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Some light at the end of the tunnel. Andrew cuomo setting positive signs even as his state faces its highest single day jump in covid19 death so far. There is good news and what we are saying. What we have done and what we are doing has actually worked ands making a difference. We working. Its flattening the curve and we are seeing that again today. Sandra we have live Fox Team Coverage for you this morning. Kristin fisher has the latest from the white house. But we begin with David Lee Miller who is life in york city this morning. David lee . Good morning. Flag throughout the state are flying at halfstaff in tribute to thousands that have died because of the coronavirus. Governor andrew cuomo says the latest news about the number of deaths isnt just bad, and his words, its terrible. Statewide fatalities in the single day spike to 779 which is more than ever. He said the mortality rate is likely to get worse before it gets better because it reflects the number of people admitted weeks ago to the hospital there are only now succumbing to the virus. A preliminary study shows that blacks and hispanics in new york have a disproportionate rate of fatalities. On a positive note, hospital admissions are down thanks to social distancing but he urges new yorkers not to become complacent. We have to remain diligent and remained disciplined Going Forward but there is no doubt that we are now bending the curve and there is no doubt that we cant stop doing what we are doing. More people might be dying from the virus on my first thought. If the head of the said specially assigned troops are removing 150 bodies per day from new york homes, Officials Say that usually its 25 bodies on a daily basis that must be removed. Some lawmakers in the region are imposing stricter measures to try to slow the virus. In a suburb of greenberger, plans are now in the works to take the temperature of all customers and employees before they enter a business. And researchers here at the icahn school of medicine at mount sinai hospital say the virus was in new york city earlier than previously thought. The researchers who have written this study is a initial cases came primarily from travelers arriving from europe although the origins of the virus can be traced back to china. In the words of one the researchers, according now, the virus was likely secure lighting as early as january 2020 and the new york city area. Whats noteworthy here is that travel restrictions were put in place by the u. S. Government werent put in place until later that month. Back to you sandra. Sandra David Lee Miller back in new york city. Ed meanwhile the latest model tracking covid19 here in america projecting a dramatic decline in deaths from that virus. Task force Officials Saying it could be because americans are following the president s guidelines. Many of you have done the analysis of the same models as we utilized and if you do the models of the models then you end up with that range and they have consistently decreased the mortality from over almost 90,000, or 86,000, down to 81,000 and now down to 61,000. Thats modeled on what america is doing. Thats whats happening. Ed Kristin Fisher is live from the north lawn with more details. Good morning. Good morning ed. It was just nine days ago thats task force held that very summer briefing predicting that between 10,240,000 americans would likely die from the coronavirus. Now though, one of the most influential models is dramatically reducing its projection to about 60,000. Why . Theres a few reasons. First the Task Force Says that all of the social distancing is working and they are urging americans to keep at it. Second, even though hospitals across the country are severely strained so far, doctors here are not having to make it the same tough choices like doctors in italy had to do. Is the Surgeon General. Remember in italy their Health Care System got overwhelmed and they were able were literally choosing to let people die because they didnt have enough ventilators in that system and we prevented that from happening here in the United States. So fewer people are dying and, thank you america for social distancing and staying at home. Thats resulting in betterproje. And with better projections of course comes in more talk about when the u. S. Economy can get back up and running. The white house has 30 days to slow the spread ends may 31st and is already talk from Top Administration officials about significantly easing those guidelines when the 30 days are up. I think when this period of time at the end of april expires, i think we have to allow people to adapt more then we have. And not just tell people to go home and hide under the bed but allow them to use other ways of social distancing and other means to protect themselves. But some members of the task force like dr. Fauci are far more cautious. He says this morning that while he does see glimmers of hope he believes the United States is still struggling to get the virus under control. He says hes hopeful that things could be getting back to normal by summer but he also says its a virus that determines a timetable. One more thing we are watching today, President Trump continuing to threaten to freeze funding from the United States to the World Health Organizati organization. Yesterday the World Health Organization fired back accusing the president president of politicizing a pandemic but the white house is continuing to look at that. President trump says the group is just to china centric and hes not happy that the United States is continuing to pay the lions share of its funding. Ed we have senator tom cotton on that in just a few moments. Kristin fisher, thank you. Lets bring in dr. Marty may carry. Good morning to you. Good to have you on this morning. First, can i ask you about the death toll projections that we led off the show with . While the death rate has not peaked, we are told, the projections are down from original estimates. Why . I was comforted by those numbers but i would caution against people making too many conclusions early before we peaked. New york still had its most fatal day of 779 deaths and we know the medical examiner is reporting about 150 deaths of people found at home more than the normal 20 or 30. So i would avoid making conclusions. But at the same time it appears that our hospitals may have the such capacity to manage this influx of patients, and the rate of adding new patients to hospitals is starting to decrease. Sandra we will continue to watch those numbers closely. Meanwhile we watch for the latest guidance from the cdc and now there are new guidelines on some essential workers, doctor, that have been exposed to the coronavirus. Their recommendation now is to return to work if you have no more symptoms and you will have to take your temperature twice a day and make sure theres no fever and wear a face mask. Heres the Vice President weighing in on those new guidelines. The cdc will be publishing new guidance on essential critical workers who have been exposed to covid19 but dont have any symptoms, dont have a temperature and dont have any reason to believe that they have the coronavirus. There would be an opportunity for those people playing such an incredible role in our nations response to be able to return to work and to do so safely. Sandra obviously its important to start looking at some of those essential workers and getting them back into the workforce, but what about the timing of all of this, dr. Christian this is encouraging sandra because this is probably the first of many green light recommendations to identify some subgroups who can go back to work. Of course, it came with conditions like wearing a mask for 14 days, cleaning services frequently, maintaining a 6foot differencdistance and doing teme checks every morning and selfmonitoring. My recommendation is to add to the cdc recommendations that they only apply to low risk individuals. We dont want 80yearolds or those on chemo or who have an organ transplant at the workplace no matter what at this point. I think after the peak we will see a lot more green lights. Some countries have even given certificates or given an app to individuals where they are greenlighted to travel or go back to work. Sandra theres also the New York Times reporting on these two separate studies about where the origination was for the epicenter of this pandemic here in the United States. New york, and whether it was europe or china. Most coronavirus cases come from europe these studies show. So what are you reading into that . Essentially there was a back door. We know the epicenter was china but instead of traveling directly from china to the United States as we saw on the west coast, it may have been through europe. We know there has been a chinese delegation in northern italy and we know that might be why italy led europe and there has been travel between europe and the United States. I dont like the term epicenter when we talk about the United States. I dont like us referring to new york city as an epicenter because it is essentially seated everywhere around the world and we need to remember that the ultimate source was china and that there were many doors for this to see throughout the the world. Sandra very interesting perspective on that. Final question on the ventilators, the necessity of those ventilators and why some doctors are hesitant to use them because in some situations it makes the can patients conditions even worse. Final thoughts on that . The most promising statistic weve seen out of new york is the number of new intubations or icu admittance. The decision to intubate or put someone on a ventilator can be subjective. There is some gray area that relies on a physicians judgment and i think we are relearning some new protocols and algorithms where we are saying, maybe we dont need to intubate patients quite as early in some situations. Thats what we are hearing from these doctors that are saying they may choose to intubate patients a little later in their course if patients can avoid it and still breathe on their own. Sandra so much that we are sick discovering through all of this. We really appreciate your time this morning. Thank you, sandra. I think hes absently correct about the World Health Organization. I think if you took president xi of china and turned him upside down and shook him, the World Health Organization would fall out of his pockets. And thats not acceptable. Ed louisiana kennett, senator john kennedy with his unique style there criticizing as the white house or insta cut off aid to the agency. Lets bring in senator cotton. Good morning. Speak ed i noticed that your colleague has a unique style and manner of speaking but bottom line, i see your smile there, is the World Health Organization and apologist for china . Unfortunately the World Health Organization is in the pocket of china, especially tedros, when he was investing db them actively there, he has a wellknown and frankly well deserved reputation for corruption thats gone from ethiopia to the w. H. O. Thats why the president was right that we need to condition future funding. In the admission of taiwan, at least on as an observer to the w. H. O. If we cant do that then we have to establish our own organization and invite members of the civilized world to join us using american standards of transparency and accountability. Ed senator, you just mentioned the director of the World Health Organization. He fired back yesterday and had a warning for the president and may be for you as well. If you dont want many more body bags, then you refrain from politicizing it. My short messages, please quarantine politicizing covid. Ed he said if you keep this up there will be more body bags. Is there a point regardless of back and forth of cutting off funding to the World Health Organization thats trying to prevent future pandemics i could backfire on us . Im disgusted by that kind of threat from some two bit thirdrate democrat. Thats why tedros needs to be fired and investigated so we can find out how deeply in chinas pocket he is. In january i was reported, pointing out that the World Health Organization was more interested in the politically correct appeasement of china calling the virus something besides what it should be called which is the china virus or the wuhan coronavirus, then it was trying to get to the truth. It accepted chinas ludicrously false claims that there was no human to human contact in the early days of this virus. It refused to respond to some of the learnings that we had from taiwan because taiwan is not viewed by beijing as a country. Those are the kinds of things that have to change at the World Health Organization and dr. Tedros two bit accusations and threats are not going to change those facts. Ed you certainly had a chance to respond there, lets bring it back home and to whats happening with very hard hit families in your state and other states. We seen unemployment numbers going up and you and others on the hill have been trying to do a lot with the stimulus. Theres a question about whether Small Business loans are getting to the people that need it and senator mcconnell will talk on the next hour. In the meantime you and doug jones are saying we have to get the money faster to individuals. You said we encourage the Treasury Department to target a group of americans, the option of getting their payment on direct express debit cards. Talk about the focus on this and is very concerned that the money is simply not getting the people who need it quickly enough . The Small Business loans, theres honestly been some bureaucratic snafus and we are working out the kinks every single day. My team and i have been on the phone almost constantly with the bankers in arkansas, the Small Business administration and the department of treasury. For the individual payments, many people will be getting those direct deposits starting next week. There are obviously millions of americans who dont have direct deposit set up and they may not even have Bank Accounts. Rather than send paper checks which are susceptible to fraud and require you to get out of your house and go to the bank and cash the check, we want the treasury to explore the possibility of electronic debit cards. The kind of things we are to use, the va and the Social Security administration might make it easier for those who dont have Bank Accounts and are in communities that are underserved by Financial Institutions to get the money they need to buy the groceries or pay the bills. Its just one possibility that we think treasury should explore to make sure that distressed workers and their families are getting the relief they need in a timely fashion. Ed thats important on the individual side and as you noted there is the Small Business side. A lot of folks very hard hit. Senator mcconnell is expected to speak early about this potential expansion of 250 billion more in Small Business loans. Senator cotton, you have a lot on your plate today. Sandra a Rocket Attack Hits the largest u. S. Military base in afghanistan. What we are now learning about casualties and who was behind it. It. A live report from the pentagon coming up. Plus new controversy over the former navy Navy Secretaries trip to the Aircraft Carrier that ended up costing him his job. Im in louisiana is seeing a surge in coronavirus deaths but hospitalization numbers are dropping. What the numbers mean for the fight to save lives in hard hit new orleans. Next. What we do know is that people misunderstand what im saying and they start thinking, we got this thing where we want it. We will see those cases spike right back up. Fifty years ago, humpback whales were nearly extinct. They rebounded because a decision was made to protect them. 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Ms mercy first docked at the port of los angeles to help treat noncoronavirus patients to help relieve those overwhelmed hospitals in southern california. Sandra isis claiming responsibility for a rocket attack on a u. S. Military base in afghanistan. No one was injured in that attack according to military officials talking to fox news. Jennifer griffins live from the pentagon now with more on that. Jennifer, is isis taking advantage of the covid19 cris crisis . They appear to be. They also note that the u. S. Would like to bring troops home by the end of the year so they are using this moment to push the president to pull out. This attack is similar to one a few weeks ago. Five rockets were launched at Bagram Air Base just outside of kabul, the Largest Military base outside of afghanistan. Officials told me no one was hurt or killed and the damage was minimal. The hallmark where iranian backed militias fire rockets at housing for troops from remotecontrol launchers. Also with the goal of pushing the u. S. Military out of the middle east. The attack in afghanistan comes amidst all that u. S. Broker administered comic negotiations between the taliban and the Afghan Government. Yesterday the Afghan Government released 100 prisoners and in another hundred today has called for the u. S. Brokered Television Deal signed in late february but the deal remains fragile. The taliban has instructed their fighters not to attack any area where the covid19 virus has spread and todays attack was claimed by isis who of course are not signatories to the Television Deal. Sandra in meanwhile, more fallout for the Navy Secretary after taking an expensive trip to guam. What can you tell us about that . The navy says it costs taxpayers at least 243,000 to fly the former acting secretary to the western pacific, a 35 hour roundtrip to briefly visit the virus written Aircraft Carrier where it he ranted. It was my opinion that if he didnt think that information was going to get out into the public in this Information Age that we live in, then he was too naive or too stupid to be a commander of ship like this. He flew on the equivalent of a gulfstream jet and it cost 6,000 an hour to fly this plane. There are now 416 sailors on the uss roosevelt who have tested positive for the covid19 virus. One is now hospitalized in guam. Mosley is currently in quarantinquarantine at an unknon location. Not only did this trip cost taxpayers hundreds of thousands of dollars but cost him his job. Sandra Jennifer Griffin reporting from the pentagon. Ed we are moments away from the opening bell on wall street and new numbers on the jobless claims and the fed is taking big action as the dow futures up right now and kind of big. Neil cavuto joins us next on the fallout from the pandemic and what comes next. If i believe we have a feasible path to the nomination i would certainly continue the campaign. But its just not there. I know that there may be some in our movement that disagree with this situation. Ed a look at where the race for the white house and general elections stands now. Sandra 6. 6 million americans filing for jobless benefits last week with 10 of the labor force now out of work. But stocks are up this morning, out of the gate, as the fed announces more than 2 trillion in new lending to shore up the ailing economy. Lets bring in your world anchor neil cavuto. Neil, thanks for joining us on the opening bell as we are on dow watch, a 300point game out of the gate here. Those jobless claims were big. Theres no way you could even overstate it because they keep staggering folks. If you think about it over the last three weeks more than 610 and a half billion americans have filed claims for unemployment insurance. Again, most of the time its the first time and has never happened before. This is the entire amount during the two year recession we had back and around the time of the financial meltdown. So obviously this is staggering by anyones mouth and unique in this particular case because the hope, of course, is that with stimulus on the way this will be short lived. Many people are returning to work, and the Federal Reserve out of nowhere throws down a 2. 3 trillion gauntlet that includes helping mediumsized businesses that might not be beneficiaries of that Small Business aid program, to which as you know, Congress Wants to add even more money. Something interesting is its buying up junk bonds. During the last meltdown you are covering that closely as well and mortgagebacked securities was a problem. All of a sudden the people who pooled all of these risky mortgages, no one could buy those pooled assets. This is essentially the Federal Reserve saying if this is the next class of socalled risky assets, junk bonds, we will buy them. Very interesting. A sandra meal, you mention the possibility of more money for our Small Businesses, we will hear from Mitch Mcconnell hopefully at the top of the 10 00 hour on the east coast calling for more funding. They are expected to approve more than 251 billion for Small Businesses and hear Steven Mnuchin that as well. This is much needed support and we want to make sure that everythings single Small Business can participate and we want to assure the workers that if you dont get the loan this week there will be plenty of money for you next week. Not just Small Businesses but charities, independent contractors, sole proprietors. Sandra theres a lot of debate whether or not this is working and whether or not the Small Businesses that are applying or able to get those loans. You hear a lot of good stories coming from that but you also hear a lot of people struggling to get those funds when they apply for it. A kind of reminds me, remember the Affordable Care act when that started in the system was crashing and there wasnt enough to keep up with the russian demand for applicants and calls and again and again technology wasnt up to handle the stress. There are more than 3,500 banks participating as we hear the big ones like bank of america and citigroup. But again, its family and mom and pop institutions that are sort of practicing and understanding the rules as they write these things out. So its understandable that you have a flood of activity like this. They are adding 250 billion to eight or want to and i dont think people will quibble with that amount. If anything it will go a lot higher to keep up with that. The question then after that is whats on top of that . Theres already talk that if this passes by just online vote in the senate and it goes to the house, the house will likely add on other benefits for Health Care Workers and Emergency Responders and this 250 dot billion dollars stimulus relief or whatever you want to call it turns into half a trillion dollars. But lets say, no one is looking at the cost of this. Sandra final thoughts if i could turn your attention to the markets again. The dow is up 330 points. You had the dow clawing its way back out of bear market territory, but you look at the jobless claims numbers. 16 million filing for jobless claims over the past three weeks. The economic damage from this pandemic obviously will be measured for months and years to come but when you see the stock market up after a number like this, is a lot of this baked in . I think a lot of it is. Remember they were talking 6070000000 unemployed americans when all was said and done . Now they are kind of getting their arms around, it might be only 45 or 50 million. So our sensitivities have changed on this but its interesting to note as you did come up with the gains that youve been seeing a little more than three weeks ago, we were at dow 18,000 and now we are close to dow 24,000. Thats down from where we were in february when we touched 30,000 but its a remarkable claw back. Now be careful. The six bear markets that we have seen, we had a number of bear market rallies that petered out and brought us to new lows. So that could still happen. But this is a pronounced climb on optimism that between the stimulus thats coming and it now with the Federal Reserve is launching and hopes that maybe the worst of the virus increasing case this will start to be slowing and that is all finding a tonic for buyers. It might be shortlived, but its gone on now a few days. There might be something to it. Sandra we will be watching it throughout the day and we will see a little bit later on in the fox business network. Neil cavuto, thank you and great to see you this morning. Thanks, sandra. Ed 70 more coronavirus deaths reported now in louisiana and that was yesterday. Matching the highest one day total from a day earlier but the number of hospitalizations is down as is the number of patients now on ventilators. Casey stegall is live with details. Good morning. Good morning. Louisiana Officials Say that despite the 24hour death tallies, they say the overall numbers appear to be going to the right direction. They do fear that with the easter weekend the approaching that people may let the guards down and start to ignore the social distancing mandates so of course they are reinforcing that they are not out of the woods yet. They are encouraging the public to remain vigilant in order for the curve to continue leveling off. More than 17,000 cases have been reported across the state, 652 people have died. And 1,000 bed pop up hospital opened in the New Orleans Convention Center and we told you about that this week. Overflow for area hospitals. Initially leaders said they were working to expand and add another 1,00 1,000 beds but President Trump said he had a conversation with the louisiana governor about the possibility of not even needing those additional beds. In the meantime, the carnival cruiseship valor returned to its home port of new orleans last night. There are no passengers on board but cruise line officials tell us there are some crew members on board. The ones who are healthy and have been cleared can fly home but others have to wait out their quarantine on the ship. This as Clinical Trials continue of the antimalaria drug hydroxychloroquine. Nearly a half million tablets were donated to louisiana and it doctors are prescribing it to some of their sickest patients. These drugs dont represent a Silver Bullet or a magic wand. However, many medical doctors have chosen to prescribe these drugs to relieve symptoms of the virus in some patients. Here in Texas Governor greg abbott says the state will continue to ramp up coronavirus testing. He says with the help of walgreens opening 15 drivethrough testing sites across seven states, one of them including texas, right now the number stand out a little more than 9300 infection statewide. 177 people have died here. Back to you. Ed casey stegall, thank you. Sandra coming up for how the centers for medicare and Medicaid Services are giving billions of dollars to Health Care Providers. We will be speaking to the administrator of that agency about whether hospitals are actually getting what they need to. Plus, detroits mayor with some positive news on the outbreak in that city. The reason this is flattening out is because of you. The people of this city have been honoring social distancing. 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What we are doing here in detroit is constructing an alternate care facility. But my understanding are there are some concerns and a possible developer to relieve pressure on the existing City Hospitals. Do they have the necessary protective equipment for the medical workers . Yes, absolutely. Okay, erasing that. And its getting hit from this virus in a whole new aggressive way. Whats happening on the ground in detroit . I will let the Health Officials speak to that. What i will tell you is that fema has given us a mission to construct these alternate care facilities and we are executing our mission right now. Ed is so how many facilities are we expecting and all . Right now the tcf center will be complete today and we will hand it over to the state later this evening. We also have another one that we initiated a couple days ago and its the suburban showplace. Ed got it. Those are important steps forward. Whats happening in the City Hospitals from what you are hearing from these officials . I get that thats not under your jurisdiction but the need to build these field hospitals must be coming because of real pressure on the existing hospitals. Right. The urgency was there since we started, since we were given our mission. So what we have anticipated is that it is our job to get these up and running as fast as possible and that is what we are doing. Ed okay and what kind of capability do they have in terms of beds . Weve seen this in the new york city with their ships that came in and fixing the javits center, obviously you are doing similar with that Convention Center in detroit. Whats the capacity and how many people are you going to be able to help . The tcf center will have 970 beds available and the suburban showplace will have approximately 1100 beds available. Ed okay. And how many Covid Patients will they be handling . We seen examples of other cities like new york where this kind of field hospitals focus on noncovid19 patients to relieve pressure and let the Covid Patients get their care from other hospitals. These are covid only hospitals or alternate care facilities. Ed thats good then. Talk a little bit about the back and forth with the mayor. The mayor mentioned in the clip we played that they believe they are flattening the curve. If you are adding more field hospitals on the ground that would certainly suggest there are still a lot of patients and people who need care about is there some glimmer of hope that the curve is flattening . What i can tell you from my standpoint, ive been busy working on our mission to get these up and running and what i can tell you is, having everybody come together to execute the mission has given me a lot of hope just to see tcf and other contractors and the state, health and human services, weve really come together to get these facilities up and running really quickly. Its been absolutely amazing. Its the thats wonderful to hear a message of hope. Its a city that has been hard hit and we want to make sure that folks in a lot of cities all around the country, you are doing outstanding work to help so many people on the ground. Nick, thanks for coming in, we appreciate it. Sandra we are waiting to hear from Senate Minority leader Mitch Mcconnell this morning who plans to hold a vote on a 250 billion more, i should say, to help Small Businesses. We will take you live to the senate floor when he began speaking, live. Lower their blood sugar. 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He has inspired and energized millions of supporters, to join him in championing move for the country. Thats a good thing for our nation and for our future. There is no evidence to support the centers claim that things he talked about years ago and were dismissed as radical are now part of the democratic mainstream and while biden is not as progressive as sanders, biden does now support century cities, a moratorium on deportations, a ban on fracking on federal land and eventually getting rid of all fossil fuels and Bernie Sanders says he sees more similarities on the way. Just read a statement that he made today and i think hes moving that direction, to make public colleges and universities tuition free. I think hes prepared to move in that direction which would be a big deal to the young people in this country come to be very bold. Though it sounds like Bernie Sanders likes what he sees what he wants to see more before endorsing. Sandra . Sandra already to come up peter doocy up on that breaking news for us. We appreciate it. Ed at the center for medicare and Medicaid Services allocating nearly 34 billion for workers on the front line. We will talk to a key member of the task force coming up ed this is a fox news alert. A key coronavirus model is being revised now projecting fewer deaths as the cdc issued new guidance on essential workers. Welcome to a brandnew hour of americas newsroom. Good morning sandra. Sandra good morning to you ada, im sandra smith. The numbers are hard to grasp at this point. Right now more than 432,000 cases in the United States as the death toll now nears 15,000. Meanwhile, the new cdc guidance could be a first step in reopening the country. It focuses on when the essential workers can return to their jobs after having been exposed to the virus. Dr. Redfield of the cdc explaining how this would all play out. We would ask those employers to take the employees temperature and assess their symptoms before starting them back to work. We would like them to increase air exchange and the buildings and increase the frequency of how they clean common surfaces and it really begin to get these workers back into the critical workforce. Sandra Jonathan Serrie is live outside of the cdc with more on all of that. Good morning to you sandra. Federal Health Officials are trying to balance safety with our need for these essential services, communications, food and medical care. So under these new guidelines these critical workers who may have been exposed to the coronavirus but arent showing any symptoms will be allowed to return to work provided they pass regular temperature checks, where face masks in the workplace and practice social distancing avoiding things like crowded break rooms. They should not share headsets or other objects that touch their face and anyone who become sick must go home immediately. The cdc has also published a study suggesting a cluster of cases in chicago early on in the outbreak stemmed from an infected person who attended social gatherings with extended family including a funeral and a birthday. This further back so guidance to isolate with members of your own household. A study published in the european respiratory journal suggest smoking increases your risk of severe covid19 by increasing levels of a specific enzyme in your air passages. The ace to enzyme is what allows the coronavirus to enter your cells and to replicate. Georgia Governor Brian Kemp has extended statewide shelter in place order through the rest of april. He defended his position to reopen beaches that have been closed by local officials. Ive also felt that many residents of our coastal areas and other places, they are glad that we have those outlets for people to get some exercise, to get some fresh air coming to do it in the right way through social distancing. Sandra and edit, come up one more study to tell you about. Researchers from mount sinai have been looking at the genetics from the virus from the earliest cases in new york to figure out where it came from, and they found that these cases predominately came through europe instead of asia where the coronavirus outbreak originated. Back to you, guys. Sandra all right, Jonathan Serrie, thank you. Ed meanwhile the federal government is pushing out new money to support Health Care Providers on the front lines dealing with the crisis. The center for medicare and Medicaid Services pumping 34 million into the system to make sure providers and suppliers have the resources they need to. Joining now live is the cms administrator, seema verma. Great to see you. Dr. Fauci was on this program yesterday with both of us and he talked about glimmers of hope, that hes starting to see signs of optimism. Reducing more that this morning . Thats right. Even though its been a very tough week and our hearts and minds are with all the friends and families that have lost loved ones, we are starting to see a little bit of that flattening of the curve. I think that has to do with the great work that every american is doing to implement 30 days to slow the spread. Those actions that we are taking to not go out and to be socially distant, tuesday 6 feet away from people, all of that is starting to have an impact but it doesnt mean that we should stop. We need to continue to do those things that we can get through this quicker. Ed we noted at the top you been providing in the last week or so 34 million in money to get support to Health Care Workers but House Democrats released a report that you only sent about 1 of the 3. 5 billion masks that you said were needed out there to people who really needed them in the states, the medical workers. In states with vermont with a very small population are getting a similar amount of supplies and states like texas which needs much more of these medical supplies. Whats going wrong with that . Fema has actually set up a system where they can see supplies and where they are throughout the entire United States. They are also bringing in supplies from overseas. We are seeing flights coming in every day with new equipment and we are also increasing the production. But to your specific question, what they are trying to do is make sure that those that need the supplies, have them. Theyve actually moved away from just sending supplies to the states, to actually send those supplies out to people on the front line. Ed i hate to interrupt but senator mcconnell is speaking on the senate floor. We will get back to you in a moment. Those who have lost their jobs and only the last three weeks. A tragedy that is even hard to comprehend. As one journalist put it, we are facing a Health Care Crisis with an economic crisis strapped to its back. Thats why two weeks ago the Senate Passed the largest rescue package in american history. The bipartisan care is act put more than 2 million into both programs to help hospitals, Health Care Providers and key paychecks coming. Before we adjourned, i said the senate would stay nimble and prepared to react quickly as the legislation came online. Thats why we are here today. Much of the care is act is still being incremented but one key program, one key program is already up and running. Its the Paycheck Protection Program from chairman rubio, chairman collins, and it gives Small Businesses emergency capital so that workers can keep getting paychecks instead of pink slips. Just a few days after the program open for business, 100 billion in loans had already been committed. Thats 30 of the total funding spoken for in just the first few days. I would say thats very good news. It means this job saving program is attractive to Small Businesses. Employers can access it. But it also means we need more funding and we need it fast. Soon, i will ask unanimous consent to increase the funding for the Paycheck Protection Program to a new total of 600 billion. Im not talking about changing any policy language because both sides have already negotiated together several weeks ago. I am literally talking about deleting the number 350 and writing 600 in its place. Let me say that again. We are not talking about making any policy changes, we are changing the number 350, 2600. Thats all that we are suggesting here today. That, by definition, is a clean bill. I want to add more money to the only part of our bipartisan bill that is currently at risk of running out of money. So i was surprised to see the simple proposal met uneasily by the democratic leadership. The distinguished democratic leader and speaker of the house ought to use this Crucial Program to open broader negotiations on other topics including parts of the care is act where literally, literally no money has gone out the door yet. No money has gone out the door yet. The democratic leadership has suggested they may hold paychecks hostage unless we pass another sweeping bill that spends half a trillion dollars doubling down on a number of parts of the care is act including parts that have not even started to work yet. A country cannot afford unnecessary wrangling or political maneuvering. Treating this as a normal kind of partisan negotiation could literally cost america sandra you been listening to Mitch Mcconnell on the senate floor speaking to an empty chamber, wanting to increase lending from 350 billion, 26 billion. Trying to get approval for an additional loan for those Small Businesses. You can continue to watch the majority leader on fox business network. We will bring seema verma back from cms. She joined us before senator mcconnell started speaking. If i could circle back on where i left off on medical supplies both protection for our Frontline Workers and what is necessary to treat people and save lives. As we know, some new hot spots may be emerging in the country and we talked to dr. Fauci on this program yesterday about that. Can you assure the American People who may be in some of those cases like colorado, pennsylvania, and washington, d. C. , and some areas on the west coast, that they will be getting what they need in the hospitals there to fight this. Thats exactly whats going on. Fema is working with dr. Birx was very involved with the models and tracking with this virus is moving. So fema makes their allocations of supplies based on data so we know where we are seeing new cases and where we may have an increase, and trying to match that up with how we allocate supplies. Sandra so what are you seeing as far as those in hot spots that are emerging when you look at those models . We know this epidemic is moving differently in different areas. We are a big country just like europe and we have spain and italy and thats exactly whats going on in this country. Obviously weve seen a Significant Impact in new york but we are also seen some emerging areas. I think philadelphia has had a lot of new cases and there are some areas in texas we are concerned about. We continue to monitor the number of new cases every day. Whats really important is the recommendations that weve been giving on 30 days to slow the spread. We are also seeing hope and we are seeing some evidence that those efforts are working in communities. California and Washington State have done a really great job with this and we are seeing some where the number of cases is decreasing or leveling out in those places because of all the great work they have done around implementing 30 days to slow the spread. Ed madame administrator, theres a story in axios this morning and there are members of the Health Department saying its flat out ridiculous to talk about reopening parts of the economy until we have a better idea, a better handle on this virus despite the optimism. Meanwhile there are other officials who are saying that may 1st may be the new target date to start getting the economy up and running. Do you think may 1st is a reasonable date . I think the task force has been committed to making datadriven decisions. We are telling the American People, lets all follow 30 days to slow the spread so we can get through this quicker. May 1st, obviously weve hoped that would come but i think its too early to identify a specific date. That being said the president has been very clear that he wants us to get through this as quickly as possible and we are starting to think about what types of things we would need to have in place in order to reopen. We are looking at the data as well. At the end of the day we want to make datadriven decisions that we know americans can be safe. Sandra a final question on telehealth. I know this is a huge part of what you are working on right now. You and the Surgeon General penned a piece published in the Orlando Sentinel about Medicare Beneficiaries and how this has been a game changer throughout this pandemic. Where do we stand as far as telehealth and being able to tap that as a major resource to carry us through this . Final thoughts. I think the efforts the president has taken around telehealth have been transformative. We know our Medicare Beneficiaries still need of health care services. They may just have asthma or diabetes or heart disease, something that doesnt have anything to do with the coronavirus and they still need medical care and they can now access the services from the safety of their home. It has been a game changer. We see an incredible response from the health care community, quickly standing up these telehealth services. Another thing to remember is there is no copay associated so theres no barrier for the medicare recipients if they want to use the service. Ed we certainly appreciate your time, thank you for coming in. Sandra now to capitol hill as the push to help Small Businesses continues. Right now Mitch Mcconnell as you saw a short time ago trying to quickly approve that additional 251 billion to the Paycheck Protection Program. Senator john kennedy saying it cant come a moment too soon. The Small Business program we know is working and thats where we ought to concentrate our firepower. We have waterboarded the American Economy and we have to stand it back up. Until we can do that, we have got to get some money to the American People and as to the business community. Sandra senator kennedy on that. Chad pergram is tracking them for us this morning. Hey, chad. Hey there. This was supposed to be up whats called a pro forma session with us senate gavels in and gavels out and what Mitch Mcconnell is trying to do is get unanimous consent where all senators are in agreement and push through this additional 250 251 billion for Small Businesses. Steven mnuchin says that fund that is was already approved about a week and a half ago is already running died. Drive. The problem. Most democrats from maryland are on the floor and they have another proposal which they are going to propound which would try to direct about half of this money toward communitybased banks and also get money into the minority communities, tribal areas and also additional money for hospitals. Even if they were to get this to the senate today which we dont think will happen in the next couple of meant months, it would have a shoe the house of representatives. People who are under banked or unserved on that basis, so they dont have a banking relationship. So we said for the next 250 we really need to have a percentage of that, 60 billion that will go toward something called a Community Development or financial institution. Or something that Mitch Mcconnell set them a few months ago. He said he surprised to see the unease in his term. He said we need to patch holes and move together and he said this does not have to be contentious but you see that it is. They probably wont get that this through the senate and then have republicans blocked this to the house of representatives plan tomorrow. A couple weeks ago Anthony Fauci said the virus makes the timeline. While getting consensus on capitol hill, its combined with a timeline here. This sets the stage for the phase for bill which people have all sorts of ideas on what they want to do and thats why we dont think they were are going to tackle that may be until early may. Sandra . Sandra all right, chad pergram on that. Thank you, chad. Ed a fox news alert now, while street pushing ever higher struggling after a week of bad losses. The stimulus will push the flood gates even, coming up. Fifty years ago, humpback whales were nearly extinct. They rebounded because a decision was made to protect them. Making the right decisions today for your longterm financial future can protect you and your family, and preserve your legacy. 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He got clobbered by joe biden, and that biden needs those voters and you just heard the strongest thing that Bernie Sanders could muster to say, and if joe biden tried to cater to burning and his movement, it could kill his candidacy. Sandra let me redo a statement. Bernie has done something rare in politics. And then he turns his attention to Bernie Sanders supporters and reached out to them writing th this. That might take time, but i want you to know that i see you and i hear you. You just heard Bernie Sanders call joe biden a very decent man. So will joe biden be able to reach out to Bernie Sanders supporters . Hes absolutely going to try. And even bernie dropping out. And this may be a much shorter campaign because its just going to be blotted out by the virus for months to come, it may be for a committed a lot of gaps and missteps during the primary, although he won. Maybe that works to his advantage in the end. Sandra it very interesting. So how does the trump biden fight ultimately shape up as we walk our way through november . Right now joe biden doesnt have the ability to make much difference. And we look to the conventions but youve heard biden say in recent days, it may be the Democratic Convention already delayed until august will be a virtual convention. If thats the case probably the Republican Convention mix would be the same. Thats in terms of 15,000 journalists going to milwaukee, and President Trump doesnt need the convention that much. Joe biden needs to generate some excitement and that will be doubly hard if there is no physical convention in milwaukee and its just like another web tv show. Sandra right. After suspending his campaign, and he said that. I hope to be able to work with joe to move him in a more progressive direction. In order to defeat trump, it has to happen and bring new people into his political world, then he has to listen to their needs. Young people and working people. To make it clear hes going to try to push joe biden to the left. Final thoughts . Absolutely true. The good news for democrats is burning is not fighting through june as he did in 2016 through hillary clinton. Biden has to figure out a way to get bernies voters excited. It may just be a populace that is so left wing. All right, howie kurtz, good to see you. Always good to get a view in peoples homes and offices. A lot of nice cartoons on the wall as well. Its a mixed picture and one coronavirus hot spot and deaths are surging right now in louisiana even amid a glimmer of good news. A closer look at the pandemic on the ground here. My Psoriatic Arthritis pain . I had enough its not getting in my way. Joint pain, swelling, tenderness. Much better. My psoriasis, clearer. Cosentyx works on all of this. Four years and counting. So watch out. I got this watch me. Real people with active Psoriatic Arthritis are feeling real relief with cosentyx. 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I think we probably are heading in a better direction with a lower trajectory and we are starting to flatten the curve, but we cant be sure yet. So encouraging and imploring everybody to make sure that you continue to comply with the stayathome order. Ed that is louisiana Governor John Bel Edwards urging people to stay the course on slowing down the spread of coronavirus. Confirmed infections in the state now above 17,000. Theyve also had at least 652 deaths. Despite this, there are signs on the ground but the strategy to battle the outbreak may be succeeding. Joining me now is Warner Thomas and that is louisianas largest nonprofit Academic Health syst system. Warner, we appreciate you coming in. Thank you, its great to be with you. Ed its great to hear you talk about what you are sitting on the ground in terms of the balance of the governor is talking about. We see that here in new york where the governor has said deaths have been spiking but hospitalizations are coming down and we are seeing light at the end of the tunnel. I would agree, i think we are seeing the same thing here in louisiana since the governor and the mayor puts shelter in place orders in place a couple of weeks ago. We certainly have seen a flattening of the curve over the past several days, weve seen a slight decrease just today and cases. So we certainly are heading in the right direction. Ed are hospitalizations coming down along with that . We have seen that in new york and some other places as well in terms of the number of people being admitted at the same time that the number of people being released from hospitals with positive results in terms of, that they are getting better, thats on the rise . Yes. I would say that our cases coming into the hospital are relatively flat. I think a real positive as of this morning we have now discharged 930 patients who were covid19 positives, are discharged home. We are seeing a gig lower utilization of ventilators in icus and more people being extubated and coming off of the ventilator and going back to the medical surgical unit. We are definitely seeing an improvement in the outcome of how patients are fighting the virus. Ed that certainly sounds like good news and it we hope it holds because in various places around the country, nobody wants to get ahead of themselves. The governor though when you mention ventilators several days back, suggested the state was about to run out of ventilators and needed more. I know the federal government was trying to help. Whats the situation with ventilators . I think the governor has done a great job getting ventilators to louisiana. If you go back seven or eight days ago we continue to see an escalation of cases and no one could predict at that point in time where that was going to hit so i think the governor was being very proactive to have more ventilators come to louisiana and more of those ventilators came here as well. Today we are in good shape from a ventilator perspective and we are actually seeing a reduction in ventilator use. So i think today we are in good shape especially with the flattening of the curve here in normans. Ed how has the coordination been with the federal government . Coordination has been great. Then last friday we actually received from the federal government, we were getting short of surgical gowns and we received 230,000 surgical gowns i came from the federal government. If President Trump was involved with that as well as folks in the white house so i think we have seen good coordination with our Government Entities as weve gone through this process. Ed we are seeing some video there of that Health Care Workers you just referred to in terms of getting gowns and gloves and respirator masks. What is the situation in terms of folks who were on the front lines of this hour . That was a problem in a lot of states including louisiana, talk about those important medical supplies. I would say that we got ahead of the game early on. We started working with local companies to manufacture hand sanitizer, to start manufacturing surgical gowns and masks and actually face shields. We 3d printed a face shield and have that done as a prototype with our Innovation Company and then our supply chain folks worked with local companies to produce those face shields and weve done the same thing with gowns and masks. We also have had Companies Look all over the world and although there have been days that have been challenging, generally weve been in really good shape from personal protective equipment and are First Priority is protecting your patients enter Health Care Workers. At the very challenging time and a very difficult time in rico, i can tell you the stress is high but knowing they have the right equipment and right protection helps people taking care of patients every day. Sipping on a challenging time sounds like an understatement but it sounds like you and others in the louisiana have been doing a lot to flatten that curve. As you mentioned, it sounds like some good news is starting to come out of the state and we certainly hope that continues. Warner thomas, thanks for coming in. Thank you very much and have a great day. Sandra the covid19 pandemic putting farmers across america on edge. The demand for produce disappearing overnight at schools and restaurants shut down. Food is going to waste and time is running out. You know, we have a lot of cheese and storage and the cheese processors are not able to run anything because there is no demand for it right now. Sandra Steve Harrigan has been following this story and he is live in atlanta this morning. Hey, steve. Sandra, here in georgia and across the country we are seeing the same picture. Farmers markets have simply vanished overnight. A lot of the farmers here automatically so most of their products to schools which are shut down, restaurants that are shut down into the Food Service Industry which is also largely shut down. When you talk to georgia agricultural officials here they use i worried that they very rarely use when talking about farmers. Desperation. I get the question, what do i do . How do i pay my bills . How do i send my child to scho school . Dairy farmers have been hit particularly hard. One Georgia Farmer here had to dump 24,000 gallons of milk just last week, and from new york to georgia, they are dumping milk. Very tough scenes to see. Here in georgia, the strawberry crop is about to ripen and they have been hit hard. We spent the day visiting with a farmer about his crops and he said orders are down 90 which means farmers have to do what farmers hate to do and thats turn his back on a perfectly good crop and let it rot in the field. When you have to put turn your back to something you put so much effort and money into, i hate to say it but it feels like somebody died. The Eccles Family ministries survived the spanish flu and they will somehow with some creativity survive this virus as well. Sandra thank you, steve harris in atlanta. Ed fox news alert from wall street. Stocks are still surging at this hour, picking up where they left off yesterday. Whats fueling the rally, and we will get into that next. 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Looking at the numbers over at fbn they are saying the dow could see its best week since 1938 if it stays on this track. Thats quite a rally. Because the market is always forwardlooking and its looking at the future as better than the recent past. Now having said that the recent past looks pretty bad, we had a jobs number, that was a million more. A jobs lost number that was a million worse than we expected, 6. 6 Million People filed for unemployment last week. You add that onto the previous two weeks and that 16. 78 million workers having applied for unemployment. Thats onetenth of the entire workforce in the United States which is about 160 million. Now that could actually increase another three times as a result of all the jobless claims coming in over the next couple of weeks. That would be onethird of the workforce. But again because of the Government Program that gives help to businesses who continue to keep people on the payroll, that is seen to be temporary. The government Just Announced that the senate wants to put in another 250 billion to the 350 billion ppp program, the payment protection plan, which would give loans that would turn into grants if people kept folks on the payroll. That would be a total of 600 billion and an enormous help for the Small Business and the economy. The idea is once we come off of the shutdown of the economy, we will be in good shape. The other thing i have to emphasize without getting political, we have a president who comes from the private sector and thats a very fortunate thing right now because he understands, unlike a lot of people in the political culture of washington, he understands what businesses needs need as incentives to grow. And to get back into business after they pulled out of it. And he surrounded himself by other people who have experience in the workforce. We are fortunate that the people who are planning a lot of this know a lot about what the private sector needs to get these businesses going again. We will need a big boost and we got it not only from the federal government but also from the Federal Reserve. They announced another 2. 3 trillion package today, the Federal Reserve, in which they are going to buy up a lot of bonds that corporations issue including some what used to be called junk bonds, high interest bonds. They are all in. The only thing the fed hasnt done is bought stocks but the idea is this country in three weeks or another month or however long it is will be ready to go. Sandra but in the meantime one of the big factors will be getting that stimulus cash into the hands of the American People, particularly those who are struggling the most. Theres a big question over what happens when those checks do go out. People deposit them and hopefully it helps keep them and their family afloat. Whether or not you will owe taxes on the stimulus check. Whats the answer to that . The answer is no, you do not owe taxes. Even if you make more money at the end of 2020 than you did in 2019, he will not owe taxes on that stimulus check. The problem with the stimulus check is how long some of them might take to get to you. Some of some people who have direct deposit for the tax refunds are lucky, they will get there stimulus in their Checking Account pretty soon. Other folks like me, all of my tax refunds come in the mail in check form. Im kind of oldfashioned. The problem with that is we wouldnt begin to see those checks come out until the end of this month. So if you dont have direct deposit you will have to wait a couple more weeks in order to get those checks. But a stern warning to folks who might get calls from people claiming to be with the irs. The irs will never call you to ask for banking information from you. If you get one of those phone calls, its a scam. Do not answer it and do not give them any information about your Social Security number or your banking information. None of that. The irs is not going to call you to ask for your banking information. Dont do that. Sandra thats a good warning because weve already been reading reports about some of those scams that have been developing out there. David, we will see you later today on the fox business network. The dow was up 500 points now. Ed as First Responders help fight the coronavirus, they are putting their own health at risk. More on how Big Companies are lending a helping hand to those on the front lines. We have a live report, that is next. Im your mother in law. And i like to question your every move. Like this left turn. Its the next one. You always drive this slow . How did you make someone i love . That must be why youre always so late. I do not speed. And thats saving me cash with drivewise. [mayhem] you always drive like an old lady . [tina] youre an old lady. 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Plus slowed or shuttered multiple and countless numbers of businesses. But some have found productive ways to shift gears and keep productivity going and help their fellow americans. In hialeah florida, for the past 50 years, faulkner inc. Has been all about plastics. Its a Family Business making customized plastic sheets, rods and tubes. But now the crew there are making face shields which are going up to hospitals, doctors, nurses and First Responders. The owner says he is now running three shifts around the clock as business has tripled. Balancing the fact that we are providing essential equipment with the fact that we have an obligation to keep people safe. So doubling down and finding her own masks and sanitizers and washing protocols and 6foot distance workstations has been a challenge, too. Across the country more than 600 distillers have from bottling boost to bottling high alcohol content sanitizers which includes florida. This jacksonville bacardi plant has already distributed close to 150,000 bottles of the german killers and bacardi is donating them free of charge to cops, firefighters and hospitals. Its just an amazing feeling. You look at what we are doing as an industry, and take the competition aside, we are all striving for one goal right now and that is really to give back to our communities and help those in need. Grad School Students at Florida International university are also using a 3d printer to make face shields. Its all critically important at this time of coronavirus and understandably, rewarding for all of these employees. Theyve got some positive rewards helping all this First Responders, doctors and nurses out there. Ed its fantastic to see so Many Americans coming together. Im phil keating, thank you. Sandra fox news alert now, new york, the epicenter of the coronavirus outbreak. And just moments we will be hearing on getting an update from new york Governor Andrew Cuomo. 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Because of the corona virus and so many things are going on in the world today theres much that we could be worried about today. But were not, because we have learned to allow our heart to rest in god. The bible says he will keep us at Perfect Peace if we will keep our mind stayed on him. Yes, you must be aware of the times and yes you must be aware of the news and yes we must be aware even of what our physicians are telling us. But we can not allow any voice to be louder than the voice of god in our spirit, and in our lives. And that is the voice that spoke to the winds and the waves and said peace be still. I pray you will allow that peace to saturate your soul and slay the wind that would assault your mind. vo was that a pivotal historical moment we just went stumbling past . Here we are dancing in the rumbling dark so come a little closer give me something to grasp give me your beautiful, crumbling heart were working every dread day that is given us feeling like the person people meet really isnt us like were going to buckle underneath the trouble like any minute now the struggles going to finish us and then we smile at all our friends even when im weak and im breaking ill stand weeping at the train station cause i can see your faces there is so much peace to be found in peoples faces. I love peoples faces. Ed a fox news alert, a key corona spire projecting far fewer deaths than originally anticipated. Welcome to a brandnew hour of americas newsroom. I met henry. Good morning, sandra. Sandra good thursday morning to you ada, and the death toll does near 15,000 now, mike pence telling sean hannity of the agency has a lot to answer for. This is a president who believes in accountability, and the american taxpayers provide tens of millions of dollars to the World Health Organization. I suspect it will continue to do that but that doesnt mean that at the right time of the future we are going to ask the tough questions about how the World Health Organization could of been so wrong. We begin at the white house with Kristin Fisher. Good morning, kristen. Good morning ada. After President Trump said he was considering freezing funding to the World Health Organization, the director said if you dont want more body bags and stop politicizing it. That did not sit well with republican senator tom cotton. Im disgusted by that kind of and thats why dr. Tedros needs to be fired and preclude be investigated to find out just how deeply in chinas pocket he is. Remember nine days in the Briefing Room that anticipating between 201 has a revised assessment to about 60,000. That has dramatically increased the chatter among Administration Officials about when to restart the economy. Early this morning, treasury secretary Steven Mnuchin was on another network and he was asked, do you think the United States will be back open for business next month, in the month of me . And he said yes. I think as soon as the president feels comfortable with the medical issues, we are making everything necessary that American Workers and American Companies can be open for business and that they have the liquidity they need to operate a business in the interim. He set i dont want to give an answer about a specific timetable and he refused to go into specifics. He did caution against a false start of reopening the economy only to have to close it back up due to a spike in cases. Thats one thing we will absently have to avoid. A balance that we are hoping will be struck. Sandra thank you, kristin. Meanwhile, new york is seen sense of improvement as the state still leads infection and death. They said we have had a Record Number of deaths. I went through 9 11 and i thought of my lifetime i wouldnt have to see anything like that again. That this should literally eclipse that in terms of numbers of dead in this state. Thats almost unimaginable. To me. Sandra David Lee Miller is with us this morning outside of mount sinai hospital. Sandra, anecdotally, many have said we may have had the virus months ago, long before the country was shut down. They said the virus was in new york city earlier than previously thought, circulating as early as late january. Researchers have written a study saying initial cases came primarily from travelers arriving from europe although origins of the virus can be traced back to china. U. S. Restrictions for travelers for most of europe were not put in place until march. A researcher says the findings underscore the need for early and continue to project testing to identify untracked transmission clusters in the community. State why does there were a Record Number of daily fatalities, 779, but hospitalizations continue to drop. Mayor bill de blasio says science shows that the spread of the virus is slowing. He told new yorkers dont count your chickens before they hatch, but he described hope for the future. It may be easier than i originally feared it would be and i wanted to be easier for all of us. But i think the way to think about this is, april and may are when we have to win this phase. We have to push back this disease and we have to open that door to the next phase where things get better. Governor murphy who toured a Convention Center has ordered all customers, employees and essential businesses to wear face coverings. The Maximum Capacity of source has been cut in half and he has also ordered a halt to know all nonessential construction. And in new jersey airborne drones are blurring the message from the citys mayor reminding people to practice social distancing. Officials there say those drones are not going to be used for spying on residents. And lastly, why was this passover different from all packed previous passover is . Well, it was observed on the internet. Tuesday, over new york city and really throughout the world celebrated the passover seder, the customary meal, virtually, do not violate rules on social distancing. Hopefully next year it will be back to normal. Sandra David Lee Miller in new york city this morning, thank you. Ed the cdc director saying essential employees exposed to coronavirus can return to work after quarantine but they must take precautions like taking the temperature daily and wearing a face mask. We really looked a at the essential work force and how to maintain that workforce, particularly at this time, as we begin to get ready to reopen and have confidence in bringing our law workforce is so we put out new guidance for essential Health Care Workers who have been exposed to the coronavirus. Ed dr. Nicole saphier is a fox news contributor. She joins us this morning. Good morning, doctor. I want to get to that guidance in a moment but i wanted to start big picture. We just had an interview or a short time ago with a Health Care Leader on the ground in louisiana who is saying much of what we heard here in new york, that tragically there has been a horrible spike in the number of deaths but they are seeing the number of hospitalizations come down sharply as well. And they are seeing light at the end of the tunnel. Talk about the significance into states like louisiana and new york where we have been searching for some good news. Louisiana and new york have some of the highest cases in the country and its really hard to sift through the information that we keep being given on a daily basis. On one hand it you hear hospitalizations are down but on the other hand you hear Governor Cuomo saying there are so many deaths, a lot of people dont understand how those tied together. Here it is. Covid19 is not like a common cold that you have are for a couple days and then you are over it. For the people who are being hospitalized or in the icu with covid19, they are there from one through three or even four weeks. The people that are dying right now, the numbers weve heard about, theyd likely been in the hospital for weeks, meaning they were exposed to the virus before a lot of the stay at orders and before a lot of the social distancing measures took effect. Thats why we are seeing fewer people going into the hospital now because we have fewer new infections which tells us that everything we are doing right now is working. It is so painful to be home right now especially during this holy week, but these numbers are telling us that its working. One of the problems that louisiana is saying is, louisiana has a different demographic population then elsewhere in the country. Their obesity rates are higher and they also have higher chronic illness, diabetes, cardiovascular and chronic lung disease. So they are seeing a higher case fatality rate. They are seeing lots of people die. Im so happy to hear that they have fewer new cases because thats a vulnerable population. Their Health System has ramped up a lot since Hurricane Katrina but the Overall Health of that area still remains more poor than other places in the count country. Ed absolutely, so some signs of hope there. Lets talk about new guidance from the cdc. Heres the Surgeon General Surgeon General this morning on fox friends. The cdc actually determined if it would be safer these people to go back to work and they said we feel its safe to go back to work and essential businesses if you take your temperature, if you wear a face mask at all times. If you still practice social distancing. In this applies to essential workers because if everyone goes back to work then it will be impossible to social distance. Ed its will talk about that in the guidance of the transition of the economy that we wont just see around the countrthere but the entire coun. We heard from mike pence last night and he said we live with the president who holds people accountable for their actions and with these new cdc recommendations, right now whats happening, if you had a Health Care Worker or Frontline Worker who was exposed to someone, within 6 feet of someone who tested positive, then they were having to self quarantine whether or not the demonstrated symptoms. Now, they are saying we acknowledge that there is a symptomatic spread and we acknowledge this is a highly contagious virus but we will put the personal responsibility back on you. If you take these appropriate measures, you can get back to work because thats not only better for you but better for the economy. You have to wear a mask going back to work and still practice social distancing. We are going to be hanging out in break rooms or having high fives in the hallway, still maintaining social distancing practices but going back to work. It is also recommending taking temperatures just so you can have an idea if your temperature is increasing. They also recommended perhaps the employers are monitoring their employees temperature is. Im not sure how that will play out and i dont know if outside of a Health Care Setting that will work. But this i think is a very first step of opening up our economy again, getting people back to work. If the Health Care Workers and frontline people can demonstrate that they can do this and this is effective and we are not going to see a spike in the number, there is no reason we cant start opening up other businesses by adhering to the same measures. Ed last thing i wanted to get to come on one hand that the treasury secretary thing may be may 1st is a reasonable idea where we can get things going again but the fed chairman is saying, i dont disagree with that. But you have to be careful about a socalled false start where you open things up and then god forbid, theres another health outbreak. Listen, ada. The first thing we could do is jump, dive in the deep end, then open everything up and have another spike and close things down again. We do need to get things open and get people back to work, but we need to do it in a very smart manner and a safe manner. I hate when people say, by may 1st or april 15th or easter because that gives you such a finality, such a deadline. I just set you up for failure or false sense of hope. The bottom line is this new cdc recommendation to get the Health Care Workers, thats a first step in opening up businesses. I would be surprised if you saw that expanded to other Small Businesses. I will say one of the reasons that new york and louisiana have some of the highest cases right now is because they are doing some of the best reporting when it comes to new cases as well as reporting deaths and they are also doing a lot more testing than the rest of the country. So we have to be careful. The virus is everywhere so we all want to take proper precautions and we want to be smart about it but i truly believe the cdc recommendation is the first step to getting us open again. I hope we start opening up things before may 1st. It wouldnt be surprised if it opens up before or after but the time is now to start doing it. Ed very careful, and one step at a time. Dr. Nicole saphier, we appreciate it. Sandra there are glimmers of hope in maryland where officials they are curve is flattening, as the state takes new measures to enforce social distancing. We will speak to governor larry hogan on what exactly those measures are. Plus, catering giant Jeffrey Selden on his efforts to deliver fresh meals to frontline medical workers. And that new unemployment numbers are out this morning showing that one in ten americans have lost their jobs and this pandemic. We will break down those numbers for you, next. President trump as we continue to wage allout medical war to defeat the virus, we are also fighting an economic war to ensure that we can quickly turn to full financial strength. We have to get our country back. Did you know prilosec otc can stop frequent heartburn before it begins . Heartburn happens when stomach acid refluxes into the esophagus. Prilosec otc uses a unique delayedrelease formula that helps it pass through the tough stomach acid. 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The Labor Department releasing your numbers today showing 6. 6 Million People filed for Unemployment Benefits last week. It was more than expected. There have been more than 16 million jobless claims filed in the last three weeks. Sandra, when you look at the dow which is up about 300 points right now, its interesting because when you were talking to david asman about the idea that as awful as these numbers are a come of the market sort have baked this in knowing that it was coming and hoping that there is some light at the end of the tunnel, if you will. You had this treasury secretary out there today saying maybe in may that things are back open. Sandra that obviously moved markets. We are offed to the highest of the session as you can see, the green shaded area the graph shows we were much higher earlier in the day. Markets have an idea of what to do, when things will be open and obviously the consumer is hardhit, still waiting for those checks to go out in the mail or direct deposit and thats going to make a big difference. But these are still staggering numbers on the economy, theres no doubt. A lot of speculation and a lot of the, i guess you could say measurement on where this market goes next is when this economy can get back up and running again. So thats of a question. Hopeful signs indeed. I was talking to a Restaurant Owner who said that two of his owners who owned restaurants yesterday handed their kids over to the landlord saying they wouldnt be able to go forward. And you are seeing that in communities around the country. Sandra absolutely. 6. 6 million jobless claims filed last week and that makes three weeks of a hardhit economy. Meanwhile, feeding workers on the front lines of this pandemic. One Catering Company that usually serves up weddings and events is now delivering hundreds of me also Health Care Workers instead. Joining us now is International Caterers Association President and owner of Marcia Selden catering, Jeffrey Selden. Good morning. Thanks for being here. You are so wellknown in the restaurant and the wedding industry, i know that you have been hardhit and you have seen the rest of that sector hardhit. What inspired you to go out and deliver meals to those working on the front lines . Well immediately after this whole epidemic hit, we did end up going into a pet commode with our business. And a friend of ours who started something called food for the front lines started this concept of giving back to the community to help the local caterers and restaurants. It delivered hundreds of meals through private funding on a gofundme page to all the different hospitals in our area and it has been so successful. Its just such a feelgood moment for so many of us on all the hospital workers weve been able to feed. Sandra thats a great way to focus your energy and to get your mind off of whats happening. In your business sector, you look at the wedding Service Industry and this is a 74 billion industry. We dug up some of the numbers here and the number of businesses that cater to the wedding industry, it tops 400,000. You can imagine just how hardhit that is, and the workers in that industry, more than 1. 2 million. So what happens in this environment when obviously in the era of social distancing, all these weddings have had to be canceled and postponed . The messaging that we are putting forth to all of our clients and many of the caterers at the International Caterers Association Art really messaging us to postpone or cancel. We know that people are going to want to party when this is all done and we are through this. And just really getting us through this. You know, a lot of the education that we are teaching other caterers in our industry is all about how to get through this together as a group. Sandra and jeffrey, while youve been speaking weve been showing images of you at the other workers out there delivering those meals to our Frontline Workers. Thats something that i am very thankful for. Sandra okay, take care. Ed in the meantime the city of detroit oak hot spot for covid19 that with more infections than 37 states. A highlight on whats been done to curb the spread there. In maryland there is optimism that the state could reach the peak of its outbreak. The governor, larry hogan, joins us on what his state is doing to flatten the curve, next. We have succeeded in convincing the Trump Administration to designate the greater baltimorewashington corridor as a priority. As hot spots, which demand urgent federal attention. The time to call newday usa. 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Governor whitmer is expected to announce the extension of the stayathome order as the number of cases in michigan has crossed the 20,000 mark on the number of dead at last official tally was nearing 1,000. That puts michigan as the third most severe state in the nation. Most of the cases cluster in the Population Center of detroit, where you mentioned it nearly 6,000 cases in this city outpaces now 37 states. Tests are being done on seniors and staff at nursing homes. There are indications that people are taking it seriously, staying home, and its working. But something the detroit mayor is worried about is a forecast for warm and sunny day. Do we care enough about each other that one is 67 degrees and sunny we dont go and gather together and to give this virus new energy . Now our fox affiliate in detroit reports that some nurses at sinai grace hospitals in detroit were sent home after refusing to work. They complained about understaffing, dangerous conditions and not enough protective gear . The Henry Ford Hospital had six staffers test positive for the coronavirus and the beaumont Health Care System said 38,000 of their Staff Members called in sick with corona symptoms. The staff at beaumont says at the moment they are keeping up with the volume but if the numbers spike they will not be able to keep up with the volume. The army corps of engineers is converting to Convention Centers, one in detroit and one in field hospitals. Sandra mike tobin reporting on detroit for us. Ed fox news alert, maryland says maryland currently has more than 5500 cases and more than 120 deaths. Joining me now, the governor of maryland, larry hogan. Governor, good morning to you. Good morning, eddie. Ed you will have to forgive me, Governor Cuomo may be having a press conference in a few moments. Youve gotten high marks for what youve done on the ground and you acted early and tried to deal with this. Tell me what happened at this hour in your state. Are numbers continue to cli climb, we took aggressive and early action in our state and we are hoping to lessen the problems here. But in the baltimore and Washington Court or we are now at about 12,000 and probably about fifth or sixth in the nation. We have about 5 Million People in between those two cities and our numbers continue to rise fairly rapidly, not the kind of situation you have a new york. Its an area that now you have the federal government focus on as the washington and metropolitan area all the way through baltimore. Our state has a pretty good Population Center there surrounding those two cities where we got issues and its growing rapidly. Ed what are you seeing in terms of hospitalizations . They are going through what you are going through now a few days ago or a week ago and they are now seeing hospitalizations and new patients going into the hospital and coming down. Are you lagging behind them where hospitalizations are still going up . So we are maybe ten days2 weeks behind new york and louisiana but we are hoping to not nearly be as bad because we took actions several weeks earlier than they did. I was the first governor in america to declare the state of emergency and one of the first or second to close all of the schools statewide. Weve been really aggressive for the past 35 days and we are hoping that that will dampen some of these numbers but we are definitely at the beginning of the climb as opposed to sort of at the apex where we believe they are and they are hopefully starting to flatten out. We are hoping our climb isnt as steep but we are still a couple of weeks away, ten or 14 days from reaching the top. Ed got it. What about the Health Care Workers on the front lines . Theyve been doing heroic deeds come after they have the gear they need in their state . They are just incredible putting their lives on the line for the rest of us and my heart and my appreciation goes out to them. We are doing everything we possibly can to get them the protective equipment that they need to come up the mask, the shields and the gowns. But its a difficult situation we are all dealing with and every one of our states and we are working with our federal partners and each of the states as being as aggressive as we can to help our hospitals and Hospital Systems get the things that we need to those hot Health Care Workers on the front lines. Ed last question in terms of figuring out the schools moving forward, some governors have said they are probably done for the entire year and others saying they are hoping to get some school time back. I have to admit i have a conflict of interest here because my daughter wants to know if you can help with her homework. But in all seriousness, whats happening on the ground . Id be happy to help her with her homework a little bit. [laughs] schools usually are ending here in the middle of june and we will wait and see over the next couple of weeks exactly where we are and how much we are able to flatten the curve and what happens. The School Superintendent is working with all of our 24 local superintendents to try to make those decisions and in the meantime they are trying to do Distance Learning as much as possible online and sending homeschool plans. We would love to get them back open but we dont want to do that if its not safe. Ed ive been getting the emails and youve been getting laptops to those who need them. I know its been a lot of rough days but you are dealing with a Monumental Task and it doing it well. Good luck in the days ahead. Sandra the shutdown of a businesses nationwide is leaving fields full of produce. How farmers are coping with this shutdown. Loss of product. Sandra an update from Governor Andrew Cuomo who is now speaking. I know it feels like a lifetime, i tell my daughters every day that its only been 18 days since everything closed down. Its only been 13 days since the first covid19 case in new york, feels like a lifetime. Its been 80 days since we had the first case in the United States. Its been an intense, lifechanging 80 days but thats what it has been. When we started this situation that we are still in the midst of, before people get complacent, the end of march, the White House Task force in the Coronavirus Task force is still talking about 1. 5 1. 52. 2 million deaths. The bestcase scenario with mitigation efforts was 100240000 deaths in the United States which is breathtaking. For new york there were a number of models that were put out that we are following. The most frightening was Columbia University, that said we could have 136,000 people. In new york city only, who would be hospitalized, not infected. We had the mckenzie model, with suggested at 110,000 people could be hospitalized statewide. We had a second scenario for mckenzie which was 55,000 people hospitalized and then the gates foundation, thank you very much, funded the ih mb study which set a high point of 73,000 statewide. Any of these scenarios are devastating for new york. Because remember, we only have a 53,000 bed capacity system statewide. 36,000 beds in new york city. So any of these scenarios are problematic. Luckily, the current trend if it continues and if we continue the flattening of the curve, we are at about 18,000 people hospitalized right now. We have increased the capacity of the system dramatically. We have moved pieces around the state like never before. Our health cares system has done a phenomenal job in doing an insurmountable task. Our federal partners, the army corps of engineers, they have really all jo done a great, gret job. In our theory, my job as governor, prepare for the worse but hope for the best. But prepare for the worst. Now we are about a 90,000 bed capacity in our overall system today with all weve done. Even the 90,000 beds as you see doesnt compare with the most problematic scenarios. 90,000 beds, we can handle the mckenzie moderate scenario. We dont make the mckenzie severe scenario at 110,000. I believe that 90,000, we have a plan to get to 110, converting dormitories et cetera, but it would be a massive undertaking and a massive scramble. We do make that gates funded projection model. The Columbia University model we could never that would just be a nightmare and thats the one that keeps me up at night because you couldnt get anywhere near that projection. But all of the statisticians also said, look. We dont know how effective you can be at closing things down and social distancing because weve never done it before. But they all said thats the chance to socalled flatten the curve, if you actually got people to comply with all these measures, and we have never seen it done before in this country, and we dont know if you can do it. So that is the big if in the equation and remains the big if in the equation. You can flatten the curve, we are flattening the curve by what we are doing and we are flattening the curve so far. We should all be concerned, especially new yorkers. Well, we are flattening the curve, thats good news. It is good news. Well, now i can relax. No, you cant relax. Flattening of the curve last night happened because of what we did yesterday and the day before and the day before that. This is all a direct consequence to our actions. If we stop acting the way we are acting, you will see those numbers go up. I show the projection models because we cant handle the worstcase scenario. We cant even handle the moderate Case Scenarios with all we have done. So it is essential that we keep that curve flattened because we dont have an option of handling the curve if it goes higher. Ed youve been listening to the governor of new york, andrew cuomo, talking about what he referred to as 39 dramatic days since the first case of coronavirus here in new york. He reported, again, after several days, some Real Progress and decreases in the number of hospitalizations even though there has been a tragic increase in the number of deaths here in new york. He said amid this progress he wants to make sure that people do not pull back from social distancing, keep that progress Going Forward. We will stay on top of that and watch it. All the hardworking people working in food supply today, thank you. Thank you what you are doing for keeping those Grocery Store shelves stocked. Its been these baroque americans from the farm to the fork that made it possible for americans to have one less worry and they are truly inspiring heroes. Sandra Vice President mike pence praising american farmers. The closure of businesses and schools across the country has less left farmers with the surplus and no one to sell to. Dave pavia is the president and ceo of western growers. What are you seeing as far as the farming industry is concerned . While massive disruption for the reasons you just stated. When the restaurant shut down so did the entire food sector and with it 100 million meals per day stopped being served in those places that we all enjoy and that left farmers across the country in the lurch. They had product in the field or had just been harvested to, this is highly perishable, fruits and vegetables that cant keep and cant be diverted immediately to Grocery Stores, the infrastructure doesnt work that quickly. We had a lot of farmers that had to plow high quality food back into the ground or leave it in the ground and ive heard from farmers from florida to hawaii that its causing a lot of economic harm. Sandra i will read this from a fox business. Com headline although its an Associated Press article. Coronavirus kills florida crops and california pharmacy issues, too. Coronavirus has caused restaurants to shutter leaving too few buyers were fresh fruits and veggies. So this is the situation now but how do you plan for when the economy reopens and people start going out to eat again . Question is, when will the economy reopen, how quickly will it reopen and how many of those restaurants will come back . Farmers have to make planting decisions in california right now to be able to harvest crops in the summer and the fall which will supply our restaurants, universities, schools and our Grocery Stores but we have no certainty and no way of knowing what the demand will actually be or what the price will be and they could well flood the market of the air only remaining market, our Grocery Stores. That means a lot of product in one place. You flood the market and you end up with even more economic harm. Its highly uncertain and its really hard when you have a perishable crop that has to be anticipated 90 days or 120 days before harvest. Sandra when you talk to farmers, what is it what could help them out right now while we still havent seen the economy reopen . The last relief package that was passed, the 2 trillion package includes about 9. 5 billion for farmers and the livestock and Fresh Produce sectors as well as other food systems. We need the administration to ensure that Fresh Produce industry players, the farmers and the farmworkers and people in the Food Supply Chain are bridged during this period of time to stay afloat, just as we are all concerned about our restaurants as we should be, those are people we know and love. As well as a people who supply the restaurants, the workers on those firms who earn their living making sure they get fresh fruit to those restaurants. They are in harms way as well. So that 9. 5 billion that will be allocated, we need the produce industry and the farmers in that industry to see their share of that. Sandra really important that we look at all sides of the story, so many people and so many sectors affected greatly by all this. We appreciate your time this morning, thank you. We will check back in with you. Ed a california man also stepping up to help covid19 patients after recovering the from the virus himself. How hes turning his diagnosis into a positive experience for others, next. I think that early on, but now you are giving a plasma donation to help other critical need of patients, im glad that this turned into a positive thing. 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. 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Ed a man in california who was diagnosed with coronavirus and then beat it is now giving back, donating his plasma to help those who are currently battling the virus. Jason garcia is an Aerospace Engineer and recovery to covid19 patients. Good morning to you, how wonderful does not feel to be described as a recovered patient come first of all . It feels great to be recovered, awesome. Ed what about giving up back now, walk us through the process of donating plasma. What do the doctors tell you, whats involved and how many people may you be able to help . It felt great to have the opportunity to donate and the fact that my plasma to go out to three people and potentially save three peoples lives, so hearing that especially after getting the diagnosis you kind of have the dread, and all the negative things that associated with testing positive for a deadly disease to turn around and turn it into a lifesaving opportunity. If felt amazing and its really easy. Donating is pretty much like giving blood to, you just sit in the chair a little longer. Its a fact that something so simple can help a lot of families and a lot of people that are suffering right now, its a great feeling. Ed is one of the nurses who helped you out describing the process, and ill give you a chance to react. Im we able to extract plasma using a pheresis machine and then store that and then give it to another patient, so that they receive antibodies that will help them fight this disease. Ed how does that make you feel knowing others will be helped . Its amazing. It feels great. Ed now i understand your wife is in the military, and shes someone who is serving our country and you have a young child together. Service is obviously part of the family. Talk about her, she must have been worried about all you are going through. We can see your young family right there. And here she is. Active military duty, as a husband who is sick, but thankfully youve gotten better. You are not just helping other people, shes serving all of us. Yeah, and she did an amazing job, and isolation, leaving food out the door and taking care of me. Shes a trooper. Ed how she feeling now in terms of the relief, and obvious that your young daughter doesnt understand everything youve been through but talk about how this has maybe made the family stronger. Initially it was a shock, it surprised us. The chances of the time were very low and i wasnt traveling to any hot spots, so it was a shock to us. But i got over it quickly, it wasnt too bad. I had shortness of breath for a short amount of time but other than not i wasnt in any medical distress. The isolation was the hardest part especially with my 11monthold. She wanted to crawl and come see daddy. They had to pull her away from the door. That was the hardest part. Ed hopefully she gets a lot of time with daddy and mommy now in the days ahead. Jason garcia, we are glad you are back and healthy again and thats an inspiration to a lot of people whove been wondering about this. Sadly, we have lost so many others but you are back and helping others and thats really terrific. Thanks for coming on. Thank you. Sandra this pandemic is causing fears among pregnant women. Find out how hospitals are handling childbirth. Just because someone grows older does that mean they have to grow apart from their friends, or from the things they love to do . With right at home, it doesnt. Right at homes professional team thoughtfully selects caregivers to help with personal care, housekeeping, meals and most of all, staying engaged in life. Oh, thank you, thank you. Youre welcome. Are you ready to go . Oh, i sure am. We can provide the right care, right at home. Ior anything i want to buy isk going to be on rakuten. Rakuten is easy to use, free to sign up and its in over 3,000 stores. I buy a lot of makeup. Shampoo, conditioner. Books, food. 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Here at northwell Long Island Jewish Medical Center, theyve started a drive up testing site for pregnant women who are due to give birth the next day, screening for covid19 so that medical staff can be prepared with proper equipment and isolation plans. Giving birth at a hospital where covid19 patients are being treated is creating a whole new level of anxiety for parents to be, who are now checking Blood Pressure and glucose levels at home and holding last trimester doctors appointment over videoconference. I was anxious, period, just having a baby. And the new add being in the middle of a pandemic to it. Im sure im not alone and that. So, it makes things very uncertain. Obviously, you just want to protect your unborn child. That new mom to be, shes due in the first week of may. According to the latest statistics, over 300,000 babies are born in the month of april in the United States, which just goes to show you how many people are affected with how things are changing. Sandra . Sandra laura ingle in queens for us this morning. Laura, thank you. That does it for us here on americas newsroom. Ed . Ed yeah, weve been together for the beginning of this crisis. Every little day it seems like youre getting a little bit of progress. We hope it keeps going, sandra. Sandra absolutely. Thanks for joining us, everyone. Outnumbered starts now. Harris we begin with this fox news alert. An influential scientific model dramatically scaling back now the projections for the overall death toll from the coronavirus in the United States. The white house is applauding the American People for that major development, calling it proof that social distancing is paying off. Right now, lets take a look at the numbers we watch each day. Those of confirmed cases across the globe are now above half a million. Again, though, we focus on a hopeful projection today. The university of