>> you need something to do today so figure out how to set your dvr for fox & friends starting every morning, every day, so you never miss a minute. >> sandra: good morning everyone. fox news alert, more states now preparing to ease stay-at-home orders this week as america slowly begins to reopen despite fears that moving too soon could be like lead to a spike in coronavirus infections. good morning everyone, i'm sandra smith. >> ed: and i'm ed henry. america about to surpass 1 million cases of the virus but quarantine fatigue is setting in as springtime weather moves in and more americans go out crowding parks and beaches as you can see. dr. deborah birx says that even if states begin allowing some nonessential business business is to reopen, social distancing could continue for months

because the virus poses a real threat. >> i'm always concerned and that's why would put out key gating criteria. this was not just about diagnosing cases, but through the last few weeks we are beginning to understand how much asymptomatic cases and asymptomatic spread may be out there. so in that guideline is also to set up what we call sentinel surveillance. we are talking about diagnoses and contact tracing. we also have to diagnose the virus before it is evident in communities. >> ed: byron york is standing by with more on the division in states. >> states are going in different directions when it comes to reopening the economy. georgia has been one of the leaders unless week they opened up several different forms of small business. today they begin to open up restaurants for dining in with a

number of safety restrictions. some restaurants in atlanta are refusing to open up and they save they are still too concerned. there does seem to be an eagerness to get back to work. >> we definitely stepped up the use of the face mask, we weren't using those before us about the new element. we are doing a lot more disinfecting when customers leave, we are wiping down the ipad. >> georgia's move has come under criticism not just from local leaders but from president trump as well as says that georgia has been moving too fast. there has not yet been widespread testing in georgia. there's been 23,000 cases of the virus in georgia, more than 900 people dead. tennessee and other states opening up restaurants this week despite the highest single day jump. still going ahead with reopening the economy. in other states taking a very

approach, hawaii extending at stay-at-home orders through may 31st. hawaiian officials say they fear reopening too soon could jeopardize the progress they've already made. >> ed: steve harrigan starting us off this morning. thank you. >> sandra: as governor's face pressure to get people back to work they are taking different approaches to reopening businesses and their state. let's bring in byron york, chief political correspondent for the "washington examiner." byron, good morning to you. it seems nice to begin this morning talking about states that will reopen, and the local municipalities who have big decisions to make. >> it is. they are trying to strike a balance between public health, the economy and there's politics involved. in colorado you have it democratic governor jared polis announcing a partial reopening of some businesses in his state.

remember all of these governors are talking about continuing social distancing efforts, encouraging people to wash their hands and all that basic stuff, that's not going away anytime soon. in colorado and oklahoma, governor kevin stitt is going ahead with that and one of the reasons they are doing it is they are saying that, number one, the number of new cases each day in their state have been going on for several days and number two, they are prepared to deal with cases, or more prepared to deal with cases than early on. kevin stitt said there are 300 hospitalizations and oklahoma and texas state has the capacity to handle 4,600 so they seem good shape on them. >> sandra: you bring up colorado where there has been the decision to open up barbershops and salons, other businesses including dentists. here is the denver post on what's happening in that state.

beginning monday, retailers not under stricter orders would have the option to reopen with curbside pickup with the ability for some to open to limited numbers of in-store customers on may 1st. personal service providers and elective medical providers including hair salons, dental offices and tattoo shops could reopen with some social distancing precautions on monday as well. colorado is seeing hundreds of new cases daily. meanwhile in hawaii while they are still in the single digits as far as new cases reported daily, the honolulu mary is taking a different approach. >> are stay-at-home order will remain in place during these gradual phases or opening up of different categories of businesses. if there is no order in place then there is immediate opening up of everything we can protect ourselves from seeing a spiking of this virus which remains in place until we have a vaccine.

>> sandra: so while they aren't seeing the case number is that a state like colorado is seen for example, hawaii is making the decision to keep the the stay-at-home orders through may. >> i know. hawaii has 68 hospitalizations in the case. clearly if you had the hospitalizations that georgia and oklahoma and colorado are making, they would probably open sooner but they're not. there's something going on here that we saw in the sound bites that just played. our differences within states. the governor of colorado is beginning a partial reopening, and the mayor of denver disagrees with that. nothing is going to change in denver and the governor of colorado is fine with that but also says there are counties in colorado with zero or very few cases. so what you will see is just is the, because there are differences between states, new york and new jersey are in much, much different condition

than colorado. and if there is a large urban area that has more cases, is more dense and it's more of a problem, they can keep those restrictions in place, and reopen other parts of the state. there are really a lot of options open to governors in each state. >> sandra: the oklahoma governor went on with chris wallace over the weekend essentially saying this needs to be left up to the state and local leaders to decide based on the limitations in this. we can always extend these phases, so it's a good reminder that we are going to move in phases, but byron, it's going to be something in the days and weeks to come how this is all going to play out. final thoughts? >> also a reminder that the

guidelines the white house has issued, those guidelines are just guidelines. they are not a national order. in our federal system there is a lot of authority in the states to do this and we have been talking about what governor cuomo has done in new york or what governor newsom is done in california. these are state decisions and they will stay that way so we will see a lot of different decisions in the coming weeks and months. >> sandra: if you go back to the wave restaurants are doing this, that's even down to the business decision at that level and everyone will have to make a decision as well. great to catch up with you this morning, thanks so much. >> ed: as more state start to reopen president trump is holding a videoconference with governors later this afternoon on their plans to control the virus will also trying to boost

their state's economy. joining us now also a south dakota governor kristi noem. we appreciate you coming in. as i understand that you've extended an executive order for a couple more weeks in at least a couple of your states counties. you have a relatively small number of cases but still dangerous and worth watching of course. it extended this executive order for a couple more weeks to have elderly citizens stay at home. what is your advice to the president when you get on this videoconference this afternoon about balancing out, reopening our state's economy while also keeping everyone safe. >> well ed, we never did close down any businesses in the state of south dakota, we gave them the opportunity to be innovative and protect public health. i will be talking to the president about what we are doing on the ground but also about the flexibility we need in some of the funding packages that congress has sent to the state. they are not allowing us to use those revenues for revenue loss,

they are literally putting me in the position where i'm leaving hundreds of millions of dollars on the table while i'm slashing education and health care because i can't have the flexibility i need to take care of our people. so i will be asking the president and the treasury to give some flexibility and utilize some of those dollars. >> ed: the republican mitch mcconnell has suggested that he is not so open to giving the states a whole lot of money. the president has been open-minded, and here is governor larry hogan, pushing mcconnell on that issue. listen. >> this is a very bipartisan effort to get the money in the seamless package. we are on the front lines and we need to provide these necessary services to help people get back on their feet. it was close to happening in the

3.5 but senator mcconnell blocked it. we are hoping we are able to convince senator mcconnell to go along with the bipartisan doll. >> he was talking about stimulus 3.5 and i we are talking about a fourth stimulus. i understand the needs of maryland as well but senator mcconnell is basically saying why should the taxpayers of south dakota intrastate bailout saying, illinois which has not been a good steward of their budget long before the coronavirus? how do you answer that? >> i spoke to leader mcconnell about that and i told him i did not want more money. all we need is some flexibility on what they've already voted on. they can build accountability into this, i served congress for eight years and it's not that hard to put guardrails up, to make us account for the date of which we can prove that we have revenue losses. they don't allow us to use it to bail out pensions or allow us to go back and fill previous years

of overspending. by not giving us the flexibility today are hurting some of us in these states that have been well governed for years and make tough decisions in our conservatives. i only have a sales tax to fund south dakota so sales-tax has dramatically dropped as the economy shut down. >> ed: briefly, then i want to move on to the meat shortage, do you think that there is a middle ground that you are laying there, where there won't be new money for states but the existing money washing around, it may be a small package, there will be real strings attached so it doesn't turn out to be bailout. >> i think there some governors that are asking for more money. i think congress has spent a lot of money in the last month or two. i would just like to have flexibility and how to use that. we are trying to make sure and that can be done through

treasury or through language that i would prefer to have an statute because that's more concrete and accountable to taxpayers. that's exactly what i told senator mcconnell as well. >> ed: there's a smithfield foods pork processing plant. the cdc has issued new guidelines to get it going and get it reopen. how quickly do you think it can get reopened at a time where again, we are hearing about a potential meat shortage in america? >> we are ready for this plant to be opened as soon as we can do so safely for employees that worked there and i think that can be accomplished really quickly. smithfield has been working with us, with the cdc, the secretar secretary of agriculture and we have some medication. to put in place. i think in a matter of days it could be open as long as everyone continues to get it over and get it done. this is a -- i've always talked

about our food supply is a national security issue. i am hopeful that we can get it open as soon as possible. >> ed: so when you say very soon, are you talking days or weeks? >> my hope is days but that will depend on smithfield and what they can put in place. >> ed: we appreciate your time. in the meantime the white house warning the jobless rate could hit great depression levels. how reopening in some states this week will impact their greater economy. the white house press secretary kayleigh mcenany was join us exclusively a at the top of the hour. >> sandra: a louisiana police officer is dead while another fights for his life after a gun fire breaks out after a four-hour standoff. plus leaders laying out a plan to reopen the pump, empire state

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>> ed: breaking this morning, a louisiana police officer is dead and another in critical condition after a shoot out with a murder suspect in baton rouge. they had a four hour standoff before the suspect was finally captured. the police chief says the officer who lost his life was a 21 year vet of the force. ♪ >> this is the balance that we collectively need to strike. i want to get back to work, i want to get back to work, my kids want out of the house. i need to do something, i understand. we have to do it intelligently. >> sandra: that was andrew cuomo to briefing yesterday announcing plans to reopen the state in stages when the may 15 stay-at-home order expires. it will be up to businesses to

take the necessary precautions in line with social distancing guidelines. david lee miller is a live outside mount sinai hospital in new york city with more. david lee, good morning. >> good morning, sandra. 18 days and counting, that's when governor cuomo's order shutting down businesses in the state is going to expire. at that time it's possible plans will be put into effect to restart the states economy. cuomo made that announcement on the very same day that the state's daily death rate hit 367, the lowest it's been a month. the key condition is meeting a cdc guideline calling for a two-week drop in hospitalizations. his plan will be implanted in two phases beginning outside of the new york city area. the begins open construction with a low risk of spreading the virus. depending on hospitalization and

infection rates, phase two will begin. more essential distances with the low infection risk will be prioritized and the infection rate declined will determine the pace of the reopening. we started new york city's economy is a different situation. the area is the hardest hit in the country and there are more people living in less space and close proximity to neighboring states. >> multistate coordination is vital there because new jersey connecticut new york city area is basically very intermixed. if people are coming and going, they live in one place, and that coordination is important. >> now lawmakers to help new yorkers to prepare for what they call the new normal. there was a drop in the weekend over the the number of

hospitalizations and yet more people on sunday does test positive for the coronavirus. although he says that would normally be terrible news, it's not terrible news now compared to where we were. sandra? >> sandra: david lee miller in new york city for us. thank you. >> ed: days after passing a nearly $500 billion coronavirus relief build a house speaker nancy pelosi says she hopes both parties will work together on the next package which could funnel hundreds of billions in aid to state and local governments. >> we have an array and we have to get as much as possible. they do not share many of our values and our beliefs. so we just have to get the public to as engaged in possib possible. she says she wants more money

but maybe just more flexibility to use existing funds to help with budget shortfall. she's worried about spending a whole lot more money. good morning, kristin. >> and so are a lot of republicans on capitol hill. now you have this paycheck protection program for small businesses which has been replenished. now the attention is really turning on funding for state and local governments. if you've hurt governors like andrew cuomo in new york, larry hogan asking for about $500 billion total and emergency funding for state and local governments but a lot of republicans on capitol hill are talking about hitting the pause button before just plowing through with the phase four relief package. listen to this. >> we have passed for bills, more than $2.7 trillion and you combine that with what the fed is doing, that $7 trillion into the economy. let's first look at the results before we want to go back and try to really work another.

>> democrats need to move forward with phase for now. they were criticized with not getting more funding for state and local governments including the bill to refill ppp. but house speaker nancy pelosi says she's confident that money will be included in phase four. >> just calm down. we will have state and local and have it in a very significant way. it's no use going on to what it may have been. >> as for what president trump thinks about phase four, secretary steven mnuchin said this weekend at the present will consider it. >> this will be something that both the senate and the house debate and that will be something that we discussed on a bipartisan basis. the president has heard from governors and wants to speak from governors, this is something we will consider. >> the governor snyder moments

ago he thinks the phase four will be on the front burner. it's certainly not too far in the distance but it's further away than what house speaker pelosi and others would want. >> sandra: using a lot of rumors and reports out there about the health of kim jong un after the north korean dictator had not been seen in the public for about two weeks. what satellite images at one of kim's homes is now revealing. plus stock futures are revealing as they go from the closed side to the open side. >> i think we will continue to see numbers that are as bad as we have ever seen.

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>> sandra: there you have it, fox news alert, trading is under the way on wall street and we are in the green with the dow up 126 points, a little optimism to start off the day. let's bring in a maria bartiro maria bartiromo. we saw you yesterday and it you have been talking about this. what does it look like when we reopen? certainly there is optimism as we start to think about what we look like as at least for now some salons and barbershops and

spas open their doors across the country and some people get back to work? >> i think just having this conversation is empowering investors to think, we might start eventually going back to work to try to look at this economy through revenue and look at this economy through earnings. we are in the middle of the first quarter earnings reporting season and it's really nothing to say this is going to be accurate because this is all a moment in time. it's a snapshot of what the first quarter looked like during a shutdown. the second quarter will even be worse. the market is rallying on this optimism over just that conversation taking place. you are going to start seeing business activity resume, as you just said. the litany of the industries that will begin to open their doors, we are talking about 46% of the gdp beginning to open

this week. that's going to be very positive to see how these companies and how these businesses survive and how they operate. and you have to start somewhere. that's how we think the country stays within the guidelines of the cdc. you want to see the business resume. and we still will have to deal with the reality of some of the numbers, the economic data that will come out of the shutdown. heard kevin hassett, economic advisor to the president warning that these are going to be some of the worst numbers we've ever seen. talking about the biggest economic growth gdp since the great depression. but steve mission, the treasury secretary, he is suggesting an

economic rebound by summer, even july or august. >> i think as we begin to reopen the economy in may and june, those are an unprecedented relief into the economy. this will have a significant impact. >> sandra: that's an optimistic forecast for the treasury secretary. >> i think most are expecting a step back. that's from but that could be flat and down. it's the fourth quarter, and

it's not going to be up 20% or 30%. this will happen slowly just because of the behavior of people. they are not just going to come back and live the way that they used to. and that's 6 feet between one another and social distancing rules. that will be something to watch. i think the ppp program is helpful and the fact that the government is throwing cash at this economy, $7 trillion plus in stimulus. that's a third of the gdp. at some point that will hit, and will make an impact. it's going to be slow. and i don't take investors are going to be surprised to not see a massive snapback in the fourth quarter even though we got those optimistic projections out the there. >> sandra: we will take the green on the screen for now. we will have kayleigh mcenany coming up at the top of the next

hour, but less than one hour from now the sba will start accepting those new applications because of the bipartisan support in congress for an additional relief package. they will be capping that and, we will see what happens about 50 minutes from now. >> some of that money is already committed but certainly the rest of it goes to smaller banks and community banks which is where the small businesses bank. that's where this salon and the yoga studio, was community banks, those are the banks that need that money. >> sandra: we will see you again soon, thanks so much. the dow was up 123 points. >> ed: we've had questions all weekend long on the health of kim jong un after the north korean leader has not been seen in public for weeks.

greg palkot has details. >> it's a wild weekend of rumors and claims. the you w we will recall that since then there have been unconfirmed reports that says he has a heart operation, that it went bad, that a team of chinese doctors arrived and found him in a vegetative state and even reports that he is in fact dead. but over the weekend i was in touch with the key and aid to the south korean president. and it states that the south korean government is firm. kim jong un is alive and well, he's been staying that there is no suspicious movements detect detected. seeming to back this relief up,

and we spoke with another one of our key contacts and he gives us his perspective now. >> its own nuclear armed power. they demonstrated extraordinary progress and the united states has to be worried, everyone has to be right about things going off the rails in north korea but that's not what we are seeing. >> if that's not what we are seeing right now. a washington also busy, and those u.s. officials that in their view they saw nothing out of the ordinary. that's crucial, and at one other report, its claims that in kim jong un's circle a new official that had covid-19. and the reason he went to the coastal resort was to go into

self quarantine. i wouldn't write that one off, either. >> a lot of different theories out there. we will have jen janco on later to help us sort that out. we are drawing a record average of $8.4 million will make viewers over three days. thursday's first round nearly doubling that, and both coaches and players embrace the comfort of being at home and kids and meant family members take part. even bill belichick's dog nike got some television time and i know we all tuned in. >> ed: i love seeing him as well, that was a lot of fun. >> sandra: i thought it was really neat. it's one of those things people talk about in the news world and

that was fascinating as well to see their coaches with their families and the players, it was really neat. >> ed: coachella tech even gave nike a treat after one of the picks. in the meantime, certain serious news. michigan's governor sticking to her guns. many are saying it's aggressive but necessary but how much of a toll is it taking on her state's economy? michigan congresswoman debbie dingell will be here next hour on that. plus more americans getting outside this weekend as stay-at-home orders are giving awagivingway may be to's spring. >> open up all the beaches, let people have a little bit of fun. no work -- i mean everyone is just dying at home. did you know prilosec otc can stop frequent heartburn

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funds will also allow them to keep working. at the group's alaska chapter has about 144,000 unsold boxes as a result of the shutdown order. if you are craving those cookies they are on sale on the scouts website and you can also donate their order to a local food pantry. >> sandra>> ed: quarantine fatis setting in as they found a substantial shift in going outdoors. doctor, good morning to you. on one hand it's good to see people getting out will be here various doctors like yourself say that you can be safer in the

outdoors, but there are a whole bunch of people on the beach, it can be quite dangerous. how do we balance all this out? >> as you pointed out, and people are starting to move outdoors now. that's a decrease in that's probably going to continue. my concern is where is this taking place? there are hot zones, michigan has 37,000 people that have tested positive for covid-19. as you mentioned before governor whitmer is under a lot of pressure to ease restrictions at a time when there is still a lot of cases. in georgia there's been a 30% increase in cases over the past week alone come up to 22,000 at a time when georgette and governor kemp is starting to open nail salons and hair salons

and gyms. the question is, where is this occurring. stay-at-home is crucial in areas where there are large outbreaks going on where people are dying or still getting sick. that's what i'm concerned about. the problem with florida beaches, if you look at pictures of the florida beaches they are not even following social distancing. it's one thing to be on the beach and it's another to be huddled together. >> ed: and we had dr. birx over the weekend and the point she made his social distancing will have to extend through the summer for a few months. the weather is only going to get better we all hope over the summer. the pressure for more and more people to go outside is going to only increase so i guess the big picture question is, how do we make sure when we played that clip of a medical when we were on the break, and that man was on the beach saying, i'm dying at home, people could be dying when they go out. >> i think we are starting to

get people to understand the importance of social distancing but i think the biggest message is once you decided that things are being relieved a little then you start to go back to old patterns. we have to figure out a way to do this in a way where we keep the information campaign going. what people understand by now is when you are out, this is wildly contagious. if there is a huge amount of asymptomatic spread which we are finding, the virus will find its way to those in high-risk groups. even if you get a mild case someone else next to you might get a severe case. >> ed: in the last minute we have come scott got gottlieb, america needs to win the coronavirus vaccine race. other countries might not be quick to share. time to speed up trials, he writes, and ramp up manufacturing skill. where are we?

ski >> hugely important op-ed. the institute of biotechnology in beijing has a candidate already that's already going into phase two trials. that's based on older technology. phase two is really, really ramp it up. and another chinese company has already tested this in primates and found that primates develop immunity to it. monkeys, develop immunity to it. we have a candidate called madera which nih is backing that looks very, very good. it's starting in the phase two trials but i think dr. gottlieb's point is we need to ramp it up here. the other point he made in the op-ed that i agree with is, we need to simultaneously be testing animals and humans. we need to ramp up here so we don't end up in second or third place on really important vaccine. >> ed: very important advice. >> sandra: one white house

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good morning casey. >> good morning to you. mixed feelings of not only the employers but employees across texas. as you know on friday we were out there in dallas as retail shops across the state were able to reopen but only in a retail to go capacity meaning customers have to pay for things ahead of time and drive to the store for the actual pickup. some are happy to at least be open with limitations but other texans have been critical of the governor's timeline saying it's taking too long. protests held again over the weekend at the state capitol in austin and other cities as well. many holding signs calling for all texans to get back to work and now. but they were given a citation since hair and nail salons are not yet among those allowed to open their doors there.

others are saying, what do we do because this is unprecedented. and if we want to lock those doors then i will put my chair out here and stylus can work on the patio, gladly. >> this marks the lifting of restrictions in louisiana. the governor says that is an important step since a large portion of the population have chronic conditions that need to be addressed. and back here in texas, governor greg abbott is scheduled to use hold that news conference this afternoon where he is expected to announce the state strike force. the next suggestions in the next phase of reopening the economy and getting people back to work. >> sandra: casey stegall reporting from arlington. thank you so much. >> ed: fox news alert, democrats from republicans feuding over states getting hit hard from coronavirus. the press secretary kayleigh mcenany joins us live at the top of a

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safely and getting the economy back open for business based on data driven guidelines. welcome to a brand-new hour of "america's newsroom," it's monday morning. good morning everyone, and sandra smith. >> ed: about a dozen states are going back restrictions this week. georgia and montana getting a head start over the weekend and nine more easing up by the end of the week. the trump administration optimistic about protecting the company is in trouble now but will recover the summer. you are opening up the economy in may and june. we are putting in an unprecedented amount of fiscal relief into the economy. >> ed: it kayleigh mcenany is of course the new white house press secretary. a good morning. it is a press conference with governors this afternoon and is very important because some are

reopening. we just heard that treasury secretary saying he's confident it will bounce back very quick quickly. the president is saying this morning that he's comparing this to the great depression saying this is the greatest shock to our economy that we've ever had. when is the president going to prepare the nation for in terms of the days ahead? >> he's going to prepare for a bounce back. we have the president to construct the greatest, hottest economy in history. he believes there's a lot of pent up demand in economy, people are ready to go back to work and buy things and go to restaurants. that will help us as we begin to rebuild this economy. we are in a strong place and i would also note the paycheck protection program which was just replenished, that funding starts again today. that will get a chance to get that money to pay their workers. should have been here a week a ago, and she was out eating ice cream as literally people

were being potentially laid off. we were worried about their paycheck, and, we have now learned there are over 54,000 americans who have died because of the coronavirus. they opened up "the new york post" this morning and mark meadows us quoted as saying i want to talk about how hard the president is working but mark meadows said the biggest concern of the chief of staff, we all know, is this white house striking the right tone? >> i think you need to put that quote into context. they made the point that the president is so busy and so hard at work, and his concern is making sure he gets a bite to eat here and there.

and of course we are concerned with all of those who lost loved ones. that is a preeminent concern of this white house. make no mistake about it, that's why i watch this president get up early in the morning and it's because of this president, because of the ppp that they are getting paid. it's important to juxtapose that to put some fire under them to get back to work because there should not have been a week in delays. nancy pelosi and chuck schumer need to help us here. >> the question is, is there going to be a fourth round? good morning and thanks for being here this morning. you heard from steven mnuchin talking about the economy bouncing back but the presidents own economic advisor kevin hassett suggesting that our economy will take the

biggesbiggest hit since the great depression. 26 million people filing for unemployment benefits. the opening for those applications, for the small businesses to get the third round of relief, does the president support the fourth round of relief? >> absolutely does. that's a very important component of that and we think we can get in there. we will bounce back from that. americans are strong and hardworking. we will get back on our feet and we have the president who constructed the hottest economy here to do it. that ppp funding, that's basically right now and it's important to note that 60 million small businesses, that has gotten relief.

of the 1.6 million loans given out, 1 million of them have gone to companies with ten or fewer employees. this is helping the americans who need it most. and we will bounce back under his leadership. >> sandra: when you look at the obvious economic hardships that are out there in the millions of americans that are affected by this and they are suggesting the economy could rebound by the end of summer. does the president agree with that forecast because this will be an incredible balance of managing people's expectations as we try to climb out of this. >> we do have to climb out of this. secretary mnuchin has -- by underscore what he said. he's confident and i absolutely think that this funding we put forward as a key part to stimulate the economy. we have the right man in the white house to do this, a businessman who can get us to

once again the hottest economy in modern history. >> ed: i want to follow-up, and people will deal with paperwork issues all the time. we saw this about a lot of, a lot of issues that would clear all this up. we disclosed which companies are getting money and which are not. disclosed which companies are getting this ppe money. 33% have been 5 million or more. the vast majority, those are

companies with ten or fewer employees. that's what this program is designed to and that is who it is helping. "new york times," that doesn't serve the american people across the country but also note thank you to steve scalise and that's a website where business owners, we have to come together as a country come up both come together. >> we are concerned -- we are not just putting a list together to please the media. >> they rode that editorial

saying, it was a mistake to focus on grievances and the president lashed out at the set and set the ratings on the briefing were fantastic and now he seems to be pulling back. are you finally acknowledging that it was a mistake? >> the briefings were a great opportunity for the president to speak to the american people. that's why millions and millions tune in to see what he has to say. they recognize leadership and a president who is leading. so going forward, today we are are not tracking everything. we there will be a press avail, and there will be briefings throughout other portions of the week but these briefings are excellent. they are away for the president to speak directly to the american people. >> sandra: could you clarify that? is there an effort to know limit or cut back on the number of task force briefings?

we won't see one this afternoon? >> absolutely not an effort to cut back but the great entrepreneurship of this president, they will be watching the president and, we will have briefings this week. the media needs to not look at what's happening and it leaves this as an opportunity and later in the week as well. they are task force, will the president be present at those briefings? >> they may have a different look and i'm not going to get ahead of those announcements, and millions will tune in and

watch his leadership. >> sandra: we hope we can get one soon. we will see you again soon. thank you, appreciate it. so the stay-at-home protest expected to continue across the midwest today in some states continue for a partial reopening despite the number of coronavirus cases throughout the midwest. mike tobin's life was more on that. >> good morning. that clearly social distancing guidelines are being disregarded. chicago police said they have not tracked down the party but have broken down multiple parties through the weekend. a last resort would be rounding people up and issuing citations.

that includes everyone involved including the offers officers being at risk of infection. >> you are literally putting everyone around you in danger. you are. they are putting you in danger, and very importantly, all of those people are putting their families and friends that are not there with them in danger. >> illinois has been hitting 2,000 cases per day with a peak of 2700 on friday which is due in part to an increase in testing. governor pritzker is set a goal of 10,000 tests per day and the state tested more than 16,000 on friday. illinois officials have predicted the state is reaching its peak. a meat-packing plant in green bay, wisconsin, shut down. four have temporarily closed for the pandemic and cattle ranchers say that they are selling

livestock at a loss and you could very well see a number of rangers go under before we get through this pandemic. >> sandra: okay, mike tobin reporting from chicago. >> ed: a fox news alert, brenda reports raising new questions about the health of north korean dictator kim jong un. plus, house speaker nancy pelosi officially endorsing biden, and we will look at that straight ahead. >> as we face coronavirus joe has been a voice of reason and resilience. they clear path to lead us out of this crisis. 49...50!

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♪ >> ed: while it is a fresh sign of hope that sports fans have been looking forward to for many weeks. the nba is reportedly going to allow team practice facilities to reopen as early as friday and states that are beginning to relax the coronavirus stay at home orders. that of course was suspended last month. >> sandra: speculation

continues about the health of kim jong un who appears to be in great condition following heart procedure. let's bring in senior institute fellow gordon chang. good morning and how are you, thanks for being here this morning. you have been talking us through this for quite some time. what do you make of the reports and the rumors that you are hearing? >> there's another report which actually has some circumstantial evidence to support it. there was an accident on april 14 when north korea launched a barrage of cruise missiles. that missile test which in fact it did occur could not have gone forward if kim did not authorize it. kim has been on site for virtually every verb missile test in north korea during his reign. there have been pictures released of him at all of these tests in this time no pictures

released of the test. but the test did go forward and that's an indication that something happened on april 14. >> sandra: so we can't confirm that he's dead or sick or any of those things but there is at least one thing. you are saying that things are different and has country is acting differently, communications look and sound different so what can you conclude from what we know at this point? >> we can confirm he did not show up for the day of sun celebration which commemorates his grandfather. he has not missed any day of the sun celebrations. also he was a no-show on saturday for the celebration to mark the founding of the korean people's army. this is a pattern which is broken which means something really is wrong. i don't think the south korean government is right when they say he is alive and well.

he may very well be alive but the well part of it could be in question. when these patterns are broken we know that something has occurred. >> meanwhile all of this leaves a lot of room for speculation obviously as to his health and eventually, as to his whereabouts. you have to think about succession and who -- >> this is a matter of great concern because there are at least two kim family members. there is kim jong un's younger sister and he has really favored her but there is also his uncle, who by the way is the son of kim l song. he wanted to be dictator but

didn't get the nod from his father, which means that we could have two kim is contending with each other. there could be regime fighting and remember this is the country that has weapons of mass destruction including nukes and intercontinental ballistic missiles which by the way can reach all of the u.s. >> sandra: how do you expect china to respond as uncertainty looms question >> china would certainly like to have a large hand in figuring out the new regime. i don't think that it will though because kim jong un spent a lot of his time removing chinese influence from north korea that included the 2013 of his uncle who was the link with beijing. i think the chinese, like us, will be bystanders. if we all have great interest in what goes on in north korea because of the dukes issue but i think the chinese are going to

be very cautious sitting on their border not moving their military south as a many people had thought that they might do. >> sandra: gordon chang, thank you for your analysis on all of that. we will likely learn more in the coming days. thank you. >> thank you so much. >> ed: u.s. news alert, mike pompeo is preparing a legal argument that the u.s. is still a participant in the iranian nuclear deal. that extends the arms embargo, and we cannot allow the islamic public of iran to purchase current weapons in six months. if we are prepared to exercise all of our diplomatic options. the arms embargo stays in place at the u.n.

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>> sandra: making news, the supreme court sided with insurance companies over who is liable for losses under the affordable care act. the court ruling 8-1 that the federal government is responsible for reimbursing insurers under the laws risk corridor program which was designed to expand health care coverage to those who cannot afford it. insurers are currently seeking around $12 billion in payments. >> we have a lot of ppe and we are on shoring to make sure we are not allowing any and we are figuring out how we can be more prepared for the future. >> that is of course

jared kushner, so we are not so reliant on china or anyone else for that matter during the next national emergency. charles payne and anchors making announcements on fox business network. after that interview that jared kushner did we got a text from a friend who said he should be out there more because it made a lot of sense and the issue with china's synthetic critical. >> it is critical. you know, of course jared talks about it in a different tone so maybe they make a good one-two punch if you will. this whole thing has always bothered me. you know i have on my show all the time this fiscal conservative, the old adam smith orthodoxy. the country has come to sell you see a lot of cheap price, then take it. so what if you lose millions of

jobs come at the bottom line is corporate america will be better. this is the great awakening. our medicines come from china. our masts that we need come from china and we talked about playing games with them. it's not just the united states, australia is rethinking this and they have a very conservative government. they have a libertarian running that government and they say, i just can't go with the old adam smith playbook. there is more to being a secure country, financially stable country than just going to the lowest price producer out there. particularly when it puts out a business and keeps companies in jeopardy. europe is rethinking this and boris johnson's own party is saying, we need to rethink while way. >> ed: the examiner adds to what you just said sing the governor can entice u.s. companies to return to our shores with tax breaks and other economic incentives while favoring american made

pharmaceuticals federally funded pharmaceuticals. breaking away from china supply chain will undoubtedly create cost. that's at least a first but it's a small price to pay for reliability and quality. that's cassette a moment ago the president was out in front on this going back to the 2016 campaign but it's going to take sacrifice from americans as this op ed points out. you might have to pay more for your drugs or more for products but it might be the right thing to do for america. >> it might take sacrifice from drug companies, i don't understand this notion. this is the fallacy and why it hasn't happened. all these industries always make the excuse it's going to cost americans more. why can't it cost corporate america more? you make $3.90 for the year instead of having $200 stock you have a $180 stock. this is a fallacy. it does not have to cost americans more and they get tax picks from the government, what about the cost of more?

i don't like that excuse and that's all it has been as an excuse from the chamber of commerce and all these other entities for a long time. we need to be honest with americans. we can't ship millions of dollars away and then tell us we can't make shoes in this country because it will cost us more. >> the irs has had its enhancing its website. they've got the tool there, there's been frustration in getting all of this moving. it's the ppp program as well on whether or not mom-and-pop's are getting the money. >> i get my payment program, they are making that better and better. if you haven't gotten a direct deposit we could put some information in there. they will tell you you are payment status and where you are if you need more information.

they do stress however that it's updated every four hours. they are trying to make it easier and expedite this money to folks out there who haven't gotten it. by the way, if you filed a 2019 tax return and it was in the midst of being -- you haven't gone through the system yet you might be sitting there wondering where is your money. so that's another reason. if you don't have 2019, it defaults to 2018 but some who filed this year may be close to the deadline of this whole coronavirus thing and may have not gotten money at. >> ed: the dow was up 200 points, a pivotal week. you've got earnings, all kinds of good tech companies, there's a lot on your plate. >> there is a lot on your plate. so far i'm calling today's rally to prong. number one, performing stock percentagewise, carmax. they sell cars. you have retailers and furniture

makers. you got casinos in there. and then those five major companies that have driven our world, amazon and facebook and those two components that are driving today's session. a lot of excitement. >> ed: absolutely. charles payne, we appreciate your thoughts. >> i'm proud to endorse joe biden for president, a leader who personifies hope, values, authenticity and integrity. when we have president joe biden in the white house. >> sandra: that was house speaker nancy pelosi jumping onto the bandwagon about the 2020 elections and voting during a pandemic. raising alarms about what could

happen if dates are not fully prepared. peter doocy is's live in arlington, virginia. it's been three and a half weeks since the last time joe biden hosted a personal press conference if he was hosting events. but because of covid-19 he is relying on one-on-one interviews and virtual fund-raisers. virtual fund-raisers is where he told donors about president trump. mark my words, i think he's going to try to kick back the election somehow and come back with some rationale about how a can't be held. these are incoherent conspiracy theory ramblings, and president trump has been clear that the election will happen on november 30. talk about postponing the general election follows actual postponements of primaries in 16

states plus puerto rico, and of course the month delay i in the dnc convention. of course that was 1918 and the midterms during a spanish flu outbreak. we spoke to a harvard professor who studied that election and tells us this. even though most people in the administration to be fully acquainted with the 1918 flu. the center for expertise, they should be that would send every registered voter about it and they could mail it in. that continues to opens up a lot of doors for mail and voter fraud. >> peter doocy, and those are heating up on capitol hill.

i won't say how to states going broke, and maybe they should declare bankruptcy. the michigan governor defending her states lockdown make comic measures and all of that, coming up. that's coming up next. >> i know we have done what the vast majority of people agree with and have done the right thing.

>> ed: some good news this

morning, ryan newman says he's ready to resume racing when the nascar season gets going. it's a force that's been idled by the coronavirus. he says he's recovered from february's fiery crash at the daytona 500. he was knocked unconscious and suffered a brain injury in the crash but did not break any bones. nascar officials says he has not yet been clear to resume but they could resume as early. >> just passed four bills, more than $2.7 trillion and you combine this with what the fed is doing, the $7 trillion into the economy. let's first look at the results before we want to go back and try to rework another bill. >> the governors are impatient, and they should be impatient. that will help us get an even bigger number. >> a political battle is gearing

up. a similar statement majority leader mitch mcconnell saying last week he would be in favor of states to declare bankruptcy instead. that has john drawn fury from democrats. the cochair and he did not mince words when he responded to the idea of that. what say you about that. >> i have a twice a week call with my local mayors and county officials and my state legislatures. and i have talked to my governor numerous times over the weekend on several issues for working together. these are the people that are dealing with the reality of what cove a covid has done. it has devastated their budget, and we have to make sure that the first responders, they keep

our areas from a public health perspective, they have the funding they need. look. these are not normal times and taking shots at the state and local government which are actually the fighters on the ground isn't helpful to anybody. >> sandra: mcconnell would say he wasn't taking shots at that but that was simply the idea he put forward based on past experience with some of the states. i will redo this headline, raised constitutional questions. if you could come and tell how do you keep this bipartisan? nobody asked for this virus, this is nobody's fault as far as the spread that we have seen in the united states and the impact economically on these individual states and local municipalities. so you see the bickering emerging on capitol hill. how do you keep it bipartisan?

>> so i am me and i said this on my call with my local officials, and i ascended to my democratic colleagues. american people don't want to see us bickering right now. the american people are scared and some people are antsy from having been cooped up for six weeks and other people are scared to ever go back outside. they don't want to see as partisan fighting, they want us to keep them safe to get the economy reopen again. i talked to fred upton my colleague from michigan ten times per day. and i work with my colleagues as

was my democratic colleagues. they've got to be bipartisan. here's president trump. >> president trump: we will see what happens but it certainly the next thing we will be discussing. in all fairness, some states have not done that for many years. >> sandra: there is for the president stands on that. we will get an update later in the day. as far as your estate is concerned congresswoman, governor whitmer there is defending these aggressive lockdown majors. if you've seen the protests and here's the latest from her. >> at the time michigan has the third highest death rate and the third highest number of positive covid cases and where the tenth

most popula populous state. it was hitting us here in michigan incredibly hard and that's why we had to have an aggressive mission. we have saved lives in the process. >> that is the governor. it's interesting because gretchen whitmire, her approval rating over handling covid-19 and her estate is 64% in the president. >> we are tenth in the country for population and for weeks we are number three. and unfortunately we are third highest in the number of deaths in the country. we have been disproportionately impacted for a variety of reasons one including the fact that we have an airport that has the six highest level of international traffic. we looked at statistics and

looked at models, you don't know how terrifying the numbers were that they were predicting we could be had by. she made tough decisions and we had to stay home, but those numbers are more than half, they are less than half. they are about a quarter of what people originally thought would happen. we are all in it to stick together, and each of us has an individual role to play. and people are in close quarters. how are we making that state? there are lots of tough issues. >> sandra: we have to leave it there. do you have extended support for lockdown majors? >> i do but i want to tell you i've talked to the president and ceo multiple times in the last few days and we are all working together to do what's right, to get the economy going again but to make sure that the workers

not only are safe but they know they're safe. >> sandra: our best to michigan. debbie dingell, we appreciate your time so much. it's been one of the now to flag exposure to the coronavirus has some people concerned about their privacy. up next, how apple and google are trying to address it. open road and telling peoplete that liberty mutual customizes your insurance, so you only pay for what you need! [squawks]

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>> ed: apple and google now trying to address privacy concerns with her new coronavirus of truckee technology. the tech giant adding new security features designed to inform people. that's a morning anchor on fox news headline 24/7. good morning. i wonder what they are doing because there are big concerns about privacy. what are they doing about change? >> i mean we had immediate red flags when they first started talking about the contacts tracing. it's where your phone talks to another phone and exchanges a little bit of information so that down the road if it turns out one of the people you came into contact with turns out to be covid-19 positive they can

alert you. the big concern here is where is that information going, how safe is that information as it transfers and is there any ability to really track an individual once you have the key that the phone and send you. so what apple and google are going to do now is they will encrypt that data that gets shared between the two phones. they will also scramble any identifying information. so if you are walking around and you have your iphone tennis and talks to an android, android phone, neither party is going to know which device just spoke. they won't have any location information or information about who owns the phone so that information is cleared off the table. we should also point out that there is bluetooth to exchange these key is that they have which are going between the two phones. the tooth is basically saying the energy source, the power of the bluetooth radio on this other phone is x strong which

means it so many feet away from me. another good thing that we have heard about and we are going to follow up on this when this pandemic is over, both google and apple have said the ability to do that in the phone, the api which is a program language which gives the ability to access the bluetooth features and the concern to this was that contact tracing will be very important as the states go up. what if retailers can start using that contact tracing, what if when we walk into a store the store will know where you went and what i'll see were in. so it's good news that you are turning that off because that means all of that stuff is off the table. you are back to, that's another

layer of security. but the good news here again is, this will all be opt in. if they are hopeful that about 50%, an. >> ed: and sandra? >> president trump: as food banks across the united states struggled to meet demands, many food suppliers are trashing millions of pounds of produce. why is that happening, is there any way to bring the surplus to food to those in need? a closer look, next. a financial company. we're a "together we can get through anything" company.

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>> ed: a fox news alert, as more states begin to relax coronavirus restrictions and reopen some nonessential businesses closed on for weeks. i met henry, good morning again, sandra. >> good monday morning. the u.s. now on pace to hit more than 1 million cobi and covid cs nationwide and while there are 55,000 deaths about a dozen states are beginning to reopen. here's what kayleigh mcenany told us the last hour. >> we have the president who constructed the greatest, hottest economy in modern history. president trump will do it a second time and he believes there is a lot of pent up demand

in this country, people ready to get back to work and go out and buy things and go to restaurants. that is here and that will help us as we begin to rebuild this economy, we are in a strong place. >> sandra: steve harrigan is live in atlanta. one of those leaders as far as were opening the economy, last week a reopen several different forms of small business. today it reopens dining restaurants with more than 30 different safety recommendatio recommendations. >> they will be wearing masks, wearing gloves. we will certainly be enforcing social distancing including the occupancy requirements. >> there has been sharp criticism of georgia's reopening including her president trump who said georgia is moving too fast. the state has more than 23,000 cases for the 900 people dead. no widespread testing. the governor said today is a day

of prayer. different states are really going in different directions in tennessee is opening restaurants for dine in as well this week even though they've had the largest single day jump in new cases. there governor is saying they will follow science and wait for two weeks of study declined to new cases before reopening their economy. sandra, back to you. >> sandra: steve harrigan, thank you. >> ed: joe biden meanwhile picking up another high-profile endorsement. a former vp saying he can lead america out of the coronavirus crisis. >> we need a forward-looking battle-tested leader who would fight for the people. that will bring our nation together and that's up better world for our children. for these and other reasons i'm proud to endorse joe biden for president. good morning chris.

i did not know that she had not officially endorsed until i saw that. better late than never i suppose. >> she was trying to get tulsi gabbard back in the race. she is the ranking democrat of the united states. she is the democrat of the highest office, and that's part of unity. nancy pelosi got what she want wanted. she definitely was plumping for the mainstream candidate, and i don't know whether biden would have been her pick for jump street but she got what she wanted so she's cool.

>> ed: joe biden tweets out i'm incredibly honored. grateful for historic leadership in congress and together we help pass obamacare and we cannot only bring this company back from the brink but transform it. it's interesting because you heard kayleigh mcenany earlier in the program saying wait a second, that's not the way it's going to be framed. the trump campaign of the white house clearly wants to frame this. it was taken down by something that nobody was anticipating fully and that he he was the one to win it back. >> well it depends on what things look like. there were a lot of assumptions baked into both parties guesses about what the main issues and what the discussion was going to be like. we are not going to know until the fourth of july what shape the recovery is going to take. we have some projections on the congressional budget office that

will be a year's worth long struggle back. but of course, you listen to steven mnuchin and they say it's going to be ping-pong and they will rocket back and they say it will come back gangbusters. we will get it all back. one thing the administration has to be careful about is managing expectations. they want to be optimistic and talk people into spending, talk people into investing in to talk people from going out because we have an economy that is 75 or 80% consumer driven. at the same time if they make too rosy of a parked promise or even modest improvement or good improvement we will seem insufficient. >> ed: what about the way the president was framing it last week he is not completing all of the sentences the president says and he's not making a whole lot of sense about what he would do differently. so the president is saying there's a new challenge here for

joe biden which is frankly right there for all of us to see they are is how do you try to take on an incumbent when the president says you are stuck down in the basement trying to give their view. >> last week in the basement was a great place to be. so if you are joe biden sometimes it's good to be out of the picture. it's very important that biden finds himself in a huge structural disadvantage in terms of access to money, access to new voters, access to all the stuff. because even though he continues to be ahead of the president, he is not in the discussion. he's a nonfactor. so the upside is he lets him run as a generic democrat, but on the downside, if that things turn around for trump, if that happens there will be to pay.

as you say picking up the money and picking up the new votes, and we appreciate you coming in. >> sandra: in the u.k. prime minister boris johnson is using his first public appearance to avoid lifting lockdown restrictions too soon. benjamin hall has that story live. >> boris johnson made a typically optimistic speech today making it clear he was back in the helmet heading up the coronavirus task force. he did also say that this now is not the time to start lifting the lockdown. not until the situation improv improved. >> we are not beginning to turn the tide.

if this virus were a physical a assailant, and i can tell you it personally is this is the moment when we have begun together to wrestle it to the floor. >> other countries in europe however are starting to relax restrictions. spain is now allowing children under the age of 14 to go outside for an hour a day after six weeks of total lockdown. and despite however the rising numbers, factories, construction workers and shops are restarting and getting back to work. that's a total of 80,000 positive test from a population of 150 million. and now we have seen them declared a large increase in those numbers. meanwhile in wuhan china, the

last 12 coronavirus patience have left hospitals and now china has its role in the pandemic. they continued to deny suppressing information early on. there's a big commentary saying the u.s. republicans are attacking china for their own political gain and one thing is sure when this coronavirus has passed that the tension between the u.s. and china is only set to increase. >> sandra: benjamin hall reported from london. >> ed: more on this next. plus, some scientists consider a controversial procedure to speed up the search for covid-19 vaccine. if it is it worth the risk is a u.s. continues to search for answers to come at the crisis? >> every day we discover something new and important and

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>> ed: military police are searching for a missing soldier who was stationed at fort hood. she was last seen on wednesday in the parking lot of her barracks, and of course the keys to her car along with her i.d. and wallet were found inside the armory where she was working earlier that day. law enforcement in the area issuing a b on the lookout notice for the 20-year-old private. she is described as being 5'2", weighing 126 pounds. if you have seen or heard anything please call authoriti

authorities. and you got optimism about the reopening over some areas of the country. those are warnings on the president's economic advisors that we are going to see numbers like we have not seen since the great depression. the unemployment in this country and the hit that we will see from economic growth. but that optimism is playing out in the stock market this morning with a 250-point gain. >> ed: he left the economic white house has an economic advisor and as we said he is may be overseas with his family and got the call. he is once again a senior

advisor, and he's comparing it to the great depression. he saying this is the biggest shock to our economy possibly in american history and yet as you say you see that dow up slightly today. some green territory there in part because states are starting to reopen and there's sort of this cautious optimism right now. but everyone is watching it all very closely. the president is doing that videoconference to make sure things are falling into place. >> sandra: you are looking up to the future, and for example steven mnuchin that treasury secretary is saying that we could see an economic rebound by end of summer. and most economists are predicting any sort of come back right now. this is the way the president is going to frame it as we head

into the election season. it's been brought down and he is the one to build it back so that's the case the white house will be making. >> you think about how the dow has come back since the worst moments of the pandemic, below 20,019,000 it's now back to 24,000 this morning. meanwhile, various businesses in texas. as we were discussing as the state relaxes, some of those covid-19 restrictions. and that's live from arlington. >> there have been mixed feelings frankly across the state of texas. not only from business owners but then of course employees. people are ready to get back to

work, and, that some capacity last week and that's this retail on the go sort of format where people purchase things online and then they go to the store to physically pick them up. some are at least happy to be open even if there are limitations. other texans have been critical of the governors timeline saying it's taking too long. protests were held again over the weekend at the state capitol in austin. and i'm sorry. sorry, we seem to have some technical problems. at dallas salon owner however was trying to up her to open up her business over the weekend even though salons are not part

of the businesses that can be opened. listen to what she had to say after she was cited. >> everything has been vague because they are all looking at each other saying, what did we do? because this is unprecedented. and if they want to lock the doors and i will put chairs out here. >> this week starts the first restriction starting to be lifted in louisiana. elective surgeries resumed today in that state. the governor says that is an important step since a large portion of the population has chronic conditions that have to be addressed. in the meantime in texas as we told you despite the protests at the capitol and the like down there in texas, officials say the governor will be holding this press conference later today where we will get a better sense of the next phase of restrictions that will be lifted here in the lone star state.

sandra? >> sandra: casey stegall, thank you for that. the race to find a vaccine for covid-19, some are saying there is a controversia a and injectiy adults with life coronavirus provides moral dilemma. joining us as a family and emergency medical physician and fox news medical contributor. always good to see you. we have lots of questions. one on injecting healthy people with a vaccine, just find a vaccine. you have healthy people all over sling, or if they tested positive for the antibody thing, use me, use me to help find a vaccine so we can get out of this. >> it's great that we have lots of volunteers but you have to remember, sandra, it takes 10-15

years. that's an extraordinarily fast pace to get it down to one and half years. vaccines have to go through trials, phase one, phase two and phase three. two doctors reported in the journal of infectious diseases, instead of using the regular phase three trial let's use what is called the human challenge trial. meaning after we checked for safety, effectiveness and dosage inlets injected straight into patients. the question is we are knowingly asking volunteers to inject themselves with a deadly pathogen that could potentially kill them. on top of that we are seeing so many patients, young patients with heart disease and, and it's a bit of an ethical dilemma that we have to take into consideration.

>> sandra: very important develop it there. covid-19 altered to world history and it's now evident that public health as part of national security. that safety and sovereignty. the first country to reach this prize will be the first nation to recover. and that's 18 months out. i want to ask you all about this possible new treatment, the heartburn drug that we all know, pepcid. what are we doing with that, nobody is saying to run out and buy this if you are suffering from symptoms of covid-19. what is the effect on virtual patients? and that's an over-the-counter

medicine. so there is a study showing that if patients are put on hydroxychloroquine, will they have a better outcome? the reason doctors got the idea to run the study in the united states is because in china doctors noticed that patients who are put on some oda dean versus a more expensive and antacid, outlived those put on the more expensive antacid. basically what happens is famotidine which is also known as pepcid acts as a decoy for the virus. so when it enters the system it interacts and won't have the opportunity to replicate. it's being studied, definitely something to look at and it's being given in very high doses in this trial that's given here in new york. it's not a harmful medicine to take in high doses so that's very important to make sure we

are not doing any harm to our patients during the study. but we need to try and see what works and if it's effective, that's fantastic. but it will take some time to see the results of the study. >> as always, ask your health care provider about that. >> social distancing will be with us through the summer to really ensure that we protect one another as we move through these phases. >> sandra: with a few seconds we have left, let's talk about what the summer is going to look like as we see parts of the summary open. >> i think as everyone adheres to the cdc guidelines we can definitely open up slowly and in phases. the goal is to protect high-risk populations as the most vulnerable. it's very important to make sure

that we adhere to the 6-foot guidelines because we deftly want to take these very steps. >> sandra: it gets harder and harder but we hear you, doctor. thanks so much. >> ed: farmers forced to destroy crops among the coronavirus shutdowns well farmers acros people across amea are facing food shortages. >> i don't think we can wait two weeks to get it going. i don't think it needs to happen now.

>> this is probably the best crop this firm is ever seen. i've got a 50% loss and if they are keeping things shut down until the first or middle of me that will probably take the rest of it. >> ed: farmers across the country are forced to don't produce and euthanize livestock as a pandemic shuts down big customers like restaurants, school districts that normally buy a lot of food. meanwhile food banks are struggling to keep up with demand. millions of pounds are rotting well food demand soars.

>> good morning, we have two problems and how we seem to connect it is troubling. talk about farmers in your state around the economy, these crops are euthanizing livestock. >> here in the state of florida, hundred $37 billion industry that at times like this is number one. so what's happened is, now when all of our atypical food services such as restaurants and schools and cruise lines have all shut down its put a lot of our firm is in distress. some of these heartbreaking farmers, and they have been very aggressive. and trying to get a lot of our

retail food stores. they've got a full screen on this, feeding america right now. 59% of food banks reported having less inventory. and there were dairy farmers in wisconsin destroying milk right now because they just don't have the demand for it. meanwhile there are families and children who can drink that mi milk. and that's in terms of connecting the dots. >> yes we are. part of the problem, and those

are aspects of the program to allow us to purchase more of the domestic products and that's why i had written to secretary perdue at the end of march, and what we are doing now is connecting the dots. that hopefully will spend there's a large purchase air in the state of florida to get it to the food banks. that's completely going through the roof and it's not just on unemployment and underemployment, too. they are making tremendous progress here and there is a lot of work still to be done. certainly additional funds with both fema and the usda will help them connect to those. >> ed: secretary perdue had mentioned that to you privately.

they have a food assistance program, $16 billion for impacted agricultural producers. you see they are purchasing $3 million and produc$3 milliony and meat. >> the big problem we are having, the problem here in the state of florida is that we are the number two specialty crops producer in the country. and only 2.1 billion was allocated for those direct payments to our farmers. that's not enough money to help our farmers and even the caps on each of the commodities. individual commodities, $150,000 cap with 250 per farmer or per company. we see so many of them doing 150,000 per day. >> ed: of the were and a big

card back up, people lined up he said trying to get food at a food bank so that's in texas. you are in florida. the last 30 seconds we have, what can people do to help? >> so what you can do, a couple of things. keep up your donations, donations have dropped significantly. what we are asking people do is to log onto the website, that's where, and the food banks. >> ed: the president has talked about how the food supply has remain strong. thanks for coming in. >> sandra: a quick look at the

covid-19 briefing that governor cuomo is delivering in albany. he said that there is still approximately 1,000 new confirmed covid-19 cases in his state. that confirmed 3337 deaths alone. that's the rate of hospitalization. he said it's basically flat and that's not good enough. and he's talking about the phase reopening. and we will bring you the news as we get it. >> ed: the navy ship is docked in new york city and the pandemic and we will tell you what just happened with the comfort. plus they put their lives on the line to treat the sick and dying and no reports say that health care workers are actually

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retaliation for bringing up legitimate safety concerns. joining us now is dr. ernest grant, president of the american nurses association or ana. what can you tell us about some of these reports that we are hearing about, and that's a lack of safety equipment and the results or the consequence of that. >> thank you very much for having me. they american nurses association has been hearing from members and nonmembers alike, and in some cases they are being asked of her attacks or retaliation. this is something that is part of the code of ethics, they have the right to address concerns. and address the safety of not only the environment and safety

of the patients but also the safety of the nurse for him or herself as well. this is the statement we received back from the new york state department of health and sent out the statement on that lawsuit, saying "the state of new york continues to take every step necessary to ensure that health care workers, particularly those who are sampling and providing direct care have the support needed to address this unprecedented public health emergency. that's the emergency department of health and their statement on that. so we are seeing the reports that you are obviously seeing us well right now of intimidation, firing, and ostracizing. so what are you doing to stop it? >> what we are doing is obviously letting nurses know the proper things that need to

do when they report that there is not enough proper equipment et cetera. it is obviously the chain of command and also state and local agencies as well as federal agencies that they can also turn to if it looks like they are not getting satisfaction by reporting that front internally. >> sandra: dr. grant, where are you seeing this problem? obviously it's different all over the country but you represent the americans nurses association. where are nurses still having a hard time getting protection equipment that they need? >> according to a survey that they received at stall all over the country obviously as various either hot spots begin to peek, pennsylvania, florida, michigan, just to cite a few but obviously it's in small pockets. we are still filling the concern enough to want to report when

they are finding what they consider to be unsafe conditio conditions. >> sandra: how would you describe the overall morale of our nurses trying to give them the support that they need to continue to fight this? >> that's a great question. the nursing morale is still there. they are wanting to go to work and do the job they need to do. they are professionals and they are going to do that so part of being a professional as well as they are calling attention to the fact that they need the personal protective equipment in order to not only protect themselves but to protect the patients and cross-contamination. and of course most importantly to reduce the possibility of bringing this virus home to their family members who may be just as vulnerable as the nursing staff may be. >> sandra: this is your statement. nurses who are experiencing any

of this retaliation can file a whistle-blower complaint online or contact osha. that's obviously occupational safety end. dr. grant, thank you for coming on this morning. our best to all of your nurses. >> ed: kim jong un has many speculations about his health and whether he is or alive. we talk about the impact coming up

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>> ed: and kim jong un dropping out of sight raising questions about his health, in the rampant speculation none of it confirmed at this hour putting a spotlight on his powerful sister as well.

let's bring in general jack keane. good morning general. so we heard the intrigue all weekend, is he dead or alive? we heard helicopters were flying low in pyongyang and the train patterns in china were changing. many say he was hurt and missile test recently in many cities in fright, kiting. what is your thought? >> it's so typical of this regime. we've been watching this for six decades and it's all the same pattern. they are so afraid of showing any weakness to their own people that they would hide something as normal as someone getting i ill. and here we are speculating about what actually has happened. the fact that he's been off the public stage for this long leads everyone to believe that clearly something medically or physically has occurred which has interrupted that pattern of life, and we can speculate about it but it would likely be

something serious. i'm not certain the south koreans have the right spin on this when they say everything is fine because nothing looks fine so therefore something is truly happening. >> ed: is leo's think something happened in your best guess is he still alive but there was a surgery or illness and he's recuperating? >> i think he is likely alive because i think we would see some other indicators as they are working closer toward succession. and we don't see that yet. so i think that's most likely. >> ed: so add to this mix, the possibility of a contested session. succession. >> the kim succession is most likely with his sister or his uncle but the reality is that there was a contested successi succession, and you know, use military jargon here, it's most

likely dangerous. if it occurred in one of the people that was involved would be the vice marshal and he is the chairman of the workers party. interestingly enough, he killed number two and number three under kim jong un's father when he took over to make sure there was no power play. he would be in that position now is number two and number three but he may want to contest kim taking over for fear something is happening to him. but if you it's his sister who he doesn't think would have a strong enough power base to sustain it. >> ed: the mystery deepens and we will stay on top of this. general jack keane, thanks for coming in. >> ed: sandra? >> sandra: come campaigning in the age of coronavirus. how congressional members are working to win over.

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>> sandra: at the covid-19 pandemic forcing big changes to the 2020 presidential campaign. congressional candidates also shifting gears, as the virus shakes up their plans to win over votes. chief congressional correspondent mike emanuel is live in washington. hey, mike. >> sandra, good morning. the entire house of representatives.33 of the senate are on the ballot in november, along with many challengers, trying to figure campaigning during covid-19.

i will republicans senator joni ernst is adjusting to life without that interest in human interaction, so her campaign has adapted to the new normal. >> we are using technology to connect with as many iowans as possible, and just working on the issues they care about. we are talking over webinars, tele- town halls, facebook live events. >> without the big rallies, the democratic strategists say ads right now are slight campaigns in quarantine. >> we are seeing a lot of the videos shot at home with family members, similar to what you're seeing on zoom conversations that are taking place across the country. a lot more of the kind of personal video that we are seeing in terms of what we are producing for candidates at this point. >> one g.o.p. candidate running for congress in iowa says there is a benefit about people being home. it's easier to catch them on the phone. >> right now most people are at home, so i think we are having a

really good connect rate. many people who will get them on the phone, we ask questions and try to engage about our campaign, then people want to talk for five or 10 minutes. >> a democrat running for the senate and georgia says people have adjusted. >> there is something miraculous about the human spirit. people find their community, and they are just finding civic community virtually right now. >> for now, it's all about virtual campaigns, as candidates for the house and senate try to deliver their message for potential constituents. sandra? >> sandra: mike emanuel, thank you, reporting from washington for us. ed, what weekend it was. did you watch the draft? >> ed: i watched the draft. i've been meaning to show del mike ask you. joe burrow what from your lsu to bill hemmer's cincinnati bengals. have you gotten together yet to figure out any advice at all? number-one pick! >> sandra: [laughs] i have a congratulatory note. cheers to lsu. coach o is so proud of those

players that would over. it was big for the sec in general. don't you think? >> ed: the sec dominated this draft. see you tomorrow, looking forward to it. >> sandra: we will see you all tomorrow morning. thank you for joining us. "outnumbered" starts right now. >> melissa: gradual reopening of america kicking into high gear this week. as more states prepared to ease restrictions on businesses and public gatherings. stay-at-home orders in more than a dozen states set to expire by friday. doctors warned we are not out of the woods just yet. >> social distancing will be with us through the summer, to really ensure that we protect one another as we move through these phases. >> melissa: all right, joining us on the virtual couch today we have katie pavlich, lara logan, kennedy, and dr. marc siegel, as well. i'm improvising