rules to go with it. rob: hey. they need a paycheck protection program which has run out of money. that's a big thing. the senate is going to look at it today. more on that coming up "fox & friends" in connectio next few . carley: that's right. and the show starts right now. ♪ >> america continues to make steady progress in war against virus. testing expanding rapidly by millions and millions of people. the american people have done a hell of a job. we're saving countless lives. brian: there you go. a fox news alert. president trump announcing the u.s. reaching a major testing milestone nearly 4.2 million americans have been tested for covid-19. that's the most anywhere in the world. steve: meanwhile, the white house is now preparing to use the defense production act to increase swab testing. meanwhile, a number of states plan to relax social distancing

restrictions and open up business here in the united states this week. ainsley: that would be great in many ways. today state parks in texas will reopen. some retail stores will open back up on friday. in south carolina the governor is expected to announce today that they will be reopening their beaches. good morning every one of you at home. we hope you had a great weekend. we are one day closer, hopefully, to end of all of this. there are still people on ventilators. there are people still in the hospitals there are still deaths unfortunately. we have to remember them on this day. we also need to get back -- many people want to get back to work or i guess everyone wants to get back to work. i talked to a gentleman over the weekend who says he has a company and he hasn't gotten the money because the money has run out and he can't pay his employees. it's very scary and a lot of people are trying to weigh the risk here. brian: 22 million unemployed. 14% are working class. 10% are middle class. 5% are upper class.

for the most part 37% of americans that can work from home are mostly those in the upper class society. so for those, you know, who come home and have to take a shower. because they worked all day and are sweating all day, they're the ones who are hurting the most. i thivener you have got to drill down if you are a governor and really look at the industries that can go back. recreational activity, they can work without endangering people. i think this broad swipe at none of this, none of this. i watched the mayor of new york city say go out for a little while but don't stay out too long and go back inside. why would that be? that's where some of this unrest when that discordant approach to this lookdown comes into play. i think that's what puts people on the streets in many respects. steve: you know, brian, some parts of the country are doing better than others. that's why some are ready to reopen and have already in the northern beaches of florida

there were a lot of people out. a lot of them practicing social distancing because the experts birx and fauci have made it very clear that's the only way we will be able to handle it right now. but, to your point, ainsley. the paycheck protection program ran out of money last week. and i have got family members who have been applying but there is no money there. and so, it's essentially frozen. however it, does sound as if on wednesday, they will call the house of representatives back. sounds like they have got a deal. somewhere between 400 and $500 billion and it's a step in the right direction. here is the secretary of treasury and the speaker of the house yesterday talking about how it sounds like they are on the verge of a deal. >> i think we are very close to a deal today. and i'm hopeful that we can get that done. i'm hopeful that we can reach an agreement that the senate can pass this tomorrow and that the house can take it up on tuesday. and wednesday we would be back

up and running. >> they will have more money as soon as we come to an agreement which will be soon. i think people will be very pleased because these small businesses must thrive in a community where they're, again, health is essential to them opening up. brian: so what we know about the deal at this point is the "the washington post" has got some of the details. it sounds like right now at this point, and keep in mind it's not a final deal. so, these numbers could all change. it looks like it's going to be $470 billion. 310 billion for the paycheck protection program. $60 billion will go specifically to smaller lending institutions in minority and lower served areas. also 60 billion for a separate small business program that is different. 75 billion for hospitals. and 25 billion for testing, ainsley. ainsley: gosh. that would be wonderful. the senate is supposed to take it up today and hopefully there

pass the house at some point this week so folks can get that money there were all these protests over the weekend. i'm sure you guys saw it and expected to be some today. people are holding up signs and holding up american flags. people in their cars honking. these are people who are really against the stay at home orders that governors in certain states are implementing because they want to get back to work. some of those signs said end the virus. not the economy. every day that goes by, you are hurting our state. you also in colorado, you had these healthcare workers that were standing in front of the cars of some people that were honking. they were countering protesting saying look, if you try get back to work too soon this virus could ramp up again and start spreading here is the president. >> some have gone too far. some governors have gone too far. some of the things that have happened are maybe not so

appropriate. in the end it's not going to matter because we are starting to open up our states. i think they will open up very well. as far as protesters, you know, i see protesters for all sorts of things. i'm with everybody. i'm with everybody. brian: what the president is referring to is states with stay-at-home protests that have been planned -- that were planned over the weekend. had you california, san clementi. san diego. miami, inside illinois. springfield, indiana had protests. you get the idea. today protests in arizona, california, maine, maryland, missouri, parts of new york state, pennsylvania and tennessee. what i think is happening is if you are sitting there in buffalo or syracuse and you are saying there is no problem here, and i can't get my job and my company is birthing awa withering away k city a totally different thing it's up to these governors and mayors to get together and say i have got my area.

all right? we'll worry about this. we will get an idea of where the city people are going. and we will stay on top of it. plus, the american people have demonstrated this thing called responsibility. we get it. we understand if we can stand 10 feet away from you at home depot we could probably do it at the dry cleaner and deli. we could get. this it's time for people to understand that we'll follow orders to a degree. we understand the danger. everyone has got somebody they know who has died or is suffering beat. this i think they have got to start treating the american people like adults. i think we have earned it. i think that's what the president is saying. i understand the frustration. i understand the governor's responsibility. steve: right. brian: i think there is a good mix there i think we will see a lot of that lifting today a little bit later in the show we will go over what the states are doing. steve: well, because every state has a rural area and an urban area. some parts, you know, where people are living that's the hot spot in some spaces ainsley, you

were talking about in colorado a woman by the name of mary talked to the denver post. she said pot shops are open. abortion clinics are open and my church is closed. people would just like to take their lives back as close as they can. but there still is this virus out there. meanwhile, governors from some of the hardest hit states are teeming up to form a council to focus on the economy and get americans back to work. ainsley: our next guest was appointed as one of the council members representing new jersey. joining us now jeh johnson former secretary under jeh johnson. good morning to you. good morning. ainsley: i see both sides. you want to get back to work but at the same time you don't want it to spread again. how are you viewing this? >> thanks for having me on, first of all. the way i see it is the following. we are making progress. we are beginning to turn the

corner. but it's important that the american people listen to their governors and mayors about continued social distancing, state course. stay disciplined. in order to get through. this we're going to continue the progress that we have made so far, so long as people are careful and diligent. and frankly, messages from the president like liberate michigan, liberate minnesota i think greatly complicate the jobs of the governors and mayors that are principally responsible for encouraging people and telling people to engage in social distancing. so, we have got to stay the course. but very dangerous situation. and we have got to keep at it. brian: i think, yeah. always grea great to have you oh

us. what the president was saying and could have been more artful in saying it what they are during in places like minnesota seem a little over the top. and then in new jersey where governor murphy gets high grades and you could see his heart in every press conference he gives. that's the person going to be working with. this raised eyebrows when he said this to tucker. >> tucker: by what authority did you nullify the bill of rights in issuing this order? how do you have the power to do that? >> that's above my pay grade, tucker. i wasn't thinking of the bill of rights when we did. this we went to all -- first of all, we looked. >> tucker: can i tell. >> data and science. people have to stay away from each other. brian: that's what i think put people in the streets. not that they want a republican or democrat. excuse me, what happened -- i understand the danger but you have to keep the bill of rights in mind. do you believe that both have to play a role when you come up with these rules?

>> two things. first of all, to just about any english-speak person, the use of the word libert liberate any frm loving person implies protest, implies disobedience which complicates the jobs like governor murphy and governors of michigan and minnesota. now, when it comes to authority to require quarantine to stay in place, the public health power, the police power, over the american people resides largely at the states and local level. governor murphy and the other governors are well within their authority to, in a public health crisis like this, require people to stay away from their jobs, to stay at home, i live here in northern new jersey, i am here by order of the governor of new jersey, in my home. i'm not allowed to go to work in my law office in manhattan up the street from you by order of the governor of new york.

these governors are well within their authority under the bill of rights to respond to this health crisis in this way. brian: and, mr. secretary, would you also say it's well within the americans' bill of rights to protest when they feel their governor has gone over the top? >> well, except that we're in an unprecedented, once in a century crisis here. and so my message to people as the former secretary of homeland security is let's not complicate the job of the governors and the mayors right now in this health crisis. let's all pull together and get through this, be disciplined. be vigilant. be careful. err on the side of saving human lives. we will get through this. we just need to be patient. ugly. steve: i don't know if you were watching the press briefing, the

president was asked about that lib rate tweet and whether that might cause someone to create violence. he says people have cabin fever. their life was taken away and they want to get back to work. >> i understand that. steve: everyone wants to get back to work. >> i'm getting cabin fever, believe me. steve: we all have cabin fever. and we will be back soon enough. but we have to be careful right now. let's go back to the very origins or what are believed to be the origins of this virus that apparently started in china. we know so little about how it spread quickly because china really kept a lid on it. and kept the balance of the world, you know, away from the facts, which you know, we had an extra six days we could have gotten a better handle on it. jeh, how do we handle china going forward. i know like to do a trade deal but at the same time they would like to be held accountable? >> you put your finger on it.

first of all, in a country four time the size of ours. i simply don't believe they have been topped out at 83,000 cases. i look at these numbers daily china has been 81, 82, 38,000 for weeks in a country of 1.4 billion people. i simply don't believe that number. how to ultimately deal with china and our relationship with china is a matter for the president and the national security council taking account of all in consideration economic, national security, there is a big picture component to it. i know from my own experience in the national security council evaluating our relationship with china, that it's up to these people in the situation room to figure that question out. i know what i don't know at this stage. but i don't believe the numbers. brian: mr. secretary, i don't think anybody believes the numbers from anthony fauci to norway. but, real quick. i'm heartened by the fact that we're not alone in this. there is other countries from

the u.k. on down who have spoken up and said this has got to stop. you were responsible. you essentially poisoned 185 countries,including the leading newspaper in they launched a full frontal attack on china on sunday. they said you are to fully to blame. it shows they are not following prey to propaganda and stranglehold on manufacturing. don't you think this opens up a window of opportunity to socialer up the world and what china communist is about? not the people but the government? >> i don't disagree with that i have to tell you, i am more focused at the moment on how we here in the united states, here in new jersey, here in new york. minnesota, michigan, how we get through this crisis here at home. how we support our health community that's in crisis right now. china has to be dealt with one way or another. but i think we have got to stay focused on the lethal public

health crisis right here at home now. ainsley: mr. secretary, thank you so much for being with us. >> thank you. ainsley: you are welcome. hand it over to carley shimkus. she is back in the studio and has headlines for us. good morning, carley. carley: we are going to start with a fox news alert. storms breaking out across several southern states. a tornado touching down in mississippi and flash flooding in other areas. hail battering parts of alabama and georgia. look at that in mississippi strong winds and heavy rain. the powerful storm forcing down trees as well. the tornado threat remains high this morning in mississippi, alabama, and georgia. on to another fox news alert. the suspected gunman in canada's worse mass shooting in history is dead. gabriel worthman killed at least 16 people including a police

officer in november scotia. he disguised himself as an officer even driving this car that looks like a police cruiser. police say he shot victims in their homes deadly rampage ended 12 hours later following a police chase. a motive is unknown. a russian jet getting a little tootoo close for comfort. happened in international airspace mediterranean sea. whole thing caught on camera. look at that the russian jet came within 25 feet of the navy spy jet. it's the second time in four days this has happened. scary stuff there. too close for comfort indeed, guys. steve: you are right about that. carley, thank you very much. we have been talking about this on this monday morning. some businesses getting a live line as the state green lights curbside shopping this week. small business owner details what this means to the state of

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brian: things are opening up. retailers will soon be back in business in texas after weeks of a shutdown the governor green lighting retail to go giving stores the ability to offer curbside shopping starting friday. here to react is the owner of whimsies boutique in belton, texas, alison turner. how tough has it been to this point and what will friday's unveiling allowing curbside purchases do for your business, do you think? >> hi. well, as probably with everyone who owns a business, our sales

have dropped about 75 to 80% and we're luckily we have been able to do some online social media selling and we have been able to ship those items or leave them curbside. but, we are really looking forward to friday. we're excited to see our customers' faces again. we will be taking extra precautions. but we're excited to at least make a little step in the reopening direction. brian: wow. so your business is down 75% to 80%. friday will have curbside pickup and payment. you will have a couple of things. this is the retailer guidelines. tell me okay with you. all payments done o over the phe or online. delivered to the employee backseat or trunk. employees must wash hands and sanitize after each interaction. do you believe your store is run by people browsing the store so i look at a store like yours. a lot of people don't know what

they want until they see it. how do you expect to overcome that? >> we real liz it's going to take extra time. we could face time with them or we can bring items outside of our door. not to their car but to show them you know choices. we realize it's going to take more time. but it will be worth it. brian: i understand. now, i understand you put in for a ppp loan. how was the process and what happened? >> i thought the process was pretty straightforward and easy. have not heard back anything yet. but i was a little bit later getting it turned in. brian: so, do you have -- you will retain your employees? >> absolutely. we have been able to -- i mean, since we have been closed, we have still been able to pay about half of what they would have normally been working. but we're hoping to get those hours up in the near future. brian: all right. so, go on instagram to shop at

whimsies. you will see your stuff up there and then pull up to the curve and you will be able to deliver it and i imagine be able to send it. best of luck. thanks so much, alisyn. >> thank you. brian: looks like a great store. benefit concert facing backlash over how it handled some of its coast donations. joe concha on why he is calling it a political concert next. you've got it all.

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handling of the coronavirus. here to discuss media reporter for the hill joe con challenge. joe, good morning to you. >> good morning, steve. how are you. steve: i'm doing okay. i didn't see it. it was a telethon or a concert to make us all feel like we are in the together separately at our own houses? what was it. >> think of it as live aid. i know for you that was 1985 and probably sophomore year, right? but that was something to raise money for a great cause in africa, right? the problem is that the money from that particular concert most of it didn't go where it was supposed to and here, yes, it was like a telethon and raised lots of money and i'm sure that the artists here, most of them had the best of intentions here but for the money to go to the world health organization, i don't know if that's where if i have all that star power that's where i'm directing that money. perhaps i would have considered some places lehr at home.

have you 22 million unemployed you have homeless veterans piling up. small businesses going bankrupt. particularly restaurants. people that work in the service industry going paycheck to paycheck threaten out of work not because of performance but a pandemic. not like they are out of work and find another job. there are no other jobs to get there plenty of places to go mere. wheels on wheels. feeding america. first book. some of the money went towards that you have to understand, steve, the world health organization while it has some great people working for it is not a very run bureaucracy. 200 million on travel alone. many of them flew business staff or travel or last minute. we are seeing video conferences can work just fine in knows situations while the money it's great you are raising it i'm not sure that's the organization i would have raised it for. remember, the united states, $550 million to the world health organization last year china,

world health organization has basically kowtowing to only donated 48 million. one tenth of what we actually donated despite the fact that they have, jeh johnson just mentioned earlierner the show a population of 1.4 billion. our population only 330 million yet we are donating 10 times a month. would i have spent it there? i'm not sure. maybe some places at home or organizations that are run better and get the money directly to people. i would have done that in that case. steve: yeah. it does seem a little tone deaf given that i read apparently the head guy at the who was on tv giving his speech. giving a pitch. $55 million went to the covid solidarity fund which benefited unicef and the w.h.o. as well. the w.h.o. has been in the news a lot. because they have for the most part parroted in the beginning china's exact response.

yeah, we're not having a problem here. things like that. in the beginning they just took their story, china's story, lock stock and barrel and told the world. >> yeah. if you remember, 2003 in sars, same thing. china delayed on that. and they weren't forthcoming and the world health organization then parroted exactly what china said. january 14th. they said there was no human to human transmission. and that obviously was a big error. they corrected this later. again as you see with this pandemic, time is everything. and then they slow to call this a pandemic as well. waited until march 11th. think about that. six weeks after the president's china travel ban and that was the same day he banned travel from europe. think of it if we knew when we knew it was a pandemic clearly because it spread to all these different continents if we just had a little bit more time. you see that with california. you see it with washington state and states able to prepare. even two weeks more and there you see the difference between a california and a new york and

new jersey where we are and that's where, you know, all the difference is right now in terms of death. the number of deaths right now, steve, in this pandemic new york and new jersey make up for more than half than the rest of the country. incredible number and, again, let's salute all the healthcare workers out there putting their lives on the line every day. steve: absolutely. certainly. and there are a lot of organizations that certainly could benefit. global citizens decided to you send the money the way they did. they put out this statement. the covid-19 solidarity response fund tracking and containment of the spread the incredible generosity will help the world health organization and partners accelerate their life-saving work. what do you say about that? >> i think that's certainly well reasoned. i think a lot of these artists also, many of them were from the u.s. and, again, i think i would have just taken that money and i would have put it towards things here, people here that are

really really struggling right now. you know, i mean, you are still employed, steve, obviously. i'm still employed. it's not like we are at war. we have netflix. we have electricity. we have feud there are people out there that are struggling so much right now just to get food. you see those pictures of food banks down in san antonio and all those lines backing up. and that's the case of a lot of people around here as well. they are out of money. they are out of time. they could use that money right now. and i just think the world health organization that has a 2 billion-dollar annual budget probably wasn't the most in need right now. steve: well, it is what it is. that's where it's going for right now. all right, joe concha from the hill. joe, thank you very much. >> stay safe, steve. thank you. steve: meanwhile, what does nancy pelosi think of the protest over the stay-at-home orders? >> we all want out, but what they're doing is really

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>> we also understand the need to keep the economy going to provide for our family and quite frankly we know how to do that best. >> we need our life back. we want to be able to work. >> there is a lot of people who that are hurting, not just people getting sick from this virus. but people their entire lives are being upended by. this. ainsley: many of those protesters saying end the virus not the economy. let's bring in dan bongino, fox news contributor, former secret service agent. former nypd author and he has a podcast. good morning to you, dan. >> good to see you it's been a while. ainsley: good to see you. protest iraqi security forces going to take place down in your

state in florida. 10 protests take place today alone. what do you make of that and do you see both sides or are you leaning in one direction? >> well, ainsley, rarely has there been a topic i have been so passionate to get on the air and discuss than. this of course i see both sides. i have a family and i have two children myself. i have a mother-in-law and two parents that are still alive that only i care deeply about. my mother, herself, has been in extremely high risk category. if she were to contract. this it could be deadly. but, ainsley, i have to feed my kids, too. so does everybody arranged me. and i watched that clip before the break of nancy pelosi seemingly confused about what protesters were doing. let me enlighten you, nancy, because you seem to be living anyone slated $25,000 freezer ice cream bubble and you don't get it. here it is plain and simple. people have to feed their family. these are smart americans who are intelligent. they understand there is a risk. they live with risk every day. if you need to understand that

nancy go, talk to a construction worker on a construction site down the block that is living with multi-million-dollar equipment that could kill him in a minute. if you tell him or her on that site you're going to need to wear a mask. there are precautions. you may have to wear some kind of hand protection. wash our hands often and we may have to distance, but you will be able to go to work and feed your kids. i promise you the entrepreneurial brave american citizens will figure it the hell out. get out of your bubble. people have to feed their kids. that is what is going on right now. brian: dan, i will talk to you afterwards, but just to give people an idea what they might have missed is nancy pelosi's 45u89innancy pelosihalting delie protesters are up to. >> can you understand why they are doing that? >> no, not really. because what we have to do is, is shelter in place. that is really the answer. testing, tracing, treatment,

shelter in place. and i do think that it's unfortunate. but, you are negotiation people will do what they do. the fact is we are all impatient. we will all want out. but what they are doing is really unfortunate. brian: what they're doing is not utter. what they are doing is exercising their rights. they could have been socially distant protesting i get that there are places that are hot spots. dan, if you do put in sprinklers for a living and inground only do it certain times and wear a certain mask. let them do it. if somebody wants to build a house, on the outside, distant from each other by design, let them do it. there's no need to be accessiblably punitive about this. is that your point? >> yes. and, brian, whereas in the beginning where we had a lockdown of our economy nationwide, basically, the american people are bright.

they understood there was a lot of uncertainty in the beginning, the ro. the threality was it. in the beginning because we were getting a lot of information. everybody understood in the effort to save, you know, potentially at that point what they thought were millions of lives. the president made the right decision. now we have our grasp around the data. you don't need to be an epidemiologist to read simple figures. we have a better grasp. we don't know everything. it's only reasonable then to allow americans to take the data you have given them and to say here are the appropriate measures for you to go back to work and be able to feed your kid. one more thing, brian. nancy pelosi can't figure out we are doing? these people, gretchen whitmer and others. not just democrats either. some republican governors, too. they work for us that's not a slogan or campaign talking point. not running for office.

they work for us. make our lives easier not more difficult. we understand there is a safety issue. stop talking like this is like romper room. we are not children. we are adults. we lived much harder lives than these people governing us. a joke the way they talk to people. i don't understand what they're doing. figure it the hell out. that's your darn job to understand what we are doing. >> dan, what i think we are learning is that a one size fits all approach does not work all across the country because where you are sitting in stuart, florida, it's a much different environment than about 100 miles south in miami which has been a hot spot. and when you look at the numbers, this particular illness impacts the people over 65 in a gigantic way and going forward we now know that until there is a vaccine those people have got to be insulated.

untiunless we heard from china earlier we would have had a better handle on this. we had jeh johnson on about 40 minutes ago he said the numbers out of china in the beginning simply did not add up. >> in a country four times the size of ours, i simply don't believe they have been topped out 83,000 cases. i look at these numbers daily china has been 81, 82, 83,000 for weeks in a country of 1.4 billion people. i simply don't believe that number. china has to be dealt with one way or another. but i think we have got to stay focused on the lethal public health crisis right here at home right now. steve: so, dan, how do you deal with china one way or the other? >> well, steve, there is a difference in law and elsewhere. between misfeigns and fall feigns. misfeigns if someonmisfeasance .

if you punch them in the faces a they go to get up that's malfeasance. that's what china did here. i think most people understood if china didn't have a good grasp of the situation and put out some information that later turned out to be inaccurate it. happens all the time especially in a crisis. that's clearly not what happened here. china didn't put out a mistake. china put out deliberate misinformation to people that confused them. and potentially led to hundreds of thousands of unnecessary lives being lost if they just would have put out the information appropriately from the start and making it worse, steve, they piled on in the end, engaged in an extensive identity politics base. understanding our soft spot, the united states. identity politics. propaganda effort, using people in our media to cover up any potential criticism of china as xenophobia which was totally nonsense. the truth tellers were the ones silenced by some, not all, but

some in the media, which was really gross. ainsley: okay, dan. thank you so much for being with us. >> great to be back. really good to see you. ainsley: it's always good to see you, too. always great to see janice dean. janice, i'm looking at some of the weather maps. are viewers live in the south and east coast because it's 6:48 here. this is kind of the first round of the united states that wakes up that watches fox. what can they expect for weather today? >> we had a severe weather outbreak again on sunday, steve, ainsley and brian. some of that weather is moving across the southeast. in towards the mid-atlantic. we still have tornadoes watches in effect for the next couple of hours where we could see large hail, damaging winds, isolated tornadoes. this isn't the outbreak that we saw on easter sunday. but we did see several reports of tornadoes stretching from texas through parts of the southeast. the threat will exist throughout the morning today. up towards the mid-atlantic, and then the front will exit the coast but for the next several hours, people need to be on

alert and know where you are going to get those watches or warnings. we also could see the threat for heavy rainfall over the next several hours as well. steve, ainsley, brian, back to you. brian: all right. thanks, janice. appreciate it. always good to see you. 12 minutes before the top of the hour. still to come, is social distancing enough to fight the covid-19? one doctor suggests it's not. saying there is only two good ways to do it. fox news medical contributor dr. jennette nesheiwat will react to us and expand on that in just a moment. ♪ and we'll be here to serve you for a hundred more. ♪

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>> if all you do is flatten the curve. i don't prevent you just change the dates. how do you prevent that? you really only have two options. one is a vaccine. the other is herd immunity. ainsley: that is dr. david katz making the case that while social distancing is helping to mitigate the spread it could be preventing the development of the herd immunity where people build up antibodies after being exposed to the virgs. here to discuss is dr. janette nesheiwat. thank you so much. nice to see you. >> nice to see you, too ainsley. good morning. ainsley: good morning. do you agree with him? >> here's the thing, ainsley, a vaccine and herd immunity are

not viable options right now. a vaccine is going to take at least another year before it's on the market. and herd immunity, what that refers to is it means 95%, approximately 95% of the population is immune to the disease. and that is either via vaccination or because that person came into contact with the disease. they recovered and now they have antibodies. but we are nowhere near herd immunity. and we need a more acute proximal solution. we have news under a million jun cases in the united states. i believe that number is wrong. even if we multiply that times 10; that's still a fraction of what we need for herd immunity. so neither one of those options are viable right now. i think the most factor we need to engage in is social distancing. if you have patient a who is sick, there is no way they are going to transfer it to person b

and person c if they're 6 to 10 feet away. so that's the most critical factor in my opinion. ainsley: dr. nesheiwat we saw these protests over the weekend and in colorado. there were people that were criticized for not social distancing. they were on the grounds of the state capitol. i get their point, they want to get back to work. and they need to feed their families, their children as dan bongino was saying. butch then you have these healthcare workers standing in front of the cars of the protesters. and you see their side, too. because they are saying we are out there on the front lines like you are working so hard. we'll don't want to continue to see the spread. how do you find the balance? do you just focus on each state because new york is differently obviously than new york. >> it's not one size fits all, ainsley. we need to look at targeted populations. each state is different. we are not going to shut down arkansas and leave new york city open, for example. so we need to target the most vulnerable populations in the areas of outbreak. and, make sure that we don't

leave out populations ethnicity. for example, we are seeing high death rates in hispanic, la teen knows, african-american. so we need to focus on the high risk population. focus on those that are co-morbidities and look at the areas of outbreaks. let's focus on those areas. yeah, we need to look at low number of cases? no deaths. decline in hospitalizations. and let's gradually slowly allow them to get back in the community. we do need to get back on our feet. we need to open you have up our schools and job market because, you know, anxiety, the depression, the suicide, the drug addiction. we're going to be seeing a lot of that if we don't, you know, proceed with opening up our economy again. ainsley: thank you, thank you. >> we have to do it slowly and safely. ainsley: thank you so much. we are out of time. thank you, newt gingrich is coming up. stay with us. sorry to end this short.

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world, brian. brian: yup, the white house now preparing to use the defense production act because we are out of swabs and we need you to force people to make them. meanwhile several states plan to radio lax social distancing restrictions and open up businesses this week. steve: meanwhile today state parks in the state of texas will reopen. some retail stores will open back up on friday for to go stuff. south carolina will reportedly announce today they will be reopening some of their beaches or all of their beaches. stay tuned for that we know in the northern portions of the great state of florida they did open up some of the beaches toward the end of that week and a lot of people were out and about over the weekend. welcome aboard, folks. it is monday, april the 20th. 2020. it is good to have you with us today. the news is here in the new york, new jersey area where ainsley, brian and i are situated. it continues to be the epicenter of this but the numbers are going down.

and that is very good news. let's bring in newt gingrich, is he a fox news contributor, former speaker of the house, he joins us from rome, actually. mr. speaker, i'm sure you can understand how here in the united states right now there is a lot of frustration. a lot people want to get back to work. there are a lot of these stay at home orders for a variety of reasons. so that the curve goes down and people can eventually go back to work and all of the social distancing eventually goes away. but, can you understand the frustration for the people who are in montana versus the people who might be here in new jersey because you are in a hot spot. you are in rome. >> sure. look, the virus got to be so bad in italy but they had no choice except to close virtually everything. and it's been pretty strict now for about 6 or 7 weeks. steve: yeah. if you leave your house. you can't go more than 200 meters even to walk your dog

or whatever. you can't be in groups of larger than two. you can be fined $3,200 if the police find you on a street without an appropriate reason. they have gas stations open. pharmacies, grocery stores. that's it. now, for 17 straight days, they have had a steady, slow decline in the number of people going into intensive care units. and it is beginning to be some optimism that we are very, very close to reaching a plateau and starting downward. i think they are beginning to stores open, a free things here. tell us about italy. one of the first things reopen stores that fix coffee machines. because without express so he ed other italian coffees. how can one live. i thought that was perfect italian solution. very careful and slow. two things going on. first of all, the united states is a gigantic country. it's bigger than all of europe. so, what's right for montana or

texas or what's right for west texas vs. houston, are different things. i think the president is very wise to decentralize, delegate and give the governors an assignment. second, i think. so governors have shown their ideological bias so that one governor, for example, said it was okay for planned parenthood to stay open for abortions but it wasn't okay for the churches to have services. well, that's clearly just an ideological abuse of emergency. i think that's part of what has people with their teeth on edge because they're watching politicians abuse their power. i think the president is right. go back to work slowly, carefully. learn lessons. i mean, if south dakota and north dakota for example working for sanford health and others, decides that they're graduallily going to open up. let's learn from what works and doesn't work. one state should study every other state as they go through this process and couple months

we will be dramatically further down the road. ainsley: i know you addressed many of these issues on your op-ed on foxnews.com. the headline is coronavirus crisis makes some leaders believe that they have god-like decision making capacity. luv explain that? which leaders are you talking about? >> governor of michigan truly absurd executive order suggesting that you couldn't buy a child seat you couldn't buy seeds. if you went to walmart or home depot the area that sold seeds to plant in your backyard had a sign up that said it's illegal to buy these right now. normal people -- what is that all about? looks at the list you sort of get some intern must have written it up because it makes so little sense. that's an example. you had a mayor in illinois who declared that she had the right to decide who could get food and

who couldn't get food. the kind of things lord ache worn us power to corrupt absolutely. you look around the country, one of the major responsibilities right after defeating the virus and restarting the economy. third big effort is going to be to take power back from the politicians you cannot allow them to decide they are little petty gods who get to decide life and death for the rest of us. brian: the democratic leader her work might be doing her best michigan again. we will have to see. the "new york times" did a story on her. didn't even bring up the 52 executive orders like don't buy paint. you can't use a motor bolt you can use a kayak. they didn't put that in the story. four sheriffs said we are not going for this for nancy pelosid in on what donald trump is doing.

no surprise to anybody not very good to her. >> don't you believe dr. fauci. >> yeah. he said if this were done properly. it hasn't been done. march 4th we passed our first bill bipartisan. testing, testing, testing. it's over six weeks since then and it hasn't been done. we are way late on it. and that is a failure. the president gets an f, failure on the testing. dr. fauci is right if it's done properly. it hasn't been. i think that puts it in the if it is done is an admission that it hasn't been done. brian: she sat there by her multi-million-dollar refrigerators and made those comments. your response? >> i wrote minus letter friday on the job killing ice cream eating democrats. because i thought the whole notion of nancy pelosi holding up aid to small business while she stood in front of her. brian: unbelievable. >> two very expensive

refrigerators how she loves to have her $11.75 a pint ice cream comforts her. most tone deaf thing i have ever seen a speaker of the house do. i served with tipp o'neal and jim wright and tom folly and of course i worked with denny hastert and john bay northward and paul ryan, this was goofy even by san francisco standards. it was goofy. the fact is the president has worked very closely with dr. fauciy. dr. fauci says so every time he is asked by the press. he and dr. birx both have very professional standards. they have been advising the president. in the end, look, the reason you have a president is there are some decisions larger than experts. and it's the job of the president to weigh everything. and then try to make the best possible decision. i would say overall you look at our fatality rate and you look at europe, can you feel pretty good about what the trump administration has done.

steve: newt, i'm sure you saw. so video of the various protests around the country regarding the stay-at-home orders. in one of the big ones was in denver colorado yesterday, and "the denver post" talked to a fellow by the name of jim fennimore. he said that he thinks the democrats are using the coronavirus as a political tool he said to crash the economy and hurt the president so that he loses. you don't think there are politics like that involved in these calculations, do you? >> look, to be honest, i don't think that schumer and pelosi mind or that biden minds if the economy doesn't quite recover rapidly. i mean, they are faced with a nightmare. the president finishes handling the coronavirus as well as i think he will. and he then pivots and uses all of his abdul ability to create a strong economy and by september and october you can tell that

we're coming back, the election will be over and trump will get reelected. if you are pelosi and schumer. you would like to have that come back, say, next january but not this september. and i'm not saying that they sit down in a coldly calculated way. but i don't think that they have at any point placed putting america back to work ahead of partisan politics. and that's why, for a week now. they have screwed up the small business loans which clearly hurts because small business creates the largest number of new jobs in america and you have a lot of small businesses saying, look, i have got about a week to go if i can't get financing. and they just sat on it. you tell me. why that is not frankly a remarkably destructive thing they are going to be do. ainsley: mr. speaker, why did they do that? why are they making this political didn't pass the last proposal? is it because they don't want the president to have a win? don't they want to put the

american people ahead of anything else? >> look, i think they are engaged in a game of chicken. they have done this now several times. and their hope is at some point that the president or secretary mnuchin or somebody will flinch and give them what they want. and i think that overall and i give senator mitch mcconnell a great deal of credit for this. when he passed the very large 2.2 trillion-dollar aid package by 96-0. he took all of the wind out of pelosi's sales. it was impossible for her at that point to block anything. what they are doing is serious. is not a game. a speaker to negotiated with a democratic president you start out how far can i push him. of course with trump not very far. i think on these issues, they are so far out of sync with the country very destructive to play these games. they have no choice.

their left will not tolerate them cooperating with donald trump. brian: gotcha. all right, the other thing i want to bring you to and before we get to what jeh johnson just told us as the democratic -- as a democrat -- he was former secretary of homeland security, just from your perspective, you had a lot of european countries about to get in bed with china with this belton road program and buying 5g from huawei. after the reality of what they have done in destroying 180 nails' economy and killing so many from the irresponsible behavior when this came to this virus, do you believe the italians are rethinking that alliance and do you believe beyond germany already registered their disdain. do you believe other countries are, too? >> yes. i think this has been a stunningly eye opening experience. i have a paper that will come out this week pointing out based really on the hudson instudy's remarkable timeline they produced a timeline all the way back to november of last year. it's devastating.

the university of south hampton estimates that if the chinese had been honest. 95% of the people who have died would still be alive. now, that is -- think about that. over 160,000 dead and according to the university of south hampton, 95% of those people died because the chinese communist dictatorship deliberately lied and got its puppet at the world health organization to deliberately lie. and i think, frankly that we should take significant steps, one which would effect italy which wrote about and i thought was brilliant. simply move the winter olympics in 20022 back to italy which hosted it i think in 2002 and allow turin, at the very center of the area that had been savaged by the chinese to allow turin to host the olympics next year that would be the kind of gesture that would begin to communicate the world is fed up with the way the dictatorship operators. no question the chinese

dictatorship has cost the world by the time it's done, they will have cost the world several hundred thousand lives and many, many trillions of dollars of economic activity. and something has to be done to hold the dictatorship and xi jinping and his entire group accountable for the damage they have done to the human race worldwide. steve: well, let's see what they figure out. mr. speaker, thank you very much for joining us from italy. >> good to be with you. steve: stay safe. it is 7:14 here in the east. and carley shimkus joins us from our world headquarters with the news. carley: good morning. we begin with a fox news alert. the fda is giving the go ahead to begin trials on high hydroxychloroquine to battle covid-19. swiss drug maker novartis will run the testing the anti-maria drug authorized this month for unapproved emergency use for coronavirus. more than 400 patients are expected to be recruited for the

trials at sites nationwide. another fox news alert. overnight severe storms breaking out across several southern states. a reported tornadoes touching down in mississippi. hail battering parts of alabama and georgia. strong winds and heavy rain tearing buildings apart and uprooting trees. the tornado threat remains high this morning as well in mississippi, alabama, and georgia. former 2020 candidate klobuchar is set to appear on joe biden's podcast today. it comes amid speculation that the minnesota senator will be biden's pick for vice president. the former v.p. picking up 10 more delegates, wining the wyoming caucus. he is over 700 did he goe did d to clinch the democratic nomination. he is inching closer.

guys. ainsley: thanks, carley. a quarter after the hour. people flocking to beaches and florida this weekend as states start easing their restrictions. critics say it's too soon. what do you think? is it? we are going to ask the mayor of newly reopened jacksonville beach coming up next.

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brian: parts of florida taking heat for reopening beaches how dare they amid the pandemic. people taking advantage flocking the beaches in jacksonville area. was this the right decision? we had a weekend to look at it. the man who made that decision the mayor of jacksonville himself. charlie latham.

he joins us. you took the bold action. the world world is watching. open up the beach in two separate shifts morning and the afternoon. how did it go? >> well, it went great. let me, if you don't mind, brian, i'm actually the mayor of jacksonville beach not the mayor of jacksonville. lonnie curren and myself elaine brown and mayor's of other beach cities we made this decision together along with the st. john's county administrator hunter conrad. and we thought that the public was ready to maintain the social distancing standards and to exercise good judgment. and it's paid off. it's paid off really well. brian: can you tell us, did you have law enforcement out there? did they issue any tickets? did they have any problems? >> we are very well covered by law enforcement. we have had no tickets, no arrests. we have had one arrest. it was for a warrant for another state that didn't have anything to do with the covid virus or

distancing. you know, so far so good. it really has been kind of mixed on social media. there is a lot of people that are upset that we have opened. but we're not requiring anybody to go to the beach. we ever making the beach available meet strict requirements. so far citizens have done that. and right now we believe it's a good decision. if things were to change. we could certainly shut it down in just a very short period of time if we need. to say. brian: some of though restrictions. you didn't want people sunbathing. you wanted them to keep moving if they wanted to exercise. only certain hours to go down there. if this is going so well, what would be the next step and what do you have to say to critics who say you are sending the wrong message by doing it? >> well, you know, everybody is different. every community is different. that's why we have local leaders. and as i have mentioned, all four of the mayors i mayors in e

volume county make decisions. we are still enforcing the requirement of social spacing. and you know, we are keeping people from laying out on the beach. you are not allowed to have coolers. you are not allowed to have chairs or even towels to lay out on. if you want to run, jog, swim, surf, fish, you can do that but you still need to maintain the social distancing requirement. and if they don't, we tend to educate first and then we warn second and take action third. but we haven't had to do that. believe it or not, we actually hadn't had to take the action when we were closed because people would come out on the beach when they weren't supposed to and be defined about it. since we have been open, it's been good experience so far. brian: great. the next step would be allowing sunbathing. allowing coolers but keeping socially distant? >> that is correct. you know, the next step would likely be that we would allow people to come out and lay out

in the sun. we have broken the time in two that the beach is open because we are trying to keep from putting too many people on the beach at one time. give people the opportunity to socially space well and so far, like i said, it's gone really well, and i think we have got a special program going. brian: gotcha. the mayor treating the people of jacksonville beach like adults and so far everything is going well. mr. mayor, thanks so much. a lot of people put up some pictures of a crowded beach at air show at different time and said that was this weekend. that was not this weekend. we saw the video from this weekend and people were properly spaced. mr. mayor, thank you so much. >> thank you, brian. brian: you got it. mean while, still to come. warmer weather was thought to be able to kill the coronavirus. one new study shows the virus can live up to 140-degree heat. dr. marc siegel joins us for what this means for stopping the

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than 500 employees. steve? steve: all right, ainsley, thank you. a new study reveals covid-19 can survive in higher temperatures than thought. the virus replicated in the 140-degree heat for an hour. what does this mean as we approach the warmer weather this summer? here to weigh in fox news medical contributor dr. marc siegel. dr. siegel, good morning to you. >> hi, steve. how are you? good to see you? steve: i'm doing okay. the study looked at the 140-degree threshold because that's the temperature that a lot of research labs use to disinfect. found out it's got to be closer to 200 degrees so what does that mean? >> steve, i have serious concerns about this study. i think it's deeply flawed. one of the things we do well on this show is bust through myths. first of all, it hasn't been published yet. secondly, it looked at the the

amount of virus you would never see. you or me would never see if we were infected. that's the second thing. thirdly it, compared itself to the sars virus from 2003 said it was similar. the virus in 2003 very well studied and found to be killed by heat. by ultraviolet light and by humidity. all three things the department of homeland security has said that this virus, that covid-19 killed by humidity, heat, and by uv light. ultraviolet light those factors could lead you believe it's receivable. as it gets hot and humid this virus could start to die. that's also what tony fauci and redfield of cdc told me in the past week. i don't really believe the findings of this stud. and i don't think be touted out there. we need further investigation on this but we don't have reason to believe this is the case.

steve: if covid-19 is seasonal and we don't know that for sure that would be pretty good news for the people we just saw down in jacksonville beach where they have opened the beaches as long as people social distance. if you social distance and the -- you know, the sun is warming things up. combination of the two means, what, dr. siegel? >> well, provided, steve, caution that it isn't being spread there from other places, which obviously it isn't because everything is on lockdown and there is no big travel going on there which helps a lot, i would add that we look at the southern hemisphere to prove or to show us whether something is seasonal or not. and, in fact, it looks like australia is not having a surge of cases right now at a time when its fall is starting, which is a really good sign. to answer your question directly, as far as the beaches in florida are concerned. it looks like it's plateauing down there as well. you made the key point.

continuing social distancing. continuing disinfecting. washing hands. wearing masks in public. all of that is going to continue to help. so i think we have to look at this region by region, how many cases there are. and whether it's emerging and, again, testing, which we have emphasized on this show to see who really has this or not. watch that southern hemisphere. so far, so good. steve: it sounds like it. all right. dr. siegel, thank you very much for joining us on this monday morning. >> thank you, steve. steve: you bet. all right. meanwhile the white house and congress closing in on a deal for small small business relief. what does charles payne want to see i in the bill? we are going to talk to him. he is coming up next. to get every job done right. the kubota l series tractors.

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small businesses. it would replenish the paycheck protection program and that is much needed. brian: it's been out of money for a while now. kristin fisher is live at the whitehouse. kristin, we are hearing how lawmakers could return to the hill by wednesday to vote. have they not worked out any type of remote voting system? they do have to show up? >> according to the house majority leader steny hoyer, he says the earliestth house can meet is going to be on wednesday. and so that means that the very earliest that the paycheck protection program could be up and running would be thursday. now, over the weekend, these negative united nations have been continuing as these small business owners across the country have been crossing their fingers and hoping that the white house and democrats will be able to cut a deal and fast. the paycheck protection program ran out of money last week. yesterday president trump said that he is hopeful that the government will be able to refill it soon.

we want to take care of the businesses. they are the enjustin the country. when we reopen we want to have those small businesses ready to go. we have a good chance of getting the deal. we want the deal. >> under this emerging deal, there is about $300 billion more funding for that small business ppp program. but there is also about 75 billion for hospitals, 25 billion to improve testing. and 50 billion for the disaster loan program. there is no additional funding for states or for things like food stamps, which democrats have been pushing for but senate minority leader chuck schumer says their demands have made a difference. >> many of the things we have asked for on the banking side, on the testing side, on the hospital side, they are going along with. so we feel pretty good. we still have a few more issues to deal with. >> now, in terms of timing and i

want to go over it just one more time because this is so important for all of these small business owners across the country. yesterday the treasury secretary steve mnuchin the house will take i -- excuse me the house majority leader says it will be wednesday at the earliest before the house will be able to take it up. and so, of course, that means thursday before the ppp is refilled at the earliest. again. guys, bark to you. ainsley: every day makes a difference. good to see you. bring in charles payne host of making money on fox business. charles, she is saying maybe they won't see that money until thursday. that's still four more days away. >> you know, each day is so critical, ainsley. you know, when we started this, there was a big point made of just how much small businesses are hanging on in good times. the average 24-day period of cash on hand. restaurants at the lower end of that with about 13 days worth. you know, so it's just -- it's a

grand -- we understand this is nothing like this has ever been done before. but, there is some problems i can i think that might have been avoidable. particularly when dealing with these big banks as conduits to get this money from the government to small businesses. you know, one of the big stories overnight is shake shack returning $10 million and people are saying well why did a company with a $1.6 billion market cap get $10 million in the first place? why did pot belly get $10 million and give their ceo $100,000 bonus? these are publicly traded companies. some of them have their own issues. there is no doubt about that. if you are going to make this a real small business plan. let's expedite these loans to small businesses that are living day to day. steve: absolutely. charles, i have got people in my family who have been applying through this toward the end of last week and because they ran out of money, you know, everything is frozen. they are just waiting for somebody to call them back. we understand, according to "the washington post." this deal, if voted on on

wednesday, it sounds like it's about half a trillion dollars. $310 billion would go into the paycheck protection program. 60 billion for smaller banks in what they are referring to as minority and lower served areas. another 60 billion for a separate small business program, 75 billion for hospitals and 25 billion for testing as well. now, the democrats had wanted money for states and local governments and right now it's not in there. but then again, this is not a done deal. >> it's not a done deal. but there have been other packages where the states have received some money. the more you load this thing up, the harder it is to get it done. hence, we have run out of money a long time ago and realtime on the real circumstances for real small businesses. i understand what your relatives are going through. we filed for my own business and while i have been doing business for citibank for 30 years. they immediately kicked our loan

to a small bank with two branches that had no guidance. we got zero. we got squat. maybe through the last 30 years i have put 150. 2 million citigroup they kicked this to the curb immediately. i don't know why. nobody knows why. while i do encourage the administration and i applaud the effort. there are millions, put it this way jp morgan has given out the most money 14 billion. they still have 24 billion on the books. so let's get this thing done. brian: absolutely. they have got to be flexible so charles payne you might have different needs than another business. they have got to be flexible on that 75% to 25%. meanwhile, the problem solvers caucus. guidelines. >> i talked about this. brian: go ahead, charles. >> you and i talked about this. i presented it to treasury. they say interest here the word payroll. if it was about rent. then it would have been a rental protection program. they think the ability to stop landlords kicking people out and

putting moratoriums on rent will be a solution. i don't think so. i think they have to come up with something. problem solvers are saying they want to get together. everybody wants to gets together. report overnight saying 50 million people out of jobs in europe. the world wants to get back to work. here is the thing, harvard is saying to do this we're on track by may 15th to be able to test 152 people per 100,000. they think that's the minimum number. right now 45. obvious testing ability gets better every single day. all zeros in on how much we can test. i think everyone agrees on that. brian: the problem is not congress wants to do it. harvard study says that what i find out, too. what the states are mostly saying. only thing stopping us from doing it is not so much -- you need all the elements. the reagent. the swabs. you need the actual tests. and it looks like the swabs the president is going to -- saw that as a problem. flood the zone with that defense production act and see if we get the reagents and get this done and stop the whining and just

execute. we will see where it goes from there, charles. i understand that you are hosting. >> i agree. brian: hosting a town hall? >> absolutely. we have got mark cuban coming. it's going to be on thursday. the last one we did was highest rated show. people need help. mark cuban is one of the best smartest brightest investors in america. he has amazing amount of foresight. so i want people to video in their questions for mark cuban. not just on small business. we are also going to be focused on a post coronavirus world because some things are going to change. and you need to know where you need to be positioned for that. ainsley: it was such a hit because so many people had questions about those loans. now people can't get their money. hopefully it will pass on wednesday and people start getting money on thursday and watch your town hall to get more questions answered. thanks so much. charles. it's america together. >> thank you. ainsley: town hall tomorrow with mark cuban. thursday, april 23rd. i said tomorrow. but it's thursday, april 23rd at 2:00 p.m. also watch his show on fox

business channel today. okay. let's hand it over to janice dean. she is telling us about the weather. hey, j.d. janice: we have the threat for severe weather again across some of the same areas hit hard on the easter outbreak on sunday and monday. we had tornadoes reports yesterday stretching from texas through portions of mississippi. this wasn't the same powerful outbreak but we still saw quite a bit of damage from these storms. now moving through portions of florida and the carolinas and georgia. we still have a tornado watch in effect as well as a newly issued severe thunderstorm watch. so with these storms, we could see the potential for a very heavy rainfall in a short period of time and some hail, damaging winds, isolated tornadoes. that threat will move up towards the mid-atlantic through midday today. so just be aware of that know where you are going to get your warnings and warnings throughout the morning hours and into the afternoon. also want to make mention we have a storm system moving into the west that's going to bring

another round of potential severe weather for parts of texas, through mississippi, louisiana, alabama, up through arkansas. that is on wednesday. so we will watch that region over the next couple of days. there is your forecast today. florida still very warm while two thirds of the country below average and temperatures and we're going to deal with some wintry weather across portions of the great lakes as well. steve, ainsley, brian, back to you. steve: all right. janice, thank you very much for the "foxcast." meanwhile, 12.5 minutes before the top of the hour, carley shimkus joins us right now from world headquarters with a lot of news. carley? >> let's get straight to it. we now know the name of a texas police officer who was killed in an amber. san marcus officer justin putnam shot responding to a domestic violence call on saturday. two other officers were shot before the gunman killed himself. putnam was 31 years old and 5-year veteran of the force. he was set to get married in november.

his sister keith ellison writing a touching tribute saying in part justin was the best big brother a girl could ask for. from the time i was born, he was my protector. i never imagined this could happen. he was so strong. putnam is the 15th officer fatally shot in the line of duty this year. the idaho mother facing charges in the disappear angst of her kidagainst her kids tryingto huf 1-million-dollar life insurance policy. new emails reportedly suggest charles vallow made that discovery when filing for divorce from lori vallow. he was allegedly shot and killed by valu vallow five months late. vallow is also under investigation in the death of her current husband's former wife and is still awaiting trial for refusing to tell police the location of her children j.j. and tylee. they have been missing since september. my gosh. well, this little piggy didn't want to stay home. watch this.

[laughter] get him, get him. [squeals] [laughter] carley: it took police 45 minutes to trap that run away pig using a trash can. that happening in stanford, connecticut of all places. it's now resting safely at a local animal control. police are looking for the owner. my oh my. brian: why did they wrestle of the pig? let the pig go. let the pig live. let the pig live. thanks so much, carley. people lining up for miles as food banks struggle to meet demands. our next guest was worked at food banks the last 25 years. called this whole thing unprecedented how you can help next. discomfort back there? instead of using aloe, or baby wipes, or powders, try the cooling, soothing relief or preparation h,

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ainsley: hundred dry americans waiting in line that stretch for miles as food banks across the country struggle to keep up with rising demands. here with more is president and ceo of the greater pittsburgh community food bank lisa scales. hey, lisa, good morning. ainsley: tell us what your needs are what is your greatest

challenge and needs so we can help you? >> well, our greatest need is keeping up with the demand here in southwestern pennsylvania. we started planning for thi thed of the virus here in early march. by middle of march we were receiving calls from hundreds of people a day. we had people showing up at our front door of our warehouse. we started to drive up distributions and are serving 1,000 to 2,000 cars at each of those distributions. so, keeping up with demand, especially in terms of the food supply. right now our food supply is good. but i am concerned that in the next three or four weeks our supply will be diminished. ainsley: i talked to a lady on long island who run as food bank. he says lots of people are bringing frozen foods. we don't have freezers who house all of the food people trying to drop off. we have to turn people away that are trying to help. do you have problems like that. >> we do have good freezer and

cooler capacity we are able to provide peanut butter tuna fish and provide fresh produce and frozen items. it is a challenge to accept the food drive product because we cannot safely accept and distribute that product. ainsley: so what are the top items that food banks need so we can take our kids, put them in the car. teach them a great lesson to help other people if we have the means to do that? >> yes. if you are able to, the items that we are in need of are canned fruits and vegetables, pasta, tuna fish, peanut butter and of course many of the items personal care items. shampoo, toothpaste, toilet paper. paper towels items like that expensive at the grocery store. ainsley: have you ever seen anything like this, lisa. no and i have been in food banking 25 years and responded to natural disasters. this really is unprecedented. ainsley: it takes a special person to do that lisa.

god bless you. thanks for joining us. >> thank you so much. ainsley: you are welcome. visit the pittsburgh food bank. website pittsburgh food bank.org if you want to help them and give them donations. coming up, dr. oz, house minority leader kevin mccarthy and sarah sanders. and it won't be their first experience with social distancing. overcoming challenges is what defines the military community. usaa has been standing with them, for nearly a hundred years. and we'll be here to serve for a hundred more.

>> america continues to make steady progress in our war against the virus and our testing is expanding.

the american people have done a hell of a job where -- steve: this is fox news alert on monday april 20th, president trump announced last night the u.s. reaching a major milestone, 4.2 million americans have been tested for covid-19. that's more than any other place in the world, ainsley. ainsley: yes, that's right, steve, the white house is preparing to use defense production act to increase swab testing meanwhile several states plan to relax social distancing restrictions and opening up beaches this weekend. brian: retail stores will open back up on friday. south carolina will reopen beaches. jacksonville beach did it

without a hit. people actually paid attention. let's bring in dr. memhet oz, keeping up with what's happening around -- is that a good move? dr. oz: it's essential. there's no way to fly with any visibility as we try to open up the country again without adequate testing. that was the primary problem that limited major divisions in february and march. with better tests we will get ahead of it. testing is like making the jigsaw puzzle. if you want a swab to get it out

of the person's mouth, saliva, you won't be able to test people. the president had been reluctant other than ventilators. he needs 20 million more swabs made. all leaders in every state agree that we don't want to be held back and those are simple things we need to do. they sound simple but they are not. steve: so you have to wonder what is happening behind the scenes. i know jared kushner is working with the private industry trying to entice them to do more stuff whether it's ventilators or masks or things like that. about a week and a half ago, dr. oz, the president said i'm going to invoke the defense production act so that 3m makes more mask. they will make more masks. here is the president and mike pence who heads up the task force talking about the need for those swabs that dr. oz is

talking about. >> we are preparing to use the defense production act to increase swab productions. >> we believe the testing that we have, chris, today across the country once we activate the lab that is can do coronavirus testing is sufficient for any state in america to move into phase 1, but at 150,000 tests a day, we think we can double work with governors and that would put us at roughly 300,000. steve: dr. oz, last week the white house said the way you get the phase one is you have to have curve the number of hospitalizations going down. going forward, do you think this is a good plan to up the number of tests so we know exactly who might have the antibodies and

what sort of immunity they may have? dr. oz: these tests that vice president discussed has the amount of virus in your nose. i will get to antibodies in a second. he feels the right number minimum 750 a week. 150 a day would easily get you through there and we would have readily available to use in states where there's more crisis and test whoever needs when they need it. the antibody tests, antibody tell us if you had the infection , tell you you are currently infected. the antibody you may not be dangerous anymore but some time in the past you had.

the number, they tested 3,000 people. i don't want to overplay. it's one part of the country that we know was hit hard. however, 50 to 85 fold higher identification of people who had antibodies that had been tested confirmed as positive. if that's true, at least in some parts of the country and maybe the entire country we've had a lot more people who had the infection, we were told not to get tested which is what we told people to new york. if you feel good don't go get tested. ainsley: that's really good news. the majority of those people test have had the antibody -- had the coronavirus and never even had any symptoms which is great, so the governor here in new york, governor cuomo, here he is talking about the aggressive antibody testing and here in new york we might be

past -- >> we are going to do it in the most aggressive way in the nation where we are going to sample people in this state, thousands of people in the state, across the state to find out if they had the antibodies. this would be the first true snapshot of what we are really dealing with, but if the data holds and if this trend holds, we are past the high point and all indications at this point are we -- that we are on a decent. whether or not the decent continues, continues on what we do. ainsley: i mean, living here in new york as you are too, dr. oz, you look at the graph and he's saying thank you god that it is going down. i know a lot of people are still in the hospital. what's your reaction to that when you look at the graph? dr. oz: well, we all feel the similar sense of relief. in any hospital presbyterian

less people in icu's and less pressure on the system. half of the cases of the country are here in new york and new jersey, this region. we were ahead of the curve. we got hit harder. i think we avoided the same catastrophe happening in many other states through a lot of strong leadership. we were able to get through this. when i say strong leadership. not just political but also institutions an battlefield commissions, people who stepped up and just did unbelievably great work on the front lines. governor cuomo saying the largest, that would be equal to stanford study in bay area and in my hospital they are offering it to frontline workers to see how many people got actually infected and either didn't have symptoms or powered through it because they couldn't get tested otherwise. that's essential for us to make wise decisions as you start opening up the country. brian: yeah, i got two things.

word is most of them are coming from china and a lot of them are crap. hopefully governor cuomo picked the right one and then we can get some access to places we haven't had access to. and lastly, hydroxychloroquine has been something that you have been pushing forward to get answers on for as well. when can we get the result? dr. oz: it should take a couple of months to get the result. it's been a while for trial and the team, god bless them, they donated 20 million tablets. they have generic company called santos. 440 hospitalized patients, not out-patients, dozen sites or more to make sure they recruit patients. they don't have to wait that long, just a few weeks to see if it makes a difference.

i spoke last week that i had university minnesota principal investigator on my show. you guys had governor and stanford healthcare system, everybody in south dakota will try to get recruited for the trials. here is the key thing, brian, it's not just one size fits all, just looking at the data from china and france, it's evident that there's different way it is medication could work if it works at all. we want to test at different places. you give it early and only in the hospital. these are people that are pretty sick, does it work because it prevent virus or reduces the symptoms once you get infected? all of this has to be worked out. multiple trials, ask different questions. steve: exactly. going forward, dr. oz, earlier we were showing some of the stay at home shelter in place protests at different state capitols because people are frustrated that they feel like there's not the higher incidents

wherever they are, whether it's washington state which has been a hot spot or colorado which has not been as hot, but going forward as the states start to slowly reopen, whether it's some of the northern beaches in florida or some of the parks in texas, what do we need to know other than we've got to continue to socially distance ourselves, wear a face covering otherwise that -- you know, downside, you would hate to have a double hump because then your hospitals are going to be full again? dr. oz: let's go over two big realities. in the show i will talk about the unfortunate reality that there's been 100 patients in south korea, previously recovered and got the virus again. i have epidemiologist and he says it's the most infectious virus he has ever dealt with.

he actually had covid-19. i don't want people overly confident that we have beaten this thing. governor cuomo said, makes you feel little bit about it and make sure we have capacity. second big issue, although sheltering in place is slowly ease for many parts of the country, 60% of u.s. population doesn't get the benefit. 60% of the country is vulnerable, right, either because of aim or more importantly morbid issues. we have to start addressing those. i will bring you concrete ideas on how that can be done. i don't want people sitting at home waiting for this to happen. we need to start right now becoming healthier as a people so we are no longer vulnerable. 90% of the hospitalized people are people who has conditions, taking charge of your health now. ainsley: good news is a lot of people doing routines.

peloton with orders and people are working out because they have time in their hands. thank you, dr. oz, see you tomorrow. let's hand it over to carley shimkus. carley: good morning, fox news alert. overnight severe storm breaking out across several states. a reported tornado touching down in mississippi. hail battering parts of alabama and georgia. strong winds and heavy rain tearing buildings apart. look at those pictures. the tornado threat remains high this morning in mississippi, alabama and georgia. it was just a week ago more than 100 tornadoes hit the south according to national weather service killing at least 36 people. onto another fox news alert, the suspected gunman in canada's worst mass shooting is history. gabriel whartman killed at least

16 people including a police officer in nova scotia disguised himself as an officer driving his car that looks like a police cruiser. police say he shot victims in their homes, the deadly rampage ended 12 hours later following a police chase. a motive is unknown. a russian jet getting too close to comfort to a u.s. spy plane. it happened in international air space above the mediterranean sea. the whole thing caught on camera. the russian jet came within 25 feet of the navy spy jet. the second time in 4 days that this has happened, not good. we will send it back to you. brian: all right, thanks, carley. the president is having a number of conversations with vladimir putin but that i guess has not come up. carley shimkus, thank you so much. the white house in congress could reach a deal as soon as today for more funding for small businesses as bipartisan lawmakers release plan to reopen

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♪ ♪ ♪ steve: as soon as today lawmakers on capitol hill could reach a deal to give more money to small businesses, so where do the negotiations stand? house minority leader kevin mccarthy joins us right now with an inside look in the dc area. mr. leader, good morning to you. >> good morning, thanks for having me back. steve: okay. sound like -- i was reading the washington post this morning, they are on the verge of half a trillion dollar deal, what can you tell us about it? >> well, what it would do something that we have been requesting for the last 2 weeks, more funding for the small business program. this business program has worked very well, more than 1.6 million businesses requested the money to pay their employees, to pay their rent, unfortunately nancy pelosi has held that up to the last 2 weeks. what we have watched and the one question on sunday show, name one productive thing speaker pelosi has accomplished in this

pan dem snick when president trump on january 31st put in the ban, on february 24th, she asked people to gather together in san francisco. she fought the ban. when we asked to put care's act together, she held up. she held up the money, 700,000 small business applications in right now trying to keep their doors open. last week we watched 5 million people new numbers for unemployment. how many more millions of pelosi's layoffs will we have to endure before she will put people before politics? even at this moment to get this agreement, we could have been done yesterday, but the democrats continue to hold up even though we have agreed to all the numbers. steve: yeah, you're a former small businessman and i mentioned earlier that somebody in my family tried to apply by one -- on one of these things and they the money ran out of

bank and focused on big businesses instead of small businesses, that's a big problem because it's about keeping small businesses open. >> 60% went through small banks. in this new funding that we go through, we allocate another 60 billion that go to small banks as well. this is an opportunity when they are 700,000 small businesses without applications already in and a number of them trying to get in, remember what this does, this pays your payroll for the next 2 months and it's not a loan, it's a grant. it pays your rent, utilities. if i was in business with what nancy pelosi is doing i would have had to play off my employees because i could not have kept doors open when government said i had to close. steve: you mentioned nancy pelosi a couple of times. here she is with chris wallace yesterday, and i'm curious if you're surprised at the grade she gave the president when it came to testing.

listen. >> leaders take responsibility, so i said he's a weak leader and he doesn't take responsibility. he places blame on others. the president gets an f, failure, on the testing. steve: what do you think, leader? >> i've watched nancy pelosi disagree with this president every time. january 31st when he stopped the flights from china, she we wanted to put on the floor a no ban to make that much harder for the president to do. february 24th, she asked people to gather in san francisco in china town. when we we wanted to be able to move the care's act she held it up to get more funding for endowment of the arts and more funding more small business, she held it up. when you look at per capita testing especially in the hot spots from new york or louisiana, america has tested more than any other place in the world. this is what the speaker has done. instead of work together, she

has tried to fight every element. again, name me one thing the speaker has accomplished that is productive during this pandemic. all she has ever done is criticize. we need to work together as one. look, the virus is here, we did not invite it, we did not want it, but we will defeat it together. in no other time in history when we've had a challenge like this you've watched the speaker work with the president and you watch now speaker criticize the president. steve: there's a lot of people frustrated leader mccarthy because they might be at home and state with not a lot of incidents of it and we saw protests and they'll be more today, one of the big ones was in denver, colorado and the denver post talked to a guy by the name of jim finamore and he thinks the democrats are using coronavirus as a political tool to crash the economy and hurt

president trump so that in november he loses. you don't think the democrats are trying to do that or do you? >> i don't know what the democrats are trying to do. i do know the number 3 most powerful democrat in congress, the majority whip, mr. clyburn said he wants to use the coronavirus to restructure in liberal views. she we wanted to make sure sanctuary cities, she wanted to change election law and she fought for the national endowment for the arts. i do know that speaker pelosi has now held up small business from getting money. that's holding it up from democrats, green party, republicans and all. that is wrong. i don't know what your motive is but the one thing i do know, we will only defeat this if we work together. i've watched republicans sit in the table just as i have done before to make sure we work together. just last week i had a small

business, ambulance business in my district, she called me so excited because she got the program for small business and you know what she said, i was going to have to lay off a number of people so when the 911 call comes now, i can actually deliver. that's what nancy pelosi is holding up. steve: all right. leader ken mccarthy. thank you so much. you bet. we all know that exercise keeps you healthy but a little as 30 minutes a day could prevent a deadly complication from coronavirus. dr. nicole saphier will react to new findings you will hear

brian: all right, quick look at headlines right now. djokovic is antivacker -- antivaccer. and facebook is cruise a new survey to help collect data to fight against covid-19. mark zuckerberg telling abc this morning they are partnering with

researchers, asking people nationwide about their symptoms to help public better informed, ainsley. ainsley: could regular exercise be a key in helping prevent severe complications from the coronavirus? a new study making that exact point arguing that it helped reduce the fatal respiratory complications. here to discuss this dr. medical nicole saphier. many people have the opportunity to exercise. nicole: ainsley, we have talked about this so many times over the year that exercise is so important for our body and the small study from the university of virginia shows that hormone that's released by your muscles called extra cellular, fancy word for the hormone, that's released when you're exercise, it decreases the risk of acute

respiratory syndrome and also shown decrease of heart disease, lung disease and even arthritis. ainsley: you the book right behind you and actually comes out tomorrow. you can buy on amazon right now. make america healthy again. how can we do that dr. saphire? >> we have to give a big thank you to the american people. we are finally seeing decreasing numbers, decreasing people in the hospital, america stepped up but the truth is america was vulnerable to this infection for two reasons, chronic illness problem not only weakened our immune system which is why we saw so many people in the hospitals but had at max capacity. truth is we have to

decrease our chronic illness within our country to to make a stronger nation. we want to get big government out of our businesses and we want to get big government out of our healthcare system. in my book make america healthy again we go through leading causes of death and how much they are costing our country and expublications on how we can live healthier life and prevent some of the illnesses. i also go into the history of health care and how government intrusion has really let us away from being a healthier nation. i am really calling on americans again. they've proven that they can move mountains when it's come to covid-19. let's continue to live our healthiest lives and make america healthy again. something is always going to happen but we want to be prepared for it. ainsley: is it in times like this when you deal with your patients, is it in times like this when they start to change their lysander? they turn their lives around,

they quit smoking and quit vaping and start exercising? >> well, you know, i gave a -- give a cancer diagnosis every day and it's so sad when people get a diagnosis before they start to live a healthy life. we need to spread that we should be living a healthier life to prevent a lot of this. did you know a lot of cancer can be prevented, heart disease, diabetes, liver disease, there's a large majority of chronic ill innocence the country that with lifestyle changes, increase in exercise, certain vaccinations we can actually be avoiding, that way for those people who do develop illness that they could do nothing to prevent, they have more resources and more funding, it really just puts us on a stronger path for a healthier nation. ainsley: thank you so much, congratulations on the book, make america healthy again, you can pick it up today. thank you. still ahead a bipartisan

baccalaureate to work plan with focus on testing, could this be the key for reopening the economy? we will ask sarah huckabee sanders coming up next.

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[laughter] [inaudible conversations] brian your shot of the morning. that's frankie manela turning into ultra ego -- >> ainsley: family is in quarantined videos and he recreated for us yesterday, watch this. [laughter] [inaudible conversations] [laughter] steve: oh, man, so after creating a mess in the kitchen the manella's posted a caption with aftermath after appearing

on fox. thanks for having us. "fox & friends", there you go. funny stuff. brian: all right. taking a little break. meanwhile let's bring in sarah sanders fox news contributor, former white house secretary, sarah, welcome back. >> thank you, great to be with you guys this morning. brian: the president layed out a framework on thursday and he said this is what you need to do to get through phase 1, 2 and 3 and law it bit later he tweeted out support for those protesting. do you believe he can do both lay out a framework and support protestors and use term liberate? >> look, there's nobody that wants to reopen the government more than president trump. he wants to see people getting back to work. he's a businessman at heart and he wants businesses in this country to be able to open, to be able to thrive, at the same time he's maintained social distancing guidelines and people need to take them seriously and

at the end of the day millions of americans are frustrated, they are watching liberal politicians like nancy pelosi go on tv and -- and on social media parading around flashing their 13-dollar point ice cream in their faces when they don't have $13 to feed their families. there's no doubt that they are frustrated as a lot of the people that depend on small businesses are angry that they are not opening back up and that their federal government is delaying more funding that we are seeing from pelosi and the democrats just over the last couple of weeks and as we saw kevin mccarthy talking about earlier, people are getting angry, they are getting upset and they want people out of touch politicians like nancy pelosi to start paying attention to the real needs that they have and helping them step up and meet those. at the end of the day, congress gets paid whether they show up to work or not and they don't understand sometimes that people that have to show up in order to get a paycheck and can't are

frustrateed. ainsley: some of the protestors are angry, the ones showing up to protest, they don't want to stay at home as long as they are following the rules. we saw protests. we will see ten across the country today and some of them are holding up signs that say end the virus, not the economy. read one that says every day that goes by you're hurting our state and another guy said -- the shutdown and economic cost not worth the few lives that it will save. so nancy pelosi was asked about it and this is what she said. chris: can you understand why they are doing that? >> no, not really, because what we have to do is -- is shelter in place. that is really the answer, testing, tracing, treatment, shelter in place and i do think

that it's unfortunate. but you know, people will do what they do, but the fact that we are all impacter and we all want out but what they are doing is really unfortunate. ainsley: sarah, what's your reaction? >> frankly, i think what's unfortunate is that an out of touch multimillionaire like nancy pelosi is holding up the funding that would help these people not just save lives but save livelihoods. this is has been intent focus of the president protecting both part of the american way of life, both protecting individual health and life of americans across the country as well as making sure we are protecting their livelihoods and nancy pelosi, you can see that she frankly doesn't understand the frustration of people who need their jobs or need funding through the small business package and legislation in order to get their paychecks and keep things moving.

she just frankly showed exactly why she is so out of touch and i think that's the most unfortunate thing about it is that she's one of the people making decisions for everybody else in this country but she doesn't understand the pain and the hurt and the suffering that these people are going through because she's not having to suffer or experience any of that herself because she has the cushion and that financial security that most americans don't have. steve: you know, sarah, i think the average american watching this right now, they are worried about their health, they are worried about their wealth. they wonder when this ends and when they see people who are playing politics with this during the time of a global pandemic, whether it's a republican or a democrat, i've seen it play on both sides of the aisle, the person at home just goes, can't we get this solved first because it's just -- it just seems tone deaf. >> sarah: i don't think there's probably anything more

disheartening than seeing washington being completely dysfunctional at a time when we need it to come together more than ever to help the people of this country. i think one of the great things that has taken place over the last several weeks is we've seen the heart of america. we've seen people step up and help their neighbors. we've seen so many signs of people showing compassion and love in a way that we don't get to always appreciate. we don't slow down to take. i think washington needs to pay attention to some of that compassion and some of that love that everyday americans are constantly showing and try to reflect some of that and move quickly to get things done and make sure that people have the resources and the things that they need to continue and to carry on with their way of life. this is america. we still continue to be the greatest country on the face of the planet. let's act like it and let's get things done and let's make sure

we are taking good care of people and i think the president has been a strong leader on that front and we need to rally around him, we need to rally around our governors, doctors and nurses and not politicize the fight but really focus on the solutions instead of the attacks. brian: right, sarah, no matter what they agree on on wednesday or thursday, it could have been done a week to ten days ago. there's really no excuse and only one person who delayed it and she has really nice refrigerators. that's all i can say. sarah huckabee sanders, thank you so much. >> sarah: thank you, thanks for having me on. brian: let's go with janice dean who is following weather via skype. janice: georgia, we had severe weather yesterday stretching from texas, mississippi, alabama, georgia, some of the areas that got hit hard last weekend in easter weekend.

so across portions of the sunshine state where we could see large hail, damaging winds, isolated tornadoes and the threat extends north ward across the carolinas, coastal carolinas and that will be ongoing throughout the afternoon and then things will start to improve thankfully in the next couple of hours. in other weather news we will see potential for new system move out from the rockies and affect portions of texas. again, through louisiana, mississippi, up towards arkansas on wednesday, so another potential severe weather situation. the rest of the country looks fairly quiet. cooler temperatures for two-thirds of us but in florida we are dealing with the 90's in south florida and we are still going to deal with the system moving into the west across the great leaks. some -- lakes, some wintery weather still hangs on. ainsley: thanks, janice. class of 2020 is missing out on big traditions like graduation

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brian: all right, pandemic forcing high school seniors across the country to miss traditional milestones like graduation and like prom. our next guest a member of class of 2020. lydia, sorry you have to go through this on this special year but how did you change pity to a positive? >> lydia: well, it was really hard for me at first. after school was canceled and i

walked out of school building i was drowning in self-pity for a few days, i cried a lot and sat around and didn't want to do anything and one night i was sitting in bed and prayed and the next day i got up and i got going and i started making the most of my circumstances. brian: so you say to yourself, i've got time, i'm looking at college straight ahead. don't have that much studying. you set up a series of challenges for yourself. number 1, focus on who you are with and that's your family, why? >> lydia: yes. many high school seniors like myself in a few months we will leave and we will not be able to have those daily interactions with the members of our family every day and so i challenge my fellow seniors to make the most of the moments with family. brian: when it comes to time, don't waste it even though you're limited on what you can do.

how do you make time work for you on your second challenge? >> lydia: i wanted to challenge fellow seniors to really use this time to better themselves, learn new language, read the book you've always wanted to read, practice an instrument, put effort into your school work, use this time to better yourself. brian: all right, and the third challenge, you said you view pandemic as a learning opportunity, kind of what you're just saying, right? >> lydia: if there's anything that i learned from this, we can use this pandemic to realize that nothing in life is promise, no tomorrow is ever guarantied so we need to make the most of every single day that we are given. brian: you know, kind of interesting because if you do the math, you guys came into school when 9/11 happened so that's how you go into the next phase of your life too. it's easier maybe for you to put this in perspective than others,

right? >> lydia: yes. i think we are so young but the class of 2020, we have seen a lot of suffering in this world and i just we wanted to challenge my fellow seniors to really rise up and overcome the challenges and persevere toward a brighter future. brian: exactly. and that's great. so where are you going next year? >> lydia: iowa state university and studying music education. brian: you have your major set and college set. are you in a community that's been hit hard or lightly? >> lydia: i live in a small rural community in northwest iowa but many peers or families were out of school losing jobs so it's still been rough for our community, for sure. brian yeah, hopefully it's all temporary and get back to work soon. lydia, i think we can learn a lot from what you've gone through. way to put it in perspective. best of luck next year.

>> lydia: thank you. brian you got it. meanwhile more "fox & friends" in just a moment. we will wrap things up so don't move

guests, david faulk, his longtime agent. steve, why don't you wrap things up. >> i was just going to say, this is not the new normal but the

normal for now. we are separated by ainsley sooner rather than later we hope we are back together. >> that's right. everyone stay safe and try to social distance, and we will see you tomorrow. thanks for joining us. ♪ >> sandra: fox news alert, frustration bubbling up amid new antilock down protests happening across the country has president trump wishes to restart the economy by may 1st in some parts, while health experts warn their virus could rebound if it all happens too fast. good morning everyone, i'm sandra smith. >> ed: i'm ed henry. the u.s. has 750,000 confirmed cases of covid-19 as people take to the streets demanding states reopen parts of their economies so they can get back to work. they support protesters. >> people feel that way. they are allowed to protest.