The state of illinois. Pete that was multiple governors yesterday and we kick off today with a fox news alert. Today, new jersey expected to tighten restrictions amid the crippling coronavirus pandemic. Cars lining up at a testing site in the state as the governor considers a stay at home order. Jedediah connecticut, illinois and new york following californias lead ordering tens of millions of people to stay home unless its an emergency. Illinois starting log down today until april 7th. Connecticut on monday night. With that we welcome you into fox friends on a saturday morning. Im todd piro. Jedediah jedediah. Pete and im pete. Its good to see all of you this morning in a little bit of a different setup which we have gotten used on this annual and all getting use to in a different way. I have to share with you the cover of the New York Post this morning which sums up the way a lot of people are feeling. Certainly jed, can you speak to it here in new york city. This is lady liberty. No title, no text needed just she is at home by herself in her apartment which, jed, i think, you know, as you look at what is happening here in new york. A lot of people feeling the same way, huh . Jedediah its been really scary in new york city for me. I have an infant at home as everyone knows. I think what people dont realize oftentimes around the country. A lot of people saying store up a lot of stuff or leave if you can, leave your apartment. And i dont have a car. A lot of people in manhattan, places like manhattan dont have cars. You dont have a lot of room to store a lot of stuff. You start to look at the space and panic a little bit. Its easy to see those numbers and start to wonder oh my gosh if im stuck in the apartment for two or three weeks . Can i get enough food in here. I have been getting rid of furniture and putting up shelving to have things of diapers. Not crazy like im not ripping stuff off shelves. But you start doo start to think about things like that when a different way when you are confined to tight space. The first person i thought of. Its getting a little scary. I know people at home relate to that its something that i in my lifetime have never faced before. Todd one of those things to your point, jed, folks in the middle of the country yes they are undergoing something similar. Here in new york its definitely a different feel than other places in the country say for california and illinois. What you are experience something a new york thing young and old alining. Take a look at the latest u. S. Numbers. Here they are on your screen right now. As we have been reporting these numbers are consistently changing right now at least 19624 cases and the number on the right 246 deaths so far. Pete yeah. I mean we have seen those numbers grow significantly. The reason why we have been told from the white house and elsewhere as we get more testing the numbers are going to up as we didnt have the number of testing kits we needed. The numbers were artificially low. Now they are going to go up and continue to go up. You heard from throws governors time and time again the whole idea is flatten the curve, right . Make sure you suppress the amount of people that need hospital care so you dont overwhelm the system which has the other effect of influencing on the economic side. You hear these you were talking a lot about essential employees and essential industries. You know, businesses shutting down, how long will they be shut down and how do workers gte pay they have been used to and of course that brings us to the bills being considered on capitol hill which we will also talk about. I spoke to a lot of Business Owners over the weekend i have a loft friends who own Small Business and they are really concerned about what to do. They threa dread the idea of lag off employees. Not only new york but throughout the country how to manage this. Minimal effects on other families too they have families to feed and they are scared. We have to remember we are all in this together and feeling it differently but definitely feeling it in the some way. The white house is denying rumors of a nationwide quarantine. Pete top officials slamming reports as fake news as they fight the growing pandemic. Todd Lucas Tomlinson joins us from the pentagon with the very latest. Good morning. Good morning, i goose, thats right. Top pentagon Officials Say there is no way any of those rumors are true about any kind of martial law being declared or any kind of nationwide lockdown. In fact, there is going to be no National Guard troops staging at stadiums. The head of the National Guard posted on twitter i hear about unfounded rumors about National Guard troops facing a nationwide quarantine. Let me be clear, there is no such discussion. In case you are still not convinced chad wolf also issued the following statement on twitter, quote hearing a lot about texts from quote friends at dhs or friends with connections at dhs say that dhs is planning a National Lockdown. This is not true. Do not believe the disinformation campaigns. Please do not pass it along. Use trusted local and federal government sources. In new york the army corps of engineers is exploring ways to convert more than 10,000 rooms from existing hotels and College Dorms into makeshift hospital rooms to treat those infected with the virus. As a point of comparison. The largest hospital in new york just has over 1900 rooms. And this as the number of coronavirus cases continues to rise. The u. S. Now has over 19,000 cases, 260 people have died. There are now 67 cases in the u. S. Military. Yesterday dr. Fauci told bill hemmer he expects the number of coronavirus cases to spike in the next few weeks, guys. Pete lucas, thank you very much. Jed you mentioned seeing military vehicles in your neighborhood when we chatted breathily this morning. I can tell you i serve in the National Guard. Im on email lists about this. Certainly have heard nothing. It all depends on what state you are in and what your duty assignment is. So far certain state National Guard responding to certain local issues to respond to local Law Enforcement and where governors need assistance. The idea of a National Quarantine from the National Guard there is no validity. Jedediah on my drive here the driver showed me a video of someone had taken and said look at the military rolling in. Coming in from long island, i think he said. The thing is when you see images like that for someone like me, i wasnt in the military. Im not, you know, completely familiar with what the protocol is when Something Like that happenings. That can also be very alarming. I think its very important for people like you, pete, that have the ability to really handle that clarification to just reassure the public that that is not necessarily a cause for alarm and to really quantify what exactly that means on the ground. Todd and to that point for the National Guard as across the country to do what theyre doing to atphourpbs what theyre doing here at some point we have talked about potentially the army coming in and setting up medical facilities throughout many, many cities in our nation i think to jeds point it would be important to let the nation know this is what these individuals dressed in fatigues are doing they are not here inflicting national law. If anything if you see someone in a military uniform you should be assured the government is putting them there to double down on the medical effort doing in this country and not related to martial law. Its important to Pay Attention and important for the National Guard to clarify. Something else that the president has been focused on is controlling who comes in and out of our country. You remember he quickly closed travel from china when we realized where the chinese virus was coming from. Well, Additional Border restrictions have been announced by the president on our northern and southern border. Here is what he said yesterday in the press briefing. These new rules and procedures will not impede lawful trade in congress. The actions were taken together with our north American Partners will save countless lives concerned about the Great Public Health consequences of mass uncontrolled cross border movement. Every week our Border Agents encounter thousands of unscreened, unvetted and unauthorized entries from dozens of country infantries. And we have had this problem for decade. Decades. You know the story, now with the National Emergencies and all of the other things we have declared we can actually do something about it. Jedediah for me, this was a reassuring step by the administration. Because obviously unscreened entries are a problem regardless particularly now in a state of energy witstate ofnational emer. Todd this isnt necessarily policy based in light of the immigration discussion we have been having in this nation over the case of the last three years. Closing the northern and southern border to keep everyone, not just the United States but also folks there in mexico and canada somewhat safe. Pete what im basically told effective li if someone comes across the border illegally they can be detained and immediately deported back to mexico. How that is actually be applied in ports of entry, there is mixed information about how difficult that is for that to happen. But, effectively, it cuts through all the red tape of what our Border Patrol agents normally have to deal with, for reasons as you guys mentioned of health and public safety. No one is come in. You are going back. We will figure it out later. Jedediah thats right. Pete speaking of something you cant really figure out later these bills on capitol hill that are moving forward that are supposed to give stimulus to people hurting right now. The Senate Negotiators are going to meet again today after working through the night as they should. But missing the deadline they were supposed to reach for a coronavirus stimulus bill. Senate majority Majority Leader Mitch Mcconnell said the vote will be tomorrow. What do you make of capitol hill handling this right now . Jedediah they were coming together. The president was talking about this. This isnt a time to be republican or democrat. This is a time to come together to defeat. Take a listen to what he had to say. Incredible job. It wasnt their fault. There is tremendous hope. I think we are going to come out stronger, better, bigger in every way we learned a lot. We learned on reliance, who to rely on who not to be rely on. Our country has been incredible the way we pulled together including senator schumer we had a wonderful conversation. We both want to get to a solution. Seeing people who werent speaking getting along well because we all have one common aim and thats to get rid of this invisible enemy and get rid of it fast and go back to the kind of economy we had and maybe even better. Jedediah thats reassuring i hope that is actually whats going on behind the scenes. It always least when you look at times of tragedy or crisis and you see the ability of democrats and republicans come together. You also wonder why thats so impossible to do under ordinary circumstance. Im glad to see it happening right now. Obviously this is a scary time for many and we dont need them stagnant. Todd you heard the president s words. I know i have talked to a number of staunch conservation over the last week. They look forward to liberal governor Andrew Cuomos press conferences on a day in and day out business. One victim we can all agree its partisanship so far. At least thats the hope going forward. We will see how long this lasts during this crisis. And then hopefully beyond. Pete it might be a temporary victory at least for now. You are right. Good point. Appreciate it. Go over to Carley Shimkus. She is with us all morning long and has additional headlines. Carley got a big one at that. Coronavirus wreaking havoc on Police Departments in two major cities. In detroit 152 Police Officers now quarantined after five of them tested positive forever covid19. The chief has warned officers to take extra precautions during calls. The Chicago PoliceDepartment Closing its academy. Assigning all 300 recruits to work as support staff. An aide for Vice President mike pence tests positive for the virus as well. Its the first known case of a white house employee. A press secretary for the Vice President says neither President Trump or the v. P. Had close contact with the person. Pences office says there are no plans to test him for the virus at this time. Country music mourning the loss of beloved icon kenny rogers you got to know when to hold them know when to fold them know when to walk away. Rogers passing away from Natural Causes. He won three grammys and had 24 anybody one songs over his career spanning six decades. Rogers was 81 years old. He is survived by his wife and five kids. Not just a loss for the country and Music Community. But the Music Community in general. Pete a legend. 24 number ones. God bless him. Coming up, new evidence coming up suggesting the coronavirus more dangerous for men than for women. Why . Next. At you need. What do you think . I dont see it. Only pay for what you need. Liberty. Liberty. Liberty. Liberty. Can it help keep me asleep . Smart bed is on sale now. Absolutely, it senses your movements and automatically adjusts to keep you both comfortable. And now, save up to 900 on select sleep number 360 smart beds. 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It all just means physical separation so you have a space between you and others who might actually be infected or infect you. Dr. Jerome adams we all have a role to play in preventing persontoperson spread of this disease which can be deadly for vulnerable groups. For more information on how you can social distance please go to coronavirus. Gov we continue to review the data from around the globe. In italy we are seeing another concerning trend that the mortality in males seem to be twice in every age group of females. Pete in fact, data shows in italy men make up nearly 60 of confirmed coronavirus cases and over 70 of deaths. Jedediah similarly in china men make up half of cases and over 60 of deaths. Todd why do men seem to be affected more . Lets ask fox news medical contributor dr. Janette nesheiwat. Thank you for being here. Thats the 64,000 question. Why . So, exact theology of why there is this discrepancy is unknown. What we suspect is it could be an immodernal influence. For example estrogen in women have been shown to provide protective properties. Thats one reason. Plus, also, women tend to seek medical care earlier than men. And when they are in the hospital there is variations in the type of care. On top of that women are more prone to what we call autoimmune diseases. This might make their immune system stronger if you will. Then we look at smoking. More men smoke than women. So this could cause more damage to the cells in the lungs putting men more at higher risk of complications and higher risk of death. So all these factors play a role and thats why we see that women tend to outlive men by about seven years. Jedediah thats fascinating stuff. We actually have viewer questions for you, several, actually. We are going to start with an email from sandra. She asks im 66 years old and have seasonal asthma. I have done a lot of coughing and no fever. Is a fever absolutely necessary with covid19 . Thats a great question. No. Can you still have a virus and not have a fever. You would tend to be an outlier is what we call. If you came in with a lot of coughing for a long period of time, i would listen to your heart and lungs. We would talk about possibly doing a chest xray to make sure that there isnt Something Else going on like even a bacterial pneum