>> sendra: the damage to the south is catastrophic and at least 18 people were killed. belton sits right across several states and leaving hundreds of thousands without power. louisiana congressman with no mike rolfe haberman who represents the district hardest hit by the storms will be joining us i had on how his community is doing this morning. but first and the coronavirus pandemic, all 50 states under federal disaster declarations for the first time in history as

health experts warn of major challenges ahead. good morning everyone. on sandra smith. >> ed: and a very pleasant good morning to you, i'm ed henry. the u.s. with thigh has a number of deaths in the world to come up topping 22,000 over the holiday weekend. more than 550,000 americans have contracted the disease and president trump is spending the holiday week and considering what he says is the biggest position of his presidency. some of administration put officials pushing for early may while experts saying the data should determine the timing. >> is may 1st a good target when you look at it now? >> it is a target and we are hopeful about that target but we're too early to be able to tell that. we see light at that end of the tunnel. the strategy moving forward for opening up them country has to take all those factors into

account. >> sendra: we have fox team coverage for you, but we begin the chief whitehorse correspondent. at >> today was the day that president trump had hoped that the country would begin to reopen but the conditions just weren't there and it became apparent a couple of weeks ago. so another soft target date has been set, this one for may 1st. but can the country start to reopen a little bit? yesterday anthony fauci was cautious but did leave open the possibility. listen here. >> we are hoping at the end of the month we can 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. >> ed: if there are a number of things it would have to happen between now and may 1st to begin the process of bringing the economy back online.

we would have to be on the downslope of the so-called infection curve and mitigation steps would have to be solidly ingrained with the american public. and if there are signs of that is happening. if you've been to your local grocery store in the last few days, you will know. and if they would have to be rigorous testing and place in order to identify and trace any new cases. here is the centers for disease control dr. robert redfield. >> the idea is once we reopen, we stay reopen and the tools to make that happen are the fundamentals of public health which i mentioned. early and aggressive case recognition, isolation and contact tracing so we can get back into containment mode with the gradually releasing step-by-step the mitigation steps are taken over the last couple months. >> ed: at the same time the president continues to push back reports that he ignored warnings from members of his own staff in late january and early february that the virus was going to be bad.

the president tweeted "i was criticized for moving too fast when i issued the china band long before others wanted to do so. the peter navarro memo was the same as the band. the president also raising questions about the state of his relationship with dr. fauci after archie set over the weekend that earlier medical intervention may have saved lives. the president re-tweeting a tweet from the former candidate that included the hashtag. you see it down there at the bottom, time to hashtag "fire fauci" now, dr. fauci is not a political appointee so it's unclear if the president would be able to fire him. he might be able to have someone else do it or he couldn't remove him from the coronavirus task force but that is her sense here in washington sandra that if the president did any of those things it would be huge bipartisan backlash. >> ed: is something we will be watching closely. john roberts of the white house. >> ed: it meanwhile the u.s.

topping 557,000 coronavirus cases leading the world now in total deaths. in new york city alone at the number have is more than 100,000. but dr. fauci who you just heard about says there's a reason be optimistic. >> the indications of that part of this machine that drives this outbreak is starting to level off because on the same day that new york metropolitan area had the highest number of deaths, when you look at the admissions and hospitalizations, the intensive care and the need to intubate, that not only has flattened but it's starting to turn the corner so we are hopeful. >> ed: david lee miller is live at mount sinai hospital with more. >> good morning, they had to. the deaths rate in new york state appears to be leveling off. latest statistics show 758 people in a span of 24 hours lost their life to the virus. but that is slightly lower than the previous figure, but still

there are many that are saying not enough progress is being seen. the best indication of the spread of the virus is slowing as a drop in new hospital admissions. it dropped significantly to 53 which is the lowest one-day increase yet. nevertheless across the state there still more than 18,700 coronavirus patients who are hospitalized. governor andrew cuomo issued a order requiring the state to provide essential workers with face coverings when interacting with the public. and on easter sunday the governor mead a special trip to the pathways nursing home which had earlier lent 35 ventilators to hospitals when it was fear they were needed. the ventilators were returned with a personal thank you. >> this hasn't been easy for anyone but i want the team here and the people at pathways to know that they gave me an inspiration and they gave me

energy and they gave me resolve. their gesture was so beautiful and so kind and so symbolic of everything. >> ed: here in new york city, mayor bill de blasio says new testing is opening and asking washington to provide 100,000 individualized tests. de blasio also said the city hospitals are looking to hire 500 nonmedical workers who can help transport patients to locations. these jobs are temporary but i have a 90 day commitment. economists are estimating that the unemployment rate here is about 30%. some say it's worse than the great depression. >> ed: just incredible. david lee miller. >> president trump>> sendra: thh

organization says there are vaccines in developing around the world with three already being tested in trials. let's bring in the professor at baylor college of medicine. good morning and thanks for being here. you had talked us through this and we had talked about vaccines along the way. what does that development tell you about the possibility we may see a vaccine in the near future for everyone? >> thanks, sandra. things are moving pretty rapidly, there is now three in clinical trials, one in china and two in the u.s. and this is just the beginning. we will have at least a dozen vaccines in clinical trials in the coming weeks and we hope our vaccine at baylor and the texas children hospital is going to be one of them. then, we will have to do that process of testing for two things. one, we want to make certain the

vaccine actually works, that's very important even if it works in laboratory animals it doesn't necessarily mean it works in people so we have to figure that out. the second would be making sure it's safe. dr. fauci who has been a mentor and like big brother to me for the past 40 years has charged us with doing this in 12-18 months. that would be unprecedented and our group of scientists is working morning until night to make sure we can make this happen. lots of sleepless nights but we are doing our best. >> sendra: we are so thankful for that. have dr. fauci talking about this rolling reentry back into the economy. kids going back to school again with possibly may 1st being the target date. although he warned this is not a one size it's all plan. and we start to reopen some sectors of our economy.

>> i would emphasize the point of one size doesn't fit all. we are still climbing and we won't peak according to many of the models. and we are not in a position to start thinking about that yet. then that gets into a lot of complexity because, let's say parts of new york open up. we have an amazing business community here in texas so are they going to feel a lot of pressure, this will create a lot of complexity. i don't have a lot of answer, but this will be a carefully orchestrated dance. it sounds good, the science might support it, but there might be other considerations as

well. >> sendra: dr. fauci was saying it's not a light switch. it depends on where you are as you just mentioned, texas may not even be peaking until that point. that being said, we will be learning more about how this disease travels. if we were to read on reopen the economy and said kids back to school it would also mike obviously be the fear that we would need to shut things down. the virus can travel 13 feet in the air and live on her shoes? >> this is a study that came out of china and was conducted in the intensive care unit. one thing to remember is how it behaves in the intensive care unit will be different than the rest of the world. remember this is our third coronavirus epidemic pandemic. we saw it with sars in 2003,

murders in 2012 and now covid- covid-19. there was a high rate of transmission and icu settings and lots of doctors got sick. whether that applies to the life outside of the intensive care unit, we still don't really know. we do know this virus is pretty transmissible, a lot more transmissible than other modes of the virus, and then you have this very problematic piece that a high percentage of people with the virus have no symptoms which we've never seen before in this type of coronavirus. so that also adds to the transmission. so when you actually look at transmissibility of this virus it's about as high as you get. may be almost as high as measles in some circumstances. and this is what makes it so hard. you have this group of people that's getting very sick in the icu and this other group that's walking around transmitting the virus and we haven't really seen anything quite like this before. this is what adds to all the

complexities that we've been hearing about. >> sendra: dr. peter hotels, we always appreciate when you can join us. we hope to see you again soon. >> ed: thanks so much. i'm >> ed: fox news alert, powerful tornadoes tearing to the south on easter sunday. at least 18 people killed as the storms hit from texas to georg georgia. heavy downpours, large hail and tornadoes causing catastrophic damage and widespread power outages. hundreds of buildings in louisiana were damaged or simply destroyed leaving thousands right now without power. a mirror of hard-hit monroe, louisiana, says by the grace of god there are only minor injuries, at least so far, in that town. let's bring in louisiana congressman ralph abraham who represents munroe and is also a medical doctor. congressman, good morning to y you. >> good morning, ada. >> ed: how are your people doing this morning? what are you seeing on the ground?

>> it's tough. we have this crisis on top of the corona truck crisis so they are struggling right now. >> ed: absolutely. we will get to the coronavirus in just a moment. loss of life so far is paramount and is it true that we there has been no loss of life? i saw your social media that you are touring a regional airport there in monroe in the destruction and devastation, jets were simply ripped apart? >> i tell you it's impressive what mother nature can do. it's crazy, the number of planes that have been destroyed and the airport is unfortunately close right now. the one exactly, and erase that because the economic damage that your estate in all 50 states are

currently seeing unleashed by the coronavirus and now this on top of that to your estate and several others. we will stay on top of that but i also want to add the fact that you are a medical doctor as sandra mentioned at the top of the show and you've been volunteering at a clinic to help deal with covid-19? what are you seeing on the ground. >> that's right. on the ground here, we had over 130 cases. fortunately no casualties at this clinic but certainly 51 more deaths as of saturday night. over 20,000 cases, i think 800 deaths now in louisiana so it's a bad deal. >> ed: i can hear you. there's a little bit of trouble with our transmission given the conditions on the ground there. i've noticed overnight that at

least while the deaths tragically have continued to go up as you noted in the state big picture, hospitalizations are down. you can see there are at least 840 deaths due to the coronavirus in louisiana but like we are seeing in new york and some other states, hospitalizations are coming down, the use of ventilators is coming down. do you see light at the end of the tunnel? >> we do. we are watching the data not only in louisiana but across the nation and there could be some hope finally starting to occur. so it will continue to get better and better and we will get over this things sooner than later. >> ed: president has said as he comes together with reopening the economy council, this is the biggest decision of his presidency, how to open up the economy. in 30 seconds, your advice to him? >> if the president has done a

remarkable job of holding this nation together, so you would like to think from certain individuals and he will open the economy when he knows it's best. but i think we are on a good trajectory right now and hopefully in two or three weeks we will see that light at the end of the tunnel opening up even brighter. >> ed: all right, we heard you loud and clear, good trajectory that we are seeing on the ground there. also thinking about everyone on the ground there and all the southern states that are hard-hit on top of the coronavirus. congressman, we appreciate you coming in. >> thank you very much. >> sendra: and fox news alert now on this monday morning, the stock futures are down as the pandemic takes a toll on the u.s. economy. are we in for a rough day on wall street? we are watching it for you. maria bartiromo will be up joining us for the opening bell. plus the midwest getting ready for a wave of coronavirus cases.

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>> ed: six people shot including a juvenile at a massive house party in bakersfield, california, despite the state's lockdown order meant to curb the spread of the coronavirus. officials believe there were about 400 people there at one time. just remarkable. all six victims are expected to survive, no arrests have been made. >> sendra: new concerns in chicago and other cities with covid-19 cases spiking in the heartland but the illinois governor expressing optimism after his state record of over 1600 new cases in a single day. but the lewis death toll in six days. >> i have spoken before about a stabilizing or bending of the curve and today is one more piece of evidence that it may indeed be happening. the percent of those tested that

came up positive is almost exactly the same for the last two weeks. >> sendra: matt finn is live and chicago with the latest from there. >> good morning. this morning, the newest numbers are encouraging out of states like illinois and michigan that have the hot spots of michigan and detroit but both of these states are warning that numbers could spike and people have to stay the course. illinois governor who just heard from now say doctors and experts confirmed the state seems to be in the midst of a peak. yesterday 43 deaths were confirmed in illinois, the state's lowest death toll in nearly a week but illinois also tallied nearly 1600 new confirmed cases of covid-19 but the governor noted that that number is in part to increase testing. illinois governor says he will not lift the state stay-at-home order any earlier than april 30th but the governmen god he is seriously considering the biggest question so many

americans want answered, when can the workforce and economy start to reopen? >> i'm talking to industry leaders about that and economists about that and i'm also listening to the scientists and the doctors to make sure we do that right. the last thing we want is to open things up and then have a big spike in infections. >> michigan which emerged as one of the hardest hit states saw new corona cases dropped by nearly half on sunday. 654 new cases confirmed yesterday compared to more than 1200 the day before. and a a slight drop in deaths in michigan. 95 confirmed yesterday down from 111 on saturday. but hospital workers and nurses still describe detroit's hospitals as i caught him like a chaotic war zone with not enough body bags. one e.r. nurse says there's not enough people to treat the dyi dying. >> elderly people only by themselves just trying to

breathe. >> in detroit the u.s. army corps of engineers right now is building a second field hospital to accommodate those overflowing hospitals. >> sendra: oriente, matt finn reporting from chicago. >> ed: are breaking right now, fox news alert inc. that a navy sailor who was second with coronavirus has died this morning. that sailor was assigned to the uss roosevelt and was admitted to the navy i see you on thursday. the u.s. aircraft carrier has been docked in guam following that severe outbreak aboard the ship. we will stay on the story. >> sendra: meanwhile despite a dire need for doctors to battle the virus tens of thousands of medical practices could be forced to shut down. we will be explained that, and why, coming up. plus, wall street futures are a bit lower this morning taking up a brand-new trading week is president trump's ways one of the biggest decisions he says of his presidency, when and how to

restart the u.s. economy. maria bartiromo will be joining us for the opening bell, next. >> this could be a long, hard road that we have ahead of us until we get to an effective therapy or vaccine.

>> sendra: brand-new week of training will make trading on wall street after a deal was reached to cut oil production. you are looking at the dow on this monday morning, down 133 points at 23,584 coming off the best week for the u.s. stock market since 1974. let's bring in maria bartiromo, host of "sunday morning futures." a good morning to you. what do we need to know about this week of trading as it pertains to the economy and whether or not things reopen in the next few weeks? >> you know sandra, i'm surprised to see this muted reaction to this huge production cut deal because oil production is down 40% from the highs and

now we are talking about the price of oil around $22 per barrel. obviously that oil deal is very much in focus and that's going to be important. it will very well drive markets this week. let's see if it's a 10% cut or if actually we hear from these players that we we may actually see a bigger cut. in the stock market this morning we are looking at a market that is nervous about the first-quarter earnings season. we know what january looked like and we know what february looked like and now we know what marx looked like when we had a complete shutdown of the economy. that's going to turn up in all of these numbers so no surprise that we will see a very tough earnings. for the first quarter. we will begin sing those numbers at the end of the week when jpmorgan and johnson & johnson reports, goldman sachs and a number of others. we will get a window into the corporate sector and how bad things were in the first quarter. it's going to be worst in was in the second quarter. people know that and i think rather than people focus on the

income statement, in other words how much income and revenue did the company generate, it will be more about the debt covenants. how much debt does the company hold and are they calling down some of that debt? how much cost pressure is a company under and of course then, it's about when the economy opens. dr. fauci as well as president trump has said they want to start seeing some rolling openings in the month of may and we will see how that goes. i think it has to be a sector by sector in terms of which sector opens first. little by little, it won't be turning on the faucet, it will be a little sprinkles and increasing, increasing, increasing. in ruling openings i would say. >> sendra: and a lot of speculation in the market will be exactly what that rolling open looks like and if it lasts because then, if you get a spike in cases in any of those areas where you reopen the economy, do you have to shut it back down again or increase social distancing measures. neel kashkari, the federal reserve bank of

minneapolis president is here this weekend of talking about reopening the economy and what that might look like. >> buying some health care miracle like that it seems like we will have various phases of rolling flareups, different parts of the economy turning back on and then turning back off again. this could be a long hard road that we have ahead of us until we get to either an effective therapy or vaccine. >> sendra: is going to be a huge a balancing act and a huge decision on the part of the president leading us through this. he is suggesting this could be the most important decision he makes of his presidency. maria? >> that's what he said and i think that's why we are talking so much about the testing. in order to get back into the economy and open up all businesses we need to know who has had it, was perhaps immune at this point after having survived it. what we see inoculations when we do get to a vaccine? who's been inoculated? they are talking about something

called the digital passport or immunity passport which would just be on your phone so you could basically have an easy way to show somebody, i'm okay, i've been there and i've had it and i'm immune. i can get back to work. that's why it will be having on the testing. we want to see as many tests as possible to make sure we go through all of all-american so they can get back to work. then it depends on the industry. some of these small businesses that are tapping into the government's line of credit, we will see how that goes. there are certain restaurants that say if you are telling me that i have to accept this loan to be forgiven because i will give it to my employees in this eight week period while i'm shut down, that doesn't do anything for me once things open again because i have no revenue. maybe i save those people from being out of a job because i gave my employees the money but for the viability of my business, less questionable. it's going to be things like that in terms of industries which start opening up again. restaurants may be the last ones frankly because sandra, you don't know that you will have

the behavior of people before this pandemic. they may not want to go to crowded restaurants. >> sendra: correct. you think about the social distancing measures and especially in new york city how close together those tables are and how closely the workers have to work in the kitchen. jpmorgan is predicting 20% unemployment for april, some of those numbers we will lean on over the next weeks and months will be crucial for this economy and market reaction. maria, thank you so much, great to see you. ♪ >> ed: empty hospitals, locks surgical centers, closed physicians offices and jobless surgeons. the focus on coronavirus', causing many specialist medical practices to curtail operations or simply closed them altogeth altogether. william la jeunesse is live in l.a. with the details. good morning, william. >> that's the amazing part. we look at the pictures and

think health care is overwhelmed when fact the opposite is true. hospitals have never been so empty and doctors are out of work. why? patients fear going into the office and physicians don't want to infect their staff so they closed your offices. shut down about 60,000 or half of all family physicians in the u.s. are out of work and some 800,000 of their staff are laid off. >> our positions are seeing a reduction of 60-75% in visits. >> that means you are going to the hospital. university of minnesota shows fewer than 5% of hospital beds are occupied by covid-19 patients in 15 of 22 reporting states. three states are between six and 15%. occupancy and the rest range from 15-37% in new york and new jersey but states like arkansas have 8,000 empty beds. missouri hospitals are losing $32 million a day as elective or

nonessential surgeries are banned. orthopedics. urology, cardiology, these guys have nowhere to work. >> and so without patients there is no revenue to pay regular office rent and payroll and staff. so we have temporarily furloughed our employees with the intentions that they will be able to come back when offices are cleared to reopen. >> in the meantime, people did not stop getting sick so many are ignoring symptoms, living with pain, popping pills and in many cases getting worse. >> some people that really need to be seen that are not being seen as much as they should be seen are patients that have heart conditions, people that have long issues, chronic conditions that are not being seen routinely. >> ed: so that is the disconnect. i had a young medical student

saying that many have thousands in debt. >> sendra: a quick dip in here to listen to mary bill de blasio. he's giving an update from city hall in new york. >> we will act on it together. so let's go to this new information and talk about what it means. i talked about it last thursday when i said we are going to go through phases here. right now we are in the widespread transmission phase, the one we don't want to be and where the coronavirus is deep-seated in our communities. we want to end of this phase and move forward but to do that we have to keep doing the hard work, the sheltering place in the social distancing. we have to keep earning our way out of this. none of us asked for this horrible disease and none of us deserve it but we still have to fight our way out and earn our way out through the actions. so that means staying focused and staying buckle down on the rules that actually work. and continuing to stick to them. no matter what is going on

around us, this is the way forward. now, three indicators i said we would roll out today and you can see them live right now at nyc.gov/coronavirus. i will go over them but again this is of information that is always available to you, updated daily and we will all watch the progress together. i want to know right there i wanted to be steady progress, we all wanted to be steady progress, it may not always be steady progress stating the obvious. sometimes the numbers might go up and sometimes down, we wanted to be down a lot but we can't guarantee every day will be perfect. sometimes one will go up and another will go down. we have we want to see them all move down in unison to be able to get to that next phase where we have low level transmissions. >> sendra: mary bill de blasio giving an update, highlighting one key factor is a hospital admissions in new york is going down. obviously he is weighing big

decisions about whether or not to reopen city schools et cetera so he will continue to give updates on line as well. the mayor of new york city, bill de blasio. >> ed: we will stay on top of that. also i wisconsin primary sparking a big new debate about mail-in voting and concerns of the coronavirus could affect the presidential election in november. "wall street journal" columnist dan henning her ways and next. e refi shortcuts the process. veterans can refinance with no income verification, no appraisal, and no out of pocket costs. one call could save you $2000 a year. 8xwitpeople at higher riskng, must take extra precautions. h=qva pzaua@ndg#õ you are at higher risk if you are over 65,

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fired up about this, but when you read more closely there are studies that suggest republicans do well with mail-in voting. so what's really going on here? >> for starters the states are responsible for their own voting procedures and the president doesn't really control that. as well, five states at least have had mail-in voting for many, many years and by and large get by with it pretty well. i will say that as a practical matter, i think the idea of early voting is becoming inherently ridiculous as a push that early voting way out past four or five weeks. campaigns are not even over. having said all that the fact is, as you guys no doubt have reported there are many medical authorities who say that coronavirus could spike back up in the fall. it won't be as bad as it is now but it could spike back up and you will have seasonal flu arriving in october as well. so i think we do have to start thinking about alternatives to in person voting come november.

and one would hope we could do that earlier than two weeks before as they tried to do in wisconsin's primary where it turned into a fiasco. >> ed: absolutely. we also have a big crisis on her hands big picture, that's just one element of it in terms of the president trying to deal with the crisis as he also considers reopening parts of the economy. a big "new york times" piece that the president is not happy about that says the headline, he could have seen what was coming come up behind it trumps failure on the virus and an examination reveals a president was warned about the potential for pandemic but that internal divisions lack of planning and his faith in his own instincts lead to halting response. your view on all of this? >> let us talk about "the new york times." "the new york times" has been trying to remove donald trump from office every day of publication starting with the afternoon of his inauguration, running through the russian collusion narrative up until the impeachment and now they have

seized on this story of unpreparedness as another reason for turning trump out of office. the fact of the matter is that, the world health organization, and i read through that piece. the world health organization appears once in "the new york times" piece, no indication that the w.h.o. turned to pandemic including the prime ministers of the united kingdom, spain, france, japan and the rest of europe. they were all late to the call and it would have been better if they had done that in january but the fact is that they all were looking to hold up until w.h.o. made the call. none of that is in that times article. >> ed: important context that's missing, although there will be lots of looking back. right now we are trying to move forward and try to deal with this moving forward. lots of questions about all people levels of government. thank you dan for coming in.

>> sendra: americans coming together in this unprecedented crisis. how and effort in new york is thinking hospital nurses while also supporting small business. just ahead, we will have that, plus this. [singing] ♪ "amazing grace," how sweet the sound ♪ >> sendra: a moving easter concert from one of the hardest hit cities in the world. ♪ that saved a wretch like me ♪

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a [singing] ♪ i once was lost, but now i'm found ♪ ♪ was blind, but now i see >> ed: the show was organized by milan's mayor to bring people together as italy remained still iin a strict coronavirus lockdown. sandra, i know you had that special yesterday with a lot of great leaders, but i see people on social media is saying he has a voice of an angel. >> sendra: it was right after the special concluded yesterday and i was able to tune in. there was a millions of people tuned into his youtube channel to listen to that powerful, moving performance. since then, i think 25 million people have logged on to watch

that. he said he's been really struck by the sadness this emergency around the world has caused but also by the turn to prayer for so many and it inspired him to do that. i've a maria and he finished with amazing grace, it was beautiful. >> ed: remarkable. >> sendra: meanwhile a new year effort in new york to think nurses on the front lines while helping local businesses at the same time. eric shawn is live with the details on that. good morning. >> good morning sandra. it's a gift for our nations nurses and it started with the love between two sisters. she watched her sister who is a nurse at a local hospital and her colleague struggle against the coronavirus. so she thought of doing something that could help them. she and her husband came up the unique idea that benefits to groups that have been hit hard by this pandemic. nurses and local businesses.

they raise money for both by asking people to buy gift cards from local establishments like restaurants, beauty parlors and spas. those gift cards would then be given to nurses when the crisis has abated. it's called go in your purse for a nurse and in a few days they raised more than $7,000. back to you, sandra. >> sendra: low rate. eric shawn in new york for us. >> ed: that's terrific. the u.s. is entering its second month of national emergency amid the coronavirus pandemic with more than half a million americans infected. we have senator tim scott among others coming up, a brand-new hour of "america's newsroom" stay with us. one call can save you $2000 every year.

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>> sendra: fox news alert, severe storm sweeping the south killing at least 19 people in three states and sending doesn't sue the hospital. much of the region remains on a flash flood and tornado warnings and watches. hello every one ad welcome to a brand-new hour of "america's newsroom" this morning. i'm sandra smith. >> ed: it's great to see you, i me ed henry. people waking up across the states with no power. up to the governor declared a state of emergency last night. i'm in louisiana, a tornado tore through munro leaving hundreds of homes damaged or destroyed and people taking cover in basements, closets and bathrooms. steve harrigan is tracking all of this life for us in atlanta.

>> edit, this was at least 13 separate tornadoes confirmed on the ground and that number could grow as the investigation continues, leaving more than 19 people dead across the south. mississippi got hit hardest with 11 data, georgia with six and in louisiana hundreds of homes were destroyed. one of these tornadoes carved a path 100 miles long. it was a long track tornado with wind speeds of more than 160 miles per hour. the national weather service issued its highest warning for catastrophic damage and along the way some places got hit with 7 inches of rain and hail the size of tennis balls. at >> this will take a long time for us to recover from. we are not going to recover from this in two or three days, not even two or three days. that will take months to recover from this. >> there was some initial confusion about whether or not to even open shelters in some areas because of the coronavirus and gatherings of more than ten are banned. so they decided to go with

protection from the tornado. eventually those shelters were opened up so you had people at the same time facing a declaration of disaster and a state of emergency. going into shelters to be safe from the tornado and once inside the shelter having to practice social distancing to try to be safe from the virus as well. it was a very rough easter nig night. many are waking up to no power and that storm which is still strong is still moving towards the carolinas. edit, back to you. >> ed: steve harrigan. the destruction is amazing. >> we are starting to think about a gradual reentry. make sure you don't do something prematurely and precipitously at the same time that you pay attention to the need to try to get back to normal. it's not going to be a light switch where we say, okay, it's now june or july or whatever,

and click the light switch goes back on. >> ed: that was dr. anthony fauci over the weekend on the factors that are at play for returning to normal as the united states continues to deal with the coronavirus pandemic. right now there are over 550,000 confirmed cases with more than 22,000 deaths. jonathan serrie is life outside of the cdc headquarters with the latest. >> good morning, and that same cnn interview, dr. fauci acknowledge that an earlier start on mitigation efforts perhaps could have saved some lives. but he qualified his answer also acknowledging that deploying these mitigation efforts, telling people to isolate at home is "complicated." after that interview president trump retweeted a defense of his coronavirus strategy which was written by former congressional candidate deanna lorrain. her tweet ended with the

sentence "time to a hashtag of fire fauci." a processing plant responsible for as much as 5% of u.s. pork production has closed after more than 200 employees tested positive for the coronavirus. state officials urged smithfield foods to close the plant for 14 days to allow workers to self isolate. the company protesting protein plant closures threaten the nation's meat supply saying we have a stark choice as a nation. we will either produce food or not even in the face of covid- covid-19. former cdc director dr. tom frieden says one americans finally come out of self isolation the nation's public health system must be ready to test widely isolate infected individuals, trace their contacts and quarantine those exposed. take a listen. >> if we can do those four things we will be able to come out much sooner and much more safely but we have to do them very well or we will be stuck either staying home longer or

coming out, exposing again and we have to come back in again. >> in the meantime, social distancing appears to be working. infectious disease experts say new cases in the u.s. are showing early signs of plateauing. sandra, back to you. >> sendra: jonathan serrie outside of the cdc for us. thanks jonathan. >> ed: a new report suggesting covid-19 was spreading in america well before last month. in the "los angeles times" sto story, they suggest coronavirus was in california far earlier than anyone knew. joining me now is dr. janette nesheiwat. good morning, dr. r. >> good morning, eddie. >> ed: people in new york have said that they were knocked off of their feet by something that doctors couldn't quite figure out last year. what are we learning about california?

>> absolutely. 2020, right? i'm thinking of my own patients, i swabbed them for flu, they came in with all the flu symptoms, chest pain, shortness of breath and body aches. looking back, i only had the flu test and they were coming back negative. i remember sometimes i would swap what i thought was of blue patient a second time because i could have sworn it was the flu. but now looking back i'm confident it was coronavirus. this was back in january or february. the reason is come back in january and february we were all focused on influenza because we were in the middle of influenza season. then, we are focused on the princess diamond cruise ship so we weren't really focus on, is this the coronavirus coming in from china? but when you think about it, it started in december. december to january was an entire month where people were flying from china, italy and europe which definitely could have brought it into the country a lot sooner than we suspected.

>> ed: let's talk about at the significance of this. the virus was freewheeling in our community, he says, and probably has been here for quite some time. much longer than we first believed, most likely since back in december. this was not recognized because we were having as you just noted a severe flu season. i guess more than anything looking forward to come up doesn't help that it started earlier and we might get over it sooner? is there something we should have spotted sooner? what are your thoughts? >> that's a good point. it could have lasted longer than april, may or june if it hadn't started earlier. one could take on point for this is it's good learning for us. next time i have a patient where the symptoms don't match the diagnosis then we have to start thinking, is this something new? a new disease or new virus? especially when i look back the

patients i had. i had a patient that had shortness of breath and body aches. i would run every test. ekg, check for pulmonary embolism, everything came back negative so it definitely gives us a broader sense of diagnosis and look beyond the basic flu. we always tend to tell our patients that it's most likely a virus that will get better but next time what we want to do is continue with contact precautions. meaning i would still tell a patient, you are running a fever, you are so contagious no matter what it is so stay away, stay home, rest and i'll go back out until you are fever free and feeling better. >> ed: let's also talk about testing. you have cited the importance of testing and yet it's not clear that we quite have our arms around it. this bloomberg story about false negatives raising doctors doubts about coronavirus tests. why are we still having these doubts? >> first of all it's important to note that there is no test that's 100% accurate.

what we are looking for when we do these swabs is sensitivity and specificity. is that negative test really negative? is that positive test really positive? want a test that has high sensitivity and specificity which gives us more confidence to put a patient back out into the community. but again, i don't just treat a patient based on test results. i even tell a patient before i take that swamp, before i put it in their news, i say relax as best you can because i want to get a really good specimen otherwise we will get a false negative. i tell my patients, these tests are not 100% and let's see what it shows. but i still give them contact precautions. if they are running a fever and chest pain and shortness of breath, i still have them do the 14 day quarantine. i say even though this is negative i would still tell you to take precautions because you have all the signs and symptoms of it. it's important to you as our clinical judgment and decision-making making skills are not based everything on a

test. we didn't have all these tests available right away because we were concerned about the accuracy of the tests and giving patients a false negatives, putting them out into the community. very dangerous because we have one person spread it to another and it would have been a vicious cycle. >> ed: and moving forward to, testing and trace programs. the president says he is about to make what he thinks will be the biggest decision of his presidency about reopening the economy. the key will be making sure that employees are comfortable and the person working beside them has either not had it or had it and got better. here is dr. tom ingalls be at john hopkins who have been in the center of trying to figure all this out. >> we can't get testing for mild or moderate cases. in terms of tracking cases and contacts, that's the strategy that countries have had that have had the most success. they've used that to bring their

numbers down. we don't have that capacity in the country so it will take a lot of people to get that built. >> so that something raised a lot of eyebrows, how do we get that built? in the middle of this crisis, all the other issues that the president and the mayor are all dealing with and health professionals of course. how do you get that infrastructure going so people are confident to get back to work? >> great question. it's a challenge and it's great that the states are being proactive in initiating a strategic plan to develop a public health policy to put people back out into the community. the first thing they want to do is test and a trace. number one we have to have the diagnostic capability. we need more swabs and more antibody tests. those are being rolled out and i think we will see more in the next couple of weeks. on top of that we need to have the staff that knows how to conduct these tests. if you have someone that's not accurately conducting a test then you will get a false negative. so we did the staff and we need the supplies. this is important because we

need to know the prevalence in the community. who has eight, where can we focus our resources and tools. so collaboratively and collectively all the steps are needed in order to tackle the virus and prevent the spread to open up our community earlier. >> ed: no doubt, monumental task ahead. we appreciate your thoughts as always. >> sendra: the pandemic having a major impact on education in schools conduct a live mass experiment in remote learning. so while younger students be ready for promotion or will they were repeat the grade in the fall? plus the push to help small business and get the economy back on track again. senator kinsenator tim scott wie joining us just ahead. >> president trump: we have tremendous stimulus plans and things in the work that i think will really fire the country. i think it's going to happen is we will have a big bounce rather than a small balance.

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♪ >> ed: schools across america shutting their doors and remote learning is in full swing and so is the debate about moving students up to the next level especially in grade school. garrett county is live in arlington, virginia, with more detail. >> good morning to you. like so many facets of our lives right now the future of what education it looks like it's really up in the air. that is both in the short term as well as the long term. 21 states have already recommended or ordered schools shut down for the rest of the academic year and that may end up being the case for many of the other states as well, which have close schools with various dates in april and may. beyond that many administrators across the country are scrambling to figure out what

happens next. they are looking at mandatory summer school and a longer school days in the fall, starting the school year early or having students repeat this past year altogether. some education experts say that may be the best option for students who are already behind and struggling to learn at their grade level. >> the worst decision we can make is to push kids ahead when they are already behind and have lost ground because of this crisis. the crisis gives us a moment, an excuse to press pause and to make sure we are doing what's best for each individual child. >> while online learning can work well for older students that can be a big challenge for kids in elementary school. but since a big chunk of the learning that takes place at that age is about interpersonal skills, many teachers believe that younger students will be as impacted by school shutting do down. >> a lot of the school day is spent dealing with teaching the

kids how to get along and things like that. so our teachers right now online are reading stories to the kids and having them do activities that might seem like play but, really there is an educational purpose behind everything we are having the kids do. that way they will be ready for next year. >> experts say if there's any silver lining to the timing of the pandemic, it's that most schools had already covered the bulk of their curriculum by the time they shut down and were shifting to start to prepare for standardized tests, which have not been canceled across the nation. >> ed: lots of big issues still to be confronted. garrett tenney, we appreciate it. sandra? >> sendra: fox news alert, the extreme weather across louisiana is now hammering the carolinas. reports of widespread power outages along the carolina coast along with damages to homes. moments ago, the first reports of deaths in south carolina.

senator tim scott of south carolina joins us now and he has a new book coming out tomorrow by the way, "opportunity knocks." senator, good morning and thanks for being here. what's happening in your state right now as far as the emergency weather situation? downed power lines and downed trees are still obviously a great concern. >> devastating impact in my state. in seneca county with lost at at least one life and seneca county at least three deaths. 275,000 folks living in the carolinas living without power in the midst of a pandemic. our spirits are so high that there is no questions that they overnight and early morning storms are wreaking havoc throughout my great state. it's tough to see. >> sendra: senator, what more is being done right now considering this weather has not completely passed yet and more may be on the way? what more is your state doing right now? >> the good news is the governor is rallying the troops.

we have a strong emergency response, and we have over the last several years at a number of hurricane morning six so our emergency operations center is strong. the challenge of course is when you have so many folks at home because of the social distancing of the protocols, we have more people at risk in many ways. our response teams are on the scene and we are working in multiple parts of south carolina, especially the mid-to-upper part of the state of being impacted severely. the weather is heading toward the coast of south carolina and the wind is high and the rain is almost like a torrential downpour. it's hard to watch as we have so many folks nervous and isolated, it's really important to call your loved ones and stay in close contact and more help is coming. >> sendra: south carolina declaring another state of emergency, first due to the pandemics that we continue to face as a country. when you look at south carolina and your residence there, you

look across the country, senator, what more needs to be done to help out people and how about businesses both on the medical side and the stimulus side considering our economy is taking such a brutal hit? >> sandra, that's a great question. i've been working with some of my old friends in the emergency operations center is when i was the chairman of it interesting county. one of the things we are looking at is in order to get this economy up and running we need to be able to isolate the hot spots in order to mitigate the spread. at the same time, take a sector by sector analysis throughout the country to make sure that as we open up new sectors of the economy, we understand the damage that's been done. you are hearing a lot of calls for trillions of dollars in additional spending. i hesitate because literally, the $2.3 trillion and we haven't even sent all the money to all the states so we don't know how those dollars will impact. finally i would suggest that on the larger, midsized businesses and higher we have set up a

$500 billion fund through the commercial facilities paper which allows us to loan money to midsized and larger businesses. that money can be leveraged for up to three and a half trillion dollars. that's still happening, is open but not up and robust ways yet. as that happens we will have an understanding of what phase three has done for our economy and untold then it's a little premature for us to say we need another truth trillion dollars or 3 trillion. what we do know is from a surgical perspective, the small business resourcing has been very effective, somewhere near 200,000 -- $182 billion, going to 700,000 businesses have started to help people stay connected to their paychecks. that's a really good thing. the democrats unfortunately blocked another $250 billion and that we know needs to be done immediately and we have time to factor in the impact of phase

three over the next few days. if we do it right we could see this economy have a v shape to recovery. if not we are only adding trillions of dollars of debt that we have to figure that out too. we need to be careful on what signals we send and how often we react to this economy. >> sendra: some of your democratic colleagues looking to get things done on both fronts. they say we can get things done in coming days as far as more help for the hospitals and more help for the individuals and the small businesses. we know that you are all going to put your brains together and figure out something. our best to the people of your state. as you recover from these brutal storms. we appreciate your time, thank you. >> ed: at the supreme court announced they are taking an unprecedented step amid the pandemic. the high court think justices will take part in oral

arguments. they will hear eight cases including one case over president trump's tax reforms and another over birth control coverage for employers. the remaining hearings and cases will be postponed. >> ed: and a growing number of doctors starting to question the accuracy of those covid-19 testing kits. how false negatives are making them fight harder. plus it looks like infections in new york state are leveling off but the numbe number of deaths d hospitalizations does remain high. our next guest is a nurse who did triage near ground zero after 9/11. she said that covid-19 crisis is far worse. >> reinforcing the same thing, a flattening of all these numbers. you are not seeing a great decline in the numbers but you are seeing a flattening. they get that no two people are alike and customize your car insurance so you only pay for what you need.

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>> sendra: fox news alert, new coronavirus data coming out of louisiana now showing a downward trend with declining deaths, fewer hospitalizations and falling use of ventilators. arlington, texas, where the governor has extended the covid-19 disaster declaration. >> first the situation on the ground in louisiana is improving across the board when you look at the raw data that came in over the weekend.

not only are the deaths reported in a 24-hour period going down, so are the number of patients requiring a ventilator to help them breathe. officials say hospitalizations are also plateauing. since the outbreak began 840 people have died across louisiana and more than 20,000 residents have tested positive. in the early going, new orleans led the nation for the number of covid-19 deaths per capita. records also show that 70% of those who have died are african-american. to help get to the bottom of why that is and to help fix it, the governor has announced the development of a health equity task force. meantime, the cdc says february's mardi gras celebration likely contributed to the spread. one of the most famous mardi gras groups, a philanthropic organization known as the zulu club has been hit hard. 20 of its members can tested

positive for coronavirus and at least four have died including this woman's 51-year-old husba husband. >> why it's hitting the african-american community so hard, i would love to know that. and to say that we live in america which is supposed to be the richest country in the world and cannot tell me that we are supposed to figure this out. >> in the meantime, texas has extended their disaster declaration. the death toll has risen to 271 in the lone star state and more than 13,000 texans have tested positive for coronavirus. sandra? >> sendra: casey stegall reporting from texas this morning. >> ed: new york appears to be flattening the curve but total confirmed cases have now searched past 190,000. governor andrew cuomo says the

numbers are simply staggering. >> it has been flattening but flattening at a terribly high level. put in the context of 9/11, which was supposed to be the tragedy of my lifetime, 2753 lives lost, we are now at 9,385. >> ed: anthea noel got first hand experience as an icu nurse who worked at ground zero in the weeks following those awful attacks. and she's on the front lines now, too. she joins us this morning. you are doing heroic work. we want to thank you for all you are doing, good morning. >> thank you, good morning. >> ed: how do you compare the two tragedies in terms of what you've seen? >> when i went to ground zero i was a new nurse. what i saw, it was acute trauma.

everything happened at one time. now we are seeing people stagger weeks and weeks and a few months after the fact. they are still coming in and it's an illness. it's not trauma. people are dying and it staggering. it's a lot. >> ed: i can see you are still emotional about it and rightly so because we have seen things that we have not seen. >> i'm sorry, i can't hear. >> ed: okay. i can see you got a little emotional in that answer. can you hear me now? >> i can hear you, yes. >> ed: i know this has to be a difficult time for you. if you don't want to minimize what you saw with 9/11, they are both awful tragedies but what i hear you saying is this is almost a rolling tragedy where you are not sure where the end is. >> it's like there is no end. we have patients coming in and

as soon -- if one expires or somebody recovers, we have another ventilator coming in and it's just over and over. it's nerve-racking, it's emotionally disturbing. you know, we are trying our best but we feel like our best sometimes is not good enough. it is a lot. >> ed: i'm sure it is. i noted that you are around ground zero during 9/11. you are at st. michael's hospital and then new jersey governor was on cnn yesterday saying i want to get the economy reopened but i can't focus on that because the house is still on fire and that's the first thing we have to do. talk about when the governor of your state says the houses on fire and you are in the middle of those flames? >> first of all i would like to thank the governor of new jersey

for his leadership. he's been doing such a great job. we have testing centers, i'm working out a testing center also come a drive-through testing center in estes county so we are able to test 300 people per day. and there's one in burton county. the governor has done a lot of work with new jersey to get the numbers and to get treatment as soon as possible. i commend him and salute him for that. >> ed: many parties working tirelessly on this and we do want to mention in the last 30 seconds or so we have, on easter sunday there was at least -- talking about fire and flames but there was a lot of hope and spiritual leaders talking about light at the end of the tunnel. we played a clip from andrea bocelli and his concert in ita italy. >> i do see hope.

yesterday, i work at the icu in st. michael's medical center and i extubated to patients. to see these patients extubated and taken off the ventilator is so grant gratifying. to be able to call their families and tell them, your loved one is going to be okay. the worst is over. that was such a good moment. as opposed to the other calls that we have to make about patients expiring. yesterday was triumphant. we were so elated, so happy. >> ed: that's a reason for optimism and hope. the emotion you are showing when you lose people but also when you save people, in addition to the hard work you are doing you can see on your face just how much you care about what you do. we cannot begin to fully thank you as a nation for our gratitude for what you and so many people are doing, thank y

thank you. >> thank you so much, thank you. god bless you. >> ed: god bless you, anthea. >> sendra: our best to you, her and all the other front-line workers. the world health organization is saying there are dozens of coronavirus vaccines that are currently in the works. but how close are we to a reliable option? plus, devastation throughout the south after those deadly severe weather and many different storms put a damper on easter sunday. we will be speaking to the mayor of a louisiana town that was hard hit by those. that's next. it's a new day for veterans all across america.

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>> sendra: it was planned for las vegas and now it will happen in a basement. nbc sports reporting that roger caddell will be conducting the first round of the nfl draft from his home in bronxville, new york. the coronavirus outbreak making the gathering in vegas impossible. the draft will be held on april 23rd. just a different location. >> ed: we will be watching that. meanwhile an nba owner making the news. could that 2020 presidential race soon have a new entrant? he tells our own chris wallace on "fox news sunday" that he's put some thought into this in the past month. >> i never would have considered it prior to a month ago but now things are changing rapidly and dramatically. there's different ways to get through those issues you mentioned. i'm not saying no but it's not

something i'm actively pursuing. just keeping the door open. as it is today, i'd say probably not. >> ed: cuban also weighed in on the american economy amid the pandemic saying he expects many world changing companies to start because of it as we all adapt to a whole new reality. sandra? >> sendra: meanwhile today we remember the remarkable apollo 13 mission. its mission was to land the third u.s. spacecraft on the moon, and exactly 50 years ago the fate spacecraft was four fifths of the way to its destination when liquid oxygen tanks on board exploded. once the mission was aborted nasa turned its attention to getting the three astronauts safely back to earth. though they survived with limited resources, the three space explorers returned unharmed. >> ed: it's stock starting the week lower as investors waited oil going nowhere and billions of dollars in stimulus checks

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>> ed: a quick check on wall street, the dow is down almost 500 points right now. cheryl casone is an anchor on the fox business network. good morning to go. there's a lot to digest, the oil deal that the president negotiated could be good for markets obviously but then you have disney world saying they are going to furlough over 40,000 employees. employees. you have earnings coming from some companies where we might get a look at just how bad things have gone for a bunch of companies. >> the good news is we know it's going to be bad news. we will get a earnings season

tomorrow, bank of america, jpmorgan and johnson & johnson. we know the news is bad for the first quarter but what we will be looking for for fox business' 221. we will say we are looking at some negative numbers today but there are some cautious things. the markets are still down about 17%. you can't change the numbers if they are not good but i was looking out a note from baird and they said from the technical perspective the downward momentum looks to have been broken. another note that i read this morning from goldman sachs, and this is david costa who is a very well respected strategists, he said the markets are unlikely to make new lows. because of this do what i whatever it takes thing that we got going on for the government. he talks about the congress, the cares act and 2.3's billion in stimulus. they say that this is actually a good thing for the markets because we are not going to see

that economic collapse. i never thought in my lifetime i would be talking about the word depression. this is where we've been over the last few weeks so there is some optimism there despite what you are seeing on your screen. >> ed: and optimism for people who want to get money in their wallets. the irs sent out a tweet saying basically, it's finally arriving, the stimulus checks. how important is that for folks? >> it's very important. the irs did move fast for being the irs. we have reports that friday night people were getting deposit checks and most of these will be out by april 15 which is just a couple days away. most people don't need to do anything but there's a small group that i want to address that does need to go to the irs website. if you are collecting social security benefits and you have dependent children you are going to need to go to the website and fill out. there is a form that they have there, especially if you didn't file tax returns before. also if you are on disability

and you are a dependent, that someone that needs to go to the website. also if you are a brand-new social security benefit person for 2020. they will get the checks, the 1200, 240500 per child. >> ed: and as cheryl said, some of them started arriving electronically on friday. good news for people around the country. we precede that. >> sendra: deadly tornadoes tearing through the south. the seville severe storms devastating monroe, louisiana. >> this will take a long time for us to recover from. we are going to recover from this in two or three days or even two or three weeks. we will take months to recover. >> sendra: munro mayor jamie mayo joins us now. thanks for being here. please give us an update on your community and how everyone is doing this morning.

>> we did have a devastating blow yesterday and of course we had some 200 or 300 homes that were devastated, power lines down, as well as structural damage and trees down all over the place. we are a resilient community and our folks are doing well even though they are concerned about what's going to happen with th them. it's going to be some time before we are going to be able to get back on the ground. >> sendra: what can you report to us as far as injuries in your community? >> we want to thank god for the fact that there were just some minor injuries but no fataliti fatalities. that's a blessing from god almighty so we haven't had any fatalities are reported to us. mostly the individuals as i mentioned, they don't know

what's going to happen right now because they've lost everything. with that 200 or 300 different houses that have been damaged, there are about four different areas in the city of monroe. also the airport, there were some structural damage is out there, some airplanes and hangers that were damaged. but, we have officials on the ground working, from local officials to state officials and federal officials. governor john bel edwards will be here today and showed them some of the most damaged areas here and also throughout whitestone parish. we certainly looking forward to them coming today. >> sendra: as you've been talking, we've been showing some of the images coming from the monroe fire debate mike

department and some of the devastation and damage to the homes there. it's not a pretty sight, and thank goodness as you said no deaths in your community. as you mentioned, damage to the airport, are emergency crews able to get in and do their job? >> the emergency crews are able to get in and we are very fortunate that the regional airport terminal was not damaged. as i mentioned, a couple of the hangers and some pretty expensive airplanes were damaged as well. we had to cancel all flights and there was some debris on the runway but we were able to clean up that. so we are very thankful for th that. around the airport, where most of the damages are, there is a neighborhood that is within close proximity of the airport. fire is a state, they probably

have the most damage throughout monroe and washed u watch top p. we are getting a whole lot of sleep, those that were damaged aren't getting any sleep at all. we are working with them and determined and committed to doing everything we cannot only to bring back the city of monroe but make it better than it is now. >> sendra: that's a very positive take on things. the community also battles the coronavirus there. thanks for coming on with us this morning. our best to you and our best to your community as you try to build back. thank you. with newday's va streamline refi there's no income verification, no home appraisal, and no out of pocket costs. it's the quickest and easiest refi they've ever offered.

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>> ed: fox news alert, at least 19 people killed. the storms causing catastrophic damage in several states leaving hundreds of thousands this morning without power. the daily storms now sliming the carolinas and heading up the east coast as well. a live report on that in momen moments. but first, and history made in the coronavirus pandemic. all 50 states in america now under federal disaster declarations for the first time ever amid signs the epicenter in new york city may be finally on

the downward curve. good morning toussaint drive. >> sendra: good money to edit, good morning everyone. the world health organization is set to hold a news conference this hour with more than half a million cases of covid-19 here in the u.s. there are also, there is also more encouraging news. >> we have still not reached the peak but we are close. we are seeing a small rate of increase, in the range of five or 6% as opposed to where we were before when it was 20 or 30%. critical to opening up will be the continued increase in the availability of testing. it is going to need to be in place in order for us to effectively reopen and keep this nation reopened. >> sendra: david lee miller is at mount sinai hospital in new york city with the latest from there.

hey, david lee. >> good morning sandra. the epicenter of the virus got some cautiously optimistic news a few minutes ago. the mayor said trending down now, the number of people admitted to hospitals for the virus, the number of patients in city hospital icu is also moving down in the percentage of people testing positive. the city is expanding testing for the virus focusing on low income and minority neighborhoods which have been especially hard-hit for the virus but complicating things, the city is having a shortage of swabs which are needed for the testing to go forward. the mayor says schools will remain closed until the end of the academic year which is in contrast to governor andrew cuomo and he says not made a decision on how long they will remain shuttered. statewide there are 18,700 virus patients hospitalized, fewer than some productions but that situation in health care's facilities is still dire.

at mount sinai hospital one doctor says that the emergency department is in his words exploding with coronavirus patients of all ages. >> i'm seeing old patients, young patients, people of all age ranges who are incredibly sick. you can even hear now as i'm walking through patient rooms in the hallway, you can hear oxygen come the sound of a pulse ox. >> to try to reduce the spread of the virus, governor andrew cuomo is now requiring all employers who are still operating essential services to provide workers with a face covering. and lastly, some workers at new york present mike presbyterian hospital who had recently been lauded for their framework during this pandemic finished their 12 hour shift to some very distressing news. they entered the hospital parking lot and what they found were that the tires to their

cars had been slashed, 22 and all. authorities have arrested a 28-year-old man. he was charged with a variety of crimes including criminal mischief and possession of a controlled substance. the hospital says it will take care of the cost for all the damage but i hate to say it sandra, it just goes to show that even in times like these no good deed can go unpunished. >> sendra: horrible to hear that in the middle of all this. david lee miller at mount sinai for us. thank you. >> we are hoping that at the end of the month we can 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. >> ed: a note of cautious optimism from dr. fauci as he discusses the possibility of using summary sections in the next few weeks. joining us now is dr. nicole saphier. good to have you as always.

i think another important point from dr. fauci was when he said opening the economy is not an all or none proposition. it seemed to suggest this could happen in a rolling fashion. your thoughts? >> absolutely. that's not just state to state varies for a patient population and demographics but from city to city, you are also very variable in all the specific states. now you have peaks happening in certain cities and you have a low number of cases elsewhere throughout the country so you have to not only look at this as a country, but almost a municipality by municipality basis. >> ed: absolutely. and as we try to look forward to what's coming around the bend there are all the stories going after the president and looking back on what happened and whether it the administration acted quickly enough, he said

basically he could see what was coming. an examination reveals the president was warned about the potential for pandemic but internal divisions and lack of planning and his faith in his own instincts lead to a halting response. dr. fauci was asked about that story and, here's his story and we will get your response. >> where we are right now is a result of a number of factors. the size of the country and the heterogeneity of the country. you could say if you had a process that was ongoing and started mitigation earlier than you could have saved lives. obviously no one denies that. but what goes into those kind of situations is complicated. if we had right from the very beginning shut everything down it may have been different. but there was a lot of pushback about shutting things down. >> ed: so there he seems to be expressing some support for the president. as you know dr. safire, these decisions were not made in a vacuum. it's easy to look back and say, we should have done this and we

should have done that. >> we should have, but however i can tell you that some very early actions were done by president trump and his administration but they were based on faulty information that was coming out of china as well as a world health organization. don't forget, it wasn't until mid-january that the world health organization said there was likely no human to human transmission of this. it was likely that there was covid-19 potentially across the borders, but it could have caused some sort of delay in the mitigation effort. however you have to remember, how much pushback president trump got when he started restricting flights early on from wuhan because he was concerned about this. if you would have shut down the board is entirely including from europe which is where we have seen now that we've gotten a lot of our east coast cases from. if you got so much pushback, he was called xenophobic and racist.

in that very early on time, imagine if you would have shut down our borders altogether? people want to attack him for what we want to do and we can't blame a single person right now. there were some hiccups in the beginning and we are still dealing with some of the testing issue. had we shut down our borders earlier on in a more robust manor and had more legitimate testing early on i think we would be in a different place. but i don't think we would be without any cases, i think we would have still seen an overflow of our hospitals and i think we would have still been in a tricky situation regardless, had things been handled a "perfectly." there is no such way to handle a global pandemic. >> ed: i got 30 seconds. beyond the rearview mirror stuff, because i want to know what about the vaccine and what's coming next? the world health organization says 70 vaccines are now in the works and in some really good news three of them are now in the human testing phase. we are putting those on the screen.

>> deep in mind this is going as fast as we've ever seen it before. if skipped over animal trials to figure out if they are safe and efficacy in humans, this is the fastest it's ever been to. i think it will probably be early 2021, but potentially we could see it sooner. >> ed: thank you, breaking it down the way she always does. we appreciate it. >> sendra: meanwhile, devastating tornado staring through the south. at least 19 people killed and thousands of buildings destroyed. severe storms moving up the east coast. steve harrigan's live in atlanta with the latest. >> sandra, at least 13 separate tornadoes confirmed on the ground. they could have been more ripping through the south, mississippi got it worse beginning at 9:30 p.m. eastern. in louisiana hundreds of houses

destroyed. it carved a path 100 miles long, and the national weather service issuing its most severe warning, catastrophic damage. hail the size of tennis balls in some places. the real challenge for officials they say was trying to deal with two separate disasters at once. >> it's human nature for neighbors to help each other, families concerned about each other. it's our job and officials to continue to remind folks that we still have covid-19 pandemic in place. >> people wanted to help each other but they were prevented by doing so by social distancing. in parts of mississippi, some took shelter after shelter eventually opened up, while at the same time trying to observe

social distancing inside of the shelters. this morning, 750,000 people awoke without electricity and that storm is still hitting south carolina hard right now. speak >> sendra: steve harrigan. thank you. >> ed: oil-producing nations are reaching a deal to slash production in an effort to stabilize all prices. plus, you're at home, all 50 states under disaster declaration for the first time ever is more than 22,000 americans have died of coronavirus. a live report from washington, straight ahead. >> we are stabilized and i anticipate we will be able to start to see a decline in the days ahead. we have to continue to take it day by day and look at the data. these days you need faster internet that does all you

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>> ed: in saudi arabia and russia joining america to dramatically lower oil output. the largest production cut ever to stop oil prices from plunging even further as covid-19 sharply reduces demand. president trump thanked the russian and saudi arabian leaders saying the pact would save hundreds of thousands of u.s. jobs tweeting "the number that opec is looking to cut is 20 million barrels per day. adding if anything like this happens, the energy industry will be strong again far faster

than currently. ♪ >> sendra: and onto this. a new jersey high school teacher and his students developing a new way to get donated materials to hospitals by creating an online forum to determine what is needed and where. david snyder, a stem teacher at seton hall prep school joins us now. good morning and thanks for being here. tells about what your students saw and what they planned to do about it? >> thanks for having me. if you guys don't put us on and this website doesn't become popular, it doesn't serve any purpose. what the students really wanted to do, and i give them a ton of credit because we were in the middle of projects, they were doing drone programming and really cool stuff and we had to shift gears. but we saw all these heartwarming stories going on but everything seemed sort of

randomized. someone was donating food to one location or making masks for another location. what the students saw was a need to put all of those needs into one locations and really see those needs and get them there as soon as i possibly could. it was almost like, i guess you could say a clearinghouse. >> sendra: so david, it's the website up and running? we just took a peek at it, and it seems like it's in the very early stages. >> yes, it is. we reached out to a whole bunch of wet developing companies because we realize we bit off a little too much. we were bold in this project and got really excited about it but we didn't want to back off of it. we reached out to some web development companies and one

companies, and we said we would be happy to do your project. so here's my point. our website is a very minimal but still functional. companies, hospitals, they could put information into that website and then that form is publicly viewable as of today. >> ed: because david, i'm sure what your students probably saw is what many of us have seen in our own communities and that's people willing to donate masks or make masks or they know where there is something that is lacking another area and they know how they can get that item to those locations. that's what this website is trying to facilitate? >> absolutely. there are so many heartwarming and hopeful stories that people are giving up in this country at all, they really want to do

whatever they can. people are quarantining in their homes and feel like they can't really do anything and this is in a way that digital way for people to get all of their good energy and their hopeful spirit funneled in one direction so that they can get the needs to those hospitals and first responders. that's really the spirit of this website, it's really in gratitude for people that are really putting themselves at risk in helping us out. this is a small way of us trying to help that out as well. >> sendra: it sounds like you have some creative, thoughtful and caring students really about 13 per week, and that's based on the capacity for them, if somebody knew he was there and could do that. it will be really neat to watch what your students are able to

do with this website. final thought? >> your final spot on, and it's the ventilator store, people making masks. we want to create links on our site so that if anybody wants to do anything like that they could go to our site and look at instructions on how to make masks or how to make a face shield or something like that. again, i really appreciate you putting us on. we've had sponsors on our website and, this gives you great hope. >> sendra: without the website up there while you've been talking. david snyder, thank you for joining us this morning. the best to you and your students. >> ed: fox news alert, meanwhile all 50 states under disaster declarations for the first time in american history.

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>> sendra: fox news alert, president trump naming advisors who will guide efforts to reopen that u.s. economy is all 50 states are now under a disaster declaration for the first time in history. chief white house correspondent john roberts is live with more on all of that. good morning, john. >> good morning to you. if we will give you the latest on the new counsel to reopen america. when it comes to reopening the united states economy, the decision will be his and his alone. the president tweeting for the purpose of conflict and confusion some of the fake news media are saying that it's a governor's decision to open up the states, not that of the president and federal government. let it be fully understood that

this is incorrect and it is the decision of the president and for many good reasons. this will continue a decision by me in conjunction with the governors and input for others will be made shortly. the makeup and the creation of his new counsel to reopen america, and it looks like at this point there are only government people who are involved in this. the american people who will be on the council will be chaired by mark meadows. and robert lighthizer, the u.s. trade representative, and the omb director and the chairman of the council of economic advisors along with a couple of other people. the next soft target for reopening is now may the 1st. representative steven han says

it's one that will ultimately depend on conditions being right for reopening. listen here. >> it is a target and we are hopeful about the target but it's too early to be able to tell that. we see light at the end of the tunnel. dr. fauci and dr. brooks have said that and the incredible resiliency of the american people with respect to a social distancing. it's become the president said last friday that making the decision on what to do will be the most difficult decision he has ever faced ever, and peter navarro says it's a difficult calculus because there are enormous pressures on both sides of the equation. listen here. >> we know that the virus itself kills but economic recessions and depressions kill so that very tough decision that the president is going to be making will have to weigh the balance and figure out which path does more damage. >> of the president continued to

push back against reports that he ignored warnings in late january from navarro and others of the virus could be devastating if it were to spread widely in this country. the two president pointing out his early move to stop travel from china was important but also tweeted "i was criticized for rent moving too fast. they told me nothing until later in the peter navarro memo was the same as the band. you see his statement is fake news. the president is likely to comic expected to leave the coronavirus daily briefing at 5:00, and i will likely learn more about the makeup of the council and what he expects to happen and whether or not they will be able to begin reopening the government in just a little more than two weeks. sandra? >> sendra: we look forward to that. >> ed: the coronavirus pandemic is sparking anxiety and stretch all over the world from fear of catching the virus to coping with the economic stress.

isolation brought on by social distancing. all of this highlighting the need for spiritual distancing. dr. deepak chopra is writing about that. so good to have you. you know, we don't want to exaggerate, and that seems to lead. how do you find that in the middle of a pandemic? >> that's hopefully been controlled through social and physical distancing and better hygiene. the economic crisis which is also very real and could cause a lot of suffering, and then the crisis of stress which compromises the immune system and increases levels of hormones like cortisol and adrenaline which causes inflammation.

and it causes something in the body called a cytokine storm. acute inflammation. so inflammation and stress is also if not more. at this point it's very important for people to face the fear to embrace it in their bodies and also design techniques to quiet the mind, such as mindful awareness, meditation, prayer, breathing, debriefing, anything that helps mind and body. it helps optimize immune function. that's what we are offering right now to the world. >> ed: that sounds wonderful. having meaning and purpose, loving and being loved, self-esteem, inner peace and joy, being of service to others and generosity of spirit. they are all wonderful qualities but how do you explain that to someone who just lost their job and is waiting for a stimulus

check of $1200 that they are not sure if that's really going to feed their family? how do you bridge that gap when someone might feel like they don't have self-esteem? >> through friends and family and intimacy with the love, compassion, and joy, offered to help them. you don't need to help them financially. give them attention, acceptance, ask them to help you. right now, the only thing to remember is love in action. the love without action is meaningless and action without love is irrelevant. you put two and two together and you have an ecosystem of relationships where you can hang in there and stick together. >> ed: appreciation and love is among the things we should all be focused on a whole lot more now. we appreciate your insight. thanks for coming in.

>> sendra: thank you, eda. meanwhile, andrew cuomo is giving his daily update, let's dip in and listen. >> still going up a little bit but a basic flattening as opposed to increasing gaps. the total number of hospitalizations that down, a little bit up and a little bit down. overall, just follow the line. as we say, the three-day rolling average which is more accurate than any one day is down again. the net change in icu admissions is down and again, i discount this icu admissions because of demarcation of a regular bed and icu bed in the hospital is gone, almost every bed is a hospital bed. the net change in icu admissions is also down.

intubation's is the worst. people are intubated and wind up on a ventilator and most often do not come off of the ventilator. somewhere between 70% and 80% depending on who you talk to so that's a scary number. when that is good, it's down comic good. we were worried about the spread from new york city to the suburbs upstate and we have been very aggressive when we get a little cluster, a spot that's acting up, we jump on it. this is like of watching a fire go through dry grass with a strong wind and it's a blowing the fire and a couple of embers that wind up on one side of the field and ember start to catch fire and that's a cluster and then you have to run over to those embers and stamp them out right away before they grow. you see the stabilization there and that has been good, too.

this is a new take on it. we talk about net hospitalizations, this is the number of new cobit hospitalizations to date. this is how many new covid diagnoses or how many walking into the hospital had covid. so about 2,000 people per day are walking in or being diagnosed with covid. so you are still increasing the hospital population. initially, by 2,000, people were being tested for it covid but on the other side, people are being discharged on the other end. so the net is what we talk about because we have always been worried about lack of capacity in the hospital system, where you pour the water into the

glass and the glass over fills where the hospital system just can't handle the number of people coming in. this says take a deep breath and you still have 2,000 people per day who are coming into the hospital system. and the terrible news is as terrible as it gets, and the worst news i've had to deliver to the state as the governor of new york. it the number of deaths is 671. not as bad as it has been in the past but basically flat and basically flat at a horrific level of pain and grief and sorrow. this is 671 people who passed away on easter sunday.

for me, i'm catholic. easter sunday is the high holy day in many ways and, at one of the high holy days. and to have this happen over the weekend is really, really especially tragic. and they are all in our thoughts and prayers. that rages the death total to 10,056. again for perspective, 1,002,700 lives were lost on 9/11 and 9/11 changed every new yorker who was in a position to appreciate all that day what happened, and the number of lives lost was horrific after 9/11. and the grief was horrific and we are at 10,000 deaths. new york, 10,000 deaths.

new jersey 2,000 deaths. massachusetts 756 and then you have the state of michigan. why new york? why we are seeing this level of infection? well, why cities across the country? it's very simple. it's about density. it's about the number of people in a small geographic location allowing the virus to spread and that virus is very good at what it does. it is a killer and it's very good at spreading. it's very contagious and the dense environments are its feeding grounds. we learned that lesson very early on. we had one of the first hot spots in the nation, one of the most intense clusters was new rochelle, new york. it's in westminster county, not in new york city? why new rochelle? and that is what i was so

concerned about early on. we didn't know what we were working about. more people were infected, more people were indents gatherings with hundreds of people and it spread like wired wildfire. so it's not just a dense city dense community, its any person in a dense environment. you will be in a very rural county, you will think new york, it's all new york city. no, we have counties that have more cows than people by population. if you have a person who is infected in a room of 200 people or 300 people, then you have a problem. where some kitties cancel perez,

other cities didn't cancel parades. a >> sendra: you been listening to new york governor andrew cuomo with his daily update giving a press conference they are talking about his new concerns with the spread to the suburbs of the new york city. 671 deaths on easter sunday, he just reported in new york. he said not as bad as the past and they are still seeing the flattening. but still talking about a lot of death and despair. the governor there, 10,056 deaths is now the total. that was andrew cuomo and his update and will continue to monitor that for news. >> ed: thank you sandra. the south is reeling right now from deadly tornadoes that destroyed hundreds of buildings. many lives lost and we will

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>> ed: even apple and google may be teaming up now to fight the pandemic. they are working together on a tool to help track the spreading of the virus. channel 115 on your sirius xm device, but they are, good to see you. apple and google are not usually working together, and people are wondering how this all might work. >> this is definitely an interesting combination of the two tech titans right now who normally don't get along. but they are working together and it's important that they are because collectively, with apple's ios on the iphone, google's android operating system, they control about 99% of the world smartphones. so here's what they will try to

do and here's what they are working on. they are releasing a set of tools so that you can anonymously begin to track where you are going and who you are coming into contact with. the way it works is actually pretty simple. they will use bluetooth so they can't actually track your geolocation. they are not going to know if you went to the park or the grocery store or if you are at work. but went to phones are near each other, and they will do that over bluetooth. what will happen is, the operating system will create a series of keys that will then go with you throughout the day. so let's say someone in the grocery store at the same app running on their google phone or iphone, if in the next 14 days they test positive for the coronavirus, they can go into the app and say that.

that will alert all of the people, to be at risk for the exposure for the coronavirus. we saw them do this in south korea with a a lot of success and we are seeing them start to do this in italy, spain and the united kingdom. and it's working. privacy experts obviously concerned about tracking data and they address that right off the top. when we first started writing about this, and those keys that go on your phone only lasts for about 15 minutes so they are constantly going to be cycling through them. they are doing that so that you can't track one specific person for a very long period of time. and all the information that you are providing in the app, when you give the app -- for example that you have tested positive for covid-19, they are not going to know who you are or where you are, they are just going to be able to alert people that you come into contact with.

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>> sendra: it's a creative way to say thank you to medical personnel fighting coronavirus. it's called "go in your purse for a nurse." and it's helping local businesses at the same time. senior correspondent eric shawn is live in new york city with that >> hey, sandra. how are you? it's a gift for our nations nurses and it started with the love between two sisters.

here in new york city in the borough of staten island, lorraine l cotto was watching her sister alicia, a nurse at a local hospital, and her her colleague struggle helping with coronavirus. so lorraine wanted to do something that could help her and her sister's friends. she and her husband's cell came up with the idea to raise money by having people buy gift cards for local businesses as a thank you. that way places like restaurants, beauty parlors and spas can be helped at the same time nurses can also be thanked. lorraine named her idea "go in your purse for a nurse." and when you know it, a lot of people did just that. in a few days they raised a 7,000. >> i really wanted to do it for me such as hospital because that's wha where she is. then when i started seeing the response i was like, i'll be able to do all the nurses in the hospital. then we became bigger, i was like oh, my god. now we can do the other two

hospitals on staten island. and from that, it's snowballing. >> the american nurses foundation is a charity run by the washington, d.c., based nurses association which is a group that represents our country's 4 million registered nurses. they have programs that range from giving money directly to nurses who have been infected with covid-19 to offering mental health. tim porter o'grady tells us that the outpouring of support from the public mean so much. >> we have been just overwhelmed with the amount of support and encouragement that has come from ordinary citizens and from corporations, hungry to say thanks and let nurses know that they are there and they are anxious to do something for th them. >> here is the website. it is nursing world.org backslash foundation, if you want to help. you can go to facebook to catch

lorraine. she hopes that her idea will spread across the country. you can do it, too, where you live. and wouldn't you would know it, the gift cards are a great way to not only help businesses but also say thank you to those wonderful businesses that are on the front lines. sandra, back to you. >> sendra: that's a wonderful effort there. eric shawn, thank you. >> ed: fox news alert, severe weather going all through the south. thousands without power today and the storms are not over yet. we have details, straight ahead. ♪

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>> ed: a 93-year-old woman thirsts for an adult beverage, she was pictured right there, standing in her window with a sign that read, "i need more beer." in her other and was a can of course light. it was posted on the facebook page, should millions of times. cardinal dolan was under special yesterday with his homily there at st. patrick's cathedral. he said he got a note from a woman who said, "i love watching mass online, i can have a buddy mary." he paused and said, "mom, i'm not sure that's right." i'm not sure if his mom is really drinking during mass, but it was funny. >> sandra: [laughs] somebody help her! she needs another coors light! >> ed: maybe you and i should chip it, send her something. >> sandra: that's great.

she's doing her part, staying home, staying safe. we commend her for that. >> ed: healthy at 93. great to be with you as always, sandra. >> sandra: you, too, ed. "outnumbered" starts right now. >> harris: we begin with this fox news alert, the coronavirus fight has reached historic levels as the united states has surpassed italy for the world's highest reported death toll. more than 22,000 people have died in america. while president trump is now the first president ever to declare major disasters for all 50 states at the same time, at once. we've got that. infectious disease expert dr. thomas ingalls b of johns hopkins university says we are now at a critical stage. >> we are near a plateau in the number of cases, which would be reaching a peak. in some places like new york, which has had terri