staring at your phone all the time. carley: her poor couch. nothing else to do. rob: too bad. carley, thank you so much. that will do it for us. "fox & friends" starts right now. ♪ steve: it is thursday, april 9th, 6:00 in the east. we start with a fox news alert. communities all across the country racing to save lives as the u.s. coronavirus cases top, as you can see right there screen left 432,000. nearly 15,000 people have died so far. according to new york, yesterday, they recorderred the deadliest day yet with at least 779 deaths in 24 hours. the state of knowledge also newo another parable record. ainsley: vice president pence giving a glimmer of hope saying there are science in his state.

must continue following task force guidelines like social distancing. brian: glimmer more than glimmer. the cdc releasing new guidelines for essential employees taking, for example, their temperature every day. before clocking in and wearing face masks at all times. this can be very similar to when we start getting back to our buildings and back to our offices around the country. i could see that being very typical as did you go in. yesterday i thought something else stood out. anthony fauci said i don't think we are ever going to shake hands gotten. i was stunned by that while the model of 100 to 200,000 people dying was scaled back. looks like 60,000. and we'll have until august to get there. so if we keep doing this, maybe that number will get even lower, steve. steve: well, that would be great for the number to go lower, brian, what we have learned in the last month or sore is that the social distancing where you don't shake hands and stay away

from each other actually works. this is one of the craziest holy weeks ever. today is holy thursday. tomorrow is good friday and easter on sunday. the day they think it will actually peak. and our natural inclination this time of year, also tonight will be the second night of passover, rahm donramadan shortly. would are going to be told you can't shake hands anymore because if you want to get to next year, you are going to have to go through this year and social distancing is working. we have got to stay in our homes and stay separate. it is, according to the experts, like jerome adams, the surgeon general who will be with us this morning says it is working. dr. mehmet oz, dr. nicole saphier. dr. marc siegel. the forker secretary of press for the president sarah sanders and jason chaffetz. ainsley: interesting you say that the peak of deaths is on

easter sunday. how ironic is that? we can't go to church. we can't shake hands during the peace anymore. communion might change. hdr. fauci seeing glimmers of hope. i know you don't like the word glimmer. death does lag by a few weeks after you are infected with this virus. if you look at washington state and look at seattle, they are closing down that makeshift hospital, the army hospital, army corps of engineers built. they are closing that down and disassembling it and send it to another state. they are seeing for four consecutive days they are seeing the numbers go down and think the hospitals can handle it. that is good news. today the senate is going to discuss another 250 billion-dollar bailout aimed at relieving small businesses hit really hard during the coronavirus pandemic. rich edson is live in washington as funds from the first relief package are already running dry.

rich? >> hearks good morning, ainsley, steve and brian. senate majority leader mitch mcconnell is going to push that additional $250 billion of funding designed for small businesses through the senate today. he has tweeted, quote: i hope none of of my colleagues object to these requests for urgently needed funds. there is no reason why this bipartisan job-saving program should be held hostage for other priorities. let's refund the only program that's already running dry, and keep moving forward together. now this effort could very well stall. democrats say they also want more funding for hospitals and state and local governments to address the coronavirus. house speaker nancy pelosi says even if mcconnell can get the republican bill through the senate, there is no way the house could quickly pass it. >> bill that they put forth, will not get unanimous support in the house. it just won't. >> later this morning, in just a

couple of hour, the government will release its weekly support showing how many americans filed for unemployment insurance last week. coronavirus shutdowns have set records in unemployment claims. nearly 10 millioned in the last two weeks leading up to this morning's report, some analysts are projecting this report is going to break last week's record. perhaps even breaking 7 million claims one week alone. back to you guys. brian: 3.5 -- rescue. thanks so much, rich, appreciate it. bring in kevin brady, he is the ranking members of the house ways and means committee. sooner or later this quick boost to the small business loan program is going to be on his desk and front and center in the house or virtual house. kevin, thanks for joining us this morning. how do you feel about nancy pelosi looking at what mitch mcconnell wants to do and that's getting 250 billion for the small business program and putting 100 billion for

hospitals, 100 billion for state and local governments and 50% increase in funding for food stamps. do you sign on to that? >> yeah. i will tell you the folks ought to be right now on our small businesses more than half of american workers work in small business us. a number of them have closed down temporarily. have a few more weeks or months to be able to survive. obviously the need is there or we wouldn't have literally hundreds of thousands of our local businesses seeking those loans. that's the good news. and the trump administration did a remarkable job getting this program up in seven days. but, my belief is politics can wait. small businesses can't. certainly not their workers. so the house needs to pick this up as a clean bill. and approve it because what we know is a lot of our community banks jumped into this program full feet. but we have in farming communities, in minority communities, women-owned businesses they may not have that local lending relationship.

this $251 billion helps make sure that there are -- is plenty of money for those who may not be in that first tranche, that first rush, but who need our help. so i think it's really important. the other fact, too, is we have committed over $300 billion to our hospitals, our state and local governments. those dollars are going out starting yesterday. state and local governments starting here over the next week or so. so i would say let's see how those work, you know, if it gets to the people we need. if we need to make adjustments and improvements, we will do that frankly, our small businesses just cannot wait. steve: no kidding congressman. congressman, "the washington post" says today that, perhaps, as early as today the administration may unveil their second coronavirus task force. and this one would be a mix of top administration officials, perhaps mark meadows as the leader of the task force along with a mix of business leaders.

and they would be tasked with trying to figure out how to slowly reopen the economy and i know the president has suggested maybe easter. that's actually going to be the peak day as we have been saying this morning. it sounds like they still have target of april 30th to still start to un -- you know, reopen things. is that realistic? >> you know, steve, i think it is. look, right now, businesses are rightfully focused on helping apply maximum pressure on the virus and survival. that's exactly where they need to be. in the coming weeks, they are turning toward how do you reopen responsibly, recognizing a lot has to do with the conditions on the ground in health. where their customers are at. what kind of workers and business they are in. but how we exited this crisis is as important as how we entered it from an economic standpoint. i know we're putting a lot of money, $2 trillion into helping

businesses ride this out. and keep their workers close to them. that puts us in position to rebound. i'm encouraging also my local governments to begin to have those discussions with businesses because i think it is, again, key for our economic recovery. final point, i don't think we are going to flip a switch in the economy just roars back. i think this is going to be a rolling reopening driven by what we are seeing on the ground with our focus on the verizon. so, look, i think there is a right way to do this. no, i think the president is thinking again. ainsley: congressman, i know mitch mcconnell wants to push this through using con sent. use these loans and get this money as soon as possible. nancy pelosi saying it's not going to pass in the house. why the discrepancy, why doesn't she agree with it? what are democrats saying? what are they against? >> i'm not sure. i know they have talked about more funding for state and local government and hospitals. we are already all in on that. we want to get feedback from our

hospitals and local goments on how that money is helping them before we remr. issue in. i think that can help as well. what i worry about is another delay like she pulled on the cares package where we essentially had this agreed in a bipartisan way on sunday before she rode into town, delayed it fully four days. we could have, our small businesses and hospitals and others could have used those dollars. so i'm hopeful we don't see those same kind of political delays again. because they are small businesses. they need the help. they need that signal from us. brian: right. absolutely. senator schumer should get a backbone. where is he going to stand up and say we need to do this? we'll come back on rescue 4 and get some of these programs. now is not the time. instead he knuckles under. he has got to look in the mirror and decide what he is doing with his life. meanwhile, bernie sanders made a surprise now.

announcement yesterday i can't win i can't campaign. i will quit but hold on to my delegates. let's listen to what bernie sanders wants from joe biden going forward. >> today i congratulate joe biden, a very decent man, who i will work with to move our progressive ideas forward. on a practical note, let me also say this: i will stay on the ballot in all remains states and continue to gather delegates. while vice president biden will be the nominee, we must continue working to assemble as many delegates as possible at the democratic convention where we will be able to exert significant influence over the party platform and other functions. brian: hello socialism. it's not goodbye. kevin, real quick, last night on stephen colbert last night he came out and said joe biden has got to advance, open up a circle. he has got to get more progressives around him.

so hello $15 minimum wage. hello medicare for all and goodbye oil and gas because frac something now banned if he gets his way and has legitimate influence with joe biden. your thoughts? >> bernie sanders may be suspending his campaign but socialist ideas continue to live on. seem to be embraced more each day by joe biden. yet, here we are in this coronavirus where u.s. was one of the best prepared nations in the world to handle this. but, when president trump realized that we needed a partnership, it was private business that rode to the rescue with the new testing, gearing up the new production, bringing innovation and the solutions to the table. it's been that partnership. if we had been limited just by a one size fits all national government, frankly, we wouldn't have the hope we are starting to see today in our local community. so socialism is being proven not to work as we speak and but joe

biden continues to elm brace more and more of it. i will tell you that's not going to go well in texas. steve: all right. well, joining us from texas today kevin brady. sir, thank you very much for joining us today. >> thank you, steve. ainsley: thank you. steve: you bet. all right. it is 13 minutes after the top of the hour. jillian joins us from our world headquarters in new york city. jillian? jillian: that's right. good morning. let's begin with a fox news alert. displaying responsibility for a rocket attack on american troops in afghanistan overnight. five rockets fired at bagram air base. no troops were hurt. the attack comes amid stalled peace talks between the taliban and afghan officials. we will keep you updated on any new information we get. in the mean time, the body of robert f. kennedy's great grandson has been recovered. 8-year-old gideon mckean and his mother went missing after a canoe accident in the chesapeake

bay. her body was discovered on monday. they discovered gideon's body about 2,000 feet away. linda tripp in the bill clinton impeachment has died. the pentagon worker secretly recorded conversations with monica lewenski during her affair with the president. tripp had reportedly been battling cancer. she is survived by her husband and two children. tripp was 70 years old. three astronauts, including one american, blasts off into space overnight. >> and liftoff. on their way to the international space station. jillian: taking off from kazakhstan. their so i he see rocket is expected to dock at the international space station three hours from now. that's a look at the headlines, send it back to you. ainsley: thanks jillian. brian: foregot about the space station. i have been so focused on earth.

ainsley: okay. so, bernie sanders as you were saying as we were interviewing kevin brady about bernie sanders south the race but not giving up those delegates. what's his end game? insighted from one of his senior advisors coming up next. flush

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>> i have concluded that this battle for the democratic nomination will not be successful. while vice president biden will be the nominee, we must continue working to assemble as many delegates as possible at the democratic convention where we will be able to exert significant influence over the party platform. steve: welt, following a string of primary defeats, one time democratic frontrunner bernie sanders officially dropped out of the presidential race yesterday leaving former vice president joe biden as the party's presumptive nominee. the self-described democratic socialist vowing, however, to continue gathering delegates, as you just heard, to push its progressive platform at the august convention, whatever form that takes. joining us right now to discuss is democratic strategist and bernie sanders senior advisor chuck rocca who joins us from his dining room.

chuck, why is he -- essentially bernie is staying on the ballot so he still kind of running. >> most of these states -- no, all of these states going forward we have done all of this work getting someone on the ballot. they have already printed the ballot. he is going to be on the ballot regardless where we suspend the campaign or not. that's the actuality of it. he is encouraging all of his supporters to show up if we are not in a time corona, mailing your ballot when it's not safe to vote. nobody voting who is going to get sick or mane a chance to get this virus. we want to make sharier our voice is heard at the convention. we have a diverse party. we want every faction of the party to be heard at the convention. steve: sure, there will have to be a truce and they will have to come common ground. joe biden will never come to medicare for all. he was part of the obama administration.

he would prefer fixing obamacare. he needs the bernie supporters to show up when we vote somehow in november. >> i think you said something that's really really critical, steve. our coalition couldn't win the general election. joe biden by himself and his coalition can't win the november election against donald trump. together is the only way that they have any shot at all of winning it. i know we have a lot of supporters out there who are really emotional this morning like i'm emotional this morning. i put two years of my life into this. who i will never vote for joe biden. there will not be that many but there will be some. i will respect their opinion. at the end of the day, we all have to come together. we may not get everything that we want. there has to be some kind of coming together of everybody to make sure that we can defeat donald trump or even have a shot to. it's not going to be easy. steve: yeah. what about people who say maybe bernie is just staying on the ballot just in case something happens with joe, you know, for whatever reason. that's not really a possibility

but at the same time, you know, there is a lot of talk out there. >> so, i am laughing because normally i had would be that's some speak from sharp media guy talking to me on the phone. you are right, steve. this election, i have been doing this for 31 years. i have seen some of the craziest stuff happen in my life that i have n. never seen before. coronavirus stop campaigning and saving people's lives. candidates like mine had a heart attack to come back and be the frontrunner and win the first four contests or first three contests craziest things in politics happened to me in the last two years. i will not say never to anything. we are on the ballot because we can't come off. my god, i can' i can't say that anything can't happen today. steve: you are right. it has been a crazy season. the joe biden campaign did put out a statement. and it goes like this. as friends, jill and i, this is

from joe, want to say to bernie and jane we know how hard this is. you have to put the interest of the nation and the need to defeat donald trump above all else. and for that, jill and i are grateful. but we also want you to know i will be reaching out to you. you will be heard by me as you said, not me, us. and to your supporters, i make the same commitment. of course, obviously that last part is to get the voters. but, you know, to your last point, chuck, this has been such a crazy last month, you know, if the coronavirus wasn't there, this would be full tilt. but now they have canceled primaries, they are thinking about incorporate chicago the -e conventions. given 700 people died in new york state. petty politics this has got to wait until this is over. it? >> does. i think you are exactly right. like after we had kind of slowed the campaign down and shut it down, all of our activities was

making sure people were being taken care of. we all have to come together as americans during this time. i think it puts a unique strain on our political system as we move through the summer depending on how long this all lasts. as you mentioned, the democrats have moved back their convention. the convention is when you nominate somebody. at the end of the day, people are sitting home right now with their family and their kids. i'm here in my living room worried about where their momma is. is their grandmama all right. politics is not first thing on their mind this morning. steve: no kidding. chuck rocha from d.c. stay safe. >> thank you, steve. steve: you bet. 6:25 on the east coast. the cdc has issued brand new essential guidelines for essential workers when they go back to work or if they are working right now. fox news medical contributor dr. nicole saphier someone of those essential workers. what's her take on the government? she's next. from my copd medicine that's why i've got the power

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♪ >> what the cdc has done is looked at the essential workforce and how to maintain that workforce. >> new guidance will hopefully make it clear that there would be an opportunity for those people playing such an incredible role in our nation's response to be able to return to work and to do so safely. ain't ains the trump ainsley: the trump

administration making it essential workers who have been exprobationed to covid-19 to get back to work if they have no symptoms now. joining us with more is dr. nicole saphier. good morning, dr. saphier. >> hey, good morning, ainsley. ainsley: hey, explain this to me. first of all, do you agree with that? do you think that's safe? >> well, listen, we know a priority is getting our front line workers back to work who have had to be home because of exposure. we also know we need to reopen the economy. we will start seeing updated recommendations and they will be changing every day like we have seen in the past. this is evolving situation. the cdc is saying right now -- first of all, i have to say anywhere as there is about 4 to 40% of positive cases are in healthcare workers. a lot of places aren't even reporting when healthcare workers are being sick. they are not being tested just being told to stay home. these recommendations are actually for people who have been exposed to the virus. doesn't necessarily mean they were infected by the virus but

that they had a known contact with a positive person because up until now, we have been say going have you had a known contact with a positive person because it's so highly contagious and because a lot of people can be asymptomatic, we recommended being self-quawrning just in case. so this is saying if you have that known positive, you can actually go back to work. however, only go back to work if you are not asymptomatic, we are recommending that people wear mask. take your temperature even though you feel okay that you don't have a fever. and also they want to make sure you continue social distancing once you get to work just because you are back to work not a fee for all, high five, we are still practicing social distancing measures. also recommending that the employers consider taking their employees temperatures and enforcing that all of those stepping are being made. this is to make sure that we get our healthcare workers and first responders and all of our

essential workers back to work. make sure they're able to work in a very safe and healthy manner. ainsley: when they say the word exposed say one of your doctors or nurses has a patient that had the virus but they did not get the virus, doesn't that mean if they go back to work i guess they still have to work. they are essential workers. but is that putting their lives in danger? they could still get the virus later. >> well, so here is the thing, ainsley. when you are being exposed to something, being exposed doesn't mean have you been infected with the virus. ainsley: right. >> oftentimes healthcare workers oftentimes nurses front line worker they get some of the closest contact with our patients. a lot of times they are wearing the appropriate ppe. they have n-95 masks on. they have face shields and body suits. if they are not wearing that or perhaps maybe their neighbor who they happen to have seen recently was infected and they didn't have on the appropriate ppe. that woo would been probation we

would want her to self-quarantine. if she is wearing the appropriate ppe she doesn't have to necessarily self-quarantine we expect her to vehicles posh to these patients. we are not trying to put anybody's lives at risk. the cdc is watching carefully and making very careful recommendations. they are trying to balance keeping people safe and healthy, mitigating the spread of this illness while also jump starting getting places open again, making sure we have enough essential workers to keep things flowing. if we don't start this in baby steps like this right now, we are never going to get to the place where we can start opening things up. this is the first step in to starting to reopen things. you have to do it very cautiously and carefully and slowly. i know dr. fauci and birx and the cdc, everyone is going to be watching this and they're going to make sure that they are doing it right. these recommendations may change tomorrow. we know that things are changing every day right now. so it's important to just adhere to what their recommendations are. and that's the best we can do. ainsley: as a doctor, how do you think this is going to change

our society? >> >> overall, i think everyone is going to have a much more awareness for what a respiratory infection is and how contagious certain things can be. as a physician i have already known. this most healthcare workers know this; however, i think a lot of good things are going to come out of this. i think you will see a lot more hand-washing. i think you will see, especially during flu season people really appreciating what social distancing can do. and not con grey gaghtd in such small places where you know such illness can spread. i really do hope that this is more of a blip on our radar. this is going to go in history books. i do think we will get back to some level of business as usual and back to our normal hopefully pretty soon. ainsley: it's interesting that it used to be polite to shake someone's hand now not to. you have a new book. >> we will get back to shake hands. i'm raising three boys.

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to open with a big bang and open up our country or certainly most of our country. i think we are are going to do that soon. you look at what is happening. i would say we are ahead of schedule. brian: going to be interesting to see if you open up the country who is going back. president trump looking ahead to options to safely open our economy as we deal with the coronavirus pandemic. so, what would be the best approach over all? steve: well, brian, talk to a professor of business and economics at the kings college in new york city. is he also a fox news contributor brian brenberg. brian, good morning to you. we understand the president is going to unveil a second coronavirus task force shortly. a combination of administration people plus private sector people trying to figure out when to open. according to "the washington post," they would like to do something on april 30th. but, if it's a big bang, you know, the worry is that then people will think, hey, it's all over we can go back to shaking

hands and next thing you know we have a spike. what do you think? >> the president has acknowledged that is a potential risk. i think why when we do get an opening, it probably is not going to be a big bang. it's going to be happening in places where it can happen. every local is a little bit different. you have different health issues on the ground. have you different healthcare resources. have you different industries. an area with an industry that's heavy in leisure and hospitality is going to be different than one that's heavy in manufacturing or farming or things like this. really across the country, you have to have a slightly different strategy. the nice thing is when you have different strategies and you are trying different things, you can learn from them. we can see what is happening in utah or south dakota. we can use that in indiana or ohio. that's the benefit of a lot of different strategies being tried. i think that's what you are going to see. ainsley: so, brian, bernie sanders yesterday suspends his campaign and he was on last night with one of the -- with stephen colbert and he says he

hopes biden moves in a more progressive direction and then have you got trump's campaign manager saying the democratic establishment got the candidate they wanted because now that progressive -- the progressive candidate south the race. here is what bernie says. listen. >> the future of this country is with our ideas. so while we are winning the ideological battle. and while we are winning the support of so many young people and working people throughout the country, i have concluded that this battle for the democratic nomination will not be successful. ainsley: what's your reaction? >> well, you know, i think even though bernie's political revolution may be over with i do think he has a point on the ideological revolution. he has succeeded at pulling the democratic party to the left. yes, the establishment maybe got their candidate in biden but this is a very different biden even than we saw during the obama administration. he has gone much further to the left on taxes, on climate

policy, on energy policy. on healthcare. so, sometimes you can lose a battle but win the war. it seems like sanders has sort of won the ideological war in the democratic party. he has left that party with his movement, which is very powerful, with congressman who are very influential. he is going to exert an influence for a long time to come including in this current race. brian: yeah, i mean, he has the next generation. the squad wants to pick up the mantel where he left off. this is what joe biden put out in a statement when bernie said i quit kind of. he has done something rare in politics. he hasn't just run a political campaign. he's created a movement. and, make no mistake about it i believe it's a movement that is a powerful today as it was yesterday. that's a good thing for our nation and our future. so does that mean he is going to go for the minimum wage of crin crease of $15. does that mean is he going to destroy the oil and gas

industry. does that mean he is going to go for medicare for all? what's he going to do? what's he going to adopt? >> biden is in a tough spot, obviously, because he needs those bernie sanders supporters if he wants any chance of winning in november. and, look, he has already gone further to the left to try to appease that audience. again, his tax policies, talking about raising taxes by over $3 trillion over a decade. climate policy, again, almost a 2 trillion-dollar climate policy. i mean, he has moved in that direction. it wouldn't surprise me at all if he continues to move in that direction. because, to win, to win a democratic party that is ideologically shifted, you have to shift with them. he is in a very tough spot. it's going to make him very vulnerable with the president because it's going to give the president an awful lot to attack: socialism is still very much on the table even if bernie sanders is out of the race. steve: you know, what brian? it was also in the forefront of

wall street. yesterday wall street finished up 780 points. the healthcare sector went up 4% just because of a lot of his policies and the fact that we could be rounding the corner with coronavirus. meanwhile, i believe 2:00 this afternoon, you are going to be joining charles payne for a america works together virtual town hall. yep, it is today at 2:00. what do you hope to accomplish? >> well, there are so many questions out there right now. you know, so many small businesses. so many workers want to get through this. they want to come out the other side. they want to stay in business. they want to keep workers on the payroll. they have questions. how do i do that? how does the cares act help me with that what decision should i be making right now. they are looking for people who help navigate. charles is going to bring in larry kudlow economic advisor to the president to answer those questions. i'm going to do the same thing. we are going to give people a sense for how to get through this time so that when they get out on the other end they are

ready for rebound and they are ready for recovery. ainsley: thank you for joining us, brian. we look forward to watching that today at 2:00. >> thank you. ainsley: hand it over to janice dean. she is joining us via skype. there is supposed to be severe weather on easter, right, janice. janice: not only easter but today through the weekend. severe weather outbreak is expected. last night we had hundreds of reports of hail and damaging winds. we also had reports of tornadoes around portions of the ohio valley. tennessee valley and the mississippi river valley and then as we get into later on this afternoon, i'm concerned about the northeast and mid-atlantic where we could see or feel wind gusts in excess of 40 to 50 miles per hour. we could actually have power outages in big cities like new york city, philadelphia, and d.c. keep that in mind. know what to do if there is a watch or warning in your area. and then later on today we are also going to seat threat for

severe storms across portions of texas. in towards louisiana. this weekend, i am really concerned with a severe weather outbreak that's going to include texas in towards mississippi, alabama, georgia, the southeast, the gulf coast. especially for easter sunday where we could have large track long lived deadly tornadoes. so that's going to be a big problem. also, i want to point out that not only the threat for severe storms, but we could see the potential for very heavy rain on easter sunday as well. so the good news is we are all social distancing, most people are at home. but just have a place where you can get your watches or your warnings as we go through the next couple of days and, of course, new york city, we have tents in central park. so if people are, you know, healthcare workers that are working outdoors in central park, just make sure you know when there is a watch or a warning because we could see some very strong wind gusts 40 to 50 miles per hour here in the northeast and the mid-atlantic. all right, we have been doing

some great good news stories. i've had people on social media contact me. america together. of course, our country is coming together in thisser wrath social distancing. i got this great video from jackie yesterday on social media on my twitter page on janice dean her mother murrial couldn't have 90th birthday, people came in their cars and still practicing social distancing and they were so wonderful honking their horns. we got great videos like this one. so good where everyone is outdoors social distancing but certainly wishing muriel in texas a happy 90th birthday. we have more good news stories throughout the day today and tonight i will be bringing you both weather and bringing you good news america together today on "fox & friends." steve, ainsley, brian, back to you. brian: janice, that's awesome. keep those great stories coming because janice wants to keep her

dean's list going. so that's going to be great. janice, thanks so much for putting a smile on everybody's face. >> thanks, brian. you got it. brian: social distancing gets a high tech upgrade. i will pause and listen. >> apologize for the convenience of the covid-19 this park is currently closed. brian: wow, police departments using drones to keep the public apart. i didn't even see the drone coming. we will talk about it with a guy that knows, a drone expert. omers

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brian: the town of elizabeth is set to deploy drones with prerecorded warnings from the mayor. facebook post elizabeth p.d. adding quote some o summonses he and will continue to be issued to those found in violation. fines are up to $1,000. you have been advised. joining us is drone expert and white fox defense brett co-very much. are you for this i'm not over

the red light camera for speed limit. is this the wave of the future. >> absolutely i'm for it. there has never been a more important time in history for drone technology to play an important role. this crisis is a prime example of where the technology can benefit. as our society adapts into one in the short-term where we have to be more socially distant in the short-term to follow the president's directive and slow the spread. it's technology like this that we rely upon to become a force multiplier for our first responders and to help avoid human contact. and whether or not you hate or love china's role in all of this. one thing that they did get right was their quick distribution of their vast network of drones where they were taking handheld drones with speakers attached to them and directing people large crowds of people not following the social distancing rules and spotting unsafe activities. so the benefit of this technology in the end just like we are seeing here domestically being used in a way that not

only protects the public but protects the first responders. brian: what's interesting is you had mentioned to me, too. we could be delivering packages already. and that we are already delivering with drones blood and medical supplies in different continents but not here. and in the ear wrath not wanting to touch anything, wouldn't that work? >> well, brian, look, we are in a long-term fight against this virus for at least the next 12 to 18 months, regardless of whether or not people get back to work immediately. the threat is going to continue to persist with this virus. we need to start thinking about things like the supply chains and these delivery methods and these lines of communications that have all been upended and how do we get immediately these medical supplies into the hands of the personnel that's all that matters in my world. right now on the other side of the world there are american companies who are delivering

every day by drone everything from gowns to masks, to gloves. they ever told by our federal government they cannot do the exact same thing here, brian. that's a problem. why are american companies like zip line, for instance, that are based out of california delivering efficiently and effectively all these medical supplies in africa but, again, the federal government here is saying they can't do it. that's ridiculous. and these transportation agencies they need to step up to the plate and help out. brian: hey, breath, thanks so much. we will leave it there. talk about the future. talk about our future for the next two hours speak to the surgeon general dr. jerome adams and jason chaffetz who would never be surgeon general. my patients i often see them have teeth sensitivity as well as gum issues. does it worry me? absolutely.

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ainsley: straight to a fox news alert. u.s. coronavirus cases topping 432,000 overnight. nearly 15,000 people have died. new york recording its deadliest day yet with at least 779 deaths in just 24 hours; brian. brian: all right, ainsley, vice president pence giving a glimmer of hope saying there are signs of stabilization in the hardest hit states. but americans must continue to follow task force guidelines like social distancing. steve: meanwhile the cdc now releasing new guidelines for essential employees including they should take their temperature every day before clocking in and going to work. and wearing face masks at all

times, also they say that employers should try to keep fresh air in the polic business. all trying to keep people healthy. april 9th, 7:00 in the east it. is holy thursday. and it looks as if, according to the murray model, which had in the past predicted some very dire death numbers. in the last 24 hours, they have revised it down 26% in one week. now they are projecting by the end of august, 60,000 people will lose their lives. they are also projecting, ainsley, it looks as if the peak will come on easter. that is the day the president had hoped to reopen the country. it was aspirational. that is instead going to be the peak we are now looking to reopening the country they have got to do it smart. they know, ainsley, social distancing is working and that's why we are flattening that

curve. ainsley: dr. fauci said without a doubt he knows that's why we are seeing fewer cases, fewer people walking into the hospital with it. deaths are up. but he says those deaths usually lag two weeks behind when you get the virus. so, the good news is, over in washington state, and in oregon, they are seeing their numbers decline. they are closing up seattle's army field hospital. because they are going to send that to another state that really needs it. you know, washington state was the first state to have a corona patient here in the united states. it's interesting to look at those states, that means it's coming here next. and we will see the numbers drop and hopefully close up some of these makeshift hospitals and send them to the states that are going to need it next. we have a big show ahead for you. dr. jerome adams is with us. dr. oz, dr. mark seale and sarah sanders. brian. brian: just some of the guests and bump-in music to go along with that a lot of positive news yesterday. the fact is when somebody said

200,000 people die oops 60,000. not going to be right away it's going to be in august. that's how good we are doing and how off the models were. you have to wonder as much as social distancing working i wonder if the economists are going to get in that room and say we have to stand up this economy in some way before we are not going to be able to stand when this is all said and done. steve: right, brian, it's still 60,000 people which is a staggering number. brian: it's a high number. but how many people are going to die as the country goes flat on its back for three months. we're not going to look like the same country. so the economists have to have a say in this. today, the senate will discuss another $250 billion bailout aimed at relieving small businesses that are hit hard during the coronavirus. remember, there is money there gillian turner joins us live from the white house as funds from the first relief package already are running dry. gillian? >> gillian: that's right, good morning, brian, ainsley, steve.

senate majority leader mitch mcconnell slated to bring 251 billion-dollar package for over to the senate floor this morning at 10:00 a.m. he is already though anticipating major push back from democratic colleagues. they want to include additional funds for hospitals, and carve out just under half of that money for minority owned, women owned and veteran owned small businesses. mcconnell tweeting last night i hope none of my colleagues object to my request to these urgently needed funds. job saving program should be held hostage for other priorities. so far loans to small business owners through the paycheck protection program have totaled $100 billion and 400,000 individual loans. but now speaker pelosi knows she has got an important card still up her sleeve to use as leverage to get what the democrats want. take a listen to her last night. >> the bill that they put forth will not get unanimous support

in the house. it just won't. >> gillian: it's really a race against the clock now for both sides of the aisle. economists are predicting that later this morning in the jobs report, we are going to have historic high unemployment numbers coming out. again, the associated press is reporting we are going to see a staggering 7 million unemployed americans right now. brian, ainsley, steve? steve: a terrible number. all right. that will be at 8:30. gillian, thank you very much for joining us from across the street from the white house. let's bring in jason chaffetz, former chairman of the house oversight and government reform committee. a fox news contributor as well. all right, jason, so, it sounds as if when you look at the number of people who have already tried to get loans through this program, something like $70 billion has already been processed. 250,000 small businesses so far. clearly there is a need.

and clearly, perhaps, they under estimated how much money they would need up front or is this just how washington works? get a little now, get a little later? >> it's just how washington works. they got the money out in a remarkable fast time. i talked to a company yesterday who actually got funded. i realize there are a lot of others that are waiting. i think congress knew that $2 trillion is already a big number. they needed to start this but they knew there was going t goio have to be fourth package to come in behind it. hopefully they don't ladder it p congress is notorious for doing it. they probably will. brian: get the money earmarked to the right people to small business. and the unemployment money that's given to all the states. the states aren't equipped to give anyone unemployment. what are people going to do as they wait for their 1200. as they wait for their loans,

grants, and think wait for unemployment checks? meanwhile bill barr was on with laura and talked about where this whole thing started in china and the lack of accountability in china. and w.h.o., always siding with china. and not telling us the truth about how bad things were. bill barr weighs in. >> bigger threat to america's election security, russia or china? >> in my opinion, it's china. and not just to the election process, but i think across the board. there is simply no comparison. china is a very serious threat to the united states. geopolitically, economically, militarily, and a threat to the integrity of our institutions given their ability to influence things. brian: is this the time to take them on or should we wait for

the pandemic to subside if, in fact, jason chaffetz you do agree with bill barr's assessment? >> i think bill barr is exactly right. obviously, you worry about russia, you worry about iran, you worry about north korea. but, long term, and short-term, china has the resources and they are generally much smarter and much quieter about how they go about corporate espionage. espionage on our government, on our military. what they are doing in outer space that a lot of americans that don't have any exposure to. there is a reason why american president, donald trump, put up his space force and china is a big part of the reason why to do that. but, also, the economic ties. and when we throw out $22 trillion in debt, and then go to the chinese and the japanese and the others and say buy our debt, we create an exacerbate the problem. the attorney general is exactly right. anybody who has looked at any exedges in washington, d.c., certainly during the years that

i was there, recognizes that china is the biggest threat. ainsley: so the trump campaign is saying that the establishment, democratic party establishment one when bernie dropped out yesterday and leaving biden to get that presumptive nomination. last night bernie was on the late show after dropping out. and this is what he had to say. >> i hope to be able to work with joe to move him in a more progressive direction. and i think joe is a good politician. and he understands that in order to defeat the president, in order to defeat trump, he is going to have to bring new people into his political world. and that he is going to have to listen to their needs, young people, working people. and maybe start moving in a different direction to some degree than he has in the past. ainsley: jason, do you think that will happen? >> oh, bernie, bernie, bernie.

he didn't really get out of race. he just sent a trojan horse in there to try to disrupt the entire democratic party. bernie never joined the democratic party. he weighs the major disrupter and now he is going to cause all kinds of headaches for joe biden. if i'm the biden camp, i'm absolutely ticked at this guy. instead of wrapping my arm around joe biden and defeat him and beat donald trump. he didn't do that. he told his people to keep on going, keep fighting. go to that convention and effect a platform that works all to the advantage of donald trump. it's going to make joe biden do things that are worse than he wants to do. and, remember, joe biden has his own problem. it's joe biden. joe biden was elected four years before jimmy carter became the president of the united states. the guy has been locked in washington, d.c. and now he has got this bernie sanders problem. and he has got a donald trump who is doing an a-plus job on this coronavirus. and an economy that i do believe will come roaring back.

steve: well, you know, we were talking to chuck rocha. you know chuck, just about 50 minutes ago, jason. and he said look, this has been such a crazy primary season. you never know what's going to happen next. so you are right. it throws a monkey wrench into the joe biden campaign. but, ultimately, bernie is looking for influence and he wants his supporters to feel like somebody is listening to him. otherwise, they're not going to show up for joe. watch this. >> i think he is encouraging all of his supporters to actually show up. want to make sure that our voice is heard at the convention because we have a diverse party. we want every faction of the party to be heard at the convention. our coalition couldn't win the general election. joe biden by himself and his coalition can't win the november election against donald trump. together is the only way that they have any shot at all of winning it. look, we may not get everything that we want. there has to be some kind of coming together of everybody to

make sure that we can defeat donald trump. steve: you know, jason, before the pandemic really came to the united states, it was all about politics. it seemed like that was our lead story for months and months and months about the campaign and the primary season. now, until this thing gets better, and we cross the peak and we go way down the curve, are people really tuned in to this? >> >> know, what bernie sanders did yesterday is just acknowledge reality. he can't have his rallies. he can't go out and campaign the way he traditionally did. and so when he says he is leaving the race. he is not really getting out of it because he is telling people to fight on, he is getting the joe biden supporters out there to lay down their arms and say, yeah, you know what? we are not going to fight anymore and meanwhile bernie sanders is going to' people going to continue to show up.

let's be honest joe biden against donald trump. hey did i tell you i ran with president obama and is he going to be going the whole summer. that's what this is going to be about. that's what's going to be intriguing. i am sure we will hear more about that shortly. evidently owe talked to bernie sanders a couple days ago which led to this. jason chaffetz, thanks so much. >> thank you. brian: all right. by the way, jillian mele coming up right now. jillian, according to the rundown, you are going to tell us the news. jillian: yes, i am. good morning. we start this news with a fox news alert. isis claiming responsibility for a rocket attack on american troops in afghanistan overnight. five rockets were fired at bag brahm aibaggram air base. no troops were hurt. the rockets were fired from a truck parked several miles from the base. the pentagon publicly and forcefully shooting down an abc news report that they knew about covid-19 early on. look at this. >> abc news has learned u.s. intelligence agencies were

warning way back in november that an out-of-control disease was sweeping through china. the dire warning was detailed in a report by the military's national center for medical intelligence. jillian: the center's director though tells fox news that the report does not exist. saying in a statement, quote: as a matter of practice, the national center for medical intelligence does not comment publicly on specific intelligence matters; however, in the interest of transparency, during this current public health crisis, we can confirm that media reporting is not correct. well, much needed relief for millions of americans will be delivered ahead of schedule. fox business has told the internal revenue service has sped up its process. it is now targeting early next week for the direct deposit of checks. originally treasury secretary steven mnuchin predicted direct deposits would begin late next week. the first paper checks are set to be mailed starting april 20th. a bit of good news there. send it back to you guys.

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brian: so the cdc taking steps to allow some americans to get back to work that should be great and we look forward to that new guidelines are out exposed to covid-19 requires screenings for symptoms. social distancing, you wear masks, keep the workplace clean and can you back to work. here to discuss member of the white house coronavirus task force obviously dr. jerome adams. dr. adams, this is a change, the

cdc lighting up saying this is a way back to work for essential workers. what led to this? >> well, number one, we are always looking at the data and adjusting based on the data originally if you were exhe see pod to covid-19. go home for 14 days and not to come back until the end of the 14 days. what you saw in new york city and other places they were losing 20, 25% of their workforce. you can't have that with healthcare workers, with police officers and firemen. we looked at the data and we had cdc actually determine if it would be safe for these people to go back to work. and they said we feel it's safe to go back to work in these essential businesses if you take your temperature. if you wear a face mask at all times. if you still practice sornld. and this just applies to essential workers because if everyone floods back to work. it's going to be impossible to social distancing. social distancing is still the most important thing. if you have to go to work. we want to make sure these essential workers can go there safely and won't infect other people potentially.

brian: all right. dr. adams, too, yesterday, a lot of stuff came out of your presser. number one is the model that told us that 200,000 people would die in america, under 200,000. the model now says 60,000. that should be the threshold by august. and it could go down further. what changed? >> well, what's changed is the models were originally based on our best guesses. and we looked at the italy data and we looked at the china data. and that's the best we had to put into our models. we now have real data from washington and california who flattened their curve. real data in the u.s. we also know that people have been more -- more engaged in social distancing than what anyone ever could have or would have predicted. remember, in italy their healthcare system got overwhelmed and literally choosing to let people die because they didn't have enough ventilators in that system. we prevented that from happening here in the united states. so fewer people are dying. more people and thank you, america. thank you,better projections.

brian: right. so, dr. adams, a lot of people saying what led to this? and the administration is pointing to a lot of, you know, what the w.h.o. didn't tell us was happening in november, january, even march. when you -- now we here about a peter navarro memo that came out in july i never saw it. peter navarro said it wasn't addressed to the president. did you see it and this memo that said this pandemic could be coming here costing us trillions of dollars and thousands of lives? >> well, number one i didn't see the memo. but, number two, i think it's important to know at the same time that memo came out the president was telling -- was instituting a travel ban from china. he was asking as if he had seen the memo. even though i know from hearing from him he didn't see the memo. he was doing the right thing anyway. he also said in his state of the union address a few days after that memo was dated that this was a concern. so he brought it up to the

country. in his state of the union address. so what i would say is that people were always very concerned about this virus. it's been very humbling to all of us and we have had to learn and adapt on the fly as we go along. i don't want anyone in america to think that people were just dismissing this, weren't paying attention to it. particularly from an hhs point of view. i know secretary azar has been leaning into this issue from the very beginning. i want to focus on the positive. and the positive is america is doing the right thing and we need to keep doing for the next 30 days, 30 days to stop the spread guidelines are working and we need more people to do it. i know, brian, folks want to reopen as soon as possible. the key to reopening as soon as possible is to make sure we flatten our peak and get to the other side and really lean into this for the next 30 days. brian: yeah. for the next 30 days and then have a way forward. and we are wondering out of all the models with denmark getting back to work. new zealand getting back to work. germany getting back to work. what is your plan to get us back

to work and keep us safe? >> great question. we have a whole team who is looking at this. number one, it's stopping up testing. we want to make sure we have testing available rapidly for people who need quick answers. we want to make sure we have testing available for surveillance. and we want to make sure we have antibody testing. those are three different things but we have a whole team trying to figure out how we can get the right test to the right places. number two, we want to see cases start to come down for ideally two weeks. once that happens, we want to make sure we have a public health infrastructure in place so we can follow up on positive tests and isolate case contacts. once we feel comfortable we can do that we can start reopening in places that have flattened their curve and have a low lying level of cases because we have confidence that one case won't turn into 10, 100, a thousand. brian: thanks so much, dr. adams. i know you are busy. appreciate your time. >> well, and remember, brian, can you make one of these. check it out at my website surgeon general.gov.

everyone should be wearing these if they go out. ideally stay at home. brian: right. but keep the surgical mask for the hospital. make your own, right? >> exactly. make your own. brian: okay. all right. thanks, doctor. appreciate it. meanwhile. coming up straight ahead. brave healthcare heroes putting it all on the line to help our country in this difficult time as we look ahead. we will look forward to covering that story. now tunnel 2 towers is stepping up to give back and you could help. that story coming your way.

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♪ steve: tunnel 2 towers now stepping up to support the incredible men and women on the front lines of this medical war. they are launching the covid-19 hero's fund to provide millions in protective gear.

meals and even mortgage payments to our heroes. here with more now tunnel 2 towers ceo frank siller. frank, good morning to you. >> thanks, steve. thanks for having me on. you know, we are blessed. steve: go ahead. >> we are really blessed as a foundation when something like this, times of a crisis, that we foundation through the crisis which is a covid-19 fight. we are doing three major things. if you are a healthcare worker nurse, healthcare worker. and you succumb to this because you got the injury because you are there every day fighting this war and the battle front line just like the president always said, that if you die and leave behind a young family we will start making your mortgage payments for as long as the money we are raising now, 2 million we started with which is 4 million. we already raised a million dollars. so $4 million. we will make your mortgage

payments for as long as possible. that we are doing -- we are buying all this protective gear. we got n-95 masks. we're sending that out all over. we have the gowns. we are sending that all over. new york, this is the epicenter. then we have great workers who came in from all over the country the ems and paramedic help us in our time of day. they stage every day. 500 of them and giving them breakfast and lunch and that's done with the fdny we are really taking on a big approach here. steve: it is terrific. you know. your organization started in the wake of 9/11 when you lost your brother, when he ran toward the towers through the tunnel famously. we think and hear about 9/11 a lot right now. many comparisons have been made

to september 11th, 2001. for instance, in new york state, yesterday, they lost 779 people for a total of 6268, which as the governor pointed out yesterday, frank, was twice the number of people we lost on 9/11. >> that's right. that's the day i lost my brother and the foundation started to do good in his memory and all those that perished that day. we have been there front line. military and police officers. and now it's our healthcare workers. point it out real quickly conor mcgregor and his company proper 1 12 whiskey company they called and donated another 100,000. they donated this all for one shirt selling with this logo on the back. and giving us every nickel.

$25. go to proper whiskey.com. every penny comes to us. we are very fortunate in there large pharmaceutical company, [inaudible] heard what we were doing that made a substantial donation. and they are doing a magic fundraiser for us privately for us. and then we had another foundation, a private one, just donated or will donate 300,000. viewers today, go to tunnel 2 towers.org, donate $11 a month. get 3,000 viewers today, sign up, because you know we have 94 cents of every dollar goes to the causes. and they will match that up to $300,000. come on, get out there, sign up, take the money and make sure it goes to the people this is supposed to go. to say if we don't care of healthcare workers willing to die for you and i. shame on us. we are a great country and i know we will do it. please join us in this mission.

steve: absolutely. just like on 9/11, these people who are on our front lines are running toward the danger unlike back in 2001, franks that was an enemy we couldn't see. might have been distant but we could see it. this one is invincible. >> it's crazy. it's very sad. i had to go visit my grandchildren. drop them some stuff off for easter sunday. i stayed about 20 feet away from them. i haven't been able to hold my new grandson in the last over three weeks. and he is only a month old. so, you know, these are things that we have to do to make sure that we -- safe country. listen, people are willing to die for us. so we better make sure we do our social distancing and that's the part that we can do as as individuals. once again, we have got to take care of those. my brother gave his life up on 9/11 by running towards it. so many of our military give their lives because they are protecting our country.

we have police officers and firefighters that die for us every single day. that's what our foundation does. we take care of those who die in the line of duty. take care of their families. now it's the healthcare workers and we better do it and i know will. we are the greatest country ever existed and most generous. take the goodness of our country [inaudible] for a long time our healthcare workers. steve: you are a good man for doing. this your grand kids will be with you soon enough. we have to keep our distance. if they would like to donate go to tunnel 2 tower towers.org/covid-19-heroes. all right. tunnel 2 towers. frank silver, thank you so much. >> tunnel 2 towers.org. can't miss it. shirt will be up there for a link to proper whiskey company. thank you, buddy. steve: thank you very much. you bet. always a pleasure, sir. all right.

25 minutes before the top of the hour. we have information on how you can help plus more stories of people going the extra mile to help each other deal with this pandemic. find that all 00 foxnews.com/america together because we are all together in this folks. meanwhile, president trump doubling down on his criticism of the world health organization. >> china spends 42 million. we spend 450 million, and everything seems to be china's way. that's not right. it's not fair. steve: we are going to talk to tammy bruce with reaction. she is coming up next.

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brian. brian: yup. president trump says the organization seems to be, i don't know, very china-centric. he will be looking into its financial convictions to the group. w.h.o. says the president should be focused on saving lives. listen to this. >> if you don't want many more body bags, then you refrain from politicizing it. my short message is please quit politicizing covid-19. ainsley: the w.h.o. chief now calling for unity saying all countries must work together to defeat the virus tammy bruce, fox news contributor and president of independent women's voice and get tammy bruce on fox nation. good morning, tammy. >> good morning. i feel very socially distant from awful you.

ainsley: we will get back to normal for now we have got to do this. what was your reaction to that? we do give up to 4 million more per year. >> that's right. ainsley: w.h.o. for specific projects for him 20 call out our president and say he is political smart move. >> no. obviously not. when he took over it's the director that's the problem. this motion will talking about convictions is an effort to get him to resign or get him to recognize other pressure to leave. he was a controversial individual when he took over the directorship. and the "wall street journal" has got an excellent article about his history with china when he was like the ethiopia and their involvement there and also effectively a lackadaisical reaction to the ebola crisis at the time. this is not the first problem that this man has had. remember, the w.h.o. is meant to help us stop these things and, yet, he was advocating and

arguing against closing our border. that stopping china from being able to move about the world was a mistake. if the president hadn't taken that action, who knows how many more thousands of lives or tens of thousands would have died. and then he criticized the president for action that now clearly was prescient at the time and incredibly important. 440 million last year american people this is good to know what we have been funding. the fact is it should be a good idea. this director is the problem and seems to be growing on him to remove or resign or pressure on him to be removed. steve: tammy, we have heard the administration's questioning whether or not this is really a wise use of taxpayer money. and we will find out soon enough whether or not they cut the cord on that. meanwhile, you just mentioned the "wall street journal." i was looking online because i have a lot of time in the house.

and i saw that you have written a great op-ed that is featured in the pages of "the washington times." and the headline is. >> thank you. steve: why humanity is worth saving and why we will all be okay. and you talk about how there are a lot of kind of one-off stories that we don't necessarily do on the news. >> that's right. steve: whether it's that or whether it's the instagram that people are posting. we are going to make it through this because humanity is alive and well in many different ways. >> yes. you know, we do look for these -- those good news stories. as though they are little nuggets to keep us from getting depressed if you will or to give us perspective. my point in the article and it gives three examples, is the fact that sometimes we hear about these good stories. but it's more than just about keeping us happy or at least giving us perspective every now and then. these are the examples of why we

will be okay. that it's the nature of the human condition, that it's our humanity that it is our generosity that is happening every day in every country and that even though we don't hear about them all the time, that is the common thread that tells us every time you hear people screaming out their window in praise of the medical workers in your city or if it's the police officer who hands a doctor who he stops for speeding his mask for protection because she needs them more than he does or a teacher who goes over to a student's house with a white board is social distancing teaching her on the porch with the problem that she was particularly having with math, these are happening every moment in every city. this is why we will be okay because it's our nature and we will get through this. brian: all right. tammy bruce, thank you so much. appreciate it. >> thanks for having me on.

stay safe. brian: you got it. meanwhile, we have 15 minutes before the top of the hour. someone say 14. let's go out to jillian mele who is prepared to deliver the news. jillian: good morning. we begin with this story we are following. she is accused of punching a cop but the judge is rejecting the woman's claim that she should be let out of jail because she is an essential worker. brandi is accused of hitting an nypd officer while the cop was arresting a robbery suspect in the bronx. her attorney claims she delivers medicine to sick people and should be set free. according to the "new york post" the judge didn't buy it holding her on $5,000 bail. after the incident another officer on the scene was sucker punched. that attacker was arrested a short time later. georgia senator kelly loeffler is selling all of her stocks. the senator has been criticized for making trades before the market crashed during the pandemic. her husband jeffrey also chairs the new york stock exchange, loeffler says she hopes this

will end a quote distraction. my family's investment accounts are being used as weapons for an assault on my character at a time when we should all be focused on making our country safe and strong. kansas lawmakers overturning the governor's executive order limiting to 10 people. lori kelly says the order is needed to flatten the curve in her state. >> what it does have is the ability to undermine and inject chaos into our statewide emergency response systems. the attorney general for kansas says the order limiting church services-likely violated the state constitution. a look at your headlines. ainsley: thank you so much, jillian. janice? janice: we are into severe weather season. the potential for severe weather not only today but for the next

several days. the good news is people are staying at home which is great, but just know what to do if there is a watch or warning in your area. last night we had severe weather across portions of the ohio, the tennessee and mississippi river valley. today we could see the threat for severe storms including the northeast and new york city where we could see the potential forever not only large hail but we could see wind gusts in excess of 40, 50 miles per hour. that's going to be a big deal we could see the threat for power outages you will along the big city's i-995 corridor as well as texas heading into this weekend easter sunday a large swath of the south and gulf coast. potentially damaging tornadoes. people need to be on alert. we will keep you up to date. steve, ainsley, brian, bark to you. steve: as you always do janice. thank you very much here in new jersey. the thunderstorms just moved into the south part of the state. meanwhile a dozen minutes before the top of the hour as many

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ainsley: as the coronavirus continues rapid suppress across the country dealing with uncertain future. what do business owners and entrepreneurs need to know to protect their companies? joining us now is entrepreneur and ceo of media gary vai. how are you. >> thank you. ainsley: we're doing well. i have a job. a lot of people are out there and they're worried and they don't. worried about paying their employees and that kind of thing, protecting their

business. start with the first one. maintain perspective. what do you mean by that? >> look, i mean the reality is that sometimes people put money over happiness and health that is ultimately a mistake that becomes a huge swirl. the reality is you can down size. you can sell your home and rent an apartment. perspective matters. this is life. it's long and the reality is nobody wants to lose financially. but it truly is better to be alive and not as as much money and keep perspective. ainsley: that's right. some people growing up we lived in a small house, shared a room, and it was such a great childhood so you are right. >> i'm sorry to interrupt but humility is powerful. i think some people need a little humility, keep going. ainsley: second one is focus on innovation. >> look. there is so much actual opportunity. i talked to somebody who was suing costumes fosewing costumeg

masks. people love capitalism and entrepreneurship when it's easy. when it's hard start crying. start instagram and tiktok. do things on youtube. can you change up your business. you can go on the offense. don't dwell on what you can't do. focus on what you can do. ainsley: you suggest businesses going social media in order to grow. >> yeah, look. there is so much going on right now. especially going live with your phone. some people can go live right now. if you are a real estate agent. if you are a restaurant owner, can you go live and just tell the story about who you are and why you went there. start little groups on social media. go on zoom and hold calls for 30, 40 people in the neighborhood. use your address book to send out links. there is so much offense right now digitally. you guys are doing an incredible job doing your show digitally because people are self-contained. can you do things. the reality though is people

would rather cry about things that are not in control of. instead of going on the offense of things that have always been there in front of their face. auto. ainsley: that's great advice. thank you so much. gary v. >> you are welcome. ainsley: still ahead we are joined by dr. oz and sarah sanders. stay with us. ...

steve: it is 8:00 in the east on this thursday, april 9, and we start this hour once again with

a fox news alert. u.s. coronavirus cases topping 432000 overnight, nearly 15,000 people have died. in new york state, they recorded their worst day yet, deadliest day yet, 779 deaths in just one day, ainsley? ainsley: vice president mike pence giving a glimmer of hope saying that there are some signs of stabilization in the hardest hit state but americans must continue following task force guidelines like social distancing brian. brian: yeah, absolutely. so mike pence making that clear yesterday, to follow those guidelines. the cdc now releasing those guidelines for essential employees including checking their temperature every day, before clocking in, and wearing face factses at all times i wouldn't blame them because some of them might be reluctant to do it but as essential workers you want to know the person next to you is not carrying the virus that might be the best way, so

that's going to be important. meanwhile, let's bring in dr. oz now from the dr. oz show. dr. oz always great to see you. there's a lot to discuss today. first things first. can we talk about the politicization of hydroxychloroquine? do you see politics playing a role in the fact that we don't have results of a lot of these studies and that some are not using it? >> politics is definitely playing a role. thirty years ago when i was doing medical training the one lesson we were all taught was to ask brave questions and then we have to fight for answers and treat patients according to what we believe independent of any political leaders belief and i get that the pundits and writers get worked up about the politics of this but it chills the debate doctors are supposed to have. i see people saying things or holding off on saying things i wouldn't have expected before this and that complicates the way doctors and patients talk to each other and i don't think it serves the public because they are already

confused, desperately in need of help and no one actually has all of the answers. we're supposed to talk about it and figure it out so i want to plea to media let's not pervert the process, let doctors deal with the issues and be humble about these solutions because no one has the magic ball yet we're all looking for the same answers steve: sure, absolutely and dr. oz i was out for my morning walk with my friend tony, he walks on the other side of the street and we talk about everything that's going on and while so much is unknown about hydroxychloroquine, they haven't done, they haven't finished the clinical trials yet but let's say ultimately, it shows up that let's say 80% effective in some patients. isn't that something people should be be thinking about? >> without question, and we got to figure out, for example, which patients benefit the most, you give it early, do you give it late, do you combine it with

the zithrymycin, or a different antibiotic, is what they did in china, there's so many questions we need to answer and we're back here fighting off folks arguing about the safety of the medication. we know you should get an ekg, although most people when they get a z-pack don't get an ekg, but i respect these and i've advocated for them, but to get people scared that it's too dangerous to even try just because you don't like that a political leader says one thing or the other, it undermines the fundamental process of the doctor talking to the patient. ainsley: yeah, that politician, she said it saved her life. she thought she was going to die and the alternative was take this medicine, so it just makes sense for someone to take it if they think they are going to die i don't understand why it's so political but anyway -- >> can i ask one question? ainsley: yes. >> if it had never been brought up at a white house briefing,

this medication, would people still feel the same way about it that's the fundamental question we should be asking because the ideas around this existed before it was brought up, at a public forum and i think that's the ultimate stress test whether your argument is rational and appropriate and helpful or not. ainsley: well the attorney general bill barr was on with laura last night and he comment ed on this. listen. >> it's really disappointing to see and the politicization of decisions like hydroxychloroquine has been amazing to me. before the president said anything about it, there was fair and balanced coverage of this very promising drug and the fact that it had such a long track record, that the risks were pretty well known, and as soon as he said something positive about it the media has been on discrediting the drug, it's quite strange. ainsley: dr. oz what do you think about what he said? >> well, i think it's a pretty

accurate reflection of the arguments around it. i still think the fundamentals of the medication remain the same. it has not been proven in a double-blind randomized trial but it's the best we got, i personally believe. that stated i'd love to have the continued debate but it can't exist in a warrior mentality where you think you're in a colosseum and folks are trying to discredit every idea on both sides by the way. brian: let's move on to something else because we want to stay on the cutting-edge of cures and vaccines. pfizer has now been identified as the lead when it comes to the coronavirus treatment. tell me what they have. >> well, there are a lot of different ideas out there. the nice things about these anti -virals being released is they get to pinpoint the exact process by which there's a covid propagates inside of yourself, and so our hope is that some of these dozens of good ideas will yield benefits and there's also i should just point out, some of these vaccine companies have jump started the process dramatically. i saw a report from israel last

night that ideas that were used for completely different illness es but still focused on the coronavirus family can now allow researchers to save a year or more of time, so that really moves forward the planning for the vaccine which is the ultimate solution. steve: absolutely. meanwhile, you know, there is some talk apparently the president is going to unveil shortly a new second coronavirus task force, this one trying to reopen the government, unclear whether it's going to be suddenly, or over time, dr. oz , but they are talking about how to get people back to work, who are essential employee s, particularly on the frontlines, because we have a surgeon general on just about an hour ago who said this. >> what you saw in new york city and in other places is if they were losing 20, 25% of their workforce and you can't have that with health care workers, with police officers, with firemen, so we looked at the data and we had cdc actually determine if it be safe for these people to go back to

work and they said we feel it's safe to go back to work in these essential businesses if you take your temperature, if you wear a face mask at all times and still practice social distancing and this just applies to essential workers because if everyone floods back to work it's going to be impossible to social distance so, social distancing is still the most important thing. steve: and social distancing, dr. oz, ultimately is what has appears to be flattening the curve, sounds like we're going to get to the peak on easter. it's working, and people need to keep working, especially when we start to go down the other side because people are going to complain, shows over, i'm going to go back to doing stuff with people, i'm going to go do those things that now we know have continued the spread. >> you know the treatment plan has worked, right? that's fantastic. it's like an operation, but here is the deal. you don't discharge a patient home from the operating room. you have to go to recovery first

so we need to recover, so what the attorney general said is a very wise step especially for some of the big urban areas but we need a much more robust process where we can test. we have to make it easier for folks to do the right thing, get them tested and identify people in trouble, let them crutch on us. we got to help them quarantine themselves and this is really important. we've got to contain the infections by identifying folks they have been in contact with. if you've been closer than six feet to someone for more than 10 minutes and they get sick you have to assume you're contaminated, so don't do that, don't come close for more than 10 minutes or be prepared to quarantine yourself if they're diagnosed with covid-19. that's how we'll stop this down, keeping it as a brush fire rather than a forest fire that for example, is raging in new york city today. ainsley: dr. oz if you look at the predictions, they've been scaled back which is great news, the estimated death toll from corona was lowered from 82000 and now they say it's 60,000 and

the estimated number of fatalit ies over the next four months has been scaled back to 26%. why? >> social distancing made a big difference but here is the thing when the rapid increase of cases and icu admissions started, everyone began to extrapolate from that where we were going to end up and this was like a rocket going into space. with social distancing thankful ly, there's been a dramatic slowing of that and now all of a sudden we realize there's rockets not even getting into orbit. these numbers we're looking at, every lost life is a tragedy i've seen them myself. many people watching have lost loved ones because of horrible illness but the numbers are much more acceptable to the average american than the ones we were initially considering when we were talking about the 2 million people losing their lives this year. this means the plans for treatment is effective but we don't want to be back in three months shutting down the country and we need a plan b besides pulling the emergency brake. that's what we had to do out of desperation. we want to do better next time

and make it easier. brian: it looks like there might be a second wave at a different city in china but of course we can't get the complete story on that. let's go out to jeffrey. he wrote an e-mail. i'll read some of it. he said i'd like to know how smokers are effected by the virus statistically, are they higher percentage of the deaths? that answer is yes, correct? >> without question, in fact, just recent data on this three times an increased rate of going to the icu, which is a dangerous place to be if you have this virus, and for that reason, i'd strongly encourage folks who have risk factors they can modify and they aren't that many the fact that men have more than women you can't change that but you can definitely change if you smoke. i put right in there just because we haven't studied it doesn't mean it doesn't exist but if you are tripling the chance of ending up in the icu with this illness, it's not good for you anyway. this is the perfect opportunity while you're social distancing to cut the cigarettes out.

brian: go quit. steve: meanwhile we've got an e-mail from tammy who says i was terribly sick in the month of february with something that i believe could be or was covid-19. if you were sick that long ago, would you still be able to be tested for anti antibodies so that ultimately, dr. oz, she would know whether or not she had been exposed to it. >> it's the perfect time to check for antibodies because you're not going to be infectious any more so you're not going to find virus with a nasal swab. you need a finger pick, a tiny needle in your finger tip and a little drop of blood and by the way, there are a lot of people who got the virus in february and didn't realize it, because the symptoms were a typical. sometimes they get intestinal problems or sometimes a little bit of fatigue, so we really want to check pretty widely to figure out how many people truly have been exposed. i suspect it could be twice as many as we currently think have got the virus. ainsley: dr. oz i heard a friend

say i think my husband had this back in november. i swear he had it back in november. and i said well the first case was in china in december, so that couldn't be possible, right >> i don't think they had it here in november. it would have spread but i do believe there may be cases earlier than december 1. they probably started i believe in some time in late november, around thanksgiving so that's a guess. there wasn't really an awareness widely there was an issue until towards the end of december. i don't think there were cases here before january. ainsley: well there's another question from bruce on facebook. he says is there a reason to wear a mask outside when walking even though there's no one else around? that's a good question. >> if there's truly no one around, then you don't have to wear a mask but just be aware of the reality that when people cough or sneeze, when they talk with a lot of use of their tongue they spread saliva in the air and that cloud of saliva

can stay there for a few minutes so someone walked by there five minutes ago it's theoretically possible, and personally if i was outside and sure no one was around i would take my mask off. brian: and dr. oz, good news for pfizer, and get politics out of all of these medicines and cures, we have no room for it. dr. oz, thanks so much. ainsley: thank you, dr. oz. >> bless you all. ainsley: you too. brian: jillian i've been keeping stats this is my third talk to you and the shows not even over yet. jillian: this could happen again how exciting would that be? brian: it could happen. great. jillian: stay tuned to find out in the meantime, let's start your headlines with this fox news alert. i.c.e. is claiming responsibility for a rocket attack on american troops in afghanistan overnight. five rockets were fired at our military's largest in the country. no troops were hurt. afghan officials say the rockets were fired from a truck parked several miles from the base. >> a sailor on the hospital ship

usns mercy testing positive for covid-19. right now the crew member is isolated on board, but will soon be transferred off the vessel. the navy says the case will not effect the mercy's mission. the ship is treating non- coronavirus patients from los angeles area hospitals. >> and an amazing show of solidarity first responders in pennsylvania honoring the healthcare workers on the frontlines. >> [applause] that's beautiful. police officers, firefighters and ems workers lining the entrance of bryn mawr hospital, cheering workers leaving the hospital. for more inspiring stories visit foxnews.com/americatogether and you can check out different ways to help if you'd like. guys? steve: plenty to do. jillian thank you very much. meanwhile, the breaking political news yesterday, bernie sanders out of the race for

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>> i hope to be able to work with joe to move him in a more progressive direction, and in order to defeat trump he's going to have to bring new people into his political world and then have to listen to their needs, young people working people. steve: they've got one-time

democratic front runner bernie sanders dropping out of the race , apparently yesterday, but he's still vowing to influence his party by staying on the ballot. here is reaction former white house press secretary and fox news contributor, sarah sanders. sarah what is bernie doing exactly? you know he's staying on the ballot. he's keeping his delegate. what's he up to? >> look i think bernie sanders has this illusion that he can move his party further to the left. the reality is joe biden has already done that. he's already adopted a lot of bernie far left extremist views, and the democrat party has moved to the left. the contrast right now is between joe biden and donald trump. that is the choice americans have to make and i think that there's no question that they are going to move towards donald trump, particularly if you look at what's happening right now. you have president trump who is taking strong actions that are saving lives and american jobs, while you have joe biden who is

misleading and dividing the american people. there's no wonder that the polls are all showing that people trust the president more to handle the coronavirus and the economy, they want a strong leader, not a tired career politician like joe biden and they have that in donald trump. steve: well you know, over the last month, the whole political world has changed, because the politicians can't be out and about. i mean, people don't want to go out into an arena or a rope line to meet a candidate any more, because you know, it's just too dangerous to your personal health as we have heard the public health officials say, so joe biden is skypeing from his basement and then you've got the president every afternoon, like clock work, in the 5:00 or 6:00 hour takes the podium and he gives america an update on what the administration is doing some types it runs an hour, sometimes it runs two hours, how effective is this? >> i think that the polling is

showing that it's very effective look at the end of the day, the liberal media is never going to give the president a fair shake. they're just not so he's going around them which drives them even crazier than a normal day in the trump white house and he's speaking directly to the american people. he's providing them with information and updates that is crucial to every day life right now in america, and he's showing what a leader looks like, and in contrast, you have joe biden hiding in his basement bunker, who looks like he's not even sure he's running for president some days. i think that the contrast is working very well for the president and he should continue doing exactly what he does best and that's going straight to the american people and delivering his message himself right there, every afternoon. steve: yeah, you know we're going to get the weekly jobless numbers here in about eight minutes, it's not going to be good because so many people have been furloughed or laid off or things like that, but when you look at what the administration is doing, you know, there's a

story in the washington post today about how apparently a sickened coronavirus task force is about to be launched it sounds like mark meadows might actually head it up and it's a combination of administration officials and people from the business world have tried to figure out how to open america back up for business, and you know, the business world would like to get cracking, but at the same time, you've got the health people saying that we've got to take this slow or you're going to have a spike and we'll be back in the rabbit hole. >> look, i think so far the president has done exactly the right thing. he's been making decisions based on the data in front of him and taking information from the healthcare profession ats like dr. fauci and dr. birx as well as economic advisors, and one of the things that i learned from watching the president is he is masterful at taking in a lot of information from a lot of different places and making a decision. i think that's what's made him a good and effective leader particularly during this time of

crisis. we're seeing do that every day and i think we're going to continue to see him do that and make the best decisions possible to protect the american lives but also protect the american economy. he's done a good job of that and i think he'll continue to take in that information from both sides and make good decisions. steve: all right, sarah thank you very much for joining us on this thursday. >> you bet, thank you, steve. steve: all right, you bet. meanwhile, as i just mentioned a moment ago the weekly jobless claims will come out in about five and a half minutes we'll have the numbers for you, plus the restaurant industry has already lost more than 3 million jobs. john taffer from bar rescue says it'll never be the same in america's dining establishment. he will explain, coming up, next

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ainsley: more than one-third of the world's airplane fleet is now grounded in the wake of this pandemic. steve: it is ainsley and with air travel at a virtual stand still, thousands of airplanes are being left in storage. brian: okay, that's not good. jeff flock from fox business is live at o'hare airport in chicago with how airlines are trying to maintain these jets. jeff? reporter: something you don't normally see , brian. take a look over my shoulder here. these are united airlines 777, there's a dozen of them we leave out there that have been parked they're not flying at all. the latest numbers you said one- third, ainsley, it's now almost a half of all of the planes in the world that are now parked and not flying. about 10,000-plus planes, and different strategies from different airlines as to what they're doing with them.

united is keeping its aircraft at a hub airport, but many of the other aircraft take a look at some pictures, arizona, oklahoma, california, they're trying to put them in warmer climates so that they weather this better, they don't get the kind of corrosion they are going to get , some airlines believe they won't even ever get some of these planes back in the air again, because they will be less demand once we get the economy going again, they figure less demand, maybe some of the older aircraft will never fly again. seeing that you don't typically see , and boy, i hope we don't see it forever. there you go. ainsley: jeff, they're getting bailout money though right because if one of these airlines or many of them don't come back to work, what would that do for our economy? reporter: i tell you, you think of different pieces of the economy that will recover better. airlines i've got to believe airlines is going to be one of the ones that is slowest.

people reluctant to get on plane s and now we know how to communicate without being face to face, so maybe some of that air travel, that business air travel goes away forever. ainsley: well jeff, thank you so much for that report. reporter: thank, ainsleyment ainsley: it is 8:31 on the east coast and that means we've just got the jobs report, the weekly jobs claim. it climbed to 6.61 million, as the economy reels over this coronavirus crisis, steve. steve: that's right, ainsley that is in the range, economists predicted between 5.2 and 7 million, so 6.61 million. the total now is probably getting close to north of 15 million. no end in sight as many states are still clearing outback logs of applications for unemployment aid, and brian , the problem they're having at the state level is in

many cases there have been cut backs, at the state unemployment and departments of labor, staff shortages, and they've got in many cases, aunt equated equipment so you've got this surge of people applying but they simply can't get through to apply. brian: yeah, the money is there , but they do not have the operations or the software to be able to process everything quickly. obviously we need it yesterday. the new numbers adds up to jobless basically unemployment around 10%. let's bring in jon taffer if you want to know what's going on on the ground level, the host of bar rescue has done more than just about anybody else as well as our own successful businessman in his own right. jon, when people see these jobless claims they see numbers. you see people. >> i do, brian and i see 40% of those people being in the

restaurants industry and it's devastating when we start to see how do we come back from this and get these people back reemployed? it's a huge challenge particularly for the restaurant industry. things aren't the same when this is over. ainsley: you know, jon, what are you hearing from these individuals who open this researcher rant? i have several friends who have restaurants and one was crying over the phone they had to close another one not only are they trying to feed their employees and balance their employees, she's trying to teach her three children at home on zoom and you know they are all different ages it's extremely stressful and she's doing all their laundry cleaning the house and husband's and wives are fighting with each other. what are you hearing? >> well the restaurant industry is in big trouble ainsley. they are getting compensation now for employees, rent, and utilities, of course through the government programs, but there is no provision of opening yet and for example, when a restaurant opens they will have to spread their seating to create more social distancing within the restaurant. ainsley that will drop capacity

of that restaurant even 60% based upon the floor plan. so they have a much smaller restaurant to deal with now in size, so they are going to hire less employees, because they have less customers. so that's what scares me and the restaurant industry, they can't reopen without inventory, and there's no government program right now to facilitate inventory because all of the refrigerators are empty. if they don't fill those refrigerators and 40% of these restaurants don't open farmers don't get those orders, food manufacture, distributors don't get those orders. there's a real supply chain in impact if these restaurants don't reopen. steve: i was hearing this morning, jon a story about how pork prices are plummeting for pork producers because two-thirds of america's bacon is sold by restaurants, and so

there's actually a bacon buildup and the prices are dropping and that's terrible for the farmers but that's just the way it is right now. you talked a little bit about how when people in the future, when america reopens and they go inside the restaurant rather than just picking up takeout, and the chairs will have to be further apart, and you know, you'll have to start things earlier, you say, but also at the same time, if i'm going to go into a place to go out for dinner, with my family, i want to know, jon that what they're doing to prepare the food and to have the food servers, i want to make sure that they are doing things that are safe so i don't get sick. >> you know it's interesting, brian. that's a complete change in the decision-making to go to a restaurant. maybe you'd go out with your family months ago, pre-pandemic and go to the place that has the best burger. now, post-pandemic, you're going to find the place that has the safety, the place you trust the most. the burger might not be as good but you trust the environment,

so the restaurant industry going forward isn't about what we're doing. it's about how we're doing it and that's a huge change in the way people do business. it's going to be all about responsibility. brian, i think the number one objective of any business coming out of this pandemic is one simple word. trust. if we don't make the consumer trust in our processes, procedures, our testing of employees, if they don't trust that environment is safe we're in trouble and restaurants with food handling have to really get to that and communicate differently. they have to communicate that we are safe. maybe put an internet in the kitchen so people can see how safe it is but we have to be safe and transparent about it. brian: absolutely you said it's going to be like surgery. that's what kitchens going to look like now and that's great advice. other thing is if you're trying to help out small business which restaurants are don't make them take 75% of that grant money and put it towards employees many of which don't want those jobs back because they are better off on

unemployment, let them pay their rent and let them somehow survive and keep the lights on and maintenance their equipment so they got to be flexible when they go into these banks and get these grants the money that we set aside as taxpayers to keep the restaurants alive. jonathantaffer, thanks so much. >> good to see you, brian. brian: bar rescue is keeping our family going, they are so entertaining and industry, and watching on television. straight ahead our military is helping hospitals in new york city treat patients right in the epicenter of this crisis, the pandemic. we're going to get an update from the general in charge of northern command, that is next. more than ever, your home is your sanctuary. that's why lincoln offers you the ability to purchase a new vehicle remotely with participating dealers. an effortless transaction-all without leaving the comfort- and safety-of your home. thats the power of sanctuary.

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brian: a fox news alert while most of the country's attention is on on the coronavirus pandemic, the defense department is working hard to keep our

nation safe from other adversar ies, and after entering the alaskan air defense identification zone, didn't know this when i got up this morning that mission was under the command of four star general terrence o'shaughnessey, and he joins us right now. general what can you tell us about this? >> well we're ready 24/7, 365 even during the covid crisis and we. >> liz: two il-38s a russian maritime patrol aircraft and we launchedf-22, the kc 135 tanker, which is our command and control aircraft and we intercepted that for the identification zone and escorted them in and they ended up about 50 miles away, and that's part of our mission assurance ensuring that even this covid-19 crisis our crews are ready and our command and control is ready, doesn't matter where it is, we're going to be able to defend our great country brian: so listen we know that they're dealing with the coronavirus too. they don't want to tell us

exactly how bad that situation is, but what do you think, what are they up to? why would they go ahead and take that risk of breaching our air space? >> well, i think what they do is they just wanted to see what if we be able to react are we prepared, are we impacted by the virus or do we have any vulnerability, about three weeks ago they did it as well when we were doing with our submarines they sent aircraft there and so we don't have any vulnerabilities. we're prepared. we're postured and made sure they do that. brian: tell us about the usns comfort. how many patients are you able to have, how are you interacting from new york harbor to the javits center to the area hospitals and the epicenter of this crisis? >> well our three-prong attack approach here is really working out well. we have the comfort for our high end care, the javits center for that medium well-rounded care and also pushed doctors forward, so to give you a quick example of that of how close we tied in we are to the system.

yesterday, we had a call come out that one of the hospitals had a problem with their oxygen system. they had 18 patients on oxygen, on ventilators, and they needed quick assistance to bring them somewhere else. we were able to take 37 of our d ocs and nurses and put them into a convoy of 10 ambulances and picked up those patients brought 10 of them right to the comfort, eight to other hospital s, and but just our ability to be able to respond rapidly, have the right ppe on, right, the right gear because these are covid-19 patients, able to respond so quickly, saved lives. brian: wow that's great so you had about 50 on the ship. just under 150 at the javits center, with the number of hospitalizations going down, do you think your numbers will go down or up? >> well, i think we hope that they will go down, it's 60 right now in the comfort, 172 in the javits center, and in our perfect world we're actually going to decrease that but we're ready if it's not and then we're going to leap frog into other areas we have the capability

going into new jersey, connecticut, massachusetts, other areas in our nation that need this capability, so as soon as new york plateaus off if we're not needed there then we're going to bring that capability where it's needed across our nation. brian: general, i've got to ask you there's a story in the london times that if something was to be incapacitated with the president and vice president whether it's something that happens with boris johnson and he has to go to the icu, did you take over? is that true? >> no, i think those stories were exaggerated. what we are a part of is we make sure for continuity of government we make sure that the folks get to the right place at the right time. we provide the protection for them. we make sure we never get to that situation, but we are part of the continuity of government but not in the sense that you described. brian: wow, it's hard to imagine somebody with a plate as full as yours and with as much responsibility is on your shoulders general thanks so

much for the time that you gave us and our viewers, appreciate it. >> thank you, brian and best wishes to all of the folks out there, those healthcare workers. they need america to know that we've behind them, they are on the frontline and we're right behind them. brian: and you're bringing medical professionals into the hospitals as well as into our facilities and thanks to much general and best to everybody working for us, wearing the camouflage. meanwhile let's go out to janice dean who joins us via skype. hey, janice. >> janice: hi, brian i want to make sure that everyone knows we could have a severe weather outbreak over the next couple of days including easter sunday. we had torn reports yesterday across portions of the ohio and tennessee and mississippi river valley, hundreds of reports of hail and damaging winds and some of that has the potential to get into the new york city area, and we have tents in central park right now where healthcare workers are helping patients with covid-19, so people need to be on alert if you're outdoors,

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ainsley: good morning back with a fox news alert, 6.6 million americans have filed jobless claims last week as the economy reels over the coronavirus crisis. last week reports were also revised going from 6.6 million up to 6.8 million. nearly 17 million people have filed for unemployment in the last three weeks combined. ainsley? ainsley: all right, thank you. u.s. surgeon general jerome adams joining us earlier this morning detailing the administrations efforts to contain the coronavirus. here is what he says. >> we want to see cases start to come down for ideally two weeks, and then once that happens we want to make sure we have a public health infrastructure in place so we

can follow-up on positive tests, and isolate case could be text. once we feel comfortable we can do that, we can start reopening in places that have flattened their curve and have a low lying level of cases because we have confidence that one case won't turn into 10, 100, 1,000. ainsley: so here to discuss is fox news medical contributor dr. mark siegel. good morning, dr. siegel. >> good morning, ainsley how are you? ainsley: good morning, i'm great , thank you. so do you agree with him? if he says cases come down in two weeks, after two week, then we can start to reopen. they're saying the peak is on easter which is sunday. so two weeks after that puts us at the end of april. do you think we'll start seeing things open in may? >> hopefully, but i'll tell you what he said that i'm most interested in, and it's related to this. it's that he talked about increasing testing and i've said from the beginning for weeks now , that we can just test those who were exposed, those who have symptoms, and those who are recovering, we can so much better control this and

figure out who gets back to work and what we can reopen and we can reopen places where we know everybody in that place has antibodies. now that's not a perfect example , because you may not know how strong those antibodies are and in some cases we're see ing weak antibodies after you get over it but you get the idea ainsley and he also said that cdc guidelines are saying that certain essential workers can go back to work even after being exposed to covid-19. i'm okay with those guidelines but i would also wish that people like bank workers, that the police, that health care workers of course across-the-board, transit workers could be tested after they've had exposure. can you imagine you're a transit worker going back on a transit line? well i want you tested. that's the key is getting the rapid testing in place. ainsley: what are your recommendations for the non- essential workers? do you think they will go back soon too? >> well that's a really important question, and the answer is not until we can

be assured that they haven't had , well so i can ask them, have you had any exposure. how close is your exposure? it's not just guidelines. everyone out there needs to know it's not just guidelines. it's how they're applied. did you have an exposure, what was your exposure and let's also keep in mind this is often asymptomatic so if that's the biggest problem, people can be passing this without knowing it, and answer to your question, yes non-essential workers can go back once we have the rapid testing and we're using it across-the-board. ainsley: how do you know if you've been exposed? i thought this wasn't airborne but i saw something where it showed a grocery store if you sneeze in one aisle it travels to the next aisle. >> you know and that's a really good point. it's not airborne but the respiratory droplets can hang in the air for a while and as you just said they travel and we're using the six foot rule but in fact coughs and sneezes can travel beyond six feet, and so you don't know if you've been exposed and you don't even know if you have it asymptomatically which is why we're adding masks to the equation.

masks are so that if you have it , you're less likely to spread it. again, rapid testing is going to help us test everyone who has it and everyone around them and then we'll have much more comfort because that's the problem ainsley people may have it and spread it and it goes to high risk groups without them knowing it. ainsley: we need rapid tests rapidly. thanks so much dr. siegel we'll see you tomorrow. more fox & friends moments away. (announcer) carvana's had a lot of firsts. 100% online car buying. car vending machines. and now, putting you in control of your financing. at carvana, get personalized terms, browse for cars that fit your budget, then customize your down payment and monthly payment. and these aren't made-up numbers. it's what you'll really pay, right down to the penny. whether you're shopping or just looking.

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series. >> sandra: fox news alert, on a key model forecasting far fewer deaths from coronavirus than earlier estimates. social distancing appears to be working and could save lives across country. good thursday morning everyone, and sandra smith. >> ed: and a very pleasant good morning to you, sandra, i met henry. the u.s. reporting with 400,000 cases and more than 14,000 deaths. bad news on the economic front, 6.6 million more americans filing for it unemployment claims which means about 10% of the u.s. labor force is now out of work.