>> starting to see light at the end of the tunnel and hopefully at the not too distant future we are proud of the job we all did. rob: monday april 6th, light at the end of the tunnel, the president's message striking a more optimistic tone than warnings that the america will bring next pearl harbor and 911 moment. carley: live with the latest. rob: new developments on the other front of fighting covid-19. carley: support to reopen the country and put americans back to work.

♪ ♪ carley: country music biggest stars align behind miami of resilience and unity. rob: "fox & friends first" continues right now. ♪ ♪ carley: good morning, you're watching "fox & friends first" on this monday morning, i'm carley shimkus in for jillian mele. rob: i'm rob schmitt, thanks for getting up early with us today. carley: as president trump sends nearly 2,000 ventilators to hard-hit states experts we assure that social distancing is working. rob: that's good to see.

todd. todd: rob and carley, good morning to you. phrases like glimmers of hope and things are changing but not before the stark acknowledgment that we are about to suffer through what is expected to be the worst of the pandemic, take a listen. >> this is going to be the hardest and the saddest week of most americans lives quite frankly. this is going to be our pearl harbor moment, 911 moment. that's not going to be localized but hang all over the country. >> in looking for, drop from saturday to sunday, governor cuomo cautiously telling the nation that his state would be at apex or at least a plateau. dr. debra saying data from italy gives the u.s. hope for what our future could be as that country start to turn a corner and dr. anthony fauci refinding that

hope is no no small part thanks to what the public is doing to stop the spread, namely social distancing of what is needed now more than ever. >> we need to be prepared that even though it's clear that mitigation is working we will see the tailoff of deaths. >> meantime the white house announcing the federal government is sending ventilators to various hot spots around the country like new jersey, illinois, michigan, massachusetts and louisiana. >> when it comes to the ventilators which are very complex, we are now building, we have now under construction literally thousands of ventilators, so -- but so far our projections on ventilators have been right. >> and rob and carley, so far more than 17,500 people here in the u.s. have recovered from the virus, back to you.

carley: president trump pushing back on leaders despite weeks of warnings and guidelines. rob: griff jenkins, griff. griff: hey, rob, carley, that's right, some of the governors in hot spots taking the white house to task for not doing enough. here governor trading barbs with the president. >> the president does not understand the word federal. federal emergency management agency. individual states can't possibly do what the government can do. there's no way to stockpile in anticipation of a pandemic that no one anticipated. >> i hear him, he's always complaining. we are building a 2,500 bed hospital in mccormick place, that's a big convention place in chicago and we are helping to staff it and probably will end up staffing it because he's not able to do what you're supposed

to do as a governor. he has not performed well. >> that fight over resources on another front. there are 9 states who are holding out over issuing stay at home orders, nebraska, dakotas, south carolina, causing michigan governor to blast the white house for refusing to issue a national order. >> not having a national strategy where there's one policy for the country as opposed to patch work based on whomever the governor is creating a more morous situation where covid-19 will go longer and more people will get sick and sadly more lives may get lost. griff: but the nation's top doc jarome adams had this to say. >> we put out 30-day guidelines, this is national stay at home order and we are working with governors to figure out their need. what i would say if you can't

give us a month, give us what you can, give us a week. griff: vice president pence who lead the task force in video conference with many of the nation's governors, we expect perhaps clarity in this critical week we have ahead of us, rob, carley. carley: partisan controversy even during pandemic, griff, thanks so much. rob: in open letter nebraska doctors say thousands of cases have gone undetected in their state because of lack of testing the governor there has pushed for stricter social distancing and hand washing guidelines, that's as far as they've gone. nebraska reported 364 covid-19 cases so far 8 people have died. carley: overnight a third passenger from infected cruise ship in florida has died. 13 other people from the princess are hospitalized. some of them more than 1,000 passengers have been able to take charter flights home.

others have been forced to stay on home another day because the cdc says they can't take commercial flights and the ship has been docked for more than 24 hours. the navy captain removed hit hard by covid-19 tested positive. bret crozier showed symptoms before last day at roosevelt, he was fired after scathing letter critiquing the navy's handling of the outbreak. secretary mark esper defending the move to fire him. >> it was based on his view that he had lost faith and confidence and i think it's another example how we would accountable for actions. >> 15 members of roosevelt tested positive for coronavirus. carley: wal-mart ramping up efforts to clean the stores after two chicago area workers died of covid-19.

retailer hiring an outside company to sanitize high-touched surfaces in the store. it's not clear that the two employees contacted the virus while working. rob: a teenager claiming to have coronavirus and spreading it at a texas wal-mart will face terror threat charges. carlton police looking for this 18-year-old, she posted a snapchat video saying she's about to infest anyone. there's no proof she has the virus but they are taking the claims very seriously. carley: yikes, that story is bad. messages of hope popping up across los angeles during the pandemic. rob: cancel plans, not humanity. >> we are all facing this together and i really wanted something to symbolize a beacon of home. carley: for more inspiring

stories visit foxnews.com/america together. rob: got a bunch of them and we love that. 8 minutes after the hour. president fighting a war on two fronts. >> i standby saying that and i continue to say it. the cure cannot be worse than the problem itself. we are going to get our country open. rob: commander in chief looking to assemble a second task force to focus on putting americans back to work. carley: our in the case guest says the pain will linger as long as nation is on lockdown, economists pete morici joins us next.

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reopen the economy as millions of americans apply for unemployment. rob: peter morici joins us live to weigh in. sir, thanks for coming back, what do you expect, what do you think we should do? >> we certainly need a task force to look at how the economy have changed. we are operating at 60% capacity right now and when we come back many businesses that existed before will be gone, other businesses will be much larger and we have to have a focus on transition. the panel has to be a group of people from business, economists, so forth that leave agendas at the door. this can't be an opportunity for creating government program or businesses in particular. the obama task force was terribly plagued by this trying to christmas tree whatever recommendations they come which specific benefits for their own country. you want something specifically for the country they can't come.

carley: sound advice. the solution would be to get the economy back open as soon as possible. i want to get your take on this because the president of the st. louis federal reserve says the key to opening up the economy is testing, take a listen. >> the solution is universal testing. what you want every single person to get tested every day and then they would wear a badge to show that they have been tested. this would immediately sort out who has been infected and who hasn't been infected and that would help the healthcare sector but would help the economy because we could interact with each other with confidence. carley: what are your thoughts on that? do you think that's a realistic solution? peter: absolutely, we are locked down in virginia till april 8th, i believe it is. coronavirus is still going to be out there and what will happen is the curve will have gone down and bounce back, quite simply until we have a vaccine and until we have medications that

really knock this thing out. you take pills and go away. we are not safe to interact with each other unless we know who doesn't have it, who is immune and -- and so forth. if we had universal testing that was quick and easy, went to drugstore and got the packet and took a swab and an hour later you knew, we know who was safe to go out and who could stay inside. we could get together and back to offices and studios and so forth. rob: so far that we would have to wait until the vaccine -- peter: that's january at least. rob: terrible thing to think about. unemployment numbers, let's take a look at those real quick, 4.4 in march, up from february and a lot of people think the number is a lot worse, what do you think the real number is right now and what is it going to take to get this thing to come back? >> between 10 and 15%.

the a number was calculated the week of march 12th. so we know that it's up over 10%. also a lot of people quit labor force so they won't be counted in april. what we need to get the economy going is have to be able to go outside again and we can't do that unless we know we are safe. by the way, the president lifting bans, governors lifting bans isn't going to do a lot of good because the workers now no longer want to go to their workplaces, workers are walking out of factories and so forth. you to build public confidence that you've got to handle on. rob: i hate to interrupt you. what do you think of him saying the cure is worst than the problem, worst than the virus itself, what do you make of the comment? peter: it's a judgment -- what value we put on human life. the reality is if we all go back to work in june and this thing isn't like more people will die than if we don't. question is how long can we endure with

government checks an so forth, how long could we keep supply chains open this way. if we can continue as we are, the cure is not worst than the disease because i don't think people will tolerate, for example, an nfl opening in september, 50,000 people in the seats in giants stadium and then we go home and 5,000 have the virus. carley: what do you think the lasting economic impact will be? peter: 5 years from now we won't know that it happened. if we focus on the problem and not what divides us, they don't try to make the crisis an opportunity to exploit but if we just focus on getting the engine going again and the economy what drives america will be fine. the most important thing to remember is that america is a private-sector operation, it's not government driven. the government depend on the private sector. we focus on

that it'll be fine. after all we went through world war ii and that was extraordinarily disruptive to the private economy and within 2 or 3 years we were back to normal. carley: we are seeing the private sector at its finest to say the least. thanks for coming on. peter: take care. rob: all right. the white house covid-19 task force identifying colorado, pennsylvania and our nation's capitol as emerging hot spots. >> this is the moment to do everything that you can do on the presidential guidelines, doing everything that you can to keep your family and friends safe. carley: our in the case guest says his state is putting an effort to contain the effort. congressman brad keller of pennsylvania joins us live. ♪ ♪

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>> this is the moment to do everything that you can on the presidential guidelines. this is the moment to not be going to the grocery store, not going to the pharmacy but doing everything you can to keep your family and friends safe. rob: the trump administration warning that pennsylvania, washington, d.c. could become the hot spots warning them to take measures now. carley: worst-hit states prepare to see the peak in covid-19 cases over the next coming weeks. joining us now to explain what his state is doing pennsylvania congressman fred keller, congressman keller, what is pennsylvania doing to make sure it doesn't become the next mayor hot spot? >> there's a couple of things that have happened. early on we had nonessential businesses were closed, only

life-sustaining businesses were better. that's working now. we also have stopped people coming in from new jersey and new york and north eastern pennsylvania and short-term rentals and dr. levine runs a great department of health in pennsylvania recognized by dr. redfield and other people in hearing before we left washington, d.c. and recognized on how well she does in pennsylvania. rob: my question is as the weather start to get nicer, how long can you hold onto this? how long can you keep people contained in this fashion? >> well, again, i think some people are getting outside, you know, sort of in open spaces, you know, as the weather is nicer but practicing what the federal government says to do as far as the social distancing and so on, those are the things that

we need to do and taking the precautions that we've taken, we are hopeful that we have flattened the curve and not go forward and not have as bad of a thing of what people think will experience. carley: i understand that you're concerned about prison inmates about covid-19 being moved outside of prison system. can you explain what's going on there? >> yeah, that's something that we've been working on for a couple of weeks, we had heard that there was going to be transfers. we got with the bureau of prisons. they slowed those down but our only stance is they need to stop transfers immediately from one place in the country to another and particularly because we have two institutions in the district i represent and one right across the district line and in the neighboring district and we want to make sure that we as the federal government are also making sure that the spread doesn't happen because we are transferring inmates. carley: what are the prisoners being held when they leave the prison?

>> well, actually they came out -- the most recent batch that came in was out of oklahoma city, so the bureau of prisons moves them from one location to another and we are simply saying since we are sheltered in place in pennsylvania, what they should be doing at the prison system sheltering the inmates in place rather than doing transfers. there was a lot of buck-passing that happened early on. we tried to get down to the bottom of that. they thought they needed legislation and it's our opinion they control the movement and they need to stop it now. rob: yeah, any indication how long the state of order will last, some carried till june at this point? >> the end of april. it seems like things have been going pretty well and some of the mitigation things that are happening with the stay at home orders and really stopping the people coming into the common

wealth from other parts, you know, the vacation homes and so forth in northeast give proximity to new york and new jersey and some of those more urban areas. rob: we can pull the numbers up right now. we can look at new york and new jersey as you continuing on, neighboring states, new york and new jersey with a lot of cases. that was a good move to shut down the travel? >> absolutely, because when you look at the northeast region, that's a place where a lot of people come and there's a lot of people too that commute into new york city and other places to work. so taking some of these steps making sure people aren't crossing the border and having buses come in for vacation or airbnb places just putting a stop to that will do a lot to help make sure we don't have more cases coming into the state. carley: congressman keller a lot of areas of pennsylvania are rural, are hospitals in those areas ready in case things do

get really bad? >> we have stayed in contact with our healthcare providers here in the area, in the northeast and in north central area and in the central part of the state here. they say they are in god shape for planning purposes but, again, we have to do everything we can for mitigation and that's why we personally have been looking at tin mate transfer first to make sure no cases are brought into our area and also following the cdc guidelines communicating to people and shelter in place orders along with the nonlife-sustaining businesses not operating right now. that's part of what congress did to make sure people got paychecks and small businesses could stay open. the paycheck protection program has been up since friday and it's been helpful to a lot of people. rob: absolutely, thank you for your time. we appreciate it. carley: thanks a lot. the time now 27 minutes after the hour. vatican city to spain, the worst and deadliest days of the pandemic may be over.

we are live with the progress being made across europe. rob: beach battle after georgia's governor opens beach

carley: back with fox news alert, british prime minister boris johnson in the hospital to under go test of covid-19. rob: this as queen elizabeth delivers public address asking the country to remain vigilant. trey yingst. trey: good morning, update first on british prime minister boris johnson. he is still reportedly hospitalized after being admitted last night. he does have some minor symptoms from covid-19 but is in stable

condition. the 55-year-old according to downing street will just be in the hospital for precautionary measures. the development does come as queen elizabeth addressed the nation last night in a rare public speech. her son and heir to the throne prince charles tested positive for coronavirus though reportedly in good health. during the address the queen thanked healthcare workers and offered unity to the british people. take a listen. >> i'm speaking to you in what i know is increasingly challenging time. a time of disruption in the life of our country, a disruption that has brought grief to some, financial difficulties to many and enormous changes to the daily lives of us all. trey: in another part of europe italians are seeing strong decline in new cases of coronavirus there. the news comes as italy saw the lowers number of new deaths since march 18th. over the weekend representative of middle east health institute out discussed declines that italy must begin to prepare for

phase 2 of the outbreaks. officials urge not to let the guards down. hope francis celebrated palm sunday mass in empty church. across the mediterranean in spain, the country has seen two consecutive days decline of deaths of covid-19. 87% of death from covid-19 occurred in people over 70. spain does remain the second worst hit country in the world behind the united states. now when we talk about the worst-hit countries around the felony, you to look at countries like china and iran. according to reports, these countries are underreporting the number of deaths and cases that have affected their people. the next question is going to arise how should the international community hold both iran and china accountable for these actions. rob, carley. rob: trey, thank you so much. carley: meantime here at home with pressure delaying primary. 10 mayors demanding the state

health department step up and close the polls writing in part it would be irresponsible and contrary to public health to provide in-person voting at the very time the disease is spreading rapidly. meantime the state's national guard has been deployed to bring cleaning supplies to polling stations and service poll workers. 17 states have delayed elections due to covid-19. 2020 hopeful joe biden is floating the idea of having a virtual democratic convention. >> we are going to have to do a convention, may have to do a virtual convention. i think we should be thinking about that right now. we may not be able to put 10, 20, 30,000 people in one place. carley: how about that? the convention has been delayed because of the pandemic. biden said that he would be wearing a mask every time he goes out in public. he's currently leading by more than 300 delegates over bernie sanders. ♪ ♪ rob: georgia's governor brian

kemp signed a shelter in place, after days of pressure from state leaders and lawmakers statewide order closed most businesses but actually opened up popular beaches and not everybody is happy about that part of this story. joining me now with his response to governor's kemp's order, shawn gillen. what do you make of the move to reopen the beaches and do a couple of other things? >> well,i know my mayor and council understand that i'm very upset about this. this all began right after st. patrick's day. we had a sunny thursday. we had thousands of people in our beach and it was becoming a severe problem for us and nobody was practicing proper social distancing so the city council took it upon themselves to heed the advice coming out of atlanta that this is the local issue and threat local leaders decide on

this and they decided to shut down the beach to take away one thing that was attracting people and the rug got pulled out from underneath them. rob: let's take a look at the mandates. the governor did, he closed the gyms, he closed businesses and done what other people have done late last week but he did overrule some of the things. beaches can be opened for walking and exercises and alcohol consumption and lodging, you can get a hotel and airbnb. you don't think that he's gone far enough by simply closing down most nonessential businesses? >> well, i know -- i represent my mayor and my city council who are upset about the fact that we had done all of those things and we also had put in stricter rules on the airbnb's, the rentals and the hotels that no new check-ins as of noon last

friday and it was really something that came out in the last second undid everything that we had done to try to protect the citizens. rob: i can understand that you have the beaches and when they are packed that really throws people. you saw the same problem in california, turned people off. he did put the 6-foot order in place, though, and i have one more thick. even here in new york, even here in new york city the epicenter of all of this people are still allowed to go out and exercise and go for runs. why do you think that's -- do you think that's okay here and shouldn't that be allowed in your state as well? >> we we do and we think it's okay for the citizens as long as they are maintaining the 6-foot and they're not gathering in groups larger than ten, they can go out and about the city. thousands of people who want to come to the beach. the beach just opened on saturday. it wasn't nice weather but we are looking a few days that are in the 80's and easter weekend coming up. we are anticipating large crowd

and a lot of people are not listening to the protocols. rob: you don't think people will follow the 6 feet, that's your point? >> that is it. rob: we do appreciate it. thankthank you so much from your perspective. >> my pleasure, thank you for having me. rob: okay, carley over to you. carley: 38 minutes after the hour and ground breaking first, tiger test positive for covid-19. how the bronx zoo pleasers the animal caught it and what it means for people who have pet. rob: tesla showing ventilator prototype as hospitals around the country face shortage of this device. stay tune.

rob: tiger at a zoo at the new york's bronx zoo test positive for covid-19. 4-year-old nadia has minor

symptoms including a cough, dr. janet told us earlier that humans can infect animals. >> if you have coronavirus or you've been exposed to it take the extra precaution so you don't accidentally inadvertently admit it to pets but we don't have any data that shows this is transmissible. rob: 6 others showing signs of respiratory illness. carley: what a development there. the may owe clinic launching test to detect who is immune to coronavirus. thousands of them can be ran every day but the focus will be on healthcare workers and plasma donors. the mayo clinic is national site but other labs like stanford stanford university taking samples to fight the pandemic.

cheryl: ceo tim cook putting out a video letting know that 20 million masks to give and produce to healthcare workers across the nation right now and what you're looking at the face shield. a million of these per week, this this is the face shield. they start today ship some of these out to facilities in santa clara. the south bay in southern california. apple has designers, engineers, packaging folks working with suppliers to ramp up production of masks and again of the shields and there's tim cook there. he talked about it last night and basically said this is all on hands deck effort by apple, take a listen. >> we are closely coordinating with medical professionals across the u.s. to get these where they are needed most urgently. cheryl: so here are some more

details, basically these are going to be sourced manufactured in the united states and in china. each box will have 100 of the new face shields, the ones you saw holding, they request make one in 2 minutes. pretty quick, adjustable but the plan to go nationwide. they plan to send a million of these every week starting this week so by the end of this week, guys, the first million of the shields plan to be out there in medical facilities across the country. carley: i understand that tesla has update on the ventilators that they are making to help out with this as well. cheryl: yeah, elon musk will reopen new york facility, basically going to be made of a lot of car parts and these are going to be ventilators. they've got the prototype out there. they put out a pretty fancy design of the ventilators like i have to say, tesla is a complicated car, i guess elon musk will take skills to help out folks and using in new york

facility and using car parts. the video was interesting. real quick, we did learn ford has shipped 4 million. rob: everybody jumping in. carley: that's good news there. check in with brian kilmeade to see what's coming up on "fox & friends", hey, brian. brian: i will tell you just for you, carley, just do not say anything to rob. peter navarro will be here live, was there a blow-out in situation with professor fauci? we will find out about that. the next steps to combat covid-19. we will talk with crenshaw. newt gingrich will be here. what about a second force? powerful message from a man in his 30's recovering from the coronavirus who is now warning fellow young americans, you're not invisible, you could be

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carley: got a great story here after one new jersey church learned member had tested positive for covid-19, congregation we wanted to share a message of hope by sending the family a care package. that sparked a nationwide movement and churches across the country are sending aid through boxes of hope during the pandemic. joining me live this morning is the man who started this movement pastor chris of church in scotch plains.

pastor, tell us a little more about how this got started and what is exactly inside the boxes of hope? >> well, thanks so much. yeah, we have always been committed to reaching neighbors, we always say our mission field is across the street and around the world. we began to mobilize efforts as soon as we saw crisis beginning and connected with national partners, convoy of hope who is the first on the scene for disaster and that's when we got word that one of our tested positive and they felt feeling of despair and frustration and even questions and so we wanted to do something tangible to show god's love and we delivered some groceries in a box to their front door and seeing what had happened to them and the joy and

the hope that it brought them, it overwhelmed us and we knew we could do more. i was speaking on the weekend, the feeding of the 5,000 with where jesus took boy's lunch and multiply it. we have a huge need, thousands and thousands, but if we bring him what we have could he do the same thing. carley: how unbelievably perfect is that? >> yes, so we've currently sent out 600 boxes. this past saturday 215 boxes to families affected by covid-19 all in our area. it's been really incredible. boxes have anything in them that bring hope and some of it is food and some of it can be

disinfecting wipes and toilet paper. carley: yeah, more important than what's inside the box, i think it's important for people now who are alone know that somebody else is thinking about them. what has the response been from the recipients of the boxes of hope? >> it's been amazing, you know, as i heard back from people. we leave them at doorstep, people come to the doors in tears, crying. we have seen people join in on services an be deeply impacted. we feel that in this hour people in 14-day quarantine and feel hopeless, there's a god that sees you and loves you and someone at church that cares about you, that means the world to people. we are seeing overwhelming response from the mayors and the people being helped during this time and the whole community. carley: if people want to help out and donate supplies or donate money, how can they do

that? >> so you can go to get boxesof hope.com and if you can donate to their cause or on there we have an ability to collect funds as well that we then send to any of our partners that we are working along side to help get more supplies along the way. giveboxsof hope.com would be the best way to do it. we have dropoffs on monday, wednesday and friday but probably the website would be probably the best way to go at this point. carley: fantastic, thank you so much for bitting smiles and critical supplies to people who need them. pastor chris, thank you so much. appreciate it. >> thank you. rob: acm awards may be postponed but that didn't stop country music stars putting on a good

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more than country music putting on a virtual concert. 2 hour special awards postponed until september of course due to the coronavirus pandemic. keith yo urban kicking it off wh his performance of wasted time. ♪ all that wasted time ♪ >> carrie underwood performing drinking alone from her couch. >> we are alone together and this is exactly how we are going to get together in this mess ♪ we should be drinking alone ♪ together ♪ i don't know what she did to

me ♪ wasted days. carley: blake shelton and quinn stefani. nobody but you. ♪ i don't want to live without you ♪ i don't want to even breathe ♪ i don't want to dream about you ♪ i want to wake up with you next to me. >> long time friends brad paisley and darius rucker honoring kenny rogers. the two performing his song lucille and the gambler ♪ you picked a fine time to leave me lucille ♪ four hungry children ♪ and a crop in the field ♪ you got to know when to hold them ♪ know when to fold them ♪ know when to walk away ♪ and know when to run. carley: the special encouraging people to pay it forward by

donating to the covid-19 response fund. sounded pretty good, huh? carley: i'm sure people did donate to that. great cause. going to be a tough week ahead. rob: new york expecting potentially the apex this week. we will see if that happens. "fox & friends" starts right now. ♪ >> in the days ahead, america will endure the peak of this terrible pandemic. warriors in this life and battle are the incredible doctors and nurses and healthcare workers. we are starting to see light at the end of the tunnel. and hopefully in the not too distant future we will be very proud of the job we all did. ainsley: this is a fox news alert. president trump with a message of optimism as the nation prepares for toughest week yet. brian: that's what we here. the u.s. neither apex of the coronavirus pandemic as nationwide cases top 300 and