rob: we love it. carley, thank you so much. we do appreciate it. jillian: thanks everyone for watching "fox & friends" today. we will be back here tomorrow morning same time same place. "fox & friends" starts right now. bye-bye. ♪ >> we are going to have a rough week maybe a rough little more than a week. there is tremendous light at the end of that tunnel. there is so many things happening with therapeutics. with vaccines. with things that we really want. carley: president trump with a message of hope as a second company starts clinical trials for covid-19 vaccine. cases here in the united states topping 368,000 deaths. now nearing 11,000. nearly twice as many people have rferred. brian: in new york the pandemic pertinenepicenter.

a crew on ship testing positive. being isolated on board so that's a change. steve: but there is no hope in the state rocked by the virus. take a look. you can see the percent of new cases dropping over the past few days. governor cuomo says the state could be nearing the flattening of the curve. and good morning, everybody. it is tuesday, april 7th, 2020. once again, another split show. it sounded as well, ainsley and brian, from the governor, as if new york could actually currently be hitting the apex. and there was some good news as well regarding that so-called murray model or the university of washington model. that shows now fewer deaths. last week, five days ago. they predicted 94,000 deaths. now they are saying probably closer to 82,000. and ainsley, the need for ventilators is down substantially as well. ainsley: yeah. these are all good signs.

hopefully you are right, steve. hopefully we are coming on the other side of this, according to the governor here in new york. and our mayor. they are all saying these are good signs. that's the headline this morning. we are going to be talking to the experts to find out what they know about the drugs, what they know about the vaccines. we have dr. nicole saphier and todd semonite army corps of engineer doing great things on those ships and dr. mehmet oz who has been talking to me individuals about these drugs and what works and what doesn't. and then also larry kudlow. brian? brian: yeah. especially when it comes to economics kudlow. how do i pay my people? am i going to be paid by my business? can i possibly get through on unemployment insurance. hot spots, new york, the governor so frustrating he sees stuff i don't see. i'm going to start upping fines from 500 to $1,000 if you keep defying the shelter in place proclamation which i put out which is our best hope they say of stopping this virus.

keep in mind, hot spots now are considered to be pennsylvania, colorado, washington, d.c. those places are going up. and the number one in terms of death per capita is louisiana. meanwhile, this stunning news happened yesterday afternoon. u.k. prime minister boris johnson in icu this hour battling the coronavirus not yet on a ventilator. we hope it doesn't happen at all. greg palkot joins us live now from london with an update on his condition. greg, what happened overnight? >> yeah, brian and folks. really rattling the u.k. right now. the latest word we get is no word no, change in the conditional of u.k. prime minister boris johnson but, yes, he is fighting the covid-19 and, according to at least one newspaper, fighting for his life. the prime minister was diagnosed with covid 10 days ago. he left self-quarantine sunday night to be tested in a nearby hospital, but then, last night, a rant deterioration of his condition, high fever, persist

tent coughing prompted the move to the intensive care unit. yeah. reportedly he is not on a ventilator not prepared for one. but he has gotten oxygen treatment to help his breathing. world leaders have been responding. a number of get well messages, including president trump, take a listen. >> americans are all praying for his recovery he has been a really good friend. he has been really something very special, strong resolute, doesn't quit. doesn't give up. >> he has that winston churchill spirit which is a good thing. filling in for him is a secretary of state equivalent here the foreign secretary. yes, they still have a big problem here. over 5,000 deaths from covid. over 50,000 cases. a challenge on a couple of fronts rite now. back to you guys. steve: it is, indeed. greg palkot live in our european newsroom. we thank you very much. by the way also yesterday the president of the united states during his press briefing made it clear that he had asked two

therapeutic companies working with the united states to contact london to see if they could be of help to boris. meanwhile bring in dr. janette nesheiwat. she is an fox news contributor and emergency medicine expert and trained at the same facility he is being held at. can you tell us dr. nesheiwat, he is not on a ventilator right now but he is getting oxygen support. >> hey, good morning, guys, yes. the reason why they moved to the icu if they notice that he is requiring increased amount of oxygen, and if he is still struggling to breathe with just oxygen through a unit, through a cannula or what we call a non-rebreather, then he may need to be put on a ventilator, because his mestlesst muzzles, his diaphragm, he is using his muscles to breathe. eventually the muscles will tire out. that's the point where you get put on a ventilator. it sounds like he ha has been stable throughout the night. i was worried that he might have gotten to that next step of having to be needing to be ventilated.

but, it looks like he is holding up with just oxygen alone. i hope he stays like that. but with the high fevers and requirement of high levels of oxygen, that is worrisome. and usually the next step is being put on a ventilator. we need to definitely continue praying for him. ainsley: dr. nesheiwat, let's talk about this antimalaria drug used for other things as well here in the united states. it's sparking controversy here. there was debate. last night i was watching laura's show. it sifd her life thankfully the president made it accessible. dr. fawsh said we don't have enough information. don't put much weight on it. are you prescribing it? is it working? >> i am prescribing it. it is a medicine if you want to try it, if you are moderately ill, you have to have the discussion with your doctor. discuss the risks, the benefits and the side effects. the fda allowed approval for us to use it, to prescribe it. yes, we understand there is no

provable sign terrific data. if you had the possibility to save a life, understanding the side effects and the risk, then it is reasonable to try it. yes, i am using it on some of my patients who are moderately ill. some of them have said they feel better. some of them said they can't really tell a difference. i think because it's been too early. we have to also remember this is not the only drug. there are other medications as well that are being look at calitra. there is remdesivir and my favorite are the convalescent plasma antibodies. there is nothing wrong with try ago medicine that could potentially save your life unless you have a potential underlying severe medical disorder that might cause contraindication meaning if you have a heart arrhythmia and you take this medicine you have to understand those side effects and risks could it put you over the edge and maybe the benefit of the medicine would outweigh the risk of death. it's the conversation to have. it's a customized conversation

that you have to have with your doctor. this medicine, i'm surprised to see everyone is giving it so much heat. let's give it a try. if you could potentially save a life. as a doctor, i will take every preventative measure possible to help save the life of my patient, of course, within reason and in a safe manner. brian: exactly. i think sometimes some of these doctors or epidemiologists are so into their lane this is the way it's done. we are in an emergency situation. and that really struck with state and stuck with state representative kate win set, a democrat from michigan. you know what, president trump, thanks for going to bat for this drug. listen. >> yeah. >> i really want to say that you know, you have to give this an opportunity. and for me, saved my life. all i can go by what it is that i have gone through. and what my story is and i can't speak for anyone else.

if president trump have not talked about this, it would not be something that's accessible for anybody to get right now. it would not even be possible. and i mean that honestly. because did i have a difficult time even that day of obtaining the medication because of an order that was put down in my state her name is karen whitset going to bat for the president in michigan. one quick word about boris johnson. when you have shortness of greta, is there a by pap option putting people on their side and giving them the oxygen mask that almost that could give them short of the ventilator which is not only harder to come by but oftentimes percentage of below 50% you are going to come off it? >> sure. so those machines and i don't think he would be a candidate for that because they have

ventilator there in the icu for him so that would be the first number one go-to choice. if they didn't have a ventilator then maybe as a last resort. those cpap and by pap machines don't they push oxygen in but it doesn't help to you ventilate and oxygenate your body as well as an actual ventilator machine. i don't think there is a i don't think that would be on option for him right now. he would definitely need to be put on the ventilator if he was not able to sustain a normal oxygen level with the supportive care that he is receiving now whether it's a non-rebreather unit or nasal cannula. and i also wonder, brian, if they are going to be using hydroxychloroquine and zithromax on him. i wouldn't be surprised if they are doing that another thing that's important to understand that this is not the only drug that's being used off label. for example, propanula blood

pressure and anxiety. medication for gout also helps treat inflammation. this medicine hydroxychloroquine the way it works is disrupts the anti-inflammatory process in the body so your body doesn't storm to fight this pathogen and infection causing fluid build up in your lungs where you can't breathe. steve: you know, the president did say at his breathing yesterday, he did have therapeutic companies contact london. he didn't say what the actual medicines were. although he has talked a lot about high drox hydroxychloroquine. you will according to ambassador deborah birx, she says it comes down to having the choice. that's the conversation that the patient has to have with the doctor. at least that's what she told sean hannity last night. listen. >> i think that's why the president made it very clear that this is up to the physician and the patient and what the president has worked really hard

on is making sure that the medication is available in pharmacies and hospitals around the united states. so physicians have the ability to make that choice. at the same time, there are rigorous clinical trials going on both by the who and nih to look at this drug and other drugs that are under development. steve: doctor, you know, it was a couple weeks ago we didn't know anything about this. so now, you know, people are learning more about it. and if they have got covid-19, they are going hey, what about that for me, right? >> sure, absolutely. i agree with dr. birx and i agree with dr. fawsh. we need to continue with trials and studies and i agree with the president. give it a try. if you are on a death bed. sick and not doing well with oxygen and being on a ventilator and albuterol and all those other types of medications and antibiotics and have you one

last source to survive who wouldn't take that medication to save a life? again, look at the risk, look at the benefits, have the discussion with your doctor. it's not a one size fits all but it's a blessing just to have these alternatives, these medicines to at least try versus nothing at all until we are able to get vaccines and other therapeutics on the market. ainsley: absolutely if it can save one life it might be worth it or is with worth it. dr. nesheiwat, we want to know if we have the antibody and i understand you are taking part in a study, tell us about it. >> yes. i'm so excited a little bit nervous i have to admit. i'm going down to stone brook they are conducting a study. 95% of my patients have coronavirus whether i diagnosis nasal swab chest exray or cat scan. i'm going at 10:00 a.m. i'm going to have a finger republicaprick.

i don't think i have it now. you could be asymptomatic carrier. if i do test positive, eventually the goal is i would be able to donate my blood and my plasma to help save the life of someone else. there is no better feeling than to be able to make a difference in someone else's life and hopefully soon this needs to be available to everyone. anyone should be able to get this test done because your blood can potentially save the lives of others and on top of that if you end up testing positive, you will know that you need to, you know, self-isolate for 14 days so you don't transmit to other people. i will keep you updated and know the results. brian: so doctor, you have to be asked to take that test right now? >> yes. you can't just go and do it. but i feel very lucky to be able to help out. ainsley: when will you find out? immediately? >> within 15 minutes. ainsley: whoa. >> within 15 minutes. i will let you know very soon

and keep you updated. brian: one of those makeshift hospitals suffolk county, west bury the place in nassau county which has a lot of hot spots why the right now. doctor, thanks for joining us. we appreciate it? >> my pleasure. thank you, guys. ainsley: good luck today. brian: good luck to you. meanwhile jillian mealy has been going to at it already for two hours as she has for the past two weeks along with doing a great job on the weekend show. jillian, do you have enough gas in the tank to help us through this show? jillian: thank you, i appreciate it. carley gave me a respite yesterday so all good here. headlines starting with breaking news from overnight. divers recover the body of robert f. kennedy's granddaughter from chesapeake bay. she was found in 25 feet of water near the family's home. today the search will continue for her 8-year-old son. they went missing last week after their canoe overturned. despite a stay-at-home order wisconsin's primary will go on today. the state supreme court ruling the democratic governor did not

have the authority to reschedule the vote. separately, the u.s. supreme court also overturned a lower court ruling extending absentee voting. the national guard will help run polling sites after thousands of election workers stepped down over safety concerns. joe biden is hoping a win today will help him lock up the nomination. the former vice president getting a boost from congressman john lewis. the georgia democrat endorsing biden and appearing in a new campaign ad overnight. lewis tells fox news he plans to do all he can to help. >> we need his voice. we need his leadership. now more than ever before. we need someone who's going to get our country on the right side of history. jillian: lewis adding he hopes people will not be afraid to come out and vote amid the pandemic. a nasa astronaut takes honoring heroes on the front line of the pandemic new heights. andrew morgan tweeting this

photo of the fdny crest nasa space station. the fdny and nypd set the world standard in selfless community service. we salute you and first responders everywhere from the iss. that's awesome. for more stories like this, head to foxnews.com/america together. it's pretty cool to see that, isn't it? steve: that's great. all right. thank you very much, jillian. all right. still ahead on this tuesday, hundreds of passengers stuck on a cruise liner ravaged by covid-19. the ship docking in miami over the weekend. so when could the remaining passengers finally get home in the mayor of miami-dade county joins us with an update coming up next. did you know prilosec otc can stop frequent heartburn

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steve: right now hundreds of people are stuck on board the coral princess cruise ship that docked in miami on saturday. >> three passengers died from the coronavirus with more than a dozen rushed to area hospitals. princess cruises disembarking but stopped cdc changed guidelines no longer passengers take commercial flights home some were set to go to california, australia and the united kingdom. when can people eventually get off the ship? joining us with an update right now is miami-dade county mayor carlos journalist. mayor, good morning to you. tell us about the decision to have them dock in miami because i understand they tried to dock in fort lauderdale but they apparently said no. and wound up in your territory. >> we were told that there were very sick patients.

american citizens that were dying on the ship. so i'm a former paramedic, firefighter, for me we have got to save lives. it was a pretty easy decision for me. i said go ahead and bring them in because we can't let those people and american citizens parish at sea. they came in unfortunately on the way in, two of those patients died. on the way to port. one of them passed away about a day after. but, you know, the good news is that the majority of the passengers are off now. it came in with about 1,000 -- over a thousand passengers. and we are down to 250. we expect another 180 to go home today. and we have told princess lines they have to make accommodations for the final 80 or so passengers and it's up to them to make those accommodations and meet the cdc guidelines and get those folks home.

steve: i thought all cruise travel for the most part had already stopped. why did they -- when did they take off and didn't they know that there was trouble on board a number of other ships? >> that cruise actually took off on march 13th, i believe, down in south america. either argentina or capitol chi. it was basically roaming around looking for a place to stop it. was supposed to come back, you know, back to fort lauderdale and end up there. fort lauderdale has had some issues of its own with some of its crews. that'cruises.that's why it ende. the reason why it ended up in miami there were people dying on ha that ship. we needed to do everything in our power to save lives. i'm a firefighter at heart. we made sure that it wasn't going to be a burden on our system. we have capacity here in

miami-dade. we have plenty of hotels -- i mean we have plenty of hospital rooms and ventilators. but i wanted to make sure it wasn't a burden on our system. it isn't. it was a humanitarian effort and so far i think, you know, we have saved some lives here because they brought it in. steve: right. well, that's terrific. i understand you purchased 10,000 testing kits and community wide testing is going to start down in your neck of the woods. you are going to be looking for whether or not the person has been exposed to or had covid-19, so, particularly for first responders, so if they have they can go back to work, right? >> well, there is two programs. one is for we actually purchased over 20,000 of these kits. one of them is to start testing our first responders, our firefighters, police officers, the other one is actually to do a community wide medical study. and then it's not something that you actually call for to ask for it. we actually call you.

we request that you come in and take a test very simple. it's a little blood test. it takes about two minutes to administer. get results in 15 minutes. only one of the very few, you know, governments in the world to actually have done that somewhere in iceland they did it and colorado did it. but a community our size, we're the first ones to do it. we are going to do 750 per week for at least three weeks so we can track the virus. see where it's at. how far that virus has penetrated into the residence of miami-dade county. i think it's going to be a very interesting study not only for miami-dade county but also the state and probably for the nation as we see how it really progresses in the population. so we can take, you know, more either aggressively strategies or change our strategy and how we are going to deal with this issue. steve: well, once you get the results, we would love to check up with you. mayor, thank you very much. we know you have handsful on

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brian: at least 124,000 schools remain closed. impacting 55 until kids. many of which i hope are up watching us now. classes have since moved online. what has the transition been like for the teachers and the kids? joining us now with the perspective 3rd grade teacher at mission bay montessori academy in san diego amber. thank you. used to work around there. i understand how beautiful it is. so what was you're biggest adjustment as you took your 3rd graders, put them on computers and you taught from home? >> biggest adjustment is just kind of being glued on the computer all day every day. i used to be so happy that i didn't have to do that with my career and you we are just there, you know, evening, afternoons, weekends. it's a total adjustment period. brian: you mentioned 6 hour day

maybe lunch and some activities. now you are on zoom or google hangout i guess most teachers are using. how is your day structured now? how are the kids structured now? >> i separated by kids into groups. it auto would be very challenging to have all 20 something of them on at the same time. they are 8 and 9 years old that was a an adjustment. i separated them into groups and meet with them an hour a day on zoom. we do a math lessons sometimes a reading group. and on their own for the rest of the day and all of the assignment are on google classroom and they have to type and submit everything themselves. brian: wow, what's been the hardest for you? i guess seeing kids being able eyeing them how long did it take to you get used to it and are you used to it. >> i'm a little used it it now. we are on week three. first week was our spring break. we had to train ourselves.

the teachers didn't really get a break that was really challenging and just knot being able to see them for personal reasons and then also just to help them because if they make some sort of mistake or they need help with something it, takes longer to get communication going between us because it's online and they are just learning. they are good with technology but they are learning how to go back and look at my comments and then delete and retype and submit. yeah. brian: you mentioned that the kids always like to kid around and a little fidgety same kids fidgety and moving around in computers. but i imagine since the day a little bit more compressed big difference also now for the parents. the parents are like wow i used to be able to drop my kids off go to school and come back. what role do the parents play in the learning process? >> oh my gosh, in the beginning like the first day and the first week they were figuring out. basically some of them knew how zoom works but getting their kid on the device we need to mute

when ms. amber is talking and unmute when it's our term and helping them do google docs and google slides and everything and submitting it. now a lot of the third graders, even the 8 and 9-year-olds can do it by themselves which is awesome. when they have a question i'm sure they go to the parents more. they are kind of whom schooling now, too. brian: i know a lot of private schools are saying the parents are lucky enough to still have their jobs i don't know what to do now because my kids are home all the time. what can you do? montessori usually you have to be get admitted anyway so kids are kind of special or maybe a little advanced anyway. but, everyone is making adjustments and it's great to know the teacher is making the adjustment too as well as the students. i appreciate it. thank you for joining us, amber. >> thank you. brian: bringing us inside your we remoat classroom.

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brian: president trump considering another round for americans as the continues. record amount of loans in the last five days. ainsley: griff jenkins joins us live in washington to break it all down for us. griff: hey, ainsley brian and steve good morning. officials tell fox news already 3,000 lending institutions have given out 175,000 small business loans worth $50 billion. for context it is record in a normal year they give out 60,000. or some 30 billion. now it's got the natio nations t

banks. allocated funds. they are wondering under this phase 3 stimulus they won't have enough money. the president addressed that concern yesterday. >> we will probably have to add more to this to save and keep our small businesses going and keep the employees of those small businesses working. griff: this after speaker pelosi and majority leader mcconnell outlining priorities for a fourth package signaling an opportunity for a renewed bipartisan. pelosi says it should be about recovery while mcconnell says healthcare has got to be at the top of the list. the president though weighed in with his own priorities. >> real infrastructure, not a green new deal. i want to rebuild our country. we want to have an infrastructure bill, a real one like in the vicinity of $2 trillion to completely rebuild our roads, bridges, our highways, our tunnels. everything. the president also says he is

open to direct round of payments, checks for the american people bound to take care of them because it's not their fault. in the timing would be around mid may. already the markets yesterday soaring overnight. the futures taking off could be another good day on the markets. we will have to wait and find out. brian, ainsley, steve? steve: that's right, griff. right now the futures are up about 600. all right. meanwhile, let's bring in dr. nicole saphier, fox news medical contributor. she joins us from her studio this morning. dr. saphier, we saw the santa clara county, california public health administration, a woman by the name of sarah covid-19y, at some point everybody in her area is likely to be infected by coronavirus. now that sounds pretty scary. can you explain it to us what she is talking about? >> sure, to honest and by the way good morning. i'm not exactly sure where she

is getting that from. i have been following the projection that's are coming out of the cdc and the white house and all these private and public academic model links and they have been saying when this is all said and done probably more likely about half the united states population will have been either exposed to to the virus. you know, now that we know there is some more asymptomatic spread and lot more people walking around without symptoms, it's possible that mover the population could be infected. let me tell with you these social distancing measures, there is surely going to be some people probably a lot of the population who have no contact with this virus whatsoever. you know, perhaps she is thinking that you know she is going with dr. fauci is saying in that this may become a seasonal virus, you know, like some of our common colds which we know everyone has had a common cold in our life so maybe she is saying that after a while that all of the population will have been exposed, i don't know. but if we go along with dr. fauci has been saying if you have been infected once it

possibly will infer immunity and you won't be infected again, i don't know if it's going to be seasonal. i think it will die out at some point. obviously i don't know. i don't necessarily agree with what she is saying is it true that there are going to be some areas in the united states that you are going to have a lot more cases than others? absolutely. we are already seeing that right now. but i don't believe that the entire united states population of 330 million people are going to become infected with this virus at some point. brian: wasn't too long ago where the president said you know what? i have got to continue and go past easter with this stay-at-home and stand in place don't go to work policy we have. i was told the model show 200,000 people could die. now with 10993 dead coming into the show and 368,000 cases in the u.s. that number seems farfetched and the models also show it might not be accurate. let's listen to dr. birx and dr. fauci talk about the new data and new conclusions.

>> we did predictions of predictions. we like to incident great data. so that's where you come up with these numbers. if we work as hard as we can over the next several weeks that we will see potential to go under the number number were prd by the models. models are good. they help us to make projections. but, as you get data in, you modify your model. and i have always said data always trumps models. maybe you are essentially overshooting the model. it's the virus doing what the virus wants to do. and it's we as a society doing what we can do. brian: what do you think about the models that show we might not be dealing with that much carnage? >> brian, i said this all along those models are important to share with the american people because those worse case scenarios are important for us to know. that's why we are going to

listen to what people are telling us and doing our social distancing efforts, it's always been a worse case scenario. university of washington models continues to scale back their deaths as we have gotten more information as you just heard them say. more information about how the virus behaves and also more information on what people are doing, school closures, social distancing, nonessential businesses closing. that's all taking that in. just a few days ago, the models were about 10,000 more people would die. now today or yesterday the most recent is saying it's session cantley less, ranging from 49,000 to 132,000 which by the way is still a lot of deaths. i think we can still get that number down. the one thing that hasn't changed with that model is the peak daily death rate. and they have it as april 16th. as well as april 15th being the day that our hospitals are going to be overrun, which is why you have heard president trump say we really have to prolong this just a little bit longer because those are the days that the models are projecting it to be

its worse. i don't want people to get confused because you hear us saying in new york, the numbers are starting to level off, it's possibly hitting a plateau, but then there are other areas in the united states where you are seeing those cases ramp up. so this is an overall projection of the entire united states and as we have said many times this is a very diverse nation. and things are going to be happening very differently. one city may be reaching its plateau where another one is on the acceleration. it's important that we look at the country as a whole, and that is what these projections say. it is saying by mid april that is when our hospitals are going to be the busiest. and that's when we could potentially see the most deaths, which is why it is so important right now to continue to heed these social distancing advice. i know the weather is getting nice out there. i know people are wanting to celebrate their religious holidays right now. but it's important we do what we can do to really try to keep those hospitals working smoothly. ainsley: it's interesting you say that yesterday it was 65 degrees here. everywhere -- i mean, i was

driving to the grocery store. and you had to drive so slowly because so many people were self-distancing. one lady was on the sidewalk. her it friend was walking 6 feet away from her on the street. you have to be very careful up here. people going stir crazy. talk about the vaccine. bill and melinda gates are funding these factories. seven factories can start working on a vaccine. the second u.s. company start vaccine safety test is about to occur. do you know anything about this? >> sure. the company you are referring to is called onovio. i get really excited when i hear private industry and private donors stepping up. because i think that is truly what makes america great. that, in itself, is our biggest strength. we are founded on capitalism and people who are able to make their own companies and really help the country as a whole. bill and melinda gates not only incredible with modeling and information they have been given also donating $100 million to vaccine efforts.

vaccines are extremely important. especially when you are dealing with a virus such as. this we have multiple companies at this point who are ready for human clinical trials and onovio getting ready to do own small trials to make sure it's safe in humans. just because we see these headlines it doesn't mean a vaccine is going to be out any time soon. it will likely be 2021 before we see not only a vaccine that works but one that is safe in humans. again, the vac senile is not answer here. the answer here is continuing social distance measures while the researches and scientists and in the background figuring out how to treated these patients as we know multiple treatment options being studied some are showing good results. some are not. it's going to be a little while before we have data on that. everyone is doing their part and working to figure out how we can best tackle this virus. the thing everyone at home can do is to try and stay still, try to stay happy, physically healthy and mentally healthy as long as you can because we are going to get over this and

everyone is working on getting this past. this. brian: that's a lot of jenning . steve: dr. saphier thank you for joining us live. a moment ago we had a banner at the bottom of the screen that said that the small business administration had given out $50,000 worth of loans and grants in five days. that was incorrect. it is actually 50 billion in five days. so, just. ainsley: big difference. steve: still ahead -- no kidding. a nurse gets a big birthday surprise. watch this. [siren] happy. [laughter] [horns honking] her fiancee arranged the birthday parade down her street. janice dean is next sharing positive stories like that one amid the pandemic. hey, j.d., you are next.

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ainsley: measures are coming together including our "fox & friends" viewers. amazing stories during this pandemic here to share a few of them is fox news senior

meteorologist janice dean. janice: i love our viewers are sending us our good news stories today. ainsley: i do too. tell us about this nurse we lo our nurses this is a birthday parade. >> jacqueline, it was her birthday, her dad john sent to to me on twitter. can you send me your good news stories america coming together. my twitter is at janice dean. 25th birthday. so everyone came in their cars and started honking and cheering and her fiancee was the one that took this great video and we're bringing it here today. so great. we love our nurses. our nicu nurses at long gotten in new york city. city. ainsley: we do. handsome couple they are getting married soon. the show must go on. janice: show is matilda, young actor's theater in tallahassee theater couldn't put it on in march because of the covid-19 pandemic. they put it online. they put it on youtube and started singing songs from matilda so all of their

relatives and friends could see it online. ainsley: that's great. let's talk about -- they are awesome. what new york is doing to feed em ts how america can help. janice: this is our sister of our friend cafaro. she is putting together a go fund me page. shake shack has already signed on. she has $3,000 of a $10,000 goal. it's eats for emts. helps our emts and first responders here in new york city. ainsley: i will definitely be cricketing to that. that's great. what about down in florida? they are making signs for one hospital near fort lauderdale. janice: a nurse in florida, a sign company put signs at the hospital smiles and love. that's all it took, and everyone had a moment to have a moment of sunshine and look at these wonderful signs that a sign

company put on the lawn of the hospital there. ainsley: that's great. they are working so hard. i'm sure when they walk in and see signs like that it warms their hearts. thank you, janice for sharing sweet stories. >> you got it. ainsley: all right. bye. we have information on how you can help. plus more stories of going extra lengths to help each other to help in this pandemic. go to foxnews.com slash america together. we have dr. marc siegel and lieutenant general todd semonite from the army corps of engineers and we have dr. oz. ot getting i. joint pain, swelling, tenderness... ...much better. my psoriasis, clearer... cosentyx works on all of this. four years and counting. so watch out. i got this! watch me. real people with active psoriatic arthritis are feeling real relief with cosentyx.

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♪ >> we're going to have a rough week. we are going to have rough more than a week. there is tremendous light at the end of that tunnel. there are so many things happening with therapeutics, with vaccines with things that we really want. brian: wow, there you go. president trump with a message of hope yesterday as the second company starts clinical trials for covid-19 vaccine. keep your fingers crossed. >> the white house praising the remarkable progress being made in america's hot spots. but we have got some new hot spots, too. steve: we do indeed, brian. meanwhile cases in the united states topped 368,000. deaths now nearing 11,000. nearly twice as many people, by the way, have finally recovered from it, ainsley.

ainsley: that's right. in new york, the pandemic epicenter. the usns comfort start treating covid-19 patients. thehands down this morning there are good signs that suggest the possible flattening of the curve here in new york. we're hoping that that's the case. they are working on vaccines now. bill and melinda gates have donated billions of dollars to build factories. they are working to find out if that antimalaria drug hydroxychloroquine is working. and that's taking place at nyu langone among other places. brian: yeah. so we will see where that goes. we are also going to look at other hot spots, while new york is still the epicenter most cases and deaths. look at pitch began and louisiana with more per capita fatalities than anybody else. a lot of people think it has to do with lack of fitness for the most part in louisiana and that

plays a lot into it. the diabetes and makes them more susceptible to not lose the illness. we will talk about the other hot spots who is more likely to recover economically and struggle the most believe it maine and florida have the hardest time getting back on their feet. on this show lieutenant general todd semonite with us with the army corps of engineers. what they have done has been flat out miraculous. dr. mehmet oz is working hard on these therapies as well as staying up with the other vaccine's potential. larry kudlow overseeing the 2.2 trillion making sure it gets in the right hands. what about the banks? are they cooperating? what about the unemployment insurance? are these states getting any better? mark cuban on that conference call with the different sports leagues and the president. how soon is it going to be for these leagues to stand up and start playing ball again. one of the most interesting proposals for major league baseball. why don't we play all the games in arizona, have triple headers in smaller stadiums in places

not heavily affected by the virus. what do you think about that? we will discuss all of that over the next two hours. steve: also, speaking of cooperating, remember it was just last week that the president of the united states invoked the defense production act to force 3m to start making more of those n-95 masks. last night the president made it very clear that that dispute has ended happily, he said. 3m has agreed to manufacture 167 million masks over the next three months. they will also continue to send to canada and latin america. which was a bone of contention. so that has been settled. 3m is humming. they are making a lot of masks. meanwhile, let's go across the ocean. british prime minister boris johnson is in icu unit battling coronavirus. greg palkot is in london with an update on his condition? >> hey, guys.

no news is hopefully good news when it comes to boris johnson. we haven't heard anything in the last couple of hours. is he fighting covid-19. one newspaper said he is fighting for his life. the prime minister was diagnosed with a coronavirus 10 days ago. he left his self-quarantine at his home and office sunday night for testing at a hospital. but, apparently last night there was a rapid deterioration in his condition. he has been suffering from a high fever, persistent cough, and that moved him over to the intensive care unit. reportedly he is not on a ventilator. but he has been getting oxygen treatment to help his breathing. world leaders have been responding big time to give him some support, including president trump. take a listen to what he said last night at a briefing. >> americans are all praying for his recovery. he has been a really good friend. he has been really something very special, strong. resolute. doesn't quit. doesn't give up. >> doesn't give up.

there is trouble in the family for boris johnson. his fiancee, carrie simmons also has been suffering from symptoms of covid-19. and she is in self-quarantine, too. guys, just in the past 10 minutes or so, we have seen that a gentleman by the name of michael you have seen him on the air from time to time basically number two or three in the government, he is now self-quarantining. apparently a member of his family has got covid. a bit of trouble at the top here in the u.k. back to you. ainsley: thank you so much. let's bring in dr. marc siegel fox news medical contributor. dr. siegel, i know you have said that this is very concerning. he is 55 years old, boris johnson why are you so concerned? he is not on the ventilator yet. >> ainsley, why i'm not concerned is because he is 55 and he is in good health as far as we know. no underlying medical conditions and exercises a lot. he is known as an exercise person. all of that is good what i am

concerned about is 10 days after he first started having this he is still having the persistent fever, the cough and the shortness of breath. the shortness of breath requiring oxygen implies there is lung involvement going on here. it's really good news that he is not on the ventilator at this point. we also look at the heart, the kidney, the liver. we look at all of the organs in this kind of a situation. especially the inflammation in the lungs. our hopes and prayers are with him the fact that he hasn't gotten worse since he has gotten into the icu per your last report could have something to do that the icu intensive care unit is being used as a precaution. may be a way of giving him closer and closer observation. if we make sure and we see that he is not on the ventilator, that's going to be a good sign. brian: yeah, we will see. that's got people concerned. a lot of people thought, too the fact that the queen came out and made a speech which she almost didn't make. never makes before very rarely in holiday they thought she might have known something. we will see where that goes.

let's talk about what governor cuomo was saying yesterday. >> absolutely. brian: governor cuomo talking about less incubation and hospitalizations and less people going into icus. curve is pending. back of my mind i keep hearing surgeon general saying this week is pearl harbor and 9/11. what am toy believe? >> brian, you should believe both. we are still not out of the woods yet and we are seeing as you know over 100,000 cases in new york alone. and with the death rate starting to flatten out, that's a very good sign. because people can get diagnosed and then later on get serious flictions. i think all of the social distancing. the shelter in place. all of the precautions we are taking are definitely helping dramatically. i think that's very good news. the other issue is can we get more rapid testing? that's another thing. ainsley mentioned at the top that at nyu langone, my hospital we are studying some treatment, some to decrease inflammation in

the lungs. hydroxychloroquine is being studied early in the game. these treatments can make a difference potentially. social distancing huge. and can we figure out who has this rapidly and separate them out? i definitely think in new york we are heading in the right direction. as other hot spots are emerging like in louisiana and florida. new york, definitely appears to be turning the corner, slowly. steve: and you know, dr. siegel, it was two days ago that dr. birx said from the podium she said, you know, don't go to the grocery store. don't go to the pharmacy. and yesterday she actually clarified and she said she meant reduce the number of trips, consolidate. only send one person from your family and try to only go once every two weeks if that is at all possible. that's really good advice if you can wait two weeks. >> yeah. steve. people can't really wait two weeks. i think the major issue here is to be conscious of things.

to be conscious of you who close you are to people. you know, i think people out there need to understand that with all of the asymptomatic spread, people that have this and don't know about it, that's why we're adding additional precautions like wearing a mask when you are close to people because you might have it and not know it. we need people to be conscious of that. it's not about how often you go to the grocery store. it's what you do when you get there. are you being careful? are you, again, going home and washing everything? washing your hands? are you aware of who is next to you, what they are doing? it's about staying aware. ainsley: dr. siegel i know you mentioned nyu langone medical school where you preach or practice ought that hospital. langone has been on our story a bunch. his story came from nothing and created this empire giving so much money to-to-that hospital. bill and melinda gates are funding that hydroxychloroquine trial. they are spending billions to come up with facilities, 7 facilities to try to find this

vaccine. people are really coming together and people who have made a lot of money are giving back to this country and it's just awesome to witness that. this is email from timothy. >> absolutely. ainsley: you want to comment on that? >> i just want to say that i know ken langone has a tremendous heart. a grate entrepreneur. and he is the right spirit of the country at this time. and bill and melinda gates as well. you are absolutely right. a time of entrepreneurship, a time giving back, it's the american spirit. ainsley: absolutely. let me get back to that email from timothy. he says my daughter is a healthcare worker she and her 7-year-old daughter live with us. showfd we quarantine her in her room when she gets home from work. should we quarantine her from her daughter. >> fantastic question. i'm more interested in staying away from you, the writer of the email. because you are older. as far as we know, and this applies to your lovely daughter, ainsley. younger children are not getting.

this if they're, they are getting much milder cases. a healthcare worker should be changing clothes constantly. semi quarantining. taking a shower when they get home. and they should be getting tested frequently. that's the most important thing. we are testing our healthcare workers now. so we can see if they have been exposed to covid-19. they shouldn't be fully quarantined. they should stay as separate as possible. brian: yeah, so farther standard test still takes seven days to get back. i can't wait to get that 15-minute test and that's everywhere. i don't know how long that's going to be. >> that's emerging now. brian: i hope so. it says there has been a lot of back and forth about wearing masks. what do we do to protect our eyes? goggles? >> brian, there was a new study out yesterday that emphasized that the masks can be faulty and you have to wear them in just the right way and the closer to a surgical mask the better and that keeps from you spreading it to others. not -- we're not worried about other people spreading it to you. worried about you could have it and not spreading it. as far as eyes are concerned,

the problem, brian, we are always putting our fingers in the eyes. that's probably the number one buy we spread. this i want people to be more conscious of that rubbing their eyes. i want to add something that we have never said. something very simple. when you wash your hands, wash your face. we always say wash your hands. wash your face. because viruses live on your face. and you are always touching your face. so, be aware of that. wash your hands, and wash your face. steve: hands first, gotcha. meanwhile, doctor, email from cathy she writes: social distancing seems to be working but what happens when we get out and about again, won't the virus spread once again? and that's the worry. you know, when people see that the -- you know we are on the back side of the apex, dr. siegel they will go okay, we are back to normal. not going to work like that, is it? >> i have a slightly different answer than a mentor of mine

dr. tony fauci on this who says we have to keep the same degrees social distancing in place until we get a vaccine. and i will tell you what my thoughts are a little different. i think the vaccine is going to be the landmark that we need. but, in the meantime, we are learning good habits now. habits that we should take forward. but i really want you to understand that if we know who has this virus, who is immune to this virus, who can go back to work, who is still sick, that's going to be able to help us decrease the amount that we are using the draconian measures. because if we know you are immune, you are probably not going to be able to get it again. if we knew you have it. social distancing is not enough. you have got to be quarantined. that's why i keep harping on the rapid testing. so i think we can decrease the amount of draconian measures the more we know who has it and who is immune. ainsley: okay, dr. siegel, great to see you this morning, thank you so much. >> thank you. ainsley: you are welcome. okay. let's hand it over to jillian. she has more headlines for us.

hey, jillian. jillian: good morning to you. president trump says he will intervene in the firing of navy captain bret crozier. he was relieved of command uss theodore roosevelt for a letter criticizing the navy's response to virus outbreak on board. >> it's a mistake that shouldn't have been made with all of that said, his career prior to that was very good. so, i'm going to get involved. and see exactly what's going on there. because i don't want to destroy somebody for having a bad day. jillian: acting navy secretary is apologizing for comments he made to sailors writing, quote: let me be clear i do not think that captain breat brett crozies naive nor stupid. i think and always believed him to be the opposite. despite stay at home order. the state court blocked the democratic governor's move to suspend in person voting. separately the u.s. supreme court also blocked an order extending the deadline for

absentee ballots. the national guard will help run polling sites after thousands of election workers steps down over safety concerns. texas, setting up covid-19 checkpoints for anyone entering from louisiana. texas governor greg abbott issuing the order requiring drivers from the neighboring state to complete a travel form and self-quarantine for two weeks. texas has more than 8,000 covid-19 cases with 153 deaths. seniors in quarantine are feeling all right, all right, all right. after a surprise game of bingo. watch this. >> we got an i-24. [cheers] >> richard, we got carl ipad. we have two winners. jillian: matthew mcconaughey enthusiastically calling virtual rounds of bingo in texas. boasting about it online. ever played virtual bingo with matthew mcconaughey?

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brian: all right. this married couple reporting for duty on the front lines of the pandemic we are all experiencing. they are running life-saving equipment for patients despite having two kids at home and another on the way.

there is no one to replace them so they are stepping up. respiratory therapist brian and jennifer join us now together to talk about what drives them. brian and jennifer, thanks for doing what you do. thanks for joining us now. brian, maybe start with you. at a time like this with a young family, why is it so necessary for you both to go into work. first from your perspective? >> well, unfortunately there is only a limited number of therapists in new york right now. we are the only two qualified to work with ventilators and run them. and we are not going to work then, yes people giving [inaudible] we don't want that for a family member. we have mothers, fathers, grandfathers, kids on ventilators and we don't want just anybody running these ventilator. brian: jennifer, that's what we keep hearing from the governor, yeah, we need ventilators but we also need people to work the ventilators.

how do you feel going in to mom maids in brooklyn knowing it's overwhelmed when drives you. >> support of my co-workers. just seeing everybody sacral bring and running around. i feel bad if i leave them. currently i'm not seeing patients right now but i'm trying to help everyone with the equipment to make sure we have supplies because we are getting all these different type of ventilators and not everybody is familiar with them. so at least if i can just help them show them how it works, make sure everything is running properly, i feel like i'm doing my best to help them out. brian: right. and you're a respiratory therapist you know things are getting grim if you have to use a ventilator anyway. what about using ventilator on these covid-19 patients? is that really the last option and what are the percentages of them ever getting off of it? >> well, yeah, unfortunately it

is our last option. on a patient getting really bad, we really have no other choice. you know, you look normal one minute and then you look horrible the next. and at that point patients lung and heart, they are just giving them out. we have to put them on a ventilator. honestly once you are put on a ventilator at this point it's really tough. we have have seen a small number of success but not enough. unfortunately, it's scary. it's scary to put someone on a ventilator knowing that their chances are very slim. brian: jennifer, the governor came out and said, hey, anybody who is retired or from another state, if you are a healthcare worker, i need your help. 86,000 people answer that call. jennifer, have you felt the reinforcements coming to your hospital? >> yeah. we actually saw people yesterday

and it's just amazing to seat dedication of these therapists coming through. ready to roll in the trenches with us. it's a blessing to have them come and help us. brian: lastly, would you both weigh in on this question? do you feel like, brian, beginning with you, you are putting your life on the line every day to save other lives? >> absolutely; yo: you know, ey morning it's scary. i have my parents call me in the morning to say a prayer over me. we go into the hospital, and literally walking into the lion's den to take care of these patients and help save them. wow, i could catch this at any moment. you walk through the hallways. you are wearing these masks but if you don't wear these masks properly, you could catch it yourself. so, you really do get paranoid after a while. you get a little cough here and sneeze, oh my god am i catching it? it's very scary.

it's a feeling i haven't had before. brian: final thought, jen, you too. obviously with a child and with two other kids? >> yeah. it's we take it day by day. like bie bryan said you wear the mask and all this ppe. allergy season, cold season. have a little tickling in your throat oh my gosh, what do i have? brian: thanks so much for telling your story and thanks for what you are doing. best of luck with your growing family, guys, stay safe. >> thank you. >> thank you very much. brian: and, you know, the audio wasn't the greatest but i think that's the story that i think you could overcome that it's so worth the sacrificing there. meanwhile, coming up straight ahead, nascar going full speed ahead to help fight the coronavirus. nascar engineer explains how they are using their technology to make protective gear for nurses and doctors.

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i often get asked what should i do find out what service options are available if i think i might have corona virus? people who are sick should stay home. you don't go to an emergency room. you don't go to a clinic. you get on the phone and you ask for advice and instructions from your physician. we don't want you to go into the e.r. or the doctor's office without talking to them first, because you might spread corona virus to someone else. please visit coronavirus.gov for more information. ainsley: nascar hit the brakes on traditional races but now it's revving up efforts to get healthcare workers the protection that they are needing. nascar engineers are using 3-d printers at tech center to make face shields for nurses and

doctors. next guest says total team effort. aerodynamics is eric and he joins us now. hey, eric. >> hey, how are you doing? ainsley: i'm good. thank you. we hear these stories and y'all are incredible. tell me why you are doing this. >> kind of just, you know, as we were kind of shutting down in north carolina, you know, it's a stay-at-home orders and everything. we had just gotten one of our newer 3-d printers installed. basically sprint spent the weekend at what we could do, and a group of us came upon the face shields and we came in on monday, made two prototypes and got connected with a local healthcare professional. they were able to review the designs and then basically we started producing them so we made 200 for that health group and then the orders have just been pouring in across the country really. ainsley: that is amazing. what's been the reaction of these healthcare workers when you place them in their hands?

>> just generally really, really grateful. the need is really great. so we are getting requests, you know, from solid waste management, places, pediatric hospitals, children's hospitals, los angeles county. it's just been crazy. and people are grateful for anything we can give them. ainsley: are they giving you any compensation for it or are you doing this by donations? >> no, 100 percent donations. so, nascar has been really great for letting us keep doing. this and we have one of our suppliers piedmont plastics, i have got one of the shields here. this is kind of a clear plastic. they are donating all of that to us. so, basically just all around charitable effort at this point,. ainsley: so nice. i know you are all some of the smartest in the country. how do you do this? what's the process? >> so, you have a mask itself.

or the shield that's got two printed parts. this top head band here. that goes against your forehead, and then this bottom piece here that we use to kind of keep that surf temperature so the mask wraps around your face. basically we print these two pieces. our bigger machine can print three of these every two hours. a little over two hours. we kind of man it around the clock with our volunteer group. and then every about half day we go ahead and assemble these. we have got volunteers coming in to box them up and either drive them to where they need to go or ship them out. ainsley: eric jacuzzi, thank you very much for what you are doing, you are a good man. >> thank you very much. ainsley: you are welcome. we love nascar. we have information on how you can help plus more stories of people going the extra lengths to help each other around the country find all of that at foxnews.com/america together. 32 minutes after the top of the hour. a crew nebraska on the nsns

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♪ steve: president trump considering another round of relief for americans as the pandemic continues. the small business administration is hard at work with a record number of loans in just the last five days. brian: so griff jenkins is with us live in washington to break it down how it's going. all about the execution, right, griff? they got the money now get it out. griff: that's exactly right, brian, ainsley, steve, good morning. getting the money out the door after working through initial kinks. already 3,000 lending institutions have given out 175,000 small business loans

worth $50 billion. that's allocating more than 10% of the funds under phase 3 which is worth a total of 350 billion. that's raising concerns that will won't be enough money as the president said yesterday we'll address that. >> we're going to have to probably add more money to this to save and to keep our small businesses going. and to keep the employees of those small businesses working. griff: as you mentioned, steve, the president is signaling he is open to another rescue package speaker pelosi and majority leader mcconnell finding renewed rare bipartisan. outlining priorities for this fourth phase. pelosi says it will be at least 1 trillion needed. mcconnell says healthcare needs to be at the top of the list as the president weighs in with his priorities. >> a real infrastructure, not a green new deal. i want to rebuild our country. we want to have an infrastructure bill, a real one like in the vicinity of $2 trillion to completely rebuild you are roads, our bridges, our highways, our tunnels.

everything. griff: president also open to round of checks american people. bill some time in mid may. we will find out. meanwhile welcome news on wall street, sending the markets soaring yesterday overnight futures looking like another good day. we will have to wait and find out. brian, ainsley, steve? ainsley: all right, good deal. thank you, griff. president trump approving the u.s. navy hospital ship comfort to start treating covid-19 patients. freeing up about 1,000 hospital beds. >> governor murphy and governor cuomo are going to be using ship, new york, new jersey, big ship. and it's now covid. it's set for covid. and we are going to hopefully that will be very helpful to both states. steve: that all comes as a crew member on board the comfort has tested positive for coronavirus. here with an update is the demanding general of the u.s. army corps of engineers

lieutenant general todd semoni semonite. todd, good morning to you, it's troubling that there is somebody who tested positively on board the comfort. and i know that you, over the last couple of weeks, have been gearing up for new york, which is, according to the governor, who thinks we could actually be hitting the apex right now, regarding the javits center, just out of curiosity, the big facility you built in new york, what's sort of capacity are you at right now? >> so, steve, we are glad to be on and to be able to share this story of you who the entire federal teams standing up a lot of these facilities, javits center was initially assigned around 2900. and, again, the original intent was to be able to be non-covid. have you reported here in the last couple days that has got the capability now to go into covid. we have made some small alterations. i know we have army hospitals

that are there on the ground taking care of those people. i'm not sure the exact numbers. but i have seen over the last couple days that the patient load continues to go up in the javits center. i would defer to the medical experts on the ground up there for the exact details on that. brian: does the president check with you before he converted the hospital to a covid-19 site and what are the challenges for that conversion because are the doctors ready? do you have the equipment ready? do you have the research ready? >> so we have been in contact but obviously the administration almost every day. the vice president task force. the president does call personally both dr. esper and himself were in the oval office when they called me and asked me what else can we possibly do to be able to set you up for success? there was not a significant amount of changes that had to be made in that equal convention center and without getting real technical here, brian, we have to make sure that the events are sealed tighter. we have to modify some of the

airconditioning -- i mean the hv capabilities to be able to make sure we can preserve the pressure. and then with the actual -- the staff that comes in, there are some different pieces of equipment that have got to come in. and i know that army field hospital has made some minor alterations to be able to take care of those covid patients. ainsley: general, i know we have had you on before talking about hot spots. what's the next hot spot that the army corps of engineers will be focusing on? >> this is where we really have to work about two weeks out. what we have done is we have a curve right now for every single one of the big cities we are working on. i want to make sure you are hearing numbers because this is the first time you are hearing numbers today. right now we are doing 17 big hospital bills. those 17 bills are right about 16,000. that's concrete. i mean, that's guys on the ground putting things. in we are about 20 contracts that are about 96 thundershowers away. 9.

i flew to denver, governor whitmer was with there with me. that was a covid convention center about 1,000. doing a lot of work in chicago that build out is going very well. governor patrick kerr rolled that out last friday about 3,000. i'm flying to florida tomorrow. i talked to governor desantis on last saturday afternoon. we are going to continue to convert the miami convention center and just to be able -- i will give you a top two or three here, new mexico, tennessee, colorado, california, every one of those we continue to be able to work that build-out. steve: so, general, what you are actually doing is taking facility and other personnel will come in and man. out of curiosity though because we have heard so much in the last couple of weeks about we don't have enough ventilators in different parts of the country run it once locality hits the apex and the governor thinks we are pretty close to the apex in

new york state. does then the extra equipment then follow the curves across the country so that if there is a problem in new mexico and they are a little short on ventilators, the stuff from new york goes there and then maybe miami is this equipment going to travel across the country during this thing? >> so, steve, i think the easy way to define this is, again. three parts of this equation, i call them the three ss, sites, that's what we are doing the hospitals. there's the staff and then there are the supplies. you heard on just last night on the news conference with the vice president. all the different things they are trying to work the staff and the sites. what we want to do is take this whole equation of the hospital piece out of it so we are never in a position where we have a shortage of beds. and that's where the vice president's task force is really trying to figure out where do we need to now focus on supplies and that staff. but i want to continue to reiterate, this is really a local and state issue. we follow the guidance from the mayors and the governors, and

then the federal government is really this augmentation to be able to come in and balance that equation with whatever we need to do to follow those gaps. i just need to reiterate to your viewers out here. this is an amazing federal team that's all working side by side. there is no arguing, everybody is looking at every single challenge. just like we do in the military. target pops off. we all aim at it and try to address the issue and move onto the next target. brian: so the ig does a report. they serve 323 hospitals. and they came to the conclusion, even though this wrapped up two weeks ago that there are widespread shortages everywhere of testing supplies as well as ppe. have you found that? >> again, we are staying in the lane of the sights. i always hear that every time i talk to one of the governors they continue to reiterate that they're worried about splice. whatever we can do is to be able to make sure if we could be a voice back here to d.c. to be able to say we built out x amount of beds.

we have to be able to make sure we have the rest of those splice. that's where, again, the whole team is trying to be make sure they are figuring that delta. we want to make sure that we are worried about that capability on the ground. ainsley: okay, general. thank you for what you are doing. >> hey, we are awful glad to be here. again, we are building this out the next two or three weeks. whenever you need an update, let us know and come see us and our guys on the ground. ainsley: come on any time you have an update. our country cares about this. thank you so much. jillian is in our studio. she has a headline for us. jillian: that's right. good morning to you. police in utah are trying to figure out how thc laced candy ended up at foodbank. thc main compound in marijuana. five kids eating after eating medicated nerd rope. they have changed policies and procedures. rick scott is calling for investigation into the world health organization over its response to the pandemic. >> work for communist china.

if they had done their job, everybody would have gotten ready. we wouldn't have shut down this economy and we wouldn't have all these people dead all over the world. we are going to investigate why did they do what they did. why are we as american taxpayers giving them some of our dollars? jillian: u.s. taxpayers contributed $513 million to the world health organization in 2017 according to the kaiser family foundation. scott is the latest republican to demand who's director general to step down. major league baseball can play the entire season in arizona without any fans. overnight the league and players association discussing the idea under that plan the season could reportedly start as early as may. half of the league's 30 teams already hold spring training in the state there are 11 ball parks, including the diamondback's home field in the greater phoenix area. so we will see and keep you updated. in the meantime, this jimmy fallon and adam sandler world

how important it is to protect grandma right now. listen to this. >> don't touch grandma ♪ leave her a lone ♪ you can spend a quarter to call her on the phone ♪ grandmas like to kiss your head and hug ♪ but i don't want my grandma catching any super bugs. jillian: comedians debuting the song on fallon's home edition of "the tonight show." good reminder for everyone, guys. brian: jimmy fallon has done incredible job. he has his two little daughters. he does the show out of different parts of his house every day. no audience. his daughters don't think he is fun i can't tell all. you have to watch it. if you just wanted a respite from all of this. watch the tonigh "the tonight s" it's never been better. ainsley: the problem is it comes on so late, brian, we are asleep. brian: i dvr it. steve: all right, jillian, thank you very much. meanwhile, leaders sounding the

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steve: doctors grappling with extreme cases of coronavirus often see patients rapidly deteriorate and quickly go on to ventilators. something our next guest has been studying and now says he has a protocol to help identify and treat those extreme cases. here with more is pull none nothing just ipulmonologist. good morning to you. >> good morning. steve: have you developed this protocol and what you have noticed is that there are certain tendencies people who wind up going south fast have. in a nutshell making it as easy for all of us as possible to understand, what are you doing to your patients with coronavirus who are the extreme cases? >> well, again, you know, this happened to me just like it's happened to every other doctor who is taking care of these patients and it was very alarming that i didn't understand what happened. when i did my research, i found out what was happening is a

process called -- storm syndrome. in this syndrome immune system is -- intense inflammation and subsequently it leads to patients requiring mechanical ventilation. once i figured out what the diagnosis was. i started doing more research to try to figure out how do we look for it in laboratory value so we can find when it happens. when it happens, it's almost too late. in your previous segments, it's very important to find these patients and prevent them from going on ventilators. so then i came up with a handful of lab tests that i thought were useful and we started ordering on admission when the patients were presenting to er and tracking them every few days and it was a very clear pattern. we learned. not every patient that comes in with covid-19 gets this syndrome. can you predict on presentation who is going to be at risk for it. and then if you follow certain

markers and their clinical course can you actually tell who is going to develop it. and more importantly, you can intervene to prevent them from getting to that point where they need a ventilator. steve: okay. so what you noticed was that as people's immune systems kick in, you are having a better result by actually suppressing the person's immune system, right? >> right, it's counter intuitive because here for the last few months we have heard about this virus that's killing everyone. and the way to disarm is it disarm the immune system. once we were able to do these with the patients that came in that didn't need a vent, then i started looking at the patients on ventilators to see if there was rhyme or reason why these patients were on ventilators. the one thing i found was room after room there wasn't any clear ideology, there wasn't a distinct pattern.

maybe these patients that we are seeing are patients that are in a later stage of the syndrome. we walk into hospital maybe on day one or two the other patients that we are seeing they get put on right away are in maybe day four or day five. so then that was important. steve: doctor, it is -- absolutely, and it is a unique system working with and developed a protocol. if people are interested in looking into it. once again they can contact you, dr. tom yadegar, doctor, thank you very much for joining us live today. >> of course, of course. steve: all right. we are going to step aside. all those people coming up next. . that's why lincoln offers you the ability to purchase a new vehicle remotely with participating dealers. an effortless transaction-all

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avoid sick people... and touching your face. there are everyday actions to help prevent the spread of respiratory diseases. visit cdc.gov/covid19. brought to you by the national association of broadcasters and this station. president trump: we'll have maybe a rough little more than a week but this tremendous light at the end of that tunnel there's so many things happening with therapeutics, with vaccines , with things that we really want. steve: you've got president trump with a message of hope last night as a second company has started clinical trials for a covid-19 vaccine. cases in the united states topping 368,000. deaths now nearing 11,000. nearly twice as many people, however, have recovered. ainsley: in new york the pandemic epicenter, the usns

comfort will begin treating covid-19 patients. overnight a crew member on that ship testing positive. they are being isolated on board brian: but there is new hope in the state rocked by the virus. take a look. you can see the percent of new cases dropping over the past few days. governor cuomo says the states curve could be flattening. now, he also is a little upset, he says flat out, i see a lot of people breaking the stay-at-home , shelter in place, only go out for pharmaceuticals and food, so now, if i catch you instead of $500 it's going to be $1,000 although the numbers are encouraging the worst thing to do is take your foot off the gas so governor cuomo doing a wonderful job communicating, and you got to wrap your head around the fact that in new york still the epicenter. they say it has not hit the peak yet but the numbers are going down and they also say this is pearl harbor and 9/11, so both things i guess can be true.

steve: governor cuomo said yesterday he thinks the state could actually be hitting the apex so that's right up there, flattening out which is really good news, which ultimately means that for all of the people watching right now, and they've been holdup at home for the last coming up on three weeks it is working. we're going to have a busy final hour. we're going to talk to dr. oz, also larry kudlow on the economy , and mark cuban, has been a guest throughout and we're going to check in with hip as well ainsley. ainsley: yes and the weather is getting warmer in the northeast yesterday 65 degrees is warmer than that i'm being told today so people are out and about, people are going stir crazy in their houses but they are still social distancing. yesterday i saw people walking on the beach social distancing, i saw people walking on the sidewalk social distancing. one lady was in the street her friend was six feet away from her up on the sidewalk so people are driving very slowly because

the streets up here are packed with kids on bicycles and people out walking and yesterday, my grocery store actually changed, they are only letting one in and one out at a time so people are waiting in line or in their cars to be the next, to go into the grocery store and really taking precautions up in the new york area. all right there is some breaking news right now on the condition of british prime minister boris johnson. he remains in intensive care this morning and we have just learned he is being given oxygen but he is not on a ventilator. he is awake, and they say he's in good spirits. brian: wow president trump is joining world leaders offering their prayers yesterday. president trump: i also want to send best wishes to a very good friend of mine, and a friend to our nation, prime minister boris johnson. americans are all praying for his recovery. he's been a really good friend. steve: the president adding that he has enlisted the help of two american pharmaceutical

companies for the prime minister let's bring in dr. mehmet oz, host of the dr. oz show he joins us every day during the pandemic dr. oz, we don't know the medicines those two companies make the president apparently talked to london about but he's been talking an awful lot about hydrochloroquine you got to figure that could be one of them right? >> possibly, at least in the united states, in this country about a quarter of the patients who go to the hospital go to the icu and 60% of those do get a breathing tube so it doesn't mean he will get one but it's a good time to pray and use every medication you have, and hydrochloroquine and medications and other parts of the world and we have no proof that any medication for sure makes a difference. brian: yes, so for one thing, dr. oz, on his care in

particular, they are giving him oxygen now. what does that show you that they've noticed over the last two days he's been in intensive care? what's going on here? >> well what happens in the lungs with this virus is you get a cloud-like explosion of inflammation as it is the earlier guests have pointed out a lot of times it's not the virus per se, it's the over reaction of the bodies immune system the civil war the body wages in an effort to kill the virus it starts to create irritation and inflammation to all of its own tissues so option means he's having difficult exchanging option and it's almost like at high altitude sickness. your lungs are unable to extract oxygen the way it wants to so there are many reasons you give patients oxygen just to give them comfort and if your oxygen saturation drops below the mid 90s we would do that anyway. doesn't tell us that much, it does tell us that you move to the icu, they're a bit more concerned and want to be more

cautious and he's the prime minister so they will take extra precautions. ainsley: dr. oz, i know that the hydroxy chloroquine, she's a local politician and a state representative out of michigan and her name is karen whitsat. >> i really want to say that, you know, you have to give this an opportunity, and for me, it saved my life and all i can go by what it is that i have gone through, and what my story is, and i can't speak for anyone else. if president trump had not talked about this it would not be something that's accessible for anyone to be able to get right now, it would not even be possible. and i mean that honestly because i did have a difficult time even that day of taking the medication because of an order that was put down in my state. ainsley: and dr. oz, i'm sorry,

brian. brian: go ahead, ainsley. ainsley: thanks i saw you last night, dr. oz, talking about that letter from dr. wallace. tell the folks who this guy is and his years of experience and what he's seen from this drug. >> maybe if i can, say one thing, that's called the anecdote, it's one person one experience. it's important but it doesn't convince doctors but i keep see ing that word applied to hydrochloroquine and that is an untrue statement if you think that it's only anecdotal data and i've heard it over and over again. there's a case series from published 80 patients and i spoke to that doctor yesterday, and he's on my show today. a thousand patients now he's given this combination of hydrochloroquine with erythromyc in with seven patients out of a thousand and 20 going to the icu and it's unethical not to use the medication until you get a better idea of a better solution i also want to point out there was a randomized trial from

china, so i would love folks talking about this medication to stop saying it's anecdotal. it is also but there's also more traditional data we need a bigger trial, dr. fauci is right but in the meantime what are we going to do? now with regard to the issue last night. there's a lot of talk in fact everyone seems to become an expert in these medication overnight. i never prescribed it until two months ago so i'm just learning about it, from the rheumatologists, they actually use it on all of the l upussish parent enters and dr. wallace, is one of the prestigious doctors,selena gomez's doctor, he and his colleagues in the lup us area are stunned, and they don't get ekg's and don't worry about eye injuries until 10 years of chronic use and very clear about the fact it's in their guidelines there are no precautions mentioned because the drug is proven to be so safe now i'm not a specialist in that

area but he sent a letter to the fda. i urged him to because when i interviewed him about a related issue which i'll come to in a second, he said can i take a second to warn you about something you guys are getting wrong and i thought about it i said where are the rheumatologists and the people that actually use this every day and we made a big deal about how dangerous this drug is and they are saying it's not dangerous. they don't know if it works for covid-19 but they are saying it's not dangerous so at least focus on what the real issues are. now there's one other topic if i can i'll post this letter on my website, dr. wallace is coming on my show today, just see what an expert says about this drug. brian brought up an issue last week. he said why can't we look at the insurance or medical records of people who have lupus or on high hydrochloroquine like dr. wallace who is prescribing it? are they getting covid-19 so because brian asked for it i did it. i got share care, experts in digital health who ran a bunch of data. 2.25 million medical records who found 665 patients who have

hydrochloroquine medications being chronically taken because they have lupus. not one had covid-19. that doesn't mean much. i'm just going to explain a small little punch biopsy but it doesn't point us away from that. they also pulled 9 million insurance records, identified about 14,000 patients, who have lupus with hydrochloroquine, not one had developed covid-19. now there's many flaws in reporting the data so i'm going to say it again. this doesn't mean that there's a smoking gun about how we can now use hydrochloroquine to prevent covid-19. but what it does mean is i want all of the big companies out there, i want all of the big hospital systems to work with us , give us your data, let's actually see when we go the more than 1% of the u.s. population, we have something real here. we can use american ingenuity, big data, deep analytics, what we really do well to try to find out if we could prevent the spread of this virus, using hydrochloroquine, just coincidentally noticing it as the chinese have, in our

patients. brian: but i just found it astounding as a lawman, knowing that man who took this drug whether it's for rheumatoid arthritis or lupus, whatever they took it for they don't have the coronavirus which is pretty astounding because if half of them did that would have blown up the whole hypothesis and here is a sample of the letter dr. daniel wallace wrote to the president. hydrochloroquine is a very safe drug, he says it has been given to tens of millions of individuals in the world since its approval in 1955 and as a monotherapy has not been associated with any deaths in the recommended dose. in 42 years of practice no patient of mine has ever been hospitalized from an hcq complication. nearly all my lupus patients have taken zithromycin without a single adverse event so you could put that on for insurance purposes saying look out eyesight could be an issue but in reality that's a doctor

that's used it for decades and has no issue with it, so the research goes on, dr. z oz, and the intrigue grows. is is that safe to say? >> it is safe to say and if i can get large companies, by the way medicare is on board, we're getting the insurance from there, we've got large hospital systems, medical records, blue cross blue shield association, we can get 100 million records to look at then we can start to say something meaningful about whether or not there's an a lanes here but we have an opportunity, let's take a advantage of these tips and one last thing if you're watching this show right now and you happen to have lupus yourself and you're on hydrochloroquine and you've got covid-19, go to my website, dr. oz.com and let me know i want to talk to you. i'm looking for anybody, i want to find out if there's examples of that occurring. dr. wallace who had 800 patients in that category has none with covid-19. he says his center in los

angeles, 1,000 patients have been admitted over the course of these last few months and one patient that got covid-19 but they weren't taking the hydrochloroquine regularly, so, i'm looking for an example, that breaks this rule. i don't want to put too much on it. and i want to be cautious on this but it is intriguing and big data might help us. brian: wow. steve: great work so go to the dr. oz website in the meantime, some folks have e-mailed us, at our website, dr. oz. somebody write, i'm considered an essential worker, but i have an autoimmune disease. should i be doing something extra to protect myself? >> well you should be doing all of the things extra that we're already doing. the reality is autoimmune disease is considered to be a national risk factor by the cdc. we just heard conversations with dr. wallace and he's on the show today but he says in his lupus patient whose are compromised, it might be because they are ic

tariffing the hydrochloroquine we don't know but when we don't know you've got to be extra careful, so do everything that's been asked of you but extra specially. ainsley: dr. oz this is an e-mail from bob, he says our family holds family meetings in our large garage with each of us staying far apart. this allows us to see each other but are we safe? >> i would do that, the only exception is if you have someone that's older or who has chronic co-morbidities i'd be careful about them but listen family is one of the few things we've got that's really held together through all human history so i understand the desire and the need. stay six feet apart as you're doing, garage is a good idea. brian: all right, strange times , vanessa writes, via e-mail, if someone is asymptomatic how long does the virus remain in their body? how are they supposed to know if they are in effected especially since the testing is limited? tough question. >> well you won't know, and you could still spill virus. we think people who are

asymptomatic might have less virus load in their body therefore maybe less infection, that seems to be the case with kids, but across-the-board, we usually say for a week after your diagnosis and i'm sorry a week after your symptoms, and when these three days since the symptoms went away, so that's the general rule of thumb i'd use, but since you're asymptomatic you won't know that so at least a week. and by the way the immunoglobulin testing that we're talking about will tell us how many of those patients have that problem. steve: so the sooner we can get that the better. dr. oz thank you very much we'll see you back here tomorrow. all right, 8:15 now here on the east coast. china is accused of hording critical medical equipment to corner the market during the pandemic. can they be held accountable? should they be held accountable? former congressman trey gowdy is going to join us with some options, coming up, next. hi, i'm bob harper,

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steve: reportedly the trump adminitration is weighing legal actions and options over allegations that china horded critical medical supplies to intentionally corner the market on the stuff. a senior legal advisor to the president telling the new york post, people are dying, we have intentional cold-blooded pre- meditated action like you have with china this be considered first degree murder. here to weigh in, fox news contributor and former south carolina congressman, trey gowdy congressman, good morning to you apparently, according to this new york post story, during the month of january, executives

from 3m and honeywell were told they could not export any of their masks and ppe out of china , and at the same time, china was gathering things from asia, and south america, and the eu as well. nobody knew what was going on in china. had they known, they probably wouldn't have sent the stuff because everybody else needed it >> you know, you've got a couple of options, steve. there are international entities whether it's the united nations, the world health organization, there's the international court of justice, there are actually trees that govern the interactions of countries as it relates to infectious disease. you've got the american but you have to get around the foreign sovreign immunity act and if you get around that you've got proof problems. how is an individual american supposed to get information from china when the rest of the world cannot? the trump adminitration doesn't need to go to court to hold china accountable. you can hit them where it hurts

the most. you can ostricize them on the world stage and quit letting their students come here and study. you can make them a pariah, but most importantly you can start deducting the amount of money we owe them and other countries owe them to dock deduct our costs but all of the other costs start deducting that and see what china's reaction is. steve: well that's one way to do it. you know, but congressman, so many people have been blaming china over the last couple of weeks. hey, why didn't you tell us back in january, what was actually going on because then the rest of the world would have had a heads up. >> that's a great question, and the issue i have is where do we go to get the answer to that question and if you go to the united nations china has veto. remember the south china seas where we complained that china was building military bases on land they didn't own? we won in court and china said

we don't care, so if they don't respect the international treat ies and entities, and they are immune from our courts, we don't have much of an option except administration-to-administration , understand the president says he has a good relationship with the president of china. that's great we should have no trouble getting compensation for the americans that have lost their lives and lost their livelihoods if in fact we have a good relationship with them. steve: and so since then, since january, when china was hording all of the stuff over there, you know, this country has been scrambling to try to get more stuff and last week the president invoked the defense production act, and told 3m they got to make more stuff. well last night we heard from the president and he said that that has been solved, they are working with us and they are going to come up with something like 167 million masks over the next three months. see , that's the way the defense production act is supposed to

work, and the president has judiciously only used it with corporations & companies, who aren't cooperating with the country. it's like you don't want to help us? all right i'm going to have to play hard ball. right and i think the best remedy of all, steve, is to no longer have to tok rely on that and the best way to not rely is for american manufactures to make the things we need for our national security, so you can argue that motorbikes and some other things are luxuries but pharmaceuticals, and protective gear are not luxuries. that is a national security issue, so maybe the answer is for the united states to be less dependent upon other countries for things, they keep us from dying. that obviates the need to rely on an act and then we don't have to ask anyone to do anything they're not currently doing because we're already making the stuff in this country.

i think that's the long term answer that comes out of this pandemic. steve: do you know what, congressman gowdy, i think people all across the country just heard you say that and they go that's exactly the solution. we can't ever get stuck like this again. sir, thank you very much for joining us today. >> yes, sir, take care of yourself. steve: you bet. you as well. meanwhile it may be a game changer, a new blood test could detect who is recovered from the virus and who might have immunity. dr. bill rice from the mayo clinic is going to tell us how that works and the doctor is next. in this world where people are staying at home,

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ainsley: the mayo clinic launch ing a brand new test approved the fda to protect potential immunity and recover coronavirus patients and here with the significance of this is dr. bill morice, president of the mayo clinic laboratories thank you so much, doctor, for being with us. thank you, ainsley. ainsley: well this is groundbreaking we've heard it's going to be a game changer. tell us why that is. >> well, the testing which we call cerologic testing which is a really important tool in our

fight against covid disease. unlike the molecular testing which detects the presence of the virus itself, the cerologic test is a blood test we use to identify those exposed to the sa rs covid-19 virus that causes the covid disease and also amounted an immune response so with this test we will be able to identify those who have been exposed and those who are potentially immune to the virus. ainsley: how are you able to tell that? if i had it two weeks ago and never saw symptoms it's out of my body how would you be able to tell that? >> well, how we tell is that about a week to two weeks after you are exposed or have symptoms and even if you don't have symptoms with the virus your body, during that time is actually mounting response, and part of that response is production of a protein called an antibody which is specific for the sars covid virus so what we do is test the blood for antibodies specific to the virus and if you have them in the blood we know you have been exposed and mounted an immune response.

ainsley: dr. morice, who gets tested once this is out there because i know there's trials going on so who gets tested, because there's a shortage, right? >> just like with the molecular testing it's really important that we understand how to use this test and this tool to best protect the american public, and take care of patients that have the disease, and so really our first focus is going to be on healthcare workers, to ensure that they are potentially immune , that they've been exposed and immune to the virus itself. then we're really focused on patients who have recovered and have an immune response with antibodies can donate their plasma to others who are sick with the disease as a treatment, so that is called convalescent and that helps those suffering with covid and last but not least as we get through this pandemic it'll be helpful to understand both in vaccine trials, how it is, whose responding to the vaccines are the vaccines themself causing the response we want them to and then it's going to be really important just to study how this

disease is spread through the population so that we can really understand it, manage it, be prepared if something terrible like this happens again ainsley: will you put people into different categories like this person had it, didn't show symptoms now they are asymptomatic, and they had it, they are fine to go back to work , this person already had it they r within the hospital, and then this person doesn't have it , what will happen to those folks, they will have to stay home, how is this all going to work? >> well obviously, social distancing, the limiting of social mobility has been really important. i think once we get through this we'll better understand how to use the cerologic findings to get people back and in the public. i think it's important to remember though, that this test does not replace molecular testing so just because you have antibodies in your blood the virus, it doesn't mean you're still carrying the virus so once you mountain immune response your symptoms might still go away but we can still find virus present in the sputu m, nasal swab

sometimes so it's really important that we use these tools together as we really start to learn what having immune response and having antibodies in the blood really mean for the individual and then also for protecting society. ainsley: okay, dr. morice, thank you so much for everything you do and the mayo clinic to help all of us. >> well thank you for the honor to come on this morning. ainsley: you're welcome. come on any time, thank you. the white house is considering a second task force, focused on restarting our economy, national economic council director larry kudlow thinks it could bounce back in weeks. he's going to join us, next. -excuse me. uh... do you mind...being a mo-tour? -what could be better than being a mo-tour? the real question is... do you mind not being a mo-tour? -i do.

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loans, in just the last five days. ainsley: edward lawrence with fox business joins us live in washington to break it all down for us. hey, edward. >> edward: hey, guys, yeah, president donald trump in addition to considering that other direct payment, also saying the phase iv stimulus should have a huge infrastructure program, and it's it to rebuild america. house speaker nancy pelosi is on board with another direct payment, but she says other programs need to be expanded, like increasing food stamp program, now on the loans, something i'm following for fox business network today the head of the small business administration will tell its president that they are considering or processing about $2 billion an hour, in loans. this is mainly through neighborhood banks, the big banks are accepting applications but have not yet really started to send out that money. listen. president trump: we're going to have to probably add more money to this to save and to keep our small businesses going, and to keep the employees of those small businesses working.

>> edward: this has been wild ly popular and the goal at the end of the day is to keep those employees on the payroll for small businesses, so one, when they reopen the economy, they don't have to go for a mad dash to hire employees and second this is another form of direct payment to those employee s who are still on-the-job working. back to you. brian: thanks so much. meanwhile let's bring in the man in charge of the money, here is larry kudlow. he is director of the white house national economic council, larry always great to see you. exciting unprecedented time in our country. i was also intrigued by what i get all the time is okay, we have to fix what's happening here, but what are we going to do to get back online and the economy back on track? what does that look like? and do you believe there's something to this second task force the president has floated? can you tell us any more information on that? >> well that's, let me start, on these payroll purchasing

programs, for small businesses i just want to note, the latest number as of last evening, $50 billion. that's just in a couple days, $50 billion, and we've got about 178,000 loans from 300 lenders. i just put that out there to show you how popular it is, and look, we're continuing to suffer the consequences of the virus and the mitigation efforts that were absolutely necessary to deal with the virus, regretably we're going to have a couple more weeks undoubtedly, perhaps more very bad economic numbers, we are in the midst of a contraction, everybody knows that. now having said all of that, i think the 350 or 370 billion in small business lending to keep payroll going up and cover expenses eventually those loan guarantees will be forgiven and here is the last one.

we are providing direct assistance to roughly 175 million people. 175 million people in the form of direct payments, or unemployment insurance, and don't forget, we've been defer ring taxes and deferring student loans and don't forget, the federal reserve stands by with enormous lending programs and facilities financed by treasury emergency funds. all that is what we're trying to do to keep folks going, okay? this is all aimed at middle class and small business, the blue collar folks, keep them going. give them cash, give them liquidity, let them get through the next bunch of weeks. you know i've said this before hopefully and prayerfully, maybe four to eight weeks is the maximum and we can come out on the other side with a very strong recovery. steve: right exactly, and larry, so that is money to get us

through this patch and while the death numbers are very scary , so is the unemployment rate so you've got to wonder, after this time of social distancing where businesses are closed and people aren't paying their rent and things rubicon that, what metric will you be looking at and the president as well on how to reopen the economy? >> well it hinges on the state of play on the coronavirus. we may be seeing, maybe from yesterday's task force meeting, we pay be seeing some slow down in key metrics, okay? infection rate for example. that's a maybe. i'm going to leave those analysis to the health care experts they've done a terrific job but the virus is the driving force. of course as president trump has said many times, we would like

to reopen this economy. we would like to reopen the stores, the restaurants, the factories, we love to get people back outdoors, living their lives but the mitigation efforts, the social distancing effort and so forth is absolutely necessary in order to succeed, in getting that done. the president would like to reopen the economy as soon as they can and we are planning internally, we're looking at a number and say most of this is health and virus-related metrics but we're also looking at the economics of the story, how best to get us going. don't forget, brian, we had a ro aring economy coming into this new year 2020 in january and february. we were growing at better than 3 % at an annual rate and please don't also forget even though it seems a long time ago, president trump's policies to rebuild economy on lower taxes and regulations and better trade deals and energy inneds

independence, all that stuff is working beautifully. i think we can pick up where we left off. i'm hoping as i say praying that we're only a few weeks away from the reopening. we'll see , i'm not making a forecast i'm just saying that's more of a hope but nonetheless, i think if we execute this gigantic relief assistance plan, okay, $2.2 trillion in spending, and tax cuts, and another 4 trillion-plus inferred assistance, in federal reserve assistance, basically it comes to almost one-third of gdp. there's never been a package this size in american history and last point on this , president trump is working hand in glove with the private sector , the free enterprise private sector. this is not a totally government -run operation. we're cooperating with the private sector. they're pretty smart folks and they are helping us every step of the way, so we are doing what we can to keep people going, okay? to just get them through this

period and until we can come back on the other side and america can return to business and prosperity and the blue collar boom. ainsley: we would love that larry but what do you say to the people that own small businesses that can't pay their employees right now, they want to keep them, they are trying to get that government money. i'm getting because of our jobs i'm getting people e-mailing me saying please ask these questions. i had one from a lady who said she went to chase bank where she has an account. she's not a preferred banker there though, so they aren't giving her the loan right now, focusing on their preferred customers. what do you tell those folks because many of them are blue collar individuals that can't pay the bills. >> well, look, the big banks are now engaged in this. you mentioned chase. jpmorgan chase is now whole hog in this program, so is bank of america, and other large lenders i've got to give credit, the early returns show tremendous participation by the smaller community banks. don't forget, by the way, that

person should go on the sba website or the treasury department's website. all these banks qualify. all of these banks, if you're sb a banks, fdic insured banks, credit unions they all qualify and those banks know that their loans will be guaranteed and the borrower knows as long as you can keep payroll, and a certain amount of expenses with the use of this money, they will be forgiven. the loans will be forgiven over a period of time. it's a very good deal. and by the way, if that woman doesn't have any help on the fda or the treasury website i want her to call me directly. you think i'm kidding but i'm not. call me directly. ainsley: okay she's very concerned. brian: we'll have you back tomorrow because we have dozens of questions for you too, larry kudlow thanks so much. >> appreciate it. brian: meanwhile, larry kudlow telling us what's happening

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brian: so one of americas most sec full businessmen, surge one of the most high profile as well you see him on shark tank, front and center on these economic issues mark cuban joins us now. mark you just heard larry kudlow you have interest in so many businesses big and small. how, so far, is the 2.2 trillion

going? >> mark: the goal is right. the execution has been challeng ing. banks aren't communicating with their customers. i can't tell you how many small businesses i've spoken to that have gotten no response, and no information, and so while i think the money will be there eventually, there's got to be better communication, because there's a lot of companies freaking out. that's part one. and part two is theres this thing called affiliate rules so any company that small company that took an investor that owns a big company like i might, they might not even be eligible and that's creating another set of problems and so you've got a lot of small companies that are freaked out about their rent and paying their employees, and we just need more information coming back, rather than just government officials saying don't panic it'll be okay. brian: right what about the banks? are you hearing there's cooperation between the banks and the small businessman and woman? >> marginally, right? so banks and rightfully so, they

went to their existing customers first and that's fine but they didn't even go to all their existing customers, and so you know, we've got companies that have sent e-mails that haven't got responses that have made phone calls that have filed applications already, that provided all of the information and aren't quite sure what the next step is. again, i understand that banks are just getting inundated but it doesn't take a whole lot to just use, you know, mail and send out a blast e-mail to all of the people who have applied and let them know what's going on and give them ongoing updates communicates for all walks of business is crit beingly important right now and that's where some people have fallen down in the banking world and fallen down badly. brian: and just the dynamics of washington, telling, you know, 330 million people and maybe somebody with business interest, this is how you do it, and every bank from iowa to florida getting on board. it's almost impossible, so you aren't being a critic you're just giving what's going on the

ground. >> no what it could have, would have, should have, but if you own a small business it's very frustrating and my suggestion to you is be patient, that's good but continue to communicate. i think the banks will improve their communications and we will get there. i think by this time next week, maybe 50% will be there. by the time 10 days after that, you know, 75%, but if you are that small business, it's terrifying, because you don't have any certainty for those dates. so i do think we'll get there but you just have to be relentless as a small business person, communicating with your bank. brian: mark this is what i'm finding talking to small business people in new york and long island, and i imagine los angeles and dallas, where the rents are high, perhaps. if 75% of the money has to go to payroll there's not enough to pay the rent so you've got to wonder, do they have to make a decision, do i even take this money? >> and you're exactly right brian. it's a decision happening in a lot of small businesses particularly with the unemployment benefits that

are available, so i've seen a lot of companies have that hard conversation with employees. would you mind going on unemployment because this is the issue that we face? you know, it's a difficult, difficult conversation, and decision, but it's happening and it's unfortunate because the whole goal of the stimulus program was to keep people on the payroll, so we have more continuity. but again, you know, if enough businesses like the ones you're talking about with high rents in high rent areas speak up, call larry kudlow, call the treasury department, and say look, it can't be 25% in high rent price, high price rent areas, then it can be changed. when you look at the rulings on treasury.gov, you see they are interim, they aren't final rulings so there's still changes that can happen. brian: gotcha. mark we wanted to go with this i think it's more important we'll have you back and talk about the chances of watching and see ing sports again, we'll talk about that but i appreciate your

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joined brian for his radio show which is at the top of the hour. who's coming on? >> we have a lot of great guests, but also just found out i'm going to be yet "outnumbered" government talking a lot of the breaking news. >> sandra: another day, another unthinkable number to report this morning. nearly 11,000 americans have now died from the coronavirus but there are some glimmers of hope this morning. good morning, i'm sandra smith. >> ed: i am hea ed henry. more than 1.3 million people are infected all around the world. the british prime minister boris johnson remains in intensive care at this hour and a london hospital. he's receiving oxygen therapy but a spokesman said he's stable, conscious, and is not on a ventilator. here at home, there are some signs social distancing is wo