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headquarters from washington, d.c., i'm gillian turner. leland: i'm leland vittert, secretary mnuchin's comments set projection that unemployment will remain in double digits until next year. mark meredith in the white house. hi, mark. mark: the white house is confident that the peak of the virus has passed but the president's advicers are trying to prepare for the next disaster and that's the state of the economy. >> the next couple of months are going to be as terrible and seen numbers that we have never seen and stopped everything and output has gone to zero to huge swaths of the economy. >> the congressional budget office is projecting with unemployment rate, 14%, gdp sliding down double digits and
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the federal budget deficit $3.7 trillion. senior administration official told us that the white house is still trying to come up with an idea of what the next stimulus package should and should not include. while the debate is happening here up on capitol hill house speaker nancy pelosi push back against complaints that are coming from democratic governors. they are saying the most recent stimulus bill, the one that congress passed last week that should have included for states to make up for shortfalls. >> don't criticize for what it does. that will happen. i think you see the response even from republican senators that mitch mcconnell was getting. mark: as of right now we are not expecting an on-camera briefing from the president today. there was no briefing on saturday and the one happened on friday was brief where the president didn't take any questions. the president was tweeting about
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this last night. this is what he had to write. he goes, what is the purpose of having white house news conferences when mainstream media ask nothing but hostile questions and refuses to report the truth accurately and they get ratings and the american people fake news. not worth the time and effort. the president bushing back from the briefing. we have heard from administration officials that pushed out against the story that it's possible that the health and human service alex azar will be forced out of job and senior official says the rumors are false and no eminent plans for hhs. leland: we have seen the denials in the past be truthful and sometimes misguided as well. mark meredith, north lawn of the white house. mark, thank you. gillian: meanwhile several states now starting to ease up restrictions. they are opening even nonessential businesses, this despite the coronavirus cases in the u.s. continue to climb this weekend. there are now over 930,000
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confirmed cases nationwide. steve harrigan at cdc headquarters in atlanta, georgia tracking realtime, hi, steve. steve: gillian, this takes are taking a wide-range of individual approaches to reopen their economies but some states are clearly in the lead as far as that goes. last week, georgia, alaska, oklahoma and south carolina all opened up some forms of business, reopened those businesses and in the coming week we will see as many as 31 states begin to open up businesses. social distancing has been stressed but as you can see in the beaches of california, not always observed with temperatures in the mid-70's, some states still going the opposite direction, hawaii, for one has just extended its stay at home order through may 31st and also quarantine in effect in hawaii. all visitors need to quarantine for 2 weeks. hawaiian officials said they were worried about undoing all of the progress they had made by
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reopening the economy. as far as testing goes, the u.s. is currently testing anywhere from 1.5 to 2 million people each week. dr. fauci of the white house task force has said testing is the key for gradual reopening to have economy. he said the level really needs to be doubled and labs to increase testing. they have sent out 1 million test kits to all 50 states, most of the tests going to different hot spots. they say they will be able to produce 2 million testing kits each month beginning in june. gillian, back to you. gillian: steve, thanks for staying on top of that, we appreciate it, leland. leland: fox news in florida. looks like he's in orlando as we heard from the governor of florida trying to open up some beaches. >> but the demand has been relatively tepid.
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doesn't matter your age, any healthcare worker, first responder and then anybody that's asymptomatic but close contact with someone who tested positive can also do it. that i think is also broad net and obviously hospitals here are doing it. a lot of the hospitals are doing the testing. there's now the rapid test that we had with abbott labs and other types of tests that have been innovated. but one of the things that we have noticed with the drive-thru sites, not everyone has access to that. not everyone owns a car. we first went to public housing project in jacksonville in conjunction with the university of florida. we supplied the swabs and testing kits and they went in and it was a walk-up concept where they would walk in a neighborhood, people could walk
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up and do testing and these are underserved areas where some of the cases may have gotten undetected. we also have in broward, palm beach, tampa and miami and so they've done just in the past week we've done 4700 tests in underserved areas where we are offensively going in the communities proactively getting people tested. we also have one of the things from the very beginning that was clear with the coronavirus was that not all age groups were equally at risk and i didn't necessarily take anything coming out of china with a grain -- i took everything out of china with a grain salt but i did look at the south korea numbers which i believe are credible and it was overwhelmingly the fatalities were occurring in folks 65 and up overwhelming, not very few under 30.
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i think south korea may not have had any at the time. leland: ron desantis about reopening the state in the sunshine state. we will listen to it and come back if there's any news. more back on the federal response to the coronavirus crisis and the economic crisis that's been created because of it. republican arkansas congressman french hill serves in the committee overseeing healthcare act and opening up america congressional group. congressman, appreciate it. we will get to arkansas in a minute. but on a bigger scale, you seem to have the two camps right now which is the democrats who just want to keep spending more and more money. nancy pelosi promising already a fourth bill and saying there's going to be more discussions and negotiations and then treasury secretary mnuchin on fox news sunday saying, let's see how the $3 trillion do before we spend
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another trillion, your thoughts? >> leland, thanks for having me. the treasury secretary has the right approach in my view. not only is it nearly $3 trillion in appropriate funding but don't forget the fed and the. >> -- the treasury and fed are leverage and 30% of gdp. leland: you make a good point in terms of dollars being spent by federal government in 3 trillion range and by the fed buying corporate bonds in march. where do you draw the line? bill de blasio making $700 billion to make whole. are they going to print more money to make everybody whole? how does that work? >> let's assess what we have done in education and environment and public works and
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in housing and hospital support along with the direct 150 billion-dollar support. we are sending hundreds of millions if not billions to the large states across many categories to help them deal with the coronavirus and as treasury secretary mnuchin said, let's see the results over the next few weeks and see if there are any gaps. but what the federal treasury is not designed for is filling the gap of spending patterns in states that don't have a balance budget, pension system. i think it's going to be very difficult to design a program that can handle that. leland: a number of folks analysts up on wall street are saying if you bail out everybody you're not bailing out anybody. you're printing so much money. part of this in how much money will be required is linked to how quickly things reopen. in arkansas, you all, the governor there, did not shut down every business. it was not a shelter in place stay at home order, he took heat for that.
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as we look now forward at the states that will have some kind of reopening this week, that map is now expanding beyond those state that is didn't just have the stay -- not have a stay at home order but we could see montana opening up. idaho, colorado is opening up, texas as well as georgia. what lessons can they take from arkansas, sir? >> well, governor hutchison has been prudent in closing things that could potentially spread risk, schools, large venues, conventions, the personal service's businesses and it's paid off. we have 3,000 active cases in arkansas. we've had 49 deaths which we lament but the very balanced approach i think will make it easier for arkansas to now reopen coming in may. leland: real quick for you because i know that you all are the home to tyson as well as the american protein market. how worried are you about the food supply?
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>> i'm concerned and i know tyson food is concerned. converted america 50% eating out group to 50% eating in and disrupted supply chain. we need to make sure we keep employees healthy and safe and keep supply chain functioning. leland: we have a segment on that, garrett tenney, doing reporting on that today. congressman, stay safe in arkansas and enjoy barbecue when they open up. >> you bet. leland: coronavirus response. we talked about steve mnuchin interview with chris wallace on fox news sunday. that's right here in its entirety 2:00 p.m. eastern. gillian. gillian: the u.s. intelligence community keeping a close watch on north korea this weekend. the status of kim jong un's health remains unclear but widely believed he underwent cardiac in april.
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new satellite images show a train that's believed to belong to kim parked near his compound on the country's east coast. we are joined now to delve into all of this by gordon change, asia analyst and author of nuclear showdown. north korea takes on the world. so, gordon, reading the tealeaves right now, i know your business is not in predicting the future, however, based on what you know today, do you think we are headed into a situation this week where north korea announces full recovery, kim jong un is back at it or do you think it's going to go in another direction, we will find out he's verging closer to death or is passing away eminently? gordon: they'll be announcement, gillian, i don't know if it's this week and i suspect it will not be and the reason is the regime right now is in chaos. there's no designated successor. there are two branches of the kim family that could actually take the lead and i'm sure
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they're right now fighting with each other. the branch headed by kim jong un's sister, kim jong yill and there's the founder of the regime and he's recalled from eastern europe and could be a struggle between the two. i think they will not announce anything until that struggle has been resolved and that could actually take some time. gillian: here is the question for you that i don't hear a lot of people asking and that is, from u.s. national security perspective, let's presume for a moment that kim passes away which he will one day as all human beings will, what is that you can see now the best possible scenario that plays
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out? terms of u.s. strategic interest. is there one that you think is best? gordon: they're all evil, so the answer to that is probably no. in the short-term, though, it's in the u.s. interest for there to be a smooth transition of power in north korea. everyone hates the regime but the problem is at this particular time china is creating provocations in the south china and east china seas. those deserve the u.s. to be in the region in a big way. our two aircraft carriers that are normally in the region are both important. one of them stricken with coronavirus, that's theodore roosevelt in guam and they are bringing in another carrier from the middle east, the nimitz and it's in the interest of the regime to be more open, more democratic form of government in
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north korea, but right at the moment i'm not sure that we can handle two events at the same time. gillian: pair point. now, gordon, if you were advising the trump administration right now, what would you be telling them to think about to lay the ground work for in terms of trying to influence the regime or the country's government however it exist post kim into a more democratic sort of a future? gordon: well, at the present time i think the u.s. is mostly a bystander to events as is china. the thing that i'm sure both beijing and washington are really concerned about is a scramble for power where you have two competing factions in north korea, one of them or maybe both of them would access to weapons of mass destructions. not only the nukes but also chemical and biological weapons and we have operational plans to
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secure the southern portion of the country. the real risk is that china moves south and we move north and we sort of meet in an uncoordinated fashion. china has done a lot to not coordinate. we have tried to coordinate with beijing in this eventuality so this is the big unknown and i think we need to beef up our forces in south korea right now on an emergency basis because we could very well need them. gillian: all right, gordon, we will have to leave it there, thanks as always finish sharing your expertise with us. we appreciate it. gordon: well, thank you so much, gillian. gillian: leland. leland: millions of american who is work on the industry are struggling to pay their bills an put food on their own table. we will tell you about a new effort to help them right after this.
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atlantic with teachers on ship. leland: welcome back. the restaurant industry is asking congress for a lot more help amid predictions that the coronavirus could cause millions of food workers to lose their jobs permanently, obviously there's been the ppp, but so many who own restaurants say that's not enough, christina coleman with why from la bureau, hi, christina. christina: that represents more than two-thirds of the 12 million employees that were working in the nation's restaurants in february. surely a tough situation for those workers and their families. the national restaurant association says the existing federal relief programs will not prevent restaurants from having to lay off even more people and that the shortcomings of the small business paycheck protection program makes it tough for restaurants to even use the loans at all. the independent restaurant
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coalition says restaurants need money right now to pay vendors and rent. as of now u.s. restaurants say they are on track to lose 240 billion by the end of this year, so they're asking congress to improve a restaurant industry blueprint for recovery, a temporary emergency, 240 billion-dollar recovery fund that can help with rent, utilities and ongoing debt obligations and even reopening expenses like sanitation equipment and inventory. >> congress is very focused on the workforce, the population, public health and we appreciate those needs. we represent one of every ten workers right now so we are looking to congress to create a restaurant and food service recovery fund that would allow the nation's second largest employer to make sure that our doors can stay open when we are allowed to reopen. christina: even when restaurants reopen, what exactly is that going to look like for the business owners, would patrons want to eat in establishments as much as they did before or hire as many people as they have
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before, a lot of unknown factors right now that eventually will play a big role in the bottom line for the restaurants, leland. leland: were already thin around 10% and now 50% less table might be difficult to make a buck, gillian. gillian: coronavirus infections are now spreading inside meat packing plants and whether closures will be meat shortages for americans. coming up with the story next. supporting their efforts on the ground and virtually. and just as we are by their side, we're by yours, too. with answers to your most pressing questions and expert advice
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there is one thing we can all do together: complete the 2020 census. your responses are critical to plan for the next 10 years of health care, education, and more. go online to 2020census.gov and help shape america's future. leland: we are learning a little bit more about how new york lawmakers are going to reopen their states and they continue to decrease. good news for sure, aishah - hasine in manhattan, it's still
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closed, right? aishah: that's right, time square not likely to open any time soon and governor cuomo says that sounds like up state new york will be one of the first to reopen first but not until at least may 15th when the state stay at home order expires and not at least there's 2 weeks of cases going down that's per cdc guidelines. let's walk you through this reopening plan. phase 1 includes construction and manufacturing jobs with allow risk of spreading the virus. 2 weeks later phase 2 start. more essential jobs and cuomo asking to come up for reopening plan for this. now there cannot be any openings that could draw crowds out of state visitors. everything has to be coordinated with the other north eastern states and the state will continue to monitor those hospitalizations and case numbers to track any spikes. in the meantime also today mayor bill de blasio talking about reopening new york city,
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announcing the creation of advisory task force, small business, tourism and labor, listen. >> i'm going to ask them to in addition to their very busy day jobs take some time to come up with a preliminary recovery road map by june 1st. this is not going to be the final word, this is going to be the first outline of how we build that smart recovery. aishah: also the ussn comfort to leave and just across, new jersey struggling, more than 5900 deaths, that's more than the casualties of 3 wars, still, though, new york death toll is striking in comparison. there's good news, leland. the rate of transmission for new york state is about .8 which basically means that ten
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positive people and the rate has to stay below 1, leland. leland: so, so difficult in a that relies on public transportation like the way new york city does. asihah, thank you so much. gillian. gillian: billions of dollars of fruits and vegetables discovered to have been left to rot in american fields. garrett. >> garrett: the timing couldn't have been worst where the harvest season is underway. just take for an example hank scott, farming cucumber and forced to shut down and hanks lost half of his crop and pose
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today lose 3 million-dollar harvest if things don't turn around soon. there are hundreds of millions of pounds of food across the country that are going to waste because of breakdowns in the supply chain. food banks are seeing record demand and some farm workers able to donate part of harvest and it wasn't until a month later that the agency announced an aid program and worth of excess produce meat and dairy each month until october. florida agricultural commissioner called that too little too late. there's another growing crisis, though, in the meat processing industry with more than a dozen meat processing plants across the country closing their doors due to outbreaks among workers. >> there's a concern over the food supply chain. if we don't have enough food processing workers to manage the
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plans, then that backs up our food supply. this is integrated sophisticated supply chain particularly when it comes to pork. >> garrett: what that means in the short-term or maybe harder to find meat on the shares but there's long-term concern that the shutdown could force farmers and those processors to be forced out of business if this continues to go on and that's why they are saying they need even more supplemental help from congress and the next aid package that is now being in the works, gillian. gillian: well, we already knew that no industry was going to be untouched by the coronavirus outbreak, but it's shocking to learn now that even these industries that people rely on in order to live are hanging in the cross hairs, garrett, thanks for that. leland: understand exactly how the meat industry is being threatened by the coronavirus,
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richard berman, good to see you, sir, we appreciate it on a sunday especially. is this a breakdown in the supply chain or a true shortage? >> well, it's not a shortage yet, leland, but it will be. the farmers have all sorts of -- thousands of pigs, cows, chickens that have to be processed. it's not static inventory and when the process plants are being shut down there's no place for the farms to feed animals. and so starting next week and has been going on for a couple of weeks in some places in the country, they have having to euthanize animals and this is going to show up in shortages sooner or later, probably starting next month and going into june, shortages in the supply with farmers going bankrupt if they don't get some sort of stimulus.
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leland: so we understand the chain reaction here, you have people who get sick on the processing lines. that shuts down the processing plant as we have a map of a number of the processing plants have been shut down and then that works its way back down to the farmers who then don't have a place to send their pigs and their chickens and their beef so they potential i will go bankrupt. what can be done for the farmers specifically? >> well, you have to keep the processing plants open, that's the first problem. it was only earlier this month that the center for disease control suggested that people needed to wear masks and these people are working on assembly lines to process the food. very few manufacturing facilities in the country are open because of shutdown that we dictated by federal and state governments but meat processing is a national security issue, those are still open and it's only recently that some is
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available and you remember that even hospitals couldn't get face masks and face shields and the processing plants are still in the middle of trying to access some of this product for their own employees. leland: oh often processing plants are manned by migrant labor, you the individual communities built around these processing plants in colorado, south dakota, sometimes in north dakota. it's unpleasant work inside the plants. does that play in how it's happening? >> yeah, to some degree. this is tough group and great people, these are people who are very supportive of what needs to be done in this country as i say to avoid a a national security crisis but they are located in certain states where there hasn't been a shelter at home law. arkansas, nebraska. there hasn't been a shelter in
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home and they live in concentrating housing situations, they carpool and so this virus has been established in their community and then they bring it into the plants and, of course, no one was aware of this. you know, until a month ago. leland: right, congressman french hill was on the beginning of the show and said tyson foods was from arkansas and had real concerns about disruptions all the way down to the supply chain all the way to super markets, et cetera, on this. what are consumers to do? do you go out and stockpile all of the chicken and pork that you can buy? >> well, you know, i guess you can stockpile a lot more toilet paper around your house than you can meat. that's one of the problem. people don't have huge freezers. i'm not sure how this is going to work out but i would imagine that there's going to be meat
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cases in various super markets. keep in mind, the super markets don't just manufacture meat, processing plants and i imagine we will see shortages and people disappointed when they're looking for -- >> leland: shortages at the super market shelves and then farmers going out of business or aren't able to pay feed bills, et cetera, things get worst from there, rick berman, consumer freedom, appreciate your insights today, sir. >> thank you, leland. leland: gillian. gillian: ordinary citizens continue stepping up to support frontline medical workers in the fight against coronavirus and we are committed to bringing you their stories so coming up next we will talk to one group of students that's delivering ppe by the hundreds of thousands to hospitals.
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driver ryan newman says he will be back behind the wheel ones racing begin and newman announced just a few moments ago. you might remember he was in a devastating crash back in february during the daytona 500 in which his brain was bruised and you can see the aftermath of the crash and he was knocked unconscious. ♪ ♪ gillian: well, we love fox news tracking stories of americans coming together to help communities during this pandemic. one group of medical students is supporting frontline healthcare workers by getting them the ppe they required in order to stay safe on the job. here to talk about it is cocoordinater and regional coordinator director of med supply drive. adal, thank thank you so much fr joining us today. tell us about what it is that you guys are doing and about the landmark you just hit.
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>> so my classmates founded the organization once we realized that there seems like shortage of ppe not only in dc but around the country as well and so this is really a call to us to provide protection for our colleagues who are still fighting on the front lines and we started just over a month ago and over the past month we have seen incredible growth in our organization. we've just crunched numbers this week and we have collected and donated over 400,000 items of ppe across the country and we have now over one thousand volunteers helping us out in 44 states and dc. we have also branched out across the ocean to uk and scotland and have med supply drive in uk and scotland as well. gillian: wow, so tell me about where you are sourcing the material from? can anybody donate these ppe, the medical supplies that are in
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short supply? >> yeah, so we really -- volunteers had to do outreach within the communities and we provide them with tool kits to kind of e-mail, call businesses who might have the type of ppe that we are looking for and ask for donations. we also have a supply donation form on website medsupplydrive.org, you can fill out the form and let us know where you're located and we can complete a no-contact pickup and donate it to local hospital. gillian: wow, so for our viewers watching at home, if you have any of the supplies that are needed in hospitals in your home, you can actually donate them to professionals who need them in order to show up at their hospitals every single day, do the work that they need to do, tell us the website again? >> medsupplydrive.org. gillian: great, and are there guidelines, clear guidelines
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about what products you accept and don't accept and that kind of a thing? >> yes, so currently we are accepting hospital-grade supplies and so in this list we include different types of masks such as surgical masks, n-95 masks. we are also collecting gloves, the gloves have to be nonlatex and that's various protection of clinicians and also disinfectants like bleach and lysol so hospital can be kept sterile and in dire situations if hospitals have run low on ppe, they can clean the ppe and reusing it. gillian: okay, great. one of the reasons that we we wanted to highlight med supply and the work that you're doing is because something very touching and poynant students to help support professionals in their field.
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you guys aren't far behind. can you tell us a little bit about your personal experience going through all of this as a med student and what it means to you? do you feel during this pandemic a kind of reinvigorated sense of purpose that what you're doing really matters? >> yeah, so i think what was really like our calling again was that we are medical students and this is going to be us in the future and just to see our colleagues fighting a pandemic with so little ppe, it really hits home for us and so this is something that like we want to correct as best as we could and so we created this organization, but i also want to bring light that it's incredible to see that we sad volunteers from all walks of life, not just medical students and undergraduate students. it's incredible to see individuals across the country have the similar mission of wanting to provide protection to our clinicians on the front lines and so we've all kind of banded together to provide the protection for them and work
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together to provide it. gillian: well, i hope that you continue to do what you're doing for a really long time even once you graduate and you are one of those frontline medical workers but until then, thank you so much for joining us today and keep on keeping on. >> thank you. gillian: for more uplifting stories like this one be sure to turn to america together special on fox news tonight. it's hosted by pete hegseth at 10:00 p.m. eastern. leland: the coronavirus creating a certain demand for food banks in the united states and around the world with experts predicting global health crisis. how bad can it get when we come
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gillian. gillian: well, british prime minister boris johnson is ready to get back to work according to spokesperson. he's going to do that tomorrow at his office at 10 downing. he had been recovering in his home in english side after he tested positive last month for coronavirus. his recovery included a 3-night stay in intensive care. leland: medical officials are, of course, continue to go try to contain the coronavirus. we are worked about the economic crisis that it's created and the world food program warning that covid-19 could create global hunger crisis. we heard about the meat supply here in the united states. amy kellogg from florence. amy: the pope prayed for people who are sad and what may come next economically speaking and otherwise. we do know that poverty and desperation have sprung up in the developed world. in italy and the united states
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as a result of the pandemic but think about the countries that are already in dire strays due to conflict, they in a worst case scenario could have covid-19 be the camel that broke the camels back. this also as africa braces for the worst. cases on the continent have rose 40% in the last 10 days an healthcare systems are not equipped. here you see the red cross handing out food in nigeria, the world food program already feeding millions and millions around the world is helping many countries to prepare for worsening conditions under covid, prepositioning supplies both food and medical getting components for field hospitals ready to ship out in the next few days. world food -- the world food program depends on donations and they warn that if they don't
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come through from donor countries perhaps already swamped by their own domestic problems, the result could be deadly. >> before covid even hit, we had 135 million people around the world marching toward the brink of starvation because of wars and conflicts and weather extremes and deteriorating conditions in many different countries and now on top of this covid. this is a catastrophe. amy: and leland, there's so many other factors that you don't think about, all the children that depend on school meals, millions of them now at home and unable to get free lunches. south sudan, they depend 90% on oil. look what has happened to oil. it's not always the obvious things that are happening as a
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result of the horrible pandemic but the chain, chain reaction is just incredible. leland. leland: we have been talking about the dominoes today as well. amy kellogg in florence. amy, thank you. gillian, on the idea of the chain reaction here i was talking to a friend of mine who runs the ymca's around military bases, they have seen four x increase from food pantries especially out in san diego where so many families rely on two incomes and second income has been cut because of the coronavirus. gillian: yeah, great point, leland. it's shocking and hard to think about. we will leave you all on that note for the rest of this weekend. you will join us next weekend os saturday guys! guys! check it out. safe drivers save 40%!!! safe drivers save 40%! safe drivers save 40%!!! that's safe drivers save 40%. it is, that's safe drivers save 40%. - he's right there. - it's him! he's here.
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chris: i'm chris wallace. closing america was hard, but could the reopening be each harder? ♪ >> i think our economy will start to pick up very substantially as soon as the states get open. chris: some governors announce plans to get back to business and start returning to normal life. but with 26 million losing their jobs since march, how quickly account country -- can the country bounce back? we'll discuss that and new relief with treasury secretary steven mnuchin only on "fox news sunday." and how best to balance economic recovery with keeping americans safe. we're joined by dr. tom inglesby,
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