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morning to you i'm jillian mele in for jedediah with pete above me in new york and griff live in d.c. pete: griff, you get to talk to thrng. griff: good i get a line. we are continuing like the rest of the country to stay safe in these new guidelines coming out. we got an announcement from our mayor here saying she thought the framework was a good one and in line with thinking here. pete: can't get pesky lawmakers back to washington, d.c. we have a few coming up. a great show. republican lee zeldin, republican from new york dan crenshaw from texas. josh got heimer a democrat from new jersey but on the task force. dr. nicole saphier, dr. marc siegel and former nfl wide receiver brandon marshall. a big lineup this morning. we will hear from some of the protesters in minnesota. this whole conversation is turning. you heard the president talking about safety first. but he is also tweeting out

liberate minnesota and some of these states under more dr. conan measures and people starting to feel like the data is here. we need to get these businesses back open and going. jillian: they definitely hear the calls from people to need to get back to work. we need to get it right. that's why you heard that press conference the task force laying out how test something going to work and laying out the laboratories they have contacted doctor birx saying every single lab we have reached out to says i'm in. what can i do? pete: absolutely. griff: to put it in context as we close this week because we have had some interesting weeks the last month. but now it is clear and apparent that the american people understand this and what we are doing with now is an economic response to a health crisis on now people in some areas, particularly in states less hurt are starting to feel safer that they under these guidelines washing their hands. social distancing, maybe wearing a mask. that they can go back to their lives. pete: yeah. a lot of the uncertainty has been stripped away. we know the basics. and now healthy people whose

jobs are at risk say let us out, let us do our job. let's bring in representative brian mast a former congressman and army veteran. brian, thank you for joining us this morning. we appreciate it? >> good to see you, buddy. pete: good to see you we are going to go to a few elements and have you response. people are starting to say we want our freedoms back. putt putt out tweets yesterday short and sweet. liberate minnesota. liberate michigan. lib enter wait virginia and save your great second amendment is under siege. here is what the president said yesterday at the press conference about these protests. watch. >> i think we do have a sobering guidance. some things are too tough. and if you look at some of the states you just mentioned, it's too tough. these are people expressing their views. i see where they're and i see the way they're working. they seem to be very responsible people to me. but it's, you know, they have been treated a little bit rough. pete: you know, brian, you are

down in florida. my governor in new jersey did an interview with tucker who said that whole bill of rights thing is above my pay grade. the people see their governors making statements like that and then cracking down on lawn mowing and going to the beach and they start to say it's time to protest. >> yeah. thank god my governor ron desantis is not like that. beaches opening up here in florida and look at analyzing the situation. the government cannot and should not manage the risk of the individual. we have got to do that for ourselves. you know, whether we are safe. your doctor says don't eat bacon, don't smoke, don't drink, run more. you have to decide that for yourself. the government kant tel can't t. jillian: these are slated to happen between april 18th and may 2nd. this includes a significant number of state out there. a lot of them on the total areas, especially, you know,

newark, new jersey, pennsylvania, in that area in the northeast, they are going to be a little bit later to open. that's what it's looking like right now. is that the right move? >> look, obviously each governor has that ability to decide what they're going to do there and decide what their people want. i'm glad that the state of florida is moving in the right direction. unfortunately correct me if i am wrong right now is not moving in the right direction because we are not headed back to washington as y'all know. griff: congressman, i wants to get to that. kickly, what do you say to the critics of president trump that are now saying pete showed those tweets that he is fomenting defiance of what are essentially guidelines? what he put out this week was simply gating criteria for three stages of two week periods of getting the data on a counsel ward trajectory. critics on growing ladder saying president trump is fomenting defiance. >> is he not fomenting defiance. is he asking for adherence to

what is the highest law of the land. our constitution, our bill of rights. going out there and acknowledging that there is one thing that unites all of us as americans. and that's the rules by which we live by that were put in place long before any of us that will be in place long after any of us. we have to adhere to that above all and not infringe on individual rights. pete: we want to get to florida specifically. there is operation gridlock in tallahassee. i believe it's today. it continues. also. some measures have been lifted in florida already. protesters gathered in older or. jacksonville beaches and parks were crowded within minutes. we have video here of some of these beaches in places where, you know, they started to ease restrictions. you can't -- some of these restrictions still seem ridiculous to me. you can't sun pate. you can't stop. you can't have a towel there are certain periods of time that you

can be out there. you can exercise and walk. again, when you are a free citizen in a free country. and you are exercising common sense. and you are being prudent, are they going far enough yet? what's the right balance in florida right now? >> i think the right balance in florida is start to open up a lot of these things that are out there. we never went as far as michigan here in the state of florida. some counties went a little bit further clothing things down in miami and other places. but, overall, i think our governor da great job of balancing. and now is he looking at opening things up, which is what everybody wants to see. our business owners and our citizens, constituents, everybody wants to get life back to normal. jillian: let's go ahead and talk about this. hang on, congressman, we want to get your opinion on this, too. president trump is calling on democrats to get back to work. urges them to push for more funding toward the paycheck

program. lucas tomlinson with the latest. >> many of these states want presidents to stay home. president trump is saying the opposite. he wants lawmakers to come back to washington to help small business. >> it's so organized and it's been such a great program. essentially we are waiting for $250 billion. the democrats are refusing to -- it's a small amount of money relevant to what it represents. because it represents small businesses. it represents them staying in business. it's something that should be approved by the democrats. the republicans want it badly. and the people want it very badly. >> the trump administration announcing friday a new 19 billion-dollar aid program to help farmers. a helpful lifeline for rural america. earlier joe manchin said the paycheck protection program is critical to virginia. congress must act in bipartisan way to quickly invest more funding into the appp and need to do so in a way that protects small business and healthcare

providers across rural west virginia. we have always come together during a crisis and i believe we will again. the president said today people starting losing their jobs because crazy nancy pelosi cryin' chuck schumer and the radical left do nothing democrats who should immediately come back to washington and approve legislation to help families in america. end your endless vacation it. doesn't appear they're coming back to washington any time soon. jillian: bring congressman matz a lot of people have to sit and wait to get the money they really need right now. >> i can say so much about this problem. one, it was a stupid predictable problem that secretary mnuchin was telling every member of congress in the week leading up to. this hey, this is going to happen. it's going to run out on this day. i think as members of congress not one of us who can sit there and ask the question are we

working 2e pace, at the urgency that the american people need us? the answer is very simply know. and i look at all of the businesses that are now further disrupted because their paperwork was in. they think they are getting a loan. run out and now totally change what those business decisions are so disrupted. so necessary. i would change it from the do nothing democrats to derelict democrats. we are derelict in our duty right now. pete: what a nancy pelosi doing? doing late night shows revealing lavish ice cream fridge while the fund is running out for businesses that desperately need it. why in the world would now not be the moment to convene on capitol hill? you are eyeing a return there yourself in protest. some lawmakers going back. how can -- what are you able to do to pressure her to get back in the game? >> pete, i'm calling every single member that i have the phone number for saying we need to get back there 10 minutes

ago. you know what duty is all about just as well as anybody. there are risk. but doing your duty is saying we're going to get the job done anyways. she doesn't come from that mindset, unfortunately, where do you whatever it takes to get the job done regardless of the risk. and that's one of the biggest problems of having somebody with that lack of leadership ability as the speaker of the house. griff: so, congressman, congress is originally slated to come back this monday. then it was decided congress would come back may 4th. you are leading this effort. this group that's gaining steam to return right away. what has minority leader mccarthy said? what can we sort of expect to happen this week? >> look. i think minority leader mccarthy wants to see us back there doing this work. of course, he has the problems that we all face and that is speaker pelosi going to shut the lights off on us. lock the doors on us? we have been having the conversation to say listen, we will meet in the garage western

lawn of the capital. we have to to get the job done and start working on this. things that only members of congress can do. only we can go up there right now and get into that chamber and pass a law that says another $250 billion. our staff can't do it. nobody else can do it. if we are not there, it doesn't get done. we will do it from anywhere. they just got to give us the shot. pete: i love it. thanks for leading the charge. representative brian mast. great stuff. >> wish you the best. jillian: turn to your headlines and look at these a sheriff's department is surging tyson food to shut down an iowa plant an employees test positive for covid-19. the sheriff says he worried the coronavirus did l. take over you his community if tyson doesn't shutter. the company insists safety is its priority after closing the other iowa plant this month where 186 workers tested positive for covid-19. there is it no need to wipe down and disinfect your groceries

after leaving the store according to the fda. it says there is no evidence of food packaging transmitting the virus because it spreads from person to person unlike foodborne viruses. it comes as several studies suggest the viruses can liven certain surfaces for virus, even days. today vice president mike pence will head to colorado for the air force academy graduation ceremony. the vice president will deliver the commencement speech as hundreds of cadets social distancing themselves at the ceremony. >> i understand they will have distancing. they will have some big distance. so it will be very different than it ever looked. jillian: president trump says he will also be attending west point's graduation next month. the president is slated to give a commencement speech on may 23rd despite new york where west point is located being on a lockdown. i don't know but guys. i still wipe down everything i bring in my house though. pete: nope. i'm with the fda on this one. saving americans time. you are good to go folks. a salute to the essential workers who keep our economy

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>> american truckers are the foot soldiers who are really carrying us to victory. truck drivers leave their homes and deliver supplies that american families need and count on during this national crisis. i speak for the 330 million plus americans that we say thank god for truckers. griff: that was president trump at the white house giving a hero's welcome to the truckers of america.

praising the men and women who deliver splice during the pandemic. next guest joining us is a 25 year truck driver for u.p.s. charleston. thank you for when you do driving across this country and secondly, tell us what it was like to speak at the white house. >> well, actually, good morning to you and thank you for having me on. it was -- it was pretty much unexplainable. i mean, you had -- it was surreal to actually get out there and have a voice, you know, for the thousands of truckers across the country, i mean, who do this job endlessly, tirelessly day in and day out. it was an honor to be up there and giving a stage to actually address the nation. and also to be appreciative how much support we have been getting through these difficult times. griff: you talk about support, charlton, when you were at the white house, did you get a sense that trucker are across the

country will get the support they need. as have you continued to fight on on this front line have you had issues from parking to other problems. are you getting support you need? >> i definitely think we are getting the support. you know, everything is not going to happen overnight. but with people like the american trucking association and companies like u.p.s., and, you know, everybody working together, you know, to make life a little bit more easier for us is much appreciated and i take my hats off it these guys, we can't do without them. griff: tell me about you. item about you also had a big event. u.p.s. donating 10,000 masks to the fight. >> and this is another thing that make me more proud to be a u.p.s.er. is very much under rated the humanitarian that's right they do. it's an honor to deliver the essential needs to the first care responders, nurses,

doctors, all the healthcare workers, the police. and actually things are changing day by day. i actually found out about this humanitarian aid on the way home from the white house. i'm very proud of this company right now. griff: we are very proud of the work you did. i will ask you one final question quickly. that is what will you take away from this experience? >> well, what i take away from it is, you know, we are americans, we are strong. and you know when it's time to stick together, we put all of our differences aside and we come together. you know, we will win this war against this virus and just makes us a better people. i think it humbles everybody. and you actually see a lot more people sitting at home with their family having a meal. griff: we are all in this together. charlton paul thank you. >> thank you for having me. be well and blessed. griff: coming up, get minnesota back to work. that's the message from hundreds of protesters as they rallied outside the governor's mansion

demanding an end to the it stay-at-home order. we will talk to the organizer of liberate minnesota after the break. i was asking myself like what could i do? i feel proud that along with my colleagues i have been called upon to do what we can to help in this situation. i feel like i'm doing it for all the families in america. we're not going anywhere. we're here. this is bigger than all of us. but together we can get through this. ♪

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jillian: good saturday morning to you. welcome back. we have headlines for you now. online grocery company instacart is teaming up with costco for a prescription delivery service. it's available at nearly 200 costco locations nationwide. helping customers avoid possible exposure to coronavirus. lowe's is donating $170 million worth of much needed supplies to first responders. meanwhile, dole is giving more than 200 pounds of fresh fruit to food banks across the u.s. and latin america. the donation coming amid increasing demand at food banks including this one in san

antonio where 12,000 people lined up for meals. pete? pete: jillian. thank you. hundreds governor tim walls stay at home order begging to get back to work. saying every job is essential. the president backing the protest tweeting liberate minnesota. michelle even organized the liberate minnesota protest. she joins me now. thank you for being here. congratulations on the big crowd yesterday. tell me what you were throughout demanding. >> what we are looking for is we want our rights restored, pete. we want governor waltz to draw back the quarantine. we want to get back to work. we want to support our families. we don't want to depend on government to take care of us. and we want to end now. we don't want to trickle into. this we are perfectly cage of opening our own businesses and

being safe in doing that. pete: the governor took notice as did the president. here is what the governor said yesterday in response to your protest. >> what are we doing differently about moving towards getting as many people back into the workforce without compromising the health of minnesotans or the providers. i would like to know what they think we could have done differently. again we are leading as we were asked. we flattened the curve. we built up our ppe. we kept minnesotans alive and moving people back too to the workforce in the same manner. in a reactionary move he opened up golf, fishing, hunting, outdoor ranges. stuff that doesn't seem would have needed to be closed in the first place. is the governor doing enough? >> he is not. i don't know if he was responding to us being out there in front of his mansion or not. but, those things that he did yesterday, those are nonessential things. there are business owners in our

state that their lives are being shattered. their dreams are being destroyed and shattered. and opening a golf course and fishing and getting on your boat is not putting people back to work. so in my opinion, that's a kum ba yah, make everyone feel better about this when, in reality, no one is going back to work at all. pete: michelle is the common sense approach hey we understand the rules. wash your handers, social distancing, wear a mask, got it. but if i'm healthy and i have the ability to do so, i should be able to go out, open my business and let customers know they are willing to come in, responsibly and do so. that seems like something people could do. >> absolutely. we want to support small businesses. i support small businesses. and i put all my faith in these people that are running their own business if they can do it in a safe manner to protect their employees and people coming into their businesses. i have total faith in that. pete: michelle even, it's called

common sense and people have a lot more of it than democrats will ever give them credit for. by the way it seems those first amendment and second amendment rights are often the ones that go away first as opposed to the second amendment ones. michelle, thank you so much for being on our program. >> thank you. pete: still ahead. being called the costliest government cover-up ever. now whether the virus he is disprapsd a communist lab in china is underway. what will it take to get answers from that communist country infantry? foreign analyst gordon chang here with insight next. in dogs less than 12 months old

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for those who were born to ride, there's progressive. >> a lot of strange things are happening. it came from china, in whatever form. 184 countries now are suffering because of it. and it's too bad isn't it. and it could have been solved very easily when it was just starting. griff: president trump promising to find out the origins of the coronavirus as the u.s. conducts a full scale investigation into whether the virus escaped from a lab in wuhan. jillian: what will it take to get the answers? here with insight is asian analyst and foreign affairs analyst gordon chang. we always love having you on to talk about this good morning. >> good morning, jillian. jillian: do you think we are

ever going to know all of the details with certainty as to what happened in ha lab in wuhan? >> maybe not all the details. but most of them i think it's largely because the chinese are going to tell us and we are going to put pressure on beijing. extreme pressure to do. so we have already learned a lot. beijing has been trying to throw us off the trail by their story about the wet market. they have also prevented foreign verlg just and epidemiologist from really studying this thorough ray. i think we are going to get there. >> why does communist china, is it in the d.n.a. we have to lie? we have to cover up, we have to deceive? did they think they could keep this away from the world? what's their motivation? >> yeah. first of all, pete, i think that it is in their d.n.a. the communist party is a conspiratorial organization it. started that way and ruled that way. in this case they realize that the truth is so explosive that

they might not survive. so, for instance, they realize they have caused all that damage in those 184 countries. the claims for compensation, which inevitably will arise as we are starting to see in the u.s., that would just, i think, sink china. so, they believe that they have no choice but to lie about this for as long as they possibly can. and hope that they can sort of get through the white heap. griff: foreign minister when asked about whether or not the virus escaped from the lab. they said that the who tells them there is no evidence for that there was no, quote, scientific basis for such claims. what do you make of that and why would the w.h.o. run interference for china's cover-up this what the who has been doing is basically bolstering china's story. by the way, griff, there is a

lot of evidence that suggests this comes from the lab. a january 24th article from the lancet. which is the authoritative british medical journal said that many of the initial coronavirus cases did not come from the wet market, which is china's theory. well, if they didn't come from the wet market, they had to have come from the lab. the w.h.o. from the get-go has been in china's pocket and that's because the director general was essentially put there with the chinese marketing campaign. that's the way he was elected. is he a communist anyway. can you see the connections there. jillian: i spoke to you at 5:00 a.m. i believe it was thursday on "fox & friends first." i asked you where do you think we will be with the who in six months? and your answer was we hope six months from now we see senior leaders we resigning. it's been a few days since we had that conversation. is there anything else you think needs to happen in the course of the next few months? >> yes, i do.

i do see the senior leadership being removed. and the specific people, well that be dr. tedros, the director general. it would be bruce all ward sometimes called the number two at the who. it would be probably most chinese nationals who are in the senior leadership. you know, the w.h.o. does a great job there doctors and professionals. that work is being nullified by the senior leadership. and we learned that on monday, when a senior w.h.o. doctor maria vaughn kirk cough said she knew it was human-to-human from the get-go but the senior leadership of the w.h.o. just ignored her and that is the reason why we have the outbreak. griff: that's very important, gordon. i want to follow up on that what that doctor was saying points to the january 14th tweet by the w.h.o. that said it found no evidence of human-to-human transmission. do you believe at that point they knew and were lying and

what has been the result? are these deaths to blame because of that tweet? >> yeah. i believe the w.h.o. senior leadership knew that they were not telling the truth. because, on december 31st, taiwan told the w.h.o. that this was h. to h. and clearly chinese leaders themselves knew sometime from around the second to third week in december when doctors in would you hahn saw it was human-to-human admissible wuhan did not admit that until january 20. the thing is not just keeping quiet dangerously irresponsible. what they did is they out and out tried to deceive the world when you look at china and w.h.o.'s actions it's malicious. pete: communists helping communists and blatant lies by doctors are the most dangerous kind. if you can't trust that who in the world can you? speaking of more lies the chinese upgraded death toll and

acknowledging at least 50% more killed from. this i have got to believe that's that 50% is a lie as well. >> yes. well, they are now admitting to about 4600 deaths. people think that in wuhan alone there was somewhere between, take your pick somewhere between 40 to 49,000 deaths in one city. we don't really know. we won't know for some time if ever. but the death toll that china is reporting is still severely an undercounseled. pete: absolutely. can't trust a word they are saying right now or ever. gordon cheng, thank you for your time we appreciate it. jillian: gordon, thank you. pete: thank you. turning to additional headlines will fates mask mandate going. governor cuomo announcing earlier this week. people who can't maintain like inside grocery stores or public transit. punishment to not wearing a mask is up to individual counties. idaho mother jailed in connection with to her two missing kids now under

investigation for murder. authorities are looking into whether lori vallow is link to the death of her husband's ex-wife. police now deeming the death suspicious after tammy daybell's body was found inside her home last year. vallow nor her husband have been charged yet. vallow is awaiting trial for the alleged disappearance of her kids. and, in an unusual move, joe biden will allow former rival bernie sanders to keep extra delegations for the convention. sanders who suspended his presidential campaign last week would normally be forced to forfeit a third of his delegates under party rules. sanders will delegates caused chaos if you remember at the 2016 convention forcing the party to limit the truly super delegates. biden is the only left in the democratic primary and leads sanders by 300 delegates. a 10-year-old girl posted a letter on her mom's facebook

page asking help donate to local police station. police officers are facing pay cuts because of the pandemic. the girl not only collected $2,400, she used them to buy 232 gift cards from local businesses facing hard times to help them out, too. and those are your headlines. that's an america together story. jillian: absolutely. love it. griff: good for her, well done, well done. toss it over to rick this morning. how are we doing? is warm weather here yet or not? >> no, it is not here after the all. in fact, winter is back in a big way. boston, one of the places hardly got any snow this year, now getting some pretty significant snow this morning. take a look at the map and show you what's going on across the country. temperaturewise, all of the cold air is out across parts of the west. southeast looking pretty good. in fact, d.c., you are not that bad temp wise this morning. that front pulls off towards the east. as it does it, brings the rain with it and brings the snow on the northern side of this. take a look at this. up state new york, throughout much of new england, in towards

the boston area. some spots probably maybe 4 to 5 inches of snow which doesn't sound like that much. but certainly you will notice it when it's april. that said that snow metal quickly. the sun angle too high to get any significant lasting snow. down on the south side of this last sunday all of those tornadoes, 78 confirmed tornadoes in a two day period across parts of the south and southeast last sunday. get ready more severe weather today. today not as big of a deal. you see that little stretch across northern parts of florida. take a look at what happens tomorrow. increased threat for severe weather again. and this is across the exact same area that's cleaning up from all those tornadoes last week. you don't like to see this seven days later another stretch of severe weather all across. bad news for the folks right there. all right, guys, back to you. jillian: rick, thank you. griff: next guest trained for best of my knowledge warfare in

the army before starting his career as a nurse in texas. he is coming out of retirement and heading to the front lines of the pandemic. stay tuned. some companies still have hr stuck between employees and their data. entering data. changing data. more and more sensitive, personal data. and it doesn't just drag hr down. it drags the entire business down -- with inefficiency, errors and waste. it's ridiculous. so ridiculous. with paycom, employees enter and manage their own data in a single, easy to use software. visit paycom.com, and schedule your demo today.

griff: back now with quick headlines, college basketball super star sabrina ineskew going to the big apple. new york liberty as the topic of the wnba draft. first record 2,000 points as well as 1,000 assists in rebounds. on the men's side the nba start l. start withholding paychecks next month. thewon't get the money back if e because of the pandemic. the league halted the games last month.

jillian: medical big ways. one retired nurse renew his license and headed to new jersey to help in the fight against the coronavirus. new jersey is one of the hardest hit states in the u.s. with nearly 79,000 confirmed cases and nearly 4,00 4,000 deaths. peter decker joins us live now with his story. good morning, thanks for being here. >> good morning, jillian. jillian: why did you decide to do this your license was we reinstated and you are ready to go? >> yes, ma'am. you know, o my wife and i have a small business in financial supervisors. as soon as this covid pandemic started. i had this desire that i wanted to get in this fight on the caregiver side. so, i didn't even know it was possible for me to reinstate my license. on that day i saw a post that the board of nursing was looking for inactive nurses to reinstate their licenses and contact them that day and a couple days later my nursing license was reinstated and i'm in this fight

now i truly believe it was something from government anybody who dealt with a licensing agency, the wheels turn pretty slow but that wasn't the case here. i was able to get my license back right away. jillian: that's incredible. you have 23 years with nursing experience. you have no ties to new jersey, i understand it is one of the hardest hit areas in this country what are you expecting? >> nurses i have been in contact with gave me an idea what to expect. it's going to be a little chaotic but all in all, you know frm we have to work with what we have got. i just, you know, the organizational skills that they have over there. everyone seems to tell me that everything is organized but it is a little chaotic and we are expecting some sick people. but from, my understanding where i'm going, i'm going to be taking care of recovering covid patients. patients off ventilators. so, so, we're going to get to see them get better. that's a good thing.

jillian: absolutely. as many as can get better as possible. with many like you. you had biological agents training in the army. i'm curious about that experience and how that helped, if you think it helped prepare you mentally for what you are going into right now. >> yes, ma'am. i was a nurse in the army many years ago. but that's training that we all have to take because it is a serious threat to our forces. so, we have to take chemical and biological weapons training. you know, preparedness, things like that. so i know that training is going to take, you know, be a big part of what we are doing. even nursing we have to train for things like that. these are things we pray never happen but we have to be prepared for them if and when they do. so, that experience has also going to come into play here. jillian: how long are you prepared to be away from your family. >> i will be away for 13 weeks. that's going to be a little tough. the great thing is i have got a great support system.

my family has been 100 percent supportive. i'm grateful for that and so, you know, great thing is now with technology we have the zoom and. jillian: yeah, spending a lot of time on zoom, i'm sure. >> yeah. jillian: thank you for your time and for what you are doing. we appreciate it? >> thank you, god bless you. jillian: you too. big tech is stepping up to help small businesses. kurt the cyberguy explaining how instagram and facebook are supporting main street during the pandemic. my gums are irritated. i don't have to worry about that, do i? harmful bacteria lurk just below the gum line. crest gum detoxify, voted product of the year. it works below the gum line to neutralize harmful plaque bacteria and help reverse early gum damage. gum detoxify, from crest.

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pete: welcome back. big tech is stepping up to help small business as they adapt to a new normal. instagram launching a new feature help to drive support for small businesses which allow to you purchase gift cards or

even order food. here to tell us all about it is kurt the cyberguy. kurt, good morning. welcome, great to see you as always. talk to us about this instagram? >> pete, great to see you. 40-million-dollar grants given out osmall businesses at instagram and small businesses that are obviously having a struggle right now. they have instituted some tools that they will be able to get their hands on that help them put gift cards out there and also take orders directly from links off of instagram, a very, very helpful marketing tool that won't cost small businesses anything part of about 100-million-dollar grant they have got coming out of facebook, which is the owner of instagram. pete: if you are a small business owner trying to adapt your business maybe going to instagram paying for ads, this would help them do that reach more customers. >> exactly. it's one of those things if you are sitting right now. got a small business and want to investigate these tools. see what they're all about they could be of great help to you

right now. pete: always surprising how many things you end up purchasing while per ruing instagram. smart idea. ford, the automaker is testing technology as well. >> you know, it may be a wearable device that ends up being a great tool for workers going back to several of ford's idle plants this one doing feyess there. wearables that employees will be able to have great for their safety. as you get too close to the six foot mark of social distancing. the wrist band is going to buzz. tell the worker hey you are a little too close to another colleague so you just want to keep this distance really helpful kind of technology we hope to see implemented elsewhere. ford considering that and when workers show up they will be given something like this. an instant read of their temperature i'm 97.1 on the outside of my skin.

took one second to take that workers showing up for work will do that and go through a health quiz. it's just one of those things where all these companies are starting to think of what do we do to make it extremely safe for workers to come back to work? pete: yeah. that's part of encouraging customers as well when companies take some of those measures if they can afford. to say a lot of those small businesses can't afford to do something like this. on the big side makes sense. and then apple also introducing a new iphone. another one? >> you know, really clever on their part. a super powerful phone that's very low cost phone compared to what it might cost to say, get the iphone 11. this is the iphone se just gone on sale yesterday for preorders it. will start delivering next friday through the week. it will be available in retail. not at apple stores because they remain closed here in the u.s. 399 price tag for this which is 40% less than the going iphone that's out there. a 4.7-inch screen.

now, how does that compare? a 6.1-inch screen is what you will get on iphone 11. if you like the button touch i.d. without the face i.d. convenient right now. face id does not work while you are wearing a mask. really impressive phone that they have got a super powerful a 13 processor. what you need though know about that longer battery life. super fast. and the camera while it is a single camera it is spectacular because it takes the energy and harness of power of that a-13 take super photos. conveniently pete right at the moment that the stimulus checks come out is this $400 phone abracadabra very smart on apple's part. a full review on cyberguy.com. pete: kurt, thanks for coming as always. take your temp. still ahead, help is on the way

in our nation's farmers 19 billion-dollar aid package. the plan to help farmers and americans in need. that's next. for nearly 100 years, we've worked to provide you with the financial strength, stability, and online tools you need. and now it's no different. because helping you through this crisis is what we're made for.

>> it's going to be together sooner rather than later. a really incredible things are happening. and at some point in the not too distant future we are going to have our country back. and it's going to be, i think, really with what we are doing on stimulus and helping people keep their businesses together and their lives together and their jobs, it's going to be better than ever before. pete: president trump assuring american companies and businesses america will be open sooner rather than later. jillian: thousands of americans wait for hours at food banks across the nation like this one san antonio. many food branches struggling to keep one food demands. pete: governors plan to lift lockdown ease restrictions so

they can get back to work. thank you for joining us on this saturday edition of "fox & friends" joined by jillian mele directly below me here in studio f and griff jenkins is washington, d.c. griff, the viewers can't see. you should show them. you have a beautiful coronavirus multi-growing right now that i saw on instagram. look at beauty. jillian: oh, wow, that is something, griff. griff: i'm together you if we did the old bits i old businesst party in the back. pete: keep it going. griff: i will let it keep going. my daughter found this picture of me in high school and strangely my hair looks the same i'm embarrassed to say right now. pete: you age beautifully, you do. for sure. griff: we're glad everybody is here. pete: it's been a busy news week when you talk about the president saying after

threatening to take that authority and seeing protests as a lot of citizens across the country feel like governors are taking unnecessary draconian measures as we learn more about what we need to do. we have great guests to talk about all of this. representative lee zeldin, representative dan crenshaw. representative scott josh heimer a democrat from new jersey and then doctors sapphire and seale and former nfl wide receiver brandon marshall here to talk about all the angles as we are in multiple weeks into this pandemic. griff: we sure are you know, it's going to be interesting, too. because what we are talking about now is the reopening of the government and the president making the decision it was the right time issuing those gaght criteria-gating criteria. going to play a fundamental role the health crisis we couldn't control the coming response we can. jillian: absolutely. those phases, the three phases

that we have heard so much about going to be differently obviously for every state. regardless, i think people are just a little bit excited at this point to be able to be having this conversation because just a few days ago we really weren't and now we are seeing the plan. pete: hopeful as well as we hear news reports more people infected than they know. herd immunity hopefully closer than we think. this while nancy pelosi is in her kitchen. we will see if she goes back to washington, d.c. in d.c. president trump calling on democrats to get back to work. urging them to push for more funding toward that paycheck protection program. lucas tomlinson has more on the president's call for bipartisan effort. lucas, good morning. >> good morning. many statetelling democratic lao get back to washington and help small business. earlier on show republican lawmaker in florida home to many major league baseball training sites is outraged.

it was a stupid predictable problem that stephen mnuchin telling every member of congress in the week leading up to this hey it's going to happen. it's going to run out on this day. she doesn't come from that mindset, unfortunately, where do you whatever it takes to get the job done, regardless of the risk. and that's one of the biggest problems of having somebody with that lack of leadership ability as the speaker of the house. >> in sa san antonio powerful images thoughs thousands lined up at a food back how the u.s. is wreckinvirusis wrecking the . call on democrats to return to washington as soon as possible. quote today people started losing their jobs because of crazy nancy pelosi and crying chuck schumer and the radical left do nothing democrats who should immediately come back to washington and approve legislation to help families in america. end your endless vacation. doing its part on friday announcing a aid package to help farmers.

guys? pete: lucas, thank you very much. bring in brian brenberg business and finance program at kings college in new york city. brian, good morning, thanks for being here as always. respond to this. the measure was being taken and the trump administration now announcing 19 billion-dollar aid package for america's farmers. what does it all add up to? >> look, farmerrers have been hammered the same way every business has been hammer you had. when you close down restaurants. when you close down other food establishments, farmers can't sell to them. the distributers who buy from farmers can't sell. they have seen demand drop 40% from the restaurant industry this year. that's billions and billions of dollars in losses if you are going to help small businesses. you have to help farmers. to me, pete, it is such a head scratcher and really infuriating that we have not seen congress top off this ppe. they are asking people to stay home. they are asking people to keep their businesses closed. they are colding people for protesting when they can't open their business. and then they are not gives them

the funding they need to keep afloat. you can't have it both ways. and right now congress is doing everything they can to harm businesses. instead of trying to help them. jillian: you mentioned the fact farmers were struggling. impacted. have nowhere to sell their goods. to say on one hand yes, that's true. on the other hand the story was farmers were having to let so much of their crop and so much of their product go to waste because they couldn't get it into the food banks that we have heard have been struggling so much and the demand has been so great. so, with, this some of that red tape has been cut. correct? >> yeah. they are going -- the federal government is going to buy some of this produce, buy some of these crops and try to distribute at the food banks. but that can't make up for this. the fact is, farmers are going to continue to have to plow under their fields and let food go to waste. that's economic waste. it's just a psychological waste. it's one more element of this shutt down that causes people to lose heart. that's why it's so critical. it's not just economic but from

a social perspective, from a cultural perspective. we need people to get back to work so they can feel like they are contributing again and right now we're getting this stand still from congress. i love the fact that some people are calling on their governors to say treat us like adults. let us get back to work. let us find a pat forward. griff: they are not just calling. they are actually doing protests. we have all these protests all across the country, coast to coast. some 20 or more are going to happen. the president supporting them with some tweets i want to show you quickly and get your action. president tweeted liberate minnesota. liberate michigan. liberate virginia and save your great second amendment. it's under siege. what do you make of that brian? >> well, i make of it that he is recognizing a genuine need of the people in these states. look, the people who are protesting are not saying let us go back and irresponsibly do business the way that we were doing it before. these are folks who have

voluntarily been staying at home, taking care of them selves and their loved ones. they are going to go back and do that in the workplace. they will want to be treated like adults. they want the governors of their states, their elected officials to trust them, to give them good guidance and then let them find a pat forward. i think that is a noble spirit. i think it's something we want americans to feel. i like that the president is supporting that. he is not saying be reckless. is he saying, yes, we believe you can do this. so let's get down to it. pete: i like that phrase a noble spirit. one of those noble spirits was michelle evans. she organized the liberate minnesota protest. she was on our program earlier. here is what he had to say. >> there are business owners in our state that their lives are being shattered. their dreams are being destroyed and shattered. and opening a golf course and fishing and getting on your boat is not putting people back to work. we wants our rights restored,

pete. we want governor walz to draw back the quarantine. we want to get back to work. we want to support our families. we don't want to depend on government to take care of us. pete: brian, there are dozens of protests scheduled in the upcoming weeks across the state. don't you think this pressure is only going to get more steady and heavy because people as you said want to apply common sense. we know what we are supposed to do. one of the signs at that protest, brian, said all jobs are essential. the one you have is essential to your livelihood. i feel like this is only going to increase. >> it is. you know, my neighbor's light has been on since 4:00 a.m. today. i will tell you it hasn't been on because she was worried about being able to go to parks and walks. she suspect in the morning and worried and can't sleep because she can't work. and there are so many millions of people like that in this country. they don't want to be given token allowances to use their freedom. they want to be trusted.

they want to be empowered. these jobs are essential because their lives are essential. this is how they make a living. and the government, it can try all it wants it's not going to be able to fill the economic gap that private sector work that small businesses fill. yes, protests going to continue not as an act of rebellion but as an act of please give us back our liberties, our freedoms. let us live like self-governing people which is what we are in america. let us do that. jillian: brian, have you an op-ed on fox business.com. not about flipping a switch. this is going to require businesses to restore customer confidence. that's especially important in many industries as we start to reopen. i think about the restaurant industries very hard hit. some of them aren't going to reopen at any point in time in the near future anyway. some of them will. but a lot of restaurant owners that i have talked to say we are trying to figure out our game plan now because we are going to have to social distancing. how many tables.

this is going to be hard for a lot of people. >> it's going to be very hard. restaurants and other businesses are going to have to adapt. they are going to have to change their model. the point i make in the article is part of the recovery and making the recovery strong is getting customers confident again. i love the fact that businesses can take the lead on that. they can think about what they're doing in their stores and communications. we need that to have a strong recovery. i'm optimistic about it. give businesses the opportunity to do it. jillian: they are already thinking of their plans now. pete: if you don't do that as a business you are not going to have customers. let the market dictate i like the precaution this business is taking. i'm going to go there. it's pretty simple, brian. brian: businesses care about their customers. let responsible people take the lead. businesses are responsible. they should be in the driver's seat. pete: absolutely. brian brenberg from linwood, minnesota. know it well. beautiful spot. from a good morning. >> good to see you. jillian: take a look at other headlines starting with extreme

weather. a spring snow storm given midwesterners another reason to stay indoors during the coronavirus pandemic. states like iowa seeing as much as 10 inches of snow. others like michigan and nebraska, looking more like a winter wonderland in april. that system now heading towards the northeast. meanwhile, the south could be slammed with more severe storms as it recovers from last week's deadly tornadoes. rick is keeping track of all of of this. in chicago, police mourning the loss of another officer to covid-19. 50-year-old ronald newman on the force. 15 members have died from the virus. officer marco defranco and cliff martin died earlier this month. chicago police saying nearly 300 members tested positive for the virus. and miami's top cop police chief jorge contracted covid-19. he says his symptoms are mild and he is in good spirits. walmart enough to hiring 50,000 more workers to keep up with

increasing demands during the pandemic. the retailer already hired 150,000 new employees. using annual expedited hiring process. walmart will provide masks to new workers while recommending everyone wear one inside their stores. more than a dozen musicians are banning togethebanding togethert ♪ it all comes down to this ♪ god to love people. jillian: the hope rising concert benefit nonprofit helping treat patients. >> actor kurt cammeron and his sister hosting the event. the lead singer of casting crowns will be performing. join us live -- they will join us live in the 9:00 hour. should be a good show. pete: very cool. the story right before that think of people saying wait, walmart can be open and do that but i can't have my business

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jillian? jillian: all right. griff. thank you. nearly 350 billion-dollar fund set up to provide small business relief is officially out of money. the sba's web site learning would be applicants currently unable to accept new applications or enroll new lenders. next guest a business owner fortunate enough to get approved. lifeline and needs nor funding. here with more is the owner and founder of kristin habib. good morning, how are you? >> good morning. i am great. jillian: tell me about the process that it's taken you to be able to get this money that you so desperately need to be able to pay your employees? >> >> well greatest test of leadership. trying to keep your business afloat. you are pivoting and most importantly you are trying to take care of your people. so when i learned about the ppp, i was just blown away that this program existed because it allows me to keep my 25 people employed for the next 8 weeks. so, i applied on april 3rd.

which was the day that applications went live and then 10 days later we received $90,000. jillian: wow. that's amazing. what are your employees saying about it? >> oh, no one wants to lay anyone off right now. so just the fact that we can keep everyone paid for 8 weeks commitment to take care of our people the whole time we have been enclosed for a month. hard when you don't have revenue coming in. and this is a lifeline for small businesses. jillian: what's your message for the government right now? they have run out of money and so many people not as fortunate for you who still have their application in the waiting process or application has already been approved but there is no money right now? >> we absolutely need another round. we need more money so that we can help more small businesses. business owners are devastated and scared. this is a difference between surviving this and not we need to make the application process simpler. they are not ready this wase.

i found a credit union able to assist me as a non-client. make business owners. jillian: you clean residential and commercial properties. obviously really nerve wracking in a time where you don't want to be good someone else's home right now trying to stay safe. how long will this money be able to let did you go this way to be able to keep your employees on board? >> this will cover us for two months. as you said, our commitment is keeping our people safe, our customers' safe. so now i'm thinking ahead. i'm able with this money to think past the 8 weeks how do we reopen? make sure you are keeping everyone safe. and most importantly keep our people paid throughout the whole time. jillian: absolutely. kristin hadeed thank you for sharing your story. we appreciate it. >> thank you, jillian. jillian: a good day. >> you too. jillian: new rapid blood test just fast tracked by the fda. providing results in just minutes. how soon could it be available

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griff: a new york based company getting fda approval for a covid-19 antibody test. the simple finger stick reveals in 15 anyone's if you have or have had coronavirus. here to explain gail page member of the ken bioboard of directors and interim ceo. good morning to you, gail. >> good morning. griff: this is a significant development, it seems, in the fight against coronavirus. you just got this approving on wednesday. explain to me exactly what has transpired. >> as you might or might not know ken biois a leading point

of care located in new york. infectious disease. collaborating with the fda. and we have been very active in tests such as ebola and zika. so it was a natural profession for us to want to be in the face of covid-19 and detecting the igg and igm antibodies. griff: you have a proven record you have had for years hiv, malaria tests that are used n. and very successful successful. now you turned three months ago to coronavirus. how are you able to do that and now what's the result? >> we have exsent scientific team and pruxdz team and excellent management treatment. we took a very measured approach. interacting with all the virlg g justs and lend to the covid-19 problem that we're having. griff: gail, as attention begins to shift to what do you think

these in particular mr. will play a role in that. >> we think it will be very significant. it's a natural progression for one to understand the immune response to a virus in your body. so it's very important to understand your igm and igg status. once body develops antibodies then you are ready to go back to work and ready to go back out in the public. when your igm is still very high, it means that the virus is very active and you probably should stay in. this will be very important understanding not only how to manage patients but look at our population overall. griff: okay, in the time we have got left. let me talk about timing. when will this be available to americans because obviously the reopening is a timing issue as well. >> it's already available. i'm very pleased to say our

teams have worked extremely hard. and we are already shipping product. we ships out this week our first batch. we're working with stone brook in new york. we have production capabilities ramped up. our teams have just been working around the clock 24/7. griff: all right. gail page. the ceo of chem bio, thanks for joining us and thank you for you and all of your employees' hard work in the fight against coronavirus. we appreciate it? >> thank you so much for having us. griff: all right. president trump unveiling his plan for reopening the nation and getting back to business. congressman josh scott heimer was just named to the president's bipartisan task force that's focused on making it happen. the congressman joining us coming up. i'm a talking dog.

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♪ to the left ♪ ♪ griff: delaware national guard members busting a move on their lunch break. pete: the group showing off impressive rendition of the cubacupid shuffle. jillian: i love. this this is great. for more inspiring stories like this visit foxnews.com/america together. pete: never heard of the cupid shuffle. jillian: i love dances you have to do in repetition otherwise i

can't dance. those ones work for me. griff: lukes like a workout. pete: i have seen griff freestyle. the man can dance. jillian: good for you. griff: no comment. pete: at my wedding on the dance floor unbelievable: president trump calling on democrats to get back to work over standoff more cash for the paycheck protection program. listen. >> essentially we're waiting for $250 billion the democrats are refusing to do it. small amount of money relative to what it represents. it represents small businesses. represents them staying in business. it's something that should be approved by the democrats. the republicans want it badly and the people want it very badly. griff: here to react is congressman josh go josh gotthe. >> thanks for having me. griff: what's your reaction to what the president just said? >> we all want to get the

paycheck program done and that's the loan forgiveness program for small businesses. i have been talking to small businesses day and night. we have got to stand by them in new jersey we have been hit incredibly hard by the virus. i think we are all on board. there are other issues that are also critically important as you probably know. especially in those areas that have been hit so hard new york and new jersey we have half the cases in the country. our hospitals are really struggling. they are out of resources. and our municipalities, our towns, our counties, they are really tapped out and need help. in my district, just to give you a sense of it. we have got 20,000 cases in my it the and more than 1,000 people have died. it's really a very alarming situation here. jillian: respectfully, congressman, if everyone is on board as you say, why isn't it getting done? >> well, my understanding is that there is a lot of good conversation happening. kevin mccarthy yesterday came out and said he thinks we have a deal. so i'm hoping that it gets done. there is no reason why it's not

getting done. we have been very good, frankly, about coming together, democrats and republicans to get the first emergency packages done to help the country and help our communities. we have got to get this done. pete: there is a reason it's not getting done. we knew this was going to run out. republicans have been calling from the beginning just replenish this ppp program so small businesses can get it. yet, nancy pelosi, in california, is demanding other spending in addition to it. there is an easy solution, why is your speaker holding out for additional money? >> listen, i speak for myself. pete: i know, absolutely. >> i will jewels tell you that if they held a vote, i'm there. and but my point is we also need assurances in -- for the other areas there are serious crisis happening in districts like mine. we have to make sure we also take care of our front line healthcare workers and as you know it's because you are right in the area. it's crushing our states right now. we need help. not just, of course, for our

small businesses but also for our front line healthcare workers, for our hospitals and for our towns. the really in tough trouble here. griff: congressman, speaker pelosi wants, obviously, this additional money for hospitals, front line healthcare workers. and then also for the states and local governments who are going to have budget problems and short falls here but that pressing issue that pete is just addressing there is the reason why i'm getting emails, many of us in the news business are, from business owners saying i applied and now they are saying you are not -- they are not going to give you the loan because they can't apply anymore. my question to you is, take me past monday morning, tuesday. when do you see congress taking action? >> i believe we're going to get a deal done and i'm hoping we're going to get a deal done this weekend and vote next week. that's what i'm hoping for. that's what we are pushing for. griff: have you been told that? >> i have been told -- i'm reading what you are reading. i'm not in the negotiation. but i know what we all believe

strongly which is we all have to get this done. we all represent these small businesses that are in need. i know i do. i will tell you it's a huge issue. one point why it's so important to get money to our front line healthcare workers and hospitals and nursing homes. in the cares act that was passed. in new jersey, in my district getting about $6,000 in our hospitals per patient. which the costs people in the hospital for weeks. and if you go to west virginia. they are getting more than $400,000 per patient just the way things worked out. so you can see why some areas are getting crushed and what we need to do is put the resources where have you got a hurricane hitting. that's what we have always done when there is a natural disaster. try to help out the areas hurt most whether that's our local communities and our first responders or our front line healthcare workers. we have got to make sure we stand by them. i think that's what -- i'm not hearing everybody understand that in the country. and i think it's really important they understand what some of our communities are going through. jillian: we will stand by the hope this does get done.

you were named to president trump's bipartisan task force focused on reopening the community? reopening the economy. what is it going to take everyone, do you think into this phase one? i know it's going cob incremental for different states. >> we talked about this for the president what's critically important is that we need a back-to-work checklist as a way to come -- reopen america and reopen communities like mine in a safe and healthy way. and we -- you know, as we are dealing with the health crisis, we have got to deal with the economic crisis and make sure point on making sure our small businesses are taken care of. we need a clear checklist for how you reopen. what needs to be in place. of course, test something essential to that we just don't have enough testing here and every day i'm on the phone just like i'm on the phone with our businesses and front line healthcare workers and others and first responders saying please, i need a test. and we are really struggling to get those tests. we need to make sure that our

hospitals have what they need if there was an outbreak again we could handle it. protective equipment. ventilators, everything that needs to be in line. and also very clear instructions with how we operate our businesses. you know, what's safe? how do we make sure we keep people healthy in this process? there has got to be a very clear checklist. we have got -- i co-chair a group called the problem solvers. we are putting out a checklist what we think needs to be in place to reopen. we have got to do it in a safe way. sheriff sheriff congressman, as you mention you are in one of the hardest hit areas. we are thinking about the residents there the president said yesterday safety first. that's critically important. as we learn more we know who is affected. we know who the vulnerable populations are. as we learn that information within that context. even in the some of the harders hit areas. isn't there room for some latitude for healthy people who want to take the proper safety precautions to go out and open their business up as long as they practice the social distancing and are responsible

about it? >> listen, that's among the guidelines we are looking for. obviously people at the centers for disease control are smarter than i am on this and tell us exactly what we can do to keep people safe. i think a keep part of that as you would agree is testing. you have to be able to know if someone has it or doesn't have it because there is carriers and you don't want to find out that you are suddenly spreading it all over again and got to close down the country. again, my biggest fear would be that we reopen and that it spreads again and we have got to shut it down and devastating to the economy and devastating to the country that so badly wants to open. i think have you got to do it in smart fades. you have got to think of course regionally and think in a smart way by industry. but, listen, i want to make sure that we can do everything we can to reopen quickly. i want the kids to go back to school. we all want to get out of the house. we have got to make sure as the president said yesterday we do it in a very safe way. pete: representative josh gottheimer thank you so much. >> thank you so much.

griff: thank you, congressman. pete: turning now to a few additional headlines a medal of honor recipient has died from the coronavirus. sergeant major benny atkins passed away at alabama hospital after battling the virus for weeks. former president obama awarded atkins the nation's highest military honor in 2014. the green beret fought off enemy soldiers for more than 30 hours. that's longer than tomorrow's program. think about that when it comes on. during a battle in the vietnam war. and rescued fellow soldiers, atkins was wounded 18 times. god bless him. terrifying moments for a mother after she gives birth during a car crash. >> where is your baby at? >> we don't know. i was just trying to get to the hospital. >> kristin graham was in labor when her mother's car hydroplaned and crashed on their way -- crashed on their way to a georgia hospital. kristin ended up giving birth in the backseat during the accident

before realizing the baby was gone after a frantic search, the police found the newborn underneath seats. both mother and baby are recovering. unbelievable. and a retired police officer is giving back in a big way to restaurant workers retired sergeant carrie mills gave $600 tip to her favorite spot in georgia. came from the former atlanta cop's stimulus check. she'll wanted to help because she knows what it's like to be weeks away from homelessness. wow. for more inspiring stories like this one, visit foxnews.com/america together. and those are your headlines. jillian: pretty incredible stories there. griff: i'm still trying to process that a baby was born in a car crash. jillian: yeah. pete: and okay, thank god. can you imagine? jillian: no. pete: no. exactly. and i don't think rick reichmuth either could imagine that how

are you doing? rick: an amazing story of survival. a lot of snow out there. here it is april. the eastern part of the country got almost no snow all winter long and finally we are getting some. take a look at the maps. show you what's going on. a storm that's coming across parts of the northeast, especially upstate new york in throughout much of new england. there is where the snow is right now. some of it is really heavy. up to about five inches or so of snow by the time this is all said and done. across areas in massachusetts. far northern part of connecticut. then you go a little bit off towards the south and today we have got some -- a little bit of severe weather with it. it's where we saw this severe weather last sunday. so take a look at this. we will see some severe weather later on today more to the northern side of florida. mostly. and we are also going to be look at significant rain sunday into monday. which means seeing more tornadoes and seeing more rain and more flooding. not good news for folks along the south. all right, guys. back to you. griff: all right.

rick. thanks. no more rain. coming up, first responders exposed to the coronavirus. many getting sick and some even dying. and now firefighters are voicing their concerns and demanding protective masks and gear for first responders be made a priority. you know, new customers save over $1,000 on average when they bundle home and auto with progressive. wow, that's... and now the progressive commercial halftime show, featuring smash mouth. ♪ hey now, you're an all star ♪ get your game on, go play thank you! goodnight! [ cheers and applause ] now enjoy the second half of the commercial! even renters can bundle and save! where did that come from? the kitchen. it was halftime.

♪ pete: fire departments across the country are feeling the pandemic of the pandemic as ppe shortages are leading to accidental exposures for those on the front line. 1,000 firefighters and eminent workers testing positive for covid-19, our next guest says getting them equipment needs -- getting their equipment needs has to be a priority. joining us now is president of the international association of fire chiefs gary ludwig. thank you for being here this morning. what is the priority of what you need right now?

>> good morning, it's an honor to be on the show. biggest challenge is not only economically. we have a lack of ppe. some of the states and counties in the united states are not prioritizing our firefighters. and as a result. the priority is staffing ppe at the hospitals, the hospitals and health departments and healthcare workers. the warriors at the tip of the spear are not getting the equipment they need. some have resulted some of our nation's fire chiefs have resulted to buying ponchos and even rain coats to protect some of our firefighters. there needs to be a priority saling's also including our firefighters. pete: the cares act $850 million in there for law enforcement. 100 million for the fire service. explain to our viewers how has your mission changed since covid-19? what are you involved in and explain the level of exposure?

certainly enendorse our $850 million brothers and women in blue but $100 million is far short of what we needed. all the patients in hospitals, the great work that is being done by our healthcare workers. they got there somehow and how they got there was through the fire service. larger provider of e.m.s. in the united states. and so we're the ones that are actually treating, caring, and transporting these patients to the hospital. it's important that we have protective gear operationally our budgets are disseminated. our supplies are disseminated. we have our budgets disseminated because the overtime that we ever paying for the firefighters that are out sick or being quarantined or have been exposed. we have had up to about 9 or 10 firefighters die so far from this disease directly related to the covid. we are getting hit operationally and economically.

pete: literally hands on on the front line with people who could potentially be infected. what can people do locally if they want to support their local fire service and what is your national request? >> so, there is a couple things. again, i have fears of what we are going to see in the future as a downturn of the economy has hit our local and state governments. i'm already getting notices that firefighters are being notified that they're going to be laid off. i heard from one fire department yesterday out of 19 195 staff ty are going to lose 36 firefighters. i can multiply that by many conversations i have h we are asking people to contact their congress people. we are asking and based on our calculations we are going to need 5 billion in federal funding for one of our programs called assistance to firefighter grants. and we are also in need of about 5 billion funding for one of our programs nationally called safer, which stands for staffing adequate fire emergency response. we will need that not to add

jobs but just to maintain a ready response force for our communities. pete: thank you for what you and your fellow firefighters do every day and especially at a moment like this. god bless you. we hope everything gets to you that should. we appreciate it. >> thank you. and we are all honored to serve our communities. pete: amen, thank you, sir. still ahead, she is more than man's best friend. turns out this dog tour is a real lifesaver. meet loki the therapy dog coming up next. st milk and cream. that one! and the world's best, and possibly only, schmelier. philadelphia. schmear perfection.

jillian: good morning, welcome back. paging dogtor locky. look at this healing kits to those on the front lines, providing necessary material

like moisturizer chapstick moisture riser and tea. here with more university of maryland and loki. thank you for being here. >> thank you for having us. jillian: how cute are we? tell me will boki and how you started doing. this 2 and a half year old rottweiler she was given to me the same week i went to medical school. therapy dog for the hospital and it's taken off. jillian: so fantastic. you started this by face timing with patients and nurses, right? >> well, technically, we were working with them prior to the covid epidemic and then once the moratorium was put on for all animal therapy visits we decided that we should take it to the next level and try to figure out something else. jillian: what has the reaction been? >> it's been nothing but positivity and support. i think that there has been a lot of people who just kind of need other people in the background to show them they are being supported up on the front

lines whether i nurses, custodians. we have been trying to do that for people. jillian: so important to put a smile on people's faces that's exactly what you are doing through this. >> exactly. everyone loves the dog dressed up no matter if it's on face time or 'person. jillian: i know loki is so cute. tell me how much have you raised so far. because have you really done a number. >> fortunately i have had amazing people working beside me helping me raise these funds and donations. we have gotten about, at this point, since this morning, i checked roughly 3,000 or more kits donate you had. jillian: wow. >> whether it be in our area or up in philly or other locations that we have started up this whole care package. jillian: how far do you think can you go with it? >> depends on how generous people want to be. jillian: well, loki is dressed up today, ready to get the day started. ready to put smiles on people's

faces. >> i said she is definitely doing it for me. jillian: absolutely. if people want to help how can they do that. >> log in to loki dogtor.loki. facebook donations or try to get it started in their respective states or philadelphia or rochester where i currently have them already going and full steam ahead. they can reach out to me and i can connect them there, too. jillian: what's the hardest part before we let you go of seeing everything that's going on on the front lines? >> it's been really hard being a full time medical student and not being able to be there because we have pulled back and now everything is through zoom. so, this is the best that i can do to try to make things better for awful my co-workers out there on the front lines, you know, making a difference for people. jillian: you are certainly doing that caroline and loki. have a good day. >> thank you, i appreciate it. jillian: plans to lift lockdown

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>> we have already built sufficient testing capacity nationwide for states to begin their reopenings. and i think you will be hearing a lot about reopenings in the coming weeks and months. i think you're going to see some very very dramatic steps taken and very safely. we are putting safety first. jillian: president trump making it clear the safety of americans is his number one priority. pete: this as the white house says states have enough coronavirus tests to safely reopen their economy. griff: governors beginning unveil plans to lift lockdown orders as protesters demand fewer restrictions so they can get back to work. good morning, i'm griff jenkins is d.c. with my colleagues jillian and pete up in new york.

jillian: hi, griff. pete: good morning, griff, good to see you multi-and all, we love it. you can't get a hair cut you have got to do what have you got to do, griff. jillian: someone just tweeted me i kind of have a multi-today, too. i'm following in your lead. griff: you do. i like that. pete: it's a good-looking multi. thimullett. this week has been inflection point every week has. a rot of common sense measures have been taken. the doctors have been listened to. we are slowing the spread. that's a great thing. more people have been infected than we realize. and businesses are saying hey, these ppe program work for some. not everybody. i didn't get my check. my business is still shut. but i want to responsibly start to reopen. hear from the white house carefully plan for that phases. governors, ultimately you are empowered to make these calls. that's why you are seeing these protests across the country saying hey, we are healthy.

let's go. you will hear more of that. griff: yeah. jillian: to that point i think a lot of people are happy right now with the progress that they're hearing these plans, that the plans are in place. talking about plans for getting businesses back open. getting the government reopen. the economy reopened, excuse me, and the plans also as we heard from dr. birx last night about trying to get more testing kits and labs to work together to get the testing done as we need to do. as you heard many of the experts say test something a huge part of it. it's not everything. so now we are starting to seat plans for everything coming together. griff: yeah, i was just going to add pete, i think you are exactly on point. this sin flexion point because now americans are really looking at the fact that this was a health crisis, that was an economic response but the impact and damage from the economic response is going to be determined on how quickly you reopen. that's why we are going to start to talk to these members of congress. we have coming up congressman dan crenshaw an outspoken leader

on that, as well as the doctors, because how soon americans can be comfortable with going back to their lives, and opening their businesses is going to be a part of it and of course the former nfl wide receiver brandon marshall, a big star. i have to thank him for helping me win my only fantasy football trophy ever. jillian: you can thank him in person when we talk to him. pete: better than my minnesota vikings legacy i hate to admit. let's bring in super star lee zeldin republican from new york. lee, thank you for being with us. we appreciate it. i know you have been watching the country. you have been watching the protesters. there is many more slated for the weeks to come. what is the feeling that americans are having right now? they were asked to shut down. they have been doing their part. now a lot of people stepping up and feeling like you got to give us a chance to reopen, especially at the local level if we're being responsible? what's your take of where we are at right now, lee? >> lee:

[static] pete: congressman? jillian: it looks like we are having an issue over skype right now. we will just tap for a second. pete: he wrote a fox news op-ed usinuse localized road map. there is the op-ed he wrote. all the states ready for phase one of reopening. so the criteria have been met in these states in a way that the governors now are empowered to start taking these measures. and you see the state of minnesota there as a prominent example. they held that protest yesterday. the president tweeting liberate minnesota. there is a sense that, you know, closing our parks and our goferl courses and everything isn't necessary when a lot of businesses need to reopen up. i think we might have lee zeldin back. lee, are you there? >> yeah. how are you? good morning.

pete: good morning, lee. you wrote this question about a localized opening approach. what's your sense of where we are at right now as it pertains to business in america? >> well, there are other parties of the united states where everyone is anxious to get back and working. i happen to be in a county where we have over 25,000 positive coronavirus cases between suffolk county and nassau county. we have over 53 and a half positive cases. timeline on long island, for example, may be different than a colleague of mine in a congressional district that might have under 50 positive coronavirus cases. a timeline might be a bit different, but, i would say the anxiety of kit kids to go back o school and people to go back to work is high even in a place like mine. jillian: i do think obviously there will be different opening points for different states at different times. that is understood by everyone at this point. but even for some of these really hard hit areas, i think a lot of people are sitting back, wondering, look, we know what

safety measures and precautions we have to take right now, we have to be diligent about doing these things. if we are, even in the hard hit areas can we get some of these businesses can put some of these protocols in place. can't we get some of these outdoor activities like golf where can you social distance. how do you think we are from that being a reality? >> i agree with the point that you are making. and looking at activities that allow individuals to get out into the open, as soon as it starts warming up here on long island, for example, especially after you have been couped up inside your house for over a month, being able to be outside, whether you are going out on your boat or as you mentioned going out golfing or playing ten miss with your family, those activities are important for physical health, for mental health, as far as businesses go. expanding the list of essential businesses, so more people go back to work. putting mitigation measures into place. if you are sick, you actually stay home. if you are working inside of a location where there is a whole

lot of people working inside, you know, one tight space, maybe your employer is spreading people out more. those measures really provide an opportunity for things to get closer to normal faster. we should be smart and precise in how we reopen. we should do it as quickly as possible and as is -- you have been stating on this show and your guest has, it's also important to do it in a way that prevents another outbreak. griff: congressman, let me ask you every minute hour and day that passes, small businesses are going out of business. and may not come back. the ppp well ran dry. but, yet, you guys, lawmakers, democrats and republicans, can't dig us another well. how far do you think we are in terms of getting at least another 250 billion into the ppp? >> it's inexclusive that the fundinininexcusable that thefuny this past thursday. this wasn't a surprise.

this was predictable coming this past week we were going to run out of my money. my background is more in military than congress. i have known pete since vets for freedom days: there are officers and there are enlisted who will march into battle with bullets flying in all directions. and, unfortunately for the speaker of the house, for her to be hiding in front of a $24,000 refrigerator trying to pick the $13, $17 gourmet ice cream while she is having those tough decisions, you have small businesses that will never reopen again. the president of the united states is saying we are at an battle with invisible enemy. is he referring to coronavirus. and unfortunately for nancy pelosi she thinks that the enemy is donald trump. it's important for the leadership and the house of representatives to schedule a vote for us to fund ppp by a few days ago. we should do it today. we should do our darn jobs and get our heads out of our freezers and stop eating the ice cream. pete: what's the play?

why would she be holding this up when it's so obvious and straightforward? her constituents are hit by this, too. nothing political about the fact that we are giving an opportunity for businesses to stay afloat and pay their employees what's she doing? >> like she was out of touch in trying to impeach the president of the united states. showing how out of touch she is right now with that small business owner that puts all that sweat equity to start a business successful through no fault of their own, the government voluntarily shuts down their small business. for her, i don't know how much she cares or she understands that plight. because if do you care, if you do understand, you get on the next plane back to washington, d.c. we have a vote. fund the program. the ppp, disaster loans as well. there are disaster declarations across the entire country. take yes from an answer from your colleagues on the other side of your aisle. this is not a moment to be partisan. it's time to be bipartisan.

i will work with my county executives. i will work with my democratic governor. i will work with my republican president. this isn't about being republican or democrat. it's about being americans. i think the piri speaker has pe. you had josh gottheimer on your show. unfortunately the speaker hasn't gotten the memo yet. she needs to take it to heart and actually schedule this vote. jillian: does this gte done in the next few days? >> >> i don't know if the speaker has honestly gotten her head out of the freezer yet. does it happen? maybe maybe over the course of this weekend. there is some type of epiphany that goes off. light bulb goes off small businesses will never open again. half of our nation is made up of small businesses. maybe come monday there is announcement being made. pelosi picks up the phone and calls steny hoyer. time to schedule a vote and take yes for an answer and time to help small businesses there are other priorities that are really

important, too. while we are negotiating what needs to be done to help our front line hospitals, and in the leveling the playing field and driving it towards need. all those conversation rfs important to be had. but you can't hold hostage those small businesses and hold hostage half of the united states workforce where so many people have submitted their applications and they haven't yet given their approval and haven't gotten their money. small businesses will never reopen again. >> now we have gotten our arms around the process. we were playing the footage of nancy pelosi in her kitchen in front of that ice cream freezer. some images which truly capture the disconnect of elite leaders who have no idea the ruin that people are going through and not really able to make that a priority. thank you very much, lee for your time. >> thank you, all. pete: turning now to a few additional headlines. a sheriff's department is urging tyson foods to shut down an iowa plant after employees test positive for covid-19.

the black hawk county sheriff says he is worried the coronavirus will take over his community if the company doesn't shutter its facility in waterloo. closing other plant where 186 workers tested positive for covid-19. take a look at this. hundreds of people flocking to a beach within 30 manipulates of its reopening in jacksonville, florida. it will be open for 8 hours a day. the mayor stressing beac stresss must still follow social distancing. >> how long this beach remains open is going to be 100 percent determined by the beach goers. pete: like a scolding from dad. it comes as a florida saw its largest single day increase in covid-19 cases. jumping by more than 1400. still can't sun bathe. i don't know why you can't do that just one hour ago a face mask mandate went into effect in maryland. joining new york in requiring people to wearing face masks while out in public. new york's mandate officially

started last night. people who can't maintain social distance like inside grocery stores and on public transit. emergency room nurse brings comfort to her covid-19 patients one photo at a time. boston nurse gina barbera sorry if i mispronounced that name. printing family photos for patients to keep at their bedside while under a no visitor policy. watch. >> i think bringing in those normal life elements. having families and friends and it's okay to miss them. but you know what? they are close. they are thinking of you. >> jeanna bar beri. for more inspiring stories like this visit foxnews.com/america together. and those are your headlines. jillian: that's great. some photos of the doctors and nurses wearing photos of them smiling on the outside of their uniforms because you see everyone in masks and when you are in the hospital for so long, it's nice to see a smile.

pete: absolutely. griff: quickly, the maryland thing that just happened an hour ago protest coming up at noon in annapolis. see if they address that as well. jillian: the fort hood and drug administration says there is no need to wipe down groceries in the pandemic. dr. nicole saphier is joining us live to explain. that's next.

jillian: good saturday morning to you and welcome back. the fda says there is no need to wipe down groceries during the pandemic. the agency stating quote there is no evidence of food packaging being associated with the transmission of covid-19. so what does dr. nicole saphier think about that. she joins us live to discuss. good morning. >> good morning, jillian. jillian: what do you say about this? i'm still is it one of those who wipes down everything that comes

in my house. initially we have been hearing over and over again doctor that the viruses can live on surfaces like cardboard, for instance, and other surfaces like that. >> well, recommendations in this memo that came out from the fda were a little bit confusing. they said you don't have to wipe down your packages anymore and then they went in to discuss this is not a food bourn illness. those are two different things. wiping down the package outside of the food and you know when we report that a virus can live there potentially up to three days. you know, that's why people have been wanting to wipe things down. the truth is as we have said many, many times you are most likely to contract this infection by actually going to the grocery store and interacting with other people hence the whole importance of social distancing right now. in wiping down everything over kill? it probably is. and to be honest, i personally stopped wiping foundation things a while ago. jillian: really. >> i'm very careful at what i bring into my house. if there is something in a high traffic area that i think a lot of people have touched.

i'm probably still going to wipe that down. is it necessary? possibly t not. right now we don't have a ton going on right now i would rather be overprepared than under prepared. it is important to remember it's not a foodborne illness and respiratory virus and aerosolized virus it's in the air in respiratory droplets. you are going to catch it by actually breathing in or touching your eyes your nose, your mouth and all that. that motion right there actually catches infections. not actually eating them. jillian: take a look at this model. this is an mit model. explosion in covid-19 cases if the lock down measures are relaxed too early. do you think that there is any truth to this? >> well, we have to be careful when we look at models as we have seen before, models aren't necessarily predictive of the future. however we do need to take caution and look at these. this particular model coming out of mi.

>> it is enhanced spear model. something we look at. usually when we're looking at modeling when it comes to pandemics past pandemics, mers and sars and how those viruses. it looked at the virus causing covid-19. it's a little more accurate. what they are show something we can't just say now we are at the equilibrium and plateau phase and now start opening. they are saying we need to get past that exponential starting to decline until we get to that linear decline and that is when we can slowly start opening up things. we don't need this model to till us that. we know. this we know if we open up too fast too soon we will be in the same place again in a couple of months. we have to be very careful when we are starting to reopen the economy but we have to reopen the economy. we have to start doing that. >> absolutely. little bit more to make sure that we continue to see decrease in cases. jillian: dr. nicol nicole saphie are out of time i do want to mention your book make america healthy again goes on sale on

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griff: welcome back. as president trump and the white house task force work around the clock to get our country back to normal. former vice president joe biden is criticizing their efforts from the sidelines. >> the uncomfortable truth is that donald trump left america exposed and vulnerable to this pandemic. he egg poured the warnings of health experts and intelligence agencies. griff: biden goes on to say president trump is not being tough enough on china. so where is this coming from? iraq war veteran and turning point u.s.a. spokesperson rob

joins us. good morning to you. >> good morning, good morning. griff: rob. what is going on with the former vice president i get he is going to be running in november. he has got to remain relevant. but, really? >> well, what's going on with joe biden right now is while president trump is standing tall as the president of the united states, joe biden is hiding in a bunker struggling to finish sentences. that's what's going on right now. we need to be very clear about a couple of things. number one the wuhan virus, the coronavirus this virus came from china, okay? china is the reasonable why america is hurting right now. china is the reason why americans are dying right now. china is the reason why our economy is on life support right now. and for joe biden to try to push any of this on president trump, to me, is absolutely ridiculous. and, second of all, we have to look at what some of the local elected officials were saying in the early days of this virus. i'm coming to you from new york city. this is the epicenter of the coronavirus. and in new york city, you had

nancy pelosi having people, inviting people to come down to chinatown. had you mayor de blasio telling people to go out to see movies. so, to let them get away with all of this stuff, and to also sideline china for biden to attack president trump from the bunker is completely ridiculous. and, to me, even in terms of presidential politics, it's very low. the president has been standing up, reassuring americans, taking hits from the fake news media every single day while joe biden shoots youtube video in a bunker. griff: rob, so china says that the w.h.o. found no evidence that this came from a lab. we will find out where it is. but your larger point that this originated in wuhan, china is, indisputable. n whole process the president has even temporarily halted funding to the who which appears to be covering up for china's lies. what more then to appease joe biden could president trump do?

>> i mean, you have to understand that with joe biden, with the entire left right now, there is nothing that president trump could do to make them happy. and it's really sad right now that this coronavirus, this covid-19 that is hurting so many americans, this should be a nonpartisan thing. joe biden should be figuring out ways in which he and other people could work with the administration right now to get messaging out that's going to help americans and get our economy back online. instead they are using this-to-ache at that time president. and there is a lot of propaganda coming from china right now, particularly on twitter. they are saying that, you know, the fact that the coronavirus came from china is racist. and racism designed excuse for your own incompetence. and people on the left right now, actors on the left are playing right into china's hands with this propaganda that they are pushing throughout our social media. griff: a lot more on this to come. we will keep an eye on it. robb, thank you for joining us today. stay safe. >> thanks for having me.

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♪ >> at some point in the not too distant future we are going to have our country back. and it's going to be, i think really with what we are doing on stimulus and helping people keep their businesses together and

their lives together and their jobs. it's going to be better than ever before. pete: president trump reassuring americans after the senate adjourned this week without a deal to get more money to small businesses. the initial $349 billion to keep small businesses afloat, well it ran out this week. after some 1.6 million loan applications were approved. so now what? well, we have our small business panel here to weigh in. joining us now are founder of hedge tactical solutions kevin. president of the foundation for research on equal opportunity owe bic roid. healthcare expert and meredith poll land. welcome to all of you. i'm going to start with you, kevin. and then i will ping-pong over to you. you put out a report this week on how we can reopen the economy. i want to get to that kevin, as a small business owner, what are you facing? what's your experience been in trying to get this money? >>

>> very frut frustrating. filled with loophole, sole proprietor and people i employed self-employed 109 the people as well. it's been very difficult. and as the changes came and went, all of a sudden got the notification on thursday that the money ran out. it's been a frustration. we represent means fit usa in wisconsin. people have been very frustrated figuring out. this was a lifelong a lot of people don't expect or want this money but they need it now. it's frustration. pete: what do you say to that frustration yes a lot of people have received it. a lot of it is larger businesses that have access to the lawyers and accountants, small town u.s.a. having more problems. owe bic, what do you say? >> yeah, the big problem, pete, is that the average small business has only 27 days of cash which means that in we have a lockdown for longer than a month. half of the small businesses in

america are going to be out especially the ones who couldn't access that federal money. we have to open up again. the trump plan makes some progress in that regard. we have got to be more aggressive than even the trump administration has been at strategically reopening where we can getting younger people back to work. reopening the schools and doing so in a safe way. pete: meredith, would you like to see more aggressive plan in getting the businesses open? >> absolutely. i echo everything that has been said. it is critical. we have gotten support to our healthcare and march 27th. every small business owner breathed a huge sigh of relief that this help was coming. the support was coming. and now we are unable to follow through. that is catastrophic. it's scary. it's concerning and i am just one of many small business owners that just kind of hang in the balance that don't know what to communicate to my employees because we thought that help was

coming. we thoughts that assistance was coming. we thought that we were going to be able to keep their paychecks intact. that was essentially what this program was set in place to do. pete: meredith, have you applied and not seen it? where are you in the process? >> sure. i just received a call yesterday at about 5:00 from my bank that somebody should be reaching out to me. i need to supply some more documentation. and somebody should be reaching out to me next week. but just like he mentioned earlier, most businesses have about a month's worth of cash flow. we're already three weeks in. we are already three weeks into this. so the moneys have not landed in accounts and, again, i am just one of many that haven't even received a call back from a bank. pete: it starts to be that critical moment. avik, you said you have a few more aggressive ingredients in your plan. what would you suggest?

>> step one reopen the schools not just for the kids the single moms, the pharmacist who can't go to work bowers she would have to leave her children alone at home if she goes to work. got to get schools open in a step wise fashion. and then get those younger workers back in action. the thing about this disease. this disease is not the flu. what do i mean by that pete? i mean that younger people are not a at major risk of dying or even being hospitalized. they can get sick and there are isolate you had cases, in general, young people, people under the age of 30, under the age of 40 are not really getting severely ill because of covid-19. and that means we can bring more younger people back union line. do more not just about essential businesses but safe businesses. there are a lot of businesses that may not be essential in the government's mind but can operate safely and do their jobs in a way that keep people safe. pete: i see heads nodding there. kevin, you mentioned small town hut son, wisconsin. the business owners you are talking to, many of which are

closed, if they were given the ability to reopen responsibly, would they do that? >> i think so for sure. you know, 80% of main street is not going to reopen their door without some kind of lifeline here. that's the frustrating part. i know one person on main street that's gotten their ppp money. two people have actually gotten a call like the previous person said about the -- from the bank. and so it's a frustration. we don't even know what we are doing. a wonderful thing about a town like hudson or river falls where we are. those owners of those companies are still paying their employees. still pulling money out of their pocket. talk about a cash -- these small businesses i would love to say it's a month-long run of cash, but i don't even know if it's weeks. that's the frustration thing, ppp and everyone was able to file for it and how quickly it dried up and the eidl when they talk about $10,000 in three days. rules changed instantly. it's a real frustration for everybody. they need this cash infusion quickly. >> let me just add something. pete: go ahead, real quick.

>> something quickly, pete, it's a month on average for small businesses but retail businesses, restaurants, maintenance shops, it's more like two weeks. those sectors are going to go down first. pete: that's why all of this is so urgent and nice to see nancy pelosi leave her kitchen and do something about it. kevin, meredith, thank you so much for sharing your experiences, avik the report is freeopp.org, thanks. pete: all of you, thank you very much, appreciate your time. >> appreciate it. jillian, over to you. jillian: take a look at your headlines. a father dies from covid-19 after his entire family contracts the virus. 60-year-old marvin lotten died on easter sunday just 45 minutes before he was scheduled to receive a life-saving plasma donation. his wife and children forced to save their goodbyes over video chat. his wife and daughter are recovering from virus at their florida home. our thoughts are with them. the idaho mother jailed in

connection with to her two missing kids now reportedly under investigation for murder. authorities are looking into whether lori vallow was involved in the death of her husband's ex-wife. police now consider tammy day bell's death suspicious. her body was found inside her home last year. vallow, nor her husband, have been charged. vallow is still awaiting trial for refusing to tell police the location of her children, joshua and tylee. they have been missing since september. today vice president pence will head to colorado for the air force academy's graduation ceremony. the vice president will deliver the commencement speech as hundreds social distance themselves at the ceremony. >> i understand they will have distancing so it will be very different than it ever looked. jillian: president trump says he will be attending west point's graduation next month. a retired nurse renewing his license to help in the fight against coronavirus. earlier pete decker told us why he did it and how.

listen to this. >> i had this, you know, this desire that i wanted to get in this fight on the caregiver side. i saw a post that the board of nursing was looking for inactive nurses to reinstate their licenses and contacted them that day and a couple days later my nursing license was reinstated and i'm in this fight now. jillian: isn't that great? peter will be caring for patients recovering from the virus in new jersey. which has seen over 79,000 confirmed cases and nearly 4,000 deaths. some people out there in this country just stepping up in every way they can. griff: incredible story. and certainly speaks of the great american spirit that we have needed in this fight. people just like peter stepping in saying put me in. pete: very cool. stepping up right now is rick reichmuth upgraded his shot to the wall? jillian: what's going on there? i liked the window. rick: i know, the window, i'm having a lighting issue in the window.

that's where all the sun comes in it gets really really hot right there. as the sun angle is changing every week. pete: you wicked it. we are going to make fun of you. rick: totally fair. griff: nice. >> i can do weather with her in my arms? pete: who is that. rick: kyoto, you will hear geno go crazy in a second. snow, severe weather and heat across parts of florida. florida, you are 74 in tampa, breaking all kinds of records down across florida this week actually all winter long. but incredible air. warm air continues right there. however, go towards the north, that's where the cold enough air is. and we are watching, looking at the threat for some pretty strong -- maybe five to six inches. exiting parts of massachusetts

in towards upstate new york. parts of vermont. and the southern side of this storm today is going to bring us a little bit of severe weather. tomorrow a bigger chance of severe weather. you see where the severe will be right where one week ago we had all of those tornadoes, in fact 78 confirmed tornadoes, unfortunately more coming for tomorrow. all right, guys, back to you. jillian: wyou.jill they do not d anymore. pete: no they don't. griff: still ahead, taking care of those who take care of us. our next guest is former nfl star helping our healthcare workers refuel and recover from long shifts. brandon marshall tells us about his new initiative. you don't want to miss it.

pete: from recovery tools to proper nutrition brandon marshall is teaming up with house of athlete to take care of the people taking care of us. jillian: this is great. they are creating space for doctors and nurses to relax and

providing them meals to refuel during breaks. griff: former nfl wide receiver brandon marshall and icu news joins us now. good morning to you. >> good morning. >> good morning, guys. griff: brandon, let me start with you. what are you cooking and really why are you doing this? >> wow, why? i had a ton of people reaching out to me. nfl friends, nba friends said how do we source ventilator. how do we source masks to get this to the front lines and it hit me. it doesn't matter how many masks we have. it doesn't matter how many ventilators we have if we don't have the caregivers standing there at the end of the day or end of this fight healthy. so, for me, we wanted to launch this initiative, fuel the front lines so we can feed over 100 hospitals, 100 -- in over 100

cities and 10,000 caregivers a day because recovery is key. jillian: yeah. >> we need them to recover more now than ever like athletes. we need them after standing on their feet for 14, 16, sometimes 18 thundershowers in a day going through recovery rooms and recovering like athletes. micronutrients are key. it doesn't matter if we are just putting junk in our food, junk in our bodies. we need our care grifers to put the right things in their body so supplements are critical right now. jillian: it is so important. >> it's so important. so what we're doing with some of the guys around the league and the nfl is critical. we need our caregivers standing at the end of this thing strong. we are already under staffed from a medical standpoint coming in to covid-19. we're already seeing some of the workforce walk away rightfully so just afraid some are sick.

we need to do everything we can from a supplement industry, from a fitness industry to serve our local hospitals so right now we're in over 80 hospitals globally we want to continue to grow 100 and possibly hit 200 hospitals. this is critical right now. two there is two things we need to do. put recovery rooms in our house of representatives with they're are a guns and percussion therapy pushing out all of the plaque tid acid and fluid out of their legs for stand go ahead 16 hours, 18 thundershowers a day and the second thing we need to do is beneed to send out supplements to our caregivers. right now they need the right macronutrients in their bodies. as a professional athlete. one of the hardest thing to do was to get ready for the next practice. it wasn't the game. it was how do i get my mind and body right for the next practice and for them it's the next patient. this thing is going to last probably until the end of this year and going into 2021.

so we need them right now strong so everyone out there, needs to do everything they can to give back to the front line. jillian: brandon, i'm going to interrupt you for a second here everything you are say something critically important i want to bring in jay rose right now. jay, you are on the front lines of this and battling this every single day. i are seeing the patients. you are the one, as brandon mentioned, standing on your feet for long hours every day. tell me how important it is and what is like day in and day out? >> okay. so i'm one of the covid nurses. i work at the local hospitals here in miami. and i, like brandon said, i do 12 to almost 13 hours on my feet. the covid unit that i'm assigned to i'm not aloud to leave the unit. i clock, in i get a scrub and then i attend to my two icu patients that are in isolation. you are not allowed to have visitors. you know, it's a lock down unit.

we are not allowed to leave the unit at all. so, brandon marshall and healthy athlete great message. they are focusing on the people. there is a lack of supplies yes. nutrients and supplements are the key. i currently take the mental health which is vitamin b 12 which is great for circulation. and like he said, this virus is going to take us into 2021. you know, i'm seeing my patients from 40, 30, to 50 recover. and then some don't. pete: well, the effort is called house of athlete we are out of time. we have to leave it there brandon marshall thank you for articulating your passion on this and helping people like jaye rose on the front line. >> yes. jillian: thank you for what you are doing. >> thank you. griff: thanks, guys. all right. coming up. one michigan family going the extra mile to show their

appreciation for workers on the front lines. they join us live next with their message of thanks and hope.

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jillian: good morning and welcome back. a message of faith, love, hope and thanks. a michigan family using their driveway to send messages of encouragement to all those fighting coronavirus on the front lines. the gore know family with mom peggy, dad steve, and son michael join us now with your matching shirts that i love. thank you for being here. >> thank you for having us. jillian: of course steve. start with you. why did you guys want to do this? >> well, i think we just, with the stay-at-home orders it's tough figuring out ways that you can help. and we just up-to-the-minuted to send our appreciation out into

the world through our driveway for everything that doctors, nurses, front line workers, first responders are doing to help out right now. they are putting their lives on the line and we just want them to know that we appreciate them. we were hoping to get to one person and obviously we got to a lot more. jillian: you did get to a lot more. your posts have been shared almost 50,000 times on facebook. have you posted a couple times. peggy, i know you are a two-time cancer survivor. part of your journey has been involving a lot of those who are on the front lines right now. this for you is personal. >> it is. yes. we are so passionate about all of the groups listed in our profile pictures and they really have saved my life and saved our spirits and so now they are out risking their lives and leaving their families and it's extraordinary. jillian: i know that some of the doctors and nurses tell you that they have hung up the pictures

in the break room. i know you have heard from nurses in italy who saw. this michael, are you surprised that this has gone so viral? >> yeah. i mean, definitely really excited that it went viral because like my dad said, we were just trying to get out to one person and we obviously got out to a lot more which was pretty surprising for me. jillian: it's pretty cool. what's your message to america right now, receive? steve: well, we just want everybody to be kind and to spread love and joy and hope. it's a tough time for everybody. but hopefully this inspires other people to show their appreciation and to just put more love and hope and kindness out into the world. jillian: absolutely. peggy, steve, michael goran know, thank you for joining us and sharing your message with us have a good day. >> thank you for having us. >> thank you. >> thank you. jillian: with millions of americans out of work and talks of another stimulus plan stalled

in congress should lawmakers take a pay cut during the pandemic. we ask congressman dan crenshaw when he joins us live during the next hour. ...

president trump: going to be together sooner rather than later a lot of really incredible things are happening and at some point in the not too distant future we'll have our country back and really with what we're doing on stimulus and helping people keep their businesses together and their lives together and their jobs it's going to be better than ever before. griff: welcome to our final hour that was president trump yesterday assuring americans the country will reopen sooner rather than later governors unveiling plans to lift lockdown orders as protesters have fewer restrictions to get back to work jillian: meanwhile 12,000 hungry americans wait in line at a san antonio food bank look at that image it's one of several food pantries trying to keep up with increasing demands.

pete: take a look at this hundreds of people flocking to beaches within 30 minutes of their reopening in jacksonville, florida following a protest in orlando, the government there in florida looking to open , and in accordance with what the president is talking about in phases good morning, i'm here with jillian mele in studio f in new york city and griff jenkins in our nations capitol good morning to you both griff: good morning. jillian: good morning. griff: those images from really all across the country from texas to florida you're seeing our new reality, mentioned it already on the show, pete, really an inflection point right now, as the president putting these guidelines out, and then many leaders are saying agree here in d.c., the mayor says this is in line with our thinking, called it a good framework for how they hope, over a period of time, these phases are trying to get somewhat back to normal. jillian: absolutely and we have great guests on to talk about all of this , with us texas congressman dan crenshaw and dr.

mark siegel as well. pete: griff on the weekends we get a chance to reflect on the week that was, and all those press conferences with the president, the back and forth he's had with the media, he talked about having total control if he needed to that was his argument and a couple of days later when the governors admitted he wanted state power he said okay it's up to you to make the call and then they released the federal guidelines and as every american has contributed to flattening the curve and slowing the spread , there's now this sense, i've been doing what you've asked me to do, now i want to be treated like an adult with common sense, that i can go out and responsibly reopen my business, or responsibly go out into public, and so you're seeing protests. we saw it in minnesota yesterday , we saw it in orlando, you saw it in michigan and the call to liberate these states, the president certainly hearing those calls in the white house and a couple of tweets yesterday went out in the middle of the day as these protests were going on, one said liberate minnesota, from the president and you also had liberate

michigan, a protest there and then liberate virginia and saviour great second amendment it is under siege. jillian: let's take a lessen to what the president has to say about all of the protests going on and then we'll react on the back end. here he is. president trump: i think that we all have a sobering guidance but some thins are too tough and if you look at some of the states you just mentioned, it's too tough. these are pemex pressing their views. i see where they are and i see the way they are working and they seem to be very responsible people to me, but they have been treated a little bit rough. jillian: i think some people are frustrated right now guys because there are certain parts of this country that haven't been hit as hard as other parts and that doesn't mean they can't be hit still so everybody i think understands if we're going to reopen an get back to work no matter what point that happens that phase i happens in your state, there are protocols and things you're going to have to do whether it be social distancing still, wearing a mask in public whatever the case may be and a majority of the people right now are saying i'm good with that.

i'll do whatever you want me to do, just let me get my business open so that i can survive. pete: absolutely. griff: it's a good point and remember, the guidelines that the president put out, you can't get to phase i until you've have 14 consecutive day period of downward trajectory in case, okay? so these folks who are in these areas we can show you the map of the 22 states where people say they're ready for phase i, are looking at data in the realities on the ground there, and that of course why you are seeing people saying listen, i am now feeling perhaps in some areas more so the economic impact of coronavirus rather than the health crisis that it was on the front end. pete: that's exactly right and why these protests are only growing and we also have a map of protests happening across the country in the next couple of weeks currently scheduled. i've been in touch just this morning with two organizers of rallies going on in new

jersey as well as in maryland who are saying hey, the official s are trying to block us we're working our way around it we're going to demonstrate that it's time to open up and a big part of the frustration guys is i saw a sign that the minnesota protest said every job is essential to that person and that business that is their livelihood and they also look at governors being quite flippant about our founding documents. you had phil murphy the governor of new jersey where i live say that the bill of rights is something that's above his pay grade. he's not thinking about the bill of rights but what's in the bill of rights? freedom of assembly, freedom of religion, freedom of speech, the second amendment, the first rights given to us by god which as responsible citizens we believe should always be protected while also recognizing the health protocols, that's the inflection point you're see ing right now and if these governors don't figure it out, there's going to be even more. jillian: i was just going to say pete we have to keep in mind it's two-fold . it's the economy and it's the ability to be able

to get states open and to get businesses back on track but it's also that combined with testing and trying to figure out whose safe to go back into the workforce, trying to figure out the tests that we need in order to see who has coronavirus currently and then the tests we need to be able to see who has the antibody who has the immunity and we also have to keep in mind we still don't know how long that immunity is going to last. that's something they are still trying to figure out so it is a two-fold process, but everybody is on the same page right now as having a game plan in place. griff: it's a good point, and jillian, here in washington, we still have no ppp funding, because the well ran dry and in a lot of these protests will be small business owners, wondering what about me? the expectation that would get some relief from this as they want to get back to their businesses, trying to figure out whether or not they have to go out of business permanently in some cases.

earlier we had congressman lee his zeldem talking about it and here is what he had to say. >> for the speaker of the house to be hiding in front of a $24,000 refrigerator picking on the $13 or $17 gourmet ice cream while having those tough decisions, you have small businesses that will never reopen again, so the president of the united states is saying we're at a battle with an invisible enemy, he's referring to coronavirus, and unfortunately, for nancy pelosi, she thinks that the enemy is donald trump. so it's really important for the leadership and the house of representatives to schedule a vote, to fund ppp by a few days ago, we should do it today and do our darn jobs and get our heads out of our freezers and stop eating ice cream. perfect well said by the congressman. i asked him the question, what's the rationale, the play from speaker pelosi who has done late night shows of her fancy freezer while knowing the fund is going to run out? well, the ppp fund those billions of dollars that money goes from the government

to banks, banks to businesses, businesses to payroll with an incentive of keeping people employed right at least their paychecks. democrats have long been rushing just extensions to unemployment benefits which is understandable right? temporary extension to unemployment benefits but that's direct payment of government money to people, i mean, you don't have to play politics to understand there's a huge philosophical difference here, republicans and the president believe businesses should be empowered to continue hiring their people. democrats have a much more big government view of this , and that's part of the discussion. jillian: just a final point i know people personally who are struggling with this right now and frustrated because they've applied for the loan, already been approved and they are in limbo, waiting. because they are approved and ready to go and there's no money pete: absolutely. griff: so much for as it continues, a lot of people looking into the origins of how we got here, the u.s. now opening a full scale investigation into whether the coronavirus escaped a wuhan lab. lucas tomlinson is live from the

pentagon, with more. good morning. >> good morning, griff. president trump and his top officials are demanding answers from china about what it knows about this virus and so far they say china is shutting the world out. president trump: a lot of strange things are happening, but there is a lot of investigation going on, and we're going to find out. it came from china, in whatever form, 184 countries now are suffering because of it. >> what we do know is we know that this virus originated in wuhan, china, we know that there is the wuhan institute of virology, a handful of miles away from where the wet market was, there's still lots to learn and you should know the united states government is working diligently to figure this out. >> mike pompeo is demanding the chinese communist government "come clean" and says beijing needs to be held accountable and china also needs to explain what happened and why information is still not being shared and the chairman of joint chief of staff announced tuesday, u.s. intelligence is investigat ing the origins of

this virus. >> a lot of intelligence take a hard look at that and i would just say at this point, it's in conclusive although the weight of evidence seems to wait natural, but we don't know for certain. >> defense secretary mark esper also says the evidence is inconclusive but china continues to hide information even today. guys? pete: thank you, lucas. the regimes in north korea and iran are evil and dangerous, but china, the communist china is so much more dangerous because of how powerful they are. the hard power they have and the soft power the manipulation of international organizations like we've seen here, where they manipulate the health data, they are lying, cheating and stealing and when they do, it impacts millions of people around the globe, and if we don't, if there isn't anywhere but china made in america effort coming out of this then we've really lost the moment. griff: that's a great point. don't forget, just this week, it

was china that when asked about whether this came out of that lab said no, it's definitely not true because the who, the doctors that we depend on to prevent these pandemics told them there was "no scientific basis for such claims." pete: we're going to look back on this and the headline of this will be, the chinese virus, precisely where it came from. guys we've got a few additional headlines we have to cover this morning as well so take a look at this. hundreds of people flocking to a beach within 30 minutes of reopening in jacksonville, florida the mayor stressed beach goers must still follow social distancing and the congressman was on our program and said not up to him. >> the government cannot and should not manage the risk of the individual. we've got to do that for ourselves. pete: personal responsibility, novel concept. jacksonville beaches will only be open for eight hours a day. and starting monday, walmart employees will be required to wear face masks as the retailer looks to hire 50,000 more

workers to keep up with increased demand during the pandemic. the retailer already hired 150,000 new employees and walmart will provide masks to new workers while recommending customers wear one inside stores as well. >> online grocery companies instacart is teaming up with costco for a prescription delivery service. it's available at nearly 2,000, excuse me, 200 costco locations nationwide helping customers avoid possible exposure to covid-19. >> and now, weather headlines as well. a spring snowstorm giving midwest another reason to stay indoors during the coronavirus pandemic. some states like iowa seeing as much as 10 inches of snow, look at that. others like michigan and nebraska looking more like a winter wonderland in april. that system now heads toward the north east, meanwhile the south could be slammed with severe storms, as it recovers from last week's deadly tornadoes and those are your headlines. jillian: the last thing they

need is to be hit with more severe weather. pete: its been a rough season for them. a lot of factors, life still goes on and we confront those issues as well. guys still a lot ahead this morning, how deadly is the coronavirus? it's a huge question, we've learned a lot but what more can we learn? a new study revealing covid-19 has a much lower death rate than previously thought. dr. mark siegel explains the findings and the significant data behind it, after the break.

griff: a new study out of stanford university shows that the infection rates of covid-19 could be much higher than previously thought, but it also shows the fatality rate of the disease is much lower than what is being reported. here now to explain fox news medical contribute or dr. mark siegel, good morning to you. >> good morning, griff.

griff: so we got this study out of stanford that shows cases are vastly larger than was expected but you say this is actually good news. >> first of all i think this is an extremely important study and we're going to see many more done like this and it's out of stanford it's very well done it looks at 3,300 people in santa clara county and here is what it finds out. it predicts, based on checking them for antibodies that 2-4% of people in that county have been exposed and if you project that out that should mean that 40 to 80,000 people in santa clara county had covid-19 when the actual numbers detected are 965. a whopping 50-80 times more people have been exposed to it than actually have been reported cases. now, griff i want to caution this is only one county. we don't know how that'll project out across the united states, but obviously, several points.

one, if there is so many patients that are undetected the death rate is clearly way, way, lower than we've been reported. number two, we may be able to begin to see the beginning of what we call hurt immunity where islands people, let's call them islands of people who have had it have had a very low grade symptoms or no symptoms, they present a block to spread of the virus. the more people that have been exposed that have antibodies, those are ways to slow the virus down. that's call the hurt immunity and both of those are good things. we've been talking about this death rate. this implies the death rate, the real death rate is really a lot lower. of course we need a lot more studies on this to prove it but this is positive news. griff: fascinating news indeed. dr. siegel let's do a couple e-mails and questions from our viewers. this from norm who asks when states reopen, will it be dangerous to travel between states that are in different phases? >> this is an extremely important question question and it's exactly what i was thinking

about when the president put out the phases the other day. you know what the issue is here? summer camps, schools reopen, universities, you live in a state that's phase ii. you live in a state where you still are under lockdown and you are going to a university in a state which has gotten to phase ii, that's going to be very hard to figure out. that's going to mean the governors coming together with the president, with the task force and figuring out how to overcome that issue. i don't want to see universities not reopening in the fall. let me be really clear on that so this has to have an interstate coordination, ultimately they are going to be able to figure this out. griff: and an e-mail from carla who says i'm 72 but in good health. am i at greater risk because of my age or only when combined with other health conditions? >> another great question, griff the answer is your age is a factor here. we don't know exactly why, but the inflammation we're seeing from this virus that's causing the pneumonia, the heart problems, the kidney problems in a significant minority of cases increases dramatically when you

get over the age of 65. on top of that, if she has underlying conditions, like diabetes, like heart disease, like emphysema that makes it even more likely and obesity, being overweight is the worst risk factor of all it looks like those are reasons but just her age alone is reason for her to be careful and to stay-at-home. griff: and important to note the guidelines issued take that high risk population very much. dr. siegel thank you very much for joining us. >> thank you, griff. griff: coming up, famous sibling s kirk cameron and can dice cameron teaming up to hold a benefit concert for covid-19 efforts, casting crowns is just one of the many music groups performing and the lead singer of that awesome band joins us live with a preview coming up. ♪ in nearly 100 years serving the military community, we've seen you go through tough times and every time, you've shown us, you're much tougher

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jillian: good saturday morning to you and welcome back america continues to come together during this pandemic and tomorrow night famous siblings kirk cameron and candice cameron are hosting the hope rising concert on facebook live. all proceeds will go to samaritan's purse a christian organization fighting the coronavirus in hard hit areas. one christian group set to perform one of the many is cast ing crowns, mark hall is the lead singer and he joins us live right now, good to see you this morning. >> hey, jillian how are you? jillian: good, how are you? >> doing good. we're all tucked in and hunkered down in our home safe here in atlanta, georgia. jillian: glad to hear that and so excited to hear about this benefit you're doing tell me about it. >> me too as far as being a christian artist we were in trenton, new jersey when everything sort of started shutting down, and so artists have been just sitting and

waiting and figuring out how can we help and serve and we've been doing it in different ways but when we knew we could be a part of samaritan's purse and the work they're doing they have been around 50 years just rock ing and always there when people need them so now christian artist speakers author s are all coming in together to raise awareness and hope for i guess we're trying to help the helpers does that make sense? jillian: totally. >> and trying to raise funds for them so they can get out there and help people. jillian: you've mentioned samaritan's purse and operating in emergency field hospitals in central park new york and in italy and people have never seen anything like that, especially in central park, new york you see those field hospitals and everything they are doing and the staff and nurses and doctors working around the clock and it really brings things home when you see those images on your screen right now. why is it important to do something like this for them? >> you know, for me, they've been doing this for 50 years like when storms and tornadoes

come in they are the first ones to show up and clean-up the mess and help families and help with operation christmas child every year with the shoe boxes and gifts for kid, franklin graham is to love people not just tell them that god loves them but show them and this is the way to do it is to serve and so what samaritan's purse is doing is huge just showing people that god's not a book or religion. he loves people through the hands and feet of these people, that's what we're doing. jillian: real quick what does hope mean to you at this point and what gives you hope right now? >> for me, hope is it's more of a guaranteed certainhood, that i know that god is going to work good out of what the enemy would mean for bad and we live in a broken messed up world and broken and god works in that. he heals, he comforts and then he also touches lives through the lives but for me hope is being safe and god blessing us at the same time us blessing

others. jillian: absolutely well this is going to be happen it's you, casting crowns, mercy me, natalie grant, among others it's truly incredible that is facebook live, tomorrow night, 8:00 p.m. eastern, and you can check it out to see the hope rising benefit concert i hope everybody does, mark hall thank you for your message and for joining us. >> thank you, jillian. jillian: of course, have a good day. and still ahead the lone star state leading the way in lifting coronavirus revisions so what will the new normal look like there? we'll ask texas congressman dan crenshaw when he joins us live. (whimper) breathe right strips open your nose up to 38% more than cold medicine alone. (deep breath) breathe better, sleep better. breathe right.

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pete: we're back with a fox news alert protesters across the nation are calling on governors to roll back stay-at-home orders. jillian: thousands demanding their states ease restrictions so they can get back to work. governors now unveiling plans to lift lockdown orders. in florida some beaches reopened with social distancing guidelines. griff: texas governor greg abbott says he plans to reopen state parks on monday and reopen retail businesses for pickup, delivery and mail orders next friday. interesting developments there. so we want to go ahead and bring in congressman dan crenshaw member of the house homeland security and former navy seal author of fort fortitude american resilience in the era of outrage congressman good morning to you tell me about what's happening down there in texas. >> well we're doing what we should be doing which is a

staged reopening and you mentioned exactly what governor abbott declared and we'll have more announcements of what is open by april 27 and another thing i'd add to that list which is really important is allowing more surgeries and procedures to take place in our hospitals. our hospitals are empty right now, and doctors are putting off important surgeries. these aren't nose jobs we're talking about. my own father had trouble getting into get heart stent in place, so this is some common sense stuff that needs to happen i hope texas can lead the way and demonstrate how this needs to go for the rest of the country. jillian: congressman you're right my mom is the director of nursing at a surgery center in pennsylvania and they aren't even doing elective surgeries and a lot of elective surgeries, they are still very important to people, and their health, that's the ut most importance to them right now. >> 100%. there's another public health concern when we start to close hospitals, and when we allow the economy to continue to fat ter, and we have to keep talking about that and that has to be part of the balanced

discussion on how we live side by side with covid-19, what within an open economy. we can take risk mitigation measures while getting back to some sense of normalcy, that's what we're doing here in texas and the whole country can follow suit. pete: congressman we're in a moment of federalism and people are waking up looking at their state governments and governors and the way they view the world in new jersey, phil murphy said that the bill of rights, he wasn't thinking about it when he was making these calls. what's your message to governors as they make these decisions as it pertains to the first rights of american citizens? >> first of all take a civics class you should always be looking at the bill of rights and also, understand which laws are respectable and which ones aren't. people will not follow and respect laws that are not respectable themselves. use some common sense. okay? you saw in michigan where they're sectioning off gardening supplies in an open store. i mean, come on. this is nonsense. of course people aren't going to

respect that. these governors have to think through, what is the connection to stopping the spread with their new law. it's a very simple question, but they aren't thinking through it, and voters should hold them accountable for that. griff: congressman your lt. governor dan patrick is holding you, members of congress accountable, saying that you need to get back to work and possibly take a pay cut. here is what he had to say to laura ink graham. >> i'm really tired of nancy pelosi and congress because they , you know what they're not hurt by this. they are at home doing nothing it's time for them to get back to work and quite frankly i think they need to take a half pay cut, texas, we make our senators and our house members and myself make $600 a month. we work 50 hours a week with the tenth largest economy, we meet every year, we're a volunteer public verse and it's time for congress to take a pay cut so they feel some of this pain that people at home are feeling, because congress isn't feeling any pain. the people in the small businesses are, get back to work and cut your pay, and show that

you're with us. griff: dan your thoughts on that do you agree? >> he's half right, we do need to get back to work and get this ppp program absolutely up and running i'd remind my friend dan that not all of us have $24,000 refrigerators like nancy pelosi. so i understand where he's coming from he's absolutely right. we've got to get back to work, not all members of congress came into congress with a bunch of money so let me remind him of that. [laughter] jillian: let's go parent head and talk about your new bill that would allow americans to sue china over covid-19. tell us details about this. >> right so as we see increasing evidence that the chinese authorities, the chinese communist party hid this virus deliberately, allowed domestic travel, or restricted domestic travel in china but allowed international travel from wuhan disappear these scientists and doctors who blew the whistle wouldn't allow our journalists in and samples of the virus to be shared it's an increasing amount of evidence that shows they are culpable.

so what can we do about that? well when americans are wrong what do we do? we sue somebody. well let's let americans sue the chinese government, so this bill would simply change the foreign sovreign immunity act so that we can actually do that in our courts, now we would do it in the select few courts so that it doesn't of course overwhelming, and we think this be a great way for the american people to seek damages against the chinese government. pete: i think it's a great idea. what other things should our government be doing as we have this unfortunate moment of exposure of the evil of this communist regime. what more can we do to stare them down, take them down? >> yeah, this is a lot of things and a lot of political will to do that. it just becomes a technical discussion. another bill that i've proposed would not allow chinese official s to engage in propaganda during the pandemic to be allowed into the united nations and new york city, and

we have to start dusting off some other old chinese policies too talking about protecting our intellectual property from chinese theft, just protecting our supply chains, bringing those back home for core manufacturing that we absolutely need in this country. this is a conversation that was happening long before this crisis, but i think this crisis shows us that we need to move forward with a lot of these policies. jillian: i was just going to say how confident are you that we here in the united states are able to get all of the answers that we need from china as to how this all started, as to how it was able to escape and penetrate the entire world? do you feel confident we'll get the answers we need? >> well i feel confident that we need an investigation to do that. senator holly, congressman stefa nic have put legislation forward that would require an international investigation and of course the chinese communist party is always going to lie and try to

cover for themselves that goes without saying, but that doesn't mean we can't seek out the truth there are a lot of oppressed people in china, and i bet they want that word to get out and the truth already is coming out so that's why senator cotton and i, he proposed this on the senate side. this is my bill on the house side. that's why we did this. we want americans to feel like they have a voice, and that our justice system can be used to actually deliver justice for us. griff: congressman, i got to get to this because it's out there, and many of us saw it or clips you were on with bill moore last night, and comments making the rounds tell us what happened. >> well, a lot happened of course they make it all about donald trump but listen, the narrative i've seen of late is this that president trump has blood on his hands that they didn't do anything that they denied the whole thing and

that's just not factually correct. i've created videos on this , we've been very vocal i put this out in podcasts and we need to get the truth out to the american people and when i was on bill's show he thought the same thing, so i just had to stop him and say look, like at every point in your timeline there are other things happening that you're leaving out and we just point those things out. i like chatting with bill because it's just a good debate, frankly, and i feel it's necessary for conservatives to go on shows like that and talk about these things. we also talked about elections and waiting in lines and i had to correct the record on that. there's so many misconceptions out there that the left just believes and they just repeat it over and over again so they just start to think those things are true, so it's up to us to actually say hey, let's confront this directly this isn't true here is the context and here is the actual facts and i love doing it. it was fun. pete: good stuff i can't wait to check out the entire thing but you talk about going on the

offense not letting narratives false continue. you wrote an op-ed entitled tactical retreat from covid-19 made sense, now let's go back on offense and mobilize. what's the most critical thing right now that we should do on offense? >> well what i mean by that is we have to live with this truth that we simply have to open up our economy and live side-by- side with the risks of covid-19. now we can do this safely, but there's not this binary choice between perpetual lockdown and actually letting people die. that's not the choice. we can risk mitigate and you do it along three factors ramping up testing which we are doing rapidly. ramping up hospital capacity which we have done rapidly that's ventilator production, pp e production making sure we have sections of hospitals that are still designated for covid-19 patients , and third, public education. the public is well educated at this point. i think people can take some personal responsibility, wear a

cloth mask get back to work, maintain six foot social distancing and it's a new normal , but we can make this happen, every single business, every single restaurant can live within this new normal. we have to start trusting the american people and the american people have to start empowering themselves with the proper tools to risk mitigate. i think that's what that looks like and that's what offense looks like. pete: well said trusting the american people, that's been the premise of our experiment, the entire time. congressman dan crenshaw thank you so much for your insight this morning we appreciate it. griff: thank you. jillian: thank you. >> great to be with you all. pete: still ahead a new mexico gun shop owner defying his states order to close claiming his business is essential. he explain, when he joins us live, next. -excuse me. uh... do you mind...being a mo-tour? -what could be better than being a mo-tour?

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their ohio neighbors outside to hold their hands over their hearts and recite the pledge of allegiance. her children even take turns holding the flag at the end of their driveway. she came up with the idea as a way to give her family a sense of normalcy. that's fantastic. for more inspiring stories visit foxnews.com/america together. pete i'm sure you love that. pete: very nice. i do if they are like my kids they are fighting over who gets to hold the flag very cool. a fight over second amendment rights takes center stage in new mexico. the governor shut down all non- essential businesses, including gun shops, but one gun shop owner defied the order arguing law enforcement uses his range so his business should be considered essential. the owner joins us now, louis sanchez. thanks for being here this morning. i appreciate it. so the governor issues this order and says you're not essential, the second amendment non-essential. you decide to stay open what's the response been? >> well actually about 90% has

been very positive for us to stay open but not only from other gun shops around the state but also local businesses too. small businesses, and it's interesting i was just talking to a couple of our employees yesterday and we've had calls from portland, from new york, maine, florida, with the fact that they are very happy that we're taking the stand, and that we have tried to stay open. under our governor's order, we actually are considered essential, as a fact and her order in sectionf as we try to explain to them that you are considered essential if law enforcement military uses your facility, and as of two days ago we actually had law enforcement from atf, fbi, albuquerque police, state police, sheriff, et cetera, using our facility and then on thursday night at 5: 05 we got a visit from our friends at the state police with a cease and assist order,

telling us that we were considered non-essential and so for everything. not only our gun range but also any firearms sales, any safety class, conceal carry classes, so yes, they did come and shut us down. pete: they came and shut you down just like that. even things you can do with responsible, social distancing not allowed? >> well absolutely, and you know, this is twofold not only is it a right for every american to bear arms as in our constitution, but it's a right for every small business also. we have small businesses that are getting destroyed in this state, but yet, we have big box stores that have never closed, and my wife and i have lived in this city for our whole life and as of last week, we're going to the big box stores and there's no social distancing going on. small business in new mexico we can control exactly how many people come into our store. pete: that's exactly right.

i was in a grocery store in new jersey yesterday and i don't care how hard you try you're not always six feet away from somebody else. why is that store get to stay open? here is what the governor of your state said, governor grisha m said in response. while we as an administration support the constitutional right tok purchase a firearm we recognize that right does not correspond to a right to congregate in a store and infect neighbors and workers and public safety officers amid an unprecedented global pandemic now, my comparison isn't totally correct, grocery stores are places that people need to go to , but plenty people could also argue that i want to get , if i want to buy from you why couldn't i buy from you as opposed to walmart which is open? >> that's exactly what our small business community in new mexico was saying. new mexico is a state of 2 million people with the fifth largest geographic area in the united states, and the problem is is that she has said that they are working on a

plan to reopen new mexico, well, that's not going to be an issue because big box stores are still open, but 9% of all small businesses will go bankrupt. they will never be able to open their doors again. we all calibers have been open since 1998 and under her order we are essential, but she's mandated -- pete: it's not just going to stand when free americans could be responsible as adults and use common sense and open their stores responsibly people aren't going to take it and that's why you're seeing protests, thank you so much for standing up. hopefully you'll be open soon, i love it. >> thank you. pete: appreciate it. we'll see. still ahead, heros honoring hero s, marines give a touching tribute to first respond res during the pandemic, and three members of that band join us live. >> ♪ i'll be there to save the day, ♪ clock could be ticking towards bad breath, receding gums and possibly tooth loss.

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you, because that voice is absolutely incredible. my goodness. tell me what it means to you, what brought this inspiration to want to do this? >> well, it was so important for us, and i'm actually so proud to be a part of it to pay tribute to the men and the women who go to work every day, and take care of our nation's health crisis, and i thought this video was so fitting and we partner with them year around, so it just seemed so fitting to support our brothers and sisters and the fire and rescue and law enforcement agencies who many of which are with themselves. pete: absolutely, mark you are very responsibly socially distanced there this morning thanks for being here. talk to us about that partnership with law enforcement , you know, your brothers in arms really. >> absolutely. we have marines all over the country right now, obviously new york and off california

coast, and we've had members supporting the wildfires so we are constantly intertwined with our brothers and sisters and first responders and we like to think of ourselves as first responders of national defense so it's very fitting for us to pay honor to them and people say thank you to us all the time, and i thought this be a great opportunity for us to say thank you to them. griff: it's a good point, mark, let me ask you a question because i was with the third marine aircraft wing in iraq in 2003, and got to see you guys in action, but for you, what's it like for you to see our doctors and nurses in action on the frontlines? >> it makes me feel grateful. it really does. i think all of us know families that work in healthcare, because they are there on these frontlines that live with us

every single day, that they go out there and sacrifice a little bit of themselves for our well being and to ensure the safety of our community so that you know us, the marines, the military, and we have to defend our country and know that there are these amazing men and women back here constantly looking after our families and our community, and making sure that we have the peace of mind that we know our families are always taken care of. pete: absolutely, chief and lance corporal thank you so much for your service and for inspiring our country and standing behind those on the frontlines right now we appreciate egriff: thank you. jillian: thank you. pete: more fox & friends just moments away. since 1926, nationwide has been on your side. we've been there in person, during trying times. today, being on your side means staying home... "nationwide office of customer advocacy."

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