speak to the world health organization's role in severely mismanaging and covering up the spread of the coronavirus, everybody knows what's going on there. the american taxpayers provide between $400,000,500,000,000 per year to the w.h.o. in contrast china contributes roughly $40 million per year and even less of the organization's leading sponsor. the united states has a duty to insist on full accountability. >> sandra: the president also unveiling his new economic council. mark cuban is also on the president's new counsel and he will be joining us live in just a moment. but first, live fox team coverage from new york city on the white house this morning. we begin with john roberts on the north lawn. >> sandra, good morning to you. the united states would be suspending funding to the world health organization for a period of some 60-90 days. the president saying the united states would undertake an investigation into what he calls investmenthe mismanagement and p of the w.h.o.'s investigation of what was that an outbreak in wuhan, china, one that became this global coronavirus pandem pandemic. here's what the president said. >> president trump: look at the rest of the world and other parts of europe. other nations and regions who followed w.h.o. guidelines and kept their boards open to china, accelerated the pandemic all around the world. many countries said it, we are going to listen to w.h.o. and they have problems, the likes of which they cannot believe. >> of the move invited criticism from the house oversight committee. while we may agree that the w.h.o. has shortcomings that must be corrected to your attack, global health organization can easily be seen as a deliberate but transparent effort to deflect responsibility for your own failures onto others. meanwhile your attempt to blame the w.h.o. for trusting china reflects an astonishing level of hypocrisy given your own fawning and widely publicized praise of president xi jinping. at the same time the president suspends funding to the w.h.o., a new report out from the associated press finding that for a critical period of six days, china did not warn of an emerging epidemic, allowing people together in larger groups in the wuhan area and travel far and wide for the lunar new year. in the six days of public silence, the ap says more than 3,000 people were infected. fox news has also learned that diplomatic cables from the u.s. and china warned the administration there was a safety problem at a major virology lab in wuhan two years before this outbreak. that lab was conducting research on coronavirus and bats. u.s. officials have not ruled out the possibility that the pandemic of originated from that lab. >> no surprise to you that was taken a keen interest in that lab and i would say at this point it's inconclusive although the weight of evidence seems to indicate natural. but we don't know for certain. >> as for president trump he will spend today talking with people in business, banking, retail, sports, construction and more gathering information on where, when and how parts of the country can reopen. the president reading off a long list of experts who will serve as sort of an advisory board to get the country back to work. his calling it the great economic revival industry group. he will have mark cuban on in just a few minutes. there are reports of the treasury department is going to put president trump's signature on those economic impact payment paper checks are simply inaccurate. the treasury department says that there will be no delay in getting those checks out. they will go out beginning next week as scheduled and it should also be pointed out that only to a certain degree while people to be getting those paper checks because a lot of those payments will be made via direct deposit. sandra? >> sandra: some already starting to do so. john roberts. >> ed: new york's death toll rising to nearly 11,000 after new york city officials we calculated figures to include probable victims who were never tested. governor andrew cuomo says the worst is over for the state as the number of hospitalizations remain stable. dr. anthony fauci echoing that sentiment in a new interview this morning. >> given what we are doing, the worst looks like for the most part with a couple of exceptions, there are still a couple of cities, right now, savannah, that we are worried has not yet peaked and turned around. but if we look at the metropolitan area as kind of the prototype that's been driving us to the country and then look at the country as a whole, there is no doubt that what we've seen over the last several days is a flattening out, and even when you get to new york it's actually starting to come down. >> ed: coming down right here in new york which is where we find it david lee miller. good morning. >> good morning, ada. the impact of the coronavirus on new york city appears now to be much more devastating than had been previously realized. the city health department which calculates confirmed deaths from the virus is releasing presumed death as well. the numbers are staggering. in addition to 6,589 lives lost another 3,778 are thought to have died from the disease. the majority of presumed deaths took place in hospitals. moments ago bill de blasio explained the reasoning behind the deadly calculation. >> we just wanted this larger truth to come out even though it's not 100% confirmed. i want to be clear about that, it is probable and it's important to say that. >> new york city will meanwhile become more self-reliant. the city will increase production of personal protection equipment making more than 1,000 face masks and 1,000 surgical gowns per week. buses and trains have continued to operate here but the virus has claimed the lives of of transit workers. the head of the transit authority calls front-line workers heroic. starting today the general public for the first time can take a coronavirus test easing saliva. the test developed by rutgers university is available to local residents at a drive-through facility and plans are being discussed at the white house to extend the test across the country. and as we have said it, time over, new york city is the epicenter of the virus. thousands here have lost their lives. one of them who has not died, dead at mendez. she's 33 years old and she spent three weeks in mount sinai hospital. ten days on a ventilator and she is now recovering at her home. her recovery is inspirational to the city and to the country at a time when people desperately need to believe that anything is possible. >> ed: we need more and more of those stories. david lee miller, thank you. >> sandra: a nice story to start off with. meanwhile president trump revealing the names on his new counsel tasked with researching when and how to reopen the u.s. economy. our next guest is a member of that council. mark cuban's entrepreneur and owner of the dallas mavericks. mark, thank you for being here. >> thanks for having me. a >> sandra: the president has set this the biggest decision he ever has had to make. what is your recommendation on reopening the economy to make >> i don't have one yet, obviously i want to get as much information as possible before i offer any advice at all. this is such a moving target and i think the biggest mistake we could make is rushed to a decision but i will help him in any way he can. >> sandra: is may 1st 2 soon? >> i really don't know. we are getting more data every day. we are learning about medical therapies and opportunities for vaccines and the more time we can buy is opportunity for the right decision. part of what i want to contribute is the fact that businesses really don't know exactly what to expect on the other side. it is so much uncertainty that, by talking to everyone in each of the groups i think the president could get a lot of great feedback on how businesses are approaching it. because as much as safety is critical we also have to see how businesses want to move forward. i don't think it's going to look like it did the day before. i think it will be a new abnormal and so getting the feedback from the industry council will be very valuable and i think was a smart move. >> sandra: that's interesting perspective. new look at some of the names including yourself on that new advisory council, jeff bezos, tim cook, condoleezza rice, more than 50 business leaders from so many different walks. how will all of those people come together to advise the president on this enormous decision? >> we will find out more about that today but obviously there's a lot of brainpower power. they haven't put together a small business group yet and i volunteered to do that as well. i think they were smart and how they approach this by bringing in the best of the best and hopefully we will come up with some alternative approaches to taking the steps to get the economy open. like i said before, just getting feedback from everybody and getting their insights on how -- what they are going to do with their businesses and what i'm doing with my business i think will be so useful and beneficial. let the scientists deal with the science and the vaccine end of the therapy and let the business people give feedback on what we are going to do because, like i said, it's not going to be the same. it will be different and having these insights will be valuable. >> sandra: i know that's one area you will shown disagreement with the president. we will see a shaped recovery. i hear something much different from you as far as what you see and anticipate when we reopen. >> i think it will be more of a u-shaped and not as much of a rocket ship. i know when i look at my company, we are still asking questions. when we get to the day we open all night businesses look the same? right now it doesn't look that way. i'm not going to dive in and spend the same money i did before. you want to kind of dip your toe in and get the lay of the land and find out what's going on. once we get to that initial barrier and that initial understanding of the days, weeks and months and whatever it may be, that i think on the back end of that u-shaped we can really accelerate. i don't think people will go back in and say, on february 1st this was my deposit, budget, i'm going to spend it on june 1st, but that doesn't mean the economy can't be great or take off, it's just a question of when. i do have absolute confidence that we will get back to where we were. >> sandra: at the white house kellyanne conway was talking about forecasting a robust economy. we've seen a lot of you lately, mark. you've been across this network, other networks, you've been very vocal throughout this pandemic. chris wallace over the weekend asked you about your presidential ambitions in a 2020 white house run. you didn't rule it out, although some things have changed since then. you now have a role inside the white house helping the president and advising them on when to reopen the economy and barack obama just endorsed joe biden for president. have you changed your thinking or come to any conclusions on that? >> i'm an entrepreneur so the door is always open for opportunity for me but my focus right now is helping the president, helping the american people and particularly small businesses where i can. we all have to come in together. unless everybody is a hero, nobody is a hero. i'm an american first. >> sandra: is it fair to say that you are still considering that for 2020? >> i mean things changed so rapidly. at this had been a month ago i would have said absolutely not. you never say never but i don't think it's a likelihood of. not something i'm definitely going to do, not by a long shot. but we are in crazy time so you never say never. but i'm focused on helping the president. >> sandra: absolutely, that's the goal for everyone right now, to get this pandemic over with and get the economy reopened. mark cuban, thanks so much for being here. >> thanks so much for having me, have a great day. ♪ >> i am so proud to endorsed joe biden for the president of the united states. closing the mike choosing joe to be my vice president was the best decision i ever made. >> ed: a former president barack obama right there endorsing, and that comes one day after bernie sanders comes out in support of the vice president. just moments ago elizabeth warren finally announced she's endorsing biden's campaign as well. joining us now is chris stirewalt. good morning chris. interesting that you see all of these back-to-back-to-back. it sounds like democrats are intent on making sure that this is not 2016 all over again where hillary clinton and bernie sanders had that kind of uneasy alliance. >> while we haven't seen anybody in politics as bad as hillary clinton in our lifetim lifetimes. i don't think democrats have to worry about that. but what they do have to worry about is they have sort of an impossibly weak front runner and this gaggle of geese that have gathered around him honking are not a testament to his strength but rather to his weakness. they wouldn't have to do it. and this is of course unprecedented. a lot of what's going on right now is unprecedented. you're getting used to unprecedented things happening but if you go back to 2004 which is the last time democrats had a quick and easy conclusion without an incumbent, you wouldn't expect to see this sort of coming together for months. and i do think by the way that elizabeth warren's endorsement here is the most significant one because she is the toughest ce cell. >> ed: it's of barack obama among other things took some veiled shots at donald trump of course but he also said something that might be more about biden. take a listen. >> joe has the character in the experience to guide us through one of our darkest times and heal us through a long recovery. and i know he will surround himself with good people. experts, scientists, military officials, who actually know how to run the government. and to care about doing a good job running the government. >> ed: so you could read that as a shot at donald trump but to your point a moment ago about this unusually weak nominee in front runner joe biden, the whole part of that was he will surround himself with good people. experts, scientists. i know he may not be the best front runner but he will have a great cabinet. chris? >> while obama, who is the least experienced at this point, the least experienced public figure to ever become president until donald trump, he chose a running mate and chose people around him to telegraph solidity, strength, we got this. when george bush chose dick cheney as his running mate, he said i know i'm young and i know i'm relatively unexperienced but this guy knows the ropes. biden has a problem that he struggles to stay in the swim. he gets puzzled, and they need to show, we are going to have the best people. if joe biden ran for the democratic nomination as 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morning as march retail sales come in far lower-than-expected. 2.3% drop out of the gate, and joining us now is neil cavuto. he is senior vice president, anchor and managing editor of business news for fox news channel and fox business and also the anchor of "your world with neil cavuto." start us off this morning with what we are seeing with markets and where expectations live for what is next with the u.s. economy. >> is all retail sales were a big surprise, we expected them to be down but not as much as they were, so these numbers are jarring. that and the fact that industrial production was up week and a separate index out of new york that measures manufacturing coming in at a negative 78.2. we've never seen a number that bad. now you and i talked about this before. a lot of the bad economic news has been well telegraphed but i think when you see the print out on it it jars you a little bit. that and some of the earnings that are beginning to come out of corporate america for the quarter just passed. we knew they would be tough, but not to the degree that banks would be suffering. i've noticed a trend among jpmorgan chase, bank of america, citigroup and the like where their numbers are falling anywhere from 40-45% from where they were. this is just a continuing trend that obviously the administration hopes to address by getting people back to work. >> sandra: we you have the banks that are experiencing those problems but then you also have bank analysts that are forecasting in some cases double digit contractions in our economy in the coming quarters. there are questions over what happens next with so many different sectors of the economy. the airlines are certainly one of them. with no one flying right now, you see the pictures on social media of one person on a completely empty plane. they are coming to some sort of agreement for relief for the airlines with the government, a $25 billion deal. american airlines, alaska airlines, delta and united, they are all getting in on this because they need help. >> was interesting about that agreement, ten of the 12 major airlines have sort of gone into it. it roughly breaks down to two-thirds of the money they are getting will be seen as a grant and they don't have to pay it back but not all of it. so, k, the terms are not as generous as airlines wanted them to be but that situation, i think you touched on, beggars can't be choosers. i think it works down to about 5 billion for united, but most of that is to keep workers on staff and not get rid of them. if push comes to shove and this lingers much longer, then it could prove in the end just delaying the inevitable. it's too early to tell the airlines how to use, that advance has carried considerably but it's still bad. >> sandra: this is from a fox business.com piece on the cross labor force. the longer shutdowns continue the bigger second wave could become risking a repeat of the deep and prolonged labor downturn that accompanied the oh 7-oh nine recession. a consensus of 57 economists surveyed this month by "the wall street journal" is that 14.4 million jobs will be lost in the coming months and the unemployment rate will rise to a record 13% in june for a 50 year low of 3.5% in february. neil, you are reminded just how fast everything is changed with all this. >> yeah. we touched on it as well about why companies are fighting so hard to offer guidance on where they are going. going into this earnings season about 85 companies. bottom line, there is no way we can forecast the impact of this or how long that impact will be. so wall street doesn't really have any assurances that what number they are getting or any forecast they are getting are worth the paper they are printed on. these estimates, this latest one from economists kind of echo what we have heard from the imf and the world bank and a host of others that say it's going to be bad. we already know that and we know some of the extreme forecasts up there that say up to 50 million jobs will be lost. it's safe to say that once people start trickling back to work whether all at once or in stages, that is mitigated somewhat. it's also fair to say that in the small business stimulus plan april's altar millions from getting laid off. some estimates put as high as many as 15 million american jobs, but that's the notion if you reward companies were hanging onto their workers than they will hang on to their workers. the question though if this keeps going on for a while, if they can afford to do that, it's infinity and they can't but we will see. >> sandra: and that uncertainty, the double whammy, you have the uncertainty and their earnings weighing in on the market. neil, we will see you later on. thank you. >> ed: as hotels sit vacant in many cities around the country they are deciding to use them as quarantine and isolation centers for the homeless to limit the spread of covid-19. dan springer is live about an hour outside of seattle with details on the story. good morning. >> citizen counties across the country have moved thousands of homeless people off the streets and mainly out of credit shelters and into hotel rooms to try to slow the spread of the coronavirus. last week, we saw 200 people bused to this hotel in washington. they are considered a vulnerable so this is how they will comply with the order to keep a social distance from others. san francisco will soon have close to a thousand in hotel rooms. advocates in los angeles county are calling for at least 15,000 hotel rooms for the 60,000 people homeless there. even more than that, they admit they are using the current crisis to push for much more homeless assistance. >> they need way more help from us as a society and if this is the moment we can generate some additional support for that then of course we will try to take advantage of that. >> the cost will be shared through fema reimbursements for up to 75% of hotel leasing costs. it will be hundreds of millions of dollars over the next three months but there's already focus on what happens after that. the mayor of los angeles and others say we can't return to the status quo and they want this federal funding to continue. but critics point out it's not just about money. >> homelessness is not just a housing problem. it's a behavioral health problem, an addiction problem and a mental illness problem, none of which can be solved easily through the simple solution of providing hotel rooms for the homeless. >> king county officials insist to me that this is not about solving homelessness at this moment but more about trying to keep the most at risk safe. >> ed: absolutely. dan springer, thank you. >> sandra: and alarming to report about china this morning clinic officials knew the coronavirus pandemic was imminent days before informing the public. plus, banks distributing billions of smalbillions of dols that were passed. wyoming senator john barrasso will join us live come next. >> president trump: the 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additional money. >> ed: that of course is at larry kudlow at the white house as congress is deadlocked right now with more funding for the paycheck protection program for small businesses. so far 4700 lenders have approved more than 1 million loans through that program but it's running out of cash. joining us now his wyoming republican senator john barrasso. we appreciate you being here this morning. i wonder how what you can do and how quickly you can ask not just to get more cash into this program but i continued to get more emails from our viewers saying they can't get through, they can't get this money. a lot of people have been helped so far but there are a lot of people in your estates and states around the country that can't get through. >> thank you, eddie. you are absolutely right. this is a very popular program and as a doctor i want to make sure that we stop the spread of disease but also speed up relief to american workers and that means paychecks. right now nancy pelosi is blocking these paychecks from the american public because it is blocking our effort to put more money to refill these paycheck opportunities come these paycheck protections, and she's doing it in congress. we need more money in the program even here in wyoming. we've had over 5,000 applications gone through, so $700 million which means paychecks for hardworking workers here. families and ranches, all of those things. we need more money and we are spending about $30 billion per day so we are going to hit the limit at the end of this week. once again, nancy pelosi with her liberal wish list is saying, we are not going to approve that unless you do all of these other things and spending money on other things that are right now not the focus of the american public. people need their paychecks. >> ed: nancy pelosi wrote a letter to her fellow democrat that said in part, because of an incompetent reaction the economy handed to donald trump and is a disaster. when you see a partisan attack like that in the middle of this crisis, how do you fix a program like that? how do you work together and move forward? >> it's critical that we go back, we passed a bill in the senate 96-nothing to help the american public during this crisis. get the same democrats who voted for this paycheck protection plan are now blocking the additional money even though we have now run out of money with paycheck protection. but since donald trump took office, up until this pandemic has hit, we had 7 million new jobs in america. this has been the biggest economic recovery anywhere in the world and its due to the fact that we have done the things we need to do to stimulate the economy successfully. we need to get back to that. until we get the medical side of this behind us we are not going to be there. his whole paycheck protection plan which is working in a program, and if you have a job with a small business you know how important it is to get that paycheck. it's unconscionable that nancy pelosi sees no urgency. she's not calling the house back until may 4th and i've been talking to the republican senators and we are ready to go back today if we felt like we could get this plan fully funded. until we actually get the country open again, any of these programs are just turn it gets to help stem the bleeding until we can really get back to work again for america. to do that we have to get the disease behind us. >> ed: absolutely. we got 30 seconds. there's a article in the associated press saying that china dawdled for at least six days and hated the fact that this coronavirus pandemic was just beginning. allowed millions of people to travel around the world for the lunanew year. this piles on top of their stories about china and their failures and lack of transparency. what can you do, what will the senate do to hold them accountable? >> china cannot be trusted. this is the communist chinese party that has lied not just to the rest of the world but to their own people about the virus. they knew about it for an extended period of time and hit it from the world. my focus is less on punishing china than it is on protecting the american people which is why a number of us are working on ways to make sure we are never dependent upon china again for critical resources whether that's raw materials, important minerals, medicines, all the things that are so critical to us as a nation. we need to be self-sufficient in terms of the strategic moves. >> ed: absolutely. you have a big job ahead, we appreciate you coming on. >> sandra: top democrats meanwhile uniting to back joe biden for president. what barack obama's endorsement means for the party and of the november election. former interim dnc chair donna brazile will be here at the top of the hour to weigh in. you're first. first to respond. first to put others' lives before your own. and in an emergency, you need a network that puts you first. that connects you to technology and each other. that's built with and for 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people. they say the restrictions are arbitrary. you can buy lottery tickets but you cannot buy paint and gardening supplies and they say there is no end in sight. >> the people who are protesting don't believe that she's going to be finished in two weeks. like i said. if you are a landscaper, how is somebody getting on their lawn mower and getting off their truck and mowing a lawn contributing to the spread of covid disease? it feels like a stopover in michigan. >> governor whitmer's office give a statement reading in part, we will always defend everyone's right to free speech and we just asked those who chose mike to choose to protest these orders do so in a manner that doesn't put your health or the health of others at risk. the coalition posted guidelines for operation gri gridlock which included don't get out of your car and don't drink a lot of fluid because bathroom breaks may not be possible. i spoke with the organizers and they said it's not really possible to create gridlock 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in america more than 26,000 lives lost. but i states consider plants reopened dr. fauci says more testing will be needed first. >> ultimately the virus will determine when we will be able to reopen, not only in general but in the particular location. i think if we are assuming that two weeks from now that all the curves will be down, i think that's a bit overly optimistic. >> sandra: jonathan serrie is live this morning. >> president trump has announced that a thorough review of his pandemic. he accused the w.h.o. of being overly reliant on questionable data from china and said the china government. >> president trump: one of the most dangerous and costly decisions from the w.h.o. was its disastrous decision to impose travel restrictions from china and other nations. >> bill gates whose foundation is the second largest funder of the wha tweeted, halting funding during world health crisis is as dangerous as it sounds. the w.h.o. is a long-standing partner and recommends holding off on investigating the organization's role until we get through the pandemic. take a listen. >> those decisions that are related above, due to the geopolitical issues, i have to leave to those that have the expertise. but for me and the cdc and the public health arena we are continuing to work side-by-side with w.h.o. to do the best we can to limit the spread of disease and protect the american people. >> a chinese study published today in major medicine suggests covid-19 may be become contagious between two and three days before's showing symptoms and they said the most virus less than a day before symptoms. the authors estimate that 44% of secondary infections came from people in this presymptomatic phase, but the study's authors say that infectiousness appears to decrease rapidly over the first week. of infection. back to you, ed and sandra. >> sandra: all right, jonathan serrie live in atlanta. >> ed: meanwhile china remains under intense scrutiny this morning including the origin of the coronavirus and how it spread in wuhan. the u.s. official sounded the alarm about safety issues at a research lab there two years before the current pandemic. our national correspondent jennifer griffin is live at the pentagon with details. good morning, jennifer. >> according to department emails obtained two years ago u.s. embassy officials visited the chinese by bio level for te labs and warned about lax security. yesterday i asked the chairman of the joint chiefs about the origin of the pandemic. >> do you have any evidence the virus began in a chinese lab? >> there's a lot of rumors and speculation, a wide variety of media and blog sites, et cetera. it should be no surprise to you that week taken a keen interest in that and without a lot of intelligence take a hard look at that. i would say at this point it's inconclusive although the weight of evidence seems to indicate natural. but, we don't know for certain. >> for years that i a ta has investigated nuclear sites around the world. i asked if that was needed for biolab. >> do you think it's time to do that like you do for nuclear facilities? >> i think that's something that needs to be looked at after the fact. it needs to be lessons learned at some point. and we've already begun by the way. >> last week the top doctor ruled out there was a chinese bio weapon to blame. >> do you have any new information or any suspicion that this covid-19 may have been the result of a bio weapon? >> no. if i could just be clear, there is nothing to that. someone asked me if i was worried. that is not something that i'm worried about. i think right now what we are concerned about is how do we treat people that are sick and how do we prevent people that are getting sick. but no, i'm not worried about this as a bio weapon. >> sandra: what the pentagon cannot rule out is that scientists trying to study coronavirus and bats may have accidentally allowed the virus to escape in wuhan. it could have also occurred naturally in the stalls of the wet market and that's the two theories that they are looking out. >> ed: jennifer griffin, thank you. we will have much more on this from the pentagon when mark esper joins us next hour to talk about the fight on coronavirus and what's being done to keep our service members safe that's why i'm proud to endorse joe biden as president of the united states. >> sandra: it that was elizabeth warren throwing her full support behind former vp joe biden in his bid for the white house, endorsing her former rival one day after he got a big boost from his former boss. >> i'm so proud to endorse joe biden for president of the united states. choosing joe to be my vice president was one of the best decisions i ever made and he became a close friend. i believe joe has all the qualities we need in a president right now. >> sandra: donna brazile is a former interim chair of the dnc and a fox news contributor. donna, great to see you. i hope you are well and thanks for joining us. >> think you. this is the new addition to the family, i rescued her this weekend. sorry about that, she likes to sit on my lap. >> sandra: congratulations to you and congratulations to the new arrival. donna, let me start off first asking you about those two pieces of news. barack obama now fully endorsing joe biden, as of this morning elizabeth warren as well and bernie sanders is on board. how big is this for joe biden and his campaign, and for your party? >> it's extremely important. as you well know in 2008 the party went all the way until june. 2008 we had to wait until the convention. you have to look back through 2004 to find a more unified party. vice president biden has all the ingredients needed to pull the party together, to expand the party and ensure that everyone has a seat at the table. i'm confident that that is the plan and the goal over the next couple of weeks. >> sandra: you know, donna, we hadn't checked in on you for a while. the coronavirus pandemic has dominated every aspect of the news that we covered today both here and in the united states and globally. but this is an election year and these events unfolding the last hours and days, just give us the 30,000 feet view of what you are seeing for 2020 right now. >> everyone is transitioning to online activism, you see voter registration groups now gearing up for mail-in ballots. you see fund-raisers now conducting all of the activity online. so i think more people engage and more people are interested in getting involved. i know you saw the results in wisconsin and also in alaska where they had mail-in ballots. people are still energized and still ready to participate. we have 202 days left and remember this election will have extreme consequences for the future of this country, not just in terms of who controls congress but who gets to sit in the white house to make decisions about our ongoing efforts to defeat this virus. >> sandra: one of the decisions we are looking at right now is president trump deciding to delay the 20/20 census by several months. he's suggesting for months. he needs congressional approval but we haven't seen a whole lot of reaction out there to that. if anything it's been bipartisan support for that. i want to get your reaction to the president in his own words on them. >> president trump: during this difficult time we are also working to ensure that the 2020 census is completed safely and accurately. we may ask for an extension because obviously they can't be doing very much right now. it wouldn't even be allowed to do it. so the census, we would be asking for a major delay. >> sandra: you know i saw an objection from carolyn my lonely, democrat from new york, but it seemed to be the process by which the administration went about this, not about the actual decision itself. what do you think about the economic impact of redistricting? >> they have deadlines, and it's vital that we complete the census. i recognize the president and the mic and the administration is doing the right thing, we should inform members of congress and should have directed the census to come up p and assured americans that everyone will be counted. ten years ago, 66% of americans and by this time they filled out the applications. there's no question that the virus has had an impact on people's ability to get their information in. i suggest everybody go online and fill it out because that's a way to do it. i would until th waited until te very last minute to get mine done but i got it done. we get it done because people cannot go door to door go to reservations, count the homeless are so many other americans until the spire is under contr control. >> sandra: field operations were halted, but it might take an extra few months or so. so introduce us, what's the name of the puppy? >> while her name is zora may, she's from south carolina. i lost my dog chip eddy jeopardy gumdrop three years ago, almost to the day she came into my life. i couldn't help but get her. i want to thank you lucky dog and all the rescue people across the country doing a phenomenal job saving these animals and making sure they get to homes where they can be loved and protected. let me tell you about this girl. since coming into my life i have walked an average of 2 miles per day. so if you see me looking a little more fit and tran, it's because of miss zora here. >> sandra: that's good news. and ed picked up a new puppy as well. his name isn't vic. >> ed: vick is a great guy. >> thanks you guys, stay healthy. >> ed: the coronavirus having an impact on the mental health of many people putting kids especially as they are stuck indoors right now. what you can do to help your children cope with the crisis, that's next. plus government officials setting up orders to reopen the economy but, what happens if there's another outbreak? speak to the plans to reopen the country are close to being finalized. and we will soon be sharing details and new guidelines with 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>> sandra: great information. ice and hosni, thank you very much. >> president trump: pair for the next phase of this great struggle. we must also do everything in our power to restore prosperity for the american worker. there is tremendous interest and excitement surrounding the administration's efforts to get the economy roaring once again. >> ed: president trump right there setting his sights on reopening the economy and getting the american economy up and running. cheryl casone has been all over this. i wonder -- the president initially set i have total authority and then backpedaled out and said i will work with the governors. this is very important how all of this is orchestrated. >> yes and how business starts to get back to business. dr. fauci and others have said maybe not may, june, july or august. with the all seeing their projections for gdp down 20 and 30%. the good news is for the stock market that we know that. as far as the economy goes, business is going to look different and how we interact with each other when we get back to our offices will be different. we will probably be wearing masks into 2,022 and social distancing into 2,022. the big concern now is if there is a second wave. there was a bank of america survey of fund managers and 57% believed that if we do get the second wave that's the biggest risk. but i want to push back on that data. if there's a second wave of the virus it will be a lot different than this first wave has been. you have johnson & johnson working on a vaccine, abbott labs is working on it and it's about a test and they plan to have 20 million of these antibodies has out in the next several west, weeks. right near me and you become a huge study going on with hydroxychloroquine. whether it's vaccine or treatment or more ventilators being produced by american businesses, if there is a second wave of this virus even if it does come in the summer or fall it's not going to look like this. i think some of that fear is a bit unfounded in my opinion. >> ed: good points there. checking out fdn.com, interesting story there about how big tech is jumping into a help, the headline is tech company is jumping in to help small businesses stay open. coronavirus causes paypal and others to go down. talk about how they are pitching in. >> one thing that social media has created in our world is the ability to reach out to people that you may know or you don't know. we have this community that with belt and a small business owners can reach out to other small business owners or other large company executives to get inspiration and ideas. even though all these companies and small businesses are applying for the ppe right now that might get them through maybe four months. what's the business going to look like on the other side when the economy does start to reopen? what a great example is, gems. gems. i love my gym here in new york. they started an instagram account with daily workouts that's free and anyone can follow it. that's a way to stay engaged with their customers. how do you keep your business going while we are all shut down so that customers come back to you when the economy reopens? it's interesting. >> ed: we heard so long about digital extensions and how to use your website and other social media, sure enough they are doing that in this case. as we look at the dow down about 650 points today, it's interesting because it was such a strong day yesterday. it seems like maybe the markets were accounting for some of the trouble spots in the economy but then you get a whole bunch of new data today that suggests we are not quite through this. >> the bank earnings that came up this morning worked great but i thought they could have been more terrible. we covered them on "mornings with maria" today. there was some data coming out of manufacturing which was a rough number and at 10:00 a.m. when we saw a like it down for the dow, as you mentioned, we have nahb data, that's homebuilder data, and it was at 30. that's pretty negative, that number is usually 80 or 90. the pessimism is out there but going back to the point, we know what the projections are and we know things are going to be rough. the street is ready for that and honestly this volatility that we are looking at right now, we've seen a lot worse. we seen 2,000-point days and we don't have that right now. >> ed: we shall see. cheryl casone, thanks for coming and as always. >> you back. >> sandra: china facing a some harsh criticism over its handling of the early days of the coronavirus outbreak. was it all part of a political cover-up? 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>> sandra: a sobering revision and the epicenter of the coronavirus crisis, new york's death toll rising to nearly 11,000 after officials added likely victims that were never tested. more than 203,000 confirmed cases in the state as well. new york hospitals under siege and pushed to the brink as they face a surge of new patients. dr. stephen costco has the ceo of jefferson health and the president of thomas jefferson university. doctor, thank you for being here this morning. i should point out from new york as we heard from the governor of new york state yesterday that he believes that we are peaking in new york and he continues to talk about that drop in the hospitalization rate. thanks for being here. you oversee 14 hospitals, 30,000 employees. how are you doing and how are you managing through this? >> first of all, great to be on with you, sandra. it's a little bit of being a general at wartime and we had really had a pandemic disaster prepared in this group for the last ten years. so we had a lot of ppe on hand, almost 60 days. we were having weekly calls with italy. the former mayor of rome was our senior vice president. it was a little bit of covid-19 and what it did and what it didn't do. we saw the first wave in italy was hospital employees infecting each other, and we were the first in our city to go to a full universal masking environment, n95 for any health care that wanted it. so the simple answer is we looked at this as a war starting in the end of january. while we still have a long way to go so far, we feel good about our offense against the virus. >> sandra: we are certainly happy to hear that. this is greatly affecting our health care workers. if they are not immune to this virus. in fact the cdc just put out their findings in a report from april 14 on health care workers and it showed that between ten at 20% of u.s. coronavirus cases are indeed health care workers, although they did point out that they tended to be hospitalized at lower rates than other patients. so, what are you doing to keep your health care workers safe and working in the hospitals so they can continue to treat people, but also recognizing the fact that they get sick, too? >> well look, they are the heroes. the frontline health care workers, the doctors, the nurses, the folks that come in and clean the rooms are the true soldiers in this war. the true heroes. every day i go to work, i work with them and i think about th them. so a few things. we have to recognize there's an incredible emotional toll. it's literally ptsd. we have all sorts of online and other emotional and behavioral resources for them. the second thing is we worked with hotels in the area. what's important for us is, about five years ago we invested heavily in telehealth. our doctors and nurses were able to do a lot of the things that they do through telehealth. we had a doctor that actually contracted covid, and the next day wanted to see patients that she literally went on from her home on telehealth. for us, we really looked at what we call health care with no addressed we've invested the employees of senior management another $3.7 million in a better together fund for our most vulnerable employees. our employees that are out there every day that are either booed vulnerable or rent vulnerable. it's been a really that together experience for us and i know the worst of that is yet to come. those folks again will have some pretty significant emotional issues as they go through, watching people pass away. in the literally the next day they are gone. >> sandra: i hear the optimism coming from you but there out will obviously be challenges going forward. we will have to engage in social distancing until well into 2022. just paraphrasing this, it's going to be necessary until a vaccine becomes available. a prolonged distancing there, they are warning however will keep us safe. but if it continues it will likely have a profound negative economic, social and educational consequence. so doctor, if you could lead us off. your hospitals are in pennsylvania, delaware and new jersey. what does the next couple of years look like. keep people safe but also reengaged with society. that's what we call health care with no address. folks will get more and more health care at home. 30 years ago we would have been talking about people lining up at banks to deposit the checks. obviously we don't do it anymore and we don't talk about tele- banking. pregnant patients will not come in to hospitals to get tested, they will be doing a lot of that at home. i don't think health care will ever be the same, we are preparing for that. as it relates to social distancing and hospitals, may be at a level that we didn't really appreciate before. >> sandra: we appreciate you coming on "america's newsroom," all great stuff. our best to you and all your health care workers. >> ed: listen to this one. in an odd twist of fate health experts say the 49ers super bowl loss probably saved a lot of lives. "the wall street journal" is reporting that on february 2nd, the day the chiefs from kansas city won the super bowl come doctors in san francisco were already treating their first coronavirus patients. local health experts now say a 49ers victory would of course have led to a big parade in san francisco, drawing hundreds of thousands in city streets just as the virus was spreading. kansas city held its victory parade on february 5th but did not have its first confirmed case until march 18th, the day after san francisco went into lockdown. sandra? >> sandra: all right. meanwhile airlines have been some of the hardest hit during this crisis leaving bustling airports across the country. help is on the way and we will have the details on that come next. and it made in america. john roethlisberger doing his part to give a helping hand to our nation's small businesses. he will talk about his new project, and we will talk about that next. ♪ >> sandra: major u.s. airlines reaching an agreement with the treasury department splitting -- keeping workers pay to. the rescue package will be a mix of cash and loans allowing the government to take a small ownership stake in the airlines. >> ed: we have heard so much about how our nations small businesses are taking the economic crisis, i guess the john we can all say cheers to this. tell us why you are doing it. >> we were sitting around the other day wondering what we could do. what we could do to help our country and because our sweet spot has been advertising online mostly. we felt we could do pro bono work. i found in my travels especially when i was doing the show "made in america, there were a lot of companies to making lot of great products but they were making great things and not telling anybody about it. so if you go to american-made advertising.com, that will explain everything right there. speed limit give us an example of then. what kind of response have you got? if i called you up and said, i've got a hardware store that's pretty small, got five or ten employees, how would you keep us going? >> somebody like that usually, especially if it's a mom-and-pop, it doesn't mean that they are very up-to-date on their online presence. they might have their website but so much more has been done since i started the hardware store. and then bring them up to speed. we can do this, we can do that. we don't pay for the actual advertisement. we will give our expertise and our team will descend on them and let them know what they can do to let people know that they are still in business and they have sales. >> ed: we have seen this for restaurants in particular. people are trying to do some take out and take away and it's not easy. >> it's not easy at all. i've been giving speeches across the country were close to 20 years, and i don't use the term blue-collar worker, i use the term essential worker. especially truck drivers and a grocery store. they are essential. not necessarily blue-collar but these are the people we need. otherwise everything grinds to a halt and these are the people that are trying to help. >> ed: we were first introduced to you as a blue-collar worker if you will, and i noticed that you tweeted out in the last couple of days, it appears the u.s. postal service could use a little help. these are people as well, post men and women and putting themselves into harm's way. >> again, it's essential. essential to our existence. again, i go back and maybe it's because my dad was a truck driver, but we always go back to that. our families will be static, but the rest of the country gets along just fine. but if truck drivers pulled off to the side of the road for a couple of days and took a break everything grinds to a halt. people need to realize that. these are the people that need the help and this is why american-made advertising decided to step up and do what we can. >> ed: absolutely. people are certainly streaming a lot of shows and "tears" is probably one of them. you brought us a lot of laughter, you try to bring people up in a difficult time. last thought? >> there's a thing on twitter, i always get a kick out of larry the cable guy. he's my favorite. i got plenty of thoughts but that's what we do, and our show and a documentary on the situation. this it just didn't happen. i mean there's a lot of things that led up to this and it would be nice to be able to go back and say, where did this start and why did it start? how did it start? let's get down to the fundamentals so we don't do this again. >> ed: a lot of intrigue about how it all started. you are certainly doing a good thing for a lot of people. john, we appreciate you coming in. sandra? >> sandra: employees at meat processing plants testing positive for for a coronavirus in at least four states now so what does this mean for our nation's food supply? and how is the department of defense combating the spread of the coronavirus? secretary mark esper will be joining us next hour. >> while much of the work has been understandably in new york we are ensuring that other hot spots around the county are receiving the support we need to. today i spoken to over 20 governors to discuss how the department of defense must support them. ♪ this virus is testing all of us. and it's testing the people on the front lines of this fight most of all. so abbott is getting new tests into their hands, delivering the critical results they need. and until this fight is over, we...will...never...quit. because they never quit. >> ed: a supermarket scuffle is caught on camera and it got egg like ugly. a woman in england reportedly became upset because other customers were not following social distancing rules. her frustrations escalated into a violent and messy fight and that failure to follow social distancing even got worse as they fought. no arrests were reported and a sore employees of the woman is a regular customer and she eventually called to apologize. >> sandra: meat processing plants now closed in four different states and customers are worried about empty shelves. >> there have been repeated assurances from the administration including this morning from the secretary of agriculture. this coronavirus poses no threat to the u.s. food supply. >> the food supply is good, there is plenty of food and we will get it to consumers just as we always have. i think if we buy responsibly and don't panic everything will be fine. >> and yet a number of major meat processors in the u.s. i've had to shut down plants including one in south dakota. it's responsible for 5% of all u.s. pork. closing down these meat processing plants does pose a real threat to the u.s. food supply. >> there is an acute crisis that we've got to deal with which is, we simply don't have food. they are operating at very close quarters and some say that during a time of pandemic, we need to provide them with medical gear or protective gear as well just like anyone else. of course there is a chain reaction when these meat processing plants are closed. right now there are tens of thousands of hog farmers with nowhere to bring their hogs. some have even begun to euthanize their animals. sandra, back to you. and newday's va streamline refi shortcuts the process. veterans can refinance with no income verification, no appraisal, and no out of pocket costs. one call could save you $2000 a year. won't be a new thing. and it won't be their first experience with social distancing. overcoming challenges is what defines the military community. usaa has been standing with them, for nearly a hundred years. and we'll be here to serve for a hundred more. >> ed: a fox news alert, president trump halting the funding. welcome to a brand-new hour of "america's newsroom." i met henry. good morning to you sandra. >> sandra: good morning to you ed and everyone, i'm sandra smith. that controversial decision comes as cases in the u.s. top 600,000. he will be holding a series of calls today with various business leaders and industry groups. and, appointing a council now tasked with strategizing ways to spark economic growth. >> this is such a moving target that i think the biggest mistake anyone could make his rush to a decision. the businesses don't know what to expect on the other side. there's so much uncertainty that by talking with everybody in each of the groups i think the president could get a lot of great feedback on how businesses are approaching it. the member of the advisor only counsel, we begin with chief white house correspondent john roberts was live from the north line. >> let's start with the political brushfire that the president ignited last night in his coronavirus briefing at the rose garden. at the very top he said he was going to be halting funding to the world health organization or a period of 60-90 days. the president said he was undertaking the suspension in order for the united states to investigate what he called the mismanagement and cover-up of the w.h.o. response to the emerging coronavirus epidemic in china. listen to what he said. >> president trump: look at the rest of the world. look at parts of europe, other nations and regions who followed w.h.o. guidelines and kept their borders open to china. and accelerated the pandemic. >> the move inviting a lot of criticism particularly from democrats in the house oversight committee who in a letter to the president wrote "while we met agreed that that the bho has shortcomings that must be corrected, your attack on the global health organization can easily be seen as a deliberate but transparent effort to deflect responsible to for your own failures onto others. meanwhile your attempt to blame the w.h.o. for trusting china reflects an astonishing level of hypocrisy given your own fawning and widely publicized praise of president xi jinping. the president will spend much of the day talking with members of his new advisory council, a great american economic revival industry group, that's what it's calling it. on the agenda today, business and banking, health care, retail, construction and more. on thursday the president will speak with all 50 of the nation's governors about where they are and how soon they may be able to reopen. at the coronavirus briefing yesterday, the president backing off a bit on his declaration that the authority to reopen america rests with him and he will issue guidelines to governors on what he thinks should happen and they will be free to implement them as they see fit. the president also warning that if he sees something he doesn't like from one of the governors he will use leverage of the federal government against them. listen here. >> president trump: we will have to may be close them up and start all over again but i don't think we are going to have to do that. >> ed>> from now on those econoc payments and paper check form, the fox news has confirmed the president's name will appear in the memo section of those checks. if that's unprecedented as far as we know. we are told it probably will not be the president's signature other acknowledgment that the checks in some way are connected to him. the treasury department also denying reports that adding the president's name to those checks will in any way distant, could delay their disbursement. they are scheduled to go out at the beginning of next week on schedule and we are hearing they may even start to go out by the end of the week. sandra? >> sandra: all good information. john roberts at the white house. >> ed: was bringing back the mike bret baier. >> the president started this week with the idea that he had the total authority but he seemed to walk that back yesterday after the national review for example from the conservative sides of this was jarring and dangerous. now he's saying look. i will let the governors decide and work with them but has that added more confusion about how all of this is going to work? >> i think it's not exactly orderly because they are holding back to make the big announcement when they make it. but it comes down to these governors to make the final say on the final call. it sounds like there will be a very interactive process not only with all the governors but this huge list of companies and business people, experts, that he is going to be consulting before making this final decision. it's a long list and he spent a lot of time in the rose garden going through it and listing it all. one wonders how all of that advice will come in and affect the president's final call. >> ed: it no doubt about it. you can see the president taking fire from the democrats and democrat pat lahey saying essentially, why would you take ammunition away from the folks? obviously the u.s. taxpayers have brought up a lot of money for the world health organization and obviously the organization wants to get answers about why they held back key information and seem to be too close to china. >> i think this has been the m.o. for they have president to use the leverage to make the change. arguments of whether there is time and people like madeleine albright on dana perino show and, across the board, there's a lot of criticism for the w.h.o. and how they handle it and what to do from here. the news association comes out today with that big piece that says there are six critical days here were tenants simply didn't tell the public the truth and allowed millions of people to travel for the lunar new year and now here we are with this pandemic. >> i think cliff from cheers on your show is right. i think people want to get to the bottom of the china situation and the origins of this virus. i think senator tom cotton was heralding this from january on in the interviews, one with tucker carlson and people weren't listening to him. many people were blowing him off. i think this story will explode once we find out the details of what was held back in the early days. not only that but the human to human transmission, they knew how dangerous it was. >> ed: standby, we want to get your thoughts on 2020, and on one second. >> it was one of the best decisions i ever made and i became a close friend. i believe joe has all the qualities we need in a president right now. >> sandra: joe biden finally scoring the big endorsement. of president obama saying joe biden is the man at the right time to occupy the oval office. peter doocy is live in arlington, virginia, with more on the presidential race and the recent updates. hey, peter. >> sandra, joe biden won the support today of it a rival in elizabeth warren. campaigning on a platform of big structural change to supporting a candidate that argues voters want results and not a revolution. >> joe biden is a selfless public student, servant. joe biden will lead a government that works for the american people. and now it's up to all of us to help make joe biden the next president of the united states. let's get to work. >> warren everett wound up endorsing her longtime friend and has been quiet ever since dropping out, to fight for the most progressive platform possible. biden isn't just getting endorsements, he's getting commitment from people who are not being subtle about wanting to beat his running mate. the former georgia house leader stacy abrams now says i would be an excellent running mate. i would have the capacity to have a strong history of executive and management experience in the private and nonprivate sectors. alexander era or causey or cortez set a few minutes ago on a political live stream that after not talking to the biden campaign, those teams are speaking about a possible endorsement but the biggest surrogate for biden, the cycle will be barack obama. he said in that endorsement the comic video he wants to get out on the campaign trail as soon as possible but we don't know when that will be possible. >> ed: let's bring back bret baier to get his thoughts on 2020. it's such an odd moment, because a campaign is not fully on, we are obviously i'll focus on the pandemic. and bernie sanders, barack oba barack obama, and we are not sure where all this goes. he said he was going to be out of the mix. by all reports, for a long phone calls, accelerating the end game as she said and how to do this. for that endorsement of bernie sanders and then him saying that anybody opposing biden within the democratic primary is dangerous, that is more important for joe biden who is trying to rally the troops and get the progressives on his side. >> ed: to your point, "the new york times" story about that, he had at least four conversations with his remaining rivals. mr. obama's efforts to ease a senator out of the race played a six vacant role in mr. sanders decision to end his bid and endorsements for biden according to people close to the vermont independent. the question being, why now? was it, and that's a lot of reports about joe biden being a shaky front runner during this crisis. >> listen. he's going to need help, he's going to need help financially, a significant amount of help financially up against the trump machine which is really bringing in the box. 212 million in the first quarter and some of that obviously during covid-19. he will be flush with cash against enc and abide in operation that is really not. so for one thing, to help with the finances. and to to shore up the candidates to try to break through. with president trump soaking up all of the oxygen with the press briefings it's hard to do. >> ed: and nobody really knows where, it's a whole new 2020 campaign. we will be with you every step of the way. covid-19 probably did not come from a lab in china. speculation swirls over the country's early attempts to cover up the spread of the virus. we will be speaking to defense secretary mark esper who will join us live, coming up. plus, a nurse contracts the coronavirus and goes back to the front lines after recovering. we will hear from him about his experience. and critics saying michigan's governor went too 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and that's why they are out here today as far as the eye can see safely protesting to make sure the governor hears them. listen. >> as soon as you take away a person's right to travel between homes and go out and buy seeds to feed the family than you have people totally dependent on the government and that's not what america is. >> governor whitmore put out a statement saying she supports everybody's rights of free speech including everyone who is planning to be out here today. but she says they she hopes they protest safely, and that the protest that's in the age of social distancing. >> a nurse became infected, recovered and is now back on the front lines. wearing a gown, gloves, masks and a face shield but working on the floor 12 hours a day with patients made him susceptible. joining us now is anesthesiologist alex wheatley. we would love for you to just tell us your story and what happened to you, i was working in the icu and i will wore the proper ppe. about five days after my first ship i contracted a fever and multiple other symptoms. i then followed the doctor's protocol, and i was tested to come i tested positive and then i waited a week for symptoms to subside. i could have gotten it anywhere but, it might have happened. >> sandra: having taken all the precautions that you did, were you surprised you ended up testing positive for covid-19? >> yes. we were supplied with ppe. i was wearing a litter and 95 mask and face shield and whatnot but i could have gotten the virus anywhere. i could have gotten it at the gas pump at the gas station. >> what were the symptoms that you were experiencing. did you know before you took the test that this was what you had? >> prior to taking the test i only have the symptoms of fever, aches, chills, nausea and a slight cough. i took the test and it took a couple days to come back but then i developed a loss of taste and smell and that happened before i got the positive test. when i developed that i was sort of positive that i had contracted the disease. >> sandra: those are all out of the textbook symptoms that we hear about every day and it's amazing to hear a front-line worker like yourself in the medical field have those symptoms, experience test, test positive and then one of the biggest parts of your story is that you went back on the front line. and you take that risk again. what inspires you to do that? >> just to help those patients out, i do want to point out that the story is not uncommon. this happens during a time of epidemics in the world. health care workers and we contract this disease. a lot of them go home and beat it and they go back and fight against it by helping out these sick patients. you see people raise their windows and open their doors and shut out thank you to our health care workers on the front lines and our first responders saying thank you. what does that mean to you to hear that and see that? >> it's very fulfilling. we all appreciate it. >> sandra: i know you make a louisiana proud. all our best to you as you continue to care for those patients. alex, thank you. >> yes, ma'am, thank you. go tigers. >> ed: had to get that in, good stuff there. if we are awaiting new york governor andrew cuomo to give an update on the covid-19 response as he continues to say the worst is over, but still recording nearly 800 new deaths yesterday. we will have a live report from new york city coming up. plus the defense department working at moving military doctors and nurses to help out at overlong hospitals. defense secretary mark esper joins us to explain all that just ahead. >> we are embedding our doctors and nurses into the hospitals alongside the civilian staff if you will to help them out or to provide relief. when bugs move in, we stress out and spray. well, we used to. new ortho home defense max indoor insect barrier kills and prevents bugs for up to a year without odor stains or fuss. get everything you need for spring at ortho.com order today! >> sandra: fox news alert as we await a briefing by a new york governor andrew cuomo. the death toll in hard-hit new york state is now approaching 11,000 as new york city mayor de blasio announces plans to begin manufacturing test kits and protective gear for our front-line workers. david lee miller is live in new york city with more. hey, david lee. >> good morning again, sandra. the number of fatalities linked to the coronavirus here in new york city has just gone from bad to worse. the city health department calculates the number of confirmed deaths that is now releasing probable deaths caused by the virus. based on this new data, the coronavirus has spiked by 57% regarding the number of fatalities. here and now are the breakdowns. 6,589 lives confirmed or lost, 3,778 presumed deaths because of the virus. more than half of those thought to be killed by the virus died at a hospital. mayor bill de blasio this morning said he fears a virus death toll might even be higher than has already been document documented. according to the most recent statistics the number of hospital admissions in new york city and patients in intensive care have increased. on the positive side, a lower percentage of people are testing positive. the mayor says more needs to be done to protect workers in grocery stores, and a short time ago released new guidelines. >> require face coverings for customers when they come in. put up a sign around the entrance at the store, making clear that that's a way to do things and that's a requirement of your particular story. that is legal and appropriate, the city will back you up. >> the mayor also says there is an economic crisis and have a million new yorkers he says will soon be jobless and he vowed that no new yorker will go hungry. and the month of april alone he says the city will serve at least 10 million meals. in planning for the future, the city is now planning on putting together food reserves. they are stockpiling what they described as 18 million shelf-stable meals. sandra? >> sandra: david lee miller, inc. you for your reporting on the ground. >> ed: we know the coronavirus originated in wuhan, china and general mark milley reported that the virus likely had natural origins and did not come from a bio weapons lab in wuhan. >> there's a lot of rumor and speculation and it should be no surprise to you that we have taken a keen interest in that. we have had a lot of intelligence take a hard look at that. at this point it's inconclusive, although the weight of evidence seems to indicate natural. but we don't know for certain. >> ed: is joining us now as secretary of defense mark esper we certainly appreciate you coming in. the associated press has a major story this morning breaking saying that there were six key days when this outbreak started to wear a top chinese officials kept it quiet. they knew that this was all developing. they essentially covered it up and they let millions of people travel around the lunar new year and here we are now thousands of americans who have died. our entire economy upended what can you do in the days ahead to hold china accountable? >> first let me speak to what dod is doing. the united states. from the beginning going back to late january the dod has been all in when it comes to protecting the american people and been consistently ahead of the curve when we have deployed equipment, and troops and doctors and nurses to american cities. we've been all in and we continue to do that, i'm proud of the service members around the country and abroad who are providing support to our great country. with regard to china and the information coming out of there, as many of us have spoken from folks across the political spectrum, clearly the chinese could have been more transparent earlier and shared much more of the data. we would have had a better understanding of this virus and how to deal with it and even today we see them withholding information. i think we need to do more to continue to pressure the sheriff. the tour of resolution to get back to near normal is that we all cooperate, and, he's been saying we don't know where for sure this started. when will we be able to conclusively determine where we are in this investigation. i won't speak to intelligence reporting beyond that, but i think most people believe it began naturally. it was organic, if you will. in due course once we get through the pandemic there will be time to look back and ascertain what happened and make sure we have a better understanding so we can prevent this in the future. >> sandra: what can you share with us, mr. secretary? what can you share with obviously your intelligence has been digging into this and there is limited information you can provide us, but where would we be today? you just suggested that they withheld information. how differently is the situation had they been more forthcoming. >> if the dna and getting a jump-start on therapeutics in fort dietrich maryland a few weeks ago, they are obviously had solutions with regard to zeke and ebola. for the most part, we didn't see warnings until mid until late january with regard to reporting, as to what the virus was and it wasn't until later in january that w.h.o. actually said, human to human transmission was even possible. >> sandra: and mr. secretary, yesterday you held a press conference and the joint chief army general milley was there and called it covid-19 the enemy. we also have 50,000 u.s. troops deployed to fight that war, to fight this virus. but we also have a lot of troops getting sick. what are we doing to ramp up testing and protect our military and the spread within our military? >> since the early days of this campaign, we laid out three priorities for the department of defense. number one protect our service members, and number to ensure that we can conduct our national security missions around the world. and president trump has directed with regard to the coronavirus. we are protecting our people very seriously going back to 30 january was when i issued my first guidance to the troops with regard to how to protect themselves. we've issued new guidelines from there, another seven or eight. we restricted movement all around the world to include the united states and with taken a number of measures to protect our people. we've also done aggressive testing with our forces, particularly what we call our strategic and tier one forces that we need to protect to ensure our nation security. at this point in time our total number of folks who are infected are around 2500, out of a force of 2.2 million it's relatively a smaller number and i attribute that to a large degree to the measures we took early. we continue to enforce and of course we have a younger, better population if you will. >> ed: at one of the considerations is what happen on the uss theodore roosevelt and the large number of sailors who have gotten sick. where are we in the investigation that we talked about publicly to find out whether or not captain crozier was treated fairly or unfairly when he tried to blow the whistle and what was happening. >> that investigation was completed last week and it was an investigation that i directed a couple weeks ago. it's going to the acting secretary of the navy and at some point it will likely come to me. the important thing is taking care of our sailors. we have many who were infected by it, what's disconcerting about the numbers we actually know right now is, a majority of the sailors who have the virus are asymptomatic. so we've gotten some insights as to how this virus acts and how it's transmitted, and so we are trying to be doubly careful as we clean that ship up and get the sailors back to see which we think will happen in a few weeks. the good news is of the 90 plus ships out on the sea is today patrolling the oceans and keeping america safe, none of them are affected. it's just been the teddy roosevelt at this point in time and i'm sure we will have her back on patrol hero soon as we well. >> sandra: secretary esper, i wanted to follow-up on something you said at that pentagon news conference. our pentagon reporter jennifer griffin asked you to look at bio labs, like you do nuclear facilities around the world. you indicated that you are open to that idea and that you would be looking further into that. do you have any update to that? >> i think it's an intriguing idea. we do that with nuclear inspections but as we noted at the time, it's tied to the nuclear nonproliferation treaty. that's one of the things we would look at once we get beyond that, it would be the state department who likely took the lead on that. at this point in time, we at dod have been gathering lessons learned if you well and actually sending out teams to do so. once we make our way through the crisis on the back end of it, we make sure we make adjustments so that we have better plans going forward. we activated our global pandemic plans on one february, nearly two and half months ago. we try to stay ahead and we want to make sure we are better prepared going into the future. >> mr. secretary, while the world has been focused on the pandemic and north korea has fired more missiles ahead of south korea's elections, there are concerns around the world about what they are really up to and trying to improve their nuclear program. how concerned are you about north korea and other enemies of the united states trying to take advantage of the situation to go after our interests around the world? >> i talked about this yesterday. as many people, most americans are focused inward in terms of the coronavirus and taking care of themselves and their families, the dod is still looking outward. we are providing 50,000 service members and equipment in major cities across united states with even more to come but we still have an outward focus. as you noted, north korea is conducting weapons tests and russian aircraft trying to penetrate our airspace. we still continue the counter terrorism fight and we are working in iraq, trying to deter iran. the world remains a dangerous place and so we are the sentinels on the wall standing guard and that is -- let remains my top mission right now. >> sandra: secretary esper, if you could circle back to this conversation that we just had and look at all the different aspects, obviously you are knee-deep in all these different angles to covid-19 and the fight here at home around the world. if you could characterize where you think we are with this today? >> i think we are starting to see some light at the end of the tunnel. we see in major cities the curves flattening if you will, and we are seeing less of a need for the corps of engineers to build more capacity space around the country. with had the national guard -- i'm sorry, the corps of engineers for over a month now and they have site surveyed over a thousand sites and created 60,000 beds, but it seems to me as a virus changes and we adapt, we are learning that greater need is doctors and nurses. so in new york where you are, we've moved doctors and nurses out of javits and out of the comfort, put them in new york city hospitals. the staff has been working very hard and very stressful conditions and long hours. at the same time we are providing supplies and masks and ventilators, and we also have a world-class researchers. we will get through this. we will get through it and get through it together and as we get to the far end we have learned a lot. i'm confident that we will get through this. >> sandra: we are very grateful for your time. hope to have you back soon. >> ed: thank you sir. meanwhile professional college sports are on hold but there's plenty of activity at the auditorium. how lsu is stepping up to help medical professionals on the front lines right now. veterans: you know mortgage rates have fallen to 50-year lows. but did you know that your va benefit lets you easily refinance to a lower 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to see you and it's good to see that purple and gold behind you. tell us how you are joining the fight? >> we are leading a statewide effort to fight corona, it's great to be with you. as you know lsu has eight campuses in our family and every one of them is participating in this fight against corona. what you see behind me right now is what i jokingly call our manufacturing division. we are literally on the floor of the p mack, we call the pete maravich center the p mack. we are literally making ppe to provide to our health care workers. >> sandra: that's a beautiful thing. obviously's your estate has been hit hard by this. what are you able to make and manufacture as far as quantity to get out there to our front-line workers when it comes to this ppe equipment? >> we are hoping when we get totally up to speed we will be able to make about a thousand gallons per day. this operation all began in the garage of a physics professor wayne neuhauser and wayne neuhauser is an absolute rock star. with students he designed gallons. he contacted and we contacted lamar advertising who donated the material that they use in billboards. circle graphics helped us get it here and we have now got -- never more than 50 people at a time on the floor making the gowns. we've also got as you look at the screen to my right, we are also making masks. on our campus we are also mass-producing hand sanitizer and testing at our vet school in new orleans. in shreveport we have clinical trials going on and both of our medical centers we are treating patients with coronavirus. so really it's a statewide effort by a great university. i think what we are seeing, and i'm proud of this and excited by it, we are seeing research in action. we are seeing innovation in research and action, research not from an ivory tower about practical research is making lives better and it's literally saving lives. >> sandra: part of the great american story what you are doing right now his hands on social distancing while you are doing it. while wearing the lsu purple and gold, it's a huge effort that you all have undertaken there and we really appreciate it. thanks for coming on at talking about it. seeing this so much across the country, glad to see lsu participating as well. >> it's a pleasure. we are not socially distanced, we are socially together even though we are physically distant. and as always, go tigers. >> sandra: go tigers, thanks for joining us. even when depressed. overwhelmed by bipolar depression? ask about vraylar. some medications only treat the lows or the highs. vraylar effectively treats depressive, acute manic and mixed episodes of bipolar i. full-spectrum relief of all symptoms, with just one pill, once a day. elderly patients with dementia-related psychosis have an increased risk of death or stroke. call your doctor about unusual changes in behavior or suicidal thoughts. antidepressants can increase these in children and young adults. report fever, stiff 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save lives. of the cook county present here in chicago at one point was considered the nation's greatest hot spot for covid-19. detainees are now putting up signs the windows same "don't let us die" and "we matter." there are more than 500 cases of coronavirus inside the facility is. 306 inmates, 218 staff that have to go on to their family. they've released at least 1300 prisoners and detainees so far and identified at least 80 more cups eight that are seriously ill. the sheriff tells fox news the public defender is a releasing its detainees within certain criteria. some that are elderly, i have serious medical condition or are considered nonviolent offenders. the public defender says up to 90% of detainees in the cook county jail are considered innocent. they are pretrial and released with public safety in mind. >> ed: we will stay on top of this, thank you. sandra? >> sandra: family and friends of a young boy refusing to let a quarantine during his eighth birthday. how they all came 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"outnumbered" starts now. >> harris: we begin with this fox news alert. world leaders are reacting with alarm after president trump announced a halt to the sizable funding the united states sends to the world health organization pay the president is arguing the global health agency mismanaged response t to the coronavirus pandemic. he says they must be held accountable. >> the world depends on the w.h.o. to work with countries to ensure that accurate information about international threats is shared in a timely matter. if it's not, to independently tell the world the truth about what is happening. the w.h.o. failed in this