in new york, jacqui heinrich, fox news. >>> the nation's top infectious disease doctor, dr. anthony fauci, says extending social distancing guidelines is crucial to keeping infection rates down from the coronavirus. he says the united states could eventually see more than 100,000 people die from coronavirus and he says millions of others could get infected. >> yeah. the number i gave out is based on modeling and i think it's entirely conceivable that if we do not mitigate to the extent that we're trying to do that you could reach that number. >> president trump cited those figures when he extended the guidelines to april 30th after saying last week that he wanted to open up the country hopefully by easter. the president now says he is hoping that the country will be well on its way to recovery by june 1st. >>> the epi center of the outbreak in the united states right now is the state of new york and today unfortunately they passed a grim milestone. more than 1,000 people in the state of new york have now died from coronavirus. more than two-thirds of those deaths, 776, are i

jacqui heinrich will be on the trail throughout california, jacqui, thank you so much, kristin. several candidates including joe biden are either in or about to be in another super tuesday state today. they've taking to the annual selma bridge crossing jubilee in alabama. steve harrigan joins us live. what are we expecting today? >> a big crowd begin to go gather in the bridge, of course, the scene of bloody sunday, 55 years ago, there were about 600 civil rights demonstrators marching peacefully over that bridge when they were attacked by law enforcement with clubs and also with teargas driven back brutally. some of the images that day cheered into american history. helped lead to the quick passage of the voting rights act of 1965. a lot of candidates expected to take part in the reenact a few hours away. we saw mayor bloomberg this morning at union breakfast. he said he's optimistic about the super tuesday primaries but he said when it comes to race, there's still a lot more to do. >> the average black family's wealth is one tenth of the average white family's wealth. just thi

jacqui heinrich is in yonkers, new york, where shoppers flocking the to the stores. with steve harrigan live in atlanta outside the cdc headquarters. steve? >> reporter: a lot of news coming out of that it is aing force meeting in -- task force meeting in washington today, the president saying this virus has forced americans to rethink their behavior even about basic social interaction. the president saying it's forced him to rethink once again his position on handshaking. here's president trump. >> people come up to me, or they shake hands, they put their hand out. it's sort of a natural reflex. and we're all getting out of it. all of us have that problem. somebody comes up to you, they put their hand out, you probably tend to just shake it, and we're all getting out of that. shaking hands is not a great thing to be doing right now, i agree. but people put their hand out, sometimes i'll put the hand out, you don't think about it. people are thinking about it more and more. we have to think about it, it's important. >> reporter: some slight movement in the numbers fr

jacqui heinrich is following it from her new york city newsroom.rter: attorneys for lori vallow daybell got the judge lowered her bond to $1 million for prosecutors argue she's a flight risk because she and her husband both lied about the whereabouts of her children. lori vallow they stood judge yesterday at she was in was arrested and why in the workers she faces a litany of charges including child abandonment after police say she and her husband chad daybell refused to help authorities find the kids and fled idaho is in his investigators began their search after the the grandparents house for her welfare check. samuel joshua j.j. vallow was seen september 23 after his mother told the school he'd no longer be no longer becoming be coming in 70 tylee ryan was last seen september 8 at yellowstone national park with her mother and now deceased uncle for the children's disappearance follows a mysterious pattern of deaths surrounding the new couple. lori's late husband charles vallow was shot and killed by her brother alex cox last summer for cox claim

jacqui heinrich is in san jose california covering the sanders campaign. we begin with mark meredith who is with the biden campaign in norfolk, virginia. mark? >> good evening. joe biden's campaign will be here in virginia to try to drum up support ahead of tuesday. you can hear the drums they are banging on right now. the campaign is certainly eager to capitalize on what happened in south carolina last night. joe biden's campaign also getting some high-profile endorsements in the last few hours. they've won the endorsement of virginia senator tim cain, hilary clinton's running mate four years ago. that happened on friday. also see the former governor of virginia mcauliffe offer his endorsement. now, the latest polls here on the ground in virginia do show some good news for biden, have him leading ahead of both vermont senator sanders as well as former new york mayor bloomberg. both bloomberg and sanders were on the ground campaigning here in virginia on saturday. but we heard the former vice president today about what would happen if bernie sanders is the

we asked about the possibility of stores being overrun, we heard from jacqui heinrich, that stores backed all over the -- packed all over the country, apple announced they're shutting down for a couple weeks. we asked the president about this. >> i think it's good, if they do it. i think what apple did is fine. we want to keep people away for a little while. when it gets better -- people are going and buying things. i understand that. >> reporter: the white house is praising house democrats and house republicans for approving a bill overnight. it is meant to address a number of issues, paid sick leave, unemployment insurance. the president is showing his support behind the measure, so is treasury secretary steve mune economy. >>mnuchin. >> this is a unique circumstance. this isn't like the financial crisis. there's no question, because of the things that we're requesting people to do, there are parts of the economy that are shutting down. >> reporter: the white house is certainly trying to present a united front with those experts that we saw in the white house briefing room. we are expec

jacqui heinrich is live in san jose with the sanders campaign. jacqui. >> reporter: hey there, arthel. yeah, senator bernie sanders is still ahead of vice president joe biden in terms of delegates. but biden's second place finish certainly puts pressure on sanders' campaign. he's hoping to take a big chunk of california's 415 delegates on super tuesday, and he's doing two rallies here in california. this one in san jose, tonight with the hip-hop group public enemy in los angeles. he's relying on grassroots support to emphasize turnout, and early voting has been underway for several weeks now which could benefit sand earth to some extent -- sanders to some extent. this week sanders downplayed biden's advantage. >> why are you having so much trouble with african-american -- >> well, look, whoa, whoa, whoa. whoa, whoa, one second. we won the young african-american vote, and we are winning in terms of polling some national polling. >> reporter: sanders congratulated the former vice president last night, but this morning he shot back at biden saying a

jacqui heinrich's with the sanders scene and peter doocy on the site where the rally will take places rare to hear elsewhere from a major political candidate especially on a major primary day but earlier today joe biden was confronted by a fiat chrysler worker about guns and something the plant worker had seen in a viral video and biden pushed back. during preplanned remarks about guns, biden further clarified his position on the second amendment sink essentially he doesn't think the second amendment is absolute like the first amendment isn't if you yell fire in a theater. something new though from biden, his closing argument to michigan voters last night, the former vp was flanked by new surrogates like kamala harris and cory booker and he pitched them as the future of the party, on himself, the man hoping to be top of the ticket. >> i view myself as a bridge, not as anything else. there's an entire generation of leaders you saw stand behind me and they are the future of this country. >> tonight, they will address supporters here in cleveland and ohio. and that's where donald trump

jacqui heinrich is live in cleveland, as well. good evening. >> good evening, bret.enator sanders will not be addressing voters after those projected losses. there is a somber mood within the campaign. omchigan obviously coming as a blow. this is a symbolic state that he wanted to win, like in 2016, where he pulled out a win over hillary clinton. it was an upset victory and marketing moment for his electability. his state did not produce the same results for him t tonight, and that is coming is a huge disappointment for his campaign. while coronavirus concerns canceled his rally one state over in cleveland tonight, it didn't appear to impact voting in michigan. sanders campaign encouraged election officials to address long lines at polling locations, urging them to keep polls open longer as necessary, but the same white, college-educatedte voters that gave sanders a win in 2016, thiss time favored biden, who won back a broad coalition of men and women, suburban, and rural voters. sanders losses in mississippi and missouri were more predictable and a repeat from 2016.

fox news jacqui heinrich with our report tonight on the government's response. >> reporter: the federal government implementing new steps to help bolster the country's physical and economic health as the number of covid- 19 cases in the country continues to climb. >> we're unleashing every tool in our nation's vast arsenal. >> reporter: president trump and the coronavirus task force updating the country from the rose garden sunday discussing the latest measures taken in the fight including the food d authorizing a new rapid test. >>new test developed by abbott labs that delivers lightning fast results in as little as five minutes. >> reporter: with 50,000 tests expected to be delivered each day -- >> the deployment of rapid testing will vastly accelerate our ability to monitor, track, contain and ultimately defeat the virus. we will defeat the virus. it will also allow to us test doctors, nurses and other healthcare workers immediately. >> reporter: fema is building additional hospitals in new york, new jersey and louisiana, some of the hardest hit areas and providing personal protectiv

back to you. >> jacqui heinrich live in new york city. thank you. meanwhile, the u.s. military getting called upon now during this pandemic crisis to help the american people, a group you might not be thinking about, though, who are standing by and ready to help are the nation's veterans. and our next group -- our next guest, excuse me, works for a group who wants to make sure the call is heard. he's the executive director of the call of duty endowment, dan goldenberg, also a retired u.s. naval captain, reserve naval captain, he has more than 27 years of military service under his belt. dan, i want to ask you first, you say that our nation's veterans are uniquely qualified to help during this pandemic. tell us about what they can do. >> hi, gillian. thanks. well, you can see from the president's actions with the mercy and the comfort and calling upon the inactive reserve that the kinds of skills that we need right now during this time of crisis are in -- within the military, be it communications, supply chain, of course medical. these are folks who can reply to a crisi

jacqui heinrich is tracking all of this for us from new york city. jacqui? >> jon, since yesterday, 209 more coronavirus deaths bringing the total in this state to 728. there are 52,000 confirmed infections right now in new york. there are 1700 people in the icu and 7300 people in hospitals. new york governor cuomo is shutting down the suggestion that a stockpile of ventilators isn't necessary, saying if we wait until that peak hits, it will be too late. >> do everything you can to get ready now. there's an old expression, you go to war with what you have, not with what you need, which is true. when the bell goes off, and you have to go to war, you deal with what you have, because it's too late to do the preparation. >> hospitals are straining to meet current needs, reporting units are full. outside elmhurst hospital in queens, there are long lines of people. it is the same hospital that used refrigeration truck this week to hold bodies. doctors are also falling ill, and hospitals are beginning to transfer patients because of the case load. and while the sta

eric: jacqui heinrich live in new york with the very latest, jacqui. >> jacquie bringing total 50,000 coronavirus cases in new york, 7300 people are in the hospital and 1700 of them are in the icu. hospitals are straining to meet the needs. president trump approved governor andrew cuomo's for more temporary field hospitals bringing total to 8 plus the u.s. navy ship comfort heading to new york harbor. local hospitals are reporting units are full. outside of hospital in queens, long lines of people, same hospital that used refrigeration trucks to hold bodies. while the state says they have purchased enough equipment for the current need healthcare workers on the front lines say they are still rationing and reusing masks because of shortage operating under crisis guidelines from the cdc. >> we are doing our best to take care of it, put a little hand sanitizer on it, wipe it down, but it's tough because the masks are used as only -- as only stable use, you know, only for use. it's been very difficult but we've managed and we are doing our best to manage and it's not easy. >> the state al

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jon: jacqui heinrich, thanks.mp is considering options to help support small businesses that are struggling during this coronavirus pandemic, hoping to stave off or at least minimize a recession. column gene marks writes in the washington times why this year's recession will be nothing like the financial problems of 2009. he writes, now they're nowhere near as severe as the problem we had back during the last great recession of 2008-9, and there are at least three fundamental reasons why. joining us with those reasons, from the barks group bc, thanks for being with us. >> yeah, i'm happy to be here, and thanks for having me on. yeah, you know, there are some fundamental differences. and if you're running a small business or you know somebody running a small business, you have to keep this in mind. this is definitely a short-term thing. this is not like it was back in 2009 where people were really scared as to how long this thing was going to last. there is plenty of credit available, and i'll get back to that in a

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jacqui heinrich is following this part of the story and she is live in new york city, covering it herehe country. jacqui. >> reporter: hey, arthel. in new york city more than 76 -- new york state, rather, 76,000 volunteers answering the call for more medical workers to support the coronavirus response as police, fire and ems are fielding record call volume. on thursday, dispatchers received more than 6,000 911 calls, the highest ever for individual medical incidents, nearly double the normal rate. the fdny is urging new yorkers to only call 911 if it's a true emergency, saying many calls they receive are from those that are concerned they have the coronavirus. only ems units are being sent to sick calls. there's an enormous risk for exposure of essential workers. >> if you have difficulty breathing and very high fever, go to an emergency department. only call 911 if you need help right away. >> reporter: right now, more than 4300 members of the nypd are out sick, that's nearly quadruple the average, with 700 testing positive for coronavirus. 243 members of the fdny also tested positive

jacqui heinrich is in new york city with more. jacqui?> jon, governor andrew cuomo says a ventilator stockpile is necessary, pointing to the climbing rate of infections. the peak of all this could be as long as three weeks from now. and at this point, there are already 52,000 confirmed cases. also, covid-19 patients typically need ventilator support for between 11 and 21 days. that is far more than the average three or four days for other illnesses. he says that the equipment that exists won't be easy to turn around, and the state needs to get out ahead of this shortage before the peak happens. >> we have been behind this virus from day one. we have been in a reactive posture from day one, with this virus. we're waiting to see what the virus does, and then we respond. the virus makes another move, and then we respond. no. you don't win on defense. you win on offense. >> hospitals are also straining with units full and doctors falling ill. outside elmhurst hospital in queens long lines of people, the same hospital that used a refrigeration

voters they are at the polls in two weeks and jacqui heinrich's they are in west palm beach where bloomberg is holding a rally later tonight. >> former mayor mike bloomberg is not parsing words in his short tour of florida today, he says the only way he could win the nomination is the right contested convention, something that hasn't happened for decades and he's also shaking up pressure to consolidate moderate support around former vice president joe biden. bloomberg told reporters he has no intention of dropping out of the race and even said his candidacy is taking votes away from him. today will be the first test of his candidacy after skipping the first state, hedging his bets on super tuesday and after senator amy klobuchar and pete buttigieg dropped out of the race ahead of super tuesday endorsing biden and what is looking like an apparent bid to stop senator bernie sanders from securing the nomination, bloomberg rejected pressure to reconsider his campaign instead saying a contested convention is part of the rulebook. >> i don't think i could win any other ways, but contested convent

jacqui heinrich is in the new york city newsroom with details. >> reporter: lawyers argued the case'sia attention brought a high bond. the judge reduced it by 80%. josjoshua vallow and tylee ryan disappeared in september after a trip to yellow stone national park. police asked anyone there around september 8th to check photos for signs of the kids. lori appeared for the first time in court yesterday. lori and her husband lied about the children's wherebouts. she left idaho the day after investigators came to question her in november and defied a court order to produce the children in february and has been collecting social security payments meant for her son and daughter. the mother is facing several charges including child desertion and nonsupport of dependent children. the children's brother, colby and the grandparents who demand for a welfare check launched the search. >> to see her and trying to get a connection with her own mom, knowing she doesn't have the kids for a long time, that's really hard. where are my brother and sister? can't be too hard to answer. >> reporter: this fo

jacqui heinrich is following details of that trial in new york city. >> robert durst is only facing chargesor the murder of his best friend susan berman, who was shot to death in her beverly hills home in 2000. but investigators believe durst also killed his late wife kathy durst in 1982 and they say he executed berman nearly two decades later to stop her from talking to police about kathy's disappearance. kathy's body has never been found. the hbo documentary the jinx led investigators to arrest durst in 2015. lawyers discouraged him from speaking to filmmakers, but prosecutors say he ignored his counsel because he loves media attention, ultimately handing police fodder in their case for clips where he talks about beating his wife. what got the most attention was a hot mic moment caught off camera where it appeared that durst admits to the killing. >> [inaudible]. >> prosecutors argue in court just before durst shot susan berman to hide his secret, he stockpiled money, setting up a false identity as an elderly woman going into hiding in galveston texas and arranging a marriage of convenien

. >> harris: and live now from the all-important swing state of florida is jacqui heinrich, west palm beach never looked so good! i wish i were with you. >> [laughs] hey there, harris. former mayor mike bloomberg said this was a data-driven decision. after the results came in yesterday he said the delegate math became virtually impossible, and had he stayed in the race, he says it would have made it more difficult for the democrats to defeat president trump because of how many ways the votes would be split. he immediately endorsed former vice president joe biden. two sources saying they had a good phone conversation this morning, and biden think 10 minutes later, tweeting, "i can't thank you enough for your support and for your tireless work on everything from gun safety reform to climate change. this race is bigger than candidates and politics, it's about defeating donald trump. with your help, we're going to do it." bloomberg's drop makes a worse case scenario, a contested convention, less likely. prior to super tuesday bloomberg admitted he didn't think he could secure enough deleg

jacqui heinrich is tracking the latest. >> reporter: gillian, many first responders and also health care workers are self-isolating from their families while they continue to work because of their ongoing exposure to coronavirus. here in new york, more than 76,000 volunteers answered the call for more medical workers to support the coronavirus response as police, firefighters and. ms are answering the record call volume. on thursday, dispatchers receiving more than 6,000 911 calls, the highest ever for individual medical incidents and nearly double the normal rate. the fdny is urging new yorkers to only call 911 if it's a true emergency saying many calls they're receiving are for people who are concerned they have coronavirus and first responders themselves are often not protected. right now, more than 4300 members of the nypd are out sick, nearly 700 testing positive for coronavirus. 206 members of the fdny tested positive. yesterday, a third coronavirus death within the nypd. >> everyone is afraid. everyone is afraid. you think these police officers are not afraid to leave their house?

jacqui heinrich is live in new york city with more on this story. jacqui?e than 15,000 coronavirus cases, and new york city has more than 9,000. that is an increase of 46% since yesterday. and while the army corps of engineers is setting up field hospitals that will take in additional patients and increase bed capacity, there's a critical shortage of masks and other protective equipment for doctors and nurses. the centers for disease control is now encouraging doctors and nurses to reuse masks and other protective equipment because of the dwindling supply, even saying medical workers can use home made masks from bandanas and scarves as a last resort although protection against pathogens is unknown. the white house called on companies to help with mass production. joan -- companies are saying they will step up but time line is uncertain. haunting images showing what it looks like in the icu. each of the brown bags is labelled with a doctor's name or nurse told to keep or reuse their mask which would usually be thrown out. the hash tag give me ppe is now tren

jacqui heinrich. >> reporter: hey, leland.urder of his friend who was shot in her beverly hills home, but investigators believe he also killed his late wife cath the in 1982 and say he executed berman nearly 20 years later to keep her from talking to police about his wife's disappearance. kathy's body has never been found. prosecutors argued in court just before durst shot berman, he stockpiled money and set up a false identity, marrying and giving power of attorney to a woman he previously dated, deborah sheridan, who was married to another man. durst went into hiding in dallas, texas, posing as an elderly mute woman. police hadn't yet approached berman, although they intended to, and she may have been struggling financially. >> the evidence will show, again without question, that susan knew her killer and that she freely and voluntarily admitted this person into her house. >> reporter: durst was also previously acquitted of killing his former neighbor shot to death nine months after his wife's death. durst said a gun acciden

you brought up the issue of store shelves, we have that coveredded with jacqui heinrich a little biter. steve harrigan outside the cdc in atlanta. obviously, we'll go to the vice president when he comes out. steve, the cdc has come under a lot of fire because of the lack and slowness of testing. have they sort of taken up the mantle now, and do they feel comfortable where they're at? >> reporter: certainly when we heard from the president, the speeding up of the testing was one of the key points he made in his national emergency declaration, that that would be now public/private partnership, that more than $50 billion would be released to the states to try to speed that up. so that's certainly been a snag. we were supposed to see a briefing from the cdc this afternoon, and that's been postponed til tomorrow. so the numbers as they stand from the cdc are still 145,000 confirmed cases world wild. here in the u.s., 49 states affected, 2,000 confirmed cases in the u.s., 50 depths. we just heard, of course, the news of another death in the state of new york, an 82-year-old woman with a pr

this is jacqui heinrich's cat, her office is between me and jesse.ave you heard, just a question mark >> her name means katie in farsi. we have to vote on which one is the better cat, i am telling you right now that i was blackmailed by dana's assistant who said that if i didn't vote for her cat, dana wouldn't do my show saturday night. >> i am an emergency fill in for your show, i think i am doing a very nice thing. >> i have not been bribed, i am open to it. >> do people vote for this online? vote online, catsversuscancer.org. >> beautiful cats. i am voting for yours. sorry. >> jesse, you're next. >> i would be careful with your vote. remember how yesterday we showed you the video of those italians playing racquetball outside of their quarantined apartment buildings? well, italians are very innovative. look what they do with the espresso. attach it to a little line, hey you want some espresso? coming your way. people coming together. >> i love it. i love them. >> apart, together. >> a lot of concerts have been canceled, you know that. a lot of musi

but we begin with correspondent jacqui heinrich another sanders campaign is planning to move forward,en search. hey, jackie. >> hey there, shannon. sources tell me there's what seems to be an effort to mask feelings of anxiety within the campaign. senator sanders decided not to address voters tonight after it was projected that he would lose michigan, a state that he was feeling good about earlier today. so there was this feeling in anticipation that we might hear something from them about the past forward. but we will not. sanders also canceled what was reported to be a landmark speech in cleveland about the state of his two man race, over coronavirus concerns. earlier today, when confronted with the question of what sanders might do if former vice president joe biden clinched support of black voters once again, sanders slams biden on his record, railing against the wall street bailout, painting him as part of the establishment that puppeteer by billionaires. we expected to her sanders hammer that home tonight. but the decision to cancel tonight's rally came far before any results tr

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correspondent jacqui heinrich, tracking the pan for us tonight. . >> good evening, shannon. senator bernie sanders admits it won't be easy to catch up to former vice president joe biden, whose more than 300 delegates ahead of him, but he thinks more debates might give him a better chance, saying people want to hear more about his plans for health care and the economy, as coronavirus has forced americans to rethink the role of government. sanders points to the $2 trillion economic stimulus package as evidence of his platforms are necessary and doable. the vermont senator's campaign on issue like medicare for all in meeting the minimum wage on the premise that health care should be a fundamental right in the booming u.s. economy shouldn't be people livg paycheck to paycheck. >> i think there is growing sentiment in this country that people now understand that it is incomprehensible that we remain the only major country on earth not to guarantee health care to all. >> sanders supporters hope his continued campaign will pressure democrats to adopt more

jacqui heinrich in new york, why the fbi says they need your help finding these kids. >> hey there, leland the case's media attention prompted an excessively high bond. they're arguing a murder case in the same area only had a bond of a million dollars. the judge reduced the bond by 80% potentially a fraction of which she'd need to post for conditional release. layer vallow now known as laurie i laurie daybell, after her children disappeared after a trip to the yellowstone national park. they say they lied about the children's whereabouts. laurie appeared in court after being arrested in hawaii on a warrant. and police say they left the day after they questioned here in idaho and was to produce the children in february and is still collecting payments for her son and daughter. given that the kids are missing and people have been asking park patrons to keep an eye out. >> she mentions nothing about where her children how. right now, i was shocked because her bail was reduced from 5 million to 1 million. you've only got to put up 10% in most jurisdictions to get out and the new husband chad

neil: let's go to jacqui heinrich, where they stand in new york. >> as of yesterday, the u.s. has the most coronavirus cases in the world and 44% of them are here in new york city. a lot of the streets are empty and police are enforcing social distancing rules, and the hospitals are surging with the patients. u.s. ns comfort is headed to the harbor to help out. and the president is extending his thanks. although the federal government approved four temporary hospitals around the state, governor andrew cuomo is requesting four more. he says the peak isn't expected for another 21 days and hospitals are already overwhelmed. >> we are scared, we're trying to fight for everyone else's life, but fighting for our lives as well because we're also at the highest risk of exposure. it's tough. and many shifts that i've left from after i've left my shift, i've cried. >> it's not just hospital over flowed, morgues are trained. and one was force today use a refrigeration truck to hold bodies. and the virus is killing one person in the city every 17 minutes. services are modified and it's be

>> jacqui heinrich in new york city. thank you. the white house coronavirus task force briefing will be coming up. that has been pushed back to 5:30, we understand. that's about 25 minutes from now. mark meredith is live at the white house for us right now. mark, what's the latest there? >> jon, we just got word about that delay a few moments ago. the groans here in the press room as everybody has been waiting for the update as well as the people at home waiting for updates on several fronts what's happening as the government tries to tackle the outbreak. two issues top of mind right now, the stimulus package being negotiated up on capitol hill and the urgent call from so many hospitals for more medical supplies. the latest on the action that's been happening today on capitol hill. the white house has sent treasury secretary mnuchin to be the envoy here negotiating between congress as they try to come up with something that will help so many people and businesses that are worried about their jobs, paychecks, worried about whether o

jacqui heinrich is following all of this from our new york city newsroom. >> reporter: attorneys forllow daybell consisten convine judge to lower bond by 80% saying media scrutiny around the case drove it excessively high. the judge says if she posts bond she will have to wear an ankle bracelet. prosecutors believe she presents a flight risk. they say she lied multiple times about the whereabouts of her children and fled the state as soon as investigators began their search. 7-year-old jos joshua val low vd tylee ryan have been missing since september. tylee was last seen on septembe. lori was arrested in hawaii and faced an idaho judge for the first time yesterday. now looking at several charges including child abandonment. the disappearance follows a mysterious pattern of threats surrounding the couple. her late husband was shot and killed by her brother, alex cox, last summer. cox claimed the shooting was self-defense. he died of unknown causes a few months later. lori's new husband married lori two weeks after his late wife, tammy, died in october. tammy's body has been exhumed.

jacqui heinrich, fox news.ead to balconies to share solidarity with italy as they deal with the coronavirus pandemic. >> ♪ >> check out the scene playing out in germany. they joined together to sing the italian resistance song. this comes after workers saw people in i tell you holding sing-alongs. >> they cheered on the first responders at helping those in medical care. >> we have seen some really cool things here. we have seen a lot of people doing chalk art. i have also seen people say let's put out the christmas lights. who is insured up by twinkling lights at night around neighborhoods? >>> i agree. i love holiday lights. outside it is our, we have a little bit of light and sunshine over the north bay. partly cloudy over the central and south bay. partly sunny as we await the next rainfall. here's a look at what we are seeing. a very empty highway, freeway, roadway outside this morning. if you don't have to be outdoors, perhaps, hang out on the couch and watch us here on ktvu. you can see that rain is begin

jacqui heinrich is following this from here in new york city. hi. >> reporter: hey, eric.bare across the country. some high demand items are out of stock online and people logically wonder if a food shortage is next as the virus puts a strain on manufacturers, food delivery and transportation and also farmers who would otherwise be able to plant with confidence this spring. but industry leaders say that the scarceity at some stores right now is not reflective of a deeper problem. the industry's balanced to supply consumers with average needs, not surge demands. even after previous disasters like hurricane katrina or 9/11, needs spiked in certain areas for a finite period of time, not nationwide with an indefinite end as we're seeing right now. manufacturers are working 24 hours a day to pump out that product and experts say people can speed up the process if they stop hoarding. >> what we're dealing with is a demand issue rather than a supply issue. it's unprecedented, the amount of purchase that's have happened. so what's happening is this very resilient food system that

jacqui heinrich is with the bloomberg campaign tonight in west palm beach, florida.kie. >> good evening martha. mike bloomberg's campaign is shutting down rumors that he's ignoring calls from his own advisors to drop out and get behind a former vice president joe biden. the campaign saying there is zero truth to that, and they are excited to see how voters speak for the first time tonight. bloomberg is facing his first ballot test, and moderate supports consolidate behind biden in what is an apparent bid to stop bernie sanders from securing the nomination. limburg was asked whether he would go the way of senator amy klobuchar and former mayor pete buttigieg who both endorsed the vice president and bloomberg bristled at the question saying that candidacy is taking votes away from him. >> i have no intention of dropping out. we are in it to win it. i have no expectations for today. it will be what it will be today but we will have a decent number of delegates and if you've just been working at this for ten weeks, i think that's good. >> it does appear the bloomberg is