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 to reopen, nail salons and tattoo

parlors despite concerns of health experts that it's too soon to ease restrictions. the decision has left business owners conflicted with large corporations saying they will keep their doors closed. steve harrigan live outside cdc headquarters in atlanta. steve. steve: arthel, the decision by brian kemp have sparked debate. georgia reopening nonessential businesses as of friday. things like gyms and beauty salons, barbershops all open up and many debate whether it's safe enough for them to open. we spoke to different shop people eager to start making money again and others still too early but not yet. >> every other chair to maintain

recommended distance. without masks and regular testing for asymptomatic staff we won't feel comfortable opening. steve: the decision by governor kemp has drawn criticism. president trump also said he thought georgia was moving too quickly, georgia has had more than 22,000 cases of the virus, more than 900 people dead from it and very little testing in the state of georgia. less than 1% of the population, but as georgia has begun to reopen, other states soon to follow. 1600 more states begin to go reopen their economies in the coming weeks including iowa and mississippi, arthel, back to you. arthel: steve harrigan thank you very much for the update, eric. eric: arthel, meanwhile some beaches in california, they remain closed as heat wave pushing temperatures into the 90's this weekend. los angeles, san diego counties

shut down their shores but, you know, there are concerns that residents could enter other counties where beaches are open and turns out that not everyone is paying attention to the precautions. christina: people are heading to beaches and other people are protesting. protesting in miami and orlando as protesting continue to call for ease on lockdown measures. more than 800,000 people have filed for unemployment in march alone in florida where people are protesting today. the jobless rate there last month is reportedly the highest in 2 years. florida's workforce shrunk 120,000. >> i'm telling you, you don't have to be afraid. this is going to end, but we

need to end it sooner. >> he wants to go back to school. he loves his teachers and miss interacting with his friends. christina: florida was one of the last states to issue statewide stay at home order. governor ron desantis says a date hasn't been set but looking at different options on how to proceed. >> when you have restrictions that's in produced density in some places. when you look at something like a restaurant, if you had limited seating, would that reduce some of the density of the super markets. it may or may not. these are things that we are talking about. christina: in sunny california some people are disregarding social distancing altogether at the beach. many beaches across the country are closed as health officials push social distancing and including the beaches in los angeles county and san diego county but the springtime heat apparently has flooding to the beaches anyway and in nearby orange county, estimated 40,000

people were at newport beach on friday and crowds flooded nearby huntington beach. yesterday la mayor warning people that not following social distancing rules can make the fight against coronavirus even harder. and there have also been more coronavirus cases and fatalities in los angeles this week but local health officials say the rate of increase was slower than in recent weeks, so good news in terms of trying to flatten the curve, eric. eric: all right, critics pointed out that they are misguided, you to wear the masks and take precautions, some people are not doing that, thank you, arthel. arthel: president trump holding phone call with catholic leaders and educators at the white house as some states start easing stay at home restrictions. this comes after the president signed a nearly half trillion dollar relief package to help small businesses and hospitals

and provide more funds for testing. let's go to mark meredith, live at the white house with more, mark. mark: arthel, good afternoon, the white house is making it clear they are trying to tackle the virus not only health front but the economic front as well. what you were talking about on friday we saw the president sign into law a bill that congress passed earlier this week that replenished money for the paycheck protection program as well as the number of other programs that are going to be helping people as they try to recover from this as, of course, the crisis now that has been going on for several weeks. the administration insist that is the money will be enough to help people in the short term, we have a breakdown of what the money is going to look like as you see the president signing in the oval office on friday. $310 billion for paycheck protection program and 75 billion for hospitals and 25 billion for testing.

i apologize, we had issue with the sound. the white house insist for coronavirus testing will only increase in days and weeks ahead. president trump even tweeting this morning that testing is expanding rapidly as governors nationwide consider if and when to reopen the economies, the president said this, many testing sites are and have been open 5 million tests far more than any other country in the world. don't believe the fake news. >> as testing increases dramatically across the country, cases will increase as we'll. -- well, people should not be discouraged by those numbers. we are looking at very positive trends in hospitalization, in emergency room entrances. >> mark: as of right now we do not expect to see the president on camera.

they will be meeting in situation room in 4:00 o'clock hour. we will let you know if that changes as the afternoon progresses. arthel: okay, sounds good. mark meredith, thank you. eric. eric: arthel a second u.s. navy ship at sea uss kid reporting coronavirus outbreak, at least 18 confirmed cases among the sailors there. the destroyer in the pacific and comes back to shore as the navy with reinstatement of the carrier. hey, lucas. lucas: another u.s. warship at sea crippled with coronavirus. one of the 18 sailors has been evacuated to san antonio. >> 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 get everybody back to health and get the ship back to sea. lucas: the warship is near central america heading to san diego i'm told part of theater -- theodore roosevelt warship. this comes as the navy is recommending to reinstate the tr skipper who is relieved of command after letter he wrote to top navy officials leaked to media. captain crozer with sendoff in letter urged to get 90% of nearly 5,000 sailors off the ship and fired days later by then thomas modely who resigned one day after visiting carrier in guam where he berated the crew in tirade and said the following about captain crozier.

>> he didn't think it was my opinion that if he didn't think that information was going to get out into the public in this information age he was too naive or too stupid to be captain of a ship like this. lucas: more than 800 sailors tested positive, 90% are off the ship in shore in guam. his fate should be decided early next week. eric. eric: all right, lucas, thanks so much. arthel. arthel: well, eric, there is more legal action against china over handling over the coronavirus outbreak as some states look to hold beijing accountable for the devastating toll the pandemic has taken in the u.s. how can this impact relations forward, we will discuss coming up next. >> we know, they knowingly hid the virus, neil for 6 weeks.

if they had simply been honest, honest with the world, they could have contained it within wuhan and we wouldn't be having this conversation.

eric: well as some european countries are starting to reopen, britain remains under a lockdown this as the country has been hit with grim milestone. the number of coronavirus date -- deaths now surpassing 20,000. there's glimmer of good news in south korea as the country reports no new deaths for the second straight day in a row. kitty logan live in london with more, hi, kitty. >> kitty, hi, eric, some countries really struggling with this coronavirus outbreak and the uk is one of them and with that high death toll, there is no date set yet to the end of lockdown despite real signs of impatience amongst the public and the government announced 813 fatalities, those registered in uk hospitals over the past 24 hours. the government too is urging people to continue to stay at home. in recent days there's been good

weather and signs that people starting to venture out, tighter restrictions and many are calling for a concrete lockdown exit plan but the government says again today with the high deathly rate the conditions are just simply not yet there for that to happen. also frustrations we are seeing in berlin and germany. small crowd around 500 people protesting against the ongoing lockdown there. germany has had a tight grip on the coronavirus response with a relatively low death toll compared to other european countries. the government did recently announce that some restrictions in germany would be lifted but the public still needs to adhere to social distancing guidelines. now masks are an issue here and elsewhere. not always easy to get ahold of.

the country is still in state of emergency. the death toll over 800. another challenge facing many muslims around the world the start of holy month of ramadan. egypt under very strict lockdown and many mosques are closed and what we are seeing back in europe some countries such as belgium, france, italy and spain slowly easing some of those restrictions but, of course, aware too that there still could be a second wave of infections. they are very cautious about lifting the measures. the global death toll more than 200,000 people. eric: all right, kitty, thank you. arthel. >> allow every american citizen

who has suffered because of the coronavirus from wuhan , china allow them to sue. we should tell china they don't get special immunity in our courts. they lied to the world. they knew what they were doing. they knew that this was going to be a pandemic. they didn't take steps to stop it. they lied. they need to be held accountable arthel: republican josh hawley of missouri pushing to hold china responsible of coronavirus pandemic which resulted on unprecedented lockdowns and crippled the world economy this as the state of mississippi followed missouri in suing china in federal court as well. joining several class action lawsuits against beijing. let's bring in gordon change, gordon is asia analyst and foreign affair analyst and author of the coming collapse of china and i will get to those losses in a second, gordon.

i want to start with all of this picture. does all of this derails china's quest to dominate the world? >> i think so, arthel, especially in the last week. we have seen reactions to china. if you go back to the beginning to have month, china looked like it was going to take over the planet but i think that there has been a reassessment of that. we are seeing countries act angrily of what chinese have been doing because actually beijing ambassador to paris was called on the carpet for complaining about francés treatment of the elderly. we are seeing right now, i think, a pushback and it's not just from the u.s., it's also in europe which was china friendly a month ago. arthel: yeah, but china continues its trickery and deception and bad behavior through this pandemic, for instance, i understand that italy had donated some masks to

china and now china is selling those masks back to italy. >> yes, there was that incident. also the bigger question is that beijing has been selling sub standard protective equipment and faulty diagnostic kits and many of those have ended up in europe and i think maybe that was the beginning of this reassessment that i talked about, but essentially i think china is now very much on the defensive across the world for its overreaching on the coronavirus. xi jinping chinese ruler believes that china should rule the world. we saw that this is an opportunity to make advances. he's overstepped. arthel: and you mentioned faulty tests, is it possible that the faulty tests will end up in the u.s. market? gordon: i think some of them already have but most of them were in europe, however, we have seen, for instance, faulty protective equipment in canada

and in the u.s. arthel: all right, let's get back to the lawsuits that we started out talking about. can the lawsuits be effective? is it really possible the punish china for lying or omitting information about how, where and when covid-19 was born? gordon: i think the lawsuits in conjunction can other actions by governments could actually be quite effective. the missouri suit is not only against the chinese government which currently has sovereign immunity, but also against the communist party of china which doesn't have sovereign immunity and in the chinese system, the party is so much more important than the state, so just to give you a situation, it's a private army, therefore, if the united states were able to find the chinese warship docked in some friendly country, we could actually seize it if the suit in

missouri or mississippi were successful. of course, that's not going happen, but we are going to see, i think, is china pull back its assets around the world, largely because it's going to be concerned about the legal exposure. arthel: interesting, and now president trump has gone from saying china has done a good job handling the situation to calling it the china virus. does the president's desire to close a trade deal with china hamstring him from bringing down the hammer on china in the way that xi jinping mishandled the pandemic? gordon: i don't know what's in the president's mind but the one thing that chinese state media starting to hint that it should have relief from the phase 1 trade deal because of the coronavirus epidemic. i think they are not entitled to it because the relief provision in the trade deal refers to

unforeseen events and on january 15th when the trade deal was signed, chinese leaders knew about the severity of the outbreak inside china itself, but right now we are seeing a full court press from bay judge on -- beijing on this and if china doesn't comply i imagine president trump upset because they'll be a lot of americans who will be very upset. arthel: okay, so i'm not sure if that means the travel ban will continue, excuse me not the travel ban but the trade deal will continue or not. give me a yes or no, is that going to be derailed -- gordon: they'll be deferral of obligations on china's part to buy u.s. goods but i think it will stay in place. arthel: okay, gordon chang, always really wonderful to speak with you, thank you so much. gordon: thank you, arthel. arthel: eric. eric: it is, democrats taking action against one of their own,

karen winset credited the controversial coronavirus treatment for her own successful battle against covid-19. live straight ahead.

eric: michigan democrats voting to do to sensor state house secretary, fellow democrat after she promoted antiviral drug hydroxychloroquine as treatment for covid-19. she publicly supported the gridlock protests. hi, matt.. >> matt, she went to talk covid recovery. democrats were not happy with

the representative after her meeting with the president where she thanked him for hispan demic response and she also cited hydroxychloroquine for helping her recover from the coronavirus, something her doctor confirms. the congresswoman tells fox news will not be silenced. she says michigan's governor has not been pleasant since that meeting. their water is being shut off and she feels it's president trump that can help. >> i do credit the president for doing so and putting this out there because it wasn't accessible and i had very little time to be able to get to it because my breathing did become very labor. >> i spoke to the democratic party chair of michigan's 13th congressional district moments ago and said the representative is not being censured for going to the white house and sharing story of recovery but because

the representative held a critical meeting with the president without talking to state legislators or true needs of the state of michigan. the democratic chair also said the representative is using, quote, trigger words when she talks about michigan's governor not really serving black people in the state of michigan, we are pick. eric: all right, matt, glad she's well, arthel. arthel: all right, eric, will pork producers across the country, they're having to make tough decisions about their livestock as this pandemic leads to plant closures, workforce shortages and falling demand, fox news correspondent mitty hicks explains. >> from wholesalers profit 20 million a year but the covid-19 pandemic is wreaking

havoc on the industry. >> everyone recognizes that we -- we need to keep food moving. >> that means pork producers are working despite mandatory shutdown orders in states that have closed some of the pork industry largest consumers including restaurants and schools. the national pork producers council says pork farmers will lose roughly $5 billion in revenue by the end of the year to these disruptions. >> about 70% of bacon is processing facilityies, plus

processing plants across the country, even with mitigation efforts including social distancing and temperature checks for employees. they are prepare to go make tough decisions about their live stock. >> some of the worst case scenarios are quite honestly hurting, disturbing, we have to look at alternative measures including euthanasia. >> after the federal government announced relief package that includes $1.6 billion in direct payments but some pork producers work it's not enough from keeping family farms from going bankrupt and asking the federal government to extend support. in des moines, iowa, mitty hicks, fox news. eric: as for the total cost for coronavirus or that relief now tops nearly $3 trillion. is spending getting out of

control. our special panel wall street journal report paul and dan as we continue next.

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he was an advocate for the people... a voice for the voiceless. bring your family history to life like never before. get started for free at ancestry.com arthel: some states are easing stay at home orders, however, don't plan for dinner and a movie at least until summer. amc theaters saying it will not reopen before there's a new hollywood release to roll out. many highly-anticipated movies scheduled to premier this spring have been pushed back because of the pandemic, but remember, health officials and scientists get the final word on all of it. eric. eric: yeah, maybe one day movies will be back. well, congress passing $484 billion in coronavirus aid this week replenishing funds for two small business programs, sending more assistance to hospitals and funding expansion of testing capacity nationwide.

the president calling the latest relief bill a, quote, tremendous victory as he signed into law on friday but unintended consequences to this massive federal spending spree now totaling $3 trillion. you know you normally would see our next guests on the journal editorial report at this hour, paul gigot, host of the program and editor of the wall street journal as well as dan henninger, columnist and fox news contributor. paul, let me start with you, the editorial really sent up flair of the spending and some of it is needed, what did you say? paul: well, we said that the aid to small business to particular and probably to hospitals and testing had to happen, but let's be very weary of going ahead anymore because the deficit this year, $3.7 trillion which is basically almost quadrupling in

a month. you cannot replace -- government spending cannot replace the private economy. we need a functioning private economy but i think people need to wait and see what we are really need to spend before we rush willy nilly to bail out the states or something else. eric: here is what the editorial said dan, paul, democrats will try to extend the $600, that's the payment, for a few months and a few after that who describes anyone who disagrees is heartless. republicans who coward at the argument or hurt prospects if the job is right stay higher for longer and the recovery will take that much longer to take hold. i mean, you know what some of the governors say, they need the money, why should, dan, why should it all go to corporations and shake shack and steakhouse even though they are giving the money back?

daniel: there's never a way to delete politics. it's intended to help states, cities deal with the coronavirus and hospitals. i think what the democrats are doing here is ensureing by targeting some of the spending the way they did minority hospitals, minority groups as well, they are making sure that their constituents, that this party is identifying itself with the party's constituents because make no mistake there's an election going on right along side this virus crisis and the democrats are determined that their voters will turn out in those elections come november and the way they do that reminding them that they are legislating and appropriating this money on their discreet targeted behalf and the republicans are sort of putting on the back saying they are merely doing that on behalf of larger banks and groups like

that, so i think nancy pelosi knows exactly what she's doing by escalating the spending spree like this. the question becomes as paul was suggesting, what sort of ultimate damage do that kind of spending due to the private economy. eric: what type of damage, do you think, dan? daniel: well, i think the biggest problem it does suppresses job recreation. ironically mainly among democratic constituencies, black americans, hispanic americans that have realized enormous job growth under the economy in the last 3 years. if this spending backs out or disincentives private economic activity, a lot of those job gains for minority americans are going to be lost in the next couple of years. eric: paul, so how do we ratchet that back and how do we go from the grants that we have now and

the money -- we are seeing a lot of businesses closed on the screen including my favorite japanese restaurant they just showed. hopefully that will be back one day, but how do you do it? at what point does the billions of dollars get rolled back so that the economy can get back to the way it should be? >> eric, i think a lot of it is gone. it's going to go out the there and you're not going to be able to recall what they have spent. you can hope that some of the treasury backstops with what the federal reserve is doing on loans, some of that will be repaid, but much of the spending is already gone. going forward is what you think about. okay, what do we really, really need to spend something onto deal with the coronavirus, do hospitals really need another 100 billion or another 50 billion, for example, to states that haven't been responsible, do they need more money where some of them have gotten billions an billions of

dollars. the most important thing i think is you have to get the economy open, you've got to get the private -- the job creation, private-sector going. obviously it won't happen instantaneously but the sooner we do it the faster we would be able to finance some of the debt and have to spend less. eric: dan, final word. a minute left, you know, how would you this were allowed any way at all to tell when would we be back to normal or i will take seminormal? daniel: well i think we would get back to seminormal in the summer as some businesses are emerging and the states that are opening such as georgia, south carolina, oklahoma and texas come back online and i think it'll just pull a lot of businesses and economic activity back to at least getting a head start. be a long time before we get back to normal, but i think

seminormal is going to be in sight. eric: well, hopefully it is insight. gentlemen, stay with us because we will talk more about spending as some states are demanding billions of dollars from the federal government, but senator mitch mcconnell pushed back against that. wait till you hear what andrew cuomo said about mcconnell and what kentuckians are taking takm the federal pot. we will be right back.

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eric: well, as states turn to the task of slowly reopening the economy some governors are saying they can't do it without more help from the federal government. here is new york governor andrew cuomo earlier this week. >> you know the state governments are broke, to use a very blunt term, and you know the state governments are responsible for the reopening and the governors will do the reopening and they have no funds to do it. eric: senate majority leader mitch mcconnell, he fired back suggesting states suffering steep shortfalls amid the crisis should consider bankruptcy and cuomo branded one of the dumbest ideas he ever heard.

paul gigot and columnist dan henninger. paul, we just talked about state spending, what do they do, you have to pay the firefighters and the police officers and not just the corporations. paul pull well, of course, he's got to -- he's already received i think 4, 5 billion from coronavirus aid. he's received another 6.7 billion or so by one estimate i've seen from medicaid. he got another billion and subways are getting 3.8 billion in new york. so it's not as if the taxpayers around the country have been chintsy and the question is does he get more or a blank check or does he have to do readjustment of his own budget which so far the state simply hasn't done and none of the states around the country that have demanded money have done. it's got to be a two-way street

and if they have going to get more money i think they'll be strings attached to it. reform strings and belt tightening in the state itself rather than just say, okay, please write us another check and the states want $500 million more which is an extraordinary amount of money. eric: you they they'll get it or what is it that they'll get? paul: well, i think there's going to be a debate and that's what mitch mcconnell was trying to do, he knows that bankruptcy filing for the states would require change of law and some think unconstitutional. he knows that wasn't going to happen but he was trying to send a signal flair of members of his own conference to some some of e governors and also to the president, wait a minute, let's slow down here and let's see what we really need to spend and we can't just write a check every time somebody asks for us using the -- the excuse of the coronavirus. yes, we have helped them and,

remember, they also get the chance for short-term funding from the federal reserve which has created a facility for them to be able to borrow cheaply. california floated a $1.4 billion bond, so the state of new york can also issue debt here and they can get very cheap financing from the federal government and repay it -- pay it back on a -- over a couple of years. eric: and then, dan, the governor pointed out something that's historically the case. new yorkers send more money to washington than they get back. he said that new york puts in 116 billion more to dc than it takes out and he says that kenty take and new yorkers are subsidizing, we new york taxpayer subsidizing the kentuckians that's been historic fact in terms of the amount of money that new york state gives to washington. so how would you respond to that? >> well, new york state, you

know, you have wall street, new york city and extraordinary economic activity every year that does get taxed and transfer does go to federal government without question, but make no mistake, eric, this is going to be a big political fight that emergings -- emerges over spending when the bill comes out and when we are talking about basically democratic states like new jersey, new york, illinois, mitch again and california that have buy -- by in large have not been fiscally responsible and with pension obligations, many of the fiscally responsible states like texas, florida, tennessee and ohio do not have to deal with. what you're talking about is asking a lot of people living in the states that have been fiscally responsible to transfer revenue and tax income into states in the north like illinois and new york and i think that battle line will be

drawn in the congress when this legislation comes up. it's going to be fiscally responsible states against those that have not been responsible and as paul suggested are trying to use the coronavirus as an excuse to plug budget holes that have been there for decades. paul: eric, can i just answer -- eric: go ahead, paul. paul: revenue coming from new york to washington and what they get back, of course, new york contributes more. it's a richer state. it has many more rich taxpayers. we have very progressive federal tax system so it's going to tax relatively high-earning new yorkers and californians and others more and they will send more to -- to washington. none of the states have the formula that you send in x and you get x back, just doesn't work that way with our progressive tax code. eric: yeah, that's a really good point, and finally, paul, the man in the white house has a bone to pick with you, has to do

with the editorial and this is what the president tweeted out today about governors, brian kemp the georgia governor opening up slowly. the president tweeted, quote, if the wall street journal editorial writers had called as they should have they would have easily found that i was not happy with georgia governor on tuesday night. you said the opposite got it wrong as you often do. mr. gigot, your response. paul: well, it depends on how you define unhappy. that isn't how the phone calls were described to me and to us. if the president says, okay, he was unhappy with governor kemp, okay, i will take him at his word for that. i am quite confident that governor kemp didn't expect the president to go out in public and attack him for -- for essentially opening on his own terms as the president had suggested the governors should

do and the president suggested that they look at their own circumstances and make decisions on their states and based on their infections and their hospital use and so on. and if you look at the phase 1 guidelines, looks to me that georgia is meeting those. so, okay, i think if he says he was really -- he read act that he was unhappy, okay, i don't think that is necessarily the way the governor perceived it. eric: yeah, dan, last word. you have a great column by the way on how to live with coronavirus, about, i don't know, the new normal or whatever -- you know, whatever we are going call this having gone through this horrible pandemic. daniel: yeah, basically who is going to decide when the openings are going to take are the american people. human beings are social animals,

eric. after winter and two months being couped up, months and april, spring weather has arrived. you can see the scenes out from the beach near los angeles, that sort of thing is going to start happening all over america and as well we agreed to do the lockdown because we were flattens the curve to prevent hospitals collapsing and people from diego but now equally important moral claims are being made by people who have backed up surgeries for cancer and heart disease, those are going to start happening too, so i think like a rising ocean wave, the openings, whether they are in hospitals or people opening their shops are going to happen no matter what donald trump, brian kemp or medical officials tell us. eric: yeah, we are up against the clock, paul and dan, thank you for joining us. see you next weekend. folks, we will be right back rs ! safe drivers save 40%!!! that's safe drivers save 40%.

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arthel: more states taking steps, small and large, to reopen their economy as coronavirus cases top 924,000 with more than 53,000 americans having died from covid-19. and according to researchers at johns hopkins university, the number of deaths worldwide now more than 200,000. hello, everyone. i'm arthel neville, this is another hour of america's news headquarters. eric: hello, arthel, everyone, thank you for joining us i'm

eric shawn. georgia giving some non essential business t's green light, allowing them to reopen with some precautions. governor brian kemp easing a shutdown there despite push back from local leaders an even president trump. steve harrigan is live in atlanta, outside the center for disease control headquarters in georgia. hi, steve. >> reporter: eric, georgia has taken the controversial lead in reopening its economy, a number of nonessential businesses opening up on friday. more will be reopened on monday including restaurants and movie theaters. governor kemp says he is reopening the businesses due to the decline in the economy here, about one-fifth of georgians are unemployed and also he said a decline in the number of cases. we spoke to a number of small business owners, many who say they are cautious but eager to get back to work. >> in this state alone, there's 95,000 hairdressers and barbers,

a lot of them are single parents and many that are independent contractors, haven't had an income at all in five weeks. >> reporter: the move by governor kemp has drawn intense criticism from the cdc here in atlanta, from the mayor of atlanta, from a lot of people who live in atlanta, and from president trump as well who said georgia is moving too fast. georgia has more than 22,000 cases of the virus, more than 900 people have died and very little testing has been done in georgia as well. less than 1% of the people here have been tested. more states will follow georgia's lead next week, at least 16 beginning to reopen their counties come monday. eric, back to you. eric: thanks so much. arthel. arthel: eric, well, president trump is shipping out ventilators to developing countries as the demand for the breathing devices drops here in america. mark meredith is live at the white house with more on this. hi, mark. >> reporter: hi, arthel.

good afternoon to you. president trump has been talking a lot about ventilators and as you said, there has certainly been a lot of focus on how many ventilators are in the us. the exact number is classified but we are getting a better idea of what the supplies have been, the president tweeting about this earlier today, saying, quote, it's a wonderful feeling to know our states are loaded up with ventilator, many brand-new and high quality, just off the production lines and that we are now in a position to help other countries that so desperately need them. every person needing a ventilator got one. the president on twitter. many governors complained they didn't have access to ventilators, they wanted to get some from the federal government, started sharing with each other. now the u.s. will be providing ventilators overseas to countries including ethiopia and el salvador. there have been questions about other supplies, including testing, what needs to be done to make sure states all across the country have what they need to make sure people can get back to work. arthel. arthel: yeah. i want to talk about this before

you go. president trump left the room after yesterday's white house task force briefing without taking reporter questions. what are you hearing about the future of those coronavirus task force briefings? >> reporter: those briefings have become a daily event at the white house. they have not happened every day since the crisis began, it was easter weekend where they decided to not hold an on-cay dashcam ray briefing. we heard fro kaley mack mcinerny early. heatherearlier today. the president walked back comments friday, saying he was being sarcastic. the press secretary said it's up to the president himself to decide if and when he wants to brief. >> that's entirely his decision. he's had 49 briefings since the end of february, so pretty

regular briefings. i think that's been very effective and very useful. >> reporter: now, we are still waiting to see if it was possible, a briefing could pop up on the schedule today. the president's task force are meeting right now in the situation room. we're getting an idea of whether or not there will be a briefing or not. we should know for sure within the next hour or so. arthel. arthel: got it. there's a difference between briefings and rallies. but listen, president trump issued a joint statement with russian president vladimir putin, that happened today. tell us more about that. >> reporter: sure, arthel. this is a statement that caught some people by surprise, it came out this morning, marking the 75th anniversary of the meeting of u.s. and soviet troops, an event the white house says marked the defeat of the nazi regime back in 1945. the white house putting out a statement along with russian president, vladimir putin, saying the spirit is an example of how the countries can put aside differences, pursue a greater cause. the wall street journal is

reporting there were some people putting out that kind of statement, they felt it could undercut the u.s.'s efforts showing moscow. we are looking to see if there is any other fallout on capitol hill. arthel: all right, mark meredith, thank you very much. eric. eric: arthel, a weapon in the fight against coronavirus that has worked well elsewhere is getting fresh attention here at home. it is called contact tracing. johns hopkins is calling for a $3.6 billion program to hire 100,000 contact tracers to help stop the virus in america. alicia kunes is live in denver with more. >> reporter: contact tracing is tracing through the path of people that an infected person has come into contact with and where and now apps have been

added to the process, apple and google have announced changes to the joint program they introduced earlier this month. the companies say they are improving encryption to safeguard information and they are upping the privacy protections. the tech giants are working with app developers in north dakota, for example, won approval for its app. >> you pull up your care 19 app and you'll be able to provide information about where you've been in terms of locations and it would track at a granularity if you've been within a narrow distance with someone for more than 15 minutes. >> reporter: so far states that have announced plans or beta testing these apps say they will be voluntary for users. epidemiologists say there will be need for person to person conversations to better identify exposure but this could be an important tool. arthel.>> this is a vital proce. it's been used in public health for decades. we used it in infectious disease

all the time. so things like tuberculosis or measles or sexually transmitted diseases that are transmitted person to person. >> reporter: new york's governor says he is working with neighboring states for more seamless tracing progress, because folks who live there are part of a region, not just a state. the systems must come with pro protections against the government using the information outside of virus tracing, like law enforcement. >> we don't want emergency powers to out live their emergency. so there has to be an end date and it has to be enforced. >> reporter: apple and google are promising right now, eric, to disable the service once all of this is over. eric. eric: all right, thank you. arthel. arthel: eric, well, the u.s.

navy says 33 sailors on-board the uss kidd have tested positive for coronavirus as navy leaders recommend putting an ousted captain back on the job. he had more of an outbreak on another ship, the uss theodore roosevelt. lucas tomlinson is live at the pentagon with more. hi, lucas. >> reporter: hi, arthel. yesterday we learned from the pentagon there were 17 sailors on-board who were infected with the coronavirus, we're now learning it was 33. the navy said two sailors have been evacuated back to the united states. yesterday the pentagon said only one sailor was evacuated. take a listen. >> there has been a sailor on the uss kidd who was -- had symptoms, was medvacked off of the ship to san antonio. they have flowed a medical evaluation team, a specialized

medical evaluation team onto the kidd. >> reporter: the war ship is in the eastern pacific heading to san diego. it was dispatched from asia last month to bolster a counter drug mission. president trump announced reinforcements earlier this month at the white house, this comes as the navy is recommending that defense secretary he' esper reinstate a skipper. captain brett crozier was given a hero's sendoff when he left the aircraft carrier in guam. he urged the navy to get sailors off the ship. he was fired days later by thomas mobly who resigned one day later, after he berated the crew in a pr profanity laced tie and said the following about captain crozier. >> it's my opinion if he didn't think that information was going to get out into the public, in this information age we live in

he was too naive or too stupid to be the commanding officer of a ship like this. >> reporter: more than 800 sailors have tested positive, 90% are off the aircraft carrier and ashore in guam like captain crozier wanted in the letter. his fate could be determined early next week. arthel. arthel: thank you very much, lucas. eric. eric: arthel, a michigan democratic lawmaker facing backlash after supporting president trump's statements about that controversial possible coronavirus treatment. we'll tell you about the action her colleagues took against her today after she met with the president at the white house. but first, like the rest of the world, new york city this afternoon remains on lockdown. our fox news field technician nathan furness captured lif lifs it is in the big apple. take a look at this video essay.

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>> necessarily of trying to be big, bold, brave, take unnecessary risks, certainly not for me. it's a question of somebody needs help and how can i help them and if i'm blessed to be healthy enough and have the knowledge and equipment to be

able to take part in that, it's an honor to be able to do it. arthel: virginia governor ralph northam wants volunteers for his state's medical reserve corps, part of an effort to combat coronavirus. there have 15,000 volunteers. the governor wants to double that. joining me now with more on how to get involved is francis ratt, coordinator for the medical reserve corps. so mr. francis ratt, i'm going to start here. what happens at a medical reserve center? what's the mission. >> our mission is to support the health department in any way we need to. we are the only organization that is dedicated to supporting our local health departments. arthel: and how do you do that? >> well, we do it in a variety of ways. for example, right now as we speak, we have volunteers louden county manning a call center and doing contact tracing. we also do epidemiological investigations, we have fit

testing teams, we have epi flag teams, we can assist in long-term care facilities if requested, we can assist at alternate care sites if requested. if we have to give out medication or vaccination to a large group in the publication lick -- public we can do that also. arthel: as we said, there are 15,000 members at the medical reserve center in virginia and governor northam would like to have 30,000 volunteers, that's twice the number you already have in virginia. by the way, if you are in virginia and you're interested in joining this volunteer service, we're going to put it on the screen, it is vd as in virginia, department of health, vdh.virginia.gov/mrc. so to sign up, that's where you go. but you listed what it is that you do. so then back to you, mr. ratt, what are some of the skillsets needed or required to volunteer.

>> >> well, we have no required skillsets. we do provide training. the skillsets we're looking for are very broad. we need both medical and nonmedical volunteers. medical volunteers would of course try to do what they're best trained for, whether do medical evaluations or give vaccinations or dispense drugs, things like that. nonmedical volunteers do everything else. one of the biggest roles is logistic support, administrative support. we need everybody. what is very important i believe is that people need to understand that in today's age, spontaneous volunteers, people who just show up when needed the strongly discouraged. you really need to coin something like the medical reserve corps ahead of time so we can do a background check, check your credentials, give you training in advance so you're ready to go when we need you. arthel: interesting. because a lot of people do want to help and i think it's our human nature to go just show up to the location, see how we can lend a help hadding hand p but

you're saying don't do that, go through the medical reserve center. i told you about the way, how you can do it in virginia. after i speak to mr. ratt, i will let you know how to do it across the country. i want to ask you this. you've been volunteering for many years in your life. how does working on this coronavirus pandemic, how does this effort differ from any of your other volunteering ventures. >> well, it's probably the most intense and the most difficult in a way. a lot of things happen very, very quickly. i'm also a volunteer paramedic but that only usually lasts a few days or few hours at a time. this is lasting weeks. so it is quite -- this is not a sprint. this is a marathon. and it is something that we talked about and we always try to be prepared for the worst and hope for the best. arthel: and how has it affected you personally? i mean, i know you're a

professional. you're very composed and of course you have compassion for people. not trying to get you to break down but also just trying to ask how does it touch you personally? >> well, i have actually friends who have the disease. fortunately all of them so far are doing quite well. it makes me want to work harder. it makes me want to do the best i can to protect our community. it really drives me. arthel: well, we appreciate your efforts, sir, and all of those, all of the wonderful volunteers and our first responders of course. you're with the louden county medical reserve corps. mr. francis ratt, thank you very much, sir. >> thank you. arthel: i promised that i would -- thank you, sir. before i let our viewers go, mr, thank you. i want to let everyone know for more information on the medical reserve corps across the country, you can go to

mrc.hhs.gov. mrc.hhs.gov. it's on your screen. thank you. eric. eric: great idea. well, in michigan democrats vote to censure a state representative there, after a representative voiced a support for a protest against the stay at home orders and promoted hydroxychloroquine as a treatment for the coronavirus. earlier this month, she tested positive for coronavirus and thankfully has since recovered and she credited that controversial treatment for her successful battle against the virus. it's causing controversy today. matt fin is live in chicago with the latest on that. hi, matt. >> reporter: eric, just hours ago democrats in michigan's 13th congressional district voteden an musely ted to censur. she landed in hot water with her fellow democrats after meeting with the president in the white house and thanking him for his

pandemic response and she also cited the medicine hydroxychloroquine as helping her recover from covid-19, something her doctor now confirms. the state representative says since that meeting, the governor has been unpleasant towards her, she says black people are dying in michigan, their water is being shut off and she thinks it's the president that can help those people in her district. >> unfortunately i got the news i will be censured by the 13th congressional district, for thanking the president of the yates for taking care of me and making sure i had the carry needed with hydroxychloroquine. a simple thank you has gotting me censured. can you believe that? >> reporter: this afternoon the chair for the democratic party in michigan's 13th congressional district tells fox news that the representative is not being censured because she met with the president and thanked him but she did so without meeting with state

department chairs tore the governor before a critical meeting with the president of the united states to discuss the true needs of the state of michigan. the district chair also tells fox news that representative whit is being combative with other democrats and is using trigger words when discussing the black community. eric. eric: i bet the president will having to say about all this. matt, thank you. arthel. arthel: thank you. the governor of california with a stern warning for residents as the state sees record temperatures this weekend. more on that coming up next. hey mama, what's up?

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these developments from los angeles. hi, christina knew it's >> reporter: it's definitely a hot day in southern california. the high is 91 degrees today. to cool off a lot of people are flooding to the beach despite stay at home orders. many beaches across the country are closed as health officials push social distancing including beaches in los angeles and san diego county, 72 miles of the region's coast is closed but in nearby orange county an estimated 40,000 people were at newport beach on friday and crowds flooded huntington beach. yesterday la's mayor warned people that not following social distancing rules could make the fight against coronavirus even harder. >> our pry mal primal nature wo get out. the vast majority will be at home this weekend. unless you're in a critical job, please stay at home. no matter what the temptations

are, no matter how badly we want to go out. we can't let one weekend reverse a month of work that you have invested in. >> reporter: today in another beach state, florida people are protesting stay at home orders as rallies across the country continue against coronavirus restrictions. people are protesting in orlando and miami today. florida was one of the last states to issue a state-wide stay at home order. the governor, republican ron de santis, says a date has not been set to reopen florida but he's considering different options on how to proceed. he said he's not rushing to reopen. >> phase one is a very, very small step forward and i think the prudent way to do it is to be very methodical about it, be very data-driven. i'm not in a rush to do anything. i would rather do it right. >> reporter: despite the rallies taking place across the country, a recent yahoo news poll shows

the majority of the public owe oppose these anti-lockdown protests. eric. eric: christina, they're very controversial. what do most of the people say in the survey you mentioned. >> reporter: according to this poll conducted between april 17th to april 19th, 71% of americans were more concerned about lifting coronavirus restrictions too soon and according to this poll, that same amount of people want public health officials to be able to fully test and trace new cases and outbreaks before reopening. eric. eric: christina, i'll take it. thanks. arthel. arthel: all right, guys. thank you. well as masks continue to be in high demand for healthcare workers, one woman is taking matters into her own hands, sewing about 200 homemade masks every week for those in her community. joining me now is jill folky, the wardrobe supervisor for music stars like stevie nicks,

j-lo, lenny conside lenny kravi. she has found another use for her skill set. jill, i'm happy to have you with us here on fox. if you could start by telling us how long ago did you start making the masks and how many you've made so far. >> hi, arthel. i actually started quite early, probably the second week of march, when it became apparent that people really needed these and i was like, well, i literally like watched the tv and got up to my work room and opened up a big box of scraps and quilting fabric and i said, well, i can do this. arthel: and then how do you deliver the mask and who do you make them for, jill? >> well, i've made them for our houston k-9 cops, i've made them for university of texas medical branch, lots of friends and

family that are going through cancer treatments that have to go to the hospital and they're afraid of being in a hospital setting. nurses in washington state, an ob/gyn practice that a friend of mine from high school runs, just a lot of different people in a lot of different states. what i usually do is i sew all day and then i stop at about 4:00 and i see how many orders i have and i try to fulfill them and see if there's a certain color people like and then i'll address the envelopes and race to the post office before it closes at 5:00. arthel: yeah, is there a price for your mask? >> it's pretty much a donation. i mean, i don't really have a set price. i mean, people have been able to donate very generously which helps keep me buying fabric and supplies and paying for the postage and some like for the houston k-9 cops, i just gave

them -- they provided the fabric and i sewed them and donated them. it's flexible, it's just what people can afford and, you know, who needs it. arthel: and that's a wonderful thing. you're an example of how you don't have to be a big operation to make a big contribution in this fight against covid-19. you know, most of us think about doing something but you are doing something and you said -- i think you told me that you were watching tv one day and you thought well, i can do that. was there something specific, some specific image or a particular story that you heard that prompted you to start making the masks? >> well, it was just the fact that at the time nobody could even get the surgical masks and people were just using whatever they could and it just seemed like a nice thing to do and frankly when i first started i thought oh, i'll make like 50 or so, that will be a nice little contribution and so far today

i've made 819 masks. arthel: wow. wow. that's wonderful. and you're still going. you know -- >> yeah, yeah. arthel: what? >> i said i probably put out 150 more today, ready to sew for tomorrow. arthel: fantastic. you know, jill, kindness is like a boomerang, it comes back to you. how does it make you feel to know that your seemingly small act of kindness will go a long way? >> well, it is very gratifying because a lot of people have sent very nice thank-you notes and cards and just saying how wonderful it was and how much they really appreciate it and that makes me happy. i mean, it keeps me going. because it's not the most technically creative challenging thing to make but what i like to do is -- i've been given donations of really cool fra brick and i got another -- fabric and i got another box

today from my friend marianne, i talked to a woman over the phone who owns a quilt shop in pittsburgh and is struggling because she doesn't have a lot of business so i said you know what, just like pick out pretty fabric and my friend marianne picked them up and shipped them to me and i got them today and just stuff like that, like people helping people. arthel: definitely. you gave me goose bumps. this is what we're all about as americans. it is true. you know what, not to be corny but this is the fra brick of who -- fabric of who we are as americans. you're doing the right thing. good on you, jill. let's hope the music starts up again so we can get to the venues, safely, of course. i miss seeing you on tour. and maybe we can get together and collect more fun memories out there on tour. >> yes. arthel: thank you so much. and keep up the great work. >> thank you, arthel. arthel: see you. >> bye-bye. arthel: eric. eric: congratulations, jill.

just great. next hour we'll have a look at an effort to raise money for masks that helped a mississippi hospital and an effort for nurses across the country. the baseball player who inspired the character nuke lalush played by tim robins bill durham has died from the coronavirus. he suffered from severe pre-existing health conditions, said his sister. he was known for his incredibly fast pitch. he struck out they say more than 1300 batters throughout his nine seasons in which he played in the minor leagues. steve delwaski dead at 80 years old from this horrible virus. and we'll be right back.

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drones. drones could monitor people's temperatures from as far as 190 feet away, they could detect sneezing, coughing and heart rates. one town in connecticut said they won't be using the drones after the public expressed concern over a possible invasion of privacy. the american civil liberties union of connecticut say the fever detech shu detection fevee accurate. in nevada, one company says it is using drones to deliver food from a restaurant in reno. they say they want to use the delivery service to next distribute coronavirus medical supplies to people but they need the approval of the faa for that. arthel. arthel: all right, eric. let's go to italy now where they're going to ramp up antibody testing as the government plans to ease restrictions on the country hit heavily by coronavirus. amy kellogg is live in florence with the update.

amy. >> reporter: hi, arthel. well, they had a national competition here to come up with what they thought would be the best antibody test and the coronavirus czar of italy announced they found the winner and would be rolling out the tests nationwide on may 4th, the day that italy is supposed to get partially back to work. the announcemen announcement byd health organization today took a little bit of wind out of the sails of this announcement of having pinpointed a test because the world health organization did say earlier today that there is no guarantee that people who have been infected with coronavirus won't necessarily -- there's a chance they could still be reinfected, in other words, there's no guarantee that having the antibodies means that you are safe from getting sick again. in any event, those plans go forward, this as it was liberation day today, april 25th here in italy, it's the day that italians celebrate

their liberation from the nazis, frofrom facism. there is still another war to be won and an invisible enemy to be overcome. the czar said getting back to normal here will not be about a presidential declaration, it will be about people's behavior and keeping up social distancing, et cetera, as we go forward. italy's president today marked the day at the altar of the homeland. italians normally commemorate liberation day with gatherings and marches, but today they were confined to their homes. in venice, those who could purchased red roses to commemorate the day and also to celebrate their patron saint, sanmarco or saint mark. the streets still of course largely empty, lockdown is still in place. but may 4th is the day that

manufacturing will fire back up in many sectors, fashion and automotive among them, all of course if they can guarantee in these factories and workplaces safe distancing. some few millions out of the population of 60 million will be gabbing to -- will go back to work. may 18th is the day talked about that museums, restaurants and bars will reopen. that does to many people seem a bit premature. however, everyone is pretty much at this point still, arthel, in a state of speculation. we are waiting from official word from the government about what the guidelines will be. it's the sixth straight day here when the number of infected people has decreased which is very good news. however, there's a lot of concern still about infections within homes, within families and that this curve could shoot back up if people aren't careful. this week we will likely see a total since the beginning of the

papandemic of 206,000 in the country, 26,000 deaths. a lot of people seeking answers, there's a lot of talk about some lawsuits that are being formed against both nursing homes and also by doctors unions and other organizations that want to know why more protective measures weren't taken earlier on. arthel, back to you. arthel: bella caio. amy kellogg. thank you. eric. eric: arthel, china looking to duck any blame over the spread of the covid-19 pandemic. so will there eventually be any accountability for china as beijing is being blamed? dan hoffman will tell us, next.

>> even after the ccp did notify the who of the coronavirus outbreak, china didn't share all of the information it had. instead, it covered up how dangerous the disease it. it didn't report sustained human to human transmission for a month until it was in every province inside of china. it censored those who tried warn the world. it ordered a halt to testing of

new samples and destroyed existing samples. eric: that's secretary of state mike pompeo laying out the case against china over the handling of the coronavirus outbreak. our country's top diplomat promising beijing will, quote, pay a price for causing an enormous amount of pain and the overwhelming amount of loss of life, blaming it directly on them. joining me now, dan hoffman, former cia station chief, also a fox news contributor. many people say it's beijing's fault, they are to blame because they tried to hide it. they muzzled that doctor. they didn't come clean with the world health organization and they were more concerned about protecting their image than dealing with this at first. what do you say? >> i absolutely agree. in fact, i've been saying that i think this is like soldie chern, the worst nuclear accident in

1986, where similar to the soviet union xi-jinping concealed the severeity of the coronavirus from their superiors. they arrested and censored those who were trying to ring alarm bells, to the detriment of their own population and the world at large. so i think secretary pompeo is absolutely right that china deserves the blame for not doing what they should have done to mitigate the severity of the crisis from a start and they should pay a price. eric: what type of price would that be? what could they -- the attorney generals of mississippi is suing them. >> i am very confident that the chinese communist party will pay a price for what they did here, certainly from the united states. people put their lives at risks over the last weeks, they know this is a result of this virus that originated in wuhan, china and they know the chinese government didn't do the things it needed to do. there will be a cost associated

with that. there will be a time to make sure we get this right, to make sure we're not dependent on china for the pharmaceutical goods and all the things that we've seen that we didn't have right. eric: it's interesting he said that the chinese communist party will pay a price, not china. can you explain that. you may not be able to sue a country but you could certainly sue the communist party. >> yeah, it's probably a distinction without a difference since the communist party is exercising a dictatorship over the country. there are probably two ways to hold china accountable. the first is china's reputation. i envision a two pronged defensive, one from the state department in conjunction with our allies in europe and asia, holding china accountable, shining a bright spotlight on their malfeasance. secondly, economically and secretary pompeo is right, we need to decouple the supply chain, essentially on medical equipment and high technology and present the world with another source of reliable -- a

reliable source of those goods, that would be the united states. as far as whether individuals or states decide to take china to court, that's certainly not beyond the realm of possibility. i think all is in the realm of the possible right now, given, again, the severity of this crisis and china's responsibility. eric: and dan, do you think that this perhaps finally will dent china and beijing's reputation to such an extent that will pull them back from their aggressiveness, from their outreach involvement in other countries, their economic spreading in africa and elsewhere, to finally pull them back a bit when they seem to be going 100 miles an hour? >> i think that's the great challenge for our government, the united states' government. look, china's been militaryizing the south china sea, they're stealing intellectual property and conducting massive espionage, not to mention the propaganda and dis information.

we need to counter chaff. this is a greater, more intense struggle than maybe even the cold war was. it's not going to get less intense in the coming weeks, months and years ahead. this is a long one we'll have to deal with with china. eric: and if they perhaps had done the right thing early on, we wouldn't be in this situation global, worldwide, horrendous situation. dan hoffman, thank you. always good to see you, take care. >> thank you, good to see you. eric: arthel. arthel: eric, the coronavirus death now topping 200,000 across the globe, the latest on the pandemic when we come back after this short break. e complete, balanced nutrition for strength and energy. whoo-hoo! great tasting ensure with 9 grams of protein, 27 vitamins and minerals, and nutrients to support immune health.

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reopen despite widespread criticism from health experts, some local leaders and president trump. steve harrigan is live in washington, outside -- in georgia, outside the centers for disease control and prevention in atlanta with the very latest. hi, steve. >> reporter: republican governor brian kemp is out in front on this issue and he certainly is taking a lot of heat for it. many nonessential businesses were allowed to reopen on friday after being shut down by the government for about a month, more will open as the week begins including restaurants and movie theaters. governor kemp said there was a declining number of confirmed virus cases in the state of georgia. he said the economy has been pummeled by this crisis with one-fifth now out of work. we spoke to a number of small business owners, some of whom are cautiously eager to get back to work. >> we're already exposing ourselves going out to grocery stores, gas stations, pharmacies. why shouldn't our business be allowed to try and adapt and

survive? >> reporter: it's been a controversial move. there have been street protests here in georgia, criticism of kemp's move from the cdc, from the mayor of atlanta and from president trump who said he thinks georgia is moving too quickly. the state has 22,000 cases of the virus, more than 900 people dead. and they haven't done much testing, less than 1% of the people in georgia have been tested but other states will soon follow suit. 16 states ready to reopen their economies beginning next week. eric, back to you. eric: all right, steve. thanks so much. arthel. arthel: yeah, eric, thank you. more small businesses hit by the pandemic hoping to get some much-needed relief after congress approved a nearly half trillion dollar coronavirus aid package signed by the president. it will replenish the paycheck protection program which was depleted in just a matter of days. mark meredith is live at the white house with more. mark. >> reporter: arthel, good afternoon. as steve was talking about, so

many small businesses are getting ready to reopen once the governors give a green light but businesses not expected to return to normal any time soon. lawmakers this week passing the effort to replenish funds for the paycheck protection program which would help small businesses keep people on payroll. the president had a chance to sign this bill into law on friday, making sure that that money will get back out here. he says the money should be reserved for smaller financial institutions so they can better reach businesses owned by minorities and located in distressed communities. the bill reups the fund with $300 billion for paycheck protection. as well as $60 billion for the small business administration to deal with disaster loans, $75 billion for hospitals and $25 billion for testing. lawmakers say they're doing the best they can to address people's needs that appear to really grow by the day. >> we are 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 unemployment roles and that is incredibly expensive as well. everyone goes straight onto food

assistance. people are hungry. it's not that people's needs disappear. >> reporter: certainly not. there is already a debate growing in washington about what the next potential stimulus bill is going to look like and what it may or may not include. we got a pretty bleak picture from the congressional budget office. they gave us an idea of what the economy may look like right now. they depricket the unemployment -- predict the unemployment rate will hover around 14% average. the federal budget deficit for the year could top $3.7 trillion. >> i do think that a silver lining is how we got here. this was a public health response, not an underlying weakness to the economy. and i think we have time now to get back to where we were as we reopen. >> reporter: the white house has floated the idea about asking congress to spend billions of dollars on infrastructure to help jump start the economy.

it's an idea they floated around for the last several years, since really the president took office, although it's unclear whether or not that will happen in the next stimulus bill when congress gets back to work or whether or not this is something that will be kicked down the road for several months to come. we'll continue to watch that closely. arthel. arthel: of course. thank you very much, mark meredith. >> reporter: you bet. arthel: eric. eric: well, arthel, coronavirus restrictions are starting to loosen in some countries around the globe. including india. that's where officials are now allowing a limited number of shots shops in residential neighborhoods to reopen with 50% reduction in staff. kitty logan is live in london where people are still under lockdown as the british deaths from the virus have topped 20,000 so far, really being hit hard so tragically. hi, kitty. >> reporter: yes, that's right, eric. a grim milestone today, the government here was hoping in a best case scenario that the death toll here would be under 20,000.

today, the numbers have passed that and with it any chances of lifting this lockdown as britain becomes one of the worst affected countries in the world. the government confirmed today another 813 fatalities that were registered in u.k. hospitals in the past 24 hours alone. that means social distancing has to continue to save lives. but many want to know what the lockdown exit plan is. the government says, though, that with this high daily death toll it means conditions have not yet been met for that to happen and in recent days there were signs that some people were starting to venture out, tired of their restrictions. the government message here is still to stay at home. frustration spilling over too in the german capital, berlin, a small crowd, around 500 people, taking part in an illegal protest about the ongoing lockdown. germany has had a relatively low death toll compared to other european countries. the government too recently

announced that some restrictions there will be lifted but for those demonstrators today, that's clearly not enough. germany encouraging the use of masks so people can go out as do other countries and in portugal we've seen authorities handing out masks directly to some of the more vulnerable people there. that country too still in a state of emergency. and a further complication, another challenge facing many muslims around the world, it's the start of the holy month of ramadan, egypt for example is under strict lockdown too, that means people have to pray at home or rooftops, many mosques are closed there too. so belgium and france is slowly loosening the lockdown, slowly lifting restrictions but experts are warning of a possible second wave of infection and we're seeing now this huge global death toll and fears are that that number could climb even higher. eric. eric: all right, kitty. thank you so much. arthel.

arthel: eric, thank you. a community comes together to help house the homeless amid the coronavirus. shelter in place order in georgia, which by the way governor kemp has partially lifted, several charitable organizations teamed one the city of rome to convert a sports academy building into a new temporary shelter. let's bring in the owner of the facility, dr. john cowen, a neurosurgeon who trained under the h ud secretary, dr. ben carson. you are the owner of the sports academy building. i understand you're leasing it for $400 a month which covers utilities. what's involved in converting this sports facility into a homeless shelter in. >> sure, thanks, arthel for having me. we saw the need in our local community and reached out to local leaders and people who run our housing development authority as well as the local homeless shelter and came

together to create a center that could house about 80 individuals including families with children. so we really had to get a lot of people in the room, salvation army is involved, united way is involved, and solve this problem that we were having. arthel: yes, because there's a lot of choreography involved when you try to put together the moving parts with the meals, the funding, the bedding, et cetera. so you put out the call and they came, they came running, is that what happened? >> well, that's right. the city was working on the problem and as a local member of the economic development and the community foundation here, i heard about these problems and i went to several of them and said look, we've got a great space that's not being used because of shelter in place. what can we do to make it work. and we brought some construction folks in and added washing machines. we brought some cots in from the salvation army and brought in a

few snacks and toys for the kids that would be there and now currently we're housing 20 people. like i said, we can house up to 80 if we need to. arthel: you said your main kline tell, you've got -- clientele, you've got single women and families there. the beds seem to be appropriately spaced from what i can see from the video. tell us how else you're managing to keep social distancing there and to keep everybody involved from spreading or contracting coronavirus. >> sure. we have staff on-site that's maintaining the social distancing between the folks who are staying there, those cots that you saw in the pictures are six to eight feet apart. we actually have separate rooms in the upstairs portion for families who have already been together to stay together and be separated. so we're doing a very good job. it's a very large facility. we have a lot of outdoor space where people can get outside and

exercise as well. they're taking temperatures of the people in there. we're wiping down surfaces, doing a lot of cleaning to make sure we can contain any possible spread. arthel: okay. very good. so you are running for congress. i want to ask you, how can we use this pandemic as a springboard for systemic nationwide change in how we feed the homeless, how we house the homeless, as well as provide mental counseling and medical assistance. >> that's a great question and that's one i'm not going to be able to answer completely in 30 seconds or less, probably, but times like this, we've just seen the best in everybody, republicans, democrats, coming together and really solving problems and i think if we keep that spirit where citizens of the united states recognize that we're all part of the same country, we're all affected by this virus. doesn't matter your color, doesn't matter your political

affiliation, that we all can be affected by it. our jobs are affected by. we have to work together going forward to solve these problems and that begins in ramping up our supply chain of ppe, to protecting these viruses earlier, having a strong who that is looking out for these things and monitoring them carefully. arthel: i understand that, i understand ther dr. cowen we hao work together. i understand what you just said. you're running for office. you're using your facility to help the homeless in your community. maybe you could work from there and develop a platform that could be successful for you and be shared across the country with how we deal with the problem of homelessness. right now it's growing because of people who are for the first time having to show up to shelters like yours for food and for shelter. it's a problem. we need people like you who are

running for congress to come up with a platform to make this all better. >> that's right. that's right. and we've got lots of people in our community working with these individuals. obviously job training, mental health counseling, just providing three meals a day for the children who are staying in our facility, making sure that when schools get back up or they're able to do distance learning at our facility, things like that. it's a big problem. i'm looking forward hopefully to being a part of the solution, not part of any problems going forward. arthel: dr. john cowen, thank you very much for joining us and thank you very much for your efforts. take care. >> thank you. god bless you. thank you. arthel: god bless you. eric. eric: just terrific. well, there's a new way for hospitals to keep checking in on patients after they recovered from coronavirus and they've been discharged. we'll give you the details on that progress, straight ahead. . whether you're caring for your

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eric: there is a new way to remotely monitor coronavirus patients who have been discharged from the hospital. it's a sensor that wraps around the finger and is attached to a wristband that monitors your vital signs. it reduces the risk of exposure to healthcare workers and allows patients to recover at home.

aishah hasnie is live in new york city with more on this new technology and how it works. hi, aishah. >> reporter: hi, eric. we know that on every covid-19 patient will -- not every covid-19 patient will need intensive care. when a patient can leave the hospital and go home, this device is giving that patient and their doctor a peace of mind. it comes from this medical technology company called mosimo, called the safety net device. it's a disposable smart wristband attached to a pulse objectiooximeter. it measures oxygen levels and respiration rates. when the levels drop, the device sends a signal to the patient's smartphone which then alerts the doctor. >> what this technology allows opts to do -- hospitals to do is to reduce the demand on the ppe, the protective equipment, to reduce the demand on the hospital beds.

why? because they can send the patient home. >> reporter: now, it allows doctors in cleveland to send home covid patients like alicia drostak who didn't need intensive care but she lives alone. she lives alone. doctors saved on ppe and reduced the spread of the virus and they also saved lives. >> there were several patients already that deteriorated. we picked it up early when their objecting jen levels went -- oxygen levels went down and we advised them to go back to the hospital. they're now going home. >> reporter: the device received fda approval 15 days ago. they fast tracked it. 60 hospitals have signed up with 600 more worldwide really in the process of deploying this. eric. eric: yeah, aishah, seems like a great idea and the oxygen levels are really important, that can be an indicator if

someone is infected. thank you. arthel. arthel: eric, illinois state senators facing major backlash after they sent congress a request for more than $40 billion in federal bailout money. a recent editorial calling out the state senate's president shameless and dishonest. garrett tenney has the details. >> reporter: the illinois state senate's request for $40 billion in federal aid is raising eye dross. nearly a quarter of that money would bail out the state's severely underfunded pension system, a problem that isn't new and has been getting worse for decades. the editorial board wrote taxpayers across the country should not be responsible for illinois' financial mismanagement and the unfunded pension liabilities. last weekend the board described it this way. ever heard the one about the man who kills his parents and then begs for mercy because he's an orphan. that's springfield. destroying the state's finances and then seeking a bailout. there's growing debate in

washington over federal relief funding for the states. how much it should be and how it should be used. a lot of republican lawmakers are open to helping the states out but many like south carolina senator tim scott want tight restrictions on how those funds can be spent. >> bad decisions in state capitals should not lead to a worse decision in the nation's capital. the bottom line is simply this. a lot of states mismanaged for decades their resources and for those states that are on the bubble, we should not come rescue them with other taxpayers money from other states. >> reporter: the national governors association requested congress give the states at least $500 billion to help make up for lost tax revenue during the national shutdown. this week 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. >> when you don't fund state and

local, you know who you don't fund? police, fire, school teachers, school officials. was was the possible theory of funding large corporations but not firefighters? and not police? and not healthcare workers? i mean, it boggle the mind. >> reporter: nancy pelosi said her team is working on a phase four relief package and it will include funding for state and local governments. senate republicans may having to say about that. this is a debate we'll be hearing a lot more about over the next few weeks. in washington, i'm garrett tenney, fox news. eric: a few weeks ago we reported on a group called mask match, they help send masks to rural areas in our country. well get what? they did help. we'll take you to a medical center in mississippi and introduce you to mask match, straight ahead.

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arthel: the meat industry is facing lots of problems right now because of the pandemic. at least 17 workers in plants across the country have died and 3400 have been infected with coronavirus, prompting eight plants to temporarily shut down. 100 usda inspectors have also caught the virus. the vice president of the illinois farm bureau told neil cavuto this morning what the federal government needs to do to protect the industry and its workers. >> what does need to happen, neil, to prevent these unknowns is to get these processors, these processing plants recognized as critical areas and a high priority for testing and to give the employees the valuable people that work in those plants confidence to return to work.

arthel: pork producers across the country are having to make tough decisions about their li livestock. >> reporter: from exports, wholesaling to restaurants and consumers in the grocery stores, the more than 60,000 pork producers in america profits $20 billion a year from pigs. but the current covid-19 pandemic is wreaking havoc on the industry. >> all of us in agriculture have been asked to keep working despite everything that's going on with the coronavirus and that's because everyone recognizes that we need to keep food moving. >> reporter: that means pork producers are working, despite mandatory shutdown orders in states that have closed some of the pork industry's largest consumers, including restaurants and schools. the national pork producers council says pork farmers will lose roughly $5 billion in revenue by the end of the year to these disruptions. >> about 70% of bacon is consumed in restaurants and in

food service. so we're seeing a shift in how some of those products are making it to consumers. >> reporter: making matters worse for pork producers is balancing feeding america while keeping their employees safe. one of the nation's largest pork processing facilities in sioux falls south dakota is closed after more than 600 confirmed covid-19 cases were tied to the plant. companies like christianson farms which operates 400 farms, plus processing plants across the country, say even with mitigation efforts including social distancing and temperature checks for employees, they're preparing to make tough decisions about their livestock. >> some of the worst case scenarios are quite honestly pretty disturbing. we have to look at alternative measures including potential euthanasia. >> reporter: there's some help for pork producers after the federal government announced a relief package that includes $1.6 billion in direct payments.

but some pork producers worry it's not enough from keeping family farms from going bankrupt and they're asking the federal government to extend support. in des moines, iowa, minnie hicks, fox news. >> social distancing is working. our aggressive testing and contract tracing are working. you are saving lives. but we cannot let our guard down. we cannot pretend this is over. it is not. eric: that's mississippi governor announcing a safer at home order set to go into effect in his state on monday. it would allow some businesses to reopen under certain rules and restrictions including the use of masks. but many areas in the state and around the country, they're having trouble getting the protective equipment. fortunately at fox news channel a few weeks ago we focused on one nonprofit group called

maskmatch.com. guess what, mask match was able to get masks to a medical center in mississippi that also suffered from those powerful tornadoes. dr. theresa camp rogers joins us, the chief quality officer at south central regional medical center in laurel, mississippi, that received the masks. and liz clinger in berkley, california, co-founder of maskmatch.com. she made it happen. doctor, let me start with you. how did mask match and liz and khloe, also part of the group, how did you come together and get the masks to your medical center in mississippi that you so needed? >> so our hospital, when we were planning for our response to the covid pandemic, we knew from very early on that maintaining an adequate supply of ppe, especially masks, would be challenging. and our response to that challenge was to have a community mask drive. and as part of that community mask drive project, we happened

upon -- thankfully we happened upon mask match. eric: and you happened upon it and then what happened? how did you get the masks? >> what happened was we reached out to them and made a request and liz and her company were very helpful and very responsive and we were able to receive that donation and it contributed to our supply of masks that we're using to protect our staff and our patients and their families and now our community. eric: that is so important and liz, when we first focused on you, you said one of mask match's focuses is on other areas. the big cities, new york, chicago, other cities have lots of nonprofit groups but smaller areas, doctors offices, in rural areas may be unfortunately left out. >> right. yes. exactly. yeah. for mask match, we pride ourselves on speed and making it

also as easy for people to help as possible. so in about one month we mobileized thousands of americans around the country to send their masks to healthcare workers who need them now and we prided ourselves on getting to places that are -- that might be harder to get to. because if you're in a city, have you a larger density of people and more people who have masks which is great and that's important. but there's also communities that are all around the country who are experiencing this and covid's not going to slow down for any of us. so we need to have ways to get masks to people right now and making it as easy as possible for people to help to be able to help. eric: and liz, do you take donations? how does that work? how can people help? >> yeah, people can go to mask-match.com and it's a pretty simple website. there's two sides to it. so if you're looking to donate

any spare masks, we help facilitate transferring n95 masks, surgical masks, also fabric masks, hand made masks. you fill out a form and within a day or sometimes a couple hours one of our 300 volunteers reaches out to you to give you an address of a healthcare worker, somewhere in your region, who needs them right now. so it's a pretty great tool. we've been able to get over 340,000 masks donations around the country to healthcare workers to help them basically fight covid-19 for us. eric: that is absolutely great. doctor, you were also hit by those tornadoes. what is the fight against coronavirus like now? you're in jones county. you've had 116 cases, in mississippi, 5,153 coronavirus cases so far and 201 deaths. what's the battle like?

you hear about the cities but not so much the rural areas. >> right. so the battle during the coronavirus pandemic took a different turn on easter sunday. and on easter sunday we did have the tornadoes you mentioned earlier. during those tornadoes, 57 of our employees had their homes damaged or destroyed. and again, back to mask match, what we were able to do after that tornado was talked to mask match again and used masks in the recovery effort and by using the masks in the recovery effort, we've been able to -- we feel like fulfill our public health responsibility and giving those masks back to the community for those people that are working side-by-side, helping our communities recover from that devastating tornado. eric: god bless you, doctor,

and everyone down in south central regional in laurel, mississippi and liz and khloe, congratulations on your work, helping people out across the country. doctor, thank you. liz, thank you. and once again folks if you're watching and you want to help mask slash match.com is the place that you can go help and doctor, on behalf of all of us here at fox news channel thank you, and thank you at the doctors and nurses and medical professionals down there on the front lines, bless you. thank you. >> thank you. eric: arthel. arthel: a sad consequence of this pandemic, a surge in cases of domestic violence. the national domestic violence hot line is reporting the rise in calls in at least a dozen states. experts say stay at home orders are forcing victims into close quarters with their abusers making it more difficult than ever to escape. the u.s. attorney for the

northern district of texas says the virus should not deter a victim from taking action. >> domestic violence victims, they may feel like they're safer at home, they may not want to go to a shelter or medical facility right now because of the coronavirus but that may or may not be safe. we know that when a domestic violence offender is in the home with someone that has a gun, domestic homicide goes up 500%. arthel: there ar -- you can cal 1-800-799-safe which is 1-800-799-7237233 or go to the hotline.org and click the chat button or you can text love is to 22522. so you text love is to 22522.

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eric: well, a new potential claim emerging about the allegation that former vice president joe biden assaulted one of his advisers in 1993. his mother called into a show asking for advice. an unnamed caller talks about her daughter's alleged sexual harassment by a, quote, prominent senator. doesn't mention any names though. jacqui heinrich in new york city

with more on this. >> reporter: former bernie sanders campaign staffer among those expressing outrage over the clip. his former press secretary tweeted progressive didn't make this happen, corporate democrats chose biden and also it's a good time to note that bernie's on the ballot. the fallout comes after ta tara reade confirmed her mother called into larry king in august of 1993 alluding to her daughter's sexual assault claim against then senator biden. the caller notably doesn't mention biden by name or describe the nature of the incident but indicates going public would cause damage to the senator's reputation. >> hello. >> yes, hello. i'm wondering what a staffer would do besides go to the press in washington. my daughter has just left there after working for a prominent senator and could not get through with her problems at all and the only thing she could

have done was go to the press and she chose not to do it out of respect for him. >> reporter: in march, reade accused biden of sexually assaulting her when she was a staffer in his office. her story changed since 2019 when she told a local newspaper biden touched her and made her feel uncomfortable. she told the new york times she didn't initially claim sexual assault because she was scared facing a wave of criticism over a series of posts and tweets she made, some of which praised biden's efforts of ending sexual assault. reade appears to have multiple twitter accounts and has gone by another name in the past. biden's campaign denied the allegations while being careful not to silence ms. reade amid the me too movement. the campaign manager said women have a right to tell their story and reporters have an obligation to vet the claims. we encourage them to do so because the accusations are false. the dnc has so far not responded

to request for comment. eric. eric: jacqui, thank you. arthel. arthel: as you know, nurses have been working tirelessly on the frontlines in the fight against coronavirus. now, a woman whose sister is a nurse came up with a way we can all say thank you and also support local struggling small businesses at the same time. it is called go in your purse for a nurse. how you can go in your purse or wallet, up next. i'm your mother in law. and i like to question your every move. like this left turn. it's the next one. you always drive this slow? how did you make someone i love? that must be why you're always so late. i do not speed. and that's saving me cash with drivewise. my son, he did say that you were the safe option. and that's the nicest thing you ever said to me. so get allstate. stop bossing. where good drivers save 40% for avoiding mayhem, like me. this is my son's favorite color, you should try it. [mayhem] you always drive like an old lady?

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eric: here on the fox news channel we are highlighting organizations that work to support medical workers on the front lines of the pandemic. one idea that helps to say thank you to those hospital nurses, also providing financial support for small businesses. it's a group called go in your purse for a nurse, it's raised about $30,000 so far. and inspired similar efforts across the country. its creator joins us now, lore n endelkato of new york city. you started this effort and what happened? >> hi, eric. i want to say thank you so much for having me.

and it's because of shows like you that purse for a nurse just took off. and since two weeks ago now, we have raised over $30,000 and it's over the country now. we have several ambassadors that wanted to help out and the nurses here are going to be so happy once they get their gift cards from us. eric: and you just said the magic word, gift cards. this is how it works. this is the idea you and sal came up with. a lot of local businesses are closed but this helps them. you go to a business, you buy a gift card and you then give the gift card to one of the nurses in the community that's working on the frontlines. >> exactly. we want to help out the small businesses in our area also that are hurting and at the same time we wanted to put a smile on the

nurse's faces and give them the gift card. so we're just excited about that because that's the next thing we want to do is reach out to the nurses and i just want to see how excited they are because they did so much for us, we would like to show them how much we appreciate it. eric: it's a great way to say thank you. and it all started because your sister, alicia, is a nurse an yoand you saw what she was going through on staten island. >> exactly. she's a nurse on staten island. after hearing the stories they were going through and the overwhelming situations they were in, i felt so bad. i said we really need to do something. in return for them doing so much for us, we would like to show our appreciation and show our love for them. eric: and the nurses certainly appreciate it. what about the small business owners, when you say i want to

buy a gift card, do they say thank god, i'm glad i'm selling something. >> exactly. that's what it is. we feel so bad. a lot of them -- we're a very small community and pretty close-knit. so we wanted to help them too because they're suffering. so we said we're going to purchase the gift cards from them after the donations we get from people and we're just going to give them out to all the nurses in the hospital. eric: so people are watching across the country, where do they go, how do they help, can they go to you or should they start their own groups. you talked about ambassadors. how can people at home do the same thing in their community. >> what they can do -- that's what happened. a lot of people were reaching out to us. you can go into my facebook page, that is go in your purse for a nurse and you could reach out to us there. and people from all over the

country are calling and asking how can we do what you did on staten island. and we kind of set them up. the only thing that we ask is that they use our logo, go in your purse for a nurse, and we just like to hear their stories and how they're doing and hopefully they have as great a response as we did on staten island and that's it. eric: so you're saying -- anybody, someone watching right now could go on facebook, go to go in your purse for a nurse, talk to you or at least start the same type of idea, solicit donations, go to the local businesses, help out and hand them out to the nurses. what type of businesses do you go to? and what have you begin out so far? >> we have gone to local restaurants in our area, barber shops, beauty salons, clothing stores, because the idea is that i just want them to feel good and have a nice night out so we

thought they would go get their hair done, their nails done, go out to dinner and just relax. eric: that's great. it's a real -- >> when this is all over. eric: yes, when it's over and it will be at some point. but certainly it is a wonderful way, a personal, sincere, heart-felt way to say thank you in a personal manner so folks, if you're watching us around the country, go in your purse for a nurse, go on facebook or you can -- what a great idea. get in touch and help out the nurses in your community. loreen, how is your sister doing, by the way? >> she's doing okay. thank god. thank god she's doing okay. eric: good, good. we have such thanks for all the nurses who are on the frontlines across the country and our medical workers. >> thank you. eric: thank you for doing what

you do and we know a lot of nurses we hope after working so hard and having such impactful experiences through this whole horrible thing can be thanked by go in your purse for a nurse. thank you. arthel. >> thank you. arthel: that is wonderful. well, tampa making an apology to its newest resident, the mayor's message to tom brady and rob gronkowski, i think i said it right, coming up next. it's tough to quit smoking cold turkey. so chantix can help you quit slow turkey. along with support, chantix is proven to help you quit. with chantix you can keep smoking at first and ease into quitting so when the day arrives, you'll be more ready to kiss cigarettes goodbye. when you try to quit smoking, with or without chantix, you may have nicotine withdrawal symptoms. stop chantix and get help right away if you have changes in behavior or thinking, aggression, hostility, depressed mood, suicidal thoughts or actions, seizures, new or worse heart or blood vessel problems, sleepwalking,

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arthel: tampa's mayor trying to make amends after new tampa bay buccaneer tom brady, sounds weird, was kicked out of a downtown park while working out last week and reportedly violating social distancing. so the mayor wrote, quote, given my law enforcement background, i couldn't help but have someone investigate the sight of seeing a goat running wild in one of our beautiful city parks. no harm. no foul. and thanks for being a good sport. the letter also addressed the new -- the also fellow new buccaneer, gronkowski warning the former patriots tight end not to party too hard and to practice social distancing. isn't that funny? that's just silly.

it's just silly. seriously, eric, you're laughing at that? eric: you got to practice social distancing. i don't care -- arthel: all i got to say is -- eric: wear a mask. arthel: that solves everything. [laughter] jon: some states are beginning to ease stay at home orders with places like georgia allowing some non-essential businesses to open up. good evening, i'm jon scott. this is a special two-hour edition of the fox report. now a look at the latest coronavirus numbers. more than 929,000 confirmed cases in the united states, with more than 53,000 deaths. president trump signing a nearly 500 billion dollars relief package yesterday. it provides additional aid to small businesses during these tough times. the white house coronavirus task force meeting earlier today to discuss our nation's response, but there is no briefing scheduled for tonight. we have fox tea c