mentioned we provide this service in other countries. [closing bell rings] so wee been involved with other country regulatory agencies as well to make sure we insure policies and procedures -- liz: i have to interrupt you. that is the closing bell. thank you for coming on the show. cindy is with stericycle. she is the ceo. a terrific leader. nasdaq just misses turning positive for the year. melissa: optimism on wall street. stocks soaring as the number of new jobless claims continues to decline. at the white house president trump preparing to deliver remarks to commemorate the national day of prayer, after meeting with the texas governor. i'm melissa francis. connell: i'm connell mcshane. welcome to "after the bell," everybody. the dow is up 200 points. we're watching nasdaq to see how it would close. if it settles in where it does now, it will be positive for the year which is really unbelievable when you think

about all we've been through. we'll talk more about that. we also have earnings from uber coming out any moment. we'll cover that. fox business team coverage with all the top stories. lauren simonetti watching those stories. blake burman from the white house. there is a lot of news there. and susan li with uber and more from the new york. lauren, we start with you. lauren: guys, good to see you. i don't want to call it a fade but the dow was up 430 points. it lost some momentum closing at 23,875 for a gain of 211 points but certainly a fade for the third day in a row. take a look at nasdaq. it didn't close above 9,000 but it is positive on the year by seven points. what a day. what has been powering the nasdaq and the overall market? megacaps, facebook, amazon, google, netflix, microsoft. look at them this quarter. they're all up 15%.

strong balance sheet, cash flow, generally seen as immune to government regulation which had been an overhang. there is very much a push, pull we're seeing in the market right now. signs the economy is reopening. let's look at some travel stocks. they rebounded today up 5 1/2% gain for carnival. 7% gain for mgm. there is questions how fast the economy can heal. got fda approval to accelerate a vaccine trial, moderna. that stock up 8%. peloton, they signed a million subscribers during the lockdown. paypal, one analyst says more relevant now than ever before. lyft up 21%. the jobs report tomorrow will capture the full impact of the coronavirus. investors shrugging off data that another 30 million americans filed for unemployment

benefits. breaking news just crossing the wires right now. let's take a look at the financials as we do this story. philadelphia fed president patrick harker making remarks he doesn't think big banks should be issuing large dividends right now. they need to preserve cash. nonetheless financials were one of the best sectors. the philly fed president says the fed is think about setting up facilities to directly lend to colleges and non-profit medical institutions. guys, back to you. connell: interesting, lauren, thank you. next up blake burman in washington with summary of what turned out to be a busy day at the white house. where do you want to start, blake? reporter: i don't know, i've been on the phone the last 20, 30 minutes, connell. there has been a lot of news out of the white house. let's start with questions about potential exposure of covid-19 and president trump because the white house confirming today the

first known case of covid-19 within the white house t happens to be one of president trump's valets. now fox is told that that person started feeling ill earlier this week. that person has not been on campus within the last several days or so. it of course brings up questions about the president's own health but the president said that he has been tested. the vice president has been tested as well. everything has been okay. listen here. >> i had very little contact. mike had very little contact with him. mike and i were tested. we were both tested. reporter: [inaudible] >> a little bit strange. but one of those things. reporter: okay, connell, some news coming out within the last few minutes that we've been able to confirm through u.s. and chinese sources is that the u.s. trade representative robert lighthizer and vice premier of china, liu he we are told are expected, i stress expected, as you see the president coming out

to speak, next week via telephone. that reason why that is important. the president said he would get an update on the china phase one trade deal at the end of next week that fits in with that timeline. send it back to you as we're about to hear from the president. connell: that was important information, blake, that we will follow up on yesterday, when the president talked about china. we will certainly continue to follow that today. the president and first lady are attending white house national day of prayer service in the rose garden. those are that beginning now. back over to melissa. melissa: here now to react to all of this is bill mcgurn, "wall street journal" columnist and a fox news contributor. bill, let me ask you first about those unemployment numbers. even though we said there were fewer people going on unemployment this week than there were in the past we're still at a record enormous number of people out of work and one thing that struck me was this poll from "the washington post" that found that 77% of people who have been

furloughed or laid off expect to get their job back when this is over. they think they will be rehired. are they overly optimistic? >> well, we don't know. i do think that because this economic problem didn't start with like weakness in the economy it started with, you know, a pandemic, i think that there's a sound case for saying that when the economy springs back, it may spring back very quickly but that is a lot of dislocation as you were saying. again, i think it is small consolation that numbers didn't rise but it is building on top of a very large mountain of people out of work. you know, just what i see, i'm lucky, i'm not out of work, i can draw my paycheck but i know a lot of people that are struggling. a friend of mine had to close his garage. lots of people suffering in ways and they see no end. melissa: yeah.

you know we, you heard blake say a moment ago the chinese premier and lighthizer getting together again to talk. we seemed like made progress on the china problem. that seems like so many issues ago when we were talking about trade but now, you know, as you say, we do not want to trade with them, we don't want to get anything from them, but no, we had this deal where they were going to buy food from our farmers. >> right. melissa: there were a lot of issues out there. does that pile problems on top of problems now? >> i think it does. my view of china i believe we should trade with them. i think people have learned about the vulnerability when you're entirely, supply chain is entirely dependent on china now but my other view the chinese government is not honest and we'll always have problems with trade with china. they will not go away forever because they don't abide by the rules. melissa: yeah.

in times of, one of the biggest concerns is about people making more money right now temporarily while they're not working, what incentive do they have to go back. i said this before but i talked to a whole bunch anecdotally small business owners say they can't get people to come back. someplaces were opening today. they did find people. does the rational set in that when music ends there may not be that many jobs? so if you have a job calling you back, you might make more money until july sitting home you should get back to work? is there rationale coming to a lot of people? do you want -- >> [inaudible]. tremendous problem. perhaps worst move the federal government has made. so what you have is the federal, sort of bonus for people unemployed at $600 a month. that is on top of whatever unememployment benefits they get in their state.

for a lot of people, that is a lot more than working. we had an article by a guy from portland who runs a business basically supplies chefs and restaurants with workers and he pointed out in their state, for a low-lying cook or something, they would normally earn 600 something a month. with these benefits they're getting 1000. you can't expect people to take a pay cut to go back to work. i think what you're, you put your finger on such an important problem because even if a lockdown is lifted, and they say they can go back to work, people find it better not to work, if that doesn't change, i think until end of july, we're going to postpone a recovery. it was such a boneheaded rule. you're one of the few people that have paid attention to it. melissa: yeah. well on that note, bill mcgurn, thank you. see you soon. connell? connell: we have a "fox business alert, melissa, on uber's results. you may have seen susan li joins

us, the numbers crossing at the bottom of the screen while melissa and bill were talking. they lost more money than expected. susan: that's right. take you through why they lost more money than anticipated. but actual numbers in terms of profit, they lost a buck 70 per share. analysts were looking for8 cents for8 cents -- 88 cents loss. they're talking about impairment charges. meaning we know uber is a global company. they own stakes china, uber in china. they say they lost money because value of these companies went down the first quarter of this year. they said analysts didn't actually right that price it that in correctly into the model. this loss is much wider than anticipated. sales came in better than expected first three months. 3.54 billion. that is how much they made. gross bookings how you gauge ride-hailing t went up the first three months of year which is

surprising. they actually beat the street. think about it globally we went through clone clone in china, asia pacific around the middle east where uber also has operations as well. maybe not as good as lift. lyft more of a pure play here in the u.s. uber says this was better than expected. uber eats, we're stuck at home, being quarantined. eats up 54%. we're hoping on earnings call we'll get more guidance how much eats is doing first quarter of april. what about recovery in ride-hailing since a lot of these markets have been hammered down 80% or so? guidance for profitability, when will the company make money outside of expenses? they had until the fourth quarter of this year. they pulled that guidance. maybe we'll see profitability this year or next year early 2021. guys? connell: interesting, susan. the stock down more than 4%. that is uber.

before weigh -- we let you go have news on apple. tell us that. susan: companies across the u.s. want to see the u.s. economy open as well. they're investing $10 million into this california test kit maker hoping to expand testing kits to a million a week by the month of july. i caught up with the chief operating officer, apple number two behind tim cook and i spoke to him about what apple's doing in the economy right now especially in these tough times. we had 33 million americans filing for unemployment. what about apple and what they're doing with their headcount. >> one of the things we've done during this period we've continued to pay our retail store employees. we're paying the hourly workers. even our, even contractors supporting us because as i said, i'm bullish on, bullish on where things are going in the long haul. we need those skills. we're going to invest through these challenging times.

we're not going to, we're not going to attack this problem by cutting. we'll not save our way to prosperity. susan: they're investing 10 million to make the tissing kits. that will be a 10 million-dollar investment. they're sourcing 30 million facemasks and face shield which is made in illinois. they're giving and shipping 10 million of these to the front line staff to make sure they are protected but if you will have anybody make any shields for you probably want the most successful hardware device-maker in history doing that, right, guys? connell: that makes sense. thank you, susan li covering a lot of ground for us today. uber-and apple. melissa. melissa: yeah. thanks for that. all right. at least 3.8 million cases worldwide. the death toll now spiking to 75,000 in the u.s. the white house deciding against issuing more specific cdc guidance on reopening the economy. instead allowing governors to

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♪ melissa: governor andrew cuomo announcing earlier today. no one in new york can be evicted for not paying rent because of the coronavirus until august 20th. david lee miller joins us outside of mount sinai with more. reporter: melissa, addressing the financial hardship faced by so many new yorkers, the governor announced the state will extend the eelection ban for another 60 days -- eviction. that includes a ban on any type of fees for late payments. the state will also require the awe howance of renters to be able to pay rent using their security deposit without any penalties. cuomo says the state is working

with banks to prevent landlords from having their properties closed. antibody tests on 27,000 health care workers in new york city shows a lower rate of infection than the population. cuomo said the test in the new york area amazingly good news underscoring the importance of masks, gloves, personal protective equipment. he said the state is on the downside of the mountain adding it is a slow descent including people who had to be hospitalized. >> the rest of the nation is going up and we're coming down. so what we're doing is working. and when it is working stay the course. quote attributed to win ton churchhill, if you're going through hell, keep going. that is what we're doing, we're going through hell. reporter: starting next week new york city will begin testing 140,000 people for coronavirus

antibodies in hard-hit sections of the city. as part of that process they're going to gather demographic information. they are testing another 40,000, health care workers and first-responders. mayor bill de blasio asking washington to provide financial assistance, that new york face as $7.4 billion short fall. the furlough and lay offs and city workers is in the hands of the president and congress. he accused president trump being inhumane offering tax breaks to the wealthy as a precondition for helping first-responders. mr. trump has said a cut in the capital gains has to be part of any future deal for providing aid regarding the coronavirus pandemic to states and cities. that is the latest, melissa, back to you. melissa: david lee, thank you. although of course new york did already get billions from the government and they're welcome to borrow from the fed. it is right there for the taking. connell, thank you.

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melissa: "fox business alert." news corp reporting third quarter results. let's go back to lauren simonetti with the numbers. lauren? lauren: this is the owner of "the wall street journal," the "new york post" and realtor.com. it was a mixed bag if you look at earnings per share, better than expected three cents. however revenues down 8% year over year to $2.27 billion. it that was a slight miss.

you have to remember these publications have strong readership. they came into the quarter with very strong ad revenue but as a result of covid-19 they're trying to save cash and they are seeing somewhat after decline when it comes to advertising. the company says this, fueled by significant digital advertising and subscriber growth at dow jones, including "the wall street journal," reached approximately three million subscribers in the last week. that is a new record with over 2.2 million that are digital-only. there is nice transition to digital here and ad revenue on digital so far holding up. not much stock reaction here in the after-hours. melissa, back to you. melissa: all right. lauren, thank you. now this. >> so ppe has been sporadic but it has been manageable. we do what we have to do. we're nurses. we learn to adapt and do

whatever the best thing we can do for our patients to get the job done and get the care provided. >> sporadic for you but not sporadic for a lot of other people. >> no, i agree, mr. president. >> because i heard the opposite. connell: we're joined by that nurse practitioner you heard from speaking to the president yesterday. her name is sophia thomas. she is the president of the american association of nurse practitioners. thank you for coming back on the show. you were on with us in march. we talked about same issues then, before we get back into them now, what would you like to say about the exchange you had with the president a day later? >> it was an honor to be at the white house on the day of national nurses day, to be there in the oval office with the president as he signed a proclamation declaring national nurses day. i will say that our meeting yesterday at the white house was very productive, very professional and we got a lot of things accomplished. it was very positive. i was honored to get to meet

with dr. deborah birx and hhs secretary azar and the vice president before we went into the oval office. in the oval office the president signed the declaration. it was a great day to be a nurse, a great day to be a nurse practitioner i could share that. represent my nurse practitioner colleagues around the country. connell: that exchange though did seem somewhat tense after the president jumped in when you said the supplies of ppe were sporadic. it brings up a question how much progress we've made, where we were, where we are now. you know, maybe last time you were on or certainly, even a month ago, it is a fact that not only your hospital but hospitals around the country were struggling on the ppe side. there is no fake news there. we talked to a lot of people that confirmed that. we know that was the case. the hhs inspector general put out a report early in april said that hospitals were experiencing serious shortages but that was a

while ago. how much has changed now since then? how much progress has been made? by the looks of things we still have work to do if you're wearing the same mask day after day? >> i would tell you cdc guidance on ppe with appropriate use and storage. we follow that guidance every day. we've seen an overall improved access to ppe in our area since the beginning of this crisis. as you know ppe before covid-19 was nonexistent. i think the white house coronavirus task force really gone leaps and bounds trying to do whatever they can to provide ppe to health care providers around the country. at -- [inaudible] we're getting reports from some nurse practitioners they're having trouble accessing ppe and those are reports across the country. overall access is tremendously

improved from what it was and will continue to improve. what is important to know right now everybody in america is looking for a mask. as we open up communities and states to business more and more people will be seeking masks. i think what was great as the president announced yesterday honeywell was providing increased number of masks. and all these public/private partnerships are so important to really increase the capacity for our ability to get back to normal life. certainly when covid-19 started testing was very difficult but the public/private partnerships with the lab -- connell: is that why you used the word sporadic yesterday? sporadic doesn't suggest things are disaster or things haven't improved, it is sporadic or irregular. some areas are terrific and some areas are not. is that why you used that word? >> that is why i used the word. we're hearing from some areas around the country people are having trouble accessing ppe through the regular supply chains they're used to getting.

in my practice our administration has worked day and night to get the ppe that we need so we can provide, safe, compassionate care to the patients that we serve. as i said we're following the cdc guidance for how you use your mask, how you can reuse your mask. we use it until it is soiled or dirty. i've been able to keep my mask because it wasn't tremendously soiled or dirty at the time but i had access to another one if i needed it but yes there are areas where people are having trouble accessing ppe. i anticipate that will only continue to improve. we all want to work toward a productive way to see what we can do in improving access to care for all patients without the covid-19 crisis. we've been very thankful to the administration for everything they have been doing on a daily basis to really touch on every aspect of covid-19. connell: okay, thank you for the

work you've been doing, also for coming on today, explaining. it was a short exchange. having a little bit more time to provide some context i think was helpful as well as we try to figure out what's going on, how it can improve. sophia, thanks for coming on. hopefully we'll talk to you again. melissa. melissa: an unexpected pop amid the pandemic. one business is seeing massive increase in sales as millions of americans are looking for travel alternatives. plus the future of the game in question. the nfl is releasing its 2020 schedule in just a few hours as major league baseball is preparing to unveil its own plan to start the season. that's next. frontier airlines is now abandoning plans to charge passengers an extra $39 to sit next to an empty middle seat after widespread criticism from lawmakers who accused the airlines of trying to profit from fear over the pandemic.

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♪. melissa: major league baseball looking to take a swing at the 2020 season with an updated schedule and new gameplan that factors in the coronavirus out break. let's go to our own charlie gasparino with details on this one. very exciting, charlie. >> yeah, we're getting back to normal slowly but surely. as we were first to report on fox business the football

schedule will be announced sometime tonight, i hear around 8:00. that was a report i did on cavuto couple days ago so that is happening. we'll have major league, nfl football. the question will we have major league baseball? here is what we know, a plan to start the 2020 season could be unveiled in a few weeks. there were reports it would be next week but we think it is over next few weeks. exclusive new details, is the virus still spreading and the abatement we are still doing. that is what we understand. here are exclusive details we found out, the mlb, after they develop the plan, i will get into that in a moment, they will need a nod from the white house, need a nod from all governors. that is what at least they're attempting to do, then they will need a labor agreement with players. here is what we understand likely to be the season. less than half the games played. that is one of the proposals on

the table. again when this plan comes out we'll v to see exactly what is going to go on. a fanless opening day, meaning in july sometime in july, at least -- that is the sort of broad target date we're going to have games without fans initially. and then they will be filtering in fans. a couple of weeks of spring training in june and not doing spring training in the traditional florida southwest venues because it is really hot down there. essentially doing them in the home stadiums. so this is the plan that is being worked on. it is taking shape. it is not a done deal i'm told. i think the best you could say is we have very likely to have major league baseball this season in 2020. i think we'll know more next week. again the plan might not be unveiled next week from what i understand but we'll know more about it. this is a moving target. but if you talk to baseball executives they say they're moving forward.

they say there is a really good chance to be, to have a season. you have to look at it this way, it is a much easier lift starting football than baseball. football does not need fans in the stadium. it is far less games obviously. baseball is reliant on stadiums, some degree of fan participation because they make a lot of money at the gate. if you're not bringing in money at the gate, that labor union contract becomes tricky will they will have to reach with the players. all that said, it looks like baseball want as season and we'll know in the next coming days. guys, back to you. melissa: we'll take it. thank you, charlie. connell what do you think? connell: we would take any kind of sports right now. our favorite sports reporter joins us with some analysis, jared max. you hear him on radio, "fox news headlines 24/7" in the mornings. baseball first, jared, and then quick comment on football. what do you think about half a

season starting in july, major league baseball? >> all for it. you always hear baseball is way stuck in history too much, not looking to more progressive ways. i love the concept, a 162 game season people argue it is too long. maybe baseball gets a glimpse faster, more interesting game, if the games matter more than 162. we'll find out. connell, for all of us this is our first time through the lineup. to use a baseball term. as we say in journalism, you always, get it first, get it right. now american sports leagues right now have the luxury of not having to get it first but be able to get it right almost like being a younger brother, let the big brother to make mistakes if there are mistakes to be made. we see european sports leagues opening right now. the two top leagues in german soccer are underway may 16th. american leagues will look what is taking place across the pond, if they're pulling it off, doing

without fans, if players say healthy that is very good sign. if that isn't the case, players get sick, covid-19 resurfaces that would dictate a lot of what takes place here. we get to watch what is there. whether you're leaders of sports, roger goodell, adam silver, gary bettman, the mother nature and coronavirus that is what is taking place here but they need to have their ducks in a row. like they're driving the car. they're in the back seat. you don't want to he no the driver is lost. they can keep telling us this on this day, this on this day, hopefully we'll all get there. connell: there are differences though, jared, i think charlie gasparino rightly points out between the sports and for the sake of this information talking about baseball and football in the united states. i mean you do, you have far fewer football games. not as reliant on the day-to-day gate. people showing up. a lot of tv money there.

interesting to see how the nfl goes bit tonight. we understand full season, schedule, 17 weeks and the whole thing. in terms of fans, then if you allow one city to have fans, not another. that doesn't seem maybe fair to the individual teams and how much money they make. what do you think is important to hear from the nfl tonight? >> nfl commissioner roger goodell sent a memo to all the teams to let everybody know by may 15th, eight days from now he wants every team to have protocol in place for reopening their facilities and this allows teaches to all reopen if they're in places where local, state governments say stay-at-home orders can be a little more lax to allow that to take place. same thing will happen with the nba tomorrow. a few teams, nuggets, cavaliers, blazers will reportedly open their facilities. more coming next week. what will be tonight? we have the release of the nfl season. i'm sure there will be conversation about what takes place. 7:30 eastern time teams will give a sneak-peek, if you don't

want to watch the three hour show you can get it there. talk about gait receipts and huge business the nfl is, connell, i think tv sports right now will be bigger than ever. advertising rates truthfully wouldn't surprise me if they were higher, right? shouldn't they be? more eyes are looking at billboards which are commercials in between football games. who cares how many people are there. tomorrow in taiwan they will allow up to 1000 fans into a baseball game for the baseball league. those are the guinea pigs. we get to find here how it works. connell: i know some tv executives, including those at fox hope you're right about that because they have lost out a lot with no live sports here in the spring. thank you, jared max with us. melissa. melissa: a safe path forward. we'll talk to one florida bar per shop owner about his plans to reopen for business and where things stand in the sunshine state. ♪. your insurance,

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♪ connell: now to florida as that state slowly reopens its economy. different parts of the state are now receiving specific guidelines how to safely get back to normal and fox's phil keating has more from miami beach. phil? reporter: performance so far in the sunshine state has been a lot of good, a little bit of

bad. it all comes down to the behavior of the people and that's why this popular miami beach park is closed after it had reopened for five days. but then it reclosed because over the weekend 7,000 people came here not wearing any masks, many of them hostile and defiant with park rangers. a similar scene on cinco de mayo. take a look at the crowd downtown miami tuesday night a little bit of the old days a party pre-pandemic, pre-social distancing to get everybody to work. the other thanker actually had to close the place. outside of florida, most of the state reopening began monday, indoor dining and open retail stores at 25% capacity. most state parks and beaches are open for sun, sand, surf with spacing between the groups. all that appears to be going well with no or few problems. in tampa the city has begun a novel idea. closing some streets and allowing restaurants to use parking lots and the streets and

alleys so they could have more tables. it is called the live-up economic recovery plan and every server and customer gets their temperature checked upon arrival al. >> the energy is palpable. people wanted to get back out and start to rebuild a sense of normalcy in their life. reporter: the governor wednesday says he is pleased how the state handled and performed with phase one. hopes to bring the same freedoms to miami-dade, broward, palm beach county soon. those are the only three counties not included in phase one. palm beach county commissioners voted unanimously to join phase one independently, they simply want to get back to business, back to normal. at least start getting there right now. mayor of miami-dade county is concerned about this sunday, mower's -- mother's day. afraid large gatterrings will

materialize and virus will spread, melissa. connell: see that can be issue, phil keating in miami beach. melissa, over to you for now. >> all good. we're the same. it is good. here to discuss florida's reopening, is jay henry, owner of jay henry's barbershop, member of the recovery task force in orange county. thanks for joining us. do you have a plan in place to reopen? i received so many emails from businesses i'm used to going to wanting to make sure i understand that they know they will have people spaced out, they know exactly how they are going to do it? what are your thoughts? oh, we lost our guest. that is a bummer. i hope we get him back. in the meantime, connell, send it over to you. we'll try to get him back. i think he had a plan, don't you think? connell: yeah, i know. you always like to hear from those small businesses specifically about how they're handling things. as the pandemic upends, of

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♪ ♪ melissa: well, we got him back, we have his voice at least if not his smiling face. reopening his business, jay henry, opener of jay -- owner of jay henry's barbershop in orange county. let me is ask you about your plan to reopen. what are your thoughts, when are you going to do it, and how are you going to make it safe? >> thank you, first of all, for having me, and i'd like to thank mayor demings for having me on

the task force as well. i think we're getting ready to go into the phase, hopefully we get a chance to open as soon as the governor give us the green light. we have a few things in place for safety precautions; wearing asthmassings, wearing gloves, using hand sanitizer, also scheduling customers to come in by appointment. we're trying to keep the capacity down to proceed with caution, that's one of our main priorities with the recovery task force. melissa: i know that you're on this task force talking to other businesses as well. what's the biggest hurdle right now when people reopen? what's their biggest concern or what stands in the way? is it getting people to come back to work, is it knowing what maybe the standards are that you need to follow? what are the biggest concerns? >> well, i don't think getting the people to come back to work is a real issue because we're really eager to come back to work because we've been out of work since march 26th.

and customers are continuing to call, which is truly a blessing to the barbershop. they're looking forward to getting back in there. but one thing we want to keep in mind that they must be safe when they do come back to the barbershop. we will continue to lead by example. that's going to be our main priority, to lead by example and headache sure everything is -- make sure everything is according to the cdc guidelines. melissa: isn't it hard to cut someone's hair or do any sort of beard work if they're wearing a mask? how do you deal with that? only you wear a mask? what are your thoughts? >> it's a a great question. well, barbers will be wearing masks. of course, if someone wants a trim or a shave, they've got to, of course, take their masks off. if someone, it's like being in a dentist's office when someone's, of course, getting mouth work done or teeth pulled, it'd be

the same type of procedure. that's so logical. i love that idea. [laughter] we -- unemployment benefits right now are still going on. so we do have in some parts of the country people having a hard time getting workers to come back because they're making money on unemployment. have you heard about that on the task force at all? folks, you know, you run a dunkin' donuts, you have a hard time getting folks to come back for a minimum wage. >> here in orlando i haven't hearing-impaired -- heard of anyone unable to receive unemployment. the governor just yesterday said that was a big problem with the unemployment data process, if you will. so i think that the governor's working on that, and once they get that appraised, i assume things will be a lot better for the unemployment process. melissa: wow. what kind of a hit have you

taken while you've been closed here, sir? >> wow, ma'am, i tell you, we've taken a major hit. imagine cutting hair all of your life for the last, pretty much the last 36 years of my career, and i haven't cut not one head of hair not even at home. i get a lot of phone calls to get, make house calls. trust me, i'm not doing that kind of stuff because i want to continue to be safe and keep the client safe as well. making money is important but saving lives and keeping lives is more important to me at this time and has always been. so we're going to continue to stick to that until the governor give us the green light to reopen. melissa: do you think you're out of practice? are you worried about your skills when you get back at it? >> now, you know something? it's funny you said that because i was just thinking about that a couple of days ago, and i said, wow, it's been quite some time since you've cut hair. but it's almost like doing, riding a bicycle.

melissa: riding a bicycle. there you go. i knew you were going to say that. we gotta that go. jay henry, best of luck to you. thank you so much for coming on, we really appreciate it. that does it for us. "lou dobbs tonight" starts now. ♪ lou: good evening, everybody. breaking developments in the case against general michael flynn. the justice department decided to drop the criminal case against the former trump national security adviser. the stunning reversal of one of the so-called signature cases of robert mueller's special counsel team dealing yet another blow to the deep state, the radical dems and their attempts to overthrow president trump. the decision to abandon the case comes at the recommendation of u.s. attorney for the eastern district of missouri jeff jensen who was appointmented in february -- appointed in february, chosen by attorney general william barr to