Biggest a package and there is a lot to get to including new concerns about younger americans who could be passing the virus on to older people. We have team fox coverage standing by at the pentagon. Lets begin with chief white house correspondents. Every day when we have these coronavirus briefings you can see a little bit of an uptick and a little bit of a shift in terms of the response to secondary defense mark esper there is a president calls in the pentagon and ships mercy and comfort. They will be in the new york harbor to provide aid to those desperately needed hospital bed and president also signing the production act to wrap up the production of urgently needed medical. Chuck schumer is saying there is a desperate need of. And ventilators and things that help desperately ill people continue to breathe. Heres what the senator sat on the floor. Speak to a thing like this has never been requested and we have never even had to think in terms of these numbers but we need millions o
Team coverage tonight, Mark Meredith has what the relief bill needs for every american and chad program find out what is in the package but we begin with kevin cork on the trump administrations latest policy. Reporter the boldest step yet to combat the spread of the virus, stakeholders across the spectrum, public and private sector announcing an escalation in the fight to slow the coronavirus. To unleash the power of the federal government im officially declaring a National Emergency, two very big words. Reporter by declaring a National Emergency, he opened the door for massive amounts of government aid to combat the virus that is affecting 138,000 people. We are removing every obstacle to deliver our people, the care they need and that they are entitled to. Now resource will be spared, nothing whatsoever. Reporter 50 billion in federal funds to combat the coronavirus epidemic, the president announcing to expand hhss authority to weigh regulations giving hospitals more flexible he and
Measures designed to check the spread of the virus and help the country recover and whether the economicsi disruption its causing. The state of Emergency Declaration frees up to 50 billion to battle the pandemic. Regulations governing the length of hospital stays, most visits to Nursing Homes will be suspended. The president also announced a freeze on Interest Payments on student loans. He said the government will purchase billions of barons of oil from the Strategic Petroleum reserve, we are going to fill it to the top. In response to an adequate testing around the country, something thats gotten quite a bit of attention, he announced an initiative to open driveua through testing facilities. The goal is for individuals to be able to drive up and be swabbed without having to leave your car. Tucker we will have more on the problems with testing for the virus in a minute. E. If the president s announcement seemed to calm markets, after dropping ten points yesterday, it rose by more than
Restrictions could result in a second deadly wave. On the other side protesters gearing up in more states refusing to comply with orders they say are violating their Constitutional Rights. Welcome to fox news at my. Kevin cork kicks off with details of the president s plan to get america back to business. The white houses guidelines are recommendations guided by, quote, clinically driven metrics. According to the white house, a fancy way of saying circumstances on the grounds should be the guide for reopening the economy. Our team of experts agrees we can begin the next friend in our war which we are calling opening up america again and that is what we are doing. Donald trump did as he promised, he said he would lay out plans for reigniting the us economy as soon as he could, turns out that was today. We are going to work with them, help them but it is going to be up to the governors. I think you will see quite a few state starting to open. I call it a beautiful puzzle. You have 50 pie
Painting there could be a second round of checks for americans who are still waiting for the first round to hit their bank accounts. We begin with housing and urban Development Secretary dr. Ben carson, he is also a member of the White House Coronavirus task force and he drains me now from the north line, thank you sir, i know you are very busy. I want to get your take, one of the things you had said yesterday was that it does appear that the virus is moving faster than people may have thought. So that could be a sign of good things, i guess i will ask your Expert Opinion on that. Well, it appears that the number of new cases maybe starting to slow down. We may be starting to level out. And its possible that that could occur a little bit before the models have predicted that it was going to, and i think that has a lot to do with the fact that people are really taking it seriously. I mean, just here in washington, d. C. , the fact that i can drive from home to the hard building or to th