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Grips to a new normal. Everyone urged to comply with the new restrictions. Time matters, minutes counts. This is literally a matter of life and death. Too many people too close together too often. The longer we do that, the more people will get sick and the more people will die. Scientists and Public Health experts are all making us gravely aware of the choice that we have. And the choices that we need to make to save lives. Local officials have the authority to implement more strict standards than what i as governor have order here in the state of texas. Sandra Fox Team Coverage Kristin Fisher is tracking the federal response. We begin with Jonathan Serrie live at cdc headquarters in atlanta for us this morning. Good morning from atlanta, sandra. You are seeing a patchwork of responses across the country based on the threat level or at least what we know about the threat level. Here in georgia, and in some other states they are asking for voluntary social distancing. But in more hardhit states governments are mandating it. That was the scene overnight in new york which is requiring all nonessential workers to stay at home. Up to this point americans exposed to covid19 who dont show symptoms have been told to stay in isolation for 14 days. Later today federal Health Officials are expected to issue new guidelines for Law Enforcement, First Responders, and other essential workers. Cdc will unveil in cooperation with the department of Homeland Security new guidance which will make it possible for people that have been exposed to return to work more quickly with by wearing a mask for a certain period of time. A shortage of n95 respirator mask are has fueled a blackmarket. There are thousands of stolen masks intended for donations to hospitals. The victim of the theft called police after she noticed the mask being advertised on craigs list. For the First Time International organizers will consider postponing the 2020 Tokyo Olympics scheduled to begin july 24. The International Olympic Committee Says cancellation is not on the agenda but will consider modifications to schedules or operational plans over the next four weeks. Panic buying created a temporary shortage of toilet paper. Officials rt Water Treatment plants are concerned it will lead to backed up pipes if people start flushing alternative products that dont break down as easily such as napkins, paper towels, even flushable wipes they say dont break down in the pipes. And so they say the only paper product you should be putting in the toilet is toilet paper. Anything else you should place in the trash. Sandra. Sandra thank you, jonathan. Ed meanwhile to help states hardest hit by the coronavirus President Trump deploying the National Guard to Washington State, new york and california. Medical supplies should arrive within days. President trump were enduring a Great National trial and we will prove that we can meet the moment. I want to assure the American People that were doing everything we can each day to confront and ultimately defeat this horrible, invisible enemy. Were at war in a true sense were at war and were fighting an invisible enemy. Ed Kristin Fisher is live at the white house which is the nerve center of the federal response. Kristin, good morning. Good morning. There are signs that President Trump is becoming frustrated with the prescription that his administration has given to fight the coronavirus. Those 15 days to slow the spread guidelines. Last night the president said we cannot let the cure be worse than the problem itself. At the end of the 15day period well make a decision as to which way we want to go. That 15day period ends one week from today. Were halfway through it and when it is over, there could be a real tugofwar within the White House Coronavirus tasks force between whats best for Public Health and what is best for the u. S. Economy. But right now, though, there is no question that Public Health is priority number one for this administration. Yesterday President Trump announced he was activating the National Guard in new york, california and Washington State. He also announced that those states would not have to pay for deploying those National Guard units. Fema is picking up the tab. That agency will be supplying several large medical stations to those three states hit the hardest. As for those muchneed medical supplies President Trump says large quantities are on the way and some have been delivered to new york and Washington State. Yesterday President Trump shot down the idea of forcing companies to make more supplies through the defense production act. President trump we are using it now. The fact that i signed it, it is in effect. Were a country not based on nationalizing our business. A person over in venezuela asked him how did nationalization of their businesses work out . Not too well. The concept of nationalizing our businesses is not a good concept. Governors from new york and california say its past time for the federal government to step in and order some of these companies to start making gowns and gloves and masks. They also want President Trump to nationalize the medical supply chain so that states and hospitals are not competing with one another. Ed a lot of hospitals under pressure now. Thank you. Sandra thank you, ed. Meanwhile stock Index Futures overnight have been moving on any breaking news that comes in. And for the meantime were watching markets react to the fed taking action easing up on phase 3 stimulus package to address the economic devastation. Were fiddling here, fiddling with the emotions of the American People, fiddling with the markets, fiddling with our healthcare. The American People expect us to act. Troubling in the bill. Significant shortfalls of money that hospitals, states, cities, medical workers desperately needed. This is a Public Health crisis. It is inexplicable to skimp on funding to address the pandemic. Sandra Louisiana Republican senator bill cassidy is a medical doctor and sits on the Senate Finance and joint economic committee. Senator, good morning to you and welcome. Good morning. Sandra as of now, no deal. The senate will reconvene at noon. Americans are hunkered down in their homes across the country. What can you say this morning and tell them to assure them that politics will ultimately be set aside and the best thing will be done for the American People . A bill will pass. Whats required now is for democrats to be honest. Clearly there is money in there for healthcare. I have had conversations with hospital ceos, etc. There is 15 billion to be distributed as best needed. The amount of payment coming from medicare to hospitals for caring for covid19 patients has been increased by 20 . There is going to be billions more going the states through medicaid. I can go down another list of things that are pumping money into the system. So the fact that schumer would say that telling me he is hiding what his real objection is. He has another object shun so he tries to distract with empty rhetoric. Lets hope democrats come to the table in good faith as opposed to hiding their cards and recognize that whatever short term gain theyre trying to achieve is not worth it. We have to reassure the American People. Get the money to healthcare and individuals and to employers. Sandra senator, with due respect if people hear your response and they hear a lot of politics. This is utter devastation and certain sectors of our economy. People are in pain. Meanwhile on capitol hill they wonder if the right precautions were made to protect our own members of congress. Rand paul testing positive for the coronavirus now mike lee and mitt romney having to selfquarantine because they had exposure to him. He went to the gym and other places on capitol hill. So were even the great precautions made on capitol hill to protect our own members of congress . Let me work backwards in that string. Rands case shows the importance of monitoring what you do. Someone who decides to stay at home after an exposure, after a significant exposure, not somebody across the room but somebody who you closely interacted will save more lives than your local hospital. You dont infect other people and they dont infect other people or else you dont get infected. Personal responsibility is key here. And so if you think you might have been exposed significantly, not across the room but kind of intimately, then stay at home. If you have symptoms, absolutely stay at home. That shows the importance of that. Secondly i would say those who are selfquarantining are actually exhibiting that opportunity. Apparently their interaction with senator paul was more significant so theyre selfquarantining. Thats the appropriate action. Coming back to sandra the problem was that he had already gone to be tested. There was fear he had it and then went to the gym, swam in the pool there on capitol hill and there were still meetings happening inperson meetings happening with republican members of the senate and republican members of congress. Ill let you respond to that. I have so much to get to here with you. Your stating is going into statewide lockdown this evening. Louisiana this will happen. What are you seeing in your state as far as the impact . I present to people listening you come from a unique perspective on this. Not only a member of congress but also a medical doctor. New orleans has louisiana has the third highest per capita rate. New orleans is a hot spot. Attention in the media markets, new york and california. We have the same situation as others. We need supplies in our state. We need the governor to ask people to shelter at home beginning at 5 00 tonight. Get the groceries you need and have them delivered tomorrow if you need them tomorrow. I go back to personal responsibility. If people make the decision to stay at home, the crest of this wave will relatively quickly. If we dont keep social distance for the essential trips it will continue and be worse. Sandra all eyes will be on capitol hill today as we know that Chuck Schumer and Steve Mnuchin will be meeting this morning and the senate will reconvene at noon. The American People are watching minute by minute. Every minute counts. Senator, appreciate your time this morning. Thank you, sir. Ed meantime louisiana is one of six states to issue a stay at home order in an effort to stop the spread. More governors expected to follow suit. You can see the map there now as the numbers keep on exploding as we test more people. Dr. Marc siegel is a professor of medicine at nyu and a fox news contributor. Good morning, doctor. Good morning. Ed lets start big picture. Do you wake up this monday morning feeling more optimistic or still apprehensive. Where are we big picture . Well, i think that the big picture is changing, ed. Largely because of the increased amount of testing. By the end of next week well be able to test 75,000 people a day in the United States. That is going to make a huge difference in terms of how we even approach covid19. If i know that you have it and your contacts have it i can figure out how to isolate and we might not have to rely on solgts city lockdowns, shelter in place. Everything closed. It might develop a strategy where we can figure out how to segregate out people who are most at risk to our higherrisk populations. Also working on a serology test. I will know everyone immune to this and a new test out that you can actually use in the doctors office. Instead of these long lines at the mobile units and hard to get tested it will free up and totally change the way i approach this. Ed interesting indeed. As people try to decide whether to call their doctor, whether or not to go ahead and go to one of these field offices to get a test. New york times has an interesting piece about a new study suggesting that losing a sense of smell may be some sort of peculiar clue to the idea that you have been exposed to the coronavirus. Do you put stock in this idea . Losing a sense of smell some are saying you even lose a sense of taste. I buy that and its coming out of great britain. Many patients have been observed to have this. It can be an Early Warning sign. Ill tell you another thing that goes with it. Another study out that shows that 50 of the time you present with gastrointestinal symptoms like diarrhea. The paradigm is cough, shortness of breath and high fever. Before that we see Nasal Symptoms or diarrhea. A study shows that 86 of the cases of covid19 in the world are still undetebted meaning we dont even know you have it. Those are the people mainly mild cases that are spreading it around. If we can increase surveillance knowing about these symptoms. Nasal congestion, lost your sense of smell and taste or have diarrhea. Lets look out for that and diagnose more cases early. Ed we started this segment with the map of the growing number of states in some sort of lockdown kind of situation. This is now about day eight of the president s push for 15 days to stop the spread where he really put that focus on all this. So as we enter essentially week two of that 15day period, the president just tweeted last night we cannot let the cure be worse than the problem itself. He seemed to suggest a week from now maybe well start opening some things up. My question to you. You dont have to deal with the economy, you deal with the Health Crisis here. Is there evidence do you think were making progress with the 15days to stop the spread nationally in some of these lockdowns and states . I think were going in the right direction. I think were at a phase of increased identification of cases, hospitals are becoming more and more overwhelmed and focusing on getting more rooms for patients. Supplies for healthcare workers and not spreading this. So i think were approaching it the right way. We havent yet reached the point of what dr. Fauci is calling flattening the curve. We wont reach that point for a while because were diagnosing more people that have it that we didnt know about before. Then we can take them out of the population and decrease the spread. I like the direction were going. It is probably another week or two before we start to see the impact. Ed a week or two. Well be watching closely, dr. Siegel. Appreciate your time this morning. Sandra. Sandra all right, thank you, fox news alert meanwhile from wall street where stock futures are on the rise after the fed unveiled brandnew measures to help businesses struggling in the growing pandemic. New york city is on high alert as it becomes the epicenter for this deadly disease. How lawmakers are working to stop the spread in a city that never sleeps. Well enforce through education, well enforce through warnings, well enforce with having real conversations with people to help them understand what is going on. We wont be draconian. Were going to give people a chance to get used to this. Rt f, rt f, or from the things they love to do . With right at home, it doesnt. Right at homes professional team thoughtfully selects caregivers to help with personal care, housekeeping, meals and most of all, staying engaged in life. Oh, thank you, thank you. Youre welcome. Are you ready to go . Oh, i sure am. We can provide the right care, right at home. 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Sandra a university of kansas student tested foss pofsh for the coronavirus. Five students traveled together during spring break. The university did not disclose where exactly they traveled. More than 1,000 cases have been recorded in the state of florida. Ed fox news alert. New york state cracking down to, a statewide lockdown with an explosion of new cases. Nearly 16,000 confirmed statewide. Half of all cases in the nation with 114 reported deaths. In a state competes for various medical supplies Governor Cuomo is calling on the federal government to step in. A contract for the company with 1,000 masks. Theyll say the price went up. They had a better offer. We even have hospitals competing against other hospitals. If the federal government came in, used the defense production act, you could resolve all of that immediately. Ed most of new yorks cases are here in new york city. David lee miller is live in manhattan with more details. Good morning, david. Good morning, ed. New yorkers throughout the state woke up for the first day of the governors edict requiring all nonessential businesses to shut their doors or have workers work from home. Here on the Upper East Side on new yorks madison avenue over my shoulder you can see it is extremely quiet. All businesses are closed except for a handful of supermarkets, restaurants that allow for takeout and pharmacies. Many residents have fled the city where the population density has caused the number of coronavirus cases to soar. This is the first day of Online Learning for school kids. Officials admit the program is off to a rough start for low income families who dont have the required equipment. By the numbers, city wide there are now 11,000 cases of the virus and 99 deaths. New york city i emotion fast size new york city accounts for 1 3 of all cases in the country. Many new yorkers sought relief from being cooped up from their homes and visited city parks. Mayor deblasio the police will prevent groups of people from gathering. Nypd will be out there. If they see anything that looks like even the beginning of a gathering theyll say break it up. Theyll say you have to get your quick exercise individually and get home. The message couldnt be clearer. State Officials Say local hospitals are running low on supplies. Some relief is arriving at the jafsh et center in new york. 1,000 hospital beds and required staffing. New york is getting additional help from the army corps of engineers. President trump activated the National Guard in new york as well as other states. New jersey more than 1900 people have the virus. 21 people died. They are opening two new drivethru Testing Facilities there. Authorities citing a limited number of test. Only people with symptoms can be tested. One new jersey hospital says its out of gowns and down to a fourday supply of masks. Good news. New jerseys first coronavirus case patient has now been released from the hospital. The 32yearold physicians assistant was two weak to speak on the phone to a reporter and sent a text. The text said i have my fingers crossed that my lungs will come back. Ed 3m are spending 5,000 respirators to new york city and seattle. Hopefully that will help with the supply crunch. When the governor ordered the states businesses to have 100 of employees working at home he exempted also networks, Media Companies and Cable Companies and internet firms saying information is vitally important in this crisis. The same across the country. Cable Companies Including the many who carry fox news, fox business want you to know this morning theyre considered essential. Their Services Including internet, video, land line and mobile home service wont be interrupted during the challenging times. Sandra and i broadcasting with wonderful producers and technical people. Great to work with you as always. Sandra social distancing meanwhile in this pandemic is boosting tell medicine. How does are meeting the needs of patients on skype and another wild day on wall street where the markets are searching for direction as they open for a new week. The Federal Reserve eases up for credit for businesses hurt in the crisis. Maria bartiromo will join us live straight ahead. The u. S. Economy is strong, okay . We stopped major parts of it but when we get through this virus as ive said, i think youll see the u. S. Economy come back to the strength. Want to brain better . Unlike ordinary memory supplements neuriva has clinically proven ingredients that fuel 5 indicators of brain performance. Memory, focus, accuracy, learning, and concentration. Try neuriva for 30 days and see the difference. They get that no two people are alike and customize your Car Insurance so you only pay for what you need. What do you think . I dont see it. Only pay for what you need. Liberty. Liberty. Liberty. Liberty. So you can trust us to be here for you. As we remain committed to supporting our community. Because the toyota family is stronger together. This is our pledge. We are here for you now, and in all the better days ahead. Sandra trading is underway on wall street on this monday morning. We start a brandnew week with the markets now selling off again. It is anybodys guess where it goes next. Maria bartiromo joining us from the fox business network. You just got done interviewing Steve Mnuchin. A limit down move in the stock futures overnight. A moment ago they were positive. Now were down 339. What is moving markets this morning . Well, whats moving markets, sandra, is the Federal Reserve extraordinary activity. The Federal Reserve has set up new lending facilities to make it much easier and efficient for companies, banks, to lend money to individuals. Thats really what turned this market around because earlier on the show on mornings with maria we were down 600 points. When the Federal Reserve came out with its emergency commentary and what it would be doing unveiling this expansion of market support immediately you saw a complete reversal and actually saw a swing of 1,000 points. The Federal Reserve is going to be purchasing commercial Mortgage Backed securities issued by governmentsupported entities. It will be purchasing treasuries. It is expanding its balance sheet, sandra. What it is telling us basically the Federal Reserve is throwing everything at this economic slowdown, everything at the Coronavirus Crisis right now. They cant go much lower on Interest Rates but they have a lot of other tools to work with. They announced those tools today and by all accounts markets certainly like that. Having said that there are calls right now to shut the whole country down, sandra. I spoke with the acting Homeland Security secretary on sunday and he said right now its better to shut down certain states like if you shut down new york you shut down california, maybe you dont have to shut down nebraska for example because you dont have the spike in cases there. But there is disagreement in terms of that strategy. Well have to watch that to see how this twoweek period takes place and what happens in april in terms of whether or not the strategy for the coronavirus is working. Markets remain quite nervous even with that extraordinary move by the Federal Reserve today. I had to bring the dog to work. Sandra the dog has something to say on all this, too. You go back to the president s own words. We cannot let the cure be worse than the problem. I heard your interview with Steve Mnuchin. You spoke to Peter Navarro over the weekend. They are all getting together to try to decide what can be done to limit the Economic Impact as much as possible as we continue to deal with the medical crisis. Here is navarro. We have to provide a cash cushion to workers. There will be things like a payroll tax holiday deferral for Small Businesses. In terms of impacted industries it looks like a 200 billion Collateralized Loan Program and in terms of the liquidity, this is the feds working with treasury using things like the Stabilization Fund to sturn on the spigot so we get whatever we need in the economy. Thats a sound strategy. Well hit all four points of that compass. Sandra maria, the American People are hunkered down at home watching, listening, theyre reading to every single bit of information thats coming out of the administration on this. To decide where it goes, how it ends, what sort of help people get. Were watching markets together here, maria. What is your best guess as the president said, he doesnt want the cure to be worse than the problem. At the end of the 15 days well make the next decision. So as we come to that point, whats next, maria . As you know, sandra, this market doesnt like uncertainty. The whole idea of having this closeddoor shutdown for a couple of weeks with no end in sight has markets nervous, as you would expect. If we were to see an end date. If we were to understand when this ends. Now, the treasury secretary today told me on mornings with maria the fiscal stimulus package theyre debating in the senate now will create help for the dislocations that will happen in the economy over the next 10 to 12 weeks. He gave us that positioning. That end date. This is going to handle things for the next to 10 to 12 weeks. What happens then . I asked him are you going to be asking back to congress for more money . Maybe, well have to see what happens. There may be more stimulus in place. The Federal Reserve says well buy anything. Were ready to buy securities. Federal reserve saying were there. We dont know, we dont have an end date. Well keep at it. There are calls right now to say lets shut the country down for 30 days, give businesses an end date so they know in 30 days they will reopen again. But there is that overlying uncertain at the about the virus itself. What is the pharmaceutical sector saying . Should we be worried about a second wave or worried about coronavirus coming back in the fall . Thats what you are seeing play out in markets today. But certainly you are seeing a much better tone today given the emergency measures from the Federal Reserve and the fact the treasury secretary is saying we are here and we need this passed today. Make no mistake, the American People will remember if they play politics in that chamber today. If they Start Talking about things that are not related to the coronavirus, because sandra, as you know, businesses are days away from being out of cash. There are certain Small Businesses, restaurants in particular, Fracking Companies that are out of cash today, sandra. Sandra amazing to see how all of those private businesses are coming together trying to help each other to weather this storm and to potentially emerge stronger out of it. Maria bartiromo. Dusty it is, correct . Making a Fox News Channel debut this morning. Maybe a muchneeded laugh for all of us this morning. Thank you, maria. Thank you. Ed nice to hear from dusty. Demand for Telehealth Services as an alternative to office visits. Many providers offering resources free of charge to erase the burdens of hospitals and clinics that are a bit overwhelmed. William la jeunesse is live with details. You dont want people showing up at the hospital giving the virus to others for getting it. A video diagnosis allows people to get them at home or funnel them to a testing site. The president including a medicare waiver. A company that targets 18 to 34yearolds. 50 of their calls relate to the coronavirus. What to look out for. Shortness of breath, chest pain. Winded walking upstairs. Features we want to make sure that brings them to another conversation with one of our medical doctors. Or their doctor in some cases, the emergency department. While the bay area has drivethrew testing. L. A. County has given up. Instead telling doctors to conserve and only test those they believe likely to be hospitalized. Saturday President Trump declared california a federal disaster area. Fema is shipping 8 mobile hospitals and the Navy Hospital ship mercy leaves san diego to l. A. Treating noncoronavirus patients. Sunday l. A. Mayor closed golf courses, rec centers and hiking trails at City Residents failed to follow distancing rules. Governor newsom admonished californians for not taking direction sglao. The young people still on the beaches thinking its a party. Time to wake up and recognize its not just about the old folks, it is about your impact on their lives. Pretty much everybody crowding the beaches and trails. L. A. P. D. Is going to a 12 hour shift to keep as many officers on the street as possible. Ed cant forget about our First Responders as well. Thank you for that. Sandra one hollywood couple sharing a big announcement meanwhile. While recovering from the coronavirus. Tom hanks saying he and his wife rita wilson are feeling much better two weeks after their first symptoms appeared. Theyre now selfquarantined in australia and pleading with others to stay home if you can. Sheltering in place works like this. You dont give it to anyone, you dont get it from anyone. Common sense . This too shall pass. We can figure this out. Very hopeful message from the actor there. Ed inspiring words. Thank you. 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Ed along with sporting events the pandemic is affecting how candidates are campaigning right now. Not just in the president ial race. Kevin oconnor is running for the senate. His 86yearold father is hospitalized with covid19. Joining me live is kevin and joins us via skype. Good morning to you. Thank you for having me. Ed lets start first with family. How is your 86yearold father . I understand he has tested positive for coronavirus and your mom is now in selfquarantine. Yes. My dad is in stable condition. He is in the hospital. He is a former marine and tough and fighting it. Doing well. My mom is in selfquarantine, but is due to be tested but hasnt been tested yet. Ed we certainly wish her well in addition to your dad. She, your mom, has been out there Gathering Signatures for you as i understand to get you on the ballot to eventually try to face democratic senator. We want to focus on the procedures as you can understand. People are facing a crisis now. What do you want the legislature to do . We want the legislature to bring the law, which is 10,000 hard copy signatures on a petition, into alignment with the social distancing requirements. We would like the legislature either to extend the deadline beyond the state of emergency or alternatively go to electronic signatures the way people do with banking all the time. Ed if you go out trying to gather signatures. You have people sharing pens and it is a big complication now. Talk big picture how surreal it might be now. You trying to get on the ballot for the senate race not just Gathering Signatures but going out and campaigning. You cant shake hands. Its crazy. My mom was my best signature gatherer for our family and community to come together and rally around a campaign. The whole thing has been completely disrupted. Were doing well. We have a plan to adapt on every front and im confident that well come out of it stronger, but it is absolutely crazy times and again i cant thank people enough for the kind wishes weve gotten for my father and my mom. Ed absolutely. As you say, trying to adapt and deal with the knew reality is what a lot of people are facing. One example were pointing out. A lot more serious, difficult issues people areing through now including your father. I want to end on how he learned about this, was he showing symptoms . How did you deal with this as a family . So my father showed symptoms on thursday. And there was one test available at his doctors office. So he was patient one. He got the test. He tested positive. We received the result on sunday. And then he stayed at home. Was quarantined at home and then he had a pretty bad experience on tuesday and he was hospitalized and he has been patient one at the hospital. The care has been great but it is a rocky road. Ed last point on that weve heard about some hospitals being overwhelmed. We dont want to hype the situation. Is that hospital in particular going well . That hospital is doing great. I cant say enough about the competence and professionalism theyve exhibited during this tough time. Great performance. Ed a lot of healthcare workers doing heroic work and honor them. We wish your father and mom well. Appreciate you coming in to talk about the process and procedures but most importantly family. Thank you for coming in. Sandra you see it just about everywhere, sanitizing frenzy as schools, offices, businesses deep clean their facilities in agreeing pandemic. A decontamination expert on how to keep your home disinfected. The pentagon preparing to pitch in in the Health Crisis as it also battles the coronavirus in its ranks. So ive been using this awesome new app called rakuten that gives me cash back on everything. Thats ebates. I get cash back on electronics, travel, clothes. 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Person is now under quarantine. The employee has not had contact with coworkers or any secret Service Protectee for nearly three weeks. Sandra fox news alert now the Defense Department announcing the first coronavirus related death. It happened over the weekend in virginia as the dod records a significant spike in cases over the past few days as President Trump mobilizes the National Guard to the hardesthit areas of the country. National security correspondent Jennifer Griffin is live at the pentagon with more. A contractor working for the Pentagons Defense Security Cooperation Agency in Northern Virginia died over the weekend after testing positive for covid19. The u. S. Military now has 111 positive cases in its ranks, a 65 increase from friday. 32d. O. D. Civilians, 37 dependents and 31 defense contractors have tested positive. Last night President Trump announced the Navy Hospital ship mercy would be setting sail today for los angeles, not seattle as previously planned. The governor of washington said he was disappointed. The head of fema explained the decision and change of course. Just a note on the u. S. Mercy. Based on analysis of potential needs for hospital beds on the west coast a decision was made the usns hospital ship mercy will have the greatest impact in california. Mercy will be used to take pressure off local hospitals, other medical needs and not for treating covid19 cases. President trump announced the National Guard has been activated in three hardesthit states new york, california and washington over 7,000 National Guard troops have now been mobilized in all 50 states and the nations capital. The guard will remain under the control of state governors. The federal government will pay the cost, the president said sunday. The head of the army corps of engineers says he is looking to convert thousands of hotel and College Dorm Room in new york to makeshift hospitals. Were talking about over 10,000 that were looking at right now. We need to send that up. In fairness to the state of new york it isnt my decision. That has to go to fema and what is the allocation and well exercise whatever fema tasks us to do. All right the gym at Yale University is turned into an infirmary and the javet center into the same. Ed the coronavirus spreading fast in this country. More than 35,000 cases now here in america. Plus tens of millions of americans ordered to stay home and shut down businesses. Even in counties without a confirmed case. Former health and Human Services secretary mike leavitt joins us about that balance next hour. And the 2020 census is how that great promise is kept. Because this is the count that informs where hundreds of billions in funding will go each year for things like education, healthcare, and programs that touch us all. Complete the census online, by phone, or by mail. Shape your future. Start here at 2020census. Gov its not getting in my way. . I had enough shape your future. 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Reaching over 5,000 cities and towns and over 200 million americans. And tmobile is not charging extra for 5g access. Because this isnt our network. Its yours. Ed fox news alert. Several states ordering tens of millions of americans to simply stay home as the confirmed coronavirus cases skyrocket as more people are tested around america. Welcome to a new hour of americas newsroom, im ed henry. Sandra good morning, ed and everyone. Im sandra smith. Here are the latest numbers, right now more than 35,000 confirmed cases with more than 470 deaths. Nearly 17,000 of those cases are in new york state. Thats the most of any state in the country. Washington is in second now. Here is President Trump on the administrations plan to fight this virus. President trump today im announcing action to help new york, california and washington ensure that the National Guard can effectively respond to this crisis. We have large quantities of medical equipment and supplies on the way based on all of this to those states, including respirators, surgical masks and gowns, face shields, coverals and gloves with large quantities already delivered to washington and new york. In addition to large quantities of supplies sandra Griff Jenkins is live in washington with more. Good morning. Deploying the National Guard part of the administrations latest effort to combat the spread of the virus. The president declaring those three hardest hit states as disaster zones and you are in the epicenter of this epidemic in the u. S. Cases in the state of new york are up 37 from yesterday morning. Of those cases more than 63 are in new york city alone. President trump says the federal government is footing 100 of the bill for the guard deployment to give states some flexibility to free up muchneeded resources without having to worry about the cost. Now in addition to the guard, fema is being ordered to set up mobile hospitals in those states and the two Navy Hospital ships the usns mercy and comfort set to deploy with one on each coast. Meanwhile the Surgeon General had a sobering warning to start our monday morning off. I want america to understand this week its going to get bad and we really need to come together as a nation. I think there are a lot of people who are doing the right things but i think that unfortunately were finding out a lot of people think it cant happen to them. When you look at whats going on in new york. The much needed medical supplies and protective gear on the way. Administration says large quantities have been delivered or are en route. As for lockdowns in those states eight states have shelter in place orders. Among them michigan may be next. Now, that means that more than 30 of the entire u. S. Population is now being made to stay home. Worldwide there are more than 350,000 cases around the globe with more than 15,000 deaths. The u. S. Has the thirdmost cases behind china and italy. So well wait and find out what this week brings. Ed and sandra. Sandra Griff Jenkins. Thank you. Ed staying in washington the senate failing to move forward with its nearly 2 trial phase 3 bill. The democrats are pushing back and another chance to push the bill forward. Bill cassidy was sounding off on this program and he says its unnecessary political drama. A bill will pass. I think whats required now is for democrats to be honest. Lets hope democrats come to the table in good faith as opposed to hiding their cards and recognize that whatever short term gain theyre trying to achieve it is not worth it. Ed chief Congressional Correspondent mike emanuel is live on capitol hill where the action is. Much of the conversation right now is basically trying to hammer out a deal with the expectation there could be a series of votes in about two hours. The debate, discussion right now is between treasury secretary Steve Mnuchin and Senate Democratic leader Chuck Schumer. They met six times yesterday. Mnuchin says the stimulus package is 2 trillion and responded to criticism that 500 billion of it is a smrush fund. Its a mechanism that we can use working with the Federal Reserve that will provide another 4 trillion of potential lick i liquidity. A massive Liquidity Program is the president is determined well support hardworking americans. Mitch mcconnell and allies are accusing schumer and other democrats of seeking to include an ideological wish list that has nothing to do with coronavirus. Mcconnell vented his frustration. Our nation cannot afford the game of chicken. We cant afford the cynical, partisanship and unconscionable statement to view this as a partisan opportunity. This is, mr. President , a national emergency, not a partisan opportunity. Adding to the stress for mcconnell, five of his members are out of action now. Senator rand paul tested positive for coronavirus and senators mike lee, mitt rom naoe, rick scott and cory gardner are in selfquarantine. So far no sign democrats are budging. Our caucus is united in trying to deliver a bill that addresses this health and economic crisis quickly. And were committed to working in a bipartisan way to get it done. Both sides of the aisle voting for a bill. There is some Health Pressure and Financial Market pressure as we all do a little social distancing here on capitol hill. Ed you were just reporting a moment ago that Chuck Schumer met with the treasury secretary six times yesterday. Countless phone calls between the treasury secretary and various democrats over the last three or four days im sure. How can democrats now claim that they were left out of the process when it has been on record and they were on tape over the weekend saying they were working together . A lot of frustration is that the senators felt like they were getting very, very close to a deal and all of a sudden Speaker Nancy Pelosi came in from california after being out of the mix for a week or so and so there is a great deal of frustration feeling like there was some trust building between both parties and also the administration trying to get close to finalizing a deal. You may recall the previous deal you had Senate Majority leader Mitch Mcconnell saying let Speaker Pelosi and the administration hammer out a deal. When they do well pass it. Pelosi got back and came back and throwing in things now at the 11th hour that have nothing to do with coronavirus. Ed well get back to you live in the program as it continues to play out. We go live to massachusetts. That states republican Governor Charlie Baker is briefing reporters now. Stay home and limit their interactions with others as much as possible. Ill get into more specifics on what it means for businesses and for everyone at home in a moment. But everyone should know we will always allow all grocery stores, pharmacies, and other types of businesses that provide essential goods and services to massachusetts residents to continue to operate. And we will not stop anyone from accessing these essential businesses. First i want to acknowledge the incredible impact this action could have on businesses and individuals. It is not lost on me or anybody else in our administration that many businesses, locally grown and owned by our neighbors and friends, are the businesses most unlikely to be able to put in place remote or telework policies. But i also know that by taking this action now, we can significantly improve our position in this fight to slow the spread of this virus. Acting now to prevent more person to person interaction and spreading the virus will buy us more time so our Healthcare System can better prepare for a challenge like any theyve seen before. Ed you hear that like no challenge theyve ever seen before is the governor of massachusetts. Something similar we heard in new york with the governor andrew cuomo. He is planning a briefing later this hour. Well keep going around the country to make sure we cover it from coast to coast for all our viewers to get critical information out there. Sandra has other important information. Sandra best thing we can to is to continue to bring the information to the people. The number of coronavirus surging in new york. The governor now eyeing several sites converted to temporary hospitals to combat the growing outbreak. Get the army corps of engineers moving. Get fema moving, lets get those buildings up. Lets have them in place before that trajectory hits its apex. Time matters, minutes count, and this is literally a matter of life and death. Sandra lets bring in our panel of doctors, fox news contributors dr. Oz is joining us, dr. Manny alvarez as well. Dr. Oz i start with you first, host of the dr. Oz show. How are we doing as far as supplies that our medical officials need to continue to fight this virus in this country . Not just in new york state but countrywide . Were short. Were definitely short in new york. There are parts of the country that havent been as hard hit that are still able to keep up with the flow in their areas. Were short and ive asked the folks im able to influence to do the patriotic duty and dont use masks if youre Walking Around the streets. We desperately need the masks for Healthcare Professionals. Doctors and nurses are inadequately tekted as it is. Sandra a difficult thing to hear. Dr. Manny we hear oftentimes during this program in the Morning Hours from the new york governor andrew cuomo. He has been leading this state through this crisis. Given a lot of credit for it. Now he is taking all of these measures in an effort to curb what is the biggest spread of the virus as far as any other state. It is number one. Could his model be one for other states should they become as hard hit as new york . I think the governor is doing a terrific job. Great leader, really has been focusing i think he has a governor he understands the Health System of new york state and which is very similar to the Health Systems in the northeast. What he is doing by increasing capacity, he is doing basically two things. Able to triage. Keep the sick patients in hospitals, maybe move less critical patients into a secondary first tier level and this way you improve through put and minimize the exposure to healthcare workers, one of the biggest concerns right now. The more sick the people are the more probabilities that you will have in getting nurses and doctors and everybody else sick. So that of course has a huge impact in the performance of the Health System. I think he is doing a terrific job. He understands the problem. A lot of governors maybe are a little behind as to the things that new york state is doing. Sandra dr. Oz we could be hearing from the governor of new york a short time from now. Another News Conference is expected this morning. How does it end . Dr. William hazeltine how it could end. Maybe sooner than we expect. He lays them out. Coronavirus proves to be seasonal is one way. Through herd immunity. Development of a vaccine. Accelerated development of therapeutic drugs. It brings you hope that some scenarios could play out and we could see the end of this pandemic. The breaking news today is the last one. Over the weekend i had the opportunity to interview the very wellrespected french doctor who conducted that pilot study that was published last week and was referred to by the president and dr. Fauci. A small study. What he showed in 100 of the people who got this combination of an old malaria drug and z pack the ant buy otic were free of virus in six days. The amount of virus were very low compared to the control group. Remember, usually you only have a 12 of the population get those results. Thats very heartening and clear in his opinion he felt the world should go ahead and start treating with this double drug combination. He based the study he did on chinese reports of similarly successful trials. So were going to conduct this in america. Im funding the one in america. Cleveland clinic are moving ahead. Many great institutions that are pushing to do the Clinical Trial to prove what he showed is effective in the pilot study. In the meantime i have lots of hope that people will use this combination. Dont horde. People that need them the most if the doctor thinks it is appropriate. If it was effective well know over the next few weeks. We have dramatically changed this virus. The fourth item may be well into its evolution. Sandra American People are thirsty to cling onto any bit of hope out there. Thank you for giving us some of it. Dr. Oz and dr. Manny, appreciate your time this morning and see you again soon. Thank you. Ed fox news alert. Cdc going virtual when it comes to the coronavirus. How it plans to help americans selfdiagnose. As the virus continues to spread across america, the government putting certain restrictions on testing for it. Could this put more people at risk . Well discuss with a former hhs secretary later this hour. Were urging all commercial labs to prioritize inpatient testing. We want people checked into a hospital that are being treated for what they suspect to be coronavirus to receive those tests more quickly. For veterans all across america. Home values are up, and Mortgage Rates are at record lows. Thats good news for veterans with va loans. Thats me. 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Crews working to decontaminate many public spaces. How extensive does a deep clean have to be in order to be effective . We want to look at that question. Can cruise ships and airports be sufficiently decontaminated and how can people deep clean their own homes and cell phones. Lets bring in john mason. A decontamination experts from a Company Called saber. Lets start with your background. I want to make sure our viewers understand this is not your first rodeo. After 9 11 some of the anthrax scares you have been doing it for a long time going into offices and other places. Right. For us it was real, not a scare. We were brought in in association with the government and different agencies involved to do the decontamination first at the Hart Senate Office building and the post offices and then on ward everything from hospitals and pharmaceutical plants and all that type of thing. Ed lets fast forward. We have a little bit of a delay. Lets fast forward. Thats important background to understand how long youve been at this. Talk about the technology you use and how you go about decontaminating an office if somebody watching this has had people test positive and want to figure out how do they clean out the office to make sure people can come back safely . Were unique in what we do is sterilize the entire structure and contents. Get rid of everything. Weve done viral agents such as this in pharmaceutical plants and Food Industry and public buildings. Weve done similar things on ships. Important to remember the concern is on safety. We have buildings that have been decontaminated that havent had an issue. We use a gas thats similar to what is used in Drinking Water to decontaminate the structure. We sterilize it. We get all microorganisms. We cant detect anything when were done. Ed before i forget i mentioned cruise ships. Some people like to go on cruises and may be worried after all this is said and done is the cruise ship really clean . Talk about that and airports for example. Including the air conditioning ducts and all the spaces a cruise ship is particularly difficult. Thats using a gas treatment. Gets all the surfaces you could never sample or get to throughout the structure. The largest pharmaceutical plant was over 8 million cubic feet. The post office was 8 million cubic feet. Cruise ship will be around 20 million cubic feet somewhere in the range maybe up to 25. Yes, they can be sterilized and made clean. Ed thats good news for a lot of people when we get through this crisis. Lets talk about individual homes. We tell everyone and others have advised. Wash your hands. Put the coat you were wearing outside where somebody might have sneezed put it through the washing machine. What tips do you have for people to keep their homes clean . In addition to washing hands and being careful of stuff that you brought in is be mindful. Homes can be done but unless theyre known to be contaminated again its something the government has to make a ruling on, on what structures should be done. People really have to remember the rules. Keep their hands clean, keep their exposure down. Wash or disinfect with something according to its label instructions or the specific agent. If they bring it into their home. Ed last minute we have lets end where we started talking about your experience going back post 9 11, anthrax scares. I remember around that time some people were saying will people ever go into airports again, will people ever go into the post office after an anthrax scare . Thankfully people have gone back to those places. Give us your perspective how we get through all this . Whats important. We have a multiindustry and multigovernment agency group that has done this for 20 years on helping to decide the best way to decontaminate. When and what needs to be decontaminated and helping on the clearance standard for it. This is the stuff youre hearing about today. There is a lot of experience coming forward from those last 20 years. I think were getting a good team together. Ed a hopeful message for the future and i bet you are getting a lot of calls and busy now. We appreciate you giving our viewers perspective and insight and analysis. Thank you, sir. Sandra. Sandra all right. We all know this too well. The normally busy streets of new york city now virtually empty as new york is one of around a dozen states to order residents to stay at home. Is this what every state should be doing . Well discuss that with a former health and Human Services secretary. Plus americans being asked to step up. It is called the 100 million mask challenge. 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The coronavirus pandemic worsening in the United States. 31,000 confirmed cases of the virus with 470 deaths. Some states are doing a lockdown leaving bustling streets empty as millions of americans are forced to stay at home to prevent the spread of the coronavirus. Lets bring in former health and Human Services secretary mike leavitt. Also the former governor of utah and a former epa administrator. Really appreciate your time this morning, sir. Thank you for being here. So im sure you look on at all the precautions that were taking as a country and you have thoughts over whether were doing enough or we could do more. Well, sandra, i, like many of your viewers am at home doing my best to do my part. And if they are feeling like they dont know with certainty whether this is working or not, they are not alone. There is a lot we still dont know. Here is the question. If there were 10,000 people who had been exposed to the virus and 200 of them died, that would be 2 . That would be a big problem. If it turns out there is actually 100,000 in that population who have had exposure to the virus thats. 2 . That is to say 2 10 of 1 . A very different proposition and causes us to do Different Things. So were trying to get a handle on that as we get more testing. That drives the number up but were trying to find out how many people are seriously affected. Its a good idea. There is universal acceptance of the fact that in the short run the kind of isolation were doing, the kind of social distancing that is happening, is vitally important to our Nations Health and a good idea. Well see what happens as this moves forward. Sandra how do you address, mike, the balance that has to take place when you come at it from a medical view and the number one priority is to contain the spread of the virus and to keep American People as healthy as possible. And you balance that with the Economic Impact which has been brutal. We dont know how bad that can get. How do you find that balance . Well, again im one of those who are dealing with both sides of this. Its very complicated. But going back to the equation i laid out before. If this is. 2 of the population, that is something that people will be very reluctant to see the economy shut down and the Economic Hardship that will create. If its 2 , that will be a different level. So really right now what were trying to do is make certain under any condition we limit the spread. Then well have to figure out the economic equation weekbyweek as we see how the circumstances mature. Sandra as far as the testing is concerned, we know there had to be changes that took place considering the number of tests that were available. And the number of people who were saying ive got a sniffle, i have a symptom, i would like to get tested to eliminate the concern that i have. Now theyve decided to restrict to those who would be the most vulnerable whether its an age group or a preexisting health condition. How do we tackle that headon considering this is the time of year when so many people are ill from other things . I suspect im not alone if you get the slightest change in your body and you start to worry youve been exposed to the virus. It is a natural human thing to do and important to be listening and thinking about our bodies and how theyre reacting. What the cdc has done in putting up the screening device on the website and a lot of Hospital Systems and others that will adopt that will give us a sense of peace of mind. One thing we do know. If people get seriously ill we need to have room for them at the hospitals and places where they can be treated there. Going there with a minor set of sniffles even if its the virus. The vast majority of people who contract the virus will go through it just fine a bit like a cold. The question is how many of them will get the serious respiratory ailments that can threaten their lives and thats what we need to be getting a feel for in the coming weeks. Weve seen whats happened in italy. It is really alarming. Weve seen what happened in other countries that gives us a different point of view. I wish i was in a position to give perfect clarity. We still have something to learn. The best thing to do right now i think everyone agrees is to adhere to social distancing and protect you and your family. Sandra in the final minute that we have left maybe thats the best thing you can do is address the people at home like yourself saying theyre doing the best they can for the country and for their neighbors and friends and family and isolating themselves and sitting inside and trying not to contribute to the pandemic. But at the same time they are homeschooling their kids. Might be running out of food of the driving themselves nuts trying to keep the house clean. What is your message to people as we hunker down and dont see the end in sight just yet . Im sympathetic to what you have suggested. Can i say there is something quite amazing happening right now. Americans are unified in their willingness to do what it takes to make the country safe. There are so few times when our hearts beat together at the same time for the same thing. Lets acknowledge the fact that this is creating a sense of unity of purpose, at least for now. And lets embrace it and make ourselves and the people we love safe and then well figure out what to do weektoweek as we listen to our Public Health officials and others who can advise us. Sandra we welcome many of those optimistic messages this morning as we begin a new week. We appreciate you coming on with us this morning. Hope to have you back soon. Thank you. Thank you, sandra. Ed good to hear that optimism. Lets go to Washington State. Theyve been at the epicenter from the beginning. One hospital urged the public for help amid a massive shortage in medical supplies. We have more from our seattle bureau. Ed americans are looking for ways to help. When Providence Hospital asked for volunteers to sew protective masks for healthcare workers the response has been overwhelming. People who are stuck in their homes called up and in huge numbers asked providence for the sewing kits and Raw Materials to make the masks. It has been just over three weeks since the first coronavirus death in the u. S. Here in Washington State. And since then the number of cases has exploded. Critical supplies have been stretched to the breaking point. Manufacturing companies have also stepped up to the 100 million mask challenge and a game changer. A factory that usually makes furniture is making masks and face shields. It made 5,000 masks and 1800 shields in two days and back at it today. The purpose of our business is to shine light. Not really so much about the stuff. It is about the people, the why, really loving your neighbor. We did it because of love. The federal government is stepping up. President trump declared a major disaster declaration for washington, california and new york. These kind of maskmaking challenges are happening across the country and bringing out the best in people. The one here in seattle has been so successful Providence Hospital thanked all the volunteers and said they would no longer be giving out the sewing kits. Mission accomplished. Ed good that people are chipping in. Sandra Governor Ron Desantis of florida is holding a press conference at the villages mobile testing site. Lets listen here. Youll be assessed for symptoms. Travel, exposure history. If you meet the criteria tested. You could be further evaluated on site. However, i think the neat thing about this is when were testing people, you are typically looking for symptoms. Cdc said if youve been in one of these countries you test. Then they said if you have certain respiratory. Now if a doctor says you have symptoms if you are 65 you test. And so its good thats been broadened. This will broaden that even more because if you do not meet even broad screening criteria to have your sample tested you can still have elect to have your sample tested by separate u. S. Developed tests for covid. That will go into research to be able to determine how prevalent covid19 is among asymptomatic individuals. We dont really know that for sure. Some people think you really dont spread it until you start to show symptoms. Other people think people that dont even know they have it are probably the ones spreading it. This will help give us data on that. I really applaud them being able to do that. That will be some of the most valuable information that we can have. So the staff will take 2,000 samples this week. 400 per day monday through friday 9 00 a. M. To 1 00 p. M. Then the staff will reassess the hours of operation, the amount of testing at the end of the week based on available supplies. So both the clinical and Research Tests will be performed at the university of floridas lab and results will be delivered in 24 hours. You dont have to live in the villages to get tested. But i want to thank you. We had the issues with the different labs. When this all started, every sample that was taken in the state of florida had to be sent to the center for Disease Control in atlanta. That was a very cumbersome process. A lot of times you didnt get results for a week. Then we were able to have certified our three state laboratories. Then since then it has been liberalized to take advantage of the resources at places like the university of florida and thats a big help. A force multiplier. So this site is adding to a lot of sites that are being successfully run across the state of florida. Its been a top priority to expand access to testing for people. This past weekend last friday we i had the florida National Guard partner with broward memorial in Broward County to do a drivethrew testing site. Were hoping to be able to process 200 to 300 people a day. And wanted to try to do that. Im happy to report on day one they ended up processing 745 samples. Day two they did 701 samples. And then yesterday they did 558 samples. So thats open seven days a week. We really appreciate the guard, we appreciate memorial healthcare in Broward County. We also have sites that are being supported by our federal partners. These are federally supported, statemanaged and locally executed. All three provide testing for individuals who have the symptoms and are in the advanced ages and all First Responders and healthcare workers that have direct contact with patients regardless of the presence of symptoms. So yesterday we were in miami at hard rock stadium. The beta test was to let all First Responders and healthcare workers go through so they were able to take samples from 713 First Responders or healthcare workers and kind of the soft opening. Now theyre open and doing good stuff. The city and county of miamidade, florida National Guard. Everyone coming together to work on key issues. We had a similar site thats federally supported in jacksonville at the Jacksonville Jaguars stadium. Day one was 288 samples, day two was 141 samples. They could have processed more. The traffic was pretty light. Maybe thats a sign there is not as many symptoms in northeast florida. Lets hope that. That will continue to be open and look to process as many tests as we can. Again thats the city of jacksonville, Jacksonville Sheriffs Office and fire and rescue working with the county Health Department in doing really good job. I salute them for that. Sandra youve been listening to Governor Ron Desantis speaking at the villages where there is a mobile drivethru testing site set up for the coronavirus. Giving the details on that and urging floridians to stay home but also to not panic. Also anticipating the new york governor a moment from now. That was ron desantis in central florida. Ed well hear from andrew cuomo in a short time maybe a few minutes from now is what the schedule says. He has been having daily news briefings talking about working in concert with President Trump. We want to stay on top of that. Again not just focus on new york. We have florida, we dipped in massachusetts and all around the country. A crisis well all get through together. Were watching all of that. In the meantime well be back. Not whats easy. So when a hailstorm hit, usaa reached out before he could even inspect the damage. Thats how you do it right. 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This is happening to families around the country and wormed. That in from senator Amy Klobuchar a day after senator rand paul said he tested positive for the coronavirus. Well watch that and also watching what is happening in congress in terms of rescue plan which has a big impact in terms of what is happening with the markets. Looking at the dow this hour. The dow is down about 300 points after the senate could not come to an agreement on a stimulus plan. The Federal Reserve has taken major action to support markets as the coronavirus continues to weigh on our economy. Lets bring in cheryl casoney on the fox business network. Im glad you brought that up about the senates failure. This could have been a lot worse today, folks. These numbers here that youre saying 319 could have been 800, 1,000. I want to point that out. Ed well get to the senate in a moment. Break it down in common sense terms for us, which you do so well. Weve heard the fed acting before. What do they do differently this morning that our viewers need to know . Theyre buying up more assets in the market. Theyre buying up treasuries, buying up mortgagebacked securities. Lending facilities the technical term. 250 billion. 370 billion in treasury. It happened in the 2008 financial crisis. Weve been here before. Bernanke said we will support the markets. Thats what theyre doing. It was openended. I was talking to an Analyst Contact of mine. Were so concerned about the economy, Small Businesses, corporations, layoffs. You name it. The virus is the economy right now. And there are a few things they want to see. I want to bring this up. Most importantly we need to see the virus under control. Are the markets stable . There is a little stability i want to point out im looking at now buying currencies or gold or treasuries. If you see people going into the safe haven assets instead of selling it out. The baby going out with the bath water. That is a good thing. Until they get more clarity and also the senate needs to do something. Ed they need clarity from the senate. Still havent acted. A couple weeks into the crisis, they have passed previous dealing with paid leave and Unemployment Insurance and what not. Wall street and people, workers around the country are expecting a lot more. Thank you, cheryl. Sandra thank you, ed. Were awaiting andrew cuomo holding his daily News Conference. Well have it for you live when it begins. Well be right back. Refinance when Mortgage Rates drop. And they just dropped to the lowest in newdays history. Refinance now. Theres no income verification, no appraisal, and no out of pocket costs. One call can save you 2,000 a year. Refi now. Ed the governor of new york hold his daily briefing. Lets go there live. Let me introduce the people here today. We have dr. Howard zucker starting from my left who Everybody Knows our great health commissioner. Steven cohen who was secretary to the governor 2010 to 2011. He also was the top assistant in the Attorney Generals Office when i worked there. Former federal prosecutor and he is now with mcandrews and forbes. The budget director. Carol kennedy cuomo. She will be helping us out and gives me great joy. When i was her age, i came and worked with my father in this room as special assistant to the governor. For 1 a year. My father never gave me the 1 a year. I will give you the 1 a year. But it is she is not working for obvious reasons and she is here to help. Thats a joy to me. Melissa derosa who Everybody Knows worked for president obama. She was staff to the attorney general and working with me for seven years. Current secretary to the governor, larry schwartz, former deputy county. Former secretary to governor patterson and former secretary to the governor under Governor Cuomo 20112015. And bill mulroe, a financial expert. The reason i wanted you to meet these people in some ways it is like putting the band back together but it is also the most Competent Group of government professionals that you could put together to address this difficult time. Ive worked with these people for 30 years. Weve gone through all sorts of different situations together. Superstorm sandy, ebola virus. Problems with the federal government. Built airports, roads, bridges. So theyre just the best team that you could have working on behalf of the state of new york. I thank them all very much for their help and assistance and their volunteerism. Because most of them are not getting paid. You are getting 1. The increase in the number of cases continues. And that is what were watching every day. They see it as an upward trajectory. I see it as a wave that will break at one point and the question is what is the point of the break. And if when the wave breaks does it crash over the Healthcare System . Thats what weve been talking about. So two tracks simultaneously. You have to reduce the spread of the rate of the virus, the rate of spread of the virus. You are not really going to control the spread but you can reduce the rate of the spread so you can handle it in your hospital system. Thats what every state is doing. Thats what this is all about. How do you reduce the rate of spread . Reduce the density, do more testing, isolate the people who test positive. Second track increase Hospital Capacity as quickly as you can so that at the apex of the wave you have the Hospital Capacity for the people who will need the Hospital Capacity, which are the Vulnerable People that we have been talking about. Reducing the spread, density control. Weve taken every action that government can take. Closed gyms, theaters, other highdensity businesses, nonessential employees, social distancing, matildas law. This is about protecting Vulnerable People, older people, senior citizens, compromised immune, underlying illness. Those are the people who are vulnerable here. Thats the focus of all of this. The greatest density control issue right now is in new york city. I saw the issue myself. I told new york city i want a plan. Yesterday i said i want a plan how they will control and reduce the density. I want the plan today. I want the state to be able to approve the plan. It has to focus on young people and the gathering of young people. Ive said it before, you can get it. The numbers show you can get it if youre a young person and you can transmit it. And its reckless and it is your civic duty. If new york city needs legislation to enact the plan once we approve it i would ask new york city to pass that legislation quickly. If they have a problem passing legislation, they should let me know. Also in reducing the spread, increase your Testing Capacity when you identify somebody positive, isolate that person. What weve done on testing is important. March 13th is when the state got the authority to start testing, right . Up until then the federal government was controlling the tension going through the bottleneck of the federal government. It had to go through the fda, cdc. I said decentralize that task. Let the states do it. March 13th the fda allowed the state to start testing. In 10 days we have gone from testing 1,000 People Per Day to 16,000 People Per Day. How much is that . Thats more than any other state in the United States is testing. Thats more per capita than south korea, which was the Gold Standard of testing. They were doing 20,000 per day on a much larger population, about double the population of new york. Were doing 16,000, which compared to china, south korea, per capita seven higher. Were doing more testing than anyone. Two points off that. Kudos to the team that put that testing in place and the nurses and the doctors. God bless them for being out there every day and doing it. But also our numbers will be higher on positives because were doing more tests. We have multiple locations working now and well be increasing those locations. Second track increase Hospital Capacity and increase the number of beds. We have 53,000, we may need 110,000. 3,000 icu beds. We may need 18,000 to 37,000. Thats my greatest concern where we need ventilators to turn icu beds into beds for people suffering from the virus. We are today issuing an emergency order that says to all hospitals you must increase your capacity by 50 . You must. Mandatory directive from the state. Find more beds, use more rooms. You must increase your capacity 50 . We would ask you to try to increase your capacity 100 , okay . So we now have 53,000 beds, we need 110,000 beds. If they increased the capacity 100 , that solves the mathematical projection, right . I think its unreasonable to say to every hospital basically double your cap as taoe. I dont think its unreasonable to say try to reach 100 increase. But you must reach a 50 increase. 50 increase were only at 75,000 beds. We still have a problem between 75,000 and 110,000. Once you secure the beds, you have to secure the staff. You will have staff that are getting sick and need to be replaced. You create these new beds, you dont have the staff for those new beds now. They just dont exist. Your staffing is to your number of beds. You increase the number of beds, you need more staff. Were going to the entire retired community. Healthcare professionals and who are licensed, registered and saying we want you to enlist to help. Not a mandatory directive. I cant legally i probably could legally ask them to come into state service but this is just a request. Weve put it out and have gotten very good response. There are hundreds of thousands of Healthcare Professionals who are licensed and registered in this state but we have 30,000 responses to date. Im doing an emergency executive order for all nurses who are registered to enlist, and the department of Financial Services is sending a directive to Insurance Companies health Insurance Companies employ many nurses, doctors, etc. , in the Insurance Business. Were saying to the Insurance Companies we dont need them in the Insurance Business now, we would like them to help in hospitals because this is not about assessing insurance claims at this point, this is about saving lives. When we get to assessing insurance claims we can handle it then. Supplies are the ongoing challenge nationwide. Masks, ppe, ventilators are the number one precious commodity. This is happening on an ad hoc basis. We are competing with other states, as i have said. We have made certain strides. We have a full team working on it. Were aggressive and talking to other countries around the world and talking to other companies. New york manufacturers are stepping up to the plate an converting fact reese. This is add home im competing with other states and bidding up other states on the prices. You have manufacturers who sit there and california offers them 4 and they say well california offered 4. I offer 5. Another state offers 6. It is not the way to do it. I was speaking to governor prisker about this. Let the federal government put in the federal production act. It doesnt nationalize any indust traoe. It says to a factory you must produce this quantity. I understand the voluntary Public Private Sector Partnership and companies saying let us help. It cant just be pay who wants to help, let me know. We need to know what the numbers of what we need produced and who is going to produce that and when. I get that a lot of companies are stepping up and doing good things. Thats a beautiful thing. Theyre doing it here in new york, too. You cant run this operation that way. It cant just be based on were waiting for people to come forward with offers. And if you happen to get a lot of offers on gloves, then you have a lot of gloves. But if you get no offers on masks, you dont have masks. The federal defense production act just says you can tell a company, manufacturer, this many by this date. Yes, it is an assertion of government power on private sector companies. Yes. But so what . This is a national emergency. And you are paying the private sector company. They will produce a good and they will get paid. By the way, theyll get paid handsomely. You cannot continue to do these supplies on an ad hoc basis. We have had success securing supplies. Well be dispatching them across the state today. These are the number of goods that are going out. Youve heard on the news that especially in new york city theyre worried about running out of supplies. Again this wont get us through the entire situation but this is a significant amount of supplies that will be going out. New york city for example 430,000 surgical masks, 176,000 pairs of gloves, 72,000 gowns, 98 thousand face fields. 169 thousand n95 masks which are very precious now. There are about 7 a mask. These are significant supplies. We have been having some success in gathering them and were distributing them. This should make a difference. It will make a difference. Not until the end of the crisis but shortterm. Hospital capacity, im on my way down to the javet center today. Well use stony brook and west chester and westbury. President trump did deliver yesterday put forth a series of requests in the morning. He did the briefing in the afternoon. And he responded to those requests. Thats the government working quickly and i thank him for it. It makes a big difference to new york. Were getting those emergency hospitals, the javet hospital, for example, those are 1,000 beds right there. With the equipment, with the ventilators, and with the staffing. So thats a big deal. The president declared what is called a major disaster declaration that allows fema, federal Emergency Management agency to help us. There is normally a 75 25 split between the cost of those services, federal government pays 75, the state pays 25. I said to the president i cant pay the 25. We just dont have those kinds of resources. The federal government has the authority to waive that 25 so the federal government pays all 100 and thats what the president is doing. And i appreciate that. I also asked for the fda to expedite the approval of an experimental drug that we are working on here in the state of new york, which ill tell you more about in a moment. The president also did that, the fda gave the new York State Department of Health Approval to use on a Compassionate Care basis a drug we think has real possibility. On the drug therapy, tuesday we are going to start the drug combination the president has been talking about. The fda approved new York State Department of health to proceed with an experimental drug again on a Compassionate Care basis. But what it does is it takes the plasma from a person who has been infected with the virus, processes the plasma and injects the antibodies into a person who is sick. And there have been tests that show when a person is injected with the antibodies that then stimulates their immune system against that disease. It is only a trial. It is a trial for people who are in serious condition. But the new York State Department of health has been working on this with some of new yorks best Healthcare Agencies and we think it shows promise. And were going to be starting that this week. There is also work on a ser logical drug where you test the antibodies of a person and see if they had the virus already. We all believe thousands and thousands of people have had the virus and selfresolved. If you knew that, you would know who is now immune to the virus and who you could send back to work, etc. So were also working on that. The numbers today total tested up to 78,000. Tested overnight 24hour period 16,000. As of yesterday about 25 of all the testing nationwide is being produced right here. Number of positive cases we are up to 20,000 statewide, 5,000 new cases. Which is obviously a significant increase and as i say, that trajectory is going up. The wave is still going up. And we have a lot of work to do to get that rate down and get the Hospital Capacity up. You see it spreading across the state. The way it spread across the nation. And that will continue my guess is every day. We have right now on hospitalizations 13 are being hospitalized. None of these numbers are good but relatively its a good number. The rate of hospitalizations and the rate of people needing icu beds. 13 is down. It has gone as high as 20 , 21 . Hovered around 18 , 17 , 13 is a good number. Of that number, 24 require the icu beds. The icu beds are very important because those are the ventilators. Most impacted states you can see that new york far and away has the bulk of the problem. And thats relevant for the federal government. Thats relevant for the congressional delegation that is arguing for federal funds. Fund the need. Fund the need. New york, we have 20,000 cases. New jersey 1900, california 1800. So proportionately in absolute terms, new york has by far the greatest need in the nation. Again to keep this all in perspective Johns Hopkins has studied every case from the beginning, 349,000 cases. Death toll worldwide is 15,000, right . Many will get infected, but few will actually pass away from this disease. Also this is all evolving and this is all evolutionary and were still figuring it out. There is there has to be a balance or parallel tracks that were going down. Were talking about Public Health, were talking about isolation and protecting lives. There also has to be a parallel track that talks about economic viability. I take total responsibility for shutting off the economy in terms of essential workers. But we also have to start to plan the pivot back to economic functionality, right . You cant stop the economy forever. So we have to start to think about does everyone stay out of work . Should young people go back to work sooner . Can we test for those who had the virus, resolved and are now immune and can they start to go back to work . There is a theory of risk stratification that dr. Katz at Yale University is working on which is actually very interesting to me, which says isolate people but really isolate the Vulnerable People. Dont isolate everyone because some people most people are not vulnerable to it. And if you isolate all people, you may be actually exposing the more Vulnerable People by bringing in a person who is healthier and stronger and who may have been exposed to the virus, right . Can you get to a point where the healthy, the people who are most likely not going to be affected, can go to work . Remember, you study the numbers across the countries that have been infected. The survival rate for those who have been infected is like 98 , right . A lot of people get it, very few people die from it. So how do we start to calculate that in . We implemented new york pause, which stopped all the essential workers, etc. We have to start to think about new york forward and steve cohen and bill mulrow who ive worked with for 30 years and now in the private sector will start to think about this. How do you restart or transition to a restart of the economy . And how do you dovetail that with the Public Health strategy . As you are identifying people who have had the virus and have resolved. Can they start to go back to work . Can younger people start to go back to work . Because they are much more tolerant to the effect of the virus. So how do you you turned off the engine quickly, how do you now start or begin to restart or plan to restart that economic engine . Separate task, but something that we have to focus on. I offered my personal opinion yesterday. I separate my personal opinion from the facts. You can disregard my personal opinion. You can disregard facts, but they are still facts. I said dont be reactive, be productive, be proactive. A few people have said to me what did that mean . Happens to me often. Look, this can go on for several months, okay . Nobody can tell you is it four months, six months, eight months, nine months, but it is several months. We all have to now confront that that is a new reality. Thats not going to change. You arent going to turn on the news tomorrow morning and theyll say surprise, surprise, this is all now resolved in two weeks. Thats not going to happen. So deal with this reality. Understand the negative effects of this, which i have spoken to personally because these are personally negative effects. You dont feel them governmentally. You feel them personally in your own life. Dont underestimate the Emotional Trauma and dont underestimate the pain of isolation. It is real. This is not the human condition. Not to be comforted or not to be close, to be afraid and you cant hug someone. Billy and steve walked in today, hadnt seen them in months. I cant shake their hands. I cant hug them. This is all unnatural. My daughter came up. I cant even really give her the embrace and the kiss that i want to give her. This is all unnatural. And disorienting. It is not you. It is everyone. It is the condition. And we are going to have time. And the question is how do we use this time positively . Also at the same time we have to learn from this experience because we were not ready to deal with this. And other situations will happen. Other situations will happen. And lets at least learn from this to be prepared for the next situation. As dramatic as this one has been. Also finding the silver lining, the positive. Life is going to be quieter for a matter of months. Everything will be function, life will function, everything will be normal operations. There wont be chaos. The stores will have groceries. Gas stations will have gasoline. There is no reason for extraordinary anxiety. But it is going to change. You wont be at work. You cant be sitting in restaurants. You arent going to be going to birthday parties. You dont have to go to a business conferences on the weekends. Less noise. You know what . That can be a good thing in some ways. You have more time. You have more flexibility. You can do some of those things that you havent done that you kept saying i would love to be able to. Now you can. You have more time with family. And yes, i get family in cramped quarters can be difficult. But it is also the most precious commodity. For myself, this young lady, tara, is with me. She would never be here otherwise. You know, im bad, right . The last thing you want to be when you are in taras position is hang out with the old man and hang out with dad and hear bad dad jokes, you know. They will come with the holidays and when i give them heavy guilt. Ill now be with tara literally for a few months. What a beautiful gift that is, right . I would have never had that chance. And that is precious. And then after this is over she is gone. She has flown the nest. She will go do her thing. But this crazy situation, as crazy as it is, gave me this beautiful gift. So one door closes, another door opens. Think about that. And as i said normal operations will continue. As ive said from day one the level of anxiety was not connected to facts. There is no chaos. The net effect, many people will get the virus. But few will be truly endangered. Hold both of those facts in your hands. Many will get it. Up to 80 may get it. But few are truly in danger. And we know who they are. Realize the time frame that were expecting. Make peace with it. And find a way to help each other through this situation. Because it is hard for everyone. And the goal for me, socially distanced but spiritually connected. How do you achieve socially distanced but spiritually connected . I dont have the answer but i know the question. Questions, comments . [inaudible question] look, you can the number of tests will be a calibration at one point. I believe new york citys actions was more on the availability of gowns and equipment. Thats a situation that were all struggling with. We just are going to send them a big shipment. But i can see local calibrations at different low kalts are making in their hospitals. The bottom line remains. We cannot handle the wave at the high point. The wave has to come down and that is density control and new york city give me a plan, especially for the parks and young people and thats testing. Were doing more than any place in the country. But testing, isolation. Testing, isolation. We havent done the plan yet. I said yesterday i wanted a plan in 24 hours. I had a conversation with the mayor, i had a conversation with the City Council Speaker corey johnson. We talked through a number of things. I said put it on a piece of paper. Whatever i get from new york city i want to do in west chester. I dont want people saying in new york city ill get in the car and go to west chester and get in the car and go to nassau. Thats why the geographic template has been important. I havent gotten it yet. We had a conversation on parameters. I want a plan on paper. That would be in addition to the control measures you already have. This is all in addition. I went there. My density control measures werent enough. That was clear. You could look at a park in brooklyn, manhattan, it almost looked like any saturday, any sunny saturday when i went. Wondering to go to the question about testing. There seems to be much more focus down state than upstate. Why is that occurring . Are there plans . Maybe dr. Zucker we know the global number of icu beds but i have to imagine there is more strain localized down state. You go where the need is, jimmie. You follow the science and the numbers and listen to the data. The majority of our cases are coming out of new york city. So you go where the need is. You go where the numbers are. Dr. Zucker, do you want to talk . The vast majority of the icu beds are down state proportional. A lot of hospital beds are down there. 2 3 of those are around the city in the metropolitan area. What we have now as the governor mentioned we have 600 individuals in the icu but many more icu beds. We have to prepare for the potential for many more patients to come in. This is one state and were planning for one state. If you get overloaded in albany, then ill use the hospital beds in utica. If i get overloaded in buffalo ill use the hospital beds in rochester. If i get overloaded in new york city, im going to use the hospital beds upstate. There is no upstate, down state here. It is one state. [inaudible question] i dont know the exact number. I havent spoken to some of the hospital leadership members. There are beds and theyre working to create more icu beds. You can turn beds that are Recovery Room bed into an icu bed and what the team that the governor asked the hospital associations to work on will have a report from them shortly. A lot of hospital workers are saying theyre being told to go without using a mask or use a scarf. What would you say to them . Is there a resolution to that or do you think i havent heard the specifics about that. I know that we have supplies available and we are providing them with more protective equipment, masks and gowns. Larry schwartz has been handling the supplies, finding supplies and doing an extraordinary job. Tara will join their team. There is no one in this state today who should be able who can say legitimately i cant get a mask. If you cannot get a mask, you saw the numbers were sending out. We just were successful in getting more and today we can get masks to anyone who needs them and gowns. I cant promise you next week or the week there after. Thats why i want to see the federal government do the federal defense production act and stop this ad hoc volunteerism. But today there is no one who we cant cover, pardon the pun with the mask. Any additional measures to limit the spread of the virus in state prisons, jails, youth facilities. We have different policies we put across the board. Mirroring the nursing homes. No visitors. Same type of policies in other facilities and prisons. [inaudible question]. Something were looking at. The cure might be worse than the disease itself. Can you comment on that in light of saying we need to look at restarting the economy after this . You have to walk and chew gum in life. I dont have the luxury, no executive really has the luxury of being one dimensional. Im very proud of the measures weve taken to address this Public Health crisis. You look at our numbers. Weve done things that no other state in the country has done. But im also very aware that you cannot it is unsustainable to run this state or run this country with the economy closed down, right . Were spending hundreds of millions of dollars, you have people laid off. You have to get the economy up and running. So that has to be planned at the same time. And steve cohen and bill mulrow are going to do that. There is another complication, which is what dr. Katz is talking about. Can you have a public a more refined Public Health strategy that is also more productive or less destructive to the economy . Could there be a more intelligent Public Health strategy that is more productive or less destructive for the economy . Meaning is it smart to put kara with me, right . Is it smart to have college kids coming home, kids staying home from school next to their grandmother . Is that a smart Public Health policy . Should you have stratified the risk . Thats the Public Health question. If you stratify the risk, can people start going back to work and you start to restart that economy . So you are doing smart Public Health policy and smart economic policy. I think there is a line, a dot where those two lines cross. You have to identify it and thats what we are going to start to work through. You saying it is overkill at this point . No, i have no second thoughts on actions that i have taken. I would make the same decisions today. I have no second thoughts on going to zero nonessential workers. We sat here every day, jesse, we saw that scale ticking up. I turned the valve a little bit and a little. Made no difference. I turned the valve off. By the way, it still hasnt broad the rate down low enough. So i have no second thoughts. Im sure there will be political consequences. I know people are very angry about it. I had a gentleman tell me no way this state will ever reelect you because of what you did. Frankly i dont even care about that. I did the right thing and im proud of it. At the same time, at one point you have to open the valve, right . You have to open the valve because that is oxygen for the economy. And this is not sustainable. [inaudible question] can you speak if the rules are a recommendation or do you plan on putting those in writing in an executive order . I dont know what youre referring to. A directive we put out a couple of days ago. No gatherings of any kind including weddings, parties, birthday parties, a directive across the board. If youre saying there is confusion about that ill insure its in an executive order today. That was a directive, recommendation. You cant get it is also cost effective. Government policy. Ed [inaudible question] [inaudible question]. The legislature is going to do their job just like the executive is going to do their job. Which is our way of honoring the heroes in Public Service today, the police officers, the firefighters, the nurses, the health workers, the food delivery workers, the pharmacy workers, all those people who have to go out and do their job, right . So the legislature would do their job, executive will do their job. Well pass a budget. Not just a budget. Well pass a budget and address the policy items that we laid out and we discussed because it is not just about passing a budget and the numbers. There are many policy initiatives that i laid out back in january and were going to pursue all of them. The only caveat was if you have a really complex issue that normally would require weeks of nuanced detailed negotiation to do it right, that we wont do. Because i dont want to pass any bills that are not really intelligent that i then have to come back and deal with again next year. So if its a highly complex issue, i get it. And then lets put it off. We dont want to do something sloppy. But otherwise no, were bail reform has to be done. I want to do legalizing marijuana. [inaudible question] what does bail reform look like . I think you have different positions on bail reform, right . You have the assembly, you have the senate. You have my proposal that i did last year. You have people that are very concerned out there, strong opinions on both sides. I just want to see a resolution. And progress. I want to see it in the budget. You recommended 2 1 2 billion worth of cuts. Is that a structural thing for the budget . But were can you do that now . Do you agree with the cuts and are you thinking about any other way to get through this medicaid issue . There are Different Things in there, right . You have many costs in medicaid that have absolutely nothing to do with anything we are doing now. And you have many parts of medicaid that have grown exponentially where frankly there is gross waste, gross waste. And almost periodically you have to go to any of these Government Programs and you have to question every premise, every premise. Why are we doing this . Why are we doing this . Why are we doing this . And you will find there are ways to save money. Thats what were doing here. We have a i want to show you videos that the state is running to help communicate to new yorkers the need to stay home, the need to isolate. Because were trying to get out the message. Ive been saying it. Everyone has been saying it. But we have to do a better job communicating. Were trying a number of other vehicles. Show them the i have to do everything myself. This is robert deniro. We all need to stay home. We need to stop the spread of this virus and we can only do it together. Not just to protect ourselves, but to protect others and all the older people you love. Please. Im watching you. Danny devito. Im asking you there the bottom of my heart all over the state of new york, stay home. I mean everybody. I mean we have this virus, this pandemic, and you know young people can get it, they can transmit it to old people and the next thing you know im out of there. Governor cuomo asked me to ask you please, do us a favor, all of us, and stay home and not spread this virus around. Thank you. Watch a little tv, why dont you. One more question. Can you talk to us about how the infrastructure of new york city, People Living on top of each other, giant apartment buildings, subways, how that is contributing to the spread of coronavirus . Density contributes to the spread of the virus. Airborne, sneezing, coughing, and density in that i touched this table. The virus could live here for two days. You come tomorrow, im gone. You touch that spot. In new york city, all that density, a lot of people are touching a lot of spots, right . Park bench, grocery counter, just picture the city and daily life. And thats why in denser areas youll have a higher rate of spread than in more suburban and more rural communities. It is just a function of interaction and proximity. I have to go to the javits center. Thank you very much, guys. Sandra youve been listening to the governor of new york andrew cuomo saying he has no second thoughts about the precautions he has taken to stem the flow of the virus. He is still answering a question. We arent at that point. Sandra okay. Thats the last of the governor there. Especially after deciding that 100 of nonessential workforce must go home. Still answering questions. Lets listen. Which 30 . The 13 youre talking about capacity. Those are the daily numbers. That 13 of hospitalizations is today. Thats compared to like 20 yesterday. [inaudible] i dont know. Theyll have to call you. Thank you. Thank you. Sandra all right. That appears to be the last of the News Conference talking about the need for additional hospital beds and capacity which he is increasing in new york city. At one point referencing 80 he believes 80 will be affected by this virus. Track the virus but only a few are in real danger. This is what this is about, protecting those. He also said that we cannot handle the wave at the high point. Went back to discussing flattening of the curve. He says he still is making the right decisions to have that happen. But the economy at this rate is not sustainable. That was andrew cuomo moments ago with an update from new york state. Ed very interesting. He talked about opening the valve on the economy. This as lawmakers work to resolve a standoff over the Coronavirus Relief bill after it was blocked by democrats. The key vote is set for an hour from now. Coronavirus cases surpassing 35,000 in america now making it the third hardesthit country after china and italy. New york now the epicenter of this pandemic with the president pulling National Guard troops to new york, california, Washington State. The white house keeps pushing congress to pass the stimulus package. Sandra john roberts is live at the white house with the very latest from there. John, good morning. Good morning to you. First of all a couple of interesting things out of the press conference. The fact he will begin giving certain patients a combination of the malaria drug and the antibiotic. As well as he is calling on the president to put the defense production act into action and not rely what he called ad hoc volunteerism. The president announcing yesterday he is going to be deploying the National Guard to california, new york state and Washington State and paying 100 of the cost of that. In a memorandum the president saying the National Guard will be involved in preventing, mitigating and responding to the threat of Public Health and safety posed by the virus the states undertake using the National Guard forces. He spoke about it yesterday. President trump through fema the federal government will be funding 100 of the cost of deploying National Guard units to carry out approved missions to stop the virus while those governors remain in command. The governors locally will be in command and will be following them and we hope they can do the job. I think they will. It was the governors who asked for this. While it is not expected the guard will participate in Law Enforcement activities the title theyre being deployed under does allow them to participate in Law Enforcement. It prevents the military from engaging in Law Enforcement does not apply under title 32. Their role now will mostly be to support state authorities lodge isically like they do in other national disasters. They could be called in to assist police in the event of public disturbance. The president issuing disaster declarations for the three states. A response from fema will set up temporary facilities to house patients. The nation one week into the president s 15 day guidelines to slow the spread of the coronavirus. The president indicating as Governor Cuomo. That cant last forever. At the end of the 15 days he will decide how to proceed. Sandra a lot more coming up on the continued National Response to this. The dow currently off 920 points. General jack keane coming up on that. Hey you, yeah you. I opened a sofi money account and it was the first time that i realized i could be earning interest back on my money. I just discovered sofi, and im an investor with a diversified portfolio. Who am i . i refinanced with sofi and i was able to cut my Interest Rate by forty percent. Thank you sofi. Wait. Am i in one of those Liberty Mutual commercials customizes where they stand in front of the statue of liberty and talk about how Liberty Mutual customizes your Car Insurance so you only pay for what you need . Uhhh. Yes. Huh. What happens in this one . Seagulls. Oh, i like it. How are you doing . seagulls sounds only pay for what you need. Liberty. Liberty. Liberty. Liberty. Sandra fox news alert now. U. S. Navy hospital ship on the move to california to help out in the Health Crisis as the Defense Department announces the first death of a coronavirus patient. Jennifer griffin is live at the pentagon with more. An i. T. Contractor working for the Pentagons Defense Security Cooperation Agency in Northern Virginia died over the weekend after testing positive for covid19. From friday to sunday d. O. D. Saw a 65 spike in positive coronavirus cases. The u. S. Military now has 133 positive cases in its ranks. 7 are hospitalized. Several have tested positive bringing the total to 249 cases as of this morning. The Navy Hospital ship usns mercy is setting sail from san diego to los angeles not seattle as previously planned. The head of fema explained the change of course. Just a note on the usns mercy. Based on analysis of potential needs for hospital beds on the west coast the decision was made that the usns hospital ship mercy would have the greatest impact in california. The mercy will be used to take pressure off local hospitals, other medical needs and not for treating covid19 cases. Over 7,000 National Guard troops are mobilized in 450 states and nations capital. Theyll remain under the control of state governors. Back to you. Sandra thank you, Jennifer Griffin. Ed meantime all eyes on capitol hill. Will they get the stimulus plan done today or not . We have larry kudlow on deck. The president s top Economic Advisor coming up. 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Joining us now is larry kudlow, a Top White House Economic Advisor. Limited time. Thanks for coming in, sir. A lightning round. The fed move. President has been pushing the fed to act. Theyve acted this morning. Yet the markets arent happy. Well, i think the markets arent happy because the entire package has not been done. We have to get this package to pour liquidity and cash and make more available. There is a special treasury fund. Were raising that to 500 billion from 75. That allows the Federal Reserve to come in and make loans against that equity. In other words, thats the treasurys equity and the Federal Reserve have extended. Fed is doing a great job. Extended their credit facilities. Think of it as fed loans to small and mediumsize businesses now looking at asset backed stuff for credit cards and Student Loans and other borrowing mechanisms. This is absolutely essential. And i think wall street and the stock market want to see this huge fed credit liquidity back stop and the core of it, the equity piece is in the legislation which may or may not be voted on. Ed thats the fed piece. The stimulus piece which is the markets more importantly workers around america want action from the senate. They havent gotten it yet. Democrats blocked that vote last night. Let me play devils advocate. Chuck schumer is saying 500 billion fund at the discretion of the treasury secretary, the big Sticking Point they say anyway is that it is a slush fund they say for corporations. It wont get to workers and you dont have strings attached. Your answer. Look, senator schumer should be able to come to an agreement on that. Thats the efs fund im talking about. The nub of the whole issue to get the federal reserving lending. It is not a slush fund. That will get money to small and mediumsize businesses, okay . It will also get money to key parts of the economy that are distressed. There is nothing slush about that. It will all be done transparently. No question about that. Well give the direct checks to the workers, thats very, very important. Weve helped out people have to stay at home because of virus. Thats very important. A loan Payment Program for Small Business. Thats very important. We have direct deposit from the irs into individual men and women, whatever it is, 3,000 a family. But on this socalled slush fund i want to be very clear. This is something that is the corner, the keystone. When we get that done and it will be transparent, the treasury will run it with the fed. It will inject lick liquidity. The fastest way to get that into the economy into all the sections. The feds open it up. Student loans, automobile loans, credit card loans, Small Business loans, money market loans, corporate bond. This is what will keep us whole while we hope and pray that the virus flattens out in the weeks ahead. Ed i have 30 seconds. Big picture. The president tweeted midnight we cant let the cure be worse than the problem. He seemed to be talking about in another week or so making a decision to try to get the economy back open. Governor cuomo said much the same a minute ago saying we have a plan to pivot and open the valve. How do you do that well have to try to do that. The Economic Cost to individuals is just too great. Lets see how this thing plays out. More testing is essential. And were loading up with tests now. That will be a big help. The president is right. The cure cant be worse than the disease and we will have to make some difficult tradeoffs. Im not disposed or get ahead of the story. I spoke to the president about this subject last night. Well look at a number of Different Things. Lets give it another week. At some point. Ed are you optimistic about the deal in the senate . Either today or tomorrow. I cant believe the other side of the aisle wont help us on this. I just cant its beyond my head to know that they wouldnt help us get through. Ed everybody is watching. We appreciate you doing this under tight pressure here. Thank you. See you soon. Sandra, we have a lot of fastmoving developments. Its ongoing all week and well be here all week long. Sandra his sentiments, great interview echoing the sentiments from bill cassidy at the top of the show this morning. What a few hours. Well take everybody through this every day, every week this goes out. Ed lets get to outnumbered overtime right now. We begin with the fox news alert on the coronavirus pandemic right now that is surging. Global cases now surpassing 350,000 with nearly 15,000 deaths so far. And as the United States general surgeon issues a sobering warning to his fellow task members. Sglie want america to understand this week it will get bad and we really need to come together as a nation. Everyone needs to act as if they have the virus right