>> states are starting to open up, very exciting to see, i inspiring, we are coming out of it and coming out of it well. rob: happening at 4:00 am ramping up to reopen morgan is taking steps to return to normal in the coming days. shannon: the white house predicting the worst could be behind us come memorial day. rob: could that have something to do with the weather? new revelations on how covid-19 interacts with the sun and he springing new hope. >> reporter: the numbers out of new york reveal infections could be exponentially higher than we thought. we are live with the new data.

>> a young boy makes an unlikely friend in tom hanks. >> reporter: heartwarming gift the superstar shared to put the boy's bullying to bed. "fox and friends first" starts right now. jillian: good morning, you are watching "fox and friends first". rob: thanks for getting up with us today. several states are reopening their economies, get americans back to work, the white house claiming the pandemic could be behind us by memorial day. shannon: todd pyro joins us as donald trump raises efforts across the country. >> reporter: good morning, he is happy with governors across the country and working with them has been in his words

impressive, donald trump is showering state leaders with praise in his daily press briefing. >> states are opening up and it is exciting to see, very i inspiring, we are coming out of it and coming out of it well. >> a number of states announcing when they will reopen certain businesses, some as early as today. when the governor on the receiving end of the president's conferences georgia republican brian kemp, donald trump calling out kemp for opening so many georgia businesses saying he does not like them a at this early stage. despite that negativity the most positive tone comes from the white house, continued with mike pence saying we will have the pandemic behind us by memorial day and doctor debra birx pointing to a downward trend in cases. >> the task force believes if we continue these mitigation

efforts in the days ahead at state implement their policies including phased reopening that will preserve those gains, we believe by early summer we could be in a place as a nation. >> reporter: if you look at monday of from a, twee 7 day reporting we are starting to go down. >> reporter: the biggest news of the day with the announcement of some research showing higher temperatures and humidity as well as direct exposure to sunlight appear to kill coronavirus leading to the threat of further contagion could diminish this summer. >> the virus dies the quickest in the presence of direct sunlight under these conditions. look at the aerosol and put it in a room, 25% humidity, low humidity, in last half an hour. outside it cuts down to a minute and a half. >> reporter: another reason to look forward to summer. 81,000 people have recovered so far.

rob: thank you. >> protests are expected over stay-at-home orders in wisconsin is demonstrated across the country demand their states reopen. >> the united states of america, we don't do this, we don't shutdown. we work. >> reporter: protesters in california, kansas and michigan calling on the governors to ease restrictions on businesses so they can get back to work, demonstrators rallying outside michigan governor gretchen witmer's home as she considers extending the stay-at-home order until may 15th. rob: in a fox news exclusive the head a few synapse police union slamming a judge who is threatening citizens will pay if they are caught in public without a facemask. >> 26 million americans file for unemployment in the last five weeks, to impose $1,000 fine for

anyone who goes out in public and doesn't have a mask on, completely ridiculous and the height of ignorance. rob: the measure is called draconian. anyone older than 10 years old will be required to wear face masks for the next 30 days. exceptions include exercising, eating or drinking, of course. jillian: nearly 3 million new yorkers likely infected with the coronavirus. rob: a big number much bigger than we thought. new data from a statewide antibody study revealing covid-19 could be vastly more widespread than we thought. jillian: ashley breakdown shocking new numbers. >> reporter: according to researchers this virus was spreading sooner than originally thought because it was flying under the radar. they say infecting people in new york in early to mid january and wouldn't have noticed because people weren't showing symptoms. >> the trajectory of the

epidemic from china, when those cases were in the united states and how they started, most of those were undetected, february, flu season, many people did not have severe symptoms, had the disease spread under the radar. jillian: andrew cuomo said preliminary antibody tests show around 2.7 million residents could have had covid-19. 3000 samples were collected from 19 county suggesting the infection rate could be as high as 21% as seen in new york city. >> these are people who were out and about shopping, they were not people in their home, not people who were isolated, not people who were quarantined who you could argue had a lower rate of infection.

>> also interesting, these findings show death rates might be lower than thought but antibody tests will be the key to opening the economy. when you start reopening you can watch the infection rate and where it is going up. new york state has 263,000 cases, something to keep an eye on if it is confirmed in new york city, the city applying for the majority of their deaths, according to the network sciences to to go one model shows the number of possible coronavirus cases by march 1st could have been 28,000. those numbers are unbelievable. rob: the doctor claiming to be ousted for raising concerns about hydroxy chloroquine is filing a whistleblower complaint. he oversaw the agency in charge of coronavirus research, was moved to a lesser role after he disagreed with the trump

administration's push that drug to expand the availability of antimalarial drug hydroxy chloroquine. democrats are calling for a probe into his demotion. jillian: donald trump urging a michigan lawmaker to credit hydroxy chloroquine for saving her life to join the republican party. congresswoman karen with her facing possible century, the president weighing in on the decision overnight saying she should join the republican party. she took the antimalarial drug, was diagnosed with covid-19, discussing that censure on the ingraham angle. >> i will be censured for thinking the president of the united states for taking care of me. >> reporter: he has a history of bucking the party and criticizing the state's democratic governor. rob: joe biden speculating donald trump will try to push back the election during a

virtual fundraiser, saying mark my words, i think he is going to try to kick back the election somehow, come up with some rationale why it can't be held. the president has not said any change will be made, he did blast joe biden for hiding in his basement and refusing to debate him. it is not clear for september and october debates will be affected by coronavirus. jillian: the first pick in the nfl virtual draft was no surprise. >> we want to get back to work. jillian: joe borough going to play for the bangles, he got the news sitting on his couch. a bit of a homecoming. is from ohio. former alabama quarterback ended up going to the dolphins. miami hoping he will be there franchise -- henry rauch celebrated in his robe after

being chosen to play for the raiders. hosting f from his basement and roger goodell still hearing it from the fans. >> come on, guys, you can do better than that. you can do better than that. >> the second round of the nfl draft is tonight. a lot of comments online, a lot of people think it went pretty well. >> it is very unusual. you read the comments. rob: 2.7 million new yorkers could have been infected by the coronavirus, one in five in new york city and that is way higher than the number of confirmed cases. >> doctor dena grayson says the study may not be what it seems, she joins us to break it down.

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if you are in good health, please donate. we need heroes now. visit red cross blood dot org to schedule an appointment. shannon: good morning and welcome back. jaw-dropping results from an antibody study in new york revealing at least 2.7 million new yorkers, one in 5 could have been infected by the coronavirus. rob: the testing shows a low death rate, less then one%. what do these results mean in the larger picture. >> and what do you make of these

results? >> we have to be cautious how the samples were collected. this is not a random sampling of the population. you are skewing things for people outside their homes, potentially more likely to get the virus, the 20% that were infected comes from people in new york city whereas other parts of upstate new york, the number was closer to 4% so no one would be surprised based on the news we are hearing from new york city long island in the outer boroughs that we see a very high infection rate compared to the rest of the country but that is only one small place. rob: looking at these results they test people all over the state, new york is a state like any other with populated areas and quite areas, one in 5, 20% in new york, 21.2 had the virus antibodies and some.

and it is been even less. if you are somebody who lives in a smaller city like buffalo or des moines what do you make of these numbers? your whole life is been turned upside down to avoid this virus, what should they be thinking right now? >> the lockdowns and physical distancing works. in a more densely populated area it is more difficult to do your grocery shopping without interacting with people. if you live in a smaller town or more rural area it is easier to stay separated from people and that is the only defense against this virus event until we have substantially more testing and retesting. if we have that we might be able to open up a bit. >> this idea that opening up might be appropriate for some of these places you are seeing in

smaller states? >> we have to have a significant reduction in the number of infections number one and you have to have a lot of testing. if you wait until the first person gets sick, by that time many thousands of people are likely already infected. you have a huge outbreak making it difficult to contain by testing and contact tracing. what you need to do up front is have the testing testing testing and very aggressive contact tracing first. jillian: there is new department of homeland security research revealing sunlight and heat can potentially kill off covid-19. let's get your opinion on the back end. i don't know if we have that soundbite. we are coming into warmer months and this is something that had been a subject of discussion for

the last couple weeks. >> i live in the state of florida. we hear news like this and think does that really protect me? it confirms what we already know. these respiratory viruses, coronavirus is a respiratory virus tend to be seasonal meaning you have more infections in the winter and cooling off in the summer but that doesn't mean there is no transmission and especially with a virus this contagious and where we don't have herd immunity that means anybody who has not had the virus is not immune, if they don't come in contact they have a good chance of catching the virus so it suggests you might have a slight decrease, we might get hands around us better in the summer but it is not that your all and i advised people don't go baking under a uv lamp because we know that can give you cancer. rob: the virus is still going in

florida. it is in the 90s in the virus still exists. we appreciate it. masked lawmakers pass a $500 billion leak, live in washington where both sides of the aisle are working on round 4 or 5 to help american families and small businesses. that is coming up. jillian: you heard about dog sniffing out cancer, what about coronavirus? the man leading the researcher joins us live. (music)

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shannon: welcome back. california's governor being sued for his plan to hand millions of dollars to illegal immigrants over the pandemic, this would give every immigrant $500 or up to $1,000 per household. the center for american liberty claiming it is an improper gift of taxpayer money, the governor's office saying they will challenge the case in court. a connecticut police department is no longer testing pandemic drones to fight the covid-19 outbreak. according to the police department the drones can affect a person's temperature, heart rate and a social distancing from 200 yards away. several residents pushed back calling system and invasion of privacy. after considering the complaint that the permit decided not to use the drone. rob: these dogs could be the

next line of defense against covid-19. they are being trained to sniff out coronavirus in public spaces like airports to sniff out the virus. joining me to break down his research is head of the department of disease control at the london school of hygiene and tropical medicine james logan. thanks for coming on this morning. we are talking about the ability of a dog to smell covid-19. sounds like you are trying to figure out if this virus has a detectable odor. >> what we know is they tend to have a smell associated with them. we've done work on malaria and demonstrated with a malaria infection your body changes and makes you more attractive to mosquitoes but can be detected by dogs.

we trained dogs to detect people with malaria with very high accuracy. the first question we have to answer is does covid-19 have a distinctive smell? if it does that i am confident the dogs will detect it. rob: it is unbelievable this could even happen but if we look at the goal of training these dogs we can identify covid-19 in patients and alert the handlers of a positive case and you place the dogs in at risk public spaces, places like airports, what exactly happens that a dog can even smell when you have a virus? that doesn't even make sense, something changes about you chemically that a dog can detect a virus in you? >> that is right. the virus itself or any sort of pathogen can change the way we smell. a dog as an extremely good sense

of smell. when we know that and covid-19 has a distinctive smell we have to train the dogs and we make them learn the smell, give them a reward when they get the smell right and they learned. it is a quick process. within four to six weeks we can train dogs but we are at an early stage, fundraising for the study, if you want to support us please do but in the 2 or 3 months ahead we will be in a position where we have six dogs ready to go, to deploy potentially in airports but to scale this to other countries as well we are very hopeful. rob: if you could detect 750 cases in an hour and if your

buddies oxford don't come up with the vaccine first which they are optimistic about right now, we were reading a story this week this could be a game changer, thanks for your time, appreciate it. jillian: it is 26 after the hour, day 5 of our fact versus fiction series on coronavirus. rob: some states are set to start reopening today. will that cause another major outbreak? our panel of experts talks about it. they have businesses to grow customers to care for lives to get home to they use stamps.com print discounted postage for any letter any package any time right from your computer all the amazing services of the post office only cheaper get our special tv offer a 4-week trial plus postage and a digital scale go to stamps.com/tv and never go to the post office again!

rob: a fox news alert, the house passing $500 billion coronavirus bill. jillian: but the house the looking different, lawmakers seen wearing face masks while practicing socially distant voting. rob: griff jenkins breaks it down for us. >> reporter: like nothing we've

seen on our floor with masked lawmakers social distancing, voting in small clusters but they have another funding will, $484 billion in testing, four republicans voted against it. alexandria ocasio cortez was the lone democrat named. now awaiting the president's signature. >> congress asked answering the call, to get $320 billion in relief for the american worker. this bill will help small businesses keep millions of workers on the payroll. rob: a select committee will oversee the government's coronavirus, 7 democrats and 5 republicans, the power to subpoena. that goes straight down party lines. >> is it too much to ask that we have a special committee to make sure the money we are appropriating in historic amount is spent correctly.

>> eight committees doing the work making sure the heart attacks dollars of the american people have a proper oversight but the ninth is political. committees looking out for taxpayers, the ninth looking out for joe biden, to go after donald trump. >> reporter: lawmakers are talking about another massive aid package. >> it is solely inadequate. this is an ongoing emergency of the type we haven't seen and we have to be accurate. >> reporter: it seems there is less political will for more packages is mitch mcconnell is wary of the mounting debt. so far it seems to say we spend $2.7 trillion on the coronavirus trend. jillian: day 5 of the

coronavirus series and be looking at new realities in the country. we brought in a panel of experts to weigh in on what is predicted to change about american life. chris burns and sports reporter and analyst jason page. thanks for being here. i will start with you. fact versus fiction. reopening america increases the likelihood of a major outbreak. what do you say? >> that is uncertain. a lot of variables go into what the answer to the question is, we need to use social distancing, but reopening the country involves doing other things as well, to test more widely than we have been able to, asymptomatic people, and contract people, there were a lot of things in variables the going to reopening the country,

will beat the risk of the virus and its impact on our communities. i would also say the virus activity in and of itself whether cases are going up or down to play a role as well. rob: we will be requiring to pay taxes on our stimulus checks. >> that is fiction. there are no taxes owed on the stimulus checks. we have to pay taxes, the unemployment benefits rolling out but now taxes on stimulus checks. >> a lot of people wondering about sports, fact versus fiction, canceled for the remainder of 2020. >> in my mind it could very well be fact. as it stands we beat the playoffs when it comes to hockey and the nba. major league baseball, will they played enough stadiums? i am highly doubtful.

even in that scenario it is up to the states where these teams play, up to the league, the states, a lot of those states are saying we may not have a football season. jillian: let's go back to you. >> that is unknown, based on two things. it is government policy. the other is consumer behavior. and i live in georgia and tattoo parlors may be opening. jillian: america wants to know. 10 or more people, people band

forever, that is the caveat. >> my opinion is that is fiction. in medicine, we usually don't say always or never. it is my opinion we will not be banned forever. how long it takes back to get to social gathering, contact tracing, mitigation of the virus and virus activity, a lot of variables involved. jillian: packed stadiums could be a thing of the past after the pandemic. >> after the pandemic, i think it is fiction. there will be a ptsd of sorts. when you get out of this, fans being leery about going back to the ballpark but after the

pandemic is done we will get to a point where fans return to the stadium. jillian: i have a minute left. they will have to wear face masks in public. >> that is uncertain. facemasks protect us against other people. how long we wear them depends on variables i mentioned before so we have to wait and see. jillian: the economy will rebound in a few months. >> i hate to say it but fiction to say a few months. the economy is so tightly wound it will take a while to unwind even after the virus has been figured out. jillian: the business model in sports will have to change. >> fact and it is very simple, tv rights deals will become more valuable to the network and the organization because more people will be watching the games on tv.

jillian: a lot of great information, thank you for joining us, stay safe, everyone. rob: several tornadoes, record flooding battering the south. >> where is that area, you need to be in a safe place now. rob: at least three tornadoes touching down in georgia windss uprooting trees, damaging homes and buildings, a tree right into a house, gusts so powerfully toppled the tractor-trailer on the side of the highway and in south carolina record-breaking rainfall absolutely inundating the streets with flooding. look at that water in charleston, getting 6 inches of rain in just a couple hours. that is a ton of water. janice dean joins us as severe weather remains a threat, the big system moving through the country.

>> janice: yes and another round behind that for the southern and central planes again today. let's look at it. in the last 24-48 hours over 2 dozen reports of tornadoes, a tornado watch in effect until 11 am local time for parts of florida. a couple severe thunderstorm warnings within that tornado watch, very storm reports in the last 40 an hour stretching from texas through oklahoma, reports of tornadoes in georgia and florida so the system will exit, we will have a frontal boundary that will remain in place over florida so the threat for severe storms exist through the day today over central and north florida but a new system moves out of the west and the threat for strong storms including hail, damaging winds, flash flooding and tornadoes for the south including texas towards arkansas back through oklahoma and louisiana, watch out for that. there is the potential for

strong storms. we will see rain across the northeast as well as the plane states, the rockies will see a little rain and higher elevation. the other big story is the heat. it is happening across the southwest. look at phoenix, your first 100 degree temperatures of the year for saturday, sunday and monday. a heat wave in place not only for the southwest but parts of southern california. heat advisories where we are experiencing 90 degree temperatures across los angeles over the next couple days. lots to cover in the extreme weather center bunker. make sure everyone knows the latest threats, back to you. rob: 94 in la. that sounds fantastic. thank you so much. jillian: if you recovered from

covid-19 should you be issued an immunity passport? social media sounding off on a controversial ideas get people back to work. rob: in a warning to anyone working from home don't get too convertible, your boss might be watching you. kurt the cyber guy expense why the term in the privacy of your own home no longer applies.

rob: even if you are working from home like a lot of people are your boss might still be watching you, leading companies to report a surge of interest in employee tracking software since the beginning of this pandemic. jillian: how can you check of your boss is tracking you? kurt the cyber guy joins us with

answers. >> good morning, good to see you both. jillian: how do we know? >> this is crazy. more than half of fortune 500 companies use this type of software. it is marketed as productivity software but the bottom line is as more and more, millions of americans are now marking from home, the boss is reaching into that realm the company issued laptops, tablets, phones, they have every right, in many cases, by what you may have signed as an agreement or with regard to an employee handbook, a complete right to record the screen you are on at intervals, monitor your email messages. one thing after another. even to find out if you're paying attention during one of the video calls. pretty remarkable. really remarkable. there are some things you can do which is also very powerful for

you. if you have your own laptop that is one thing. if you have a company issued laptop i would ask your employer am i being tracked? number 2 if it is your own device, the company had an opportunity to put email on it before we all started working from home i would use an anti-malware, anti-spyware software. there is one called malwarebytes but i have at cyber guy.com. review the installed programs that are going on on your computer. if you don't see something that looks right, has a term like vmc which stands for virtual network computers i would be suspicious of what that might be, see if it is one of those things. inject a taskbar up above on your screen. if you see something a that

doesn't look like something you installed, hover over that and google and see what that would be. at the end of the day bosses are overreaching a bit and that may backfire on them. by saying why are you doing this to me might be a better route rather than trying to delete the software. rob: is a justified? you got to think people when they work from home are not working as hard. do you know anything to back that up? >> that is the deal. small to midsized businesses when they have people that should have shown up online by 10:00 am and are not reading emails that is what they are looking for and as a business owner you may have some concerns about that but at the same time do you want to measure people by the time they are spending on their computer or do you want to measure them by the results they are achieving for you? they are within their rights to

do it but not necessarily something that will drive in good talented employees when the economy is better. jillian: an interesting discussion. good to see you, have a good day. rob: another entity first with cash giving back millions meant for main street, shake shack restaurant, harvard buckles under pressure from the president, now a third big-money player returning, a lot of stimulus funds after getting grilled. >> my name is corona. i heard on the news you and your wife caught the coronavirus. jillian: tom hanks and rita wilson telling a bully little boy you've got a friend in me. a thoughtful gift, we will tell you about it. save hundreds on your wireless bill

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rob: ruth chris steakhouse, good place, returning the massive small business loan they received as part of the paycheck protection program. jillian: carley shimkus has reactions of a high-stakes decision. >> never has online reaction and so important, social media backlash that led to return this money. ruth hospitality group which owns 100 statehouses was able to obtain two, $10 million loans, one for each subsidiary. there are fewer than 500 employees in each of those locations, the company says they didn't do anything wrong. however, the ppp was not intended for multimillion

dollar, publicly traded companies, hence the backlash. ruth chris now saying it is our hope these funds are loans to another company to protect their employees. the social media as a thing or 2 to say about this. joni tweeting good, they shouldn't have applied and accepted in the first place. this is why the money ran out for small business. donna saying still won't eat there. if your company that has to be shamed publicly into giving money back that you knew full well you didn't need i am done. significant backlash there. rob: a lot of taxes, employs a lot of people. it is -- they are being punished for being successful. let's talk about immunity passport. carley: we talk about opening of

the economy, this idea floating around about immunity task force, you get an antibody test that shows you had the virus, you can go back to work but there are issues, lack of testing, doctors are not sure how long people are immune to the disease and also a concern that employers deny work to those who are not immune. a great conversation taking place, why aren't we going from steam at getting ready to do this? good luck trying to implement and enforce this? immunity or know there's the return to normal for anyone. we can all agree with that. jillian: tom hanks and rita wilson giving a gift to a boy who is bullied by his name. >> my name is corona. i heard on the news you and your

wife caught the coronavirus. carley: tom hanks has a new friend, nate-year-old boy in australia who wrote him, he has been bullied because of his name, corona. hanks sent him a corona test writer saying your letter made my wife and i feel so wonderful, you're the only person i have ever known to have the name corona, like the rain around the sun, a crown. i thought this typewriter would suit you, use it to write me back. you've got a friend in me, taking a line from the movie toy story. tom hanks, big fan of typewriters. that is where that idea came to be. rob: i could listen to that can talk all day, cute kid with the australian accent. carley: he has a friend dennis.

jillian: thank you. in the next hour of "fox and friends first," tension in the persian gulf on the rise summit saber rattling by terror on. our next guest believes the regime is looking to pick a fight. james carafanoh has more. rob: sweet voice raising relief funds with a rendition that would make the late bill withers smiled. ♪ carry on not make it won't be long ♪

>> states are opening up and it is exciting to see, very are inspiring, they are coming out of it well. jillian: it is friday april 20 fourth. ramping up to reopen come more governors taking steps to return to normal in the upcoming days. rob: the white house saying the worst could be behind us by memorial day. jillian: could that have something to do with the weather? new revelations on how covid-19 reacts to sun and heat bringing new hope. rob: stunning numbers out of new york reveal infections exponentially higher than we thought. we are live with the data. >> this is different for us in different for you. we will get through this toge