Working in hardhit places like new york and louisiana but officials remain cautious. While none of this is good news, the flattening, possible flattening of the curve is better than the increases that we have seen. We are starting to see real signs that the mitigation measures that we put into place weeks ago are starting to bear real results and we are hopeful that we are beginning to see the flattening of the curve. Stick with the mitigation measures. Sandra Fox Team Coverage, we begin with David Lee Miller, he is live for us in new york city this morning. Good morning. Its still too early to tell for certain, but the trend line for the virus could be flattening in the new york area. For the second day in a row, less than 600 people died from the virus across the state. The number of hospital admissions is slowing with fewer people needing to be put in icu. Governor andrew cuomo warns there is unsustainable pressure on the Hospital System. The governor warned now is not the time to become lax and ignore measures. He doubled the fine for ignoring social distancing to 1,000 and extent of the shutdown of schools and nonessential businesses until april 29th. Nearby new jersey also reported a drop in the spread of the virus but they say the battle is far from over. Doctors, nurses, and Health Care Workers safe each day is a struggle to help alleviate the pressure, President Trump agreed to Governor Cuomos request to treat coronavirus patients on the new york westside. Washington is also helping by sending 1100 military medical personnel. Some on the front lines say its caused by the virus isnt always physical. I dont know if any of us will ever be the same after this. And thats something were going to have to manage. Going to be a lot of trauma overseeing this all. Still struggling to find Additional Space for hospital beds in new york city. In partnership with mount sinai hospital, the Episcopal Church now says it is going to put 400 beds, that is the Worlds Largest cathedral. The cathedral located on new yorks west side is the unlikely settings for temporary hospitals. Sandra David Lee Miller in new york for us. Ed good wishes pouring in from around the world for Boris Johnson. He spent last night in the London Hospitals intensive care unit. After the symptoms seem to worsen them. You live in london with more detail, good morning. In the past 90 minutes or so, got an update on the condition of u. K. Prime minister Boris Johnson, seems to be stable as they fight coronavir coronavirus. May be fighting for his life. Now the Prime Minister was diagnosed with covid19 about ten days ago. He has left to the selfquarantined for testing at a nearby hospital. But something went wrong last night, a rapid deterioration of his condition. That prompted the move of the intensive care unit. Underscoring that he has not on a ventilator and no signs of pneumonia. World leaders responding, sending a lot of get well messages including President Trump, take a listen. Ive gotten to know him. Hes just such an incredible guy. Its so shocking to see that because you know what that mea means. There was more trouble in the family of Boris Johnson, also in selfquarantine, recovering from symptoms of covid and today one of the top ministers put himself into quarantine, was exposed to a Family Member that might have covid. In charge right now, the foreign secretary dominic raab. He is healthy for the moment and the whole government is dealing with another pandemic situation here among the people of the u. K. Back to you. Ed thank you for the update, sandra. Sandra thank you. For more on all of this, lets bring in dr. Marc siegel and fox news contributor. Always good to catch up with you. Now the news with Boris Johnson, our prayers and thoughts are with him and his family in the country. In the news that he needed oxygen but not the ventilator, he is in icu but in good spirits, looking you take away from what has been reported on his condition . Greg just said in his report some things that he would say are optimistic. Says it is by report. But oxygen could be a precaution and the ventilator is key because the ventilator would be a sign of deteriorating emotive type condition called acute respiratory distress syndrome. Thats what you would be worried about the fever and shortness of breath and a cough but he mustve had a ct scan by now and greg is reporting no sign of pneumonia. That would be if true very guardedly optimistic. We watch for all sign, all can be affected, most of all, that ct scan is something that we look at and how much oxygen he needs. At 55 years old as far as we know no Underlying Health problems, exercises regularly, all of which are good prognostic signs of our hopes and prayers and great medical care will factor in. Sandra bring it back home here to new york city where we continue to see some Staggering Numbers as far as confirm cases and deaths in new york, but there are some glimmers of hope. You have new York Governor Andrew Cuomo putting out the message yesterday that social distancing is working, but dont let it go now. Keep on doing it. Heres the governor. We still have to extend the new york because because if that curve is turning, its turning because the rate of infection is going down. One of the reasons its going down is because social distancing is working. Sandra so how important is that message, dr. Siegel, that while we will hopefully continue to see the numbers improve that people continue to maintain that social distance and keep improving . Its usually important, we are seeing what it looks like im a 100,000 cases over 16,000 hospitalizations over 5,000 deaths. So if youre seeing less death down to about 600, still have a Health Care System is overwhelmed. Less people out on the streets, all of that will help dramatically as well as the other precautions and social distancing. That will have a huge effect as well as we can test more people and figure out who actually has this virus, this is a longer process. Is not going to happen overnig overnight. Sandra i know that ive heard from you and other doctors talking through this as well and while the numbers start to improve, we will see the weather improve if people get that false sense of confidence to let that social distancing down, its important that we maintain it. Per the governor and you. In dr. Fauci talking about the new normal in the way life might be after all of this. Acting like it never was a coronavirus problem, i dont think thats going to happen until we do have a situation where you can completely protect the population. You want to get to precoronavirus, that might not ever happen in the sense of the threat is there. Sandra so what do you think that new normal looks like after all of this . When he says reaching a point, hes talking about a vaccine which of course is a year away at least. You might see it differently than dr. Fauci who i admire and as a mentor of mine, if we could get to the point where we know something called a viral load, how much do they have . How contagious they are, whether theyre immune or not, we have the technology for that. If we can rule all that out with hiv and hepatitis b, we get a better sense of this virus in the community that may be an intermediary time before the vaccine we can roll back the draconian precautions we are taking. Having said that, i agree with him at the social distancing, remembering to wash her hands, remembering not to crowd each other, these lessons are hugely important for all respiratory viruses, especially this one. Sandra you start to think about some of those sporting events with 10,000, 20,000 plus people and when that would even be okay again. Im sure we will be having discussions about that in the months to come. Ed Suffolk County new york now has nearly 200 coronavirus deaths as they outbreak worsens on long island here in new york after the county stockpile of ppe ran out. The white house said 200,095 mast was told by the white house they need to make sure Suffolk County has enough supplies for the next 30 days. Lets bring in the Suffolk County executive, good morning. I actually grew up in Suffolk County. I am grieving for you this morning because it sounds like your county is going through a lot. Thank you very much, good morning. Weve become the epicenter in the country in Suffolk County and on long island. We always had the sense we were seven to 14 days behind what was happening in new york city, but i can really see it in the numbers now. Seeing hospitalizations continue to rise every day and the death toll continues to go up. They continue to rise. Ed talk about that because i dont want to dwell on the morbid but here youve got mayor de blasio talking about using a field to bury the dead because there were so many coming in in new york city. You have a funeral director in queens near where we are not too far away saying it feels like three years of funerals condensed into a month. Again, i dont want to focus on the morbid but talk about the toll that we simply cant ignore. We have no choice but to talk about it. Im having conversations i never imagined that we would have every day on our Emergency Operations center calls. We talked about what our more capacity is and do we have enough body bags and we can see the death tolls and they are horrific, i think to a great extent, we can see the emotional toll is going to be even greater at the end. On families, people who have lost loved ones and havent been able to be with them, that toll i dont think we will fully understand until after this is long done. Ed can even have proper burials in the short term, the emotional toll you talk about. Trying to stem this crisis, heard so much about. You said you are running out of ppe but now has helped give a lot of these masts and other things. Where you now on masks and ventilators . Weve been working very closely with Governor Cuomo who has provided great leadership, and he is working with the president and the issue is about bringing resources into new york so that they can be here in Suffolk County and the other places that need those resources and having the commitment of the president , he talked about Suffolk County the other night in his daily press briefing, that means a lot to the First Responders here, to the frontline Health Care Workers knowing that that commitment from the white house made sure that we have the resources on the ground is really important. And that is critical. The n95 masks that will help our hospital workers breathe without having to come in contact with the virus, we also need gowns, that is critically important, thats the shield protecting them from the virus. So this is really important. We want to win the fight here in Suffolk County and have the blueprint for how we can win all across the country. Ed final thought in about 30 seconds, you mention Governor Cuomo and hes been very direct in being cautiously optimistic that the curve may be starting to flatten here in new york. On the other hand, he said it could always spike up. What are you seeing . When you talk about the number of deaths in Suffolk County on long island going over 200, is it starting to flatten or is it still surging . We are continuing to see a rise, but there are some indications that could be happening, but we think the governor is right on this. Is okay to be cautiously optimistic, but we need to be very clear with the public, this is not the time to take our foot off the pedal. Weve seen in other parts of the world where theyve done just that, the numbers have started to flatten or even go down and then they spike right back up. We need to continue the social distancing, follow those Health Guidelines so we can eradicate this virus from our community. 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How americans are all praying for his recovery. Hes been a really good friend. Sandra President Trump offering support to british Prime MinisterBoris Johnson. Johnson is in the London Hospital intensive care unit at the moment battling covid19. Britain foreign minister is now overseeing the cabinet and joining us now is a former advisor to Lady Thatcher and director of the Margaret Thatcher center for freedom at the heritage foundation. Good morning to you. First, your reaction to what we are learning about Boris Johnson this morning . I think the latest news regarding his condition is actually quite positive. We understand that he is not on a ventilator, he does not have pneumonia, he is receiving oxygen but i think the overall situation with regards to the Prime Minister certainly is looking better this morning than it was last night, and i think that this is overall positive news regarding Boris Johnson, and i think the Prime Minister really is fighting the battle of his life here. He is someone who was a tremendous leader for the the british people and he is continuing to fight at this ti time. Sandra youve heard so many messages of support, how was the country reacting this morning . The british people are rallying around the Prime Minister and they have this tremendous Warrior Spirit about them. They are doing all they can to fight through this virus on the Prime Minister really is seen as a tremendous leader. Also the country is uniting behind Boris Johnson. He is the man who of course delivered brexit very recently, also won of resounding election victory, he is a very popular Prime MinisterPrime Minister. But i think on all sides of the political aisle, the british people are standing with the Prime Minister and they are standing with his family. They are standing with the Prime Minister who has dedicated his life to serving the british people, and i think the whole country today is uniting around the Prime Minister. Sandra what can you tell us about the impact this is going to have on government . We know the foreign minister now will be leading foreig boris jon cabinet. The new leader of the labour party is weighing in on how he needs to operate moving forward but i will get your thoughts on the other side. I do think we need to have a way for parliament to operate effectively whatever the circumstances and i know that thought has been given to how we would act virtually from a selection doing that but it is crucial and as i say, we will be constructive, challenge what we need to challenge but support the government where we can. Sandra what do you make of that suggestion that Parliament Needs to operate virtually Going Forward . I think theres a lot of debate about when exactly parliament will be back in place, but i think the government is continuing to function with full force. The foreign secretary is now in effect running the country on a daytoday basis while the Prime Minister is in the hospital, and i think parliament has a hugely Important Role to play. Is not certain when exactly parliament is going to return. You just heard there from the new leader of the labour party who replaced jeremy corbyn, its important i think that they get behind the government of the Prime Minister uniting with the government in order to ensure Everything Possible is done and to ensure the virus is defeated, that is the top priority and i think certainly the Labour Party Leader has been voicing with strong support for the Prime Minister. I hope the labour party will Work Together with the government. We do not need a Political Division at this moment, but i think the British Government is in very good hands. I think that dominic will do a very good job deputizing for the Prime Minister at this time. But certainly, the british people are facing the biggest crisis they have faced since world war ii, and as the queen said in her magnificent speech on sunday, this is a moment for the british people to unite together as one nation, standing together in the face of this crisis, and gave a tremendous message of hope and optimism and i think the british Warrior Spirit will prevail, and im sure the Prime Minister will be back with us soon at the helm. He is someone who has fought numerous battles throughout his life. I think he has certainly fighting the battle of his life today and he will be victorious. Sandra its good to see he is in good spirits this morning and im sure we will get an update as it goes on. Great to have you here this morning, thank you and be well. Thank you for having us. Ed Many Americans equal to get back to work so how do we get the economy going again . The labor secretary joins us with that and talk of a possible phase for rescue plan is next hour. 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The navy says more than 170 sailors have now tested positive for coronavirus including the captain himself. The ship remained stopped in guam. Sandra trading is now underway on wall street following yesterdays big rally and here you have another big gain to kick of off the markets today. Maria bartiromo most of sunday morning futures here, here we go. Looking at these games this morning, the s p 500 takes it out of bear market territory after it fell into that on marc. Meaning it fell more than 20 . This is the fastest move from low market territory to bear market territory. In in such a short period of me because 20 moves so frequently. I think were going to have a lot of fits and starts into would really get our arms around the right treatment and the virus is you when i have spoken before, market is up 800 points because weve got signs of optimism which is exactly what we want to see. We hope that those green shoots if you will continue. We hope that the number of deaths continued to slow and eventually go away and thats whats going to drive markets. Is also an economic story and we are talking about an incredible loss of business as a result of all of this. So as markets these signs of, signs of optimism, i am not going to stick my neck out and sa say we see the worst yet because youre going to get more hours untiwe are out of the woods here with the vaccine. Sandra i want to get this in here because the chief Economic Advisor was on fox news earlier this morning and he was talking about the economy picking up reminding everybody how strong it was before the coronavirus hit, the economy picking up where it left off. He was larry kudlow this morni morning. President trump policies to rebuild the economy on lower taxes and regulations and better trade deals and energy independence, all of that stuff is working beautifully. I think we can pick up where we left off. I am hoping and praying that we are only a few weeks away from reopening. We will see. Sandra theyre talking about now a task force to reopen the economy. Weve got the Coronavirus Task force battling the medical side of things, and then the possibility of a task force to reopen the economy. So its a Bright Outlook for larry kudlow this morning and obviously markets reacting to that as well. It is true we went into this with the strongest economy we have seen in a generation, certainly in my lifetime, and we continue to see the tools they are, the underpinnings for things to resume the way that it was, but it all depends on how long this goes on. The duration of this. We probably will get a fourth stimulus package. Larry kudlow will say that, Steven Mnuchin will say that. I spoke with treasury secretary this morning, and that is now being talked about. What should it include . To be needed to include direct payments to individuals again . Or do we needed to include money to the states because the states are also seeing an incredible drop in revenue. Goldman sachs out with a report this morning and they are saying that the loss and work, the loss in business is going to be close to 2 trillion for 2020 and youre talking about 1. 4 trillion again. So these businesses are going to need more than what we just saw with the phase three deal. I think everybody agrees on that because it is not necessarily going to replace the business thats lost. May keep people in the job and thats exactly what the treasury secretary wanted, make sure that money goes out the door to employees even though theyre not working and they were at home, but is not going to bring business back and it seems to me were going to need a fourth stimulus package here. Sandra in the final minute i have, i want to play sound of the president yesterday talking about all of that but saying how important it is to get those direct payments to the American People, heres the president. The money will be right on time from the federal government, then the states have to do their job. We could very well do a second round of direct, i would do it direct. It is absolutely under serious consideration. Sandra final thoughts from you as this market is off and running, another big day of rallies for the u. S. Stock market . Forbes reports nearly all households will receive the 1200 per adult payment, and that means most of the 290 billion in payments will go to individuals, not facing a job loss so they were all those others who are facing a job loss. We will need another stimulus package. Markets probably know that and we will see the market react as well. We will get through this, its just going to take more money in peoples pockets to do so. Sandra thank you for joining us this morning, see you again soon. Ed fox news alert now, the New York Times reporting the Trump Administration was warned about the impact from the coronavirus potentially by a Senior Advisor back in january. Live from the north lawn with a new reaction. Good morning. Good morning. The warning came from white house trade advisor Peter Navarro. The New York Times reporting that navarro circulated to memos, one in january and one in february. Fox has confirmed the february memo in which navarro sent out a memo that was addressed to President Trump had members of the White House Task force morning that he believed the coronavirus could become a fullblown pandemic and kill as many as 2 million americans. He reportedly sent another memo in january giving a less dire death toll estimate by predicting that the virus could still cost close to 6 trillion. In the first memo, he made his case for an immediate travel ban on china. Of course, President Trump did that and its something that President Trump is proud of, that he touted again at last nights briefing. We actually moved early because of what we did with respect to the ban on china coming in and then your up coming in, that was an early ban too and then the u. K. Also at that briefing last night, several members of the white house Coronavirus Task force said we know that this may be one of the worst weeks in american history, but they believe that all of this social distancing is working. President trump said he sees light at the end of the tunnel and dr. Fauci says that he is seeing good signs that this is perhaps leveling off, so he is urging all americans to continue practicing the social distancing guidelines of the white house. I dont think anyone has ever mitigated the way im seeing people mitigate right now. This has never happened in this country before, so why am optimistic, always cautiously optimistic that if we do what ive been talking about over the past few minutes, we can make that number go down. Dr. Fauci referring to that 100 to 240,000 death toll projection here in the United States, but he says he believes that it could be less than that if americans keep doing what theyre doing. Ed outstanding reporting as always, thank you. Sandra meanwhile, thousands of sc sellers now devoting time and resources to making cloth face masks. The company ceo will be joining us to discuss the online effort to help communities across the country. People need masks. Im giving away masks to a lot of my friends and family and people who are working in masks and even if they are not be 13, theyre better than nothing. Veterans, how can one phone call save you 2000 a year . By refinancing your va loan at todays incredibly low rates at newday usa. 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Thats right, so as he has a community of about 2. 7 Million Makers and these are businesses of one and they might make things like wedding dresses or jewelry, and weve seen an overwhelming demand for fabric face masks over the last few days once the cdc changed its guidelines. We want to make sure that we protect the proper medical grade equipment for hospitals and people who need it. So at sea is really trying to step in and help to provide fabric face masks for the general community. So we put out a call to our sellers and we have seen in just two weeks now over 20,000 individual sellers stepping up making fabric face masks and producing now hundreds of thousands of face masks a day. And not just face masks. They can be personalized and customized, and when you buy from one of the sc sellers, you are putting money in the pockets of another taxpaying american who has often been hard hit by this economic crisis. Sandra ed a very Important Message as well as making sure that we are complainin complyine cdc guidance in terms of Face Coverings out in the general public. Lets get an idea what the reaction has been from your army of troops out there in the artisanal world. Buyers search for face masks nine times per second according to your data, more than 2 million searches total. Face masks sellers increased fivefold in the past to nearly 20,000, threefold increase in shops selling some sort of Face Covering daily over the past week. Talk about the reaction from Everyday Americans which seems to me to be the most critical point. Its been a real want to be buying fabric face masks or they can protect other people as best they can and lets be cle clear, we want to protect the proper medical gear for the people who needed that are really on the front lines, and the sellers on etsy have risen to the challenge. Its really hard for the Ford Motor Company to change over to producing ventilators in days. But the sc community collectively can produce hundreds of thousands a day turning on a dime. Ed of your messages somebody watching the program, they might not be a Small Business person who has been selling these. They got the sewing machine in the closet. They will give you tips and guidelines on how to get yourself up and running very quickly so that you can make some extra income and also help out your fellow citizens and help us all get through this crisis. Ed hashtag stand with small as you can see on the screen, lets all band together to do it youre doing to help Small Businesses all around this great country. We really appreciate you coming in, thank you. To make a great message they are. Meanwhile, the army stoppings fitness and sending new recruits amid concerns. What is this temporary measure mean for our military might . 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The state Supreme Court which is controlled by republicans told him he may not delay the election until june and the u. S. Supreme court said the absentee ballots must be postmarked today. The challenge was brought by republican state lawmakers and that brought the ire of him who wrote thousands will wake up and have to choose between their right to vote and staying healthy and safe. Republicans in wisconsin who control the legislature pushed back against the delay and his efforts at a mailing vote. They said he brought the changes too late. They should have dealt with this weeks ago. Unfortunately, the governor himself was saying should be an election in two weeks ago or less than two weeks ago, he said he couldnt do anything and then just days ago, he called for a special session and today he switched yet again saying theyre going to postpone it. Tim carpenter said wisconsin is the only state stupid enough to have an election april 7th. Roughly 1. 3 million absentee ballots have been requested. At the Election Commission predicts clicks will be overwhelmed. Many are complaining they have not received their absentee ballots in the mail yet. Milwaukee usually has 100 polling stations open due to shortages of volunteers. Five are operating. The National Guard has been activated and guards men and women have been trained to be volunteers at polling locations. They will wear plain clothes and work in the counties where they live. Sandra reporting from chicago for us, thank you. Ed a celebrity guest joining quarantine residence at a texas Senior Living residency. Hosting a virtual bingo games on a video chat posted on his Facebook Page grid the bingo players asked the texas native to join them last september and now calling the experience a dream come true. Sandra awesome. Great story there. Meanwhile, americans confronting the worst week yet with this Virus Outbreak. Hospitals are now running short on crucial medical equipment while inside the white house, there is growing debate over when americans should start getting back to work. We will have new details, plus reaction from the labor secretary next. Tremendous progress has been made and i think very importantly, the progress has been made before this comes because the next week, we can a half is going to be a big surge. 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. G zpz61]nn there will be parties and family gatherings. There will be parades and sporting events and concerts. To help our communities when they come back together, respond to the 2020 census now. Spend a few minutes online today to impact the next 10 years of healthcare, infrastructure and education. Go to 2020census. Gov and respond today to make americas tomorrow brighter. Its time to shape our future. Getting older shouldnt the things she loves to do. It should just mean, well, finding new ways to do them. Right at homes professional team thoughtfully selects caregivers to provide help with personal care, housekeeping, and of course, meal preparation. Oh, that smells so good. Aw, and it tastes good, too. We can provide the right care, right at home. Ed stern warnings to maintain strict measures in the days and weeks ahead as the country braces for a dramatic surge of covid19 amid faint signs of turning the corner and pandemic hot spots. Welcome to a brandnew hour of americas newsroom. I am ed henry. Good morning again, sandra. Sandra good morning to you and everyone, u. S. Health experts voice and cautious optimism that what weve been doing is working, but warning that the battle is still far from over. More than 30,000 new cases confirmed since yesterday morning bringing the total above 368,000, nearly 11,000 americans have died from the virus. 43 of those fatalities in new york state. Where the curve may be starting to flatten. New yorks andrew cuomo the governor saying it could be a good sign, but now it is not the time to relax social restrictions. If that curve is turning, its turning because the rate of infection is going down. One of the reasons the rate of infections is going down is because social distancing is working. Sandra Jonathan Serrie has all the latest developments and joins us now. Good morning, sandra. Federal Health Officials share the new york governors cautious optimism in addition to death rates showing signs of flattening. Also the daily numbers of hospitalizations, icu admissions, and intubations in new york are also showing signs of leveling off. A federal Health Officials believe this is a result of social distancing and other mitigation efforts, take a listen. This is an indication despite all the suffering and the death that has occurred and that what we have been doing has been working. So the call that i say every time i get to this podium is just keep it up because this is going to get us out of it. And i strongly believe that if we work as hard as we can over the next several weeks, that we will see potential to go under the numbers that were predicted by the models. The Navy Confirms a crew member aboard the hospital ship usns comfort has tested positive for covid19. The infected person is apparently a member of the merchant marines and did not have direct contact with the patients rate if this person is isolating in a cabin on board that ship while the other crew members continue with their medical mission. That mission has been expanded to include caring for some serious cases of covid19 in addition to noninfectious trauma, emergency and urgent care patients. Voting is underway in todays wisconsin primary, the states conservative Supreme Court blocked the democratic governors executive order which wouldve suspended in person voting today. And the u. S. Supreme court has ruled against wisconsin democrats efforts to extend the deadline for absentee ballots. Back here in atlanta, the centers for Disease Control and prevention is distributing a new diagnostic test that looks for covid1covid19 antibodies. This is finding people who may have been infected and recovered from the disease, many of them not even realizing that they had been infected and this will give researchers a better idea of the geographic spread of the outbreak here in the u. S. Which will certainly help with better planning. Sandra Jonathan Serrie, thank you for your reporting on that. We are going to have a rough week, going to have a rough more than a week, but there is tremendous light at the end of that tunnel. Ed President Trump right there confronting the most difficult week yet what he has said in the corona Virus Outbreak is the administration faces pressure to get medical supplies to states facing shortages along with growing tensions over plans to safely reopen the country and get the economy going at some point in the near future. Joining us now, secretary of labor created its great to have you, sir. A lot to get to. I want to start with the story in the New York Times suggesting that back in january and february, the white house trade advisor Peter Navarro said two separate memos warning this could become a pandemic and could take over 500,000 american lives and cost 6 trillion to this economy. Did you see those memos in real time sandra . I dont want to comment on those memos which were white house memos directing the president , but we do know the president acted very quickly buying this time with restrictions he put on traveling to china in those early days but he was criticized at the time but it bought us some crucial days early on as we prepared to fight the virus. Ed youre the labor secretary and the economy as part of your purview. One would think that if you have a Senior Advisor inside the white house saying heres alarm bells back in january and february, this could cause the american taxpayers and could cost us in terms of output in this economy 6 trillion. He wouldve gotten word of it. Did you not hear about it in realtime . As i said, i think the president very quickly taking steps that a number of people criticized, thought it was premature. Was proved that those steps slowed the advent of the virus here in the states, gave us more time to respond including the time that we need to respond to the economic challenges that we face and obviously, we are seeing those now but those are the things weve been preparing for. Ed last one on this, the travel ban with china was very important. Do you wish in retrospect that you and others had taken more action . I think that as you began the segment, there are real signs for optimism right now. We need to be careful, we need to be disciplined and cautious, but i think one of the reason is that there is a sense that we may be close to turning the corner is the steps that had been put in place and had been in place for weeks or even months now. Ed lets talk about some of that optimism and look forward instead of looking back. He was on with my colleague maria to romo earlier today, his company is getting 10 million to Governor Cuomos First Responder fund to try is Corporate America tries to rise to the occasion here. Heres what he said about reopening the economy and i want to give you a chance to react. We will take up a much more normal life probably in the next week or two, and then we will be able to slowly go back to work. Things will normalize and without Government Support that weve had, we would have a grave situation, a recession would be optimistic description of it. Ed meanwhile, jpmorgans chief saying if we are cautiously optimistic, things continue to move in the direction a week or two from now, we may see slow parts of the economy starting to open, what is your timetable, sir . It depends first on how effective we are right now today, tomorrow, this week in disciplining ourselves and defeating the virus, weve got to get the virus under control as the First Step Towards fully reopening the economy. That said, last month, the president signed three really major pieces of legislation including that 2. 2 trillion relief package which is now being implemented so swiftly. You have this new program for Small Business for example giving them loans so they can keep their workers on payroll. I think once we deal with the Health Challenge that we face, we have the pieces in place to reopen the economy quickly. The Small Business loans are in my view very important because when kita reopening the economy is going to be keeping employer and employee relationships intact. Its also the aim of the paid leave bill the president signed a week earlier my two weeks ago now, which we already have begun implementing to the Labor Department as well. Keeping that connection is going to be a crucial step to getting the economy reopens. Ed to your point, the president has called Small Business in america the engine of this economy before this crisis, obviously want to get Small Businesses back up and running as quickly as you can. You mentioned paid leave a moment ago. Speaker pelosi commented on that over the weekend about the phase three package and talked about expanding paid leave in a phase for package. I want to let you hear her and react to this. Sorry, its a quote. Care must go to helping Small Businesses including the farmers extending and strengthening simple unemployment and desperately reduce resources for state and local government. All systems, health workers, First Responders, and other providers on the front lines of this crisis. What the speaker was talking about was about a trillion dollars in expanded leave and other pieces of this freedom is at a reasonable price tagged to you or do you want to spend even more . I am focused right now on the legislation the president signed just a little more than a week ago, that 2. 2 trillion relief package which was unprecedented. As i mentioned, he had provided unprecedented paid leave for workers and Small Businesses the week before that and we have the Small Business loan program that is now up and running with billions of dollars being provided through that. And we have enhanced Unemployment Insurance benefits being made available through the states, so theres a lot of relief on the way to americans. I think governments response of this, the speed with which the president and congress have acted our for the for optimism right now, but im not looking toward another huge relief package. I think we watch how the one we have in place right now functions and lets make that work. Ed last question then, certainly there seems to be some success, early success in phase three as you refer to it as tens of billions of dollars in loans to Small Business going out in just a few days, trying to process it. There have been hiccups here and there but clearly money is going up a final question, am i reading it right that youre putting the brakes and a phase for . The president himself has talked about infrastructure being part of phase four. He just said youre not focused on that. Is there going to be a phase for not . The president has spoken about the need for infrastructure legislation for a long time, and its obvious to see the value that might be to the economy. But in terms of responding to the coronaVirus Outbreak and rebooting the economy, i think we have the pieces in place at the moment that are functioning well, all these different programs that have been stood up so quickly through the president s quick action, lets see how that functions. We need to do more, we know the president will get more done. We have a lot of really valuable measures in place right now. Ed a key member of the president s cabinet who has a fundamental job of getting this economy done, we appreciate you coming in. Sandra . Sandra thank you. Fox news alert from the pentagon this morning, the army announcing it will temporarily stop sending new recruits to basic training amid the coronavirus pandemic. The dramatic move coming as the military closes most recruitment stations had instead relies on social media to beef up the ranks. Lucas is live with more with what we are learning on all of that. Good morning. Good morning. Two years ago, he was battling isis in iraq and syria now fighting the coronavirus. As head of army training, he said he is not shipping any more recruits to basic training for the next two weeks. The decision has been made to pause a shipment of trainees to basic combat training. These are conditions based upon allowed leaders to further focus on setting conditions to restart movement in a safer manner. Officials say the army wanted to do this weeks ago but top pentagon brass they went out back to social distancing it isnt really the same thing as having a drill sergeant screaming at you and your face . They have basic training in missouri, oklahoma, and fort benning in georgia. The armys decision comes one week after the marine corps said it would stop he sending recruis as they tested positive to the virus. A 14 day staging. Under which they will be screened and monitored and given classes to prepare them for training for the navy and air force have already taken similar measures. Officials say this officials only affects a few hundred army recruits in the real dangers if this moratorium extends into the future after high school graduation. Sandra Lucas Tomlinson at the pentagon, thank you. Ed meantime, two political rivals putting their differences aside. With the president had to say about his phone call with the former Vice President joe biden. Plus, growing concerns about the Prime Minister in britain Boris Johnson still in intensive care at this hour with coronavirus symptoms. How the leaders absence is shifting that governments response to the pandemic. Americans are all praying for his recovery. Hes been a really good friend, really something very special, strong, resolute, doesnt quit, doesnt give up. And newdays va streamline refi shortcuts the process. Veterans can refinance with no Income Verification, no appraisal, and no out of pocket costs. One call could save you 2000 a year. Ed President Trump on the former Vice President joe biden discussing the nations Coronavirus Response yesterday in a rare phone call between the two rivals. The president saying the talks on the virus went well. We had a really wonderful warm conversation, very nice conversation. He gave me his point of view and i fully understood that. It was really good. Was really good. Really nice. I think it was very much, i appreciate his calling. Ed the two agreed they would not disclose exactly what they discussed on the phone call. Biden has previously criticized the administrations response to the pandemic. Sandra meanwhile british Prime MinisterBoris Johnson does remain in the icu at this time where he was admitted last night when his coronavirus symptoms worsened. Now confirming he has been receiving oxygen but his breathing without the assistance of a ventilator. Lets bring in dan whitten executive editor, thanks for joining us this morning grade what update can you give us on Boris Johnson . Some positive news today from a real fears last night that Boris Johnson may have to leader on standby mixed with intensive care and so i think the country breathed a collective sigh of relief when we learned at lunchtime that Boris Johnson at this point was still breathing with the assistance of oxygen. Finding some positive views, he had received last night, usually for intensive care. Which has extraordinary gratifications for government in this country, not worsening today at least. Sandra having heard from the queen over the weekend and now this news, how is the country responding this morning . It couldnt have been better times. Of course, her message came and then within an hour, Boris Johnson the Prime Minister was in the hospital. Has continued to take moral charge of the country today sending good wishes to the nhs and also a public note to Boris Johnson. We do have to remember the very Human Element of this story, seven months pregnant has been suffering from coronavirus over the past week and of course, Boris Johnson was completely isolated at st. Thomas in the hospital in westminster. No visitors, no Government Advisors by his side, certainly this is a very, very difficult unprecedented situation. Sandra what sort of preparations are being made as far as the government is concerned, the foreign minister stepping in for at least the time being leading the cabinet, but obviously this is still in the middle of this pandemic. What preparations are being ma made. Its murky. They were shellshocked. Unlike in the u. S. , we had no constitution, not even a deputy Prime Minister in this government, so he is the nominated secretary of state. He in charge essentially and he does have we believe the allimportant nuclear codes, but the idea that he is able to run the government with the same type of force is the Prime Minister is just nonsensical. So obviously, people are rallying around. It is in self isolation as well. So clearly, things are very difficult and everyone is hoping that Boris Johnson, there is saying dominic will be in charge at least for a few days. Making quick recovery and they believe much of the trouble was that he continue to work as he was in self isolation. Quite how violent covid19 can go through to people so i think now in hindsight, that decision to keep working with in self isolation while that number is being viewed particularly unwi unwise. Sandra our best to him as he continues to fight this deadly disease, in the hospital, we understand no ventilators, in good spirits this morning and we do expect we will get more reports as the hours and days go on. Thank you for being here this morning, we appreciate it. Ed a startlingly report by the hhs of Inspector General about americas hospitals. What the watchdog is now saying the vital medical supplies they need to fight their coronavirus pandemic. Plus, millions of americans obeying recommendations on social distancing. Could this have a positive impact on reducing the number of expected deaths . What a top cdc official is saying, that is next. Models are good, they help us to make projections, but as you get data in, you modify your model. Have you heard . Whats up . 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Sandra fox news alert, Stephanie Grisham we are just now learning is leaving her role to return to that used wing as the first ladys chief of staff, the office confirming that news following reports that Stephanie Grisham is stepping down from her role as press secretary to both the president and the first lady. She will now be chief of staff tto the first lady melania trum. More on that news as we get it. Ed another fox news alert now, a top official showing some optimism about the effects of social distancing saying americans are following the guidance seriously that a number of deaths predicted by various models will start to drop. Dean of the National School of tropical medicine and pediatrics at Baylor College of medicine. Good morning to you. Thanks for having me. Ed its terrific to have you. In the quote that i refer to its from the director of the cdc robert redfield. Among other things, if we just social distance, we will see was a virus and is outbreak decline, and i think thats what you are seeing. I think youre going to see the numbers are in fact going to be much less then what would have been predicted by the models. Your reaction. That is certainly the hope. What we are looking at right now is probably the peak of the epidemic in the United States will be by next week. So we are not nearly out of the woods yet so we are looking at another week from the number of cases continue to go up but a lot of the models are showing a decline, pretty steep decline as we go through the month of may. We will see what other cities are being affected. Right now, seeing rates like places like detroit and new orleans, especially cities that have large concentrations of four people and trying to understand that link with poverty whether its due to underlying diabetes or hypertension so thats one of the trends we are looking for. The other big trend we are looking for is what happens as the numbers start to decline as most of the models suggest as we move into the summer. What do the out years look like . And the reason i bring that up as we have information, things like the flu which for instance the 1918 flu epidemic, many people dont realize that we saw that going to 1919 in 1920, so it lasted at least two years. So how are we going to operate the country now with the possibility that it may come back in the fall or this time again next year . That is really going to provide. Ed staying in the moment right now, i just want to also pin this down because you give a very interesting answer about the cautious optimism. We have heard this from andrew cuomo here at the top of the hour, another news briefing with in the meantime, hes been saying the last couple of days, he is seeing the death rate come down here in new york state. He is cautioning that could be a blip or a sign of some optimism that weve got to remind people that even as the death rate comes down, theres a Staggering Number of deaths in new york, louisiana as you noted and a lot of other places. So how do you balance all that out . The metaphor that i like to use as we are going down to the eye of the hurricane. Now it starts to go down, but the other side of the hurricane is just as bad as the first part. So thats why its really important to look at that social distancing for the next few weeks just because its starting to decline doesnt mean we let up. This is the time we really try to nail it down and make this thing go away at least for a while until we can figure out a longerterm plan. Ed beyond social distancing, a question about therapeutics in the short and medium term and then a vaccine down the road, heres what the president said yesterday. Ill give you a chance to react. Theres tremendous light at the end of the tunnel, so many things happening with therapeutics, with vaccines, currently ten different therapeutic agents are in active trials and some are looking incredibly successful but we have to go through a process and its going to be a fairly quick process based on what the fda tell me and another 15 our plans for critical, clinical trials. Ed you are a doctor, are you optimistic . The president is absolutely right. We are now seeing the full force of american science. And remember, theres a reason weve been asking american taxpayers to support the National Institutes of healths, now 36 million a year. Now the investment is coming back because we have that amazing nih led by Francis Collins and people like dr. Dr. Fauci, now we are starting to see the payoff in terms of not so much financially, but in terms of new Public Health interventions. We are going to see a number of new drugs being repurposed, drugs that have already been developed for one reason, the convalescent antibody therapy, some new molecules. This is all going to rolled out in the coming weeks and months. The hardest thing we do has scientists trying to develop new interventions with a new virus agent in the middle of a pandemic and theres not a lot of historic precedent for that but i think if anybody can do it, it is our u. S. Research had institute of Research University infrastructure that has been developed over a period of years. And paid for by the American People. I think we are going to see that. Ed good oldfashioned ingenuity. But heres what he said about the transition back to some kind of a normal life. Of back to normal means acting like there never was a coronavirus problem, i dont think thats going to happen until we do have a situation where you can completely protect the population. When we get back to normal, we will go back gradually. We want to get to precoronavir precoronavirus, that may not ever happen in the sense of the fact the threat is there, i feel confident that over a period of time, will get a good vaccine that we will never have to get back to where we are now. So if that means getting back to normal, then we will get back to normal. Ed the second straight day of real optimism they are, Companies Big and small thinking may be transitioning back to a somewhat normal economy. What is your message to the American People this morning following on dr. Fauci about how we need to be careful about all of that . As i mentioned, a lot of projections are saying that this is not a oneoff thing. Were going to be dealing with this virus for at least a couple of years. Wont be anything nearly as bad as what we are dealing with right now. It will come back later in the fall or early next year, im going to figure out how to manage this and parts of the country and whether we have new technologies. So we are going to talk about this and that flu pandemic having that big of an impact but we are managing it and thats what we have to realize, its not going to be a situation in the Surgeon General said yesterday, its not like all of a sudden the magic bullet is going to come out of this and we are all good to go. Is going to be pieces of technology that will rollout. We will be having to go up and down and evan flow over the next couple of years but we will get through. Ed we will get through it indeed appeared as you put in that context, it gives you an idea of the kind of history we are living through right now. We appreciate your insights this morning, thank you. Officials meanwhile across the country are making decisions on how exactly to handle the impact models but depending on which model you look at, they can be very different. Live in washington with more details on that. Good morning. Beautiful april day here in washington with the fish market behind me, normally this would be packed on such an april day. Is not the case right now because d. C. Shut it down. Why . Photos emerge this week of hundreds of people here not practicing social distancing. Is under a stay at home order. Clearly people ignore that, thats why the mayor had to step in and close things down until she wanted to feel safe. Now, weve heard about this peak in washington possibly at the end of june or early july. Says she could see up to 93,000 cases in the district alone. Shes using whats called the chime model out of philadelphia. Listen. My experience with human beings as we dont do everything perfectly, and our model accounts for people who are very strictly social distancing, and theres i think is accounting for two weeks or 30day period. Models are tricky. Theyre not an exact science, this coming from someone who knows a lot about models. Dr. Anthony fauci is sitting on the White House White house Coronavirus Task force. Listen here. When someone creates a model, they put in various assumptions, and the model is only as good and accurate as your assumption. Whenever the models come in, they give a worstcase scenario and the bestcase scenario. Generally, the reality is somewhere in the middle. The team at the white house and many other governors and mayors across the United States are using whats called the model funded by the bill and Melinda Gates foundation. Its a little bit more liberal, it hears district social distancing saying these peaks are not going to happen in june or july but much earlier. The peak in washington according to that model would begin just a couple weeks, but the bottom line, and they say to look at many different models. You dont want to do one because after all, that model could be wrong. As for this fish market behind me, it remains closed because right now, she says she doesnt have the evidence that people should be out here because over the weekend, they were not social distancing and thats a problem. Sandra all right, thank you for that. Ed stocks trading up again today adding to yesterdays big gains. Can this momentum continue . Weve got that story next. Ith v thats me. By using your va streamline refi benefit, one call to newday usa can save you 2,000 a year. Thats me. Theres no Income Verification, no appraisal, and no out of pocket costs. Thats me. Put your va home loan benefits to good use. Call my team at newday usa. P1ucsj1j plg apps except work. Rywhere. Why is that . Is it because people love filling out forms . Maybe they like checking with their supervisor to see how much Vacation Time they have. Or sending corporate their expense reports. Ill let you in on a little secret. They dont. 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Lets bring in the anchor of after the bell on fox business network. To what do you attribute the gains we are seeing on our screens this morning . Is a couple of things going on and what we saw yesterdays trading session. We have the medical side of it and the investors looking at signs of at least stabilization looking at the curve that appears to be going to italy and spain and seeing the early signs of that in a place like new york, perhaps will learn more from Governor Cuomo so you have that on the one side and the economic side of it, you have more helps the government will provide even more money and more relief, even more stimulus as we know tough times are ahead for the next few weeks or months and theres a lot of talk going back to the stimulus side, the come was like the treasury secretary Steven Mnuchin saying keep applying for those Small Business loans and even if we run out of money, they will go back to congress and ask for more. So that leads to some optimism. The s p is up today and if it ends up where it is right now, it will be like the dow quickly out on bear market territory up 40 just about as quickly as it went in on march 23rd. Sandra it has been a historic time for the market, significant moves both to the down side and now back to the upside here. As we look at the Grocery Shopping situation across and look at food stamps, they let those food stamps recipients shop online. So if you are someone who receives those, you have a compromised immune system, fall into the vulnerable category, what is being done to help them out . This is a really interesting story and we will see if there is movement on the federal level because to your point, six states right now allow you to shop online to the food stamp program. Trying out similar programs. Now governors in states that dont have it and waive these requirements that dont allow it in other states and maybe expand programs like this and we will see if that happens because understandably, they dont want to go to the store. We see this ourselves trying to shop online is that even if you are allowed to, its difficult because getting on a fresh director amazon or whatever the company youre using. Lets see if they expand this, number of governors would like to see that happen. Sandra last question on the auto insurers from a stay at home orders across the country right now, they are refunding millions, so what are we seeing on that front considering we are not driving and that significantly driving the number of accidents. Yes, it has and the money that they would normally have to pay out to your point, they dont now. So at least two of the Auto Insurance companies have started refunding money to clients or customers and some other Companies Say if you call them, they might be able to work something out. So this is something they might want to look into with their insurance company, allstate and American Family insurance have started refunds in the case of allstate you get a 50 refund for april and may, they are returning 50 per vehicle but geico and others have said if you give us a call, we might work something out here, and environment were so many people are looking to save every last dollar, this might be something if you havent heard from your own Car Insurance company, see what you can work out. Because you have not had the payout, Car Accidents being down and all the rest, might be willing to give you a break or give you a refund so look into this if youre not with one of those companies is giving you some money back. Sandra certainly a very interesting angle to all of this. The dow up 350 points. We will take that for now. Ed the World Health Organization now the tail of the corona Virus Outbreak. Calls for the head of the International Body to step down in part for being too soft on china. Details next. Our members understand social distancing. Being prepared and overcoming challenges. Usaa has been standing with them for nearly a hundred years. And well be here to serve you for a hundred more. And well be here to serve you for a hundred more. That gives me cash back onesome new aeverything. Akuten thats ebates. I get cash back on electronics, travel, clothes. Youre talking about ebates. I cant stop talking about rakuten. Pretty good deal peter sfx [blender] ebates is now rakuten, sign up today. Ed the World Health Organization facing criticism over its handling of the pandemic. Gillian turners life with more details. Good morning, so the World Health Organization is now facing mounting criticism not just from u. S. Officials, but from a lot of the International Community about their handling of this pandemic. The organization according to sources here are telling me that that organization spent much of the past few weeks playing up chinas achievements and looking the other way essentially as they continue to underreport numbers of cases coming out of the country. The w. H. O. Director general also facing mounting pressure from lawmakers to step down over his alleged role helping the Chinese Communist party downplay chinas responsibility for the pandemic, take a listen. They need to come clean and another piece of it is the w. H. O. Needs to stop covering for them. I think the doctor needs to step down. Former michigan rep says the w. H. O. Is corrupt beyond repair. And called to defund the organization yesterday on this program. Take a listen. Three strikes and youre out. When you look at what theyve done to help the Chinese Communist regime conceal the true extent and nature of the coronaVirus Outbreak, they lost their objectivity and credibility. One key voices dr. Anthony fauci jumping to his defense even though he panned President Trump china travel ban back in february. An outstanding person, ive known him from the time that he was the minister of health and ethiopia. The w. H. O. Has not had problems has not been watching the w. H. O. But i think under his leadership, theyve done very well. He gave a press conference yesterday, didnt address his mounting criticism and a lot of sources pointing me to this study in the u. K. That reports they have found the virus in the spread globally could have been mitigated by up to 95 of chinas government had just taken action three weeks earlier. An astounding figure, more public Health Officials are now looking at. Ed gillian turner, thank you. Sandra fox news alert meanwhile in new york still on lock down but the coronavirus curve may be leveling off and just moments, we will hear from new York Governor Andrew Cuomo. Plus, another Economic Relief packages in the works, republican senator of the Senate Majority whip joins us next our life. Heres big news for veteran homeowners. With Mortgage Rates at record lows, one call to newday can save you 2000 a year. Its that simple. With their va streamline refi, theres no Income Verification or home appraisal. And this refi costs you absolutely nothing out of pocket. Its the quickest and easiest refi newday has ever offered. One call can save you 2000. Ed fox news alert, live look in albany, new york, Governor Andrew Cuomo about to hold a conference from inside his estate, may be flattening the curve. As we learn almost 11,000 americans have now died of the coronavirus pandemic. Welcome back to americas newsroom. I met henry. Sandra good morning to you, eddie. Im sandra smith, we look forward to the governor a moment from now with nearly 370,000 covid19 cases in the country as the u. S. Now closes in on 11,000 deaths for the second day in a row. The epicenter of this pandemic has not seen an increase in deaths leading to some cautious optimism. We have again hopeful news in the data. That could be slowing, plateauing, turning. But its also dependent upon what we do and how we handle ourselves and we know that social distancing is important, thats why i am extending the ban on keeping business is closed, extending the ban on schools. Sandra we have live Fox Team Coverage for you this morning. Dr. Nicole saphier standing by but we begin with David Lee Miller at mount sinai hospital in new york city. Good morning. Good morning. I may or bill de blasio spoke to reporters and said he is hopeful but not drawing any conclusions that the city may have turned a corner and its battle with the coronavirus. Latest numbers show that the spread of the virus is slowing. In new york city now, more than 57,000 people have tested positive and more than 3,000 have died. And the mayor said for now sounded cautiously optimistic. The good news is, it is giving us more time, it is giving us the opportunity to get more ventilators in, and know we can get farther into the weeks. Thats very good news, just the fact that we bought a few more days, and we could absolutely protect lives because ventilators will be there. Thats news. Ed we are learning more about the impact of the virus in new york state which accounts for slightly more than a third of all the cases in the entire country. According to stats compiled by the state health department. 86 of those who died had some type of underlying illness statewide. 61 were men and 63 were over 70. Officials warned new yorkers should not be complacent. The governor s you just heard for those who violate the rules on social distancing, also extended the times schools and businesses will remain closed until april 29th. New york continues to try and find more hospital beds. President trump agreed to the governors request to treat coronavirus patients on the navy ship the comfort and the Episcopal Church is now helping with the battle and is joining forces with mount sinai hospital at the cathedral of st. John the divine. Back to you in the studio. Sandra David Lee Miller, thank you for your reporting on the ground there in new york. Now to albany where the governor is now speaking. Three day averaging of these numbers, the three day averages down, which is good news. This is the threeday hospitalization rate. We tend not to look at any one day, daytoday is up somewhat but if you look at the threeday average, it is moving down, which is good news. We talk about the apex and is the apex of plateau, and right now, we are projecting that we are reaching a plateau from the total number of hospitalizations and you can see the growth and see it starting to flatten. Again, this is a projection. Still depends on what we do. And what we do will affect those numbers. This is not an act of god that we are looking at. Is an act of what society actually does. Changing daily icu admissions is way down and thats good news, the daily intubations number is down and thats good news. The discharge rate is right about where it was. The bad news is 5489 new yorkers have lost their lives to this virus. That is up from 4758. That is the largest single day increase, and we talk about numbers, but that is 731 people who we lost behind every one of those numbers is an individual, its a family, as a mother, and its a father, sister, a brother so a lot of pain again today for many new yorkers and they are in our thoughts and prayers. Many people across this country. While the discrepancy or the discordant see number of deaths from a number of hospitalizations dropping, the number of deaths, number of losses his lagging indicator the number of hospitalizations. What happens is the person goes into the hospital, if they are treated, most of them are then released and discharged. Some stay, some get put on a ventilator, the longer you are on a ventilator, the less likely that you will ever come off that ventilator. And that is why you are seeing the number of deaths increase, because these are people who came in at the peak. They were not successfully treated, they are on a ventilator and the longer youre on a ventilator, the less likely you come off the ventilator. New york is still the most heavily impacted state in the nation. New jersey, which is on the curve little bit behind new york is suffering, and again our thoughts and prayers are with them. They spoke to governor murphy of new jersey today, and we talked over the situation and working on joint strategies, but our heart goes out to all of our neighbors in new jersey, michigan, california, louisiana. In terms of our operating, how we are managing the situation as we know the Hospital System basically has a three legged stool, it relies on number of beds, number of staff, and the equipment, number of beds we have started with the system of about 53,000 beds, statewide up to about 90,000 available beds so we have more than enough beds available. Staff has been a problem, staffing. Health care staff is getting sick, they are overworked, they are stressed, under great emotional stress, you think about these Health Care Workers who are working in a hospital in an emergency room thats overwhelmed, you are worried about your own health, worried about bringing a virus home if you are infected. At home is under stress because everything is under stress. About 7,000 new staff have been hired from the pool that we have identified. These are retired Health Care Workers who came forward, these people from across the country who came forward has a pool of potential employees, the hospital is higher from that pool and theyve hired about 7,000 today. The protective equipment, ventilators, we are stretching and moving, but every hospital has what they need today. They balance the patient load among all hospitals and so no hospitals system gets overburdened. And that is a daily adjustment which takes tremendous Cooperation Among all of the Health Care Institutions and i thank them very much for what theyre doing. And then we have the overload relief, which is a Javits Center 2500 beds and the u. S. Navy ship comfort. The u. S. Navy ship comfort had 1,000 bed capacity. Was originally for noncovid19 patients, what wound up happening was we dont even have nonCovid Patients. Close down society, there is fewer traffic accidents, crime is down, so the original plan which was the comfort would take noncovid cases from the hospital didnt really work because the hospitals didnt have noncovid cases. I told the president yesterday morning and asked him to speak to the department of defense to see if they would change it to covid. The president , to his credit, moved expeditiously. Call me back yesterday afternoon and said they would make the comfort noncovid. When they make that transition, the capacity of the ship comes down from 1,500 beds. Because Covid Patients require more space, and therefore the capacity of the ship came down from 1,500. Still a tremendous benefit so between the comfort that is 3,000 beds, it is a welcome overload relief to the Hospital System which is already extraordinarily stressed. So i spoke to general shaughnessy today as we spoke to the comfort, the department of defense has been fantastic in a number of military personnel they have sent up here and how quickly to run facilities this large has come up to speed. Handling this many Covid Patients and a new start up emergency facility. This is a really difficult undertaking and they have really been fantastic and im going to thank them all. I want to thank the president for moving as quickly as he did. We are working on a tristate cooperative has i spoke to governor murphy from new jersey in the state of connecticut, we coordinated the shutting down if you will when we did, schools, businesses, et cetera because this really operates as a tristate area, a lot of people who live in new jersey work in new york for living new york, work in new jersey or connecticut, so we talk about the tristate area and we try to operate to the best we can as that regional collaboration and that has been working well for us on schools on the economy on health care issues. We have to start planning restarting life. We are not there yet, but this is not a light switch that we can just flick one day and everything goes back to normal. We are going to have to restart that economy, going to have to restart a lot of systems that we shut down abruptly, and we need to start the plan for that and i spoke to the governor about coming up with the regional metropolitan tristate approach to do just that. When we get to that point, which we are not at, but how do we restart our economy and get everything up and running as quickly as possible . My personal opinion is its going to come down to how good we are with testing. Youre not going to end the infection and the virus before you start restarting life. I dont think you have that luxury. How do you start the economy back up, how do you start getting back to work as quickly as possible . Its going to come down to testing. Youre going to have to know who had the virus, who resolved the virus, who never had it, and thats going to be testing. And that is an entirely new field that we are just developing now, right . New york state developed a department of health to develop an Antibody Testing regimen that department of health has approved for use in new york state. That has to be brought to scale, and the department of health is going to be working with the fda to do just that. This test the blood to determine whether or not you have the antibodies which means you have the virus and resolved the vir virus. Thats why you would have the antibodies for the virus. That would mean that you are no longer contagious, and you cant catch the virus because you have the antibodies in your system, which means you can get to work, you can go back to school, you can do whatever you want. But you have to have that testing, and you have to have that testing on a scale. You have 19 Million People in the state of new york, just think of how many people you would need to be able to test and test quickly. So the Antibody Testing as part of that. Also, Rapid Testing to determine whether or not you have the virus now exists. They have 15 minute tests that are commercially available. But again, they have to be brought to scale. No private company has the capacity to bring those to scale. So speaking with governor murphy and governor lamont, we are interested in working with private companies that can actually bring this Testing Capacity to scale quickly because again if you have the Antibody Testing, thats part. You can then test if a person is positive for the virus and you can do it that day you can get those results in 15 minutes, that is also another way to get back to life and do it quickly. So we are very interested in that, so is connecticut. There are private companies that have these tests. Again, its all up to scale. We are starting them in the state of new york where we have a 50,000 person Testing Capacity which is nice, but it is not a scale thats actually going to make a large difference, so private companies that are interested in getting it to this base and coming up to scale quickly, we are interested in those companies and we are interested in investing in those companies and they should contact us at Empire State Development corporation. The state budget not just the state, but every state budget has been decimated by the situation. We shut down the economy, people arent working, not paying income taxes, businesses arent operating, it just collapsed. In revenue has just collapsed. You want to restart the economy. You have to help restart the local government and that is going to be a federal fact. I dont have the capacity as a governor, no governor does, to generate revenue in a positive way from an economy that is not operating. That is going to be a federal stimulus bill. There is no other way to do this. And it has to be a stimulus bill that actually understands you have state and local governments that have to be brought up to speed and functioning if you want to facilitate this restarting of the economy. The federal government passed some legislation as im set at the time, it was woefully inadequate from new yorks point of view. We have had some time to actually study the legislation and it actually gets worse when you read it, and its not even what was represented to us initially, so i am sending out a congressional delegation letter today saying the past legislation did good for the nation. I have no doubt, gave aid to a lot of people and places that needed it. But it was not fair to new york, and that has to be remedied in any legislation that goes forward. The last point i know has been a frustrating 37 days, but its only been 37 days on the other hand. I know it feels like a lifetime. It has been so disruptive, so abrupt, so frightening, so disorienting, but its only been 37 days. Everything in context and everything in perspective. I know its tough to get up every day and this is like groundhog day living through this bizarre reality that we are in, it is even more difficult i think with the weather changing and you feel the season is changing, and its getting nicer and you start to open a new book of possibilities and now the weather is getting nice and we should be getting outdoors and should be doing this in doing this, i get it. But its only been 37 days. And i started by saying those numbers of cases, that is not arbitrary. What we do affects the number of cases. Our behavior affects the number of cases. We are generating the cases. They are not descending on us from heaven. Is our behavior. So its been 37 days. The 1918 pandemic that we talk about peaked in new york for six months. Came through in three ways. And it peaked for six months. 30,000 people died in new york. During that pandemic. Why . They didnt react the way we did, they didnt know it is as we know today im a they didnt have drug therapies, but we are changing the curve in that virus group. You see that plateau because of what we are doing. We dont do what we are doing, that is a much different curve and thats what happened in the past. So social distancing is working. He shut down all the businesses, i know, but it is working. That is why see those numbers coming down. We were doing the same rate of interaction, those numbers would still be going up. So to the extent that we see a flattening or possible plateau, thats because of what we are doing and we have to keep doing it. I know its hard, but we have to keep doing it. And to the extent it takes an effort. Remember at this time, it is about we, and it is not about me. I know what i would like to be doing. I would like to be going it is motorcycle weather for me. A time to get on the water, time to go hiking in the adirondacks. I get it. Its not about me. What i do will affect other people. It will affect my family, it will affect other people. It will affect people in those Emergency Rooms for killing themselves every day to keep other people safe. I get infected, i will infect them. So we all talk about society and community and interconnection and interrelation in family and life is bigger than us. Now is the time to live that, right . Now is the time to live that. So when you feel that need, i have to do this, it is not about me, its about we and what is good for all of us and my health is in your hands. In your health is in my hands and the health of those Health Care Workers and those First Responders and all those people who have to show up to work every day to keep society functioning, we are responsible to them also. So to the extent its hard, i get it. But maybe if we think about it through a different lens, it will be a little easier. So lets not get complacent. We have to stay disciplined, we have to stay smart, we have to stay safe and we do that by staying at home, and we will get through that and through this together. Questions . Said yesterday that the comfort is meant to teach patients and isolate Covid Patients to a small number. Its going to be treating a small number of patients but will the ship be able to care for Covid Patients . I spoke to the president and i spoke to the Vice President and i spoke to helping manage the comfort. When you transition from nonCovid Patients covid, the capacity of the ship goes from 1,000 beds down to 500 beds, but i can treat 500 Covid Patients adequately and safely and that is what we are transitioning into operation now. How long is that going to take . We have a test that we have developed, we are working to scale that up now over the course of the next week will be able to figure out how many we can run, we are expecting to be able to steal that up not just here in the lab, but to get other labs to do it as well. We will have to work with the fda to get that approved. The fda has already approved in private antibody test, is there a way the states can work with them . The antibody tests, you have to look at them, some of them measure the immunoglobulin chain and the difference is that some suggest that its a new infection and others show that the infection has been around for a while. So its important to make sure that the tests that we are measuring show that individuals have the infection, and they still have the infection. So its important to make sure its the correct test. Measures immunoglobulin chains that they had the affection and it has resolved. Did you get that . Neither did i. Say that one more time. So there are many tests out there that the companies are making. Two types of immunoglobulins, starting to mount a response which happens with everybody and your body also makes an immunoglobulin after your infection has been resolved or has resolved. Thats what you want to measure. Otherwise, you may be measuring something which actually says you still have the infection in your body so you want to measure the one that says its resolved and thats the one that we are developing a test for. Sounds good. I almost understood that. Earlier today, i know im very provincial, we spoke with them earlier today, passed away from coronavirus, so this is saying stay away, should be small but people listen. This seems right for a mass gathering, is there anything that the state police and State Government can do to ensure the health . This is brooklyn. Im sure the nypd will be doing what they need to do. I made it clear yesterday that these social distancing regulations are not just pleased, they are regulations you can be fined for. We increase the fines make a point that we are serious and per the nypd, we will begin forcing it but also, people have to understand. I understand religious gatherings, i understand the orthodox community. I am very close to them, and i have been for many years. My family is very close to them. But now is not the time for large religious gatherings. We paid this price already. We have this lesson. That was new rochelle and westchester. So please, now is not the time. You do know one a service by making this worse and infecting more people. Theres been a lot of reports that communities of color have been particularly hit hard by the virus. Do you know if thats been the case in new york . A lot of data, gender, age, has it been difficult to get those racial breakdowns . So the hospitals actually dont report the race information directly to the states to what we end up doing on the back end is calling the Coroners Office around the state after the death has been reported so there has been a lag. We understand people want that information and we will have it this week. There has been that trend. Of the challenges is that some of the communities have challenges with their health in general, having some more challenges with asthma and diabetes and so any time who has underlying medical conditions ends up with this virus or any other virus, its more aggressive. There is progress they are and we will have that new interface up and running by thursday and we worked with verizon and a lot of the problem is the lines were crashing because the volume was so extreme. Now 80 of the upcoming calls into call centers so you should start as the semi easing up on that today and again, we just ask people to remain patient as we get this resolved. On friday regarding ventilator redistribution and that was also going to cover other things. Is there a reason for the delay . Im going to issue an executive order today on everything. What else with that cover . Everything weve discussed to date. Thats going to be voluntary, the taking of ventilators to help associations, is not going to be a voluntary taking of those . The hospitals tell us what they have quoteunquote available, meaning unused and they are not going to use it in the foreseeable future. So it was always of the equipment that you believe is available, if the state lent 20 of the available units as to be defined available, that would dana hundred. And 500 ventilators was a big deal especially two weeks ago. Frankly, since then, other things have happened. We have 1,000 ventilators from china, california freed up 500 ventilators, oregon sent 140 ventilators, state of washington freed up 400 ventilators or Something Like that. Weve also acquired an additional 500 ventilators. So we are not in the position that we were but thats what it always was. A hospital says we have available by their own definition unused inventory, not using for the foreseeable future, 20 of that number leaving them with 80 of the unused was 500 ventilators. No, thats what i was saying. [indistinct question] it is something i think is going to come up, and i think its an important thing to look at. Id also like to find a way to say thank you to these Health Care Workers who are out there every day. Talk to them on the telephone but what they have done is just incredible. Just incredible. Not just the Health Care Workers. The Health Care Workers, just think of the mindset to walk into that e. R. Every morning putting on these grounds, putting on all this protective clothing, having to change the protective clothing several times a day, seeing people pass away and then go home and deal with the stress at home, but also the First Responders and transit workers, you look at the rates of sickness, they know what they are exposing themselves to, and they still do it. God bless them. A large number or just any inmates that escaped prison system to curb this corona outbreak . We are looking at that anyway we can and we are looking at that continually. I dont think theres anything new on that right there but its something we are exploring all the time. Any plans are considering or specific models . We have done the model. We have done about 700 parole violators, people who were deemed to be low risk to Public Safety and also high risk to covid, so we have done that so far and we are continuing to evaluate it on an ongoing basis. About 400 people to come out of rikers so far, 130 people have been released, is there a reason for that . 240 out of rikers so far. On on more psychological and philosophical issue, 730 people died, these numbers keep rolling out, but it would seem to get numb to these sorts of stats. How do you counter that . How do you impress on people that these are human lives, that this is an enormous human catastrophe . You know, if they i hear the point. I guess one could get numb to the numbers and thats what i said remember every number is a human being behind that and a family. For myself, i can tell you the last thing i do is get numb. I can tell you for the hospital staff that goes through this, theyre not getting numb. For the families who are suffering, theyre not getting numb. The pain is increasing, the grief is increasing. You see those pictures on tv of getting to a situation where you have to put bodies and trucks and in parking lots, how you could get numb to any of this, i cant imagine especially new yorkers. We lose the humanity of this. Its something i struggle with every day. I try to think of the opposite. You cant stop you cant save everyone. This virus is very good at what it does, and it kills vulnerable people. Thats what it does. And it does that very well. And we cant stop that. The question is, are you saving everyone you can save . And they are the answer is yes and i take some solace in that fact. Our Health Care System is operating, i dont believe weve lost a Single Person because we couldnt provide care. People we lost we couldnt save despite our best efforts. But no, i dont see the numbness and i dont believe new yorkers see the numbness. I think the frustration of an individual situation can cause you to do irresponsible things. To go out to more than you should, to disregard social distancing, i think that is an issue. Thats what we are trying to address. [indistinct question] i dont know, its a good question. I think they go back i think and we are working on a plan with connecticut and new jersey because when we go back, we go back together. I think it goes back with people who have tested that they are negative for people who have tested that they have the antibodies which means they had the virus and they are immune from the virus or we go back with the younger people going first still protecting and isolating the vulnerable, but if it is waves, i think those are the waves. Sandra you been listening to new York Governor Andrew Cuomo speaking from albany giving an update on the number of deaths in his state. Yesterday, 731 deaths, now the total 5,489 in new york state alone, the largest single day increase although he did highlight a bright spot and that is he is predicting that the state is reaching a plateau as far as the total number of hospitalizations, also icu admissions and intubations are also on the decline, and he also shared news that there is now more than enough beds available, but he did show concern about the Health Care Staff and said this is not a time to stop the social distancing. That must continue. That was andrew cuomo in albany with an update on the situation here in new york. Ed for more on this now, lets talk to dr. Nicole saphier, contributor on this issue. Good morning. You try to balance this out day after day ahead as sandra just pointed out, there are some hopeful signs the governor is noting. On the other hand, when he says that there were 731 new deaths here in the state of new york just yesterday, the worst day yet and the Associated Press has just broken down the numbers in the last few moments saying given that, more people have died from a covid19 here in new york city then died in new york city on september 11th attacks. Those are very grim statistics, but i want to tell you why he was able to say that, that the single highest amount of deaths in the same breath is saying we are still seeing light at the end of the tunnel here. So in the data that is coming out of the United States, there is an average case for symptoms onset to death of about 18 days. So that means that people can be in the hospital for two to three, maybe even four weeks with symptoms before we are actually seeing them die. We have to remember the stayathome order wasnt done until march 20th. That wasnt even three weeks ago. So the people who have been in icu right now, a lot of them were infected before stayathome orders were even given and before people were really getting strict with their social distancing. So we are going to see these increased deaths. We know people have been trying to prepare the public for these numbers for a long time now. But heres the good news, right now, we still have a lot of people on the ventilators and a good amount of them will die. That is the truth with this covid19. A high mortality rate for people who go on ventilators. Some were up to 80 of people and at the same time, Governor Cuomo has told us they were decreased people coming into decreased people, and it was a big thing we were concerned about that we were not going to have enough of these beds and not have enough of these ventilators but at this point, we have enough. They have done what they needed to do to make sure that we have them. Now its a matter of trying to figure out different remedies to keep people alive. How can we treat them . We have a lot of studies going on throughout all the Hospital Systems in new york and elsewhere in our country to try to figure out how to save peoples lives. Ed in the final moment we have, i want to followup on what you said. Of the governor said in a hopeful sign, three day average in terms of hospitalizations here in new york is moving downward and added we are reaching a plateau on hospitalizations, but dont take your foot off the accelerator in terms of social distancing im a hopeful signs, but we cant stop now. Your message . With these numbers are telling us is all of us staying at home, how painful i know it is for people, it is working. We have to keep doing this so we can continue to take care of the people who are already in the hospitals and not give more patients to the hospitals. So keep staying at home. We are hitting that plateau which means we are going to start on that decrease soon. So please just hold out and dont become complacent. You keep hearing people say this but just because the enthusiasm dies down doesnt mean you stop. You want to continue living your healthiest life and continue social distancing for now. Ed you can see people getting antsy thinking there is some optimism but you have to keep that going, appreciate that coming in. Sandra fox news alert on a shakeup at the white house involving press secretary Stephanie Grisham. We have the latebreaking details on that for you next. Sandra breaking news just moments ago, White House Press secretary Stephanie Grisham is switching offices at the white house to rejoin the first lady as chief of staff. In Kristin Fishers live on the north lawn with more on what we are learning on these new developments. Any time you have a new white house chief of staff, this is always a possibility. This kind of move has been rumored about but it still caught people by surprise in the west wing this morning. Mostly moving from the west wing back into the east wing where she will serve as the first lady chief of staff and spokesperson. In a statement this morning, Stephanie Grisham said i continue to be honored to serve both the president and the first lady and the administration. My replacement will be announced in the coming days and i will stay in the west wing to help with a smooth transition for as long as needed. You note in that statement, to use the word that replacements but replacement, plural and the two leading contenders are Kayleigh Mcenany, the press secretary for the Trump Campaign and alyssa is the press secretary for the pentagon and before that was the press secretary. So right now, the thinking is perhaps both of them could be coming back to the west wing. Stephanie grisham actually wore many hats. Director of communications, press secretary. So perhaps those two could come in, one serving as press secretary, one serving as a Communications Advisor. We were an official announcement will be made soon. Sandra as we await that, there were reports about white house trade advisor Peter Navarro, warning the Trump Administration of the impact of the pandemic coming. What are we learning on that and what are we learning actually took place from what was said or written . So this is actually first reported by the New York Times, the white house trade advisor Peter Navarro circulated to memos within the west wing, one in january and one in february. They have confirmed the one in february in which Peter Navarro warned that he believes the coronavirus could kill as many as 2 million americans who sent another memo, that january memo predicting that the virus could cause close to 6 trillion. Larry kudlow was asked about it and said he never saw the memo, but he did say this. They were a lot of voices in the administration more urgent than i was at. So all i can say is, the president took action back in january with a travel ban with china. Was very controversial at the time. He was criticized by a whole lot of people on various ground, and he did anyway, and i think that started a whole series of events has more information came in and came the task force, then they moved from containment to mitigation. In a big announcement about President Trump formally announcing who the White House Press secretary and perhaps the new Communications Advisor will be. Sandra we await more information on all of that, Kristin Fisher at the white house, thank you. One met with the click of a mouse, you may soon be able to track your relief check online. When we could hear from the irs about that, news you need to know coming up. Ed millions of americans right now waiting for those stimulus checks from the federal government may soon be able to track the status online. Live from West Stockbridge massachusetts with more details, good morning. Good morning, thats right, what weve been finding out as it is not so easy to give away all that free money went to the Big Questions about the stimulus, how do we get money into the hands of seniors who may not have filed tax returns for a couple of years . From aarp had this to say. You dont want people to have to file. We already know from the serious number of questions weve gotten from people, how do i get this, what did i do, theres a lot of confusion out there, we want them to be dealt automatically because in most of these instances, the irs or the va or the Security Administration already has your information. Ed okay. Looks like we lost our connection, but there is some good information there. Well make sure weve got at foxnews. Com as well. A lot of people waiting for those checks. Now you can start tracking them online and in fact, jerry is right there. Got some details for us . Yes, i do. I wanted to share with you what secretarytreasurer rima nguyen said last week. He didnt say that people would have to file that, but he did hint at a web portal. Listen. The president authorized me to say that anyone that has Social Security recipients wont need to file a new tax return. We have your direct deposit information, we will put up a web portal so we can put that up. Is a very large priority, the president has made clear we want to get this money quickly into your hands. So the question could be answered as soon as this afternoon how theyll do that. In the meantime, lots of speculation on the web that the irs will convert their popular wheres my refund tool into a wheres your stimulus tool . I can imagine a lot of people will be checking that out onli online. Ed thank you so much, and we will be back with more in just a moment. Than ever. The newday va streamline refi is the reason why. 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Thank you for joining us, everybody. Outnumbered starts now. Harris we begin with this fox news alert, the latest word from the white house Coronavirus Task force, some positive signs are emerging in some of the hardest hit areas by covid19. The numbers we watch daily are stubbornly high, though, confirmed cases surpassing 368,000. More than 11,000 people have died. Heres that glimmer of light, the task force is pointing to. Cases have begun to level off. Everybody who knows me knows im very conservative about making projections. Those are the kind of good signs that you look