And sometimes you had to go through nine, 10, 12, different agencies. So even if you did absolute rapid it was many, many years before you could even think about starting it. We have up here, by the way, thats a chart of the old system and the new system. I think the new system is better. [applause] i think it is better not only in time, i think it is better in terms of the process. I think it is better in terms of the importance from an environmental and safety standpoint. But take a look at that. This is what you had to go through, in fact it was much more dramatic when i first came up with this, about a year ago. We took that and we rolled it out, it was so dramatic t kept going and going. The difference is that, so many of those steps you had to wake before you could even think about going to the next one. You had to gut full approvals. Any one of those colors where there was a problem or a rejection meant it was dead. And now you go through this very simple but very comprehensive solution. It is a beautiful thing, especially if you understand construction and building and other things beyond building like i do. At the same time, well maintain americas Gold Standard environmental protections. The United States will continue to have among the very cleanest air and cleanest water on earth which we do now. We have the cleanest we ever had, meaning ever. Meaning i guess in the last 40 years. I assume that 200 years ago it was cleaner. I can imagine it was very clean a couple hundred years ago, brian. They will say, im careful with the Fake News Media because if i say that, we have the cleanest water we ever had, they say what about 200 years ago before anybody touched the lake, when the lake was a beautiful virgin lake, nobody ever touched it. Yeah, they got me on that one, dont they, huh . I have become extremely careful. I always say, probably theyre talking about 35, 40 years, Something Like that. If it is any different from that, media, we will, look at all those people back there, any different than that we will report to you. We will make an amendment. We will, well never make a correction. I dont like doing that. One of the first projects accelerated by these reforms willing the planned expansion of i75 right here in georgia. That is honor of your wife, in honor of marti, in honor of marti. They have been looking to do that for many years, right . The governor will get it done. The expansion will add 77 new lane miles of commercial vehicles, like those driven by ups, saving drivers countless hundreds of hours a year. With us a julian paulk, a teamster. I know the teamers very well, who drives this route often. Julian, please come up to tell your story, please, thank you. [applause] good afternoon. Hi, my name is julian paulk aft great honor. Im especially grateful for my wife being with me today, of 14 years. [applause] i spent the first 16 years of my career driving a package cargoing from house to house, but in my last three years ive been in the bigrigs, mostly on 75 and throughout 75 we have a approximately 765 trucks in metro atlanta. 64 of those travel from mcdonnell to macon, georgia, 100 miles roundtrip, with the congestion it is hard to get there, creating time commits. Every time i loaded my truck, whether it was medical equipment, a gift to someone, a loved one, that time in transit was very important. So with this infrastructure is very important to me and all of my fellow upsers because the investment in our roads and bridges reduced congestion and opened up connell live from atlanta, georgia, youre watching President Trumps remarks on infrastructure, talking about as he has many times in the past cutting red tape and he put it, jobkilling regulation. The stock market closed up, the dow higher by 227 points. With that, welcome to the show. Good to be with you as always. Im connell mcshane. Melissa and i am melissa francis. And this is after the bell. Keep going, guys. We are, sorry . All right. Were going to go to Edward Lawrence who has more now on what the president has been doing through the day. Edward . Reporter yeah, the president also were talking about the big news of the day. The market is grabbing on to, we had the pull of the market between positive and negative. Positive of the vaccine. The negative of u. S. China relations, tensions that sort of increased there but the positive won out today. You see the market finishing up 227 points there. The market is up because moderna says all 45 patients that got their trial vaccine created the necessary antibodies in their system to get rid of the virus. In addition, none of those people had serious longterm sideeffects this is very important for doctors. What happens now . On july 27th, moderna gives it to 30,000 people to see if that next sample size has the same outcome. The speed which this is happening, things to demand of billions of dollars on the table of profits. Federal government is also putting up money. Here is the president from his News Conference about this topic. Through operation warp speed we will deliver a vaccine in record breaking time. Were doing very well on the vaccines. We have many, many different vaccines being studied right now. Many of which are looking really good. And were ready to distribute the vaccine when we get it. Were all set. Reporter and having the promising vaccine for moderna go into phase three trials at the end of july and also a vaccine from astrazeneca in the uk. Theyre working on phase three trials. That bodes well for having a vaccine by the end of the year. Administration official says four to six weeks from right now, they could have be manufacturing the vaccine before it is approved because companies have the confidence in the product. U. S. Wants 100 million doses by the end of this year. Melissa wow that is exciting step. Edward thanks so much for that. Connell. Connell melissa, while the president was talking, we talked about the market closed up higher for the day. The major averages however below their session highs. Lauren simonetti with the wrapup on the day on wall street. Lauren . Lauren connell, stocks rose on hopes of a vaccine as edward was explaining. Look at the dow, it is up 228 points on the day. It is up four days in a row. Nasdaq erased earlier losses, by 62. S p 500 so close to returning to positive territory 2020. The juice for the market was moderna. Pfizer also starting a phase three trial for its vaccine. Astrazeneca not far behind. Those stocks up in a big way. Travel stocks would benefit for a return to normal. Look at this, united up 15 . Royal caribbean, up 21 . Want to talk to you about three dow stocks in the news, Goldman Sachs blowout quarter. Recent chaos in the market and all the volatility boosted trading activity. Investors are concerned that success cant be repeated in the second half of the year so while goldman did close up by more than one it closed off its highs of the session. The worst performer of the dow is United Health. It warned of higher costs in the second half of the year. That overshadowed net income that actually doubled last quarter versus last year. It is ironic United Health saved money because fewer people went to the doctor, fewer people had surgeries because of the pandemic. That demand is returning to near normal levels. United health is down. Apple, major winner. The European UnionSecond Highest Court overturned a 2016 ruling that apple pay 15 billion in back taxes to ireland. The court said there wasnt enough evidence to prove the Irish Government gave apple a sweetheart tax deal. Apple is a winner. Closed on record high. That helped nasdaq overcome a earlier downturn. Nasdaq is up two days in a row. It is. 6 away from record close. Connell, ba to you. Connell i figured Irish Government gives everybody a sweetheart tax deal. Thank you. Lauren. Melissa. Melissa here for reaction to the president s speech and Everything Else today is steve moore. He is an economist at freedomworks. Steve, that was vintage trump we were listening to at the top of the hour. I hope you can hear me. That was really see his sincere enthusiasm talking about building, talking about construction. He is naming a specific road that he wants to expand, i75. You heard cheers. There is nothing you like more when you get more highway in your area, makes your traffic run a lot more smoothly. Do you think were going to see more of that type of thing . Well, hi, melissa, good to be with you and that was a vintage donald trump speech. We remember when he ran for president in 2016 he talked about the dismal state of american infrastructure and potholes in the roads and the fact that some bridges and roads havent been fixed for so many decades. So this is a issue that trump has promised on for four years now. We are starting to see some of these Construction Projects all over the country. It needs to happen. The other thing he talked about though, i thought was really interesting, melissa, all of the impediments to building roads and building airports and other, you know, projects that involve infrastructure which is the environmental delays, the incredible regulations, that he said could add, 10, i think he said at one point even 20 years of delays. That he says he will streamline that whole process so we get these things built quickly. That is almost more important than the money. Melissa it is. I did like that part. He said single approval process. Can you imagine Something Like that, just a single approval s that realistic . Is that something in place now . Is that something he promising for the next administration . Do you have more color on that specific detail . Well heres what i think is likely to happen, melissa. Is trump is going to through executive order try to override some of these regulations. Of Course Congress will try to step in to impede him from doing so. Youre looking a potential showdown between the congress and the president. In fact some of these regulations were passed by independent regulatory agencies but some of them were passed by acts of congress. Incidentally there is a related issue really important to this which is what happened in the last week or two with pipelines. When you talk about vital infrastructure we need in this country, probably nothing more than we need more urgently than pipelines so we get the oil and gas from pennsylvania and West Virginia and north dakota to other parts of the country. Were so behind. I dont know if you saw, a couple of the big Pipeline Projects in the last couple of weeks have either been canceled or delayed because of environmental, environmentalists roadblocks. Thats a big part of the infrastructure scheme that we need to put in place. Melissa okay. So going back to what you said at the finishing of that, so he is going to say i will push through a road really quickly and congress will say no, you may not build that nice road in that state, you think that is really going to happen . Yeah i do. Especially, i dont think there is any question the House Democrats will go after trump. He doesnt care about endangered species. Doesnt care about, whatever the objection might be so absolutely. The reason i brought up pipelines is that because that is what they have done with the pipelines. If we have these kinds of regulations we now have on pipelines we wouldnt have been able to build the interstate highway system. We need to streamline these regulations there is no reason that a road project cant be completed in three years, rather than five or 10 or 15 years. This is going to be a conflict between the democrats in congress and President Trump. Melissa real quick, one more, so he is a master of messaging. He gets up there, were looking at him on the screen, he has huge ups boxes behind him, everyone in america is getting everything shipped to them by box but the first speak he came up to join him, he brought up the truck driver, not the ceo of ups, not the regional manager, as i understand, the gentleman stood up at the microphone, ive been driving a bigrig. What i would like to see more highway. This is exciting. I mean that was, that was very clever political, if youre cynical, like i am be are you saying that was a very clever political move . By the way, this wasnt by accident. This was because the whole theme of President Trumps Reelection Campaign is, i am the bluecollar president. Im the one who cares about bluecollar jobs. I will save oil and gas jobs. I want to make sure we have trucking jobs, manufacturing jobs. By the way, melissa, you saw this morning, we got great numbers on manufacturing and industrial production. That will be the theme. Trump caring about those bluecollar workers. Those rot people who got him eelected the first time. Melissa thanks for breaking down the message behind the message what were hearing at the beginning of the show. We appreciate that. Connell, over to you. Connell melissa, virus news to come with 45 states facing a spike in new cases, reported, compared to one week ago. This is florida reports a grim new milestone. Texas officials are now warning that some hospitals there are on the brink. Well talk to a top medical advisor to the Texas Governor greg abbott whether that state could see another shutdown. Thats next. Plus the nations Largest School district learning plans for the small semester but only if they meet one key metric. We will have that and a potential breakthrough in reducing the spread of covid19. 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It announced it will require all customers coming into its stores to wear masks when coming into the store starting on july 22nd. Today is the 15th. This, melissa follows a similar announcement came in this morning from walmart. Melissa so funny because we have to do that here everywhere we go. It is funny to hear other places arent doing it. The new pandemic epicenter, florida, reopening or sorry, reporting a Record Number of covid19 deaths and 10,000 new infections. The number of total cases has surpassed 300,000. Fox newss phil keating in miami with the details. Phil . Reporter melissa, about 30 of coronavirus tests here in Miamidade County are coming back positive. That is roughly one in three people getting a test. Of course you mentioned, the state of florida now with more than 300,000 covid case since it all began. The hot spot of hot spots, Miamidade County, comparisons to china at the very beginning are now here. Miami is now the epicenter of the pandemic. Were seeing in wuhan six months ago, five months ago, now we are there. Reporter miamis mayor says that is an extreme comparison but insists there are without a doubt very pressing issues here on the ground. We do have an issue with our hospitals very, very close to or very nearing capacity. We are trying to create more capacity. We do, you know, we may have to take some dramatic measures if things dont improve over the next few weeks. Reporter out west in arizona, another coronavirus surge test, one in four covid19 tests is coming back positive. Lines are long with multiple hours in the searing desert heat. Texas, more than 10,000 new cases yesterday. Icu nurses are concerned if things dont improve, patient loads dont lessen, that there wont be enough front line workers to serve the need. Miamidades schools superintendent today saying if things next month are like they are right now, it will be unsafe to reopen schools. Melissa . Melissa wow. That is dramatic. Phil keating, thank you. Connell. Connell lets talk more with dr. Mark mcclellan about all this. The doctor is a top medical advisor to Texas Governor greg abbott. I will ask you a about texas in moment. Quick reaction from phil reporting in florida. 30 positivity raid in miamidade. Obviously not a good situation. What about comparison of medical officials to wuhan these days . Connell, all of these are indications that the epidemic is growing, not under control and as you heard it, hospitals are approaching capacity. Were potentially running short on supplies and the worse is yet to come. The number of cases is still going up and the hospitalization rate lagged behind. The case, the cases by a week to 10 days. So, were in for some still tougher times ahead. It is very important to plan not just for trying to get the cases down through masks and other stuff that work, but also through, also time to address getting more Hospital Capacity in place. Connell so transitioning to texas, what are your recommendations to Governor Abbott who youre advising . Are you close to or have you already advised him that he needs another statewide shutdown in texas . Well the governors already mentioned that a statewide shutdown could be ahead if these trends continue. There is at most a short window of time, now, connell. Connell between the opportunities to head off real challenge in availability of hospital beds and having enough hospital workers and th