world.

>> prior to the rally taking place, the nurses said mt. sinai made some concessions to some of their demands about improving equipment, staffing and testing. but they say it's too little too late. meanwhile mayor deblashio is urging all wear some type of mask while outside. not surgical masks. it would worsen the shortage. the white house has now changed its position on the javits convention center which has been transformed into a 2500 bed temporary hospital. it had been said that coronavirus patients would not be treated there. now at the request of new york governor andrew cuomo coronavirus patients will be treated there. patriots owner robert kraft's private plane returned from china. aboard is badly needed masks.

the plane landed yesterday in boston and the masks will be used in massachusetts and rhode island. 300,000 of them we are told are on their way here to new york. sandra. >> sandra: david lee miller, thank you for your reporting on the ground in new york city. >> ed: the jobs report is out for march showing the u.s. economy lost more than 700,000 jobs. unemployment rising now to 4.4%. that survey was done before the massive job losses that we saw in the last two weeks. president trump talked about all of these challenges yesterday. >> president trump: you see 6 million people unemployed, unemployment numbers get released and you see 6 million people. it's an artificial closing. it is not like we have a massive recession or worse. it is artificial because we turned it off. think of what we're doing. we're saying don't go to work and we'll pay you. everything is the opposite. >> ed: john roberts is live

from the north lawn this morning. good morning. sounds like treasury secretary is jumping on the small business loans almost immediately. >> he said they have processed some 7,000 loans and they've got that ramped up today and keep it going. it's another staggering number, the unemployment number, jobs loss number for the white house to absorb. a shocker but no surprise. 4.4% unemployment rate. next month that number will increase dramatically. it follows on 6.6 million uninsurance employment claims yesterday. there was no way it was not going to be bad. the white house is counting on the phase three rescue bill to keep the economy afloat. correction, 700 low applications have come insofar. that will increase dramatically. cdc expected to issue guidelines for people to wear cloth masks out and about where there are other people.

cloth masks different from what you see on the screen. also different than those n95 masks the government wants to keep for medical workers. cloth is an aid to keep the virus from spreading in cases where you can't always maintain a six foot distance. here is what dr. fauci said about it in the past hour. >> 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 valor is when you are out and you can't maintain that six-foot distance to wear some sort of facial covering. >> on the issue of the n95 the president is upset with 3m. he went to minnesota to assure a supply of masks. now 3m not living up to its commitment. the president is issuing an

order under the defense production act against 3m. the president tweeting we hit 3m hard today after seeing what they were doing with their masks. the production act all the way. big surprise to many in government what they were doing. will have a big price to pay. the white house had wanted 3m to increase the import of masks that it makes overseas to the united states. the white house also found out that 3m had been exporting some masks to canada and latin american. in a statement 3m saying ceasing all exports it would cause countries to retaliate. if that occurred the respirators made available to the united states would actually decrease. big news coming out for people who don't have health insurance. the white house figuring out a way for people who don't have insurance to get treatment if they get sick from the virus. here is the vice president. >> the white house coronavirus tasks force is working on a

proposal for the president to use some of the 100 billion that we're making available to hospitals to compensate the hospitals directly for any coronavirus treatment that they provide to uninsured americans. >> the president is meeting with oil company executives today. oil prices jumped sharply yesterday after the president said he talked with the crown prince of saudi arabia and believed between russia and saudi arabia there would be a dramatic cut in oil production coming. just a note on the masks. i went online today looking for some of the cloth masks. a lot of places you can't get them until at least may. you will have to do shopping around. >> ed: john roberts covering a lot of ground. we'll have more on the latest jobs report and how quickly you will get help from the government amid the fallout from the coronavirus. larry kudlow will join us live at 10:30 a.m. eastern. >> sandra: looking forward to having him.

the white house expected to recommend everyone wear some type of facemask or face covering in public now as we learn more about how this virus may spread. dr. craig spencer is director of global health and emergency medicine at new york presbyterian columbia university medical center. he was also the first ebola patient in new york city. i believe the fourth in the country. great to have you here, dr. spencer. appreciate your time this morning. so i'll ask you this question. if we step out in public, go to the grocery store, pharmacy or wherever it may be should we be wearing a facemask? >> i think the new guidance is smart. what we're seeing now is so much asymptomatic transmission. we know that people before they have symptoms can transmit this virus just in normal activity. i think it's smart and good guidance. we also know there is such high levels of community transmission and community prevalence meaning so many

people in our community have this disease it is smart to slow the spread. the important message is, though, that masks do not protect you 100%. they are meant to help people who have the masks on from preventing the spread from them to others. they are not really going to help you all the time from getting infected yourself and not a cure all. they should not take the place of social and physical distancing. the only thing that can save you and protect you is not being exposed because the virus can't infect you if it never meets you. >> sandra: so many doctors highlight that same concern. they don't want people to have the false sense of confidence and breach that six foot distance that's recommended if you are wearing that mask. here is the president on the guidelines for wearing masks being a recommendation, not a requirement at least not yet. here is the president at the briefing yesterday. >> president trump: i think they will be coming out with regulations on that and if

people want to abide by them -- i don't think they will be mandatory. some people don't want to do that. but if people want it as an example in the masks. if people want to wear them they can. a recommendation is coming out. we'll see what the recommendation is but i will say this, they can pretty much decide for themselves right now. >> sandra: a lot of this is changing now based on just how contagious we're learning this virus is and that it can spread by talking or even just breathing in the same room as somebody who is infected. >> yeah. i don't know about social recommendation but my public health policy and what i tell my friends and family it is on each of us to protect ourselves. we can't trust other people to take the right precautions. i think it's smart again the most important thing physical distancing if you are continuing to travel, p and we

still don't have stay at home orders. that's the greatest danger. if you go outside, be smart, keep distance. if you have a mask i would recommend wearing it. one, because it can help you but most importantly if you're sick it can prevent the spread to other people. >> sandra: you come to us with a very unique perspective and outlook on all of this having been the first person back in 2014 diagnosed with ebola and now you are the head of global health and emergency medicine there and it is great the hear from you this morning. hope to have you back again. thank you, dr. spencer. >> ed: great stuff there. thank you, sandra. nurses in several states protesting what they call a lack of preparedness urging hospitals to provide the basic protective gear they need amid a severe nationwide shortage. >> we are demanding that we get all the hoarded supplies that exist of ppe to protect

ourselves, our families, and our beloved patients and communities. we can't do it if we're dead. >> ed: let's bring in the president of the american nurses association, a nurse himself. first of all, mr. grant, for joining us and doing what you're doing on the front lines. good morning. we appreciate you being here. i think one of the things that really sort of shocked the nation is when the "new york post" had the front page a week or so ago where they had the headline treated like trash and showed nurses at mt. sinai in new york city with hefty trash bags over their gear. now the hospital said they had the protective gear underneath the trash bags but it was a huge controversy. this morning mt. sinai is making concessions for the nirs. is that good if you have what some hospitals are doing? what more do you want to see happen? >> we would like to see the nurses being -- and other members of the healthcare team being able to have the proper personal protective equipment

they need to do their job. they are putting their lives on the line and also taking the risk of taking this virus home to their family members. everything that we can do to insure that they get the proper protective equipment is essential. >> ed: there is a nurse we spoke to who said there is that fear about coming home not just being exposed yourself as a nurse but bringing it to your family. let's listen to that and i'll give you a chance to respond. >> we are transmitting the disease to our family members, patients who are negative for covid-19 and we're spreading this disease to the community from this hospital. >> ed: on that point mayor deblasio from here in new york city is saying he believes this sunday is d-day. you will be running out of ventilators, the nurses as well as doctors are basically exhausted at this point and the president big picture has said we're in a war footing that he feels like a wartime president. do you believe what deblasio is

saying that sunday is d-day, a turning point here, or is that an exaggeration? >> we would have to take a look at the numbers. new york and particularly is seeing a tremendous increase in the amount of covid-19 patients that are coming in. that's why it is essential that again we continue to monitor the supply chain to insure that all the necessary equipment that not only ppes but ventilators and other critical supplies are gotten to those areas. >> ed: there was a nurse at bellevue hospital here in new york city who shared on instagram this video in a post that said reminds me of 9/11. if this won't make you think twice about staying in, i don't know what else to say. the video shows temporary morgues we're showing our viewers right now outside bellevue hospital. what are your nurses seeing on the ground not just in new york city but around the country? >> around the country we're

getting different nurses are saying different things. it depends upon where they may be if not living, obviously there are additional hot spots heating up. nurses are seeing an influx of patients coming in putting a strain on the system. in other places where the coronavirus has not quite struck yet people are gearing up for that and nurses are requesting that they know what the particular disaster preparedness plan is for their facility so they know their role and they are prepared for that. >> ed: in the last 30 seconds we have we hear about the guidance we may be getting there the cdc about the general public when you go out in public wear a face covering. what is your concern about the potential for people to then push to get more masks, those masks that you need for healthcare workers? >> those masks are extremely essential that members of the healthcare team get that in

order to provide that protection that they need. i haven't had the opportunity to look at the guidelines the cdc is putting out just yet but i think as we study this virus and seeing it is changing day-to-day it is only fair that we continue to make those regulatory changes so we'll continue to monitor that situation. >> ed: make sure the masks get to the people who really need them. the president talked about using a bandana or something else. dr. grant, a tough job. a lot of your folks at the front lines. thank you for all you're doing at america at this hour. >> sandra: stock index futures are down a bit this morning. off the lows as unemployment numbers come in showing more than 700,000 jobs lost in the month of march and the worst may yet be to come. david asman will join us for the opening bell plus farmers facing tough times as this

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>> sandra: florida offering relief for passengers on two ships hit with covid-19, the zaandam and rotterdam docking last night after weeks at sea. >> it allows passage of 1200 of the guests who are deemed well and fit to travel per

guidelines from the centers of disease control to go straight to the airport to get on a charter flight to go home. >> sandra: phil keating is live at port everglades, florida where they've been dealing with a complicated situation. >> absolutely. it took days to work out. what we have ahead today is a very busy day disembarking all of the fit for travel passengers from the zaandam and rotterdam cruise ships behind me. all wearing masks straight into a sanitized bus and directly to the airport tarmac where they'll get onto charter flights. throughout today and tonight they will be flying these fit for travel passengers to atlanta, san francisco, toronto, paris and london. holland america zaandam arrived at 4:30 yesterday after the ship was sailing for a full month. two weeks stranded at sea with more than a dozen countries not willing to help. that ship had most of the sick on board including the four

dead who were removed last night. the 13 critical patients were taken by ambulance to a local hospital and admitted. the 26 with minor illnesses must stay on the ship until they improve. the rotterdam came in second with the most passengers of the two, almost all fit for travel who had transferred ship to ship while at sea before crossing the panama canal. balconies were filled with jubilant passengers. the passengers traveling home by car mostly floridians did so last night with vehicles provided. a total of 4500 men, women and four children were on the two ships combined half passenger and crew. the process of disembarkment will take days. both ships remain in port until saturday afternoon when all fit for travel passengers, about 1200 of them, are expected to be on their way.

those still sick might then sail back offshore a few miles until they can disembark once they're well. that's still unclear. then there is a third ship with sick passengers hoping to also tie up here at port everglades on saturday at some point. the corral princess that confirms 12 passengers and crew on that ship via swab tests have tested positive for covid-19. if today's process does go smoothly and everybody in the county and port is happy with it, the corral princess will be able to do the same on saturday. sandra. >> sandra: thank you for the update from port everglades. next hour we'll speak to a couple who is on one of those cruise ships and they'll tell us what conditions were like on board and we'll see how they are holding up now. >> ed: meantime a commanding officer who sounded the alarm a growing number of sailors on his aircraft carrier were sick

with coronavirus is relieved of duty. what the navy is saying coming up. u.s. employers cutting 701,000 jobs in march. unemployment rate rising. how will the markets react? david asman joins us for the opening bell. >> president trump: everything is perfect and then no job in one day. then you see six million people unemployed. it's our policy that your pizza is never touched once it comes out of the oven. and we're taking extra steps, like no contact delivery, to ensure it.

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to allow our heart to rest in god. the bible says he will keep us at perfect peace if we will keep our mind stayed on him. yes, you must be aware of the times and yes you must be aware of the news and yes we must be aware even of what our physicians are telling us. but we can not allow any voice to be louder than the voice of god in our spirit, and in our lives. and that is the voice that spoke to the winds and the waves and said peace be still. i pray you will allow that peace to saturate your soul and slay the wind that would assault your mind. witpeople at higher riskng, must take extra precautions. you are at higher risk if you are over 65, or if you have an underlying medical condition. please visit coronavirus.gov for more information.

>> sandra: opening bell on wall street has rung. the stocks are falling in the first few seconds of trading as the monthly jobs report is out for march. the economy losing 701,000 jobs. the unemployment rate rising to 4.4%. david asman is the host of bulls and bears on the fox business network and joins us with reaction. good morning, david. >> it's a dark morning on wall street but more importantly a dark morning in america and literally in the entire world as so much of the businesses in the world are closed down because of the virus. that is reflected in today's jobs report although not as much as it will be. this jobs report which is supposed to be for the month of march actually ended their calculations march 12 just before we began to see all the business shutdowns. so what we're seeing now with wall street is kind of yes, it's a down day down about 106 points right now, but this

could just be the beginning of something big. we were expecting the loss of 100,000 jobs. we had a loss of 701,000 jobs. that's a huge difference between what was expected and what we actually got. again, remember, that ended -- those calculations ended march 12th. really march 15th we began to see the shutdown in new york and other cities that ended economic activity except for essential services in the country. so many people are expecting even though the unemployment rate has gone up to 4.4%. it was expected to say the same at 3 1/2%. people are expecting much worse. the oxford economics projects a loss of 30 million jobs by the beginning of june. that would be a 16% unemployment rate. we have not seen those figures since the great depression and the real key here, sandra, you know this so well, what would be worse for america right now? another great depression like we had back in the 1930s, or a

continuation of the coronavirus? a lot of people say with the various restrictions we have in place now, with the various medications that are online, we better get back to work soon. that is at the end of this 30-day period, if not we're risking a great depression and how many lives would be lost as a result of that as opposed to the coronavirus? >> sandra: that's a very delicate and calculated balance. we'll ask larry kudlow white house economic advisor about that coming up in an hour. steve mnuchin talking about the checks going out to the americans who so badly need them assuring them they'll go out this week. here is steve mnuchin. >> i am assuring the american public, they need the money nou. what we'll do is if we have your information, you will get it within two weeks. social security, you will get it very quickly after that. if we don't have your information, you will have a simple web portal.

if we don't have that we'll send it in the mail. >> sandra: when will people actually see those and get those? >> it is an open question and it is one that you think back to the roll-out of obamacare. people are looking at that as a concern that the government doesn't always do things the way it's planned. the private sector as you know usually does things a lot more efficiently than the government does. however, they are very hopeful that 2.2 trillion package that includes checks to americans will go out. this is also the beginning of the paycheck protection program. this is a $350 billion program for america's small businesses. loan program up to $10 million in loans. we have 30 million small businesses in america. huge number of small businesses including businesses that are self-proprietor, contractors and so forth.

businesses of 20 people or less. but up to $10 million if they continue to employ the people they have employed. they get that money back. it becomes a grant rather than a loan. so there is an incentive and why they call it paycheck protection. it protects people that are on the payroll by these small businesses. it is going to be paid out through banks specifically banks that have a relationship with a small business administration. a lot of small businesses don't deal with banks. you start a small business based on your savings, based on money you borrowed from your family. what do those people do, the people that don't have relationships with banks? they have to establish a relationship with banks. it will be a problem. there is no getting over and no easy solution here but there is a lot of money out there for individuals, the 157 million people in the workforce, for the 30 million small businesses and for individuals who are going to be getting those checks. so as long as the government operates efficiently, that's

hoping for a lot. if that happens we'll be okay at least for the month. after that i think we have to get back to work. >> sandra: that's the good news, the money is there but how that will get in the hands of the americans waiting on those checks but also the small businesses. if they continue to pay wages and rent and utilities they can get that money but the banks, some of them you saw on the interviews in the "wall street journal" and other places this morning, a lot of banks don't know exactly the guidelines they are supposed to follow to follow through on that. we'll ask larry kudlow. >> it will be a problem. larry kudlow should have more on that coming up. >> sandra: all right, david asman. see you later on fbn. >> god bless you, thank you. >> sandra: you, too. much more next hour when national economic counsel director larry kudlow joins us at 10:30 a.m. eastern time. we look forward to that. >> ed: in the meantime the uss roosevelt's commanding officer has been relieved of duty after

raising alarm bells of a growing number of sailors sick with covid-19 on his aircraft carrier. jennifer griffin is live with more on the story. >> hours after the acting navy secretary fired captain brett crozier, hundreds of crew members gathered on the uss roosevelt hangar bay to give him a roaring send-off chanting his name. 114 sailors have tested positive for covid-19 aboard the aircraft carriers. the crew is ignoring guidelines to social distance to send a message of protest to top navy brass for firing their skipper who sounded alarm bells about the rising number of coronavirus cases on his ship forced to arrive in guam a week early. >> i did not come to this decision lightly. i have no doubt in my mind that captain crozier did what he thought was in the best interest of the safety and well-being of his crew. unfortunately it did the

opposite. it unnecessarily raised alarms with the families of our sailors and marines with no plan to address those concerns. >> on sunday captain crozier wrote a letter that leaked to his hometown newspaper the san francisco chronicle. in the letter he is urging senior navy leaders to offload most of the 5,000 sailors on board immediately to disinfect the ship adding the spread of the disease is oning and accelerating. we are not at war. sailors don't need to die. if we don't act now we're failing to properly take care of our most trusted asset, our sailors. the acting navy secretary said he acted emotionally without discussing the letter with his immediate strike group commander who is just down the hall on board the ship. instead the letter was sent over an insecured, unclassified email system. >> has a chilling effect on other navy captains. >> what he did by doing this and not being careful with who

that information went to but it was copied to 20 or 30 other people. okay? that is just not acceptable. he did not take care. what that did is create a panic -- a little bit of panic on the ship. >> as we said he had no evidence the captain leaked the letter to his hometown newspaper but suggested the navy was already expediting help for the ship including arranging 1700 hotel rooms in guam when the letter appeared in the newspaper tuesday. >> ed: thank you, jennifer. sandra. >> sandra: farmers feeling the pinch as the growing pandemic cuts sales and pushes prices down. what they need to protect americans' food supply plus this. >> president trump: we anticipate issuing more orders under the defense production act in the very near future. we just signed an element of the act against 3m. and hopefully they'll be able to do what they are supposed to

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>> sandra: rare announcement from the united kingdom this morning where buckingham palace is saying queen elizabeth will be addressing the country amid the coronavirus pandemic. the speech that has already been recorded is scheduled to air sunday night in britain or at 3:00 p.m. on america's east coast. outside of her traditional christmas messages this will only be the fourth time queen elizabeth has delivered a nationwide address throughout her entire reign. >> ed: as you know shoppers continue to clear out shelves in grocery stores and supermarkets around the country.

with schools and restaurants, market prices are falling for food. the president of the national farmers union joins us this morning. first let's talk big picture. people have had concerns about whether the virus can be spread through food, through food packaging. if they get something off a shelf. what can you assure americans about that part of the story first. >> that part is very not true. obviously we have a very safe food supply in this country and it has been very proven that cooking food, getting food out of packages is not going to spread the virus. your food is healthy and safe. people just need to know that going forward. >> ed: fantastic. what are your concerns about the food supply and what may happen if agriculture employees start getting sick around america? >> that's always a concern. we have a lot of milk plants, meat processing plants where if individuals with getting sick in plants and they need to close down the plants they'll

have to shut off supply. unfortunately right now that's not necessarily the case right now we're seeing a lot more where there is way too much supply with the hotels, schools and restaurants all closed down, there is so much more supply out there that prices are just falling and dropping rapidly for farmers right now. >> ed: on your point i wanted to get in on the dairy farmers in particular. one of our fox affiliates spoke yesterday with a wisconsin dairy farmer who said it's almost like a false reality that there is so much being bought right now but on the other hand we've never dumped milk before. it is not something you normally do. it is my understanding there is a imagine or oversupply of milk. good, nutritious grade a milk on your store shelf tomorrow night. on one hand your heart breaks for the farmer who has to throw away the milk and your heart breaks for people starving in america and people unemployed and trying to feed their family

and the milk is simply being destroyed. >> absolutely. that's the sad part. 10% of our fluid milk goes directly right to schools. so when we're losing that industry right there it's a huge part. you are right. there is a lot of milk just getting dumped and nothing that we can do about it. it's a perishable product. we can't shut off the cow or stop the production. unfortunately that seems to be where it's going. >> ed: bloomberg news put together fears about agriculture employees and the potential spread for coronavirus as we said. there is no shortage of food in the u.s. and likely will not be but logistical miracle that is the food supply chain is a huge disruption of markets and closed restaurants. the supply chain could be undermienld by outbreaks of coronavirus among agricultural workers, respond to that. >> i don't know that we'll have a supply problem in this

country, i really don't. i'm not sure that if you talk to anybody in agriculture will agree with that. we won't have a supply problem. we'll have a -- it will be more on farmer end. we've seen prices drop on products 25% for beef down to 35% for dairy products alone. farmers are the takers and the price takers, not the price makers. if we start seeing supply chain breakup it will be more because we are losing farmers in the country than it is the product they're actually producing unfortunately. >> ed: absolutely. the last 30 seconds we have what about the impact from restaurants. this seems obvious that all of a signed you have all these restaurants not buying hamburger and buns. >> it is a huge impact. like i said we're down 25% in the market right now when it comes to dairy, to beef, to any of that. a huge impact on the farmer end

of it. huge impact economically for any restaurant owner. economicly for the farmer the market has tanked really hard in the last six weeks. >> we focused on the restaurant and hotel folks. we talk about people around the country and wanted to also mention the faerms -- farmers on that. we certainly appreciate you with your insights and we wish you well in the days ahead. >> thank you very much. >> sandra: thank you. wearable apps might help the fight against the coronavirus. find out how to unveil hidden cases and americans are stepping up to help our healthcare workers. we will highlight the groups helping out with all of that next. >> seeing a smile on these people's faces after imagine what they're seeing on a daily basis and how grim things are getting we're trying to pitch in in a little way.

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>> sandra: americans coming together raising thousands of dollars for workers on the front lines. alex hogan explaining this from new york city for us this morning. hey, alex. >> good morning, many medical workers are feeling overworked and overwhelmed but people staying at home many of them say they feel the opposite. so instead of feeling helpless some are finding ways to stand in solidarity with those on the front line. new york city roommates patrick and connor started sending food to one of their girlfriends at nyu hospital. operation food fight will deliver free deliveries the medical responders want.

they have raised money to serve new york hospital. >> social media has its down sides but for now it is a great tool to help us all stay in the loop and stay connected. >> you feel uncertain everything going on. this is a way to preoccupy yourself with something positive. >> a group named port support is raising more than $20,000. their organization feeding up to 200 people per day and that includes emt and emergency fire workers. their grab and go meals means everything is cut up small or separated because workers don't have the time to eat. they can only do so while rushing to the next task. in new jersey two friends are starting flag, the front line appreciation group. >> we've already have donations of $91,000. we were able to provide over

3500 meals and pump $20,000 into our local restaurants. >> now the number is up to $97,000 and 28 shoppers who created their own flag chapters across the country. food won't fix the problem, but at least it is a way to stand in solidarity with those who have to leave home to go save lives. sandra. >> sandra: so important we tell these good stories coming from all this. alex hogan, thank you. >> ed: fox news alert. the u.s. leads the world in coronavirus cases. the white house changing its tune when it comes to facemask. new reaction coming straight ahead. to help you through the current health situation cvs pharmacy is now offering free one to two-day delivery of prescriptions and everyday essentials.

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>> sandra: this is a fox news alert. grim new numbers as coronavirus infections continue to climb around the world and here in the united states. now china warning that a second wave of the virus could be on the way. welcome to a brand-new hour of "america's newsroom," on this friday morning. good morning, i'm sandra smith. >> ed: great to see you. i'm ed henry. the number of cases around the world surging past 1 million. 1 of 4 of those in america. the coronavirus task force could be on the verge of advising all americans to wear masks or other protective face coverings while in public. >> when you are 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 should in no way ever take away from the availability of masks that are needed for the healthcare providers. this is an addendum and an addition to the physical separation. not as a substitute for it. >> ed: jonathan turley is outside cdc headquarters in atlanta. dr. fauci was saying you cannot take masks away from healthcare workers and doesn't replace social distancing. >> right. it should be a non-medical grade mask, even homemade covering will do the trick. here is the debate among the public health officials. if used properly, a mask is likely to help people who are infected but show no symptoms reducing the chances of them spreading the virus through their coughs, sneezes or breath to others. what public health officials

don't want is a false sense of security. if you wear the masks without washing your hands and touch your eyes you can become infected. if people wear masks and stop social distancing the outbreak gets even worse. as for the medical-grade masks, new england patriots owner robert kraft use the team plane to drive masks from china to boston. 300,000 of those will be delivered to new york city later today. while the charity effort is appreciated, it also illustrates inefficiencies in the supply chain for bringing emergency medical equipment to the u.s. take a listen. >> if we learn anything from this crisis never again, never again should we have to depend on the rest of the world for our essential medicines and counter measures. >> this evening georgia will follow most of the country in imposing a statewide stay at home order. officials say their primary concerns include nursing homes

and a cluster of cases in the small town of albany, georgia. listen. >> i believe there was a funeral service weeks ago where an infected person went and it created this whole epicenter that just exploded down there. >> the georgia order goes into effect at 6:00 this evening. as with other states it makes exceptions for grocery stores and other essential services. ed, back to you. >> ed: thank you, sandra. >> sandra: for more on this let's bring in dr. devi. she is the director of pain medicine and author of coronavirus made simple. we're trying to understand the changing guidelines that we're hearing from the cdc, white house and others. you look back at the surgeon general's warning on wearing facemasks, a tweet from february. seriously, people, he said stop buying masks.

they are not effective in preventing general public from catching coronavirus. healthcare providers can't get them to care for sick patients it puts them and their communities at risk. now the guidelines are changing to actually it's a good idea to wear facemasks. how do we dig through what we're being told here, dr. devi? >> there is a big difference between saying the masks are not necessary versus saying they help but healthcare providers need them instead. i hope people can visualize what the debate about. it is about whether this virus travels at the respiratory droplet or aerosol. i have a toddler who loves to blow bubbles. when i blow them with this wand they form a bubble and only travel so far. that's how a respiratory droplet works. it travels up to six feet and pop and land on the ground or surface.

it won't travel very far. an aerosol is like perfume or smoke. it will linger in a room for a while. if it's a respiratory droplet. almost all the data suggests that. if you wear a mask or you don't wear a mask you might be okay as long as you stay about six to 10 feet away from someone else. i think to be safe why not wear either a mask or scarf or something to protect yourself if you go to the grocery store, going someplace where there are other people involved? if you are sick you will protect others. it does no harm. if it's an aerosol. the masks scarves won't be enough to help you. so far from what we know the aerosol really is only created in the hospital setting. so if someone is having a breathing tube put down their throat. if they are having procedures to take a look at their lungs, those things create aerosols.

for people at home they generally wouldn't be exposed to an aerosol. >> sandra: so as far as picking up a bandana or scarf, if you have to jump into and uber or go to the grocery store, would you recommend that? >> yes. i tell you what i tell my parents. they're watching my daughter and been together for three weeks and upstate all healthy. i tell them to just stay indoors. that's the best way to stay healthy. but on the other hand if somebody has to go outside and have to leave i think they should wear a mask or wear something to wrap around their face to protect themselves. >> sandra: as far as treatment is concerned, it seems like we are making progress there and when it comes to this plasma treatment what can you tell us about this being a game changer as far as this virus is concerned? >> the first studies here are just coming out the results. it seems that this convalescent plasma, taking antibodies from people who have recovered.

people figured out how to fight the virus and taking those out and putting them in people sick they may neutralize the virus and help them to recover. the first study was with five people. they all seemed to do better after getting the antibodies. there is always a debate. they all got it. did they get better because of the antibody or did they get better because their own bodies figured out how to fight the virus? none did worse. i look at it as promising and hopefully we can increase numbers and get more information on that. >> sandra: dr. devi seems like we hear about the shortage of the hospital gowns and masks but there has been reports of a shortage in the actual medicines needed to treat people who are in the hospital especially with the respiratory problems, treatment for respiratory side of things and also sedatives used on those that have to go on those ventilators. what are we hearing on that?

are we making any progress and building up our supply of those medicines? >> this is the concern. these sedatives are used to put breathing tubes into people's throats and generally speaking you want to be sedated for that process. if you are ever having a surgery you don't want to experience the breathing tube and all these different invasive lines and procedures being done to you. the debate is if we're running low on those, will we have enough for when people have the breathing tube put down and will we have enough when people are on the ventilators to keep them sedated? they don't necessarily need it if they're on the ventilators. if they are confused they might. if we're awake, alert, cooperative they may not need it. who wants to be awake if you can't really do much and can't see visitors? i personally when i was 16 i was very ill. i had heart and lung failure for a different reason and i

had a breathing tube put down in an emergency setting by the code blue team just to help me survive to get through that. i will say it was very traumatic. the worst thing that happened to me the whole experience and to my family. on the other hand i got through it, i survived. the doctors and nurses saved me and i became a doctor and that's how i visualize this crisis. it will be very difficult. when we come through the other side hopefully we can all pay it forward. >> sandra: finally where is your level of op the miss -- optimism. as you've been watching the pandemic and we've been catching up with each other regularly throughout it, where do you stand on where we are in all this this morning? >> well, every day we hear troubling reports, more people are dying over time. so it is hard to be optimistic under those circumstances. on the other hand i look at everything else that's going on. when we look at those curves they are showing us sort of the

expected hospitalizations and expected deaths and how we can flatten the curve. a lot of them are missing hospital capacity. how many lives we can save. that is changing every day because look at the production of ventilators, all the companies coming to help. the production of the ppes, everybody jumping in, staffing. all these people volunteering to also help. so the hospital capacity is also increasing. the number of lives that we could potentially save is increasing every day. >> sandra: all really good information. appreciate your time this morning. thank you. we'll check back soon. >> ed: fox news alert on the economy. coronavirus profoundly impacting the march jobs report of course. the u.s. losing 701,000 jobs last month alone. the unemployment rate rising slightly to 4.4%. experts say it will continue to go up. it was 3.5% in february. taking a look at the dow now it

is up slightly. mark meredith live outside the white house -- up slightly, now down slightly. trying to take a measure of this. good morning to you, mark. >> good morning, ed. the jobs report for march is bleak but that's to be expected given how many businesses had no choice but to close their doors. you mentioned the 700,000 jobs lost last month. the labor department breaks it down further and gives us an idea where the job cuts are. the hospitality sector, restaurant industry losing 459,000 jobs. retail down 46,000 jobs. healthcare down 60,000. one area that saw hiring increase in march was federal workers 18,000. that was really because of census hiring. the white house has said it expected the job numbers to be bad. the government says it's the largest over the month increase in the unemployment rate since january of 1975. now in addition to expanded unemployment benefits the

administration says the stimulus checks some people will be getting will be hitting bank accounts soon. we heard from treasury secretary steve mnuchin yesterday who laid out the timeline about how it would happen. >> we have your information. you will get it within two weeks. social security, you will get it very quickly after that. this money does people no good if it shows up in four months. >> those are for individuals. now for small businesses the administration trying to promote the small business loans to keep people on payroll up to $10 million for less than 500 employees. they have the low interest rates as well as payment deferred to six months. this morning the treasury secretary said they've seen 700 loans already issued. we are expecting a better idea later today of how much loans are being issued and what kind of hurdles some groups will be facing. a briefing today at the white house later today. >> ed: we'll have a lot more on the jobs report later this hour.

you see that man there, larry kudlow, national economic counsel director for the president and the start of the government guaranteed loans for small business. they've been hit hard by the outbreak. >> sandra: a potential new way to detect the coronavirus as researchers are now looking at devices that track your heart rate and sleep patterns. how that could identify those who are infected and may be asymptomatic and 3m feeling the heat amid accusations the american company is selling facemasks to higher bidding countries. brand-new reaction from the white house and 3m next. >> president trump: we just signed an element of the act against 3m and hopefully they will be able to do what they are supposed to do. i've got great news for veteran homeowners.

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masks to foreign countries that outbid his own state. this coming after president trump invoked the defense production act to get 3m to produce and give out more facemasks. the president tweeting that it will have a big price to pay. here is what white house trade and manufacturing policy director peter navarro had to say on 3m yesterday. >> this is a 3m order. to be frank, over the last several days we have had some issues making sure that all of the production that 3m does around the world, enough of it is coming back here to the right places. so that order, we'll resolve that issue with 3m probably by tomorrow. >> sandra: 3m responding this morning say quote, yesterday the administration formally invoked the defense production act to require 3m to prioritize orders from the federal emergency management agency for

our n95 respirators. we've been working closely with the administration to do exactly that and appreciate the authorities in the dpa that provide a framework for us to expand even further the work we are doing in response to this global pandemic crisis. we look forward to working with fema to implement yesterday's order. that from 3m this morning. >> ed: we'll watch it. researchers looking into the possibility that wearable apps could identify asymptomatic cases of coronavirus. they're found on brace lets and rings and send data to your smartphone. let's bring in will ahmed. >> thank you for having me. >> ed: talk a little bit about how your company can analyze this data and what's the bottom line answer to the question can some of these apps track whether or not you have some --

you have coronavirus frankly? >> well, i'll speak to our company specifically. what we found is by measuring the body 24/7 you can find insights about it. our technology is designed really to optimize performance so we measure things like sleep and recovery and exercise and what we've seen in the outbreak of this global pandemic is a number of whoop members testing positive for covid-19. so we added covid-19 tracking into the whoop app to ultimately build a dataset on what it might look like, what does the data look like before, during, and after covid-19. and the initial results have been pretty fascinating. we just announced two days ago our partnership with cqu and cleveland clinic to go really deep on this data to help us

analyze it. >> ed: on that point. cqu for people is central queensland university in australia. the cleveland clinic is something a lot of people are aware of. continue that thought but give us an idea for people who haven't used whoop, do you work with fit bit and apple watch. do you track the data on your own or do you work with the existing apps that are out there that many of us use? >> so we built all of our own technology. i'm wearing a whoop strap here. a small sensor measuring everything about my body. we measure five different metrics. a granular understanding of the body. and then we have an app that is showing you things like your strain, recovery, your sleep. measuring heart rate throughout the day and heart rate variability and the quality of your sleep, things like low

wave and rem sleep and respiratory rate. that appears to be a leading indicator for people who have covid-19. in the individual cases we've looked @ people with covid-19 there is an elevated respiratory rate two to three days before someone is feeling symptoms. now, i want to be clear. we're doing a lot of research around this. it is an ongoing investigation. but at least for our whoop members we know that they are getting value out of being able to look at respiratory rate every day. >> ed: that is fascinating you can track the respiratory rate and gives you an idea two or three days out. what about you have an apple watch and whoop app, what can we learn from sleep patterns? >> well, interesting we're capturing respiratory rate while sleeping. other things are happening during sleep. looking at resting heart rate,

looking at heart rate variability. what we've seen on whoop is when you get sick, both your resting heart rate will go up and your heart rate variability will go down. now, what's interesting though is those are non-specific indicators which means that it could be you have a cold, it could be you have the flu. what's powerful about respiratory rate is it appears to be specific to covid-19. it's a lower respiratory tract infection and therefore makes sense it is affecting your respiratory rate. >> ed: we'll look forward to seeing what you and the cleveland clinic and others find. this doesn't prove a whole lot of things, it is giving us early looks at the data and it is very interesting patterns you are seeing. we'll be looking at it for whoop and others that do this. appreciate you coming in. >> thank you for having me. stay safe out there. >> sandra: fox news alert now u.s. intelligence officials taking a closer look at the

toll of the coronavirus in china. did beijing hide the true numbers of infections and deaths? a critical day for small businesses as a key part of the massive stimulus package kicks off giving them the help they need during that time. how does it work and when will they see the money? larry kudlow will join us live next. >> small business is the backbone of the american economy and the president has put the nation's 30 million small businesses front and center in the response effort. getting older shouldn't mean giving up all

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>> i told you this would be three weeks. i'm now committing to two weeks. we're delivering on our commitments. the irs within two weeks, which i oversee. >> sandra: secretary mnuchin promising help is coming for millions of americans. it comes as a new monthly jobs

report is out as of this morning. it shows that u.s. employers cut 701,000 jobs in the month of march as this pandemic continues and virtually leads to a shutdown of the u.s. economy and the unemployment rate that headline number. it jumped to 4.4% but may not paint the entire picture as to just how many may be suffering from this right now. let's see how the markets are reacting to all of it this morning. the dow initially selling off down 200 points here at the 10:30 a.m. eastern time. now to bring in on all of this is white house economic advisor larry kudlow. good morning and thank you for being here this morning. >> appreciate it. >> sandra: i want to get first your reaction to those numbers. this doesn't include two months of march where we saw a virtual shutdown of the u.s. economy. what do you think the actual unemployment rate is in the united states right now? >> well look, i'm not going to guesstimate that. i will simply say these are rough numbers. a lot of people are suffering.

and i will say the weeks ahead i think the numbers are also going to be very poor. it is an interruption of what was a very prosperous economy, an interruption from the virus and the necessary mitigation efforts to deal with the virus. also want to say that we have devoted enormous resources and work with our rescue package to add cash and liquidity, try to keep individuals and families afloat and keep small businesses afloat. we've worked with the federal serve as never before. the total package is a third of gdp, a third of our economy that's how widespread and massive. in other words, it is tough, reach out to those folks, it is very difficult. we're doing everything we can to deal with it and make it perhaps a little easier. we are trying to save jobs,

save payrolls and businesses so that when this virus runs its course, as it will, it is not permanent. this is a temporary issue. as it runs its course the american economy will be ready to snap back. i believe it will happen well before the end of the year. >> sandra: that's a strong forecast. bank of america put out a dire note saying that we're entering the deepest recession on record. they are talking about three straight quarters of contraction. 7% contraction, 30% in the third quarter. another percent in the fourth quarter. you look at economic models all the time. part of it is looking at the small businesses, the engine of this economy. there is concern that some of the banks that are going to be giving these loans don't really know the guidelines and there is some confusion as to how they are supposed to administer those. that's supposed to happen this

week. what's the update on the information getting to those banks? >> i think the information has gotten there. treasury secretary mnuchin has done a terrific job overseeing a massive program. we never tried anything like this. 350 billion. if you keep your payroll intact. 1% loan. the bank participation, look, all during the week secretary mnuchin and others of us have been talking to the bankers and they came in with constructive suggestions and those have been incorporated into the plan. the plan begins today, i guess. and the applications should flow. you have a wide -- virtually the whole banking community will take part in this. federal reserve, banks, fdic insured banks, credit unions, everybody is going to be involved. it is not going to be hard.

if anybody needs to find out hit the sba website and you will get the bank closest to you. i think this thing is ready to go and look, these are government guaranteed loans. the banks know that. we've given the banks a decent rate of return on the loans, and the most important part is that small business folks applying for the loans are going the try to keep this economy going or at least keep their employees attached to the business. that's so important. that's the key point in all this. i think the resources and the execution are going to be very good. let's wait and see. i think the bankers are ready to play and i know that folks need the help. >> sandra: it would be a huge help because this would allow them to retain those workers, pay those wages, pay the rent and utilities and eventually be a grant the way it is structured. secretary mnuchin tweeted out, i got first report on ppp loan. system up and running.

community banks have processed over 700 loans. process for 2.5 million. what about the bigger banks, larry? j.p. morgan told its small business customers it should not expect that they will start accepting those om indication applications this week. when does the guidance get to them? j.p. morgan is one of the big guys? >> i can't speak for j.p. morgan. i don't know what they've been informed. i will say that mr. moynihan, the ceo of the bank of america who is an extremely prominent banker, he has been visiting with steve mnuchin and worked hand in glove on this and he is ready to go. i can't account for the big banks. look, the key point here is i think the arrangements and the adjustments have been made. mr. mnuchin has said we're open for business on this.

this is not going to be hard. eventually the banks will play. look, sandra, one additional point. it is a spending program and payroll protection but don't forget we're putting out $600 billion of assistance. an top of this purchasing $600 billion for individuals, for families, for sick leave, for unemployment. 175 million americans. 175 million americans will receive checks and other forms of assistance. it is the most remarkable thing we've ever done and working hand in glove cooperating with the federal reserve on their lending programs so fiscal and monetary policy is working together. this -- nothing like this was ever tried before. keep people going. >> sandra: so many aren't going right now. so many people have been laid

off. i understand it is a massive coordinated effort. we get that. but then you look at the medical side of things and we're not out of the darkest hour of this yet but as the chief economic advisor to the president, you have to be able to start looking at how you reopen the economy once things do get better. so final thought on that note. what is the timeline to get this economy running again? >> look, the first thing is really to implement this phase three assistance plan. to implement it, execute it and make sure it gets to all the men and women and families and businesses and so forth. that's really priority number one. we must make it work. i think we have gotten off to a good start. it is unparalleled assistance. the second point i'll make is this pandemic and the mitigation effects essentially interrupted what was a very strong economic boom from prior policies and, you know, the

private sector coming alive. i say that because i believe the economy is fundamentally sound. if we can end or close gradually remove this interruption, then i think people will come back strong. and i think business will come back strong. >> sandra: people are going to hear that and say it isn't just an interruption. you look at the cost of that stimulus plan we're implementing, there could be years if not a decade that it takes us to recover from this and why i'm asking you for some sort of timeline. not just the economic. >> i just don't agree, i'm sorry, sandra. i don't think it will take years and decades to recover from this. we've had health waves, problems like this before and come back pretty rapidly. again, i think that's an important point. i may be wrong, but i will maintain as i think most people -- most economists believe that this virus, the pandemic and the actions to mitigate it are

temporary. and therefore the difficulties and the interruptions i talked about will prove to be temporary. our job right now is to help as many americans as we can with this assistance so they can get through this. that's our job. but i think at some point it will be over. it will wash through. the virus is not going to last for years. i don't agree with that. i frankly don't know everybody agrees the virus will last for years. maybe we'll all be wrong. our thinking since you asked is just to do the best we can to keep people working, to keep businesses alive, and therefore to be ready when the shut-in recedes and we go back to opening up business in this country and use our free enterprise system, the best in the world. i'm afraid i disagree with you. i think it will be temporary. >> sandra: to be clear i wasn't saying the virus will last for

years. the economic impact and what the recovery looks like. final thought on the news of the day. you have to look at the economic models. are we looking at double digit unemployment in this country now? >> i think in the weeks ahead, sandra. it will get worse. i can't pull any punches on that. it will get worse. this is a very deep contraction. the numbers are going to come in very bad and they'll look terrible in the weeks ahead. how much longer, i don't really want to forecast. that's up to the health people. no question it will be bad. also no question that we're providing more relief and assistance for unemployment than ever before in our nation's history. and if we have to do more, we will do whatever it takes. that's what the president said. we'll use all the power of the federal government to help folks who need that kind of help. >> sandra: based on what you

see so far, are those checks going to get to the people who need them the most in a timely fashion? you don't have to look far in reports this morning all over the place some people won't get their checks until september. so how fast will people get those checks, larry? >> first of all the unemployment checks from the current law are going out right now. second point on unemployment, labor secretary scalia has given the funds to the states and up to them to distribute. we hope they execute quickly. tax rebates checks in the mail directly. a couple more weeks as i said that's more or less $175 million people, 1200 per person, might be 3,000 per family. the next -- the unemployment checks are being distributed.

the plus up in unemployment might take another week or two from the states but it is coming. in terms of direct checks in the mail to help people get through this that should come hopefully in a couple more weeks. i think it will be pretty timely. >> sandra: a crucial time for those people. larry kudlow, appreciate your time this morning. thank you. we'll catch up with you soon. >> ed: our next guest calling for a congressional probe into the world health organization over its coronavirus response. he will tell us why next. at papa john's, we want you to know that from our 450-degree oven, to box, to you, it's our policy that your pizza is never touched once it comes out of the oven. and we're taking extra steps, like no contact delivery, to ensure it. (vo) they're adapting to supporto their communities.s. but many need our help. if you're a small business in need, or want to help a local business, go to quickbooks.com/smallbusinesshelp

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that this order now is going to help people who desperately need it in your state? >> sure. we're in the middle of the crisis. i don't think the right thing to do is finger pointing. what leaders do in these times is let's focus on the problem. where we are in florida, we have now a lot of cases and our biggest issue i would say right now is we don't have enough testing. we can't expect people to quarantine and tell people around them to quarantine if they tested positive and they don't get a result back. one, we need more tests, more testing sites and faster results. that's our biggest issue in florida. i hope everybody takes this stay at home seriously. don't go out. i put this out a few weeks ago. don't go out if you don't need to. better testing and we have to get people to stay quarantined if they have it and if you've been around somebody. >> ed: you've seen the pictures

and video we've all seen. even this weekend more people on the beaches. this is a different environment with the stay at home order. how confident are you that people in your state will finally listen? >> i think what is happening it's no different when i was governor and had the hurricane and when i got out there and really explained to people the problem, when we had irma, harvey happened just before that in texas. when people see what's going on in new york i think they are starting to take this very seriously. i talked to people all the time. they are staying in their houses. you might see a few people out walking. if they do they don't walk close to anybody. people are taking it seriously. we have essential services and we need to continue to have those. and -- i think people are taking it seriously. i'm hoping if they do it will stop the growth. i put up on my twitter handle

every day the growth by state and county. the state and country and county and my state the growth in cases. that's the key. if we can stop growing these cases then we'll make sure our healthcare system doesn't get overwhelmed. >> florida is getting hard hit. i know you want an investigation of the world health organization. there is real problems there and you are accusing them of covering up the real problems going on in communist china and they say they were too friendly. you said a moment ago let's not have finger pointing. why are you calling for a congressional investigation now of the world health organization while we deal with the pandemic >> we should be frustrated china covered this up. no question now. and who helped them and lied to us. it was intentional. people are dying because of it. and so we funded -- our

taxpayers fund it. we ought to do what we should do. have an investigation. talked to ron johnson, chairman of the committee. let's get the facts and as we get the facts we can make changes. >> ed: we need to get those facts and we want to make sure people in your state and every state in this country but we know florida is under a lot of pressure at this hour and we wish everyone there well. thank you for joining us, sir. we'll be right back with more. oo all time lows. by refinancing now, you can save $2000 a year. and newday's va streamline refi shortcuts the process. veterans can refinance with no income verification, no appraisal, and no out of pocket costs. one call could save you $2000 a year.

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>> sandra: passengers on board two cruise ships docked in southern florida are now set to be released. both ships were stranded at sea after a coronavirus outbreak

onboard. rick de pinho is joining us now. he is on one of the ships. >> we're in the bus waiting for a police escort to take us to the tarmac of the airport here in fort lauderdale and board a flight to atlanta. my wife is in the back and we're waiting on the bus. >> sandra: how does it feel to be off the ship finally, rick? >> it feels awesome to be on land and great to not be staring at land and not being able to get off. a great feeling. getting back to work is the plan now. >> sandra: and how are you feeling and your wife and the other passengers that got off that ship? >> we're feeling -- she is feeling happy. we're feeling good. we just want to get out of here. we see the police escort lining up and hopefully they'll get us

there soon. >> sandra: what has this process been like for you, rick? >> a never-ending process, that's what it has been like. you get hope that you'll get off in chile and then that doesn't work out. then you wonder what country might take you and then you get here and you finally get off the ship. we have a long way to go. getting to atlanta is only part of the way. >> sandra: we are glad for you that you finally are off that ship. appreciate you coming on. we'll check back in with you. best to you and your wife. >> thank you, have a great one. >> ed: we can hear the cheers. fox news alert. we have the governor of new york andrew cuomo coming up in just a moment. we'll be back.

>> ed: fox news alert. we are expecting andrew cuomo's daily news briefing happening any moment now. we'll go there live at coronavirus deaths mount with alarming speed. the white house looking to change things on facemasks to slow the pandemic. >> sandra: good to see you, i'm sandra smith. the new recommendation expected to apply to hot spots hit hard by covid-19. nearly a quarter million people testing positive here in the united states. more than 6,000 americans have died, over 900 in the past 24 hours alone as the trump administration now considers new recommendations on wearing

those face coverings for ordinary am. dr. fauci says all states should issue stay at home orders. >> there is no doubt in my mind or anyone who knows about this that the mitigation activities, the physical separation that we're doing clearly is having a positive impact. for that reason, the entire nation needs to continue to lead forward and adhere to those recommendations. that is the answer and quite frankly that's the only tool that we really have that we know is effective. new york has gotten hit very badly. unfortunately. they will likely turn that corner and start coming down sooner than other cities that started a bit later. it is going to get much worse before it gets better. and that just is an unfortunate fact that we have to deal with. >> ed: sobering talk there from the doctor. fox team coverage this hour. chris wallace standing by with the impact on american

families, jobs, medical bills and election coming up. griff jenkins on today's latest developments. david lee miller. we begin with griff jenkins in washington >> ending the week with the numbers at their highest peak. death rate escalating. in the last three days nearly 3,000 americans have lost their lives to this virus. worldwide more than 54,000. the number of cases globally now topping one million with the u.s. representing nearly a quarter of all of those cases. only two countries italy and spain have more than the state of new york alone. these numbers a driving factor and officials recommending a national stay at home order. we expect it soon. only 11 states left in the country that don't have some form of a stay at home. utah, wyoming. oklahoma, arkansas. the list there. we expect the white house task force to announce new

recommendations regarding facial covering. stressing it should not be specifically a facemask like the ones front line health workers need so badly. do not go out right now and try and buy the now recognizable n95 masks. those are for the doctors. we need something like a scarf or bandana to cover your face. even for healthy people who could be systematic carriers to present the spread. here is what dr. fauci also said about that. listen. >> the better part of valor is when you are 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 should in no way ever take away from the availability of masks 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. this is an addendum and

addition to the physical separation, not as a substitute for it. >> that was his main point, it should not be a substitute to give anyone a false sense of security. as you mentioned at the top it will get worse before it gets better. >> ed: thank you. let's get straight to a fox news alert. the governor of new york, the epicenter of the crisis in recent days and still is. governor cuomo speaking live. >> out of many, one. it was our founding fathers' fundamental belief for this nation. adams and madison spoke to it and jefferson spoke to it. although they had a lot of different opinions while they were doing the constitution, the one thing they agreed with was out of many, one. and it was good advice then, it is even better advice today. the curve continues to go up.

the number of tests has reached a new high. we did over 21,000 tests. thank you to our great health department. we have over 10,000 new cases, 102,000 total tested positive, 14,000 hospitalized, 3700 icu patients. 8800 patients discharged. that's good news. number of deaths highest single increase in the number of deaths since we started. 2300 to 2900 deaths. you see the totality for new york state 102,000, new jersey, california. remember when this started new york had airports that were

designated entry zones. this is an international destination, international hub. we have people coming from across the world sooner and at a higher rate than anyone else. total hospitalization 1400. that's also a new high. daily icu admissions is down a little bit but you had more deaths, you have more people coming into hospitals than any other night. also more people going out which is obviously the ebb and the flow coming in and out of the hospital system. the hot spots we now track on a nightly basis how many people go into what facility. so we can track the increase in what's happening. you see an increase in new york city as we knew.

certain communities, frankly, more in new york city than other communities but you also see an increase on long island, which is something we're concerned about. long island does not have as elaborate a healthcare system as new york city. we don't have the same amount of resources on long island and we see an increase in the number of cases on long island and that has us very concerned. supplies, ppe are in short supply as they are across the country. we need companies to make the materials. it is unbelievable to me that in new york state, in the united states of america, we can't make these materials and that we are all shopping china to try to get these materials and we are all competing against each other. these are not complex materials and we will work with new york

manufacturers, we'll finance the transition necessary to make these materials. we talk about them as if they are very complicated. this is an n95 mask, this is it. it was 70 cents before this started. it is now as high as $7. but this is all that an n95 mask is. it's fabric, it's material. the fda has the specifications and then it is two pieces of elastic cord. it can't be that we can't make these. this is a gown. we call them gowns. this is a gown. there is nothing sophisticated about the manufacturing of this garment. there is nothing sophisticated about the material.

it can't be that companies in this country and in this state can't transition to make those supplies quickly. again, i understand if there is a financial burden, we will address that and we'll work with you. so please contact us. javits is going to be converted to a covid facility. the original plan was to just javits, the state convention center. it will hold 2500 people. the original plan is that it would not take covid patients. it would take non-covid patients and would be an overflow for hospitals. as it turned out, we don't have non-covid people to any great extent in the hospitals. hospitals have now turned into effectively icu hospitals for

covid patients. so we wanted to convert javits from non-covid to covid. the -- it's federally run. frankly the federal agencies were not eager to do that. fema was not eager to do that. i called the president. i spoke to him about it yesterday morning. that afternoon -- yesterday afternoon the president called me back and said he spoke to the task force and they would grant the request to transition the javits center to covid only. that adds 2500 beds so that's a very big deal. i thank the president for doing it. he did it despite the fact that the federal agencies were not eager to do it. and he did it quickly. so i thank him for that. it's a big deal for us. we are still have the challenge of ventilators.

we don't have enough period. the situation is very simple now. people come in, they are almost all covid people. ironically, the number of non-covid cases has dropped because so many things are shut down that you don't have the same number of automobile accidents or people getting hit by cars. you don't have the same crime rates. so you don't have the same number of trauma cases coming into a hospital. they are covid cases and many of them go right to the icu, in the icu you need a ventilator. if you don't have a ventilator, the process steps. we don't have enough ventilators. we're doing everything possible, splitting of ventilators, using bipap machines, using the anesthesia

ventilators, we're talking to the federal government to be as helpful as they can from the federal stockpile. in truth i don't believe the federal stockpile has enough to help all the states. because you can't buy the material at this point. we're still trying to buy from china. we're working with alibaba which has been helpful to us. i spoke to jack and mike, the president and they have been personally gracious and very helpful in trying to get us the source material from china. but we are going to have to redeploy ventilators from across the system. in other words, there are hospitals that have ventilators, there are hospitals that have ppe equipment. there are private sector companies that have ppe equipment that they are not using that we are going to need

to redeploy to the places and the hospitals where we need them. i had a conversation with a hospital administrator yesterday. i understand they don't want to give up their ventilators. ventilators are expensive pieces of equipment. i understand that even if they are not using them, they are reluctant to see them go out the door. the theory is if the government gets them they will never get them back. i understand that. but i don't have an option and i am not going to get into a situation where we know we are running out of ventilators and we could have people dying because there are no ventilators but there are hospitals in other parts of the state that have ventilators that they are not using. i'm just not going to allow us

to go there. i think it would be wholly irresponsible so i am going to sign an executive order that says the state can take ventilators and ppe from institutions that don't need them now and redeploy them to other parts of the state and other hospitals that do need them. those institutions will either get their ventilator back or they will be reimbursed and paid for their ventilator so they can buy a new ventilator. i can't do anything more than that. but i am not going to be in a position where people are dying and we have several hundred ventilators in our own state somewhere else. i apologize for the hardship to those institutions. ultimately there is no hardship. if you don't get the ventilator back, i give you my personal word i will pay you for the

ventilator but i am not going to let people die because we didn't redistribute ventilators. the national guard will be deployed to pick up these ventilators across the state and deploy them to places where we need them. state budget passed last night, 3:00 a.m. as you know. the state budget was extraordinary. first it passed a lot of major policy initiatives that we should all be very proud of. the nation's first domestic terrorism law. improves bail reform. addressed child vaping scourge that is going across this nation. we banned fentanyl, a ban against the repeat subway sex offenders. campaign finance reform. paid sick leave. middle class tax cut. very aggressive airport construction program and

accessible renewable energy citing. i understand we're consumed with the coronavirus situation but you have to be able to walk and chew gum and we have to move forward at the same time and that's why passing the budget and these pieces of legislation were important. these issues are still important and child vaping, etc., surrogacy, these are major issues for people and they passed last night and congratulations. the budget was difficult because the state has no money. and how do you do a budget when you can't really forecast revenues? and we came up with a somewhat novel budget that actually is calibrated to future revenues or losses. so we really start with an assumption and then what we're saying is when we see how much revenue the state makes, how fast the economy comes back,

what the expenses are, we'll calibrate accordingly. we are heavily reliant on the federal aid legislation that gets passed. the federal government has passed a couple of pieces of legislation. they are planning to pass another piece of legislation. it is very important that whatever legislation they pass helps state and local governments. when you deprive a state government, all you are actually achieving is that that state government has to turn around and not fund the programs that were dependent on that state government. we fund education, we fund healthcare. i spoke to speaker pelosi today, she is working on the program for the next piece of legislation. she understands fully the need of state governments. she understands fully the need

of local government. she understands my position on how new york was short changed in the past bill. and she said she is going to do everything she can do to help new york. i've worked with the speaker many times. i've known her for 30 years and i believe her and her credibility and her competence is unparalleled in my opinion. so i'll be working with the speaker and the rest of the congressional delegation going forward. we need federal assistance. depending how much federal assistance will be that calibration of the budget going forward. coronavirus response in general. there is a lot of conversations about how we should respond to this governmentally or from an intergovernmental perspective. people want to say it's a states rights question versus federal interference.

who should decide what is done on a state level? there is no governor who is arguing that their states rights are being trampled, right? it is not a states rights issue. no one is saying the federal government is trampling my rights. i've said that on other occasions but no governor, democrat or republican is saying that here. every state is saying the same thing, i need help, i need assistance. so i don't consider this situation where the federal government is interfering with the states rights. this is a situation that is a -- by definition a national disaster emergency situation where the states need and welcome the federal assistance. i've done -- i was in the federal government, as you know. i worked on scores of federal

emergencies. the only operational model that i see that could potentially work here at this stage where we are today with the realities we're facing where no state can get the supplies they need. no state can get the ppe they need and no state can get the ventilators they need. the market has literally collapsed. the only operational model that i see is you have curves. we've been talking about our curve. you have curves in different parts of the country. and those curves occur at different times. it depends on when the outbreak started in that region, how quickly it spread. so you have different curves in different parts of the country occurring at different times. i think the only practical solution at this point is focus

on the emergency that is in front of you. focus on the emergency at the place and time that is in front of you. and then redeploy to the next situation. so new york is the tip of the spear so to speak. we have the high numbers, we have the first major encounter. deploy resources to new york. we'll hit that curve and be at the top of the curve 17 days, 21 days we're on the other side of the curve and we're coming down. and then i don't need the ventilators that we have amassed and split and the bipap machines. we can redeploy what we have, personnel, equipment, to whatever locality is next.

now, it's not a perfect sequential timing but if you look at the projected curves when it will hit michigan and illinois and when it is going to hit florida, you will see that there is a timing sequence to it. why not or what is the alternative to now saying let's help each other, let's focus on each situation as it develops and let's move our resources and personnel as it develops? what is the alternative to the crisis that we see looming nationwide? you can't -- you do not have enough. the federal government does not have enough material to sit there and say whatever you need, i can get you. don't worry, california,

michigan, new york or florida, they can't. they can't. they have essentially said i don't have enough in my stockpile to handle all of this. then you get into a blame game, should it have been in the federal stockpile or should states have had stockpile? forget that. the reality is how do you handle this operationally unless you go from place to place and then you say each state has to help every other state as we go along. there is a simple analogy to this that we live all the time. when we have minor emergencies or disasters, when we have a minor hurricane that's regional in nature or minor flood. power goes out, what do we do? all the power and utility companies from all across the country descend on that region

that needs help. right? after a hurricane, power lines are down, you look at the highways and you see all the trucks coming in from different states, right? arizona trucks, colorado trucks. when florida has a hurricane what do we do? we get into trucks, everybody drives down to florida. personnel, etc. when puerto rico got into trouble what did we do? con edison, new york, rochester guess all went down to puerto rico. why? help the place that has the crisis. this is that on a macro scale? new york is in crisis. help new york. and then pick up, decamp and go to the next place as this rolls across the country. there is not a perfect timing.

there will be two parts of the country that hit an apex at the same time. there will be three parts of the country that hit an apex at the same time. but i do not see any operational, practical alternative to dealing with this going forward. by the way, this is all operational. there is no concept, there is no abstraction or philosophy to this. this is a person walks in the door, do you have a bed, do you have a staff person, are they wearing ppe and do you have a ventilator? and are they all present at that moment when that person walks in that door? that's all this is. that's all this is. forget testing vaccines, that's a separate project. that's not where people are going to die in the near term. people are going to die in the

near term because they walk into a hospital and there is no bed with a ventilator because there is either no bed or no staff or no ppe or no ventilator. that's what is going to happen. and i think this is the only way to avoid it. and look, i believe the american people are there. how many times have we seen a disaster across this country and how many new americans just show up to help? it's in the american dna to say we're here to help one another. it is for one, all. that's just a reminder out of many, one. we're a community, we're americans, we're a family. we're brothers and sisters. there is a commonality. i'm a new yorker, you are from california. i know, those are lines on a piece of paper. we are the same.

we are the same. and we know that here in new york. i asked for people to come help new york. health officials, health professionals, 20,000 people volunteered in a matter of days to come help new york in the middle of a pandemic. 20,000 people. think about that. 20,000 health professionals said i'll leave my home and come to your state. make that a system for that charity and expertise and that's how we beat this virus as it marchs across the country. we just deploy in front of the virus as it works its way across the country. in any event, when our curve is

over, that's what we're going to do. new yorkers are going to take what we've amassed, we're going to take our equipment and take our personnel and we're going to take our knowledge and we will go to any community that needs help. we're learning things that fortunately no other community had to learn because we're first and because of the intensity of the situation here. when our urgent need is over, we will help any community in this nation that needs it. because that outpouring has been there for us. you know, i remember post 9/11 and i remember post 9/11 without asking anyone for anything. the people who showed up in new

york just to help, tradesmen bringing tools, people bringing food, people bringing trays of cookies, whatever. they just showed up. nobody asked, they just showed up. and said i'm here to help or stood on a corner helping people. that's america at its best. and at this time when we're dealing with our worst, let's deploy america at its best. and we know what that is. and that can help us. questions, comments? >> [inaudible question] >> there is no data to support the effectiveness of facemasks. i understand usually we like to have based on evidence and unfortunately in difficult times like this we have to go with expert opinion and right now the data -- there isn't

data to suggest whether masks except for those who are ill and those who are healthcare workers and that's why we're reserving those for healthcare workers. >> [inaudible question] >> the evidence like i was saying, there is no clear evidence to suggest that facemasks whether made out of cloth or general public using facemasks. we're continuing to look at the data all the time that's coming in and we're examining that right now. >> let me ask the doctor for a qualified opinion. i think it's fair to say the masks couldn't hurt unless they gave you a false sense of security. you know, when a doctor talks about a mask they're talking about a form-fitting mask that goes around your nose, that doesn't allow any other air to come in. that's really what a mask is. to ask a doctor does a bandana help, i said to the doctor,

i'll just get the bandanas i wear when i ride my motorcycle. he said that's not going to help. this is what the doctor thinks of as a mask, right? but could it hurt? might it help? i think it's fair to say yes, but don't get a false sense of security that now you don't have to social distance and you don't have to take the normal precautions because you are wearing a bandana. is that fair to say? >> that's absolutely fair to say. >> how are you going to decide if the curve in the upstate at the same time that they need the ventilators? >> don't use the word -- it's a hard word, seize. it is sharing of resources. we are going to share resources. we are not going to have any

part of the state that doesn't have the resources they need because we didn't share resources. we are tracking every night, every hospital who comes in, what they have, what they need. and we are just sharing and shifting resources, which is the only intelligent thing to do among one group of people. right now the numbers in upstate new york are lighter than the numbers in down state new york. but that is going to change. it is in new york city. now you are seeing long island start to light up. we had westchester light up. numbers are growing in erie. you are going to see the wave move through the state. you've been watching it every day through the map as every county is now colored in.

we'll shift resources all across the state to whatever place has that need at that time. and we are going to make sure every hospital has the resources they need to do the normal business. what is fascinating is the normal business has dropped off dramatically for a hospital. why? we canceled all elective surgery so elective non-critical surgery is not happening and when we closed down most of society and people are staying home, less people are getting hurt. less bicycle accidents, less crime. so hospitals who are not dealing with covid are seeing very low activity. it is not that we are going to leave any healthcare facility without adequate equipment, but they don't need excess equipment now.

most of these hospitals put together a stockpile. you'll have 50,000 masks. well, 50,000 masks, how long does that last you? five months it lasts me. okay, you don't really need a five-month supply right now. keep a one-month supply, give me four months, and you need it because you have a problem i'll redeploy it another way otherwise i owe you four months' worth of masks. >> what are we talking about going upstate to down state? >> we have to see how many. we haven't done that calculation, jesse. if a hospital has -- you have to go hospital by hospital. how many do you have? how many do you need for the immediate future? >> ideally how much would you draw down? >> there could be several

hundred excess ventilators in hospitals that don't have a covid response right now. >> are we still anticipating or projecting that you think we have six days worth of supply in new york city or would this fiddle with that number a little bit? >> this is -- several hundred could represent several hundred lives. so am i willing to deploy the national guard and inconvenience people for several hundred lives? you're damn right i am. several hundred ventilators doesn't fix the problem, obviously. but it's a significant number of ventilators when you can't find ventilators anywhere else and you've done everything else that you can do. >> we're still at six days. >> yes. let's do it this way. let's do it this way. you are burning about -- the burn rate is 300 ventilators per day.

if you find 300 excess ventilators you've found another day. >> will you release the ventilators from the stockpile? >> it's human nature, right? let me borrow your equipment. no. i would rather keep my equipment here. government is going to take it, how do i know i get it back and how do i track it? it's an expensive piece of equipment. now it's $50,000. when we started it was about $20,000. it is not like asking to borrow a cup of sugar. >> are you positive this order would stand up in court? certainly these private hospitals could make a fourth amendment argument. >> you think they might sue me? >> it's possible. >> it would be a slow day if i didn't get sued five times, john. if they want to sue me for borrowing their excess ventilators to save lives, let them sue me.

it will stand up. >> the javits center is becoming a covid -- >> i'll borrow them. i will return them, or i will pay you for a new one. you want to hope i don't return it so i pay you for a new one. lend me your drill. i will bring it back to you or i will buy you a new drill. how do you lose? i'm not taking your last drill. you have five other drills in your tool box. you are not going to use five drills between now and then. and if something happens where you go on a drilling frenzy, call me and i will bring you more drills. go ahead, i'm sorry. >> the javits center now a

covid unit. will it have icu beds? >> it will have icu beds. for all intents and purposes in this conversation it's a ventilated bed, right? so how many ventilators will be in javits, it is federally staffed. they will have to find the ventilators for it. so it is going to be up to them. >> if you find ventilators in the stockpile? >> that would be from their stockpile, yes. >> the number of sick cops in the nypd continues to rise. is there going to be a percentage how many cops that would take over the nypd with state police or is there something you're considering there? >> look, we have this situation across the board. we have twu workers, transit workers who have a very high rate of illness and who by the way are doing heroic work. i want to thank them very much.

john samuelson, the transit workers union. to run those trains and buses every day, talk about social distancing. you are a bus driver, right? it is hard to social distance. you are a train conductor, pulling into stations across the city. so these -- they're doing heroic work. very high rate of illness, that's a problem in the nypd and across the board. a serious problem with healthcare workers, nurses and hospital staff. so it will be on a case-by-case basis, bernadette. we'll look to the loek alt. what do they think is a level where they need backup and we'll do everything we can to provide backup. >> is there a point that you

would require a state takeover of the nypd? >> no. you couldn't do a state takeover of the nypd. i would be of assistance to helping the nypd. we have to perform a policing function, right? that's state constitution. provide public safety. the nypd, if they have a serious staff shortage, then i would work with them to figure out how we remedy that. but the nypd is something like 30,000 employees. there is no replacing 30,000 employees. >> the number of covid patients in the new york city area who have been transferred to upstate hospitals to the capital region? >> does anybody know that? >> we have transferred over the course of the last two days several dozen patients back up to this area and we're working closely with the hospitals down there.

>> governor, have you spoken to federal authorities on the situation on the comfort. there were only 20 patients. >> i did not speak to the president about the comfort in any depth. the original agreement on the comfort, the ship, was it was nor non-covid people. i think the navy -- i'll speak to the secretary of defense. the navy's position is they don't want to put covid people on the ship because it would be too hard to disinfect the ship afterwards. that's my rough interpretation of what they are saying. >> they are rejecting as well, right? >> i have not heard that. we only have covid and non-covid patients, right? and the need is really for the covid patients. i know they're not taking covid

positive patients. but they said that from day one in fairness. i don't know the science of ship disinfecting to know whether or not they are being overly dramatic. but i'll take their word for it. >> can we return to the slides with the total confirmed cases of coronavirus? >> that tests my technological ability, zach, which one did you want? >> the one would the county breakdown of confirmed cases. >> the county? >> breakdown. >> ed: can -- >> can you do this? there has to be a better way. >> an update lessen crowding in the state prisons? >> we have no pressures to lessen crowding in state price

-- prison. we've put in rules and regulations to reduce the risk. but reducing the prison population we don't have any way to do that right now. is this the slide you were talking about, positive cases? >> the measures, different than nursing homes or other facilities. >> i can get you a full list of both. >> an uptick of domestic violence cases. is there any assistance the administration can provide to people? >> the state has a 1-800 number-942-6906. the domestic violence hop line. women should know we don't have to stay in those situations. we'll help them find safe shelter. if there is an issue in your immediate harm call 911. i spoke to the state police there is a reported uptick. some reports as high as 15 to

20%. unacceptable on any day and i want people to know if every single case that's reported the state police will investigate fully and bring the full bear of the law behind it. >> how come you always ask the last question, i'm always curious? is that a french thing? it's french do you think? you don't want to get in the scramble with these aggressive americans? >> my question is you didn't talk about your brother today. how is he? i have the question about your father. what is the thing your father taught you that helped you dealing with this crisis? >> you also ask the hardest questions. is that a french thing? the question on my brother is easy. he is doing okay. this is going to be a great public service that he winds up doing. it will have been a miserable

personal experience because this virus is no joke at any age. and he is relatively young. he is in good shape but -- he has had malaria before. he is not a cry baby by and large. the -- but this is tough. it's tough. i talk to him several times a dai. he is doing fine but it is tough to deal with. he will wind up doing a great public service because all these questions and mystery about coronavirus, what if this, what happens? he is a living example of living with coronavirus, right? and he is up there and talking about it. so god bless him. and it demystify it. it will wind up being a great public service at the end of

the day. as a journalistic contribution i think it will be great. what did my father teach me that is most helpful in this situation? he told me so many things on so many levels that it is hard to say. but he had tremendous stamina, he loved winston churchill, never give up, never give up, never give up. that's where we are. he taught me to trust in love and love's triumph over anger and hate and selfishness. and we need love now. we need love as a people. am i seizing ventilators? no, i'm taking excess equipment

to save lives, you know? it's about doing the right thing and about love and people will respond to that in this state and in this country. and i think those are the two greatest things. this is hard personally. it is hard to go through this all day. and then it's hard to stay up all night watching those numbers come in on the number of deaths tick up. and know that you are in charge of the ship at this time. and i don't shirk that responsibility at all. but i went through a lot of hard times with him and eventually we go through the darkness and you find the light and we are going to find the light. thank you, guys. >> ed: you've been listening to the governor of new york andrew cuomo talking about a huge impact of the coronavirus on his state of new york.

talking about stresses on the nypd, a big chunk of their officers have covid-19. other places have it too. he noted new york has crossed 3,000 deaths. roughly half of the deaths related to the coronavirus here in america and finally in order to try and save lives the governor is now signing an executive order allowing the state to take ventilators -- they need those ventilators to keep people alive from hospitals not stressed now. they'll take the ventilators and redistribute them to hospitals that need them. they will use the national guard to help them do that. so some big news there from the governor. we'll watch that and a lot of other stories still breaking this hour. we'll be right back after this break. doing everything possible to keep you connected.

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>> sandra: brand-new information coming out almost daily on the coronavirus and what exactly we know about the spread of it. the latest discovery shedding light on why the virus is spreading so quickly. a small study posted in march revealing people with the virus may be at their most infectious when they only have mild cold-like symptoms. for more answers on all this joining us now via skype is physician and professor of public health at johns hopkins university dr. marti mccarey. if you could answer questions on this. now the big conversation is facemask or no facemask and how exactly we know if someone is walking around contagious? >> as you pointed out, this new study, a german study of only

nine patients but they swabbed people every consecutive day. on day four it was the maximal day of viral shedding. we know most people have mild or moderate symptoms and this was concerning because with sars and some other infections the maximal time of contagiousness of viral shedding is day 10. masks are an interesting topic. we would love for everybody to wear a mask if they can't abide by social distancing because they work in an essential service. but there is just not enough masks to go around. i file this people can wear a mask if they have a mask, something they can makeshift into a mask it's not a bad idea to wear it. certainly wear it if you have to violate social distancing because of an essential service. >> sandra: meanwhile dr. birx appearing on that town hall yesterday making news talking about how they didn't know how contagious this originally was, which is now leading to the

conversation about facemasks. here is dr. birx. >> the bottom line is we didn't know how contagious it was. i think when you make misassumptions around contagion early on you don't prepare in the way that you should prepare for the level of contagion that this covid-19 exhibits. >> sandra: doctor, final thoughts and message to people as we go off and try to live our lives and we just don't know where it goes next. >> most things in our lives we have complete control over. we have complete control over our schedules in general. and what we do with our time and where we work and where we live. but right now we don't have control over this thing and i think it's a time we need to say look, we think we're behaving well. many times it's a single encounter with a touched surface that could be the problem. >> sandra: always appreciate having you on. thank you very much. >> thank you. >> sandra: more coming up from "america's newsroom." we'll be right back.

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love continuing coverage of this pandemic greater on the fox news channel. ed and i will see you on monday morning. have a great weekend, everybody. "outnumbered" starts now. >> harris: and we begin with a burst of cases around the globe. we have gone past 1 million confirmed covid-19 cases. the united states represents nearly one quarter of those reported cases, more than italy and spain combined. the united states also surpassing 6,000 deaths overnight. this, as nearly nine in ten americans are now under some sort of stay-at-home order. however, top infectious disease expert dr. anthony fauci says he does not understand why every state has not issued such an order. >> i don't understand why that's not happening. as you said, the tension between federally-mandated versus states' rights to do what they want is something i don't want to get into. but if you look at what's going on in