>> okay, set your dvr for fox & friends every day, have a good one. >> sandra: powerful tornadoes sweeping through texas, and oklahoma. >> ed: a very pleasant good morning to you. i'd series of deadly twisters tearing through the southern plains have left thousands without power and dozens of buildings destroyed. >> sandra: casey stegall is tracking the story for us live from arlington, texas, this morning. hey, casey. >> sandra and added, good morning. right now the national weather service says that preliminary day data shows at least 26 different tornadoes touched on yesterday and into the overnight

hours. look at the video out of polk county, texas, one of the areas hardest hit. it's about 75 miles northwest of houston. emergency management officials say at least three people were killed in that community after the powerful twister came through. first responders had to conduct search and rescue missions because at least 50 homes were reduced to rubble. residents say that they knew severe weather was in the forecast, but they say that this still took them by surprise. listen. >> it happen so quickly, i didn't have time to hide or anything. all of my trees are down but yet one of them did not hit my house. i'm blessed, i'm glad to be alive. i really am. >> let's take an hour to oklahoma. at least two people were killed there as powerful twisters touchdown in and around medill oklahoma and the marshall county

area. one of the victims was just leaving his shift at a trailer factory. his body was eventually discovered about a quarter-mile away. we understand that homes and businesses have been ripped to shreds and the damage is as widespread. parts of louisiana were hit as well. a woman was killed about 15 miles or so to the south of alexandria, louisiana, while she was driving on a bridge. officials there don't have any other information in terms of what specifically happened, if she just got caught up in the wrong place at the wrong time, but now the system is going to continue marching east as you said it causing problems again for louisiana, potentially mississippi, alabama and other parts of the south later today. sandra? >> sandra: some shocking video coming from those areas. casey stegall, thank you. >> ed: trying to clarify his

comments on the potential second wave of coronavirus in the fall saying at return of the coronavirus could be more difficult in conjunction with the flu season and that's what he meant. president trump is pushing back on a plane from georgia's governor saying he strongly disagrees with the decision to reopen some businesses tomorrow. at the white house task force pointing to progress on fighting covid-19 saying we will be more prepared this fall. >> we will have coronavirus in the fall, i am convinced of that because the degree of transmissibility that it has in the global nature. what happens with that will depend on how we are able to contain it when it occurs. what we are saying is that in the fall we will be much, much better prepared to do the kind of containment compared to what happened to us this winter. >> ed: john roberts is live from the north lawn.

good morning john. >> good morning to you as you cut down like the grass here at the north lawn, they are pushing back on what cdc director robert redfield told "the washington post." in an interview redfield is quoted as saying there's a possibility that the virus next winter will be more difficult, and as i said this to others, they put their head back, they don't understand what i mean. his comments were in the context of a coronavirus reemergence just as the next flu season was beginning to hit. listen here. >> the issue that i was talking about, about being more difficult, as we will have two viruses circulating at the same time. the key to my comments and the reason that i really wanted to stress them was to appeal to the american public to embrace the

flu vaccine with confidence. one of the greatest tools we have as we go through the fall and winter season that we are into is to get the american public to embrace the influenza vaccine. >> redfield insisted that he was not saying that the next wave of coronavirus would be worse than this one was, just saying it would be more difficult because if you have both the flu virus in the coronavirus circulating at the same time, health professionals will have to differentiate who has what before they start treatment. president trump also pushing back against georgia governor brian kemp's plan to start to reopen parts of the georgia economy as early as tomorrow. the president is saying he thinks it's too early. listen here. >> president trump: they can wait a little bit longer, just a little bit, not much. because safety has to predominate. so i told the governor very simply that i disagree with his decision but he has to do what he thinks is right.

>> another issue cropping up here yesterday, health and human services, the former head of health and research development authority has filed a whistle-blower complaint saying he was transferred to a lesser job at the nih after he opposed making high hydroxychloroquine eight wildly available. the government has invested hundreds of dollars into covid response money, and not into drugs, vaccines and other technology that lacked scientific merit. when asked about it yesterday the president said he had never heard of dr. bright. >> president trump: you just mentioned the name, i've never heard of him. >> this happened today. >> president trump: if the guy says he was pushed out of a job, maybe he was and maybe he wasn't, i don't know who he is. >> 25 she does know who

dr. bright is and he says he will go to the nih and work on diagnostics which dr. foshee said is a very important aspect of all this. dr. bright insisting that his transfer from a very prestigious position at what is known as a barta at health and human services, and he's in charge of the research and it really was a demotion and therefore retaliation. >> ed: really quick, big picture, how does the white house feel when you talk to top officials about the balance? you see the president come in terms of reopening the economy, you see the president pushing back on georgia and he's had a back-and-forth relationship with andrew cuomo here in new york. big picture, what do they say? >> i think he agrees with cuomo, he's going very slow and building out a very robust contact tracing program. the president, while he likes

brian kemp and said yesterday he campaigned for him, he thinks he's going a little too quickly. the president reiterating yesterday saying if you see something in a state that he doesn't like, he will move to shut it down. it's unclear under what authority he would do that. but i think the president because of political sensitivities from all of this wants to be careful that things don't happen too quickly and cause a complete resurgence of coronavirus and reverse all the progress we've made. so he's watching all that very closely. >> ed: john roberts, thank you. the house set to vote on a brand-new coronavirus relief bill today. the package will help small businesses and hospitals and provide more funds for testing as well. delaware senator chris coons is with us now and he sits on the judiciary and foreign committees. thanks for being with us. >> good morning and thanks for having us. everyone is safe and healthy at home. i'm relieved that we got this

package out of the senate unanimously in an optimistic the house will pass it today. >> ed: it's of the news this morning as well even if as a house is moving forward on the package is talk about yet another package because we have 4.4 million more unemployment claims coming in this morning and that the grand total as you know of 26 million americans now unemployed in the span of just a few weeks. what does a fourth package in the days ahead look like to you? >> well, ed, something that we fought for and was not in this package was assistance to local governments and states. what that really means is keeping employee folks who are police officers, paramedics, first responders, teachers, public health officials. the folks who are keeping us safe and keeping things running, whether they are garbage collectors or they are folks administering unemployment checks. we do need to provide support to state and local governments in the next round. i also frankly think we will need to provide more support for

businesses so they can reopen, for contact tracing and testing. one of the things i've been talking with republicans and democrats in the house and senate about is the national service program americorps which has 75,000 young people in every state who were midway through their service year. we need to have somewhere between 10,300,000 people in every state doing contact tracing so we can safely reopen. we need to figure out how to get those folks up and running in every state in the country. >> ed: it that might be an interesting initiative to get people to come together at this critical time. on the other hand when you talk about helping state and local government, republicans see that as you know as a bailout and a say they are not on board with it. mitch mcconnell had strong comments on that. and to be fair we will let you know what a democratic governor said about it and let you react. >> i would certainly be in favor

of allowing states to use the bankruptcy route if it saves some cities. mike asked would be that it would be good to send that money down to them now so they don't have to do that and that's something i'm going to be in favor of. >> come on, man. that is completely and utterly irresponsible. we will got the living daylights in every state of america out of the exact services that are citizens need right now. >> ed: if you can hear governor murphy in new jersey who is a democrat that wants this money is kind of bailout from the government. but answer mitch mcconnell who's basically saying, why -- two bailout states like new jersey who have not handled their state budgets well in recent years? >> well we just spent $500 billion on bailing out the airlines and bailing out a wide

range of businesses large and small, from hotels to restaurants, who had no fault in this pandemic. and i frankly think for us to continue to provide services whether it's garbage collection or pandemic health services in support, whether it's keeping the unemployment office is open or is providing police and firefighters, continuing to provide those key government services is also going to take some federal support. we put restrictions on the money that went to some of the largest companies and i understand they are putting restrictions on money that would go to state and local governments, but frankly if we don't because of the balanced budget requirements of virtually every government, and i used to run a county government, we will massive layoffs. >> ed: but carries act which he passed before had $150 billion already for states, 90 billion for schools, transit, which obviously helps the states.

i went back and looked and this is what you said back in 2013 in the budget committee talking about a major you had passed to try to cut spending and get the budget balanced. you said we need to reduce our country's dangerous deb comic deficits and stabilize our paralyzing national debt. that was 17 years ago. >> that's right. and frankly we are barreling towards a massive amount of debt and we are also in the greatest public health and economic crisis of our lifetime. we spent a record amount as a government in order to get through the second world war and the great depression and we may end up spending a similar amount here. frankly, i continue to be concerned about and committed to trying to get our budgets back into balance but as someone who ran a local government that provided loss of the first responders support for my community, the police and the paramedics and the 911 call services, this is not a time i

would be laying off the people who answer the phone at a 911 center or laying off the paramedics and the folks who are the nurses and the orderlies and the doctors at county hospitals all over this county. we did put a restriction on that 150 billion, it can only be spent for pandemic response and i think we need to find the right balance here. >> ed: r8, a lot of people will be working on finding that balance. big decision there, senator coons, thanks for coming on. >> president trump: they can wait a little bit longer, just a little bit, not much, because safety has to predominate. we have to have that. so i told the governor very simply that i disagree with his decision but he has to do what he thinks is right. >> sandra: that was president trump voicing some reservations about george's plan to reopen some nonessential businesses in the state starting tomorrow. the president telling georgia's governor the state could wait a little bit longer. for more on all of this, let's

bring in a bill mcgurn, main street columnist for "the wall street journal" and former speechwriter for president bush. still, we are glad we could get you on this morning. you are writing about the lockdown rebellion in "the wall street journal," specifically you are looking at individual decisions like georgia governor kemp to reopen early even though the president says he disagrees with him. what the outcome of that? >> actually i was writing about the protest that we are seeing. when you look at what the president says and with the governor says, there's less there there than meets the eye. that disagreement seems to be on specific aspects like opening gyms and barbershops in nail salons, and he went on to say he would try to stop him. i think that's how federalism works. i don't know who's right here, whether it's the governor of

georgia or the president trump but i think that's why we have a system of federalism to see what happens. this way, look. everyone knows the responsibility and he's taking responsibility for the decision he's made. >> sandra: to your point about your peace, for some residents of those states who say we are waiting too long and we want to get back to work. do you think that georgia could be a test case for saying, look. we are going to make decisions of the state level that we think are the best for the people of the state? >> absolutely. it's one of the first that will reopen more fully than the other. in georgia i see the governor is getting some criticism from local mayors and so forth who say they were consulted but i think that that is where we have to work things out. look, everything is a calculated

risk. nothing is risk-free. a colleague of mine likened the shutdown, the solution is something that if you stay underwater you are safe but if you pop your head up to breathe, and you get sick, that's not really a sustainable solution. so i'm rooting for the governor. i think if he does this at the risk and i hope it works out. people want to get back to work. the other thing i noted is the hostility towards people protesting because they don't have a job or they are watching their small business crumble. i just find it extraordinary, the contempt for people who are very frustrated. >> sandra: a lot of the concern there obviously though is that some of them are not committing to the social distancing measures and there is a fear that they could be, in essence, spreading the virus themselves. by the way, we had the savannah mayor on who does disagree with the governor in georgia on that

decision yesterday. i want to move on to some fox news pulling and asking about the race for 2020 and how this pandemic could affect the president. this is pennsylvania and michigan. the latest polling shows that joe biden is leading in these key battleground states and when you look at michigan where the governor there, witmer is now pulling more popular than president trump because of her handling of it covid-19. so final question for you, how will the president's handling of this pandemic and his outbreak in the united states, how will it affect the race for 2020? >> while you are seeing some of it, and it's too early to know because as governors make decisions and as we move ahead we will see the consequence. i think it's too early to read the outcome of the steps that have been taking at the federal level but clearly it will be a big part of the campaign. i mean i think president trump

has kind of wiggled around different positions and so forth and he's made some statements, i think he would have been better off not having made. that said the question is, will joe biden persuade people that it would have been better had he been in charge? i think he has his own challenges. it's still early days for polls to stay anything exclusively but it's simply something the trump campaign thing is looking at. >> sandra: absolutely and we are looking at it as well as we get closer and closer. we appreciate your time this morning, thank you. >> ed: new human clinical trials are beginning for potential covid-19 vaccines. how close are we? plus governor andrew cuomo recruiting a tracing army. how former mayor mike bloomberg has gotten involved. >> we have to expand this number tenfold. we need to get it done like

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virus and then locating who they were in contact with in order to isolate other carriers of the disease. governor andrew cuomo says neighboring states will take part and as we just heard the mayor michael bloomberg who will oversee the program and has donated ten and a half million dollars towards its implementation is going to also participate. the governor explained how it worked. >> you test a person. if the person winds up positive, you then trace that person's contacts. contact tracing. you have to start with a large number of tests. >> the bloomberg school of public health at johns hopkins will train the tracers. according to a national plan produced by the school, and i quote, it's estimated that each infected person can on average infect three others. if one person infects three others the first positive case can turn into more than 59,000 cases in ten rounds of infections. the plan uses various tools

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back to you. >> sandra: is hard to hear those numbers every day. david lee miller, thank you. >> ed: that weekly jobs report is out, more than 4.4 million americans filed for unemployment benefits last week alone. how will the markets react? we are on it with maria bartiromo joining us for the opening bill, cabell. plus as the cdc now indicating that first coronavirus death occurred in the united states earlier than we thought. what this new timeline means for the coronavirus response coming up. >> when we first interacted with this virus with the first time in the february and march time frame, we didn't have an understanding of its transmissibility and all of its symptoms, and we do now.

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we are not expecting a snap back per se in the fourth quarter but we will start coming back little by little. you have money thrown at this economy and a huge way flooding the economy, you just have that new money that is about to go to the smaller banks and to the paycheck program that is also going to be helpful. at this point we will see more numbers like this, so i don't think you will see much of a reaction. >> but still you are looking at the dow climbing back toward 24,000. remember in the middle of the worst moments of this pandemic we saw 18,000 on the dow. you've got the markets applauding congress, especially for their securing of these funds for small businesses and another 310 billion security. although it is our understanding that it is likely already used up. maria, we all drive around our towns around the united states and we wonder are some of those

small mom-and-pop shops going to survive this? are we getting the money into the hands of those businesses so that they can survive? >> and that's why this next tranche of money is so important because it really is those community banks and those smaller banks. that's where main street banks -- you talk about the low yoga studio, the nail salon at the gym, these local storefronts that we are talking about that we drive around our towns and see, their bankers are the community banks, the small banks. that's why they are going to go to those banks for a loan in this way those banks need the money. i think the structure of this paycheck program is still up for change. there are a number of things in it about the structure and the timing that really do not work for small business viability. for example you may very well get that long but you have to send that money out the window to your employees within an eight week period of time in order to get that loan forgiven.

an eight week period of time, unfortunately that won't help that company survive. so while it's a paycheck program, you also have to think about that business that you want to open its doors at some point and if you are getting them just that eight week period beginning now, while they are probably still going to go bankrupt. >> sandra: we worry about the mom-and-pop shops, meanwhile's many people are using amazon to get their families through this. there is a "new york times" headline and i want to read it to you. basijeff bezos takes back the wl at amazon and meanwhile, how amazon can help while we are in the middle of it.

that's questions over will he be back at the home? >> it seems like he is more active than ever before, he's seen on phone calls and delegating a lot of the operational business to underlings. that's changing out with him back in the saddle there and it's really no surprise that disney did a similar thing, bringing bob iger back after they closed all of their theme parks. its extraordinary measures that you have to take and jeff bezos wanted to make sure to be in the lead it to be making those decisions. i'm not surprised that he's back and i will say this, amazon and businesses like it, these are the kinds of stories that we will sustain after we get out of this. make no mistake, the fact that we are at home and using all of these digital things whether it be buying online or telehealth or education, at some point people are going to say, it was

going pretty well. i think the digital transformation only accelerates as a result of cobi covid-19. >> sandra: it will be interesting to see those changes. great to see you this morning, see you again soon. >> ed: the cdc confirming that two people in california died of covid-19 weeks before the first reported death. that raises questions about the origin. he has more on the story. >> good morning to you. earlier this year the main concern was imported cases, travelers coming from china infected with this disease. now researchers believe they are at community sporadic, in other words an infected person infecting another person and

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>> ed: at some alarming new problems for us covid-19 patients, doctors now say the disease seems to be causing sudden strokes and for those in their 30s and 40s. this is also the very first ebola patient as you remember in new york city.

doctor, thanks for coming in. >> thanks for having me. >> ed>> ed: cnn has a report abt a sevenfold increase in sudden stroke for young people in just the last few weeks. or perhaps because covid can cause the blood to clot in erotic ways. this seems very shocking. i talk about it. >> yeah, it is pretty shocking. we still need more data to know exactly how much of this is related to covid itself. we know it does because don broke down like thrombosis, so blood clotting as part of the disease. we are going to have people with the strokes and heart attacks with other emergencies or maybe

at home. we haven't seen as many heart attacks and this is a long-term complication. >> ed: obviously if you do have a stroke you have to get to the hospital and obviously the part about young people. we are hearing that people in their 30s and 40s are concerned but not necessarily going to hit them that hard. >> ed: and we have shown that yes the older population is -- what we have seen is we have intubated and put on mechanical ventilation people of all ages including in their 20s, their 30s in their 40s. it's a disease of all ages and all populations and we are just starting to really understand some of the worst complications of it including things like strokes and blood clots. >> ed: in terms of underlying

illnesses you just mentioned. here is an american medical association study i believe here in new york, 94% of the covid patients had more than one disease, 53% suffering from hypertension, 42% from obesity, 32% diabetes. how does that complicate in recording the cause of death in various localities because somebody could have had heart problems as well as covid-19 for example. >> it's difficult. we've known since the beginning that people with underlying health issues, diabetes and blood pressure, or at a higher risk of complications. these numbers from the study should be alarming because these are more widespread in the united states than anywhere else in the world. nearly half of the u.s. adult population has high blood pressure and 40% of americans are obese. the population that was studied here is not unique, it's not some population that has a

higher risk of dying. this is america and they represent the country as a whole and highlight how bad this impact can be. once the disease spreads to other places throughout the country. >> ed: last question in 30 seconds, how hopeful are you right now? >> depending on who you listen to the vaccine is either right around the corner, a year away or never going to happen. the fastest we've ever made him mint vaccine was four months in the 1960s. we are still looking for a vaccine for hiv and there's no guarantee we will have one soon. we do need to make sure that if we do have one scaling up will be quick and people all over the world have access to it. in the meantime we need to rely on social distancing, testing and good old-fashioned public health. >> ed: dr. craig spencer, we appreciate it. >> sandra: as a country struggles with massive job losses, alexandria ocasio-cortez no calling on low income americans to boycott work after

the coronavirus shutdown ends. plus, covid-19 hitting nursing homes hard but, what is being done to help some of america's most vulnerable people now? >> heartbreaking results that we have seen in nursing homes around the country. the president took decisive action to raise the infectious disease standards at every nursing home in america.

>> sandra: covid-19 ravishing long-term care facilities. that's about 20% of coronavirus deaths nationwide.

bryan llenas is at a nursing home in brooklyn, new york, where more than 50 people have died since the outbreak began. >> sandra, 55 people have died of covid-19 at the cobble hill health center here in brooklyn, that's the most in the state. but they are hardly alone. of the more than 19,000 covid-19 deaths in new york state, more than 3500 have been in nursing homes and long-term health care facilities. this is a similar story nationwide. nursing homes say they desperately need more testing and personal protective equipment for their staff. without it, they say they have been unable to adequately quarantine affected residents and staff resulting in deadly outbreaks. >> we feel like we have been ignored. our workers are first class euros, they've been treated like third class citizens. our residents are amazing people, what's left of the

greatest generation, they've been treated as third class citizens. >> the national guard and the va are providing testing and ppe and are disinfecting nursing homes in many places. more than half of all covid-19 deaths in massachusetts have been at nursing homes but the governor of west virginia has mandated testing of all nursing home residents in that state. 73-year-old jimmy dunn is a resident of the long island state veteran home in new york and his wife carol is nervous because there are covid-19 cases on his floor. >> i guess just not knowing what's actually happening over there, it's very difficult. they may not even be getting him out of bed, he may not even be getting that kind of exercise anymore. that's upsetting. >> the mayor of new york city, mayor bill de blasio said they

are sending ppe to nursing homes in the city but nursing homes are upset they have not been prioritized given the fact that this outbreak first started in a nursing home in seattle. >> sandra: such a difficult part of all of this. >> ed: at the nfl will kick off its draft tonight with some big changes. the three-day event will be full evil troll with roger caddell announcing the names from his home in new york. the players will also be at home with cameras catching reactions. coming up in the next hour we will have a preview with sportscaster jim gray, our old friend. >> sandra: the house preparing to vote today on the stimulus bill to replenish the paycheck protection program. will it be enough? we will have the latest coming up in a brand-new hour. with their va streamline refi, there's no income verification or home appraisal. and this refi costs you absolutely nothing out of pocket. it's the quickest and easiest refi newday has ever offered.

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>> ed: a fox news alert on the growing showdown over coast-to-coast stay-at-home orders. more protests had expected today as others look at plans to finally reopen. welcome to a brand-new hour of "america's newsroom." i am ed henry. welcome sandra. >> sandra: good morning everyone, i am sandra smith. michigan and kansas pushing for their economy to reopen. illinois governor j.b. pritzker is saying easing restrictions too soon could backfire. >> some states are reopening anyway, that's their choice. i think people make it sick, many people might get sick as a

result of that. but what have i said? testing. tracing. treating. and ppe. >> sandra: matt finn is in chicago with more on what we are hearing from illinois. matt, good morning. >> this morning hundreds of protesters are scheduled to rally outside of the governor's mansion in michigan. it was just last week in michigan that hundreds of cars formed a very large a gridlock protest outside of the capitol building there it was a very similar scene in virginia yesterday at this reopen rally, a drive-by demonstration at the capitol to protest virginia's stay-at-home order until june 10th. protesters hung torrance and wave signs that say people are hurting and insist virginia's economy is being destroyed. america has americans that protested now demanding that they hope to get back to work on the sick and vulnerable stay home or people's livelihoods would be destroyed. many protesters were not socially distance or wearing

masks, raising concerns of the coronavirus brand. in wisconsin, residents are suing their governor to fight the stay-at-home order. and to california's state highway patrol says it will no longer grant permits for stay-at-home protests on state properties after a car gridlock protests this week was deemed too dangerous. and america's third-largest city of chicago has been in a tight locked on for more than a month. illinois governor says his state won't peak until mid-may and his stay-at-home order is set to expire april 30th. the illinois governor says his state like many others does not have the proper testing, tracing and ppe to stay a lift the stay stay-at-home order yet. >> i understand that it's challenging for people, there is no mental health cost in addition to the financial cost for everyone. this is going on and having an effect on everyone.

so like everyone i wanted to be back to normal. >> georgia's governor is allowing many businesses to reopen tomorrow, a move that the president says he thinks is too soon. sandra? >> sandra: matt finn from chicago for us, thank you. ♪ >> president trump: i told the governor of georgia, brian kemp, that i disagree strongly with his decision to open certain facilities which are in violation of the phase one guidelines. he must do what he thinks is right, i want him to do what he thinks is right but i disagree with him on what he's doing. >> ed: president trump right there saying he's not on the same page, and announced parts of that state will reopen tomorrow. joining us now is brian henninger and good morning to you. it's interesting. in your column in "the wall street journal" you write quite simply, the lockdown is about to collapse under its

own weight. explain. >> while i think it's collapsing under the weight of the sort of thing we just saw which is mixed messages coming from people in authority about the way forward and i think the public -- managing the coronavirus and -- simply restore their lives on their own. there are some suburbs that are really beginning to look like they will reopen, shopkeepers here and there are dying to reopen their stories and i think something like that is going on in the state with brian kemp. >> ed: it's also playing out in the state of new york, where we seem governor andrew cuomo in his daily news conference.

as a matter of fact in yesterday's news conference he said something about going back to work that upset a lot of people. >> even with the $600 check on the $1200 check, the unemployment insurance is not enough. the question is, what do you do about it? >> is there a fundamental right to work if the government can't get me money when i need it? >> you want to go to work? go take a job as an essential worker. do it tomorrow. >> ed: what do you think about the governor telling someone who's been in the restaurant industry for 30 years, go work in a hospital? >> i think that's terrible. and i think that's the sort of thing that's driving the frustration of a lot of people that are beginning to protest. let us understand the idea why we were supposed to do this was to flatten a curve. the reason to flatten the curve was to lower the surge to

hospitals. that has been done and the governor himself has said new york has plateaued. if states want to persist with these lockdown's, they can do that with these people, that's their authority to do that. but we have plenty of hospital capacity in many states around the country and i think the governors there in decided they wanted to move back to normality they can do that. >> ed: there is an congress woman named alexandria ocasio-cortez, whom you know well, you've written about her. she had an idea. >> we talk about this idea of reopening society. only in america does the president, when he tweets about liberation, does he mean go back to work. we had this discussion about

going back and reopening, i think a lot of people should just say, no. we are not going back to that. >> ed: we got less than a minute but this idea that people are hungry to go back to work, no, don't go back to work. make your political point. >> it's beyond. she should be happy there are no cars on the streets anywhere and all planes in the sky, the economy is shut down. and that's committing economic suicide as the shopkeepers are working those shops that they want to infect work. that could foster some problems in her reelection campaign. speed limit your audio as good as normal so we couldn't hear every single word but everyone can read your beautiful pros and "the wall street journal" today. >> we will vote it out today and it will get to the president's desk and he will sign it and the people who need that money will get that help that they need

because we are in a time now where we have our economic health to think about. >> sandra: he believes, and this is how we gather in washington -- dubbed stimulus 3.5. funds would go to small businesses, hospitals and coronavirus testing. mike emanuel is live on capitol hill now with more and on that. good morning. >> house members have traveled back to washington to vote on this package. the house is just going back into session for the first votes in nearly a month. today's vote on coronavirus relief will take longer than usual due to social distancing and leadership does not want hundreds of lawmakers crammed together on house floors. so groups of just more than 50 lawmakers will walk into the house chamber to vote this afternoon. house republican leader kevin mccarthy apologized to small business owners are forced to

wait for the money while democrats negotiated for other benefits. >> for those who got laid off last week because congress would not act, that's unbecoming. that is not the action, we are better than that as a congress. we asked for this money two weeks ago and it never should have stopped. we shouldn't have to be where we are today. >> there was no drama in the senate in terms of passing this funding deal but there could be quite a fight on the next relief package. senate democratic leader chuck schumer is already laying out his wish list including bailing out state and local governments, but senate majority leader mitch mcconnell says states may need to use the bankruptcy route if they were in trouble before this crisis. earlier delaware democratic senator chris coons said those governments employ many americans. >> keeping employed folks who are police officers, paramedics, first responders, teachers, public health officials. the folks who are keeping us

safe and keeping things running whether they are garbage collectors or folks administering unemployment checks, we do need to provide support to state and local governments in the next round. >> for small businesses trying to stay afloat this house is due to act today. more relief, $320 million for the paycheck protection program and $60 billion for another emergency disaster program should be on the way soon. sandra? >> sandra: we will be watching that come up mike emanuel, thank you. >> ed: another country now calling for an investigation into the world health organization. but one organization is saying about the mishandling of the virus which has now killed more than 180,000 people around the world. plus concerned about the global economy days after oil prices fell into the negative territory. the wyoming governor mark gordon joins us and asked about what's industry and with the u.s. government should do about it. >> it's really been demand destruction that has been the big problem and i don't see,

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>> ed: australia is calling for an independent probe into

the coronavirus outbreak. the inquiry could also look into china's handling of the virus. at the chinese government has been quite critical of australia and because the proposal political manipulation. >> we have a situation now with the oil business partially because of the virus, for less demand, but partially because of too much supply. for the president is determined and we want to maintain our energy independence and the president has asked me to look at all of our options and we are doing that. >> sandra: treasury secretary steven mnuchin there on the administration's efforts to help the oil and gas industry in the u.s. oil prices have somewhat rebounded in the past couple of days, up to 19% yesterday and 25% today after falling into negative territory for the first time ever. here now from an a leading

energy producing state, wyoming governor mark gordon. good morning. >> good morning, sandra. >> sandra: i know you have so many challenges in your estates in the middle of battling your coronavirus pandemic and keeping numbers down in your state, you have this drop in oil prices, from $60 for wti oil at the beginning of the year to the negative prices that we saw last week. so governor, how is your estate pairing? >> we are doing the best we can. we are lucky in that we are diversified across energy sectors but all of them are under a lot of pressure. there's coal and uranium and a little bit of a bright spot there. but oil and gas certainly taking the brunt of this. i guess it is a time when there is a tremendous amount of volatility and it is important that our nation be energy independent. wyoming stands ready to do that but our industry is having a hard time.

>> sandra: governor, how do you tell your state, the american people, that that drop in energy prices as a whole with some exceptions, as you've noted, what does it mean for the u.s. economy and jobs in your state where it's so energy dependent? >> it means a lot. as you know, the demand destruction that we have seen sort of globally has really magnified the impact on a place like wyoming, and like texas. at my friends in utah are also feeling those impacts. so far we haven't seen too much of a drop in our unemployment but that's because we lag. i have to say that at the end of march we had 27 rigs running and we are now down to low seven. until prices recover a lot more then what we are talking about today, it's going to be difficult for our industry.

>> sandra: do you need help at the federal level? have you spoken to the president or is there any agreement to act and step in? >> we have talked about a couple of things that are important, some loyalty relief particularly on the federal side. ways to extend leases. we are not trying to take a go slow approach on environmental impact statements or regional plans and those sorts of things, just because i think the certainty for the industry to know when we get back to work, we are all going to be -- all hands on deck is important. the faster our country goes back to work the better off we will be. >> sandra: so as you continue to face that challenge you are also facing the challenge of limiting the spread of covid-19 in that state. i know you meant with protesters earlier in the week on the steps of the capital who want to see those stay-at-home orders lifted. where are you on your plans to

do so? >> well we never -- wyoming, like a number of other states never put a stay at in place and we took a lot of grief for that but i like to believe that wyoming people have common sense and it responsibility so we asked them to do the same thing and by and large, i think they have. these are my friends that were out on the steps and i've got friends across the state. if they are frustrated, they are angry. they want to see the country working again, it is understandable. so we are working very hard on putting together plans that will allow us to relax in a careful and thoughtful way and a safe way, getting people back to work and getting our barbershops and our beauty salons and so on back working. but we have never closed down. he talked about the energy sector before. what i am so proud of in wyoming is that our coal miners, our uranium miners, our sawyer's and

those who cut down trees and meld them, they have all been working. they've done it carefully and thoughtfully. we are poised to lead the country back to its economic recovery. >> sandra: but governor, obviously from the protesters standpoint, when their businesses had to shut they were staying at home and that's why they met with you on the capital come on the steps of the capital. testing capacity use that on fox news earlier this week is still a concern. you don't have the capacity. we had senator barrasso from your state on earlier this week and he said that is key, that is crucial. so where are you in stepping up your ability to test people in wyoming? >> sandra, i think you probably know if you talk to other governors that all of us are trying to get those same supplies. we do, it's episodic the supplies we get and we have to

adjust our testing schedules to meet that. so far i think our public health officials and hospitals have done a pretty good job of staying out in front. we just don't have the kind of question that we would like to see to feel really confident about how things were going. >> sandra: i know that is one of your biggest efforts right now, to try to increase that capacity. finally, when it comes to what it is that you are looking to reopen, i know that is of keen interest for those who are wondering whether it's the salons and the barbershops, what considerations are you concerned about? >> like i said it, we never really did shut down but we did restrict the businesses, tattoo parlors, massage therapists and beauty salons. we are looking at relaxing some of those, giving some guidance to all restaurants who are already doing take-out and curbside delivery.

we are looking at what it means to bring our schools back and we know we will have to have the head iourheads in the game this. we are seeing what we can do there to build good plans and get our students underway. but our major industries are manufacturing, they have kept working right through this. one of the big concerns i have as we left this, we have to have people realizing that it is still a time to be safe. in our workforces are vulnerable if they get careless and how they approach their job. >> sandra: it is that delicate balance that you and so many of these other governors continue to talk to us about. it's a huge challenge that you face, our best to you and your estate. >> thank you sandra, and our best to everyone there. >> ed: all right, thank you. the coronavirus sparing no age group and that includes kids. with the cv cdc is saying about

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>> ed: while the coronavirus is of course especially dangerous to the elderly, the cdc notes that kids are not immune. for children have died to write america and several are hospitalized in boston where there's been a surge of cases. molly line has been following that story. good morning, molly. >> good morning, ada. hospitals across the state are filling up with covid-19 patients and those are

encroaching on pediatric areas. they are seeing children with covid-19, placing more than 20 so far. there are ten admitted as of today and for them in the icu. is dr. michael acus, chief of medical critical care. >> again, a few of them have been severely ill on ventilators severe lung disease, similar to what one would see in the adults. some have been moderate, and ana fair number have been very mild. >> the youngest patient with the virus is just several weeks old. because of the ones that are severely affected meaning in the icu on ventilators either invasive or noninvasive ventilators are essentially all having some other condition. >> thankfully, many have recovered. >> well i am a little biased to believe in the resiliency of children although they can

become just as ill, they do tend to recover more quickly and more fully and they are just more adaptable than many of us adul adults. >> in the final word from dr. angus, how they end every meeting with icu nurses. >> we remind everyone to be safe, be healthy and be kind. >> some good words to live by during a global pandemic. >> ed: molly lien, thank you. ♪ >> the first and most important quality were someone who if i walked away medially from the office for whatever reason, they could be president. i know how it worked with barack and me. he told me at the time, pick someone who has some background and confidence that may not be your strong point. make sure that you are able to make up for each other's weaknesses. >> sandra: joe biden talking about his search for a running g

mate. some are pushing him to waste no time making his decision saying it's best for the party that's done early. good morning to you and welcome, and thanks for being here this morning. what can you tell us about this this morning? >> what we know is that his vice presidential pick will be experienced. it will be someone who will be able to lead it during a pandemic and we know it will be a woman. i'm excited about that, as a woman of color who is doing communications for the dnc, i am proud that our vice president joe biden is going to pick a woman to be his running mate. i think that says a lot about who is important and that women are important in this election. they will be who wins us the white house. we saw women arise and vote in record numbers in 2018 during the midterm elections, in 2017 as well. and so we are very excited about

this ticket and we believe it will be a strong ticket to beat donald trump. >> sandra: women are important in every election and now the question is who it will be on the timing of that announcement. this morning, they said it includes multiple democratic strategists saying this could potentially give biden's campaign and infusion of campaign cash. so, should he announce early? >> i think that joe biden understands the responsibility of the vice presidency because he was vice president. he understands the relationship that the vice president must have it with the president of the united states. so he's taking this seriously and he wants to make sure it's the best qualified person. regardless of how long that takes him and the vetting process and for him to make a decision, we will absolutely have someone before the august convention.

and i will say when you are looking at those reports and cash numbers and you are looking at what just happened this last month, you are saying that trump and the rnc are no longer out raising the dnc and biden. i think right now you have the momentum on joe biden's side and i believe that will continue as long as this president continues to fail in his response when it comes to the coronavirus and you saw that actually in your latest polling. >> sandra: it's still fair to point out that the trump campaign war chest is still a much bigger number than biden. so as far as campaign cash is concerned and talking about the timing of that bp pick, hillary clinton strategists from her 2016 campaign is saying we haven't heard from joe biden lately so perhaps an announcement now could give him some additional momentum or a needed boost.

>> joe biden has been out there doing interviews and he is out there, also he's listening to health professionals as well. so i think that you will continue to see joe biden do interviews and to talk a little bit about the rnc and trump war chest, i just want to point out, they can claim they have this infrastructure in place but we recently heard that they don't have any offices in michigan, this was before the pandemic. if you look at previous years this war chest of theirs is not won them anything. so i would be skeptical about how they are using their money when it comes to this. >> sandra: so throw up the fox news polling because you referenced it on multiple occasions. it shows that biden is leading trump in some of those battleground states which you have referred to. but there are still questions as to whether or not joe biden is and can win over the some of

those reluctant bernie sanders voters. here's "the new york times" this morning, sandra supporters up in the air. sandra supporters say it's up in the air and some primary voters saw joe biden as a weaker candidate than hillery clinton and others didn't think he could win. nearly all were unenthusiastic. so give us an update on joe biden's campaign progress to win over those reluctant bernie sanders voters. >> i think there are a few things here. if you look at the polls, you see that democrats are uniting around joe biden, more so than you republicans are uniting around trump and i think that's an important point. trump tends to focus on his base and yet his base isn't necessarily completely unified around him and still has more work to do here and also with strength, can swing voters. when it comes to joe biden you are seeing bernie sanders doing everything he can and he said he will work to elect joe biden. you've also seen joe biden work

reach out to bernie sanders supporters and i think that what's different this time around in 2020 versus 2016, is that i have never seen this in recent history, our party come together so early. we will have time to reach out to those voters. also, donald trump is a threat. we now have over three years of a record that we can run against and so i think that that is an important point and we will continue to reach those voters and make sure that we bring them into our party and make sure that they come out and vote for joe biden. >> sandra: let me finish this from trip gabriels piece in "the new york times." he said what it feels like is the democratic party relies on tilting progressives to vote for them and they don't want to have any meaningful changes. to have a candidate you are not excited about makes me a little more interested in voting third party which brings me back to

the original question about possibly having a breakthrough moment in the middle of the convention getting put off in the pandemic that's happening, not hearing from joe biden as much. can you give us a little idea of what direction he's going in? elizabeth warren suggested in the hill article, if it is elizabeth warren an announcement now could certainly raise a lot of cash. final thoughts? >> there are so many women out there who are qualified to be vice president and he will take his time to make that decision. the american people right now are scared and i think that joe biden and what he brings is, he brings empathy. he brings experience. he brings someone who has worked with barack obama on a number of issues and crises around our country and so i think that what he brings to the table is an experienced president. i think that voters will vote for him and they are right excited about him because we are seeing that already. >> sandra: so from talking to

you or can we conclude that we will not see an early decision from joe biden? >> we don't know, i'm not going to speak for the vice president, this will be his decision however long it takes but i guarantee it will be someone who is experienced and the american people are excited about. >> sandra: thanks for being on the program. >> ed: a fox news alert, china may have had four times the coronavirus case as officially reported according to researchers at hong kong university school of public health. they blame the undercount on those numbers early on. researchers estimating more than 230,000 people were infected in the first wave which is much more than 55,000 cases mainland china originally reported. >> sandra: america's veterans and listing in a new fight now to serve those impacted by the coronavirus pandemic. we will have a live report on how our nation's heroes are

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>> ed: a cruise ship under criminal investigation after it became australia's largest single source of coronavirus infections at now heading to see after police ordered the ship to leave. the roomy princess is linked to deaths in australia and america. police are investigating whether management downplayed potential infections after passengers and crew were allowed to disembark last month. >> sandra: military veterans across the country are joining forces through the nonprofit group team rubicon setting up hospitals and manning food pantries for those hardest hit by the pandemic. senior correspondent eric shawn has more on that this morning. good morning. >> good morning, sandra. you know they serve the nation in wartime and now are back in service again this time deployed against a new enemy and that of course is coronavirus.

a nonprofit group team rubicon is made up of veterans who are volunteering during this pandemic. team rubicon was founded ten years ago by marina bet jake would come up taking on a meaningful role of helping people here at home at around the globe and putting the skills they learned of the military to good use in disasters and other catastrophes. well, the more than 112,000 volunteers of team rubicon, they are called to gray shirts, are doing everything from building temporary pop up hospitals to disturbing food, medical supplies and personal protective equipment to our medical workers. their missions not only help those in need but also the vets themselves as well. >> we've been able to give them a new community, a sense of identity. and i think that the people that are helping, when they know these are former military members, there is a sense of

pride that the sons and daughters of this country are continue to serve. >> this marine that served in afghanistan and is now with team rubicon, volunteering at a coronavirus field hospital that has been set up at the santa clara county convention center. he told us it is very much worth the fight. >> when you are in combat you know who that enemy is typically. here, sometimes people are asymptomatic and that's one of the scary things about it, you don't know who is carrying the virus often which makes it scary. but we all have a great fighting spirit, and all the volunteers are hungry for patients. they are saying, bring us more, let us help more people. we have that often and it's an amazing thing to see. >> team rubicon's motto is, built to serve and that's exactly with the vets are doing right now. >> sandra: thank you for that eric shawn. >> ed: a great story.

when and how well live sports make it back into our lives? meanwhile the baseball season still on hold due to the coronavirus. what one team president has to say about the possibility of empty stadiums. that's coming up. plus the nfl with an attempt at least at normalcy. the three night annual draft will kick off tonight and sportscaster jim gray will join us live to discuss how tonight's unique event will all go down. jim is coming up. ♪

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>> ed: live sports has gone on for at least a month. if all the will be working from home, and quite a change from the usual site, and they are supposed to be having a big red carpet at the bellagio in vegas it does give a little bit of normalcy without the draft. >> everyone is clamoring for things to get back to normal. they fedex it to you, and that

takes a whole lot. no one will have that, and that's probably going to be some technical glitches. and you don't know if somebody might be able to hack this. and you lose your pick because of the circumstances. the nfl's set and we need to bring optimism to america. "sports illustrated" was at a recent draft on all anonymous, and those sources say a team is looking at our live stream of a players draft party with his family and they listen in to a

call this player got from another nfl team saying, we are going to draft to you. so the second team jumped ahead in the draft because they used the technology to get that information. this could be problematic, and there will be issues coming up, and it's going to give america gives them something else to do tonight other than to watch all of the reruns. it's the 199th pick in the dra

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the super bowl has been played at the home stadium where the team has hosted and the super bowl is in tampa bay. so yes, i would buy. >> ed: last thing, let's not forget about baseball. randy levine, president of the yankee's was on with maria bartiromo and he basically said that we are still hopeful. do you think they could pull this off to maybe do the whole season shrunken down in a place like arizona i don't think that's realistic, i think they will have to come up with another plan. particularly with the small markets because if you just go to texas, florida and arizona, the yankees are getting tremendous television money because of that network. but the people in tampa bay and cincinnati and those others are getting very little but they have to figure out different revenues sharing because the

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>> ed: it more on our fox news alert, massachusetts senator elizabeth warren confirming that her older brother has died after contracting the coronavirus. the senator says on twitter "i'm grateful to the nurses and frontline workers who took care of him but it's hard to know that there was no family to hold his hand and say i love you one more time. i will miss you dearly, my brother, senator warren tweets. sandra, it's tragic and sad. she goes on to talk about her brother dan joining the air force at the age of 19. he served this country and dies of coronavirus without any family there. >> a 20 year veteran of the u.s.

air force and our condolences to elizabeth warren and her family this morning. >> ed: absolutely. >> sandra: meanwhile another fox news alert this morning, deadly storms on the move after tearing through america's heartland. more than 2,000 tornadoes reported in oklahoma, texas and louisiana where their wins were so powerful they splintered homes and overturned a semi truck. one family writing in their car is it all unfolded. >> oh, no. oh, my gosh. >> we are just trying to get past it. >> at least six people were killed in those storms and the danger is not over as the system now moves through the southern states. we will have much more on this developing story with a live report from texas just moments from now. >> ed: a new jobless numbers showing 4.4 million americans filed for unemployment benefits last week and more than 26 million have now applied for unemployment since mid-march.

and the surge of layoffs comes >> sandra: sorry about that. i made a protest for a stay stay-at-home orders, meanwhile the white house is working to clarify statements by robert redfield who said the resurgence of the virus this fall could likely even be more difficult to deal with. >> what i want to do again here is appeal to the american public to recognize they can really help like they did with medication. they need them to help now to best prepare us by getting the flu vaccine at taking the flu out of the picture. >> i think we are assured that the cdc is putting in place today what we will need in the fall so that we can stay in containment if, potentially, the virus comes back. >> president trump: we have embers of current coupled with the flu, that's not going to be pleasant. but it's not going to be what

we've gone through in any way, shape or form. >> sandra: we have fox team coverage for you on this thursday morning. chad pergram is on capitol hill where the houses of voting on the latest relief package. but we begin with white house chief correspondent john roberts. good morning. >> ed: good morning to you. another week of staggering unemployment claims, staggering but certainly not unexpected. we will put the numbers back up on the screen for you so you can follow along. 4.4 million people followed unemployment claims this week and it's lower than previous weeks. but look at the total, 26.4 million people since the coronavirus shutdowns, that's just an incredible number. the white house responded this morning with the report saying that they continue to show that these are challenging times for many americans who want to get back to work because of president trump's leadership, we are on a data-driven responsible

path to opening up america again. as the administration's quickly to provide benefits under their care act, workers and families of small businesses across the country. senator chris coons though reacting to numbers saying it drives home for the need for another relief package, this one for the states. >> whether they are garbage collectors or folks administering unemployment checks, we do need to provide support to state and local governments in the next round. i also frankly think we will need to provide more support for businesses so they can reopen for contract, contact tracing. >> ed: some will begin the reopening process tomorrow, georgia reopening in june, a jambs and tattoo parlors. the conversation with governor brian kemp earlier this week, the president saying that he thinks they may be moving too

fast. >> the governor of georgia and i disagree with his decision to open certain facilities which are in violation of the states guidelines. >> president trump has said on many occasions that he wants governors to do what they think is right but he has also said that the federal government standard is going to keep an eye on what's going on and if they don't like what they see they will need to shut the state back down again. it's unclear though. >> sandra: john roberts of the white house. a statement two brand-new vox polling which shows joe biden leaving the president in states like michigan 49-41%. here to talk about it is dana perino.

you talk to advisors of the president and they immediately say, not only does the president have a huge financial advantage, polls last time around not suggest that. >> michigan in particular, i think one of the things that the polls show is how week of a candidate hillary clinton was. you think only democrats stayed home, maybe they knew it all along. but when they were on the steps in the president want their, michigan was traditionally staying at home for a long time. but biden showed that he could put this race away when he beat bernie sanders by 50 points and michigan when they had the primary up there. and this could show some

unifying around not only a candidate, but also in michigan for right now. of course they are not even campaigning yet. there's a long way to go between now and then and also the trump campaign knowing that michigan and some of the states, they've also looked at several places in particular, new hampshire looks like it will go to trump this year in the campaign and also they point to nevada as a possibility for the president to pick that up. >> ed: let's just play out the stream there on the point of 2020. you are talking about lack of enthusiasm for hillary clinton, what about the enthusiasm or lack thereof are some on the left, and there are a lot of

senior supporters saying, i'm not buying it. >> it's not just the senior supporters that aren't buying it, i really think if you look at some of the obama team members who, i don't know if they ever thought joe biden was the best vice president but they certainly don't think he would've been the best mike best candidate. they've basically been undermining him for the last several months not thinking he would go the distance and now they are realizing that he is going to be the candidate. so they are trying to prop him up. for example on the additional front, the trump campaign led by brad parscale has been head and shoulders above the campaign, and those people are sounding the alarm because you can't do this from your basement. and joe biden knows that, the pandemic will be difficult for them to figure out that -- i don't know how i would advise them to come indicate on this, i really don't.

it's impossible. >> ed: it right. let's talk about the unemployment situation in the country and the money that's being pushed out by congress practically every week right now. mitch mcconnell yesterday was on the radio program basically saying, look. we want to get people back to work and we are spending all this money but there might be limits in terms of bailing out states, listen to this. >> i would certainly be in favor of allowing states to use the bankruptcy route, if states and cities -- might guess would be the first choice would be for the federal government to spend the money now so they don't have to do that so that's not something i'm not in favor of. >> ed: moderates like peter king are retiring here in new york and he went on twitter and he was very angry. he said this is taking money away from cops and firefighters and i understand that argument but on the other hand, the amount of money that is being spent right now, you have to

help people but at some point, when do we talk about debt and deficits? >> i think mitch mcconnell was really onto something partly because if you look at states like illinois for example. the state budget in illinois is a disaster, it was a disaster well before the coronavirus was even an outbreak in wuhan. and that is not the rest of the taxpayer's fault. you look at nikki daley's twitter feed today, she's saying as a former governor that the governors need to buckle down and i think what mcconnell is saying that is that we are paying unemployment insurance and doing a lot of things for the states, we want to help you. but tap the brakes on the idea that all taxpayers across the country should pay for things that were not coronavirus related. for example, illinois pension fund and the disaster that that is, that's not something that people in south carolina want to pay for. >> ed: we got under 30 seconds but i was watching your show yesterday as always and i saw

brad paisley on there. talk about those things as we talk about big picture? >> brad paisley and his wife have a thing called a story. it allows you, where instead of getting a box of food you get to go into the store and choose what you want to be able to take home that night to be able to make food for your family. and we know we will see this all across the country come at such a great model and one of the things i love the most that he said was in, when you are in that situation you get to go out and shop and she was what you want so there's some dignity in that. i hope that can be replicated across the country. plus, he has a new song out called there is no letter i in the fear, i've been singing that song all night. >> ed: i might not either. i will tune in and watch you at 2:00 p.m., dana. thanks for coming on. ♪ >> sandra: the house is about

to debate a round of relief and some sort of package. they are voting on the nearly half trillion dollar major which replenishes a fund to help small businesses crippled by this pandemic. chad pergram is live on capitol hill. and we got steve scalise coming up. so what do we need to know at this hour? >> good morning, sandra. it's kind of like they used to say in the lone ranger, who is that masked man or mass woman, it's who is that masked congressman? a lot of members wearing masks as they debate the bill in the house this morning. remember they lead that small business fund dry. the original request was $251 billion so it went up significantly. republicans say democrats delete help for small businesses.

>> i'm sorry that congress could not act as we wanted to two weeks before. we deftly would have had to shut down. for those who got laid off last week because congress would not act, that's unbecoming. that is not the action, we are better than that as a congress. >> democrats contest that point, that nancy pelosi push for testing and the speaker argues the democrats made the bill better securing $60 billion in small business assistance for low income communities and rural areas. >> the fact is, there are many small businesses that do not have the same kind of relationships with banks that make them on a first-come, first-served basis to be able to benefit. this has been a drastic change and as the leader said it will make a difference for the future as we deal with it. >> there will be some nos on the bill, alexandria ocasio-cortez

has expressed reservations about the bill. it will be establishing a select committee dealing with coronavirus and then they will vote on the coronavirus bill. we are thinking only about 300 plus members will be here today and the votes will look different. they will divide the house of representatives into nine blocks, about 50 plus members and have them file into the house chamber in those blocks. each member has 30 seconds to vote and they asked them to leave and retreat to their offices. this will be any gnomic very different than any other set of roll call votes ever taken in the house of representatives. it will probably take a couple of hours to complete the roll call votes compared to about 25 minutes and in between they will close down for a recess, scrub the chambers and then do it all again. >> sandra: quite a visual but what has to be done at the time. chad pergram, thank you. >> ed: after the president called on harvard to return millions he received for that emergency relief fund to cover

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>> ed: a quick check on the markets now, another 4.4 million in the house getting ready to vote on stimulus majors. that's up for the second straight day, energy stocks are in the leader in part because oil prices have started to climb again. also some of those jobless numbers seem to be baked in. people in the markets expecting that it's going to be bad but there is no way to cloud over the fact that these numbers are just brutal in terms of the number of folks who file for unemployment in just the last few weeks.

>> i would certainly -- >> sandra: mitch mcconnell facing backlash now after he saying he favors states in bankruptcy. do you share in supporting bankruptcy options for states as mcconnell just detailed? >> first it's good to be with you. we spent trillions of dollars to try to keep our economy held together. and that's the cares act, that

$150 billion is just starting to get to the state. that's based on population, and the state and local government need not have access to that. some governors were having financial problems before this crisis keep in mind, and, that's $150 billion, which is most of the states of getting money in their bank account this week. before we start talking about a bailout, for a problem they prior 19, this money that they spent and they are just getting now was spent properly. >> that is a case that mitch mcconnell made in a series of interviews and that governor andrew cuomo from new york is the hardest hit in the united states with this pandemic. he responded to it.

>> how does that help the national economy, and that was a really offensive statement. >> you say that states should lean on the bank up the option overly nonfederal funds. >> hundreds of billions of dollars are going to states, not just 150 billion that was in the cares act specifically for state and local governments but there is also unemployment money. there's money of course where we passed more money for local businesses, and by the way, that money is 75% of the money we are going to pass today, and the ppp, paycheck protection program has to be spent on workers. that also saves the states mon money. new york had real serious print financial problems prior to covid-19.

they are getting flushed with cash from the federal government for this crisis. businesses and workers are getting money as well. we know there is a shortfall is the getting our back open. we need to make sure that we are not trading off between safety of our health and safety of our economy. you can and must do both but you have to start getting back to work in a safe way over the next few weeks. we are learning more from our medical experts about how to do that which include social distancing. you are hearing from all the small businesses that say even with money from the federal government they can't hang on for another month or two. >> sandra: so we will see what the rest of your colleagues on the other side of the aisle stay on that. you just heard chad pergram lay that out for our audience. obviously the first one on the oversight committee, they will be a vote on that. then, the $484 billion major, phase three and a half, 3.5.

where do you stand on it and do you support it? >> i support the measure to replenish the paycheck protection program, it's been the lifeline to so many small businesses. so many use that money to keep their business afloat. we need to make sure that this passes every day and passes overwhelmingly. and we are basically breaking the whole roll into eight different blocks of members. we have eight oversight committees and this is an attempt by speaker pelosi to set up another impeachment type committee to harass the president and that is something they should be focused on, helping families right now. >> sandra: the way she

detailed that committee, the committee will rule out waste, fraud and abuse and ensure that taxpayer money goes to workers paychecks. so are you not supporting that major? >> sandra, there are already eight committees plus an inspector general that we had it the cares act. and the answer should not create yet another committee and spilling millions more taxpayer dollars just to harass the president. if you watch, the debate on this last night was very clear. the people that are on there to help go after the president and help remote joe biden's campaign, this isn't a time for those kind of politics. just to harass the president. >> sandra: louisiana has been hard hit with lots of folks with

underlying conditions which has exacerbated the coronavirus pandemic. in your state, 25,000 cases confirmed and nearly 500 deaths. your stay at home order expires may 1st, are you in favor of reopening the state while this is such a big problem still? >> sandra, you know i have spoken to our governor, john bell edwards and i've talked to the heads of all the big hospitals in new orleans and everyone is doing what they can to bring the curve down. you are seeing it come down, and it's reducing some of those indicators. clearly those are deaths and those are tragic and we pray for families that have died from this book families have also died from things like suicide, so the governor said we will start in the next few days to go back to elective surgeries. there have been people that have not been able to get their mammogram or colonoscopy that you can detect early. cancer and other things like that that they are not doing right now.

you need to let people get back to having those kind of procedures. the governor's opening that up in a phased approach, and as the president laid out you can do these things safely. we need to get out there and save lives while we are also battling covid-19. >> sandra: but considering the rescue just laid out is it worth opening up other areas of thick economy like you've heard from other states, salons and barbershops and then to another phase where you would open up restaurants which are so key to new orleans in your estate. >> you do it in a smarter way, and having conversations about how to do it smarter. people are starting to get antsy about wanting to get out of the house but they will don't want to do it in a way that puts their family at risk.

people have -- people are taking temperatures whether that's a shopping mall, where they might take your temperature. they would say look. if you have a fever of over 100 degrees, stay at home because you are higher at risk. if you have diabetes and other things, just know that. but we have to start opening things back up again because there are people that are having other consequences. there are diseases that are not being taken care of because they are not able to get out and take care of those things. >> sandra: that will be such a delicate balance, so many big decisions to be made. we appreciate your time congressman, thank you. >> ed: fox news alert, severe weather and tornadoes ripping across the southern plains right now. an update on the damage as those storms move east.

and harvard has an endowment of tens of millions of dollars but somehow wound up with $9 million in stimulus funds. why they decided to give the money back, coming up. >> president trump: harvard has one of the largest endowments anywhere in the country, it may world i guess. they are going to pay back that money.

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some minor and some severe. >> sandra: deadly tornadoes tearing through the southern plains, a twister killing at least two people in southern oklahoma as another one destroyed a texas subdivision. casey stegall live with that. >> an national weather service in fact is saying there were at least 26 different tornadoes that tore across the southern plains in the southeast. late yesterday afternoon and then into the evening hours in some places and it left a wake of devastation in its path and at least six fatalities. one happening in the small community of medill oklahoma. emergency officials say a man was leaving work at a trailer factory and his body was recovered about a quarter-mile away. look at this chilling amateur video showing another funnel cloud in nearby waupaca, oklahoma. homes and businesses were ripped

to shreds and storms were forecasted for the region but many still say it took them by surprise. >> it blew part of my back porch down and we ran into the bathroom with my chihuahua hou house. s. then it got very calm, and then all of a sudden, it switched. >> look at this rare sight. a rainbow appearing in the sky as another funnel cloud was tracking away from lake durand oklahoma. let's take you to the south where more aerial footage shows you the damage left behind in polk county texas after a powerful tornado struck they are about 75 miles northwest of houston and emergency management officials say at least three people were killed in that community. trees have been uprooted and cars to toss tossed around after

the powerful storm came through. first responders had to go door to door conducting rescue operations. finally, damage also reported in parts of northern louisiana as well and we are getting reports that a woman was killed on a bridge in her vehicle about 15 miles to the south of alexandria, louisiana. again, the system continues marching east causing problems for mississippi and alabama this morning and throughout the day. >> sandra: what more can you tell us about that, as we know the worst may not be over because there is another round of storms that are expected. what states are expected in those paths? >> we are talking about mississippi and alabama, and essentially what happens is you have a dry line and a bit of a cold front that has been marching east and it's hitting some very hot air.

so all of the systems that did this damage throughout the oklahoma and texas yesterday has continued pushing to the east. the south is impacted, so anyone living there needs to make sure they are weather aware, and they have batteries fully charged and things of that nature. >> sandra: we will be watching that. >> ed: a surge in demand for food stamps. what the agriculture department is saying about the sudden spike, coming up. an save you $2,000 a year. that's me. there's no income verification, no appraisal, and no out of pocket costs. that's me.

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as fast as we would like. the hospitalization rate he just reported on is coming down at a call that good news, so questioning whether or not we have seen the apex in new york state. he will continue that briefing and we will monitor it for you and bring any news to you as we get it, the new york governor. thank you. >> president trump: that called for harvard, that's harvard university which has a $40 billion endowment fund, to return the money that it was allocated under the cares act. and i'm pleased to announce that harvard has announced today that they will not accept the funds, nor stanford university or many of the others involved. >> ed: many are, at the prestigious university is drawing after getting nearly

$9 million. harvard now says it will not accept the aida. margaret spellings as a former president at the university of north carolina. thanks for coming on. >> ed: you heard this from other bases, and the world is getting free money from congre congress. they've shown some tone deafness on their part particularly when they have access to resources. but look, they employ sanitation workers, janitors, health care workers, nurses and the like. it's generated through the formula as i understand it but ultimately they did the right thing and are not going to accept the funds.

>> ed: into your point they do have those workers and needy students but there was also a lot of outrage because based on various reports in cambridge they had furloughed or laid off cafeteria workers who are those basic workers you are talking about who want to earn a living for their family. they did not apply for the support nor has it requested, receive or access to these fun funds. they may undermine participation in the relief effort as a result of this in the guidance being issued to come harvard has decided not to receive or accept the funds allocated to it. it makes you wonder how, if they say, we did not need this money, how they even got it?

>> that's various other factors, and that's their right. every higher institute in the country is getting some relief. >> ed: axios had a story to broadness out and they are talking about how the whole model for colleges and university, and i've got a son who is a freshman at the university of miami. then parents like me are going to say, why am i spending this. >> this will be meant for radical transformation for higher ed come up much of it to the good and some less so. many people will say why am i paying all this money when i'm going to my community college for a third of the price, and

then shot my brand, higher institution or whatever in the aftermath of that. i also think it will cause higher education leaders to really think about, what are we off offering? they are not financially sustainable. we will connect better with our workforce, making it affordable. in the last 30 seconds we have, young people have got to be scared, some have internships that have been canceled. a lot of people have been working from home and they are entering the workplace at a very difficult time. >> yes. and i would say to young people, no one can take learning away from you. some states are thinking of, how

can we deploy our postgraduate students for graduate students to help with tracing and tracking. how do we take those public spirited individuals and put them in work in other ways. it will be an incredible experience, a learning experience and life experience. so hang in there. >> ed: we appreciate your insight. thank you. >> thanks ada, all the best. >> sandra: cut the coronavirus pandemic be a turning point for deliveries by drone? we will be hearing from the ceo of a company teaming up with ups on a test run.

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>> sandra: are virginia company teaming up with ups to test the possibility of using drones to deliver medical supplies and other necessities oto workers on the front line of this pandemic. good morning and thanks so much for being here. tell us about drone up, and this experiment over a several day. in virginia to deliver these packages. it was inefficient, did it work? >> the purpose of this exercise

was driven by questions that were coming from federal, state and local officials and the general public reaching out to us. and can we or how should we use drones more efficiently. our response to it is, we simply don't know. everyone could speculate on how efficient it would be or effective or safe it would be. the purpose of this exercise, and we teamed up with the virginia center for technology, and her focus was on testing and learning what we could do today and then gathering data to learn what we could do better and more effectively tomorrow. >> sandra: wonderful. we are looking at some really neat video that your group took delivering these packages. the results we were told were 8e

successfully delivered within a 10-foot diameter of the delivery destination. what happened to the one package that was not successfully delivered? >> that package never even made an attempt to be delivered. we had some very specific safety precautions, and we understood the value of doing this and it doing it right, and we wanted to make sure we protected the participants and everyone that was involved. the pilot actually made a call to aboard one of the deliveries because he felt that he was too close to another aircraft, and it turns out he wasn't but i will tell you of the 80 attempts that were made, 80 were delivered on target. most of those were delivered on the 18-inch ex that you see in the center of these circles. >> sandra: fantastic. the innovation that is coming out of this, the virginia

governor said i'm encouraged is the so many private sectors sticking up for each other, drones can be an important way to deliver medical supplies as people stay home and adhere to our social distancing guidelines. that was ralph northam, the virginia governor. so what do you think finally is the chance we will see this mainstream in the future? >> i think it needs to be adopted at an appropriate pace. part of integrating drone technologies into our everyday lives is to make sure we have an appropriate policy in place and appropriate concepts of operations and communications, and operators that are trained to do it and do it right. one of the things that came out of this process -- >> sandra: it's a delicate process. >> i think what we've learned out of this exercise is that it can be done and i'm hoping we have an opportunity to do a little bit more this in the near

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>> ed: a live look now, house speaker nancy pelosi on the house floor talking about that latest bill, $480 billion. comes on a day when we found out this unemployment picture is still simply staggering. >> sandra: absolutely. much needed relief for those

small businesses around the country who continue to struggle as the shutdown continues. that debate happening on the floor, though it's happening later on. nice to be with you all morning this morning, ed. we'll see you tomorrow morning. another day. "outnumbered" starts right now. >> harris: georgia governor brian kemp is moving forward with plans to reopen some businesses tomorrow. not everybody is on board with that. atlanta's mayor, for a fact, is pushing back hard. and this, from the president who said last evening he disagree strongly with the decision, calling it "too soon," but think he would leave it up to the governor. in other states, a growing list of local leaders pushing to reopen their economies, like it las vegas mayor carolyn goodman saying that they should be the ones to decide how to handle the crisis and maintain social distancing. >> i would love everything open. i think we've had viruses for years that have been here. right now we