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Corner on this virus. Martha those are the measures that are being taken tonight as the number of cases here in the United States now over 1600. 137,000 cases worldwide. Just shy of 70,000 people have already recovered from the virus. It impacts almost every aspect of everybodys life tonight. So how are we doing . How long is going to take . And how long can americans stay home . Thats the big question. So the lockdown in italy may be starting to have an impact. Singapore, more authoritarian route has actually been successful. So what can we learn from both of those . We will look at all of that tonight appeared in a straightforward manner seeing what we can learn and knowing that sacrifices will have to be made on the part of every american to make this work. From the workplace to our School System to how many people we can gather with, our president ial elections even being affected. As primary voting in at least one state is likely to be postponed. Tonight we are waiting action from congress. A deal has been reached as we understand it on a package for relief. So as we a rate that vote, greg abbott is standing by, declaring the state of emergency phillips is also here, though she was involved in treating the first known domestic case of coronavirus and one of the hospitals that she oversees, and she is here to sort fact from fiction for a spread we start with Mark Meredith live in washington tonight with more on the National Emergency declaration that happened today. Hi, mark. President trumps Emergency Declaration frees up at least 2 billion in disaster funds and is designed to eliminate red tape in an effort to let states respond faster to covid19. We heard from the president himself late this afternoon. We will defeat this threat. When america is tested, america rises to the occasion. And to those families and citizens who are worried and concerned for themselves and their loved ones, i want you to know that your federal government will unleash every authority, resource, and tool at its disposal to safeguard the lives in the health of our people. The white house as it is working with google to create a web portal for concerned americans. The Administration Working with some of the chains like target, walmart, and cbs on establishing drivethroughs testing sites. The government freezing Interest Payments on Student Loans and increasing contributions to the petroleum reserve. That is the white house, now to capitol hill within the last hour. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi announcing democrats have reached a deal with the Trump Administration on a funding bill to address covid19. The bill includes many measures including addressing paid emergency leave and increased funding for medicaid put the house is expected to vote on the measure soon. The senate possibly next week. The president s comments were welcomed on wall street, all three indexes closing sharply higher today after a roller coaster week of trading. The dow jumped to 9 , up nearly 2,000 points today. Thats a good news. Now to the bad news, the number of cases worldwide, 137 files and when it comes to the coronavirus. The latest status of deaths worldwide over 5,000, in the u. S. Stretching above 1600 cases coming in the number of deaths in the u. S. Is 47 and growing within the last hour, colorado reporting its first death from the virus. President trump says he will be tested for the virus soon, but has not and get hated indicated when that will have been paid he has no symptoms, but will be tested just to be safe. Sunday is a national day of prayer in the wake of the virus. Martha mark, thank you very much, Mark Meredith. Texas has 42 confirmed cases of the coronavirus. And among several states as a state of emergency. Greg abbott joins me now, governor, good to have you with us tonight. Governors obviously are on the front lined in all of the states across the country as you try to manage and address what is going on. What were you happy with what you heard late out at the white house today . How will it make a difference for texas . Todays announcement was good and positive in a lot of ways, including the money that will be appropriated to help states respond to this. One of the most important things a president talked about was the additional money to provide for more testing kits. What texas has already begun his ramp up our testing capabilities and set up ten state laboratories around the state to conduct the test of so that we do not have to send them to the cdc. We have now begun the process of drivethrough testing facilities. The first one in san antonio, and the other one will be opened up the next week or later. We are ramping up our testing capabilities. To the funding will help us test more. Martha how does that work . Do one of the drivethrough coming you are a great sort of example of how this makes it look across the country. Can anyone drive up into that line . And how long does it take to get to the results . At the beginning, there are priorities about who will be able to get the testing. The most vulnerable population, which as you know are the seniors. The Health Care Administrators who administer the test, we need to make sure that her nurses and doctors are healthy to treat these people. And we need to find out whether or not they are contracting covid19 by interacting with these patience. So those will be the folks on the frontline getting the test. We will be able to expand it even further with the funding provided today by the president. Martha obviously the testing has been the biggest hurdle in all of this, and i hope that we will see these drivethrough areas as well is next week as we heard today, getting rolled out very soon. Its interesting that we hear that texas is already starting it. Heres Governor Cuomo of new york today talking about the consequences of closing schools. This is a big issue. Watch this. Schools also run food programs for many students. You close schools, now what do you do with those children who are home all day . You close schools coming in on parents who cant go to work. You have parents who are working in Health Care Facilities who cant go to work. So it is not that easy. Martha because we dont have data on this, it is new, we dont know if kids actually might be safer in school than they are if they are at home. What is your take on this . Well, what Governor Cuomo was saying is exactly right. There are a lot of ad on consequences to closing schools. Let me tell you something to put in context, and that is before coronavirus even existed in texas, we had closed 50 schools in texas this year for the regular flu. So this happens every single year. This should be done as Health Care Authorities think that it should be done. But it automatically is not necessarily just closing a school because some of you may be afraid of the virus. Martha are you closing schools in texas . Some have been closed here in the state of texas. The way that we do it in texas is the superintendent of the school or work in conjunction with local Public Health officials in the Texas Education Agency to make that decision. They are made at the local level. Martha will they go to Summer School . There is a lot of learning loss, how do you make up for that . We are working on different strategies to accommodate those needs. Part is that they may not be closed for long. There are Distance Learning opportunities over the internet that are being tested out. So there are different strategies based upon different locations in the state. To be on a complicated issue. Governor, thank you. Always good to see you. We wish you the best of luck in texas and everywhere else. My next guest oversees Clinical Care for 51 hospitals in the United States including the hospital that treated the first known domestic case of coronavirus. Dr. Amy compton felixs chief clinical officer for providence st. Joseph health. One of the Largest Health care systems. Its great to have you with us this evening, dr. Compton phillips. The first question is what are you seeing across your hospitals in this case is and what is your read on where we are in the curve here . Thank you for asking. We actually are seeing a significant uptick in the number of cases. And we expect to continue to see that for the next couple of weeks, because we know that it takes a while once people get exposed to start develop symptoms, and then for those symptoms to get severe enough to actually start seeking health care. We expect even if we stopped all transmission today for the next two weeks we would continue to see the uptick in cases. So we know that we are still on the steep part of the curve. But by declaring the emergency and by having people stay at home and do social distancing, we hope to have that curve level off within the next month. Martha that is such an important message. Obviously everyone is trying to strike a balance between living this freakishly abnormal existence, and to doing what we have to do. But what would your message be to people in terms of what they need to do . Stay home, dont go to tell them what they need to do. So my message is prepare, dont panic. And that actually maybe this will be a gift of time for everybody to slow down and smell the roses, its going to be a long spring, and reconnecting with the Simple Pleasures of being at home i think its going to be a challenge for everybody across the country. Martha were you surprised, because we are all trying to practice social distancing, no hand chinking. Were you surprised to see the president and the rose garden today shaking hands and everybody standing so close together . All the press of course its all close together too. When the message is the opposite of that . I can tell you that it is incredibly hard to break a lifetime of habits just because somebody sends out an email or makes an announcement that our whole behavior is supposed to change. You know, every time you walk into a room with new people you reach out your hand. That is the way that you have been taught your whole life. So we need to help each other, right, when you walk into a room, offer that elbow bump or the foot tapped. It is tough. Martha hears the president responding to whether he will be tested paired watch. Are you being selfish by not being tested and potentially i did not say that i was going to not going to be tested. Not for that reason, but i think i will do it anyway. We are working out a schedule. Martha obviously the president interacts with so many people and apparently one of the people who were next to him in a photo has tested positive. Should he be tested . You know, we actually have a tool. Google is working on building one. We have one on our website that helps people go through a list of do you have symptoms, have you been exposed . It can help people make the decision. The president as a person, understanding his exposure and if he has symptoms can decide whether he should get tested. Because we do know if people are tested and they have not developed symptoms yet, even if they do have the virus, they might not have sufficient virus to turn the test positive. So you can get a false negative without symptoms. Martha good point. With regard to the icu units and ventilators, we have sort of a unsatisfying conversation last night with one member of the team, the White House Team in terms of getting answers on this. But you said the numbers are going to continue to accelerate. In your Hospital System of 51 hospitals across three states, do you have enough ventilators for what you anticipate will be the need to care for all of those people who will need that care . We are definitely worried about it. We are making plans in case we do not. And so those plans include working with all the other Hospital Systems in the state of washington. Working with the Public Health authorities, and if we need to we are already starting early conversations with the National Guard in the military saying if we get into an instance where the numbers continue to go up and that we have a significant number of people at risk for respiratory failure, we are going to make sure that we have the machines and the capacity to take care of people. Martha it is obviously an an a concern, i think you two acknowledge the concern and doig what you can to alleviate it. Thank you very much, dr. Comptonphillips. Thank you for having me. Martha everybody be well thought out well in your neck of the woods, the market to bounce back considerably today, does that mean the roller coaster ride is over . Probably not. Charlie gasparino is going to join us coming up next. At s why i like liberty mutual. They get that no two people are alike and customize your Car Insurance so you only pay for what you need. Almost done. What do you think . I dont see it. Only pay for what you need. Liberty. Liberty. Liberty. Liberty. From anyone else. So why accept it from your allergy pills . Flonase relieves your worst symptoms which most pills dont. Get allinone allergy relief for 24 hours, with flonase. Looking to repair dry, which mosdamaged hairt. Without weighing it down . Try pantene daily moisture renewal conditioner. Its colorsafe formula uses smart conditioners to microtarget damage helping to repair hair without weighing it down. Try pantene. Martha the economy as the other huge part of this story. And rallied considerably after the president declared a state of emergency after the pandemic, the dow up 2,000 points. Mirror image of what we saw yesterday, that was welcome news to everybody in the market. We took a huge hit on thursday and the worst selloff since the crash of 87. Heres a look at the week. This is what the week looks like. And since President Trump was elected. So yeah, not bad. While the markets are volatile, the hit to american businesses as the other huge side of the story prayed here to talk about it tonight Charlie Gasparino is back. So what did you make of what happened today, charlie question marks because the markets had donald trump in the Trump Administration of the white house is finally, finally getting his hands around this. It was a sigh of relief. That does not mean that we are going back to the old days tomorrow. I think that there will be more volatility. Some of this you should know what is really enthusiasm that the Trump Administration has taken into concern. You have the fed involved, they will probably take Interest Rates on the short and up to zero. Martha meeting next week. Wednesday, so monday, tuesday, or wednesday. So a lot of people pressing that into the markets. Obviously spending 50 billion on this thing is a lot of money. And the notion that he is getting his hands around it. The white house is starting to do stuff, kits that will be available next week protesting. All that helps the markets. My one sort of concern is a massive buy back during the speech. You had the feeling it was what is known as short covering. People going negative and then you have to cover your position so that you buy stocks. It is not really a total vote of confidence. But this was a good speech. A good response. The markets like it. Again, be cautious, we still, heres the reality. Why do stocks go up or down . Stocks go up or down based on gdp and how gdp affects corporate earnings. If you think gdp is going down, you had other guests talking about recessions. Therefore you have lower corporate earnings, stocks have to reprice and is probably going to be down. So i think that that is the longterm prognosis here. If we can get our hands around it fast, it will bounce back faster. If we cant, it is a long slow trek. Martha they are so Many Companies that are going to take a huge hit. Because you look at the massive, the massive contraction of just lifestyle, right, you talk about going to a restaurant nearby that is always packed in new york city, empty. You can walk in. I went to a couple of places in my town the other morning, walking into practically everything empty. Theres no way that does not have a Ripple Effect through all the economy. Youre right about that, but a lot of people buy and, some companies will do very well. Im going to go home this night and this weekend and watch netflix. Im not crazy about netflix as a stock it, because they have earnings and some financial issues, but that stock is going to do well. It has to. Martha what about amazon . Everybody wants to stay away from the malls in the stores, even people who have not cross that bridge yet and become total amazon shoppers might be going that way. They are in the index. So remember you can buy a basket of stocks, diversify. I dont see listen, we have a lot more to go. I dont want to scare people. I dont want to tell people to go in and buy the market. Martha people should expect a lot more volatility. It is just to be realistic here. Listen, ive always said this and some people get on my case for saying this. You showed that chart of how well you did with the term markets, it aint a bad time if you rode that market up, take some off the table. Have a little cash cushion. You dont have to be total cash, 30 percent in cash, the stuff gets cheap, that is prudent investment. Martha thank you, charlie, always good to see you. Go home. Martha coming up next we go live to capitol hill where Speaker Pelosi Just Announced a deal with the white house on an emergency Coronavirus Relief package. Chad pergram is going to tell us what is in the package could also joining us, matt gaetz, just out of self quarantine, self imposed quarantine. Well talk about that too when we come back. Iscovering nexium 24hr to treat her frequent heartburn, marie could only imagine enjoying freshly squeezed orange juice. Now no fruit is forbidden. Nexium 24hr stops acid before it starts for allday, allnight protection. Can you imagine 24 hours without heartburn . My bladder leak underwear. Orried someone might see for allday, allnight protection. So, i switched. To always discreet boutique. Its shapehugging threads smooth out the back. So it fits better than depend. 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House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and treasury secretary Steve Mnuchin talked on the phone 12 times today including three times about the dash while the president was speaking. He would not continue to have the conversations if there is not a deal to be had. We got a speaker from the house about an hour and 15 minutes ago that there was an agreement on this Coronavirus Response bill. I spoke with the Senior Administration official who indicated that they thought there was a deal. Then we started to hear from some house republicans, no, the ink is not dry on this. And the treasury secretary has not actually signed off on this. Theres still some provision in the text which we dont have. There was an original bill put out 40 hours ago that they are still trying to resolve. Republicans have told me earlier in the day that there were technical problems with the bill. What does that mean . There were provisions that did not pertain to coronavirus, which republicans thought went too far afield. Keep in mind here that the president said during his presentation in the rose garden today that he thought there were some things in here that should not of been in here. Said that it did not go far enough. The House Minority leader Kevin Mccarthy went to the white house today because they want to have air cover from the president in less he is going to sign off on it. If he is not, they will not vote for it. Remember this was the experience that Mitch Mcconnell the Senate Majority leader met with in 2018 when they thought that they had an agreement and then the government shut down. Even mccarthy dealt with a similar issue just a few days ago. They thought they had an agreement on fisa and negotiated with mccarthy and bill barr, then they passed through the house of representatives, bipartisan vote. And it is not going anywhere in the senate. We are expecting a vote tonight if they can get this last mile behind them here. But the senate has gone and they probably will not tinker with us until next week. Martha all right, chad, thank you very much. Good to have yo you here tonigh. Thank you. Martha republican congressman matt gaetz, member of the judiciary committee. Great to have you with us paired what do you make of that . What are the issues that are outstanding that are too far afield in the package for republicans like yourself . We would all agree that the coronavirus bill does not need any poison pills. And i think that this is the easy way to spot the issues. Everyone is for testing. Everyone is for medical infrastructure like ventilators. Where republicans have challenges is where we have legislative provisions that change entitlement programs. We should not use the coronavirus as an excuse to go and dramatically expand eligibility in the staff program, for example. So we want solutions that are medical infrastructure focused, testing focus, but dont rewrite entitlements while we are dealing with the coronavirus. Martha that make sense, can you put provisions that it is a certain period of time, and i think that if most americans get wind of that they would probably be behind that . Unfortunately we see the speaker the house trying to jam the president. Putting in for example reformations to abortion laws and abortion practices, the heideman into this legislative package as a way to make republicans and the president look like we dont support testing. Now the good news is that the president s National Emergency declaration has unlocked tremendous potential. For example, here in florida as a result of that declaration we spent 6 million to buy additional ventilators and put them close to communities that will be impacted. Martha i dont think that there will be a lot of patients in america for things that are outside the zone of working on this immediate problem. And i think that everybody would hope that both sides would agree to that and the other things can be battled over at another time and place. With regards to you, you self quarantine for how many days . And why . And what made it okay to stop . I held the phone of someone at cpac who had tested positive for coronavirus. I was notified of that 11 days after the event as i was on air force one with the president. As soon a side air force one ride was over i was put in a dod vehicle, taken to walter reed, tested. That test result came back negative. Health care official said i should maintain though quarantine that ended at 2 00 p. M. Yesterday, not straight outta compton, but straight out of quarantine. Martha what do you think about the president . I was just a little bit surprised today watching how everybody was standing so close together and they were all in the same microphone, all putting their selves all over the podium. There has been a lot of exposure, obviously, they have all interacted with a lot of people as you have. Did at the pricing and terms of sending the right message to the rest of the country in terms of social distancing and how we should behave . The good news is that the president has pretty regular hygiene that he maintains using the use of hand sanitizer. He did that regularly before. So i think that theres a certain resilience with the president and those around him. Obviously we were all anxious to get the test results to back because the president had walked him all over maralago where i was in a number of other people were. We were hopeful that the right information is out that there was a negative result, because so far no Community Spread at maralago and the event last weekend, we want to make sure that it stays that way. But all my friends at that party are still healthy, a symptom addict. That is great news. Martha a question for you, it said that you took paid sick leave when you were on your quarantine, is that true, and if so, they want to know why you voted against that in florida . First of all, i never voted against paid sick leave, i voted to preempt paid sick leave so that we did not have 67 versions. Each and every day i have been home i have been working with the governor, our Emergency Response directors and administrative officials to make sure that my constituents are cared for. Martha i wanted to give you an opportunity to respond to that criticism. Matt gaetz, congressman, thank you for being here tonight. 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Some raising questions about how the government obviously a very secretive regime is handling all of this. Joining me now, author of the wind in my hair my fight for freedom. I know that you try very hard to bring transparency for what is going on there. What can you tell us that we dont know about the situation in the country . To be honest, people are very worried, because we do not trust the regime or the numbers that they are talking about. But what concern people inside iran no more, it is like they are suffering from not having medical equipment and they need more, like they want to actually have the World Health Organization directly provide distribution of medical health and face masks and these kind of things, because a lot of doctors and nurses, they are sending videos and publishing not on social media, and they are bagging it to understand that. The regime should not be trusted. They want the world to understand that they have to support the people inside iran. Martha is their widespread testing . Not at all. As you see on national television, the officials do the testing themselves, and they are trying to smile and tell people that everything is under control, but it is not. Because people are using their camera and sending videos and sharing the mass parades. In the numbers of death. Martha there were aerial shots of burial trenches, what do you know about that . The tragedy that is happening there. Beyond that, let me tell you that dont make something, before the election, the iranians, official news somatic news agencies, a few activists on social media got arrested for what reason . Because they were spreading rumors about coronavirus. But the government knew that. So the government even knew that before the election. They canceled all the meetings with the Supreme Leader, one of the officials came on tv and said that we were banned from kissing the hand of the Supreme Leader. Martha showed up in a clue, right . And you say that they distance themselves from him. Why . Because they were so make concerned about the Supreme Leader of iran, and they invited people to go to the anniversary because they wanted to show the rest of the world that there is a big turnout. They want people to participate in the election. The number of participation in the election was already low, but they wanted to show off the rest of the world that we are in a stable regime. So that is why actually people are suffering from corruption, mismanagement, and hiding the coronavirus. And let me tell you another thing, always the western government, especially the european government says that we dont want to interfere in an internal matter. What happens right now, the mismanagement is hurting the rest of the world. First coronavirus in lebanon, and turkey. In iraq coming from the islamic republic. Martha they want the World Health Organization to get involved and lets hope that that is what happens. Thank you. 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Lessons learned after being hit by sars and each one and one, they know of a strict system to contract and contain viruses as Business Insider reports, singapores working around the clock to find coronavirus cases, lying about where you have been can result in six months of jail or a fine of up to 10,000. So that is one way to do it. Joining me now, steve hilton, host of the next revolution. Obviously we dont want to do their many things that we dont want to do the way singapore does. They are taking a very heavy hand with this part by the flip side is when you look at the chart in terms of our rising cases, our cases are rising more in line with italy and china, and singapore and hong kong is flat. Yes, that is right. The operative word in what you just said in relation to singapore is strict. They have a strict outlook. Remember that it is a very small place. Its population is nearly about half of new york city. So it is really coming in oh, you have to get that in and keep that in mind. But it is actually pretty close to being described as an authoritarian state. I mean, nothing like on the scale that you see in china, but it is a oneparty state. You have the same Political Party in charge for about 50 years. You have the same Prime Minister who has had the country basically around the place for more than 30 years on a stretch. So they are used to having the strict rules just about everything. And it has proved to be effective in this case, but i think that you are right to point out that those kinds of orders from on high, obediently followed by everyone is not really going to work in the free society like america. However, your right to point out, we are behind the curve. And thats why i was so pleased to see the president really getting going on the Emergency Declaration today and all of the things that go with that. Martha this is from a piece in wired, talking about what they are doing and singapore, people get their temperatures taken before entering buildings, including schools, gyms, government agencies. Everyone whose temperature is normal gets a green sticker. Then it says keeping teams of Health Care Workers separate from one another. In one case it has to be quarantined and physical separations for different kinds of patients all sorts of seemingly small systematic changes that seem to be working for them. I mean, what is the message for americans . Because i think once we do see the testing ramp up over the coming next couple of weeks, we are likely to see the amount of diagnosis also probably accelerate fairly dramatically, i would say. What do you think its a sort of proper reaction to that . First while it is important as you are doing to prepare people for that and say, look. This will get much worse before it gets better. But remember also the basic facts. With most people who get this will be fine. They will have zero or mild symptoms and so on. But i think that one thing i would point out more positively is what you have seen this week in america, really reflects what a wonderful country this is. It is decentralized. We dont have some Central Command of control that can tell everyone want to do. And yet you have seen the different parts of the country local governments, state government, the private sector, the supporting organizations, they have all stepped up, actually. And you are seeing the kind of aggressive response that has been imposed in other places actually emerging in a more organic decentralized way right across the country. I think that that is a really positive thing about america. I think it is too. And i am amazed, if you told everybody a week ago that schools were going to be shut down, all of the kids were going to come home. No more movie theaters, broadway shows, and over support, no nba, no nhl, people would say, youre kidding. That is crazy. That will never happen. And within just a few days, everybody is kind of okay, this is what we have to do, we have to do. And i think that is remarkable. And the key point is that it happened from the bottom up. If the president had tried to order that, people would have had a revolt against it. But because it has come from the bottom up, people are supportive. And that is great. And everybody is elbowing and social distancing, we will have to keep it up for a while. But we are very flexible to all of it. So thank you, steve. And we will watch what is happening in the u. K. I know that there are some that think that they have been delayed in their reaction, but it sounds like they are also kind of facing the same things that we are and probably going to take some of the same measures as well. Good to see you. See you soon. Sounds good. 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Concerns about coronavirus there will be no Live Audience in attendance, which begs the philosophical question if joe biden makes a horrible gaffe and no one is there to hear it. [laughter] does it still make you cringe . Martha james cordon there as we remember how important the gift of laughter can be during stressful moments. Harvard considering reading a gook book, watch a good comedy to cope with good anxiety from all of this. Lets face it everyone is feeling it on some level as we see tom hanks dealing with his own personal covid19 infection. Offering up left at this. Despite the Current Events no crying in baseball one of my favorite lines. Joining me now jimmy, host of fox across america on fox news radio and fox nation. Jessica tar lo at bustle. Com and Fox News Contributor and dr. Jeff caldair professor of behavioral head sin. Good to see you. We havent seen you for a long time dr. Jeff. You look fantastic professionally speaking of course. Martha thank you. I want to go to you first because everyone deals with this kind of stress differently. I feel like there are some moments i feel like its all going to be fine and other moments did i just touch that phone and put that over there . Its difficult it. Comes in waves. It is a bit of a roller coaster ride because one minute you are feeling okay. Then you turn on the tv and then you hear some statistic. But really the key here is to try as season as possible daytoday breathing, of course. Dont breathe too much. But breathing and talking to other people around you. As to how you feel. The fact that we are even joking about this just a little bit, its not making fun of people. Martha no. But really is about letting a lot of that stress out and thats what we need to do. Martha coping mechanism which Everybody Needs to employ. Here is jimmy fallon on. This the coronavirus are really tense times, seriously at this point i wouldnt mind a massage from joe biden. [laughter] last night President Trump address dollars the nation from the oval office. It was a nice change from his usual speeches from helicopter. And officials normally when we do this, we rehearse these jokes in front of a rehearsal audience but today no audience. Just bear that in mind. Martha oh my gosh, what do you advise . Man o man. First of all the hanks thing shook me im a huge tom hanks fan who knew you could catch corona from a volleyball. I love him so much. I have a personal investment. Martha everyone is pulling. Stay off social media. Thats the big challenge that we face now that he odidnt face during swine flu which killed 13,000 americans we werent nearly as stressed out because news cycle wasnt as owe nip pentagon in our lives as it is now. Not only getting constant information thats accurate but inaccurate information. Best advice can i give you. Dont take a health tip from a guy who is holding a beer in his profile picture. Not a medical degree in the background of that picture. Have you got to be careful where you get your information from. Martha i saw this somewhere on social media people coming out on balconies while they are quarantined. Watch this. Martha so you get the idea. Jessica, whats your recommendation for everybody . Those moments are really lovely if you do have neighbors that you sing with at safe distances, especially old people. Check on old people. The loneliness epidemic is very serious. But the thing that i have been looking for and really enjoying like the feel good stories out of this. There was one woman who posted her story. She was going to the supermarket. As she was walking in, she heard a faint excuse me, excuse me, elderly couple in a car who been waiting an hour for just the right person to ask if they could go do their shopping. They handed her 100 bill and did Grocery Shopping for them. There are wonderful things happening across the country where communities are coming together. Pay attention to what people might need and what they could be asking you for. Too scared to ask you for. Martha thats a good point. You dont want to be around people who are compromised. At the same time you have to make sure they have what they need. I am hoping this a moment that restores perspective in the country. Taken our eye off the ball and superficial things. And we have been very, very divisive. You see people coming together over this. I agree now come together, support old people, watch the democratic debate and if you havent calmed down enough. Martha you know i love you, i had to take one shot. Martha if you havent calmed down enough quarantiney. They want you to know you shouldnt use their products with alcohol. Whatever. Have a great weekend, everybody. Read your books. Thats the story on friday the 13th, 2020. We will see you monday. Tucker good evening and welcome to Tucker Carlson tonight. Back in january we first reported on this show about what we described then as a serious viral outbreak that appeared to be rising from a city called wuhan in eastern china. At the time the outbreak sounded ominous and potentially important but still very far away. Today, less than two months later the coronavirus is officially a energy here in the United States. The president announced this afternoon in the rose garden. To unleash the full power of the federal government im officially declaring a National Emergency