But one dire forecast leaked today from a federal agency is drawing particular scrutiny at the highest levels. The white house today pushing back hard on a interagency report from fema that shows in the next month the number of coronavirus deaths could rise to 3,000 per day in the number of infections could rise to 200,000 per day from the current 25,000. In a statement, the white house saying this is not a white house document, nor has it been presented to the Coronavirus Task force or god through interagency vetting. This data is not reflective of any of the modeling done by the task force or the data that the task force has analyzed. Fox news is told that dr. Deborah birx has seen the report in disagrees with the projections. Two important model showed the forecast getting worse. The centers for Disease Control now predicting a total of 100,000 deaths in the next few weeks. The institute for Health Metrics and evaluation now forecasting nearly 135,000 deaths, almost double the previous estimate. Our fox news town hall, President Trump taking notice. We are going to lose anywhere from 75,000, 80,000, to 100,000 people. Its a horrible thing. We shouldnt lose one person over this. It shouldve been stopped in china. It shouldve been stopped. But if we didnt do it, they minimally wouldve lost his 1. 4 million. Speak of the new forecast reinforced the split in america between people angry about continued closures in those angy about reopening. I think you can satisfy both. If youre scared, you can statement a little bit and you can watch it. But a lot of people want to go back. They just want to go back. You see it every day. You see demonstrations all over the country. Even as the new projections show more pain and Economic Uncertainty ahead, President Trump remains bullish in the prospect of a widely available vaccine in record time. I think we are going to have a vaccine by the end of the year. The doctors would say you shouldnt say that. Ill say what i think. The administration increasingly pointing fingers at china for letting the buyer is out. A Senior Intelligence official telling fox news that as many as three quarters of the 17 intelligence agencies believe coronavirus escaped because of a mistake at the Wuhan Institute of virology. Secretary of state mike pompeo. I can tell you theres a significant amount of evidence that this came from that laboratory. China firing back at the accusations today insisting that pompeo is insane. President trump backing his secretary. Personally i think they made a horrible mistake and they didnt want to admit it. The new modeling for the institute for Health Metrics and evaluation does show a substantial difference between the fema report on the number of deaths per day. The ihme puts it at 890. At the same time the fema reports that suggest it would be 3,000. While that seems to be somewhat promising news, the ihme does push back the timeline for decline by a couple of months. Now saying its going to be august before we get to the end of the line here. With this current pandemic. Bret john roberts live on the north line. Thank you. Florida is reopening under phase one guidelines tonight. Corresponded phil keating is in key largo. For the first time in six weeks, a taste of normalcy returned to most florida restaurants. In person dining at tables inside is allowed again but limited to 25 capacity. James carlisle jumped at the chance. It feels nice. You get kind of tired of takeout food every day. They do have the best breakfast in town, so its a nobrainer coming here. In the florida keys and most of the state, phase one of the states reopening began monday morning. That includes Retail Businesses being able to let customers back inside and make some sales. Also at 25 capacity. Also greenlighted for phase one, elective surgeries. Social distancing remains in effect and masks continue to be encouraged. Still closed our schools, bars, gyms, spas, salons. People are still not allowed to visit their elderly loved ones at Nursing Homes and assisted living facilities. Florida state parks are open again as are most of the states beaches. Clearwater beach today, good amount of people return to the sand, surf, and sunshine. Authorities are enforcing proper spacing between beachgoers. The major exception of phase one are the south florida counties with half the States Coronavirus cases and deaths. Palm beach, broward, miamidade. Open marinas brought huge numbers in long lines of voters this weekend. Floridas governor says reopening will be slow, steady, and smart. Its not going to happen overnight but im confident we can get there, so everyone just hang in there and do your part. Sundowners here in key largo also taking advantage of phase one reopening just in an hour ago. As for statewide numbers, floridas now approaching 37,000 positive covid19 cases and 1400 deaths. A week to week data show that testing is increasing. Daily new positives are edging downward, and daily death totals appear to have plateaued. Bret. Bret i dont know if they are social distancing at that tiki bar behind you. Phil, thank you. California democratic governor gavin newsom says some businesses will be allowed to reopen as early as friday. Businesses into more Northern California counties reopen today in silent defiance of the governor statewide stayathome order. The county followed last weeks lead behind another county in pressure to reopen. S p 500 finished ahead 12. Nasdaq jumped 106. Senators back in washington tonight have brought with them strategies for the next round of government assistance to those impacted by the coronavirus. Thats not all. Some are hoping for. Chief Congressional Correspondent mike emanuel tells us. We are going to show up for work like the essential workers that we are. The senate is fully back in action for the first time in more than a month. Yet it is anything but normal with social distancing and face masks. Many staffers still working from home. Some are uncomfortable with being back in session. The republican leader is called the senate back into session despite demonic of the district of columbia appears to be reaching the peak phase of this Public Health emergency. Battle lines are already being drawn for the next major Coronavirus Response package. With democrat signaling they expect massive relief for cashstrapped states and local governments. I have talked about almost a trillion dollars right there. This isnt about any other budget issues for states. Its about the coronavirus, revenue loss. Republicans say they want Liability Protection for Small Businesses and First Responders to prevent a flood of lawsuits. G. O. P. Leaders sent 150 billion to the states as part of the 2. 2 trillion care is act and say that the next round should not be about bailing out states and cities that were already in trouble with massive pension liabilities. Why should texans have to pay higher taxes to bail out states who wont live within their means . I think its wrong and unfair. Democrats have warned without more assistance state and local governments will be forced to lay off critical personnel. The treasury secretary says more flexibility with federal funding is being offered. States can use the money for policemen, firemen, responders, without limit so we can make sure that none of those people whove been fighting the front lines in any way are impacted by the states having lower revenues. Some key Republican Leaders say they want to allow some time to study the impact of nearly 3 trillion in emergency spending was some very different ideas about whats next, it was human next coronavirus package will take some time before there is a deal. Bret. Bret all right, thank you. Many Small Business owners say the pandemic has destroyed their revenue. Aid from congress is helping some while others fear they may go under. Correspondent matt finn talked to Business Owners in chicago. In chicago at 8 00 p. M. Every night, people cheer and flashlights for frontline workers. One of the only signs of life in americas thirdlargest city where 70 of Small Businesses say they have been significantly impacted by the pandemic. One fifth report a loss of nearly all revenue beginning in march. Rear used this whole display case full. The phones teresa close the firs first r two bakeries in march, 100 lost revenue. Now shes running her secondstory on her own. Sales have plummeted 60 . I had a manager work for a couple days, but then there was just no traffic whatsoever. Today all nine employees are laid off, including shanice. Unemployment is paying roughly half of her usual income for now but she has anxiety about the future. If i dont get my job ever, is on a planet going to still help me . This barber shop owner has been in business for 50 years. Hey, how are you . No, were closed. His busy shop has been shuttered now for nearly seven weeks. Coming here and nobody here, it feels empty. And air force veterans jim is also empty for the first time in four years. Classes stopped. His personal training is limited to video. Its been devastating. My wife is a Small Business owner as well. She owned a salon. We ended up having a close the doors there so obviously that crippled us. The National RestaurantAssociation Estimates that 15 to 20 of restaurants wont survive. Despite the overall growing business outlook, the majority people that we talked to say they are trying to remain optimistic. Bret. Bret matt finn in chicago. Thank you. Lets get some inside information from one of President Trumps top economic advisors. Kevin joins us from the white house. Thanks for being here. I want to start where we leave off with matt about Small Businesses. The ppp program, the second tranche of money. Is it true its about 60 burn through as of today . Burn through is kind of a harsh word but yes, it is going through at a rate about like that and i think at last count that i heard, it was about 3. 8 million loans gone out. The vast majority was 70 have been less than 50,000 which means that its going to Small Businesses. I think the ppp program is working really well right now. Its getting money out there but youre right, the burn rate that youre seeing, it could well be that it has to be renewed at some point in the near future. Bret we talked about this with the president last night a little bit about, you cant stimulus your way out of a problem like this and its more about demand and how do you stimulate the economy on that side . What are the thoughts inside the white house . Youre exactly right about that but i think what we think is theres two stages. The first stage is that weve got to build a bridge to the other shore and the second stage is that weve got to make sure that we really prosper and take off and make the economy great again once we land. I think there right now weve had three massive, massive stimulus is which were basically designed to get us to the other shore and we are kind of in waitandsee mode because we are watching to see if we get there or whether, as mentioned, we might have to add to ppp. I think we have a lot of ideas that we have discussed with the president about things that we can make better so that people are optimistic about the long run and i think its premature to go for a big long run fixed like the president s mentioned infrastructure, till we are sure we are on the other shore or most of the way on the other shore. Right now we are it and i think that is the states open up, one of the things that we have the Economic Team are doing is were watching whats happening to economic activity. Whats happening to incomes . We are seeing some reassuring things, the sense that loans have kept businesses afloat, a big majority of the people who filed initial claims for Unemployment Insurance where shortterm or furloughed workers so they can go back right away so there are some signs that even though its the biggest negative shock any of us have ever seen, that our economy can survive it and come back even stronger. Bret we had some questions that obviously we didnt get to last night from verizon across the country. Pat is with a maryland towing company. She had a question for the president. I will give it to you. Hi, i am pat. We would like to pose a question to you, sir, that if theres any way that we can have a detailed twoyear Small Business organizational Recovery Plan starting next week for People Like Us and hopefully for people like our customers. Rate increases, regulatory issues. Bret basically shes asking, is there a plan . Is there a longterm plan . The Small Businesses cant get their head around how far they can plan down the road with the money that they have or that the money that they are not bringing in. I think the question was exactly right. Of course theres a plan. In fact theres more than one plan. So what we are doing right now is we are thinking about if the virus lingers a little bit longer than we hoped and the ppp loans start to run out, that will run out of money here and we have to kind of extend the construction of the bridge to the other shore than we have to plan for that but if we actually think we can move on to the next step about how to make the economy great again, then we are working on a plan for that too. Theres the document making its way around the white house that has a lot of the president s top thoughts about what we can do to make the country and economy as great as it was in january. One other thought thats important and that is that its kind of remarkable to think about the fact that weve had this terrible terrible economic shock and terrible human shop but here w we are going into may and i havent been the wave of bankruptcies that we couldve seen a lot of people are sort oo work and revive the economy i think one reason why we been able to withstand to this point the worst shock ever is that in january we had the best economy ever. So Balance Sheets were doing fine. Lots of people were employed, banks were on sound footing. So i think we came in with a very, very strong economy, the strongest economy ever and i think thats one reason, thats the big blessing that made it so we can survive until now but absolutely weve got a plan. We are going to show it to folks soon. Right now we are in waitandsee mode to see that we dont need more stimulus before he, with our next plan. Bret two quick things about the ppp. I have heard and looked totally from Small Business owners anecdotally, relationships of big banks. They got the loans with a bent outback, they are smaller. They say basically take it or leave it and its only about a week and half with the money for some of these businesses. Have you heard that . That some banks are kind of tightening the amounts to Small Businesses . I have not heard that but im grateful that you asked me the question because as soon as i get back to my office i will call secretary mnuchin. Our intent is that we provide the capital until the economy opens up again. That was the intent of the program. It was cleverly designed and implemented to perfection by secretary mnuchin but it doesnt mean its perfect. His emblem as it fermented as well as government can do so for sure i will look into that. Bret last thing very quickly. This is about the checks going out to individuals. A number of people send checks that say deceased on them. Some Family Member who has died a year ago, they get the check and it says decd. Its as if the person is deceased, send it back. Is that a big issue . Its not an issue that i have been briefed about. If thats happening, then its something to think about. What they doer of courses they work off tax files and since the last tax returns could have been the last one someone filed, and there might be an issue with that but its not one i have been briefed on. Bret okay, kevin. Appreciate your time. Thank you for the cleanup at the end. Up next, the nations highest court makes history because of the coronavirus. First heres what some of our fox affiliates run the country are covering tonight. Fox 26 in houston, one Police Officer was killed and another seriously injured in a Helicopter Crash saturday morning. A35yearold was upgraded to critical condition. Jason knox died of his injuries. Fox 10 in mobile, alabama, plans to restore Passenger Train Service along the gulf coast. Members of congress from mississippi say the federal railroad and administration has awarded just under 5. 5 million to support operating costs for the first time, three years of the amtrak service. It stopped after Hurricane Katrina damaged tracks in 2005. Q13 fox in seattle, socalled murder hornets from asia found in state. Have you seen these . The First Sighting in the u. S. The hornets are big and they can wipe out bee colonies within hours and have stingers long enough and powerful enough to puncture beekeeping suits. This is a live look at miami from wsvn, the big story, the death of legendary football coach don shula. He led the Miami Dolphins to the only perfect season in nfl history. Set a League Record with three or 47 victories, coach and six super bowls. Don shula was 90 years old. Live look outside the beltway from special report. Well be right back. Is that good . 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