>> tucker: amazing. thank you so much. that's all the time we have throughout the week. have a very happy easter. if you are in isolation, we hope you are with the ones you love. bill hemmer is next. we'll see you monday. ♪ >> bill: it is 9:00 p.m. here in new york city, the epicenter of the covid-19 epidemic in the united states and i'm bill hemmer reporting live for the next hour. sean took a day off and in the spirit of easter, he is forgiven. here is where we stand as of tonight. breaking earlier, the president creating a white house task force developing how and when we restart our economy. this is a death tall, more than 100,000 dead worldwide, in the united states the death toll is more than 18,000. in the california, that is where we begin tonight with our chief

breaking news correspondent trace gallagher. >> during the coronavirus task force briefing, noted how california is an example to flatten the curve and bend the curve. for more than the week, the number of new infections and deaths in california have been very steady. when it comes to patients being admitted into icus which is a key parameter on curve flattening, california is seeing numbers come down. here is the state's hhs secretary. >> our peak may not be as high as we actually planned around and expected and the difference between what we are seeing today in our hospitals may not be that much different than where we are going to peek in the many weeks to come. >> but still, los angeles county extended its stay-at-home mandate until may 15th. a great deal of focus on the number of total cases in the total number of deaths, but when

it comes to flattening the curve, what's most important is the percentage increase in the number of cases. from april 6th to 7th, we had a 9% increase in cases across the country. from the seventh to the eighth, it dropped to 8.5% and then to 8.1% the next day. today we are down to 7.8%. so fewer people getting sick is exactly the right direction. i also want to point out some potential hot spots in coming days that include delaware, south dakota, maryland, rhode island and pennsylvania. but just as importantly, the dire situations in new orleans and detroit appear to be stabilizing. bottom line, friday night, bill, we have more good news than bad. >> bill: good to see you. trace gallagher in l.a., thank you. testing will likely play a critical role in the coming weeks ahead. the host of the doctor oz show, good evening to you yet again, doc. >> good evening to you.

>> bill: how much consideration have you given to how we reopen parts of the country? >> i have been thinking about it a lot because we have to do it in a medically sound way. come out of the operating room you don't get discharged home. effectively be a major surgery, where we pulled the emergency brake, you want to be in the recovery room. first off testing, absolutely essential. we spoke to abbott the last 24 hours, making a million of the test every week, that takes six hours to figure out if you had an infection with the covid-19 virus. they are making 50,000 a day of the kids that the text within 5 minutes if you've been infected. those advances, kudos to them, hugely beneficial. once we know who is sick we can begin to do part two which is to make sure they are quarantined, separated, given the help they need so they don't infect people at home and people they know they were close to, i defined close to more than 10 minutes, less than 6 feet away from

somebody, you were to close, that means. and the final little bit, we were talking about it, with those numbers coming down is we have to make the hospital system comfortable so we can accommodate people who get sick just in case you have errors that occur, you can still accommodate the sick. >> bill: breaking news a bit ahead of you earlier, a study in france with hydroxychloroquine, and about a thousand french people, what did they tell you about their conclusions on that, doc? >> the world famous infectious disease specialist who works in marseilles met with the french president for three and a half hours and the data that he reviewed was about the first 1,061 patients, they had a 96% success rate of getting rid of the virus within ten days. these patients are not infectious anymore, and a combination of hydroxychloroquine which is a malaria drug together with azithromycin which is the z-pak.

also showed there wasn't a lot of complications using those drugs together. vitally critical because the side effects are meaningful, then you'll be cautious because you don't know for sure the benefits are going to be there. i've got to say breaking news an hour ago, 950,000 patients that concluded the use of this drug hydroxychloroquine was safe, multicenter study reinforced what people have been seeing for a long time which this drug has been around since 1955 and does not have your profile that concerns people, already use for 300,000 lupus patients every year. these doctors did warn that when combined with other medication, antibiotics, azithromycin, you want an ekg to be more cautious. looks like the drug is safe. not sure to be safe, but increasing data from france and china makes me comfortable that what most doctors are doing is reasonable which is talk to your patient about it if it makes sense and people who are not that sick yet but not completely healthy, that middle ground may be benefited. >> bill: very interesting. we will keep an eye on that but i will speak with a modeling

expert from the university of washington. how good are the models when you consider the virus is adapting, moving, changing, how much stock to be put into those, doctor? >> the models are the best we've got to go with. obviously they are a little bit more malleable than you wish because we can rapidly change, a vital magnitude of what our expectations are. i'm pretty confident we would've had a much worse outcome if we didn't shut the country down. the variable that come into play whether you can actually test and assess how widely the virus is. in new york we missed the boat because it spread so much further than we anticipated because we had no data. california as you pointed out got ahead of their little head of time, but because of the nature of california it wasn't easy to spread. subways aren't there, elevators, places that really cause problems in new york. the models help us to predict what's going to happen in 24 days because that's how long it took us to get ahead of this. in the math, that's how long it took in wuhan, china, for it to

work. that model, otherwise you are without completely without guidance. we when we lost a staggering 777 people yesterday. fourth day in a row we've been up over 700 per day. hospitalization however is down. the icu number is down significantly. has new york been as a city or state, are we on the backside of this, do you think? >> can't quite say that yet but we may have to wait until easter day or the day after, going to be that range. on the ground talking to colleagues running icus and on the front lines, it doesn't feel lighter yet. because we aren't getting less patients, just less people in the icu nets because some are being discharged, but the number of people who are ill and some leading breathing tubes is relatively consistent. my hope is once we reach the stable point where we'd seem to be at right now, we'll slide down the slope and it's much easier skiing downhill than uphill. >> bill: when you speak to doctors and you find out how

much damage being done to the lungs in the human body, what does that tell you about the virus? >> this virus is different. first of all, it's more contentious than any we've ever seen but it's more different than we expected. it doesn't make the lungs wet and boggy like a wet sponge might be. it has a remarkably destructive effect in a dry bog. doctors are struggling with the best way to use ventilators for example. maybe don't use as much pressure as historically you would use. doctors are calling audibles continuously continually. your member number governor cuomo, sounds like a doctor because he speaks so much about the health issues of the state, but governor cuomo spoke about an 80% mortality rate with ventilators early on. my fatality rate is more like 50% which reflective of the fact that physicians have got much better at treating these problems. that's still not great because we can do better i think i'm hopeful that with new insights with the dry pneumonia that's happening with these patients, we'll figure out even more

innovative ways getting folks through there. the number one issue not getting infected, the number two issue is figuring out ways of slowing that infection down so less people get that bill. get back to the earlier pressure about what we do about this when we come out of this inmate? the older members of our society who have comorbidities, that's almost where all the deaths are, they have to be especially cautious where they are for about a year, that's where it really hurts. >> bill: the surgeon general said earlier we will test one in 150 americans. he said we are not going to test all 330 million americans, i'm certain you are aware of that. dr. fauci was asked about this immunity card. he did not dismiss it. is that the way we are going in america is to carry an immunity card that says you know longer have it or you will not get it, doc? >> dr. fauci was very guarded when he answered that question. actually listen to what he was saying, i think he's right.

it's not the obvious step to take. other countries are doing that. a lot of people have already been infected, maybe it makes sense to keep track, but most people will do the right thing if they are infected or not. the bigger question is finding people who are currently infected, not the ones who got infected last month, although it's good to know that because you can start to put into can safely go to work and whether we can get herd immunity. but herd immunity takes place at 65%-70% of the population minimum, and much more ideally to truly be able to protect everybody, so i'm more focused not on the antibody test, though it to be good to have, but on the nasal test, the test of the actual virus itself. that is essential. and that is the one major gap that we have been living through, because without that, you do not have our eyes on this target. you cannot figure out how to make decisions and it's not fail fair to our leadership at any level if we don't give them guidance appeared we also need an active health service to not contaminate everyone they meet going home. >> bill: you'll need it, back

at it again this week. nice to see you tonight. jonathan serrie was in atlanta today reporting outside the cdc. >> bail, we are nearing the end of what federal health officials knew would be a difficult week for the number of covid-19 deaths. this is the delayed result of the large numbers of people admitted to hospital icus in new york over the past two weeks. >> understand intellectually why it's happening, doesn't make it any easier to accept. >> new york governor andrew cuomo urging congress to create a heroes fund to compensate hospital employees and other frontline workers in the pandemic response. everyday americans embracing social distancing are reducing the numbers of new cases nationwide. >> you can see for the first time in the united states we are starting to level on the logarithmic phase, like italy did about a week ago. >> in a moment of levity for the

children of mary linda, governor larry hogan issued a proclamation declaring the easter bunny and essential worker as we go into the holiday weekend, officials are urging families to celebrate by themselves in their own home to help america continue to reduce the spread. build? >> bill: like that message. thank you, jonathan serrie, in atlanta. a key model showing signs of improvement as the death toll has been revised down multiple times. the professor behind the model is dr. allie mcdowell doctor, welcome back. nice to see you again. we spoke earlier in the week. thank you for coming back here. why did the model change so dramatically from monday to wednesday? it was all good news, but why did that happen? >> we have seen the news behind the peak went higher and down faster and it lamented the new data included them in our model. we have seen better practices at

our hospitals when it comes to the need for icus and ventilators. our physicians are doing a better job of triaging patients and we are seeing positive news, the climbing number of deaths reducing demand in our facilities. >> bill: so many of us go to your website and check out your information. we planets are critical to our understanding, as i know you are well aware. what is the state of play in america tonight as you look at your model? >> when i look at our models tonight, the worst is behind us as a country, so we are going to go down from now on in terms of mortality. some states will have to peek a little bit later. but california, my state, new york are going to go down in terms of the numbers of mortality. so it's very positive as we move forward, the worst is behind us for a country. for some states it'll take a week or so. >> bill: i want to get this right, you said twice the worst is behind us.

is this the first time you have felt that way or did you feel that earlier this week. >> no, this is the first time that our data is showing the mortality will be declining from now on and the peak occurred yesterday and it'll go down from now on. >> bill: wow. on this good friday, that's good news. >> it's very good news for all of us and it's time for all of us to start thinking about recovery and how we can bring our economy back. >> bill: that's the next part of my question because, you and i were going back and forth the other day and you said, listen, i've got family and friends who are suffering too, respected them as well, you are doing a new model next week that'll break down different parts of the country that'll tell you who and where you can reopen the economy and where it's best to keep it closed for the moment. can we understand, can you explain how that will work, doctor? >> so we are looking at different scenarios of modeling that we will release next week.

one of them is we start going back to normal before a certain time or after. so may 1st, june 1st, what will happen. that is one. the second model we have been asked to do based on the data right now for a certain states that they have nonessential business closer to him that we know what the definition of nonessential business closure was. we are going to model that, certain businesses that were not closed in one state but another. it will bring them, will happen to the death rate and the stipulation of the virus again. >> bill: so that can help the team at the white house determine who goes to open for business again, will it not? >> yes. and it's important for us as we talk about reopening our business. we are not out of danger yet, we need to stress that. maybe we need to do it in phases and make sure we bring some people in and make sure there is no circulation of the virus. testing is very important. public health surveillance is very important.

isolation, case investigation, and after that we don't like when we are more comfortable, we need more people to be careful here. we are going to ask the most essential work for us to go back and we don't want to put them at risk. this is the basis of our economy so we have to be very careful who we ask to come first. we test them, check that there is no virus. and if we feel comfortable we can expand our relaxation measures and so on. we went i'm just going to take this headline, "the worst is behind us," and fly into the weekend that way. doctor, so good to see you. we'll speak again next week, okay? thank you for your report tonight. in the meantime, the president announcing he's trading a new task force on reopening the economy. austan goolsbee and stephen moore will weigh in on that and a lab report from casey stegall as we continue this friday nig night. who do you think takes more pride

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♪ >> bill: >> bill: one of the state hardest hit by a covid-19 is the great state of louisiana. casey stegall is watching that. >> good evening. what a difference a week makes. louisiana state health officials as you know started this week with a very short timeline when they thought they were going to run out of hospital beds and ventilators. tonight, that is no longer the worry. at least if the trend continues, and the numbers don't change and they keep moving in the right direction. but there has been no doubt great heartache across louisiana. 755 people have died from coronavirus and more than 19,000 have tested positive. the government even losing one of its own, reggie but a state representative, he died

yesterday. just elected back in january and then hospitalized last week. today, president trump also said it's looking more like the extra 1,000 temporary hospital beds won't be needed there. i thousand beds already went online at the new orleans convention center at a pop-up hospital and while the governor says there is now light at the end of a long tunnel, he says it remains imperative for people to stay home, and maintain all social distancing rules despite it being a holiday weekend which they say could tempt some people with worship or gathering with friends to break the rules, but maintains you have to stay the course to see the numbers continue to level off. bill? >> bill: thank you, casey stegall in arlington, texas, tonight. thank you. today, president trump said on the decision to move to reopen the economy would be "the biggest decision i've ever had

to make." austan goolsbee is with me right now, former economic advisor of president obama. the big headline today was the economic task force that'll be announced tuesday of next week. steve, i imagine we'll get a week before a week or tuesday, what would you expect, what do you hope to see on that? >> bill, congratulations, by the way. you made my weekend about that previous segment of the worst being behind us, the best news i've heard in many months. congratulations on that and let's hope that trend of declining will continue. fantastic news. incidentally, the problem you're the president has to deal with in this task force, it looks like may be the worst of the death rate and the infection rate is behind us, but the economic carnage from the shut down hit is only just starting. we've seen 16 to 17 million additional americans put on the unemployment line, so this has hit a very, very heavy class, donald trump, if you're

watching, please get this economy up and running as soon as possible. donald trump talking about the task force with many people in his administration, people like my buddy larry kudlow and people like kevin hassett, and probably steven mnuchin. they will also be private-sector people, hoping to see someone, the personal business leaders like steve schwartzman to get the best advice. the decisions that trump makes in the next four, eight, ten weeks will be critical in terms of the economic recovery we are all hoping for for this country. >> bill: austan, you don't want to start and pull back again the matter what the decision ultimately is. what would you like to see in the task force. what do we need? >> i think he really needs to get credible people who are not associated with the administrations previous positions. the president has for the last 12 weeks at least has clearly

been agitating, to say it, the virus isn't as serious as people say, we should go back to work. he previously said we should be able to go out and get back to work by easter. i think if he's going to form a task force to try to make this decision, it's imperative that the task force have credibility and not be perceived as pursuing a political agenda. i would also say it's not the president's decision to make, that's the thing. the virus is the boss. not the president. not the governors who are the ones who makes this decision. you have to slow the rate of spread of the virus and do testing to enable that before we can go back, otherwise we are going back to square zero and do this again. >> bill: treasury department saying some of these direct deposit checks, they are going out to some americans as we speak. they suggested that the greater majority of americans will have theirs by april 15th which ironically is tax day, next wednesday. i'm rattling through these

headlines, jpmorgan predicting 20% unemployment, gdp taking a hit, imf saying worst recession since the great depression. look, that loan program, it's been stubborn so far. it's got to work, they've got to get it right. my guess is that's got to be the next level of attention on behalf of the administration. >> that's right. those numbers are exactly why with all due respect, i think austan is wrong. we've got to get this economy open in a safe way, not in the cities that i account for all the deaths but other parts of the country. they've found a good way without getting their workers sick. we should be taking the example of great companies like walmart, like fedex, that have got their people back to work. you are right, this loan program is critical because we have to save the businesses, bill. we have so many small businesses in this country, millions of

them, which are this close to being bankrupt right now because they have no customers. the most important thing is get the economy open so those businesses can function but in the meantime we've got to get those loans to those companies so they have some revenues so they can meet their bills. >> bill: i've got to run. austan, your name was invoked. can you do it in 15 seconds? >> look, all i'll say is you've got to get it to testing. if you don't get to testing, we'll be back to square zero and have to shut down again. they've got some major enactment the problems they got to sort out these wrinkles because steve and i both agree getting money to these small businesses and getting money to people so that nobody starves, nobody gets evicted, nobody goes bankrupt and has their business liquidated, that's got to be a key goal. >> we agree. testing is critical. i totally agree with that. >> bill: thank you, gentlemen. have a great peaceful weekend. chad pergram with what the president saying he'll

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>> live from america's news headquarters, i am ashley strohmeyer. a grim milestone as a number of u.s. coronavirus cases past 500,000. president trump trying to balance the health of the country with the health of the economy as many in the business health officials warned that more time is needed. the president saying, "without question it's the biggest decision i've ever had to make," and the virus beginning to decimate nations, so far the country has less than two at a confirmed cases but the global economic slow down has made even basic supplies like food difficult to find an nations like kenya where most of the population lives in poverty are at a heightened risk if a

prolonged world ride recession does occur. i am ashley strohmeyer. back to "bill helmer reports." >> bill: is there another stimulus package in the works? chad pergram joins us with the latest from washington. what are they thinking about now? >> hey, bill. there was that impasse on the senate floor yesterday on the small business provisions, but that impasse has now sparked negotiations. senate minority leader chuck schumer chuck schumer and house speaker nancy pelosi, they spoke separately with steve mnuchin. pelosi concerned about underserved community getting access to capital. schumer says, there is no reason we can't come to a bipartisan agreement by the end of next week, but now you have some republicans in the senate say wait, we want to see if the phase three bill works. the proposals for the phase four

bill, the idea is out there are legion. john hallway, republican senator from missouri, says he wants to pay workers 80% of their salary. the other big question they have to get resolved here is oversight. adam schiff, the chair of the house intelligence committee wants a 9/11 style commission to look in to coronavirus here, that essentially be a fifth layer of oversight. there is a condition that's built into the phase three bill already, and house speaker nancy pelosi has already impaneled a select committee. she's open to the idea of a 9/11 style commission here but she says it has to be bipartisan and after action, review has to be number one there, it will not point fingers. bill? >> bill: chad pergram in washington. thank you, sir. the world health organization as you know is under a tent of scrutiny. one of the more vocal critics has been senator tom cotton who penned a piece today at foxnews.com. thank you for your time on this

good friday, thank you for being here. you characterized this as an information more. let's start there and go ahead and make your case. >> the chinese communist party has been waging an information war against the united states. they have their ambassadors all around the world telling countries that host them that this virus originated with american soldiers, not with the city of wuhan in hubei province in china. they are also plainly engaged in some online disinformation campaigns as well. that's why it's so important we remain clear about where this virus originated, in china, and the fact that china could have kept it probably just a local help child lynch in wuhan and who bear unfortunately the world health organization from the very first moment they learned about this virus has been praising china and more concerned it seems with political correctness than

actually stopping this pandemic before it spread all around the globe. >> bill: i've got a number of questions. see if i can get them through here. if you are right and beijing had acted sooner, how different with the world be today? >> bill, let me give you one example of beijing's treachery. on january 23rd, they shut down air travel from wuhan to every other chinese city. couldn't go to beijing, couldn't go to shanghai, couldn't go to shannon's end. but you could still go to any city around the world to include new york to san francisco. that meant that thousands of cases were being seated all around the world before the w.h.o. in china were already acknowledging human to human transmission, china looking out for its own people by shutting down domestic air travel from wuhan while continuing to let the virus spread all around the world. >> bill: the issue now, or soon to be eight, doctor from the washington, university of washington is right when he said the worst is behind us earlier

in the program here, we start putting a bigger focus on the economy, you've got a real catch 22 here because the economy is so linked together at the moment. what do you do about that, what do you do about the supply line, what action do you think is appropriate, senator? >> it's time to start dealing thing or two economies. this happened over 30 years over deliberate policy choices made in washington, those are bad choices. we can reverse it with good choices. that has to start with the most urgent, that's why we have legislation that will bring back pharmaceutical manufacturing, supplies in short order. then we have to continue to other critical fields as well, like fifth-generation telecommunication equipment or other advanced manufacturing technology products. we simply cannot allow our people to be dependent on the chinese communist party for our health and our safety, or security, our economic prosperity. >> bill: i have about 30 seconds left.

word in tokyo that japan was looking at similar things in terms of supply lines. the world health organization, how much consideration you've given that, what should be looked at their if you are right and the critics at the world health organization are right about this one? >> we need a full accounting of what went wrong in january and february. we need a commitment to reform and transparency in the future and we need a change in leadership to assure those things happen. without those steps, the u.s. taxpayer does not need to be subsidizing a leader that is in the pocket of beijing. >> bill: it is true that they screwed up ebola six years ago, slow on the trigger and roundly criticized from about every corner of the world. senator, thank you for your time and a happy easter weekend to you and your family. tom cotton with us. speaker thank you, bill. happy easter to you and yours. >> bill: in a moment, the latest headlines, the number of u.s. cases topping half a million. the president a moment ago promising health

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(sorrowful music) >> bill: welcome back. the number of covid-19 cases here in the u.s. now hit half a million. the president moments ago ordering the u.s. government to provide humanitarian relief for italy. we'll keep an eye on that. there are signs of hope tonight in the fight against the virus as new york saw its first daily drop in the icu covid-19 patients. governor cuomo calling that cautiously optimistic. rick leventhal live in new york with more details on this. good evening. >> good evening, bill. a number one of the quietest friday nights you will ever experience in manhattan. yes, we have some signs that the curve may be flattening. some very, very potentially good news and some stark reminders of just how deadly the coronavirus can be and we'll get to those numbers in just a minute. first, some good news.

the number of patients in intensive care actually dropped for the first time since the virus became an issue here in new york city. it's been going up every single day and today between thursday and wednesday it actually dropped by 17 patients. that number as "the new york times" pointed out is very small, but it's significant significance is great. the number of patients being checked into icu was up 300 every single day. on a steep hill up, and now potentially it's on the way do down. the death toll, the number of dead here in new york is just staggering. about half of the deaths across the country have happened in the state and here in new york, 599 on monday, up to 731 on tuesday, 779, and a slight drop to 777 today. horrible news for the city as it's tried to handle all those bodies, build, but the best news

we've heard today is the curve may in fact be flattening but the message of the governor and the mayor wanted to deliver is that social distancing is working. people need to keep 6 feet or more away from each other for this thing to be beaten. bill? >> bill: nice to see you, rick. rick leventhal on the streets of new york city tonight. i'm sure of you many people at home have questions about this. we ask viewers to submit their questions on facebook and our panel of doctors here to address some of those. good evening to dr. nicole saphier, fox news contributor, and baylor college of medicine professor ladies first, nicole. this is just in from arizona with the first question. >> does dell make is this virus mutating like the flu and can you catch it again once it mutates or once you have survivl the antibias down the antibodies you create will prevent you from getting another infection?

>> bill: that's a good question. what do you think i'm in the cold? >> being from arizona, that's actually a great question. the truth is we don't really know. right now, the data is showing us there are three different strains of the virus circulating around. in fact, the strain of the east coast seems to be a little bit different of the west coast. the west coast being from europe and the east coast directly from china. the truth is there are probably more than three strains circulating around. if you are infected with one of the level coronavirus strains, you probably have more of a general immunity to this virus and the likely be you are more immune to other strains of the virus. think of it like the common cold which is also caused by coronavirus. how many times can you get a common cold? those tend to be a various different strains of the coronavirus. it's possible and if you've been infected with this coronavirus which caused covid-19, it's possible that if you were to be reinfected with another strain, you may have a more mild outcome

since you do have some sort of immunity to it. but if i'm honest, we don't know. and the truth is we only know if we go further along with this process. the going theory right now is if you've been infected with the virus that causes covid-19, that does confer some sort of immunity, so that's what we are going to go with them that's what we are hoping for. >> bill: good answer there. bill from texas with the next question. watch here. >> the question is if i have a small collection of maths that i use for myself or for my familys the best way to sanitize those masks so i can reuse them? >> bill: it would save us a lot of work. do you have an answer on that? >> yeah. actually, the cdc has a nice website right now about cloth masks for use at home. they do recommend cloth and it turns out just plain old washing in the washing machine seems to

be adequate. a couple of things to be careful, though. you want to not use cloth masks on kids, especially young kids under the age of two primarily because of the choking risk, and also individuals who are debilitated who can't remove the mask themselves, be very careful about that. so look at the website. it tells you how to construct the masks as well. >> bill: we could go all night. i want to come back to a headline. we've got 30 minutes ago, the big model that everybody looks at concluding the white house, the man who runs the website says the worst is behind us, that was his headline tonight. how do you take that? >> i mean, bill, i like looking at any glimmer of hope, and i think there is time to be optimistic and the time is right now. we have to be careful not to jump on this and go outside and have a party and everybody get together. but the truth is all these actions everybody has been

doing, all this painful social distancing is working. our health systems are not overrun as they were a couple of weeks ago. fewer people in the icu. we are still going to be seeing some deaths. but i tell you in the next few days, the numbers are going to be going down. this is the time during holy week to be optimistic and do know that there is some light at the end of the tunnel. >> bill: thank you very much to the both of you for coming on tonight. thank you. president trump delivering an easter message from the oval office a bit earlier. we will show that to you and more next. look quite like this, but there's no mistaking it. and it's our job to protect it. because the best people to fight for our communities are those within them. so, if you've just bought a volkswagen or were thinking of buying sometime soon, we're here to help with the community driven promise.

♪ >> though we will not be able to gather together with one another as we normally would on easter, we can use this sacred time to

focus on prayer, reflection, and growing in our personal relationship with god so important. i ask all americans to pray that god will heal our nation to bring comfort to those who are grieving, to give strength to the doctors, nurses, and health care workers, to restore health to the sick, and renew the hope in every person who is suffering. our nation will come through like never before. >> bill: from a bit earlier today in the oval office of president trump, earlier today as well i was on the new york's the streets ofnew york city. normally you can never walk out here especially on a friday afternoon around 5:00. it's easter weekend. to that direction is central park and the trump tower. to this direction is the heart of the american catholic church, st. patrick's cathedral behind me. with good friday today normally getting ready for this great celebration for easter sunday and around noon time on sunday

you get the easter parade after all the parishioners come out of the church here for sunday mass. but for now, new york is a very different place. after nightfall, it gets lonely. there's not many people around. a few stragglers here and there. new york is a different town perhaps like your town is right now. this eastern easter sunday, st. patrick's cathedral stands tall and weights for the faithful to come back. >> bill: i want to bring in theologian and fox news contributor jonathan morris. nice to see you, jonathan, and good evening to you. what are you thinking about on this good friday? >> i think you mention it right there. on fifth avenue, it's lonely. it's lonely. what a great opportunity for us this year, like no other year, to experience what jesus christ on his way to the cross,

experienced, which was probably not only physical pain, but loneliness. loneliness. maybe the deepest human suffering. and so many of us are isolated right now. and i think whether you are christian, jewish, or another faith to understand that it's true suffering, that joy and resurrection as we celebrate like christians on eastern sunday, is that we experience. gosh. just very simply, bill, i come from a family of seven kids, and my parents would have us be quiet between 12:00 p.m. and 3:00 p.m. on good friday to commemorate the three hours that the jesus hung on the cross by tradition before he died. it was so hard to keep us quiet. this year, 2020, we are able to be quiet and experience the

loneliness that jesus felt as a great preparation for eastern sunday. >> bill: i don't think you've ever sat mass in an empty church. it'll happen this sunday. happy easter to you. jonathan morris, thank you. ♪

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as we say, set your dvr, never miss the report. brian kilmeade is in for lara tonight as we say good night from new york. ♪ >> brian: hi, everyone, i'm brian kilmeade. i'm lucky enough to be in for laura ingraham. a special edition of "th "the ingraham angle." president trump saying the decision when to reopen the economy is the biggest one he'll ever have to make and he hopes to god he's right. mark cuban is here on what the white house should be doing to get americans back to work safely, and the administration says we are nearing the peak of the corona virus outbreak. hud secretary ben carson joins me talking about the medical hurdles as well as the housing hurdles. plus ken cuccinelli response