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
Mark meredith is standing by at the white house with more. Mark . Reporter good evening, jon. The white house says its up to americas governors to decide if and when they can reopen, but governors say until more testing is available, that is an extremely difficult decision for them to make. Vice president mike pence, he was on Fox News Sunday today, and he tried to reassure americans that more testing is coming both on a federal and state level. Now weve cleared four million overall. But in 150,000 tests a day, we think we can double that number by working with governors to activate all of the laboratories in their states around the country that can do coronavirus testing. That would put us at roughly 300,000. Reporter but some governors are pushing back including some republican governors saying that their state resources are already exhausted and that they need more help from the federal government. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi is among those criticizing the president over testing. She