Jillian fox and friends first continues right now. Good morning. You are watching fox and friends first on wednesday morning. Rob breaking overnight the state of kansas is the first to close all schools for the rest of the cool year school your the covid19 outbreak. Jillian governors deploying 1700 National Guard troops to assist local and state emergency operations. Rob Donald Trumps task force, promising checks will be in the mail as part of a 1 trillion stimulus package. Americans need cash now and i mean now in the next two weeks. Jillian a 6400 cases across 50 states and washington dc. Services are being cut nationwide. The first state in the country to quote for the entire year. It cannot be controlled statewide as School Buildings return to normal operations or they respond inconsistently in rural communities. Unprecedented circumstances threaten the safety of students and professionals and must respond accordingly. Governor newton said family should prepare to not return to sch
All the schools for the rest of the school year. Ainsley new york city mayor bill de blasio warning new yorkers to be prepared for a possible shelter in place order. As cases drop by more than 100 in just one day. The state jus opened the second drivethru testing site. Brian the governor says dont prepare for that i will make that call. More than 6400 coronavirus cases and the u. S. At least 114 people have died. 170 have recovered. We can expect a really big show. A lot of doctors coming our way including seema verma, dr. Nicole saphier and dr. Siegel. We will have a visit, not in studio, but from a remote location Cardinal Timothy dolan. Steve brand new member of the fox news family dr. Janette nesheiwat will be here as well. If you have questions for Cardinal Dolan so many people are looking to a higher power to help guide us through these selfice hraeugtd times when you have so many questions, if you have a question for him because the three of us do email us at friends foxnews. Co
And taxi drivers. You can see hube huber drivers s well. We got a roving camera through the streets of manhattan to help bring images from around new york to this hour. Ive been here in new york city for new years eve probably ten times where a Million People from around the world stand shoulder to shoulder, packed. Ready to begin and mark a new moment in their own lives on a new years eve day. Today firefighters crossing the street and fire trucks and again i mentioned the essential workers that go up and down through this part of manhattan. Here is where we stand at this hour. 3 00 east coast time, the United States has now topped a quarter million cases, more than a third of them in the state of new york where more than 3,000 people have died. They new york city, the giant convention center, the Javits Center has been turned into an emergency medical facility which will now treat covid19 patience. Originally they were just going to take the overflow of patience from area hospitals.
The epicenter of the world remain so as cases near 162,000. Thats almost 9,000 more cases than spain, the country with the second highest amount of patients. Hi, everybody. Its going to be a huge show when you see our roster of guests, especially. What i notice, too, a lot of the models that just use the numbers that they were given projected a lot of things more severely than it actually turned out. For example, in california, they have done an extraordinary job to date. They thought they were going to have 4800 beds needed. They actually only needed 2200. Louisiana they said we are going to need 6400 beds. Right now they only need 1700. For new york, as you know, Governor Cuomo constantly saying he needs more beds. He needs only 15,000 beds. The projection was 58,000. Continue to do what we are doing. Because the numbers and the models are going in the right direction; steve. Steve thats right, brian. You know, when people during the show today, we are going to talk about how some in
But there is good coming out of all of this. Americans are stepping up, to help complete strangers, from balconies, and with their fellow congregants. People are saluting healthcare workers and First Responders on the frontline and of course todays services and celebration s are providing millions here and abroad hope for a better future. Over the next two hours well share some of those stories with you and you will hear messages from clergy and religious leader s who came with us all during these uncertain times. We begin with the reverend Franklin Graham who held this Easter Sunday mass, exclusively for you, our viewers welcome to this Easter Service in new york city, central park. From the samaritans purse emergency feel hospital and the billy graham evangelist Ic Association featuring a message of hope with Franklin Graham, and music from grammy award winner michael w. Smith. Good morning, this is Franklin Graham, in sents all park in new york city. This is easter, and of course, t