like nobody's ever seen. but we're winning the battle. we're winning the war. carley: it's monday, april 13th. and this is a fox news alert. president trump delivering a message of hope in his easter address as america's faithful came together to keep america's churches mostly empty. rob: more hope in the newest numbers as the nation's hot spots spot light at the end of the tunnel. carley: a new push by republicans to pump billions more in relief. rob: it's a new movement to honor our healthcare heroes. carley: and this fire department is calling on america to come together and get involved. "fox & friends" first continues right now. ♪ rob: good morning. you're watching "fox & friends first" on this monday morning.

i'm rob schmitt. carley: i'm carley shimkus in for jillian mele. thanks for starting your day with us. the u.s. is nearing its peak, the fda making that declaration as new york, the pandemic epicenter of the world, reports a drop in new cases. rob: that is some good news. todd piro is live as the white house hopes to reopen the economy next month and that's still a big question, todd. >> reporter: still a big question, rob, good morning to you. good morning to carley. with so many of those prepeak hospitalizations sadly becoming deaths, the numbers are truly staggering even if well below the initial worst case scenario. more than half a million people infected throughout the country, with more than 22,000 dead. new york seeing almost 1 of thousand of those deaths alone. >> you're also seeing a recurrence of the terrible news, which is the number of lives lost. somebody asked the question once, can you ever get numb to

these -- seeing these numbers? unfortunately, no. every one is a face and a name and a family. >> reporter: but amid the sadness, another day of increasing hope. new york reporting daily icu admissions and intubations using a three-day average are down with various models showing we are at or close to the peak, especially along the coast. the middle of the country taking peaking a few weeks from now. los angeles county launching large scale antibody testing. one of many efforts to learn more about how to potentially make us immune to the virus. all this leading some experts to say the country could reopen by may or june. >> when you look at the admissions, the hospitalizations, the intensive care and the need to intubate, that not only is flattened, it's starting to turn the corner. it's cautious optimism that we are seeing the decrease.

if you look at the patterns of the curves in other countries, once you turn that corner, hopefully we'll see a very sharp decline and then you can start thinking about how we can keep it that way. >> reporter: close to 42,000 people have recovered from the virus here in the u.s. so far. rob and carley, back to you. carley: we're going to talk more about how we reopen the country later on in the show. thanks so much. rob: florida stepping up safety measures, an emergency order going into place mandating osceola county residence to wear masks in public, the first in central florida to issue the mandate. those without a mask could face a fine, maybe even jail time. the only exceptions are those with certain medical conditions and kids under 2 years old, it comes as new jersey transit begins its own mask mandate and cuts capacity by half, very critical infrastructure there, beginning tonight. carley: the battle continues in

new york. bill de blasio apparently notifying the governor at the last minute on his move to keep schools closed until fall. the mayor reportedly told a few advisors but governor andrew cuomo was sent a text message minutes before the announcement. the governor now saying no decision has been made and that it will be done on a regional basis. yikes. rob: power struggle there. president trump claiming america is winning the war against covid-19 as he makes history, declaring a major disaster in all 50 states. carley: griff jenkins is live in washington as pressure is building in washington. >> reporter: carley and rob, good morning. here's the latest. congress not agreeing, that's no surprise, but here's the deal. they may have just days, not weeks, to act before the money runs out. the administration says already $168 billion of the initial 350 under phase three has gone out the door, warning if more money isn't added quickly it could crush small business and

congress at odds over how to fund it, is out of session for another week. speaker pelosi says the house will vote on new legislation by the end of the month. minority leader schumer is pushing for a bipartisan agreement as soon as this week but schumer blocked senate republicans last week trying to add $250 billion to the ppp program. majority leader mcconnell and minority leader mccarthy issuing a statement saying republicans reject democrats' reckless threat to continue blocking job saving funding unless we renegotiate unrelated programs which are not in similar peril. this will not be congress' last word on covid-19 but this crucial program needs funding now. american workers cannot be used as political hostages, as the president declares that disaster in all 50 states and calls on governors to step up, tweeting this yesterday. saying governors, get your states' testing programs and apparatus perfected. be ready, big things are happening. no excuses. the federal government is there to help. we are testing more than any country in the world.

also, gear up with face masks. but maryland's republican governor larry hogan, chairman of the national governors' association says more aid is needed for states. >> i know there's people in washington that are working very hard as partners to try to help the states but i think to say that everybody's completely happy and we have everything we need is not accurate. everybody has tremendous needs on personal protective equipment, everybody is fighting to find these things all over the nation. >> reporter: finally, some good news to start your monday. the irs said over the weekend the first batch of those direct deposits have already hit bank accounts and more are coming rapidly this week. rob, carley. rob: that's right. friend of mine already got hers thank you so much. carley: a deadly round of more than 30 tornadoes ripping across several southern states, a dozen people killed, at least five in georgia overnight. rob: more than half a million people without power, alabama,

louisiana, mississippi, all declaring states of emergency. >> there it is, right there. rob: something else. a deputy and his wife sadly among several who were killed in mississippi and alabama, a woman was rescued after being trapped in the car you just saw there in the last video. carley: hundreds of homes are destroyed in louisiana. janice dean joins us live as the dangerous track is heading north. janice, what's going to happen today? >> well, the storms thankfully are going to weaken but we've had over 50 reports of tornadoes within the last 48 hours, moving across texas into louisiana, mississippi, alabama, now into georgia and the carolinas and unfortunately we are still dealing with severe weather. so tornado watches in effect for parts of florida, up towards georgia, the carolinas and now into virginia. these watches good until -- some

of them until lunch hour. so we're going to be dealing with severe weather for the next several hours and of course it's still dark out there, hopefully people have a way to get their watches and warnings. some of these tornadoes could be rain-wrapped. and we already have tornado warned storms south of augusta, georgia, moving towards the mid-atlantic and the northeast. we're not done yet. the storms are going to weaken but we have the knock next sevel hours to get through and the potential for the mid-atlantic for winds gusting upwards of 70 miles per hour. so that's going to cause potentially some power outages and some structural damage as well. so once the storm, the cold front, once it sweeps across the east coast, we will be done with it by dinner time but for the next several hours we're going to kind of be under the gun here for the stronger storms and all of this is going to lift up towards the northeast where wind gusts along the coast of 50 to 70 miles per hour is certainly

going to cause some damage many interior sections of the northeast as well. so this is a wide-ranging storm system. we also had snow on the backside of it this weekend but the damage catastrophic in parts of the south and southeast unfortunately this morning, rob and carley. carley: so much destruction at such a bad time. that's horrible to hear. thank you for the update. we appreciate it. >> you got it. rob: cardinal timothy dolan encouraging people to stick to social distancing even though church services have changed. >> god is telling us use your brain, use your prudence, use your common sense, don't tempt the lord. rob: the cardinal live streaming easter mass inside an empty st. patrick's cathedral. in oklahoma social distancing didn't stop this pastor from leading a drive-in easter service for 13,000 worshipers. pretty clever. joel osteen joined by star power during his virtual service,

mariah carey and tyler perry joined. carley: firefighters getting creative with a heart felt tribute to doctors and nurses. shthey posted a drone video whih shows trucks with lights flashing forming a heart, part of the hashtag hearts for healthcare trend to support those fighting on the front lines against covid-19. for more uplifting stories visit foxnews.com/americatogether. rob: iis i wish i was from a e like cheboygan. that's a good word. new hope on when the economy might get back on track. >> it's cautious optimism that we are seeing that decrease. hopefully we'll see a very sharp decline and then you can start thinking about how we can keep it that way. carley: a tentative timeline to

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>> the indications of that part of this machine that drives this outbreak is starting to level off. we are hoping that at the end of the month we could look around and say okay, is there any element here that we can safely and cautiously start pulling back on. if so, do it. if not, then just continue to hunker down. rob: all right. so dr. fauci predicting the u.s.

could slowly get back to business next month as local leaders wonder if we're finally turn the corner. carley: as businesses reopen this summer, what are the chances we could see a resurgence. rob: joining us with expert insight on this, fox news medical contributor, dr. nicole saphier. thank you for coming back to the show. >> good morning. thanks for having me so early. rob: absolutely. we're seeing the decrease, we're starting to see a slide in the new cases and that is good news. what do you make of these numbers? >> well, cautiously optimistic just like everybody else is saying. we're finally getting over the initial peak that we talked about especially in new york city but also in other places around the country as well and some places you're starting to see the decline. the biggest issue we have with covid-19, we were concerned if we were to give too many cases right away to the hospitals that you would have an overflow of the hospital system and need makeshift hospitals why is what we saw in new york city, which is why we put up the javits center and all these other

cases. now that we're seeing a decreasing amount of patients with infections, that tells us the mitigation efforts are actually working. this is a big question about when are we going to reopen things. yes, it's true, social distancing and everything that we're doing right now is bending the curve. we're not only at a plateau but we're starting to see decreases and that's a wonderful thing but we can't be doing this forever. i mean, president trump recently said that this is going to be the biggest decision he's ever had to make and he made a very good point when he said he's worried about people leaving their home and dying but he's also worried about people staying in their home and dying and the truth is, unemployment every year kills about 45,000 americans. unemployment alone causes suicide in about 45,000 americans every year. and if we just had 16 million americans file for unemployment in the last three weeks, that's a big deal. that's a big deal from an economic standpoint, a mental health standpoint, so yes, it is a very fine balance of how are we going to keep people safe

from covid-19 but also keep them safe from the long-term effects of the economic fallout because of this global pandemic. carley: one of the ways being considered on how to reopen the economy is antibody testing. but there's a head of a biotech firm, he was on the next revolution last night, he said that system might not work. take a listen. >> we have to realize that there may be a lot of people who have already had this disease that you will not be able to test with a pcr test, a very real chance here that this disease has progressed much further than we realize. i'm very hesitant to say that it would be feasible to contact trace every single infection's contact. carley: how do you feel about that, dr. saphier. we don't have enough coronavirus tests. how can we expect we're going to get enough antibody tests, immunity tests to test everybody that we need in order to reopen the economy at a sustainable level? >> well, interestingly, he was referring to last night the pcr test, that's the nasal test,

looking for the presence of virus. but the truth is, we have a very large population in the united states and we're not going to be able to get everybody tested for this antibody and we also don't know if you have been exposed to this virus if, one, you're going to produce antibodies and two, if those antibodies are going to confer short-term or long-term immunity. south korea is reporting 91 cases of people who tested negative and then tested positive again. and there are questions of whether the virus laid dormant and it became reactivated if they got reinfected. the truth is, we don't know. we do need to get antibody testing throughout the country but we should try to do it for moran come sampling to see how many of the population actually have already been exposed to this virus and when we look at how we're going to reopen the economy, it can't -- it's not a one size fits all. we are a very diverse nation, we're diverse in our states. we're diverse in our communities and municipalities so this is not going to be a federal opening. this is going to be individual,

they have to look at the numbers, they have to look at how many people have potentially already been exposed and they're going to have to open sites site by site which is a painfully slow but that's going to be the safest way to do it. it's a very fine balance. we have to get the country open. we also have to keep people safe from covid-19. the truth is, there's going to be another spike, there absolutely is. it's likely in the fall. the bottom line is we want to keep people alive and healthy as possible. we want to make sure we're able to test them when the spike does come. hopefully we'll have small studies that are already going right now in terms of treatments and we'll be hopefully that much closer to the vaccine being available. rob: that's the big winner, the vaccine. doctor, thank you so much. we appreciate your time. >> thanks, guys. carley: the time is 19 minutes after the hour. a father of four who battled the coronavirus for more than two weeks reuniting with his loved ones. rob: he and his wife join us live to reveal what they feel

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carley: a 43-year-old father of four returning to his pennsylvania home after spending 17 days on a ventilator and after being treated with an anti-viral drug developed to fight of all things, ebola. joining us now to share his incredible story, covid-19 survivors mike duwan and wife kelly. it is great to see both of you. first question, how are you both feeling? >> feeling better from where we were and where i was, a lot better. carley: you both look great. from my understanding, the virus just absolutely ripped through your family. tell us what happened and how

many family members were infected by this. >> we had a birthday dinner for my daughters, so my in-laws and my mother and her husband were here. so there were 10 of us. it was a sunday. on monday, i got sick. and progressively through the week the rest of the family got sick. carley: kelly, you also got sick, right? >> yes, by wednesday. myself and our four daughters were sick. carley: mike, this affected you by far the most. we're looking at a picture of you right now in the hospital. doctors were not sure that you were going to survive. you were put on a ventilator. but then you were treated with an anti-viral drug developed to fight ebola and things started to look up. explain what that whole process was like for you. >> quite honestly, i don't remember a lot of it because i was under so kelly was making a lot of decisions, but from what i'm told, i was able to be put

on the drugs and just grateful that i was able to get that and they say -- they don't know if it was the drug or if i just naturally got better but from what kelly was saying, talking to the doctor, they recommended doing it. >> they're doing studies now. carley: what was the progress like from before he was on the drug, doctors asked if you wanted to try this and then was it a quick recovery for him or did it take a couple days? >> i think he was -- well, i know he was on the drug, he got it for 10 days. so i think it started like the fourth day he was on the ventilator, and he had it for 10 days and his -- everything started to improve through that time, once the medication stopped i think it was four days later that he was able to come off the ventilator, so --

carley: that's amazing. because we hear of people that go on ventilators, that's obviously the worst case scenario because when you go on sometimes you really don't go on -- go off. the drug we're referring to is remdesivir. we don't have a lot of time. mike and kelly, i know your doctors say they're not sure if this is why you, mike, improved but how do you feel? >> i feel pretty good. a little weak. carley: do you attribute this drug to you recovering? >> i don't know. i really don't know. i mean, -- >> i think they are doing studies saying hopefully by may that we will have more answers to know for sure if it was the drug or not. carley: they're testing a lot of stuff right now. whatever it was, mike and kelly and all your family members, we're so glad you're feeling better. thanks for coming on and telling that story. rob: guys, thanks. 26 minutes after the hour.

china accused of hiding new data about covid-19 from the rest of the world. how the claim is increasing tension between beijing and washington. also, some churches holding virtual services to keep worshipers out of harm's way, others opting to defy the stay at home orders in the name of their own religious freedom. congressman marshall joins us to discuss how america can balance faith with public health, that's coming up. ♪ ♪ it's only human to find inspiration in nature. and also find answers. our search to transform... ...farm waste into renewable natural gas led chevron to partner with california bioenergy. working to provide an alternative source of power... ...for a cleaner way forward.

rob: welcome back. a fox news alert, the chinese government accused of suppressing potentially vital coronavirus research. carley: trey yingst is live in tel aviv to break down the accusations. trey. >> reporter: carley, rob. good morning. reports indicate the chinese government is limiting the public's ability to publish coronavirus information and research that has been done about the outbreak. this as the ongoing information

battle continues between china and the united states. two top chinese universities have reported the released information on their website, detailing that academic papers regarding the coronavirus must undergo a new vetting process. that information has since been removed. the true number of chinese coronavirus cases cannot be known as the government likely concealed evidence of deaths and new sicknesses according to reports and evidence uncovered by international bodies. global criticism surrounding china's handling of the virus outbreak comes under the world healthealth organization is undr pressure to say what they knew and when. president trump is once again blaming the who for their lack of action. the president pledged last week that an announcement would be coming regarding funding of the world health organization as the who responded to the ongoing controversy and outbreak. take a listen. >> we're not so sure it will come in waves in the way that

influenza does, we think it's going to be a virus that stalks the human race for quite a long time to come and that there will be small outbreaks that will emerge sporadically and they will break through our defenses. >> reporter: the developments come as president trump fired off a series of tweets over the weeknd about his frustration regarding a report in the new york sometimes that said he failed to act when warned about the seriousness of covid-19. over the weekend, president trump was more critical of the american media than he was of the chinese government. the president added in a tweet that he was working hard to expose corruption and dishonesty in the media. he did not apply that same standard to china. rob, carley. rob: okay. trey, thank you. carley: meantime, the coronavirus may have been infecting people in california earlier than originally believed. new data from the cdc shows they were unable to find a source for covid-19 deaths reported in february and march, leading them to believe it was in the state

as early as december. researchers now studying specimens from blood banks for antibodies to see if they can pinpoint an exact date. rob: the fbi investigating a covid-19 scam after a california healthcare union says they were conned out of face masks. the union thought they struck a deal to buy 39 million n95 masks but they never got any of them. the fbi says individuals in australia and kuwait contacted the would-be recipients through what's app. fortunately, no money was ever exchanged. carley: 42 states are currently under stay at home orders meaning churches were ordered to remain empty this easter sunday. that's become a first amendment fight in many of the states including kansas where the final decision came one day before the holiday. >> the kansas emergency management act is designed specifically for situations where you may need to relax some of the normal rules by which we

operate our government or govern our citizens. rob: it's an interesting story. as the department of justice signaling they'll be stepping, how do we protect the health of americans without tram martin luther kin-- without tramplingo. joining us live is kansas congressman, dr. marshall. this is a balance in a lot of sectors of society that people are thinking about. in regards to this specific example, what do you make of it? >> well, look, rob, at a time like this especially in a crisis we have to protect and honor our first amendment rights, our ability to worship god how we see is best for us and at the same time we can also protect our health. we can do both of those and that's why i was reaching out beforehand for weeks beforehand and pastors reaching out to me asking for advice. so 99% of the churches were complying with the president's orders and the governor stepped in and tried to restrict us.

she signaled us out. peek were stacked like czar deans at -- sardines at a walmart but she was going to restrict us on easter sunday. we felt our religious freedoms were trampled upon. carley: the pont of the stay at home orders is to keep everybody safe. how do you feel like this is specifically targeting religious organizations if this is a widespread mandate. >> the difference is, you can go into walmart and people are in there side to side and no one is in there arresting them. as far as i'm concerned, they're not in compliance with those orders, there's other options to get the sur bside, -- curbside food, those types of things. can you go through drive-in restaurants as well and there's some folks here that are upset about doing worship service. our worship service was held outside in a parking lot. it wept just fine.

as a physician, we felt it was safe. we had a wind blowing all the virus out of kansas. we can do both. we can honor and respect first amendment rights and be safe. as a physician, i can tell you we can do both. again, i call upon all the pastors and elders and deacons to be leaders here. you don't have to worship inside a building. got lives in our -- god lives in our hearts and minds not in a building. we don't want our first amendment rights taken from us. rob: a spokesperson for the doj and bill barr, during this sacred week, agbarr is monitoring while social distancing practices are appropriate. they must be applied even handedly. expect action from the doj this week. you feel that you should be allowed to go to church during this time. what do you think of a church that's packed with people, though? >> no, i don't think that's a good idea. i think the individual wall

church -- virtual churches are working fine. we need to honor the president's and cdc's guidelines, no more than 10 people in a room, including churches. i don't see any way to do a church service inside. i'm not thinking that's a good idea. i think it needs to be self decisions, i think we need to have the pastors, the bishops, the priests make these decisions along with their elders. we can worship. we can keep worshiping but it doesn't have to be inside of a building. there's other ways to worship. 99% of churches have went to a virtual online type of service and a drive-in service like we had for easter sunday. i greatly -- i'm so grateful for the doj, being here to have our back, the president and attorney general to have our back. we're grateful for that. rob: sir, thank you so much for your time. we do appreciate it. >> thank you. rob: 37 minutes after the hour. apple and google launching a new app to alert users if they've been in contact with somebody who is positive for covid-19.

imagine that. will privacy concerns keep this from ever being used. carley: relief is on the way, when funds from the irs should reach people's bank accounts and how you can expedite the process. ♪

carley: we're back with a fox business alert. the irs sending out the first round of stimulus checks to americans reeling from the economic pain due to the coronavirus pandemic. rob: cheryl cheryl fro casone t you can do to expedite the process. >> today is the day money starts showing up in americans' checking accounts. the treasury department working to automatically process payments for social security and help retirement recipients who didn't file a tax return in 2018 or 2019. according a statement, most americans don't need to take any action. the account you have on file

with the irs will be used. government's working again on folks with a social security issue and there's obviously the website if you want to go to that. this is pretty quick, guys. i have to say that the treasury department has really moved very quickly and so has steven mnuchin to make sure americans get relief. they say millions more economic impact payments are going to be issued via direct deposit in the weeks ahead as we issue payments to social security recipients and as taxpayers provide banking information on the tools provided. you may have to go to the website if you didn't file in the last couple years. they say they're working to secure the delivery of payments to veterans, disabled and other vulnerable populations. that's pretty quick timeline for the u.s. government, guys. two weeks, that's pretty good. $1,200, $2,400, 500 per child, so it's a lot of money for folks. carley: absolutely. rob: very fast, you're about that. the whole thing between opec and russia, a buddy of mine filled

up for $1.39 a gallon for the last week. sounds like that may come to an end. >> we'll see. i wouldn't say that just yet. first, this major agreement was reached yesterday between opec, russia, the u.s. others, they're cutting oil output, ending a price war, which was a sat lift for the market selloff. this could curve global supply by 20%, at least through june. and this agreement is certainly going to be big. i mean, it's certainly a hit for the oil market in a good way because that supply was really hurting companies so there's the output per day. i will say this. rob, you mentioned gas prices. we're at a buck and change here. we've seen incredible gas prices. and the president got really involved in this. he went directly to the saudis, went directly to the russians, he tweeted about it. he said the oil deal with opec plus done, this will save thousands of energy jobs in the u.s., i would like to thank and

congratulate president pew putid king salman. oil was jumping on the news last night. we're still at historic lows and yes, rob, a buck 88 is the national average, a buck 88. we can't drive anywhere. rob: i want to buy a big swimming pool and fill it up with gas. in a couple years it will be back to four bucks a gallon. >> you figure that out, you let me know. carley: do not light a match at rube. heather:-- at rob's house if th. rob: your phone could alert you if you're near somebody that's been infected with coronavirus. new tech giants are working on a new app. carley: the project is raising concerns over privacy. >> reporter: apple and google teaming up to help track the coronavirus. in a rare collaboration, the tech rivals are developing an app to alert users if they've been in contact with anyone who

tested positive for covid-19. the idea is to help health officials track the spread of the virus, a concept known as contact tracing. >> what they're trying to toys solve a problem with an invisible, fast-moving killer that you need technology a lot of people believe to tackle because so many people who are infectedded with the virus aren't showing symptoms and they're transmitting it that way. >> reporter: the companies stress that the app is voluntary and will not track a user's location, only proximity to others. president trump voiced concerns over user privacy saying the new technology will have to be closely examined. >> it's very interesting but a lot of people worry about it in terms of a person's freedom. we're going to take a look at that, a very strong look at it. >> reporter: this isn't the first effort in contact tracing technology. singapore has seen early success with its bluetooth tracking app called trace together launched last month. it links a person's infection

status with their phone number. germany, italy, and the united kingdom are developing tracing tools. >> all data will be handled with the highest ethical and security standards and would only be used for nhs care and research and we won't hold it any longer than it's needed. >> reporter: the companies aim to publicly release the app in the coming months. carley: a selfless act by a bride to be, instead of tying the knot she decided to try to save some lives and she joins us live to tell us what inspired her to make this dramatic decision. rob: very cool story. first, let's check in with steve doocy and see what's coming up on "fox & friends." >> good morning to you on this easter monday morning. at the top of our show we'll have the very latest out of the south where tornadoes have ripped through portions of louisiana, mississippi and georgia and a number of people are dead. we will have the very latest. plus, the latest on the covid crisis, we've got the cdc

director, dr. robert redfield here, he has the very latest on the pandemic. plus, senator rand paul will give us his first interview since he recovered from covid-19. remember, he had it and then he was in isolation. now he is volunteering at his local hospital in kentucky. and with lawmakers stalled on additional funding for small businesses, we're going to hear from both sides of the aisles, senator chris kuns and tom cotton joins us. and mike roe, his last time visit with us was fantastic. the thunderbirds paying tribute to hospital workers in las vegas, we're going to hear from their commander. so we have a busy three hours, kicks off just exactly 12 minutes and 30 seconds from right now right here on the channel you trust for your morning news, carley and rob, back in a couple of minutes.

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into your x1 voice remote, and to participate, go to census.gov. rob: couples across the country now saying i will, instead of i do. carley: including one bride to be who turned what would have been her wedding day into a day of service, turning her decorations into protective face masks for her community. rob: joining us now -- carley: that's amazing. rob: it is amazing. joanna, thank you for coming onto the show. we appreciate. where on earth did you get an idea like this? >> okay. so the whole idea started when we officially made the decision to push back the wedding and my mom made a statement a couple weeks ago, she was like you know, if everyone stays safe and follows the rules and does what everyone tells us to do, god willing we'll all be here. it struck a nerve. this thing is so awful, everyone

has to do what they can, otherwise i might not have my mom when i get married. i did what i could instead of sitting around and not doing anything. i took what i had and now it's bigger than i thought. carley: i remember when i got married how important the decorations were to me. how did it feel to cut them up and use them for something that was so much not what you purchased them for? >> it was -- honestly, it was fine. we were wanting to do easter so we were doing easter colors and it wasn't going to work so we pushed everything back to august. i was like if we're going to have a different vibe we'll change everything. i'm not going to use these and maybe the folks in my neighborhood could use them for this forecast and -- use them for this. rob: they look really cool. that's a nice looking mask.

looks like it covers really close. it's well-fit. tell us about the demand, the demand for it and you've seen i guess a big explosion in demand for these, right? >> yeah. so there's lots of folks out there that don't have access to online or aren't really tech-savvy that were able to contact me that wanted some and folks have been able to help me donate and purchase more stuff and i have volunteers that are helping me cut and produce as much as i can so there's quite a lot of folks out there, ems, old folks homes, generally the population around me that reached out and it was a lot and overwhelming so i'm happy to do what k i can do. carley: if people want to help out, how can they tribute. >> most people reach out with my e-mail address and let me know what they can give or help or need. i'm trying to get my hands on a lot of cotton, cotton's getting hard to get because people are buying it up because they're doing the same projects. so just e-mail me, if you are

able to help. carley: really quickly, is your new wedding date august 8th? > eighth?>> as of right now. my fiance is excited about it because it's his birthday. carley: i got married august 8th, 2015. i can attest to the fact it's a fabulous date to get married. joanna, thank you so much for what you're doing. it's really amazing. >> thank you. carley: all right. time is now 54 minutes after the hour. when his birthday bash was canceled, a world war ii veteran asked to -- asked america to help him celebrate his 105th birthday. >> so again, i say how many cards will i get, how many people will see this video. rob: boy, he looks good, doesn't he. turns out this hero's hometown had much bigger plans. more on the a amazing response and how you can also help him celebrate a very big day.

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rob: welcome back. social distancing coming it the nfl draft roger goodell will be pick the picks from his new york basement. carley: helped remotely from hotel rooms.

rob: this virus. turns into a star studded gathering. >>ing i have been turn it into a community college challenge. >> uh-oh. >♪ nationwide is on your side. rob: is that peyton manning singing g kevin hart along with country singer brad basely crashing a team's zoom call nationwide jingle that's what that was. several pro-athletes joining in on 10-minute call. carley: canceled a world war ii veteran's 105th birthday party. he asked for cards but a local california car club threw a birthday parade for sam sax. drivers of the classic cars saluting him for reaching the amazing milestone. look at him waving there. the community is still asking you to send him birthday cards. they can be sent to this address right there on the screen.

for more uplifting stories like this. visit foxnews.com/america together. so many heart-warming stories coming in right now. it's hard to pick a favorite. rob: born in 1915. unreal. carley: "fox & friends" starts right now. [winds] >> there it is right april 13th. we start this week with a fox news alert. an easter sunday tornado outbreak ripping across four states america's south dead. 6 in mississippi. atlanta reporting five people died in georgia. the damage described as catastrophic. >> lord, jesus. my house