Im rob schmitt. Carley im Carley Shimkus in for jillian mele. Thanks for starting your day with us. The u. S. Is nearing its peak, the fda making that declaration as new york, the pandemic epicenter of the world, reports a drop in new cases. Rob that is some good news. Todd piro is live as the white house hopes to reopen the economy next month and thats still a big question, todd. Reporter still a big question, rob, good morning to you. Good morning to carley. With so many of those prepeak hospitalizations sadly becoming deaths, the numbers are truly staggering even if well below the initial worst Case Scenario. More than half a Million People infected throughout the country, with more than 22,000 dead. New york seeing almost 1 of thousand of those deaths alone. Youre also seeing a recurrence of the terrible news, which is the number of lives lost. Somebody asked the question once, can you ever get numb to these seeing these numbers . Unfortunately, no. Every one is a face and a name and a family. Reporter but amid the sadness, another day of increasing hope. New york reporting daily icu admissions and intubations using a threeday average are down with various models showing we are at or close to the peak, especially along the coast. The middle of the country taking peaking a few weeks from now. Los angeles county launching large scale Antibody Testing. One of many efforts to learn more about how to potentially make us immune to the virus. All this leading some experts to say the country could reopen by may or june. When you look at the admissions, the hospitalizations, the intensive care and the need to intubate, that not only is flattened, its starting to turn the corner. Its cautious optimism that we are seeing the decrease. If you look at the patterns of the curves in other countries, once you turn that corner, hopefully well see a very sharp decline and then you can start thinking about how we can keep it that way. Reporter close to 42,000 people have recovered from the virus here in the u. S. So far. Rob and carley, back to you. Carley were going to talk more about how we reopen the country later on in the show. Thanks so much. Rob florida stepping up safety measures, an emergency order going into place mandating Osceola County residence to wear masks in public, the first in Central Florida to issue the mandate. Those without a mask could face a fine, maybe even jail time. The only exceptions are those with certain medical conditions and kids under 2 years old, it comes as new Jersey Transit begins its own mask mandate and cuts capacity by half, very Critical Infrastructure there, beginning tonight. Carley the battle continues in new york. Bill de blasio apparently notifying the governor at the last minute on his move to keep schools closed until fall. The mayor reportedly told a few advisors but Governor Andrew Cuomo was sent a text message minutes before the announcement. The governor now saying no decision has been made and that it will be done on a regional basis. Yikes. Rob power struggle there. President trump claiming america is winning the war against covid19 as he makes history, declaring a major disaster in all 50 states. Carley Griff Jenkins is live in washington as pressure is building in washington. Reporter carley and rob, good morning. Heres the latest. Congress not agreeing, thats no surprise, but heres the deal. They may have just days, not weeks, to act before the money runs out. The Administration Says already 168 billion of the initial 350 under phase three has gone out the door, warning if more money isnt added quickly it could crush Small Business and congress at odds over how to fund it, is out of session for another week. Speaker pelosi says the house will vote on new legislation by the end of the month. Minority leader schumer is pushing for a bipartisan agreement as soon as this week but schumer blocked Senate Republicans last week trying to add 250 billion to the ppp program. Majority leader mcconnell and minority leader mccarthy issuing a statement saying republicans reject democrats reckless threat to continue blocking job saving funding unless we renegotiate unrelated programs which are not in similar peril. This will not be Congress Last word on covid19 but this Crucial Program needs funding now. American workers cannot be used as political hostages, as the president declares that disaster in all 50 states and calls on governors to step up, tweeting this yesterday. Saying governors, get your states Testing Programs and apparatus perfected. Be ready, big things are happening. No excuses. The federal government is there to help. We are testing more than any country in the world. Also, gear up with face masks. But marylands republican governor larry hogan, chairman of the National GovernorsAssociation Says more aid is needed for states. I know theres people in washington that are working very hard as partners to try to help the states but i think to say that everybodys completely happy and we have everything we need is not accurate. Everybody has tremendous needs on personal protective equipment, everybody is fighting to find these things all over the nation. Reporter finally, some good news to start your monday. The irs said over the weekend the first batch of those direct deposits have already hit Bank Accounts and more are coming rapidly this week. Rob, carley. Rob thats right. Friend of mine already got hers thank you so much. Carley a deadly round of more than 30 tornadoes ripping across several southern states, a dozen people killed, at least five in georgia overnight. Rob more than half a Million People without power, alabama, louisiana, mississippi, all declaring states of emergency. There it is, right there. Rob something else. A deputy and his wife sadly among several who were killed in mississippi and alabama, a woman was rescued after being trapped in the car you just saw there in the last video. Carley hundreds of homes are destroyed in louisiana. Janice dean joins us live as the dangerous track is heading north. Janice, whats going to happen today . Well, the storms thankfully are going to weaken but weve had over 50 reports of tornadoes within the last 48 hours, moving across texas into louisiana, mississippi, alabama, now into georgia and the carolinas and unfortunately we are still dealing with Severe Weather. So tornado watches in effect for parts of florida, up towards georgia, the carolinas and now into virginia. These watches good until some of them until lunch hour. So were going to be dealing with Severe Weather for the next several hours and of course its still dark out there, hopefully people have a way to get their watches and warnings. Some of these tornadoes could be rainwrapped. And we already have tornado warned storms south of augusta, georgia, moving towards the midatlantic and the northeast. Were not done yet. The storms are going to weaken but we have the knock next sevel hours to get through and the potential for the midatlantic for winds gusting upwards of 70 Miles Per Hour. So thats going to cause potentially some Power Outages and some structural damage as well. So once the storm, the cold front, once it sweeps across the east coast, we will be done with it by dinner time but for the next several hours were going to kind of be under the gun here for the stronger storms and all of this is going to lift up towards the northeast where wind gusts along the coast of 50 to 70 Miles Per Hour is certainly going to cause some damage many interior sections of the northeast as well. So this is a wideranging storm system. We also had snow on the backside of it this weekend but the damage catastrophic in parts of the south and southeast unfortunately this morning, rob and carley. Carley so much destruction at such a bad time. Thats horrible to hear. Thank you for the update. We appreciate it. You got it. Rob Cardinal Timothy dolan encouraging people to stick to social distancing even though Church Services have changed. God is telling us use your brain, use your prudence, use your common sense, dont tempt the lord. Rob the cardinal Live Streaming easter mass inside an empty st. Patricks cathedral. In oklahoma social distancing didnt stop this pastor from leading a drivein Easter Service for 13,000 worshipers. Pretty clever. Joel osteen joined by star power during his virtual service, mariah carey and tyler perry joined. Carley firefighters getting creative with a heart felt tribute to doctors and nurses. Shthey posted a drone video whih shows trucks with lights flashing forming a heart, part of the hashtag hearts for healthcare trend to support those fighting on the front lines against covid19. For more uplifting stories visit foxnews. Com americatogether. Rob iis i wish i was from a e like cheboygan. Thats a good word. New hope on when the economy might get back on track. Its cautious optimism that we are seeing that decrease. Hopefully well see a very sharp decline and then you can start thinking about how we can keep it that way. Carley a tentative timeline to improve Public Health and get the industry moving again, but how soon is too soon . Dr. Nicole saphier joins us live with her assessment. It is an understatement to say that i was extremely worried. I was overwhelmed. And i didnt know where to begin. I came across sofi and it was the best decision of my life. I feel cared about as a member. Theres no extra costs for it or anything like that. Its all kinda like, through the app. Were getting a super competitive Interest Rate on our money. Were able to invest through the same exact platform. I really liked that they didnt have any hidden or extra fees. Sofi has brought me peace of mind. Truly thank you for helping me prepare for whatever the future has in store. Its all because sofi let us see light at the end of the tunnel. So thank you. Thank you. The indications of that part of this machine that drives this outbreak is starting to level off. We are hoping that at the end of the month we could look around and say okay, is there any element here that we can safely and cautiously start pulling back on. If so, do it. If not, then just continue to hunker down. Rob all right. So dr. Fauci predicting the u. S. Could slowly get back to business next month as local leaders wonder if were finally turn the corner. Carley as businesses reopen this summer, what are the chances we could see a resurgence. Rob joining us with expert insight on this, fox news medical contributor, dr. Nicole saphier. Thank you for coming back to the show. Good morning. Thanks for having me so early. Rob absolutely. Were seeing the decrease, were starting to see a slide in the new cases and that is good news. What do you make of these numbers . Well, cautiously optimistic just like everybody else is saying. Were finally getting over the initial peak that we talked about especially in new york city but also in other places around the country as well and some places youre starting to see the decline. The Biggest Issue we have with covid19, we were concerned if we were to give too many cases right away to the hospitals that you would have an overflow of the Hospital System and need makeshift hospitals why is what we saw in new york city, which is why we put up the Javits Center and all these other cases. Now that were seeing a decreasing amount of patients with infections, that tells us the mitigation efforts are actually working. This is a big question about when are we going to reopen things. Yes, its true, social distancing and everything that were doing right now is bending the curve. Were not only at a plateau but were starting to see decreases and thats a wonderful thing but we cant be doing this forever. I mean, President Trump recently said that this is going to be the biggest decision hes ever had to make and he made a very good point when he said hes worried about people leaving their home and dying but hes also worried about people staying in their home and dying and the truth is, unemployment every year kills about 45,000 americans. Unemployment alone causes suicide in about 45,000 americans every year. And if we just had 16 million americans file for unemployment in the last three weeks, thats a big deal. Thats a big deal from an economic standpoint, a Mental Health standpoint, so yes, it is a very fine balance of how are we going to keep people safe from covid19 but also keep them safe from the longterm effects of the economic fallout because of this global pandemic. Carley one of the ways being considered on how to reopen the economy is Antibody Testing. But theres a head of a biotech firm, he was on the next revolution last night, he said that system might not work. Take a listen. We have to realize that there may be a lot of people who have already had this disease that you will not be able to test with a pcr test, a very real chance here that this disease has progressed much further than we realize. Im very hesitant to say that it would be feasible to Contact Trace every single infections contact. Carley how do you feel about that, dr. Saphier. We dont have enough coronavirus tests. How can we expect were going to get enough antibody tests, immunity tests to test everybody that we need in order to reopen the economy at a sustainable level . Well, interestingly, he was referring to last night the pcr test, thats the nasal test, looking for the presence of virus. But the truth is, we have a very Large Population in the United States and were not going to be able to get everybody tested for this antibody and we also dont know if you have been exposed to this virus if, one, youre going to produce antibodies and two, if those antibodies are going to confer shortterm or longterm immunity. South korea is reporting 91 cases of people who tested negative and then tested positive again. And there are questions of whether the virus laid dormant and it became reactivated if they got reinfected. The truth is, we dont know. We do need to get Antibody Testing throughout the country but we should try to do it for moran come sampling to see how many of the population actually have already been exposed to this virus and when we look at how were going to reopen the economy, it cant its not a one size fits all. We are a very diverse nation, were diverse in our states. Were diverse in our communities and municipalities so this is not going to be a federal opening. This is going to be individual, they have to look at the numbers, they have to look at how many people have potentially already been exposed and theyre going to have to open sites site by site which is a painfully slow but thats going to be the safest way to do it. Its a very fine balance. We have to get the country open. We also have to keep people safe from covid19. The truth is, theres going to be another spike, there absolutely is. Its likely in the fall. The bottom line is we want to keep people alive and healthy as possible. We want to make sure were able to test them when the spike does come. Hopefully well have small studies that are already going right now in terms of treatments and well be hopefully that much closer to the vaccine being available. Rob thats the big winner, the vaccine. Doctor, thank you so much. We appreciate your time. Thanks, guys. 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Tell us what happened and how many family members were infected by this. We had a Birthday Dinner for my daughters, so my inlaws and my mother and her husband were here. So there were 10 of us. It was a sunday. On monday, i got sick. And progressively through the week the rest of the family got sick. Carley kelly, you also got sick, right . Yes, by wednesday. Myself and our four daughters were sick. Carley mike, this affected you by far the most. Were looking at a picture of you right now in the hospital. Doctors were not sure that you were going to survive. You were put on a ventilator. But then you were treated with an antiviral drug developed to fight ebola and things started to look up. Explain what that whole process was like for you. Quite honestly, i dont remember a lot of it because i was under so kelly was making a lot of decisions, but from what im told, i was able to be put on the drugs and just grateful that i was able to get that and they say they dont know if it was the drug or if i just naturally got better but from what kelly was saying, talking to the doctor, they recommended doing it. Theyre doing studies now. Carley what was the progress like from before he was on the drug, doctors asked if you wanted to try this and then was it a qui