jillian: absolutely that is going to be great and once again as always a huge thank you to all of our frontline workers out there. the work you continue to do. jason: thank you, thank you, to everybody and neil cavuto and cavuto live is up next. neil: and so the states continue , the capacity-by-capacity it is not exactly the way we were but closer to the way we want to be welcome, everybody i'm neil cavuto you're watching cavuto live, and dozens of states begin to take cautious measures to reopen, and what that's meaning in restaurants is that in cases they are open at about half capacity when it comes to texas eventually a quarter capacity, and they see how that goes and then look to capacity and the same when it comes down the road to salon, barber shops, tatoo parlors, all the rest that will phase in depending upon where you are. it's all part of the hope at

least to get america back to what it was or closer to what it was. steve herrigan has the latest from atlanta. steve? reporter: neil the count as of this morning about 12 states have pretty much fully reopened their economies with some restrictions, by the end of another week that number is expected to double so from florida beaches to texas restaurants people are getting back to business with restrictions, that's not the case in the beaches of orange county, california. judges upheld the governor's order there to keep those beaches closed. the governor angered after crowds gathered on those beaches a week ago. in new jersey despite the fact that the state has had a single day record death toll from the virus higher than new york's number, they have reopened their state parks and golf courses, but look at the economy in these re-opened states shows some concerns. when you look at the metrics of hours worked, sales, traffic, restaurant res r visions, they all point to levels dramatically below pre-pandemic levels so

people really in many of these reopened states still deciding for themselves and still weary about going out. some good news about remdesivir, that is an antiviral drug the fda gave an emergency approval on friday. this is a drug that reduces the recovery time from the virus from 15 to 11 days and it's not a knockout drug and it doesn't change the fatality rate. neil back to you. neil: steve, it is a sign of hope to your point, thank you very much, my friend steve herrigan in atlanta. much has been said and written already about remdesivir a million times whether this could be akin to what we had dealing with the aids crisis back in the 1980s. no cure for aids ever since that time but a number of treatments to keep people alive, in other words prevent them from dying and that's what they did with hiv and that seems to be the point or at least the hope here with remdesivir. mark meredith at the white house reporter: good morning to you, neil. president trump is spending the weekend at camp david nothing on his public schedule

but he said he be speaking with foreign leaders. it's possible during those calls the topic of how this virus got started may come up. our chief white house correspondent john roberts reports that the u.s. intelligence committee, the majority of it believes that this got started in a lab in china, but that the release of this virus was an accident not intentional. the investigation still ongoing. now before he left the president invited the head of gilead sciences to the white house, the fda granted emergency use of the company's drug remdesivir to treat covid-19 patients. clinical trials have shown the drug shortens the recovery time for some of those patients. president trump: we're having some really incredible results. we have very promising studies coming out on the vaccines, we have promising studies coming out on therapeutics and the first one is from dan and gilead. >> for those of us who have worked in viral diseases and pandemics for a long time this is our first really

positive step forward. it's our first step forward. reporter: now the white house also continues to monitor the economic fallout of all this the april jobs report is expected to come out on friday, and it's expected to paint a very bleak picture of the employment situation nationwide. >> you're going to see some economic data over the next few months that's as bad as you've ever seen. we turn the economy completely off which is something that just hasn't ever happened before, and so you are going to see a very big increase in the unemployment rate, very big decline as larry kudlow mentioned in second quarter gdp but most forecasters expect the second half can re bound from that and the sooner we get going the more likely it is that'll be true. >> the white house trying to remain optimistic that the jobs numbers will bounce back but the unemployment rate could be between 16% to 19% also want to mention on friday president trump was asked about the pictures coming out of north korea with the state media there showing kim jong-un back out in public for the first time over the health reports, the

president deciding not to comment on it at this point but we're continuing to watch over the weekend to see if he's saying anything on twitter, the president not here at the white house but up at camp david neil? neil: all right, mark thank you very very much. mark meredith at the white house , the president is at camp david this weekend. now in the meantime, much has been said on what is exactly so many scientists, doctors excited about remdesivir. the fact that it can accelerate the recovery in extreme patients those for example, on respirator s, ventilators, that's an encouraging development and one i want to raise right now, because a lot of the studies that have come out on this , and showing that ancillary benefit have gone out of the university of nebraska, nebraska's governor right now joining us. governor, very good to have you

thanks for joining us. >> my pleasure, good morning. pete: good morning to you. governor what was interesting about that university and the study i guess in concert with your state officials, and astrazeneca and others is that it did seem to show promising possibilities for those with severe cases of coronavirus and i'm wondering whether those findings might have tipped it in favor of the fda getting involved and granting emergency approval for use in such patients. what do you think? >> well it's certainly possible the medical center is one of the world-renowned organizations with regard to infectious disease or the biocontainment center so we really do have some great experts and minds there that are working on this problem neil: monday, i guess, some of your real easing provisions kick in, governor, like elective surgeries can resume, partial openings, can you update what's happening i guess more to the point next week? >> absolutely, so we have relax ed some of our directed

health measures to allow for restaurants to go to 50% capacity, about half the state's counties a little bit more, we also will allow elective surger ies we're going to allow worship services to begin again in larger than just 10-person groups, so we're going to be taking some steps and there were some businesses closed like salons and tatoo parlors and massage therapy, that will be able to hope under the 10-person rule, so we're going to take a step to be able to start opening things up again, but we also have counties where we've got a lot of hotspots we call them so we're going to keep those under the previous restrictions. neil: in the meantime, governor, you're no stranger to what's going on with meat processing plants across the country, quite a few in your state, a big beach state, a poultry state as well. i'm curious, given the fact that the president had demanded we stay open and some workers at these facilities were concerned for their own safety, the measures taken or at least

offered by the president ease their concerns or are they still scared? >> well i think this is in line with what the president says about responding to emergencies like this in general which is federally-supported but state managed and locally executed, so for weeks we've been working with the food processor s to be able to put social distancing in their where it's very difficult and also working with communities because a lot of the folks who serve these meat packing plants, for example, are in communities where english is not the first language, there may be more densely plated in their homes, it's tougher to socially distance at home as well so there's a number of challenges that we have to address both in the workplace and at home and we've been working very hard these last several weeks to be able to do that. i think the president's announcement needed support to why it's so important that we keep these facilities open, so that we have a strong food supply chain. neil: but do you think those workers are safe? like i certainly see the need to keep the food supply chain going and the beef supply chain going

but a lot of those workers i've talked to more than a few, governor, have said am i being forced to go back? if they don't want to go back, if they're scared for their safety do they have to go back? >> well of course nobody is going to be able to force them to go back in. i think part of what we're working on these last several weeks with the facilities is to be able to put up things like plexiglass between workstations, be able to separate out so people can eat separated by plastic at lunch, that they are testing everybody coming in, taking their temperatures, that in fact a lot of these plants are doing short-term disability for folks, so that they can stay home, if they're sick or somebody in their household is sick, paying them two weeks if they're sick so these facilities are all making great strides to be able to find a way to social ly distance in an environment that it is very difficult to socially distance. nobody is going to deny that and we have our own folks from the university of nebraska medical center who are touring these facilities, they've toured

11 to-date and offering solutions on how they can improve their handling systems, put up more hand sanitizers have people put on their ppe in different places to prevent the virus so we're working collaboratively with our experts to be able to help these facilities and we're reaching out to communities, we put videos, i do press briefings in spanish to help get the word out , we put videos out in multiple languages so we're working very hard to get the word out not only about work, but also about home, and doing social distancing. neil: are you optimistic that our meat supply is safe, governor? i only say it because i know the food and drug administration is great on this that you can't get coronavirus passing through food from those who have been infected with the virus but the fda in the past has changed its views on similar subjects, so i'm just wondering is anyone or on your staff or the

medical teams looking at that issue, about the safety of the meat, when hundreds of workers i'm talking about across the entire country, meat and pork plants and the like, have been infected with this virus, are you absolutely certain that the meat supply is safe? >> i'm absolutely certain the meat supply is safe. this is a respiratory disease spread by people coughing and droplets in the air. it is not spread with a bloodbornee disease, not something for example, mosquito es can spread, it's not spread in the meat, and this is something that is absolutely safe, but we have to work on is the health and safety of the workers who created work with those facilities to be able to make sure they got an environment they want to come to work in, and that the workers are also taking the same steps at home to be able to socially distance and spread the virus there because again it's a respiratory disease. if you're in a situation where you got multiple generations of people, a lot of people in a household that's how the virus is going to spread. not through a meat supply.

neil: all right, from your mouth too and all of the other top medical minds who say pretty much the same thing. we hope that is the case. governor thank you so much for taking the time. best of luck and the gradual reopening of your fine state. >> thank you. neil: we want to turn your attention to what's happening over the skies of baltimore later this afternoon, atlanta, georgia, guess whose back at it? the blue angels and the thunder birds, they will be flying in tandem as they were earlier this week over the skies of new york, and new jersey, and philadelphia doing the same to honor healthcare workers, first responders and anyone doing anything to help the american people get through this , after this. for nearly 100 years, we've worked to provide you with the financial strength, stability, and online tools you need. and now it's no different. because helping you through this crisis is what we're made for.

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house yesterday, and had a chance to outline the significance of this discovery and now the drug could at least accelerate recovery, especially in hard- pressed patients, covid-19 patients, that might be on ventilators and otherwise in a very very tough situation, dr. mccarey joins us right now john hopkins school of public health also a fox news contributor. doctor good to have you back with us. are we getting ahead of or medical skiis on this? hope springs eternal and everyone hopes that this is something that can really bring hope to a lot of folks, but what do you think? >> well this is one tool in the tool box, neil, i think we're going to see a lot of tools coming out in the next several months. this , plus a vaccine, plus mitigation, plus distancing, there's a lot of stuff out there that we can use in combination and the reason we're so excited about remdesivir is not that it's a silver bullet or that it's useful in prophylaxis or

in preventing the infection but that it helps us in patients very sick, those ventilated and although this study showed a 31% reduction in the hospital length of stay, it's actually an observation from a paper a week and a half ago in the new england journal of medicine that the mortality or death rate among those ventilated was 18%. if you can think of andrew cuomo talking about a 70% or 80% death rate among ventilated patients that's an interesting early observation, so this could be a really helpful in the sickest patients. neil: you know, doctor i was noticing there are a number of possible treatments or vaccines or drugs that could take some of the more problematic symptoms associated with this. mederna is looking to make a potential vaccine as early as july, i don't know where that stands and obviously we talk about expanding the manufacturing of a covid-19

vaccine candidate in the uk, working with oxford right now and astrazeneca on some effective treatments that could be ready by the fall so there's a lot perkolating and going around, but the timing is everything, right? is it your sense that something is possible before the end of this year? >> well we certainly could have a sample of these vaccines in time to vaccinate some people in the united states and we know the one profession that is at the highest risk of getting the infection is my profession, it's healthcare professionals and so there are plans to try to get enough supply to vaccinate this sub group and after all you've got to test it in a population not as much for safety at that point in the development but more so to see if it really amounts the antibodies or the immunity that you hope for. the oxford company is the one that you mentioned in the uk is already shown immunogenicity or

immune response in animals, so they've got plans drawn up already to start their supply chain and our new work speed project the white house is working on will do the same. actually, start manufacturing before we get the final results, in case they are positive and useful. neil: doctor, i always ask this as we get together here, but what do you think of this unwinding of provisions at different stateses is going, as more and more states begin to open up albeit cautiously but do you like what you're seeing or any worries you have? some states move before the numbers would warrant such a move but so far so good. what do you think? >> well i am concerned, neil that we're still seeing an increase in about 25 states. that's data from this week, so the idea that we are going to have what they call a classic symmetric epidemic curve which is a rapid steep increase and a rapid decline, that has not been our experience here and that is concerning.

those models and the reason the models were wrong is that they were based really on the chinese data as the data came in but we're having an experience more like europe where our plateaus are prolonged , our peaks are stretched out, and so we're see ing that right now and that's our concern in public health is that we may have to adopt a new normal and we may not be getting rid of this. this may turn into a chronic problem as we go into the summer and fall. neil: how long do you think just advising from your medical expertise, doctor, would you advise people stick to some sort of distancing rules, restaurants still adhere to limited capacity rules whether they're at 25% as they are in texas or 50% how long would you suggest they do that? >> well i would say until further notice because neil we were hoping to be in a much better place right now given the extreme measures that we asked people to change in their routines and we're just not seeing rapid declines we were hoping. if you think about 800 patients

admitted to new york hospitals on friday, how did those patients get the infection? they got the infection during the extreme mitigation, so there is leakage, at the same time, i don't personally think that government should be in the business of telling companies that they have to open or close. instead i personally have the few that the government should be issuing guidelines and mandates on distancing and hygiene and then businesses can figure out whether or not they can comply with those mandates. neil: yeah that's a very good point, doctor, thank you very much. i want to thank you, doctor as well, for doing work and not getting much sleep in the process so thank you very very much. that goes to all the healthcare workers and those looking after us. and businesses don't necessarily have to comply. we're already seeing that in south carolina and georgia where a number of big businesses are saying that i know you say it's okay to open up, we'd rather wait and see how this goes so it really depends on the state and the business. stay with us. you are watching fox news. i'm your mother in law.

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neil: you know the one thing we're following as states begin to slowly reopen across the country or at least dip their toes in the water to ease up on those stay-at-home provisions is you never know when is the exact time to do it. take maryland for example, it reported 1,730 confirmed cases of coronavirus yesterday. this disrupted what looked like a steady trend in an improving trend, it probably would explain why republican maryland governor hogan said i'm going to keep these provisions in effect a little while longer and see how this sorts out let's see if the states senator ben carden agrees with that strategy always good to have you, senator the governor is holding off a

little while here, because not just the spike in cases but concern he doesn't want to rush it he wants to see more favorable data probably more testing. how are you on that? >> well neil i think the governor is following the best advice he can from our public health officials so i support the governor's decision. i really do applaud the efforts of the people of maryland. they recognize this is still a very serious disease in our state. it is still spreading. we have hotspots, just this past week on the eastern shore of maryland. one of the processing plants, we had numerous cases, we have problems in some of our confined facilities whether they're nursing homes or penal facilities. we recognize that we still have a serious challenge in our state so yes i support the governor. neil: you know, hospitalizations have improved i should separately say and that's why a lot of protesters have been saying of this governor, of your governor, that wait a minute. if you wait until everything is perfect we'll never reopen and we'll lose everything.

our economic well being, our jobs, you name it, so how do you balance that? >> i think that's an excellent point. we're going to be reopening and i do applaud a lot of the businesses who have already made plans for a safe working environment for their workers. the key here though for government is to have a greater capacity on testing, we need to make sure that our workplace is safe. we need to be able to trace those who have the virus, so testing is a very important component and we're not where we need to be. the other is protective equipment for our first responders, our health care workers and for those that are in positions where they need to have protective equipment in order to stay safe so those are two ingredients that we really need to get for that we can open in a safe manner. neil: you know, there's a lot of talk about aid to the states, senator i don't know where you are on this when i caught up with mitch mcconnell the senate majority leader earlier in the

week he seemed to bend a little on this idea that states could always apply for bankruptcy by saying i'll help them out if they accept something regarding liability protection for businesses. i want you to listen to this and then i'd love to get a reaction from it this is mitch mcconnell. >> what i'm saying is we have a red line on liability. it won't pass the senate without it. neil: so what would happen though senator if a business feeling that it is enbolden by liability protection that it doesn't do some basic things like masks and other protections for workers, because it might feel that it's legally bulletproof and doesn't have to? >> well it's a good question. i mean, you have to carefully craft a liability protection to deal with the money that be supplied to state and local government, condition upon them and i think at the state level,

the kind of legislation that would provide liability protection for those who are seeking to go forward and to get the economy back up to work. neil: senator cardin, what do you think of that, liability protection? >> first of all i don't like red lines. i really do think that this is a time that we need to work together in a non-partisan, bipartisan manner and that we shouldn't have red lines. we should certainly sit down and negotiate clearly a lot of these issues are state issues not federal issues but we need to make sure that states have the resources to pro side the essential services whether it's police, fire, their healthcare workers, and the local governments today have had a tremendous loss of revenue they have to balance their budget and the federal government needs to be there as their partner so i was pleas ed to see that the president acknowledged that. they recognized that we need to do more for our state and local government, and i hope that will be certainly part of our efforts in the next couple weeks. the liability issues are a

little more complicated. that's really a state issue so i would hope that we'll be able to sit down and negotiate and come up with a package to keep americans safe and help our economy reopen. neil: senator mitch mcconnell also said he's not keen on an infrastructure package right now, many democrats including the president, by the way, is keen on that. he is saying it's not a mid-term issue for him. is that your thinking? >> well before covid-19, we had a bipartisan agreement unanimous vote in our committee for an infrastructure bill. one thing that the covid-19 has underscored is the need for example, in connectivity, too many homes do not have access to broadband, high speed internet service, so we really need to deal with the infrastructure of america whether it's roads, bridges, or internet service, or whether it's our water infrastructure. this coming week, the committee i serve on is going to be acting

on our water infrastructure bill we got to move those bills forward for our country and by the way it will help build our economy as well, so it's really a win win situation, and certainly bipartisan and we hope that'll be part of our efforts in the next couple weeks. neil: senator cardin, be well, be safe, ben cardin, the beautiful state of maryland let's hope they do get back up and running soon and safely. in the meantime we told you about all these states that are now saying restaurants can reopen albeit tentatively, albeit slowly some as little as a quarter of their normal capacity. how is that going to work? i guess it's better than no capacity, but how do you do that jon taffer, remember him? after this. i was born in '37... it was a very struggling period of time. up and down. depression to exuberance. and you could name many, many cycles like that over the years. my generation, having come through so many wars

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neil: all right getting ready to hear from new york governor andrew cuomo here, there was a spike in cases in the city, certainly i don't know if it extended to the state but he is addressing what now is next to new york's plan, he's talked about a staggered opening that the more rural upstate that's been less affected by coronavirus cases would open before let's say downstate including new york city and around manhattan and he hinted that he's already decided that schools are closed for the rest of the year in new york, but he has not really signaled what would happen after the 15th when a lot of these rules that are in

place now are set to expire. he could extend them another few days or weeks. we have no idea. we got a hint out of new jersey that they are looking like they will be extended a little bit even though new jersey governor, phil murphy who met with the president earlier in the week did open up the states, park, playground that sort of thing so that might signal what he is planning to do and whether he would go beyond the 15th or what have you but when the governor speaks we'll take you to him and give you some of the updates and share them with you. in the meantime a lot of folks in the washington and baltimore area, later on in atlanta georgia are looking to the skies because they will have quite a show over their heads, lucas tom linson has more from washington. reporter: neil, the flyovers were such a big hit earlier this week the pentagon said let's do it again. >> i hope each of you will take a little time this saturday to step outside and enjoy the tribute to our frontline medical workers in a responsible

socially distant manner. i especially want to thank general ed tomorrow as who help ed push this knifer a ever. reporter: today's flyovers kickoff in about an hour, and the blue angels and thunderbirds will flee over at 11:45 over pg county hospital in maryland and then over northern virginia and then over the national mall just past noon and then the formation will fly south over atlanta beginning at 1:35. earlier this week the blue angel s and thunderbirds flew over philadelphia hospitals to salute the first responders today's heros on the frontlines in this battle against the coronavirus. the air force also flew this b-2 stealth bomber over kansas city hospitals earlier this week along with two a-10 watter hogs and four t-38 training jets from wearman air force base in missouri and theseb-52 bombers flew over the big easy in new orleans escorted by f-15s from louisiana air national guard.

>> it is tremendous. they were absolutely tremendous. and to do something like this. >> we'll have more on the fly overs later today including one over the south china sea, neil. neil: all right, you're going to have to get out of that office of yours young man to see this later on today. good seeing you again, lucas tomlinson at the pentagon. we told you about all of the unwinding going on in the country and the restaurants, bars, and that sort of thing that can open in some of the states where it's allowed to happen but with the catch, that capacity is up to half capacity, depending on how they're doing. and bar rescue host jon taffer was way out on the curve saying it's going to be a big adjustment not only for the average but the restaurants themselves and he joins us right now on how he expects this all to go. good to see you again, jon, but

what do you think starting in the case of texas as little as 25% capacity, when you kick it off. what do you think? >> well thanks for having me neil. 25% is a big difference from 50% restaurants have fixed costs, rent, insurance, various fixed costs that aren't revenue-based. those costs can run about 30%. labor runs 30%. food runs 30%, i'm at about 90% now, neil when revenues drop below 50% of potential, none of the percentage costs work any more so think about this. it now would take me four hours to serve 100% of the people that used to take me an hour to serve think of the additional hours and labor i'm expanding to facility that, neil. think about the added utility cost per guest which is three times if it's at 25%, so i don't see any way that this model can sustain itself unless this huge delivery numbers to support it,

so we have to get restaurants to a point that customers wear mask s and behave safely enough that we can create a denser seating environment and neil when i see guests not wearing masks that concerns me, and i'm seeing some of that in atlanta. when you look at it in indiana they're going closer to 50% seating but nobody is allowed at a bar at all. no walk-up, no seats at the bar and the bar, neil as you know is far more profitable than food is so, we've taken away the most valuable product, we've reduced potential by 75%, so the question becomes what do restaurants do, neil. do they open and tolerate and get through this and just try to sustain themselves? or do they sit and wait until profitability can be more assured because capacity is higher, it's a very tough choice , neil. nobody is going to make money in this current scenario. the issue is how much do we lose neil: how do you woo customers back who might be leary themselves about the safety of

all of this? i have no doubt eventually they will come back but it could be slow going couldn't it? >> oh, i think so, neil in simplistic sense i think a third of the marketplace will come back pretty quickly. the second third i call reserved they are going to watch the first third and they want to make sure there's no surges and make sure things are going well and then that second third will ease back in a few weeks later. the third-third i call the certain third. they're the older demographic people with preexisting conditions. they're not coming out until they know that they're safe so that there's a vaccine or some other mechanism in place but neil that tends to be the older demo, tends to be a more affluent demo, so it takes a pretty deep impact upon a luxury sector when that certain group holds back. so that's the kind of flow that i see going on and i see luxury restaurants, upscale restaurants possibly suffering more than casual dining. neil: well jon, i'm telling you

you have been way ahead of the curve and all the things we should be watching and anyone not catching your show they should also know you know what you're talking about so thank you again your that, continued success and thanks for helping a lot of people out. you're giving very good practical advice, america's bar rescue and i should also update you here on things to sort of recognize our healthcare workers , but krispy kreme and its ceo, they seem to top a lot of them lately, but by offering free donuts to these guys and not just one or two at a time. how about a dozen? we'll meet him, next.

neil: let me ask you something. would you wait hours in line to get your hands-on a dozen krispy kreme donuts? i frankly would wait months, but the fact of the matter is it's a big lure and its meant to help

health care workers and those first responders who are doing everything and anything they can to help out, but it's a twin need here and the folks who are really looking forward to delicious doughnut and others who are just looking forward to a little relief from stay-at-home provisions and after a while, you know, it gets you. the krispy kreme ceo joins us right now, michael good to have you. >> great to be here, neil. thank you very much. i hope you're well. if you see behind me we got our b-3 going on. neil: it looks great. what got this whole thing started? >> about eight weeks ago when this pandemic really started to kick in the team and i started to work on acts of joy, and what we mean by that is what could we do and operate safely and making sure that our doughnut shops and all our krispy kremeers that's what i call folks that work at

krispy kreme can do and some great ideas came up one you're seeing now is an act of joy called "be sweet saturday" and what that means in the world of contactless delivery our neighbors can come by and pick up if they order a dozen they get another dozen free and they can use contactless delivery instructions and drop it off at their neighbor and that's just one of the acts of joy that came through but we've got plenty more and a lot of these ideas, meal, came through, i visit shops all the time. you can imagine in the last eight-plus weeks i've been visit ing shops with a real focus on safety and just making sure all of our crispy krispy kremers feel confident to be able to deliver the joy that comes with krispy kreme and when i do that, they actually started to send me on a community drop for them which i found pretty interesting so i'd go there, we'd look at safety, make sure

we're operating right because the operating regulations changed all the time and eventually they would send me to the community. i started noticing the pattern almost every single shop or comissary would send me to the healthcare place so i'd have to go in gloves and with a mask and i could see that they really appreciated it and i started paying attention to all these little data points and i go it's fantastic the healthcare folks are really appreciative of it and we just needed to figure out how to scale it so we've put that to our teams and they came up with our healthcare mondays and basically that means if you're in the healthcare business you'd come out on monday, all you got to do is show a badge, and you can get a couple dozen free, from krispy kreme so that idea came from again our shops and then today we've actually delivered over 13 million donuts to the healthcare business. neil: that's beautiful. hypothetically if i show up and you say you order a dozen donuts

you get a dozen free and then if i order five dozen donuts i'll get five dozen free. >> if you're in healthcare, yes neil: the lines are long. >> so actually the healthcare folks are pretty generous with each other. they're taking up a lot of time so they tend to take about two dozen. neil: got it. it's a beautiful thing. thank you very much, the krispy kreme ceo. >> thanks to all our krispy kremers, really appreciate everything they do every day. neil: i bet you do. thank you, sir. we have a lot more coming up including those honored by the president of the united states this week. heros who maybe aren't your first thing you think of when you think of heros, like this young lady, after this. when you shop for your home at wayfair you get way more than free shipping. you get thousands of items you need to your door fast the way it works best for you.

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>> we named our campaign front line fuel and raised over 6,000 dollars, helped over 18 local businesses and delivered meals to nurses and doctors in the area, over 500 nurses and doctors. our mission is simple we want to help local businesses who are also encouraging and helping healthcare workers who are selflessly working around the clock to ensure the health of our people. thank you, mr. president, for this opportunity. it's an honor to be here today. president trump: thank you. >> [applause] neil: you know, this started from scratch, because she wanted to help some people, and she ends up not too long later, at the white house recognized as a genuine hero, helping out in the middle of this coronavirus crisis. and she's kind enough to join us right now, the co-founder,libby,

good to have you congratulations on this recognition, well deserved. how did you like being there? >> thank you so much, neil, for having me. neil: what was it like just being in the white house and you had no idea when all of this started you were trying to help people that you'd end up getting recognized by the president of the united states? >> [laughter] it's pretty wild and what an honor, and experience, i'll never forget for sure. when they first reach out i honestly thought it be a news post, or a press release or a tweet wand then they call they back like can you come to the white house tomorrow and i was just like absolutely let's do it so quite an honor to be there. neil: do i want to go to the white house tomorrow? let me see what my schedule looks like yeah, i can make it. >> yeah, my schedule is clear. neil: yeah, well deservingly so. what got you going with this? explain how it all started? >> yeah, so i work in the real estate business here in the dmv and my business partner and i have clients that contract in the home and they work in the food and beverage industry

and they caught us and gave us insight into the severity of the covid-19 layoffs and pay cuts and that broke our hearts and we got off the phone with them and immediately got on the phone and said what can we do so we did our first order from their restaurant and delivered it to an urgent care down the street and said let's just start a gofundme and see where this goes and as long as money comes in we'll continue to bless those healthcare workers because they really are the true heros and we want to recognize our local businesses because they also need love right now. neil: we just had the krispy kreme guy on, and he's trying to win them over with donuts so i still think that you have the edge but how long do you see this going on? you started something that could obviously go way beyond just what you've been doing to help out people dealing on the frontlines with the coronavirus. >> look, we raised our goal to 30k just because we want to show people who are here for the long run and we teamed up with our

local aesthetic company in bethesda whose handing out giving hand sanitizers as donations as well, so we teamed up with them and as long as money is coming in as long as i'm willing to do it, we're going to do this as long as moneys coming in, so we really want to bless our frontlines. we want to expand it to firefighters, policemen, everyone on the frontlines as well not just healthcare workers that more than anything we know they need encouragement so in addition to food we've been providing videos as well from our donors so, we hope donations keep coming in as long as they do, we hope we can continue to bless everyone on the frontlines because this is all about them. neil: good for you. very selfless act that started with just an idea. a good idea that's helped a lot of people. libby, thank you very very much, the frontline fuel co-founder we do have a second hour of cavuto live coming up. a lot of protests are going to start kicking in in the next hour in brookfield, wisconsin they will kick them off they

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>> all right, new york governor andrew cuomo, he announced yesterday he's closing all schools through the end of the school year. he has the latest numbers, including testing numbers that early on looked pretty good. to governor cuomo. >> uncharted waters, that doesn't mean you proceed blindly, right? you get whatever information you can because you want to stay informed. even in the old days when sailors would sail into uncharted waters, this is before gps and radar and depth finders, they would throw out a piece of lead with a rope. the lead would fall to the bottom and they would call back to the captain how deep the water was.

the lead even had on the bottom a piece of wax that would pick up what was on the ocean bottom, whatever sand, rocks, et cetera. so the captain could tell, basically where he was. so uncharted waters doesn't mean proceed blindly, right? it means get information, get data. the best you can, and use that data to decide where you're going. so especially in this situation, we have so much emotion, you have politics, you have personal anxiety that people feel, social anxiety, social stress. let's stick to the facts. let's stick to the data. let's make sure we're making decisions with the best information that we have. so we do a lot of testing, a lot of tracking to find out where we are. we test the number of hospitalizations every night, we find out how many people are in

the hospital the day before and we've been tracking that. good news is that number is down a tick again today. the net change in hospitalizations is down a tick. intubations is down, which is very good news. the new cases walking in the door. the new covid cases, the number of new infections was also down a little bit, 831. it had been relatively flat at about 900 every day, which is not great news. yesterday was 831. we'll watch to see what happens with that. the number that i watch every day, which is the worst, is the number of deaths. that number has remained

obnoxiously and terrifyingly high and it's still not dropping at the rate we would like to see it drop. it even went up a little bit, 299, 289 the day before. so that is bad news. 276 deaths in hospitals, 23 in nursing homes, as everybody knows nursing homes are where the most vulnerable population is and the highest number of the most vulnerable population. but again, use the data, use information to determine actions, not emotions, not politics, not what people think or feel, but what we know in terms of facts. we've been sampling all across the state to determine the infection rate so we know if it's getting better or getting

worse. and we've done the largest survey in the nation, testing for people who have antibodies. if somebody has antibodies, it means that that person was infected, right? that's what the antibody test does for you. it tells you that that person was infected. they have now recovered so they have antibodies. i went through this with my brother chris, he went through this and if you test him, he has antibodies. we're doing testing across the state, 15,000 people, an incredibly large sample and when we started on the 22nd we had 2900 people surveyed at that time. we had about a 13.9%, just about 14% infection rate statewide. it then went up to about 4--

14.9 and today it is down to 12.3. now, statisticians will say this is all plus or minus in the margin of error, but it's a large sample. it is indicative, 14 to 14.9, down to 12.3. and as you can see, we test about every four or five days. we have so much at stake, so many decisions that we have to make that we want to get those data points as quickly as we can. and seeing it go down to 12% may only be a couple of points, but it's better than seeing it go up. that's for sure. and again, this is outside the margin of error, so this is a good sign and it is 15,000 people surveyed so it's a large number. you can then start to look at where in the state, who in the state, so that will inform our

strategy. you can see it's a little bit more male than female, not exactly sure why that is. in new york city, you see the number went from 21 to 24 and it's down to 19.9. neil: we're going to continue monitoring this. governor andrew cuomo of new york sharing the latest numbers out of the state here. deaths stubbornly high, the number of cases, increasing cases coming down, a forward-looking indicator, more lagging indicators happening on the hospitalization front, fewer people coming in with the coronavirus to be hospitalized, in other words, to be looked at and examined. that is a promising development, however, that is enough with the 15,000 testing going on in the state right now in the state to get the governor to move -- to ease some of these provisions and stay-at-home and sheltering provisions that have been in effect a better part of a month. they're meant to sort of phase

out or at least hit the deadline on may 15th. in a little less than two weeks. so nothing would indicate that there's anything there to cut that short, even though the governor has said in prior remarks, not in these thus far, that he would eventually unwind these provisions first for upstate new york presumably where there are fewer cases of the coronavirus, not necessarily down state, the new york metropolitan area with the highest incidents of cases, more than half of the deaths in new york state occurred in the new york metropolitan area. we'll be monitoring and that also monitoring other effects on monday, not the states that will open, but the number of airlines, a new policy, you have to wear face masks, not just jetblue, but frontier and delta. and southwest said for the time being, it is not. the latest on that, plus chicago

o'hare's international airport. grady. >> you can see it's quiet here. i will say most, but not all passengers have opted to wear a face covering like this one or a face mask and jetblue became the first airline earlier this week to announce it would be requiring all passengers getting on their flights to wear these types of masks or coverings. every other airline in the united states quickly followed suit and actually, not to correct you, neil, but southwest did come along eventually yet afternoon and they'll be requiring face masks may 11th along with jetblue, and united and delta this monday. this comes as they pressured the airlines to make a decision like this. airlines have already made several other changes to make flyers and their employees feel safer. they're cleaning planes more often and in some cases in between every single flight.

they've also cut back on in-flight food and drink service and some airline ceo's are considering limiting seating. all of this comes as tsa says it's actually seen an up-tick in passengers. the most passengers since march 29th went through a tsa check point yesterday. 170,000 of them went through a check point yesterday, but that's still a far cry from 2019 numbers. 2.5 million passengers went through check points on may 1st of 2019 and, neil, airlines have already said they've lost hundreds of millions and in some cases billions of dollars just in the first three months of this year when those partial restrictions and people just stopped flying. that was only partway through the first three months of the year, so this quarter could be even worse, but we're starting to get a glimpse of what potentially, the new normal of flying could be as some airline ceo's say they don't expect passenger numbers to get back up to those 2019 levels until

several years from now, neil. neil: can you imagine? grady, do the airlines -- you don't have a mask, they hand them out to you, right? >> yeah, that's right. some of them have different policies, but for the most part airlines say if you don't have a mask with you, we'll give you one, we'll give you hand sanitizer and other ppe as well and before this requirement was put into place, most people have these masks or made one at home. neil: yeah, i think most of the country has. grady, thank you very, very much and thank you for updating me on the major airlines in recommending this policy, everyone wears a mask. is it a good idea? the doctor with langone school of medicine, a professor there-- she is i should say, a top expert on these matters. you know, doctor, when we've chatted about this in the past one of the things that comes up,

how useful it is to have a mask not so much for the person around them wearing the mask, but the person wearing the mask, is this a good idea? >> thank you, neil. neil: it's a good idea. >> a good idea. and you're right, when we talk about the masks, for the most part you're really protecting those around you. and even if you don't feel sick we now know it's absolutely possible to be asymptomatic, to have no coronavirus and still be able to infect other people and we know that planes, you know, are a place where you can get sick. it's not so much the air, a lot of people think, well, you're having air, and other people it's not filtered well. it is actually filtered fairly well. in most planes they have what are called hepa filters, removing viruses and infectious material. it's the proximity, the fact you're close to so many people

not just on the plane, but boarding the plane, checking in, touching the machine to enter your information. all those touch points you could get infected so i think it's an excellent idea both for the staffs of the airplane and airport and passengers like us, wear a mask the entire time. i'm a doctor, sort of used to wearing masks, but i don't particularly wear-- comfortable, you feel warm, but in this case, i think it's definitely worth it and as we are starting to all get stir crazy and want to travel, the price to pay, i think, for having that. neil: all right. i apologize, doctor, we have some audio issues with you. i thank you for guiding us through that. and i think it's a good idea, whether you think it's a good idea or not, when talking to the rest of the country it's going to become policy for many airlines effective monday. we talked about the slow reopening of restaurants and the like in texas, it starts with a

lot of them opening up, but limited to 25% capacity. joining us now of a restaurant in houston. now, very good to have you. how do you think that's going to work? you can open up, but only a quarter capacity when things start. >> thank you for having me, but we also had last night and the regular dining and it went really, really well. people will well-behaved, i mean, we did keep social distancing as they have required. and we measured the restaurant completely. and we are at 25%, very large restaurant. we seat about 360 on a regular base sits and i think last night we had a seating capacity 92, at the 25%, but it went really well and people were well behaved and people wearing their masks. and at the table, we didn't

require the masks, but everyone behaved very, very well. neil: how do you get your staff ready, the quarter number of tables or seats that you normally would. i'm sure they're having to wear masks and all. could you explain that part, the worker part? >> we've been doing it for the past eight weeks and we didn't just started we were doing the curbside and doing the deliveries and all of my staff have been trained sensibly, they're all -- we have them wearing masks at all times and gloves when they have to. we sanitizing the restaurant completely every single day and constantly. we have took extra measures that governor abbott has set in place. we're going beyond everything that we have. i mean, we have put sealed our bars and in the dining room with more people in the place and we have gone really well beyond

what the government expected. neil: yeah, it looks that way. you know, i guess the understanding is, the state's going to see how this works and in a couple of weeks maybe up to 50%. how do you feel about that? how likely do you think that is? >> well, i mean, this is really a trial. i mean, i think we need to set an example of what we're doing here for the government to consider to open up to have more diners. but again, i am ooh-- i mean, everybody has to be responsible, not only us, but the public. neil: i give you credit, my friend. i had in the houston area, that yours is a very, very popular restaurant and they were just chomping at the bit to get back. so, that's a testament to you and your workers, that it is a draw, and you probably had to turn people away. arnoldo, thank you very, very much and good health to you and your staff. >> thank you for having me. neil: all right.

arnaldo's picos restaurant. in the meantime, we're talking about aid and stimulus that was meant to go to people like arnaldo and people who needed a pickup and the issue is it's so popular, the demand exceeds even the increased supply of funds and a lot of money that's gone into this. darin williams joins us, bank corporate ceo. a lot of this was already spoken far and demand exceeded the amount of funds. do you find that be the case? >> you're exactly right. the demand is great and the demand for the program is strong. people are calling every day. we serve and we've done over a

thousand loans, $104 million already and the demand is still growing. neil: wow. for a lot of these guys who are trying to get it, i mean, they seem to be overwhelmed by bigger businesses that have teams of lawyers and accountants and they're not doing anything illegal, these bigger guys, but they have more resources at their disposal to get to the front of the line, don't they? how do you deal with that? >> what we found neil, in this last round of funding, congress allocated 30 billion for financial institutions, minority depository institutions and we're more proximate with our customers and they're calling us on the phone. i regularly talk to business and i'm helping to process loans with a team. we've had to tell people who bank with larger banks and had to get in line and not able to reach anyone and they're able to reach us. we're trying hard to make sure

the resources reach smaller businesses that need it. we're across america and working hard to try to make sure that happens. neil: for a lot of these guys, if they hang onto their workers or try to, that loan becomes a grant, is that still the case? >> that's still the case, correct. so if you maintain your work force, both your payment level and your employee count for eight weeks after receiving a loan proceeds, then that loan is eligible for forgiveness. 75% of those resources have to be used to pay your employees. neil: you know, darrin, if i could step back how you've been handling this and helping the smaller guys. how is your ev overall business your customers, are they leary, worried, less predisposed to taking out any sort of moneys here in this environment or

borrowing for mortgage, home equity loans in an environment like this? what did you notice? >> so we've got a pretty diverse loan portfolio. so people are a little bit fearful, a little worried about what's going to happen. so small businesses are concerned. we also have a pretty rich agriculture portfolio and farms are still planning, still borrowing money to put seed in the ground to feed america. it depends what sector you're in. people are a little nervous. we've granted payment relief to customers who have concerns and businesses have taken advantage of that and we're trying to do all we can to make sure that we do this through this pandemic. neil: you know, the reason i ask that question, you probably heard yesterday, i think it was wells fargo said they're suspended opening up home credit lines for people just because of the uncertain environment. have you had to do anything like that, just to be cautious or what? >> no, not yet, not yet, neil. again, we provide various forms

of payment relief for those who have concerns. we have not had to do that yet. we stay close to the customers, if they need help, we provide help. we're open for business and ready to make loans. most of our times have been spent on paycheck protection loans. we're open for business, ready to do other types of loans when our customers demand that. >> what does your gut tell you how this is going to sort out? we finished a quarter that took a wallop. the american spending is the weakest in the latest month and all of that was well expected, telegraph the second quarter, the one we're in right now would likely be a lot worse and the president and others around them say things pick up in the third quarter and really pick up in the fourth quarter and really go racing next year. are you in that camp? >> well, you know, neil, i think it all depends on how soon we get back to business. how soon we can open the economy, we've got to be careful, we've got to follow the

signs and make sure it's correctly so we don't have a dip or a double dip, but we're hopeful for a v-shaped recovery. it depends how long we're in the sheltering in place mode and how long for the economy to open up. we've got to be careful and make sure we're following the signs. i will say through pandemic banks, we've been open because we've been deemed essential and we've taken the precautions necessary to make sure we do that so we're pleased that to see the economy open up a little bit. we want to be careful and cautious and make sure it's done and we don't have a double dip where we were a few weeks ago. neil: all right. i wish you well, darrin. and i know you probably haven't had a lot of sleep with the paycheck protection program, sorting and lending. i wish you well to you and your staff and your customers. thank you again. >> thank you, neil. thanks for having us. neil: in the meantime here, we told, but that treat that's going to be available for those in washington later on in

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> . kristi kristi kristin:. neil: you take it takes a former buffalo bills player, 16 years in the nfl, and most players don't go more than a few years, we'll get to that in a second. andre is part of a streaming that kicks off on tuesday raising money for covid-19 relief and it's getting a lot of response namely because it's andre on the other side of the phone and you don't want to say no, i can't participate. andre, good to have you, it's a

real honor. >> thank you, neil, thank you for having me. >> i know it's including boys and girls clubs and elsewhere and this is beyond that. >> this country is going through uncertain times right now and we're in crisis and everybody is looking for something to not only do, but grab onto. a lot of people are making a difference in a lot of different ways. as a club kid, you know, i know how important the boys and girls clubs had been to me over my life and when i became a football player and most important what i became as a person and just like any other organization that's trying to raise awareness for themselves during these difficult times, the boys and girls club is no different. you know, for 160 years they have provided a safe place for kids to go to all over the country, and i was one of those kids. i'm a success because of them

and i know how important it is for kids to go to those clubs every single day to get that, you know, that support that they need, that they might not get at home. you know, my home life wasn't as great as some kids are. some-- a lot of these kids go through different times of their lives and they need that support and they provide and for -- man, it's phenomenal what they do day in and day out, week in and week out, year in, year out to provide that safe haven for kids to better themselves, to many it's a place to be, a place to grow and a place to be yourself. i mean, there's no other place, no other organization, i think, on this planet that you can go to be yourself and come out of a shell like i did as a kid and be whatever you want to be.

and that's where the boys and girls club starts. that's what they do day in and day out and i'm glad to be a part of that, glad to be an ambassador, just like shaquille o'neal and jennifer lopez and a lot of entrepreneurs, and the first pair of doors i knew would make a difference than's the blue doors of the boys and girls club. neil: you've given a lot. i can't fathom how you served with the body blows, 16 years and i think 15 with the bills. i think one with the redskins. how did you hold up through all of that? you know, i can't get through a day sometimes. what the heck. >> (laughter) >> there's a lot of people that can't get through the day. you know, i had a certain mentality and we all-- all of our jobs what we do in life there's a certain mentality

you have to go in with. my mentality i got that from my parents, my mom and my dad was a construction worker, got up at 6:00 in the morning and didn't come home at 8:00 at night, 9:00 at night sometimes and i used to see that and i saw my mom working in a factory and providing and doing the best they could and i saw a toughness from them. what i did for a living, it seemed like they -- of being that tough guy making catches across the middle and all that have kind of thing. and i really, you know, took pride in that. we all have to take pride in something that we do that makes us feel better and makes a difference and they had taught me that at an early age and that's what i teach kids now. every time i go into a boys and girls club, they look at me and a lot of them don't remember me playing, but i kind of give them the sense that they do remember me playing and how i prepare. neil: andre, they remember you playing.

so, i don't think that's the thing. and i've seen those films and highlight reels, they weren't sped up. you really were lightning fast. let me ask you about the football season this year. they hope to get it off on time. there's concerns whether the stadiums will be filled to begin with, but everything is changing, you know, now all of a sudden with the new england patriots without brady and i'm thinking of your old buffalo bills, they might have a shot in that division. do you give that much thought? what do you think? >> yeah, that's the first thing that happened. everybody watchig tom brady, hope he doesn't stay in the division and then he goes to tampa bay. everybody thinks that tampa bay will be a better team. i think they will be a better team, can't count tom brady out. sports has a way of changing the landscape in this country. you can just see, you take sports away from what people do normally every single day and

going to their kids' games and watching it on tv. it's a little different vibe and now that they're showing a lot of different, you know, highlights of different sports, the game is going to be different, sports is going to be different this year in every phase, basketball, baseball, hockey. we don't know when they're starting, we don't know the process they're going to go about doing it. the draft is a lot different this year than it's ever been, everything is virtual with the pandemic going on. so people are going to have to adjust just like anything, people are going to have to adjust. neil: all right. well, we'll watch it closely. andre do me a favor and start aging, that would make me feel better. >> got gray here. neil: yeah, whatever. [laughter] >> toss that up and andre reed, hall of famer, and he could run for president in buffalo and get elected tomorrow. we've got a lot more coming up, including dazzling performances

over the skies of baltimore right now and soon washington d.c. stay with us because the blue angels and the thunderbirds are here.

>> all right. so why should new york and philadelphia have all the fun. you're looking live over the skies of baltimore, maryland. the blue birds-- the blue angels i should say, and the thunderbirds are back at it again, flying in units of six

each. they are dazzling folks over the baltimore area, soon the washington d.c. area. and capping the day over the skies of atlanta, georgia. this meticulously coordinated performance, just like it was over the skies of new york city and philadelphia earlier in the week, is meant to be a dedication to health care workers and those working on the front lines, first responders and the military doing their best to help the people through the coronavirus. a couple of interesting statistics. six f-16 fighting falcons that are part of the thunderbirds squadron and six f-18 hornets part of the blue angels squadron and now at their closest, these planes fly a little more and a foot, that is 12 inches apart at their closest. that's meticulous timing to the t and they are looking at it

over baltimore, the treat will be the same in washington d.c. and atlanta. this is a dazzling way to see this since the bicentennial. and what happened in new york, the staple treatment, that was back in 1976, a rare treat and a rare thank you for a rare breed we call the health care workers and responders keeping us safe and the most powerful military on the planet is saying thank you in its very unique way. can you imagine about a foot apart when they're at their closest. awesome. we have colorado governor jared polis joining us now. and appreciate you taking the time. that's a nice gesture. >> the thunderbirds did a flyover in colorado last week and it was awesome. they did six or seven cities here for the air force academy

graduation and a traditional flayover and nice enough to spend a good hour, hour and a half helping show our respect for our workers, and it was great so many people in their homes and on their porches. we respect the military and it was great for them to step up and do it. >> they didn't have to, they wanted to do it. governor, how is, i guess, the great unwinding going in your state? you've been very careful about it, where are things now? >> right now, you know, our stores are open. folks are returning to offices this coming monday at half capacity to allow for more social distancing. we're just trying to figure out as everybody is, neil, the sustainable phase. how do we prevent a spike in the virus that would exceed hospital capacity and at the same time that people could earn a living. have a psychological and sustainable phase for a period

of months. neil: know the everyone is going along with it. i know fellow democratic mayor michael hancock in denver said he just doesn't think now is the time. he was not critical of you per se, governor, i'm sure you run into that, the reticence, not enough testing is being done, there's still a high number of cases, new hospitalization, what is it that gives them pause? >> colorado is a big state so we have different situations in different areas. we have a way where some areas of our state, grand junction and eagle county they're going ahead of the state, which is fine and mesa county, opening restaurants soon. denver has been a bit of a hot spot. they're going slower one week behind the rest of the state. some areas are a week ahead and others are about a week behind, but most of colorado is moving in tandem. neil: governor, you had been

urging landlords in the state to cool it on eviction notices for people who can't pay their rent. most have honored that, but you hear complaints from renters and tenants, they're not all doing it. so what do you do? >> well, obviously, landlords and tenants will have to work this out. what i think some are going to do and we'll provide a model contract for how that can work. if people aren't earning unemployment, aren't working, amortize the month of may over the next 12 months or 24 months of their lease. like in many areas, the court is not doing the work-- they're doing criminal, but civil, they're putting it off, it's reasonable, they want to avoid the regular flow into the consumers which can also be a health risk. neil: governor, thank you very much for taking the time. we do appreciate it. >> thank you, neil. neil: all right, governor polis

organizing the slow unwinding. he's been cautious about it, there's a balance between getting the economy on track and keeping people safe. meanwhile, keeping people wowed over the skies of baltimore, maryland, washington d.c. and later today, atlanta, georgia. a rare treat for those who are seeing the blue angels and the thunderbirds strut their stuff. this is one of the most dramatic type of accomplishments you see of any air team in the world, to coordinate this between the air force and the navy, and to friday in tandem, as i said, sometimes a little more than a foot apart. they make it look easy and that's why people are in awe after this.

>> all right. it's rare for the president of the united states to intervene in individual commerce, but the fact that he did and ordered all meat plants to stay open during

what has been a disrupted supply debate, about one third of the nation's beef largely the midwest iowa has now been frozen in place because of the problems with workers getting coronavirus in a number of facilities, not only there, but south dakota and other states as well. iowa governor reynolds is with us right now. good to have you back. how did you feel with the president's order to get these operations open? >> yeah, well, thank you, neil. it's great to be with you again. i appreciate order that he put in place and we're collectively working with our processing plants. we've been in constant communication with over 40 manufacturers and processing plants to make sure we're working with them to do additional testing, to make sure they have the ppe. to make sure they're doing-- putting the efforts in place to make sure they're protecting their work force as well so we

can keep the supply of food moving throughout the country. iowa produces 10% of the food supply and we're a fourth of the processing in the state of iowa and so this is a critical and an essential work force and a critical and essential work production capability. so we're working in tandem to make sure that we can keep the food supply chain moving and keeping america fed. neil: you know, that work force though, many of them are very nervous, even tyson food earlier on said it's only going to keep about 20% of its facility open before this presidential order. a lot of those workers feel they're being forced to go back under dangerous conditions. are they? >> yeah, so this is why i think the testing has really been critical to this and we have done a significant amount of testing just in the last week working with our facilities. we've tested over 7500, the diagnostic testing of the employees and then as well as we've done the sirology testing

with over 5,000 and we have scheduled 12,000 tests of both the diagnostic and the sirology testing the week and a half. this gives the employees the confidence they need to feel safe in returning back to work with the proper ppe, as well as the conditions in the facility. and they're doing a lot of that, they're doing the testing as they come in to check the temperature. making sure they have the ppe, doing as much separation and social distancing as possible, but really, i think, our ability to get in there and work with the facilities and do the testing to really identify and understand the scope of the virus and the virus activity taking place in the facility. we can isolate them, get them on a road to recovery. identify who is testing negative and maybe separate the two, separate the work force in order to really protect those that have not tested positive. so, that's really been a

critical component, i think, of us continuing to get the facilities up and going and to keep them up and processing as we move through this pandemic. neil: you are opening slowly other parts of the state, i believe, restaurants first off, albeit at 50% capacity. i think salons, large gatherings, amusement parks put off until at least the middle of may. is that where things stand now? >> yes, it does. we've eased restrictions in 77 of our communities and seeing 88 to 90% of our positivity cases in the 22 counties that will remain under the higher level, and that phase one. we opened up at 50% capacity, retail, fitness centers, malls and in phase two we hope to take a look at salons and barber shops, continuing to open up and bring more businesses back on. you know, in iowa we had over 80% of our work force that was essential work -- that qualified

under essential work force, so we had a relatively small amount of businesses that were shut down, but still, it's had a tremendous impact on our small businesses so we want to make sure that we're opening them back up, but doing it in a safe and responsible manner. iowans are responsible and they're practicing personal responsibility as well as our businesses so we're going to continue to look at the data, monitor the virus activity. we're able to do that from a state wide perspective to a county perspective to a county and a zip code so we will have a targeted approach in iowa and bring our economy back online. neil: governor, thank you, very, very much. iowa governor kim reynolds among those governors trying to do this carefully in a very deliberate fashion, but not getting ahead of the health care concerns there. we'll see how it works out. again, we're monitoring the skies over baltimore and

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>> all right. this will be a sight for just weary eyes over the skies of baltimore and washington d.c., later today atlanta, georgia. we're seeing the blue angels and the thunderbirds strut their stuff. this is just so stunning to me, how majestic and impeccably timed, and the next guest does. thunder operations, a pilot himself, don't mess with the

colonel. colonel, thank you very much for joining us. >> thank you for inviting me on the show. neil: it's a wonderful idea and it comes at a time when so many in the nation need it. they can look up and just be awestruck. i know i am, but this has got to take a lot of practice, right to get it so right, down to the second, down to the inches? >> yeah, that's correct. it's common for them to be out and about in the community and often get told thank you for your service and now on above of over the service members, extend our gratitude to the front line workers. you're seeing a combination of 12 extremely qualified and experienced combat fighter and veteran pilots in the formations providing a salute from the skies. neil: you know what is amazing to me, colonel, when i watch it is how so synchronized this is,

you can't afford not to be. especially as you're seeing it from a cockpit as you are now, the guys are inches apart. how the heck do you do that? >> well, neil, that takes extensive training, extremely experienced and qualified fighter pilots and practice quite a bit. and this is our best way to pass our message of unity and strength and bringing the whole country today and support everybody and let them know we fly together, we fly as one and bringing the air force and navy together is a special opportunity for us to pass that message of could he hess -- cohesiveness and we're going to look out for each other. neil: each claims they have the better squad, the air force and navy. they're both stunning to me and they have to coordinate this with each other, so, how do they do this ahead of time and practice ahead of time?

where the heck do they do it? >> so, we've been down to pensacola, florida with the navy blue angels and had an opportunity to practice a few days to make sure we get this right and look very precise and perfect over top the communities struggling with covid because we want to show them we can work together and we have your backs and it's really the best to pass our message of unity to bring the air force and navy. and have a little friendly competition, but in times like this it's about bringing everybody together and love to represent the service and extend our gratitude to the folks on the ground battling covid every day. the frontline workers are working hard and we're working hard and we're ready at all times and we support them. neil: just amazing. colonel, you're no slouch in your department. but when heroes recognize heroes it takes on added significance. colonel, thank you again. not only for what you do, but the message you're sending today to the health care workers and

those frontline responders. thank you, again. sir. all right. that will do it here, leland vittert and gillian turner are coming up next as we take you to the next city that will enjoy this ride in the sky. depression to exuberance. and you could name many, many cycles like that over the years. my generation, having come through so many wars and so many things... persistence. it's the heartbeat of this country. stick with it. ♪

>> a look at the latest data on the spread of the coronavirus pandemic here in the united states tells us there are north of 1 million, 100,000 cases and added in the last 24 hours since just yesterday morning. on that note, welcome to america's news headquarters from washington d.c. we'll keep you updated on the latest stats all afternoon long. it's great to be with you at home. leland, it's great to be with you, i'm gillian