entire week. >> if you want to see more like them, check out her instagram. >> dana: my sister angie has been doing it at home. all right, tyrus, thank you. thanks for joining us, i'm dana perino. i will see you at story time at 3:30 p.m. in the meantime, here is bill hemmer, he is live. ♪ >> bill: thank you dana. i am bill hemmer, broadcasting live from the crossroads of the world which is a very different place on this friday afternoon. times square here in new york city. on a normal day hundreds of thousands with pastor hira, and today it is eerily empty. on the left, we pulled an earth cam image from exactly one year ago at this hour. on the right, you can see what it looks like today. it is empty, folks. you can see buses pass through

and taxi drivers. you can see hube huber drivers s well. we got a roving camera through the streets of manhattan to help bring images from around new york to this hour. i've been here in new york city for new year's eve probably ten times where a million people from around the world stand shoulder to shoulder, packed. ready to begin and mark a new moment in their own lives on a new year's eve day. today firefighters crossing the street and fire trucks and again i mentioned the essential workers that go up and down through this part of manhattan. here is where we stand at this hour. 3:00 east coast time, the united states has now topped a quarter million cases, more than a third of them in the state of new york where more than 3,000 people have died. they new york city, the giant convention center, the javits center has been turned into an emergency medical

facility which will now treat covid-19 patience. originally they were just going to take the overflow of patience from area hospitals. in the meanwhile, the feds have started to urge americans to cover their face in public to slow the spread of the pandemic here at home. first i want to check in with a new york doctor, derek haskett who has been doing telemedicine while she recovers from covid-19. she said she hopes to go back to work at the e.r. on sunday. good afternoon to you. do you believe on sunday that we will see millions of americans covering their faces? >> i think that by sunday, i don't know what's going to happen. i think it would be encouraging to see more americans cover their faces when they are outside for only the essential errands, like going to the grocery store or going the pharmacy.

>> bill: here's what you wrote in "the new york times." wearing masks must be a national policy. make your case. >> well, i think it's a policy across the entire country. even though governors have the right to make their own rules it's important to have uniform policies that protect all americans. covering your face with a mask when you are outside going to the pharmacy, taking a short walk or going to the grocery store, it's a good time to remind us that it's a different time in america and we need to keep ourselves healthy. >> bill: you might understand it's a tougher argument to make in new york city than des moines, iowa. how are you doing after taking testing positive? >> i am very lucky because i had a mild course and i'm able to go back to the e.r. and take care of other people. >> bill: do you have any

reservations about going back on sunday? >> i don't have any reservations. i think is an emergency room doctor it's important to go in with proper production which my institution will give us to take care of other people and also help other frontline doctors not get exposed since i have already recovered from the illness. >> bill: how has the telemedicine gone? i understand you are saying about 30 patients per day? >> when we do telemedicine we help decompress the health care system. it's overwhelming the number of people specifically in new york that are infected by this virus. and a lot of them, like 85% of them are really able to recover at home. so with telemedicine we can support patients and give them appropriate medical advice. we can allow them to call in day after day and really tell us how they are feeling and keep the hospitals open for critically ill patients everywhere. >> bill: went the last time

you saw your kids? >> i haven't seen my kids in three weeks. i move them out of my house before i worked the first a shift with coronavirus patients and it's my priority to take care of the patients who need it the most. >> bill: how are you doing with that? >> they are at camp grandma and grandpa, and we are all making sacrifices. for me it's not seeing my kids but it's a privilege of being able to go in and take care of other people. >> bill: is a good thing they have their grandparents. thank you for being with us today. you can see the images now from the streets of new york city. they are vacant. often times he would cpac streets with people on both sides of the street. it's a different town today. president trump meanwhile in

washington meeting with the white house at the moment. the u.s. economy lost more than 700,000 jobs last month and according to latest jobs report that came out this morning at 8:30 a.m. it's the worst with scenes of the financial crisis 11 years ago. there is some relief coming for small business owners, the white house saying lending begins today. now trading down about 400 points, about 2% on the total. i will let's talk to john roberts on the north lawn. >> only down 400 points in the dow, and it kind of shows we are getting use to the new normal. no way to sugarcoat it though, the numbers are absolutely staggering. 701,000 jobs lost during the month of march. unemployment taking up to 4.4% but with major parts of the economy shut down it was absolutely expected. the president's chief economic advisor larry kudlow saying it's going to get better before it

gets worse. >> we can't pull any punches on that. this is a deep contraction and the numbers will come in very badly and looked terrible in the weeks ahead. how much longer? i don't really want to forecast. but there is no question that it's going to be bad. >> but as you mentioned at the top, the same time the labor department report came in the treasury department and small business administration started the process of getting loans up to small businesses to retain employees. as of 2:30 p.m., 6,000 loans had been administered for a total of some $2 billion. 457 banks involved there and still democrats say that's not enough and they are pushing to rapidly get to work on a phase for stimulus or rescue package. here's house speaker nancy pelosi. >> i think right now we need a fourth bipartisan bill in the bill could be very much like the

bill we just passed. i don't think that 350 is enough for small business and i don't think eight weeks is enough of time to make a judgment about the viability of a business. >> bill: end up while the horizon has been pushed back by the extension of these guidelines and travel restrictions, the chief economic advisor larry kudlow predicting that at some point it's going to bounce back and it will bounce back big. listen here. >> this is not going to last throughout the year and i do think that we will see a very strong economic recovery when this has played itself out. >> bill: and either today or tomorrow, the white house coronavirus task force will recommend that people should cover their nose in their mouth. doesn't necessarily have to be a mask, it could be a scarf or bandanna or something like that. certainly not the n95 masks that

are in such short supply for medical professionals and first responders. here's what anthony fauci said about it earlier. >> an important point to emphasize though is that that should in no way ever take away from the availability of masks that are needed for health care providers that are real and present danger of getting infected from the people that they are taking care of. so this is an addendum in addition to the physical separation, not as a substitute for it. >> and some new guidelines just implement it at the white house. anyone who is going to come into close contact with the president, not including us here in the press corps because we are deemed to have enough separation, but staff members and people coming to for example this oil industry executives meeting will be sitting close to the president, they have to get a coronavirus test before they get in the room with the president. we are able to do it because, as we saw earlier in the week they have that new abbott labs rapid

test kit. the president said yesterday that he got it so anyone who comes into close contact with the president will first have to have that rapid test before they get into the room with the president. >> bill: thank you john roberts. the president took a test for the second time yesterday, both negative. we are here in what is normally the pulse of the manhattan, the pulse of the big apple. our photographer and crews driving around the city and the streets are empty. the stores, the bars and the restaurants have been closed for weeks. new yorkers by the millions are either indoors or they have left town entirely. the schools are closed, perhaps this looks a lot like the town where you are living right now. what we are trying to pull off today is someone of technical merit, when you think about the social distance and guidelines that we have instituted not only here in new york, but to the fox news channel and our colleagues or neighbors for that matter, just to be able to do

this broadcast today, it's a bit of a stretch but so far we are able to make it happen so that you can see part of your country that has been largely forbidden from view. so for the next hour or so you will see what it's like here in new york. in the meantime i want to show you a live look at st. patrick's cathedral about two avenues over from here. a lot of christians getting ready to celebrate holy week without being able to attend services in person. we will talk to his eminence, timothy cardinal dolan about his message of hope as we enter holy week. and the toll this pandemic is taking on new york city's finest, in just a moment. >> we have to say protect us, protect the citizens, help us do the job. i think emotional time. the reality is these police officers will go out and do the job whether we have the equipment or not.

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>> bill: it we are live from the crossroads of the world and a much different scene as you can see from home. new york city is the epicenter of the pandemic and the virus is taking a big toll on the largest police force in the country, or than 1500 officers and civilians and six have died so far.

that's one of the terms that took place in the last part of june. in the meantime after nearly a month, passengers are now being allowed off of a pair of cruise ships in florida including the coronavirus stricken zaandam. four people have died, at least two from covid-19. another cruise ship the coral princess making its way to ship i'll make sure with at least two positive cases. >> group after group of passengers are disembarking from the rotterdam and waves today finally getting their feet back on the ground after nearly a month at sea on the ship. two of those weeks were in a stranded situation. the first international cruise passengers, and that group of

holland american cruisers were taken by bus straight to the tarmac and onto the plane. everyone wearing masks, destination toronto. paris and london are still on the way. they pulled in after more than a dozen countries unwilling to help. that ship had most of the sick on board when it got to fort lauderdale including four dead that were finally removed last night. the 13 critical patients were taken by ambulance to fort lauderdale hospital. the 26th still with minor illnesses must stay on the ship until they get better. the rotterdam came in second and had the most passengers, almost all fit for travel who had transferred ship to ship while out at sea. balconies were filled with waving whistling passengers, but

you could certainly see the excitement. men, women and four children, have passengers and have crew. both ships are to remain here in port until saturday afternoon when all fit for travel passengers are expected to be on their way. then waited out a few more days until they could finally disembark themselves. then there's that third cruise ship with six passengers on board, and that is the coral princess. ship confirms 1 12 swab test revealed 12 with coronavirus symptoms. they can do the same thing that's happening there today.

>> bill: beautiful day there in florida. take that for what it is, right? it is a wet and cold and damp here in early april in new york. in a moment, new evidence that one of the worlds epicenter as may be turning a corner. is italy finally flattening the curve? we will check in with the john hopkins professor to find an answer on that. also, the lights are on but the streets are empty. our coverage continues from times square with a tribute to the health care workers who find themselves on the front lines of this pandemic. hold my pouch. trust us. us kids are ready to take things into our own hands. don't think so? hold my pouch.

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senior scholar at john hopkins university's. thank you for coming back here. we had mentioned a moment ago that it appears that the curve in italy was flattening. does not appear to be the case based on what you deserve? >> the cases are going down meeting the cases are occurring but the rate of increase isn't as sharp as it was the week prior. some of the social distancing measures have been able to stabilize the virus in that region but if it something we have to track and see. >> bill: it doctor, give us an idea, you wake up in the morning, where do you go first for your information? how do you start to analyze the day?

>> we look at the rate of hospitalizations going on in new york because i think new york -- i like to see where new york is sitting. >> bill: doctor, i'm having a hard time hearing you, not sure if it that's the same experience for viewers at home but i will try one more time. what gives you optimism today as you head into the weekend. >> what gives me optimism is we have not heard any of new york city's hospitals going to full crisis, we've not heard about ventilator rationing, they've been able to cope with and absorb that stress. there's a lot of rest but not going into a crisis type mode. that's reassuring to me looking at that. then, what i'm doing my own community in pittsburgh, looking

at our cases here and looking at the case count and see and seeing how we are controlling the outbreak here in the pittsburgh region. >> bill: do you feel any better than you did yesterday or tuesday? >> we are seeing some effects of social distancing. and we are hearing about a rapid scale up of diagnostic testing, and multiple types of antivirals and new modulating drugs. so i am feeling optimistic. >> the month of april? and then what? >> it's hard to say.

and they have been shut down for some time and we will have the ability to hopefully cope with the number of patients we have without worrying about hospitals going into crisis. all of that i think will happen in the next month or so, but it will still be a challenge for everyone. >> bill: doctor, let's speak again next week. >> bill: w we will check in how if someone has recovered from the virus it could benefit you. also president's response and new action from the governor of new york. we are live from the epicenter, the pandemic in the united states and we are live in times square.

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>> bill: at 3:30 one from the white house now. we are told the press has been called together at the briefing room, so we are keeping an eye on that. in the meantime, i want to bring in fox news sunday anchor chris wallace, hello. we haven't spoken in a week, and the world has changed yet again in a week. "the wall street journal" had an opinion piece earlier today chris about a clearinghouse website where all the states could put information up there. we are trying to figure out how we are tackling the issue and we could figure out in real time hour by hour or certainly day by day other managing things. it seemed like a pretty smart idea. i guess you could fire up the

website at any time but i just wonder about your thoughts about the coordination between states when you consider that, new york is different from new jersey, and new jersey is different from misery and misery is different from other states. >> absolutely. remember quite rightly, the governor of new york andrew cuomo was concerned about his state, and we have a fas fascinating interview on sunday with bill gates, the billionaire who spent billions of dollars on public health. back in 2015 he gave a ted talk. and if you haven't seen it folks, go google bill gates ted talk 2015 and about eight and a half minutes. everything that was going to happen, largely ignored in this country by the obama administration and largely

ignored around the world. one of the things he says is precisely on this point that you really need to handle this at the national level because that's the most impressive in the world. but if you are in washington, then there is the essential clearinghouse that can decide who gets the testing. who gets the supplies. who gets the ppe's and the vaccines that should be fortunate enough to get some. so there's a lot of argument for a nationalized system here. >> bill: i have seen that ted talk and it's about eight and a half minutes in length, doesn't take much of your day to watch it. but you view it in a whole different way. as you were right to point out it was 2015 when it was recorded, but everything he says

you can pinpoint in a moment here and say, he was right about that. but the thing i keep coming back to is this. we basically shut down america. but if the president or the leading officials in washington came around in mid-february, you need to cancel that nba season. you've run a restaurant down the street, you have to close the door and lock it and you have to lay off your employees. how would a free market country take that medicine before they were able to identify the virus that was sweeping through our cities and our states? that would have been an exceedingly difficult pill to swallow. but i just wonder how gates would answer that query now.

>> i think he would say first of all in terms of his speech, i told you so, because of course the consequences have been so dire. his point is you have to be able to see things before they, and obviously if we were told that again after what we are going through now and probably will be going through for another couple of months. we wouldn't have any problem shutting things down. if we had started as a month or two earlier, and hopefully we have learned that lesson. we haven't had a pandemic of that sort and now we have learned. and he hopes and i think a lot of people hope that a lot of people have learned their lesson. we prepare all the time for war.

we have a military preplanning with contingencies. to be preparing for a pandemic, and that was just as foreseeable as a threat for an enemy country. but we prepared for one and we never prepared and were ready and armed for the other. >> bill: looking forward to seeing that. chris wallace there in washington with us, again over the weekend with one of the governors on the front line of the pandemic. as we already mentioned, bill gates coming up on sunday as well. looking forward to that. you can see, we call it a q rv, we call it a quick response vehicle and it's moving throughout the city streets here in manhattan. there is traffic here and there, there's an occasional vehicle or taxicab or uber driver, and you can see that move throughout the day. during the daylight hours.

what's remarkable to me living here is around 8:00 at night, all the restaurants that will need carry outs or to go orders shut their doors. then the streets go empty yet again and they go eerily quiet throughout the night. after living here for 19 years, it's amazing to hear birds again. you know, with the drum of the city on a daily basis, you don't hear that. today, we do. it's a quiet place at night and i think what you have learned after seeing so few people on the streets after the sun goes down, new york is a lot better place when there are people around to see. that's a fact. researchers next week are said to begin new testing that can determine if you have the virus and recovered from it, you could help identify people who are immune to the virus and unable to return to work safely.

matt is live and able to pick that up now. >> of the mayo clinic tells us they will begin a slow rollout on monday to begin a new blood test that basically gives the people the comfort of knowing that they had the coronavirus, beat it and developed antibodies. the mayo clinic says its labs can test the blood of several people at a time to determine if they have developed corona immunity. the test is limited in its own nationwide network but they hope to soon make this test more broadly available to the public. for now mayo's clinicians are instructed to prioritize testing on people with results that lead to actions. so that is a person that is believed to have beat covid-19 and did in fact developed antibodies that can be given to a very sick patient or, are worried health care workers, this test can give them the green light that they can stay on the job.

>> it's definitely indicative that it's an immune response. but we don't know yet how long that protective immunity lasts. is it months or is it years. >> has that dr. just said, male says it has thousands of test kits and contest thousands of people per day but the number of people moving forward is going to depend on supplies. meanwhile with this pandemic shutting down so many churches, many will have to observe holy week very differently. in a moment with i will talk with his eminence, and he is with me live as we look at st. patrick's cathedral in

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>> bill: back here alive, a look at st. patrick's cathedral. christians around the world getting ready for easter sunday but many will have served this holy week without being able to step inside of a church. have you watched churched online

yet? i know many people have. archbishop timothy dolan as our guest now, i know what kind of person you are and i know you are behind a computer right now but i've seen you work a room and i know how comfortable you are being that way. but you cannot conduct your ministry that way now. what is it like to say mass to an empty cathedral? what is it like for you to be separated from the flock? >> bill hemmer, first off, thanks for the invite. thanks for all you are doing to give us together and keep us informed. it is something, but i'm in solidarity with everyone else. the other day i was at a funeral, not a funeral mask at the gravesite of one of our priests. they are i am, nobody around me immediately, over the casket and ready to say the prayers. i look around and those family members and parishioners were at a healthy distance from me on one another and we are unable to

embrace. we are unable to say to one another, my sympathies, my prayers, my love. you feel the distance. the ordinary things we relish in human contact, and embrace or handshake, a kiss on the cheek, we can't do anymore. for us as catholics, that's tough. because we are very tactile religion. we are into signs of peace, we are into holy water and bread and wine. we are into being together, next to each other and worship. it's a very difficult time. >> bill: i was wondering it's over and above the whole health aspect of this. i will tell you i saw three people walk by and i said where

are you from, they said georgia. i said to come what are you doing here? they said, we are medical workers. i think that sense of giving to each other is something that you have embraced. and i wonder about faith and hope when you consider palm sunday coming up this weekend, you will have st. patrick's cathedral on easter sunday which will not have any parishioners inside. how do you process that. >> it's tough to process stuff, and it is tough. but remember, the essence of this week, remember the essence of passover, remember the essence of easter.

it spent transition from darkness to light. you have people of israel who are in oppression, darkness, slavery, death and egypt, passing over to new life. you have in the midst of darkness on good friday, raw evil who seems to have covered passing over to new life and resurrection on easter. so in some way, it's the climate that we are in and the climate that we are and with this dreadful virus, it is in a way providing us a bit of an ambience to express our faith in the message that passover easter is all about, from darkness to light, from death, to new life. >> bill: i've had the honor of sitting in the pew in st. patrick's cathedral when you have given the sermon on easter sunday. have you thought about what your message will be on that day in

this time? >> i think i will. i know easter is the easiest date to preach because all of us along for hope. i'm going to try bill to draw that dramatic difference between what was on in good friday and would have been on easter sunday. you know even the disciples of thought it was all over on good friday. they thought they had put their trust and their faith in a man who had let them down, who had died in the most gruesome way possible with nobody left behind. and from that to the radiance and the joy and the triumph of easter, folks we got to have faith that the same god who brought the out of egypt to pass over to new life in israel, the same god that delivered from the cross to the resurrection on easter, it's the same god working now.

inherent in every tragedy, inherent in every crisis is an invitation from the lord to trust. and our people are trusting big time. now i don't think our people are having trouble trusting in the lord, i think the problem, it's not that we lose our trust in the lord, it's that we ask how long, oh, lord, we believe you are in charge and we believe as she revealed in the bible that all things are going to work together for those who believe. we are just wondering why in them. we are wondering how long, which is very natural for us. we are all like kids waiting for christmas. when is this going to come. that's why was always teaching the importance of patience and perseverance in our prayer because we are often tempted to give up when something has taken a while. and that is what is happening now. from good friday through easter, we talk about three days.

three in the bible means a long time. so that is why we need the perfect comic perseverance and patience now to make sure that our trust is not extinguished. easter and passover will give us that. >> bill: i like that. listen. talk about a long time, this lent has sure been a long time. listen, your eminence, the president is going to pop up in a moment here in the white house. i just have a few more seconds with you and, in the 15 seconds i have left, how are you doing? how are you doing communicating with those in your church? >> you are kinder to ask. i'm doing fine and like everybody else i'm bristling to get out there. i'm bristling to visit the sick, and chafing to be with my people. i'm eager to see them all in front of me end with me at mass on sunday. so there is that frustration. most of all there is that deep

abiding concern for those who are suffering, and those who are worried about them. >> bill: noted. thank you so much, your eminence. i look forward to seeing you in person sometime soon. there is the president from the white house, a roundtable with energy executives on the coronavirus crisis. we are told the tape play out is not ready, drop on in. >> president trump: and we will do it. i thought what i might do is go around the room and introduce yourselves really quickly and then have a discussion afterwards. and then, that includes privileges to deduct the losses this year hopefully we will be back in business very soon, this country wasn't built to be

closed. and, since we have a closed country, nobody has ever heard of a thing like this. but this was with some of the leading professionals and they say, not since 1917 has there been anything like this. 1917 was a time where i guess you could say, there were estimates of people who died. think of that, at 100 million, 100 million people died so they had no communications and weren't able to shut things down that we are doing. that was a plague. it started here actually, we were badly affected but europe was really affected. so that was the worst. not since 100 years ago, more than a hundred years ago this happened. i know all of you by seeing all the covers of the business magazines and the magazines, you've done a great job and we

will work this on. it's a great business and a very viable business. honestly you've been very fair. you kept energy prices, maybe we will start with mike. >> michael boyd, proud of the work your people are doing to support health care providers, first responders and all the other vital industries that keep our economy going. thank you. >> president trump: thank you very much. >> thank you for allowing us to be here today and thank you for all you are doing for us. >> president trump: thank you very much. >> dave hager, independent oil and gas company out of oklahoma city. thank you so much for the leadership you are providing during this challenging time. you are the much right man at the right time to balance priorities, thank you very much. >> president trump: we will get it done.

>> greg darling. thank you for the great leadership in this pandemic pipe crisis and the stimulus package, really for the american economy. and from employees that are working for energy. >> president trump: we think it will come back quickly. it's ready and we have the right packages out there. we are looking at, i think we are looking very seriously at an infrastructure package where it's so important for our country. as of this moment, we have 7 trillion plus in the middle east. and for what reason? and we don't put money in our own country. so we are going to do a big package on infrastructure fairly soon i think, and that's very important. great for you and great for everybody. >> president, i'd like to add my thanks for your leadership in this space as well and i think all of our companies are aligning with your objective

which is to get the economy moving and make lives around the world better. >> i'm the chairman of continental resources out of oklahoma city. thank you for having this meeting. i think it's so timely and necessary. we really appreciate your leadership. also the friendship you kept with the saudis, the saudi prime minister and crown prince and also and also vladimir putin. i know those haven't been easy sometimes but at this time it was particularly needed. so i represent, and that is the domestic producers alliance, and we are at about 10,000 companies and individuals. >> president trump: that's a great job you are doing. if president putin and the crown

prince want something to happen badly, i've spoken to both of them. we will tell you about that in a little while. thank you very much. >> thank you very much, jeff hildenbrand. our position is we are the only private company here. this is a company that is based in houston, domestic only expiration a production company and i'm really here today to represent the independent energy companies. the family-owned businesses that are in this industry. and to give you that perspective and add to the conversation in that regard. thank you for your leadership, i appreciate it. >> thank you mr. president, kelsey warren, energy transfer. we try to do business with everybody in this room and i think we successfully do, actually. it's an honor to be here, sir, and an honor to be in this room

with these folks as well. >> president trump: and >> president trump: he's not an oil or gas man, he is a wonderful person and a wonderful politician and he wants to see the industry get strong again. so kevin, do you have anything to say? >> first, by you reaching out to president putin an and a crown prince, things have improved. you were looking a lot of jobs, a lot of these are small businesses that work with all these individuals around here, your action today, getting the small business loans out is going very strongly because it is needed. but, the american economy's greatest strength is what energy provides us. these are great jobs, but more importantly, it gives us energy, it changes the whole dynamics around the world, thank you for your larger ship.

>> president trump: as you just said, bank of america in particular has really stepped in, they have done a fantastic job today. bank of america has been unbelievable. i want to thank them, i want to thank all of the community banks and the smaller banks that have been loaning a lot of money, it is all about the paycheck. nobody believed it would've gone so well. it's just a number of hours, but the numbers are far greater than we would've anticipated. it has been really great, thank you to all the banks. again, in particular, bank of america, they really stepped right up. there were no big deals, they weren't making a big deal out of anything. that was terrific. i think what we want to do, john gorman, please, i know how you are so involved in this, from the great state of texas, would you like to say couple of words here? >> thank you mr. president, thank you for convening a