Society since world war ii. On this good friday worshipers around the world. The worldwide death toll has now surpassed the 100,000 mark. Thats an north lawn. And trip President Trump announced tonight that he was going to be announcing a second Coronavirus Task force on tuesday. He calls at the opening our country counsel. When he was asked tonight what metrics that counsel was going to be using and heres what he said. Thats my metrics, and we listen to 35 people. Im going to surround myself with the greatest minds, not only the greatest minds but the greatest minds in numerous different businesses. President trump didnt name any names, but this will include doctors, Business Leaders and governors. These have to be lifted by the governors. Something else is going to be happening next week, President Trump said he will be making an announcement about the world health organization. Hes been threatening to freeze funding to the group all week and he accuses it of missing the mark on the coronavirus and for being too china centric. Today i asked the president if he is given any more thought to Holding China financially responsible for the economic toll if the virus, that the virus has taken on the United States and here was his response. President trump if people knew including the world health organization, and i do believe they knew but they didnt want to tell the world. And we are going to get to the bottom of this. We will have reports on all of this and we are not happy about it. But i wanted to leave the world health for later and, we expressed how we felt. We talked a lot about encouraging signs all over the country. They appear to be stabilizing, and they are beginning to change the curve. Governors are calling less and less to make requests. As encouraging as they are we have not reached the peak. And so every day, we need to continue to do what we did yesterday and the week before in the week before that. This will take us up across the peak and on the other side. Dr. Anthony fauci noted tonight that this is the end of the famous week that the task force predicted. The week that they said would be one of the worst in american history. And now that we are on the other side of that, dr. Fauci is pleading with americans to not pull back from social distancing and stayathome guidelines especially as we head into easter sunday. Bret dr. Fauci will be with martha next hour. President trump held an Oval Office Ceremony today marking the easter weekend. We want to bring comfort to those who are grieving, to bring strength to the doctors, nurses and Health Care Workers, to restore health to the sick and to renew the hope and every person who is suffering. Our nation will come through like never before. Bret the president said even though americans will not be able to gather as normal the time should be used for prayer and reflection. New York Governor Andrew Cuomo says deaths in his state jumped by 777 in one day. While the number of people hospitalized is growing far less than last week. Correspondent Jonathan Serrie has a latest look around the country tonight from atlanta. New york reported its first decline in the icu pandemic since it began but the state continues to experience high death counts, a delayed effect of critical patients admitted over the past two weeks. In the epicenter of the outbreak the daily tributes to hospital workers continuum. We think the federal government should set up a heros Compensation Fund to compensate our health care and other frontline workers for what they did here. As major cities in the midwest approach their peaks, ththe detroit areas convert to centers and to field hospitals. Chicagos cook county is converting this 66,000 squarefoot refrigerated warehouse into a temporary morgue. California and Washington State are serving equipment to ventilators with places with greater needs. I just heard a terrible story coming out of detroit and these assets which are National Assets can save people today in those places. Washington and california are in a position to help because of aggressive mitigation efforts have so far prevented their hospitals from becoming overwhelmed. Their efforts along with those in new york have contributed to a favorable national trend. You can see for the first time in the United States we are starting to level on the logarithmic phase like italy did about a week ago. In wuhan, china, a resident captured this time lapse of hundreds of cars returning to the streets after the government lifted at 76 day lock down on the city where the outbreak began. But routine checks on health and travel continue as residents cautiously returned to work and bring the city back to life. In the u. S. Has weathered what federal Health Officials predicted would be a very difficult week but as we go into the Holiday Weekend if they are urging individuals and houses of worship to resist the temptation to gather and instead urging americans to celebrate with their own immediate families in their own personal homes so that the social distancing continues and along with that, current favorable trends. Bret Jonathan Serrie in atlanta. The federal governments budget deficit for the first half of the budget year totaled 743. 6 billion which is up about 7. 6 from last year and well on its way to top a trillion dollars. Now that is even before the impact of the coronavirus were felt. The Treasury Department says the deficit from october through march was 52 and a half billion dollars higher than the same period a year ago. Some economists are now estimating the rescue package could push this years deficit well above 2 trillion. President trump says hes working on getting more funds to help Small Businesses survive the pandemic. Correspondent david spent shows how some Small Business owners are trying to access the money which is supposed to be already available. With stayathome orders blanketing, and im definitely nervous. However, i dont know what i can do. One month ago, she closed her doors and laid off her two employees. Im not taking any salary myself so at this point i tried to apply for those and it doesnt look like its a moving. Step one is this website, and they are still working to make the application available to customers promising accessibility soon. Other banks are facing similar issues. Of ted keiser owns a recycling company in new jersey and says the loan process is full of red tape. Thats been frustrating going through a couple different banks in order to get this done. It does seem like we will be able to get the application through with bank of america at this point. Hes trying to be patient given the circumstances. Its difficult for both the banking managers and for us to know if what we are doing is the correct thing and if ultimately its going to go through. As a clock ticks, the doctor continues to look online and make phone calls hoping her bank will come through. We just have to wait and see what they can offer. To apply for a loan you have to go do it through your bank or another lender. To find a lender the Small Business administration has a search tool online. Banks are giving priority to business clients and if you are not a business client, it will be a challenge but not impossible. Bret it while the covid19 pandemic has dominated the attention of the american public, the underlying political fallout will be felt in a president ial election year. Tonight, one prominent member of the Trump Administration is sounding off on another key talking point that promises to become political fodder in coming months. It has been before the coronavirus, really, for three years. Gillian turner looks at the simmering russia probe and new comments from the u. S. Attorney general. Attorney general william barr is putting the fbis handling of the 2016 russia probe back into the political spotlight. What happened to them was one of the greatest travesties in american history. The attorney general said the agency lacked any basis for launching a probe into ties between nick Trump Campaign and russias efforts to interfere in u. S. Elections. Even more concerning actually is what happened after the campaign, a whole pattern of events while he was president. So to sabotage the presidency. The bob Mueller Council report found insufficient evidence to link anything between the campaign and russia. Democrats have long criticized the nations top Law Enforcement officer of being a trompe loeil list and unfairly criticizing the fbi for parts and gains. The president s critics point to the Justice Departments own Inspector General. He found fault with the fbis handling of a sensitive matter but concluded the bureau was justified in launching the probe and not driven by political bias. But the u. S. Attorney who was appointed by bar may reach a different conclusion. The evidence shows we are not dealing with just mistakes or sloppiness, theres something far more troubling here. And we will get to the bottom of it. So far the interred in general hasnt given an investigation into when this will wrap up or whether any fbi officials are ultimately going to be charged. He also says when it comes to Election Security china poses a much greater threat to the United States. Bret jillian, thank you. In the past few minutes we have a release from senator chuck grassley. Talking about the footnotes, the classified footnotes in the Inspector General report about pfizer abuses. And and thats part of the russian conspiracy to spread disinformation. The fbis blind pursuit of the disinformation despite exculpatory information only legitimized of the narrative. They should have stopped the investigation early in the tracks and instead it took several years and millions of taxpayer dollars to conclude that allegations are baseless. Grassley goes on to say he expects the declassification to come in coming days. Up next, should there be more male in voting in light of the coronavirus pandemic . We will look at that. But first, beyond our borders we will look at some of what our fox affiliates are covering. Q13 fox in seattle as a Washington StateSupreme Court says people are not entitled to make minimum wage for jury duty. The court says jury duty is not traditional employment subject to the minimum wage act because of the civic applications involved. Box 40 in jackson, mississippi, is the attorney for william nash says he will ask as a u. S. Supreme court to overturn the 12 Year Prison Sentence for nash who carried his mobile phone into a jail cell after he was arrested on a misdemeanor charge. The state Supreme Court said thursday it will not reconsider its earlier decision to uphold that sentence. Fox 29 in philadelphia as firefighters battle a large forest fire in cumberland county. Officials say that fire has consumed more than a thousand acres. Firefighters expect the blaze will be under control by later today, no injuries were reported and no evacuations expected. And if this is a live look at austin from our affiliate, fox seven. One of the big stories later tonight, a federal judge rules texas clinics may continue to perform abortions in some cases, despite the governors order banning them during the coronavirus outbreak. The decision appears to contradict a federal Appeals Court ruling upholding that band. 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Bret the Justice Department and is there federal agencies are calling on the federal Communications Commission to revoke China Telecom corporations authorization to provide International Telecommunication services to and from the u. S. The company is a subsidiary of a Chinese State owned telecommunications firm. The official site concerns that they could use that company to conduct espionage against the u. S. Government. The firm rejects the allegations and says its been extremely cooperative and transparent with regulators. Meanwhile, the agency followed proper procedures and denying House Democrats access to President Trumps tax returns. Last may you may remember that house ways and means chairman issued a subpoena to turn over six years of the president s tax returns. Lawmakers, and the treasury process the request properly and sought legal guidance from the Justice Department and determined it was bound by that guidance and based on that advice decided not to provide tax information. We are waiting on a reaction from the Trump Administration. Intimates democracy 2020 report, the male in voting over the coronavirus pandemic. Democrats want to see more of it. Correspondent peter doocy it lays out the battle lines tonight. If candidates arent in public campaigning should constituents be in public voting now or in november . We should be thinking now a headache, both Political Parties in academia and laying out what it would take to have voting by mail. I would much prefer to have in person voting. Colorado, and joe bidens allies are pushing for more. There could be a positive usually there is universal things like voting by mail. Voting by mail could take longer to grow. And you have the ballot thats not systematic fraud to come up thats kind of indifferent election environment that we might all be dealing with this fall. Republicans attribute it to coronavirus ada. But we did was we took out some of the positive pieces, and initiatives like that that opened we made it pretty easy in ohio. Im not going to say which part he does but thousands of votes gather and they arc dumped in a location then all of a sudden you lose elections. I wont stand for it. Theres another problem that officials in wisconsin are dealing with. Thousands of people who requested ballots it didnt get them. So vote by mail will go national, it will require months in preparation. Bret joe biden is obviously the democratic nominee in waiting. He said, biden data, that he wanted to name a woman to be Vice President. Do we have any idea about the short list . Its 11 names long and we dont know who the names are yet. So we are looking for any little clue about who might be on it and we do have some new clues. Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer was a guest on bidens new p