Lauren simonetti watching the markets. Edward lawrence also in d. C. , and Jackie Deangelis in new york, but on the markets, lauren, we start with you. Lauren what a day, right . Oil saw the biggest gain one day ever, up 25 . Closing just over 25 a barrel. Energy stocks rising in a big way. What happened . The president said russia and saudi arabia appeared close to a supply cut, taking oil off the market. We dont know if that will happen, if they actually agree to it or how much they will take off the market and where exactly they will put all of that crude because think about it, were not using very much right now. So supply is certainly out there. Anyway, great day for the price of oil. And with that, some of the big Energy Stocks as well. The oil news helped investors brush aside the news we got an hour before the market opened this morning. That showed last week 6. 6 million americans filed for first time unemployment insurance. 6. 6 million. If you add that to the week before, were talking 10 million americans two weeks time filing for unemployment. That is a horrifying number. That is the reality were in. It tees up for the jobs report we get tomorrow for the government for the month of march. It is expected to show 100,000 jobs lost, thats it but it will not scratch the surface because since the numbers, the data calculated for that report, weve seen florida, georgia, nevada, pennsylvania, issue stayathome orders. The numbers will not scratch the surface for real damage done to the job market. I was talking to an economist, he says Unemployment Rate rises one percentage for every 1. 5 million claims. Were talking about a future 10 Unemployment Rate. That is what were talking about here. I want to leave you with good news. What are we doing when we stay at home . Were on zoom. They have 200 million daily active users. Video chat is where it is at. Ring central is coming out with their own version of video chat. Facebook, starting today on your desktop you can use messenger. The reason zoom is down 10 on the g news today, they have competition and there are security and privacy concerns for them. Back to you guys. Connell thank you very much, Lauren Simonetti on the markets. Next stop is the take from the white house. Live to blake burman from washington with that. Blake . Reporter we did not hear directly from President Trump reacting to the jobless claims numbers but the white house put out a statement that is why the president signed and pushed for the 2. 2 trillion phase three package that the president signed into law last week. A spokesperson saying the following of the president , quote, his signature insures access to incentives for businesses to retain workers and continue paying them as well as enhanced Unemployment Benefits. Now within last hour labor secretary Eugene Scalia was asked, if unemployment is in double digits, you heard lauren talking about that possibility as well, and the labor secretary did not shoot down that possibility. Watch here. I dont want to speculate where we are. Well put out an economic report tomorrow actually but that will show really just the first part of march. So we wont really have a feel for impact of the stayathome orders but we were at 3. 5. We know were going significantly above that number with the pace were seeing now with these new claims being filed. Reporter back to the president. He did reveal on twitter today, quote, just spoke to my friend mbs, crown prince of saudi arabia who spoke with president putin of russia and i expect and hope that they will be cutting back approximately 10 Million Barrels and maybe substantially more, which if it happens, will be great for the oil and gas industry. The president then increased that number in a followup tweet, adding quote, could be as high as 15 Million Barrels. Good, great news for everyone. The president will be meeting or expected to be meeting with Oil Executives at the white house. There is a couple of components here. Of course the russia, saudi arabia angle the president tweeted about today that moved market as well but also domestic demand back here in the u. S. , that has cratered as well over the last few weeks. Back to you. Connell yes it has. Blake burman live in washington for us. Melissa. Melissa all right. Lets bring in bill mcgurn. He is a columnist at the wall street journal and a fox news contributor. You know when youre looking at these jobs numbers today to some people it was a surprise the market went up. Do you think that maybe, i mean one way to look at it i heard people saying it shows that were at least doing what were supposed to. That everybody has shuttered and sort of gone home. Maybe we get through this horrible illness and to the other side if everybody is following direction, what do you think . Yeah, i think that is a reach for a Silver Lining here. Im staying at home. I get in contact with people that are delivery people, call restaurants and so many people are really hurting. I dont think that is much of a comfort. You know one thing, we have twotiered system because people like me can work from home, right . I can do everything in this offices but a lot of people cant. They either cant do it, they have been laid off for whatever reason. You know about 2 3 of the public cannot do that. So theyre really, really stuck. I dont necessarily see a sign this is the peak. Like the virus itself. I think this could go up. Melissa well, i mean the flipside of that there is no one this hasnt touched. Even though you say you can work from home i bet your savings have been hammered . We all have a Family Member who is either out of work or whose job is precarious or facing really terrible things. I dont know anyone this hasnt touched. It sort of brings about the idea, some are wondering is there a way we paws maybe, everyone owing everyone over the next month or something . Bill, it is such a Chain Reaction as you know, youre hoarding cash as a company. Youre not paying suppliers. Youre trying to decide who not to pay. At the same time, youre not getting paid whether by a customer. So it is mutually assured destruction if everyone defaults on everyone else. Is there a way to press pause rather than the entire cycle everyone, every country going bankrupt . I think that was, i think that was the big part of at least half of the two trillion dollar bill, to give people money, especially give businesses money for, for their cash flow. A lot of them are just in a crunch, not through any fault of their own, that they were badly mismanaged, they were facing exactly kind of thing. They couldnt pay the employees or pay their rent for their businesses, all sorts of things. That is what weve tried to do. I personally dont think were going to come out of, on the good side economically until there is some big news medically that we found a vaccine, that numbers have been going down. We hit our peak and they have been down for say two weeks. I just have a hard time seeing people looking at this and i think that is one of the really upsetting things other frustrating things for people, because we seem to be taking more and more drastic steps. Even the governors that were reluctant have now put in stayathome orders and people dont see good results yet. I mean, i think some of them are coming but we havent seen it yet. So all feels very futile. Meanwhile as you say, you watch your pension diminishing, your brother is out of work, your neighbor cant get employees, as you say, it is a Chain Reaction. Melissa well it is. You look at story like cheesecake factory, keep bringing that up. That is the perfect example. They said they are not paying their workers. They said they are not paying their rent. That goes to the Property Owner not getting paid, they wont pay the bank. We cant end up with a world where the bank owns everything and there are no customers or workers anywhere. That doesnt work. We need a solution to the giant Chain Reaction. Quick answer, bill. I add a big colossal problem on top of that. A lot of people lost their health insurance. Some on the left say that is why we need for medicare for all. We need to move from employee based Health System that leaves you very vulnerable. A lot of problems, not a lot of solutions. Bill mcgurn, love you. Connell. Connell well talk now about Luckin Coffee which is a chinese coffee company, essentially the starbucks of china and a big rival of starbucks in china. That stock is absolutely plunging as the Company Launched an investigation into 300 million of potential fraud committed by its own chief operating officer. Live to Jackie Deangelis with more on that. Reporter good afternoon, to you, connell, thats right. That chief operating officer that you mentioned of the company pending investigation [inaudible] 80 . Part of the allegation here is that possibly they have fabricated transactions and investors, the company is saying cannot rely on recent financials and guidance as well. So in this, really interesting. It is coming up at this time amid this kind of a crisis when so many people are pointing fingers at china and wonder if theyre completely up front about all the data, for example, with covid19. You have a company like this being accused of lying. It is a big issue. Meantime i want to pivot to happier story, focus on Good Companies are doing for others in this crisis right now. And one example is the patriot [inaudible]. Melissa all right. Connell i think were having a little trouble. We have gremlins in the system because everybody is using yeah, everyone is using internet at the same time, so it becomes difficult. Millions of u. S. Workers filing for Unemployment Benefits. What exactly can americans expect . Lets go to Edward Lawrence with more on this. Edward . Reporter were social distancing with different cameras in different states. The Unemployment Benefits will be robust. Unemployment issues theyre starting to have processing. There are some hiccups here. Youre talking about 10 Million People filing new unemployment claims in the past two weeks alone. Some state systems are overwhelmed but once they get this worked out you may see a number of things. More people will see more money. In addition benefits will cover contract workers and freelancers and giving extra 600 a week. It revives the emergency unemployment compensation. That extends 13 weeks from when your state benefits run out. Some states are giving out automatic rejections for qualified people under the act. Those states say reapply because theyre trying to work out, get up to speed with the new rules. Jeff with new lighting. Com says the cares act goes a long way to help a growing part of the workforce which is usually forgotten for benefits. Freelancers, independent contractors, independent workers can apply for loans available through the act. There was paid leave which is something that has never been available to 1099. Again you come back to it, what is the fundamental difference, 1099 workers have been discriminated and not given the same level of social security, social safety net. Reporter these are some of the things that the states will be looking for when unemployed workers are going for the benefits, specifically contractors and freelancers here, paycheck stubs, bank statements, workorders. Some of the information they will look for to verify income. Melissa, as you know the income, depends on or will directly affect the amount of benefit you get through the states. Back to you. Melissa everyone waiting for that money, edward. Thank you. Connell . Connell we have a fox business alert. Melissa, from the Company Instacart which you heard a lot about actually this week. It Just Announced plans to distribute free health and safety kits to instacart full Service Shoppers with everybody dealing with covid19. Remember this company had issues with its workers the other day. Now this announcement from instacart. One of the things were trying to do throughout the week keep you updated on latest numbers as they come in. We have now topped one million confirmed cases of covid19 around the world, one million plus. 234,000 of them right here in the United States. As we continue well look at the states with stay at home orders. That number at least up to 39. It has been climbing in recent days to try to help cut down on the spread. Well have the latest on the pandemic as we continue through the hour and look at some of the states at risk of becoming the next hot spot. We know new yorks a hot spot. The state continues to be under pressure. In fact it has accounted for almost half of all the coronavirus cases in the u. S. As we worked our way through this. More facilities meantime are transforming their spaces to help with the overflow of patients. That is something we continue to watch. In fact well have a live update on that next. Curbing the pandemic, well talk to a microbiologist about his efforts to find a covid19 cure. All that coming up. Stick around. Melissa new york city grappling with the coronavirus pandemic as more hospitals are getting overwhelmed by the surge in cases. Fox newss David Lee Miller is live in manhattan with more. David lee. Reporter melissa, there are now more coronavirus cases in new york state than in all of china and the majority of those cases are right here in new york city. The latest status ticks, 52 plus thousand people in new york city have tested positive and nearly 1400 have died. In the Daily Briefing new York Governor Andrew Cuomo said on current burn rate, the state has only sixday supply for ventilate torts. He put out urgent call for new York Business to manufacturer gloves, and other personal protective equipment. I dont have a new york defense production act, right . A governor cant say to a company, we need you to manufacture this but i asked businesses just to think about the situation were in and a possible opportunity. Reporter with the Health Care System overwhelmed new york City Ambulance crews have been told not to bring people suffering cardiac arrest to the hospital if the patients heart cant be restarted on scene. Memo to cms professionals to Umbrella Group that coordinates emergency servicese quote, Emergency Departments are overcrowded, transporting patients on to the scene, increases ed, Emergency Department workload and exposes Emergency Department staff and patients to covid19. In mount sinai hospital theyre creating negative pressure rooms. Window vents were installed to create lower air pressure where covid19 patients are treated over the corridors. Likely to reduce air flow to stop the spread of the virus. Much is said about the vulnerability of seniors. Were hearing no one is immune that has been said before. Were getting confirmation of that from the state of connecticut. A sevenweek old infant that died has tested positive for the virus. Officials have not released the cause of death. Melissa. Melissa wow, that is so sad. David lee, thank you. Connell. Connell there are a lot of different efforts to ease up on the hospital demand. Not very far from where david is reporting from, Samaritan Purse Field Hospital set up in central park, officially treating patients as a Record Number of new yorkers have been hit by the virus. Ken isaacs joins us, Samaritan Purse Vice President of perhaps and government relations. Ken, i think you started treating patients if i have it right in the park yesterday . Tell us how things have been going so far . That is correct. We have 13 patients right now. I think theyre bringing 10 or 12 more tonight. Things are going well. Were spooling up. We have 68 capacity and 10 icu units. We expect to receive patients in the next day or two are intubated or need to be intubated. They bring them to us from brooklyn, the emergency room there. Connell 68 bed capacity and every bed helps the way things are going in new york city. I know your organization, you personally have been all around the world dealing with situations in iraq and bahamas, you name it. What if anything is unique about this challenge for you . We have the same hospital right now in cromona, italy. Ive been doing this kind of work for 30 years. I never imagined we would bring a hospital into the u. S. , much less into new york city and much less into central park, sort of the sacred land at the heart of the city. Weve been welcome very much here but when i listen to the earlier reports of government pleas for help from businesses what is in my heart, i feel like Everybody Needs to do their part, whatever it is. Well not get through this in an easy way. This will be a very difficult in. Unfortunately there will be a lot of suffering both physically and economically. We all need to do our part. None of us want to be here. So that is what were here for. Were helping people ins. Just s. Justs jesus name. We have volunteers working here. Theyre bringing in truckloads of materials and supplies uninvited. Theyre coming and helping and doing their part. Especially every evening at 7 00 p. M. We hear the applause all around us up and down fifth avenue. It touches us all that are here working. Connell that is tradition last few days or week maybe in new york city. It is spreading out into the surrounding suburbs. People going outside of their houses starting to cheer at 7 00 p. M. Eastern time. Real quick before we let you go. We look at models. We know the surge is here, coming over say the next week or so. Youve seen a lot of this as you said in many areas. Can new york citys hospital system, even with help from people like you, can we handle what is here and what is coming . I want to be careful how i answer that, i think more capacity is needed. I think more beds are needed. I think more supplies are needed. Definitely more ventilators are needed. I think people might be surprised how overwhelmed the Hospital Health care Delivery System can be here. Connell what i was afraid you would say. It is honest answer from an experienced person. Youre doing terrific work. We thank you for taking a few minutes out from the work to join us. Ken isaacss samaritans purse, live in central park. Melissa. Fox business alert, tesla missing estimates for the First Quarter vehicle deliveries due to production disruptions and shutdowns they say caused by the coronavirus but the Company Still is saying it was their best First Quarter performance ever and you can see the stock there, trading up afterhours by better than 9 . Calling it a moral responsibility, lawmakers demanding that u. S. Airlines issue full cash refunds to travelers after massive cancellations. Yeah, definitely. Weve all been the victim of that. Plus the mayor of los angeles issuing a new warning to millions of residents to stop the spread. 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Melissa, right now were at the point of testing many treatments all at once. So we developed a system to rapidly evaluate drugs that are already on the market. Thats our first set of priorities, to try to find something that will stop the virus from infecting cells. Melissa so what is it exactly . It is a pill youre looking at . We heard about the plasma treatment, one thing we heard about, vaccines. I know this is totally different but you know we dont know much about science and medicine so explain to us a little bit, what does the pill do . All right. So what were trying to do were trying to find a drug that is already on the market, that people already take for other things, so those drugs you know, if theyre controlling your Blood Pressure, doing something to your body. The virus may need whatever that that is going on inside of the body to infect you, right . So if you were to take that, it might be that if you take that pill it would stop the virus infection as well. Were trying to find, were trying to fish through that haystack to find those one or two needles in the haystack that might do that. And, if you were infected with melissa have you had any luck so far . So were starting screening right now. So weve got 6800 candidates from the Broad Institute drug library. Viewers can go on to their website to see what were looking at. Were just starting right now. Hot off the press. I should have some progress by next week. Melissa so, oh, by next week, that is really soon. This remind me of the idea saying malaria drug obviously wasnt intended for this use but having impact. Sounds like youre looking at something really similar. What are some of the leads . If youre going to have progress next week what kind of, whats the mechanism youre looking at . Is it that storm they talk about in peoples body who respond and have really terrible reaction to this virus, is that what youre looking to sort of quiet down . That is very difficult to control and very complicated obviously and there are people testing drugs out there because the virus has this interesting relationship with some proteins that control your Blood Pressure and things. There are people doing that, but were more interested in finding a drug that would stop the virus from infecting your cells at the start. So you know, it is better to, well, it is better to prevent something before it takes hold. So were just trying to stop it at just as it is touching the cells or as it is moving into the cells or as it is trying to set up shop and start its replication cycle. Were looking at each one of those steps, trying to find something that will break, break the cycle and prevent the virus from infecting other cells in your body. Melissa would that be considered a cure . Yes. It would be. Or, at least, it would control the virus enough such that your immune system could take over and then defeat it. Off then a lot of viruses, you know what theyre doing, overwhelming your bodys immune system and they have a lot of sneaky tricks up their sleeves to control your immune response. So if we can just tilt the balance in the favor of the patient, then, were good. You dont have to do a lot to upset a virus. It is just matter of figuring out what can do that. Were poised to make a lot of progress on that. Like i said, the system is very efficient and can move through these tests very quickly. Melissa one thing that it is so hard for the rest of us to understand is, you know there are some people who get this virus and barely has an impact on them and i know a lot of people on that who contracted it and barely got sick and other people that drop dead. Yeah. Melissa it doesnt, there doesnt seem to necessarily be a rhyme or reason. Every time we think it business age or preexisting conditions someone doesnt fit into that category or gets very sick or doesnt. Real quick, your thoughts on that before we go . This is the beauty of the people, right . Were all different to each other. So just like you cant give a kidney to, you cant give a kidney to anybody if youre an organ donor, there are subtle differences between each one ever us and those subtle differences control your immune response to a virus in this case. That is why were getting such differences. Most of the people people who are getting a lot of symptoms, the immune system is overreacting. You have to calm that down but that is very difficult. But were all different and we all react differently. Melissa well, robert davie, good look to you, god bless you in your work. We need a solution. Thank you, sir. Appreciate it. Connell fascinating to listen to all of that. Were seeing a big spike of cases reported in the state of illinois. In fact that has emerged as a potential new hot spot for the virus. Well take you live to chicago for a report from there. Were waiting a briefing from the white house, the Coronavirus Task force will be out to bring us the latest this evening. Well bring you any breaking headlines that come from the white house this hour. Then this, Country Music superstar, dolly parton announced plans for a weekly web series. She will read bedtime stories for the next 10 weeks. She hopes to provide kids with a welcome distraction during a time of unrest. Melissa americas second largest city out with new recommendation for its residents to try to stop the spread of covid19. Fox newss william la jeunesse is on the ground in los angeles with more. William . Reporter for your health and for the sake much others since you could be a carrier, mayor garcetti said everyone should wear a mask. We are now recommending that an angelinos use homemade face coverings when theyre in public or interacting with each other. Reporter about a dozen countries in europe and asia require or recommend them in public. Taiwan, adjacent to china, had about 300 corona cases, the u. S. , 200,000 and counting. Studies show infected person even with 25 show no symptoms they can spread the virus from a sneeze or cough, droplets, smaller than a human hair remain suspended in the air more than 30 minutes. Nih study show how germs spread from unprotected cough. They stretch several feet. Less he so with a surgical mask or n95 rest per rate tore. The study concluded, wearing a surgical mask blocks 2 3 of flu particles and well fitted n95 about 99 . You cant get those now. A heavy dishtowel or tshirt is better than a thin clot. Mayor garcetti said any covering can reduce the amount of virus you breathe in or exhale. Research shows, even a bandanna tucked in can have effect in slowing down droplet spread. Reporter some say masks give people false sense of security but exerts at yale, columbia, cambridge, even German Medical Association say homemade masks can reduce transmission. Governor newsom said it is not a substitute for social distancing but adds protection if youre in a pharmacy or grocery close by. Back to you. Thank you, william. Connell . Connell you know one of the things weve been following quite closely are the fears of what the next hot spot might be, right . And officials in the midwest started to sound the alarm with cases spiking in states like illinois. Lets go to matt finn in chicago with new reporting from there. Matt . Reporter connell, the army corps of engineers tells us hundreds of sites in 50 different states have now been identified as potential facilities that could be transformed into makeshift hospitals and there this is one of em, mccormack place in chicago. The Largest Convention center in north america. Right now the army corps of engineers is inside transforming the gigantic facility into a 3,000 bed medical unit. Lieutenantgeneral Todd Semonite tells fox business that the army corps of engineers accomplished the task of containing some air pressure in the giant Convention Center. They sectioned off entries and exits, added showers, nurses stations and hundreds of private areas innovating as they go which is unprecedented task. The site is nearing completion as chicago announces the first death after police officer. 21 year veteran, 50yearold sergeant defranco. The moment the crisis arrived in the city, it has been our health care workers, firstresponders, like this officer, who have been putting their lives own the line every day to fight this virus and keep chicagoance safe. Tragically this officer gave his life to that fight. Reporter detroit, the downtown Convention Center in detroit is steps from the iconic gm headquarters. Right now that facility is being transformed into a makeshift hospital with 900 beds. Michigan has emerged as the fourth worst state in the u. S. Behind california with at least 9300 cases and 335 deaths. The army corps of engineers tells us that mayors across the country are learning about the curve and potential apex in their region and they are responding accordingly. You know, makeshift facilities like this are not a onesizefitsall. Connell, melissa . Connell all right, detroit, chicago. Well watch those and other cities. Thank you, matt finn. Melissa. Melissa warning after devastating blow to the industry for years to come. Why farmers are sounding the alarm despite a rush to grocery stores. Task force set to give an update on the pandemic a few moments from now. Well bring you the White House Briefing just as soon as it begins. These days you need faster internet that does all you expect and way more. Thats xfinity xfi. Get powerful wifi coverage that leaves no room behind with xfi pods. 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We have also got this problem now of some employers are saying hey, well scale back, were going to cut your 401 k match. So that is a big issue for employees. Among the companies doing that right now, marriott, macys, amtrak, lazboy, mattress firm. A lot of companies are doing it. Were expecting more and more to do the same but weve seen this before, this isnt something new. Back in 2008 some 20 of companies with 1000 or more employees did the exact same thing. And i have some good news on that in a second but first, i want to talk to you about what should you do . A, number one, if youre working and youre drawing a regular paycheck, you absolutely want to continue contributing to that 401 k . Why . , guess what . Stocks are on sale. So big sale prices, 25 to 30 off, some of the Major Companies out there. Listen to what doug flynn had to say about this with cfb. One of the things you have to look at is, that your retirement is still probably going to be on track for whenever it is. Free money from the match, the 401 k is very nice, but it shouldnt deter you for putting money away, presuming your job is still secure and youre getting a paycheck and you will continue working. Reporter right, so keep on putting money away. That is a great time to buy stocks at low prices. If you max out the 401 k , considering opening a roth ira, that is another way to set aside money pretax. Finally, think about savings. Experts recommend that you have three to six months worth of savings set aside in a place you can get to easily, whether a bank savings, account. Maybe a money market account, because, as you, as you probably reported, we had a report not too long ago that a third of americans are saying they couldnt make rent this month. So need some savings. You definitely need to keep investing if youre lucky enough to continue to have a job. Finally, my good news. The people, of the companies that stopped their 401 k matches or changed them in some way back in 2008, 75 of those, 3 4, actually reinstated it in 12 months. This is a shortterm fix for a lot of companies out there. Probably happen the same way again. You have to look for the Silver Linings where you can find it. Melissa, being back to you. Melissa gerri, thank you for that. Connell . Connell all right. Great to see gerri willis there. We have fox business alert. A federal judge in the state of wisconsin declined to postpone that states president ial primary set for april 7th amid widespread concerns about the virus. Judge declining to postpone. Wisconsin one of 11 states originally scheduled to hold contests in april have not postponed or altered some way their voting. That is the state of wisconsin. Lawmakers are calling on airlines to reimburse travelers for canceled flights amid the pandemic. Well talk about that. 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Org to schedule an appointment. Were back with a fox business alert, Delta Airlines is collaborating to manufacture face shields, to deliver an initial order of 2000 of the face shields to aid workers in new york, they say they will be able to get them in new york by tomorrow. Melissa travel has nearly come to a stand still. Thousands of americans left in the lurch by airlines, Hillary Vaughn in dc with the story. Reporter i do want go over the latest coronavirus numbers, we did get new numbers this afternoon. Total number worldwide topped 1 million. 234 thousand are here in u. S. New york remains hot spot, over. 92,000 cases. While the patient numbers rise there are people here in congress that are eyeing some relief money that has gone to airlines as part of relief package, 9 democratic u. S. Senator want 11 Major Airlines to give travelers who had to change their travel plans, cashin steacash,instead of the s writing glur united, delta, southwest are looking at letter, american said they believe their flight Voucher Program adequately meets the needs of its customers, southwest steps. Saying they need some of 25 billion allocated made to them to help them hell d with a droa lots of senators believe it should help people go to basic needs traveler who had to reschedule, there have been a lot of cancellations there will be more, southwest, saying they will reduce their flights by 40 between may and june. Several airlines are reducing flights the have on the scheduly 60 . Melissa you did not mention jetblue, i have been shafted by them twice this coronavirus seen. Connell farmers, speaking have been and continue to be under pressure. It seems like everyone makes more trips to the grocery store. Many farmers still seeing drops in sales with restaurants and schools closed, from National Farmers union, vice presiden prt patty adelberg joining us right now. We have this how are you holding up . It has been an interesting couple weeks. Dairy farmers are down from what was 18 dollar milk on under 13 right now. Were in a world of hurt when the dairy, beef. Agriculture in general. Connell what will the relief bill do. We have talked it from point of view of small businesses, loans and grants, what about for farmers . Do you think it will help a lot . There are some things for farmers. In relief bill there and i think 14 billion going to replenish the ccc, and it will best use to help stabilize prices in the markets. And used to pay out farm bill programs like dairy market programs. Crop programs. So were struggling to find out what else we can do for farmers, hoping they will be able to open smalsmall Business Association s for farmers, it has never been usedded by farmers before. We are looking to hope usda secretary will reopen the Dairy Program for the farmers. There was no reason for farmers at the time to sign up, prices, the markets looking forward looked really good then, and then coronavirus hit, were back to prices we saw in 2008 and 09. Amazing how quickly things have changed. To your point, your industry perhaps things look better, but now this happens. Do you have Business Leaders have a tough time providing any outlook that goes beyond this month or next. Do have you any idea in terms of second half of the year might look like . Or just flying blind at this time . Were really flying blind, looking at future market, dairy and beef they are way down, were looking at a dairy down about 25 , 30 . Beef prices down 25 . These are all prices that have dropped in lest 6 weeks last 6 weeks, right now farmers dont know where to turn. Like they said earlier, dairy has been in a world of hurt for 5 years, this is just going to turn some farmers away faster. And it is not their choice, we have farmers that were barely able to survive for last 5 years looking forward they saw a light at the end of the tunnel, now this has taken the wind out of their sails, i dont know what will happen. Hopefully well be able to see markets return. The Prices Market that we see, we lost a third of mark wet the schools, and restaurants and hospitahospitality industry. Farmers took a hit, you cant shut the cow off, the markets are full and flush. Connell i am sorry patty, we are coming on the top of the hour, we wish you the best. National farmers union. As we wrap it up on another day. Melissa were waiting for the Coronavirus Task force, right now in meantime, lou dobbs. Lou good evening, tonight we will hear as has become our weekday evening custom from President Trump and his Coronavirus Task force. 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