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Chunk of that gain happening after the News Conference started and continuing throughout. All of this comes on a day of more cancellations and postponements affecting major sporting events, Worship Services and educational facilities. As well as increasing strain on businesses and consumers. America has dramatically changed how it operates. In the span of just a few days. Chief White House Correspondent john roberts starts us off tonight on the north lawn with what the Emergency Declaration means and what comes next. Good evening, john. Bret, good evening to you. Indeed, things have changed quite significantly in just the last few days. President trump was hoping it wouldnt come to this but with public concern growing and political pressure mounting on him to show that the white house is making maximum effort to deal with the coronavirus, the president today moved to get out in front of it. I am officially declaring a National Emergency. Two very big words. The declaration of a National Emergency will unlock tens of billions of dollars put toward Coronavirus Response and cut through red tape with medicare, medicaid amend the Childrens Health Insurance Program expanding hospitals ability to care for patients. We will remove or eliminate every obstacle necessary to deliver to our people the care that they need and that they are entitled to. No resource will be spared, nothing whatsoever. The president also announcing a new google website launching this weekend to help people assess whether they should be tested. And urging americans to only get a test if they are sick. We dont want everyone the running out and taking it only if you have certain symptoms. The president today met with the kro zs oceos much target wa. Testing has taken weeks a fault the president said today of the previous administration. I dont take responsibility at all because we were given a set of circumstances and we were given rules, regulations and specifications from a different time. The president s point person on Infectious Disease dr. Anthony fauci said today things will likely get worse before we get better, but he hopes that the u. S. Is now wellpositioned to bend the infection curve. That curve that i refer to that goes up, we dont want to have that curve. We want to suppress it down to that small mound. As the virus continues to spread, negotiations on capitol hill to craft a bipartisan coronavirus bill are stalling again. The president still opposed to what House Democrats are proposing. All of a sudden they didnt agree to certain things they agreed to. We could have something but we dont think they are giving enough. They are not doing whats right for the country. The house bill would provide free coronavirus testing and expand paid home leave and unemployment insurance. This morning the treasury secretary said more help would be needed for severely affected Industries Like the airlines. And he, again, pushed for the president s idea of a payroll tax holiday. The president is very interested in the payroll tax cut because its a giant stimulus. We are working with congress on that. If Congress Wants to do the stimulus in a different format, we will consider that. The president was also pressed today about his exposure to coronavirus from a brazilian delegation at maralago last weekend. President ball son narrows son told fox news his father tested negative for the virus. President trump had first said he had no plans to get tested himself. Well, i dont know that i had exposure but i dont have any of the symptoms. But later said he probably would. Well, i didnt say i wasnt going to be tested. Are you going to be . Most likely, yeah. Not for that reason but because i think i will do it anyway. As states across the nation begin to close schools and limit the number of people who can collect together at public gatherings, the president said today that he believes the next eight weeks with the virus will be a critical period for the United States. One in which he hopes the country can turn the corner on the coronavirus. Bret . Bret john roberts live on the north lawn. John, thanks. It could be a long two months. The list of postponements cancellations and closings is growing exponentially tonight. America has mentioned along with much of the world is becoming a very different place because of the coronavirus. Correspondent Jonathan Serrie is in atlanta tonight. Good evening, jonathan. Good evening, bret. Just minutes ago colorado reported another death. This brings the u. S. Death toll from coronavirus to at least 47 and Public Health officials warn more infections are on the way. The covid19 pandemic is already having unprecedented disruption on daily life in the u. S. In recent hours, multiple governors and mayors have made Emergency Declarations. Even broadway has gone dark and this may be just the beginning. You would hope that you wouldnt have to resort to these draconian moves of actually locking down a city, but it depends on what happens. I hope we never get to that, but you never take anything off the table when you are dealing with protecting the health of the american public. Despite a nationwide lockdown, italys case count continues to rise with more than 15,000 people infected and more than 1,000 deaths. Germany and spain are also seeing cases spike. Today europe is yesterdays china. When you really look at it, you know, over 50, 60, 70 of the new cases that are coming in to the world today are coming in europe. In an exclusive interview with robert news Robert Redfield said President Trumps travel restrictions on china that began february 2nd helped slow the introduction of coronavirus into the u. S. New travel restrictions on much of europe go into effect at midnight. We felt from a Public Health point of view it was important for us to begin to sort of turn off the import of the cases while we are now trying to aggressively confront the cases that we are identifying now. Covid19 continues to hit the sporting world. With the Boston Marathon postponed until september. Nascar is rescheduling its next two events. And formula 1 expects to delay its season into late may. Organizers called off todays australian grand prix after a race member tested positive. We are all disappointed not to have it but these are challenging times and we made the decisions we have to make. In golf the Masters Tournament has also been postponed with fred ridley explaining ultimately the health and well being of everyone in these events and citizens of the g. Gus that Community Led us to this decision. We are now to the point where the balance has shifted and appropriate path is to close schools. Today the Los Angeles Unified School district joined a growing list at least 18,700 schools nationwide are either closed or closing for the outbreak affecting at least 1. 8 Million Students according to education week. The National Guard says it expects to deploy nearly 1,000 troops in six states by the end of the day. They will assist with disinfection, Meal Delivery and transportation of medical personnel and supplies. And today amc announced it will be cutting Seating Capacity at its u. S. Movie theaters starting this weekend to allow more space between individual movie goers. And at t has announced its providing unlimited data to its Home Internet customers. That in anticipation of more americans spending more time at home in the coming weeks. Bret . Bret jonathan, thank you. Today stocks posted their biggest rally since 2008, almost 9. 5 in the three major exchanges. The dow exploding for a gain of 1982 points as i mentioned. A lot of it during that News Conference in the rose garden. The s p 500 surging 230. The nasdaq jumped 672. For the week the dow still lost almost 10. 5 percentage points. The s p 500 dropped 9. The nasdaq fell around 8. After a rough couple of weeks so far this year, the dow is down almost 19 . The s p 500 has lost 16 . The nasdaq is the best of the bunch losing more than 12. President trump spoke at length today about improving the testing for the coronavirus. Its a major focus for an administration that has taken heavy criticism really up until today. David spunt updates us on that tonight. We want to make sure that those who need a test can get a test very safely, quickly and conveniently. President trump making it clear the testing for coronavirus will improve over the next several days. A priority echoed by both sides of the aisle. The three most important parts of this bill are testing, testing, testing. The top medical experts in the country admit the United States is behind the ball. It is a fail. Lets admit it. As of thursday, federal officials logged nearly 14,000 completed tests. Cdc guidelines require tests to be given to people who have visited the affected geographic areas or if a person believes they came into contact with someone who tested positive. The problem many people have come into contact with a positive case. They just dont know it. Now states are getting more thio up to a capacity of about 6,000 tests per day. The actual test is a mouth or throat swab that takes a mucous sample. The swabs are shipped to labs and in most cases it takes a day for a result. Private companies are looking to change that. We stand ready to deliver a rapid screen test. One company is working to develop a bloodbased test that can provide results in 15 minutes. Our private solutions and Public Infrastructure is second to none. And you can anticipate our numbers will surpass all others. Bradley isnt alone. Swiss Company Roche with a footprint in the u. S. Announced it developed a swab test that could provide results in three and a half hours. The food and Drug Administration granted an emergency authorization for the test. Normally getting approval to develop such a test could take more than a year. Roche was able to do it in just a few weeks. The Company Hopes to start sending out the tests this weekend. Bret . Bret david spunt, thank you. We are just getting word of a deal, according to the speaker of the house, a deal with the white house on a bill, a coronavirus bill. We will get some more details about whats in there. We heard in johns piece and earlier today there was some pushback from republicans on that. We will see whats in there. Chad pergram our senior producer up on capitol hill will get him to a camera and get into the details. The coronavirus is having effect on the election. Arizonas largest county is mailing ballots for next weeks democratic president ial primary to every voter who normally participate paeufts at the polls. The plan in Maricopa County is to ensure citizens can vote with minimal exposure to the coronavirus. Louisiana meantime is postponing its primary election, scheduled for april 4th. The governor wants to reschedule to reschedule to june 20th. Louisiana is the first state in the nation to do so. The coronavirus pandemic has sparked many conspiracy theories. One of them put chinas ambassador in a very tough spot today here in washington. State Department Correspondent rich edson has that story tonight. Good evening, rich. Good evening, bret. The state department summoned chinas top diplomat in the United States as american officials blame the Chinese Government for spreading conspiracy theories about the coronavirus. This morning ambassador kai left the state department not answering our questions as he left headquarters. Do you believe the u. S. Military brought this virus to wuhan, sir . Officials here say the ambassador met with assistant secretary for east asian and Pacific Affairs David Stilwell who objected to what Officials Say is chinas blatant Global Disinformation Campaign on the coronavirus. American officials have pointed to this tweet from a spokesman for Chinas Ministry of Foreign Affairs saying, quote it might be the u. S. Army to brought the epidemic to wuhan. Be transparent. Major your public data. U. S. Owes us an explanation. There is notified u. S. Soldiers visiting wuhan in october carried the virus. Senior state Department Official says china is trying to deflect criticism for hiding information about the coronavirus at the onset of mass infections in wuhan. President trump says the accusation does not represent the views of chinas leadership. I did read one article, but i dont think that article was representative, certainly not in my conversations with president xi. And they know where it came from. We all know where it came from. An editorial in Chinese State media this month suggest china could ban exports of medical products to the u. S. And the world should thank china for the aggressive. Praise chinas cooperation in coordination with the u. S. Government. Disinformation about this virus remains a challenge. Recent state Department Report showing more than 2 million tweets worldwide across six weeks earlier this year spread coronavirus conspiracies. The most prolific lies that the bill and Melinda Gates foundation created it and that the virus was manufactured as a biological weapon. Officials here say they are working aggressively to combat disinformation about the coronavirus in particular from iran and china. The Chinese Embassy refused to respond to requests as to what exactly the ambassador discussed today. Bret . Bret interesting. Rich edson, live at the state department. Rich, thanks. Again, breaking news a deal according to the speaker of the house on the coronavirus bill. We will get details. Havent heard from the g. O. P. Side. Chad pergram is working the phones. Up next, details on that u. S. Retaliatory airstrike following this weeks deadly rocket attack on American Military personnel in iraq. First here is what some of our fox afill i cant say around the country are covering tonight. Fox 9 in twin cities halt teachers and their strike minnesotas second largest School District have reached tentative contract agreement. Students will return to class monday, at least we think so. Fox 13 in Salt Lake City where woulutah lawmakers passed new regulations on abortion as the state Legislature Ends its work for the year. One measure would ban most abortions if roe v. Wade is overturned. Lawmakers also made major changes to the states polygamy statute revised a voter approved redistricting law and reached a compromise on education funding. And this is a live look at philadelphia from our affiliate fox 29. The big story there tonight, Authorities Say a Police Officer was shot and killed as he served a homicide warrant at the home in at a home in the citys frankfurt section. Corporal James Oconnor was shot around 6 00 this morning. Two people in the home were shot and wounded by police. They are expected to survive. That is tonights live look outside the beltway from special report. There is other news. Well be right back. Give me your hand i can save you. Lots of money with Liberty Mutual we customize your Car Insurance so you only pay for what you need only pay for what you need. Liberty. Liberty. Liberty. Liberty. A lot of folks ask me why their dishwasher i doni kept putting it off. Screened a long time ago. What was i thinking . Ok, mr. Jones. Were all done. I told you it was easy. At life line screening, we use Ultrasound Technology to help check your risk for stroke and heart disease. After all, 4 out of 5 stroke victims receive no warning. Right now, a package of five painless screenings. Is just 149. So, call today. Life line screening. The power of prevention. Bret as referenced breaking tonight an apparent agreement on legislation to address the coronavirus emergency. The House Speaker making that announcement and relief reaction up on capitol hill Congressional Correspondent chad pergram live there now. Good evening, chad. That kind of evolved we heard the president in the rose garden saying they are not doing what needs to be done. The key here was the fact that House Speaker nancy pelosi and the secretary of the treasury Steve Mnuchin spoke 12 times today, including three times during the president s press conference in the rose garden. That tells you, despite what the president was saying, is that there was a deal to be had. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi didnt think that the house of representatives could leave with this still on the table. Remember the senate is out. There were a lot of republicans in the house of representatives who were squeamish about supporting something that the president wasnt fully behind. Remember, they have had problems with the president on these issues before. Mitch mcconnell, the Senate Majority leader, learned that the hard way in 2018 when they had an agreement, they thought, on the government funding bill and then there was the government shutdown. Even Kevin Mccarthy the House Minority leader thought there was an agreement earlier this week that he negotiated with bill barr the attorney general on fisa. And then that was blown up in the senate for the time being. Republicans in the house are very concerned about getting this right. I spoke with one senior republican who said that some of the outstanding issues were just technical. This is why they thought they had an agreement maybe 10 00, 11 00 this morning and they might have this bill on the house floor. But this bill will probably pass later tonight with an amal gum of democrats and republicans whats key here, bret, we still dont have the bill text. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi at one point this afternoon seemed poise to go ahead and pass her own bill without any republican support and basically say, look, you know, we have done our part, the senate its up to you, President Trump its up to you. And if you dont pass something we will see you in november, bret. Bret chad, thats important. Pelosi in her letter said she listed a few things including secured paid emergency leave, to weeks of paid sick leave and up to three months of paid family and medical leave enhanced unemployment insurance. Whats key here there was rumbling about other things being put in this bill, extraneous to the Coronavirus Response. And it may pass the house with the majority being democrats, but it still has to get through the senate. So even if they made a deal, it still has another hurdle to go through. Thats right. Thats what Mitch Mcconnell was waiting for just to see what the street could bear in terms of the traffic in the terms of the house of representatives. The senate, unless they do something by extraordinary measures and come back the session over the weekend, they are not going to tee things up until about 5 30 in the senate. They are going to address fisa then. When you talk to other senate republicans, roy blunt, democrat chris coons from delaware, they think they can pass a bill along the lines of what the house will pass tonight. And send that to President Trump. They understand how grave this situation is and they cant sit this one out. Bret very quickly, i mean, these bills, sometimes when there is an emergency and it needs to happen fast and people dont see whats in the bill, that gets to raise some eyebrows. Absolutely, yeah. Thats why people were concerned. They want to seat details. One draft of this that we saw earlier was 106 pages. Keep in mind how tough it was to pass tarp. This was the you know, the troubled Assets Relief Program in response to the financial crisis in 2008. That bill failed in the house of representatives, despite how grave and dire the situation was. Here they are going to pass a bill. You know, and, again, keep in mind, bret, this is the easy bill. There is going to a second and third tier bill which will be much more complicated in the weeks and months to come. Bret the president hoping for a payroll tax cut somewhere in there chad pergram, thank you very much for the latest up on capitol hill. We have new information tonight, meantime, about the u. S. Response to deadly rocket attacks on American Service members earlier this week in iraq. National security correspondent Jennifer Griffin fills us in from the pentagon. This u. S. Drone video show the aftermath of the airstrikes. U. S. Warplanes hit five sites south of baghdad. Weapons warehouses, including one at a civilian airport where rockets like the ones that struck camp are stored by iranian backed militias. Iraqs military said three iraqi commandos and three Police Officers were killed in the u. S. Strikes. Today the head 6 u. S. Central command explained why the u. S. Military was unable to prevent the rocket attack from a mobile launcher that killed Army Specialist Juan Miguel Mendez coburus 27 of hanford, california and Marshall Roberts 28 of owosso, oklahoma and a british medic. The truck was probably covered until seconds before they set the timer and ran away. So you have a very limited period of time when it appears its a missile eye loaded truck. The general says hezbollah the iranian problemsy the u. S. Targeted last night is responsible for 12 rocket attacks in the past six months. So far there has been no response from the iranian backed militia. We have seen in the past what happens when you dont respond now people know we are not going to tolerate these direct attacks on american or Coalition Service members. We are willing and able to respond. General mckinley says he knows where more weapons storage sites are. General mark mille had a stern conversation with his iraqi counterpart warning him to move on these sites immediately and to do more to halt these attacks on u. S. Forces. Bret . Bret Jennifer Griffin at the pentagon. Jennifer, thank you. Up next, panicked buying at the stores because of the coronavirus. We will take you around the country. First, beyond our borders tonight. The Canadian Parliament is rushing ratification of the u. S. Mexicocanada trade pack. Canada would be the last of the three signatories to formally adopt that pact. The country has shut down the parliament. Prime minister Justin Trudeau is working from his home in a selfimposed quarantine after his wife tested positive for the coronavirus. Thunderstorms and flooding are hitting egypt for a second day. The death toll has risen to 18 there Authorities Say most of the fatalities took place in the countrys rural areas and rundown slums. At least six children died either from electrocution or rubble after heavy rains knocked down their houses. Greeces first female president was formally sworn into office today. The ceremony took place in an almost empty parliament as part of measures to prevent the spread of the new coronavirus. Only a handful of officials and the limited number of journalists were present. Just some of the other stories beyond our borders tonight. Well be right back. They come from people who. Were brave. And took risks. Big risks. No pressure. [short laugh] bring your Family History to life, like never before. Get started for free at ancestry. Com that same tired cupcake. Arent your tastebuds getting bored . 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In manhattan, customers form long lines in Grocery Stores while crowds rush the entrance of a costco in georgia. As more schools close and people work from home, select products with long shelf lives and perishable items are selling fast like bread, toilet paper, disinfect tapbt wipes and meat. Even select products on amazon either are unavailable or wont be delivered for weeks. According to nielsen compared to this time last year oat milk sales up 322 . Fresh Meat Alternatives up 158 while canned dried genes and milk products up. Hand sanitizer up 313 while aerosol disinfectants, thermometers bath and shower wipes and first aid kit sales have also spiked. The Food Industry urging consumers not to panic. Understand that we are going to thereby for you and we are going to get that product back on the shelf as quickly as its empty. Theres enough for everyone. Take what you need to meet the recommendations by the cdc of a potential 14day at home stay, dont try to take two to three to four months of that. Thats when we start seeing really significant shortages in the supply chain. Some stores are instituting two temper customer limits on high demand products while others are offering doorstep deliveries avoiding persontoperson contact. Bret . Bret brian, thank you. Lets talk more about the coronavirus and some of the legal questions surrounding it. Dan abrams is chief legal analyst for abc news and nor of a new book. Under fire in the boston massacre murder trial he joins us from new york. I want to talk about the book in a second. Dan, thanks for being here. Lets start where we left off on that last piece and is that true possibility of price gouging. You had the attorney general out saying that the department of justice stands ready to make sure that bad actors do not take advantage of Emergency Response efforts, Healthcare Providers or the American People during this crucial time. Obviously there is a lack of some items and price gouging could be an issue. Yeah. And its primarily a statebystate issue. Most states have price gouging laws and it basically means when you are talking about essential splice during an emergency, if you up the price to an excessive amount, which is typically defined as just 10 to 15 above the typical amount, you can either get civil fines or in certain states they can actually go after you criminally. So, as we are seeing, for example, on ebay and amazon and other places people jacking up the prices, these Third Party Vendors have to be careful about these state price gouging laws. Bret yeah. The other legal issue thats interesting is quarantines and what goes around that. I take to you a story by the Kansas City Star of a dad of a coronavirus patient left selfquarantined for a school event. The father of a missouri woman with a presumptive positive case left selfquarantine saturday, Officials Say. St. Louis county executives addressed the situation at a News Conference streamed to facebook on sunday when county Health Officials learned a man had left his home. They told him he must stay in his home or be issued a formal coroner teen. Form quarantine . Where is the line there. It starts with voluntary. It starts with telling people, obviously, stay home. You have been exposed or whatever the concern may be. Its when they refuse to do that that the law then become applicable. Then you can say by court order you are required to stay home. It means that very often they have to go to court. They have to try and keep it as limited as possible. But if the person wants to fight that, they would then have to challenge it in court. Thats where you are going to seat issues. The people who are refusing to just abide by the kind of common sense recommendations that are being made. Bret you know, the federal government, obviously, has guidelines under the cdc in the case that we are seeing now and the president saying its a National Emergency. But it really is a stateby statebystate issue and the National Guard dealing with that. Primarily. The federal government you are talking more about going between states or coming into the country. Thats where the federal government is primarily going to be addressing it. But when you are in a state and you are there, its primarily going to be the State Government dealing with these issues. Bret all right. I want to talk about your book john adams under fire really fascinating. Essentially its a trial of the boston massacre and you go back in to the trial transcript to really present this drama of john adams as this lawyer in a murder trial. Yeah. This was americas first big murder trial, 1770. The british soldiers have killed five colonists and no one is willing to represent the british soldiers at this time. John adams agrees to represent them and we have got the 217 page transcript which serves as the heart of this book showing john adams, sometimes in his own words, defending the despised soldiers. Adams suffered enormously for taking this case. He had rocks thrown through his window. He lost half his law practice. But it came for him one of the defining moments of his life as he looked back on it and we really tell the story of this trial. Bret obviously it leads to his spotlight in american lure and eventually his presidency. The reasonable doubt first time in this trial . Yeah. A judge implemented th beyond a reasonable doubt for the first time in this trial. And this is the case where john adams used the phrase facts are stubborn things. People sometimes forget thats where we got that phrase from. John adams defending these british soldiers. One of the things that i admired most about what adams did in this case is he didnt cross lines. He said i dont need to attack all the citizens of boston to defend these british soldiers. Im going to focus on the facts of the case. Im not going to cross certain lines. And, as a result, i think he set a really good standard for any criminal defense lawyer. Bret dan, its a great read. Im a lover of history. I know you are. Bret so if anybody is selfquarantined or just has a weekend, its a book worth reading. Dan, thanks a lot. I appreciate it, bret. Bret your worship routine may be disrupted this weekend because of the virus. Likely so. Unfortunately. That story is next. We made usaa insurance for members like martin. An air force veteran made of doing whats right, not whats easy. So when a hailstorm hit, usaa reached out before he could even inspect the damage. Thats how you do it right. 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Call us at Cancer Treatment centers of america. Bret our focus on faith now. The Coronavirus Impact will be felt this weekend at this nations houses of worship. Many facilities will not hold services. Others will make adjustments. Religion correspondent lauren green takes a look. Lauren pictures of jesus christ of latter day saints is suspending all Services Gatherings until further notice. A growing trend now sweeping the country as cities are imposing maximums for large gatherings. In houston, the coronavirus will silence lakewood churchs 20thousand capacity sanctuary. Instead its popular pastor joel osteen will preach online what is the largest Christian Organization in the country. As the now pandemic covid19 disease spreads. In their souls. Lauren houses of worship where the faithful gathering weekly for spiritual strength are making drastic changes. Mosques are canceling prayers and. In Washington State where there are been several coronavirus deaths, seattles catholic archdiocese is suspending all public masses and closing its catholic schools. Despite our best efforts, this epidemic is going to continue to spread. In texas, at saint ritas church, the doors will be open, but the parish is suspending the distribution of the wine for holy communion. Coronavirus isnt here but if we can do our part to keep it from spreading, were going to do it. Lauren however, the Greek Orthodox church at its parishes in the u. S. Will continue to distribute the bread and wine, the body and blood from a common cup. In washington, d. C. Where both the pastor and organist at an Episcopal Church tested positive for the coronavirus the church is telling anyone to ho came into contact with them to selfquarantine. Further north Young Israel Synagogue in new rochelle has been closed since march 3rd as it is the epicenter of the areas outbreak. New yorks governor has imposed a one mile radius containment area around the temple. As the virus spreads, more houses of worship impose more restrictions and closings. People of all different beliefs now have a shared agenda to help stop the spread of the coronavirus. Bret . Bret lauren, thank you. One pastor saying today services may stop but the prayers will not. Next up, the panel on the coronavirus and the response. At you need. What do you think . I dont see it. Only pay for what you need. Liberty. Liberty. Liberty. Liberty. Doprevagen is the number oneild mempharmacistrecommendeding . Memory support brand. You can find it in the vitamin aisle in stores everywhere. Prevagen. Healthier brain. Better life. Adds to the legendary capability of the strongest, most advanced silverados ever. With best in class Camera Technology and larger, more functional beds than any competitor. The only truck that can compare to a silverado is another silverado. 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I am officially declaring a National Emergency. We will remove or eliminate every on obstacle necessary to deliver our people the care that they need. Bret three president s three National Emergencies there over the years. This coronavirus now in 48 states plus washington, d. C. 1600 plus cases. The deaths now have gone up to 47, according to the k dz. Worldwide 137,000 cases. Total deaths 5088. Italy spiking today. Total recovered, we talked about this yesterday 697779. This national Emergency Declaration coming different flavor Publicprivate Partnership with coos being rolled out in the rose garden. We are happy to stand in here and help in communities all across america because a lot of times when we have national disasters, our stores are a bee con in the community and this situation is no different. We stand ready to help and whprovide our clinicians to be where they are needed, whether they are in retail clinics or in the home and we are here to assist. We understand how important the testing is and we are committed to doing everything possible. Bret impressive rollout of ceos that the markets really did like when the rose garden ceremony announcement News Conference started you can see the spike in the dow finishing the day one of the best days in a long, long time. Lets bring in our panel byron york chief Political Correspondent of the Washington Examiner jeff mason White House Correspondent for reuters who was there today and steve hayes editor of the dispatch. Jeff, a lot of questions from the president , but it seemed like it was orchestrated to say we are in this together, the nation is if the going to fight this disease. Yeah, in many ways i think he did today what he was trying to do wednesday and was unsuccessful at wednesday in saying that we are on top of this. We have we are taking action to fix maybe some of the things that didnt go super well at the beginning with regard to testing and i mean even saying that he is prepared to help the Airline Industry and the cruise ship industry if it comes to that. So definitely saying things that the market wanted to hear and has not heard before today. Bret maybe beyond the market, byron, there was this confidence urge or want or the feeling of confidence that the nation was together in fighting this. Yeah. I think that trump had lost control of the public discussion of this. And i think today he got it back. Before today, i think he was responsible for the single best action in all of this which was the china travel restrictions and the single worst action which was losing control or falling behind on the whole testing issue not taking that seriously enough and making it happen. And then after the prime time address on wednesday night just did not work. There were errors in it. He looked nervous. The dow just crashed the next day. And i think this was an entirely Different Event as jeff was saying. It was a really, really different feel to the event. Bret meantime, he was asked about this coronavirus bill up on capitol hill. Heres how he responded and how one congressman was worried about it. We just dont think they are giving enough. We dont think the democrats are giving enough. We are negotiating. We thought we had something but all of a sudden they didnt agree to certain things that they agreed to so we could have something but we dont think they are giving enough. They are not doing whats right for the country. This has got some other social engineering stuff in it as well. So they put in a billion dollars that wasnt subject to the Hyde Amendment which means that you could spend up to a billion dollars effectively on state sponsored abortions, state funded abortions. So, its hard to say, yet, what its going to be. Bret Speaker Pelosi saying she has a deal. Secretary treasurer mnuchin says there is a deal. What we dont know is in the deal. And i dont think there is a lot of lawmakers up on capitol hill that know whats in the bill. Lawmakers are clueless trying to find out whats in the deal and i dont think President Trump has yet agreed to the deal. I think we would see a tweet if President Trump had agreed to the deal. I agree with you the event at the white house was a positive step. I think at least does one thing ends debate whether this is a serious problem or not which for four weeks we have been having. The president led a chorus of irresponsible commentary this wasnt something that need to be taken seriously including a lot of talking heads. I hope that is now settled. What we need now are facts. We need the president to lead on facts and to not provide bad information. I think it would be better off if the president stepped bang bk and let mike pence and medical professionals do that for him. Bret he did do that a number of times bringing Anthony Fauci up to the microphone who has become this authoritative and plainspoken in cutting through not sugarcoating it. For sure. And in fact not sugarcoating it to the effect or to the point that he said this week that it had been a failure what it happened with the tests. And you didnt hear President Trump admonishing him for that. You didnt hear President Trump, you know, expressing bret this effort. Seemed like they rolled it out really well about these companies if they are going to get these tests going quickly. Well, thats what they say. The ceo effort was good. The other thing thats been good in the last 48 hours or so is state and local governments are gearing up. I mean, for several days andrew cuomo, the governor of new york, was complaining that we here in new york are ready to start some testing. We can get some things done. The federal government wont let us. Now they can. Bret the flood gates are open. 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When you have a Democratic House and a republican senate, compromises the name of the game. Working with companies, small companies, large companies, a lot of companies. No one is more worried about the dow jones than the jones family. Is going to get worse. Lets shut the puppy down and worry about november. This is decided, there is no reason to keep it going a day longer. We have a whole lot of delegates to go. I thought we had a shot, but turns out i was 40 years too young and 38 years to gay. How old is the oldest grandkid . 60, 63 . [laughter] go wash her hands. Okay, i like that. Bret chicken wing at the press conference, this weekend on fox news sunday, Chris Wallace will speak with dr. Anthony ouchi, the director of the National Institute of Infectious Diseases, and Steve Mnuchin will find out details about what that deal is all about. If there is a deal. Check your local listings for air times. Thank you for inviting us into your home tonight. Thats it for this special report, fair, balanced, and still unafraid. Try to make it a great weekend, sports or no sports. The story hosted by Martha Maccallum starts right now. Martha hey there, bright, good evening to you. Have a good weekend. I am Martha Maccallum in new york, and this is the story. We begin with the president s address in the rose garden tod today. The power of the federal government today, i am officially declaring a National Emergency. The action i am taking will open up access to up to 50 billion, half a million additional tests will be available early next week. We have been in discussions with pharmacies and retailers to make drivethrough tests available. We want to make sure that those who needed tests can get a test very safely, quickly, and