A very good morning to you. You are watching fox and friends first on tuesday morning. Rob thanks for getting up early with us starting with a fox news alert. And just hours the comfort will begin serving americans epicenter in new york city. Setting up new makeshift hospitals as cases continue to climb. Jackie ibanez joins us as lawmakers call for help. The comfort officially arriving in new york city as the nations hotspot grapples with a skyrocketing number of coronavirus cases. New yorkers cheering as the floating hospital passed by the statue of liberty. People seen ignoring social distancing guidelines to get a glimpse of it. The ship will serve noncoronavirus patients to grant space to hospitals. It contains 1000 beds, 80 intensive care beds and 12 operating rooms, the captain describing it so the capabilities. We have ventilator capabilities, our own galley which can serve thousands of meals per day to support the crew as well as patient population. It is enormous. Reporter its
Guidelines in distancing guidelines. We have Fox Team Coverage on the latest response at home and abroad. We begin with Mark Meredith reporting live from the white house. Mark. Reporter good eave nick, jon. The president s advisor are meeting for the Coronavirus Task force, this was a briefing we expected to happen via conference call, now it is happening in the white house situation room. Weve seen a few of the advisors starting to show up. The president as you mentioned tweeted he may or may not do a News Conference out of this. Well be on standby for that. The president told reporters on saturday he believes americas governors should decide what matters most for their states when it comes to whether or not there should be a lockdown of any sort and this morning the Surgeon General backed up the president s strategy. The governors are protective of their right to be able to decide whats best for their state and were going to do everything we can as scientists and as physicians, as me
Its, now, time for don lemon. Cnn tonight right now. Yeah. But also care enough i said last night, too, that we should, chris, cut each other some slack. And just be human. And care enough to check on the people you love. I text you today. And i knew something was wrong because usually you text me right back. You texted me and you said you dont want this. Last night was really bad. I love you. And thats all i heard from you. And i was like uhoh, somethings not good. And i texted christine, i didnt hear from her. And i said to tim, all right, lets get in the car. Lets go. So got in the car. Went to the supermarket. Then dropped some stuff off to your house and that was the end of that. So i would say if if theres someone youre worried about, someone you love, or somebody even somebody you dont love so much or whatever, just check on them and say how you doing . Even somebody you have some beef with. Just say how you doing . Just thinking about you. I was worried about you and im just ch
To fail. Griff good morning. Welcome back, jed. So good to have you back. Jedediah thank you so much. Thank you both. Good to see you both again. I have been watching from home. Its good to see you here. Pete its good to have you here. Jedediah and a big news day. Pete big news day in honor of you. I know you are a surfer this is my flip flop edition of fox friends. We can go if we need. To say. Griff see whats happened i have grown a billie ray sig cyr. Jedediah i have got the flat shoes on and leggings. We are all a team here and all on the same page today. Pete secrets of television. Griff, i have got to ask you are there at the swamp. I will mention it every day. And we love you for that will you talk about the biggest bill of all time . Thats a label you dont expect to hear often really or at all. Here we are massive 3 trilliondollar bill passing the house. Griff griff a reporters job is to offer some scrutiny. Let me do so now. Its not only just the largest bill. This was a bill
Hit today. Plus, goodbye to a latenight icon. No. No. No. No. No. Youre not going anywhere david letterman. What are you gonna do . Newsroom starts now. Hello again, thanks for joining me im fredricka whitfield. This is cnn breaking news. This breaking news out of iraq. A Major Development in the war against isis. Another iraqi city has fallen now to isis. The city of ramadi. The mayer and a highranking security official the last Iraqi Security forces have pulled out from a key military base on the west side of that city. When asked about isis being in control of the city, a spokesperson for the governor of anbar says basically yes, but its a big city. There are still pockets of resistance. Ramadi ramadis mayor says isis militants had arrived by the hundreds. This morning they began debt top nating a series of car bombs, forcing the iraqi fighters to retreat. The Iraqi Federal police and iraqs Prime Minister both vowed to send in reenforcements now. Joining me now is the former navy s.