unabated on it as well. leland vittert and we've got gillian turner coming up to take you through the latest on anyone and anywhere here. i'll see you on monday. >> there are now more than 900,000 coronavirus cases confirmed across the united states. 36,000 of those cases added since just yesterday morning, that's friday. welcome to america's news headquarters from washington d.c. it's great to be with everybody at home and leland, great to be with you. i'm joining you from a mobile studio today so we're giving this a whirl. i'm gillian turner. leland: eventually we'll be back on the set together again. gillian: one day. leland: as you point out the number continues to grow. georgia's governor brian kemp is

facing a lot of backlash including from the president himself for reopening parts of his state. steve harrigan in atlanta one of the cities with open businesses outside of the c.d.c. steve. >> this has been a controversial decision, people on both sides. bowling alleys, barber shops, nonessential businesses opening up, we'll see more on monday with movie theaters and restaurants and the governor saying a couple of factors motivate that decision. for one he said there was decline in confirmed cases of the virus here in georgia and says that the economy is getting crushed. one-fifth of georgians and they're glad to have a chance to earn a living. wooer a he going out to grocery stores, pharmacies, gas stations, why shouldn't our business be allowed to try and adapt and survive. >> the criticism has been

intense, even right here in atlanta with the c.d.c. criticizing the move. the mayor of atlanta, also, and as you mentioned, president trump saying georgia is just going too fast. georgia has more than 22,000 cases of the virus. more than 900 deaths. they've tested less than 1% of the population, and they do not show a decline over two weeks, a steady decline in the rate of the virus infection. a number of other states will soon follow georgia's lead though. those stay-at-home dates, most of them will expire on april 30th, so a number of states will begin to slowly open back up again, alabama, florida, texas, tennessee among them, leland, back to you. leland: we'll get what's happening with florida and the beaches there later in the show. gillian: president trump is touting ramped up testing in a tweet. he says we have now tested mo are than five million people, that's more than any other country in the world and even more than all major countries

combined. mark meredith joins us now from 1600 pennsylvania avenue with more on what the white house is doing with testing moving forward. mark. >> good afternoon, gillian. as of right now there's no briefing on the president's schedule for today. but testing is something he's been tweeting about. there's still controversy about comments he made thursday when he suggested it's possible people may want to inject chemicals an a treatment for the virus. the president said later he was being sarcastic and not taken seriously. and there's fallout from that. we talked to the secretary and she said there's no policy of ending the white house briefings, but it's up to the president on a daily basis. >> that's entirely his decision, but i believe the president is at his best when speaking directly to the american people. he's had, i think 49 briefings since the end of february and pretty regular briefings and i think those have been very effective and useful.

>> briefings aside, the president remains focused on the health and economic fallout. he signed the paycheck protection program adding billions to it. and the lawmakers spent the past weeks negotiating what could and would not be included. and the 3 billion for paycheck protection. 60 billion nor disaster loans, then for hospitals and testing. testing we heard so much about this week. the administration says it continues its efforts to increasing testing capabilities, especially as states begin reopening their economies like steve harrigan was talking about. the vice-president says the number of cases is expected to rise even though it's believed the peak of the crisis has passed. >> as testing increases dramatically across the country, cases will increase as well. but people should not be discouraged by those numbers. we are looking at very positive

trends in hospitalization, in emergency room entrances. >> as gillian mentioned, the president tweeting this morning, 5 million tests have been conducted since the virus reached the united states. the governor says they need the test results to decide the best way to reopen their economies. gillian. gillian: the latest aid package just signed and ink barely dry, already a twitter looking at phase four, it seems attention on the hill is already headed in that direction, we'll check back with you next hour, thanks, mark. >> you bet. leland: a trillion dollars here, a trillion dollars there, and pretty soon we'll start talking about real money there. the aid package signed yesterday by the president was 400 billion dollars. california democratic congresswoman, member of the house financial services committee, katie porter joining us via skype.

bare with a few technical hiccups if they come along, congresswoman, we appreciate it. let me ask you the taboo question in washington. how much is too much money, the 3 trillion that we've spent is too much? >> we're trying to make sure every dollar we spend is spent effectively and that's as true during the pandemic as every day i go to work in washington. that he is one of the issues with the paycheck protection program is make sure we had structured the program in such a way that our smallest businesses, but every small business in this country, no matter what area of the country they're in or no matter who the owner is has an equal chance to keep their employees on payroll and keep our country going. leland: congresswoman, nobody wants the government to waste dollars than the next person, but the question is the real one. how long before people start asking and having some tough

discussions about how long we can afford to just keep the money spigot going? >> with every bill we consider, i face that tough question about is this bill, is this spending going to help families and help businesses in my community in orange county? and what i hear every day from those small business owners is that they're at risk of not just having to keep their employees off payroll, but actually permanently lose equipment, manufacturing equipment, whatever it is that's going to allow them to reopen as this virus recedes. leland: understandable, but is there a discussion about the next generation that's going to have to pay the interest. we haven't ever gotten back to paying the principal, but the interest on this. >> absolutely, we're trying to balance the harm to the economy, against the harm to the economy. and each choice has consequences-- >> i guess, that's the question

though, and hold on though. you're saying you're trying to balance, but i'm not hearing any discussion about balance, certainly from democrats and even from republicans. >> because you didn't let me finish my answer. so my answer is this, we're trying to balance because if we do not support these small businesses, if we do not have the paycheck protection program, everybody goes straight onto the unroll rolls and that's incredibly expensive and on to food assistance and people are hungry. it's not that people's needs disappear if we don't have this program, it's the question of are we better off supporting people by allowing them to stay tethered to their jobs, to allow businesses to continue to be ready to open, or do we want to have massive labor market disruption and people going on to social services programs, unemployment programs are overwhelmed and. leland: there's no question about that and tethering people to their jobs and having them have a reason to come back to work and businesses to come back

to work is an important one. one place your fellow members of congress thought about getting some money is china. this is what tom cotton and representative crenshaw have just written on foxnews.com. money alone cannot alleviate the ooh loss of a loved one, the hope is that the bill will give suffering americans modicum of relief, the chinese party that unleashed this plague on the world, untold debt and they want to change the sovereign immunities act to allow a recoup of some of this choice from china, something you'd support in a bipartisan way or not? >> we need to continue to push to understand what happened in china and to continue to think about this as the global phenomenon that it is. there's a lot of evidence that the cases that began to pop up and expand in the united states actually came from europe, they came from china. this is a global phenomenon and

we should think about it that way, and right now-- >> no, but are you-- hold on, hold on. reasonable people can agree it began in china and the chinese weren't truthful about it, right? or are you questioning that? >> we can definitely agree that it began in china and definitely agree that we should have had more transparency with what has happening in china which is why it's important-- >> why is it so hard to say we should hold them responsible. >> allow me to finish because we currently in the united states have the largest number of cases in the world and we are going to likely, given the trend that we're seeing, continue to have the largest number of cases in the world. leland: could that-- hold on, is it just, could that possibly be because the chinese didn't tell the truth about the number of cases and deaths that we have and we are telling the truth? >> we should absolutely be pushing for answers and doing that investigation and that's why funding for the world health organization, which is the

entity that does that. leland: and you trust, hold on, i'm fascinated here, you trust the who as an independent and legitimate service to do this investigation? >> the who is a-- is the entity that helps coordinate world health. hence its name. leland: clearly you view them as an independent arbiter. >> that's not a substitute for the united states using its sovereign power to demand answers from china which we should have been doing in late december, in november, in early january. instead, we were evacuating thousands and thousands and thousands of americans from china back to this country and having to deal with the infectious disease that that creates. the reality is we're in a global economy and the global economy is big reason for the economic engine that is the united states. do we need answers from china? absolutely, we should be

demanding them. leland: we appreciate it, i think the administration has, i'm not sure they're that happy with the answers they get. appreciate your time, congresswoman, thank you. treasury secretary steve mnuchin will talk to chris wallace on fox news on sunday. check your local listings for time and channel and howard kurtz look for the white house at 11 a.m. gillian. gillian: yet, another naval war ship is grappling with a coronavirus outbreak on board. lucas joins us. >> that's right, another war ship crippled by the coronavirus. at least 18 sailors aboard the guided missile destroyer u.s.s. kidd are now infected. >> they are preparing to return to port where they will undertake efforts to clean the ship, they will remove a portion

of the crew from the ship and work to get back to health and get back to sea. >> the war ship is streaming near central america, part of the theodore roosevelt strike group to bolster the counter drug mission. and president trump announced at the white house alongside top brass. and this is after they reenstate the captain, he was given a send-off when he left guam. in his letter crozer asked that they get some sailors off the ship. admiral modly berated them with a tirade and said the following about the captain. >> it is my opinion if he didn't think that information was going to get out into the public, in

this information age that we live in, then he was a, too naive or too stupid to be a commander of a ship like this. >> the navy says the entire aircraft carrier has been tested for the coronavirus and over 800 sailors on board tested positive, but nearly 90% of the crew is now off the carrier just as the captain requested in the letter and his fate should be decided early next week. gillian: thanks for that report. we'll check back in. leland: in a fox news alert this coming to us from michigan where a michigan state representative has been censured by her fellow democrats for thanking president trump for his backing of hydroxychloroquine shortly after she recovered from the coronavirus. matt finn following this from chicago as they took rare action, in the democratic party on saturday. hi, matt. >> hi. they passed a unanimous

resolution to censure the state representative. that means she loses any future support for elections and can no longer hold a position within that party moving forward. the democratic state representative landed herself in hot water with democrats for meeting with the president and thanking him for his pandemic response and she cited hydroxychloroquine for helping her recover from the coronavirus. something her doctor confirms. the representative tells fox news she's unapologetic for talking to the president and will not be silenced. she says that michigan's governor has not been pleasant to her since the meeting. and says that bodies are piling up in michigan and their water shut off. >> we have a president of the united states willing to work with us, and get those things done. that's who i'm going to work with and president donald trump wants to do that. it's common sense.

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>> wall street's capping off another whirlwind week with the major industries. the question is when the u.s. economy will fully reopen. we're joined now to break it down by capitalist pig founder and fox news contributor, jonathan hoenig, the author of a new textbook of americanism. jonathan, you said this week that the biggest risk to the market and the biggest risk, really to the economy is not so much as you see it, the virus

itself, but the government's response. tell us about that. >> yeah, with the $2 trillion response and you've got to give the american economy specifically credit because look, it was a down week, but the market has rallied, what, 15% in just the last two weeks. even admit never seen this for the oil. the ones doing the best are providing for their customers, like amazon, walmart. american business, if it's left free time and time again they're producing and moving the economy forward. biggest uncertainty for a professional, what's the governor's next move going to be, not just the quarantines, surprise, surprise, 20% unemployment, when you force businesses to close, but also, some of that stimulus you've alluded to, the paycheck protection program or potentially bailing out and ownership of american airline and gas companies. the big uncertainty now isn't

the virus, it's governor reaction to it. gillian: a lot of americans including public health officials would say that actually the biggest priority and the biggest worry and the biggest threat right now is still the virus. we're in the very middle of this public health crisis. do you see, you know, this is something president trump has talked about a lot, it's something the vice-president has talked a lot about, too, during his task force briefings, this kind of binary choice. some people see this as zero-sum game, every time we move forward with reopening things, public health suffers, every time we close things, businesses suffer. how do you see the two track? is there a point that's kind of obvious conversion coming up? >> no, i think it's a false dichotomy actually, gillian, if we can't have help without wealth and the only way for the economy and america's health is going to get back on track is loosening of some of these

draconian restrictions. the ppe equipment, the ventilator equipment, and wealth doesn't grow on trees, it's created by innovative companies like amazon and walmart. what we need is the same freedom and innovation that americans companies all provide when they're left free. what you're going to see the stimulus, so-called government spending and stimulus does nothing to improve the economy, it retards the growth. what you're seeing is parts in the country, a gradual loosening up and freeing up of the american innovator. >> and what do you think about states taking, for lack of a better word, aggressive move to reopen quickly. georgia, utah, tennessee. do you think they're taking, you know, a wise risk? you know, there's always going

to be risk now inherent in opening things up. moving forward. it's the new reality we're living in. do you think they're taking responsible risks? do you think what they're doing is smart? >> i think to be honest what's responsible is each individual, including each business, taking responsibility for him or herself. the fact of the matter is, people who are considered high risk, elderly, those with pre-existing conditions, they might need to be quarantined for an extended period of time. the fact of the matter is there are young americans who want to work and get back to business to provide the values that the mess of us actually need. so let businesses be creative and employ social distancing and everything they want to do to keep their employees safe and keep their customers well supplied. and that's my real fear. the american economy, what is that? the american economy is the freedom of every american and the longer that's kept under quarantine and under house arrest, the harder it's going to be to get this economy back on

track. >> now, congressional budget offices put out a new projection. they say that the emergency relief bills are ultimately going to push the federal deficit to 3.7 trillion boy the end of the year, federal debt will be held by the public, will amount to 101% of annual gdp. how damaging is that when you sta are the -- start looking at the medium and long-term? >> that's the problem, there is no such thing as a free lunch. when you're talking about the paycheck protection program. 300 billion, 500 billion, that has to come out of somewhere, out of the future production of all america. the biggest stimulus, 2 trillion, 3 trillion, there's talk of phase three or four, the longer the recovery is going to be and unforeseen consequences, the cash for clunkers program under president obama, what it was doing raising the cost in

the used car market for everyday americans to buy those cars. so, whether it be 2001 or 2008, those were the slowest recoveries in modern history and those were also the recoveries with the biggest stimulus, we don't need stimulus, we need freedom for americans to take care of their employees and get back on track. gillian: jonathan, we've got to leave it there. we appreciate your expertise. thank you. >> we're going to have more on the impact of the coronavirus outbreak here on the u.s. on american jobs with the labor security eugene scalia. that interview is coming up with us at 2 p.m. hope you'll stick around. leland: one of the things we'll ask him about. live pictures out of the miami, florida, one of the places holding a rally, asking their governments to reopen the economy. some of the beaches in florida are reopened. we'll tell you what these people want when we come back.

>> protesters in. florida are demanding the governor open essential and nonessential business businesses, while halfway across the country, in california, warning not it hit the beach as the weather warms up. and following all of these protests from the l.a. bureau, christina. >> well, gillian, more protests are underway after stay-at-home orders avrillies erupted across the country and meantime, here in california, some people are disregarding social distancing altogether at the beach. many beaches across the country are closed as health officials pushed social distancing, including the beaches in los angeles county and san diego county, but the spending time heat here in southern california is soaring and so are the crowds of people, apparently, getting some ocean air and giving orange county an estimated 40,000 people were at newport beach on

friday. yesterday l.a. mayor eric garcetti warned team not following social distancing rules could make the fight against coronavirus worse. >> i know what that does to us. our primal natures want to get out. the vast majority of angelinos though will be at home this weekend. no matter what the temptations are, no matter how badly we want to get out, we can't one weekend reverse a month of work that you have invested in. >> meantime, protesters across the nation continue to call for an ease on lockdown measures as the country's unemployment rate continues to soar. protests in maple and orlando are underway right now, and a small crowd is gathered there and you can see the protest just started. more than 800,000 people have filed for unemployment in florida in march alone. the jobless rate there is reportedly the highest it's been in two years, florida's work force shrunk by at least 120,000

workers between february and march. florida was one of the last to issue a statewide stay-at-home order. governor ron desantis has not said when it will reopen, but working on a plan to do so. gillian: good luck for those law enforcement, keeping them off the beach is a tough thing to do as we move further into beach season. christina coleman, thanks for that. leland: in hard-hit louisiana another group of activists will hold rally to push to reopen the state. among the organizers of the group, the host of ringside politics from new orleans and the rally. jeff, help us understand, is this to open now or is this to open once you guys have had the 14 days of decreasing cases that the white house says you need to have before reopening should begin? >> i think, and leland, thanks for having me. i think we should follow the

georgia model and safely reopen now. i'm just looking at the stats, leland, i mean, louisiana has been hit. the second worst of any state in the nation. we've pretty much had a 6,000 and just wrap your mind around that, 6,000% increase in our unemployment rolls for this year versus last year. i think there's no choice, if we don't open soon, leland we're going to have an economic catastrophe to take decades to recover from. prior to this we had the worst economy prior to this, the worst economy in the nation and now, we're being hit harder than almost anywhere else. leland: some down in new orleans would say you never really ever recovered from katrina and the devastation there. >> right. leland: you say follow the georgia model and reopen safely. you've got the president on down and every expert in america on this, saying you can't reopen safely right now. so, and you say you've been looking at the numbers.

so is this just math or are there experts that you all are talking to that the white house either doesn't agree with or hasn't heard from? >> i heard the white house trade advisor talk about the need to reopen our economy and we've got to do it, leland, we've got no choice. i'm looking at numbers that just came out as far as our unemployment roles. it's devastating. louisiana, just to let viewers know is a state that's dependent on oil and gas way has been crushed and tourism and hospitality which is zero right now. and so there are some restaurants who would like to reopen, there are businesses that would like to reopen and slowly get some commerce going back into the state, as long as we do it safely and follow the guidelines, i really think we can't delay any longer. >> so, jeff, we'll put up the numbers of the unemployment that you're talking about and there is no question that louisiana has been hard hit, but we go back to this, the experts say that given the number of coronavirus cases in louisiana right now, you can't safely

reopen, so what i'm trying to understand is, is that are you saying, look, the economics are so bad even if there is going to be a resurgence in coronavirus, it's worth it or do you think that you know a way to open safer or with more safety procedures than somehow the white house has figured out? >> i'm going to give you two answers to that, the cure can't be worse than are the disease and i believe that louisiana has been hit by coronavirus probably since january. i mean, i think this has been here for longer than we think. and a lot of people that were diagnosed as the flu really had corona, but look at the problems with keeping the economy closed, suicide rates, mental health problems, poverty rate. poverty leads to health problems. we could have many more people dying due to the economic shutdown than we are with the coronavirus. that's what i'm worried about. leland: we want to point out as we look at these unemployment rates, those are for march so it does not take into account some of the massive layoffs that

happened not only in louisiana, but nationwide. some estimate nationwide unemployment to be in the double digits. as we look at this quick, we've got another 30 seconds or so, you guys are holding this rally saying reopen the state. what things can you all then do to ensure that there's a reopening safely. because if you reopen, the cat may be out of the bag. >> well, i think we have so many restaurants here and i know so many restaurant owners would like to at least reopen partially, where with social distancing people can go inside a restaurant and help those restaurants survive. so many are really on teetering on the edge and could be closing. then you look at the other businesses part of that industry, and i think it would help them somewhat to get the ball rolling, but if we keep the lockdown going, leland, i know many of these businesses will never reopen again and those are jobs that are going to be lost permanently so i'm really

worried about that long-term in our state. that's why we're going to have a good crowd today of people saying, hey, we really need to reopen. we can't wait any longer. leland: we, too, see these protests. jeff, appreciate you joining us and have you back as louisiana tries to get back on its feet from what is a devastating blow. thank you. gillian. gillian: washington nationals star player ryan zimmerman is stepping up to bat for medical front line workers. he'll join us next to talk about the important work he's doing to support hospital workers battling the coronavirus. coming up next.

>> most of america has come to a stand still, including sports. and some are throwing support

for those who are battling coronavirus on the front lines. joining us now is one of the pro athletes. we're joined by the washington nationals player zimmerman and his wife. they've raised over $300,000 from athletes and as well as contributors. thanks for work are' doing and being with us today. >> thanks for having us. >> we were sitting around at home and heather and i were trying to think what we could do to help and i talked to a couple of my buddies around the area and athletes, and a lot of us wanted to do something and didn't know where to donate so we kind of stepped up and started something and you know, the outpouring of support is an incredible, and it's been nice to see the community get behind the front line health workers. gillian: heather, tell us a little about the organization, the campaign's goals and how in

such a short amount of time you've already kind of surpassed them. is that right? at least in terms of funding. >> yes, so, i mean, ryan and i started this on our own. we made an initial donation that we wanted to just work with a local catering company and provide some meals to the staff, the icu staff in one of the heavily hit areas and ryan was like, wonder if i could get some of my buddies on board. our initial funding goal was $250,000 which we made and gosh, the first three days, i believe, in the first two days. gillian: wow. >> and just about a week and a half ago publicly, and then from there, we decided to raise the goal to $500,000 so right now we're just under $345,000, which has been pretty incredible, in a week and a half. and, yeah, like ryan said, it's been pretty cool to see the amount of d.c. area athletes as

well as other athletes outside the area who have actually reached out to ryan to see how they can get involved and then just the community in d.c. like so many people have made individual donations large and small and we have really wanted to express the fact that even a $1 donation purchases a face mask for one of the health care workers, so, really, i mean, every little bit helps. gillian: ryan, where are you hoping to go next? you've had to set some new goals since you guys are accomplishing so much so fast. where would you like to see the campaign do over the next few weeks? >> yeah, i mean, we've really had no idea it was going to grow this fast. so, we've actually a couple of days ago partnered with first responders first who do great work with meals, obviously, but also with ppe. and just handing that stuff out in hospitals where it's heavily needed and that's kind of been the next step for us, it's been exciting and already started talking to a couple of my good

friends on other teams in different region toss see if they want to kind of hop on board and maybe take it, maybe their area where they're from and the city they play in. at a times like this, the health care workers need all the help they can get. the meals and ppe is huge, but honestly we've done some zoom calls with them and i think they just like hearing from people from the outside and know how much we support and appreciate what they're doing. and that's the best for us. being able to call into the hospitals, and have some five minute conversations with whatever staff were giving the meals, they all try to get on the zoom calls and so much fun for us to see their faces and tell them how much we appreciate what they're doing. >> that's awesome. it's been now, switching to the mlb season for a quick minute before we let you go. it's been 44 days as of today since spring training got cut

short. do you think there's going to be much of a season? what is your gut feeling telling you about this? >> yeah, i think it's frustrating for everyone, for the players, for fans. you know, people want sports around. i think it would be great for people to be able to watch it on tv. something to do to maybe stay in the house a little bit more. but at the same time, i think we have to be conscious of everyone's health and safety. you know, heather's due with our third child in five weeks, so that, you know, you have people like that that are going to be high risk and last thing you want to be for her to get it before she's about to give birth. you know, so i think all of us want to play. i think the people that run the leagues and are listening to a lot of smart health people and you know, they're going to do whatever they can to get us back on the field and most important we need to keep everyone safe, the players, the fans, everyone involved and you know, it could be a little while before that happens, but i definitely think. i think i'm optimistic we will play this year, i don't know if

there will be fans in the stands, but, you know, there's nothing more than myself and the rest of the players would love to do than to get back out on the field. gillian: yeah, and the fans, too. i didn't realize that you guys were due in just a few weeks. that's wonderful. it sounds like season, no season, fans, no fans, you guys are going to have a lot on your hands, be very busy no matter what's going on with the quarantine and all that. but thanks for joining us today. we wish you the best and an early congratulations ahead of the birth. and tell us quickly before you go the website that our viewers can log onto if they want to learn about getting more involved in pros for heroes. >> yes, pros for heroes.org you can go to to donate directly and check out us on on instagram and twitt twitter. >> thank you so much, we'll talk to you soon. >> thanks so much. >> thanks for having us, have a

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>> on the 2020 trail where a newly surfaced video clip may show the mother of biden accuser tara reid talking about her daughter's alleged assault. jacqui heinrich following with that more. hi. >> leland one year to the day after former vice-president biden announced his candidacy. a video clip from 1993 is getting the spotlight and fueling sex assault accusation against him. former biden staffer tara reid confirmed her mother now deceased called in to cnn larry king live show in 1993, the same time she stopped working for biden. the woman alluded to a sexual claim and she does not note biden by name or describe the nature of the incident, but indicates going public with the details would cause damage to the senator's reputation. >> and california, hello. >> yes, hello.

i'm wondering what a staffer would do besides go to the press in washington? my daughter has just left thereafter working for a prominent senator and could not get through with her problems at all. the only thing she could have done is go to the press and she chose not to do it out of respect for him. >> she had a story to tell, but out of the respect for the person she worked for she didn't tell it. >> that's true. >> former bernie sanders staffers angrily took on that video and the former press secretary tweeted. progressives didn't make this happen. corporate democrats chose biden and also it's a good time to note that bernie is on the ballot. biden's campaign adamantly denied the accusation, and careful not to silence her. women have a right to tell their story and reporters to

rigorously vet those claims and we encourage them to do so because these accounts-- these accusations are false. and meantime, biden and dnc have a fund raising agreement that allows him greater control over the party and the funds. until this week, biden was limited to checks for $5600. this agreement increases that with the vast majority going to the party committee. leland: we'll wait for the next fund raising numbers. jacqui heinrich in new york. thanks so much. gillian. gillian: several states now starting to ease up on restrictions for people and businesses and hoping to jump start their academy. alaska governor is looking at his state coming up after the break. guys! guys! safe drivers save 40%!!! safe drivers save 40%! safe drivers save 40%!!! that's safe drivers save 40%.

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at home. leland leland, it's good to be u as well. leland: i'm leland vittert. the white house press secretary said there will be no changes to the coronavirus briefing despite controversy over some of the president's remarks. that's where we begin, mark meredith on the north lawn of the white house. we understand there is a pandemic task force meeting but not a briefing scheduled today. >> reporter: as of right now, that is the case. those task force meetings that happen in the situation, they usually happen every day. the press doesn't go into the situation room. then we see the briefings. we'll start there as you mentioned, right now there is no briefing on the president's schedule after that controversy that happened in the last few days. the president did show up in the briefing room last night but only for about 20 minutes or so, didn't take any questions. the president faced widespread criticism thursday and friday when he suggested injecting some chemicals could help treat the virus. on friday, the president insisted he was being sarcastic.

we heard from kaley mack ma kay, she addressed the controversy. >> i believe those answers very much in sync. >> reporter: the president is tweeting. one of the tweets is that he spoke to the prime minister of ethiopia, he says the country needs ventilators and the u.s. is in a good position to help and we will. the white house appears to be focusing on the economic impact of all of this. on friday the president signed into law the bill to replenish the paycheck protection program, which allows small businesses to keep people on their payroll, $310 billion going to that, $60 billion for emergency loans, hospitals getting $75 billion and $25 billion for testing. but after the first paycheck protection program ran out of money within days, some are wondering if we could see a repeat of that again this time around. one of the president's economic

advisors insists lawmakers can re-fund the program if needed. >> i think that given the popularity of the program, both with the american people and with everybody on the hill, that if we run out of money in that program, i would expect that it would be relatively easy to get more money into it. >> reporter: that will be something we'll be watching closely as the funds begin to go out. we also are waiting to see whether or not a stimulus bill by congress will come into works in the next couple days and weeks. we asked the white house this morning about a timeline for this. they say there is no firm time line at this point but they realize that economic help will be needed for millions of americans. leland. leland: labor secretary in the next hour to talk about exactly that with us. mark meredith at the white house, back to you if we hear anything from the president. thanks, mark. >> reporter: you bet. leland: a fox news alert from new jersey where the governor there is giving an update on the coronavirus in his state. we'll listen in. >> we're announcing an

additional 3,457 positive test results for a total as you can see state-wide of 105,523. and as we look at the curve of new covid-19 cases, again, these are positive tests, we see continued flattening. we cannot ease up one bit in our social distancing. again, let's leave this on here for a second and remind everybody we know that folks have tested positive but as judy reminds me, a lot of those folks have now battled and won, that's an important point to make. and the curve is flattening as you can see, it's undeniably flattening and that's in the face of a lot more testing. judy can give you the positivity results on that as she will in a minute. but let's also remind folks, 105,523, we don't know what the denominator is, we don't know how many people are infoablghted in this.

we -- infected in this. we know that's not the number. we know that's the number of positive tests. what that denominator aroun is,e around the world are trying to war game that. we need to see more progress and more slowing before we can begin implementing any effort to get ourselves on the road to the new normal that awaits our state on the other side of this pandemic. and again, we're going to give you some sense of principles i think as early as monday, in terms of the broad values and parameters that will guide us in terms of responsibly beginning to take steps to reopen whenever that may come. in our healthcare system, as of last night's reporting, there were 6,722 residents hospitalized for covid-19. this means, judy, we have had consecutive decreases since thursday. and let's hope it stays that way. unlike the 105,523, where we

know those are positive test results, but we don't know whether or not -- in fact, we know that's not the denominator or the total number of people infected. we know to the person that that's the amount of people that are hospitalized as of last night in this state. our field medical stations reported 99 patients. there were 1,971 patients in either critical or intensive care and we see that number in that chart in front of you has stayed pretty stie dirk steady e past week. ventilator use continues to trend downward slightly to 1,442 currently in use. there were 561 new hospitalizations yesterday and while we continue to see one day increases and decreases, that set of bars on that curve as you can see is a little more choppy. the overall trend line continues to keep moving in the right

direction. and for the 24 hours preceding 10:00 p.m. last night, our hospitals reported 686 discharges. notably, if you look at the three-day average, we still see discharges exceeding admittances and this is another important measure for hospital readiness and the availability of beds who need them. again, those curves are all going largely in the right direction. we need them to go down aggressively and that is what we will need to see and god willing we'll see sooner than later. sadly, with the heaviest hearts, we report an additional 249 deaths, meaning we have now lost a total of 5,863 blessed souls from our new jersey family, just think about that. let that sink in for a minute. it's an extraordinary loss of life by any measure. of course, the worst number that

we report every day is the number of residents who have passed away, the blessed soul that's we have lost due to covid-19. and as we do every day, i'd like to take a minute and honor a few of them, if we could together. let's get kenneth kenhouse up here, look at that. looks like out of central casting for an airline pilot. ken was born in elizabeth, raised in southboundbrook and as a boy he used the money he friend his paper route to pay for flying lessons at somerset airport. on his 16th birthday he earned his solo flying license. he flew commercial planes from princeton airport at first but in 1965 found himself in the cockpit for eastern airlines, a blast from the past. the place he would remain for 25 years. in 1991 ken and several of his fellow pilots founded kiwi airlines, and later was at the controls as a captain for spirit

airlines. after retiring from passenger service he would continue flying corporate jets and was an instructor at cae. flying was his first love. as his family recalls, cookies were not far behind on the list and he was a certified member of the cookie monster clubis club. i'm not making that up. he served in the u.s. army reserve and was a long time member of the pilots association and the secret order of quiet birdmen. leland: listening to the governor of new jersey as he talks about some of the victims of the coronavirus, saying he believes that the number of hospitalizations and the curve line is going down in his state. we'll keep monitoring that for news. meantime, in alaska, it's one of the states that is allowing retail shops and other businesses to reopen their doors. they say there are limitations there. joining us now, the governor of that state, republican alaskan governor mike dunlevy.

nice to see you, or i should say hear you. what was the decision process you had? we had the travel ban, non essential travel ban in alaska and now beginning to reopen. >> we have probably the lowest numbers in the country. we have as of yesterday 339 total cases. nine total deaths. and currently we have 121 active cases. so this is all about absorbing the blow of this pandemic. if you remember a month, month and-a-half ago, we were waiting for the big wave to come in and we had to make sure we had the healthcare capacity to deal with that blow. well, we have the healthcare capacity. less than half our beds in icu are filled. we are getting shipments in of ppe. we're getting more testing and testing reagents. and so we believe that we can do a gradual step by step process of reawakening the economy, because as we said up here in alaska, i'm sure other governors have said, 1-a is the pandemic,

1-b is the economic disaster. leland: here's some numbers about the disaster happening throughout america and also in alaska, which faces its own unique challenges. we're looking at beautiful pictures of your state wright now. 13,000 people roughly in alaska last week filed for unemployment benefits. certainly there's a lot more who have been impacted by this. the double whammy is the fall in oil prices. how bad are things up there right now, sir? >> economically, it's going to be tough, as you mentioned, oil prices have dropped dramatically. the cruise ship industry which was growing in a large sector of our economy has been stopped. tourism is going to be problematic. we have a major fishing industry we're going to try to keep going for the food supply chain and putting people to work but it's not good. and so that's why we can't lose any more of our economy. and that's why we're going to start reopening and we'll open

up methodically, use data to drive our decisions. right now our numbers, we kept them under control, of probably as well or better than other states. it's not gloating. it's just the way it is. we have to get things up and running again. leland: alaska is such a unique state and as you point out, cut off from much of the world in various ways. the only way to reach a number of villages during the winter is by air travel. i had a conversation with the ceo of raven air which has 70 air pipelines that flies throughout alaska. they declared bankruptcy and said they have to liquidate in the next week or so. is there going to be an infrastructure for the economy to come back to and to fly all that fish and the goods and everything else that create the industry there? >> well, we've got to stop the free-fall here in alaska, across the country. that's part of the reopening process. you're right, we have about 150 to 200 communities that have no other access except an airplane and some of those communities

are well over 1,000 miles away from anchorage, alaska. that's how big the state is. without air travel, it's a problem. raven going bankrupt is a blow to alaska, a blow to the economy. alaska is used to disaster. unfortunately. we just deal with them. earthquakes, volcanic eruptions, fires, floods. we pull together and usually come out of these things stronger. it's going to take a little while. we've got to stop the free-fall in the economy. that's going to be probably just as devastating if not more so over the long run for ahas cans -- am las -- alaskans. leland: we heard from the white house trade advisor about how poverty breeds real problems when it comes to mental and physical health that you pointed out. just before we let you go, alaskans are known for wanting

to do it on their own. what do you need from the federal government that you're not getting? >> well, we're getting ppe. we've always taken things into our own hands. we always understand it's always a possibility that given the distance and the isolation that we're going to have to handle things. so we're making swabs internally in the state here, we're looking at making some of the vials, reagents, some of the ppe. we're getting shipments from other countries as well. we get a lot from fema, don't make any mistake about that. but we never wait around for folks to help us. leland: governor, i appreciate it. i know you will be doing a lot to try to rebuild the economy there. we'll have you back on here throughout the next couple of months to talk about it, sir. we appreciate it. all the best. >> thank you very much. leland: all right. gillian. gillian: well, there are growing calls now for china's government to be held accountable for what critics are calling its mishandling of the coronavirus outbreak. china's foreign 34eu7 ministry s

been hitting back all week long, yesterday calling international criticism, quote, groundless attacks against china. for more insight we're going to bring in republican florida congressman michael walt, also a former green beret commander and former white house policy advisor. congressman, thanks for joining us. >> thanks, gillian. gillian: hi, sir. there is this ongoing investigation now into what china's government knew, when they knew it, and how much they tried to cover up during the earliest days of the outbreak. what's your take on what's unfolding? >> gillian, i think this is part of a much bigger picture here and what we're dealing with, to be clear, is that chinese communist party, not the chinese people, that the chinese come mist party, ccp, are not our friends. they seek to dominate the world. they seek a new world order with america subser subserviant to .

they're trying to do it economically, through technology, before they dominate us militarily. how are they doing that? three ways. number one, infiltrated our university systems. the students and research professors are forced to vacuum up technology and send it back to the chinese military. norm better two, they're doing it through cyber, either through the ability to attack our infrastructure or to steal our intellectual property and then number three, this is what i'm so worried about in the wake of covid is they're actually buying up distressed american companies that are going bankrupt in key technology sectors and stealing the technology that way. we have to put a stop to this and i've introductioned legislation in all three of those areas. but we have to -- gillian, this should be a wholesale rethink of how we treat the chinese communist party. we need to think about them like the soviet union and that we are in a cold war and the wake of all of this is going to be part

of that. gillian: you know, in some ways what you're saying there is a sort of terrifying perspective that you've laid out. in some ways, doesn't this pandemic bring china's goals closer to hand? i mean, the chinese communist party has been dreaming of an economic depression in the west like this for decades. they could hardly imagine anything better for their own purposes, right? >> that's right. back to the economic warfare. they're perfectly happy for us to go another 5 trillion in debt and to dominate us economically. meanwhile, they're around the world through diplomat and security services blaming the united states through their propaganda machine and providing aid for -- it's like providing a bucket of water for the five that they started but it's coming with strings attached, to africans, europeans and others in the form of we'll give you this aid but you have to sign up to our technology and our

infrastructure backbone through the belt and road initiative. that's how they're dominating the un, the world health organization and other things. so this is playing right into their hands. gillian: now, you and some of your colleagues on the hill are working on this legislation that's going to try to kind of push back against some of the advance that's the chinese government's making, capitalizing essentially on this pandemic. one of the things you've been talking about is you want to stop u.s. troop retirement funds from going to the chinese military. sounds unbelievable but tell us what's going on. >> believe it or not, the federal retirement system that the entire u.s. military, me included as a national guardsman contributes to every month is investing in chinese companies and is on the verge of investing in the chinese stock exchange. these are companies that are oppressing the uyghur muslim

people, building the chinese defense industry and doing all kinds of nefarious things in terms of espionage around the world yet believe it or not, the billions of dollars that the u.s. military is contributing to their retirement account is going right into these companies. here's the kicker. the board overseeing the entire thing is full of obama era appointees. so i'm calling on the administration to change these people out. we have to put our foot down. and we should no more be doing this than we would invest in russian companies aiding the soviet union in the middle of the cold war with the soviets. again, that's how wall street, our government, the american people have to start thinking about this. gillian: congressman, we've got to leave it there. thanks for providing some much-needed perspective on the national security implications of all of this. we will check back with you again soon, sir, if you give us the opportunity. thanks very much. >> thanks, gillian. we'll keep up the fight. gillian.leland: layoffs were ct

the chesterfield police department because of the lack of revenues and sales tax collections from the coronavirus shutdowns. then they all got together and decided to take a pay cut to save each other's jobs. their chief of police, ray johnson, is with us in a minute. technologies advisor.

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leland: continuing to highlight america coming together now, the coronavirus shutdown is december mating state and city tax collections, without tax dollars flowing in, layoffs and budget cuts are coming. in chesterfield, missouri, they faced laying off 15% of the police force. instead, they decided to take a pay cut across the board to save the jobs of fellow officers and civilian employees. the chief of police, ray johnson, joins us now. we appreciate you being with us. take us through the conversation and the thought process here of going from we're going to lay these guys off to we're all going to take a pay cut. >> thank you, first of all, for inviting me here today. yes, our city like many across the country, if not all, are experiencing some rather devastating financial losses and to compensate for that we found the city determined that it would be necessary to furlough a number of employees.

that did include our police department initially, at least, the proposal was that, and when we reviewed that and discussed it at my command staff level we decided that that would be devastating not only to the department, but also it would be somewhat devastating to the community in that it would limit our ability to continue to serve the community. so in lieu of a furlough of 15% of the employees as you mentioned, we came up with a proposal that we made to the city that would result in hopefully the same financial savings to the city but at the same time keep all of our officers on the street and working and providing the services that the community expects and that was that each officer would take a 10% personal cut in their pay. leland: give me the conversation that went around the table about this. as folks were talking about essentially docking their own pay. >> well, it wasn't an easy thing to do and it wasn't an

easy decision to make, but it was simply a matter of either looking at the department as a whole or individuals and each one of us i and command staff included were discussing a 10% pay cut of our own and knowing that that would be somewhat devastating to some of our younger officers, who really can't handle that, would have difficulty handling that pay cut, we knew too that there was such a camaraderie among our officers that none of them would want to see their fellow officers furloughed, be out of work for any period of time. that would certainly be devastating to those 15 officers, 15%. leland: a lot more devastating to lose your job than just take a 15% or 10% pay cut, not to minimize the pay cut in any way. it's interesting how the communities come together behind you guys as well after hearing about this. we saw on your facebook page, there was a big group of people

who came together and made 100 masks or so for you guys, hand-made masks to deliver when you guys couldn't find masks, et cetera. tell us what the community response to your guys' pay cut has been. >> well, the community response has just been overwhelming and we really do appreciate that and it was equally impressive to me that every member of our department, 100%, every officer to a person agreed unanimously to take a personal 10% pay cut rather than see their fellow officers furloughed. the community upon learning of that really joined in with us and came behind us and they've done so many things that i can't even cover them all here today. but providing food, providing resources, just reaching out and telling us how much they appreciate us. it's been overwhelming support and we really do appreciate that. leland: well, sir, as you know, when we talk this is personal

for me, being from st. louis and the fine folks of missouri stepping up to help you all. we salute you and your officers as well. thank you, sir. god speed. >> thank you. leland: gillian. gillian: tension between the u.s. and iran flaring up yet again, how washington is responding to tehran's most recent provocations, we'll break it down with general keane after the break.

leland: the chicago tribune is slamming the illinois state senates request for a bailout that would cost more than $40 billion. garrett tenney following this, how it would work. and who would pay the $40 billion. hi, garrett. >> reporter: well, leland, all of us would be paying those $40 billion. one of the big issues with this request is that the illinois state senate wants $10 billion to go towards helping bail out a

decades-old problem with its severely under-funded pension system. the chicago tribune editorial board is slamming the request, writing taxpayers across the country should not be responsible for illinois' financial mismanagement, particularly the unfunded pension liabilities. last weekend the board described it this way. ever hear the one about the man who kills his parents and begs for mercy because he's an orphan, that's spring felted, destroying the finances and seeking a bailout. there is growing debate over federal relief funding for the states, how much it should be and how it should be used. a lot of republicans are open to the idea but many argue there should be tight restrictions on how that money can be used. >> bad decisions in state capitols should not lead to a worst decision in the nation's capitol. the bottom line is simply this. a lot of states have mismanaged for decades their resources and

for those states on the bubble we should not rescue them with other taxpayers' money from other states. >> reporter: the national governor's association requested congress give the state at least $500 billion to help make up for lost tax revenue during the national shutdown but this week senate majority leader mitch mcconnell said he would be in favor of allowing states to declare bankruptcy rather than sending more federal aid without restrictions. that suggestion has garnered bipartisan criticism including from new york governor andrew cuomo who called it one of the really dumb ideas of all time and he pointed out that state and local governments are responsible for paying a lot of the folks who are on the frontlines of this pandemic and some local governments may not be able to make those payments if they are not able to get that federal help. now, this week house speaker nancy pelosi said her team is already working on a phase four relief package and that that package will include funding for state and local governments. senate republicans may having to say about that, though.

so leland, this is a debate we're going to be hearing a lot about over the next few weeks. leland: as we just learned, it is a personal debate, already some state and local governments having furloughs and pay cuts and the like. thanks so much. gillian. gillian.gillian: secretary of e mike pompeo issuing a rebuke today for iran, denying the country's claim that its satellite program is actually peaceful. he says, quote, all peace-loving nations much reject iran's development of ballistic missile capability technologies and join together to constrain iran's dangerous missile programs. joining us to talk about the u.s. military strategy in the region is retired four star general and fox news strategic analyst general jack keane. general, why do you think now of all times iran is deciding to once again be provocative in the persian gulf? by now, by this time, i mean, during the middle of the global pandemic when there's already

enough problems to deal with. >> well, the missile program is something they've been working on for a number of years and ballistic missiles, long range, using satellite as a an excuse d it's failed the last four or five times as late as a few months ago. that program was ongoing. but the other activity that we saw recently with their speed boats circling navy ships and increase of their rhetoric and a talk a number of weeks ago about, by the administration, iran was preparing a major strike in iraq, what has happened since the death of qassem soleimani, i mean, geopolitically what iran is trying to achieve strategically is to force the united states to withdraw from iraq and if that's the case, that would be a major, major political and strategic victory for them and the means to do that is they want the government of iraq to evict the

united states. the legislature, council of representative as they call it without the sewnie sunnis or ths to do the same thing. it remains to be seen if that would be the decision. the united states is backing the new government, ironicky so is iran. what the iranians have done to arouse pressure on the government is attack the united states bases and we've seen a series of attacks since january, to do that and getting a response from the united states military. once that response occurs, then the iranian proxies and their politicians who are supporting them raise the level of anxiety about sovereign country using air strikes inside the borders of iran, we've got to stop this, we've got to get americans out of the country. that is what has been their principal focus since the death of qassem soleimani.

even the boats we saw around the ships, that was a result of a united states navy conducting drills in the persian gulf, putting apache helicopters, army attack helicopters on aircraft carriers. why are we doing that? likely to strike iraq, iraq's proxies backed by iranians in the future or to respond to an attack on a ship to attack some of iranian's bases in the region. so this is what the principal focus has been strategically, get the united states out of iraq. they would see that as a major political victory. gillian: what about iran's nuclear program? you know, they haven't seized building -- ceased building their capabilitys in the last few months. maybe much of the world's strategic attention has been focused elsewhere, on combating other threats, but they're carrying on, are they not? >> yes, they are. they have increased their

enriched uranium in violation of the so-called jcpoa or nuclear deal, they increased the number of advanced centrifuges in violation of that which brings them closer to a possibility of a quick move to a nuclear weapon and they have always, always denied the un inspection group from going into military sites, so-called secret sites, and everybody in the intelligence business believes that even when that deal was signed between the obama administration and iran, that iran continued to advance its nuclear technology. they were just doing it secretly and away from any of the inspectors having availability to that. so yes, and their ballistic missile program is developing. the reason for ballistic missiles are simple, to reach their add vee adversaries in th, to reach europe, to threaten

them and intimidate them in terms of power that they have and develop an intercontinental ballistic missile which would carry a nuclear weapon and put them on the world stage with china, rus russia and the united states. gillian: all part of the same interlocking strategic game plan for iran, to take on the united states in the middle east. general jack keane, we always enjoy and learn a lot from hearing your perspective on these things. thank you so much and stay healthy. >> same to you. good talking to you. leland: 105 years ago today marks one of the bloodiest battles of world war i, the l am lied -- allied landing on a turkish peninsula. many were from new zealand. the prime minister placed flowers in front of the house honoring the day while observing coronavirus restrictions while in australia a wreath was laid at a memorial for the dead and

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gillian: millions of italians will be allowed to return to work in just over a week, beginning may 4th. the government's also going to start distributing free protective masks to all italian nursing homes. they've been decimated by the coronavirus. these are a couple of developments in italy underway now. amy kellogg joins us live from florence with all the rest. amy. >> reporter: hi, gillian.

40% of the coronavirus deaths in italy have happened in nursing homes. two dozen of them, gillian, now are under investigation for not handling the situation properly. some were asked to take on covid patients from hospitals that were overwhelmed but there are some allegations that those transfers from hospitals were not properly isolated from the long-term residents of some of these nursing homes. when all is said and done, there could be manslaughter charges filed. today is liberation day, meanwhile, in italy, the day italy commemorates the end of nazi occupation, the end of mussolini's rule, the president made his way to the altar of the fatherland to pay tribute in an empty rome. he said italians need to draw on that, quote, old at th tenacityd spirit of sacrifice and sense of belonging in order to overcome today's crisis that has taken so

many italian lives. normally april 25th is a big day in the country. today, people have to mark it at home, some hung flags from the balcony. the coronavirus glai czar said e haven't arrived at april 25th yet in this war. factories are getting ready to function with proper social distancing in place. this factory will allow a traffic light system to allow employees to enter areas. may 18th, bars, restaurants and museums said to be set to open but we wait for official government word. among those stranded in this crisis, a circus in sicily with nowhere to go and no work for the foreseeable future. a charity is helping employees and animals, saying the circus

gave his kids so much once and now he is more than happy to give back. so while we are looking at this imminent phase two here, gillian, in italy, everything is still tenuous. for six days, the number of contagious infected people has gone down but there is concern that that curve could easily go back up. gillian. gillian: let's hope the curve does not. amy, we hope that you stay safe and stay healthy there. we look forward to your reporting every weekend. thanks so much. leland: we continue to highlight americans coming together in this coronavirus, bringing out the best in americans. one group is doing just that by partnering with restaurants around the country to provide meals to medical workers, all while putting money back into the local economy, into the restaurants that need it so much. founding partner with frontline foods, frank barbieri joins us

from sonoma, california. i can imagine that area was hit with a triple whammy because so much of the economy there and the restaurant business is tourism. >> yeah, we're seeing it across the nation and certainly here in sonoma as well and san francisco where we started. restaurants are out of business and healthcare and clinicians are marching into hospitals every day to confront this madness and what we saw was just an opportunity to help restaurants and give our healthcare workers across the nation a little lift. leland: how does this work? is it restaurants donating food or are people donating to you who then buy the food from the restaurants? >> yeah, frontline foods is a national grass roots movement that actually pays local restaurants to serve local healthcare workers who are across america, who are battling this disease in their hospitals. it was a really important part of our mission that we pay those

restaurants because we want those -- that part of our community to be here for us when this crisis ends and we're trying to do everything we can to keep those doors open, keep people at work at the restaurants, help keep the economy stimulated across the country, and at the same time lifting up our medical professionals who are confronting this crisis every day with long hours and very trying circumstances. leland: i don't know that there's a business person in america who hasn't been directly affected and their business really impacted and hurt by this and they had to focus on that. how do you have time to focus on frontline foods? huh did you come to this? >> you know, i think i personally am just lucky that when we released this idea to the world, we saw that across america communities were already doing this and lifting up, that we have now -- we're in 48 cities across the country. so we have an army of 650

volunteers in all these communities who are doing incredible work and -- leland: i've got about 30 seconds. i want to understand, in terms of how this works. you think about buying a restaurant meal, someone gives $15 or $1,500, what -- to frontlinefoods.org, what does that deliver? how much per meal? what is the direct effect. >> we have about $10 per meal. we delivered over 200,000 meals thus far. we're serving 234 hospitals and about 48 communities. leland: incredible. >> we're always looking for more donations. we have corporate sponsors from fair life foods in chicago and silicon valley bank. even individuals, any small donation, one dollar could be donated to frontlinefoods.org. leland: the website is still up there.

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gillian: there are now over 900,000 confirmed coronavirus cases here in the united states. as of this morning more than 51,000 deaths nationwide. welcome to the third hour of america's news headquarters from washington i'm gillian turner, joining me live from our fox news mobile studio this afternoon. leland: gone so far so good for the past 2 hours. let's see if we can make it 3, i'm leland vittert. some states to reopening the economy, includes georgia which

critics including the president says governor might be gets out of his skis a little bit. in atlanta georgia, hi, steve. steve, leland, georgia has taken the lead to reopen nonessential businesses, businesses that were closed several weeks ago by the government, hair salons, barbershops, bowling alleys, gyms, all being reopening. kemp citing decline of numbers. finally now they are getting a chance to try and earn their living themselves. >> we are exposing ourselves going out to grocery stores, pharmacies, why shouldn't our business be allowed and try to adapt and survive? steve: that move has earned tremendous criticism even here in georgia by the cdc behind me

as well as the mayor of atlanta and by president trump who said georgia is simply moving too fast. georgia has more than 22,000 cases of the virus, more than 900 people have died from it and the testing here has been minimal. some of the smallest in the u.s., fewer than 1% with a population of georgia has been tested for the virus, but a number of states especially in the south will be following suit as the stay at home rules will expire on the 30th. leland: we will wait to see what the decision of other governors are around the country, steve, thank you so much. gillian. gillian: the white house say that is despite flurry of report this is weekend, no plans as of now to change up the daily task force briefings. this comes after considerable controversy some of the president's comments about coronavirus treatments. mark meredith live from 1600 pennsylvania awful with what to

expect, mark. mark: good afternoon, gillian. as of right now president trump is not expected to make appearance in briefing room but things can certainly change as the day progresses. as you were talking a lot of pushback over comments he made on thursday when he suggested potential way to treat the coronavirus was for people to inject chemicals. the president then on friday said he was being sarcastic and wasn't something to be taken seriously. now the president did show up for a briefing on friday but he did not take questions and the session really lasted less than 30 minutes. the new white house press secretary says there's no policy to end the briefings altogether, instead she says it's up to the president daily. kayleigh that's entirely his dn and the president at its best when he speaks to the american. i think he's had 49 briefings since the end of february. pretty regular briefings and i think those have been effective and useful. mark: even if we don't see the president on camera today he sure has been tweeting quite a bit including this one,

wonderful feeling that states are loaded up with ventilators. many brand-new and high-quality just off of production lines and in a position to help other countries that so desperately need them. every perp needing a ventilator got one. the president on twitter. the administration says it's focusing on economic fallout from the crisis that's really plaguing every state in our country. we have seen some numbers come out from the congressional budget office on friday and they really are staggering, gave us an idea where things stand right now, the cbo projecting that unemployment rate in the second quarter could reach 13%, the growth domestic product could decline 12% for the third quarter and federal budget deficit $3.7 trillion, trillion dollars. >> the president and all of us are concerned that we have this massive, massive shock to the economy that is unprecedented and heavy lift to get the economy going again. mark: we show you the exact idea of unemployment rate when the job's report of april comes out in early may.

the numbers are to be -- are expected to be significant. white house officials say that's really not going to be a surprise but they are going to be working with congress to try to contain the fallout the best they can, gillian. gillian: hard to imagine now that the numbers are actually going to get worse, unemployment numbers before they start climbing down. mark meredith, thanks for that. mark: you bet. leland: we will dig in unemployment numbers in a minute. sad milestone in coronavirus fight, the ap now alerting that more than 200,000 confirmed deaths worldwide from the coronavirus, that's according to john hopkins researchers that are keeping track of this. now we dig into the economic destruction that's been cause bid the coronavirus not only arnold the world but specifically here in the united states. we bring in the labor secretary eugen scalia, we appreciate you being here, thank you. dig into projections by the cbo that came out, q1, 14% which are

over, q2, 16% and q3, 11.7%. it is hard to imagine as gillian said that things are going to get worse for people being layed off. >> well, we released at the labor department some difficult numbers this week too showing that now more than 26 million americans have filed for unemployment in the last 5 weeks. that's just hard to see and we recognize the sacrifice that are -- that's being made by so many americans across the country to beat the virus and what makes it even more painful remembering how strong the economy was a month and a half ago. we just had an exceptional economy with record low unemployment and rising wages and the mission now is to get back there. i do think that a silver lining is how we got here. this was a public health response, not a underlying weakness to the economy and i think we have time now to get back to where we were as we

reopen. leland: there's a lot of worry, though that the response to this is good hearted and well-meaning as it is is putting in some fundamental weaknesses to the economy, the care's act means states can expand benefits up to 13 weeks, 600 additional dollars for unemployment benefits on 30 weeks on top of unemployment benefits you're getting from the state and states allow today provide maximum flexibility for reimbursing employers. i've talked to a number of small business owners who say this is basically incentive for people to stay on unemployment role and make economy slower. is it time to take -- >> that's what the care act did. let me emphasize, leland, you don't get unemployment if you quit work because you want to get that unemployment check.

you need to be layed off against -- >> leland: i understand. >> once the jobs become available to workers we at the labor department expect work toaster leave unemployment and get back to jobs. we have been working closely with the states to help -- leland: you're not worried that people who are making more on unemployment than they would back washing dishes or landscaping will stay on unemployment, they will take less money to go back to work? >> we are keeping an eye on that. we have been working with the states underscoring for them the importance that as we reopen they take a look at employers, hey, we are ready to bring people back and work with the employer community to make sure that happens. i also don't think it's going to make sense for individual workers to pass on a job for a extra couple of months of unemployment benefits too. we will keep an eye on it. meanwhile we finally got the paycheck protection program refunded which is a program that i thought was so important.

what it does is provide loans to small businesses keep workers on payroll, again, leland, as we reopen the workers are ready to go. i was sad -- >> leland: real quick, i want to get to last point. this was between 2.5 trillion and $3 trillion that's been spent so far on the coronavirus handout, bailouts, call them whatever you want to say, that's a lot of money. is there a time when we will have to start thinking about how much all of this costs not just spend it when because this is a crisis? >> two quick points, leland. on paycheck protection, that's a good program, i'm glad it's being funded again. i was sadden today see democratic leadership delay that for a little bit and i thought during that time small businesses and workers that weren't getting that support they need. looking forward i think you're right we need to be careful and part of what gave us the very

robust economy we had was a lack of unnecessary burdens, restrictions, constraints on business. free markets, free americans are important for the rebound too and as we look toward any potential future action out of congress, we need to avoid it becoming a frenzy of new obligations, restrictions and the like. we need to let our economy come back to life. leland: an important question in terms of what the recovery is going to look like and you just pointed out some of the things that might influence that, as we look at cbo numbers, the discussion of the v-shape recovery where things will snap back when everybody reopens, that seems feasible and perhaps even realistic when everything was going to shut down for 15 days to slow the spread. we've been at this for 45 plus days. is there a reason to set expectations a little bit different in terms of what this recovery is going to look like? >> it's unchartered territory. we know that. we have never seen unemployment

numbers this high but, on the other hand, we have never had them taken as public health measure. there was a poll yesterday from ap showing that 78% of americans unemployed expect to return to their jobs. i really like that number, but you're right, leland. it is important to be very focused now in the reopening so we can reconnect workers to jobs while the jobs are still there. leland: mr. secretary, we appreciate your time on a saturday. i know you a busy day of meetings. appreciate it. we will have you back as this continues. >> my pleasure. leland: gillian. gillian: another warship in the uss carrier, the ship is dealing with an outbreak. lucas tomlinson with the latest. lucas. lucas: now infected crippling another u.s. warship at sea. warship i'm told is likely

headed to san diego. the pentagon spokesman spoke yesterday. >> there has been a sailor who was -- who had symptoms, was out of the hospital in san antonio. using lessons learned from other cases, they have flown a medical evaluation team on to the kit. >> the warship is currently in the pacific near central america steaming into port likely san diego i'm told. uss kid to bolster the mission. president trump announced reinforcements earlier this month that the white house along top pentagon brass, this comes as navy captain crozer, defense secretary, the navy asked esper and letter to crozer and letter crozer urged the navy to help

him get 90% of sailors off the ship and fired by modely resigned one day later after visiting guam and said the following about captain crozier. >> it was my opinion that if he didn't think that information was going to get out into the public in this information age that we live, he was too naive or too stupid to be captain. >> his fate will be decided early next week, gillian. gillian: the whole nation will be watching to see what that fate at least, professional fate will be.

lucas, from the pentagon, thank you very much. leland: trying to ease coronavirus restrictions and others are seeing infection rates skyrocket. kitty logan live in london with more on where we stand on those graphs, hi, kitty. >> kitty: many countries around the world continue to struggle with the outbreak and the uk has become one of the worst affected of those countries now passing a grim milestone of 20,000 deaths and no end in sight to lockdown here. the government announced another 813 fatalities registered in uk hospitals over the past 24 hours. now urging people, authorities are urging people to continue to stay at home because in recent days there were times that some people were thought to venture out getting tired of restrictions and many also want to know a concrete lockdown exit plan but the government says

conditions haven't yet been met for that to happen and we can see that in those figures released today. now in the german capital berlin, crowd of 500 people protested about the ongoing lockdown there. of course, protests like these are currently illegal in the country. germany has had a tight grip on its coronavirus response with relatively low death toll compared to other european countries and the government there recently announced that some restrictions would be lifted but the public still needs to practice social distancing. now to mitigate risks, masks are now encouraged in many countries although not easy to get hold of always. authorities have been handing out masks to the most vulnerable. that country is also still in a state of emergency. the death toll just over 800 to date. now another challenge facing many muslims around the world is the thought of the holy month of ramadan, usually a time of

prayer and evening family gatherings. egypt itself is under strict lockdown which means people have to pray at home or mosques are closed. here in belgium, france, they are slowly starting to reduce some of the restrictions that are being in place amid warnings to be cautious perhaps because of the second wave of infections but it would increase testing dramatically to try and mitigate those risks, leland. leland: all right, kitty, thank you so much, gillian. gillian: well, a new report out this morning not yet confirmed by fox news but our correspondents are working on it. china sent medical team over to north korea to take a look at kim jong un, this comes as the north korean leader's health remains unclear. for more we are joined by bruce, senior fellow for northeast asia

after the heritage foundation. bruce, thanks for joining us, we are seeing everything bubbling up in terms of foreign reporting from kim jong un is totally fine, recovered well from his surgery mid-april 2, he's actually in vegetative state verging on death. based on what is known publicly and based on what you know about the regime, what's your best guess as to where he actually is? >> bruce: quite simply we don't know. we've had rumors that he's dead, brain dead and the u.s. intelligence saying he was seen walking around port city several days ago and he may have evacuated himself simply to avoid being infected by covid. the chinese medical team maybe there to deal with covid or kim has covid or others around him. so we've had initial reports which were downplayed by u.s., south korean and chinese officials, but then we've seen as recent spade of rumors and we

really don't know what's going on there. gillian: so we do know that he is -- well, it is believed, estimated that he's 36 year's old because the government never confirms his real age. we also know from western reporting and western intelligence that he is in bad health. he has respiratory problems, heart problems, we know that he had some kind of cardiac surgery in april. tell us why at this moment, right, the north korean leader being in bad health potentially even passing is something that the u.s. should care about, that should grip our national attention amid this coronavirus pandemic, seems like there's a whole lot of other things to worry about. >> bruce: well as the case when his father passed away. we don't know if they have something behind the scenes, so right now all of us are speculating who the next leader

might be. there's not an obvious choice as when his father died and kim jong un had been groomed for about 3 years anointed as the next leader. we are expecting that his sister may be the next leader. up until a few years ago everyone would have thought that a strict confusion korean culture wouldn't allow a woman leader but in the last couple of years she's gained power, she's gained authority and we've seen her coming out of the shadows really in the last couple of years. there's an uncle of kim jong un but he's been really exiled for about 3 decades in eastern europe serving as ambassador for different countries but recently came back. there's always concern when you have a nuclear weapon state, if you don't know who the next leader is, it could be a smooth transition or it could be a power struggle where everyone is trying to grab the ring of power and then who has control of the nuclear weapons and the military. so it will be great concern if kim dies without some formal

succession plan. gillian: are you worried about state collapse, fox news spoke to administration officials earlier in the week who said worst case scenario that accompanies kim jong un's death we see state collapse and huge numbers of people starving, facing starvation. we see north koreans fleeing north korea, chinese border creating refugee crisis, does that square with what you foresee or worry about? >> there are a lot of worst case scenarios, if there's a regime collapse or struggle for power unknown actions by military factions warrant against each other. there's concern that there could be an explosion in the sense of north korea lashing out against its neighbors or implosion with the regime collapse. that said, you know, we were equally concerned during the two previous successes of the father

and grandfather when they passed away and the system worked. there was maintaining of stability so i think it's more likely the regime will maintain itself. gillian: bruce, sorry to jump in there. we are coming up against a hard break. we will have to say thank you. talk to you soon

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♪ ♪ gillian: unmanned russian spaceship docked safely at the international space station today, progress 75 arrived less than 3 and a half hours after its liftoff in kazakstan, the ship carrying 3 tons of food and propellent for astronauts aboard the space station. leland: we heard from the white house yesterday about the president signing a bill that has $310 billion. the paycheck protection program, but some restaurant groups say the structure of these loans that sometimes can be forgivable make it difficult for restaurants to take advantage and help their employees along the way stay open and get them back on their feet. joining us partner of rew group. jeff, we appreciate you being with us. what makes it so unique from restaurants that free money from the government doesn't always work the way it should? jeff: leland, first of all,

thank you for having me on the show. let's talk about ppp, thank god the labor secretary released more money for it. it's a great program. the problem with it it doesn't work for the restaurants and what i mean by that is it's not sustainable. for instance, when we do reopen, we know for a fact that there's a restriction on how many people we can bring to the restaurants, how many people can sit at the bars and it's a limited amount of people that come in and then the big risk, will people come in, so the moneys that have been given to us for the payroll, we don't want to spend that money before we open up and bring everybody on and just deplete that resource. a lot of the employees are getting right now some of them, not all of them are getting unemployment checks and, you know, we are going to giving people money but if we take the ppp money and open up and bring people back in with unknown realities of going in and opening up the restaurants, we

could deplete that very fast and when we do reopen we will be back in a situation where there's no money. leland: the labor secretary seemed to think that if you all offer people a job they'll come back regardless if they're making more on unemployment. obviously some folks including yourself and your restaurants have loyal employers that will come back and are you worried that it's hard to find dishwashers, et cetera? >> it'll be a problem for some people, i'm very fortunate in my restaurants especially marcell's we have long-term employees, over 20 plus years. a lot of situations why should i go back to work, i'm getting paid. i don't think that will last for long and hopefully we are at situation that we are able to reopen with a lot of uncertainties, though. leland: you talked about uncertainties which is coming from tennessee which is putting restrictions as they put

restrictions, screen employees and customers, limited customers and restaurant of 50% of seating capacity. table space of 6 feet apart, bar areas and live music not permitted. we saw pictures up of some of your restaurants including marcell's, 6 feet is 30 capacity maybe. >> that's correct. we already know those in the restaurant business it's already small margins to make money at a restaurant business. you're getting a dime on a, you know, 10% we return and that's actually high and then you're reducing that down even further, so one of the big things, leland will be on this is your relationship with your landlord, your developer, you know, on how much rent you're going to be paying, how much rent would be deferred and how much rent you get for free and if you have a landlord who won't work with you on these things, you won't sustain with rents, labor, and limited amount of people coming through restaurants. it's imperative that you have a great relationship with your

landlord and -- >> leland: you know, chef, a lot of folks who are watching this, i am watching a chef that owns expensive restaurants and maybe charge people a few more dollars and stay in business that way, why should we care, why should folks out there who are hurting themselves care about the restaurant industry? >> robert: we like to nurture people with food and we are the first ones on the front lines when it comes to any type of charities. it's the restaurant business that gets throughout and comes forward and gives. so for people that might be thinking that, i mean, i would hope that they wouldn't be thinking that because it's a place where people come together and have a good time and we feed you and you -- and you go home and you just had a great experience hopefully and want to come back and meet with your friends there and so on. leland: as we have seen from your number of your restaurants

provide employment to hundreds if not thousands of people. chef, we appreciate it and i think all of us watching long for the times when we can go to a restaurant like yours and have good meal and good wine and enjoy ourselves. thank you, sir. >> robert: leland, appreciate it. thank you. leland: gillian. gillian: officials in california are warning people to stay off the beaches, the stay at home order continues onward as summer closes

leland: fox news alert. we take you to little rock, arkansas and the governor hutchison delivering an update on his state's coronavirus. >> of those 47 were in the unit, so that brings us with 84 cases, that brings us 2,830 cases.

in terms of hospitalizations, yesterday we had 104 hospitalizations. that number remains the same at 104. yesterday we had 46 deaths, that is plus 3, so we have 49 deaths at the present time. dr. smith, of course, will elaborate on these statistics and if we could go to the charts just to show this in a different fashion. these, again, the daily accounting of the number of covid new cases each day in the state of arkansas and as you can see, as you look toward today, we have a much smaller number. we are going down to fairly well where we were before with the 89 new cases that are here in contrast to the previous day that we had 280 and, of course, that was because of our large

number of cummings inmates that proceeded after that and if you look at the next chart, this is the 7-day rolling average of new cases in arkansas and, of course, the rolling 7-day average is on the orange line as it goes through and it has certainly reflected a jump because, again, of some trend upward in the cases overall but also a large jump because of the cases and we hope that flattens out. leland: governor of arkansas talking about the number of cases in some of his state and prisons that have seen large number of cases also, important to keep in mind that arkansas is one of the states that did not have the formal shelter in place order. we continue to watch developments from there. gillian. gillian: well, engineers are now raising to develop wearable medical devices to help crack

the health conditions of serious coronavirus patients once they have left the hospital. correspondent aisha hasine has updates. aishah: wristband that will be used in the northeast and some are calling a game chamber but first quick snapshot of what is happening in new york. so today governor cuomo announced that healthcare workers at 4 new york city hospitals were going to get antibody tests and next week that expands to the nypd and state police and transit workers. now, currently new york is testing, performing around 20,000 coronavirus and antibody tests per day. the goal to double that. this as the number of covid deaths in new york city greatly outpacing those across the state and that number could soon include 3 deaths that happened

at a time square hotel being used to discharge covid patients and mayor de blasio looking into how that happened but some northeast hospitals as i mentioned are going ahead and using new technology to take a closer watch over those patient who is leave the hospital. we are talking about a company called mosimo, technology company that created safety device, disposable small wristband attached to pulse and monitors vitals, oxygen levels and pulse and rates and when the levels go off the device sends signals to the patient's smartphone which then alerts the doctor. >> the clinician has a dash board of all of the patients they are monitoring. they are seeing your life parameters change in every single minute, they get an update of your data set and they can see what your live data is

within the hospital. aishah: now the fda approved this device to be used nationwide about 15 days ago, about 60 hospitals have signed up to use this with almost 600 more on tap in the process to use worldwide really, so a lot of different advances we are seeing now. the device, gillian, was meant for opioid addicts actually and pandemic hit and everything changed. gillian: hopefully some good technological developments that we can use in the future will come out of all of this. aishah, thanks for bringing us the latest. leland: we look now to massachusetts where there's been a surge of coronavirus cases this week. we will talk to a local lawmakers from boston about what they can do to keep people safe.

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leland: welcome back, as rallies taking place in florida today

demanding that the government reopen businesses in that state, christina coleman following the movement which has protests all around the country today. christina: more protests against stay at home orders after rallies have erupted across the country. meantime here in california some people are disregarding social distancing altogether at the beach. many beaches across the country are closed. health officials pushed social distancing including the beaches in los angeles county and san diego county, but the springtime heat here in southern california is soaring and so are the crowds of people apparently getting some fresh ocean air. in nearby orange county estimated 40,000 people were at newport beach on friday and crowds flooded nearby huntington beach. yesterday la mayor eric gacetti warned that not following social distancing rules can make the fight against coronavirus even harder. >> i know what that does to us.

our primal natures want to get out. the vast majority of angelinos will be at home this weekend, no matter what the temptations we can't let one weekend reverse a month of work that you have invested in. christina: protestors across the nation continue to call for ease on lockdown measures as the country's unemployment rate continue to soar. protests in miami and orlando are happening right now. more than 800,000 people have filed for unemployment in the florida in march alone. the jobless rate there last month was reportedly the highest it's been in 2 years. florida workforce shrunk 200 from february and march. >> we need to end it sooner. >> she wants to go back to

school and loves teachers and misses interacting with friends. christina: florida was one of the last states to issue stay at home order. republican ron desantis says a date hasn't been set to reopen florida but that he's working through the weekend on a safe plan to do so. leland. leland: protests also today in louisiana, gillian. gillian: washington state has one of the earliest cases of coronavirus. coming up next we will talk to a local lawmaker about where things stand right now in the battle against covid-19 ♪

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gillian: local lawmakers on the front lines of states battling the coronavirus. we are joined now by two of them who are working in coronavirus hot spots, executive dave summers, from washington state his county saw the very first case here in the united states of covid-19. also joining us from boston city counselor at large anissa, thank you for joining us today. dave, you say that your county is -- you had the first case and you're moving to what you describe the recovery phase. tell us about the numbers that you're seeing on the ground.

>> yes, thanks for having me. the first confirmed case was in our county on january 20th, seems like years ago now. we had total 2300 confirmed cases in the county. 103 deaths. we saw the peak of cases, new cases and deaths a couple of weeks ago. we are still getting new cases every day but tapered off, but we are very happy on monday boeing started up their construction and production facilities at plant, largest facility in the world here and we are very happy about that. they've got conditions in place to protect the workers and watching over the next couple of weeks if they're effective and also the governor announced yesterday, started construction residential and commercial with the set of 30 conditions that they must meet but we are happy to see starting up again. gillian: yeah, well, anissa so in addition to your work to bothon city government -- boston

city government and you're a small business owner, you are starting to produce face masks for frontline workers, tell us about that and you're dual-headed role in all of this? >> thank you very much for having us to chat about what's happening in each of our states and in the city of boston in particular. we look forward to being where dave is in washington state, on the other end. here in boston, massachusetts, having the third highest number of cases in the united states. wewe are really looking to reaching our peak which we have not yet done and getting to the other side so that we can talk about recovery and talk about helping our economies here get back on its feet. that for us is a listening ways away. neighborhood here in the city of boston has been closed since march and like dave a few weeks seems like a few years. two of us making almost 2500

masks, larger organization called the boston mask initiative that's made over 15,000 now to help our frontline workers, our healthcare workers, our neighbors and our residents, the people are here always looking for masks to protect themselves and protect each other. gillian: yeah, important crucial service right now. another really important government service here is as you both know, but dave, i will go to you first testing kits. how is the county doing now when it comes to having enough tests to test the general population moving forward to determine whether or not to ease restrictions. do you have what you need? >> well, so we are still seeing a shortage of things like the test swabs, the viles that they transport the tests with protective gear is still a challenge for us. we had the laboratory capacity in seattle area to process 4,000

a test. we don't have the supplies to do that. we are working on that. i know everybody in the country needs the same supply so the supply chain is still a problem for us. it's improving and looking to getting more rapid testing capability. we've got two machines now which are standing up this week. we are looking at acquiring more. testing is going to be essential part of moving forward. we are still in a stay at home order from the governor so a lot of things that need to be put in place and testing is one of them. gillian: so compare and contrast every state, every county right now is obviously on their own unique trajectory when it comes to covid cases but strikes me anissa while washington state may be over the hump, beginning to flatten the curve, boston is now sort of bubbling up with cases. what does that feel like for folks who live in the city on the ground going about their

daily lives right now? >> well, it's a really uneasy time. i'm a parent and have 4 boys at home, teenagers that are, you know, crawling out of their skin trying to get out of the house and be with their friends. we are all uneasy and we need more tests. we are really working really hard to make sure that our frontline workers and responders in particular, residents across the city regardless of age have access to test. it's key to even starting the conversation about opening up our great city and state of massachusetts. gillian: thanks to you both for joining us to share your experiences, your perspective with what's happening there on the ground. really useful insight as for our viewers and officials watching going forward trying figuring out next steps here day by day.

we wish you both and happy and healthy week ahead. >> same to you, thank you so much. >> thank you, be well. leland: all right, we will take a couple of seconds to show you some of the way that is they are honoring nurses and doctors in detroit with a procession by the henry ford hospital to thank them and then on this very good note, gillian, new york hospital celebrating a man who was their 600th covid patient. 19-year-old patient had been in the hospital for four days, a lot of cheer that is went up for that. gillian: nice to end with a little bit of bright, bright news on that. you may have nicotine withdrawal symptoms.

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eric: several states begin easing state at home restrictions looking to return to some resemblance of normal life. more than 53,000 of our fellow americans have tragically died of the virus. the u.s. now accounts for over a quarter of all covid-19 deaths around the globe. hello, everyone, welcome to america's news headquarters on this saturday. i'm eric sean. arthel: and i'm arthel neville, georgia, first states to let nonessential businesses