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 70,000. more than 960 people have died

in the u.s. and the number is expected to spike this week. -- 9648 i should say. steve: 9,000, right. but a new blood test is expected to be launched later today that could help track the spread of the virus and determine immunity and that would be very helpful. good morning, everybody. it is monday, april 6th, 2020. it is monday, during holy week. yesterday, of course, was palm sunday. coming up on wednesday, passover starts. and this sunday will be easter sunday, which is when, of course, the president of the united states was hoping that we could reopen the country to some sort of business activity, ainsley. but, as we heard from the surgeon general yesterday, this could be the hardest, saddest week of our lives. ainsley: i know, he called it the pearl harbor. the 9/11 he said it won't be localized either. it will be affecting all parts of our country. we have a big show straight

ahead for you. it is 1 minute past the top of the hour. 6:01 on the east coast. look at that lineup. white house trade advisor peter navarro. representative dan crenshaw. newt gingrich. dr. mehmet oz, dr. nicole saphier and dr. marc siegel, brian. brian: we have a lot to go over especially after we saw one afternoon and one evening press conference one from the governor of new york and one from the president of the united states. the governor says, look, we are still in need. we might have to convert that ship and the president admitted it, too. the uss comfort to a coronavirus ship just like they had to do with the javits center. but overall, the numbers are going down and people thought wow, isn't that great news. keep your fingers crossed that it is. meanwhile the white house task force warns this week it will be one of the worst ones. even as encouraging new data is sur fossaing in some respects. griff jenkins is live in washington to explain. hey, griff. griff: hey, brian, ainsley and

steve. brian you were mentioning about cuomo's press conference. that's why the president was offering light at the end of the tunnel yesterday saying it is encouraging that there is a slight decline in deaths in new york. as you mentioned the nation's top doc says that the worst we have seen is about to bear down on us in unimagine being ways. >> this is going to be the hardest and saddest week of most americans' lives. this is going to be our pearl harbor moment and our 9/11 moment. it's not only going localized but happening all over the country. griff: this becomes as hospitals are becoming overwhelmed and critically needed supplies like masks and venting later still in short supply. gorvels in some of the spot hot. not doing enough. it's a charge he refutes. >> when it comes to the ventilators, which are now complex. we have under construction thousands of rent later. so, but so far i think our

projections on ventilators have been right. griff: adding to the challenges, there are new allegations of china hoarding purge protective equipment being made by companies like 3m, n 5 masks now. they are looking at legal actions possibilities. on another front nine states left holding fraught issuing stay at home orders. you see them here, arkansas, iowa, nebraska, dakotas, wyoming, utah, oklahoma and south carolina. gretchen whitmer is putting pressure on the white house to issue a national order saying a patchwork policy is dangerous. but the surgeon general says we don't need to issue that order because i'm encouraging all of those states to take that final step saying hey, if you can't give us a month, give us what you can the vice president holds a video conference with several governors today. this certainly will be front and center. we will see where we go as we brace for a very difficult week. brian, ainsley, steve?

steve: and this will be it. griff, thank you very much. so the president said we could be near the peak. but there are still hot spots, new york and new jersey are hot spots. interestingly enough, according to the experts, new orleans has doubled the mortality rate that new york city. dr. fauci said i would not say we have it under control. we are struggling to get it under control. and about a week we hope to see a flattening of the curving. nonetheless, governor cuomo made it very clear from, friday into saturday, we actually saw fewer deaths on saturday than friday. and that could be important. watch. >> the number of deaths over the past few days has been dropping for the first time. what is the significance of that? it's too early to tell. blip maybe in the data or hopeful beginning of a shift in

the data and the discharge rate is way up. and that's great news. >> that's the first drop so far. the hospital levels are starting to, perhaps, decrease. we wish governor cuomo and all of the people in new york great. steve: dr. birx made it very clear brian and ainsley, over the weekend she is concerned about hot spots including pennsylvania and colorado and washington. and at one point said, listen, this is not the time to go to the grocery store or pharmacy. do everything you can ainsley, to keep your family safe. ainsley: yeah. she also talked about what's happening in italy and spain. and she said the new cases and deaths there are declining. obviously, that's good news for them and a glimmer of hope for us. we are behind them as far as our cases is concerned. she said if do you have to go to the grocery store the way it's working there in these other countries and seeing success,

send one person from your family. wash your hands. she said stay at home if you can social distance and we will see that it starts to work here, too. there is a new study from the university of washington health metrics that reveals that the u.s. is still 11 days, brian, from the corona peak though will. brian: long island 22% of the cases up from 15%. 40% of the nation's fatalities have come from new york. here is the other part. 20% of the nypd is out sick. they have already lost 11 members. and 22 transit workers. the men and women cleaning the trains and still working in the city, 22 have lost their lives. so this has been pretty challenging for the new york area. but it's the beginning. the hope is and governor cuomo keeps saying it. soon we will be done with the ventilators. soon we will have enough ppe and we will send them who needs them. people from michigan watching you need them. certainly need them. there are definitely some hot

spots around the world that we eventually can help. right now it is all hands on deck. and those people at 3m time to start thinking of america first. the president made sure of that by putting the defense production act in action, steve. steve: that's right, brian. there is a story though in the "new york post" this morning exclusive that talks about how executives from 3m and honeywell have told the federal government as of january the country of china made sure that they could not export any of the masks or anything else to the united states or anywhere else. they were effectively trying to corner the market on it. we will have more on that this morning. meanwhile, new york may have seen its first daily drop in deaths from friday into saturday, but hospitals are still running out of critical supplies and they are going fast, ainsley. ainsley: that's right. our next guest works in one of the city's busiest hospitals. yesterday in a letter to president trump, he requested executive order asking, quote,

the federal government to take resources such as ventilators and critical medications and deliver them immediately to the new york city area. brian: joining sus dr. di ditch. doctor, do we need you now. venting rarts, we keep hearing we need more and more. how many do you need now and do you feel as though states are not responding to that request to date? is that why you made it? >> we need, as i spoke about on the show previously, we need critically, in the new york city area, this week 8,000 ventilators in the new york city area. there is no negotiation or debate about that. i cannot speak to how many states have sent vicinity later, that's the issue for the governor. we do not have enough, we are running out of vents and critically critical priority icu patients to keep these patients

sedated. steve: i'm sure you saw the news yesterday. governor jay inslee of the state of washington returned 400 ventilators to the national stockpile and the governor of the state of oregon apparently is sending 140 ventilators that they don't need back to new york. the question then is if they are going back to new york, who winds up with them as a clearing house and how do you get them from them? >> steve, this is a huge issue. this is a bureaucracy behind distribution of these quote, unquote, either stockpile ventilators or ventilators that come from other states. in theory they get shipped to the stated. the state ships them to the city and the city distributes them to the hospitals in need. it's not working. i have to be frank with everybody. we are not seeing these distributed ventilators in large numbers. and we are going into a critical 5-day period now. we are coming up with other solutions like modifying. we have actually worked with a company now that's modifying c

pap machines into very, very functional and useful brand new invasive ventilators. we are getting those out. we are actually -- we are working with a company now that's getting them to hospitals as early as late next week. the group is called aes. the email where the hospital can actually order these is. if they email the email address, we will get them in the chain to get ventilators as early next week. c-pap modified ventilators. this is critical. we are not seeing the distribution we keep hearing about and we are drowning here in brooklyn. ainsley: dr. ditchek, how are you responding? how are you ensuring they will get their ventilators back when they need them. >them? >> my working group has been critical in communicating at the

city and federal level. we know the federal government has the strongest interest and the great intentions to get them to where they go. i have been saying from the beginning, we have the strength of the federal government, fema, the national guard. these ventilators do not belong to new york city. they don't belong to washington. they belong to the people of the united states. get them to us. i promise you within 24 hours, we'll have an easy mechanism to get them to other states. but they have to talk to us on the ground. nobody is talking to us directly on the ground. we are on our own at this point. and we are working as such. brian: that's unbelievable. that's why you have a mayor, i would think. let me ask you something. when it comes to the vengts, i hear if it gets to that point, there is only a 22% chance of survival? is that correct? and can anything be done about that? >> i don't know if that number is correct. i can tell you that the data from europe and china if we believe it that the survival rate on ventilators is about 40%. that's about the number that we are seeing here in the brooklyn

area. ventilators are not a complete cure. obviously we have to rely on other modalities. it's the only way we can save a patient until the point that they can recover on their own or with the treatments we are giving them. so ventilators are not a cure-all. you are right. 40% of people who end up on ventilators will survive. but to add with that, all this talk about the apex and relaxation of things. these patients who are ventilated don't come off in two or three days. many will be on ventilators for three weeks. we need to plan for that as well. steve: sure, so, doctor, you just mentioned the apex, and we heard governor cuomo say that you know, friday into saturday, they actually saw fewer cases, fewer deaths on saturday than on friday. and that could be a blip. but that could be, you know, we are starting to plateau. you are right on the front lines. what do you think is happening? >> i don't agree with that assessment. i think data that comes in through the state and funneled up to the federal level, is

often flawed. especially during the crisis where our healthcare system potentialically collapse. i can tell that you many patients in the brooklyn area have been dying at home or have been found dead at home. the hospitals are overwhelmed. so there their reporting systems may not be what you believe. i don't see in the hospitals here, yeah,you may see a period of 12 to 20 hours where there is a decrease of the number of people entering the ers. the ers were full. i was in hospital last night. every bed in new york is gradually becoming an icu bed. i would add to that point, the covid javits center quote unquote is not a high aqueue at thiaquitecenter. we don't even get to send patients there if we run out of ventilators. that is low aqueue a acute.

will sore the federal government made a great effort to give us a covid hospital. it's not a covid hospital. it's recovery hospital. brian: what about the ship? ainsley: hopefully elon musk can produce some of these ventilators. what about the ship how is that going to be used? >> currently used for overflow for non-covid patients. talking again becoming a covid site. again, it's not a covid site with acute care icu capabilities. did t. does not help us. i want to add we're all talking about ventilators. we are running out of critical medications right now in the icus and ers. thursday last week, hhs correctly and i admire them for it issued an urgent request for manufacturers to make medications priority icu medicines. those will be manufactured in the next 30 to 60 days. we need those medications today. that's why i encourage the president to issue an executive order and ship us thousands,

thousands of doses of those medications. we cannot sedate patients right now. would he see can't keep them sedated if we don't have priority meds including antibiotics. brian: like the president has to bring them in himself. steve: your message is loud and clear. >> thank you so much. steve: 6:16 in the east coast. carley shimkus joins us and she has the news duty today. carley: unfortunately more bad news here. overnight a third passenger from infected cruise ship docked in florida has died. 13 other people from the coral princess hospitalized. some have been able to take chartered flights he home. another forced to stay another day because the cdc says they can't take commercial flights. general motors will start producing face masks at a former transmission plant in michigan. the company expects to deliver the first 20,000 masks by

wednesday. g.m. says the plant will be able to make 50,000 mask as day. gm will also start making ventilators later this month. new york city firefighters delivering a sign of gratitude to hospital workers. [sirens] new york's bravest handing out candy and treats at jacoby medical center in the bronx. the hospital's executive director says it means the world to us. now we have more stories just like that one on our website plus information okay how you can help head on over to foxnews.com/america together. keep those good news stories coming. my gosh, do we ever need them now. brian: yeah. we want to get them throughout our show from all our viewers and all our listeners. please, let's personalize this even more. thanks, carley. meanwhile, still ahead, americans will soon see checks from the 2.2 trillion-dollar

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brian: all right. soon americans across the country will start receiving these famed stimulus checks from the federal government. so what could you see? here to break down the 2.2 billion stimulus rescue package some say conservative partnership director rachel bow varadkar. rachel, those who -- roughly the criteria is those who make $57,000 will get 12,000 bucks. imingsd income for combined couple 150,000.

get $2,400. just on that in particular. if i qualify, when can i expect my check? what do i have to do? >> well, the checks are in the mail. some of them are going to begin arriving by direct deposit if that's how you filed your taxes last year. and some are going to be paper corrects good news is very little you have to do. based on 2017 or 2018 income tax filings or 2019 as well. if you filed your taxes all of that info is already there. good news is for those without tax liability. those on social security. elderly or retirees very low tax liability they will be taken care of as well. that's good news that was pushed for by the g.o.p. successfully. we will help the poorest families as well. >> so the big story for me as much as $1,200 matters kind of automatic. irs takes over. but the small business sba loans are key $370 billion are there.

$1.9 billion has already been applied floor larry kudlow and company felt good about that. there are hangups. bank of america says if you are not dealing with me before this, i'm not dealing with you now. marco rubio had to call them up. wells fargo is not offering the guaranteed student loans yet. jp morgan chase and bank of america first big banks to start accepting applications. so that was relatively good. so in the meantime a lot of people are talking about when they walk in the banks, the bank is going i'm not really sure how this works yet. i'm not saying it was going to be flawless. this sun precedented. but what hope can you give the small business owner? >> yeah turns the infrastructure on this on was always going to be the difficulty. the paycheck protection act for small businesses began implementation on friday. the good news is the small business administration is turning up the heat on getting out guidance to the small business owners because that seems to be a big point of contention is they don't even know what they are eligible for. so you saw some pressure from

marco rubio from will missouri. fba need to take this seriously and appears that they are. big banks and guidance to small business owners this should all be rolling out this week. brian: rachel, the comes up. what's in it for the banks to go out of their way to deal with people they don't know for a problem they didn't cause? >> well, they are going to get loan guarantees from the federal government. the government is back stopping a lot of these loans. remember, for the small business owner, the part of the loan used to for payroll, for utilities, for mortgage and rent can all be forgiven based on the law that congress just passed. this is a direct infusion of money from the treasury to try and help keep people employed. so the bank is really the middleman here. it's the federal government that's stepping up to back stop all of this. brian: yeah. the bank is doing. this but i think maybe the banks could keep in mind in 2008 you

caused this mess and we bailed you out. now we need you to help us out here. so suck it up and do the paperwork. is that what you are saying? >> it's a great point. and one that i hope the banks are listening to. brian: i hope they are, too. thank you very much, rachel. need you over and over again through this process. >> thank you. brian: new yorkers stepping up big time. a pharmacy giving free medicine to customers who need it. the owner helps to do more than he has done yet. he will join us next.

steve: as new york city prepares for the coronavirus to hit his apex perhaps this week. one pharmacy is stepping up to help new yorkers in need. true care pharmacy in brooklyn, new york is giving free generic medicine and supplies to customers who are facing financial hardship. on top of that, the pharmacy is raising money for protective grier for our healthcare workers joining us is the owner of omar pharmacy. >> good morning, steve. steve: so tell us about your program of outreach to the community because i understand in reading your facebook page the people in your neighborhood who go to you every week or every month, they are scared and a lot of them don't have the money to actually buy the

supplies they need. >> that's correct. we started the initiative to help our neighbors our community to stay healthy, the name of the game is to stay healthy. we are helping our community. in the meantime we are helping the greater healthcare system, avoiding unnecessary hospitalizations for these patients. and keeping them healthy to avoid being hospitalized. steve: that's right. so, omar, tell us about the medicines and the supplies you are providing free to people who need them. >> so we started giving out generic meds. meds people need for daily living. high blood pressure, diabetes, chronic medicines. giving them acute stuff like antibiotics and antivirals for those who need it as well. when people raise concern they are running low on personal hygiene stuff, toilet paper and paper towels we decided to offer

those as well. most of our patients are elderly. even those going to stay home, the majority of the time they will eventually need to leave the house whether it's to go grocery shopping, see a doctor or any other emergent reason. we decided to offer them like protective gear, protect them when going outside, avoid them catching any illnesses. then when we saw concerns with doctors reaching out. we need masks. hospitals are short. we decided offering these protective gears to doctors who come in and ask or purses or front line, we just give it to them for free. then our neighbors we came in collaboration with our neighbors that i really want to thank and i really appreciate all they are doing. and we started a campaign to raise money to donate 10,000 masks to new york city hospitals. whether private or public. these masks are coming in the next week or so, and they will be district among th distributes

in new york that are in dire need. steve: right. it's not just medicine and not just protective gear. for some people in your neighborhood, who don't have the resources, you are actually providing toilet paper, too. aren't you? >> yes. we are. steve: why did you decide you wanted to do. this you are doing it just until your supply runs out. you didn't have to do it. why are you doing it, omar? >> it's part of -- it's part of our responsibility and our goal -- i mean our biggest goal is for our patients to stay healthy and to stay safe. try help our community to worry about one less thing that they don't have to worry about. can i stay healthy? can i take my meds? you know, can i do simple personal things without having to run into an issue and worrying about it so much? steve: well, your pharmacy is

called true care and you truly do care. it's a pleasure to meet you, omar. >> it's a pleasure to meet you, steve. steve: what is the go fund me page? >> the go fund me page is called 10 k masks for nyc hospitals. basically we are fully funded campaign. it was a huge success. we are running -- we are going at it again. second campaign, bigger one trying to help. going to keep fighting until this is all over. steve: great. all right. and we hope that is sooner than later. omar, thank you very much. >> thank you, steve. >> i just wanted to raise an issue if possible. steve: okay. >> if possible. we wanted to raise an issue, me along with so many other pharmacists in the state of new york are asking the governor, asking the state to allow us to get authorization to for refills for patients with chronic i willss. illnesses. a lot of states have offered these to states, already taking

initiatives. i believe new york we must have this, we must keep our patients healthy and our states are taking a little longer than usual and little longer than needed to protect these people. steve: okay. well, let's see if the governor is listening. omar, once again, thank you very much. >> thank you so much. steve: more information on how you can help -- you bet -- more stories of people going extra lengths to help in this pandemic. can you find all of that on foxnews.com/america together because we are all together on this. meanwhile, straight ahead, the country of italy is finally seeing a slow down apparently from the number of deaths from covid-19. is this a sign mitigation efforts are working? newt gingrich joins us live from rome as that country prepares to move into phase 2. that's next. my psoriasis. cosentyx works on all of this. cosentyx treats the multiple symptoms of psoriatic

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♪ brian: british prime minister boris johnson in the hospital to undergo tests for covid-19. >> staying at home. thereby helping. steve: a rare public speech asking the country to remain vigilant. ainsley: trey yingst is live in jerusalem as the world makes progress in its recovery. good morning, trey. >> brian, ainsley, steve, good morning. we do know that british prime minister boris johnson is still hospitalized this morning after being admitted last night. displaying some symptoms. he was diagnosed with covid-19 just over 10 days ago. the 55-year-old is in stable condition according to downing street and the hospitalization is simply a precautionary measure. the development does come as queen blid addressed the nation in a rare public speed. her son and heir to the son prince charles tested positive for coronavirus though is in good health. thanked healthcare workers and offered a message of unity to

the british people. in another part of europe italians are seeing a strong decline in the new cases of the coronavirus. the news comes as italy saw the lowest numbers of new death since march 18th. a representative from italy's health institute discussed the declines saying italy must prepare for phase 2 of the outbreak. officials are urging people not to let their guards down. in vatican city yesterday, a striking scene as pope francis celebrated palm sunday mass in an empty church. across the mediterranean in spain the country has seen two consecutive days of health decline looking at the number of deaths from covid-19. data released by spanish authorities yesterday indicates that 87% of the deaths from coronavirus there occurred 70 years old. spain does remain the seconds worst hit country behind the united states. when we talk about worst hit countries around the world, it's important to note that evidence and reports indicate china and

iran lying about the number of cases in their country the. countries. how the country should be held accountable for their actions. brian, ainsley, steve? ainsley: thank you so much, trey. let's bring in newt gingrich fox news contributor and former speak r. speaker of the house and author of the book "shakedown" and ambassador to can calista ambassador at the hy sea. good morning to you, mr. speaker. >> it is mildly encouraging that the number of cases in italy does seem to be plateauing. and first positive sign we have had since this pandemic started. >> here is what they say, lowest rate of death in the last two weeks. after a week of stabilization. fewer in the icu. more in recovery. is it time this administration -- excuse me, that country to look at phase 2

what might that look like, newt? do they have immunity tests to give people certificates like germany is doing to get people back in the workplace? >> they don't yet. and, frankly, president trump's pledge of help was very well received here. we have already seen, for example, good stash tan's purse launched an entire hospital in northern italyly with some 60 doctors and nurses and volunteers and any have been busy ever sips they arrived. i think the italians need the help. this is a country with a weak committee. noeconomy. at the same time, this is going to be true all over the world. we are going to have to prepare for a second wave, that means a lot more investment in testing equipment. a lot more investing in the right therapies. frankly, i think, methodical

approach that looks at individuals not just huge populations. places like sweden, which are focused on individuals, or singapore, or south korea have done a much better job with much less economic damage. that's got to be part of our phase 2 as we move into that phase and hopefully with the news from new york we may be peaking in new york as well as in italy. steve: newt, when you look at the stock markets around the world, asia and europe finished way up today. the futures in the united states are up, i think, about 800 points in the hopes that we could be rounding the curve nonetheless, you are a famous student of history. while we have heard that this is going to be the hardest, saddest week of our lives, our surgeon general framed it yesterday in historical terms. listen to this. >> this will be the hardest and saddest week of most americans'

lives, quite frankly. this is going to be our pearl harbor moment and 9/11 moment. it's not only going to be localized it will be happening all over the country. i want americans to understand as hard as this week is going to be, there is a light at the end of the tunnel. if everyone does their part for the next 30 days. steve: newt, he made it very clear, it's going to be a rough week. it's going to be historic. we are eventually going to get over this thing. >> we have had that experience here. lock down. the italians allowed us to get away from them and had to go to very strong regime to try to get it under control. they were affected in part because they are about 100,000 chinese northern italy. and that he had a direct flight three times a week to wuhan. which they didn't cut off. unlike president trump they allowed that flight to continue for several weeks after the epidemic started. so we have seen here in italy and frankly as the ambassador of

the vatican vas very socialerring for calista watch the pope in empty st. peters in one of the most doors in the christian religion palm sunday. that's reality right now. we have to focus on defeating the virus. and i think that also means preparing now for a potential second wave. making sure we continue to manufacture testing equipment, making sure we continue to develop better therapies. don't around for a vehicle seen. vaccine. make sure we get it so people don't get sick. we have to assume there could be a second wave coming. dr. fauci talked about this. think through how you can have a healthy economy by preparing in advance to test and isolate people so if there is a second wave we can handle it better than we handled this shocking first wave. ainsley: you wrote in that op-ed

on foxnews.com about harming the economic health, how this virus is harming our economic health. you have a solution to save small businesses. tell the folks at home if they haven't read it. what is that solution is how do we cure the problem there. >> part of it is starting as soon as we can. to get small businesses back being active, doing things. i will say i think that the small business program that they have developed is a very important bridge. but you have to think of it as a bridge. a bridge back to helping small businesses develop the right approaches. i happen to be in korea when this started. they immediately went to testing the temperature of every person walking into a restaurant or walking into a hotel. they were very, very vigorous about trying to identify who might be carrying it. and work from that standpoint back. the result was they really were on top of this at the very beginning. it's something i'm actually producing a paper with clara

christianson outlining the experience in east asia. we can do better than we have done. this is a transition period. this was a great shock to us. now we need to roll up our sleeves. one of the keys to that is helping small businesses not only with a bridge loan that becomes a grant if they keep their employees, but also thinking through by the middle of summer how we get people back to work, get restaurants open and get people in a position where they can be with each other without fear. brian: that would be key. thanks, mr. speaker. italy liqueur tailing somitaly e numbers is hopeful. no one is invincible and everyone is susceptible. his story next. build attendance for an event. help people find their way.

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good morning to you. >> good morning. >> good morning, ainsley. ainsley: benjamin, i'm so glad you are doing okay. tell us about your experience. what were you experiencing and how did you get it. >> as soon as we got on the cruise, cruise new orleans. about a day before we docked, i told my wife i told my wife i had tickle in my throat and maybe allergies, driving home back to new orleans why were both exhausted. i got better but my wife got sick tested negative for covid and ended up testing positive for the flu. that's on a week later and i lost my sense of smell and taste. and then the next day hit me like a freight train. my fever was, you know, out the roof. and ended up taking me to the hospital. they sent me home and 15 hours later i was back in the hospital with pretty severe pneumonia on my left lung. ainsley: kristin, what was going through your mind as a registered nurse i'm sure you were terrified. >> i was. i was trying my best to take care of him at home but it

progressed -- his pneumonia progressed so bad just between the two er sentence tha stents i couldn't take care of him at home any more. his temperatures were almost 104. the pain was so severe. he was barely talking to me. so i knew at that point we needed to take him into the er. so, he could get proper care. ainsley: what was it like, benjamin? where was the pain? i hear some people say you can't breathe, it feels like glass is in your lungs. what was your experience? >> i couldn't breathe, my cough was terrible. i felt i pulled a chest muscle. my entire body including my teeth hurt. i was throwing up. i had diarrhea, my temperature was way high in the hospital. those first two nights i was worried i would make it out of there they had -- i was only allowed to have a sheet. they had ice on my head, under my arm pits and my groin. it was very, very scary time. ainsley: i know in texas, south

padre sild popular. in florida all these kids spring break. what's your message to the young people. you are 39 years old. we think if you have got it you are going to be okay. that's not necessarily the case now. >> yeah. you really just don't really playing russian roulette new take any chances. you may be fine but may not be okay. it hit me really hard. i feel lucky to be here. if you have anybody to live for, family, friends, loved ones, then don't take the risk. it's not worth it. we tack the cruise when things were just coming out, things really developed in the world as we were on the boat. but now with all the information we know, there is no excuse to be out there. and not doing the things that we need to do to help ourselves as a community. and as a nation. ainsley: kristin, i know you are a stay-at-home mom now you plan to go back to work. how did this change your life? >> >> just seeing my fellow brothers and sisters in nursing out there on the front lines, i feel like it's nursing.

nurse something a calling for sure. and there is something that my husband and i have been discussing once he is healed and we are out of quawrcht quarantl it's necessary train as an icu nurse. i want to get back out there once i'm able to. ainsley: y'all are heroes. thank you so much for what you are doing. >> thank you. ainsley: i'm so glad you are okay. i'm sure you are a great dad and have these precious children to raise. praise god. good to see you all. >> thank you so much. really appreciate united states it? >> praise god. ainsley: you are welcome, thank you. ainsley: still ahead peter navarro and dr. nicole saphier and dr. oz and dr. marc siegel all join us live. ♪ oh, oh, oh, ozempic®! ♪

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cases top 337,000. more than 9,600 people have died in the united states alone, ainsley. ainsley: but a new blood test is expected to be launched today. it could help track the spread of this virus and determine immunity, which would be wonderful. you know, we are bracing for this pivotal week. we have the surgeon general. we heard him yesterday with chris wallace saying this is going to be the hardest and saddest week comparing it to pearl harbor or the latest 9/11. scary news to hear that at the same time, it looks like mitigation is working. we are going to get into that with some of our guests this morning, brian. brian: yup, white house trade advisor peter navarro will be with us. word is in the situation room he had a blow-up with dr. fauci. what was that about. i hear it was about hydroxychloroquine. we will talk about that. also about the efforts he has been making to get the private sector to deliver anything and everything from around the world

to our shores. because we need so much ppe especially. congressman dan crenshaw has a great book out on his life. it comes out officially tomorrow. he will be talking about that and what a fourth rescue package would look like and what should not be included in it. dr. oz with the latest development is on everything from the immunity test to antibody test to what's happening with different therapies out there. and dr. marc siegel to answer all your questions. a big two hours, don't miss a minute. steve: we thank everybody for joining us on this monday, april 6th. we hope you had the best week you possibly okay i know a lot of people were watching tiger king, watching a lot of tv. trying to get instacart deliveries that is for if right now the new normal. and it will continue for a while. there are, as the white house mentioned yesterday, maybe glimmers of light. buff the white house task force warns this week will be one of the worst ones yet. even as encouraging new data

does surface. griff jenkins live in washington to explain. griff, while the president can be optimistic, the scientists at the same time say we don't know where we are in this yet. griff: that's right, steve, ainsley and brian, good morning. the president wants us to know that this will soon eventually end. but americans should brace this week to be tested like never before, after the nation's top doc issued this ominous warning. >> >> this is going to be the hardest and saddest week of most americans' lives, quite frankly. this is going to be our pearl harbor moment. our 9/11 moment. only it's not going to be localized. it's going to be happening all over the country there. griff: encouraging signs like the declining number of deaths in new york. many hospitals are beyond capacity. critical ofly needed medical supplies are scarce in some places. the governor of some hot spots are taking president to task for not delivering aid. >> the president does not understand the word federal.

federal emergency management agency. >> fema has delivered an additional 500 ventilators to new jersey. 500. amazingly, 600 will be going or have gone to illinois. we are also sending 100 ventilators to massachusetts. we have also sent an additional 200 ventilators to louisiana, definite hot spot. 300 to michigan. working very well, i think, with the governor. >> adding to the challenges, new allegations of china hoarding that ppe, personal protective equipment like n 95 mask you see right here. the administration says they are weighing their legal options over blocked chinese shipments. we will see what happens there on another front. there is also the nine states left who are holding out over issuing stay-at-home orders. michigan governor gretchen whitmer is urging national order. surgeosurge surgeon general jere

add dams. brian, ainsley, steve? ainsley: thank you so much, griff. let's bring in dr. nicole saphier fox news medical contributor and the author of a new book "make america healthy again." good morning to you, dr. saphier. >> good morning, ainsley. ainsley: good morning. you are a doctor. your husband is a doctor. you all are on the front lines of this. we are seeing the number of infections and number of deaths stible blizzing in many areas. especially here in the northeast. this is what our governor, governor of new york, andrew cuomo said and here is the president. listen to this and we will get your reaction. >> the number of deaths over the past few days has been dropping for the first time. what is the significance of that? it's too early to tell. blip, maybe in the data or hopeful beginning of a shift in

the data and discharge rate is way up, and that's great news. >> that's the first drop so far. the hospital levels are starting to perhaps decrease. we wish governor cuomo and all of the people in new york great. ainsley: we're being told to brace for a pivotal week. it's going to be according to the surgeon general the saddest and hardest week so far dealing with this in america. what's your reaction to what the governor said and what the president said? >> you know, it seems like there were conflicting reports this weekend. one we had the surgeon general saying this is going to be a pearl harbor moment and also had governor cuomo and president trump saying these are great signs. i want to break that down so people aren't so confused. on one hand governor cuomo, thank goodness he is reporting, the transparency on letting us know these numbers have been so helpful, and what he has said for about three days in a row now we're seeing decreasing deaths each day in new york, in new jersey, it's also being

reported across europe in a lot of the hot spots there and so what does that tell us? it tells us that potentially some of these treatments are working. i know in new york right now we are using multiple under the compassionate use program we are using the convalescent plazama. we are using hydroxychloroquine and azithromycin vitamin c and antivirals. data from those viral trials art being released yet. some may be working which is why you are seeing fewer deaths and fewer icu admissions. recognizing cases earlier and getting started or getting supportive care earlier and people aren't needing to go into the icu. that's very promising news. i agree. i hope this isn't the blip. you keep seeing all those charts. we are looking for this bell shaped curve up up up and plateaus off. we don't want it to go up down, up down, up down. the reason it would plateau is if everybody is continuing to stay home and staying out of the

hospitals. now what the surgeon general was referring, to meaning his pearl harbor moment is currently we have a lot of people in the hospital still, thousands of people are in the hospital. thousands of people are on ventilators and ventilators, you are only on it for so much time. and so it's possible that when they start removing people from ventilators that you are going to see a spike in that death and actually the average mortality of people on ventilators with covid-19 has been about 7 to 14 or 7 to 21 days. so i think he is anticipating that it's possible that some of those people will die. we can only hope it will be as few as possible now that we have such supportive care and such treatment. and we have the personnel to take care of them. but only time will tell. brian: yeah. we just had a great doctor on in queens. ventilators and gloves. when i get emails offering civilians masks and gloves. do you want these masks, it's

unbelievable that people could try to get them and sell them to us instead of sell them to the hospitals. let's move on and talk about something that you wanted to talk about. that is the so-called investigation into a vaccine. and the discovery of an achilles heel with a coronavirus and similar to what they found with the swine flu. what can you tell us about the achilles heel they may have found? >> well, i get really excited even when i see small little studies coming out it. continues to tell me people are working on a treatment, working on a cure and there is some hope when it comes to this novel coronavirus. out of script research they came up with something they were looking at antibodies used against sars. something that attacks the outer surface of the virus they put that antibody with the sars cov 2 and kills that as well. an anti body that they utilized a while ago with stars as i mentioned. we have to remember we haven't seen a sars infection since 2008

potentially if we continue working on these treatments. we continue working on the vaccines. we could be dealing with the same thing as this coronavirus. it might not have to be part of our normal annual cycle of cold and flu season. steve: dr. saphier, i was reading in the paper this morning that apparently in riverside county, california, they now have a rule where if you are outside of your house, have you got to wear a mask. and down in laredo, texas. if you are outside of your house, have you got to wear a mask as well or you could face a $1,000 fine. when i say mask, you should cover your face. when i was walking out and about in new jersey, over the weekend, i saw people just on the street walking in the open air with masks and bandannas and things like that. what is your advice? obviously people think they are protecting themselves. but we heard from the surgeon general and others that's really to stop the spread. if you are infected, it's going

to stop the spread. what do you tell people about the face coverings today? >> well, that's right, steve. part of it is that we continue to get new data every day. now that we finally is research coming out of united states. research that we can trust and verify. then we know that up to 50% of people infected with the virus may be asymptomatic. so, you may think that you are protecting yourself by wearing a mask. but you yourself may actually be infected. so people wearing masks at this point are protecting themselves but protecting those around them from that asymptomatic spread. i know it may feel draconian for the government saying you have to wear a mask or you are going to have a fine, but let's remember, i talk about this a lot in my book to be honest, that people really need incentives either positive or negative for good behavior. just like the seat belt laws. doctors were telling everybody you have to wear a seat belt. it's going to save your life. noble did. until the speed limit laws and the safety belt laws came into effect and had you to get potentially a ticket if you didn't wear one, that's when we started seeing the decreased

deaths related to motor vehicle accidents. so, unfortunately, some of these measures may be necessary to try and decrease this asymptomatic spread because let's be honest, we want to get back to normal life. and the only way to do that is by dee deby decreasing community spread. ainsley: an email from our viewer great question. >> oh, nancy, i can't wait for this to come. it's not going to happen all the once in the united states. it's going to vary by state and city. everyone will hit their curve at a different time. yes, once the curve has gone up and plateaued and start seeing a decrease in cases, they will give it a few days to make sure it's not a blip. when you start seeing that decrease, absolutely. business are going to begin opening again. we are going to be able to go out a little bit more. you have to be smart about it or

else we will turn into a blip. people are still going to have to be wearing masks for a little bit. we want to make sure asymptomatic infection is still not spreading. be smart about it. we want to get business going back as fast as usual. maybe not congregate in areas. we want to start opening up things but we want to be smart about it. brian: right, doctor, too, it will be interesting to see if that task force gets underway and what would it be like to get us back phased into working again. here is an email and the email comes from steve. steve says my wife and i believe we had the virus three weeks ago. we had been self-quarantined in our home, now feeling recovered. what should we do? will the virus just die or will we continue to have it in our home? good question. >> i'm great to hear, steve, that you and your wife are probably both feeling better at this point. you probably did have covid-19. a lot of people do. you did the right thing. you self-quarantined in your house. you want to make sure that you wipe down all surfaces with

antiseptic. i would open up windows if you can aerate the house out. the truth is that virus needs a host. it needs your body to survive. it can only last a few days outside of a body. if it's been on the surfaces for a few days, probably already died. wipe everything down anyway. still cold season and flu season. keep things as clean as possible. steve: speaking of antiseptic. brian: are they now immune? >> potentially that is the leading theory if you have already had the infection that would infer some sort of immunity. it hasn't been proven. it's possible you could get reinfected maybe with a less severe form of the virus. we don't know. it does seem to think dr. birx and fauci which have a lot more insider information than i do. they think once you get infected you may be immune. it's possible they could be infected. just because he felt sick three weeks ago doesn't mean it's from the coronavirus. as we heard the guest previously

he may have had coronavirus but his wife had the flu. you can't necessarily assume you had the infection unless you were tested. you don't want to just assume you are immune at this point. steve: doctor, we got an email from josh -- actually this was on facebook he writes: is the use of antiseptic mouth wash helpful in avoiding infection and are vitamin sum mentsdz helpful ahelpsupplements helpfu. obviously can mouth wash kill it and what about vitamins? >> so the virus tends to enter the nasal pathway through the nose but also go through the mouth. would you have a little cilia in the back there little hair particles that attach on to that verizon. if you are swishing with mouth wash and antiseptic or even salt water, that kind of breaks everything up there. and keeps things clean, so, yes, you really should be using mouth wash, you should be flossing, brushing your teeth just for normal hygiene causes bacteria.

if you are stop the bacteria viral infections. in terms of vitamin supplements the study mixed on that. make sure you eat vegetables and fruits to make sure you have that supply of antioxidant. we are actually using high doses of vitamin c to treat some of these patients. we know that's antioxidant. that doesn't mean i want you to run out and take high doses of vitamin c. absolutely not. i do think making sure you have a lot of fruits and vegetables which naturally have those in them, you know, you are taking that all the time that will help ward off disease now but also in your future. ainsley: thank you so much, dr. saphier for joining us. >> bye, guys. ainsley: bye. you are doing a great job. she working in the hospital and coming on our show. waking up early. she is great. hand it over to carley shimkus. carley: hey, guys. big update here. the navy captain removed from

command of an aircraft carrier hit hard by covid-19 tests before his last day in charge of the uss theodore roosevelt. the said secretary mark esper is defending the move saying the military hold leaders accountable. 155 crew members have tested positive. wisconsin is facing pressure to delay tomorrow's primary due to the covid-19 outbreak. 10 mayors are demanding the state's health department close the polls saying it would be irresponsible to have in person voting. meantime, the state's national guard has been deployed to bring cleaning supplies to polling stations. and serve as poll workers. and listen to this: a dallas hotel is offering free rooms to healthcare workers on the front lines of the pandemic. the statler setting aside two floors of rooms along with meal vouchers. the idea came to be when a hotel

exec offered a nurse a room who was sleeping on her balcony in fear of exposing her family to covid-19. we have more stories like that one on our website plus information on how you can help head on over to foxnews.com/america together. i hear nurses have no time to eat and they don't want to go home to infect their family sounds like hotel is a total god send. god bless those folks. brian: go get them, carley. thank you very much. let me tell you what we have coming up straight ahead. soldiers from fort bragg, mobilizing to combat covid-19. we spoke with their commander on the front line of javits center. that story next. you wouldn't accept an incomplete job from anyone else. so why accept it from your allergy pills? flonase relieves your worst symptoms which most pills don't. get all-in-one allergy relief for 24 hours, with flonase.

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>> thanks to the army corps of engineers, new york city javits center is now one of the largest hospitals in the united states. hundreds of federal medical personnel deployed from two army hospital units and they are doing a great job. steve: over 15 city state and federal agencies coming together to build a massive makeshift hospital from scratch in new york city. we just heard the president talk about that. here with an inside look at the javits center operations is colonel ki kimberly eye out of t bragg. >> good morning. steve: good morning to you. initially we heard that the javits center was not going to be used for covid cases but now it is. why the change? >> first off, it was the need. we have been working with the local civilian hospitals both

the a private and we saw that really the need here in the city was the convalescent care for the covid-19 patient. by direction of the department of defense as well as the united states northern command, it was decided that we would take covid patients in order to assist and be able to bring more patients within the javits new york medical station. steve: i gotcha. so as we understand from one of our doctors who was with us about 90 minutes ago, it sounds like you are going to be treating people who are on the recovering end of covid, not as it's going up, right? >> that is correct. the bell shaped curve mentioned earlier in your broadcast speaks to where we fit in. as they are coming down, over the crest of that bell shape, those are the patients that we're identifying. actually helping the facilities to do it. because by taking in those patients it allows the patients to take the more high acute

patients. steve: that's right. yesterday the defense secretary talked about how the pentagon was sending over 1,000 doctors and nurses to new york city to not only man the javits center where you are, but, also, some of those personnel are going to wind up at local hospitals. tell us about that effort. >> exactly. once again, we look to the need and really what the city has asked for. we are also seeing need at the front lines. the front lines are our city and state hospitals and providers about 325 that we're looking to putting in the next 24 to 48 hours. 11 city hospitals have been identified. and there are going to be nurses, providers and our ability to put them at the front line is hope be able to decrease some of the pressure that is on our medical providers in those city hospitals but also it helps to create a liaison between our city as well as between the city hospital so we can help decompressing a number of

patients that they have. it becomes two fold. assist them as well as take some of the patients out of their hospitals to allow them to take more critical patients. steve: we have heard that the new york and new jersey hospitals are almost at the breaking point. we have heard urgent cries for more ventilators. regarding the facilities that you are involved, in the javits center and also the outreach to the 11 hospitals that you mentioned, do you have -- do they have enough ventilators for this coming week as we heard from the surgeon general is going to be the hardest, saddest week of our lives. >> so within our facility we are at 3,000 bed capacity. and we -- and that also includes 48 intensive care unit. what we are providing here we do have a ventilators because we are looking at patients that are coming off that bell shape that was mentioned, verdicts coming off a ventilator. we do have the ability to ventilate in the event they go

back needing ventilators. i can't speak in particular to the hospitals. but that's why we are also putting people out there to assist in any way that we can. steve: well that is certainly why you are in new york. colonel aiello, thank you very much for joining us today live to explain what you are up. >> to thank you. steve: you bet. 7:27 now here in the east coast, americans stepping up to support our heroes fighting the pandemic. up next how one supermarket chain is answering the call to help, making fast lanes for first responders. you ever wish you weren't a motaur? sure. sometimes i wish i had legs like you. yeah, like a regular person. no. still half bike/half man, just the opposite. oh, so the legs on the bottom and motorcycle on the top? yeah.

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supermarkets noah and daniel katz. good morning to you, guys. >> good morning. good morning. ainsley: what gave you this idea? did you hear the brooklyn burrough president say that or did you come up with this on your own? >> first of all, thank you for having us on the show. we received a phone call from our local 338 grocery union who had been in touch with the brooklyn bur burrough president. trying to figure out a way to implement grocery shopping for first responders, people who drive ambulance, police, firefighters. we put together a plan a plan where if you show your i.d., basically a fast past and get to the front of the line. ainsley: daniel, what's the response from the first responders? i believe y'all stuarted this on friday, right? >> so far it's been very positive and we are rolling it out all across our 13 stores what's it like working in this

industry you? are so gracious to stay open for all of us so we can feed our families. what's it like for you personally? >> >> we are so grateful. we go to work every day. we can't stay home. we are stocking shelves. we are so grateful to our thousand employees in our company coming to work every day. stocking shelves. cutting meat, you know, waiting on customers. the cashiers. we are extremely grateful to our employees, we where them coming to work every day serving our amazing community of new york. we are right in there with all the first responders and the hospital workers that we have to come to work every day. so we thought this is the least we can do. if you show us your i.d. we'll get tout front of the line and get you out of the stores as fast as we can. ainsley: dr. birx, daniel, was saying if you can stay out of groszry stores. for many of us we can't. we are feeding our children. they require certain foods and things like that that we have to pick up on a weekly basis. so do you have a solution to

those moms or people that are worried that still have to go to the grocery store? do you have a drive-up solution or are you working on anything like that? >> we did. we partnered with instacart. that's available if you want to shop from home. i will say and thank you for asking, we have added so many precautions in the stores to keep everybody safe. cleaning and sanitizing. our staff are doing an amazing job. keeping six feet distance. extra checkout lanes in certain areas. put up plexiglass around our cashiers to keep our customers and cashiers safe. we gave everyone masks and gave everyone gloves and we're doing everything we can to keep these stores as safe as possible for the communities that we serve. ainsley: daniel, most of us are going grocery shopping. what advice do you have for us? what are your employees saying? is everybody being pretty nice and patient? >> yeah. everybody has been really great and we believe that we came up

with some best practices which can be used for other retailers across the country as well. and we will give your producer all of that information because here in new york we're really in the epicenter of what's happening. the better we can prepare the other stores that are still open, the faster we can get through this with the least amount of sickness and fast err we're can get the economy reopen. >> go online and find out what supermarket these two guys own because they're remembering our first responders. they're the co-presidents of pfk grocery stores. thank you so much, gentlemen. we appreciate it. thank you. >> thank you for having us. ainsley: you are welcome. we have information on how can you help. plus more stories people like that going the extra lengths to help deal with this pandemic. find information on foxnews.com/america together. a new rapid test can detected the virus in just five minutes. it's available starting today.

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♪ >> you see hopeful signs in spain and italy. they have completed nearly four weeks of mitigation with people really doing social distancing, staying at home and showing they were washing their hands. we are very hopeful over the next week although we will see a rising number of cases of people who lose their lives to this illness, we are also hopeful to see a stabilization of cases across these large metro areas where the outbreak began several weeks ago. brian: well, that was dr. birx. and she was yesterday on sunday going over some charts that for many people showed a lot of hope, especially when you look at italy and how bad it was. they had a lockdown on march 6th and maybe take the locks off. let's bring in fox news medical

contributor he is on about every hour and fortunate to have him dr. marc siegel. welcome back. >> good morning, guys. good morning, brian. ainsley: good morning. brian: hey, dr. siegel, what does the change in italy mean? are you buying into the fact that success leaves clues and as that number dips we are a couple weeks behind them or are you worried about the increase in spain? does that make you feel like we are behind them? >> brian, i think we are starting to see improvement in italy across the board. decreased number of cases. 525 deaths in italy is the lowest they have had in a long time. i do think that the lockdown has had an impact that the public health measures and social distancing in europe has had an impact. i think we are see it in spain. i would point out by the way that the weather is getting warmer there it's 70 degrees in rome today. role to respiratory strains don't like warm weather.

that and all of the lockdown may be starting to have an impact. decreasing in cases and decreasing in death rate. italy has 14,00 14,000 deaths. 525 over the past 24 hours is a huge improvement for them. steve: dr. siegel, i was looking at foxnews.com, i saw that you have written an op-ed so folks can better understand what's going on right now. you have think that the cv-19 testing's next step, the rapid point-of-care tests are going to be a game-changer. why is that? >> i talked to admiral about that. hhs secretary of health. is he very dramatic about this. going to rapid point of care testing. both in terms diagnosing this and in terms of doing a blood test to see whether you have had this. he thinks that over the next few weeks we may be able to transition over to that where within 5 to 15 minutes you can tell if you have it. and also, without a lot of

protective equipment being used by healthcare workers so we can use it in the hospitals because these tests can be self-administered. now, why does that matter, steve? because if i know who has this and i know who is immune to it, i can figure out how to manage the society and the community much better. if you are sick, i can absolutely insist you stay home and i can look to see who around you may have contacted it. we are shooting in the blind here. we are assuming the whole society could have it and that's why we are on lockdown. if we could add to that the tool of identification, contact, isolation, the way we could have done from the beginning, we are going to be in much better shape and we are going to see a much more rapid flattening of the curve. ainsley: that rapid test, dr. siegel, will just determine if you have it or if you don't have it. that's different from the antibody test, right? >> correct, ainsley. the test i'm talking about tells you whether you have it or you don't have it. it's a very sophisticated molecular test that they just do

by taking a tiny swab. the immunity test you are talking about, the antibody test, is also ver being rolled t across the country. trying to figure out how to standardize it. if you have that antibody, it would show that you have been exposed to it and likely are getting better already. so that's another greatest to have. we're hoping to have them both out simultaneously. the abbott test which is the diagnostic test is already out. brian: right, maybe can you walk into a building and take that test and go into work just like if you have to show i.d. wait a few minutes to show you are clean before did you go. in maybe this is a way forward that second task force if they do commission it they will do that a way back to work. steve on facebook writes you this question, dr. siegel. are you ready? >> yes. absolutely. brian: does the pneumonia vaccine provide any protection against the corona-triggered

pneumonia? >> absolutely none. absolutely none. but it does protect you against pneumonia. so, if you are going to think about it, get the pneumonia shot but the pneumonia you get from covid-19 is due to a reaction to the virus in the lungs, an immune reaction. has nothing to do with the garden variety of pneumonia that we talk about in other situations. you are not protected from getting that pneumonia shot, no. steve: meanwhile jean asks an email question of you, doctor, once a person has a virus and recovers, can he or she get it again? >> well, that's a billion-dollar question we are asking steve, and the answer is probably not. it's almost definitely the case that this strain has stayed pretty stable so that once you have it, you get over it, you recover, you are not going to get this strain again. at least for several, several months. so that's a good thing. we are monitoring that and i think the answer is almost definitely yes. you would be over it and immune. ainsley: i guess you could go

back and look at how it effected other countries before. >> exactly. ainsley: in minnesota mosquito season is quickly approaching. can this virus be spread through mosquitoes? >> ainsley, no evidence of that whatsoever. that it spreads via mosquitoes or insects. we have seen it in animals and zoos now by the way. we are not seeing it in insects and no reason to think you can get it from mosquito. got to worry about other things with mosquitoes. continue to cover up. but not this virus. brian: dr. seale, thanks so much. appreciate it. ainsley: yep. thanks, doctor. >> good to see you guys. ainsley: you too. brian: i have taken the toss from carley first time i get to toss to carley shimkus who has promised to receive the toss and then do the news. carley, will you go ahead and fulfill that mission? carley: i will receiving the toss is quite an honor. thank you so much, brian. dive into it right here. an appeals court rejects a plan to release california prisoners

amid the pandemic. but the ruling leaves the door open for elderly inmates and those with pre-existing conditions. california officials are trying to lower the inmate population by about 6500 to increase social distancing. so far 13 inmates have tested positive for the virus. and listen to this: a tiger at new york's bronx zoo testing positive for covid-19. 4-year-old nadia now under observation with minor symptoms, including a cough. the tiger was infected by a zookeeper. six others are also showing signs of respiratory illness. how about that? and listen to this one. an entire community comes together to salute a nurse on her way to work. neighbors and police lining up outside christina lee own's house in new york when she stepped out her front door, she got a standing ovation. [cheers]

[. [applause] >> thank you. >> all of those people coming together to support her. now, she is a nurse at north shore university hospital on long island. her husband carlos calls her his hero and thanked everyone for their support. now, we want to see your videos like this. send them to us with the #america together and we have more stories like this one on our website head on over to foxnews.com/america together. and that is really what this is all about. we are in it together ♪ steve: it's a challenging time for the first responders and people like them and for the neighbors to recognize them. that just warms your heart. carley: absolutely. steve: thank you, carley. all right, it's about a dozen minutes before the top of the hour. still ahead, long island, new york, an emerging hot spot. president trump is rushing out

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federal response unlike anything our country has ever seen or done. long island now has become a hot spot. we will also be delivering another 200,000 n-95 masks to suffolk county where they need it very badly. so we are getting that out on an emergency basis. should be there tomorrow. brian: yeah. suffolk county, new york. home to long island, deemed a coronavirus hot spot as you just heard. cases surged over 13,000. 175 have lost their lives. joining us now with what's being done to contain is suffolk county executive steve bologna. steve, you have your hands full. are you surprised in new york it was up until a few days ago 15% of the cases were long island-related now 22% of the cases are happening -- people are testing positive in long island. why? >> good morning. well, suffolk county really is at the center of the fight against the coronavirus now.

we have more cases here than just about any o any other state in the country. just in this county and on long island alone. actually, three weeks ago we didn't have a single death related to the covid-19 virus that number stands at more than 200 and rising. governor cuomo, who, i think, has done an outstanding job leading our state through this tke about how the battle shifted to long island. and the fact that president trump has made this commitment to suffolk county, to the people of the county and most importantly particularly to the men and women who are on the front lines, the healthcare workers, the first responders, it really is a tremendous shot in the arm. the n-95 masks are going to help protect our healthcare workers. we saw yesterday on the cover of

the newspaper, we saw one of those workers wearing a garbage bag. this is not who we are. and knowing that the president understands what's happening here in suffolk county and has made the commitment that and the white house has made the commitment that they will help bring the resources we need in the next 30 days to fight this virus is making a tremendous difference and i'm grateful to the president for that support. brian: steve, do you a good job with these addresses i watch you too being that i'm located around here. a lot of the people go to the summer homes in the hamptons. now that complicates things, your comment on that. >> certainly our summer communities in the hamptons, fire island, they are not geared up and haven't been geared up for the season. you know, they certainly haven't been dealed up to deal with a global pandemic. we would encourage people to stay at home as best they can. if they do come out when they

come out to isolate and follow that health guidance. most importantly, whoever is here, what we need to fight this battle are those resources that the president has delivered and that he has talked about. and what we need more than anything else right now. brian: gotcha. >> in additional to the personal protective equipment are ventilators. we need 500 ventilators in this county in the next two weeks to make it through this crisis period. and depending on what model we are looking at, we may need more than that but i'm comfortable steve. brian: thanks, steve. >> that will get us through the next few weeks. brian: try to get you those events. thanks steve bellone. coming up with dr. mehmet oz, dr. peter navarro and representative dan crenshaw. don't move.

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president trump: in the days ahead america will endure the peak of this terrible pandemic, our warriors and this life and death battle are the incredible doctors and nurse s and healthcare workers. we're starting to see light at the end of the tunnel, and hopefully, in the not too distant future, we'll be very proud of the job we all did. brian: a fox news alert now you heard that message president trump with a message of optimism while realism is also mixed in there praising america's frontline workers, the u.s. expected to face its toughest week yet as deaths are expected to spike. ainsley: the u.s. nearing the ap

ex of the coronavirus pandemic as cases top 337,000, more than 9,600 people have died in the united states. steve: meanwhile new york now reporting its first daily drop in deaths as more than 1,000 military medical personnel are on their way to new york to help and today, a new blood test is expected to be launched that could help track the spread of the virus, and determine immunity. welcome folks to hour three of fox and friend once again we are split up all over the tri-state area, as social distancing continues. if you've been noticing in the corner of your screen, the dow jones industrial stock futures are way up as they were in asia and also in europe as well, on the hope that this is peaking, brian. brian: yeah, which is weird because japan might be declaring a state of emergency but i'm okay with it.

meanwhile, white house trade advisor peter navarro will be here, doing the best he can to go around the globe to get all of the material we need as well as evidently having a brawl yesterday with dr. fauci, is that indeed true and dan crenshaw has to be here not only does the impact full texas congressman have a book out and he also wants to weigh in on what a rescue bill four should look like and what should not be in it ainsley. ainsley: people should be getting their checks within the next few weeks directly deposited into your account and some are saying they now want to revisit that and see if we could get checks every month so we'll see and continue to keep you posted on that. the good news is, the cases and deaths have been declining in italy and spain they were ahead of us and dr. birx says they have completed mitigation for nearly four weeks so hopefully after this week we'll start to see the numbers go down the president says please remember everyone in your theirs especially those who have lost loved ones. the white house task force warns this week will be the worst one

yet when new data surfaces. griff jenkins is live in washington to explain. it be nice if this weekend when we have easter if we saw some good news. griff: well we've seen signs of hope as the president points out and he's saying there's a light at the end of the tunnel but americans are bracing for perhaps the hardest times they've had yet because the nations top doc issued this dire warning yesterday. >> this is going to be the hardest and saddest week of most americans lives quite frankly. this is going to be our pearl harbor moment. our 9/11 moment, only it's not going to be localized, it's happening all over the country. griff: this as hospitals are experiencing shortages and the administration is moving as fast as they can to give critically needed supplies to hard hit areas and out the door and strong criticism from some governors in hotspots but the president is pushing back. president trump: 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 i think our projections on ventilators have been right. griff: meanwhile nine states have still not issued stay-at-home order, arkansas, iowa, nebraska, the dakotas, wyoming, utah, south carolina, and michigan governor is pushing the white house for a national order. listen. >> not having a national strategy where there is one policy for the country as opposed to a patchwork, based on whomever the governor is is something that i think is creating a more porous situation where covid-19 will go longer and more people get sick and sadly, more lives may get lost. griff: vice president pence has a call today with several governors. we'll see if that comes up with an update meanwhile we're learning also the white house chief of staff, brand new one, mark meadows spoke last night with minority leader schumer about fully invoking the defense production act the dpa and the

appointment of a czar to oversee production and distribution. no word on how that call went or what meadows is feeling on it. we know that schumer though at least dropped three names for who that czar be , one is a general, two are admirals, we'll find out that perhaps will develop later today as well. brian, ainsley, steve? steve: griff thank you very much let's bring in dr. mehmet oz, host of the dr. oz show, he's been joining us every day of this pandemic. dr. oz yesterday the president of the united states was talking about hydrochloroquine which you have detailed for a number of weeks and he said we've got 29 million doses and he thinks it's promising although unproven right now, and the lead story right now in the new york post is how apparently this hydrochloroquine has been shipped to 56 hospitals in new york, and enough to treat 4,000 people and apparently the university of albany is doing a preliminary study that could be done in a couple of weeks and over at langone they're conducting a

random trial with a big grant to see whether or not this stuff is effective. where do we go from here? >> well, those pills are also coming to new jersey, long island, being spread out in the tri-state area. you know, i just the doctor's primary goal is to identify a sickness, right? diagnose the problem that's hard to do but we're getting better at it. it's to isolate the person whose got the illness that's what we've been saying and then final ly treat the best you got and doctors aren't confused by all the writing and confusing terminology. by the way, the word anecdote is used a lot and that's an incorrect description of where this medication is now. there's no question it's not proven to be beneficial in the large clinical trials we expect in america, and certainly the fda and medical societies would desire but these have been supported with case studies. i just got off the phone with the well-respected french physician whose done a lot of his work, thousand patients in a row he's treated and he's not published yet but over the next two weeks but he's got seven

people who have died, they were all older and had other co- morbidity, 20 people have gone to the icu of that trial. it's not a randomized trial but that's not anecdotal. the data from china we discussed last week for the first time on fox & friends also, pretty evident that it's a randomized trial. that is the opposite if i had to create an opposite anecdote so when those words get thrown around and i saw us this morning it's an error on the part of journalists. doctors know that difference and they say i've got nothing else. i'm going into a battle and i'll march with the army with me with randomized data and large case studies that support it's the best i've got and i've got, i'm estimating this but dr. reynolds, there have been 1 billion prescriptions written for these products and he's stunned there's so much concern about side effects. yes you have to screen for side effects a doctor has to be involved but all of this panic on how dangerous they suddenly became is surprising him. brian: yeah it is dr. fauci when i asked him thought the study from china was too

small to matter but we'll move on he doesn't seem high on this drug i'm not sure why but he's the pro. >> i'm sorry, brian, he's a pro and i respect him a lot but a small study that shows statistical significance is really important observation. if it takes me 30,000 patients to show a difference, is that better than showing a difference in 62 patients? if a small trial demonstrates statistically significant differences, you should respect it at least pay attention to it. brian: right. dr. oz i agree he couldn't be more dismissive of my question on friday, but he's the guy. meanwhile, governor cuomo and president trump agree on one thing. the incremental drop in deaths are somewhat encouraging. listen. >> the number of deaths over the past few days has been dropping for the first time. what is the significance of that it's too early to tell.

blip, maybe, in the data, or hopeful beginning of a shift in the data and then the discharge rate is way up and that's great news. president trump: it's the first drop so far. the hospital levels are starting to perhaps decrease. we wish governor cuomo and all of the people in new york great. brian: so dr. oz can you help me? i hear it's going to be pearl harbor from the surgeon general and the governor and president say that i like the fact that they are decreasing numbers. what do you think? >> well they are both true statements. all my colleagues are saying this is going to be the hardest week and running very short on supplies, the ventilators and morale, because it's so difficult fighting on the frontlines. that stated, the fact is you're not getting incrementally more cases, doesn't takeaway from the fact you still have a lot of cases coming in and they are added to the cases already there this is a tribute to american medicine.

this guys are doing such a fantastic job they are saving people in the icu but if you're alive that means you're still in the icu using up ventilators and taking up resources, so i'm hopeful that when we get past this week and don't have the same number of cases again coming next week, we'll start to get a little bit of a breather as some patients get better and leave the icu but this is a hard week. you got to deal with last week, save patients and take it to expect the same. ainsley: dr. oz, there's a story out this morning that this tiger at the bronx zoo has contracted coronavirus. what are your thoughts on that? >> well we know mammals not only get the virus, they gave us the virus right? most likely bats are mammals, and if it's one of the different rat species that may have gotten infected they passed it in that wet market in wuhan, it's still a mammal. there have been several cats and dogs that have gotten it but we have no evidence that cat, dogs or in this case, tigers and maybe even bears could pass it to a human.

theoretically you wouldn't get close enough to the animal to give it to you. one warning thought is you don't want to pet animals if you are actively infected because you could shed virus on their coat on their fur and a friend could touch that same fur and thus contaminate their hands and get into their body but i don't think the animals themselves are going to be able to infect us, because of the interaction we have with them. steve: all right, dr. oz, we got an e-mail from tammy. she wonders, can the plasma from those who have recovered from covid-19 be used as a prophylactic from people that have not yet gotten the disease. good question. >> it's excellent. conceptually it could be, one of the ways you could vaccinate people in theory in the old vaccines you take little bits of infection and try to as little as possible and give it to people, or you'd take the antibodies in this case, so you know how someone else figure figured out how to kill the virus but that's not a good strategy. i'd reserve plasma for people

critically ill in the icu. it's a better place to focus. brian: let's get this e-mail from terry. terry says this , dr. oz. should we be avoiding hugging families in our homes when we don't have symptoms? the nuclear family, can the knack harry reed family hug? >> so, i mean, you're already contaminating each other. it's actually one of the big issues we have to address as a nation: right now we're taking people and saying quarantine yourself with your family but if one person goes down the whole boat sinks right and you all get sick and it's hard to break that apart because you're a family. in my family we're trying to hug a little less but it's impossible to avoid especially when you got young kids around so i'm not panicked about that yet. the overwhelming odds are that you have a high risk of getting covid-19 if anyone in the family gets it but it's really important to build some barriers around your nuclear family so you don't get infected from the outside because one person gets it, it changes everything. ainsley: this is an e-mail from

sharee. my granddaughter lives in kentucky and her fifth birthday is this weekend. it is a 10 hour drive to their home in virginia, and we plan to go for a few days. are we in our late 50s, we want to visit but we also don't want to bring the virus to them or ourselves, what do you suggest? >> you can't go to that birthday party, i'm sorry. my job as a doctor is to tell the truth as the best i know it. i know you don't want to acknowledge that reality but dr. birx was on my show in the last week was very clear. she doesn't want you going to the grocery store if you have any risk factors and certainly traveling 10 hours is more than going to the grocery store. this is something you do online. there's great technologies now that's what we've been doing in our family. we get together frequently and zoom works, try it. steve: we do a zoom happy hour every day, with the doocys from all over the country. meanwhile we got an e-mail from guy, dr. oz. he says i understand heat kills the virus.

will time, in a sauna, help fight it? and that coinsides with a question i just got from my neighbor, ray, dr. oz, who says the reporting is that maybe as the weather gets warmer, we might see this go away as the flu does, but at the same time, florida is the hot spot and it's hot there. >> yeah, so these are totally different issues. i don't think that a sauna is a ideal way of sterilizing the virus. temperature will effect it but that's not why we are optimistic about the summer. in the summertime, with the humidity, the virus swells up a little bit, so it doesn't travel as far, and so if i'm speaking to you, steve, from four feet instead of six feet, i might still get away with it. we still shouldn't do it but i'll get away with it and so you'll have a little bit more of a room for error. because remember, an exposure is 10 minutes or more closer to six feet to somebody because when they're speaking they can contaminate you and in the summer that distance is a little less, but you're outdoors

and naturally social distancing yourself and a lot of cases in florida are from people outside the state of florida who went there and started the process denovo so i don't know if florida is evidence yet. i'm curious what's going to happen in warmer climates like why is africa not reporting cases? they haven't tested much but i'll be curious to see what happens there especially over the summer. brian: all right so let me find out what cassie wants she wrote you an e-mail. we've postponed our daughter's wedding until august 21. do you think we'll be safe by then? what do you think, can cassie get married then? >> so the virus will decide that, but my bet be yes, you should get married anyway it's the only covenant you sign with society. it's fundamental, i think, to maintain those traditions. you may not want to have a big wedding. you'll have to socially distance no matter what but i'm optimistic by then people will be able to gather in churches

for weddings and important ceremonies. ainsley: let me piggyback on that because according to the university of washington for health metrics they warn that 100,000 americans will die by august 1 so of course i'm thinking conventions are going to be in august, will we go to those , you had biden over the weekend talking about doing a virtual convention. >> i just don't think it's wise to get a lot of people into an excited frenzy where they're not, almost by definition, going to be too close to each other. i've never been to a convention but i look at them on television , and you're on top of each other waving banners, arguing, angry, getting agitated it's an important process. i just can't see that being a safe place unless you want to infect all the key members of the democratic and republican party all at once. steve: dr. oz i'd like to bring you to a convention this year. we thank you very much for joining us live. good enough, thank you, sir. meanwhile, president trump invoking the defense production

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for our schools, libraries, hospitals, and other public services. the census is safe, it's confidential, and our community is counting on us to do our part. we know who we are and how vibrant our community is. let's make sure our nation knows it too. for more information, visit getcounted.com, and to participate, go to census.gov. brian: president trump invoking the defense production act to stop the export of crucial medical supplies leaving the u.s. ainsley. ainsley: yes, that's right brian just last night the white house chief of staff mark meadows and senator chuck schumer they sat down and talked about how to implement the act even discussing a czar to maybe oversee production and distribution. steve: here with more is the defense production act policy coordinator at the

administration, peter navarro. peter good morning to you, thank you very much for joining us from the white house. >> great to be with you this morning. steve: tell me more about the conversation, you bet, between chuck schumer and mark meadows last night. what is chuck schumer interested in? >> i'll let mark and chuck report to you directly but the issue is basically, how to use the defense production act productively to save lives in america and really, there's three ways to use it. one is in the allocation of resources we have, which is to make sure that the supply chain has enough so that we can make the ventilators, we don't want to run out of components in the supply chain, and we also in terms of allocation want to make sure that when we manufacture something, it gets to the right people. the other second thing is mobilization of the industrial base and that can mean repurpos ing factories like gm and ford are now turning their auto production into making ventilators, and the third thing basically is cracking down on the kind of black market and

profiteering that has a risen and so far, president trump has signed numerous defense production act orders acting on all of those fronts, gm order to get them to make ventilators, an allocation order to help the ventilators manufactures have enough components, and we are locked and loaded right today at the border with customs and border protection ready to crackdown on black market profiteering in this country and the department of justice bill barr already busted somebody in new york and new jersey and that within 24 hours, to grab 80,000 masks that were sent to the frontlines, of the war on the virus in new york, so that's what the defense production act debate is all about, and the president is using it every day, using his orders. brian: right and i know you're doing a great job behind the scenes trying to get the whole world together, peter. let's talk about an axios report that yesterday in the situation room you walked

in very proud of acquiring more hydrochloroquine and dr. fauci was very negative on it and evidently you guys had a heated exchange. can you shed some light on that for us? >> sure. there was no pride there it was simply on saturday there was a meeting of the task force and the question before the tariffs was this , brian. we have 29 million tablet, 29 million tablets of hydroxy in fema warehouses and the question before the group was sudden we surge that hydroxy into the hot zones, and the tariffs unanimously voted to do that with the provision that this can have side effects and that it has to be dispensed not by the federal government but by the patient/doctor relationship. the third thing i can tell you about the meeting and the discussion was there was some discussion about the numerous studies that are

out with regard to efficacy. it is true there's no 100% proof that this works. on the other hand there's numerous studies that are coming out now including the latest one which is randomized that shows therapeutic efficacy. the other thing i should tell you is that in the city of new york, if you're a patient in the new york health and hospital system, which is 11 hospitals, run by dr. mitch cats, any patient virtually every patient that presents with covid-19 is given a cycle of hydroxy and when i asked dr. cats why was it because the federal government was telling you to do that or because he thought it may work, and he said very clearly, that it may work, so that was the sum and substance of the discussion, the media is trying to blow it up as a big big debate, but i can tell you that within the room, the decision was a sound one and it was unanimous.

ainsley: so what does dr. fauci want? does he want more testing? >> i'll let tony speak for himself. you've seen he takes the view that it's important to have controlled randomized studies and to go through the science and come to and determine what's going on and as a social scientist myself i totally agree with that but there's also the point of view that we are in war, president trump is a war time president in the fog of war and we might take more risks than we otherwise would and given the track record of the drug over many many years treating malaria and there are side effects but its been used a lot, the decisions been made by many doctors to prescribe it and if it saves lives that's a beautiful thing. i think history will judge whose right on this debate, but i'd

bet on president trump's intuition on this one, because i've all the doctors i've talked to and all the scientific papers i've read and they're about this high. steve: yeah, of course that's the conversation that every patient needs to have to figure out what is the best care for them. >> absolutely. steve: peter there's a story in the new york post that apparently the administration is considering suing china, because toward the end of last week, we heard about hey, 3m is trying to , they're keeping masks they're producing in different countries. according to this story it says that as early as january, china was preventing any of those mask s, that 3m was producing, from leaving china, and so now the administration is thinking about somehow brushing back at china saying, you know, you obviously probably knew that there was a need there. we needed stuff. what's going on behind the scene s? >> sure, steve, a couple of things. first of all i've been part of

no discussion that's talked about suing china on this. the separate issue though is a serious matter. we know that china knew about the virus as early as mid- december. we know that for a period of about five to six weeks they hid the dangers from the rest of the world even as chinese citizens were flying around the world seeing world with the virus, but what looks like from the data, steve and this is a serious matter. it looks like during that interval china was basically attempting corner the market in personal protective equipment including masks so they were buying large quantities of masks , gloves, goggles, respirators from the rest of the world, at a time when the world was still sleeping with respect to the dangers of the virus, and the chinese customs data shows one statistic that i think every american

should sit up and really stare at. 2.2 billion masks china bought between january 24 and the end of february, and look, americans are getting infected because they don't have the masks, italians are dying because they don't have the masks, healthcare professionals are going down and if i think if those statistics are telling a story about china basically going out and trying to corner the world market and p pe, when they knew the dangers and didn't tell the rest of the world i think that's a significant discussion we need to have at least after this is all over, because that's a serious matter. brian: so peter i don't know if you saw the top of our show but we interviewed the ceo of the medical center in new york city and he needs everything and he says it's an emergency and there is a belief a lot of stuff you're sending is not getting directly to the hospitals,

there's some type of bureaucratic holdup, and the execution of the ppe's and ventilators. what is the system and is there any way to cut through that red tape and get it to brooklyn? >> well we're skating to where that puck is going to be even as we speak. for example, in the new york health and hospital system, what we've done with that system and others is to get a 30 day list of everything they need and then deliver those , whatever they need, directoryly to the hospital so i understand what you're saying and we're shifting unfortunately, a lot of the stuff early on that we had been sending to the warehouses up in albany that's run by the state wasn't moving with all due speed down to the hospital system, but brian this is a moving target and as we learn about that logistics there, we're helping to fix them here.

the other thing i should tell you and to give comfort to the people in the new york, new jersey area, is we are on point, this week, because we know this is the most crucial part of the war against the virus in the new york/new jersey area and we are throwing everything we can at it in a tactical and strategic way, to make sure that we minimize the casualties in this war, and i couldn't be prouder of this president and prouder of all of the private companies that are sending stuff here, and i couldn't be prouder of the people on this team at fema,hhs, vice president task force. ainsley: peter navarro thank you so much. >> take care. take care of yourself. ainsley: you too. we will. thirty-one minutes after the top of the hour, financial relief is rolling in for america's small businesses with billions of dollars in aid now available so will this finally get americans back to work? an update on the program coming up, next. (announcer) carvana's had a lot of firsts.

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brian: nearly $350 billion now unleashed to help america's small business impacted by the pandemic, so are those mom and pop shops getting ready to rebuild?

can they rebuild with what's coming to them? here with more on this rescue package is fox business correspondent ed lawrence. ed? so far, would you say you just gave me these numbers so i'm not going to act like i'm smarter than you, $5.4 billion in loan money has been out on 17,000 loans, so you think that's a adequate start? ed: you know, that's a huge start when you're talking about money getting this program up and running in basically a week, week and a half going forward. this is an enormous amount of money flowing directly to businesses and a life line for those businesses, and small businesses to keep them going and the goal is to keep their employees on board here. now a senior treasury official says its been running relatively smoothly, going forward here. they have had though, some hiccups related to all this , the official says that the big banks wilfully come on line today, as the expectation; however bank of america was processing applications but they were only helping existing customers that had a credit card

with them, and wells fargo and jpmorgan were accepting applications but not processing those loans but still president trump pushing this program. listen. president trump: it's all about employment, it's all about jobs, wants you to keep your jobs, give small business funding to keep the workers on the payroll. ed: now on those direct checks to americans the direct deposits still looking at april 17 but this week, the irs is putting up on their website a way for you to change your direct deposit information and let's say you ended the relationship you have with the banks on your last tax return or a paper check and you want to get that direct deposit you can verify your information and then change that direct deposit this week, back to you, brian. brian: so if i walk into a bank , and i want my dry cleaners or my pizza shop, i want to know what i have coming to me, what do i need in my hands to

walk out with money? >> yeah it's depends on what bank you go into. the community banks are sort of leading the way on this , the big banks taking application s but a little bit slower on that other end of the process. you need to come in with your average monthly payroll for 2019 you also have to be able to have or prove that you were in business on february 15 and have a company of under 500 employees and that's all you need going in now restaurants are a little bit different. there is an exemption for restaurants. the employee number doesn't quite matter because they are being looking at individual locations as each entity, but you could literally walk in with that information and come out with money to go to the right bank. brian: right, and then if you do the payroll and pay for your lease, then you get to make that a grant and some other things involved, ed we'll track this along the way the $350 billion to hand out, and a lot of people don't think that'll be enough, ed lawrence, thank you.

ed: thank you. brian: still ahead, the military playing a crucial role in the fight against the coronavirus. more than 1,000 personnel are headed to new york city as we speak. former navy seal turned congressman dan crenshaw has a book out and he'll react to these aspects of that story. more than ever, your home is your sanctuary. that's why lincoln offers you the ability to purchase a new vehicle remotely with participating dealers.

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>> by the direction of the department of defense as well as the united states northern command it was decided we would take covid patients in order to assist and be able to bring more patients within the new york medical station. what we're seeing is that there is also needs on the frontlines and the frontlines are our city and state hospitals and those are going to be nurses, providers and our ability to put them at the frontline is hope to be able to decrease some of the pressure that's on our medical providers in those city hospitals. steve: that was colonel aiello, who joined us about an hour and a half ago talking about how military is mobilizing to provide essentially the biggest hospital in new york city for covid care let's bring in republican manchester dan crenshaw from house homeland security and a member also a former navy seal and author of "

fortitude" american resilience in the era of outrage. congressman good morning to you. >> good morning. steve: i'm sure you heard the defense secretary say yesterday that the pentagon was sending i believe 1,100 members of the military to essentially mobilizing them to new york because that's where people are needed, at 11 hospitals throughout the metropolitan area >> that's right i think over 20,000 nationwide have been mobilized and those are under the command of each governor in each state, and they are going to be fulfilling a crucial role, which is the things you wouldn't think of like logistics, supply runs, managing the testing that goes on, so this is going to be a huge win for the states that need it most like new york. ainsley: over the weekend the navy captain, well he was fired a few days ago for sending out that letter, that concerned

letter to so many people. first of all do you agree with the firing? you were in the navy, and the secretary of defense, mark e sper, let me get your reaction to the firing after we hear from the secretary. listen to this. >> okay. >> it was based on his view he lost faith and confidence in the captain based on his actions and supported by navy leadership , and i think that it's just another example how we hold leaders accountable for their actions. ainsley: do you agree with him? >> yeah, listen the captains intentions were clearly good. he wanted to protect his crew and make sure they got the help that they needed. the problem was it appeared after the fact that that help was already being discussed and the help was on the way, all he had to do was continue discussions with his chain of command, so you know, going outside your chain of command and lobbying arrows at each

other from the outside is really not how we conduct ourselves in the military so i do understand why he got fired. i also understand why he was so concerned but there's a way to make that message heard. brian: right and if you take an aircraft carrier out of the south china sea you might not want to tell the chinese but when you mail out that e-mail to about 16 different people in san francisco the word is going to get out but i want to go to your book "fortitude" because a lot of americans are frustrated, obviously, as we're sitting home trying to socially distance from each other, and world war ii we were able to take action in some cases pick up guns and some go into the workforce. everybody was sacrificing and now our sacrifice is to sit back that takes fortitude. your fortitude in this book you talk about being told basically you're probably going to be blind and you had to work your way threw that with the right attitude. these are some of the things in your book. can some of that past battle experience help you now and help

others now by reading it? >> well one thing i talk a lot about in that book is a matter of perspective, and how important it is to understand what your situation is and how bad others have it, and that's a bit of a mental game but it also gives you some gratitude and from that gratitude comes hope and perseverence. some other things i talk about are the small missions that you must execute correctly in favor of the big missions. so what is the big mission right now? well the big mission is to get back to our lives. the big mission is to keep ourselves health it, because how do you do that? well there's a series of smaller missions and you have a duty and i talk about duty a lot as your citizen and as an american and you have a duty to get those small missions donald maybe that's supporting your local business, maybe that's making sure that you wash your hands and cover your face, any time you are in public, or interacting with other people. you know, the more we understand about this virus, the more

empowered we actually are so instead of always waiting for somebody to help us, americans should remember the american spirit, the american spirit really is about personal responsibility and accountability and taking on those smaller missions, and asking what more we can do, not asking what can be done for us, but asking what we can do and we've forgotten that john f. kennedy quote, to such an extraordinary degree and this is a time to remember it. steve: what a great way to break it down. the new book is available now. check it out, "fortitude", dan crenshaw thank you very much. >> thanks for having me. steve: all right, meanwhile straight ahead a 97-year-old world war ii veteran is not letting the quarantine stop him from busting a move. janice dean going to share some more good news and she's coming up, next. >> ♪ move where you already know ♪ poppy come quick.

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stimulus package for the hard hit economy as the country remains on near total shutdown. senator ted cruz also with an update from his state of texas and former michigan congressman will be also joining us live. we've got your up to the minute coverage of covid-19, our doctors are on deck and we're watching markets move higher this morning, maria bartiromo will join us for the opening bell, join ed and me top of the hour in moments. ainsley: americans are coming together and sharing some positive it amid the pandemic and here to share hard warming stories fox news senior meteorologist janice dean. >> janice: hello, ainsley are you ready? ainsley: i love this guy. >> janice: let's take a look, 97-year-old world war ii veteran , this is from the navy, the stars and stripes honor flights, and chuck is dancing up a storm to justin timberlake on his porch, he's social

distancing but he can't stop dancing, he's one of my favorites on social media and i will post it on my twitter after this. ainsley: he couldn't be cuter. how about this healthcare worker smiling? >> janice: we love this healthcare worker he's out of california, a respiratory doctor, he let his patients know this is what i look like and me smiling at you just to give them comfort. this brought tears to my eyes and i hope all healthcare workers will put a giant picture of themselves on their ppe so that people can see. ainsley: and this comedian doing a good thing. >> janice: yes, evan era is posting on instagram putting sanitary items on his porch including toilet paper and sanitizer and giving it to the workers the delivery workers coming to his porch, they are taking it and he says just take what you need and he's been video taping them and just it's a beautiful display of emotion

from our delivery workers. ainsley: that is a great idea. love that idea. what about the teenager in new jersey? >> janice: teenagers in new jersey, they are drew and heather paglia setting up a gofundme so that they can deliver food and gift cards to workers across new jersey, they've setup that gofundme page it's called heros on the frontlines, so our teenagers are doing great things too to help our health care workers. ainsley: so are you thanks, j. d. we have more fox & friends moments away. when it comes to autism, finding the right words can be tough. finding understanding doesn't have to be. together, we can create a kinder, more inclusive world for the millions of people on the autism spectrum. go to autismspeaks.org

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>> well, those three hours flew by. thank you for trusting us as your morning news source. we'll be back here tomorrow same time, same channel, everybody. >> sandra: we'll see you then. meanwhile onto the fox news alert. americans bracing for what could be the worst week yet in the coronavirus pandemic. with more than 1.2 million people infected already around the world. good morning, everyone, i'm sandra smith. >> ed: good morning. i'm ed hen tree. 337,000 americans have contracted the disease as death toll approaches 10,000 right here in america. the surgeon general adams paints a grim picture of what we should expect. >> this is going to be the hardest and saddest week of most americans' lives quite frankly. ar