You now. Blake burman is at the white house. Jackie deangelis is in the newsroom. Hillary vaughn is in washington. We kick it off with blake. Reporter we continue to keep our eye on the event going on at the white house, with President Trump sitting down with the governors of oklahoma and nebraska. It has been going on half an hour. The focus is on the recovery and rebound Going Forward and the pp Small Business program that helped out so many Small Business owners like you see the one on your screen. You cant help but notice, rather, that the president is meeting with the governor of oklahoma just about 48 hours before he also set to head to oklahoma to hold his First Campaign rally since the covid19 outbreak. There are many questions as to whether now is the appropriate time to do such a thing. Here is President Trump talking about that event sitting next to oklahomas governor. And were going to be in oklahoma and its a crowd like i guess nobodys seen before. We have tremendous, tremendous requests for tickets like probably never happened politically before and one of the reince we chose your state, kevin, that you have done so well with the covid. Reporter elsewhere at 1 00 tomorrow afternoon a federal judge here in washington will take up the department of justice lawsuit to try to stop the release of the book of the former National Security advisor john bolton. Of the many potentially damaging claims, the former National Security advisor says that President Trump in osaka, japan, pled with the chinese president xi xinping to try to help him win reelection as he was negotiating the trade deal with china. Peter navarro one of president s trump advisors in the room at the time time contended today that was not the case. Let me be clear, i was sitting at the dinner, bolton was next to me. I believe the pictures will bear that out. Boltons depiction of that event is not how i would describe it. That is an alternate universe. That is an alternate universe. Thats what im saying. Reporter busy day because ruling today from the Supreme Court as it relates to the daca, as the Supreme Court today said that the Trump Administration cannot unwind daca. The president took to twitter and described it as a shotgun blast for conservatives. Connell, melissa. Back to you. Melissa yeah, that was really something. Blake, thank you for that. Meanwhile tale of two cities. Manhattan apartment contracts falling more than 80 versus year ago. For singlefamily homes priced over a misdemeanor bucks in southern florida, theyre surging more than 45 over the same period. Here is bill mcgurn from the wall street journal. He is a columnist and fox news contributor. Bill, this is amazing to me. Both places people were locked in for a period of time. There were restrictions if you could show homes and how you do it because of social distancing. It is not a function of not being able to get out. People in new york fell under contract running for their lives. My mother sells real estate in florida, highend, they cant keep it in stock. What do you make of it . I think it has been helped along by the virus but i think there are a lot of conditions that are making people rethink whether it is worth it to live in new york. I live in suburban new jersey and im told in my town there is a new demand for housing. I know a lot of people are moving from new jersey because some people from new york are moving in. Well it is not paradise but it is better than new york and the circumstance. I think this is also just the beginning. Look, a lot of people like me have been working at home and they have been managing well at home. I think a lot of people will start to consider, gee if i can do that from new jersey, why cant i do it from a taxfree state or somewhere where i get a lot more land for my kids or something . I think the implications for city revenues, for real estate prices, business i think were just seeing the beginning. Melissa absolutely because a lot of companies and especially you know, Office Buildings in midtown, theyre saying wow were paying huge rents to have our employees here. Turns out they can work as efficiently at home. We can save money on real estate. They save money on commuting. They say if were a little more efficient, the money theyre saving by real estate is through the roof. How long do you think it will take before our very dense Public Officials realize what they have done . They have accidentally taught everyone, if you want a fantastic new york jobs and big city jobs anywhere you dont actually have to live there . How long will it take for them to realize that and mend their ways . Well the second part, i think theyre realizing it and theyre scared. Theyre probably looking attacks revenues and. Record isnt good. Look at detroit when it was going bankrupt. I think the last person that was making 50,000 there was probably taxed 40,000. They tend not to do the kind of radical change they need unless there is a crisis as new york had back in the 70s and so forth. Im not optimistic. I think theyre being challenged on so many fronts because they have people leaving with their revenue. And it is accelerating. People have been leaving before but now people as you say, people have confidence. Yeah i can do this, for me. Melissa right. I can do everything from my home that i could do at work and there are millions like me. A lot of people say, maybe i should do it in montana. Maybe i should do it in texas . Melissa so meanwhile while youre here, the wall street journal had an oped today detailing, quote, what covid models got wrong, arguing we should focus on the burden on hospitals, not on the often mistaken forecasts and some of the numbers were really compelling. They go through the places where youre hearing resurgence, second wave, seeing a spike where they have been open, what you guys note, what we were talking about in the beginning was hospitalizations. The frightening thing was that the hospitals would be overrun and they wouldnt have enough beds but if you look in places like california, Covid Patients are only taking up 16 of beds. Texas 11, georgia 10, utah nine, florida 7. You go through and there are still empty beds. Arizona has uptick in hospital beds but theyre still 43 are unused. So in all these places they still have a ton of open beds if people do get sick enough they need to go to the hospital. Were seeing number of hospitalizations from people test positive go way down. They dont need to go to the hospital. Right. Yeah i think look, i think there are several messages in there. If you look the American People now understand that a lot of these forecasts were not just off, but wildly off. I think Governor Cuomo was talking about 140,000 beds or something. They ended up needing only 18,000. I mean that is almost a factor of 10. And there are similar track records on icu beds and so forth. So part of this is taking these things with a grain of salt. Part of it is that the things that get attention tend to be the more extreme things. Then i think part of it was, you know, quoted stanford epidemiologist who points out your models are only good as your assumptions and the assumption seemed to be wrong how the disease reproduces and it kind of assumed were all kind of equally susceptible when we know that is not true. And we also know that some people get very mild symptoms and so forth. So again, i dent think there is anything wrong with making models. In the beginning you have very Little Information but these things were treated as, as oracles and we have to be a little bit more careful and willing to adjust. Melissa yeah. I think the larger message of this we should keep this in mind as now everyone seems to be going back to extreme mode to predicting, catastrophe because of the reopenings. Look were going to have more people test positive when we Start Testing more. It is not yet clear were really going to be overwhelmed the way some people are carrying on right now. Melissa right. Thats the point is that you dont want us to overreact this time. Again youre right, the headline number was the models forecast that we were going to use about 50,000 beds here in new york and the peak there was 18,800 beds that were filled. Just a fraction of what we thought, less than half of what we thought was going to happen. Bill mcgurn, always brilliant. Thanks for coming on. We appreciate it. Thanks, melissa. Melissa connell . Connell lets get to big tech now, melissa which has come under fire. Representatives from facebook and twitter facing some tough questions from lawmakers today how theyre patrolling their platforms ahead of the election. To Hillary Vaughn live in washington with the latest on that. Hillary . Reporter connell, Online Platforms like facebook, twitter and google have been largely protected over being sued what happens on their sites. A lot of Companies Get safe harbor from a rule, section 230, that has pretty much protected them but that could be changing in a major way thanks to the doj. Representatives from all three companies faced democratic lawmakers from the house at a hearing today and this question was directed to the representatives from all three companies. Facebook does not consider itself a media platform. Are you still espousing that kind of position . Congresswoman, were first and foremost a Technology Company. We you may be a Technology Company but if youre Technology Company is being used as a media platform. Reporter that media platform could be getting more regulation. The Justice Department mapping out changes it wants to make to the section 230 rule that essentially bars companies from receiving lawsuits over content moderation. The doj now says they want to, quote, make changes that limit immunity for content moderation decisions, encourage platforms to be more transparent and accountable to their users, rather than hide behind blanket section 230 protections but Tech Companies today told lawmakers that ripping away these protections could dramatically change online content. This was, this instrument protected the whole internet. How did Companies Like ours grow from one part of one country . The answer is section 230. Reporter a new bill introduced by a group of republican senators would allow users if passed to sue these companies if they think their guidelines are being unfairly enforced, essentially letting the users be able to get 5000dollar payout from a company if they win the lawsuit, also requiring these social Media Companies to pay their attorneys fees. Connell . Connell all right. Hillary vaughn for us live in washington today. Melissa. Melissa lets go to Jackie Deangelis with more on the markets. Jackie. Reporter good afternoon to you guys. It was an interesting day. It was one of these days that was really fueled by uncertainty and choppy session for the market as well. You can see the dow finished down 39 points. Were watching reopenings and jobless claims as well. Jobless claims fell a little bit, 1. 5 million. It was a little higher than expected but a little bit lower than we saw last week. Thats a positive sign for the market. Having said that there is this juxtaposition between whats happening in terms of the fundamentals and the data and people getting back to work. The concern with reopening right now of course is that you know, maybe you will see that spike. Maybe you will see that second wave after the summer is over. And of course that is what the market is struggling with here. It is also struggling with the fact that it might have moved a little bit too far too fast. Youre seeing the dow right now around 26,000. But we had positive action in the s p and some positive action with the nasdaq as well, guys. So it will be something to watch here but folks are telling me traders are cautious right now especially if you look at new york city for example. Weve got a phase two scheduled for monday. Governor cuomo says i will give you final decision tomorrow when im sure, even though he was positive about the numbers coming out of new york city. On the other hand you have got mayor de blasio, saying no, were moving forward with it. There is the push and pull right now, folks are saying lets pause for a second to see how this goes. New york was the epicenter of this. It is also the financial capital. So many reasons that the eyes are focused locally. Guys . Melissa right, jackie, but everything he says he is doing on monday is already happening. Everybody has the tables out on the sidewalks. Theyre serving people. So no one is listening to either of them. Thank you for that. Over to you. Connell that is true. As we continue with this coverage of reopenings from a business perspective we have six states who have reported the largest oneday increase in new cases of coronavirus this week. Now oregon is one of those states. So the governor out there, decided to put the reopening of the economy on pause. The question now is, whether businesses can bounce back as they do prepare to reopen tomorrow. 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No major headlines coming out yet but you can glean from these numbers, obviously gun sales are up. A company like this is doing well with all the calls to defund the police and civil unrest weve seen on the streets as well. Interesting, the company is saying Outdoor Products and accessories spinoff will be complete in august. That is really showing that smith wesson is focusing on the gun side of its business, guys. Back to you. Melissa no doubt. All right. Jackie. Thank you. Connell . Connell to a new headache now for businesses as we take you to portland, oregon, restaurants preparing to open their doors tomorrow after last minute delay in the plans to reopen last week. Joining us kaitlin johnson, the coowner of fat city cafe. Thanks for coming on. Kaitlin, i was looking at people in portland, they were ready to get the reopening underway. The governor put it off. They were stuck with some food and other things. How did it work out for you guys . Well, so, basically the restaurant is run by my sister and i and my mom and dead, it is just the four of us. We got so excited to open up on friday, last friday. My dad went out and bought 1000dollars worth of groceries. We were so excited, 7 30 at night, we found out it was not happening. Which meant a lot of our fresh food went to waste. It was, yeah, really poor timing, it affected a lot of businesses around us because not like we had a bunch of saved up from all the togo orders the last few months so that put us deeper in the hole. Connell yeah. Are you kind of understanding of the governors position or just growing more and more frustrated how it is being handled . Kate brown is the governor out there. Just give you an example. We were talking to somebody from florida, Lieutenant Governor yesterday, i brought up the numbers dont look to great in florida and how many more people are testing positive, the percentage has gone up above the 5 Threshold Health experts say they want to be but in oregon it has gone up but still below that. Is it frustrating for you to say these numbers havent spiked that much, and youre still on pause . I mean. Really at the end of the day we are grateful that you know, people are trying to keep us safe but you know, people forget that there is a lot of people who prepared for this opening and put, you know, opened their wallets and, even though it isnt, even though there are not a crazy amount of cases i am thankful that it is happening but at the same time that, it is really frustrating because even phase one is, 40 of our sales is to go and our diner is known for only five tables and five stools. We cant do Counter Service anymore. We can only have five ta