abbott is announcing a series of executive orders and laying out a plan to begin loosening certain restrictions there. governor abbott joining us now with more. governor, we were just listening to andrew cuomo of new york talking about that testing is key to reopening his state. do you agree with that? and if so, where is texas on testing? first, with regard to future strategies, testing is going to be so important. remembering this, however, leland and that is the situation happening in new york is far different than what is happening in texas and other places. for example, there will be unfortunately more people who pass away in one day in new york than we will have in texas in the entirety of this whole pandemic situation and as the president made clear, there are different strategies for different states. texas has not even come close to needing to use all of our hospital beds, all of our ventilators. in fact, all the prognostications about the potential dire situation in texas didn t even come close to being true. as a result, the situation is far more contained in texas than they are in other states. however, going back to your question, and that is, we are working both with the trump administration, but also with our team in texas, i have a team of doctors including someone you may not, dr. mark mcclulen, under president trump, medicaid and medicare, and he and other doctors are working on the tracing and testing strategy that we ll set up across the state of texas to make sure that we will be able to spot-check any covid virus. leland: and you re looking at contact and contain. and me me from the new york, he s becoming magnanimous about democrat democrats. mr. abbott says it s fine for people to mingle in rural in the country even though it s well-known. the question is this, do you worry about all of a sudden getting overwhelmed and the case count rising from what you talked about just now? sure. first, that s not the first time that mimi got the facts all wrong. mimi talks about certain things without understanding the real context and she kind of wants to ignore the real context. the way disaster declarations and response works in texas and the united states has been the same always like it was during hurricane harvey, and that is if the county judges that have the authority to make sure that they are able to respond to the unique situations on the ground in their states and that s exactly the way that we did it this time as we have with other disasters like hurricane harvey. better luck next time, mimi. leland: and with leland, with regard to our ability to contain this going forward, we have the tools and strategies to make sure that we will be able to contain it as it begins to grow, which we know that it will, and with our medical doctors and with the resources that we have, and with the hospital availability that we have, we know that we will be able to contain this as we slowly in baby steps begin to open up our economy. leland: that s a shermanesque statement on your part. for our viewers not as well versed in the texas constitutional system. county judges are effectively county commissioners. texas is the 10th largest economy in the world taken as an isolated entity. a big part of that is oil and oil prices are at historic lows. we haven t seen lows like this almost going back to the gulf war at times. how badly is texas economy going to be hit by the double whammy of depressed oil prices and the shutdowns that occurred? understand this, leland, and that is as of earlier this year before the coronavirus broke out and as of last year, there were already challenges in the oil and gas sector, but despite those challenges, texas still ranked number one in the united states for most jobs created and we ranked number one in the united states for the fastest growing gdp despite already a down turn in the oil sector. the texas economy has grown far more diversified than it s ever been. that being said with oil being where it is, it s a challenge, but part what we know with the gas and oil sector, what happened with russia and saudi arabia. russia and saudi arabia are suffering more in their economy due to oil prices and we ll see an increase in oil and gas and let me point this out real quick. when the immunization comes out for the coronavirus, you re going to see a rush to the gate economically in the united states because everything will suddenly be back to normal and you will see a skyrocketing price of oil. we ll be back with a very strong economy very soon. leland: rye skyrocket oil means skyrocketing skyscrapers in texas. and with the new order in texas the rules are different than dallas and what do you say to the protesters who say we want everything happen right now and we re not happy with you. and a correction, rules across the state of texas, the rules i will be issuing to open up the state of economy will be statewide with, exception that if there is a flareup of the coronavirus in any particular county. there will be different rules. that said, listen, for these protesters, i sympathize with them. they re frustrated because all these forecasts about how, what a dire situation texas was going to be in have not come about and all of these people have been sidelined and people have been unemployed, more than a million people have filed for unemployment claims in the state of texas so they are rightfully frustrated about the way things are and my goal is it is to make sure that the people get back to work in a very safe way. leland: we ve got to run, but as you point out the dire predictions from the health crisis may not have come true, but the dire predictions on the economy. we ll have you back, sir. thank you. leland: all the best. kristin. kristin: well, protesters are beginning to line the streets outside the maryland capitol building. they re calling on governor larry hogan to reopen their state. our rich edson is live on the ground in annapolis. rich, what is it like out there? what are you seeing? good afternoon, kristin. if you look right at the shot, that s the annapolis mall about three miles from here. that s about noon, right now, the protest is suppose today begin and get started and drive their cars through downtown annapolis and circle the state capitol behind me and the governor s mansion. they re instructed to stay in their cars, fill up their gas tanks and be loud. and more than 1500 designed. we acknowledge the tragedy by covid-19 and appreciate it s a significant health concern, however, the economic, social and educational shutdown is guaranteed to cause significant and greater harm, leading to deaths, economic disruption, and loss of livelihood for maryland and their families and the department of health that is about 12,000 cases in the case and 700 additional cases since yesterday alone and that s why governor larry hogan says now is not the time to reopen maryland. i m as frustrated as anybody. i want to get businesses open yesterday, but as the president pointed out yesterday, a lot of the folks are big supporters of the president. his own plan says we shouldn t open up yet in our state or in some of the hot spots. in washington area, we doubled over the past week and so as soon as we can, we re going to get open safely. i had everybody s right to protest. no doubt. and i understand their frustration. now, the governor s closed schools here until may 15th. they re reevaluating the situation they say. they also say that they re devising a plan to reopen the government gradually and they hope to share more details next week. for now, reopen is immediately out of the question as we re about a couple of miles away from those protests supposed to be at the state house shortly. kristin. kristin: yeah, it really is a whole new way of protesting in the middle of a pandemic, staying in your cars and whatnot. rich edson. thank you. the president is amplifying to roll out the country. a three-phase plan to guide states as they attempt to revive their economies. and we ve got mark meredith on the lawn with more. hey, kristin. the white house is letting the governors decide how they want to move forward. the guidelines give the governors a better idea what to do after the number of cases declines over two weeks. the phase one, which so many are focused on. schools will remain closed and visits to senior living facilities and hospitals will be off limits. but nonemergency surgeries, but with strict sanitation and distancing. in the coming weeks, you ll see some very, very dramatic steps taken, very first, we may be opening, but we re putting safety first. meantime, sources tell fox news, the origin of the virus remains ongoing. trying to piece a timeline what china s government new when and if the virus first started in a laboratory setting. secretary of state mike pompeo is demanding china become more forth coming. the chinese needs to come clean and the whole world can see what took place. there will be a time for accountability and determine who did what and we can move on from what is now an incident that has destroyed so much wealth, not only here in the united states, but all across the world. now, fox is told not too far into the future, the finding of the investigation will be presented to the president. this week the president announced they ll halt funding to the world health organization over concerns they have not done enough to hold china accountable for this outbreak. as of now we re not expecting to see the president on camera for a briefing, but tweeted moments ago he s been speaking with the military as well as with leaders of fema. kristin. kristin: we may not be hearing from president trump today, least not now. but we ll hear from vice-president mike pence when he speaks at the air force graduation. leland: and we ll hear from the vice-president when he begins his commencement address. there s a growing number of americans, exponentially turning to food banks for their meals. farmers are feeling the results of the pandemic. steve harrigan from this, hi, steve. good news for farmers on friday, a huge bailout, 19 million for them overnight. americans contend with record lines at food banks, american farmers plow vegetables back into the soil. leave fruit to rot in the field and dump nearly four million gallons of milk each day. with the schools, and others losing their markets. it s no longer a profitable year. it looks like it s going to be the worst in 10 years, we re definitely concerned about losing our farms. some is donated to those in need. farmers can t afford to give it all away. administration foreclosures say there is no need to panic. we re working hard at usda to get that realigned and get it to where it needs to be. the good the food supply is good. and smithfield, tyson food and cargill have all closed plants in the u.s. due to outbreak among food workers. we have to operate these processing plants even when we have covid. if we don t, we simply won t have food. three billion dollars of that bailout will be used to buy food directly from farmers and give it to food banks across the country, leland. leland: such an important story and one to keep in mind no matter where you live across america. steve, thank you. kristin. kristin: well, joining us now are two local lawmakers who are on the front lines in the fight against the coronavirus pandemic and in two key u.s. hot spots. we have the mayor of sioux falls, south dakota, and city of detroit city council president pro tem mary sheffield. mary, i ll start with you. i had your father has just gotten a positive diagnosis, that he tested positive for the coronavirus. that accurate? and how is he doing? thank you for asking. you know, my father is very fortunate that he did test positive, but he is doing well. took him time to build up his strength, but he no longer has any symptoms and he s recovering well at home. and is urging people to continue to adhere to the measures and even if you are tested positive that there still is hope. we hear a lot about deaths reported with covid-19, but there is home on the other side for individuals that have been tested positive. thank you for asking, he s doing fine. kristin: mary, what do you make of protests happening in your state? obviously, your state has some of the more strict social distancing, self-isolation guidelines. what do you make of the protesters coming out and speaking out against what the governor in that state is doing? you know, i understand the urgency of people, you know, wanting to open up the economy. i m sure that it s having impacts on people in different ways, but i think that we have to be very, very serious about the times in which we re in and i really, really admire and i trust our current governor in other actions, in other executive orders that are in place to assure when we do open the economy we open it based on data, based on research, and based on having the appropriate amount of space within our hospitals to make sure that we are doing this in a way that all of the work that we put in thus far pays off. and so, i think everyone has a freedom to speech and to protest, but we have to do this in a way that we re not continuing to jeopardize other individuals. from my understanding, there was tons of people outside gathered at one time. we cannot continue that, we have to make sure that we adhere to the guidelines and entrust that our governor is doing the right thing with the current executive orders. kristin: let s jump to south dakota. the mayor of sioux falls, you re in a much more rural area than mary is. but tell us what the conditions are like where you are in your city. well, you know, in sioux falls, south dakota, we have about a third almost of our state s population lives in the two counties here in sioux falls so we re kind of a dense populated base of south dakota and roughly about 90% of all the covid cases in our state right now are in sioux falls, south dakota. so we re in a little bit more of a high response position right now. the smithfield plant mentioned in your previous segment is here in sioux falls. we ve been dealing with the outbreak there, the top hot spot in the country right now in terms of the employees there being affected. so it s really heightened the response and the concern amongst our residents, but most recently as of two days ago, we had data that showed us based on our projections, based on the hospitalization rate and the capacity of our health care systems, we re still going to be very close to our health care capacity with the measures we ve taken. so, we re in a good spot, but also very tense because we re in the first or second inning of this response right now. kristin: so, mayor, are those numbers part of the reason why you re stepping back from your initial calls from a statewide stay-at-home order? yeah, i never thought a stay-at-home statewide order was for south dakota, but we ve seen the most dramatic numbers of covid in the country, i think the 15th most dense covid per capita msa right now. however, based on the data i nuss mentioned now we have the health care organization telling us, hey, if we continue with the social distancing that we ve taken, we will be in a tough spot, but knocking on the ceiling, but we ll be close. prior to this life i was a digital marketing and data analytics company founder so i rely on the data that these health care organizations providing us, the state is providing this, you have to pivot quickly in this fluid response. kristin: paul and mary, a question for you. mary, they say the states have enough tests to start the phase one of the white house recovery plan. is that accurate, mary and i don t think that we have the capacity yet, the full capacity that i would like to see for testing. we are blessed and privileged here in detroit to have 15 minute testing for all of our first responders and now moving to employees who work for essential services are going to see that rolled out on monday, all businesses that have employees working that are interfacing with the public, will now receive 15 minute testing so that we can create a covid-free environment for our employees, but unfortunately, on the ground here, i still hear of the lack of testing, the lack of equipment, and so, i don t think we re fully at that point until anyone, no matter if you have a symptom or not, is able to readily access testing will we be in that position. so i think we have some ways to go. i did want to mention that i m happy to see that we are flateening the curve, that the stay-home measures are working. we have a field hospital here at rts center in detroit that was originally intended to hold a thousand people. we have 979 beds available so we re making progress. kristin: mary, i m sorry, i have to hospital hop in quickly. that s okay. kristin: mayor, what are you seeing on the ground in your city in terms of testing? yeah, you know, there s until there s more testing both here and statewide, we re not in the position where we re having the conversations with the economy reopening. we re in the very first stages of our response right now. we re getting our surges here later than what you re seeing on the coast so that s important. we will i have live in a country where we re not real patient. kristin: mayor paul, i called you mayor pete. thank you very much. always dr? how did you make someone i love? that must be why you re always so late. i do not speed. and that s saving me cash with drivewise. 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so, i wouldn t say they re offensive, leland. i would say that if i could just give you a short back history. you know, virginia passed those second amendment issues and laws down there and what happened when that took place is people in michigan kind of raised an eyebrow and said, boy, we hope that doesn t happen here. and then there was some chatter around lansing about some gun issues and all of a sudden second amendment sanctuary counties started popping up all over michigan and it really drew a large following and on the heels of that this covid matter hit and that is, of course, not our governor s fault, it s not anybody s fault, it just happened. and the governor issued some you know, some issues, some executive orders telling people to stay home and people are already on edge, you know, over the second amendment issue and it creates we heard the president tweet about the second amendment issues as well. when we go through some of the governor s orders that are more controversial. you re allowed to fish in a canoe, but not your motorboat, for example. is that something that your sheriff and water officers would enforce or not? in our area, we would take it on a case by case basis. we it is an order the governor has that you can fish from a canoe or a kayak, but not in a 25 horse motored deep sea fishing boat. does that make sense to you as a sheriff? you know, it really doesn t to me. i mean, if i have my boat at a dock, but it s got a moert motor on it i can t go 40 feet off my dock, but i can go in a canoe in the water and potentially tip over. those are her orders, i think there s room from improvement and hope she d understand. your previous guest was speaking out of detroit. that s a beautiful area, but we re not detroit in northern michigan and the southeast part of the state you can drive for miles and never see a tree. in our area you can drive for miles and never see a house. it s two different dynamics. leland: as you point out, you re an elected official, you re to uphold the constitution of the united states and the state of michigan and enforce the laws and the voters can speak later. this headline caught my attention in the washington post which does not normally write about michigan, but here it is. almost everybody i know is out of work, how the coronavirus has unleashed economic havoc in michigan. do you see that economic havoc, number one. and number two, do you worry if things don t get back to normal and people aren t allowed to return to work, do you as a sheriff worry there are laws you ll have to enforced. michigan just passed the one million mark, unemployment. and one of those was my brother, he he works construction, he was out of work because of the shutdown. i don t take issue with the shutdown, but, yeah, there s a lot of people hurting in our area. leland: potentially to be a problem going forward? before we went on i was looking at complaints since the order has been in place by the governor. we ve actually taken eight criminal complaints related to the governor s order and we ve taken 19 domestic violence calls and that s high for us in our area, the domestic violence calls. leland: gotcha. sheriff, we re going to have you back as this goes on. it s not over and certainly the economic havoc and catastrophe is not over. we appreciate it, sir, i know you re looking forward to summer up there where it becomes god s country rather than the bleakness of the gray. we appreciate it, sir, all the best. thank you, sir. leland: thanks,sheriff. we ve got a lot more on how lawmakers are dealing with coronavirus. the pandemic on a federal level. south carolina senator lindsey graham has been very outspoken about this and also what needs to happen with china and he s on with judge janine tonight 9 p.m. eastern, tomorrow on fox news sunday. chris wallace, mr. sunday himself, talks national correspondent only to vice-president mike pence, but also nancy pelosi. look for time and channel. media buzz, back with a look how the media is covering all of this and boy, has there been a lot of coverage. that s 11 a.m. eastern tomorrow. kristin: well, organizations across the country are working to help feed those in need. we re going to tell you about how one group is bringing communities together in a baseball stadium right here in d.c. right after the break. new york state is now reporting its lowest overnight deaths since april 1st. governor andrew cuomo says they re a long way from reopening that state and getting the testing they need. hi. hi there, leland. some signs of hope from the governor s news conference an hour ago. number of daily deaths is down and hospitalizations and intubations are also down. that s good news. governor cuomo is still very worried about what s happening in the state s nursing homes. listen. these are the single biggest fear in all of this. vulnerable people in one place. it is the feeding frenzy for this virus. and the numbers are startling. nearly 2700 people have died in new york nursing homes. 626 deaths in adult care facilities. the total almost 20% of all covid-19 deaths in the state. that s more than 17,000 now, nearly double from just last weekend. now, some of those are probably covid-19 deaths previously unaccounted for. new jersey following with more than 3800 deaths now, and michigan, where they are publicly protesting at that stay-at-home order, it s their third deadliest state for coronavirus, more than 2200 deaths there. now, cuomo also hitting hard once again on testing, as you mentioned, leland. he said if you want to reopen new york, the federal government has to help the state bring testing up to scale. he called the top 50 labs in the state and they all have the equipment needed to make the test kits, but there s a lack of certain chemicals required for those kits. cuomo calling on the federal government for help with the supply chain. by the way, new york has received one million masks now from the federal government, those will be distributed to the public. and cuomo also signing an executive order today that will allow people to obtain marriage licenses remotely if that s something that they want to do. leland. leland: a sign of the times there for sure. and as you ve pointed out before, the governor has thanked president trump and the federal government for ventilators among other things. we ll see what happens with the test kits. thanks so much. kristin. kristin: the coronavirus is creating a spike in demand at food banks across the united states. now chefs around the country are pitching in to help feed those in need and one group is even partnering with the washington nationals philanthropies and turning the team s baseball stadium into a community kitchen. joining us now the ceo of world central kitchen, nate, you all have turned nats park, the home of the nationals, into a community kitchen and distributing thousands of meals. how did this idea come about? was it your idea or the baseball team s idea? it was kind of a joint idea that came together. obviously we are headquartered here in washington d.c., we ve got a great relationship with the nationals. our founder, chef jose andreas threw out a pitch at the world series last year, and we looked at the sporting facilities and in many ways they re kind of like giant restaurants, with entertainment in the form of sports. and so we were chatting with some of the folks of the nationals and with the season delayed, you know, we thought jointly, what could we do so this stadium could serve the people here in our community directly? and it s been an incredible partnership to activate the stadium and to start cooking. we ve got a whole crew of chefs and volunteers there and as you ve said, every day we re sending out thousands of meals going directly to communities, to seniors, to families, to schools, and even to front line workers that are working hard for us right now. now, how do the meals get from nat s park to the people you re delivering to, older people and things of that nature? how are they getting there? so one of the most important things about our work is to work locally within communities, especially now. you know, this pandemic is everywhere. we hear a lot about new york city, but of course, it s hitting small towns across the country, and so, local leadership is so important and so we re engaging in working closely with city leaders. we re working with aarp. we re working with community organizations to identify those groups that really don t have access to fresh meals. what we do is very complementary to what the food banks are doing, which is distributing grocery kits of food. we can come in and provide fresh meals that people can eat right away that day. so, we re deploying a number of methods working with partners. we re also activating the food delivery services. here in washington d.c. we re working with uber eats and activating those drivers to delivered meals to the destinations, apartment complexes where many seniors live or other community organizations that can then distribute them out to households. it s really a combination of things, but the key part is really engaging with the local community leaders in every place we re working across the united states right now. kristin: yeah, nate, so your group has quite a bit of experience feeding large groups of people. it started with victims of hurricane maria back in 2017. so, what were some lessons you learned back then that you re now putting into place now? well, i think using the stadium is a great lesson. we did this in san juan in puerto rico and we activated the big arena there. it s something to enable us to do what we re doing right now. the other key piece is understanding how to distribute. cooking is one side of it, but if you can t get the meals to those who need them, then who are you cooking for? that s something we ve learned through the years in all of our work. this is a very different situation, we ve had to adapt and evolve. we started working on covid-19 with the cruiseship in february in japan. and our chefs have safety protocols. all meals are individually packaged. this is different for this crisis versus others. recognizing that it really takes an entire group. people. that this is not just our group of chefs, but really, who can we activate across the country to serve in their communities. this is such a huge scale of a problem and something that we ve learned over all of our work in the last three years, how do we activate what resources are already there? communities have incredible resources and incredible chefs already working hard to serve their communities. what we re doing is how can we also support that. kristin: it s amazing what you guys nate, i ve got to go, but amazing to see what you guys have been able to do and i know a lot of folks at d.c. would love to see nats play at the park and i can t think of anything better. thanks. leland: jane hall first woman to be elected as governor in arizona has died of natural causes. inaugurated in 1989 part of the fab five, five women holding positions in the state. and she was in the legislature before being the first female speaker of the house and arizona secretary of state. and hall was 84 years old. she and her husband terry died within hours of each other on thursd thursday. this is our home. we ve never seen it look quite like this, but there s no mistaking it. and it s our job to protect it. because the best people to fight for our communities are those within them. so, if you ve just bought a volkswagen or were thinking of buying sometime soon, we re here to help with the community driven promise. you know when your dog is itching for an outing. or itching for some cuddle time. but you may not know when he s itching for help. licking for help. or rubbing for help. if your dog does these frequently. they may be signs of an allergic skin condition that needs treatment. don t wait. talk to your veterinarian and learn more at itchingforhelp.com. the u.s. army corps of engineers is building a large makeshift hospital in washington d.c. as they prepare for an up-tick and coronavirus patients. lucas, have they already started to build or preparing to build? what s the timeline for that. kristin, the head of the army corps of engineers says he s ready to build next week at the convention center located a mile from the white house, between 500 and 1500 hospital beds. across the country many of these military hospitals remained empty. we thought this would be a much steeper spike and down. we didn t think we d have as much time. we have time and having the dialog and some mayors and governors who maybe thought i need about a thousand, but maybe let s only build 500 and we are bringing some of the numbers down. the corps of engineers are building two makeshift hospitals including in a horse arena. dirt was removed and concrete poured. these arenas are moneymakers for cities and they have to cough up 25% of the coast and fema takes care of the rest. the real decision maker, that mayor or governor that s out there, we basically ask us to build what they ask us to build. we don t know how it s going to play out. a couple of these had a seven-month lease. the leadership in a particular city says we don t know whether theys coming back in the fall or not. let s make the investment to build it and at least we have it, it s almost like insurance, it s a good reserve. earlier today, the pentagon will expand the travel ban for the u.s. military and its families until the end of june. earlier it was set to expire in mid may, but officials say they ll be reexamining this policy every two weeks, kristin. kristin: lucas tomlinson at the fog. thanks. president trump tweeted he will be holding another task force, coronavirus task force briefing at 5 p.m. today at the white house. leland: live coverage of that, of course, when the president and his team come out. the vice-president, meantime, as you can see, is just arriving in colorado springs. it says denver there, but we believe the air force academy is down in colorado springs at the commencement for the air force academy graduation ceremony. live coverage of the vice-president s speech and we ll break it down next. 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[tina] you re an old lady. kristin: another grim milestone as the coronavirus spreads across the united states. there are now more than 700,000 cases confirmed across the country as several states weigh whether it s time to begin to reopen. welcome to our coronavirus pandemic special. i m kristin fisher. leland: kristin, sounds like it s a little windy outside there in washington, d.c. from your location. kristin: it is. leland: it s quieter in the studio, same capitol behind both of us, we talked to governors on both sides of the debate. the air force academy has pushed up their graduation. will be a very different graduation than what we re used to. we ll take you to his speech as it happens. first, an update on how the virus is spreading across the united states. steve harrigan outside the cdc in atlanta where they are tracking that. hi, steve. reporter: more than 37,000 americans have died from the coronavirus and there has been a revision in the projection for how many americans will die. yesterday that number stood at 68,000. now it is down to just 60,000. a number of states are pushing hard to try to reopen their economies, there s been demonstrations in at least six states so far with more happening today. jacksonville, florida has already reopened its beaches for about eight hours a day. texas is opening some pick-up shopping and some parks as well. the washington post is reporting that the delays in testing and getting out the tests by the cdc were in part caused by the cdc s own failure to observe its lab procedures. dr. fauci of the white house task force says the failures of the cdc led to increased private sector involvement in the testing process. no doubt that early on we had a problem. i had publicly said that we had a problem early on. there was a problem that had to be corrected and it was corrected. it was a problem that was a technical problem from within that was corrected. and it was an issue of embracing the way we have now and should have the private sector. reporter: the testing rate now in the u.s. is about 150,000 americans each day. leland, back to you. leland: we ve heard so much about testing in terms of what that means for opening up the rest of the country. steve, thanks so much. kristin. kristin: new details are emerging in the u.s. intelligence community s investigation into the origins of covid-19 and we ve got mark meredith to break it down for us live at the white house and mark, it sounds like we will be hearing from president trump today after all. reporter: kristin, that s right. the president announced a few moments ago that he will hold a task force press briefing at 5:00 p.m. in the press briefing room not far from where we are. it wasn t on the original schedule for today but the president tweeted that out moments ago. it may give us a chance to get more information into the investigation into how the virus started. there have been so many questions about where it originated. intelligence sources telling fox news this is something that will take a few weeks to figure out and the president says he s eagerly waiting to see what unfolds. a lot of strange things are happening, but there is a lot of investigation going on and we re going to find out. all i can say is wherever it came from, it came from china, in whatever form, 184 countries now are suffering because of it. and it s too bad, isn t it. and it could be van been solvey easily. reporter: rick scott says china has been lying from the start. he s one of several lawmakers that are demanding more information from china and the world health organization over who knew what and when. congres. the chinese commuy is going to lie and try to cover for themselves. that goes without saying. that doesn t mean we can t seek out the truth. there are a lot of oppressed people in china and i bet they want the word to get out and the truth is coming out. reporter: former vice president joe biden is accusing president trump of acting too late and not holding china accountable from the start. in a campaign statement that was put out on friday, biden says, quote, now trump and his allies are scrambling to try to rewrite history about the months trump wasted, ignoring the clear warning signs about the virus and taking the chinese government s word, trying to cover their ab; correc the abj. the president s approval numbers appear to be slipping. a new gallup poll shows the president down 6 points from mid-march. we expect to hear from the president coming up in the 5:00 hour. we ll let you know if anything changes between now and then. kristin. kristin: we ve got the president coming up at 5:00 and the vice president coming up momentarily, live from colorado springs. mark meredith, thank you. leland. leland: and now we head to annapolis, live pictures there from protesters that are driving around. we ve seen some of them have gotten out of their cars. but this is part of what they call operation gridlock, demonstrators sprouting up around the country with various demonstrations. the protesters are calling on their state officials to lift restrictions and reopen those states economies. rich edson down on the ground where i guess truly is taking the form of gridlock. hi, rich. reporter: it is literally gridlock here, leland and what we ve got here at the maryland state capitol, they finally arrived here. they ve been circling the capitol for about the last half hour, 45 minutes, staying in their cars, honking their horns, slowly progressing around, trying to make sure the governor hears them. they say it s time to reopen up maryland. they say that, look, they understand that covid-19 is a significant public health concern but they say that the social, educational, and the shutdowns are significant and are even worse for the state of maryland and so they want to reopen the government. now, larry hogan, the governor, he s taken to the air waves and he said, look, i understand that this is painful. i understand that it s difficult. he s talking to a lot of folks out there who are trump supporters, there s plenty of people with maga hats. governor hogan says even president trump s plan doesn t have maryland opening up the economy yet. the governor says schools will be closed here until may 15th. they are trying to figure out a way to slowly reopen society here in maryland but it s going to be gradual and it s going to take time. meanwhile, through all of this, the state of maryland has reported between yesterday and today there are about 700 additional cases of covid-19 in the state for a total of about 12,000 total cases here in maryland. as folks behind me continue circling the capitol, they want the state back open again. leland. leland: you can imagine a number of the people who are circling are ones that are affected personally by the shut down. we saw a construction truck and work vehicles behind you. rick ed son there. thank you. kristin. kristin: china is not reporting any new coronavirus deaths today. the country s roughly 83,000 reported cases are less than the total in the united kingdom. kitty logan live in london with more. kitty, i think a lot of people around the world questioning how accurate the numbers in china really are. reporter: yes, many questions raised about that. of course, china did raise its death toll slightly in the last couple of days but meanwhile, while the u.s., europe and the rest of the world debates lifting restrictions, in wuhan, china, that has already happened. but other countries are still concerned about managing increased cases. but in wuhan, china, where this outbreak began, authorities continue to carry out tests amid fears of new infections. 27 new cases were reported in china today, mainly near the border with russia. now, also in singapore we re seeing increased numbers. singapore had a tight grip on this outbreak at the start but today reported 900 new infections. most of that increase is amongst migrant workers who are confined to crowded accommodation, sometimes 20 people in a room. the workers are quarantined but concerns continue. also in turkey, they re reporting an increased death toll, another 126 people have died from coronavirus there on saturday, bringing the total to over 1700. the country also under a strict weekend lockdown with a curfew in place, streets in istanbul are empty. turkey of course was very quick to react when this crisis started, preventing many foreign travelers from entering or traveling through the country but this outbreak has really impacted everything, everyday life around the world, even breaking long-standing traditions, now thousands of christian orthodox worshipers were prevented from marking a holy ceremony in jerusalem on saturday. every country is dealing with this crisis differently. some countries are better placed to handle it than others but all are wondering how and when this will end. back to you. kristin: kitty logan, live in london. kitty, thank u leland. leland: live pictures from the air force academy in colorado springs. we re awaiting the vice president for what will be one of the most unusual graduation ceremonies in that military academy s history. his address, as it happens, when we come back. for many of our members, being prepared. won t be a new thing. and it won t be their first experience with social distancing. overcoming challenges is what defines the military community. usaa has been standing with them, for nearly a hundred years. and we ll be here to serve for a hundred more. leland: all right. welcome back. advocates for people who are disabled have now filed federal complaints challenging some states over their couped treatment plans. they say that plan discriminates against people with disabilities from receiving treatment like ventilators. colorado on the other hand has banned any discrimination. allysia kunez in denver with details. reporter: these complaints came about as states began to plan for the possibility of medical equipment shortages. disability advocates found a frightening level of allocations for the disabled, for example, in kansas, hospitals would be allowed to take ventilators away from patients including the disabled who regularly use them. colorado governor signed an executive order ensuring crisis stand dooferredz care doesn t allow - -based on whether a person was born with a disability, something one family i talked to was appalled to think of such differences being possible in other states. the americans with disabilities act is i m somewhere between disgusted and scared for my daughter s life. thank goodness we live in call colorado where the governor understands that my beautiful daughter has an equal right to medical care during the crisis. reporter: as resources are pressed in hospitals all over the country, healthcare providers have not been faced with these decisions but disability advocates say without protection it leaves too many vulnerable to unequal care even with federal laws on the books. this is what can happen if someone in that protected class tests positive for coronavirus. they could go from one state to another, obviously someone with the same disability in one state might get better or worse treatment and might get no treatment at all depending on what state they re in. reporter: some states have changed their plans in light of the complaints, advocates say this is a problem, leland, that needs to be addressed nationally and that it s urgent. leland: in terms of adoctorsing this, is there addressing this, is there any thought that people have already been denied ventilators or is this debating what happens in the worst case scenario. reporter: no one has been denied a ventilator yet because as we have seen the projections from the cdc and the federal government on the patient level has not been as high because of social distancing. and the way that people have been behaving. however, disability advocates when they looked at the plans that each state had in place, that s when they became very concerned because should this happen again or if we get another round it could be very bad. leland. leland: thank you. allysia, thanks so much. kristin. kristin: well, one of our signature segments throughout this pandemic have been questions that have been submitted from all of you at home. we then get our medical panel to answer them and today we re joined by two doctors. we have the chief of infectious diseases at the university of maryland health system and fellow at the infectious disease society of america, doctor fahim unis and we have infectious diseases section chief, dr. diaz. he treated the first coronavirus face the united states. it is a plesh tour have you on the program today. this is one of my favorite segments. i learned so much. this first question, dr. unis, i ll ask you, it s something that i ve wondered quite a bit as the mother of a toddler. emily asks, with the need especially in new york to cover your face with a mask, how important is it for young children to wear and how would you approach attempting to get a young child to wear a mask once movement into the community is allowed. what is your answer. we believe 20% of the people are asymptomatic, including children. the cdc recommends anyone over the age of two should use a cloth mask. how we convince the children, you let them pick their own mask, you let them decorate it. we know it s important for the child and people around. that s the science of it. but i think i trust the mothers more than the doctors. mothers know to get it done. it will be hard. but that s the science of it and the art, as i said, i ll rely on our mothers. kristin: that s actually a great idea, getting your child to select and design their own mask. you probably just need a parent to answer that, but i ll take any advice that i can get at this point. dr. diaz, erin is asking, we ve known about the aids virus since the early 90s and still have no vaccine. why do experts expect a vaccine within 18 months for this virus. dr. diaz, can you explain why doctors are so much more confident about getting a covid-19 vaccine. one of the things about hiv is it has a really rapid propensity to mutate and develop resistance and evade the immune system and that s made finding a vavaccine for hiv very difficul. coronavirus, the mutation rate isn t nearly as high. we don t expect a lot of changes in the structure of the virus that would make it easy for a virus to escape the usual immune responses that can generate with a vaccine. we re hopeful with the trials that are going on now we will find a vaccine that is safe and effective as soon as possible. kristin: yeah. it really is amazing how fast doctors have been able to move to at least get into these very early clinical stages, how fast they ve been able to move to that point. all right. third question, dr. fahim, this is fro for you. todd writes i ve had covid-19 and recovered. how long after symptoms are gone am i consisten contagious? excellent. so first of all, i think it s a minimum of seven days from the onset of symptoms. and then at least three days since the resolution of symptoms. so if you have been symptom-free for at least three days, and you have not been taking tylenol, motrin, stuff that will reduce your fever artificially, then typically you are not contagious. at the same time, we know the incubation period of this virus once you get exposed, it s anywhere from two to 14 days when you will start manifesting those symptoms. but to answer your question, seven days from the onset of symptoms and more than three days from the resolution of symptoms. and that typically is a test of cure, for most patients we re not recommending a second test but some of our patients are going back to nursing homes, doctors that are coming back to work or nurses, in some cases we re doing a second test to make sure they are negative. kristin: all right. dr. diaz, i have one final question for you. this is from me. you treated the very first coronavirus case here in the united states. what has it been like to watch the pandemic evolve? what has surprised you the most? and what are some of your big outstanding questions in regards to covid-19? yeah, the thing that i think has surprised me the most is the effectiveness of social distancing, particularly my state. our governor was very active in getting a stay at home order in place relatively quickly. and we have seen quite dramatic effect from that in terms of reduced numbers of people coming into the hospital for admission. these measures have worked as one would have predicted but it s amazing that our community has been able to maintain that and really save lives by doing that. the outstanding questions that we have at this point, we have clinical trials ongoing now within my health system and we are looking forward to data about effective therapeutics, at least until we have a vaccine available and we re hopeful the therapeutics will be effective and active against the disease. kristin: and dr. fahim, what is your big outstanding question that you still want to be answered about the virus? i think what s the end game. where it ends. because so far there s already damage, caused a lot of damage. we don t understand a lot about this virus and it s important for us to know that how all of us come together because the virus isn t going to care that i m moving from one state to another. i think we are one large country. my biggest worry is i don t want to see hot spots popping up for the next six months and how we come together to make sure we take care of this problem now once as for all. kristin: doctors, thank you both so much for taking the time to answer all of these questions. they re so interesting and so helpful and we really appreciate it. thank you. kristin: thank you. all right. you are looking at live pictures from the u.s. air force academy, vice president mike pence is on stage and he is going to be speaking at a graduation ceremony there very shortly. and he ll be joined by several key air force leaders. it is a graduation ceremony like these cadets will never see. no spectators are allowed in this year and cadets on-site there will be practicing social distancing and keep in mind, this ceremony was actually moved up six weeks ahead of schedule because of the coronavirus and, you know, leland, one of the most fascinating things is just going to be the visuals of this, right. i mean, they have to march eight feet apart. they have to be seated six feet apart. and you ve got to feel for these cadets who can t have their own friends and family there to cheer them on as they graduate. leland: for four years cadets at west point at annapolis and the air force academy look forward to commissioning week and they re not going to be able to have the celebrations, they re not going to be able to have the time with their families and those special moments. on top of that, it really gives you a sense of how unusual this is and the times we live in. we are now six weeks ahead of when graduation would normally take place and our colleague, lucas tomlinson, a proud graduate of the united states naval academy, pointed out that the naval academy graduated classes early in two other times, that being world war i and world war ii and now during the coronavirus pandemic we see the air force academy, which wasn t around in world war i or world war ii graduating early. it shows how unusual this is and how much life has changed. kristin: it really does. and you know, unfortunately they can t have their friends and family there but at least they do get the vice president of the united states, mike pence, showing up in person. originally, this was just going to be a video speech, he was going to make via video. a few days ago the vice president announced that, no, he was going to be making the trip all the way to call roug coloras to be there. it s been some time since the vice president left washington, d.c. the last time he left the area was on march 7th, more than a month ago when he went to florida. the fact that he took the time and quite frankly the risk to travel there today has to mean a great deal to all of those cadets. we ve got 984 senior cadets set to receive their bachelor degrees and commission as second lieutenant in the air force today. leland: we ve got a picture there of michael bennett, the senator from colorado. conceivably issuing his congratulations to the cadets. we understand there will be video messages mixed in from the feed that is coming from the united states air force academy. we re going to take a quick break and back with the vice president s remarks, if they begin. there will be parties again soon, and family gatherings. there will be parades and sporting events and concerts. to help our communities when they come back together, respond to the 2020 census now. spend a few minutes online today to impact the next 10 years of healthcare, infrastructure and education. go to 2020census.gov and respond today to make america s tomorrow brighter. it s time to shape our future. subway is still serving the subs delicious subs made fresh and easy to get for takeout or delivery. and now, with our family takeout special, get a free footlong when you buy two. leland: welcome back to our coronavirus pandemic special. joined once again by our medical panel, here to answer some of the questions you submitted on facebook and instagram. keep those coming, with that we bring in chief of infectious diseases at the university of maryland health system, fellow at the infectious disease society of america, dr. unis and dr. george diaz who treated some of the very first coronavirus patients in america. gentlemen, appreciate it. this from the wall street journal this morning. new data will suggest the coronavirus isn t as deadly as we first thought. dr. unis, they say in this article that a study finds 50 to 85 times as many infection as known cases, meaning a far lower fatality rate. what do we take from this? broadly speaking, that s always true for all new infections because you tend to see the most deadly, the tip of the iceberg and you tend to overestimate and i think that s why you saw who earlier estimating as high as 3.4% mortality rate. now, based on the early data that i ve seen from santa clara, they are projecting the death rate or mortality rate somewhere around 0.1 to 0.2. my hunch is, i think the truth lies somewhere in the middle and this is why i say that. if you look at 0.1, 2, and you do basic math and you were to project that on new york city, based on that fatality rate and where we are in new york right now, you would have a population size of 11 million of new york, to bring it down to 0.12 and we know new york is 8.4 million. so i don t think it s as low as 0.12. it has already killed three times the number of americans in three months compared to what h1n1 did in one year. so we know it s very serious. we know it s not like regular flu. leland: i don t think anybody is saying it isn t serious, but might lead us to believe we take some kind of different measures. dr. diaz, this brings up an important point. in a way, this would lead us to believe that perhaps the coronavirus was in united states before we really ou understood that, is that right? part of the issue is that we really didn t have adequate testing early on to really do the surveillance to really find out and know for sure. we didn t have tests in january to really know. so all that we saw coming was patients that were admitted to the hospital the. heather, the icu, i wouldecho dt we saw the tip of the iceberg because of the absence of testing. leland: that brings up so many questions in terms of what we do going forward. i want to get to this question from janine on facebook, several vaccines are in the making, one will emerge as the gold standard or will there be several variations of vaccines for couped. dr. younus. i ve never seen this kind of solidarity, this kind of aggressive development towards a vaccine. at the end of the day wit i ll be one vaccine as a gold standard or will it be three? we don t know. i hope we remain complementary and not become competitive because we will have to vaccinate a very large population in the u.s. and globally. i m worried about the access of this vaccine to everyone. so we have two or three, i think that s great news as long as we remain complementary. leland: dr. diaz, getting back to the issue of testing and you talk about surveillance testing, as we keep hearing about states reopening, et cetera, in washington state where you are boning now i boeing now is pg some of their production teams back to work, manufacturing planes, et cetera. is there enough testing now out in washington state to do this and if so, what s washington state s secret because so many other states say they don t have enough tests. the governor in our state has been very active in ensuring that we open our state safely. the infectious disease society of america recently put out very specific guidelines in the way we should open our states and economies. really based around appropriate testing and prevelance testing in the communities and identifying people that are infected so that we can isolate them appropriately and prevent further hot spots from developing. given what we ve seen in our state, we certainly have a lot of faith in our governor. leland: andrew cuomo was talking about how difficult that would be in terms of a state like new york state in terms of contact tracing and the number of experts you need. dr. younus, bonnie asks, once you test negative for covid-19 and have antibodies, how do we know they won t reactivate and become contagious again. to follow that out one more step, there are now these anecdotal reports out of south korea and other places of people becoming re-infected. great question. so i would at this stage i think the jury is still out. our experience shows that in the past you can have the components of an rna or the virus but that does not typically mean that you re still infected. what i have not seen from those 91 patients from south korea, are they really sick or were these just surveillance cultures being done. we also know there are no secondary cases, meaning those people did not infect anybody else. all of that is reassuring sign. and going back to what dr. diaz was saying, i must add that i m very happy to echo the same sentiments here for maryland, where our governor acted very quickly and we sense that top to bottom alignment from our healthcare system, to our public, to our governor. that is a very important point. that is a vaccine which is available today and that vaccine is the unified action against this virus because the virus is united against us. leland: governor hogan of maryland talked about that exact issue, dr. younus. i don t know if we have a live picture about the protest, saying they want to state of maryland to be reopened. governor hogan says there s too many case that s are expanding, not contracting on the curve in order to reopen. but second of all, they keep harking back to a place like maryland who doesn t have the testing capabilities. what s the difference, dr. younus between what s available in maryland and what s available in, say, washington state. exactly. i think i completely agree and support the governor on that. we all know and i think the govern know knows that some state life has to become normal, at some state we have to move on. the critical question here is timing. i think we need to trust our leaders to pull that trigger when the time is right and that time will determine it will be determined by the number of tests we have, the number of personnel we have who can do contact tracing. we have to use the information coming from those tests in a positive way and then leland: an important perspective. so many now are saying you have to pull the trigger before the entire economy implodes. a conversation we will be having in the coming weeks and months. gentlemen, appreciate your time as always. thank you and we ll have you back as the as we continue to answer some of our viewers questions. thank you. thank you for having us. leland: kristin. kristin: we are still awaiting vice president mike pence s address to air force academy cadets at graduation ceremonies today. we ll dip in as soon as we get it, next. leland: a fox news alert, live pictures from the u.s. air force academy in colorado springs. you can see the air force two-star there, about to introduce vice president mike pence. we ll carry his remarks as they happen live. kristin fisher and i here live with your coverage on this saturday afternoon, looks like a windy saturday in colorado springs for one of the most unusual graduation ceremonies at the u.s. military academy in history, in which cadets will sit six feet apart, march eight feet apart. not only are we six weeks early in this event, but the people who are being honored which is these cadets who dedicated four years and then the coming years of their lives to the united states and to defending us, don t get to have their families there, don t get to have their friends there to go out and celebrate tonight with a great dinner. kristin: yeah, no high-fives or hugs either. those are all banned as well. and you know, as difficult as it must be for all of these cadets to not have their family members there, they do get the vice president, mike pence, in person. just a few days ago, the vice president was planning on delivering a video address at this graduation ceremony but a few days ago he decided to make the trip in person and he traveled there today, this morning, left with minimal staff, arriving there today and now he set to deliver this commencement speech and you have about 984 senior cadets receiving their bachelors degrees and commissions as second lieutenants in the air force. nearly 90 graduates are going to be serves in the new space force, that is something that is very near and dear to vice president s heart and the president, the establishment of the space force, i m sure that is going to be something that the vice president touches upon when he steps up to speak in just a few minutes, leland. leland: we re going to continue to watch there and in terms of how different this ceremony is going to be from past graduations and you have to think for a moment of all of the other life changing, altering moments, graduations, births, funerals, birthdays, et cetera that have now been changed by the coronavirus so we ll watch that and see if the vice president speaks to that as he addresses the cadets in colorado springs. we ll continue to watch the live feed from there and get bay to our coronavirus coverage as pharmacy are playing such an important role in the coronavirus crisis with chains ramping up testing capacity, opening drive-through testing sites around the country. joining us to talk about what the industry s doing, president and ceo of the national association of chain drugstores, steven anderson. we appreciated your time appreciate your time, sir. interesting reporting from kristin fisher from the white house, that the two big chains, cvs and walgreens, that had both been at that rose garden ceremony with the president, both talked about how they were going to open up their parking lots, et cetera, to testing. that was six weeks ago or so. and now we learned there s only a handful of those stores, quite literally, that are offering drive-through testing. what s been the slowdown? thank you very much for having me, leland. there s two issues on the minds of all americans, that s covid-19 testing and covid-19 vaccination. pharmacists can play a huge role but we need to reduce the regulatory barriers that we re seeing, both at the federal and state level. we are overcoming those which is really good news for the american people. leland: give me an example of some of the red tape that you all are facing now and what it s keeping fro doing that you d like to keeping you from doing that you d like to be. there s different issues at the federal and state level. we were very pleased when the trump administration announced recently from alex azar that it was guidance that would allow pharmacists to order and administer covid testing which is a huge game-changer. we re also getting bipartisan support. the democrats have come out with their own road map for covid testing which includes pharmacists. so we re overcoming those roadblocks. but at the same time we re seeing barriers at the state level that we have to overcome. they have restrictions in certain areas that we re working very hard on and we have about a dozen states that now allow pharmacists covid testing which i think will go a long way. initially go ahead. leland: from your understanding of what s happening on the ground, though, when people are being administered these tests, are they getting results? is there enough tests, et cetera? because we seem to be getting very mixed messages on this. well, that s a very good question. it s taken a while to get the testing by the pharmacist up to speed because of the availability of the test and also the availability of ppe for those that are administering the tests. leland: that makes sense. ppe was going to those that were working on the frontlines in the hospitals. but, you know, we re working really hard on this. our membership, the national association of chain drugstores, includes traditional drugstores with pharmacies, groceries with pharmacies and mass merchants with pharmacies. there are 40,000 locations that we have. 91% of the american people live within five miles leland: we re watching video from walmart that obviously has a lot of pharmacies. they do. leland: there s a critical role you play in this, andrew cuomo tweeting to the nurses doctors, emts, the firefighters, pharmacists countless others, new york thanks you. we thank you as well, as you head to buy whatever you need. that brings up an interesting question. in terms of supply, are you all finding that the supply chain has been able to refill the shelves that so many pharmacies of cold medicine and other things that there was a run on, so-to-speak? yeah, they are. the supply chain is stable eyeing which is really important stabilizing. which is really important. the pharmacist is the most trusted profession in the country. you come out of pharmacy school with a doctorate. you want to do the tests. america s pharmacists can play a huge role in the health of the american people, the health of the communities and the health of the economy as we open up and providing vaccines is extremely important. when we can provide immunizations for shingles, pneumonia and flu now and every state in the country and some states allow us to do more vaccines so having that vaccine available when it becomes available and having it available to the american people will be absolutely huge. we had 30 million people that had flu shots in the last flu season. leland: i can speak from personal experience that there is a show on this network that ian cored that happened only because i was able to get a tetanus shot from a pharmacist in northern michigan amidst a little accident that happened. so my thanks and admiration to so many on the front lines that you represent indeed here and from so many others around the country are watching again. thanks for coming in, sir. we appreciate it. thanks, leland. leland: kristin. kristin: vice president mike pence is set to deliver a commencement address to air force academy cadets any minute now and this is the kind of graduation ceremony that you will only see in a pandemic. we will bring it to you live as soon as it starts. i don t add up the years. and i don t count the wrinkles. but what i do count on is boost high protein. 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evidenced by the fact we have the same capitol behind us but aren t together. kristin: it is good to see you again, leland. we re still also waiting for the vice president because he s going to be delivering the commencement address in colorado springs to the air force academy s class of 2020 and we re going to be bringing that to you live as soon as it happens. in the meantime, the number of coronavirus deaths across the country also on the rise, more than 37,000 americans have been killed by the virus and we have steve harrigan tracking it all, tracking the spread as he has been for weeks now from outside the cdc headquarters in atlanta, georgia. hey, steve? very tough numbers on the death toll but some signs of hope with the projections, the projection model that the white house task force was using was 68,000 total deaths for the u.s. as of yesterday, today that number is down to 60,000, this as the number of states continue to push to reopen their economies. we ve seen demonstrations to reopen to ease restrictions in six different states with more happening today and jacksonville florida perhaps the most visible sign, the beaches there have opened up for eight hours a day. in the morning and the afternoon. officials are cautioning people to practice social distancing but not everyone on the beach is listening. we can t stress enough how long this beach remains open is going to be 100% determined by the beach-goers. as long as everybody complies with the times, the guidelines, the social distancing, we ll be okay. reporter: farmers got a huge $19 billion bailout announced on friday, many farmers lost their main markets when schools, restaurants and the food service industry basically shut down overnight. kristin, back to you. kristin: steve harrigan, live in atlanta. steve, thank you. leland. leland: all right. there are new details emerging literally at this hour in the u.s. intelligence community s investigation into the origins of covid-19. mark meredith will be standing by at the white house to report on that. meantime, we head out to colorado springs where the vice president is speaking at the air force academy graduation. lieutenant general savaria, big dee,distinguished faculty, y that are looking on, my fellow americans, it is an honor to be here at this historic institution. on what those who have spoken before have rightly said is a historic day. this is a place where since 1954 and through today we celebrate integrity first, service before self, excellence in all you do and today you will be graduates of the united states air force academy. congratulations to the class of 2020. [ cheering and applause ] i know we gather at a time of great challenge in the life of our nation. and you all here in the pursuit of your commission and the service of this nation have been through a lot. and while we don t quite look like the usual graduation at the air force academy, let me tell you this is an awesome sight. and i wouldn t be anywhere else but with the 62nd class of the air force academy, the class of 2020. [ cheering and applause ] and as i begin, let me bring greetings from a friend of mine. who asked me to extend his great respect and congratulations. he is a champion of all the men and women of the armed forces of the united states. and he is your commander in chief. i bring greetings and congratulations to the class of 2020 from the president of the united states, president donald trump. [ cheering and applause ] we gather at a time of national crisis. as the coronavirus epidemic impacts our nation and the wider world. for the first time in our history, every state and territory in our land are under disaster declarations. and as you well know, at the president s direction we ve marshalled the full resources of the federal government and in partnership with governors and state and local health officials, we ve launched a whole of government approach to meet this moment. and like all of you have done throughout your time here, even in those difficult recent days that have passed, just like you, the american people have risen to the challenge. they, like you, have met this moment with courage, resilience, and strength. the same strength and love of country that carried each of you to this day and it is the strength that will carry our nation through these challenging times, to be stronger than ever before. [ cheering and applause ] as america contends with what president trump rightly calls the invisible enemy, through great hardship here at this historic place, you will commence your duties to defend this nation against all enemies, foreign and domestic. and for that, you have the thanks and admiration of the american people. america is the land of the free because we are the home of the brave. and are you the brave. from the moment the air force academy was established, great americans have stood here. trained here. and more than 51,000 air force officers have joined the long blue line as graduates of this academy. they include 35 rhodes scholars, 42 astronauts, medal of honor recipients and countless other heros. four years ago you stepped forward to join the ranks and we rightly honor each and every one of you. those who are here and those who are not. some of the most talented young people in america apply to come here and yet only one out of every 10 nominees makes the cut. you made it through. you made the cut. you made it through five weeks of beast. you ve run the rock. you had your hundreds night. and as america knows, you completed one of the most challenging semesters in the histories of the air force academy. you did it, class of 2020. [cheers] you proved yourself and today you will graduate from the storied institution. and you will become officers in the united states armed forces. [ cheering and applause ] and all of you that will take on those new responsibilities, let me assure you, you will be entering a military that is better equipped and better financed and better supported than any military in american history. under your commander in chief s leadership we ve made historic investments in our national defense. we ve made the strongest military in the history of the world, stronger still. and you ll be joining that military. and making it even stronger. nearly half of you are going into pilot training, i m told. you ll go on to fly some of the most sophisticated aircraft ever known to man. 31 of you will fly unmanned aircraft. keeping watch and taking action on battlefields around the world. defending our troops and defending our freedom. and dozens of you will ensure that our military remains as dominant in space as we are on land and sea and air. you know, just two years ago president trump laid out a bold vision for american leadership in space. and last december the president made that vision a reality when he put his signature on a historic law that created the sixth branch of our armed forces, the united states space force. [ cheering and applause ] and i m proud to stand here today, 86 members of the air force academy class of 2020 [cheers] will commission at the first company grade officers of the space force. and i m proud to report to all of you and all of you gathered here that nearly 10 years from the last time american astronauts launched into space from our native soil, thanks to the president s leadership, nasa just announced that next month american astronauts will return to space on american rockets from american soil. and some of you may be flying those rockets in the years ahead. [ cheering and applause ] you know, we live in a remarkable moment in the history of our armed forces. the class of 2020 [cheers] this is your day. you know you didn t get here on your own. back in indiana, we have an old saying, when you see a box turtle on a fence post, one thing you know for sure, he had help getting there. and i know each and every one of you know that s especially true with such accomplished men and women seated before me. you ve been taught by some of the best military faculty anywhere in the world. you ve been supported by your fellow cadets on those long days and late nights. but long before you arrived on campus, your families were there. your moms and dads, your brothers and sisters. and i know families he s person family is especially important for this class. this class of 2020. [cheers] i was told on the way here, 51 of you had siblings who were already air force academy graduates, five of you have two sublinks who are alumni, 63 of you are children of air force academy graduates and i even heard that four of you, both of your parents are air force academy alum. you know, your families couldn t be here because of the extraordinary times in which we live, but we know they re watching from afar. and they couldn t be more proud of each and every one of you. and i know what i m talking about. you see, i don t know what it s like to sit in that chair you re sitting in or to wear that uniform. my life didn t take me into the uniform of the united states. but i am the proud father of a united states marine. and the father-in-law of a naval academy graduate. so i can testify firsthand, i know just how your parents are feeling right now. and they couldn t be more proud. so would you all mind just getting on your feet and showing your family and your friends and your loved ones how much you appreciate all they ve done for you for all these years. [ cheering and applause ] they deserve it. [ cheering and applause ] and your families should be proud of all you ve accomplished. i had chance to spend some time with some of the members of the class of 2020. [cheers] and i couldn t be more impressed. it was little over a month ago, cadet first class from cleveland actually came to the white house. he had actually won a cyber security competition against more than 1,000 federal employees. [cheers] i met him. his dad, who is a retired army colonel, and his mom, kristin were with him. i know they re watching today. now, i asked him how he had won against 1,000 federal employees. and his answer was simple. i go to the air force academy. [ cheering and applause ] i m told he has a scholarship to go to graduate school at carnegie melon but today he becomes an officer in the united states air force. would you all just give a round of applause to a fellow cadet, the inaugural winner of the president s cup, cyber security competition, sears schultz. [ cheering and applause ] i also heard another inspiring story of a graduating cadet. i m told he grew up in some tough circumstances in fort worth, texas. four years ago he became the first in his family to go graduate from high school. he s the former captain and mvp of the air force falcons basketball team. today, he becomes the first in his family to graduate from college and becomes an air force officer. would you please join me in congratulating cadet first class lavel scotty. well done, lavell. [ cheering and applause ] i mention these two because they re really em bla emblematil of you and they show the caliber of this graduating class. you ve come from the rest of us but you re the best of us. you re the elite. you stepped forward to serve your nation. you endured the rigors of training at the air force academy and you ve done so under some of the most difficult circumstances in the history of the storied institution. cs lewis once wrote that courage is not just one of the virtues, it is the form of every virtue at the testing point. in this time of trial and testing for you, and for our nation, you have demonstrated courage. and you re an inspiration to every american. and america is being tested. while there are signs that we are making progress and slowing the spread, as we stand here today more than 700,000 americans have contracted the coronavirus and tragically more than 37,000 of our countrymen have lost their lives. but as each of you has shown in your time here, and as the american people always show in challenging times, when hardship comes, americans come together. we rise to the challenge. and the courage and compassion and generosity of the nation you will defend are shining through every day. you see it in the doctors and nurses on the frontlines. caring for the sick and the most vulnerable. you see it in first responders, from seattle to new york city, who have gone into harm s way and even after some became ill, went right back to work after they recovered. you see it in the farmers and the truckers and the grocers keeping food on the table and the auto workers making tens of thousands of invaluable pieces of medical equipment that will save american lives. you see it in businesses large and small, putting the health and safety of their workers and their customers first. and you see it in the churches, synagogues and places of worship that every day have been coming alongside those in need and offering comfort and counsel to a sheltered nation. you see it in everyday america americans. but in these challenging times as we ve seen on this campus, we also see it in the american military. like the thousands of active duty military medical personnel that are deployed in hot spots across the nation, like the citizen soldiers of the national guard that are active in states across the country, supporting our healthcare workers and first responders. and you see it in the response of the air force medical personnel, even at this hour, deployed in new york city, relieving those devoted healthcare workers in their time of need. or the airman who literally flew millions of medical supplies from europe to the united states on c-17s. or the airmen who have actually been bringing americans stranded overseas home. america has shown like all of you that we are a nation of courage and with the courage, strength and compassion of the american people, we ll get through this. we ll protect the most vulnerable and we will heal our land. [ cheering and applause ] the american people are doing their duty. now comes your turn to do yours. to defend the people of this nation and this we know you will do. for long after the coronavirus is defeated, your mission will go on. so take what you learned here and put it into practice. on behalf of your commander in chief, to all the new officers of the air force and the space force, in these challenging times at home and across the wider world, i admonish you, be vigilant. mind your mission. respect the unified chain of command. take care of each other. and all of those who report to you. and never doubt as officers that every decision you make matters to the american people and to the security of this nation. and remember to lead others you must lead yourself first, be men and women of integrity. people follow people they trust. integrity of the upright has always guided us. be diligent to cultivate these virtue as you ve done here at this great academy and you will lead those airmen with great distinction. give america your best every day. the american people are counting on you. and given the long and storied history of american air power, we know we can. as has been mentioned already, this day, april 18th, is a special day for you and for the history of american air power. it was on this day in 1942, just four months after the attack on pearl harbor, an attack that was not just a day that lives in infamy, but it shocked the nation. pulled us into war. but on this day, lieutenant colonel jimmydoolittle led 16b52 bombers for an attack on tokyo 668 miles away. and they succeeded. that mission by american air power inspired the nation. it gave the american people confidence that we would preva prevail. and i believe with all my heart that for americans looking on from around the country at this very hour, seeing you brave men and women, setting off on your mission to defend this nation, that on this day you ll also inspire confidence that we will prevail against the invisible enemy in our time as well. [ applause ] so whether your service takes you into the wild blue yonder or out into the stars, always remember that you re surrounded by a great cloud of witnesses, by heros who have passed through these halls, fought the good fight, defended freedom in their time as surely as you will in yours. like a fighter pilot named bob hoover, the great exemplar of the class of 2020. [cheers. finally, as you take to the air, or space, i hope in my heart that you will know that you do not go alone. you go with confidence of your commander in chief, you will go with the support and prayers of the american people and i hope that you may ever know that he who brought you this far will never leave you or foresake you, for as the old book says, if you rise on the wings of the dawn, if you settle on the far side of the sea, even if you go up to the heavens, there his hand will guide you, his right hand will hold you fast. so congratulations to the air force academy class of 2020. [cheers] new officers all in the united states air force and the united states space force. on behalf of your commander in chief and a grateful nation, thank you for your service, aim high, fly, fight and win and always keep that target in sight. god bless our air force. our space force. and god bless the united states of america. [ cheering and applause ] leland: vice president pence wrapping up his commencement address at the united states air force academy in a most unusual graduation ceremony as we look out at the cadets there, now spaced six feet apart, they marched in eight feet apart and not in the audience, because there isn t an audience, is there families or those who supported them during this time. it is striking as we are in week six or so of the coronavirus crisis how many milestones and momentous events in people s lives are being changed by this, whether it s birthdays, anniversaries, weddings or graduations that we are heading into that won t happen and will be very different. kristin: that s right, and vice president mike pence he said while this does not look like a usual graduation, he said this is a an awesome sight and that he wouldn t be anywhere else and he also talked quite a bit about the space force. 86% of the cadets that graduated today will be joining the new force. he mentioned the fact that nasa just announced that it is going to be attempting to launch american astronauts on american made rockets from american soil next month and the vice president noted that some of you sitting here today, some of the cadets graduating today could some day be on those rockets. so i thought that was a pretty neat moment as well for those cadets. leland: ream quick, kristin real quick, kristin. you spent so much time covering the space force and the nasa program in general, how are they going to try to launch this rocket with americans on-board, given the idea of quarantines and social distancing and the coronavirus? kristin: it is a fascinating question and i think it is still being worked outs. i mean, like everywhere else, it s going to be these astronauts are going to be launched on spacex rockets and whatnot. so social distancing is going to make things a bit of a challenge but they say they are going to give it a go and try to do it in the next few weeks. leland: they always quarantined astronauts before their launch. this will be no different. we ll be right back. leland: the debate continues here in washington this weekend as lawmakers spar over a second wave of funding for the paycheck protection program that ran out of money at $350 billion. we have owner and president of capital management, fox news contributor, gary key kaye, wele back. jared, as i understand this, you are the bridge essentially, a lot of times, between small businesses and capital they need. typically in the form of loans. where are you seeing from a small business the lack of this ppp funding being available coming in, how many are calling you saying we re closing if we don t get money? i can tell you that over the past few weeks we have been inundated with phone calls from small to mid-size business owners that, you know, really need either the ppp program or the eidl loan, what we re finding is that because there are light guardrails around these programs, most business owners are thinking that they qualify for both when in reality they may qualify for only one. leland: interesting distinction. gary, it seems to sort of defy logic, if you will, that we are in a time of incredible economic peril, much of the country is shut down, 22 million people have applied for unemployment benefits and the dow had its best two weeks since 1930. first of all, the market is a forward-looking mechanism but something else is at work and that is a central bank that is basically in the midst of promised to inject $8 trillion, that s over two years of our taxes and just out of thin air to put in basically is heading into the markets, given the hedge funds and the big guys, the levered people some what i would call wind at their backs and that s what i think you are seeing. but of course, there is the confidence that we may get past this sooner rather than later and, look, i m the biggest bull in history, longer term. i m just not so sure shorter term and maybe the market s a little bit ahead of itself here but so farma far markets actig great. leland: you make a good point as to who is being big groups took enormous risks if you think of some of the industries that are getting bailed out and the risks they took and didn t save for a rainy day. here s what president trump said yesterday about needing funding for the ppp. essentially, we re waiting for $250 billion and it s a small amount of money relative to what it represents because it represents small businesses, it represents them staying in business. you know, when you look at it, people don t know, small businesses represent approximately 50% of the power of our business enterprises. leland: jared, this is an important point. the ppp doesn t do a lot for small business. it s basically a pass-through from the government to the employees of small businesses. 25% or less is left around to be able to pay your rent and perhaps some utilities. but this is not bridging the capital that small business needs to pay off their other business loans, to buy new equipment, to deal with the spoiled inventory if they re a restaurant, et cetera. yeah, that s right. you know, we re seeing right now that the ppp program is really based upon keeping employees working for another eight weeks so that unemployment really doesn t spike and continue to drive up, where working capital is really needed today to continue to run the business. we re seeing a lot of our business owners have become a lot smarter around running their business with reducing their fixed expenses but nevertheless, access to capital is very important and setting up a safety net now more than ever would be the most beneficial. leland: gentlemen, we re going to have to leave it there. we obviously got cut short in terms of the vice president s speech. for some reason i think these problems are going to stick around for a while so there will be lots to talk about in the coming weeks. appreciate it, guys. thanks for having us on. leland: kristin. kristin: the pro-democracy protest that disrupted hong kong last year picking back up this weekend. we ll explain why the activists are returning to the streets, next. i m greg, i m 68 years old. i do motivational speaking in addition to the substitute teaching. i honestly feel that that s my calling to give back to younger people. i think most adults will start realizing that they don t recall things as quickly as they used to or they don t remember things as vividly as they once did. i ve been taking prevagen for about three years now. people say to me periodically, man, you ve got a memory like an elephant. it s really, really helped me tremendously. prevagen. healthier brain. better life. kristin: police in hong kong have arrested 15 pro-democracy activists, the move comes amid months of relative peace after the violent protests that rocked hong kong last year. christina coleman is live to explain why. hey, christina. reporter: kristin, these veteran pro-democracy activists were arrested in a high profile round-up. this went down as hong kong is reeling from the coronavirus pandemic. hong kong s democratic party founder, 81-year-old martin lee, was arrested and driven to the police station as cameras swarmed around him today. lee was one of many activists who protested against a since withdrawn extradition bill that would have allowed hong kong residents to be sent to mainland china to stand trial. the protests started last june and the demonstrations evolved into a broader call for democracy and an investigation into alleged police brutality during the protests. pro-democratic heavy weight jimmy lai was also arrested today. the communist party is cracking down on the pro-democracy movement right now even though many demonstrators are staying home because of the coronavirus. carrie lam rejected claims this week of increased criticism of pro democracy amounts to interference. under one country, two systems, yes, through the system and through the basic law, the central authorities have given hong kong a high degree of autonomy but that doesn t mean that the central government has given up its power and authority on hong kong affairs. reporter: these high profile democratic activists arrested today are facing charges of joining unlawful protests but some pro-democracy demonstrators say the arrests are going to lead to morallies and protests when they assemble in the streets again. kristin. kristin: christina, thank you. and as the world is staying home, the uncertainty and changes to routines is leading to anxiety, especially for kids. more on how parents can help their little ones manage the stress, coming up. at philadelphia, we know what makes the perfect schmear of cream cheese. the recipe we invented over 145 years ago and me.the world s best, and possibly only, schmelier. philadelphia. schmear perfection. kristin: it s tough enough for adults to process how life changes in a pandemic but imagine what it s like for children. we re going to dig into it a little bit more with child development and parenting expert, denise daniels. she teamed up with! slat particulato write theworkb, a workbook to help kids cope during the coronavirus pandemic. denise, this is sofa so fascinating. i would like to start with the younger children and then go to the older children. when you re dealings with something as complex as a virus, how do you explain to a toddler, what s happening, how do you explain to them why they re not going to school, why they re not seeing their friends when they re not quite old enough perhaps to understand what a virus is? well, we talk about with young children, particularly preschoolers, kids that don t have the verbal language skills or the cognitive capacity to be able to understand it, so with younger children we really want to limit how much screen time they re having. if they re watching television and they re hearing it on the news. sometimes very young children, they get a sense that something is happening and their parents are anxious or worried or concerned, even though we think it s not affecting young children, it very commonly is that children are experiencing those emotions as well. so with young kids we want to make sure that we know what they understand. and the first thing we want to do is to be able to say, you know, a lot of kids are talking about the coronavirus or the pandemic. what have you heard? and then begin your information and your reassurance with answering their questions. that s really key. because kids need age-appropriate, accurate information. mr. rogers used to say what s mentionable is manageable. well, he was absolutely right because giving kids information helps them feel more comfortable and who better than to hear it from a grown-up that they trust. it makes that bond and staying connected really crucial in a time of crisis. kristin: you know, for parents, a lot of parents it s tough on them. their children are home from school, a lot of times they ve lost child care and help. i think it s easy to often lose sight about just how tough and stressful this is for children. for those of us that may forget it, can you explain why this rocks so many children to their very core? well, it disrupts their schedules. they re used to having structure. they re used to having continuity and life is so uncertain right now. it s hard enough for adults to understand but for children it s very difficult for them. we re seeing children that have more emotional stress, more anxiety than ever before and these are the times that we really have to be observing our children and listening very closely to what they re saying. experts always look at children s play because a lot of times kids will work out their feelings and things they re worried about or things that they re happy about through their play. so that s a really good time to keep an eye on your kids. and i think too that the more we can be together, i know it s really difficult, people are in apartments or they re in small settings or, you know, even working with homeless children right now and i think it s really good to remember that even though you re together, they still need frequent information. i always say to young kids, the reason this is on the news is because it s such an unusual occurrence. as adults we have a responsibility to put everything into context for kids. the information you give a preschooler is going to be different than a grade schooler. or somebody that s in high school, a teenager, for example. but the social connection is absolutely crucial, whether it s a young child or it s a teenager. and even as an expert we always say, you know, only two hours of screen time a day. but the reality is, parents have to give themselves i m sorry. go ahead. kristin: that s okay. you were making great points. great advice. we have to hop to our next segment. but thank you so much for all of the tips. i know i will certainly be using them myself as a parent. thank you. thanks for having me. leland: should china be held responsible for the coronavirus pandemic, if so what can the united states do, vice chair of the house foreign relations committee when we come back. ib chocolate would be good- snacking should be sweet and simple. the delicious taste of glucerna gives you the sweetness you crave while helping you manage your blood sugar. glucerna. everyday progress leland: the united states is investigating whether the coronavirus escaped from a lab in wuhan, china. our brett behr and gillian turner have been doing reporting on this. joining us now, francis rooney. good to see you. appreciate it. do you feel like we know enough to conclusively say the virus escaped from this lab or is there more work to be done? i don t know. i ve heard conflicting reports but i don t think there s any doubt that this lab was deeply involved in trying to develop some bio dangerous biological weapons. leland: what do you make of the reports that there was american money that had been given to this lab as recently as 2015 in terms of grants. it would appear as though our grants didn t buy us much. well, that s why i wrote that letter with some of my other colleagues yesterday to say, wait a minute, let s cut off nih funding our competitor here. one of the greatest things that president trump has done, and i don t agree with everything he s done, is that he has brought attention to the abusive nature of china in the world. and this is just one more example of how china s ruthless pursuit of itself interest has put america at risk. leland: a publication i know you read quite often is the economist. is china winning? is their cover with the implicit answer that yes, they are winning right now. how do we turn the tide on that. they exploited their member ship in the wto since they got in 1999 or 2000. the president has done some good things to stop that. i think we need to look at how they treat our companies. how about the fact that they made marriott and delta take a map off of their website that showed taiwan. why would we stand up for that? leland: we re watching they re fouling up the south china sea like its their backyard. leland: we re watching anti-virus and anti-weapons folks walk around now. would you be for changing the foreign sovereign immunities act to allow lawsuits against the chinese communist party on this. i think i would. they re so insidious in their pursuit of their self interest. what s going to be interesting is to see if they can possess a dam or road in africa that s not going to be paid back. leland: we know they re spending a lot of money in africa and latin america as you point out. want to bring you back to your home state of florida right now where in jacksonville they opened the beaches and the video shows anything but social distancing going on. ron de santis, the governor there, pushed down local control to so many of these issues and we ve seen the decisions made in jacksonville. he caught a lot of fla flak fort closing parts of florida down earlier. your thoughts on this. i was one that said that he should have closed down in february and not had spring breaks. fox has done a public service by putting out the cell phone technology that showed where all the spring breakers from fort lauderdale migrated to. to open the beach in jacksonville and to see the people there is counter-productive trying get this things closed down and quarantined. leland: i know down in collier county and broward county, miami-dade, et cetera, this is a hot spot and it continues to be one. congressman, we appreciate your time as always. thank you. we ll talk when you get back up here to dc,. thanks for having me on. leland: it s been a long three hours, kristin. a few technical problems and you having to soldier on through the wind up there on the top of the balcony. kristin: hey, it is a nice view, though. so we ll put up with the wind. leland: it is that. and we ll be back here tomorrow. the news continues with our colleagues from new york. we ll see you tomorrow. arthel: protestors from coast to coast are calling for their states to reopen in the face of stay at home orders. the protestors claim they are affecting freedom and this as they are fighting with coronavirus pandemic, welcome to america s news room, i m arthel neville. eric: protestors around the country have become itchy and frustrated, they are calling on state governments and others to reopen but some critics say that is dangerous. they are misguided and
how and where the virus is spreading. steve. reporter: kristin, the u.s. is currently testing about 150,000 people a day. researchers at harvard say that number will need to triple if the u.s. is going to be able to safely reopen the economy. vice president pence said the u.s. was quickly ramping up the testing numbers. we believe the testing that we have today, chris, across the country, once we activate all of the labs that can do coronavirus testing, is sufficient for any state in america to move into phase one. reporter: not all states are waiting for new tests. the mayor of jacksonville opened up the beaches. he put in place limited hours, restrictions on towels and chairs but the crowds came, despite admonitions to keep up social distancing. the mayor of miami said the beaches would open up, he didn t say when. south carolina also prepared next week to reopen its beaches. texas as well as vermont opening up some limited shopping next week as well with curbside pick-up. this comes as there have been demonstrations in eight different states, calling on governors to ease economic restrictions. the testimon demonstrations in , colorado, maryland, michigan, texas, utah and washington. kristin, back to you. kristin: steve harrigan, live in atlanta. steve, thank you. leland. leland: amid all the uncertainty, the showdown over testing and reopening continues between the nation s governors and the white house. the vice president said today that the u.s. could double its testing once states activate all of their labs. the blame game continues. mark meredith joins us from the white house ahead of today s coronavirus briefing. reporter: the administration says more tests are being conducted every day, right now 150,000 tests being done daily. but the white house believes if state governments work with the federal government the number could go up significantly. vice president mike pence talked about this with chris wallace earlier today. now we cleared 4 million overall. in 150,000 tests a day, we think we can double that number by working with governors to activate all of the laboratories in their states around the country that can do coronavirus testing. that would put us at roughly 300,000. reporter: house speaker nancy pelosi is blasting the president over his response to the outbreak. she s calling him a weak leader and says with states still struggling to get testing done quickly, the blame rests with the white house. we re way late on it and that is a failure. the president gets an f, a failure on the testing he doesn t take responsibility. he places blame on others. and that might have been okay for before. but we cannot continue down a path that is again. reporter: a number of protests have been popping up in cities nationwide. the president was asked about the protests with people fed up about staying at home. he says some of the demonstrations make sense to him. there were a lot of protests out there. and i just think that some of the governors have gotten carried away. you know, we have a lot of people that don t have to be told to do what they re doing. reporter: the president will have a chance to speak to the governors again tom range of to. we re expecting an update from the president at 5:00. the treasury secretary said for people that are waiting for stimulus payments, the people that need the money, direct deposits are still going on. you can go to the irs website to make sure they have your information. the paper checks will begin starting to roll out next week. leland. leland: they re working today on that deal for refunding ppp. mark meredith at the white house. back to you as events warrant throughout the afternoon. thanks, mark. kristin. kristin: some governors are taking steps to gradually reopen their states and lift restrictions on certain businesses. joining us now, nebraska republican governor pete ric ricketts. thank you for talking with us today. i d like to start by asking you, you were very one of the few governors who decided not to impose a state-wide stay at home order. how is that decision working out for you in your state? so far, i think the approach we ve taken in nebraska has been right for nebraska. we haven t put a formal order in place, we have asked people to stay home this month, we put six rules in place around stay at home, don t have unessential trips, work, but work from home if you can and socially distance if you re going into the workplace. if you re shopping, shop once a week by yourself, don t take the family, help kids, help seniors, exercise in an appropriate way. these six rules are the things we used to really help to be able to follow guidelines, socially distance and that s what s helping us to be able to slow the spread of the virus in our state. kristin: since you bring up shopping, i would like to ask you a question about a shopping mall, an outlet mall that is doing something different. some people love it, some people don t like it. it is the nebraska crossing outlets. they re planning a soft opening on april 24th. here s a few of the things that they are planning to do when they reopen. they re going to place strict limits on the number of shoppers allowed in stores, use hospital grade disinfectants on surfaces and they re going to take temperatures of customers before they can enter stores. do you think this is a good idea, allowing this shopping mall, this outlet mall to reopen in just five days in this way? kristin, i think the important thing to note here is we haven t closed any shopping malls. so anything they did with regard to closing stores is entirely voluntary and if they are following social distancing guidelines, that s what s appropriate for everybody. for example, with our big box stores here in omaha, our largest city, we asked them to do more than they were doing and they were very accommodating in being able to do that, doing some of the things you re talking about, limiting number of customers coming in, putting tape on the floor to make sure customers stay six feet apart in checkout lines. the big box stores have been open this entire time. i think that s one of the keys, we ve just really tried to get people to do the right thing with regard to that social distancing. so that we can slow the spread of the virus and it s been working. kristin: governor, a lot of other governors, republicans and democrats, have said that they still feel like they do not have enough tests or supplies to conduct tests. how do you feel about that? do you feel like the testing capacity in your state is sufficient? well, i don t think there s a single governor who thinks they have enough testing that they want to do you can always do more. and we have been contacted by the federal government, some of the things you had on earlier with vice president pence, talking about how to open up more capacity in the state. we re looking to do that. we tried a variety of creative things like pooling samples in the public health lab, allowed us to be able to expand the number of tests we can do. we re looking at different channels of way toss be able to expand it, different types of tests and so forth. i think the other thing to keep in mind here is testing is just a tool. at the end of the day what this is about is not overwhelming the healthcare system, make sure that anybody who needs that hospital bed, who needs that icu bed or needs that ventilator can get access to that. if you are meeting that goal, and the testing only helps you meet that goal, the testing is not an end in itself, it s about making sure you keep your hospital system and healthcare system available. if you re doing that, you re winning the battle. kristin: understood. and governor, one more quick question, if i could. i know your state doesn t have or i believe you re not seeing any of the protests like we re seeing in states like michigan, maryland, things of that nature. but certainly you re seeing them, hearing about them. do you support what the protesters in those states are doing? well, i think everybody wants to get this opened up as quickly as possible. and the way we rolled out our restrictions here in nebraska, we did it regionally because even within the state of nebraska, it s different between omaha and rural communities. the governor needs to think how can i tailor my response to meet the needs of local areas and communities and make sure if i don t have to be more restrictive in other areas that i m finding ways to loosen restrictions. again, still monitoring and testing is a tool, monitoring to make sure the virus doesn t spread too quickly but as long as you re not overwhelming the healthcare system you can do that. kristin: got it. governor, i ve got to leave it there. thank you so much. stay safe. leland: now we go to washington state. in that state, construction is not considered an essential business. under the governor s stay at home order, construction is supposed to stop. three towns are allowing construction companies to defy those orders. dan springer live in seattle as we are seeing more of this local control question around the country. hi, dan. reporter: yeah, that s right, lee hand. we re starting to see more individuals protesting these restrictions but also some small cities that are starting to give some of the residents the green light to go back to work. in linden, washington, a city of 15,000 residents, along the border with canada, leaders sent a letter to construction companies, telling them to continue building homes and commercial projects even though they were halted by governor jay insle. s stay at home order. washington, new york, new jersey and pennsylvania are the only states to ban all private construction except where buildings might be damaged. insley says workers support his strict policy. i haven t seen that letter yet but i do know we ve made real progress in our talks with the construction industry and the people who work in it to figure out some protocols to be able to get back to full construction. reporter: but critics point out that insley s order allows government projects to move forward, calling them essential. the rest of the industry has been decimated. new unemployment claims have jumped by 70,000 in construction in the last three weeks, a trade group estimates workers have lost $503 million in wages or $23 million every day. they insist the work can be done safely and needs to be done to keep lives from being destroyed economically. if you re a small business owner and you re going to go bankrupt and lose your entire life savings, you re going to find ways to get back to work as quickly as possible and we need to work with people to get that done. i care about the virus. i cash about the health. he care about the health. we cannot let this thing destroy the entire economy in washington state, in linden or the country. we ve got to fight back. reporter: republican lawmakers in the state are urging governor insley to start easing back on some of the restrictions. there s a protest at the capitol today along those same lines. we ll see if insley does anything. his order stays in effect until may 4th. leland: especially the maryland capitol yesterday we saw a lot of construction work trucks in the protests. we ll see if it s the same in olympia today. thank you. kristin. kristin: on capitol hill, house speaker nancy pelosi told fox news that a second wave of funding for that paycheck protection program could be coming soon as congressional lawmakers continue to work to try to strike a deal on another relief package. fox congressional cor core upont has the latest correspondent has the latest. reporter: the pressure is on to get a deal this week. that s because the small business fund is dry. now, the vice president, mike pence, appearing on fox news sunday this morning said they re, quote, close. republicans want to focus the bill on small business to the tune of about $251 billion. democrats want some other things in this bill, helping state and local governments and also access to capital for under-served communities. here s the speaker of the house, nancy pelosi. we re not going afield in any other thing. and also, to make sure that everyone has access to the program. i m very pleased at the progress that is being made. we ve worked in a very bipartisan way all along. we continue to do so. reporter: if they can forge an agreement, the hope is that the house and the senate can come back and approve this interim measure with a skeleton staff on-hand. democrats are concerned about other provisions such as helping state and local governments, some counties own local hospitals and they are strapped. the secretary of the treasury, steven mnuchin, said those demands will have to wait. the president is willing to consider that in the next bill. we re already distributing money to the states. we distributed about half of the money last week, we ll distribute the rest of the money next week. we ll consider that in the next bill. right now we re focused on small business and hospitals. reporter: if you re keeping score, this is really the phase 3.5 bill. this is a bridge bill. phase four is something that s being negotiated off-stage here. $250 billion is the core of this bill for small business. that s a gigantic number. that s about one-fifth of all the money that congress appropriates every year to run the federal government and already that they have spent $2.5 trillion to combat the coronavirus crisis. kristin. kristin: wow, you always know how to put it in perspective for us. chad, thanks so much. leland. leland: the price tag keeps going up and up. for more on this we bring in democratic michigan congressman, chief deputy whip, dan kilde. we appreciate you taking the time today. reasonable people seem to agree that ppp is working, it s keeping small businesses alive, it is keeping employees on the payroll of these small businesses rather than unemployed and trying to get an unemployment check. all good things and it s keeping landlords paid. why not pass a clean bill for $250 billion, refund it re-fund it and debate the other issues later. obviously, we are going to have to debate these other issues. we re hoping to be able to do more than one thing at a time, local governments are struggling. in fact, my county government just laid off numbers in the hundreds. so they re getting hit right away. but to the point about ppp programs, it is successful. but it s not as successful as we would like it to be. many of the really small businesses are not getting help. and there seems to be disparity between the states. michigan has the second highest number of unemployment filings, way down on the list in terms of the number of ppp loans that have been offered. leland: this wouldn t be the first government program that hasn t worked perfectly. we can all agree on that. and also, this ran out of money last week. there s a number of business that s i ve talked to that have shut down in this interim week, that have had to lay people off. every day that congress waits is days that people are going to be laid off and rents aren t going to get paid. why let great be the enemy of good? because we have to make we can take a day or two. they re negotiating right now to make sure all those really small businesses also get help. i ve been working in a bipartisan fashion with a piece of this to get a really small business program included in this, the very smallest businesses, the ones that are in greatest risk are not getting the help they need. so you re right, we need to move quickly. we need and frankly, congress has been relative to other issues moving in lightning speed. we passed three bipartisan bills in march, more than we ve done in emit some time. you re quite some time. you re right, we ve got to get it done. we want to make sure the details are done so the small bakery or beauty shop doesn t get left behind. leland: point well made, especially as it relates to getting help to those small business toss be able to file, depending on which banks they have. we had people on both sides of that on. want to move to you to the state of michigan where you are now. as you eloquently pointed out, unemployment in michigan is incredible and it is devastating. we had a sheriff on yesterday who said as much. one of the things the president has tweeted about is liberating, opening up some of the states. here is the president about those protests. take a listen. i m getting along very nicely with the governor of michigan but she has things, don t buy paint, don t buy roses, she s got all these crazy things. i really believe somebody sitting in their boat in a lake should be okay. they shouldn t arrest people. some of them are being unreasonable. leland: does he have a point that perhaps the governor went a little too far in this? no, i think it s a really difficult thing to decide when we re going too far, when the restrictions are working and they re actually saving lives. there can be a debate about where to draw the line but the protesters in lansing the other day were protesting against the governor s authority to do any of this. that she shouldn t have the authority to impose any of these restrictions. i don t mind a reasonable debate about where the line should be drawn, where it does make a difference, as to which sector, which part of the economy should be shut down, what should be open. leland: as we look at the list of some of the things the governor has banned, private gatherings, regardless of size, people can t travel between their own residences in michigan, large stores can t sell paint and furniture, bans being in a motor boat but not being in a kayak. what i m hearing from you is you think the protesters are a little unreasonable and you think the governor s restrictions are unreasonable as well. i don t think the governor s restrictions are unreasonable. i don t think people protesting them are unreasonable because you can have different points of view. leland: i m asking for your point of view on the items we just laid out, large stores can t sell paint and furniture, no motor boating versus kayaking, where do you come down on this? i agree with it because those decisions were made in order to minimize the number of people who have to leave their homes to go to work to support those aspects of our economy. everybody that we can get the ability to stay home and shelter in place, minimizes the spread of the disease and minimizes the number of lives that will be lost. so i m with the governor on that. leland: fair enough. as you point out, the job loss in michigan has been catastrophic. something to deal with in our next interview. congressman, we appreciate as always. as chad pointed out you might be headed back to dc in the next couple days. safe travels, sir. thanks, le leland. leland: nancy pelosi talks with chris wallace about this and so much more, fox news sunday 2:00 p.m. it s not an interview you want to miss. kristin: no. definitely one you want to catch. he also interviews vice president mike pence as well. so stay tuned. right after this show. but first, coming up next, your coronavirus questions answered by our doctors. right after this. kristin: as the coronavirus continues to spread, we always keep you updated on the number of cases but we also want to take time to answer the questions that all of you at home have submitted to us. i m not qualified to answer them but our doctors are today our panel includes the chief medical officer at ascension texas, dr. maria grenzadi and fox news contributor, dr. janette neshua. let s start with an e-mail from scott. scott wants to know if a pregnant woman has covid-19, is the baby born with antibodies or any sort of immunity? dr. grenzadi, i ll start with you. right now, there s no information that a pregnant woman with the coronavirus transmits this to an unborn child. the critical part is if there s any suspicion of that mother upon delivery having the coronavirus, that the hospitals have protocols in place to separate for a time period the baby from the mom. again, practicing good hand hygiene and gelling and staying away from those that are ill helps to protect that mom just like the rest of the population. right now, there s no information that it s transmitted to the baby. kristin: okay. our next question is from carol and dr. nesheiwat, this is for you. she says i was a long-time smoker but quit three years ago. am i still high risk? well, first of all, carol, congratulations on quitting smoking. that s an incredible achievement. if you developed copd or heart disease or cancer when you were a smoker then, yes, you are at a higher risk of complications of coronavirus otherwise, just continue with preventative measure precautions such as hand hygiene, six to 10 feet distance from other people and that sort of thing. kristin: since we re on the topic of smoking, i know there s also been a lot of talk about vaping and e-cigarette use here in the united states and around the world. but there have been some doctors who have suggested that perhaps vaping could also increase your risk to getting covid-19. is that true? where do we stand on that, dr. nesheiwat and i ll let you in as well, dr. grenzad. smoking at vaping causing irritation and inflammation in the lining of the lungs. it could put you at a higher risk of complications from any type of disease, whether viral, bacterial or fungal. you want to make sure we re not putting anything in our bodies that s toxic that could make you more prone to complications and put you in the hospital. i ve heard from a lot of people, if there was ever a time to quit smoking or vaping, now would be the perfect time to do it. doctor, you will get the next question. the next one is from joe, he writes can you disinfect a mask if you put it in a microwave? it s actually there s mixed information on that. but it can actually do more harm than good especially if there s metal in the mask, you don t want to set your microwave on fire. but it s better to soap and water and wash, hand wash the hand-made masks, that s the best option right now. there s a lot of misinformation out there on the microwaving of these masks so it s really not recommended at this time. all right. good to know. you don t want to especially at a time when everybody is at home cooking, now is not the time to explode your microwave. i certainly do not. dr. nesheiwat, one more question for you. one of my big questions, all of us at home who are not doctors, we can have you as doctors might come up with better questions than i could, than anyone else could, what are the outstanding questions that you as a doctor still have about covid-19? for me personally doctor nesheiwat. for me personally, i would like to know if you do have the virus and you develop antibodies how long will you be immune if you are immune, what level of immunity, how high do the titer levels need to be for you to be immune and i m curious when the vaccine will be on the market, we know it s about a year. that s something we re definitely waiting for. those are things you want to be curious about. great. thank you. what are your outstanding questions about the coronavirus? i always have lots of questions, especially when we realize one of the biggest questions i have is what are the long-term effects of those that even have mild disease versus those that have the more severe disease. what types of precautions in the future should these individuals take. we re always for preventative medicine, we re always for managing diabetes, heart disease, copd and of course not smoking or vaping. i m concerned about the long-term effects that we may not know much about yet. kristin: interesting. doctors, thank you so much. stick around because we ll be right back with more questions from all of you at home right after the break. it s tough to quit smoking cold turkey. so chantix can help you quit slow turkey. along with support, chantix is proven to help you quit. with chantix you can keep smoking at first and ease into quitting so when the day arrives, you ll be more ready to kiss cigarettes goodbye. when you try to quit smoking, with or without chantix, you may have nicotine withdrawal symptoms. stop chantix and get help right away if you have changes in behavior or thinking, aggression, hostility, depressed mood, suicidal thoughts or actions, seizures, new or worse heart or blood vessel problems, sleepwalking, or life-threatening allergic and skin reactions. decrease alcohol use. use caution driving or operating machinery. tell your doctor if you ve had mental health problems. the most common side effect is nausea. talk to your doctor about chantix. kristin: this is a fox news alert, police in san marc marcos texas say a man who killed one and injured two others ambushed them. he attacked them while wearing body armor. we lost a fine young man, a fellow officer and friend last night. justin putnam was 31 years old and had been an officer for five and-a-half years. kristin: police say the suspect killed himself after attacking putnam and two other officers. leland: we are joined by our medical panel answering more questions that you submitted on facebook or instagram. we bring back in chief medical officer of ascension health, drd dr. jeanette nesheiwat. dr. nesheiwat from dave in retail, does wearing gloves as protective gear reduce the transmission of covid-19 to our customers or is it really a protection for the employee? hey, dave. so ppes, that stands for personal protective equipment, that is geared towards protecting you. the best way overall to prevent the transmission of the virus, bacterial or fungal germs is to disinfect surfaces and to keep hands washed and cleans. gloves, masks, gowns, those are meant to protect the person who is wearing them. leland: quickly, gloves are only as good or as clean as the gloves are. if i have gloves on and i touch my face, doesn t matter whether i do it with gloves or my hands, right. exactly. if you re in retail and are dealing with cash and other forms of payment you could be potentially contaminating yourself with those forms of currency because there has been data that shows that money can carry scry russs viruses and bacteria. leland: from dean now via e-mail, my husband is a major airline pilot, still flying most days. we thank him. he comes in contact with many people. what precautions should we take each time he comes home? well, the guidelines that have been given as long as much as he can socially distance, the hand washing, cleaning, high surface contact areas and absolutely it s for healthcare workers when they re coming home in our frontlines. as much as possible, he needs to self-identify, self-ice iisolatf he gets any symptoms at all. number one. the typical no sharing of utensils, glasses, et cetera, et cetera, devices, the frequent hand warning, not touching hands or face and the surface cleaning is so, so important. he has to be aware and atune to his symptoms and make sure that he is communicative and transparent about those in case he gets symptoms. leland: we ve heard so many stories about pilots wiping down cockpit as they get on aircraft. dr. nesheiwat, the last one from bruce. is there a reason to wear a mask outside when walking even though there s no one else around? so that s a good question. if you go outside and there s no one around, then the risk of you picking up the virus is low. but consider this. there could have been someone walking by who coughed and sneezed. and remember, this virus can remain in the air for a few hours. so you are taking that chance of even though no one is there, was there someone there two minutes prior and you could have walked into the virus and inhaled it. so leland: i want to understand this. if somebody if i sneeze right now and i have the virus or someone else sneezes and i walk by it stays in the air for two minutes like a cloud someone can walk through. some of the data we have suggests that the virus can remain in the air for several hours. so even though no one s there, if someone was there a few minutes prior then, yes, potentially you can catch it, you can inhale it into your nose, throat and eyes and be a carrier and start to show symptoms. leland: a couple hours. a few hours what is the data suggests so far. that s why they say six to 10 feet. leland: yeah, wow. dr. nesheiwat, dr. granzotti. thank you very much. we appreciate it. thank you very much. leland: kristin. kristin: andrew cuomo announced the state will not reopen without aggressive state-wide testing. aishah hasnie is in new york with the very latest. aishah. reporter: kristin, governor cuomo announcing today that the state will perform thousands of antibody tests n week test nexts coming week, starting monday, state-wide to get the first picture of who has had the virus in their body already. when it comes to diagnostic testing, that s to find out if you have the virus currently, the state will coordinate with the white house to get the supplies needed to those private labs in new york to be able to create those test kits. governor cuomo says we are past the plateau but he s warning new yorkers that we are not out of the woods just yet. it s no time to get cocky and it s no time to get arrogant. this virus has been ahead of us every step of the way. we have been playing catch-up from day one in this situation. so it is no time to relax. reporter: here s a look at the totals now. new york is up to more than 17,000 deaths, almost 20% of that number is from nursing homes and adult care facilities which is cuomo s number one concern now. new jersey follows with 4200 deaths and michigan now with more than 2300. more help is arriving as early as today. mayor de blasio announcing today that 1400 volunteer healthcare workers from across the country and more than 500 military personnel are headed to dozens of hospitals and nursing homes in new york city. meanwhile, he was also pushing back on a new call from city council members to close the subway system and mit reports suggest that the subway is connected to the spread of this virus here in new york city. the latest numbers a day ago showed 68 public transit workers have now died from covid-19 and nearly 2500 have tested positive. de blasio says he understands the concern but he will not be shutting the subway down just yet, calling on the mta to do a better job of limiting the number of people on a subway car. now, governor cuomo is coordinating with the other northeastern states to decide what stays open and what is going to be closed. right now, state parks are still closed, marinas, though, they are open. the nypd also stepping up their enforcement of those social distancing rules. new yorkers being asked to report anyone who is breaking those rules and violators will face up to $1,000 in fines. kristin. kristin: aishah hasnie, live in new york city. aishah, thank you. leland. leland: a number of recovered coronavirus patients real heros here are stepping up to help save the lives of people who are struggling from the virus now. we re going to tell you how it s working when we come back. people everywhere are feeling the love with trolls world tour, now available in your home. i m ready to party. it s a musical cure for the quarantine blues. happy birthday? the world premiere is now in your home. go to watchtrolls.com for more. when bugs move in, we stress out and spray. and spray. and spray. well, we used to. with new ortho home defense max indoor insect barrier, one simple application kills and prevents bugs in your home for up to a year without odors, stains or fuss. it s the modern way to keep bugs away. new ortho, home defense max. get everything you need for spring at ortho.com order today! leland: there s now a number of coronavirus survivors who are stepping up to help those currently fighting the virus. some are in the icu, donating their plasma in an effort to transfer the much needed antibodies to fight the disease. david spun is here to introduce us to a couple of such heros. hi, david. reporter: hey, leland. good afternoon. so many sad stories out there, this is not one of them. this is a happy, positive story. i m going to show you four people who have one thing in common that, want to help other one thing in common, they want to help people as soon as possible. i have a hazmat suit in my system. reporter: fully recovered from covid-19, diana baron says her mission is to donate as much plasma as possible. she started a group last month called survivor corps. we are just ordinary people who might have been unlucky enough to contract covid but lucky enough to get through it, can be part of finding that cure. reporter: baron signed up to donate plasma through columbia university. she was patient number one. she has a standing appointment every seven days to donate. she s not alone. across the country, jason garcia set up an isolation room in his california home. he too donated plasma. i hope that other people have the opportunity to do this. if it works, you know, i know they re doing trials right now for the plasma treatment and but there s going to be plenty of opportunity for others to do the exact same thing. reporter: plasma is not 100% guaranteed to work in every patient. and in some cases covid-19 survivors have spent weeks waiting for the all-clear negative test result to donate. i have these antibodies that are my super power and they can help people that are on ventilators and that whose antibodies aren t strong enough or plentiful enough. reporter: others find they can help by just showing up to work. healthcare workers, we contract the disease a lot of them, they go home, they beat it and they come back and they fight against it by helping out these sick patients. reporter: and it s these survivors that ultimately could save lives months before a vaccine is on the market. you re looking at the face of a survivor. i am completely back to myself. not only that, i m better than i was before because i now have the capacity to go out and help save lives. reporter: organizations like the red cross taking applications right now for plasma donation. if you ve recovered from covid-19 and want to donate, want to help out, check out your local center. leland. leland: there are thousands of families right now waiting for people to step up and donate to help their loved ones in the icu in bad shape. kristin. kristin: people are celebrating orthodox easter all over the world. we re going to tell you a little about how they are changing their celebrations because of the pandemic, next. i don t add up the years. and i don t count the wrinkles. but what i do count on is boost high protein. and now, introducing new boost women. with key nutrients to help support 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may 4th. there s a lot of concern and debate here because though percentage-wise new infections are going down, in milan oftentimes in recent days the rate of infections is 30% higher than the national average. and a new red zone was declared today in a town just outside of rome. it s in total lockdown now until the beginning of may. only police and medical staff can go in and out of that town. patients at a rehabilitation center tested positive for covid-19, half of the staff and patients, i should add, and this as investigations are underway as to how coronavirus was handled in nursing homes in italy. 1800 patients in lombardi alone have died of coronavirus. a region in eastern france, particularly hard-hit by coronavirus, has carried out tests for all nursing home residents and staff. they have done this in large part so that those not infected can go back to spending time with friends as they did before the quarantine, since when they have all been confined to their rooms. another reminder, that this is not a virus that just hits older people hard. 40-year-old father of two in france was applauded, given an honor guard by doctors and nurses after he emerged from icu after being resuscitated. you can see him wiping tears from his eyes. and finally, in the russian resort city of so shvmenchi wors were not going to stay home at orthodox easter. the easter service was held outside as masks were distributed, social distancing encouraged. the head of the orthodox church in russia encouraged people to stay home and pray but obviously his advice was not totally heeded across that large country. there are about 36,000 cases of covid-19 in russia and just 300 deaths. a lot of people suspect in both cases the numbers are probably much higher. kristin. kristin: yeah, amy kellogg live in florence for us. thanks, amy. leland. leland: trey yingst is following the outbreak in the middle east from our jerusalem bureau. reporter: good afternoon. it s a mixture of positive and negative news when you look at the spread of covid-19 in the middle east. we did get some striking images out of turkey today. take a look at this, as the country is struggling with the rise in new cases. fresh video shows 1,000 bed hospital being built on the ground of an airport in istanbul. the government did issue a lockdown this weekend for 31 provinces and put into place new age restrictions on who can go outside. anyone under 20 and over 65 is ordered to stay indoors. turkey s health minister announced over the weekend the total number of positive covid-19 results rose to 85,000. the turks will free thousands of prisoners amid the outbreak. one area of concern is the syrian revenue gee refugees. iranians are reopening some parts of the country, though there are going to be some other areas that will continue to struggle. all of these updates do come as china, the location where the outbreak first began, reported just 16 new cases yesterday. we do know u.s. officials are 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we re hearing from a source, they told rich edson that mike pompeo, the secretary of state himself went to president trump and said you need to fire this guy, steve linick. we found out late last night that he would be dismissed in 30 days. an obama era employee who briefed on ukraine last fall. the white house not commenting why the president did this. house speaker nancy pelosi put out a lengthy statement about the friday night firing. it s concerning that the president has taken the action as the house passes the heroes act, which contains critical funding for the state department ig to oversee and ensure the effective wise spending of coronavirus response funds. this firing will set back the important work of the office of inspector general to perform critical audits, investigations and inspection of u.s. embassies and programs around the world during the crisis. kristin, this is interesting, this is from the chairman of the foreign relations committee eliot engel. i ve learned that the office of inspector general opened an investigation into mr. pompeo. and strongly suggests this an unlawful act of retaliation. engle not expanding on allegations there. yesterday afternoon in the rose garden, the president announced warp speed, to beat covid-19, a partnership between the military, human services, and at risk population, 300 million doses by december. also 300 million by january, 2021. after announcing that he s stopping payments to the world health organization last month, there s a report that the white house will green light payments to the organization the same amount from china. that china s paying the who. now, president trump in a tweet this morning says no decisions are final. he s still working out this, but appears the white house will be paying more to the world health organization. kristin, leland, president trump is at camp david with republican members of congress and close advisors to talk about the vaccine research that he mentioned yesterday in the rose garden, kristin. kristin: camp david, not a bad place to be stuck in quarantine. not today. kristin: david spunt on the lawn. leland. leland: beautiful day in d.c. senate republicans are trying to figure out what do with the house democrats $3 trillion coronavirus relief package. it passed last night and it is the most expensive legislation in the history of the republic. garrett tenney joining us now with what senate republicans are plotting. hi, garrett. leland, good afternoon to you. senate republican relationship have suggested that this bill is essentially dead on arrival. majority leader mitch mcconnell called it a parade of absurdities. house democratic leaders put together the heroes act without any input from republicans and the bill includes 200 billion dollars in hazard pay for essential workers, extension of increased unemployment benefits through january and $900 billion for state and local governments, but also includes several controversial items such as a $25 billion bailout for the u.s. postal service, $50 million for investigating leads between pollution exposure and covid-19 and allowing undocumented immigrants who pay taxes to qualify for a second round of direct payments. is this a joke? because it certainly isn t based on reality. $3 trillion of virtue signaling to your base is no way to govern in the mid of a crisis and you know it. it s not just republicans who are criticizing the bill as a partisan wish list though. most of the 14 democrats who voted against it are moderates facing tough reelection battles this fall and several described it as a political statement filled with unrelated waste of taxpayer dollars. despite those criticisms, the legislation narrowly passed by a 208-199. democrats are blasting g.o.p. opposition to their bill. the republican party says, we don t have any money to help you. are you kidding me? where do you guys live? food lines around the blocks at our food banks in the united states of america. one in five kids are going hungry. your party can t even get food to them. this isn t a wish list. if it s a wish list, it s for the working class people. the house speaker nancy pelosi is now suggesting this bill wasn t a sincere effort at passing a law. instead serve as an opening offer for negotiations for the republicans and the white house for the next coronavirus relief package, leland. leland: a lot of negotiation the to be had over the coming weeks and months, garrett. thank you very much. a lot more on this bill from both sides of the aisle. and the congressman from virginia and democratic congressman cartwright joining us. and chris wallace talks to colorado governor polis how his state is dealing with the coronavirus. and check your listings for time and channel. and howard kurtz will look at michael flynn s unmasking and the media coverage surrounding that. media buzz tomorrow 11 a.m. easte eastern. kristin: well, there s a new warn from the c.d.c. director. dr. redfield says the u.s. models will have more than 100,000 deaths by june 1st. aishah hasnie is following the developments from and ma manhattan. hi, kristin. let s take a look at his tweet. dr. robert redfield tweeting that 12 different forecasting models forecast an increase in deaths in the coming weeks. the northeast continues to lead the nation in those deaths. new york, new jersey, massachusetts account for nearly half of all covid-19 deaths across the country. despite that, new jersey reopening several popular beaches on friday under new social distancing guidelines. new york plans to reopen all of its state-run beaches memorial day weekend while new york city s public beaches will remain closed. and so please, folks, keep doing what you re doing, even as we begin to open more doors, we are clearly, without question, making enormous progress and the more progress we make, the more steps we can take, the faster we can get back to some sort of a new normal. and listen to this, travel is changing. tsa preparing to check passenger s temperatures at roughly a dozen airports as soon as next week. a senior trump official says the initial rollout would cost less than $20 million and passengers would not be charged any additional fees. no word on which airports are going to launch this first as plans are worked out. and money that was supposed to go to unemployed americans could be in the hands of scammers. according to the website crebson security, warning states around the country that a nigerian crime ring is exploiting this pandemic and committing fraud against several states, their unemployment insurance programs. according to that same website, the potential losses are somewhere in the hundreds of millions of dollars, kristin. kristin: wow. that s a lot of money. thank you so much. leland. leland: well, the coronavirus hot spot of waterloo, iowa is now center stage in the home of the debate. it s home to tyson meats where hundreds contracted the virus. waterloo mayor is with us. thank you very much. where are we right now as this tyson plant has reopened? are we is the outbreak under control? are things still spiraling? thank you for having me. good morning. on may 1st we had an opportunity to sit down with tyson officials, steve stauffer and the plant manager and others there, and they laid out the plan that they re willing to take for reopening. so we heard about a 45 minute to about an hour presentation after which we toured to see some of the safety precautions put in place. the following week they began with the orientation for employees. then they went to harvesting and then last friday, they opened up at 50%. so we re been watching, we ve been communicating with the company. you know, still a little bit of uneasiness with people given the parameters of the outbreak. leland: uneasiness is understood, sir. has there been some massive spike in case there is in waterloo again? or do you feel like you have the numbers under control? well, right now with only about four or five days from that situation, our numbers have been, you know, lower than they have been in the past. so that s a good sign and that s one that we are keeping our eyes on. leland: sure. understandable. the sad reality as relates to these meat packing plants is that folks who are working in them are doing it because they have to. it s unpleasant work, very difficult work at times. there s a lot of immigrants, often times, not even with the same second language or third language. english is certainly not a first language. they re living in difficult conditions back at home where social distancing is not necessarily possible and families are stuck together. you know this better than anybody, being the mayor of a town like waterloo with so many meat packing plants. what s being done to protect these folks and workers outside of the plants where they don t have the ppe and the training and the oversight that they do inside? well, you know, to that point, what i ll say is that i don t want to group every particular person that works at tyson as they work with they live with 10 to 15 people at the house, they don t do that, they don t practice that. we know that we cannot necessarily stop anything that comes into the plant. that the conversation and what i have been optimistic with working with the officials at tyson are the measures put in place to help stop mitigation or spread. from that, there is multi-lingual communication. there are best practices. there are on-site testing that s done at the plant, so you know, we ve had people that my very own relatives, they are african-american, born and raised here. leland: right. that had contracted the virus. so, it s more than that. it is just about putting in parameters that help stop the overall i guess what i m asking, mayor, have you done any research to figure out whether these communities that are closely associated with these plants, some have do live in the way you described, some do not live in the way you describe, but what efforts are you taking to try to help these folks at home? have you done any research to figure out whether the transmission is happening at the plants or happening once these folks go home from the plants and back in their communities and socializing that way? well, if you take a look at the overall numbers of those that are working at the plant, there were 444 that had been tested over that three-day period where they tested on site. prior to that, there were more than 700 cases, which our local health care officials say that 1,032 are directly related to the plant. now you take into the impact of other places that we have. we re not just tyson s. we have a broad economy here, but when you take a look at that has been directed to the plant, that s where the number comes from, but that also spills out to those that may live in some of the households or those that may have gone to a grocery store or work at a long-term care facility. leland: i guess i still haven t heard about the efforts that you all are making inside the communities. i just keep hearing about the plant. i just told you that. so very early we put in the emergency operations center. that center consolidates all of our local governments, our health care, it consolidates in our school system. we are all working coordinated. we re tracking the numbers. we are communicating twice a week to everyone here. we are becoming a resource, our health department is becoming the resource. leland: mayor, i appreciate it, we ve got to run now. thank you very much. mayor quinton hart there in waterloo, iowa. we wish you the best there. kristin. kristin: right now scientists all over the world are racing to develop a vaccine or treatment for covid-19, but mutations in the virus could make the fight against it all the more difficult. so, i have a lot of questions right now for the former f.d.a. associate commissioner and president and co-founder for the center for medicine and public interest. peter, i d like to start by asking you what you meant by something that i read that you wrote a few days ago. you described the coronavirus as a wily virus. what do you mean by that? one of the things that is not helping us in our battle against covid-19 is that it is wily. it s doing things other viruses haven t done before. in this case, it s mutating quite quickly to become more contagious. it s what viruses do to stay alive. they are living things. partially it shows it doesn t react the same way relative to warm weather. it mutates more quickly. antibodies don t provide a greater degree of immunity as it does with other viruses so in addition to our science relative to a vaccine and our personal responsibility on social distancing and wear masks and therapeutics helping people at the hospitals, we have to understand that covid-19 is a moving virus. we have to be smart in our science and mitigation practices. kristin: so if it is a moving target, how much could these potential mutations, limit the effectiveness of vaccines that are in development? i think there are a lot of vaccines being developed all around the world. the real story is the cooperation of government and academic institutions. there are a lot of shots on goal. we have to be sure the vaccines that we produce and give at large scale to the people is as potent as possible. i m concerned on vaccine signaling, that somehow we re going to develop one vaccine quickly that will magically cure everybody s problems, that s not the case. bringing the vaccine to market even in a year is incredibly fast, but we have to be sure that the vaccine that we bring to market meets the prompts of being safe and effective. effective being key. we don t want to send false messages about vaccines. we want a vaccine to come to market that s as potent as possible while the vaccine continues to mutate. kristin: so peter, you talk about the end. year. yesterday in that rose garden press conference, president trump says he believes that the united states can get about 100,000 excuse me, hundreds of millions of doses of the vaccine out to the public by the end of this year. do you think that s possible? the thing is you can t manufacture a vaccine until you have a vaccine. i don t think that anybody thinks that a vaccine is going to be created, reviewed and approved between now and the end of the year. i hope i m wrong. to have a vaccine by the end of the year and manufactured. the president is trying to be op optimistic. we can t wait for a vaccine in having a smart tactic to reopen the economy and hoping for a vaccine by the end much 2020 i think is pretty much living in fantasy land. kristin: i want to ask you about one more hopeful step with regard to the coronavirus. this coming from a california pharmaceutical company which says it s discovered a successful antibody treatment. sore rento therapeutics, if you have the neutralizing antibody if your body, you don t need social distancing, you can open up society without fear. what do you think of this claim that they ve discovered a succe successful antibody. if i had a dollar for every cure that they talk about, i d be a rich man. i d certainly want to see the data. i hope what they ve got is terrific, but this is a company with no f.d.a. approved product so i haven t seen any discussion of the science. i ve seen a bump in their stock price, good for them. hopefully it s more than a stock ploy that there s really science behind t rather than cautiously optimistic at this point, i ll just be cautious. kristin: peter, thank you so much. your points about the virus mutating. my father is an emergency room physician in houston, texas, that s his number one concern since the beginning of this. he says all he wants to do, number one focus is just focusing on the different strains and monitoring how this virus mutates. so thank you very much, fascinating stuff. leland. my pleasure, thank you. leland: the countdown is on to restart the nascar series. we ll tell you how tomorrow s big race is going to look a lot different than anything you ve ever seen. the biggest week in television is here. now through may 17, enjoy free access to the best shows and movies from favorites like hbo, showtime, starz and for the first time ever, hulu and peacock! watch the show starring that guy you saw in that other thing. you know the one. or the series this kid on reddit says is legit, punch emoji, explosion emoji. even the one with the actor people say looks just like your boss. and maybe sounds like him too. put your phones down. everyone s got a show to recommend. watch the best for free. just say watchathon into your voice remote, or download the xfinity stream app. well, as i am sure all of you are well aware, almost every sporting event has been halted due to the coronavirus, but that is about to change tomorrow when nascar drivers hit the track. our mark meredith walks us through the many changes in place to keep the drivers and their teams safe. when drivers return to the darlington raceway sunday they won t find fans in the stand or much else that resembles a typical nascar experience. the cars are going to be spaced out greater. the haulers are going to be spaced out greater. there will be sanitizing stations in the garage. sunday s event marks the return of racing after a 10-week coronavirus hey hiatus. and nascar s president says social distancing will be in force. we ll work with local, state and federal officials, health officials to make sure that our competitors are safe. nascar is consolidating its weekly schedule, canceling qualifying runs and practices. teams are now limiting their members from 21 people down to 16, including the driver. it will be really only the people who are absolutely necessary and even those groups will be completely compartmentalized from each other at the race track so there won t be a lot of interaction from team to team. journalists are impacted, sports 2 announcers will call not from darlington, but from studios in charlotte. there s a hunger for sports to come back. people want to see sports. jordan covers nascar for the athletic. he predicts sunday s race will appeal to more people than ever. i think even for a non-nascar fan for a casual nascar fan, it s an opportunity to turn on and you know what i m going to escape what s going on there. other major league sports will likely study how the race goes as they draw up plans to resta restart sports in the era. each cars will feature a name after frontline worker helping to battle the coronavirus. in washington, mark meredith, fox news. leland: big changes how the race will be broadcast. for more on that, new rules on the course, we bring in fox nascar pit reporter. matt, appreciate it. other than no fans in the stands and sort of the ideas of sanitation and everything else, the product that people see on tv of cars going around the track, how similar is that going to be? i think the entire nascar world is thrilled to get back to work and to get their product out on the race track and i think sunday at 3:30 on fox, leland, it s going to really check all the boxes, what we ve seen and the if you ve never seen one lap of nascar racing your entire life, you ll see the ultimate reality show, nascar back on the track. when you re watching my teammat teammates, and the action (inaudibl (inaudible) matt, we re also seeing occasionally what happens with technical difficulties, too, which we hope we don t have. we re having some hits on your mic. play a sound bite for one of the drivers for tomorrow, talking the past 10 weeks they haven t been able to practice or train and we ll get your thoughts. there s nothing like the real thing. not being in the race car for two months now, there s certainly going to be some rust to knock off when we get back in the race car and unfortunately, we don t have any practice. leland: he said that the first lap they take around the track will be the green flag. as you ve talked to drivers who aren t able to train and aren t able to go around the track at 194 miles per hour around the track the past few weeks, what have they been doing to do anything they can to stay in shape, so to speak? unlike a golfer who can go into the driving range or practice chipping, these guys can t go to a race track and do laps. they can do some sim training, at home simulators, we ve gone broadcasting the past weeks. they ll go into turn one and having worked at orlando, you know about the fairbanks curve at rush hour. that s what it s going to be like sunday when they go into turn one, 40 cars, it s exciting. but for those guys, it s muscle memory. it s a lot like the all-star break, maybe with a few weeks, not like the off season into the season. they ve had a little bit of a break, but the muscle memory will be there and shell shake off the rust because these guys are professionals, the best 40 race car drivers in the country. and suiting up for battle on sunday. leland: i covered the daytona 500 once and it s an experience you never forget for many reasons. real quick, that driver who was on fox and friends was talking about some of the physical training they re doing, going around for 500 miles at 190 miles an hour, et cetera, it s got to take a pretty big physical toll on these guys. what physical training have they been doing in the 10 weeks off? well, i ve polled a number of drivers and for the most part, you know, they re not sitting at home watching television, they re actually upping their normal workout program. you know, if you re typically cycling 10 miles a day, maybe up it to 20. and kevin harvick said he spent time on his road bike to up his program when he got behind the wheel. and aaron on earlier, same thing. these guys are cyclists because that pretty much mirrors as close as what their heart rate. during the race your average heart rate could be 140 to 170 beats per minute. so that s the closest activity that they can do that will mirror them being behind the wheel. leland: wow. 140 to 170 beats a minute for three hours, that s endurance. matt, appreciate it. we ll watch your guys coverage. and it will be great to see sports on tv, whether it s nascar or golf or anything else. thank you. thank you, leland, appreciate it. leland: this will be on your local fox station, big fox we like to say, tomorrow, 3:30 p.m. eastern, live from darlington, south carolina. former bernie sanders campaign advisor is warning joe biden about his lack of support from sand eers supporters. after the break. our homes. overnight, they became our offices, schools and playgrounds. all those places out there are now in here. that s why we re still offering fast, free two day shipping on thousands of items. even the big stuff. and doing everything it takes to ensure your safety. so you can make your home. everything you need it to be. wayfair. way more than furniture. well, families across the country are facing unexpected financial hardships due to the coronavirus pandemic. and at chatham university in pittsburgh they ve come up with a unique way for people in their community to put food on the table. here with more is the program manager. cassandra, tell us a little more about what this neighbor loaves program is and how exactly it works. sure. yes. so the neighbor loaves program originated at the artisan grain collaborative in madison and we thought it would be perfect to bring to pittsburgh so basically, one of our any of our participating bakeries have a neighbor loaf listed in the online store. you can go there, anyone across the country or the world can go there and purchase a neighbor loaf. that is baked with local grains from our region and donated to good banks in the area. kristin: so what s demand been like? how many loaves have been sold so far? so nationally over 5,000 loaves have been sold and donated to people who need bread right now. which has been incredible. we re helping bakeries keep their doors open by supporting them with purchases and we re also helping grain farmers in the area who really need some steady business right now. so you know, we re helping three different groups of people all at the same time through this one program. kristin: yeah, helping these bakeries stay open, obviously an additional bonus. how many bakeries have you been able to help. in pittsburgh we have six bakeries signed onto the program they are wonderful bakeries. they re community focused organizations and so it s wonderful to see the community support them as well. kristin: something else that s happening at chatham university is at the agua culture center, i believe that s a fish farm or a hatchery, correct? exactly. yeah. kristin: okay. and obviously oh, well, i just want to give folks a preview exactly what happened. because of course this agua culture center had to close down during the pandemic, but you all have come up with a creative way to kind of keep it open and help make sure that these fish don t go to waste, right? exactly. so usually we can raise around 500 fish at a time in the culture lab and usually they stay close to home. we use them in our campus dining services or sold to local restaurants, with students being gone and restaurants mainly closed we found other creative ways to make sure they don t go to waste. donated over 100 fish to a local food organization, a food rescue and donated live fish to other fisheries and we let go around 300 live block trout into a local stream that s currently undergoing restoration. kristin: are you having a tough time getting these fish to where you would like them to go given some of the supply chain disruptions? not really. there s actually a huge need and so the food rescue has been taking the fish and processing them with their chefs and we really, because of covid, we have really started to move into doing conservation work with the fish as well so it s been really easy to find streams and places that need fish for that restorative purpose. kristin: you guys are doing a great job of getting food and fish to where they need to go. if people want to help you want to put in a plug for your website and people know where to go to help. sure, see any of the bakeries that are participating at craft.chatham.edu and learn more about our program and our university as well. kristin: it s always nice to see how colleges and universities, businesses and communities are coming up with creative ways to help out during the coronavirus pandemic. thank you. thanks for having me. kristin: leland. leland: new information in the helicopterer crash that killed kobe bryant. the autopsy results that could shed new light on what happened. don t you dare. i don t think so! [ sighs ] it s okay, big fella. we re gonna get through this together. [ baseball bat cracks ] nice rip, robbie. raaah! when you bundle home and auto insurance through progressive, you get more than just a big discount. i m gonna need you to leave. you get relentless protection. [ baseball bat cracks ] an update on the kobe bryant helicopter crash. the autopsy results for the pilot showed he did not have drugs or alcohol in his system at the time of the crash. the report states that all nine passengers including bryant and his 13-year-old daughter gee gianna were killed instantly. leland: who released the potentially viral video who captured the georgia jogger. steve harrigan where the investigation continues, hi, steve. leland, new details about this case continues to come out and appears one of the men accused of murder, greg mcmichael may have leaked the controversial video. that shows 25-year-old ahmaud arbery being pursued and eventually being gunned down, killed by the two mcmichaels, this sparked tremendous protests across the u.s. the elder mcmichael thought by leaking it, he would apparently reduce racial tension in the area and exonerate him. instead the opposite happened. and now they re behind bars charged with murder. in addition, the home under construction near the mcmichaels house thought that is where he was trying to burglarize, he said, no, he s trying to get a drink of water. and the home owner said if they wanted someone to look into the house, it could be their neighbor, mcmichael. and this was in effect deputizing locals to do the police work. untrained locals. finally, a protest underway en route from atlanta to brunswick. a lot of cars making the protest movement, headed to the site to have speeches and demonstrations this afternoon outside the brunswick courthouse where that shooting took place back in february. leland, back to you. leland: all right. we wait and see about other possible arrests. bond hearings as well. and steve harrigan in atlanta. thank you. thank you. kristin: well, joe biden is addressing 2020 graduates at delaware state university s virtual commencement today. we re seeing a lot of those now in this coronavirus pandemic. the former vice-president will be speaking to the young crowd just one day after a top bernie sanders campaign advisor warned that biden may be in trouble with securing support from sanders supporters. jacqui heinrich with the latest. hi. hey, kristin. former sanders senior advisor jeff weaver warned of a clear and dangerous trend that could block biden s path to the white house if he couldn t pull more from sanders base. he says the former vice-president needs to improve with latinos, working class voters and young people saying that will make a difference in seven key battle ground states. despite sanders rally to his base, a poll showed 14% of sanders supporters don t plan to vote for biden and 60% said they weren t excite today support his nomination. weaver says he s got to get them on board with bigger initiatives and policy task force which includes sanders and progressive darling aoc. and treating sanders supporters as throw away votes, to entract real policy solutions for americans. biden and sanders have been working together to shape the party platform. as recently as friday they diverged on health care amid the pandemic. there are 26 million people who in fact have lost their jobs, that their companies, after they paid into a health insurance policy they liked. there s a thing called cobra. that will be paid fully by the federal government while this pandemic lasts. sanders tweeted instead of subsidizing cobra, a massive give away to the health insurance industry, medicare must pay the bills of the uninsured and underinsured until this crisis is over. meantime, biden is continuing to deny a sex assault allegation coming from a former staffer and yesterday people came forward, talking to pdf, talking with former staffers who said they never experienced or heard of misconduct while working for biden. kristin: jacqui heinrich following the 2020 campaign for us, leland. leland: kristin fisher broke the news this was going to happen. president trump unveiling the official flag of the space force. talk a little about the flag and 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launch window 9:14 a.m. tomorrow if the weather clears. kristin: always the weather. meanwhile, nasa is less than two weeks away from attempting launch american astronauts from u.s. soil for the first time since the space shuttle fleet retired in 2011. and this will hopefully end nasa s nearly decade long dependence on rush shaun soyuz rackets. astronauts hurley and benkin are set to launch from the kennedy space center and the first time flying in a private company spacecraft, the dragon. and it s something that president trump talked about when he was presented the new space force flag in the oval office just yesterday. space is going to be it s going to be the future both in terms of defense and offense and so many other things and already from what i m hearing and based on reports, we re now the leader in space. that was a special moment in the oval office yesterday. it was the first time in 72 years that a new flag for a u.s. military service and new u.s. military service was presented to a commander-in-chief, but it s also going to be pretty special in about two weeks when the nasa astronauts launch on board a spacex rocket. and you know, leland, nasa astronauts have been going into quarantine since the beginning of nasa. it s the first time that these astronauts are now in quarantine, official nasa quarantine at the same time as everybody else almost in the entire world. leland: i think their quarantine is different than ours, correct? just a little bit. leland: i remember them one time on the show we got a tour of their facility. they have their own living facility that they re sort of locked down inside. they eat all of their meals there and then do they have any contact with people from the outside? there s a few people that they can have contact with, but you know, for the most part they re on their own, unlike us, unlike most people, they re kept very busy. they re still keeping a very strict schedule as they count down to launch date, but you know, this is going to be quite a moment and i m told that this is one of the hottest and hardest tickets to get, members of congress, local officials, they all want to be there for this launch. but nasa is severely restricting the amount of people that can see it. the last space shuttle launch there were hundreds of thousands of people that crowded the kennedy space center to watch and this year it s different, nasa is urging everybody to stay home. i d love to go. leland: you may have seen a shuttle launch or two back in the day when you were a little younger? yeah, but this is different. leland: up close and this is spacex launch. leland: the family gets a better viewing than the rest of us. back when i worked in orlando, people would crowd the beaches, jetty beaches around the cape and camp out for the day and watch the launch. one wonders whether they will be allowed to do this or they ll rope areas like that off. as with everything now in quarantine, even going to space is a little bit 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big story, it broke late last night. president trump has not spoken directly on this. it happened around 10:00 last night. president trump is at camp david r50euright now. this happened several hours after he left the white house south lawn to take marine one up to camp david. now, steve linnik has been with the state department since 2013, he s an obama era appointee who has been critical of the trump administration. he briefed members of congress about ukraine back in the fall. linnik by no means the first inspector general to be removed by the president. late on a friday night in early april, the president fired michael atkinson, a few days later he removed glen fine, the inspector general on the department of defense. on a friday night he removed kristie grim at the department of health and human services. i want to read a statement from eliot engel, he wrote this firing or i have learned that the office of inspector general had opened an investigation into secretary pompeo. mr. linnik firing amid such a probe strongly suggests this is an unlawful act of retaliation. a democratic aide told fox news the investigation centered on a political appointee at the state department who allegedly performed personal tasks for mike pompeo and his wife. yesterday, here at the rose garden, president trump talked about vaccines, switching topic to coronavirus. that s why he s up at camp david. i mentioned camp david this weekend. yesterday he announced operation warp speed, a public, private partnership with private companies and the military and the department of health and human services to get vaccines to the american people as soon as possible. 100 million doses by fall, it s quite an ambitious deadline, 200 million doses by decembe december 300 million doses by january of 2021. president trump before leaving the white house yesterday, leland, said that he hopes to make this vaccine free to all americans. the president called it one of the biggest projects since the manhattan project back during world war ii. leland: first off, you need a vaccine that works before you can make 100 or 200 million doses of it. still working on that. david, thank you. kristin. kristin: the house passed the largest bill in congressional history, a $3 trillion coronavirus relief package to help struggling states and governments. senate republicans say it is essentially dead on arrival. garrett tenney is here to explain where congress goes from here. reporter: it will be head fog the senate. senate heading to the senate. senate leadership suggested it s dead on arrival. unlike the four previous coronavirus relief bills, this was not put together in a bipartisan fashion. house democrat leaders put together this legislation on their own and it narrowly passed, 208-199. 14 democrats voted against it. mostly moderates from swing districts who face tough re-election battles this fall. several of them along with republicans are criticizing democratic leaders in playing politics and wasting precious time instead of working toward a deal that can become law and help the american people. they knew it wasn t going anywhere. they knew that the senate wasn t going to take it up. but it was basically a wish list for the democrats. to be fair, i think it is a jobs bill but it s just about the speaker s job and keeping her job as speaker. reporter: the heros act includes $200 billion in hazard pay for essential workers, an extension of increased unemployment benefits through january and more than $900 billion for state and local governments. it also includes items not directly related to coronavirus relief, and others that are controversial, such as a $25 billion bailout for the u.s. postal service, $50 million for in. heatherinvestigating links betwn pollution exposure and covid-19 and allowing undocumented immigrants who pay taxes to qualify for another round of direct payments. democrats who support the measure argue it s what the country needs. the republican party says we don t have any money to help you. are you kidding me? where do you guys live? food lines around the blocks at our food banks in the united states of america, one in five kids are going hungry. your party can t even get food to them. this isn t a wish list. if it s a wish list, it s for the working class people. reporter: majority leader mitch mcconnell says he does expect there will be another relief package but republican leadership, they want to wait a little bit because a lot of the funding that has already been approved is still working its way out so they want to wait to see exactly what steps need to be taken next. no idea, no time line right now on when that might happen. kristin. kristin: yes, certainly sounds like it s still several more weeks away. garrett tenney, thank you. leland. leland: one congressman who voted for, one congressman who voted against the bill coming up in a couple minutes. meantime, a u.s. official say models are predicting the country will top 100,000 deaths in just the next couple of weeks. aishah hasnie following the latest on that from what is still ground zero in new york. hi, aishah. reporter: hi, leland. good afternoon to you. yes, it is a grim milestone and it s coming up here fast. we re expected to surpass 100,00100,000 deaths by june 1s, that coming from the cdc director. he tweeted some details about that, saying 12 different models forecasted an increase in deaths in the coming weeks. so far, new york, new jersey and massachusetts, they account for nearly half of the nation s coronavirus deaths. despite that, new jersey reopening some popular beaches on friday under social distancing guidelines, of course. new york plans to reopen all of its state run beaches memorial day weekend while new york city public beaches will remain closed. governor cuomo announcing just a little while ago that he s open to restarting even more parts of the economy. listen. what economic activity is willing to reopen without a crowd, they re talking about this in terms of sports, you re going to have baseball without a crowd. but it can still be televised. great. if you can have economic activity without a crowd, that s great. reporter: meantime, jc penney now the biggest retailer to file for bankruptcy since the pandemic. the department store chain says it will have to shutter some of its stores. niemann marcus, j crew have also gone bankrupt. travel is going to change. whenever you decide to get on a plane again, tsa prepared to check temperatures as soon as next week. a senior trump official says the initial rollout will cost less than $20 million and passengers will not be charged additional fees for that. no word on which airports are included in the initial rollout. the details are still being worked out. leland: so much to figure out about that. aishah, thanks so much. kristin, it s interesting, i was talking to a senior homeland security source who was telling me is the issue is the difference between security and security theater to effectively check temperatures is incredibly difficult, if for no other reason you have to get close to somebody to do it and they re not sure they can train the tsa agents in the next week to be properly protected to be able to walk up to somebody who is potentially sick and take their temperature. kristin: there s certainly a lot of questions about how this is going to be implemented right now. so as the country works to really try to contain the pandemic, another top priority is of course making sure that our hospitals, nurses, doctors, that they have all of the ppe that they need at this point in time. so joining us now to discuss how the u.s. is modernizing its supply chain, we have the fema supply chain task force lead, navy rear admiral john beluvchek. i would like to ask about the project air bridge, to ply ppe from asian manufacturers to u.s. host suppliers. it is apparently winding down. i wanted to ask you, why now? sure, kristin. thanks, that s a great question. in the beginning, when i first got to fema from the pentagon, quickly realized that we re dependent on asia for a lot of this medical supplies. and so to beat the time distance equation from asia via surface transportation, via maritime means, the quickest way was to fly it here. so to beat that 37 days. so that first air bridge flight i believe was on march 29th. so well after a month now into that. and so as the supply chain has stabilized, it s time to shift the air bridge down to back to the surface maritime mode. i can t guarantee that we won t fly some items here and there as we go through the month of june into july. kristin: so if more needs do arise in terms of ppe, fema will consider flying more flights from these asian countries on a case by case basis or how would that work? right. on a case by case basis. right now, i personally am concerned about the amount of isolation gowns for our healthcare workers, for various means within the supply chain. if isolation gowns don t become more available, we may fly them. we have stood up u.s. manufacturing to manufacture isolation gowns with our textile industry and so as that comes online, if we have a higher need than what i m projecting then we may fly additional gowns in. but i m really looking forward to the u.s. production of textile gowns. kristin: are you confident aside from these gowns, are you confident that the united states has enough ppe going forward as we head into what could be a potential second wave of the coronavirus? so, kristin, what i d like to do is run through the strategic national stockpile and what we re calling strategic national stockpile next. president trump, his trip toalentown, veins veientown, ped out the strategy. it s about being self-sufficient, more resilient. if i could walk through the strategic national stockpile next, it s about more items on the shelf, more range, the numbers of line items and more depth, the boxes on the shelf. so for example, strategic national stockpile did not have swabs or testing supplies in it. we re going to put those items on there. and for example, it didn t have enough depth. it had about 5 million isolation gowns in it. and when we use those 5 million isolation gowns, we were done and 5 million isolation gowns is like a week s worth of new york city s hospital of isolation gowns. so more items on the shelf, more depth. also, a better way kristin: admiral yes, go ahead. kristin: i just wanted to make sure i get in one question. and i have to ask you about some of the criticism that s come from some governors who say that there hasn t been enough visibility from fema in terms of where these supplies are coming from, where they re going, how they re being distributed, how much of these supplies there are. what would be your response to those governors who say that, who have complained? so my response to the governors that are indicating that they don t have visibility, the vice president holds a weekly governor s call that impart of and every monday these governors are getting down to a county level a report that details out on a county by county basis what the commercial industry has provided to them and what fema has provided. we do that in a sense of very open transparency. in fact, the commercial marketplace, i have access to all of their business data. we aggregate it here and fema and i can tell you down to the hospital level of who s got what. we provide that to the governors. kristin: you say their complaints are unfounded. final question. what would you say to doctors, nurses, people working in hospitals, what would be your message to them to reassure them that they are going to have the supplies that they need going forward to fight covid-19? we are rebuilding our national stockpile. we re looking to put 90 days of material in the national stockpile. along with kristin: and do you think it will be rebuilt in time? i believe we re going to have a lot of the work done by this fall and we re also going to be bringing u.s. manufacturing back to here so we can have surge capacity to not be reliant on overseas sources. kristin: admiral, thank you so much. i know you re a busy man these days. we appreciate you taking the time to talk to us. thank you. thanks for having me. kristin: thank you. leland. leland: congressional democrats voted late last night to spend 3 trillion of our dollars on coronavirus relief and a few other things along the way. the vote broke largely on party lines. dennis rigl eman voted against it. he joins us now. you know it better than just about anybody given your district and the way it lays out, how many folks are hurting and need help right now. what s your message here? this isn t the right bill? it s not the right time for a bill? they need to go to local food banks more? what s the mess damage. i think the message was this, when i first saw this bill there s a military acronym, wgbsm. i ll give you the pg verse. you ve got to be spitting me. i put in a top 10 list of things i couldn t believe. one was why are we giving i ll legal immigrants stimulus checks. i couldn t believe it. i couldn t believe the osha requirements. i know people want to say wish liss. this was an overtly political bill. i couldn t believe it. i m affected by this personally. i have two companies in pennsylvania and virginia. we had to open those yesterday in phase one in virginia. it was a pretty tense day and we can go into that another time. but right now, we actually need to just help those individuals an businesses getting up on their feet right now and not looking at some political bill that just came out of the blue or looks like they compiled everything from the past 16 months and threw it into a covid cares act. leland: mitch mcconnell seems to be willing to say we need to wait, we need to see, we need to let the stimulus of phase one, two and three get through the system, et cetera. from what you re seeing on the ground with your businesses and your constituents, is there time to wait or is additional federal dollars needed. on the ground, we had to leverage three different lines of credit in order to get through, plus ppp going forward for our companies. we re seeing people getting the ppp, they re doing okay, not great, but they re doing okay. leland: congressman, i m not talking about business, i m talking about folks who lost their jobs. listen to congressman tim ryan. democrat, who seems to think republicans are heartless. take a listen. global pandemic, 36 million people unemployed, 40% of families who have a worker that makes $40,000 a year or less lose their job last month. 4 million people didn t pay their rent and the republican party says we don t have any money to help you. are you kidding me? where do you guys live? leland: do you not have money or you don t want to spend it the way the democrats want to. we don t want to spend it that way. instead of emotional high per he i think i m tired of that crap. why don t we have a solution based response and have adults in the room, looking how we help businesses. businesses drive people getting back to work. instead of screaming and yelling, putting tripe in a bill, why don t we look at this like we did in the past three bills that were bipartisan and say this is how we want to go forward and do things. that s why i did the wgbsh in the beginning. it s just enough. we turned 13 democrats on my mtr. you saw how many democrats voted against the bill. leland: nancy pelosi, there s nobody better probably in washington with the exception of maybe mitch mcconnell to be equal to, whipping votes and getting the party in line and she lost more than a dozen democrats who came from swing districts. any fourth version of coronavirus relief is going to include something conceivably as it relates to china, bringing back u.s. manufacturing, et cetera. this is what we ve gotten from the chinese, this is from one of their propaganda rags over there. the global times. i think i m okay to say that. you re exactly right, lee hand. it s a problem bega propaganda . leland: the u.s. has to pay a heavy price for suppressing huawei, the expansion of china s market is in the global economy. the u.s. initiated decoupling with china s high tech sector, which will weaken their global competitiveness. earlier this week they were threat thing members of the united states senate individually, some of those members of the senate took it as a matter of pride. the question is this, do they have a point, that decoupling from china is not going to be a pain-free process for the united states and are we in a position to do that? it won t be pain-free. in some aspects we have to. i m on the china task force and me and you have talked. beforehand i was a senior consultant at the pentagon, electronic warfare and counter measures. i m going to tell you right now, china is a threat. we can come to the table and say hey. is it not sunshine and lollipops right now. how about we look at three areas where china is threatening us or not treating us fairly, geopolitical, economically and militarily. leland: i m not sure there s a fourth way in life when it comes to issues between two countries. i want to get to this real quickly. you turned one of your distilleries into a hand sanitizer manufacturer at your own expense to help communities that couldn t get hand sanitizers. where are we on that project? i think we ve given away a half million ounces of hand sanitizer. the people that have come to the distillery and the hospitals, uva testing centers, any type of ambulance driver, emergency medical technician, we will give you hand sanitizer. the list is long. we ve seen america come together and it s a beautiful thing to see. leland: it certainly has and you were one of the very first people to make that conversion and we appreciated that. we re glad to have you on to talk about it then. we ll have you back when we can sit next to each other, either on the set or sometime out in the field. nice digs out here. looks like i m really outside. i love it. leland: the magic of television. good to see you. thanks. leland: reaction from the other side of the aisle, democratic congressman matt cartright who voted for the bill joins us live. also tomorrow chris wallace has an exclusive interview with the former cdc director on fox news sunday. you re going to want to check your local listing for time and channel. kristin: controversy in michigan where governor whitmer is facing criticism over her state of emergency. we ll talk to a leader in the state legislatures about the lawsuit they re filing against her after the break. limu emu & doug [ siren ] give me your hand! i can save you. lots of money with liberty mutual! we customize your car insurance so you only pay for what you need! only pay for what you need. liberty. liberty. liberty. liberty. i but what i do count on.ts anis boost high 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(announcer) reliability is everything. so, if your network s down, you re down. verizon knows your customers need to reach you seamlessly. your team needs to work from different places across many devices. plus, you want the security trusted by some of the largest companies in the world. and that s why you trust us. the most reliable network in america. leland: the largest earthquake to hit western nevada in over 60 years split the main highway between reno and las vegas. you can see the cracks in the highway right there. the magnitude 6.5 earth quake shook the region early friday. no injuries were reported. the cracks in the road were 35 miles from the epicenter. kristin: more and more states are beginning to reopen. local lawmakers are trying to balance restarting their economies with keeping people safe. joining us now are two officials from states that have been hit particularly hard by the coronavirus. we ve got michigan state house speaker lee chatfield and the chairman of the board of supervisors in madison county, new york. john becker. thank you both so much. it s sofa so fascinating. michigan of course still under a state-wide stay at home order. in madison county, you re one of the counties in new york who has started phase one of reopening. so chairman, i m going to start with you. how s it going? thank you for having us. it seems to be going well so far. we re in a five county region in central new york and our circumstances are different than they are in new york city and we ve been pushing the governor to open up and he has opened up some of the regions in the state. we feel that it s very important that we get our small businesses back to work, get our sales tax revenue moving along and we ve been shut down for two months. we can t afford much more. kristin: when you see what s happening in madison county, new york, how it is beginning to reopen, are you a little bit jealous? well, we would love to see that here in michigan. obviously, the state of michigan, the law s very clear. in order for a state of emergency to be extended it requires an act of the legislature and it requires our approval. we did not give that to the governor because there was no real concession on her part that she would work with us but what she did after that is she took really what you could describe as an unprecedented and unconstitutional action in extending the state of emergency on her own and now we are in court. this was avoidable. during a crisis and during a pandemic we would prefer a patch, that s how we ve partnership. that s how we ve gotten through them in the past. we have a governor who declared she is above the law and we are in court over that. kristin: what would you like to see happen in michigan? i would like to see us uphold the regular democratic process. the question before the court right now is not the policy of the governor s executive orders. the question is not her intentions or has she taken it serious enough. the question before the court is can the governor not just declare a state of emergency but carry on, kristin, indefinitely, therefore rendering the legislature completely meaningless. my question is what would congress say if president kristin: i guess my question sorry to interrupt. there s a bit of a delay. i guess my question is if you were governor, how would you go about reopening the state right now? well, the one size fits all approach is the wrong call for our state. we have 83 counties. each region has been impacted in different ways. i think our strategy needs to recognize that. over 90% of the cases and deaths are in four counties in southeast michigan. we are regionalizing our relief efforts, getting them the supplies, the resources that they need but the governor s one size fits all approach is leading to millions of families being hurt unnecessarily and they re being told they can t work a job eve when it can be even when it can be done safely. we have to ditch the essential versus nonessential model and get rid of the one size fits all. we have to make it regional and risk based. we have been calling on the governor to do that. we have to uphold the laws. in a pandemic, the laws need to be followed. all we want is a partnership. the people of our state deserve a seat at the table. we re going to keep fighting for them. kristin: i want to jump in. when you talk about the patchwork approach that s kind of what s happening in new york state, new york city still under lockdown but many other counties reopening, madison county where the chairman is from is one of them. so chairman, how do you think that approach so far has been going in your state since the speaker would like to see that happen in his state. well, i think it s worked out well. the governor realizes that we have to move forward. we re a heavily reliant state on sales tax and if we don t have any businesses open and people aren t working they re not spending money on goods and paying sales tax and if there s no businesses open, we re not generating any sales tax. it s not all about sales tax. it s about keeping people safe and i ve said it before. only you can keep yourself safe. by wearing your face covering, keeping your distances, the governor said that, not having mass gatherings. we feel that retail can open up, hair salons, barber shops by appointment only, dmv by appointment only, people keep their distance and keep masks on, we think they can stay safe and we can be open for business. i d like to see in the next three or four weeks everything get open for business. kristin: final question to the speaker. a detroit man is facing a felony charge after allegedly making credible threats to kill governor gretchen whitmer and the attorney general. what would be your message to some of the protesters who have been so upset with what she s doing? well, obviously there s nothing more american than sharing your frustration with government and showing up and protesting but we ve been encouraging everyone to do so in a safe and responsible way. some of the threats made against the governor are completely wrong and people should be punished for it. millions of families are hurting in our state right now. there s a process by which we make our voice heard to government. it s not through threat, not through some of the way we ve seen people in our state protest. there are real people who are hurting and there s a safe and responsible way to protest and assemble and petition. we encourage everyone to do that in our state. kristin: chairman, speaker, thank you so much. best of luck going forward. leland: that s why people have got to that s why people have got to go back to work. they re frustrated. they need to get back to work, some sort of knol normalcy here. kristin: thank you both so much. leland: some states are starting to reopen. others are still closed. there s signs of frustration even when one city s open and and the suburbs aren t. that debate and how it s playing out in missouri when we come back. in this time of social distancing, when taking a break from everyday life is critical to everyone s health, there is one thing we can all do together: complete the 2020 census. your responses are critical to plan for the next 10 years of health care, infrastructure, and education. let s make a difference, together, by taking a few minutes to go online to 2020census.gov. it s for the well-being of your community and will help shape america s future. many go to st. louis, because things are open there. are you ever tempted madison county is right on the river. that s what divides us. missouri is wide open. we re willing to do whatever it takes. we re getting desperate. leland: that was a restaurant owner in i l illinois, where the difficulties continue. within states, counties and cities are opening at different speeds, creating all sorts of issues and opportunities. joining us now for the micro comdisscosmof missouri view on . how is this divide going where you ve got city parts of cities that are open and parts of cities that are not open? well, that s really interesting, because you have st. louis city, which is within its own county and surrounded by st. louis county and starting monday st. louis county will only allow bars to be open if they serve food and then in the city of st. louis bars will be open even if they don t serve food and then across the river you from to eddie sholer s place and no one can go in for dining in because that s in illinois and the guidelines are completely different. leland: how well are people taking all of this? are you feeling like people who are in eddie s position, not him specifically, are going to be at the point of saying if the guy across the street can be open, i might as well open up as well? that s exactly it. it cuts two ways. first of all, you ve got fast eddie s, bonair, that s a bar and their customers will go to the city of st. louis if they want to go to a bar and not eat. at the same time, there s a health club in st. louis county, it s called house of payne, two locations, and the owner there wants to open up in defiance of st. louis county s guidelines. the guidelines say no gyms can be open. how fair is that to the competitors of house of pain who have to remain closed. leland: i m guessing there s gyms in st. charles county or other places nearby that can be open. how fair is it to them? has any of this been tested in the courts in missouri like it has been in which is consistent son? are you hearing rumblings of that. the house of pain case is in court right now and there was a technical difficulty last thursday. it s continuing. so the judge hasn t ruled. you bring up st. charles. that s a completely different county and the county executive there has let businesses decide what they want to do. so it s really cattywampus around here. leland: has it gone cattywampus in terms of how people are dealing with it? are people saying i m going to go for it anyway or are people believing in the elected leaders. there are some defiant ones who want to stick it to the governor of illinois or the county executive or whatever. but i think, leland, most people are flying under the radar and they re doing what they want to do, some to stay at home, safely, and others like during cinco de mayo, gathering at a kirkwood, missouri mexican restaurant or outside in downtown st. louis, urban youth gather at shoddo and the whatever owharfin the evenings. the police have been breaking it up. people haven t been loud about it and doing their own thing, going to their offices in clayton. traffic is heavy in clayton, even though there s no retail, no schools are open, but people are going about their business. leland: we re watching a video from jefferson city three plus weeks ago, there s no social distancing in that video at that protest, nobody is wearing masks. if you look at st. louis who is not exactly an economic rocket ship before all of this happened, is this going to be the push off of the cliff for parts of the missouri economy and st. louis specifically? well, i don t know if it s going to go off the cliff. but it s a huge problem for the city of st. louis, for the county, for the state. if people aren t working, they re not paying the same taxes, if they re not pieing things, not paying sales factions. i sales taxes. if you re a business and the government shut you down, do you have to pay the same property taxes? you can bet there will be a lot of appeals there. yeah, it s going to be a disaster. leland: already in chesterfield, the police all took pay cuts to avoid furloughs of 10 or 12 officers. the pain is just beginning. charlie, appreciate it as always. have a great rest of the weekend and looking forward to have a ted bruze together some time when i m back in town. all the best, my friend. kristin. kristin: one of the brightest spots throughout the pandemic have been our heroes in the healthcare industry. along with grueling hours, many have to learn new skills on the job. matt fin takes us inside one of chicago s hospitals. matt. reporter: kristin, there s been so much talk about how life-saving ventilators can be for critical covid patients and doctors and healthcare workers tell us placing a patient on a ventilator is one of the most dangerous procedures because it requires healthcare workers to stand over a patient s mouth and insert a tube into their throat and for months now medical professionals that are trained to use the ventilators have been working grueling shifts. if they get sick or need time off, other healthcare workers could get called in. some of the most highly qualified medical providers, even doctors with more than a decade of experience, tell us if that s tomorrow they would not be fully prepared to place a covid patient on a ventilator. is about 15 years since i ve done an intubation. yes, i ve done it. but it s not something that i would feel comfortable doing right now off the bat. reporter: so here in cook county, chicago which johns hopkins lists at the county with the most confirmed cases nationwide, they are training hundreds of medical workers to be ready to intubate should they be called in. trainees tell us working with ventilators on life dark like-ls is preparing them for the real deal. now that i ve done it 100 times in the past month, i feel more comfortable. reporter: the american medical association and doctors we talk to say this type of training is in demand globally and any facility that conducts the training is expected to do so as needed. kristin. kristin: matt fin, live in chicago. thanks. leland. leland: nursing homes and other assisted living facilities have become a hot bed for the coronavirus with thousands upon thousands of deaths. what s being done now to protect america s most vulnerable population, when we come back. kristin: we all know nursing homes have been hit incredibly hard by the coronavirus. senior living facilities, they face very similar risks. our next guest says they ve been one of the most overlooked players in the pandemic. and he s trying to change that. president and ceo of arjentem, james baldis. i would like you to explain the difference in funding for nursing homes versus the senior living communities and how that s hurting the senior living communities in the pandemic. thank you for having me. there is a distinct difference between senior living facilities and nursing homes. our communities are predominantly a private pay model where residents choose to move the communities for the support and socialization. nursing homes and skilled nursing facilities are reimbursed through medicare and medicaid. so as a result, we have been overlooked for ppe certainly, for testing, and for financial support. we think we re the only provider, caring for seniors that have covid-19 that hasn t received any financial support yet and we re trying to make policy makers aware. kristin: nothing? no support yet. kristin: you say no financial what about loans through the ppp program? are you eligible to apply for those? some very small providers, we re able to qualify for some of those loans. but most communities wouldn t qualify because the companies have more than 500 employees caring for residents and so where restaurants were able to get support through that program as part of a carve-out, our communities were not able to. and it s really critical that we get access to some of that financial relief and the financial relief that s in the hhs provider fund that was initially passed as part of the cares act. kristin: so you say these senior living communities, who help and house obviously one of the populations that s most veal in yourable to the vie vulnerable virus, receiving no financial support help overall. you say they ve been overlooked. what do you want to change? we need to be prioritized for personal protective equipment, just as other healthcare providers have been. that s really critical for us as well as access to testing for our residents and our team members. but our communities have been solving that problem from day one. they ve been putting together purchasing co-ops, shipping ppe overseas from overseas to make sure team members have adequate supply. but all of that is putting a real financial strain on the communities and this is at a time when we know the rest of the country s going to return to normal but our communities are going to be battling this virus for the next 12 months, at least. kristin: right. and we know that the death toll has just been horrific at a lot of these nursing homes. what s it been like for senior living communities. we re cautiously optimistic that the outcomes will be better. while our residents do fit in many cases the same profile as those in skilled nursing facilities, a lot of nursing home patients do have more complications related to medical issues. but our residents are over 85, have multiple chronic conditions, but our communities we re also putting in place protocols early on, often before states were requiring things like restricting visitation or limiting communal dining, they were implementing those policies early on in the crisis. our communities physically are a little different. most residents have their own apartment. when you do need to isolate and self-quarantine, it s easier to do that and reduce the spread of the virus. we are cautiously optimistic that the outcomes are better. we re seeing that in providers that are talking about 1% cases of covid-19 across their entire residence population. kristin: i ve got to run. thank you so much. best of luck getting the funding you need. thank you so much. leland: elon musk says he s ready to move, a noted elon musk enthusiast, her thoughts on where he should go when we come back. some work can t stop. because our communities need you. which is why we re working to keep you working. and ready to dig in. to help you keep your properties and towns maintained. your farm running. and construction moving. your work is essential. kubota s 1,100 dealers are behind you. together we will get through this. call or email your kubota dealer about 0% financing. no payments for 90 days offer expires 5/31. together we do more. they will, but with accident forgiveness allstate won t raise your rates just because of an accident. cut! is that good? 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why not focus on a bill immediately that would have the best chance of getting any money into these people s hands? well, hi, leland. great to be with you again. look, here s my major concern in all of this. we are looking down the barrel of a bad, bad economic recession in this country. leland: we are. and look, i love what the fed is doing to loosen up monetary policy but we have to loosen up fiscal policy as well. we have to get the money flowing in this country and it has to include money going to states and counties and cities. look, there are police nan have to be paid and their families have to be fed and if we go without policemen this country, that s not something that we want. leland: true. we had a police chief on a couple weeks ago, his entire department took pay cuts in order to make sure that nobody got furloughed. but you say we need to be able to get money into the hands of policemen and do other things like that, all meaningful things. but if you look at the list of what s in this bill, there s a lot of other stuff in there. here s sens senator mike lee, hs some of the things were in the heros act. $75 billion for testing and contact tracing among other things, rent and mortgage relief and this was senator mike lee s specific issues. take a listen. the word cannabis appears more times in this bill than the word jobs, trillion dollar payout with mismanaged states. leland: go back to the first question. if this is so urgent as you point out, why not just pass the direct fiscal stimulus of direct payments to americans, get that across the board and then come back later if you need to and negotiate on these other points the rest of the summer? leland, it s a fair point. i didn t put that in the bill. what i put in was hazard pay for frontline workers, an extra $13 an hour for nurses. emts, first responders, grocery store workers keeping us alive. these people are in harm s way. while we re passing federal money out, i don t think we should leave the heros behind. i was thrilled that my bill made it into the heroes act. another one of my priorities was legal help lines for seniors, that made it in the bill as well. there s a lot of things leland: is there anything for give m me for asking in this way, is there anything that people proposed that didn t make it in the bill? $3 trillion, there seems to be something for everybody. this is a starting point. i m coming to you from washington. this is a place where we if you go around looking for a fight, you can find one. but there s a lot of compromise that goes on. it doesn t make the news. but it does go on. and, yes, we need mitch mcconnell to come to the table and sit down with democratic leadership and work out what can remain in the bill because here s the thing. right now we ve got 15% unemployment, for the next six months according to the cbr which is nonpartisan. leland: you don t need to make we ve been doing segment after segment about the tough time that americans are having and the lines at food banks and how people are having to skip meals because they need to be able to feed their kids, et cetera. no argument there. the question is, why start with a starting point? if the need is so dire and it is across america, why not pass an emergency bill to send out another $1,500 in checks and leave it there and have a chance perhaps to have gotten something done this week and next for the american people rather than saying we re going to start negotiating and maybe by the end of summer we ll have compromise? well, now you re talking about the nuts and bolts of legislation. and what do they say, don t examine how sausage or legislation is made. [ laughter ] you know, that s an old saying. and it s true. but the truth is, we need to come together. this is not a time when democrats and republicans need to be s quabbling over every little thing. mitch mcconnell needs to come to the table, tell us what he doesn t like and a lot of the stuff will come out and we ll move forward many this is a time to come together. we re looking at 9.5% unemployment through the end of 2021. leland: we re already in a terrible spot. i know as you head back from washington, as you often do, back home, you see folks who are in really tough places and want to help them. congressman, we appreciate your time as always, sir. thank you. my pleasure, lee hand. be well. leland: you too, sir. kristin. kristin: as you know, more and more businesses are reopening across the country and they re implementing new strategies to try to keep people safe. so joining us now is the owner of village bowl in menominee falls, wisconsin, pete rabell and the owner of a spa in arizona, mark honik. your business has been back open for a little over a week now. how is it going and what are some of the new strategies you re implementing at your salon? you know, things are actually going really great. we re able to get back to the nail salon, for people to pamper themselves and people with a medical need, with diabetes or the elderly and people that can t get the jobs done themselves. we can t have people going to the podiatrist when you have a nail salon that can take care of it for you. people are loving being back. we re taking extra, extra measures to make sure we clean even light switches to the front door, to every station, after every client, whether it s a station or a manicure station. we re going that extra mile above and beyond the cdc and giving our clients a bottle of free hand ti sanitizer when they leave for ventures throughout the day. kristin: pete, you re watching from wisconsin. perhaps you re jealous of mark because your business, your bowling lane is not allowed to be back open and your family owned village bowl since 1961. how are you guys doing? well, we actually opened yesterday. the state supreme court made a decision and opened everybody up on wednesday night. we decided to open on last night. so we re actually open now. kristin: well then i imagine you re not jealous at all and you re probably thrilled to be open after weeks of being closed. so what are some of the new strategies that you have put in place to keep people safe? and you know, i ve got to say, i never thought about how viruses and germs could spread so easily at a bowling lane but you start to think about it, everybody s touching the same balls and equipment. so what are you guys doing? what are some of the change that s you ve made? well, fortunately our trade association, the bpa, created a thorough resource center for us and proprietors around if nation to go on and look at the recommendations, the cdc guidelines they ve developed for us to implement. we have actually decided to go to a 50% capacity at our center so that we can do social distancing, every other lane or every pair of lanes depending on how many people come in, we re doing sterilization of the bowling equipment, the shoes, so we ve got a lot of protocols to keep our customers safe and our employees safe. kristin: and i know just because you re open doesn t mean that people will actually come. so pete, i know you ve been open for less than 24 hours, but what has the demand been like? how many people are coming in. actually, we were cautiously optimistic and we were very busy last night. so it was a great first test. our customers were happy to come in, nobody had any complaints about sitting at segregated tables, nobody had any issues with any of the equipment. it s been great feedback from all our customers and they know from the signage that they have that our first priority is our the health and safety of our customers and our employees. kristin: mark, final question to you. what has demand been like at your nail salon and what is your response to some other small business owners in arizona who have said that they feel like it s simply too soon to reopen? we ve had a huge demand, actually. we got the opportunity the eighth was the day we could reopen. we opened at midnight and we were booked from midnight to 6:30 p.m. with customers, definitely loving to be able to get their nails done, pedicures done, all the different services we provide. as far as the people and their mindsets, maybe this is too early or whatnot, obviously everyone has an opinion and right now i would say majority of the people that come into our shop right now i would say probably around the 80/20 rule, 80% are saying oh, my god we need to get on with our lives. this is america. we didn t build america based upon fear. yes, there is a virus out there but let s be smart, keep families safe but move our families, friends, relationships and our businesses forward so that way when this is over, we can look back and know that we were prepared to make things happen and continue to make america the way it should be, which is great. kristin: mark, pete, i don t know about you but i would love to get my nails done right about now and i would also love to go bowling. best of luck as you begin reopening. stay safe and thank you for taking the time to come on the show and talk to us. thank you. thank you. leland: kristin, you re a bowler, i didn t know that. i learn something new every day. kristin: i m not. i m also not a golfer. i recently started to play golf or watch others play golf. leland: you like the margaritas and the beer while your his plays golf. kristin: you ve outed me, yes. leland: your instagram outed you. i did not. but the nail thing i can understand. moving along. there are new questions about whether the u.s. will continue to fund the world health organization. china is calling out the united states for owing more than $1 billion to the united nations in unpaid dues. kitty logan joins us with the accounting. hi, kitty. reporter: hi, leland. the background for this is increasing tensions between the u.s. and china. the u.s. government has been highly critical of china s handling of the coronavirus crisis. president trump has even threatened to cut trade ties over this. the chinese government yesterday calling the greater cooperation between the two countries over the pandemic and today in wuhan we saw the authorities have started there a large scale testing program, the turnout has been so high it s caused concern about the crowds gathering there. this is all because there have been some reports of new cases in wuhan since the lockdown was lifted there around a month ago. in all, around 4,600 people have died of the virus in china, although that figure has of course been questioned and president trump has often said that china is ultimately responsible for the global outbreak and critics say that china s control of the information flow at the very start stalled the early warning system about the disease. speaking in the u.k. two days ago the chinese ambassador to britain denied his country was responsible, saying china has been a victim of the outbreak. the ongoing tensions between the u.s. and china over coronavirus are threatening this trade deal between the two countries that was signed back in january, of course. a white house economic advisor says the deal still stands although there have been concerns it could fall apart after president trump said he would reconsider it, sparking fears perhaps of another trade war developing. but back in china, away from all this, away from the politics, there are some signs of normal life returning. on saturday, today, hundreds of people were allowed to visit the beach in the south, albeit with strict controls, masks and temperature checks. meanwhile, the questions about how this virus originated and who perhaps might partially be to blame for the spread around the world, those questions, leland, will linger for some time to come. back to you. leland: and also questions about what data and information out of china we can even believe at this time. kitty logan. thanks so much. kristin. kristin: joe biden is addressing 2020 graduates at delaware state university s virtual commencement today. the former vice president will be speaking a day after a top bernie sanders campaign advisor warned that biden may be in trouble in securing support from sanders supporters. jacqui heinrich live with more. hi, jacqui. reporter: hey, kristin. biden delivered brief pretaped remarks at the delaware virtual graduation, touched on rebuilding america after the pandemic. a former senior advisor to bernie sanders campaign is pushing for biden to rebuild is campaign. he warned biden hasn t pulled enough support from sanders base to beat president trump in november despite the policy task force coalition. he pointed to a usa poll which showed 14% of sanders supporters don t plan to vote for biden and 60% said they weren t excited to support his nomination. we ve said the former vice president needs to get latinos, working class voters and young people on board to make a difference in seven states, writing the biden campaign and democratic national committee are far behind in digital organizing and coalition building, critical to winning supporters. president trump s campaign is ramping up ad spending in swing states as biden s committee announced a new fund raising agreement which allows them to match the advantage coordinating with the party and state parties. biden is facing a sex assault allegation from a former staffer. he denies the allegations and says that voters should listen to their hearts. i think had should vote their heart. if they believe tara reade, they probably shouldn t vote for me. i wouldn t vote for me if i believed tara reade. look at tara reade s story. it changes considerably. reporter: yesterday pbs published an interview with 74 former staffers including 62 women who worked in biden s office. they said they did not recall experiencing or hearing of any misconduct from biden and many of them said they did not believe tara reade s claim. kristin. kristin: jacqui heinrich, live in new york. thank you, jacqui. leland. leland: all right. did your city or state make the final list for elon musk s big move, plus his move into politics, next. they re our neighbors, and our friends. but now, they are forever our heroes, too. and while they re working to keep us safe, prudential is proud to provide over one million health care workers with benefits that help bring peace of mind in times like these. with benefits that help bring peace of mind we can t offer much during this time of crisis, but we can offer what we have. so from all of us working early mornings on the farm, long days in the plant, or late nights stocking shelves doing all we can to get you the milk you need. we hope it makes your 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people back to work in a safe and responsible manner. however, the county s position left us no choice but to take legal action to ensure tesla and employees can get back to work. elon musk enthusiast kristin fisher with us, as always on these topics. all right, so this is sort of musk getting into this idea of the politics of reopening and how it works. it s not doesn t seem that far away from some of the other controversial issues he s weighed in on. kristin: yeah, you know, i wasn t all that surprised that he decided to wade into this debate. leland: has anything elon musk ever done ever surprised you, ever? kristin: yeah, but i don t want to say it on national television. leland: okay. kristin: i ll tell you during the commercial break. [ laughter ] kristin: but you know, i also would not be surprised if elon musk did decide to move part of tesla to texas because spacex actually has a facility there as well. he s very familiar with texas and as a ta texan myself, born d raised, 18 years, they are business friendly. leland: he s talking about austin, but you ve got an enormous standard of living benefit when it comes to california, no state income taxes, et cetera. et cetera. it was interesting how this sort of all ties together because the president of bar stool sports went on a rant, if you will, on social media about the need to reopen. here s the rant and then we ll talk about about his response. kristin: it was good. we re not opening the city until we find a cure? what? find a cure? who said we re going to find a cure. la is shutting down, arizona is opening, florida is opening, seems along political lines. what is going on? and what about people who own businesses? you can t stay closed indefinitely. leland: with that, musk says he would support the run for political office, not president of the united states but el presidente of something. kristin: not only that, but dave portnoy went a step further. you were telling me this. he went a step further and actually created portnoy, musk, 2024 t-shirts. as journalists we don t like to tip our hat, we like to stay down the middle an don t say what our political affiliations are but since you like to introduce me as a noted elon musk enthusiast, i have to say i m intrigued by the ticket. leland: imagine that, dave portnoy taking it a step further. he s never done such a thing before. ever. [ laughter ] kristin: it would not be the first time. i ve got to say, his instagram or bar stool sports instagram, they have put out quality content during the coronavirus, we can count on them for a good feed. leland: in pinehurst, that s part of the empire. talk about a business that has had to change and recapitalize on the situation, they ve done that in a pretty incredible way, considering there s no sports to talk about. we ll see what comes out of dave and elon. a judge s ruling has made major changes in the lives of homeless people living in los angeles amid the pandemic. what s going to happen to their homeless camps, when we come back. it s time for the memorial day sale on the sleep number 360 smart bed. can it help keep me asleep? absolutely, it senses your movements and automatically adjusts to keep you both comfortable. save $1,000 on the sleep number 360 special edition smart bed. plus, free premium delivery when you add an adjustable base. kristin: a federal judge in los angeles is ordering los angeles city and county to relocate thousands of homeless people who are living under freeways. christina coleman is live to explain. christina, this seems like quite an undertaking. that s a lot of people. how would this happen. reporter: this has been an ongoing problem. the judge is giving officials until may 22nd to come up with a plan to provide rieu main humo those that have been staying under overpasses, bridges and near freeway ramps. in ruling he states without adequate access to shelter, hygiene and sanitation fat facilities, individuals facing homelessness face a greater risk of getting the coronavirus. this comes out of a lawsuit filed by a group called the la alliance for human rights. they say officials aren t addressing homelessness in a comprehensive manner and keep in mind, homelessness in california has been an ongoing crisis. it won t be solved quickly. calcalifornia has more homeless people than any or state in the nation and between 2018 and 2019, homelessness in california increased by more than 21,300 people or 16.4% which is more than the total national increase of every other state combined. this in part due to the severe affordable housing problems here. add the coronavirus crisis to the mix and it presents a tougher situation. efforts are underway to help the homeless throughout california during the pandemic. additional mobile showers and trailers have been set up in various locations. dithe governor announced a progm that using federal money to obtain hotel and motel rooms to provide shelter to the homeless, for those that are considered most vulnerable to the virus. i m certainly committed to that being a priority. it has been for me for months. if not years. because i think that those folks are the ones that we see, those are the ones we can help, those are the ones where clearly they re having a greater disproportionate bad impact on their health. reporter: so far, in la county, just over 2200 people have received shelter through project room key but critics say the program is not helping people fast enough. kristin. kristin: christina coleman, live in la. christina, thanks. leland. leland: health officials in several states are investigating an inflammatory disease impacting children that could be connected to the coronavirus. dr. christopher belcher, good to see you, sir. we appreciate it. big picture here. are kids in america at real risk of this or is this a one in 100,000 kind of thing? you know, even kawasaki was a somewhat rare disease but i see it on a monthly basis or so and there has been a spike recently, as everyone who takes care of these cases has seen. it is something of concern that we re seeing it go up. leland: when you say of concern, in terms of the number of cases you see, you see most of the cases in the state of indiana, are we talking about tens of cases in hundreds of cases? thousands of case? a handful. new york city reported over 100 of them, even though they have severe covid outbreak. it s not going to be every child but it is something to be aware of. leland: and how is it manifesting itself in kids? the finding mainly is some association with covid, either they ve had it or close contact has had it in the last month and then they get fever and it can affect any system of the body. they may get rashes or gastro intess an gastrointestinal complaints. any system can be affected. normally shows itself the kids are severe enough to go to the hospital so most people will show up and present for care. leland: as we look at this, as you re sort of watching things happen in indiana, have you yet to see the effects on kids of the shutdown in general in terms of the kids who aren t getting school lunches, for example and responsibility getting supplemental for example, and kids who aren t getting supplemental nutrition, increased cases of child abuse that aren t reported, et cetera. as an infectious disease doc i don t often deal with those but i have seen a slower uptake of the disease than you thought there was going to be. leland: when you say slower uptake, you re feeling that the initial thoughts that kids are probably with some notable exceptions safe from the coronavirus still holds true? generally, yes. they tend to do better and the severe complications are less frequent but they re not absent. leland: what s the take-away to parents who have seen the headlines, the reason we re doing the segment here, of children now at risk of severe inflammation and kawasaki, et cetera, et cetera, versus the reality of what the risk to all of us is? right. it s something to be aware of. not be afraid of. watch for your kids. if they get a fever, if they get illnesses, bad vomiting, bad rashes, diarrhea, things that make you want to call your provider, call your provider and talk about it with them. be aware. leland: when you say be a wear, not be afraid be aware, not be afraid. if your kid has a cough and runny nose, that probably doesn t mean he has kawasaki or the inflammation disease caused by the coronavirus? i would agree. yes, that s common sense stuff. these are pretty dramatic illnesses and parents should have a good instinct on when to seek care. leland: the pictures we were showing on the screen, the rain inflammation in some of the kids fingers and feet as well is pretty dramatic. with the best care they can get at the children s hospital, are you seeing kids recover from this or is it a long and dangerous road? our patients have done well with this. needs a lot of care, often in the intensive care unit but things have turned out very well for us, thankfully. leland: that s great news and a testament to yours and your seem s skill and dedication. doctor, we appreciate you joining us. thank you. leland: all the best. kristin. kristin: a growing number of countries in europe are beginning to relax coronavirus restrictions while still trying to figure out how to keep people healthy and safe. our amy kellogg is live in florence, italy and amy, how is this effort to loosen restrictions, how is it going in europe? reporter: well, it s speeding up and kristin, so far there have not been many setbacks. germany and austria opened up restaurants yesterday and italy is just plowing ahead. they ve added both hair salons and restaurants to the list of businesses that can be opened up on monday. and then they re saying, kristin, from june 3rd they re going to throw open borders here, not even requiring those who arrive in italy to go into quarantine. now, again, caution is being urged on all of this and details really are yet to be learned. but the tourism industry, which is so important here in italy and particularly places like venice has just been slammed. some estimate loss as much as 85% for this year. generally, italy s economy is expected to shrink 9% this year. but many people have found ways to recover from disaster like this, rosen tear near florence that lost a lot of business when spring flower fairs and shows were canceled but made up for it by jazzing up the online marketing to discover a new love of gardening spawned by quarantine. people change with this covid because they think more of the way to stay alone without other persons and then it s easy to stay with plants, to work with plants, to get energy with plants. reporter: some businesses in europe are back to business with a vengeance, like a place called hair stage in bucharest, romania where friday was d-day but they have so many clients desperate for a fix that they opened up at the stroke of midnight thursday into friday and were taking bookings at 2:00 in the morning, not to let people down. they say they can t keep up this pace for much longer. for now, they plan to be working from early morning until late at night and kristin, it is still somewhat of a mystery, it s good news for east europe that they didn t get hit in the way that western europe did. the cases and the deaths in places like romania and the czech republic were far fewer than they ve been in france and germany and italy. so again, we re seeing a lot of openings here. europe is basically getting back to business, albeit with social distancing and some very close monitoring to make sure those curves don t spike back up. kristin. kristin: wow. after everything that all of europe but where you are, italy in particular has been through, that s so nice to hear and i hope i love that salon, staying open until 2:00 a.m. to get through the customers. i hope the salon i go to does that when they finally reopen. would love a haircut. amy kellogg, thank you so much. reporter: getting to the root of the problem. 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[grunting noise] i ll take that. yeeeeeah! 30 grams of protein and 1 gram of sugar ensure max protein. now available in twelve-count. stock up today! kristin: first college students had to leave cam pauses because of the coronavirus. no, ma am som.some universitiese really stepping up to help out and joining us to explain what his school is doing is major general walter giveen from stroy university. thank you for joining us. i heard your alumni are really stepping up to help pay students tuition, even some things like rent. how is this working and how much money has been raised? yeah, thank you very much. as soon as this pandemic hit we realized this could be very disruptive, very difficult for our students. but not just our students, our faculty, staff and alumni. we established something we call the covid-19 emergency fund to assist students primarily with those expenses that were completely unexpected, be it rent, utilities, travel, transition to technology and today we ve raised $62,000, thanks to the generosity of the trojan nation who really have embraced the culture of caring we espouse here. kristin: how many people have received some of these payments? i mean, $62,000, that s not an insignificant amount. no, especially in a short amount of time and already 245 people have benefited from these payments. kristin: that s great. that 225 were students, 20 alumni and staff and faculty who also were affected by this. but not only that, we have we recognized immediately because of having to leave campus, many of them having to transition online, there was disruption there. we prorated all of the housing, the parking, meal fees, things like that, and made sure people have that either getting it as a refund or as a credit towards the next semester, if they re coming back. of course, we re a kristin we re a flag waving yo university, a grt relationship with the military and we waived the application fee for all of our military as a part of something to help them as well. kristin: looking ahead to the fall semester, i know some universities in california have already come out and said they re not going to be holding in-person classes for the fall semester. what is the status of troy university? are you all at all considering doing something similar? no, we re not. we re actually leaning forward and we are going through all the preparations necessary with full intention of opening for classes in the fall. of course, we re balancing this, following all federal, state guidelines and recommendations for this, meeting regularly, have a task force that stood up because we hold the student at center of everything we do. we care about the student. we care about our faculty and staff. we re going to make sure it s safe and we re going to follow all the precautions. but we re ready to come back. our goal is to be ready to come back in the fall and hold classes of course with modifications to allow for safety. kristin: well, i certainly hope you get to. you and all of the students get to return in the fall, general, thank you so much. pleasure being with you. thank you. kristin: leland. leland: quick programming note. water s world tonight, 7:00 p.m. eastern. at 8:00 p.m., graduate together special featuring lebron james, he s going to honor high school graduates of 2020. all right here on the fox news channel. coming up tomorrow, there is the first live golf event since march. what happens to the $3 million prize money is something special. we ll tell you when we come back. - hey, can i. - safe drivers save 40%!!! guys! guys! safe drivers save 40%!!! safe drivers save 40%! safe drivers save 40%!!! that s safe drivers save 40%. it is, that s safe drivers save 40%. - he s right there. - it s him! safe drivers do save 40%. click or call for a quote today. safe drivers do save 40%. this virus is testing all of us. and it s testing the people on the front lines of this fight most of all. so abbott is getting new tests into their hands, delivering the critical results they need. and until this fight is over, we.will.never.quit. because they never quit. leland: golf is back this weekend, live on television tomorrow, four pros teeing off for a $3 million purse, that goes to charity. david ablese joins us now. this is unlike any golf tournament i ve ever heard of. it s special, going to be excited, played at seminole golf club tomorrow. we re fortunate to be a part of it with our partners at the pga tour and importantly nbc. you compete with them but they re doing a wonderful job getting it going. leland: tell us about the charity aspect of this, where the $3 million goes. yes. so fortunately we ve partnered with the united healthcare group who brought $3 million to the table. of which, that charity, it s all charity, will be donated to the american nurse s foundation as well as the cdc foundation. so every dollar that s earned, every dollar that s competed for tomorrow will go directly to those charities and a series of nominated charities from additional funds that come in throughout the course of the day. leland: so for nongolfers, who are watching this, what to watch for that makes this special? well, i think it s going to be a very relateable event. first of all, all of us as golf fans and sports fans in general will have an opportunity to see live sports which will be absolutely fantastic. we haven t seen live golf since the player s championship was canceled in march. we ll be practicing all the appropriate social distancing, the pga tour will be operating the event. you ll see our athletes in shorts which is something very new. you ll see our athletes carrying their golf bags which for many of us that play and love the game can relate to when we got started. they won t be muching pins. leland: no caddies? no caddies. leland: wow. no caddies whatsoever tomorrow. the boys will be carrying their bags. leland: have they had to workouts for this? this is not something they re used to. we ve been in touch with the athletes with great frequency during the pandemic. they re in great shape, very fit. they re ready to go, they can t wait to compete, can t wait to compete for an incredible cause. the winner are the charities involved. leland: there s $3 million at stake. based on who wins, do they get to decide where this money goes? well, they do. so there s $3 million at stake put up again by united healthcare group. each team starts with a half million dollars for their designated charities, primary charities, american nurses foundation, the cdc foundation. it s a skins game format, starting on number one where the teams play for $50,000 a hole, working up to half a million dollars on number 18 and so that money will be distributed to those foundations. but outside of that, if you go to taylor made golf dot-com or pga dot tom yo dot-com you can . all in support of charity. leland: that s awesome. something to watch tomorrow. i ll be there with you guys. i know unfortunately you ll be watching from home, i guess, rather than from seminole golf club but we all have to have our duty in life. we do. we do. but we wish the team the best down there. it will be a wonderful event, i think millions and millions of sports fans around the world will be watching. leland: very cool what you re doing. appreciate you being here. thank you, sir. thanks, leland. thanks very much. leland: we got in elon musk and we got in your favorite sport which is golf but you can play tomorrow the same way you normally do with a beer in your hand and watching. kristin: okay. look, i m just going as a spectator right now because there s not all that much else to do and i would learn i would love to learn to play golf. i feel like it takes a long time to get good. but i ll watch on tv. leland: we re sending this clip to your husband. he s going to enjoy that promise. we ll see you tomorrow. is a time for action. so, for a second time we re giving members a credit on their auto insurance. because it s the right thing to do. we re also giving payment relief options to eligible members so they can take care of things like groceries before they worry about their insurance or credit card bills. right now is the time to take care of what matters most. like we ve done together, so many times before. discover all the ways we re helping members at usaa.com/coronavirus but when allergies and congestion strike, take allegra-d. a non-drowsy antihistamine plus a powerful decongestant. so you can always say yes to putting your true colors on display. say yes to allegra-d. eric: most expensive spending package in our nation s history. the three trillion dollar coronavirus relief bill narrowly approved in 208-199 vote last night. democrats say it would help american who is are struggling to make ends meet but republicans have made it clear they say the bill is likely dead on arrival in the senate because they claim that it is just too much money. hello, everyone, welcome to america s news headquarters, i m eric sean. hi, arthel. arthel: hi, eric, hello, everyone, i m arthel neville, this is all coming as the cdc
to reopen this weekend. i m leland vittert. president obama, though, today had some harsh words for his successor at 1600 pennsylvania avenue. president obama slammed the administration s coronavirus response during a virtual commencement address on saturday. david spunt live at the white house as we await president trump s arrival from camp david. reporter: the fight between two presidents, the current president is supposed to land on the south lawn any moment. he was meeting with advisors at camp david. leland, as you know, it s no secret president trump has been extremely critical of his predecessor, former president barack obama, arguing that obama depleted the national stockpile, didn t leave anything left over. obama turned the tables yesterday. listen. this pandemic has finally torn back the curtain on the idea that so many of the folks in charge no know what they re doing. a lot of them aren t even pretending to be in charge. if the world s going to get better, it s going to be up to you. reporter: members of the team say they did not have a proper playbook to deal with the crisis. obama supporters are quick to point out they did leave a playbook and the trump ad administration dispannedded the pandemic response unit. on friday, white house press secretary kayleigh mcenany called the obama playbook, she admitted there was one but called it a thin packet and showed two binders which she said is part of the trump response. on friday night we learned that the president fired inspector general steve linick. this is a significant story we re following. linick is one of four inspectors general to be removed by the president in six weeks. you see the others there on your screen, three of them of the four fired on a friday night. the president has the right to fire any federal employee but the fact is, it looks like it s in retaliation for something that the ig, the inspector general is doing, that could be unlawful. was he investigating the secretary of state as eliot engel has said? i trusted the word of my chairman. reporter: eliot engel is calling for an investigation. a source tells fox news linick was investigating secretary pompeo for allegedly using a political appointee at the department of state to perform personal tasks for he and his wife, mrs. pompeo. again, the white house is saying that president trump accepted the advice and recommendation from secretary pompeo. you may be able to hear right now, that is marine one landing on the south lawn behind me. president trump, we ll see if he has anything to say about the inspector general, also former president barack obama, those remarks will be tape playback, meaning the crews are going to go ahead once we get those, we ll bring those back to you. kristin, leland. leland: david spunt, we could indeed hear marine one landing. thank you, sir. kristin. kristin: house speaker nancy pelosi is saying today that there will be negotiations on the new $3 trillion relief package. senate republicans are saying that it is essentially dead on arrival. garrett tenney is live with more and garrett, where does congress go from here? reporter: well, kristin, now that states are starting to open back up, senate republicans want to hold off on putting together the next relief package, at least for a couple weeks, until they can have a chance to see how things are going and where the greatest needs are. but today, speaker pelosi criticized that thinking, saying there is no time to waste. they may think it s okay to pause but people are hungry across america. hunger doesn t take a pause. people are jobless across america. that doesn t take a pause. people don t know how to pay their rent across the country. we have to address this with humanity. reporter: senate republicans are balking at the $3 trillion package, claiming it s a political wish list filled with items that aren t directly related to recovering from the pandemic. my fellow republicans in the senate have tried to see things from the speaker s point of view but we can t get our heads that far up our rear ends. and i think any fair-minded american would agree, once they read the bill. reporter: all of this goes towards the larger question of how long will it take for the u.s. economy to recover. the chairman of the federal reserve says it may not be until the end of next year. assuming there is not a second wave of the coronavirus, i think you ll see the economy recover steadily through the second half of this year. for the economy to fully recover, people will have to be fully confident and that may have to await the arrival of a vaccine. reporter: and in terms of timing, most health officials continue to say a vaccine likely won t be available until the middle of next year at the soonest. kristin. kristin: president trump saying that he believes a vaccine will be ready far sooner. he said earlier this week he s hoping for millions of doses to be ready by the end of this year, so i guess only time will tell who is right. garrett tenney, thanks so much. leland. leland: joining us now from utah, the republican senator of that state, member of the senate judiciary committee, mike lee. good to see you, sir. we appreciate it. i m not going to ask you perhaps to be as colorful as your colleague just was about nancy pelosi s thoughts but the fact remains the same, that you ve got almost 20% unemployment, you ve got people who are hungry, people who are unemployed. if senate republicans are going to shoot down and dismiss out-of-hand the house s bill, do you all have a responsibility to present something that still offers some kind of help and some kind of relief to those people who are so desperate right now? yeah, first of all, it s important to remember, leland, that we ve recently spent about $3 trillion and we want to see where that money is going, how it s been spent, not all of has been spent yet. we have to remember also that this bill that they passed really is a progressive wish list of sorts for democrats. it contains the word cannabis more than it contains the word jobs. it provides amnesty for illegal aliens and stimulus checks for i lillegal aliens. it provides a bailout for mismanaged states and has huge tax breaks for rich democrats living in liberal strongholds throughout the united states. this thing is a problem and is dead on arrival in the senate. leland: you listed the issues you have with it. you re right, not every penny has been spent out of ppp and some of the other stimulus programs in the last couple bills but there s no more checks going out to people who are hurting right now, the $1,200 went out and that s it. would senate republicans be better served by saying hey, here are two or three things that we would be willing to pass right now to help folks who are quite literally in food lines so they can feed their families? yes, and we also have to remember that as we do that, we ve got to look at the cost that pass through additional borrowing. every time we borrow more to the tune of 2 or $3 trillion at a time, we have to remember that that reduces the spending power of each dollar. that in turn has the potential to threaten poor and middle class americans more than anyone else. the rich will be fine any any scenario. the poor get hurt when we do that sort of thing. leland: interesting point. you re one of the first to talk about the inflationary aspect about this and the dangers of it. jeffrey gunlock, the famous bond investor, brought up this when talking about dealing with china which has been part of this and could be part of any additional billings. i have to laugh when financial media talking heads alert that china has leverage over the united states because china owns 1 trillion u.s. treasuries and may sell in quotes in retaliation. the question is this. how much leverage does the united states have over china right now and is it a time upon us to use that leverage for some real good? we certainly have leverage and i think that leverage is going to be brought to bear as china is continuing to be held accountable for the spread of the coronavirus and for its mismanagement of the information, the deliberate deceit at times about the information that came forward. leland: hold on, realistic question. have they been held accountable or are people just talking about holding them accountable. so far, it doesn t seem like that much has been done. in fact, you listen to the president sometimes, he oscillates between thanking the chinese for help with ppe and talking harshly about them and sometimes he calls it the china virus. doesn t seem like there s been tightening of the thumb scries, has there. perhaps not in a significant way. but the global trading is down generally. i suspect we ll see trade with china taking a big hit for all kinds of reasons including consumer preferences that will arise out of and relate to this covid-19 crisis. we also have to remember that the any accountability that we have to china, any leverage they might have with us doesn t stem from the debt. they re not the biggest foreign national holder of our debt. china is fairly far down on the list. whatever leverage they might have with the american people it s not influenced much by the debt that they have bought from us. leland: influenced by their control of the supply chain, et cetera, is probably in large part. want to get to this issue that s near and dear to your heart by fisa and fisa reform in terms of exactly how much spying the government can do on us americans. many have said that some of the programs that are being put forth moves us farther on the continuum towards an tho authoritarian state. you had a big amendment. it seems with the political maneuvering you ended up on the losing side of this one. tell us where we are and what you plan to do about this. actually, won this one. this was a historic week for the senate. there were other amendments that lost. we had an amendment that was debated, discussed and passed on the senate floor, the amendment that i co-sponsored with my democratic colleague from vermont garnered 77 votes, it passed 77-19. and what this says is that from here forward, once this becomes law, the fisa court will have to allow in any time there s a sensitive investigative manner as there would be with a political candidate or a church or news organization, political entity, they would have to bring in an outside advisor who could counsel the court on the legality of what was being done and soughted and legitimacy of the evidence. this is a huge win for the constitution, something i ve been working on, this is my tenth year in the united states senate, been working on this the entire time. was thrilling to have it pass by such a bipartisan vote this week. leland: do you think it has a chance to get signed into law? yes, i do. i believe it will be passed by the house of representatives and will be signed into law by the president. leland: congratulations on that, sir. we appreciate it that s something you ve been dedicated to for a very long time. appreciate you joining us. we can tell by the skype connection you re somewhere rural and wonderful. enjoy it. thank you very much. leland: after our show, chris wallace has an interview with colorado s governor, fox news sunday. it was an interview about reopening schools, he s person any the state of colorado, they ll talk coronavirus response as well, 2:00 p.m. eastern, 47 minutes from now. kristin. kristin: businesses and beaches are reopening in several states, just in time for memorial day weekend and this includes some of the states that have been hit the hardest by covid-19 like new york which is where we find aishah hasnie. aishah. reporter: hi there, kristin. so state and local leaders are really just reminding folks this weekend that you are responsible for what happens next as the states reopen. of course, memorial day weekend, the holiday weekend will be the first big test. new jersey, though, dipping its toes so-to-speak this weekend, large crowds descended on some of the beaches that reopened on friday. one beach supervisor at mommouth county said beach goers were behaving themselves for the most part. here s a look at some of the rules when the rest of the beaches reopen. new york state will reopen all state run beaches memorial day wee weekend. new york city will keep the shoreline closed for now. here s the mayor i don t remember earlier today. for folks in local communities, they can walk on the beach and the board walk. no swimming, no lifeguards, no congregating, nypd and the parks department will be out there. if people are smart about it and listen to the rules, great. if not, we actually might have to put up fencing to keep people off the beach. reporter: meantime, protests continued this weekend at the illinois state capitol and this time in new albany, new york. the rally organizer told fox people believe governor cuomo is stepping on civil liberties and setting a terrible precedent for the future. in arkansas, one of a handful of states that did not have a shelter in place order, has lifted restrictions for restaurants, they re to allow one-third occupancy, the governor concerned about a spike especially over the upcoming holiday weekend. here she is on fox & friends this morning. we have not had a spike in our community as a result of opening up more but we re watching every day. memorial day is a good test. a lot of that will be outdoors and by the way, congratulations on nascar. this is exciting for everybody. people just want to get back to a sense of normalcy. reporter: governor hutchinson there of arkansas. back in new york city, the mayor is getting tough with people who are crowding around bars and restaurants, not wearing masks, drinking and congregating together. he said earlier this morning that nypd will be out patrolling, even adding if we have to shut places down, we will. kristin. kristin: aishah, thank you so much. meanwhile, new numbers out this week show the toll that the coronavirus is taking on consumers. the latest release from the u.s. census bureau shows retail sales dropped 16.4% in april. this is nearly double the drop that we saw in the previous month with revised figures showing an 8.3% slide in march. here to break it down for us is pwc partner and business development leader mitch roschelle. so mitch, how much does that drop in consumer confidence, how much has that contributed to the wave of bankruptcy filings that we ve really started to see over the last two weeks? i d say greatly. but you have to sort of break down why companies file bankruptcy in the first place. so some of it is all of the lost revenue that retailers and amusement parks and bars an restaurants are suffering but it s also because these businesses are having a hard time servicing their debt. what they re trying to do is file bankruptcy in lieu of going out of business. many may think of bankruptcy as going out of business. what they re trying to do is deal with the load of debt that they have and try to find a way on the other side of it to still be in business. kristin: is it safe to assume that this is only beginning? i mean, the chairman of the federal reserve, jay powell, he warned this week of a potential wave of bankruptcies coming. do you agree with that assessment? i think we re going to continue, kristin, to see that trend play out. there s sort of three cs, there s confidence, there s consumption which drives our economy forward and the third c is capacity. if people don t have the opportunity to consume because businesses are still closed, or because of social distancing, businesses can t be profitable the way they were. i think we re going to find that this trend continues. and it s possible many have said until there s a vaccine business won t be quote, unquote, back to normal. the challenge for business owners is to figure out how they can accomplish goals of staying open under a new set of operating rules. kristin: one thing in common with a lot of the companies that have already filed for bankruptcy has been that they were already a little bit in trouble before the coronavirus pandemic hit. niemann marcus, jc penney, j crew. at what point do you think we will start to see healthy companies filing for bankruptcy? well, one of the things that happens in crises like this is pre-existing trends get hyper accelerated. so many in the retail sector were struggling as they tried to figure out how to compete with e-commerce and other 21st century versions of retail. so you enter a crisis and then that trend hyper accelerates. the question is businesses that like the airline industry, this is an industry that was doing just fine and because they sort of got the legs cut out from underneath them they re struggling right now. so really is a matter of getting the opportunity for customers to engage with those businesses, back open again. i do think though that this trend of bankruptcies is going to be here for a while because that s the only alternative for debt-heavy businesses that just don t have the revenue to in the door to service the debt. kristin: you know, the fed and congress have already done a lot. how much more coffee could fil help from the fed or another coronavirus relief package from congress, how much more could they help? i think fiscal stimulus is going to be the path. more checks to consumers helps in the short term but the reality is, until businesses are able to open to get those customers in the door, i think we re going to continue to be in the cycle of businesses struggling. so i think there s only so much that can be done in terms of stimulus. i think that the supply side of the economy needs to get opened up more in order to get things somewhat back to the new normal i would say. kristin: mitch roschelle, thank you so much for taking a break from your beautiful morning of golfing to come on the show and come inside and talk to us. really appreciate it. hope you get to go back out there. i left three guys out there, so maybe i ll go join them right now. kristin: all right. get out there. thanks, mitch. you bet. leland: knowing mitch s golf game, we may have done him a favor by getting him off the course. you never know. waiting for president trump, we re about 20 seconds away from his remarks. it s noteworthy how different barack obama and donald trump s relationship is and is becoming than, say, hw bush and bill clinton, bill clinton and george w bush and we ll see that on display here. take a listen. kristin: absolutely. mr. president, former president obama seems to suggest that you aren t even pretending to be in charge. what s your response? so i think we had a great weekend. we did a lot of terrific meetings, tremendous progress is being made on many fronts including coming up with a cure for this horrible plague that has beset our country. i think a lot of things have happened, very good, very it s a working weekend, it was a good weekend, a lot of very good things have happened. 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[ indiscernible ] look, he was an incompetent president. that s all i can say, grossly incompetent. thank you. leland: we ve heard that kind of rhetoric from president trump before, kristin, but it was unusual perhaps today, listening to the rhetoric of president obama, sort of thou shall not criticize the current president by former presidents. that tradition has gone on and off over the past few decades, dating back to herbert hoover, for example, seems to be broken now. kristin: former president barack obama didn t name any names, he didn t name president trump esse explicitly, it was vy clear who he was referring to. he essentially accused president trump of you heard president trump firing back, saying former president obama was an incompetent president, grossly incompetent. so not surprising that you re having this war of words between the current and former president, but it just goes to show you how tense things have become between the two in the middle of an election year. leland: in your conversations with the campaign and with the white house in general, do they still think putting the obama presidency on trial as part of a referendum is a winning campaign strategy, is that a conscious effort that they think that fires up their base and is effective with swing voters? kristin: yes. well, i don t know so much about swing voters but it certainly fires up the base and, look, president trump has made it very clear that especially with the unmasking list that came out in terms of michael flynn last week, whether or not it s a winning strategy, it s a strategy that president trump is going to pursue and we ve long said that president trump is his own communication director, essentially. so that is going to be part of the playbook, whether or not it s something that swing voters want to hear. leland: his base certainly gets fired up about it. you can see it on twitter and frankly probably wouldn t do it if they didn t have the metrics to support it. as we move on now to illinois, two people were injured today after an hours lon long standot a super 8 motel. the rockford city police department says that the suspect was also found dead from, quote, what appears to be a self-inflicted wound. the suspect had been exchanging fire with police for several hours before it was finally brought to an end. kristin: 11 firefighters are now recovering after responding to an explosion in downtown los angeles on saturday night. christina coleman is live in our la bureau with the very latest. christina. reporter: kristin, we just got an update on this. three of those injured firefighters were released from the hospital today. right now, the firefighters are recovering from burn injuries after surviving a ball of fire that shot through a building in downtown los angeles. three of them suffered critical but nonlife-threatening injuries. the fire expanded into what officials are calling a significant explosion or flashover. this fire happened around 6:30 yesterday evening at smoke tokes, a warehouse distributor with supplies for butane oil. more than 23 230 firefighters responded. firefighters were trying to find the source of the blaze when the huge explosion took place. they tried to get crews out right before the explosion because things didn t look right to them but some still got hurt. take a listen to the intense may day call for help. engine 9, engine 9, go with your may day. i have two downed firefighters. engine 9, two downed firefighters. rescue 9, i need you to go and assist for the two downed firefighters. reporter: some firefighters had to run through a ball of flames to escape and some scrambled down a ladder engulfed in flames to get to safety. this explosion was so powerful that it damaged several nearby store fronts, melted some of the firefighters helmets and significantly damaged other equipment. despite the intense huge wall of flames and injured firefighters, crews were able to extinguish the blaze last night. the la mayor showing deep appreciation for the courageous efforts. the good news is, everybody s going to make it. we re all i think frightened when we heard the fis initial n. a lot of firefighters are shaken up. a lot of the firefighters were traumatized. i spoke to them directly and they re holding up but when one of your own is injured, and at the time i was talking to them we didn t know the extent of their injuries, you can imagine the amount of emotional stress. reporter: as of now the cause of the fire is unknown. the fire chief says the on-scene investigation could take several days. some good news here, all of the injured firefighters are expected to survive. kristin. kristin: that is some really good news especially when you listen to that may day call, it gives you chills. christina coleman, thank you. leland. leland: live sports back today with the roar of the race car engines in darlington, south carolina. mark meredith, noted nascar enthusiast joins us from outside the 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do count on.ts anis boost high protein.rs, and now, there s boost mobility. .with key nutrients to help support. joints, muscles, and bones. try boost mobility, with added collagen. leland: we are two hours away from the first live sports event since the coronavirus outbreak, nascar live on fox from darlington, south carolina. march meredith outside a very quiet racetrack before the green flag flies. hi, mark. reporter: hi, leland. you re right, it is very sky ett out here. there is a lot of excitement for sports fans who are eager for the hiatus to end. it will end a couple hours from now. this could give us a preview of what sports will look like for the rest of 2020. there are a lot of challenges. they haven t raced in 71 days by the time they take the green flag. so challenges for sure. i think everyone is in a celebration mood because it s live sports and it s back. reporter: now, the stands are going to be empty for today s race. one racing team i spoke with says because nascar drivers are only used to hearing the other cars that are out there, they re not likely to really miss the crowd noise that will be out. surely it will be strange on tv. nascar is taking several precaution, not only for drivers but for the crews, that includes health screenings for anybody that will come into the facility. we had to get our temperatures taken. social distancing is enforced among the teams. the teams are being limited to the amount of people, 16 people maximum that will be allowed to be out there. and the schedules for the races are being consolidated. there will be areas for them to actually travel and walk inside the garage, that the cars are going to be spaced out greater. the haulers will be spaced out greater. reporter: they certainly are trying to take some of those precautions. one think you ll notice as you re watching, you ll see above the driver s side door the name of a front line worker that is doing something to help battle the coronavirus, the race dedicated to these men and women, american heroes. no shortage of excitement as the race gets underway this afternoon. leland. leland: the picture behind you says a lot. normally it would be filled with people tailgating and partying. this is a market you ve been in and covered. give us a sense of the economic impact of what darlington was in terms of what it brought to that part of south carolina and the racing and what you re seeing now from coming back down there. reporter: leland, you re right. normally on a race day this would be party central, you would see people tailgating as far as the eye could see, there would be beer sales. t-shirts, people having the time of their lives. it is empty. there are three media crews. you can see the stands are empty, they will stay empty. the town, when you speak to people, they are very glad that nascar is coming back but they would like if the tourists would come back as well. the hotel we were staying at last night said business has been abysmal the last couple he weeks. leland: you can feel the trickle-down effects from this. we re so far away from getting back to normal. mark meredith, thank you so much. kristin. kristin: now we re going to bring in fox nascar analyst and former nascar driver jamie mcmurray. you heard there, it s not quite the same, never will be with no fans. but this is big. nascar is back. and i imagine you have to be pretty excited. yeah, super excited, not just for our sport of nascar but i think for american life just in general we re all wanting to get back to whatever the new normal is going to be and i m glad that we re going to have our team this sunday with nascar being back at darlington. it s a really exciting day. kristin: so you ve only been retired for about 18 months so if you were about to race today, what would you be worried about the most or what would you be thinking about the most after this 10-week hiatus? it has been a while. we have an off season which is a little longer than this but sometimes it s going to be unique. i actually talked to matt kin seth who hasn t been in a car for about the same amount of time as me, november of 2018, he s going to be in the 42 car today. and i think all those guys have a little anxiety. darlington is one of the hardest tracks on the circuit. tires wear out. it slides around a lot. a lot of guys get into the wall with the track. so there s probably a lot of nerves going on right now at the track. kristin: talk to me about some of the other changes. i mean, in addition to a lot of these drivers not being in cars for weeks and then having to have no practice, no qualifying rounds, just go out and begin the race, you also have limited people in the pit crews or limited people in the pits, team rosters limited to 16 people. as i understand, a lot of the bigger teams normally have three times as many people. so as a driver, how does that impact what you do today? well, look interest, the team s perspective, it is kind of a skeleton crew down there but to your point, there was no practice, no qualifying so they re not really working on the cars. they prepared the cars at the shop, take them to the track. they didn t need as many people there. that was by plan. but i heard mark say before i came on, you know, he talked about from the driver s perspective when you get in the car, you won t notice the difference of the fans not being in there and that s true. we ve run some of these races on a monday or tuesday because it was rained out and we didn t have as many fans at the track and it s a weird feeling walking out to the car, not hearing the fans reaction, not hearing the driver intros. once you get in the car and the engine starts you don t hear that anyway. the i don t think from a driver s perspective it will be that different for them once the engines start. kristin: that s a great point. what about the pit stops, since there are fewer team members, will the length of the pit stops be any longer? so there s two different crews actually on a team. you have a road crew and pit crew. the road crew typically prepares the car throughout the weekend until the race starts and then you have a pit crew and that pit crew is still going to be there. so you won t see anything different when you watch today on tv. the pit stops are all going to look the same. they didn t have as many road crew guys there. kristin: got you. and one more question for you. you ve got two races in one week. did that change the dynamics at all? it s not just two races in one week. we have seven over the next 11 days so it s going to be really busy. i think it s going to be a lot of fatigue on the drivers. it s hot in darlington. if you ve ever been to that part of the united states, it s hot and it s humid this time of year. the fact that those guys haven t been a car, i think that could play a factor in this. so a lot of racing over the next 11 days. kristin: for people who have been craving live sports, they re certainly going to get it back in a big way with nascar. jamie mcmurray, thank you so much. enjoy watching of. i will be as well. thanks, guys. kristin: and for all of you at home, be sure to watch today s race on fox. it all starts at 3:30 eastern. lee happened. leland: tributes are pouring in for a woman president trump is calling a great person and a true pioneer. she was in every way. phyllis george died thursday in lexington, kentucky after a long battle with a bloodie blood d. hannah storm called her the ultimate trailblazer. she was the first female sports broadcaster to co-host on cbs. as you can see from the pictures, she was crowned ms. america in 1971. she later co-anchored the cbs morning news, became the first lady of kentucky and ran several successful businesses. her two children say the beauty so many recognized on the outside was a fraction of the interninternal beauty, and a spt that allowed her to persevere against all the odds. phyllis george is dead at 70 years 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real estate investment business, so apartment communities, 14 cities, 23,000 residents. so we are out at the front lines as an essential business, taking care of our residents. leland: very essential. what great news to hear from a ceo as positive and enthusiastic about his business as you are. it matches only the enthusiasm that your employees had on this skype call. we have some video of them reacting as you passed on the news. tell us how this happened. i m getting you were trading during the worst times of march in the trough. tell us from there how things happened. yeah, leland. accurate assessment. short story, in march when the market really sold off, i bought four stocks, exited them eight days later, made 1.6 million and i was really happy about that but a couple nights later i was driving home. i had been out in the field with the associates the days before and it just didn t feel to me so i said really credit belongs to those people who were at the front lines, who are really doing the work, who are serving our as i said 23,000 residents. so i said you know what, they deserve it. they ve earned it. i m giving it to them. leland: my understanding it s somewhere between 2 and $9,000 better employee, depending on how long they ve been with you and it didn t go to executives who in your words are highly compensated. have you heard from the employees what they re doing with the money and what s it s meant to them. all of that is accurate and you know, we did it because we thought it was the right thing to do but the outpouring from the associates has been unbelievable. we have about 400 associates, i have personally heard from over 125 of them. leland: wow. while they have jobs and we said, look, we re not going to lay off one person, their spouse, significant other, family may not. so this may really help them bridge from where they are today to get to the other side. leland: want to get to the issue as you pointed out, you re on the forefront of seeing what s happening in america s economy. you guys seem to be doing pretty well. have you had to take out a ppp loan, have you had people not paying rents of these 23,000 residents? how are you dealing with things from a business side? yeah, really good question. we re an essential business. we re in apartments. yes, we ve had a bit of delinquency but our folks have done a great job providing service and we think our residents, if they see that, will say hey, what s the right thing, what s the fair thing, and they ll pay their rent. that has certainly been the case. as far as the cares act and the ppp, back in march when that started we actually did apply because we didn t know what was going to happen. leland: nobody did. and we got approved and we turned it down. leland: got it. if you say why did you turn it down by the way, it was 4.9 million. it just in our culture didn t seem like the right thing to do and there are businesses that need it more than us. leland: well, larry, the expressions on your employees faces say so much and with as much sadness as there is right now in the world going around, it s awfully nice to be able to have the man who put the smiles on those folks faces up on television, we appreciate it, sir. god speed in your endeavors. i wouldn t be surprised if you get a few applications after people see this. we appreciate you being with us, sir. thanks, leland. leland: all the best. chris tin. kristin: i love the faces. democrats are setting their sights on capitol hill. how the party is working to shift the balance of power in the senate, next. saturdays happen. pain happens. aleve it. aleve is proven stronger and longer on pain than tylenol. when pain happens, aleve it. all day strong. tech: don t wait for a chip like this to crack your whole windshield. with safelite s exclusive resin, you get a strong repair that you can trust. plus, with most insurance a safelite repair is no cost to you. customer: really?! singers: safelite repair, 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control of the house? reporter: well, kristin, democrats feel pretty confident they ll maintain control of the house this november. last week, they did lose a seat in the california special election which could indicate some cause for concern. in the senate, things get a whole lot more interesting. 35 senate seats are up for grabs, 22 are controlled by republicans. the races are happening in tandem with the presidential election tested by coronavirus which democrats have sought to make a referendum on the trump administration and therefore republicans and what happens as states reopen their economies could have a big impact on voters. it s another reason experts say it s likely to be a winner take all scenario this november, with whoever wins the white house also taking the senate. 2016 for the first time ever there was not a single state that voted for president and voted different party for the senate. split ticket voting is really it happens in some instances still. for the most part, my gosh, voters you re on team red or you re on team blue. reporter: democrats would need to win four toss-up races and the white house to gain a majority and break tie votes. the closest races are in arizona, colorado, north carolinnorthcarolina, montana a. maine senator susan collins is facing a challenger who significantly out-fund raised he.collins was cost some moderae report. cory gardner is facing off against john hickenlooper. as democrats are facing a sex assault allegation of their own, they re having to face up to republican calls of a double standard which is making for yet another unusual element this election cycle. chris kin. kristinkristin.kristin: one ofl elements this election cycle. who would have thought traditional campaigning would be put on hold in the middle of a presidential election year. it s pretty crazy. jacqui heinrich, thank you. leland: tropical storm arthur making its way towards the east coast. who s in the bull s-eye, when we come back. hey 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been a long year. kristin: it certainly feels that way. it s good to be with you, leland, on this historical day. i m kristin fisher and we re going to be having team coverage on this. we have mark meredith at the white house and we begin with lucas tomlinson at lafayette square which is right outside the white house. lucas. good afternoon, kristin. thousands of peaceful protesters have descended on lafayette square. it s peaceful, different from earlier this week when this burned. i asked her if she wants her police department to be defunded. we support our police department. we work hard every day to make sure we have the type of police and community relationships that will allow us to have safe neighborhoods. yesterday, mayor unveiled a new sign, and ordered the words black lives matters painted on with the same yellow paint that covered the streets. it covers two city blocks and it s not coming off anytime soon. the special soldiers forces from utah national guard were evicted from their d.c. hotel. for days they ve been cleaning graffiti off the buildings in d.c. and she was blasted for the decision. all 900 soldiers are returning home to fort bragg and fort drum. and the troops are roughly the same number of troops deployed to iraq. ryan mccarthy is investigation the use of a medical vac helicopter use today disperse a crowd. critics say it s like using an ambulance for crowd control. a public viewing for george floyd is taking place in north carolina where he was born. thousands more protesters are expected in the capital and d.c. mayor bowser hopes they remain peaceful. kristin: lucas tomlinson, stay safe out there in lafayette square. leland: back with lucas was the crowds continue to agree. the city of minneapolis is making changes to its police practicing, including banning the use of chokeholds and neck restraint. and things have taken a peaceful turn, a welcome turn, matt. yeah, leland, the minneapolis police department will now require officers to intervene in situations like george floyd s. and this is the site where george floyd died and as you can see, there s been a steady stream of peaceful demonstrations and prayer a circles. it passed new proposals that now have to be okayed by a luggage. at least three minneapolis city council members banding together insisting they ll disassemble the police department. and that police are bankrupting the city with massive judgments and settlements and we re going to disband the police department, when it s done we re not going to glue it back together. we ll look at safety and emergency response. it s past due. however, they will not sign off on abolishing the police department, instead deep structural reforms addressing systemic racism. this is a moment in time where we can totally change the way our police department operates. we can quite lit areally lead the way in our nation, enacting more police reform than any other city in the entire country and we cannot fail. and here in minneapolis this saturday, the city is trying to recover and assess the extensive destruction left from all of those violent riots. the mayor now estimates at least $55 million in damage. the a.t.f. has released new videos of arson suspects and is asking people to submit any eyewitness video they might have to the a.t.f. after a few good peaceful nights here, the state safety department says it will no longer be enforcing a curfew here this weekend after a week long curfew in the twin cities. leland. leland: real quick, matt. the national guard still on the scene there in minneapolis? or have they pulled back? my understanding is they are here. we saw them all week long, protecting fire crews, protecting the police department. we ve seen them even protect locally owned grocery stores. so they did a fine job here. leland: we ll continue to watch for reporting throughout the day. thank you. kristin. kristin: ever since the protesters were pushed back from lafayette square on monday night, security around the white house has been growing increasingly tight. in fact, those protesters can t get anywhere close to the white house. our mark meredith joins us from the perimeter and joist us from the north lawn. it doesn t sound like we re going to be hearing from president trump in person today, right? you re correct. we do not expect to see president trump make any on-camera comments today. the protest also get coverage and lucas tomlinson was showing you a moment ago and as you mentioned security around the white house has been beefed up, turned into a fortress more so than it normally is. new fences all along the white house perimeter lines. this is the video as they were getting installed. there are road blocks preventing any vehicles from getting close to the white house. this as president trump is attacking d.c. s mayor for her response not only for the protests, but looting and rioting last weekend. the president tweeted mayor bowser, d.c. s mayor, is incompetent and no way running a city like d.c. if the men and women of the national guard hadn t stepped forward she would look no better than the mayor of minneapolis. president trump came under criticism for the president s response, and of course it s the former secretary of defense james mattis that got the most attention, when he said this, this is his quote, donald trump is the first president in my lifetime who does not try to unite the american people, does not even pretend to try. instead he tries to divide us. now, vice-president mike pence is addressing mattis head-on in an interview with fox news. i haven t spoken to general mattis, but i can tell you he s wrong. what this president has done in recent days is what every american expects a president to do in times of crisis, and that is put the lives and the property and the liberty of every american first. that full interview will be airing later on this evening. in the meantime we continue to watch this out of the journal, that the u.s. plans to pull thousands of troops out of germany. that the u.s. still sees germany as an ally, but wouldn t comment on the number of troops pulled out. should start in november, we ll see if there are any developments on that. kristin: thank you, mark meredith from the north lawn. leland: we re keeping our eyes on the stations around washington d.c. the crowds are continuing to grow. we bring in the supervisory agent, and sentinel security ceo. charles, appreciate you being here with us. as we look at the security around the white house of the no climb fencing, the additional barricades put up, et cetera. how much of that was an off the shelf contingency plan? how much of this has been on the fly, decision making in the past week? hey, leland, thanks for having me. i think what we re seeing basically is an evolution that started when the protests first occurred. you know, if we remember, what you do, the protests were allowed originally to be on pennsylvania avenue and the normal barriers that are in place every single day were in place. unfortunately the protest were infiltrated, beginning to be infiltrated by the anarchist groups and other groups, and they had to push the barriers back. leland: i was out there on friday night and also saturday night. we ve got video from saturday day when a number of the secret service patrol cars that are parked on pennsylvania avenue and in the plaza were jumped on and defaced and there was graffiti, et cetera. i really got the feeling that the secret service, in particular, was caught off guard by this and sort of overwhelmed in the beginning. they kept crowds from getting into the white house, obviously, but it didn t seem as though they were prepared. is that a fair assessment, do you think? i ll make a more general statement that i think will kind of align with your comments and that is i think across the country law enforcement as a whole was caught a little bit flat-footed in terms of the numbers of protesters that they saw, and also the infiltration of the protests that they saw. so the answer to your question is yes, and it was something that we saw just out not only in d.c., but also across the country. so as a result, some of these changes, in the perimeter were made on the fly. leland: as we look at what s happening right now in d.c., largely peaceful along what is the new fence line, the no-climb fence that covered the white house, usually a beautiful part of town to walk through and have a picnic as we relax on a saturday. as we look at now, have the rules of engagement changed and monday, when there was the pepper balls, arguably tear gas, or not tear gas, we don t need to litigate that to push the crowd back, and the defacing and burning of police cars, et cetera, will not be allowed? well, the perimeter has changed. what has not changed and what will never change is the use of force standards and that is law enforcement across the country is trained to use the minimal amount of force necessary to gain compliance. so that standard is never going to change. leland: but charles, charles, we saw police cars burned and the secret service in their riot gear just stood on watching. there was no forced to gain compliance. there weren t a lot of people arrested. it seems there was a calculated decision not to be aggressive in enforcing laws and even protecting police cars and monuments, et cetera. i wonder if you feel as though those orders have changed? well, we re becoming more aggressive in terms of how we re policing, now that the numbers have gone up in terms of personnel, the support that we re seeing from the national guard. we re seeing a more cohesive strategy going forward. you know, if law enforcement doesn t have the numbers, leland, to effect a strategy and if becomes more of a dangerous situation to go into a crowd because they re burning a patrol car. sometimes the decisions in fact are made to stay back and hold the line. the army wanted to put tanks around the white house and as white house said, no, he said it would look like america s democracy is under siege and now we see the no-climb fencing ringing off the white house blocks away. how significant is the fact that the secret service made this decision? they normally pride themselves on discretion and the sort of standoffish unscene further nature and now we see this. so the area around lafayette park, the law enforcement agency is the u.s. park police. the secret service have from the fence line and joined in the patrols. yeah, it is about optics, we have a lot of things put into place which normally you wouldn t see, but these aren t normal times and at the end of the day, the white house and those peaceful protesters and the officers all need to be protected. you know, a lot of this is about optics, leland, and we re seeing it be argued about the national guard. leland: i m just looking at the optics of the white house ringed off with no-climb fencing. as you point out, unusual times and what you saw when you were with the secret service. appreciate your time. all right. leland: kristin. kristin: massive demonstrations are taking place in major cities across the country this weekend. here to talk about some of the other protests are two local lawmakers, alicia george, and from louisiana from the law enforcement institute, tony. we ve spent time talking about the protests and in d.c., minneapolis, new york city and what not be and rightfully so, i d love to get both of your takes on your states and what you re preparing for today. thank you for having me. here in boston, we like to do things right and as someone i participated in one of the protests last weekend and the protest from start to finish was peaceful. they were uplifting. they were diverse. people were really coming together to spread the word around black lives matter, and murder of george floyd. we continue to do that day in and day out. we ve had protests across our city all week and they ve been something i ve been very proud to support and to attend. now, it s a different story certainly for some of the action that s happening after the protest ends. the community members and those organizing these protests have done a tremendous job bringing communities together during this time. kristin: and tony, what about you? what have the protests been like in louisiana and what are you preparing for today? well, the protests in louisiana have actually been thoroughly peaceful and i ll give you an example. last week at the state capitol in baton rouge, we had hundreds of protesters gather as we were in session and one of our african-american state representatives, denise marcel, went to the front. chamber, we call it the well, to applaud the peaceful nature of the protests. and she was joined initially by 17 of our african-american colleagues in the house of representatives, but as her speech unfolded, each of us, one by one, gathered with her and at the end of the speech, every member of the state house of representatives stood right alongside with representative denise marcel in praising the peaceful protests and that s what we ve seen all across the state. with our leaders, our african-american leaders, our governor, everyone praising the protests for the nature and really doing well. kristin: that s good to hear, in the middle of all of these protests, the entire country is dealing with, both massachusetts and louisiana are getting ready to implement phase two in terms of reopening in the middle of the coronavirus pandemic. so, how are the protests impacting the attempt to reopen phase two? well, it is it s certainly an interesting time to say the least and we here in massachusetts and in boston in particular are looking for a stage two opening. later today our governor will roll out his recommendations and the state s guidance around that phase two, looking forward to relaxing regulations especially around retail establishments. our neighbors and residents and visitors will be able to start eating jut doors in many of our restaurants and we re looking forward to a return to what i d call a new normal. it s going to take a little bit of time. it s going to take a lot of precautions and we re hopeful that this positive trend we ve seen around the infection rate and the unfortunate death rate as it relates to covid-19, we re looking forward to that continuing to improve. and for me as a parent, as a mom, as a former high school teacher here in boston, looking forward to the work that we have ahead to make sure that our communities can return safely to school, whether it s this summer for some summer programming or in the fail for or in the fall for what s important for that school. kristin: so many parents have said that. and tony, what about you? attempting to get into phase two reopening in louisiana? almost no impact. there may be a couple of blocks in new orleans that are impacted by the protests, but again, they re peaceful. so, you know, for us in louise loui louisiana, everybody is excited for phase two and including moms ap dads being able to watch a little league baseball game or a soccer game. it s really looking forward to this and again, protests here are so peaceful, it shouldn t impact the phase two opening at all. you know, it s interesting, here in washington we ve been, you know, under lockdown for a while because of the coronavirus, but it s really been the over the last week or so, when you walk around downtown d.c. that all of these store fronts had started to be boarded up because of some violence early on or destruction of property early on in these protests, and it feels like a hurricane could be sweeping through. although the last two days and today expected to be entirely peaceful. pretty crazy times we re going through as a country. thank you so much. thank you, kristin. kristin: coming up tomorrow, former joint chief of staff, mike mullen, joins chris wallace for an exclusive interview. check your listings for time and channel. and howard kurtz takes a look at how they re covered on media buzz. leland. leland: protests overseas as well. live pictures from london at 5:19 p.m. benjamin hall on the ground there. hi, benjamin. yeah, hi, leland. thousands upon thousands of people have come on the streets of london as they have. they want one thing, they want to see this change. that s coming up. to help support. joints, muscles, and bones. try boost mobility, with added collagen. with one protein feels like. what getting fueled with three energy packed proteins feels like. meat! cheese! and nuts! p3. because 3 is better than 1 this moment right now. this is our commencement. no, we ll not get a diploma or a degree of any kind. but we are entering a new chapter in our lives. our confidence is shaken; our hearts cracked. the kind of a crack that comes from the loss of a job; from life plans falling apart. we didn t ask for it. but we are rising to meet it. and how far we ve come isn t even close to how far we can go. we just have to remember how patient we were. how strong we can be. (how strong you can be.) and remember this; there s a crack in everything for a reason. how else can the light get in? tomorrow starts today. live pictures from london as the crowds are dispersing after a protest in the united kingdom s capital. benjamin hall on the ground there, has been for much of the day. benjamin, so we understand, is this a protest about george floyd or is this a protest about police practices in the u.k. sparked by george floyd? well, leland, you re absolutely right. this is a protest that began to commemorate george floyd and his death, but it s morphed into something much larger than that. it s about police brutality here in the u.k. and asking the government to change legislation to bring in reforms and we have seen thousands upon thousands take to the streets here as well as elsewhere. we spoke to some people earlier and here is what they told us. everywhere, and the police it s a system the bad ones, and their behavior. the u.k. continues to be under a partial coronavirus lockdown and gatherings of more than six people are still forbidden, but politicians have been urging people not to come to the protests. people aren t listening, they re here on the thousands and there s no social distancing here, despite the fact that front line medical workers are urging people to avoid this. and protests around the world, we ve seen them in australia. people showing solidarity with those in the u.s. and indigenous australian who they say have died in police custody. in france, authorities banned two rallies planned in front of the u.s. embassy. they ve gone ahead anyway and also in lebanon and south korea. certainly what we re seeing is a massive outpouring, thousands upon thousands of people. it s peaceful at the moment. but earlier in the week we saw some fringe groups resort to violence. we hope that won t happen. that is well-organized and a peaceful march in london. leland: no politicians saying don t protest because of covid, a different message from here in the united states. benjamin, thank you. we ll check with you throughout the evening and afternoon. kristin. kristin: well, thousands are expected today in the small town of raeford, north carolina to remember george floyd in the place where he was born 46 years ago. jonathan serrie is live in north carolina and jonathan, the best of my understanding, the memorial service today is expected to be smaller and more for close family and friends as opposed to the bigger one filled with celebrities and lots of other people earlier this week in minneapolis, right? yeah, that s correct, kristin. the memorial service gets underway around 3:00. it s just for the family. people speaking there, mostly clergy. i believe the local sheriff is also going to deliver a statement there. but the viewing is open to the public and as you can see from my live shot, it s attracting people not just from around north carolina, but from other states. we ran into one man from georgia who had come all the way here because he felt it was important to show his respect. this is just one of three memorials taking place around the country. the first memorial service was held thursday in minneapolis, the city where floyd died in handcuffs pleading for air, as a white police officer pressed a knee to his neck. what happened to floyd happens every day in this country in education, in health services, and in every area of american life. it s time for us to stand up in george s name and say get your knee off our necks. video of the fatal incident has sparked protests in cities big and small around the u.s. and around the world. i know just a few minutes ago, you looked at protests in london. earlier today there was a demonstration in sydney, australia, but at today s visitation in north carolina, the local sheriff is asking attendees to wear face masks and refrain from protesting. the sheriff explains the memorial is about the life that mr. george floyd lived, and this is a time to embrace the family with expressions of love and kindness. and kristin, george floyd was born in this part of north carolina, but he was raised in houston, texas and that is where the third memorial is going to take place. there will be a public viewing on monday and then a memorial service there on tuesday. kristin. kristin: jonathan serrie live in north carolina for us. leland. leland: we ll keep an eye on other headlines as we watch the tropical storm cristobal making its way toward the gulf coast this weekend. it will make landfall tomorrow night or early monday morning and chrristobal will bring rain and storm surge to the bullseye. joe biden has clinch the delegates needed to be the nominee. he said i m going to fight between now and november 3rd for votes across this great country. overseas vladimir putin calling out the owner of a nickel company responsible for a massive fuel spill in russia s arctic circle, leaking 21,000 tons of oil. putin says that the company would have replaced the tank earlier, the spill would not have happened. . kristin: large crowds of gathering in washington d.c. this afternoon. our kevin corke is in those crowds and joins us live from the capitol. i m going to step out of the camera, as you can see all quiet so far. we expect that to change in a few at the nation s capitol. live coverage after this. eh, not enough fiber. chocolate would be good. snacking should be sweet and simple. the delicious taste of glucerna gives you the sweetness you crave while helping you manage your blood sugar. with nutrients to help support immune health. and mine super soft? 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and what is the law of the land right now as we look at the lincoln memorial? leland, thanks so much for having me on. the d.c. national guard has a unique legal status in every state in the union. the state governor is the commander-in-chief of the guard and d.c. of course is not a state so actually the president is the commander of the the d.c. guard. he delegated his authority to the secretary of defense who in turn dell gates to the secretary of the army to run the national guard. strictly speaking, she does not have the authority to order the national guard units of other states to withdraw from the district. that said, using troops in the city over the objections of the mayor is fraught and you would hope that the mayor and the secretaries and the president are able to work it out. and that the individual guardsmen themselves don t become a football here. there s reporting in the paper that they were turned out of their hotel the utah guard and others were turned out of their hotel after 12-hour shifts on the line and thunderstorms and pouring rain and 96% humidity. as we look at the crowds right now, what law covers what the national guard can and cannot do. we saw the military police surround the white house as well. are they essentially deputized as police officers or what are their rules? the insurrection act that hasn t been invoked, nor should it be, i don t think, currently they re there to do to send support to civil authorities. so they have to act the direction of the civil authorities. so, they should not be doing anything that law enforcement, whether that s local law enforcement, or federal law enforcement, is asking them to do. leland: i was taking a walk around the lincoln memorial i believe it was yesterday, and you saw groups of national guard walking around without weapons, without riot shields, conceivably somewhat exposed for lack of a better term. do they have the right to defend themselves? so, they have no more or less of a right than any other american to protect themselves from violence. the decision was made by the secretary of the army to have them not bring weapons and ammunition into the district and i think that was the correct decision. it s really hard to forsee a circumstance here where it would be necessary or helpful for the u.s. army or the national guard to use lethal force. leland: there was a discussion earlier in the week about the potential of bringing in the 82nd airborne or the 101st airborne, talks about that. we know senator cotton s op-ed in the new york times has taken on a life of its own as well. the defense at the point in time a time the defense department and the president backed off bringing in the troops. do you think it s a legal reason or the crowds have quieted and it s not required? i think it s the latter. under the insurrection act, the president would have the authority to do so, however, it would have been politically unwise for him to do so. i respectfully disagreed with senator cotton s op-ed although i have respect for his services in afghanistan and iraq. there s risks to the soldiers, the risks to the military institution, and a risk for the republic when you have a federal military force potentially using force against citizens. you re a student of history and i want to get your thought on this just before we go. what do you make of the former military leaders, big names in american history from mattis on down or on up, depending how you look at it, powell, revered names coming out speaking so forcefully about president trump in a negative way. have we ever seen anything like that of former military members taking such a political stance about a domestic issue? sure, you know, just recently there was what was called the revolt of the generals, circa 2006 when a lot of general flag officers had criticisms of our policy in iraq. i think it was proper and correct for secretary mattis and the other chairman, former secretary and chairman joint chiefs of staff and combatant commanders to speak out. it s unusual to do so, but it was an unusual situation and i think it was appropriate for them to speak. leland: we re taking a live look at chicago where there are crowds gathering, 18 minutes before noon there. kevin, your insights are appreciated on this and obviously, we are in uncharted territory which makes your expertise even more needed and more appreciated. admiral mullen, former chairman. joint chiefs on fox news sunday tomorrow with chris wallace. we ll obviously hear what he said in light of your thoughts. we appreciate it. thank you, leland. kristin: legendary basketball star michael jordan throwing his weight behind the fight for racial equality. we ll tell you what he is pledging next. it s been 75 years since your ancestors served in world war two. many of their stories remain untold. find and honor the veterans in your family. their stories live on at ancestry. for people with heart failure taking entresto, it may lead to a world of possibilities. entresto is a heart failure medicine prescribed by most cardiologists. it was proven superior at helping people stay alive and out of the hospital. heart failure can change the structure of your heart so it may not work as well. entresto helps improve your heart s ability to pump blood to the body. and with a healthier heart, there s no telling where life may take you. don t take entresto if pregnant; it can cause harm or death to an unborn baby. don t take entresto with an ace inhibitor or aliskiren, or if you ve had angioedema with an ace or arb. the most serious side effects are angioedema, low blood pressure kidney problems, or high blood potassium. ask your doctor about entresto. novartis thanks the heroic healthcare workers fighting covid-19. michael jordan and the jordan brand company are pledging $100 million for racial equality. the former owner of charlotte hornets will spread out the donations over 10 years, con dentaling george floyd s killing and state of racial relations in the united states. kristin: after riots left many cities and businesses damaged. groups of people across the country are coming together to fix their communities. and one such effort is happening in san antonio. joining us now is center of san antonio president matt brown. starting off, just describe what the damage was like in your city after some of the more destructive nights of protests. thank you very much for having me on. the main night, really, the only one night that mattered was saturday evening and the big message i d like to say is that the 5,000 plus citizens came down peacefully. it was an incredible day of demonstration, and as that was winding up, a handful of bad actors vandalized about 20, 25 small businesses, predominantly family-owned microbusinesses and we had some graffiti. we had broken windows. we had six or seven businesses were looted and it was really unfortunate and painful and then we rallied to the next morning or starting around midnight to clean it up. kristin: so what exactly did you do? how many people came together? how did this all come to be? well, our organization, in centro, we have 100 ambassadors that work 24/7, 365 keeping our downtown clean and safe. we like to think of ourselves making downtown more beautiful and prosperous and welcoming for everyone in san antonio. we started around midnight with a skeleton crew assessing the damage and our full crew game out at 5:30 in the morning. as we started with the deep cleaning, some of the protest leaders from the prior evening, they have already called out to their network and their friends, and the community, hundreds of people were already out there joining us at 5:30, 6:00 in the morning and the business owners were there, the city staff was there, and spurs players were showing up. like it was incredible, the whole community came out and we at centro, even though this is our job to do, we couldn t have done it without the entire community and so we have just been sharing our love and respect and our admiration for triumph culture which we see here, which is the neighbors helping neighbors out. kristin: one of the protesters leading the charge to clean up was a man by the name of antonio lee and he said if we can get together to protest, we can get together to clean up. i love that. matt brown, thank you very much. my pleasure. thank you. kristin: leland. leland: all right. protests continuing around the country, but what about the coronavirus risk created by all of these crowds? 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leland: check back in in north carolina when they begin the funeral for george floyd there. lucas tomlinson, thank you. kristin? kristin: thanks, leland. and right now you re looking at live pictures of huge protests right outside of philadelphia. the city of brotherly love one of the many cities taking place in all of these protests taking place across the country. people continuing to protest against the killing of george floyd as a memorial service is held for him today in his hometown where he was born in north carolina. meantime in new york, two buffalo police officers have now been charged with assault after being caught on tape shoving an activist. by now you ve surely seen that video. the manhattan d.a. making a surprise decision to prosecute some protesters. aisha ofny with more live in new york. reporter: hi, kristin. that s right. just in the last hour governor cuomo applauding the d.a. and the buffalo mayor for acting quickly. the two buffalo police officers, as you mentioned, caught on video shoving a 75-year-old man, an activist, to the ground. they are now charged with assault in the second degree. that s a class b felonny. a not guilty plea though was entered for both officers on their behalf. the two officers were suspended without paw. here s the governor. buffalo video, we saw the video. what we saw was horrendous and disgusting. i believe illegal. so if there s something else that i didn t see or if what i saw was not correct, then tell me. otherwise do justice. reporter: meanwhile, in new york city the manhattan d.a. dropping a bombshell. the d.a. will no longer prosecute protesters on low-level offenses. that s like breaking the curfew. last night the nypd arrested only about 40 people, dropped the curfew as they peacefully moved throughout brooklyn and manhattan. there s also been a growing outcry over the nypd detaining essential workers. mayor de blasio facing the threat of a lawsuit, the new york immigration coalition says it has resulted in the unconstitutional arrests of a number of law a abiding people. law-abiding people. the true few, for now, remains in place through monday morning as protests here in new york city continue. here at union square, one of these just started five minutes ago. a musical memorial just got underway, and so we should start to hear the band in just a couple of moments. kristin? kristin: live in new york city, thanks. leland? leland: large crowds also gathering in minneapolis where police are already promising reform. matt finn live in minneapolis where this all began. hi, matt. reporter: and, leland, the minneapolis police department is now requiring officers to immediately intervene or report if they see another officer engaged in a chokehold like that seen in the george floyd video. this is the location where george floyd died, and for days there s been a steady stream of peaceful demonstrations and prayer circles. behind us right now there are more protests and demonstrations going on. here in minneapolis the city council yesterday held an emergency meeting in which it passed those new police policy proposals that now have to be okayed by a judge. and at least three members on the minneapolis city council including its president insists they will dismantle the minneapolis police department altogether. council member jeremiah ellison, the son of the state s attorney general, says police are bankrupting the city and gutting taxpayers of money with massive budgets and settlements. ellison tweeted, quote: we are going to dismantle the minneapolis police department, and when we re done, we re not simply going to glue it back together. we are going to dramatically rethink how we approach public safety and emergency response. it s really past due. however, minneapolis mayor jacob frye says he will not sign off on abolishing the police department and instead is committed to deep structural reforms addressing systemic racism. we have to be on the precipice of change and that there are reforms that are just generations past due. so we need to seize this moment and channel our collective pain to collective action, and that begins right now. reporter: here in minneapolis the atf tells fox news there are ongoing arson investigations. at least 220 buildings were burnt in the violent rye rots across riots across the twin cities. the atf has released new videos of suspects and is asking people to submit any eyewitness video they might have. this afternoon the national guard tells fox news that it is still activated here. at one point it had about 700 soldiers. and also after a couple of peaceful nights, the state s safety department says it will no longer be enforcing a curfew. leland. leland: we will see how things go tonight. matt finn, mike tobin on the ground there in minneapolis, thanks so much. kristin? kristin: now to chicago where officials are closing streets in hopes of keeping protesters out of some parts of the city. you re looking at live images from chicago right now. and grade trimble is in chicago s west loop neighborhood today. reporter: kristin, this protest has been billed as a peaceful protest, and so far it has remained exactly that. we see thousands of people gathered here today in what i would describe the largest protests i ve seen in the past week, and that includes last weekend one of the more violent weekends in the city. i want to show you above the crowd here so you can see how many people are gathered here in union park. they re calling, of course, for what they say, they want racial justice, they want defunding of the chicago police department. and just this morning the chicago teachers union joined in this, voicing their opinion. they want the contract with the city s police department ripped up, essentially, so there would no longer be police in public school here in the city of chicago. what we notice as we look around is there are not a lot of visible police officers, but they are certainly in the area. they re stationedded at at a precinct nearby as well as the united center where the blackhawks play. one of the reasons we re west of the downtown area of chicago right now is because the city has essentially locked down chicago s downtown area, and it s been that way for the past week. they ve made it very difficult to get into the downtown area known as the loop by public transit. they ve had municipal dump trucks blocking highway exits x that s why people are gathering en masse in this area. this group is expected to martha afternoon. we march this afternoon, we will be following and we ll keep you posted. kristin: derek chauvin live excuse me. i was looking ahead to another story. thanks so much. grady trimble. leland: now we head to miami where mayor francis suarez is preparing for protests there. mayor, we appreciate you joining us. we re glad to see you back in the office after your bit with the coronavirus. boy, you think about it for miami, a city that thrive on tourism and the cruise ship industry, you ve got to deal with the coronavirus, the shutdown from that and now these protests. it s got to be a pretty difficult time. yeah. it s been, obviously, something that s been unprecedented. you know, the one fair consolation, in a sense, is that this is something that s affected the entire nation. it s not been local arized, not just something that s happened in miami. obviously, the coronavirus has devastated the world economy and, of course, these protests are happening throughout the country. you know, for us, i think we have done a magnificent job, our police department, the protesters of miami of balancing, maintaining control of the city while at the same time peacefully protesting, you know, injustice leland: brings up an interesting point, mayor, and we re watching is some of the video. what we have not seen out of miami or miami beach is the looting and the burning and the violence that we ve seen in so many other of american cities. why do you think that is? i think it s a lot of reasons. the first is leadership. we have a great police chief who came out quickly and condemned the acts of the officers in minneapolis. we have a great relationship with our community. we ve implemented good tactics using our vice squads very effectively. we ve tried to maintain balance, like i said, maintain control without unnecessary confrontation. and, frankly, the protesters in miami have done a magnificent job organizing themselves in ways that avoid confrontations. yesterday we even had people on bicycles sort of managing the traffic. so we change our tactics daily. i have had press conferences almost every day with members of the community. we re looking at our internal policies. we re doing everything that we can to maintain the confidence of our residents. leland: we had some video of some of the more violent protests that did happen in miami. we see some pushing over of street signs there, burning of a couple of cars, etc. what has been your message? is there a zero tolerance for this type of behavior? are you all willing to use enough force to control this? our message has been we want people to protest. we agree with the protests, but we want it to be peaceful. the minute it crosses the line into destruction of property or to vandalism, that s when we re going to step in. and so that s what we did on saturday, the images i m sure you saw on saturday, and we had a couple of cars that were exposed. we took the cars out on sunday, took away any potential symbols that could be used to make the point other than than the point that s being made by the protests, and that became very effective because there was nothing to burn or loot, and they were there the entire time. leland: all right, mayor. the video is from a week ago today, which was saturday, just so our viewers understand what you were talking about. as we zoom out here, much of miami s budget and economy centers around tourism, especially during february, march and april, the prime month for spring break and the like. you were on this channel a couple months ago talking about the dangers of people celebrating and going out on the water and going to the beach, etc., during the coronavirus. i wonder what s happening to your budgets right now. it would seem as though they ve probably been blown away. yeah. our budget we have right now projected a $20 million deficit. we had a $20 million surplus going in, and we have about $160 million surplus which is unusual for governments to have in their savings account. we have the highest bond rating in history. we have the lowest homicide rate in 51 years, my first year as mayor, and during covid we didn t have a homicide in eight weeks while other cities saw an increase in violent crime. so we re very proud of our department, our men and women who seven on the front serve on the front lines and our firefighters who also serve on the front lines in the covid battle. leland: mayor, i know you re interested in inviting people back to miami to enjoy the sun and good food, a dinner at joe s stone crab, perhaps. you can put on your visitors convention hat the next time we talk. will do. leland: glad to have you. chris: well, derek chauvin is due in court on monday. meanwhile, the other three officers on the scene are also now facing charges of their own. our legal panel joins us now to break down all of these charges in this case, and we have the director of the executive office for united states attorneys guy lewis and criminal defense attorney joseph marrone. let s start with derek chauvin, he s facing up to 40 years in prison after the charges were upgraded from third-degree murder to second-degree murder. it is certainly a step in the right direction for george floyd s family who wants him to be charged with first-degree murder. but, guy, i ll start with you, does this upgraded charge make it more difficult for prosecutors to secure a guilty verdict? that s a great question, kristin. in some ways it does. they ve charged probably the most aggressive charge that the facts would allow. and i wish i could tell you that the hard part was behind us, but it s not. now we move into the litigation phase, and there s going to be very good lawyers who come in and contest these charges. and even though you ve got the video right before you, these lawyers are going to say, look, we don t know what happened before, we don t know what happened after. the m.e. reports are contradictory, and so there s a lot of work to do here to move this case forward. kristin: joseph, if you were chauvin s attorney, how would you defend him, and would these upgraded charges change the way that you d defend him? well, unfortunately, you have to live with the video, and the video in itself, it s not just what you see in the video, it s what the video actually the evidence it gives you. it gives you a restraint of over eight and a half minutes, two and a half at the end which there was no response. kristin: yeah, how do you defend against that in. well, i think the battle s going to be on the level of charges. you have a second-degree murder charge which is a felony murder charge, can you prove that he intended to assault floyd and not effectuate an arrest, and that s really the battle. obviously, chauvin s argument s going to be he was intending to effectuate arrest, and reckless behavior is third-degree murder, it s not second degree. and you re really, if you re chauvin s attorney, you re trying to get a lesser charge to save him some jail time, and that s going to really be the battle. openly there s also a manslaughter charge which i think is inevitable. but really the core charge questions can the defense lawyer get the case down to that, and that s really going to be the confrontation. kristin: so, joseph, now the other three officers that were involved in george floyd s death, they ve been charged with aiding and abetting second-degree murder. and we ve already gotten a taste of what their defense is going to be. two of them are now, essentially, blaming chauvin for all of this and saying that he was the senior officer on the scene, and he should be the one that s responsible, not them. do you agree with that. well, listen, it s going to be every man for himself at this point because if you are found guilty of aiding and ace betting second degree, you re looking at 40 years. especially there s two younger officers there that were only on the force a short period of time. but if you look at the three accomplices, thao is not even touching him. but the other two officers that are actually physically handling floyd, proving aiding and abetting, not only does chauvin have to be found guilty of the underlying crime, but those other two officers have to know what crime he was trying to effectuate. they re obviously going to say he was trying to complete an arrest versus an actual assault. and they have to prove that. so it s going to be difficult. listen, i wouldn t be surprised if those younger officers are looking at for some form of cooperation here to get some leniency and really go against chauvin because that s really where it s going to be. kristin: guy, how strong of a case do you think the prosecution has against these other three officers? joe makes some good points, kristin. i don t think their case is overwhelming by any stretch of the imagination. one of the officers, this was his third day on the job. another officer this was his fourth day on the job. chauvin s the training officer. their lawyers are going to say, look, what am i supposed to do? i m three days on the job, i m supposed to tell him don t do what you re doing? he s the senior man there. and, indeed, at one point one of the officers said, hey, should we turn him over. should we do something different, and chauvin said, no. so i think joe makes some good points. you may see some cooperation, a plea bargain here, and again i think there s going this case is going to be contested despite the video which, you know, listen, go back to rodney king, kristin. we saw [laughter] remember that case in 91? we saw that case on video. those officers beat the living dog out of that man. that case was tried in a state court. what happened the first time around? not guilty. despite what we saw on that video. so i think there s still a lot of work to do here. kristin: all right. guy and joseph, i believe we lost joseph just in time but, guy and joseph, thank you so much for your time and expertise. really appreciate it. leland? leland: it has been an unprecedented week in so many ways including in the nfl as the commissioner is now responding to protests across the country, and nfl players are speaking out themselves. what they re saying, next. mug. so you only pay for what you need! 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[ ] when you have diabetes, managing your blood sugar is crucial. try boost glucose control. the patented blend is clinically shown to help manage blood sugar levels. it provides 60% more protein than the leading diabetes nutrition shake. try boost glucose control. kristin: tropical storm cristobal is forecasted to strike the gulf coast on sunday. coastal cities are under voluntary evacuation orders as they prepare for the storm with sustained winds of 50 miles an hour. also expected to bring heavy rain and storm surge. french armed forces kill a top al-qaeda leader during an operation in north mali this week, the french minister of defense taking to twittered today to congratulate everyone involved calling it a severe blow to terrorist groups in northern american. and conservative german lawmakers slamming president trump s decision to withdraw more than 9,000 troops stationed in the country. that can accounts for more than a quarter of troops in germany. a lawmaker argues that the president neglecting, quote, basic leadership tasks. leland: we ll get to the 76 anniversary of d-day in a couple minutes. in the meantime, nfl commissioner roger goodell changing his stance on protests, he said, quote: we, the national football league, admit we were wrong for not listening to nfl players earlier and encourage all to speak out and personally protest. i personally protest with you and want to be part of the much-needed change. we are listening, i am listening, and i will be reaching out to players and others on how we can improve and go forward for a better and more united nfl family. and the nfl was the subject of a lot of controversy that the white house got involved in, kristin. you think about what drew brees said which is i will never disagree with anybody disrespecting the flag, that was a couple days ago, he caught enormous flak from his own team a mates saying he didn t understand, so he issued an a apology. then president trump weighs in and says, hey, he shouldn t have apologized, and nobody should kneel during the national anthem as we look at the protests over the last couple of years. i m interested, does the white house still think this is an issue even in light of whatever happened that they can exloin as a wedge issue as they did when vice president pence walked out on the indianapolis colts game? kristin: you know, i think that was an issue that may have been farther to the forefront of the campaign before pandemic, before all of these protests. i think right now they are very focused on some other things, but, you know, look, as we ve said many times before, president trump is his own communications director, essentially, and if he wants to tweet about something, that s his prerogative and he ll do it. one thing i would note about that statement from goodell, he said a lot of things that a lot of players felt needed to be said, but no mention of the name colin kaepernick which started this movement, players kneeling on the sidelines during the national anthem, about four years ago. so that omission clearly generating a lot of attentioned today. leland: well, yeah. he s caught a lot of flak from kaepernick and his supporters because kaepernick doesn t have a job as a quarterback kristin: i believe he hasn t played since, right? leland: many would argue that s because he s not a very good quarterback. kaepernick and his supporters would like to say it s because he led the first kneeling protests during the national anthem. i guess the question becomes what s the threat to the nfl if they all of a sudden try to become part of the social justice movement and take sides in this or seen as taking sides in this, where that affects them with their fans. kristin: yeah. it s a great question. but i would note any commentary about kaepernick s, how good of a quarterback he is, that certainly is not within my wheelhouse. i ll leaf that to you and leave that to you and other sportscasters. something a bit more in my wheelhouse, we ve got these protesters gathering in cities all over the country today including los angeles. christina coleman is tracking it all. reporter: hi, yes. hundreds of people gathered on the campus of usc protesting this morning, one of many taking place here today in southern california. we ll have more on that coming up. this moment right now. this is our commencement. no, we ll not get a diploma or a degree of any kind. but we are entering a new chapter in our lives. our confidence is shaken; our hearts cracked. the kind of a crack that comes from the loss of a job; from life plans falling apart. we didn t ask for it. but we are rising to meet it. and how far we ve come isn t even close to how far we can go. we just have to remember how patient we were. how strong we can be. (how strong you can be.) and remember this; there s a crack in everything for a reason. how else can the light get in? tomorrow starts today. balanced nutrition for strength and energy. whoo-hoo! great tasting ensure with 9 grams of protein, 27 vitamins and minerals, and nutrients to support immune health. kristin: this is a fox news alert, theree protests taking place all over the country from washington, d.c. to philadelphia, to new york city and, of course, los angeles which is where we find our christina coleman who is walking with protesters, protesting the death of george floyd as they have been doing for over a week now. christina? reporter: hi, kristin. yeah, hundreds of students gathered on the campus of usc this morning to protest police brutality. i d say that they are fighting for justice. you can take a look and you can just see how many students are out here right now, a sea of red and yellow as the usc students come out here to make their voices heard. now, this protest is peaceful hike a number of protests have been over recent days including the one that took place there yesterday here in the l.a. area. yesterday california governor gavin newsom announced new policing and criminal justice reforms saying he s working with california s black and hispanic caucuses and community leaders to create new statewide standards for crowd control and use of force in protests. newsom has also called on a statewide ban on sleeper holds which involves officers putting pressure on a person s neck to repredict blood flow. he has ordered police departments to stop training on that tech the anemic, and in recent technique, and thiess a dozen law enforcement agencies announced they would stop using that neck restraint. take a listen. but at the end of the day, carotid holds that literally is designed the stop people s blood from flowing into their brain? that has no place any longer in 21st century practices and policing. black lives matter! reporter: l.a. s curfew ended on wednesday, and on wednesday the d.a. s office said 61 is people have been charged with crimes earlier this week during the protests, and most of those charges were for looting. others include robbery and stolen property. but again, in recent days the protests here have been largely peaceful. people demanding for justice, calling for reforms to policing tactics. and as you can see, there s no telling when these protests will stop. at least two more are expected today in the l.a. county lawyer including one in long beach. kristin, back to you. kristin: christina coleman walking a along with the protesters in los angeles for us, thank you. leland? leland: some police departments and especially their leadership are now facing serious questions about the images of police standing by while looters took over entire city blocks. one looter said we got no way of showing people how angry we are. an online petition to remove santa monica s police chief has gathered almost 50,000 signatures after her handling of the looting and vandalism in her city. with more on this, santa monica businessman, one of the people behind the petition, dan power. dan, we appreciate you joining us. are you surprised by the response for her to leave? well, on some level i am because i live in one of the most woke cities in america, and the appetite for law and order is almost nonexistent. but i think as we saw on our streets as the mob ransack ised our ransacked our town was at the intersection of incompetence and woke policing. it s one thing to say let s plant gardens that don t require a lot of water and other themes of the left, but when we lose control of our entire town, i think everyone saw that as a moment of incompetence, and it s intolerable. my wife looked at me and said, look, you know, you write about politics, why don t you do something about this, write something. so i posted something on a chat room that s followed by a lot of folks in the town, and someone ultimately commented and said, hey, is there a petition going on this? i said, no, but if you know how to do it, please do. here we are, nearly 50,000 signatures today. leland: as you re promoting this, you said it s one of the most woke towns in america, are any of your woke neighbors upset with you for this and saying, hey, look, the vandalism and looting we saw maybe not great, but people need to show how angry they are and we, the wealthier residents of santa monica, need to understand that and pay the price ourselves? the interaction s been almost entirely online, and as you know, the range of comments leland: yeah. [laughter] run the gamut. but i think that the thrust of the apologists has been, well, no lives were lost. this was just, i think in the words of the police chief herself, just a few insurable claims. which completely negates her primary duty as chief of police which is leland: i m going to get to her statement which is my first respondent is to protect the lives of people in our community, and on sunday my priority was preservation of life, protection of the city. we deployed our own assets and mutual aid resources as a they arrived. broken windows can be replaced, buildings can be repaired, but the lives of my officers and even the looters would have been impossible to restore if lost that day. i guess the larger question is what message does this send to the business community in santa monica? because without the business community, she doesn t have tax dollars, so she doesn t have a job, nor do any of her officers. can businesses be expected to rebuild is and pour their life savings back if this they don t believe they re going to be protected by the police chief? it s a legitimate question. i mean, you know, billions of dollars have been spent revitalizing santa monica. it was kind of a gritty place when i was a kid, you know, not a lot of retail, not a lot of services. it s changed enormously over the decades because of billions of dollars of concentrated effort to create this incredibly vital beachside, urban community. you know, the police chief s priorities were very muddled. it wasn t as if she was protecting the protesters because 40 minutes before the assigned curfew, her police officers who are allegedly supporting the protesters started firing rubber bullets and driving tear canisters. she drove them into the core retail district leland: unbelievable. where there was no police presence whatsoever. i mean, the protection of the rei store was left to a young woman, defenseless young woman who stood in front of the door trying to prevent anarchists from crashing the door. so, you know, this was a complete abdication of responsibility. i think a lot of the folks on the left look at the bow wake. we re cutting through the come play seven is city of peace complacency e of society with peaceful protests, and the family of george floyd have called for peaceful protests. but it s larger than that. it s a shift, in effect, a peaceful leland: we gotta run. certain wake. leland: george floyd memorial today at 3 p.m., and you re right, husband family have called his family have called for peaceful protests. we ll have you back if this continues and if the police chief either resigns or the city council takes action. thanks, dan. thank you. leland: kristin? kristin: one michigan high school comes up with a creative new way to graduate in person while still saying 6 feet apart. how they did it, next. i ve always been fascinated by what s next. and still going for my best, even though i live with a higher risk of stroke due to afib not caused 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alert as we take you around the country right now. just been 2 p.m. eastern here in washington. crowds are growing outside the white house and at the lincoln memorial. chicago, police have tried to shut down parts of interstates and exits, but still crowds are gathered as you can see there, even blocking intersections as they march through their city just before 1 p.m. philadelphia, the city of brotherly love, is filling up as well around their iconic parks. and crowds are now beginning to gather in boulder, colorado, just before noon. all george knowed protests and black floyd protests and black lives matter protests ahead of george floyd s memorial service in north carolina beginning at 3 p.m. eastern. obviously, coverage of the protests and the memorial service throughout the day here on fox. kristin: and what we will do is remind ourselves of the strength that we as a class have already exhibited. we are capable of finding unity in the darkest of places. life is not about the downfalls we suffer, but the comebacks we manifest with our words and actions. a powerful message from the graduating class in michigan where seniors a ace tended a one of a kind graduation ceremony that allowed them to celebrate in person while still applying to all those associate distancing guidelines. and joining us now is the high school principal, michael fray. what an incredible job you have done of making your graduating class still feel special and be able to celebrate the moment in person while being in the middle of a pandemic. so i don t want to leave our viewers in suspension anymore because this video really speaks for itself. what did you guys do? you know, it was really important to us that our students who lost so much this spring had that one opportunity to gather together, and we were able to do that by taking advantage of a local drive-in movie theater. a lot of pre-recorded student speeches, and we really recreated the entire event for them in movie format. so it really was an amazing night. kristin: you had beautiful weather. ing you even filmed it with, it appears, a drone. this was well thought out and well executed on every level. whose idea was it? you know, it was a team effort. i m very fortunate to work with a lot of amazing leaders in our school, and when we started talking this spring about what do we do for our seniors that are losing out on so many of those milestone moments at the end of their senior year? we just kind of stumbled into if we did something virtual, what could it look like. so somebody threw out the idea one day in a meeting, and the more we talked through it, the more it made sense. like a lot of good ideas, it kind of just snowballed from there. kristin: have you had other schools or universities contact you inquiring about how it worked and maybe thinking about doing it for their schools or universities? you know, we have. we ve had several high schools reach out and asked us a little bit about how we did it, asked for contact information for the drive-in theater, so i know that some are looking at maybe recreating. i heard of one other school in the state of michigan that was actually looking to maybe set up in their own school parking lot and rent a giant screen and project their graduation video in that format. so, again, we re fortunate. we have a strive-in theater close the drive-in theater close to our school, and we were able to take advantage of that. kristin: not just any drive-in theater, a pretty spectacular one as well. that is huge. if you look at it, that could be a model not just for graduation ceremonies, but also concerts and other events as we head into this summer in places where, you know, strict social distancing is still the norm. final question, michael, how did the graduating class feel about it? what was the response, and i guess were they pleased with it? you know, we ve had tons of positive feedback. in fact, we ve had even some people suggest this should become our new tradition because [laughter] it was such a blessed night. people were just able to be relaxed, they had fun, you know, they were able to laugh. the graduates were able to sit with their families, grandparents that would ride in the cars with them. so in many ways, it became more of a family celebration than maybe your traditional graduation event would be. so, yeah, i think we may have created a new tradition, i don t know that we ve replace we d replace it, but we re looking for other ways to maybe take advantage of that facility and to some unique things with our community. kristin: i love it. you have done an incredible job. thank you so much, and look forward to seeing what you guys do next year. i appreciate it. thank you so much for the coverage. kristin: yeah, thank you. leland. leland: that s great. live pictures now at 6:49 p.m. in london. you can see a line of protesters up against a long line of police. politicians in london have said please don t come out amid the coronavirus to protest, and as you can see, those pleas were ignored. benjamin hall on the ground with the protesters. hi, benjamin. reporter: yeah, hi, leland. well over 0,000 people here today 10,000. just in the last hour we ve seen some ask scuffles, seen some missiles thrown at the police. we will bring that to you just after the break. what getting fueled with one protein feels like. what getting fueled with three energy packed proteins feels like. meat! cheese! and nuts! p3. because 3 is better than 1 for 37 years we have been fighting for survivors of child sex abuse. even in these uniquely challenging times we re still fighting with dedication and devotion. california law gives survivors a chance to take legal action, but only for a limited time. if you were sexually abused by a priest, scout leader, coach or teacher contact us confidentially today. it s time. kristin: this just in from dallas, texas, city officials announcing they are now lifting their curfew in central downtown dallas. these are images from last night in the city. but officials put the curfew in place because of what happened last sunday in the city because of all the destruction and looting seen following two nights of protests that weekend. officials are also reminding people they should still stay home due to the coronavirus, so if it s not protests, it s the pandemic, leland. leland: and not even halfway through 2020. george floyd s death has sparked protests throughout the world. thousands have gathered in london to demand change. benjamin hall on the ground, says there may be as many as 10,000 people as it s getting a little bit more rambunctious, shall we say, as we approach nightfall. hi, benjamin. reporter: hi, leland. a majority of the crowd have now dispersed, a remark by peaceful event a couple of scuffles broke out behind us, but that has calmed down to a certain degree. yes, they are here to commemorate george floyd s death, also to demand the british government change its policies. policing over here is a problem, and they want to see reforms there as well. we spoke to some of the people in the crowds earlier, here s what they told us. this is something that we, as white people, will never understand, but we stand for equality and justice. the u.k. is not innocent. reporter: politicians across the u.k. from the health minister down have all urged people not to attend this event. because of coronavirus and the lockdown they wouldn t be able to come, but people didn t listen. they under the out in droves as they did up and down the country. there are protests all around the worlded today, every from from australia, new zealand, germany, sweden, elsewhere. in australia people came out to talk about the indigenous australians who died in custody. in france they banned two protests outside the embassy certainly what we re seeing is peaceful, a couple of bottles thrown, but the majority of people is have gone home, and it s hoped that s how it will stay. back to you. leland: we ll keep watching. benjamin, thanks so much. kristin? kristin: you re looking at live pictures from the nation s capital where protesters are turning out in what are largely peaceful demonstrations. more from the scene and some other protests all over the country right after after the break. robinwithout the commission fees. so, you can start investing today wherever you are - even hanging with your dog. so, what are you waiting for? download now and get your first stock on us. robinhood. . . . leland: fox news alert, 2:00 p.m. eastern asthmas i ve crowds are gathering across the country, and now the second weekend of protests over george floyd s death. so far today, as we ve looked around the country, washington, chicago, philadelphia, columbus, we ve seen protests in dallas, los angeles as well. they have been largely if not entirely peaceful and we certainly hope it stays that way. welcome to america s news headquarters from washington. i m leland vittert. kristin: i m kristin fisher. we have fox team coverage on all of these protests over the country. we have jonathan in rayford, north carolina. mark meredith is at the white house. we begin with lucas tomlinson, right outside the white house near lafayette square. lucas. reporter: good afternoon, kristin. thousands of peaceful protesters descended to lafayette square, just outside the white house. we re told the d.c. s mayor just showed up to applause. we have not seen her yet. she said all u.s. military forces should get out because the protests have been peaceful. we don t think that soldiers should be in the nation s capital, patrolling or policing streets. we made that formal request to the white house. we have no desire to have any soldier out on the street. but d.c. residents can t pay their bills. reporter: defense secretary esper ordered all active military police outside d.c. to return home to fort bragg and fort drum. he ordered all 5,000 national guard troops in the nation s capital to disarm. that s roughly the same number of u.s. troops deployed to iraq right now. so far, we have not seen a large police or military presence. the guard troops we ve seen are a few blocks away and are not wearing helmets or face coverings. more relaxed social distancing with the protesters. nationationwide, over 40,000 nal guard troops are mobilized. thousands of protesters are continuing to pour in. so far, all has been peaceful and each festive with music playing in the background. kristin. kristin: i ve seen it described as having much move a street festival feel today than it did earlier in the week. lucas, thank you so much. leland. leland: inside the 13-foot no climb fences, just beyond lafayette square, inside the white house, mark meredith is on the north lawn with more on the white house s response to all of this. reporter: we can t hear the protesters compared to what we just saw in lucas live shot. outside of the white house it s calm from where we are inside. we ve seen security stepped up quite a bit in the last week. we ve seen new fencing installed all around the white house perimeter, including the area around 17th street and pennsylvania. there are roadblocks everywhere, the perimeter around the white house has been reinforced. with the fencing installed, we ve seen additional secret service members out there as well as different law enforcement groups, as they were installing the fencing earlier this week, there were additionan id checks for people coming inside the complex. president trump is encouraging governors to use national guard troops to make sure there is no additional rioting or looting incidents. he encouraged the governors to call him directly on friday. take a look. and i hope they also use our national guard. call me. we ll be ready for them, so fast, their heads will spin. we did it in minnesota, in minneapolis, we were incredible. they were ripping that place apart. i love it. we had such success there. and they were ripping it apart and i called the governor and the national guard went in and one night it was over. reporter: critics continue to blast the white house response to george floyd protests, especially the decision by the president to visit saint john s church. protesters were cleared from the area moments before the president s brief visit. now the vice president is speaking out to fox s jesse watters, defen defending what my have called a photo op. what that said to me is here in america we will not tolerate burning churches. rioting and looting. or taking advantage of what would otherwise be peaceful protests. to pursue criminal aims. reporter: protests aside, the white house continues to watch the fallout from the jobs report that came out yesterday indicating the economy adding 2.5 million jobs in the month of may, certainly some good news as a result of what we saw earlier this year from the pandemic. president said on friday that the american economy is starting to rebound. kristin and leland, back to you guys. leland: mark meredith at the north lawn of the white house. mark, thank you. kristin. kristin: joining us now, criminal defense attorney, former homicide detective and fox news contributor, ted williams. toad, thank you so much for ted, thank you so much for joining us. i m i d like to start with where mark meredith left off. he was talking quite a bit about the much tighter security you are seeing at the white house this week. do you think it is the appropriate amount? overkill? or somewhere in between? well, kristin, i think it s somewhere in between. quite naturally, you want the white house and the president and his familiar throw be protected in that family to be protected in that house. on the other hand, it s the people s house and the people should have some access to it. and when you put up let s say a double fence as you put up here at the white house, you re kind of just saying to the people don t even come close if we should use that terminology. i think that s what s inappropriate. kristin: i want to get your take on this ongoing feud between president trump and the city s democratic mayor, muriel bowser. she has been very critical of the presence of outof state national guard troops in her city, critical of the enhanced federal law enforcement presence outside the white house. that prompted this tweet from president trump. he said, quote, the incompetent mayor of d.c., mayor bowser, whose budget is totally out of control is now fighting with the national guard who saved her from great embarrassment. here was mayor bowser s response to that tweet. there are so many things that i could respond to in that tweet. i think that we all have to just refocus on what s in front of us, and that is that our nation is hurting. it s in need of healing. and leadership at all levels. kristin: so she wants all of these out-of-state national guard troops out of the streets of d.c. what do you think? you know, kristin, our president is the president of the united states and i often wonder why he feels it s necessary to get down in the mud and the dirt with a mayor. when i listened to what mayor bowser had to say there, i thought she gave a more intelligent response than mr. trump, as pertains to these outside guardsmen. i can tell you, the metropolitan police department, the capital police, there are enough agencies without having the national guard here in the city to control crowds. they ve been doing it since time and memorial. and i have to say on the part of mr. trump, i think he s overreacting and i think it s unnecessary. kristin kristin: from the nation s capital to minneapolis, since you are a former detective and also a defense attorney, i would love to get your take on some of the changes that the minneapolis city council has voted in favor for, changes for the minneapolis police department. i want to read a few of them to you and get your take on the other side. they have voted for banning officers from using choke holds, neck restraints for any reason, like the kind that was used in george floyd s death. they say that all officers have an affirmative duty to intervene, regardless of tenure or rank to report another officer for committing unauthorized use of force and they say if they don t they will be subject to the same punishment as the officer who engaged in that unauthorized use of force. what do you think of those changes? are they the right kinds of changes and how would they impact policing on the ground level? i think that the changes are appropriate, specifically when we see what happened to george floyd here in minneapolis. and what you re saying is, hey, you shouldn t use a choke hold. now, i can tell you, it is relatively difficult at times when someone is resisting to body slam them. so there may be some use of a choke hold but i think that portion of the order needs some modification. but when it comes to reporting, other officers reporting that the choke hold was used on someone, i think that there is not only a legal duty, but i think that would be a moral duty on the part of police officers to make that kind of a report. that is the unfortunate thing, as you know. we ve got three officers that are charged with aiding and abetting and when you look at aiding and abetting under the circumstances here of what chauvin chauvin was the officer who had his neon the necthe on the knee on thef mr. floyd. the other officers, one holding him down, another holding him down, another officer standing there, they had some knowledge of it and they had some duty, a moral and legal duty to act. unfortunately, what they re being charged with is aiding and abetting because they did not act and they should have acted. kristin: now it s very clear that the change that s the minneapolis city council has voted for, a direct response to how defense attorneys for those three police officers, it s a direct response to the defense they re trying to make and essentially placing all the blame for george floyd s death on derek chauvin. ted williams, thank you so much for your time and your perspective. we always love having you on the show. my pleasure. thank you. leland: the family of george floyd preparing for the second of three memorial services, this time in a small north carolina town where he was born. you can see live pictures from the church as mourners are beginning to gather and the choir has begun to sing, now about 50 minutes ahead of the service at 3uz p.m. jonathan s 3:00 p.m. jonathan serri outside the church. reporter: what you re watching right now is the public visitation. it has attracted a huge crowd, thousands of people from all over lining up, coming in off of the street, although they were prepared for a crowd of any size, the size of this crowd has surprised even local people. but so many people felt moved to come out here to pay their respects. the public viewing has drawn people not only from north carolina, but other states. people of different races and all ages, again, who felt it was just important to be here. want the to show you now a view from live inside the church where george floyd s coffin is on display in this small church. many nearby businesses closed down for the day to provide free parking so that additional people could come here and attend the viewing and then a private memorial for mr. floyd s family will begin at 3:00 today. the significance of this location, rayford, it s near fayetteville, near the community where mr. floyd was born. on thursday a high profile memorial took place in minneapolis, the city where floyd died in handcuffs, pleading for air as a white police officer pressed his knee to his neck. and then on monday another viewing is scheduled for houston, texas, the community where mr. floyd grew up as a child and then on tuesday a memorial in texas as well. here in rayford, the sheriff is asking people not to protest saying, quote, the memorial is about the life that mr. george floyd lived and this is a time to embrace the family with expressions of love and kindness. and that is exactly what we re seeing people doing here. no protests to speak of, just expressions of love and deep respect for this man whose life was cut way too short. back to you, leland. leland: all right. back to you throughout the hour and then live coverage at the top of the hour for this memorial service. jonathan, thank you. kristin. kristin: we ve already taken you to protests today in los angeles, now we go just a little farther up north in california to san francisco where they are seeing their eighth straight day of protests and claudia cowen is live on the ground to tell us what s happening. hey, claudia. reporter: a sunny, breezy day for this march that s scheduled to start just about an hour from now, going across the golden gate bridge. 1.7 miles each way. and this event is slated to last about two hours. organizers got what is called an expressive activity permit, allowing for 300 people and some pretty strict rules, everyone needs to stay on the sidewalk, they cannot interfere with pedestrians, bicyclists or cars. of course, in many of these demonstrations protesters have blocked tactic to cause inconvenience. this is a major freeway and plenty of security will be on hand to make sure bridge traffic flows and everything stays safe. organizers are asking everyone to wear masks and practice social distancing. the sidewalk is 10 feet wide so that is doable. protests around the bay area have been mostly peaceful this week. there was extensive damage in berkley and oakland. last week a security guard was fatally shot in oakland in what officials are calling a case of domestic terrorism. the suspect is still at large. after a chaotic protest on tuesday, police fired on a man they thought had a gun, turned out to be a hammer. the protester died and the state attorney general has launched an investigation. all of this as the mayor of san francisco lifts a curfew that lasted almost a week and joins other democratic leaders in announcing plans to cut funding for the police department and redirect that money to minority communities. protesters will be sending a message about supporting racial equality through consumer spending or the lack of consumer spending, this is part of a national campaign asking everyone not to spend any money on july 7th, except at black-owned businesses. and this march across the golden gate bridge, kristin, one of several dozen events taking place today and tomorrow around the bay area. back to you. kristin: should be a very impressive sight. claudia cowen live in san francisco for us. thanks so much. leland. leland: there are new concerns the mass gatherings we re seeing will turn into corona super spreader events, that s in the words of some public health officials, as videos show thousands of protesters packed together, often time not wearing masks. the chair of the new york city council, their health committee, mark levine, tweeted let s be clear about something, if there s a spike in coronavirus cases in the next two weeks, don t blame the protests, blame racism. let s bring in fox news contributor, professor of health, policy and management, johns hopkins school of public health, dr. marty makary. we ve been told for months you can put your entire community at risk. has that suddenly changed because people are getting together to protest? no, leland the science is the science. from a public health standpoint we know the drivers of this infection, it s close proximity, the lack of taking mitigation steps like wearing masks. we know it s mass gatherings and travel. when people think about protesting, they should remember it s often gathering people through travel potentially from high risk areas and low risk areas. protests represent all of that. at the same time, most protesters are doing is safely and it can be done safely. the heat can give a false sense of security that this is not a problem when in fact we re still seeing massive spread around the country right now, despite the warm weather. leland: a lot of video, shows less than 40% of the people wearing masks. this is from the former dean of harvard medical school. many public health experts have already severely undermined the power and influence of their prior message. we were exposed to continuous daily covid death counts until nine days ago. overnight behavior became permissible due to a quote, greater need. do you worry that the lack of warnings and crackdowns for lack of a better term by public health officials and by politicians who seem to agree with getting together now because they agree with the cause, that it completely undermines any type of warnings or things that need to be done this fall if crus tha corona co. we can t change our message in public health for a particular cause. i think this is a cause everybody believes in but remember, there are other ways to protest than breaking some of the public health standards. we saw the nfl players protest by creating short videos through social media. mass gatherings are well-known vectors of transmission. we saw it with the spanish flu. it was the liberty rallies in support of world war i that were a significant driver. leland: with coronavirus, didn t we see super spreaders in clubs in south korea? i m thinking about the church event, i m thinking about the subway. chinese festival, mardi gras, these are known of events. super spreaders are at large public gatherings. leland: as we look forward on this, if after this you never want to have this experiment but seems as though it is happening in terms of all of a sudden open offing up for mass gatherings, people getting on mass transit, et cetera, et cetera, if all of a sudden there is not a huge spike in cases as the warnings would conceivably purport to show or think you would have happen, does that say that the coronavirus dies in the heat and probably we re okay this summer? we re learning a lot right now. we re learning there s a seasonal component. it may account for 60% of the velocity of the transmission of this infection. look at brazil, on the equator, experiencing an outbreak with over 1,000 deaths per day and an incline. the sun belt is getting hit hard right now. we re learning it does spread in the heat. florida, california, texas, mississippi, arkansas, the states that are increasing. there s significant concern here that these are states in the sun belt and we re seeing an increase in cases. in the summer. that s concerning. we ll have more seeding going into the fall where we get a full season of the coronavirus, not just a third of a winter as we did the last winter. leland: as you ve seen this video, being a public health doctor, at times do you cringe when you see the video of people without masks and everybody holding hands and say, boy, two weeks from now we re going to have a real issue on our hands? there s no doubt we re going to see a bump in cases. the question is will it be canceled by the seasonal natural decline of the virus. we ll be going into fall with more cases than we wanted this summer. we re not going to see the data from these protests until about four or five weeks from now because it will take two or three cycles of transmission with mostly young people who are asymptomatic when they get infected to really transmit it to others. leland: that s an excellent point. andrew cuomo went as far as to say if you have been in the protest, you should assume you ve been exposed and could potentially have it. thank you for your insights. kristin. kristin: more protesters taking to the streets today while the manhattan da made a surprising decision on prosecuting those protesters. we ll have more on that right after the break. we are the thrivers. women with metastatic breast cancer. our time for more time. has come. living longer is possible - and proven in postmenopausal women taking kisqali 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ve seen large crowds streaming down sixth avenue towards washington square park as that began to fill up. many streets in new york closed the protesters came from harlem. we ll try re-establish with aishah and get back to her. kristin. kristin: leland, you look at what s been happening across the country and the good news is that the trend over the last week has really been that these protests have become increasingly more peaceful. i talked to a lot of law enforcement oenforcement officie city and protesters and the sentiment is that while we are expecting these huge crowds, thousands and thousands, as you said, perhaps tens of thousands of people to show up and march all over the city today, we are expecting the protests to be largely peaceful. as you look on 16th street which is where d.c. s mayor, muriel bowser wrote in large yellow letters, black lives matter, people are saying the feeling felt very different than it did earlier in the week, felt more like a street festival, there was music and whatnot. hoping it really stays that way as we watch all the protests across the country today. leland: you think about it, one week ago exactly right now, next to this street, this is eighth street in washington d.c., the camera s pointed towards the white house, but is being kept a couple blocks back because of the fencing installed, there s saint john s church that was burned, you can see the black lives matter sign that was put up. one week ago exactly, where they are standing right now, there were police cars, secret service cars that were being burned and later in the night the next day saint john s church was on fire. we think we ve reestablished our connectivity with aishah hasnie who is on the street of manhattan, among the marchers, looks like you re among folks enjoying a nice day in the park. reporter: it happens, leland, when there s a lot of cell phones in one spot, you can t get a connection so i had to move back a little bit. you can hear what s going on behind me. we re at washington square park where it seems like two different marches, two protests together. the earlier march started at union square, it was led by artist and musician john batiste. they walked over the washington square park. it s been going on for a while now, it has been peaceful. also happening today, the day really got started [no audio] leland: that s what happens on live television. we re transmitting using cell phone signal as aishah and some of the correspondents are marching with the protesters. in new york city, the cell phone towers are overwhelmed by so many people in the crowds. we ll check back in with aishah later today. also later today t george floyd memorial, this is the second of three memorials, this happening in his birth place in north carolina. that is 3:00 p.m. eastern today. you can see pictures of the church that has begun to fill up. there was a public viewing that is going on throughout the morning and early afternoon and then we are going to wait for the service. jonathan serry is there in north carolina where he says there have been no protests but in the words of the sheriff, there have been a lot of folks coming to pay respect to the family and lift them up in love, to use the words of the sheriff, kristin. kristin: and speaking of memorial services, an nie glen is being remembered today with a virtual me no memorial service. ohio state university is holding the service. anne glen was married to john glenn for 73 years. she dedicated her life for advocating for those on earth, focusing on americans with speech disorders. she died on may 19th at age 100, died due to complications of the coronavirus. leland: she and her husband offered so much to america. all right. outpouring of protests around the country, this is lafayette square, just outside of the white house. kevin cork outside the capitol down pennsylvania avenue. hi, kevin. reporter: full complement of marchers here. we re expecting to be on the move fairly 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[grunting noise] i ll take that. woohoo! 30 grams of protein and 1 gram of sugar. ensure max protein. with nutrients to support immune health. leland: a fox news alert, asthmas i ve crowds continue to flow into washington dc for another day-long protest over the death of george floyd. kevin cork live on capitol hill. so we understand where you are, looks like pennsylvania avenue. we ve got crowds at the white house, the lincoln memorial and now leaving the capitol, correct? reporter: that s correct. as we make our way down constitution, as you can see, we are along a massive group of marchers, they continue to chant for george floyd and black lives matter. and breonna taylor. we are being swept up through the cloud. we thought we could give you a birdbird s eye view. as the crowd started moving, we felt like we could safely move along with. we re also concerned as you could imagine about the weather. and we have massive crowds here. with temperatures exceeding 90 degrees and high humidity, there is some concern about those who might be out here for several hours. one of the speakers said about 20 minutes ago, we want to make sure that everyone knows stay hydrated, we re going to be out here all day long. and indeed, that seems to be the case here. i want to bring up one other thing to your attention, if i may. as we left the capitol complex, we saw a police escort up front. so they can safely march down constitution. i imagine we re going to sen enp connecting with another group that is marching near the site on independence. if that happens, i ll see if i can t get agood picture. for now, back to you. leland: real quick, kevin, as you re marching along with these folks, one of the big problems particularly at this time in washington, d.c., if there was a protest like this people could go into the museums and get air conditioning, there would be restaurants and other shops open with water and the like. i imagine everything is closed along the parade route because of the coronavirus and also what wasn t closed because of that, what happened because of the looting earlier this week. reporter: you re right about that. we re seeing a number of volunteer organizations come out and provide free food, free water, everything from gator ade and sparkling water, in an interest to keep people safe out here. people want to get out and march. the hope is certainly that they re able to do so peacefully and safely. we re seeing lots of that as we make our of way down here. this is a good this is a better view, good job, mark, as we march along here. we ll tried to keep a bird s eye of what s happening. back to you. leland: crowds much larger than what we ve seen all this week. feels like 91 degrees and will only get hotter throughout the afternoon. kevin, thank you. kristin. kristin: former vice president joe biden has now clinched the democratic nomination. we re going to dig into it a little more with fox news contributor richard fowler, who is also a radio show host of the richard fowler show. so richard, now it is official and, you know, joe biden, he made his first public speech in months on tuesday in which he called for nationwide police reform. he also called on an outright ban on choke holds. it was a big speech but it also cost him some support with police groups. was it worth it for the former vice president politically? in this moment, it was worth it for the former vice president. let s take a look at joe biden, not only his record but his who got him to this point in the primary. it was african-american voters, multicultural coalitions of voters in south carolina, texas, in michigan, he has to respond to the voters if he plans on winning the presidential election. i think the next chapter for the biden campaign is who will be the vice presidential pick. this is probably one of the most important vp picks in american history. it will determine likely who will be the next president of the united states. kristin: you hate to play the guessing game but i m going to ask it anyway. who are your top picks for vp right now? that is a good i don t know if i could guess and guess it right. i do believe it will be a woman of color. and i think woman of color could come from a couple of places. i think she could come in the form of the mayor of atlanta, georgia, keisha ban lance bought toments, it coulbottoms,the se congresswoman val testimony i d. the crowds at the protests seem to be getting bigger. it s important he speaks to the protesters in a real way to ensure america can be an equitable country which is what this election will be all about. kristin: i spoke with two top trump campaign aides this week and they told me that they saw a huge surge in black support, support from black voters after joe biden made that comment where he said you ain t black, he has since apologized for it. but i m curious if you think that comment really hurt him with black voters or is it just something that generated a lot of clicks and headlines? that s a great question. and i think that s a question that you have to really flew t n the prism of time. i think that was an inartful comment by the president and he apologized. black voters understand we can disagree with a candidate but our job here to is move on the issues we believe he could be moved on and i think that s a stark contrast to president donald trump who was who was able to tote his low unemployment rate and now that s been sort of evaporated because of covid-19 and he s been able to talk about how he passed criminal justice reform but we see the issue of criminal justice and the issue of equity come up and this white house has been flat footed on their response to the cries of the protesters and response to the cries of black americans from all parties who are saying there s something broke then the system and it s the job of the lead toker to figure out what the problem is, speak to it and come up with meaningful solutions after consultation with communities. this is where the president of the united states has failed. kristin: it is really striking, the contrast between president trump and joe biden. president trump said this week i am the law and order president. on the other side, you have joe biden and during that speech on tuesday he didn t really mention some of the violence that we ve seen towards police officers at all, really just focused on the protesters and certain reforms that he believes need to be made. this is a delicate question i don t want to minimize what s happening in this country. but since we do have an election coming up in five months, who do you think this moment benefits the most? biden or the president? the protesters, right, and people calling out for black lives matter is who the moment benefits the most. kristin, it s young folks, young americans, this election is probably one of the most consequential elections in our lifetime and it is the clearest contrast between two candidates. one candidate is saying he s the law and order candidate, doubling down on law enforcement. and the other candidate is saying i m going to align with the millions of americans who are saying our system is broken and there s an indeed a problem with law enforcement that goes beyond the case of george floyd, far beyond the case of breonna taylor, goes back to 1992 with rodney king and prior to that in 1955 with emmett till. there s a problem with law enforcement in the country. what the president should do is speak to the problem and talk about how he is a president who will work on making changes, beyond just buzz words. i think that s where the president is losing black voters and losing americans. kristin: thank you so much. got to leave it there. thanks, richard. leland. leland: we re going to celebrate a uniquely american accomplishment, almost a decade in the making, when we come back. this moment. this moment right now. this is our commencement. no, we ll not get a diploma or a degree of any kind. but we are entering a new chapter in our lives. our confidence is shaken; our hearts cracked. the kind of a crack that comes from the loss of a job; from life plans falling apart. we didn t ask for it. but we are rising to meet it. and how far we ve come isn t even close to how far we can go. we just have to remember how patient we were. how strong we can be. 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hours. we have gusts up to 65 miles an hour, this is large storm so we re already seeing heavy rain across portions of florida. that s going to be one of the stories, this is a fast-mover, north at 12 miles an hour and it s large so a lot of people are going to be impacted with heavy rain in this system. there s the track. you do see it getting right there at lawful sunday at landfall, sunday at 7:00 p.m. still a lot of rain with this system. we ve got tropical storm warnings from louisiana, stretching all the way over to the florida gulf coast. typically we call it the dirty side of the storm, the eastern side of the storm, that s why you re looking at tropical storm warnings to the right-hand side. those are the areas that will be impacted with the storm surge, with the winds, the strongest winds and some of that really heavy rain. storm surge, anywhere from 2 to 4 feet, largely along the louisiana coast, bil biloxi, mississippi, the standing water could be swept up on-shore. this is the area where we re talking about the tropical storm force winds and heavy rain. i want to leave you with this graphic. even though we re talking about louisiana, that s 6 to 8 inches of rain, getting all the way to panama city florida, a big rain-maker, the timeframe of this, tomorrow late afternoon into the early evening. leland: doesn t help new orleans as they try to reopen. adam, thank you so much. kristin. kristin: one week ago today, u.s. astronauts were launched to the international space station from u.s. soil for the first time in nearly a decade use ago rocket that was built, owned and operated by a private company. spacex. it was an amazing accomplishment for the company and nasa. it marked the beginning of a new era for space travel. elon musk, he has big plans for that. i can t emphasize this enough. this is the thing we need to do. we must make life sustainably multiplaplanetary, to extend lie beyond earth. kristin: and after that launch, just five days later, leland, spacex launched another falcon 9 rocket, no astronauts on top this time, just a bunch of satellites. but it s just a series of two incredible accomplishments from spacex and it proves one of the other of incredible things that elon musk has been able to do, which is prove the feasibility of reusable rockets, the second rocket that launched it had already flown in space four other times. leland, i know you have not always been the biggest fan of elon musk but you have to give him props today. leland: i was about to give you the compliment that you have been a loyal supporter of elon musk through thick, through thin, through marijuana use, through sec violations and stipulations and now you get to take a well-deserved victory lap. kristin: i feel so vindicated. and i m just so happy for him. i mean, he has put so much time and money into this. listen to what elon musk said and how much this meant to him. .leland: he certainly talkeda lot about that and got to see the president of the united states as well. along the way. we ll move on from elon musk and kristin fisher s victory lap. today marks the 76th anniversary of d-day. we ll show you how the occasion is being marked on the shores of normandy when we come back. whether it s bribes to roll over. .or an overdue makeover. get all your pet essentials right when you need them, with curbside pickup at petsmart. just order online, drive up, check-in, and pick up. this virus is testing all of us. and it s testing the people on the front lines of this fight most of all. so abbott is getting new tests into their hands, delivering the critical results they need. and until this fight is over, we.will.never.quit. because they never quit. kristin: here in the nation s capital, we are watching the second weekend of protests, thousands of people have filled the streets outside the white house, the nation s capitol, the lincoln memorial, by and large they have been overwhelmingly peaceful today as best we can tell. we are also tracking protests all over the country, from new york city, to san francisco, and los angeles. leland: the size of these crowds is truly stunning as we take a look now, looking down at the capitol. you see constitution avenue where kevin cork is marching. we ve seen huge crowds at the lincoln memorial and crowds also in front of the white house. all to memorialize and protest the death of george floyd who will be remembered in a service at 3:00 p.m. eastern, a couple of minutes the service begins in raeford, north carolina where floyd was born, the second of three services. we will have live coverage on it as it happens. today marks the 76th anniversary of d-day, when some 156,000 american, british and canadian forces landed on the beaches of normandy. this year s commemoration looked a little different, because of social distancing guidelines, no d-day veterans were on the normandy shores. there were limited gatherings with representatives from nine countries and you can see the laying of a wreath at one of the many cemeteries there in normandy and you cannot forget on a day in america that has so many different things happening, kristin, sort of the greatness of that generation and what they overcame throughout those years. kristin: it helps put it in perspective. leland: it really does. large coverage of the protests and also of the funeral for george floyd when we come back. -excuse me. uh. do you mind.being a mo-tour? -what could be better than being a mo-tour? the real question is. do you mind not being a mo-tour? -i do. for those who were born to ride, there s progressive. eric: we re waiting for the start of a second memorial service for george floyd. as you know, the african-american man who was killed in minneapolis while in police custody nearly two weeks ago now, his death sparked the outrage and protests nationwide and calls for reform of police procedures. today s private memorial taking place in raeford, north carolina, that is near mr. floyd s birth place in fay fayetteville. thousands of mourners have gathered to pay their final respects. hello everyone, welcome to america s news headquarters. i m eric shawn. arthel: and i m arthel neville. today s service is for family and friends w