name. at it. carley: a teleprompter glitch i apologize. carley: thank you for all you are doing. rob: we are going to end it there. "fox & friends" starts right now. ♪ >> even during this painful week we see flirm glimmers of very, g hope. this is a monster we are fighting. signs are that our strategy is working. every american has a role to play in winning this war. and we're going to be winning it. ainsley: america will win the war against coronavirus. overnight, cases in the united states approaching 400,000. brian: yup, just catching up to the prompter a little bit. almost 13,000 people have died. nearly 2,000 reported just yesterday. that includes 700 and 31 in the

state of new york alone. but there are also signs of encouragement in the pandemic epicenter. steve: the number of new yorkers now being admitted into the hospital and placed on breathing tubes is dropping and that is encouraging. meanwhile the percentage of new cases also in new york also continues to fall. good morning, everybody. it is wednesday, april 8th. and as we just heard from the president in that soundbite, it's going to be a painful week, we are right in the middle of holy week as christians celebrate it. today is the first day of passover. but when you look at the numbers, and the numbers are grim for the number of people died yesterday alone 1800. when you look at the curve, outside of new york, new jersey and connecticut, impacting cities lyinimpactingcities like.

the curve is flatter. what it means is social distancing is working. and it could save lives. ainsley: exactly. when you look at the numbers. the deaths were up yesterday. highest day yet in those three states at least. but, as the governor was saying yesterday, weeks ago 20%, each day was increasing of people checking into the hospital with this. but over the course, monday over that 24-hour period, 4%. so the numbers are decreasing, fewer people are going to the hospital for this. and then weeks later, you are seeing the death toll. so he says this is the result of what might -- people that had gotten the virus weeks ago. we will be talking to a lot of people during this show. we have senator marco rubio to talk about phase 4 of tax relief. admiral bret jerome will be on with us. coronavirus task member. dr. nash watt took that antibody test yesterday morning. she is going to tell us what the results are and what the

results. dr. nicole saphier, dr. marc siegel and dr. mehmet oz. brian: people are starting to do over to in singapore and europe with that antibody test what could actually happen? also, great news, the cdc is saying you know, when i put into play, i thought 50% of our country was going to do the stay at home shelter in place. i had no idea that america was going to respond like this. therefore, those forecasts of 100,000 people, 200,000 people way too high. meanwhile, president trump is on the offense again. rips the world's health organization for what they didn't say when china was in the middle of wuhan virus connection. one of the things came out griff jenkins they said don't worry about it there is no human to human transference of the virus. man, was that wrong. griff: yeah, brian, ainsley and steve, good morning. consider, this the world health organization did not declare the

coronavirus the pandemic until march 11th at which point already 118,000 cases were in 114 countries and more than 4,000 people were dead. now, the president is taking a hard look at what happened and thinking about cutting funding. >> they called it wrong. they could have called it months earlier. they would have known. and they should have known. so we'll be looking into that very carefully. and we're going to put a hold on money spent to the w.h.o. will. griff: calls are mounting for the international community for the director general to resign and trrm china's crisis looking the other way as they underreported cases. even criticized president trump's china travel ban back in february. u.s. is the w.h.o.'s largest contributor 122 million authorized for 2020. the administration proposed cutting it to 58 million.

look for lawmakers sending millions more to small businesses under the paycheck protection program which was dold out 70 billion of the 350 billion originally allocated. mcconnell, schumer, pelosi, mccarthy about this yesterday. >> i urge them at the president's request that they get us another $250 billion approved. and we look forward to the senate passing that on thursday and the house passing that on friday. this is much needed support. so. >> we will see. mcconnell says he hopes to move the ball as early as tomorrow by unanimous consent or voice vote but then it would go to the house. it's washington. anything can happen. brian, ainsley, steve? steve: that's a nice way of putting it. griff jenkins, thank you very much. one other thing chuck schumer has said he would like to see essentially what he calls hero pay of about $25,000 per person for people who are risking their lives during the pandemic. people like nurses and truckers

and grocery store clerks as well. stay tuned for that meanwhile, let's bring in charles payne host of making money on fox business. charles, as we review what griff just told us, one of the things is the president is threatening to cut the world health organization funding because they say they got this thing wrong from the get-go. >> it's not that they got it wrong but deliberately got it wrong and that's the distinction we need to make here. i don't know if you remember the market was reacting to this every single day. a china story initially. president xi was really aggressive with the world health organization and the world. he more or less told them what to say and what to do. and they did. and it's really interesting, you know, between their tweets not being contagious human to human but also waiting for china to get it together before declaring it a global pandemic.

it's absolutely remarkable. i heard griff talk about the $122 million that's authorized. what people need to understand is how much we have given to the world health organization voluntarily. from 2010 to 2017, we gave to the world health organization $2.8 billion, 1.9 billion was voluntary money additional funding wanted to help the world. 42% to africa. 16% to southeast asia. 15% to the western pacific. this is about helping the rest of the world fight polio, fight communicable diseases. we have voluntarily given so much more money we wouldn't be on the call of duty all of those years so americans should be upset but the world should be upset that this whole thing was run by china by president xi. ainsley: charles, let's talk about this headline this morning from fox business. the president was on with sean last night. the president told him more than

$70 billion in coronavirus small business loans are being processed right now. give us an update on the paycheck protection program. >> hundreds and hundreds of thousands of applications coming through. obviously a few hiccups initially. was to be expected. we have never as a nation done this before. sba which is the conduit for this money and last year gave out or backed all of 28 billion. so go from 28 billion in a year to 350 billion that we are trying to rush out there over a period of weeks. i think getting it together. they are bringing on more. they have changed the program. but there are problems. people are concerned. people are worried. small business owners unfortunately, are in a race against the clock. every single day matters. the average small business has like 24 days cash on hand. we are well into that nfib this week already came out and said 92% of small businesses have been impacted. they are clinging by a thread. so this is wonderful news that we are processing these things.

it's great news that they are going to add more money to it. i thought 350 billion was a shocking number. so i'm not surprised that they are putting more money towards. this. brian: dharlscharles i'm not beg critical just factual the problem is in high price states in states and cities we are in. 75% of money given to payroll in order to make it grant and 25% towards lights and lease are not working out. if you pay your payroll, there is not enough money to pay the lease and the lights, and a lot of these men and women are deciding they would rather get unemployment than come back, whether it's personal or just more money. so if you turn around and you say i offered my staff this money, and they turned it down, and it's under 75%, your grant becomes a loan, and now you are buried in debt. when and if you open up your doors, the books are going to be buried in red ink. so in major cities, you can't

have your payroll and pay your rent. they got to get off the 75/25 thing. you can't make someone take the job. they have their own decision to make. do you agree? >> charles: i agree and i'm doing a town hall virtual town hall special tomorrow, brian. i've got larry kudlow. i'm going to put these questions to him. small businesses are saying it's not enough money. only goes out 8 weeks. not enough per employee. the math you just talked about certainly has to be tweaked. of the unemployment part of this is problematic. and a lot of republicans said this would happen when the cairs act was pushed through. you can make a lot more money and big cities but smaller places or certain industries by being unemployed. but, you know, also, business owners are telling me that they're telling these folks that unemployment check is only going to last a few weeks. if you want your job, i'm going to try my best to keep it for you come to work. if you choose to pick

unemployment for a few extra bucks for 8 weeks, that's on you. but i think the administration really needs to understands that there is certain kinks here that must be worked out immediately. the good news is i think they will work them out. brian: quickly. steve: you know, you guys have been talking about small businesses but then again, if you are working for a big corporation, charles, with over 500 employees and you have been furloughed you are a different category completely. i'm sure this is one of the things you are going to be answering when you come back here in half an hour to answer any small business owner's questions, right? >> absolutely. and they are working on that as well. the federal reserve announced it would be buying ppp loans. something to do with 500 to 10,000 worker category which will be addressed, i them, in the next round or next phase, perhaps phase 4. ainsley: charles, one of the girls that was going to be on. she own as small business, she

and her husband, a snow cone business. they had to shut down. they to tell their workers they are furloughed can't afford to stay in business. she is coming on the show. she has been applying for these loans. what she is finding out that these banks are triaging everyone that comes in the door. so much paperwork involved. the banks are going to go with the employees that they make the most money with. if someone comes in and gets a 5-million-dollar loan that person is going to be at the top of the list. they dual that paperwork first. she is at the bottom of the list she says. she is every day like brian was saying, every hour matters for her. she needs this money so fast. but these banks are so overwhelmed. so you are going to be answering those questions. she is going to be on. we have another individual from texas. he owns a small -- some restaurants in texas he is worried about it, too. have you heard these are some of the complaints of people that go to these banks, charles? >> oh, absolutely, ainsley. for the record, i own a small business. i have already put in my

application. so i know the process inside and out. i studied it from day one so i could be able to help people on television but also myself. i have got to tell you when the market crashed in 2,000, 2001 i went from 50 employees to 10. having to lay people off is the most excruciating thing any small business owner can do. it brings to you tears so sad and so tough. not about losing the business. it's about people who have worked for you so long wanting to help them. i understand the financial bind, the emotional bind that all of those folks are. in i will try my best to answer the question. more importantly i will try my best to make sure that these answers get to the administration. brian: right that will be on virtual town hall one question to keep in mind simply is that the people, the banks that hold the loan have to be backed up by the government because those banks got to forgive the business owner and they can't just say they will not charge you for thee months. they have to say we will forgive

you three months. you can't tell someone to open up the door to their business and owe three months past rent on their lease. so, therefore, the banks have to go easy on the people that own the building and the government has got to back up the banks. you can't just handle this one thing now and then expect these people to keep their business up. they are all going to walk away. >> they're not all going to walk away, brian. i hear what you are saying my man. in some places payroll is 90%. you know, it's business-to-business, place-to-place. i get you new york is high rent and new jersey is high rent. the fact of the matter is i believe and i'm trying to encourage small businesses to go for these loans. go for these loans. nothing else is out there. this is a lifeline. i believe. brian: if they're a grant. they have got to be a grant. >> they will be a grant if you keep employees. listen, this is not a bailout package for someone to fire everyone and get paid either. there is a middle ground here somewhere, brian.

the middle ground is keep your business alive and keep your people employed. i guarantee you on the air that mnuchin and president trump will find a way to change the rules so people aren't punished if their rent happens to be more than 25% of their budget. steve: ultimately, just trying to keep as many people on the payroll as possible. this has never been done on this scale. it's a gigantic experiment. fingers crossed. charles is going to be hosting america works together, a virtual town hall tomorrow on fox business. it's at 2:00. you will be able to participate. so email your questions right there to that address. charles, thank you very much. we are going to see you back here in about 20 minutes. >> charles: okay. steve: to answer some questions. jillian joins us on this very busy wednesday with the news. jillian: jill british prime minister boris johnson is

stable. he is receiving oxygen but not on a ventilator. support for the prime minister is pouring in including well-wishes for a peedy recover for from queen elizabeth. he tested positive for coronavirus two weeks ago. results from wisconsin's primary not expected until next week. still waiting on thousands of absentee ballots. so voters who turned out in person wearing gas masks at overcrowded polling stations as other polling places closed. governogovernor tried blocking. the supreme court blocked his effort. hoping a wisconsin victory will cause bernie sanders to drop out. jews around the world will celebrate passover at sundown. the hollywood marks the hebrew's escape in egypt. celebration will be muted this year. prime minister benjamin netanyahu has ordered a total

lockdown as the virus spreads. in the u.s. many families will try holding virtual sedars to. ainsley: it's holy week. thank you so much, jillian. states like texas ramping up safety measures to prevent coming the next hot spot. ken paxton is going to join brian live with an update coming up next. ♪ if you have moderate to severe psoriasis, little things can become your big moment.

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♪ ainsley: well, you have heard it here first our own fox news contributor dr. janette nesheiwat was one of the first to be tested for coronavirus antibodies yesterday. listen. >> 10:00 a.m. i'm going to have a finger prick and they are going to do antibody testing

which will tell me if i have idd or idm. if i had this virus in the past or have it now. if i do test positive, eventually the goal is i would be able to donate my blood and plasma to help save the life of someone else. steve: which would be great and joining us right now with her test results and the significance of this family is family and emergency medicine doctor dr. janette nesheiwat. why did you take the test? did you feel like you could have been one of the people because have you some patients who have coronavirus. you had it and didn't realize it and you just wanted know what was going on with your personal history? >> hey. good morning, guys. no, actually, the reason why i did this test is part of a study. a research project. and i thought, you know what? i had the honor and opportunity to be a part of it. i'm going to help out and contribute to the community. the purpose of the study and the test was to kind of get some more information of you who this

virus reacts and how it works and how it spreads in the community. so i always wear my ppes and stick by the guidelines of hand hygiene and disinfecting. even though i'm a healthcare worker i'm at higher risk than everyone else. the purpose of me participating in this research project was to help give more information, more data and to also see if these tests how accurate they are. we need this test not just for this project but we need it widespread throughout the community. expanded testing is one of the keys to know where this virus is. how prevalent is it and how common is it? who is it affecting? what tools and resources we should allocate to certain parts of the state and community. very important to have this sort of antibody test and also, of course, swabbing. blood testing is not the only method for determining if you have had coronavirus. can you still get a nasal swab and still get an oral swob as well. ainsley: okay, dr. nesheiwat, what were the results?

>> my results they tested for the antibodies that tell if you have had it in the past or have it currently. my test were negative. i do not have the antibodies for current or past infection. so that means i can't use my antibodies to help with coronavirus patients that are critically ill but i could still go and give blood. go to the red cross and donate blood. donating blood can truly help save lives. one person can save up to three or four lives from donating blood. even though i didn't carry any of the antibodies according to the test results which i got in about 15 minutes, we can also still help and contribute by donating blood in addition to following the guidelines. but such a great honor to participate in this study. they did a finger prick on me and got the results in about 15 minutes and they may want me to come back in about a month just to follow the subject. there is about 500 of us. i was subject number 134. even though i'm negative today that could change. because the antibody test and no

test is 100 percent accurate but definitely an important tool that we need. we need widespread to know how to continue to manage patients in the country because we want to get back to relaxing the guidelines. we want to get back to work. we want to get back to opening the economy. and we can do that with expansion of testing and then continuing of isolating patients who do test positive and then contact tracing. that's so important. if we know who has it and we know who they expose dollars an keep them at home we can keep the community and country healthy. brian: they are doing a lot of contact tracing. i get that. and also the antibody test. the governor here in new york is very optimistic about it, so are you. >> yeah. brian: i think the greatest challenge is a lot of people have it don't know it or had it and didn't know they had it. how do you tackle that. from a medical perspective a guy like boris johnson gets it and ends up in hospital. other people have it and it just leaves? >> sure, brian.

so it makes sense. you know, a study that just came out of china showed about 80% of people that acquired this virus got it from someone that had no symptoms. and that makes sense. because, you are going to normally, naturally stay away from someone that's coughing and sneezing. you are not going to want to go around them or be near them. so, what this tells us is three to four days. it takes about three to four days the study shows for someone that acquired the virus or came in contact with it to start showing symptoms. during that three to four days is the concern. what this tells us is we need expanded testing. we need to be able to have testing for anyone who wants it. if they feel they were exposed or they feel that they're asymptomatic carrier, they need to be tested. so that they know to take precautions to not spread it to the next person. as far as boris johnson, i'm so glad to hear that he is stable. everybody's body reacts differently. everyone's immune system reacts

differently. i'm glad he did not get to the point where he had to be intubated. i'm not surprised to hear about his symptoms and his status. i have patients come in. they are well sick far beyond 14 days. i have patients sick for up to a month. and that is concerning to me because our guidelines are 14-day quarantine. but, of course, we still tell patients look, if you are still running a fever. if you are still feeling unwell, stay home, don't go back to work. continue isolation until you are 100 percent better and then we say wait two to three more days after that. ainsley: we are thinking about boris johnson. his fiance is pregnant and she was brought to tears over, this of course. we're thinking about you if you don't have the antibody you are susceptible and on the front line. thank you, you are one of the heros. god bless you. it's 27 minutes after the hour. lawmakers are seeking to spend another $250 billion to small businesses as soon as this week as billions already flow into

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ainsley: billions of dollars now rolling out to america's small businesses that are struggling among this pandemic. here now with how the federal aid is helping them kelly snow, she is the co-owner of snow

shack and n. palm harbor, florida, and we have john shish ler a franchise of chicken salad in fort worth, texas. good morning to both of you. >> good morning. ainsley: kelly, i will start with you. as a fox viewer you wrote us and telling us what your issues were trying to get this money from the banks. yesterday we interviewed larry kudlow, he even said if kelly has problems tell her to pick up the phone and call me which i thought was very gracious of him. tell the folks at home what you told fox news. what is your story, your business and -- >> -- i'm story sorry, it's breaking up. ainsley: can you hear me now, can you just tell us your story, kelly? eyewitness ains i can'kelly. ainsley: i can't hear. >> go ahead. >> sure, it's been a challenge just like everybody is in right now. obviously there is a lot of misinformation and a lot of new information that comes out daily

and we certainly struggled to keep up with that. and big issue is that being a small business owner, i have five franchise locations now and small enough size where it is really just me, it's a one-man show and we have got help from my wife and some other folks but trying to gather that information, work with banks and it is changing daily. keeping up with that on top of changing labor laws and so working with large banks trying to get in touch with small banks with some of this paycheck protectioloanfunding. you feel like the rug has been pulled out and struggling to reach out to somebody new. it's weeks now of trying to find somebody that can help that can give you this money and get some of the pie because you hear about the mad rush to the door of everybody trying to get. in feeling overwhelmed from that while still trying to in our case we are built to still do

takeout delivery, those things. still trying to keep the stores afloat, still trying to keep as many employees on payroll as we can for the time being. having to work with landlords and negotiate with them trying to save money there so that we do have a future. so it's just a lot, kind of like getting hit from every direction. having to process a lot of information to make critical decisions when there is not a lot of good information out there. ainsley: john, our thoughts and prayers are with all of these small business owners. i'm glad the government is stepping. in without that money, businesses, the economy would be -- there would be no hope. charles payne works with our fox business network as you know, he is hovis "making money" on fox business. he joined us earlier. he knows a lot about this. he is here to answer some of your questions. we'll start with this one, charles. kelly, unfortunately we had some problems with her sound. so we're going to try to get her back. but john has a question about

expediting payments. john, what exactly is your question? >> well it, just seems to be some of the banks, they are not releasing a lot of information and because our loan applications are going to these banks there is really not a clear answer on when we can expect funding from the banks and then also being a small business, i feel like i'm probably not at the top of their list to contact. is there any way to get a faster response from bankers we are working with to get a clear timeline when we can expect that money cash flow analysis of how long we have got? >> john, i mean, with the cash flow analysis for now, you know, obviously you will have to make it just 8 weeks. and either start soon -- you should hopefully get the money in a couple weeks, what you are say something a common problem. i have actually had several people who have told me the successfully have moved away from the large banks that they were dealing with for a long time and they have opened

accounts at community banks that have been a lot more helpful and gotten the process done for them. i think it's a shame this has happened. we have heard these stories about wells fargo, but it's all -- a lot of these large banks, yes, they are taking in these applications but the small business owners feel like you took the application i'm still in the dark. i tip my hat to these community banks that have really stepped up big time. you mentioned the franchises, so i'm not sure specifically about your business, if each one is a separate business. but as long as it's under 500 employees you should be okay. they are adding extra money. when they said first come first serve it became something of a -- you know it, added this sort of frenzy to this. it is first come, first serve, which is part of the communication problem. they should have had a lot more money in there so people wouldn't have been so anxious hey if i don't get my application filed by tomorrow i'm not going to get any money. but they are going to add more money to it.

i hope you find the right banker. i would tell you though i know a lot of people who said they have more success for community banks than the big banks. >> right. ainsley: john, does that answer your question? >> yeah, that's very helpful. ainsley: do you have any others? >> i'm kind of in a unique situation. i just opened a location on march 18th, not the best timing. but we were committed and we were there and so obviously that location does not fall under the guidelines for this current ppp funding. curious i know there is the economic injury loan option. is f. there is any other option for that location get funding i feel like that one left is out and kind of on its own right now. >> charles: well, to your point for the audience the ppp program goes to businesses that have been established by february 15th or earlier. you mentioned the economic injury disaster grant. that's supposed to be a grant by the way.

$10,000 forgiven grant. once again, the communication has been awful. you know, some people are hearing that it's $1,000 per employee. some hearing you can get a check for 10,000 up front. the good news is that it's a grant, not a loan. it's not a lot of money but you don't have to pay it back. something you should pursue. one thing i also want to mention, a lot of things are popping up. a lot of sites, a lot of ads for people who will help you through this process. they are charging anywhere from 2 to $10,000. i'm lehry. i'm not going to disall of these people and say they don't come from a good place. if you can figure it out on your own as a small business owner go that route before paying someone thousands of dollars. >> great. ainsley: thank you so much for joining us. we appreciate it. sorry for the technical difficulties to kelly. when is your town hall going to be, charles, so they can watch if they own small businesses. >> charles: they better watch. tomorrow, 2:00 p.m., my normal time slot. we will have a panel of experts. larry kudlow is going to start the show off.

i have tough difficult questions for him. , brian kilmeade expressed some of the frustration of small business owners and places like new york and new jersey. but, you know, there are questions from farmers, there are questions about the unemployment benefits. there are questions about kids 18 years old not getting any kind of relief. there are small businesses who just are really frustrated. have you heard it here. i have been deluged with them and try to get them answers and help them. ainsley: all right, charles, thank you for answering questions. people are hurting out there. >> you got it. ainsley: if any of your friends have extra money. can i bring you groceries and do something to help your family because they're really hurting. thanks, charles. we will be watching tomorrow. states ramping up safety measures to prevent comin become next hot spot. ken paxton will join us live rlwith an update. go through tough times and every time, you've shown us, you're much tougher

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we are following headlines starting with this. a new york city police officer is sucker punched while making an arrest and it's all caught on camera. watch as a man hits the nypd officer as he helps arrest a robbery suspect. this is in the bronx. the officer's hat flying off his head as the attacker runs off. he was arrested a short time later a second cop was punched in the head by a different man. that was not caught on camera. that man though was also arrested. and take a look at this border patrol agents finding 32 illegal immigrants including a child hiding inside a tractor-trailer in texas. they were wearing shirts with letters and numbers so smugglers could identify them. a canine officer alerted agents to search the back of the truck. the driver and migrants were taken into custody. turning now to extreme weather. severe storms tearing through northeast ohio overnight leaving thousands in the dark. heavy rain and wind leaving a trail of damage knocking down

power lines and uprooting trees. the tree hail the size of golf balls. tornado warnings issued around the state after a possible twister was spotted outside of cleveland. that's a look at your headlines. send it back to you, steve. steve: all right, jillian, thank you very much. meanwhile, a nebraska state trooper saved the day for his daughter. her dance competition was canceled because of the coronavirus outbreak. so he performed with her in this priceless video that will make your day. ♪ i need a hero ♪ i'm holding out for a hero until the end of the night ♪ he's got to be strong ♪ and he has goes to be fresh from the fight ♪ i need a hero ♪ i'm holding on for a hero until the morning light ♪ hero until the morning ♪ he's got to be strong ♪ and he's got to be larger than

life ♪ steve: awesome. the stars of the show join us right now from nebraska, 6-year-old amelia chronicky and her father and her father lieutenant cronky. lieutenant are you the only guy in the nebraska state police who has a cape? [laughter] >> yeah. i think the first one to probably wear ton video and go viral, i'm sure. i think there is probably quite a few who have capes at home they just don't tell me about it. steve: lieutenant, when your daughter, whose dance studio is closed came to you and said you know they're encouraging us just because we can't go to the studio to teach a parent a dance. what did you think about that challenge? >> well, i was kind of pulled. i don't know how much thinking i had to do. it's nothing that i have probably not done before in the

basement. it's just the first time that we actually had to film it and put it on the internet for everybody to see. so it was a lot of fun. she is a tough coach. i would compare her to nick saban but 4-foot tall. thee is a perfectionist. it was a lot of fun. steve: yep. amelia, how did your father do? tell us about teaching your dad your song. >> it was kind of funny because he always [inaudible] started to get better and then it looked good. it's been pretty good. in my profession, usually it can be pretty tough and they probably get on me about dancing

in uniform but it's been really well received. and everyone said they really liked it and put a smile on their face, which is what we had hoped for with doing. this i mean with everything going on. we hoped that somebody could at least smile from it. i didn't expect a couple million people to see it, but it is what it is, and i'm glad that they could have a laugh at my expense. steve: amelia, it's got to be cool to have a father as a police officer but it's got to be super cool to have a father as a dancing police officer. >> um-huh. steve: i know. i know. and the song is perfect "i need a hero" because we do. lieutenant aamelia, thank you very much. great job. >> thank you. steve: awesome. you can see the whole video on our website and also we have information on how you can help plus more stories of people going extra lengths to help each

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♪ ♪ >> the 3-day average is down, which is good news. this is a 3-day hospitalization rate. we tend not to look at any one day. day-to-day it's up somewhat. if you look at the three-day average it's moving down, which is good news. brian: that was governor cuomo yesterday and saying some good news. the rate of hospitalizations down, deaths are at all time high yesterday. let's bring in dr. nicole saphier to make sense of this fox news medical contributor author of the upcoming book "make america healthy again." dr. saphier, what do you take from the slowdown of hospitalizations they have grown 7% or less over the last few days after at least a 20% a day growth for weeks. is this significant in your mind. >> well, brian as everyone else keeps saying i'm cautiously optimistic. i'm watching these numbers closely in new york which is considered the epicenter of the

united states. what this is telling us is these social distancing numbers are working. i mean that. the cdc we now have our own data. we are not depending on it from china anymore and depending on it anywhere else in the world we are looking at our own data. the cdc put out a report of 72,000 patients. they said if you are going to see symptoms of infection it's going to happen 2 to 14 days following exposure to the virus. and then if you are going to be hospitalized it's about 7 to 14 days after your infection. so what this tells me is we are seeing fewer people in the hospital now because fewer people have been exposed to the virus in the last 7 to 14 days. why is that? that's because we had the stay at home order. that's because people are doing what they need to do to protect themselves, their families, and their community. brian: make sense of the fact that we see 790-plus deaths in one day that's all time -- that's a grim number. but, yet, people see more optimism in the overall outlook, why?

>> that's right, brian. that's because the same data is telling us at about 15 days post infection is when you have the highest fatality meaning your most likely chance of dying from thin affection, specifically if you have been on the ventilator. the stay-at-home order was only done two weeks ago. the people who are dying now, they have been in the hospital. they have been in the ic. they have been on the ventilator. and there is large amount -- not a large but several thousand people who are still on the ventilator and about anywhere from 50 to 80% of them the data is showing are actually going to die trying to come off the ventilator. so we're going to see people coming off the ventilator right now. we will see people getting out of the hospital. we will see a lot of people recovering. we are also going to see people dying. you cannot stay on the ventilator too long. people with covid-19 on the ventilator have been on the ventilator much longer than usual. usually people stay on the ventilator from 3 to 5 days of the covid-19 patients are staying on 7 to 21 days. that's a really long time on the

ventilator, brian. so we're going to see what happens. you know, they are doing everything that they can. they are treating them with the convalescent plazama. people are getting the combination hydroxychloroquine, azithromycin the antivirals. trying to do everything they can to get these people safely off the ventilators. brian: right. dr. saphier, thanks so much. appreciate it. we will see this new cdc guidelines are coming out today and get your perspective on that tomorrow. appreciate it. >> thanks, brian. brian: coming up over the next two hours texas attorney general ken paxton has his hands full in that big state. he will be joining us live. dr. oz on hydroxychloroquine and with the optimism are there indeed some and senator marco rubio on the small business opportunity. new ortho home defense max indoor insect barrier kills and prevents bugs for up to a year without odor stains or fuss. get everything you need for spring at ortho.com order today! to get back to normal again. for hospitals and at ctca, we aren't waiting either.

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hospitalizations and placed on breathing tubes, ventilators dropping. the percentage of new cases continue to decrease in the state and you see the bar graph there, things are beginning to look a little bit better and give people a sense that maybe the best is yet to come for new york and it's not that far away. also yesterday the governor said we have antibody test we are looking to green light so we can get the state back to work. not only d does the president wt to get back to work and you want to get back to work. new york has almost no revenue. their taxes are through the roof. no one is paying any taxes because nobody is working. so they're looking to see if the antibody test can begin to get us back in the door along with some type of system. remember, we got our paths immediately couple weeks ago. maybe we can get similar passes if we have test negative for it, have antibodies for it, then we have a temperature as we walk in the building there might be a strategy guys towards getting back to work, back in

restaurants, back to business. steve: well, that will take a little while because they have got to first figure out the last thing they want is a spike. and for it to come back. when you look at wuhan, china, there is good news out of there because after 11 weeks of lockdown, they have started to reopen the streets and things like that. school not back in session. but they are being so careful when it comes to opening the factories because now what they saying is as the employees come in they have got to disinfect their hands. got to disinfect their shoes. there will be no sunny side up eggs. have you got to bring your own towel and as well have you got to open the windows to an office building for at least 30 minutes three times a day it would be so humiliating for them to say we have beaten it and then it comes back. so in this the second hour of "fox & friends" for this wednesday, i know the days all kind of run together, this wednesday, april 8th. >> we have senator marco rubio,

admiral fred girroir, dr. marc siegel and dr. mehmet oz, ainsley. we have a busy two hours that starts right now. ainsley: that's right. you mentioned, guys, the vaccines. good news is several companies working on these. drugmakers are going to come up with a vaccine hopefully sooner rather than later. johnson and johnson have all announced potential vaccines doctor ezekiel emanuel the healthcare advisor under president obama says the nation will not fully move beyond this crisis without a vaccine. antibody tests brian will help. if you have had it and not susceptible to it then yes maybe you will be able to go back to work and figure out a system how people can get back in the city. brian mentioned passes to get in the city. telling people to stay home. if you have an essential job, a job that you really need if you are a healthcare worker or work at a hospital you need to have one of these passes in case you are stopped and they ask you why are you out and about?

president trump is ripping -- he was in an interview with sean hannity last night and ripping the world health organization over slow response to the coronavirus. gillian turner is live outside the white house with the president's new threat. jillian? >> gillian: good morning, ainsley, the world health organization is now under pretty heavy fire from the united states. president trump is saying that the organization really spent a lot of the past few weeks and months essentially looking in the other direction as china's government continued to underreport the real case numbers coming out of the country. take a listen. >> i think every step that they made, everything that they said was wrong. and always in favor of china. keep it open. don't close the borders. now, i didn't listen to them. and i did what i wanted to do. in particular president trump is lasers in on the world health organization director general

that's dr. tedra he says is he responsible for bad decisions that have really cost lives. >> they called it wrong. they could have called it months earlier. they would have known. and they should have known. >> gillian: but the united nations that's the w.h.o.'s parent organization is jumping to dr. ted ross's defense. take a listen. >> under the leadership of dr. tedros has done tremendous work with millions of pieces of equipment being shipped out on helping countries, training on providing global guidelines. >> gillian: now for this year 2020 u.s. contributions to the w.h.o. set as $122 million. that's not a whole lot of money in government world but it is more than any other country's convictions. for next year now president trump sells he is looking at cutting that by over 50% down to

$58 million. guys, back to you. brian: all right, gillian, thank you so much. ben sass weighed in the nebraska senator says we need to have a serious reckoning with the world health organization. marco rubio says w.h.o. should be held to account. lindsey graham said this last night. >> i'm going to take the burden off the president in the next appropriations bill. there is not going to be any money for the w.h.o. i'm in charge of the appropriations subcommittee. i'm not going to support funding the w.h.o. under its current leadership. they have been deceptive. they have been slow. and they have been chinese apologists. i don't think they are good investment under the current leadership for the united states. and until they change their behavior and get new leadership, i think it's in america's best interest to withhold funding because they have failed miserably when it comes to the coronavirus and did the same thing in 2015.

brian: just to finish one lindsey graham is saying. they are going to look at that probably the most egregious thing that the who did praise china for the handling of the virus and say it couldn't be transferred from human to human how wrong is that and how bad is that and not acknowledging tijuana as a country and the success that they had? that is pure chinese politics that makes you wonder are they serving to the world or are they serving the communist country, steve? steve: no doubt about it had they been a little more forthcoming in the beginning, we might not be in quite the global pandemic that we are right now. meanwhile let's talk about what's going on down in the great state of texas. texas now stepping up covid-19 safety enforcement and expanding social distancing guidelines. the attorney general for that state ken paxton joins us right now, mr. attorney general, what exactly changed in the last 24 hours between what you are doing today and what you were doing a couple of days ago?

>> actually, you know, we have got a little stricter guidelines. but the one of the very good things that happened is we have a big fifth circuit win on our abortion issue which related to providing medical services. so we were very pleased with that yesterday. ainsley: will you elaborate a little more on that? what happened yesterday with that? >> yeah. so the governor had issued executive orders. and these are his decision during a crisis which basically said that unless you were having some type of emergency procedure or something that was life-threatening, that you could no longer do like elective procedure, elective surgery, elective procedures. so we planned parenthood, they were successful in district court and were able to give themselves the only exemption from that. and we were able to take that to the fifth circuit and stop that from happening. so right now our -- the governor's executive order is back in place and it applies to planned parenthood and every other medical provider.

brian: all right. mr. attorney general, let's talk about the challenge of texas. you have the southern border. and you have got the border with louisiana, what exactly are you doing now? we know for example in california they say everyone has got to wear a mask, you are going to get fined. where does texas stand with safety measures and the challenges you have on both sides? >> well so, we have with louisiana, have you -- if you come in from louisiana because it's a high interstate. the governors require that people coming in from louisiana self-quarantine. so we haven't stopped people from come in. but we have said there are restriction fuss are coming in from a state like louisiana that have high incidence. and then, you know, basically most businesses right now are shut down unless they are considered essential. they are shut down in texas and people are working from home. steve: mr. attorney general, one of the things we have heard from the experts is, you know, they see some glimmers of light, maybe at the end of the tunnel, but the curve seems to be

changing a bit in the new york, connecticut and new jersey area. but, for other parts of the country, this particularly is a flatter curve and dr. birx says that gives us great hope. what about what is going on in texas? tell us a little bit about the situation there? because we have heard about detroit, we have heard about new orleans, what about texas? >> so initially they gave us less favorable projection that it was going to be a lot higher incidence and it was going to last longer. we are a little hopeful that that may last a shorter period of time and less cases part of it because the of the restrictions. i think we may have gotten there in time to prevent a massive outbreak. ainsley: do you know what happened here in new york, many people in the city were just trying to get out. they went down to florida. some people went to rhode island. some people went -- they came out here to rhode island. now long island is a hot spot. both counties, suffolk county

where the hamps are and suffolk county where brian and i are out here. i'm worried a little bit about texas because i'm worried that louisiana, folks in louisiana might have done the same thing, gone to stay with relatives in texas. i know you said you were concerned about that. is it unconstitutional though to stop those people? i know you said you are not doing that in rhode island there was a big issue bowers the governor was trying to ask people anyone with new york plates we really don't want you here, that kind of thing, have you had to address those issues and what is your advice to people who are housing people from louisiana. >> we have seen people gone to other states like colorado been states tried to kick texans out even though they have homes in other states. i don't think that's constitutional. certainly put the same restrictions on nonresidents as you put on residents but you cannot treat them significantly differently than you would treat everybody else. so, yes, i think there are constitutional issues with targeting people and not giving them the same treatment as you do your residents.

brian: mr. attorne attorney gen, what about the rescue page package, the third rescue package to the car dealerships to the small business people? how is that going over in texas because a lot of people staring at the on average small business can only last 27 days and we are getting close to that now? >> i think it's critical to help small businesses survive. they provide a significant number of jobs, more than half the jobs in the united states. and if we lose those businesses it's going to be a lot harder for people to go back to work obviously. so i think it is critical that the administration, that congress supports small business and makes sure that these businesses can come back online and not miss, you know, coming back at all. steve: yeah, ainsley was talking a little bit about essential workers. you know, i know during times like this a lot of state employees are sometimes furloughed because they cannot

work from home. regarding the state unemployment division which is critical right now, i know the response, the phone is ringing off the hook there does it seem all the calls are getting answered? in the great state of kansas where my sister is, she has been trying for two weeks. she can't get nibble at the state unemployment division to call her back even though she has left her phone number about a bazillion times. >> as you would imagine the call volume has shot up massively and they don't, these people are all working we just don't have enough people hiring more people. my wife is a state senator. they have asked state r. state senators and state health members to work. people are being trained to deal with the volume. it's been a sudden massive increase that no one expected.

brian: 50 states need help. ainsley: yeah, they do. thank you, mr. attorney general. god bless you. >> thank you and have a great day. ainsley: thank you, you too. hand it over to jillian. she is in the studio and last headlines for us. jillian: we begin with this. one of america's greatest song writers loses his battle with covid-19. ♪ ♪ make me an angel ♪ the slash from montgomery ♪ make me an angel. jillian: john prine passing away in nashville. decades long career inspiring musicians one of them bonnie ray tweeting in part words can't even come close. i'm crushed by the locals of my dear friend john. he is survived by wife fiona and two sons tommy and jack. he was 73 years old. results for wisconsin's primary not expected until next week. election officials still waiting on thousands of absentee ballots. some of the voters who turned out in person as you can see here wearing gas masks at

overcrowded polling stations as other polling places closed. governor tony eagers tried postponing the primary over the stay-at-home order the supreme court blocked his effort. frontrunner joe biden hoping a wisconsin victory will prompt bernie sanders to drop out. restrictions now lifted in wuhan, china where the covid-19 outbreak began. tens of thousands of people leavingth city after spending two months on lockdown. travelers must use a mandatory smart phone app. in order to leave the city proving they have a clean bill of health. but experts worry about a possible second wave. chinese officials hoping to avoid that by getting temperature checks in public places and wearing face masks. and take a look. this is not photo shopped. it is a super pink moon. the lunar phenomenon lighting up the sky overnight like here over that comb marks washington, it was the year's largest and brightest with the moon at its closest point to earth. the color you see is created with the pressure and haze in

the atmosphere. the pink moon has earned its name not because of the color but because a plant that blooms in spring. sadly, i didn't see that. guys, send it back to you. ainsley: beautiful. brian: i remember i got a telescope in 8th grade i'm so upset i got rid of it because i would have been able to see this. thanks, jillian. ainsley: can you get another one. brian: i'm going to try. steve: we just showed the picture. who needs one? brian: yeah, okay. you are right. good point. still ahead, one-million-dollar donation to help one hospital, one hospital build a coronavirus ward. the man who gave it now challenging the community to match it. he joins us next. joint pain, swelling, tenderness... ...much better. my psoriasis, clearer... cosentyx works on all of this. four years and counting. so watch out.

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steve: as hospitals try to figure out ho how to meet the ns of their communities. next guest stepping up in a big way. the ceo of aflac has donated $1 million to a georgia hospital to help them build a covid-19 ward. and the hospital says it will likely save lives. affleck ceo dan amos joins us now from georgia. dan, tell us a little bit about the situation down in your neck of the woods and why you wanted to give what had been an empty fifth floor of that hospital a renovation just in case? >> well, what happened was is in our business, we do business in japan, about 75% of our business. so, of course japan was struck with coronavirus first, so we saw what was taking place over there, and my wife, who is a lawyer by training but decided to go back to school after the

empty nest and become a nurse she and i were getting a physical at our doctor's office. the doctor said to us you know we are worried about this virus. and we think doctor's hospital, which they had closed about a year and a half ago needs to be reopen to help the community. and we both said we were interested in doing that and so we got together with the hospital and they said oh, yes, that's exactly right. we did a matching amount of a million dollars to try to get the community engaged. steve: well, that makes perfect sense, so the fifth floor at that point was vacant and now, tell us a little bit about since you put in your money and now you are looking for matching funds from the community and we will give the website here in just a moment for people who would like to contribute. tell us about how the plans are advancing because this thing is

moving all across the country, fast. >> well, we are about 100 miles from albany, georgia. and albany, of course, is the hot spot in the united states. so we're well aware of what is going on. and so, but it just seems like the community wasn't as scared as they should be about the issues that are out there. so, by getting this match, we also are trying to get people engaged and understand it. we are at $300,000 right now. i can see us continuing to have that amount go up. but, we see a real opportunity to have it finished by monday. so, it was in fairly good shape. it had 29 beds and nine icu units. so we should be ready to go. steve: that is fantastic. you know, what we have been talking so much about the big

cities and about the pandemic and how they are really impacting things in big towns. small areas like where you are at, with the piedmont, columbus regional hospital, you know, there hasn't been a lot of attention, so the fact that you and your wife have donated this million dollars to get the fifth floor ready, the people of the community must be coming up to you from a socially appropriate distance or calling you on the phone and saying, thanks, we didn't realize we might be caught shorthanded. >> well, my family has been very blessed and we are glad to give back to the community. we want our communities to take this seriously in terms of virus and to take care of themselves and it's been a good thing for us to do. and the people that are coming through now making donations has been a good thing as well. steve: well, it is extraordinary. dan amos, the ceo of aflac, we

thank you very much. for the folks who are watching and would like to donate, go to piedmont.organ/pcr foundation for more information. all right. that is really terrific. all right. 7:25 now here on the east coast. we have, by the way, information on how you can help plus more stories of people going to extra lengths to help each other deal with this pandemic. you can find all of that at foxnews.com/america together. because america is together right now, believe me. meanwhile, the white house says 1200 rapid testing machines have already been sent out nationwide. when can we expect more and what will they do? we're going to have the admiral from the coronavirus task force join with us an update coming up next. turn on my tv and boom, it's got all my favorite shows right there. i wish my trading platform worked like that. well have you tried thinkorswim? this is totally customizable,

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fastest. no nation in the world developed a more diverse and robust testing capacity than the united states. brian: president trump highlighting the expansion of the coronavirus testing throughout the country. steve: here with more is assistant secretary for health and human services and a meivelt white house coronavirus task force 4 star admirable bret giroir. admiral, good morning to you. >> good morning to you. thanks for having me. steve: it's great to have you because you are giving america updates on the very latest. it's interesting. we were listening to dr. birx and the president last night talk from the podium in the briefing room about these abbott machines. she had an appeal that if you have got one let's try to figure out how your area can use it. could you just explain what she is talking about and what these abbott machines can do? abbott makes a variety of machines. the test you alluded to what

dr. birx was referring to threw put machine that abbott makes that we know a lot of hospitals have and we are able to track exactly how many tests they are doing and maximize the capacity of the country. we want those machines to be in full yours. going to an individual, individual kind of hospital work right now to make sure that every possible test that can be run wil be run. ainsley: dr. birx was talking about antibody test and i hadn't even thought of this until she mentioned it. she said there are some companies throughout trying to sell antibody tests online. she warns people -- well, here is her warning. listen to this. >> if you see them on the internet, do not buy them some of the tests that may be available on the internet may have very low sensitivity and specificity and give you a false reassurance that you either give you a false positive or a false negative implying you may be protected. ainsley: what's your message for

the folks that are watching. there hasn't been one that's been approved right or it's not available? >> so, i want to distinguish for all your viewers, up until now all the tests we have been speaking about diagnose do you have the virus in your nose? are you actively shedding, are you infected. the antibody test would be able to tell you have you been infected in the past. so, it detects an immune response to the vice meaning you are not likely ever going to be able to get it again or at least in the short-term of many years that's the test right now that are coming onto the market. most of them, almost all of them have not been through fda authorization. and we are very concerned that many of the tests are really just not accurate so in the government nic, nih are trying to validate all of the tests that are out there that we know about to make sure they really perform. we have heard international stories of governments and you might have seen it a couple days ago the united kingdom bought

almost 20 million tests and they just don't work at all. they don't perform well. there is no need to have this test right now we are developing the methods. we have the methods and validating which tests are good and as soon as we do that you will be hearing from us very shortly. probably in the next week to give the public assurance of which ones really work and don't. there will be a really national testing plan around these antibody tests as well. brian: admiral, a couple days ago famously you took a question from the podium and they said the inspector general did a report and it turns out a survey of 300 plus hospitals show the prevailing thought was there wasn't enough gloves, there wasn't enough shields. there wasn't enough masks. you said well, if that -- that's not the case but if it was true i wish that person would have told me rather than run to the press. how many hospitals do you think are short of any of these things? >> well, it's -- we get sourced every single day. we have regional administrators from fema. we have hhs regional administrators. we talk to most of the major

hospital systems directly. particularly in the hot spot areas. and up until now, particularly with gowns, gloves, n-95 masks, we have been able to fill all the needs that we have been told about. at first we started at regional level and nau going down to individual hospitals. i know there is a lot of concern in a community. i'm an intensive care doctor. if you are worried about not having the right masks or, for example, if the masks are sitting in a warehouse down the street. they have been delivered by the federal government but haven't gotten to your hospital, that is a concern. that's why we have even moved to the next step here at fema and hhs by supplying hospitals specifically, going door to door. if that hospital has a need and they are not getting met that we really do that so that's really the posture we are in right now. yes. steve: okay. but, ultimately, admiral, that's after somebody becomes infected and they need hospitalization and that's when they wind up on one of the beds or one of the

icu beds as well. >> correct, correct. steve: right now what's very encouraging is the fact that when you look at the social distancing, that for the most part the entire country is doing, and we should point out that the cdc director said a couple of days ago said yesterday, that apparently, you know, those super dire predictions that maybe a quarter of a million americans could die, that was awful, but, at the same time, now they are saying it probably won't be that bad because those estimates were based on only half the country doing social distancing. right now, it seems like everybody is in this. for the folks watching right now, they have got to know that what they are doing, staying away from people, is actually working and it will save lives. >> there is no doubt that the physical distancing and all the precautions that we have said every day that the president and the vice president said and ambassador birx, they work. they really do work. and that's how you stop this virus right now.

until we have vaccines and medications and all the other things, social distancing, i prefer to call it physical distancing. i want you to still be social with your friends over facebook. but physical distancing is incredibly important. remember the projections. i have seen people twist that like this was not going to be that bad after all and we didn't need to do it. that's a complete misinterpretation. the estimate of deaths going down is the result of the fact that we have listened to the president and vice president and tasks force. if we did nothing the deaths could have been 2 million, 3 million people in the united states. using moderate impact social distancing it could have been a couple hundred thousands. now we know that the american public is doing a fantastic job in doing that physical distancing. early estimates are probably under 100,000. that's still a horrible amount of deaths but much less than it could have been. i do want to emphasize the point, there is a light at the end of the tunnel, but don't keep your foot -- don't take your foot off the gas. because we really need to continue these efforts because

we could see another peak, a second peak, a third peak if people don't do the physical distancing or they think it's all over. it's not over yet. listen to what we explain on the podium and also your state and local public health departments. ainsley: good advice, admiral. thank you for your work. >> you're welcome. ainsley: have a good one. thank you. 37 minutes after the top of the hour. british prime minister boris johnson spending second night in intensive care as support is pouring in around the world. we are live with update on his condition. plus dr. marc siegel is answering coronavirus questions and that's next. with coronavirus spreading, people at higher risk must take extra precautions.

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brian: yup, the u.k. leader still fighting at this hour the coronavirus. he is now in the icu as cases appear to be slowing in the country though. ainsley: greg palkot is live in london with more on johnson's condition. greg? >> hi, folks, yeah. the latest word we are getting is cautiously optimistic that's how his condition is described. u.k. prime minister boris johnson for a third day. the second day in intensive care in the hospital for covid-19. the word we are also getting he spent another comfortable night stable in good spirits. probably the most important information we got today is his temperature. it had been described as high for many days and now there is a report that it is falling. he is in one of the best in the country hospitals. he has top lungs doctor at his bedside. the whole place as can you imagine under tight security. he has been getting a lot of wishes and hopes that he will get better. for example, from his boss, the queen.

in a twitter, she wished the prime minister full and speedy recovery. president trump also offered some assistance to his -- one of his favorite foreign friends. take a listen to what he said on hannity last night. >> i have set people up with his doctors in london and these are people that are amazingly accomplished people that have found the answer to other things that were equally as tough. >> yeah. as you noted, guys, the rate of increase of covid-19, the novel coronavirus here in the u.k. is slowing but officials here are not expecting to say anything about anything opening up, at least until next week. and also it would help to get the prime minister out of the hospital. back to you. steve: that will be a big step. all right, greg palkot there in london where it is 12:43 in the afternoon. thank you very much. meanwhile new york governor andrew cuomo striking optimistic

tone saying a new antibody test could be the key to, perhaps, restarting the economy. >> new york state developed a department of health developed an anti body testing regiment. this test of the blood to determine whether or not you have the antibodies which means you had the virus and resolved the virus. it means you can get to work, can you go back to school. can you do whatever you want. brian: comes as new york sees another daily decrease in the coronavirus cases: so is that a reason for optimism. joining us now on how the antibody test works and more is dr. marc siegel. dr. siegel, among the press conference yesterday that stuck out with me with governor cuomo was not only the number of hospitalizations down but he says he is starting with these antibody tests as a way to get back to work. what does that look like to you?

>> i think that's the future, brian. i think we are entering a new arena with that 7 to 10 days after you get infected approximately you start to make antibodies to this virus. the first antibody is called an igm. the next one is called an igg that's immuno glob oberlins, antibodies. what admiral jir told you on this show that he we need to make sure these tests are standardized. people not claiming they can do something they can't. the new york state test is excellent and mayo clinic has one coming out that's equities lengths. what do i mean by excellent? they can tell you whether have you been exposed to the virus and whether you had infection from the virus and whether you are recovering from the virus. whether that means you are immune to the virus is not yet known. but certainly we now will be able to tell, looking back, you had it, you are exposed to it, now you are recovering, now you can go back to work. there is no question about that. and, in addition, we can use for

whether a vaccine works down the line, in other words, can we generate the same antibodies using a vaccine? that is going to be the future. both exciting developments. i was very glad to hear that yesterday. that's what we need when we figure outer who goes back to work and no needs to stay sidelined. ainsley: dr. siegel, sorry, steve, we have a little bit of a delay as everyone knows. steve: go ahead. ainsley: thank you. dr. siegel, you work at nyu langone and a week ago we had you on. we had so many doctors on they were saying we need masks and gloves and more ventilators. what's the status now for new york? do you have enough supplies? >> we have more splice. we still need more supplies. there has been a great -- you wouldn't believe what's going on in terms of organizing beds, organizing patients. people coming back to work from before. teams, high spirits. as you know, ainsley, every day

at 7:00 outside of nyu langone the fire department comes, there is cheering going on. this is fighting a war and i think we are going to win. right now it's all about cooperation, integration and, yes, we are getting more supplies but we need even more. steve: that's right. you know, the news a couple of weeks ago was that rand paul had tested positively. he has now been negative and now he has returned to work as a doctor where he is volunteering at a local hospital there in kentucky. meanwhile, a lot of questions for you, dr. siegel. one of the symptoms we have heard of is the dry cough. and one of our facebook writers says can you better describe the dry cough? is it a constant or very repetitive or can it be very random or not a consistent cough? bruce is looking for what does the sound of the cough and what does it feel like?

>> steve, i have taken care of a lot of covid-19 patients at this point but mostly by telemedicine but also some not. the answer is that the cough is episod dick. not something like a hacking cough that continues nonstop. but it's variable. sometimes it comes and goes. sometimes it's more prominent. sometimes and most of the time it's associated with some shortness of breath, but the key is it's a dry cough. it's not a wet cough. if it's a wet phlegmy cough you are probably talking about bronchitis or something else. characteristic cough it varies in terms of you who frequently you get it. brian: gotcha. brian, i'm going to ask this question because my name is brian and it's in the prompter and i fell for it again. sharon, when am i going to get ahold of this. sharon says this: empty hospitals are not being considered as a place to use it, considered as a place to use if more hospitals are needed because of covid-19. what do you think? >> i have thought of that 100

times in the past 24 hours. we already have the javits center in new york being converted into a field hospital for covid-19. we have now the comfort as you know, brian, is starting to take covid-19 patients. we have a field hospital in central park. but things like saint vincent's hospital, the old saint vincent's hospital, beth, there is also hospitals should be considered. i would add universities for that that are closed down that maybe could see mild to moderate cases not severe. not people on ventilators. but if we could stop flooding our regular hospitals we could then shuttle aside people who are less sick and have them taken care of in universities and other places. ainsley: dr. thank you, dr. siegel. is he a fitness legend and helping america stay fit at home. body by jake. jake seinfeld is going to join us with some new exercises.

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long way. we like to keep it fun and keep it simple. do it with the family. if you are by yourself, i'm with you all the way. brian: the real star of your instagram specials is zac. is he demonstrating it. you just tell him what to do like a good parent. have you got the big chest press. a lot of isometrics. you have the low stretch, the chair. a lot of people are telling me i don't have anything to work out with not even dumbbells. i tell them to go to your instagram. get a full body workout now. >> you get the full body workout. my son zac is awesome, man. the way he does those exercises are so picture-perfect but it's the truth. even if you don't have anything, some isometrics, using your own body weight, it's super simple listen, like we said, the world what you be what you are. a moment to recalibrate, get yourself together, if you are strained or stress. we are at official body by jake. brian, you guys are so terrific.

simple exercises to get your body moving. we have a bunch of surprises, too. posting a lot of fun pictures of people like priscilla presley, harrison ford, people i used to train. it's a family. and we're all a family and that's what i love about working with you guys. brian: absolutely. go right now official body by jake on instagram. if you haven't worked out yet through this whole pandemic, now is the time to start. in the beginning you just got on now you have got thousands of viewers. thousands of followers. jake, thanks so much. thanks for inspiring us again today. >> brian, you are the best. stick to the fight. when things seem worst you must not quit. don't quit. brian: final hour. dr. oz, marco rubio, don't move. i'm taking attendance. give me your hand! i can save you... lots of money with liberty mutual! we customize your car insurance

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includes more than 791 in new york state but there are encouraging signs and here they go in the pandemic with still the epicenter but things are getting better ainsley. ainsley: that's right the number of new yorkers admitted to hospitals placed on breathing tubes now dropping. the percentage of new cases continue to fall in the state which is good news and the governor was talk about this. he said that death is a lagging indicator, so that's why we're seeing more people dying, yesterday was the highest number for new york for connecticut and for new jersey, but that's because it's lagging when they were infected so we are seeing fewer people going into the hospital which is great news brian: right president trump ripping the world health organization yesterday, over its obviously, we've been talking about this , its slow response to the coronavirus. jillian turner is live outside the white house with the president's new threat. reporter: so, brian, the white house says that america is reconsidering its longstanding commitment to the world health

organization after officials here in the u.s. and lawmakers on capitol hill claim they have been mishandling the virus. president trump saying yesterday the organization has spent a lot of time over the last few weeks really enabling china, as they continue to under report numbers coming out of the country. take a listen. president trump: we're just going to take a look at it. they seem to be very china- centric. they seem to always go on the side of china. reporter: the president's key senate allies including lindsey graham and marco rubio agree say they are focused on the inspector general and they say he's made bad decisions that have cost american lives. senator rubio saying the chinese communist party used the who to mislead the world. the leadership is dangerously incompetent. i will work with the trump adminitration to ensure the who

is independent. now, the united nations though, which is the who's participant organization, is jumping to dr. ted ross' defense take a listen. >> who, under the leadership of dr. ted ross has doing tremendous work in helping countries with training, providing global guidelines. reporter: now for this year that's 2020, u.s. contributions to the who are $122 million, might not sound like a lot of government funding when we look at the scope of funding for world health, but even president trump says there's no point in spending this money if it's going to waste corrupting an organization. he says he wants to cut this down next year to over 50%, under 50% to about $58 million. brian, ainsley, steve?

steve: well let's see what they do next, gillian turner joining us, thank you very much, now let's bring in dr. mehmet oz, host of the dr. oz show joining us every day during the pandemic dr. oz gone to you. >> good morning. steve: you know, dr. oz has been filling us in on the promise, perhaps, of hydroxychloroquine and last night that topic came up when shawn hannity asked the president about it. here is his response on how many doses we've got in the stockpile president trump: well its been taken taken for malaria for many years and very effective. it's a powerful medicine. it's a powerful drug, but it's a drug that for malaria, for lupus , for those two things in particular. we're in great shape, from the medicine standpoint and by the way, the hydroxychloroquine, we have millions of doses that i bought. i bought millions of doses for the country.

we have more than 29 million doses, and that's a lot. steve: that is a lot, dr. oz, but you know, right now, it has not been proven as an effective treatment. i know there are trials underway people look to you every day to get an update on it. what's the latest? >> well the latest is we're still waiting for some of the u.s. trials to give us some early indications of effectiveness. there's a general belief that it's more impactful if you give it early in the course of the illness this is based on data from france and from china. you're absolutely right we don't have a large u.s. clinical trial but there was a published randomized trial from china too, one was positive one was negative, in france they used it routinely where an infectious disease specialist believes it's the way to go. he shared with me two days ago but one thing is becoming clear. it doesn't seem to be a dangerous drug, across-the-board when used in different trials doesn't have significant side

effects, major rheumatology groups i don't think have an issue, i'd love to hear from more but they use it routinely for lupus but the president's note is very important for two reasons. first what are the concerns about prescribing this medication, where you takeaway a very important medication that we know lupus patients and rheumatoid arthritis patients benefit from. if we have 29 more million more doses in the national stockpile that means those patients don't have to suffer so is that a negative if the covid-19 patients begin using it for the treatment or prevention and interestingly, that prevention needs to be examined we've been talking about brian's idea of looking across insurance reports and seeing patients with lupus on hydroxychloroquine are actually avoiding covid-19, and that work is still ongoing with different partners, and the medicare is on board, the blue cross blue shield association is on board so we're going to get the data and use big american technology with deep analytics that answer a question in a 21st century way

so what's the point of showing it could help? ainsley: yesterday you were on with us and you said so far you hadn't heard of anyone that was taking it consistently and got coronavirus, but then yesterday you said if you are, send me an e-mail, find a way to get in touch with me, write it on social media because i want to talk to you. did you hear any responses? >> we had one tweet from one people saying she thought she had covid-19, and i'm following up with her, and again, one more time. if you have had covid-19 and you have lupus on this medication, hydroxychloroquine, which most of the 300,000 patients who have it are on it, please reach out to me, dr. oz.com. i just want to understand if you've had the illness and why it happened. it might be that it reduces the incidence, it might reduce the symptoms of it. we're not sure, or maybe no impact at all, but call it the kill-me hypothesis but if it's out there and real let's learn from that and that'll indicate what kind of research we should do. independent of that there are clinical trials going on at my

hospital, new york presbyterian columbia and these are blinded randomized trials and it just takes a while to get data back. brian: right, you had the stats from share care, soon we'll get medicare and medicaid. now let's move on and talk about why men seem to be dying at a higher rate than women in this and then let's drill down why african americans are paying more for price than other backgrounds. >> well the male/female difference was evident in china, it was a dramatic number of extra men and women getting the illness it's roughly a 2:1 ratio and that is not quite that much in most of the world but at least 60% of the deaths are in men. even though women get the illness just as often, so i thought it was because of social risk factor, men smoke more in china, they have more bad habits they don't go to the doctor as early but turns out those aren't explaining this difference. it's too big of a difference, so we think it's because of hormone s, obviously women have

more estrogen that may provide a benefit in the immune system to be able to defend them, either dealing with the virus ordealing with the complication of the virus and of course that extra x chromosome that women have, remember the y in men is really a disfunctional chromosome, but that extra has a lot of immune function and it may make the females immune system much more resilient that's why women have more autoimmune disorders than men but in this case it may cost the men their lives. with regard to minority populations i think a lot of it comes down to risk factors. african americans have more hypertension, people with high blood pressure have more of the receptors for this virus so it gets into the body more read ily and a lot of the deaths are from the heart, from complications related to the cardiovascular disease which is more prevalent on average in not just african americans but latino populations as well. steve: and dr. oz we've known for a number of weeks that one of the worries is when you develop covid-19 and wind up

with pneumonia and wind up in the hospital and bad things can happen sometimes, but in addition to lung damage, and you kind of touched on it a moment ago there's some sort of mysterious heart damage impacting a lot of people, right you should know your cardiologist. >> this is my specialty, i'm a heart surgeon. you know, the problems with the blood vessels closing off leading to heart attacks and that sort of collapse, that's called cytokine storm and that's a well-recognized complications. a lot of these patients are dying from problems even when the virus isn't a problem because their body is over reacting to the virus and there's a civil war going on but independent of all that you pointed out a very important principle. the heart muscle itself is being attacked in probably 20% of these patients so people are hospitalized and are sick, so the cardiomyopathy that occurs, the inability of the muscle to squeeze normal is different from all of the other things we've been talking about and we didn't even know that was happening

until i didn't think about it until last week and now it's becoming more and more evident as a chronic issue. this virus is a cam eel john. it presents in many different ways and for example, a lot of people have intestinal problems and that's their only problem. a lot of people only lose their sense of taste and smell and other folks have fever, cough and more classic things. this heart thing is a newly-over red reality but something we have to be cautious about because it complicate complicates the management of the lungs. ainsley: we got e-mails from folks at home from kathy says ii appreciate grocery stores offer ing senior-only shopping times but find it very difficult to practice social distancing in the aisles. what practices do you recommend for seniors to avoid contact with covid-19? >> the kindest thing an american can do for a friend or colleague is go find someone whose older and go shopping for them. you should not be shopping if you can avoid it because you're right you can't socially distance but if you don't have a relative or friend or neighbor that can do that you can order online, that's working very well for a lot of americans, you got to wear, i would wear facial covering and gloves if you go to

the store and do the best you can to keep yourself clean afterwards but i think the most important tip is go as in frequently as possible, so when you go shop for a lot of food, so you can only have to go two weeks, or something like that will be a smarter move. steve: it's going to be a full cart just saying. all right, dr. oz, we got an e-mail from a fellow named brian. he has asthma, and severe seasonal allergies, as many of us do. i always have a cough and shortness of breath this time of year. how would i know if i were developing covid-19 symptoms? doctor? >> well, the key question is are these symptoms different from your usual allergy symptoms and is there something additional? for example, are you having a fever? did you lose your sense of taste as i just mentioned? intestinal problems, these are different from allergy issues. and you can probably differentiate them along those lines and sometimes you'll never know but remember a quarter to a half of all people

who have covid-19 have no symptoms, so you may actually have had the illness without any symptoms and those are truly your allergy symptoms. brian: maybe you can get tested , and dee writes in an e-mail my husband is a major airline pilot still flying most days and he comes in contact with many people. what precautions should we take each time he comes home? >> well ideally he's social distancing and let me just define that. that's no closer than six feet for no longer than 10 minutes so six feet, 10 minutes that's social distancing and obviously flying there's someone else with him ii hope so he's not social distancing so you'll have to practice that if you've got risk factors. if you don't if you're young and healthy without issues then you have to assume you may get it when he gets it and live your lives which for most people is unfortunate how it's going to go but this is a critical question because when we open up the door s again hopefully on may 1 wheng we'll have to have a containment strategy. we can't just shut down every

time one person gets ill so this is a scenario where your husband may get ill and we'll have to be able to help you not get sick to continue to take care of the family even when he's down for a couple days and vice versa. brian: right. steve: that would apply to a lot of essential employees, including metro drivers and food verse people and the people who stock the shelves so something everybody should be cognizant of dr. oz, thank you very much see you back here tomorrow, same time same channel. ainsley: thanks, dr. oz. >> all right steve: meanwhile, time for some news. jillian: good morning, guys let's start with this because results for wisconsin's primary are not expected until next week election officials still waiting on thousands of absentee ballots some of the voters turned out in person seen wearing gas masks at overcrowded polling stations as other polling places closed. governor tony evers tried postponing the primary over the

states stay-at-home order and wisconsin supreme court blocked it and front runner joe biden is hoping a wisconsin victory will prompt bernie sanders to dropout. we'll keep you updated. >> new jersey governor sounding off on whether schools will reopen in the fall amid the pandemic. >> please, god, we break the back of this , and we're slowly and responsibly able to get back on our feet over the summer, it be in session in september but honestly, it's probably too early to tell at this point. reporter: democrat bill murphy says it depends on when the state curve flattens in the fight against covid-19. the governor also extending the states stay-at-home order for 30 more days along with closing all parks and forests. >> and despite the pandemic, jewish people around the world will celebrate the start of pass over tonight at sundown. the holiday marks the escape from slavery in ancient egypt. celebrations in israel will be muted this year, prime minister benjamin netanyahu ordered total lockdown as the virus spreads.

in the u.s. many families will try to keep up with social distancing and the united states air force bans together with schools to send a musical message of hope. listen to this. >> ♪ ♪ >> isn't that nice, the full band singing "don't give up on me" alongside teachers and students from hampton city schools in virginia, for more stories head to foxnews.com/ america together. while you're there you can find ways if you want to help out. send it back to you. ainsley: thank you so much, jillian. it's 16 minutes after the top of the hour. big changes happening to the way that you do your finances and it's all thanks to that massive $2 trillion stimulus package. those money saving updates that you need to know about, we're going to talk to you about it, next. my patients i often see them have teeth

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brian: you got this massive $2 trillion stimulus relief package offering big changes to american's finances. here to break it down is ceo of dynamic money chris burns. chris, we talked a lot about business, small business, unemployment but what about for individuals built into this bill, for example, when it comes to your 401 (k) if you're lucky enough to have one. >> yeah, the folks with a 401 (k) normally if you're under 59.5 if you take money out of an ir ira or 4,401k, you have a 10% penalty tax and you owe tax, and the government has a way of that and if you take the money you have two options you can either pay it back over

a three year period up to $100,000, or you can just pay the tax over that three years and not pay the distribution back. the bigger question for a lot of folks is should they do this right now? it's open to them. it's good to know it exists but is it a good idea? brian: what do you think? >> well honestly here is the deal. if you're in a place where you aren't paying the basic necessity, yes it's huge that you could have this money but for a lot of folks tempted to take it because it's an option right now i'd just say we live in a market-driven retirement situation now. so my grandparents have five pensions, they don't have to worry about how much they have in the market but you and i are relying on money in the market to make it so make sure if you only take this money, because you truly are in a place where you need it right now to be okay brian: yeah, i'm just opening to win the lottery i'm not looking to save. next, -- >> good luck. brian: you say the required minimum distributions have been waived for this year, inlayman's terms that means?

>> yeah, so rmb is a requirement of distribution. the government basically wants their taxes and do they force you if you're in retirement to start taking money from the thes you've got and all of the tax deferrals for over the years like 401 (k) and ira. this year they're waving the requirement to take rmd. that's a big deal because they based how much you take on your balance at the end of the year prior, when the market was way up last year, so if you can avoid taking money out of the market this year, that's a big win for you right now. but of course some people have to take that money because again that's what they're living off but if you can avoid it you have the option to. brian: let's go quickly to the mortgage. the homeowner with a federally- backed mortgage which is most, can have it waived, can wave, can actually apply for a deferment on your payment. now does that mean i'm going to get the whole thing reconfigured with my payment schedule because i still technically owe that money? >> yeah this is what's confusing so first of all foreclosures have been stopped

for a period of time but then you have to contact your loan provider and find out what your options are there, because for bear answer basically says look, some loan providers will just tack this on to the end of your mortgage, and that's great. others are saying hey, after the end of this deferment period , you'll owe the whole thing as a lump sum. well a lot of people say there's no way i can do that so there's a lot of confusion. make sure you call your loan provider directly and expect unfortunately long wait times right now. brian: yeah, with student loans you do they but it changes your monthly payment once your deferment is up. we'll see how that goes thanks so much appreciate it chris. >> sure, thanks. brian: coming up straight ahead a brother and sister team up to help first responders and small businesses on the frontlines and they've already raised thousands of dollars, how you can help, next. did you know diarrhea is often caused by bad bacteria in food? try pepto diarrhea. pepto® diarrhea is proven effective to treat symptoms,

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are just getting started, and they join us right now, drew and heather, to tell us more, from their home. good morning, to you. so, drew, let's start with you. who all are you trying to help? >> so we're starting out with helping small businesses but then we're using the money that is going to small businesses in order to deliver food and gift cards to first responders dealing with the covid-19 outbreak, and then we're also trying to branch out to help those such as seniors who are the most vulnerable demographic during this time. steve: that's right and heather, i believe it's your local hospital reached out to you and had heard about your program, and so if you're going to donate gift cards to people, donate it to people who have just been released from the hospital so they don't have to go out and go shopping or go get food. tell us how that works.

>> so we deliver the gift cards to them and then they could like go to the restaurant and use the gift card. >> so we're using the idea that we talked to century state hospital which is our local hospital in freehold, and they didn't want food because obviously, food goes to waste and there's certain restrictions so we purchased gift cards from multiple local businesses en our area. this way, we can have like non- contact delivery and other people potentially pick up food from those businesses, and give them to those being discharged from the hospital. steve: well it's great. i'm looking at your website it's 5help.org, and it's great because essentially, drew what you're doing is presenting it as a challenge to other middle school, high school, college students, 20 something, to try to go ahead and help. how has the response been so far >> actually, we're just launch

ing it now. we started this as a local fundraiser just to help our local businesses, but now we saw the community came together, we were so shocked and so thrilled that we wanted to move this to a national level. so we're basically challenging people, if they want to donate $ 5 if they can to help out as a way to get involved. this way we can help small businesses which are the backbone of this country and help those first responders and others in need but it's basically a challenge to say like you should try and get involved during this time. there's so many people in need. steve: yeah, heather, you're out of school, i'm sure you're tele working, however, but you've got a lot of spare time. why did you want to do this rather than, you know, watch tv or play some games or something like that? >> because i wanted to choose

what god would want me to do and i know he would want me to help people. steve: well you are indeed, and one of the other thing, drew, is the fact that by buying these gift cards from your local businesses, you're trying to make sure that after this pandemic leaves, your favorite local businesses are still in business. >> yes. steve: that's a terrific goal. >> yes, we thought at the beginning of this outbreak, we thought what would god want us to do in this time, and we knew that god would want us to help those in need, so that's why we started this thing. we knew that these businesses are going to suffer, so we want to help them through this difficult time. steve: all right, and it's just $5, and it's a challenge to other middle school, high school , college students and 20 somethings to help the first responder senior citizens and local businesses beings for people who would like to

visit the website it's easy to use website i was just there. visit 5help.org to donate. drew and heather paglia, thank you very much and good luck to you. >> thank you so much for having us. steve: that was great. 8:33 here on the east coast we have more information on how you can help as well, plus more stories of how people are going to extra lengths to help each other during this worldwide skurge. you can find that at foxnews.com /americatogether. all right, meanwhile, lawmakers are debating perhaps another covid-19 relief bill, a rescue bill. what would senator marco rubio like to see in that? we'll talk to him, on the other side of a brief timeout. help is on the way. to support you during the current health situation... cvs pharmacy is now offering free one

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steve: the u.s. army corps of engineers is preparing to convert some miami beach convention center into a medical facility to help assist in the cv-19 response, ainsley. ainsley: currently, florida has more than 14, 700 confirmed cases, and health officials expect the peak to hit that state at the beginning of may.

brian: so joining us right now from miami florida, senator marco rubio. senator i want to talk to you about this rescue plan because you focused on small business, the chairman of the subcommittee but first i want to get your sense of florida. i saw those huge lines when it comes to food banks. how is the people of florida responding to the lockdown? >> well i want to say the people of florida have responded well in terms of following the mandates. obviously there are people that try to get around it and people that have to. it's interesting if you work in a blue collar job, you're probably out there having to work right now whether you work at the grocery store, or cvs/ walgreens or some other place deemed essential and of course all of the people, first responders but by and large you've seen that florida has outperformed all of the models. it's not because the models were wrong. it's because we are doing our part, and we're going to keep an eye on that and i also think our local hospitals across the state have done a great job of sort of building up capacity

and getting ready to address whatever comes our way. steve: that's right and i know that in the senate, there's already some talk about another phase, some of the points from the democrats next relief bill be a quarter of a trillion dollars in assistance to small businesses, $100 billion for hospitals, community health center, and health systems, $150 billion for state and local governments, and 15% increase to the minimum snap benefit among other things and one interesting thing that senator chuck schumer suggested, senator, is for up to $25,000 hero pay, essentially for the people on the frontlines , whether they are nurses or truckers or grocery store clerks, somehow, the government compensating them for essentially putting their lives at risk every day when they go to work. what do you think of that idea? >> well the way i think we should approach it is we can bifurcate this into two pieces.

the first is sort of what do we need to do to build on what we've already passed so for example,, the small business fund, despite some early glitch es, is already at $66 billion, have already been committed so it's moving very quickly, it's tremendous demand so that's why there's going to be an effort tomorrow to try to come in and add funds to that so building on what we've done adding to what we've already donald passed, the second is a recovery bill, and there's a relief and then recovery and i think for a recovery some of them are deeper more systemic reforms and what we want to see things like industrial capacity, on industries that are essential, and then maybe some of the things that you've mentioned. look, these people that are out there every day delivering goods , we've had a run on paper towels, not just toilet paper so those truckers making those long-hauls overnight to get not just paper towels but food and things like that into our grocery stores not to mention our doctors and nurses are doing a phenomenon job on the frontline, i'm all for doing

positive things to help them after this very difficult circumstance. i think that of course is going to require a little bit more thought and maybe being able to bring congress together to work through it so i'm not saying no to any of these things, i'm just saying those things are new and will require some more thought and it's hard to do that right now because we're not in session , we don't know when we will be. ainsley: senator the president is slamming the world health organization, i'm sure you know that. he says they've been routinely wrong, he said they were strong ly against the travel ban back in january. they are saying he says that everything is positive toward china, they aren't giving us the right information, and that the u.s. is the primary funder of that organization. we give most money, but yet we don't get the most help, he says so he's talking about cutting funding. lindsey graham says he's definitely going to do what what do you say? >> a couple of things let's remember on the frontline they have people all over the world doing a phenomenonal job in terms of epidemiologists they're doing research and so forth. our problem is with the leadership because the world health organization serves an

important purpose. unfortunately, it has been politicized. china has undertaken an effort over the last 15 years to infiltrate and exert influence over international organizations at the u.n. and of course the world health organization, and what you saw early on in this pandemic is they went to china and came out saying that china is doing a great job, everything they are saying is true, and then condemning not just the u.s. , but also condemning any country that considered bans on travel from or to china, and there's evidence that its been politicized that the world health organization at its leadership level has politicized by chinese influence and chinese and that's unfortunate because that organization should not be political and should not be making public health pronounce ams under duress, but from any country in the world. it should be making those on the basis of medical science, and so i have deep concerns about it and that's why i hope that at a minimum we can get the leader of that organization to resign because he's definitely been politicized

brian: senator, every time, every sentence over the last few weeks was unprecedented one of which was the $2.2 trillion plan to keep people in their jobs and businesses that aren't working funded. so part of the plan that you helped put together on small business in some cases is not functioning yet, number one is when these people come in, if they can't retain their workforce at 75%, there won't be eligible to make that loan a grant and if people don't come back it's out of their control, and number two is when you're done paying for your payroll, you don't have enough money to pay for your lease, and your rent, so would you be re visiting some of that for these higher-priced cities? like los angeles and new york and maybe even miami? >> yeah, potentially but right now, what we need to do is more just to be able to get them out the door because there's been a very strong demand for a couple points to make. number one, yes, i think i fully understand that people out there are desperate and want this to

work. so do i, and i also think we have to have some perspective. this is a plan that was passed two weeks ago this friday, hasn't even been two weeks yet, it was implemented six days later and until friday of this week there wasn't a bank in america that had ever made a ppp loan and there wasn't an fda had never made one so this is a program rushed out in six days because we are in an emergency. when you have an emergency situation it's chaotic. i know that from living through multiple hurricanes. you're managing the chaos at the same time as you're trying to get rid of the glitches that appear. there are still substantial obstacles in the way that need to be fixed. this can't be the way the program works long term. as far as the payroll is concerned the point of the program, that's why it's called the paycheck protection act is to get money into the hands of small business so they can continue to pay their employees even if the business is not opening and running and there is a portion of it they can spend on rent but we wanted the bulk of that money to be to make payroll, so they can keep people off the unemployment lines and keep them from

disconnecting from their employer. the government can't replace all the revenue of these businesses and we never claimed it would, but we do think helping keep the employees on payroll is a big assistance and you can spend a percentage. now if can't hire all the people back there are elements at the back end a year from now where you can show that i couldn't hire my people back because they had left or because of some other impediment and you can have that mitigated or forgiven but right now the goal is to keep people employed and put money in the hands of the workers. that was always the goal that was agreed to on a bipartisan basis. it's not perfect. it certainly doesn't deal with every issue but it deals with a big one. steve: sure. senator rubio, before you go, we've all been on lockdown for a couple of weeks now. we tried to save a day of the week as often as we can because all the days are kind of blending into each other. we saw the news this morning that apparently your colleague, rand paul, is fully recovered

from covid and now he is volunteering at his local hospital because he is a doctor. just out of curiosity, in your case, what is a sitting member of the u.s. senate do during a lockdown? what's your day like? >> well first of all let me tell you theoretically both rand paul and my friend that's a congressman here also infected theoretically anyways the assumption is that they have some immunity, that because they acquired the virus so that's i don't want to go through what they've gone through, especially mario, but so that's a benefit for them and it's something we should think about in terms of that new test coming on board to show that people have sufficient antibodies but our basic day starts early with some media hits beings and then i spend all day probably eight to 10 hours a day either doing a series of conference calls or webinars with different groups in florida and across the country. yesterday i talked to the florida bankers, the national bankers association, and then a lot of phone calls with folks in the administration, i'll be

speaking to the fdic today about the program, secretary mnuchin has been phenomenon and accessible and very responsive, so really, the focus of my day has been largely on the program, and getting it to work, identifying the impediments and trying to do as much as we can from home using the phone, using this computer and communicating to the public as well, so that's been the gist of our existence here since we got back from d.c. and there's a lot of work to be donald then trying to stay safe. trying to model the behavior that we're asking others to follow whether it's wearing a mask in public. i don't look good in a mask but i have one here that we made so i've been using that, and also, you know, staying at home as much as possible and working from here as much as possible. so been quite busy actually, but i think we all like to see life get back to normal as soon as possible but we got to get through this. ainsley: we would, thank you so much, senator. >> thank you. ainsley: okay you're welcome. kids might be stuck inside for easter but one doctor is ic majoritying sure that they still get a visit from the easter

bunny. janice dean is sharing that sweet story, coming up next but first let's check in with sandra smith for what's coming up at the top of the hour. good morning, sandra. >> sandra: hey, ainsley, good morning. coming up live from america's news room the nations top infectious disease expert dr. anthony fauci will be joining us live top of the hour on the good signs that he says he's seeing from the epicenter of this crisis, new york, and u.s. cities that he says could be the next hotspots for this virus, and when he thinks schools and the economy may eventually reopen. plus, our doctors are on deck with your questions, dr. sapphire is here, the good news, the first small business to receive a stimulus loan from the covid relief plan how it helped save all their employees jobs. join ed and me as we begin a brand new hour coming up top of the hour. being prepared and overcoming challenges.

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about that story, and a few others. good morning, janice. >> janice hi, ainsley. i love this story about greenville, south carolina that wanted to make sure that his community saw the easter bunny, and he came a little earlier and we also had some social distancing but the easter bunny came earlier this week. ainsley: that is so sweet that's where my mom grew up. so what about this town out here on long island, appreciating the nurses? >> janice: oh, my gosh this is amazing so this is bernadette johnson at li j northwell, and they just got a parade of cars of people to tell her how much she is loved and how much we appreciate our nurse s they put this beautiful video together and it's fantastic and they sent it to me on social media. ainsley: you can't get enough of that that's awesome. now florida there's a trainer that trains dogs for veterans, and we've had her on the show,

guardian angels, and because of covid, they weren't getting their dogs, so what did she do? >> so kathleen, from guardian angels medical service dogs, drove the dogs, the service dogs , to their veterans in both florida and michigan because the event was canceled so she got in her car and drove those dogs to their new homes and new veterans and it was such a beautiful story. ainsley: she really loves veterans to do that. i understand driving in florida but to michigan, my word she's wonderful. so what about this wedding anniversary, 65th wedding anniversary still celebrating? >> so raylene and tommy tally, they live in texas and their daughter deanne sent this to me on social media at twitter, if you've got good news stories, americatogether and it's just a beautiful video celebrating their anniversary and social distancing at the same time. ainsley: what about the security officer? >> yes, so the security officer

in long island the principal likes to send out videos to the students and mr. steve had a beautiful video for all of the students at the school, he is there and it's just a wonderful way for the students to connect with their teachers and the people that they love at school. ainsley: thank you, janice good to see you we'll see you tomorrow. we have more fox & friends straight ahead.

coming together to >> sandra: fox news alert, more than 1900 people have died of the coronavirus and 24 hours. the highest death toll so far but despite that there are signs a strategy to battle this outbreak are working. good morning everyone, i am sandra smith. >> ed: i met henry. they are approaching 4,000 confirmed infections. this is the largest increase in coronavirus deaths in one day. all governors in both of the states to see some encouraging signs, the outbreak could be nearing its peak. the white house always, als