came in, i said how did they let that happen? how did they let that happen? and how come it didn't go into other sections of china? why did they block it from leaving wuhan but they didn't block it from going to the rest of the world including the united states? why is that? beijing doesn't have it. other places don't have it. so why is it that it was blocked very effectively from leaving that irarea and going into china but it went out to the rest of the world including the united states? and why didn't they let us go in and help them fix it. i'm very disappointing in china. yeah? reporter: mr. president -- reporter: just follow up, you've been talking about possible retaliation for for are you any closer to a decision on that? >> i don't talk about retaliation. go ahead. reporter: mr. president, why haven't you announced a plan to

get 36 million unemployed americans back to work. you're overseeing historic despair. >> i think we're announcing a plan, opening up our country, just a rude person you are. we're opening up our country, we're opening it up very fast. the plan is that each state is opening and it is opening up very effectively and, when you see the numbers i think, even you will be impressed which is pretty hard to impress you. go ahead. reporter: a lot of these jobs are not coming back. >> thank reporter: thank you, mr. president canada confirmed the border will be closed until june 21st. aren't you worried about the economy of the border states? >> we do. we speak to canada all the time. obviously the relationship is very good with the prime minister and myself and two countries. canada is our neighbor. we have a great relationship. we're talking. at right time that will open up very quickly.

yeah go ahead please. reporter: good happen before june 21st. >> yeah it could. we're both doing well. reporter: mr. president you said the united states is king of ventilators. we have so many are sending them everyseas, selling them in some cases actually gifting them to other countries. my question is, are you looking to use these diplomatically to strengthen ties with other nations and counter chinese influence in other parts of the world? >> no i'm not looking to do diplomatically i'm looking to save lives. if we save lives in another country that is a great thing. i'm looking to save lives. it is probably good diplomatically. some countries have no chance. they don't have ventilators. they don't have the capacity to build them. we're sending hundreds and even thousands. we have thousands now and they're being produced at a very rapid pace. jared and his whole team of geniuses from silicon valley and

other places came in and they have done an incredible job. so we have them about it thousands. we had none, essentially very few, they were obsolete, they were broken. we're building not only a lot of them but we have a very high quality ventilator. one of the highest. countries know that, they're calling us, they are asking for help. they need help. i only think in terms of saving lives. the country, we've gotten some very unusual calls from people that normally wouldn't be calling us too easily, calling, asking for help. you know you can get swabs and you can get downs gowns and can get a lot of things, but getting ventilators is tough, very, very tough because it is a very complex machine, very expensive machine. so we've done a very good job and probably it does help diplomatically but we do it for helping people's lives, save lives. yes, please. reporter: mr. president, do you -- so ford motor company previously required visitors to wear masks when they visited

their facilities. do you plan to wear one when they you go there on thursday? >> i don't know. i hadn't even thought of it. it depend. in certain areas i would, in certain areas i don't. i will certainly look at it. depends on what situation. am i standing right next to everybody or am i spread out? also you look, you know, is something a hospital, is it a ward, what is it exactly. i'm going to a plant. so we'll see. where it is appropriate i would do it certainly. yeah? reporter: mr. president, you continue to talk about helping minority communities. what specifically are you looking at to help those communities? what actions? >> so one of the things i was most proud of was the minority community and all the work we've done for the minorities communities. black unemployment, hispanic unemployment, asian unemployment was the best ever in the history of our country. we never had anything like it. we never had so many african-american jobs ever,

ever, in the history history of our country by far. and we are bringing our country back, and the big focus is exactly that, with the minorities, specifically, if you look at the asians, they have done incredibly well. hispanics incredibly well. african-americans, record-setting every month, you know that. every month it was record-setting jobs number. that is what we want to do, we want to get it back to that level. we had to artificially close our country. we did the right thing. we would have lost millions of lives. think of it, if we lost 100,000 lives, the minimum we would have lost is a million two, million three, million five maybe but take it to a million. so that would mean 10 times more than we lost already. now i have seen hospitals like elmhurst queens, i grew up, near

that, know that hospital, they had one day 11 body bags in a hallway and they had some outside. and that they had refrigerated trucks coming to take bodies away. now multiply that times 10. it would have been unacceptable. and that is the lowest number possible. it probably would have been times 20 or maybe 25. so we did the right thing but now we have to get back to work and we want to open up. and the people want to open up but we've learned a lot about the disease. we learned about distancing. nobody ever heard of social distancing before. we learned about the washing of hands. i used to wash my hands a lot. i tell you now i wash them more. we learned a lot and we also learned how to put out embers, fires, whatever may come, we learned without having to close down the whole country. we have big sections of our country that don't have much of a problem. we have some sections that don't have any problem at all so we're

opening up our country. we're doing really well. most excitingly, we're working on vaccines, therapeutics and cures really moving along at a level nobody would have thought possible. and the military i can say, mark esper, okay, you know mark esper, he has become a very important person in the world of medicine because his military is going to be distributing, whether it's therapeutically or whether it's cures or whether it is a vaccine, and by the way, i have to say all three are doing unbelievably well. but mark and military will be getting them out. so he has hundreds of thousands of people he is immediately that work for us right now. they're fully ready to deploy. they're ready to get the job done. they will be doing it at a record business. everything we've done with the military has been terrific. we've had admirals. we've had generals. i remember when crying chuck schumer said we should get the military involved.

i said they are. he said we should use one of our generals. i said we do. our generals have done a great job, jared, right? our admirals have done a great -- we had everybody involved and they are tremendously talented people. this isn't what they do, they fight. they're great fighters. and they fight but yeah, the minority communities are really going to be well-served. i think we are going to get that right back. and this includes everybody. this includes our whole country but right back to where it was which was record-setting numbers. reporter: [inaudible]. right now actions that you are considering for those communities? >> right now we're opening up areas and a lot of area are getting jobs. i heard some numbers yesterday that were really incredible. the amount, percentagewise of the country that opened up so quickly over the last few days. i think you will see some very big numbers. i think next year will be an incredible year economically. you can never make up for all of the loss of life, but you can

never do that, from an economic standpoint however, next year i think it will be potential agreat year for us. yeah, please. reporter: fda has said hydroxychlorquine should not be used outside after hospital setting. >> that is not what i was told. there was a false study done where they gave it to very sick people, extremely sick people. people that were ready to die. it was given by obviously not friends of the administration and the study came out. the people were ready to die. everybody was old, had bad problems with hearts, diabetes and everything else you can imagine. so they gave it. so immediately when it came out they gave a lot of false information. just so you understand, great studies came out of italy on out of hydroxy, you know what i'm talking about right, right? great studies came out and combination of the three but we had some great studies come out. italy, france, spain, ourselves,

many, many doctors, many doctors came out and they said it is great. now you have to go to a doctor. i have a doctor in the white house. i said what do you think? i said it is a line of defense. i'm talking about a line of defense. i'm dealing with a lot of people. look at all the people in the room. i'm the president and i'm dealing with a lot of people. it is very inexpensive drug. it is almost pennies. it is very inexpensive. and it has been out for close to 70 years for a couple of different things, right, lupus and malaria. and even arthritis, they say. but i think it is worth it as a line of defense and i will stay on it for a little while longer. i'm very curse just -- curious, that study was a phony study put out by the va we could talk about that. i can talk about that, alex, if

you would introduce our great talented head of va, let him say a couple words. that was a phony study. very dangerous to do it. the fact is people should want to help people, not to make political points. it is really sad when they do that. go ahead. >> yeah. so hydroxychlorquine has been approved by the fda for decades here in the united states for the treatment of, for the prevention of malaria, treatment of lupus, treatment much rheumatoid arthritis. the system here in the united states, once a drug has been approved and on the market, a doctor in consultation with a patient may use it for what we call off label purposes which are indications that are not yet proven, not yet in the label. this is the right to try president. he for the first time got the historic right to try legislation for experimental therapies but that applies to our existing regime which is approved product the may be used in the judgment of a physician in consultation with their patient. as the president said, i will ask secretary wilkie to talk a

little bit about the va study, there has been some studies around the use of hydroxychlorquine later in disease progression but we are still working on some controlled studies earlier in the disease progression to see if we can measure the effectiveness of it in preventing the replication of the virus and spread in mild to moderate cases rather than the more serious and that data is still pending. >> it has gotten very good reviews, very good reviews from many, many doctors. secretary, please. >> thank you, mr. president. i want to clear up something that the media has not reported accurately. that was not a va study. >> can you hear him, i think it is important. you asked the question. i don't even think you're listening. why don't you listen to him. >> that was not a va study. researchers took va numbers and they did not clinically review them. they were not peer reviewed. they did not even look at what the president just mentioned, the various comorbidities the

patients who were referenced in that study had. i also want to echo what the secretary of hhs said. the instructionses i received from the president were very clear. that was to preserve and to protect life. those of us who have had a military life, some of us around this table, we've been taking this drug for years. as the president mentioned department of defense and va have been using it for 65 years on every, any given day, va uses 42,000 doses of this drug and what we did when this virus first hit us was to use every means necessary to help preserve life. we believed that the congress was right and the president signed legislation to protect life, the right to try and we did this in consultation not only with the families of those veterans but we did this in consultation with our doctors under fda guidelines, so i want

to knock down the phony story that this is somehow the va going back on what the president told us to do which was to use every means possible to protect and preserve the lives, the lives of our veterans. i think as the president mentioned we've seen in many cases across this country, in fact i was on the news the day that the governor of new york was asking you for tens, thousands of doses. >> that's right. >> we are doing everything we can to protect the lives of our veterans, and this is one of the means that we used. >> thank you. hydroxychlorquine is used by thousands and thousands of front line workers so hopefully they don't catch this horrible disease or whatever you want to call it is a terrible virus. it's terrible thing and a lot of people are taking it. a lot of doctors are taking it. a lot of people swear by it.

it has gotten a reputation only because i'm promoting it. i'm obviously a very bad promoter. if anybody else were promoting it they would say the it is great thing ever but because of me. a lot of doctors swear by it, i think we can say that, mr. secretary. a lot of doctors think it's great but one thing that is true, one way or the other, whether you like it or not, it has been around for 70 years, unbelievably effective for malaria and for lupus and probably effective for arthritis and what has been determined is it doesn't harm you. very powerful drug i guess but it doesn't harm you and so i thought as a front line defense, possibly it would be good and i have had no impact from it. i have had no, i feel the same. i haven't changed i don't think too much and at some point you know, i won't take it. might be soon. might be a, it doesn't, it

doesn't seem to have any impact on me but it seems to be a extra line of defense and it has gotten tremendous reviews from some people including many, many doctors all over the world. you should look at some of the studies. they have been amazing some of the studies but that is up to people and it is up, think strongly recommend to people with their doctors advice and acknowledgement, okay? reporter: [inaudible] >> say isn't. reporter: anyone else in your cabinet taking that regimen. >> i don't know. that is personal thing whether or not they want to answer that question but i think many of them would take it if they felt it was necessary. i also had a case where we had somebody fairly close to me, very nice young gentleman, he tested positive. and he tested positive. plus i deal with mike a lot and mike had somebody very close to him who i also see who tested positive. so i think, i thought you know, from my standpoint not a bad

time to take it. because we had the combination, those two people, that is two people, very big building with a lot of people working, but i thought it would be appropriate but it has had no impact in terms of me. okay? any other questions, please? reporter: mr. president? >> yes. go ahead. you want to go? go ahead. reporter: i want to ask you a question on brazil? >> brazil. reporter: in 30 plays, now catching up to russia in second place with number of cases. are you finally considering a travel ban from brazil? >> we are considering it. we hope that we're not going to have a problem. the governor of florida is doing very well testing in particular florida, a big majority come into florida. brazil has gone more or less herd, you know what that is, herd. they're having problems. by the way when you say that we lead in cases that is because we have more testing than anybody else. so we test much more than

anybodies. again we're close to 14 million. it was said, 12, 12 1/2. i think it is close to 14 million now. so we have 14 million tests. in germany if they do two million that's a lot. others doing one million. if you're testing 14 million people you will find many more cases. people of these people aren't very sick but they still go down as a case. actually the number of cases, we're also much bigger country than most. when we have a lot of cases i don't look as that as a bad thing. i look at that in certain respect being a good thing because it means our testing is much better. so if we were testing a million people instead of 14 million people we would have far fewer cases, right? so i view it as a badge of honor, really it is a badge of honor. it is a great tribute to the testing and all of the work that a lot of professionals have done. okay? reporter: aren't you worried that they're going to bring --

>> i see, as to the first part of your question, yeah, sure, i worry about everything. i don't want people coming in here and infecting our people. i don't want people over there sick either. we're helping brazil with ventilators. we're sending them ventilators, okay? they need ventilators. i'm sending them ventilators. we have some thousands of them. we're sending them. we're sending a lot of people. no, brazil is having some trouble, no question about it. sweden, by the way, i heard a lot about sweden the way -- well, they have, you have norway, denmark, finland, sweden, that little group of beautiful countries. sweden took a little different attitude. sweden has far more death than the other three, you know that, right? a lot more death. many times the deaths but they did it a different way. you know i understand that too. and as mike said very well, before, there is death on both sides. there is death on both sides. there is death in staying in a

shutdown also. and lots of other things. but there is also death. okay. reporter: what do you want to see in terms of travel between the united states and europe, lifting travel restrictions? >> i would love it to open up as quick as we can but we have make sure they're doing well and we're doing well. many cases we are. we have a big country. come places are doing incredibly well. some areas the results are tougher. new york and new jersey are tougher. people don't realize new jersey is the most dense state. a lot of people don't realize that. governor is a terrific person. he is very liberal but that's okay, he is a very liberal guy but we like him. he a good man. he is working very hard but new jersey is a very dense area, very, very dense and i speak to andrew a lot, andrew cuomo a lot. we're working very well together and, you know, those are the two spots that have really been very

heavily hit. a big portion, a pig percentage, i don't know what it is, i ace very big percentage, almost half of our deaths would be to those two. now at the same time the numbers even in those two places are coming down. they're coming down very rapidly and i put out in yesterday's statement, numbers are cog down with the exception of very little, few exceptions, numbers are coming down all over the united states very rapidly, very rapidly. it is a beautiful thing to watch but it has left behind serious death. it shouldn't have happened. thank you very much, everybody. >> let's go. we're done. melissa: that is president trump as his cabinet meeting, very socially distanced with treasury secretary steve mnuchin back next to him, covering a wide range of topics and most recently there at the end he had

veterans affairs chief robert wilkie talking about hydroxychlorquine and the 42,000 doses that are given out within the va every single day he said, talking about the benefits of that. earlier in the day he signed an executive order to in essence clear away some of the red tape as the country opens. also 19 billion to farmers and ranchers in order to help there and connect some food that is not being used with families who need that food. it has been a very busy day. i'm melissa francis. this is "after the bell." >> i'm connell mcshane, good to be with you here. as the president was speaking, the market closed. seemed like late in the day we had worries about news yesterday about a possible vaccine. and it hit stocks. the dow was down 400 points nearly, 390 on the day. that is near the lows of the session for all the major

averages. the report came from an organization follows the medical industry, stat news. it questioned the significance of the data provided by mo derna about its possible covid-19 vaccine. that affected markets. we'll have blake burman bring you the latest from the president after that cabinet meeting, lauren simonetti on that market movement. edward lawrence has more reporting from washington as well. as we work our way out of the extended cabinet meeting, blake. we begin with you. reporter: extended indeed, lasted about 70 minutes, connell, melissa. this is the first cabinet meeting president trump has conducted since the covid-19 outbreak. one of the biggest pieces of knew that happened an hour ago the president signed an executive order relating to deregulations specifically geared towards trying to take on covid-19 and here is what the eo goes after. a few different things. first off the president is going

to be asking federal agencies to identify regulatory actions that should be made permanent. the president also wants agencies to identify deregulatory measures that will help create jobs. also the eo instructs agencies not to be overly burdensome on small businesses and non-profits when it comes to compliance measures so long as they are operating in good faith. here was president trump at the top of that meeting. >> the potential is you're going to find regulations that nobody has ever thought of before because you will be doing it yourselves. this gives you great authority to cut regulations. so we already have the record by a lot. it is not even close but you will have a chance to cut regulations. reporter: three other headlines for that, from that meeting, connell and melissa, china. the president said that he doesn't think of the china trade deal now as he did when it was signed at the beginning portion of the year. the president was asked about potential retaliation and he said, quote, i don't talk about

retaliation. the president at about this time yesterday also revealed that he is taking hydroxychlorquine. throughout the day the white house defended the president's use of taking that by saying it has been cleared by the white house doctor. this is a decision generally speaking among patient and doctor and that is how everyone should view it. when the president was asked about it a little while ago, he said, quote, it is just a line of defense. i'm dealing with a lot of people, the president said. he went on to say, quote, i think it is worth it as a line of defense. that was sort of the president's rationale for taking hydroxychlorquine. the vice president mike pence was asked about it earlier today, the vice president says he is not taking it. then lastly as he heard from president trump, considering a travel ban as it relates to brazil, when the president had the florida governor in the oval office a couple weeks ago that was something that was maybe under discussion but the president suggested at least it i something they are considering more seriously now.

back to you. connell: all right. blake covering it all, thank you, sir. let's get to lauren simonetti on the market day. it has been choppy during the session, lauren, right at the end we had an aggressive selloff. lauren: i was ready to tell you until those final moments before the closing bell it was one of the more narrow trading ranges we saw in a while. the report hit the market showing vaccine experts are doubting the positive results of moderna's coronavirus vaccine trial. that sent the market falling, losing a lot of what it gained on the positive news of that trial on monday. moderna's stock down 10 1/2% on the day. the dow snapping what was a three-day winning streak to lose 390 points in the end. home depot and walmart shares, they didn't help either, both retailers, both dow components reported pretty strong earnings. both companies pulled guidance going forward. they reported sharply higher

online sales. they both spent a lot of money fighting coronavirus. walmart spent 900 million. home depot spent850 million. paying their workers more. kohl's faced heavy shipping charges to customers staying at home. what tried to help the market those big tech companies that amassed so much market share that they do move the market. amazon and netflix flirted with all-time highs. but it was a positive day for fates book and amazon as well. back to you connell. connell: thank you lauren simonetti. melissa? melissa: potentially permanent damage. treasury secretary steve mnuchin warning lawmakers of long-term harm to the economy if states are shut down longer due to the coronavirus pandemic. let's go to edward lawrence live in washington with details on that, edward.

reporter: both treasury secretary steve mnuchin and the federal reserve chairman were saying that they want to wait and see how the money they have already put in play is working. the federal reserve chairman says that congress has acted in a timely and forceful manner. part of that is the payroll protection program. senator elizabeth warren says yes, ppp allows companies, to keep employees on the that i role but the main street lending facility does not do that. neither does the money for bailouts that the treasury department got. listen to this exchange here. >> our number one objective is keeping people employed. >> good. >> i want to be clear on that. >> who are getting taxpayer money that is my question? >> again we negotiated very significant restrictions on employee compensation, on dividend the, on buybacks and in the main street facility we have put in a provision that we expect people to use their best

efforts to support jobs. reporter: both mnuchin and powell say a longer term economic shut down would create more unnecessary economic problems more than already exists. senator david perdue asking about inflation and size of the balance sheet for the federal reserve, that that will have negative impact. >> what really matters the size of the balance sheet relative to the size of economy. we actually, that came down quite significantly from the end of 2014 until 2017 just by holding balance sheet constant. so it can be done in a way that is sort of passive and gradual and it was for about three years now. we came down from what 25% of gdp to 16 or 17% of gdp. reporter: now mooch says mnuchin says he allocated half of $25 billion where treasury has. he wants to see where the other half goes behave on what is

working and what is not. back to you. melissa: edward, thank you. connell. connell: let's talk a little bit about this, gary kaltbaum talks with kaltbaum capital management and liz peek, fox news columnist. both are fox news contributors. as gary was talking about it came into context debate senators and secretary mnuchin reopening how we could do it. the secretary saying hey if we take too long we could do permanent damage to our economy. what do you say? >> he is correct. even now, they're talking about gdp being down 25, 35%. i was looking at things like delta air lines saying once they get really going it will be only 60% capacity. there is a lot of that going on and if we don't get open, we're going to end up at best, eight, 9% unemployment rate. so it is incumbent something gets done. look i've been saying since day

one this is about a virus. the economy, markets, something has got to get fixed that way or else. i applaud mnuchin what they have done. they were quick on the gun. powell not so much. connell: that idea, i know you're not a huge jay powell fan. that idea of reopening, liz, had the democrats fighting back with hey, let's not go too fast, but then we put workers in danger. there was a tess at this exchange with sherrod brown of ohio on that. let's listen quickly to that back and forth. then you can comment on that. >> how many workers should give their lives to increase the gdp or dow cones. >> no workers should give their lives, senator, and i think your characterization is unfair. connell: your thought on that type of characterization. >> look that is prevailing narrative that republicans don't care about america's people or america's workers.

they just somehow care about the c-suite and about stock prices. that is sort of the prevailing tension. the good news is, connell, across the entire country, all 50 states now have begun to reopen. guess what? state's budgets, federal budgets, people's whole budget need us to get back to work. this is a ridiculous posture that the democrats aassumed. they sort of act like the government is a huge atm and there is no end of money that can flow out of it to prop up the economy. you cannot profit up a 20 trillion-dollar economy. by the way to gary's point about jay powell, the fed's balance sheet has grown 60% in two months. that is unsustainable and i really think it is pretty astonishing democrats continue to promote, more spending, more programs, as opposed to letting the organic economy begin to germinate growth and jobs on its own.

connell: liz, as always, thank you. gary as well. thanks to you both. melissa? melissa: hungry in the air. united airlines and southwest show signs of improvement as flight demand is on the rise and ticket cancellations are beginning to slow. southwest says it sees more trip reservations than cancellations so far this month and is adding flights back to its network for june. yeehaw. getting the u.s. back on track, roughly 36.5 million americans filing for jobless benefits over the past eight weeks as local leaders continue to roll out phased reopenings to safely get their states back to work. nearly every state is now allowing non-essential businesses to operate in some capacity but only 14 states have reportedly met federal guidelines to lift restrictions. we will have the latest on the pandemic this hour. white house push for the american workforce.

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♪. connell: now to the training of u.s. workers. there was an event earlier today, ivanka trump involved holding first entirely meeting of the american workforce policy advisory board. attend east including big names in business. tim cook of apple. and hillary vaughn join us with more from washington with all of this. reporter: connell, during this pandemic more parents are working from home and more kids

are going to school online and technology is becoming essential to daily life and a lot of board members, representatives of top u.s. companies part of that american workforce advisory board say this pandemic has proved that they need to train workers for a high-tech environment and also build up high-tech infrastructure. >> education and training providers must take the lead in quickly retraining, reskilling workers for new in-demand fields arising from the pandemic. these can range from telehealth and i.t. technical support to logistics and supply chain management along with sustaining fields like software engineering, guild trades and even many service sector jobs. reporter: the advisory board is chaired by ivanka trump and also the secretary of commerce wilbur ross. he said today there is no doubt that the economy will bounce back. he said this pandemic paves the way for emergence in other high-tech sectors like

telemedicine. he says this advisory board needs to get to work on helping providing the infrastructure and the resources to train people for those jobs of the future. connell? connell: hillary vaughn there, on a windy day in our nation's capital. melissa. melissa: let's bring back today's panel, liz peek and gary kaltbaum. liz, like with so many things the pandemic hastend a transition already in motion. so this idea we treeded to retrain people for different jobs because the same jobs that we had before weren't going to be there as we went more digital, more online, more evader all. now that is even more the case, isn't it? >> absolutely, melissa. i think one hedge fund talked about how this probably expedited america's move to technology-based activities by three years, this coronavirus, and i believe it is even faster than that. and by the way it is not people

looking for new jobs, it is everybody is having to get more familiar with and more accomplished with technology. that is why the tech stocks are doing so well. but i think this effort is really an incredibly important one and, by the way, there is still fields including telemedicine where tech has really barely made an imprint. education is another one. look at all the schools having to learn how to teach and study online now. this is all, actually i think if there is anything good that comes out of this, probably this accelerated tech acceptance and ability by our country is a very good thing. melissa: gary, it has forced people who maybe weren't think about working remotely, how do i do that or operate in a tinning tall world, it forced them to confront that, work it out and maybe it will be less scary and we'll all be more capable, what are your thoughts? >> welcome to the furthering of

the technology revolution and savvying up of people with technology. i know so many that didn't have a clue what skype was or what zoom was. oh, they know it now and they're playing with it a lot. i will tell you this, the leaders on this are businesses. big business, medium size business, small business have gotten their act together very quickly. i know this because of my relatives and my sons, and what the companies are doing there, so the job is getting done and it is going to make a much smarter and more efficient and more productivity gains public as we move forward. it is actually good news when all said and done. melissa: no, i know so many people who were never planning to learn how they could do their job or deal with their customers online. they were forced to do it by this and now, you know, they have years more experience to use going forward. liz and gary, thank you. connell? connell: some really good points there made all around as we continue to cover the reopening

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♪. melissa: keeping local restaurants afloat. one organization is helping business owners survive during the coronavirus pandemic. here now is josh phelps, world central kitchen relief operations manager. we are so excited to have you back on the show and you have come on so many times to talk about the millions and millions of meals you have served in every crisis we have faced recently from hurricanes to now this latest one but you also have a project called, for the people. helping, one of the topics we talk about every day here, the wonderful restaurant owners, small business owners who have been so impacted by this. what does that operation do? >> yeah. i mean restaurants for the people is just part of our overall covid response where, you know, we are, working with

our local restaurants, independent operators and owners to feed those in need in their neighborhoods, across the country, also in spain. you know, it is a initiative where after a disaster we would have our own kitchen cooking, tens of thousandses of meals, distributing that way, covid response is a little bit different obviously. the need is so vast, it is global. here domestically also, a lot of people who are in need are those employees, those restaurants that have had to shutter. so you know, it is our way of sort of getting the economic engine back running, get these restaurants up and running so they can bring employees back, you know, and serve their communities but also you know, hopefully, can help them kick-start their own takeaway business if they weren't doing that before or, you know, just in general give them some steady

revenues so they can continue to do what they do. melissa: no, that's really tremendous because the food insecurity is everywhere right now. you talked about people who have been laid off from their jobs. you have kids home from schools that were getting meals when they were at school. there is also the homeless population, i know in long beach, you have been doing a ton of work there and by getting these restaurants toe cook and send the food out where do you get money to pay restaurants? that is obviously a big part of this, keeping them flowing and getting them some income. where does that money come from? >> the money comes from where it always comes from with us. we are a non-profit 501(c)(3). we raise philanthropic dollars, and we put the money back into our programs, whether long-term programing or relief programing, our disaster relief. for long beach as you mentioned we're working with amazing

people there. tank gonzalez who i know, volunteered world central kitchen in puerto rico, he reached out. he was talking to people at the mayor's office. we identified the need. he knew the restaurants. so we were able to pull from our philanthropic dollars and get him kick-started. they said 30,000 people in only a matter of a few weeks. it is a testament how we can if we're not on the ground ourselves with our team we can utilize, you know, amazing people like him. then we have, you know, his cousin working with us in l.a. too. it is just a really good way we can reach out to all the communities we may not have a footprint in and now we do. melissa: one thing that is always staggering to me about your organization is the speed which you're able to act. you were on the scene faster than all the other agencies and you're able to like in this case partner and come up with a

solution and sometimes partnering with government which can be hard and you see a lot of red tape. you talked about there in l.a. or long beach about getting the mayor involved. how do you get things up and running so quickly and is that a difficult part to coordinate? >> you know, i think, it doesn't have to be. we just start doing things. i mean that's it. we start cooking. this, for covid response, we have our restaurant partners and they just start cooking. that is what they do. that is what they do best. they're particularly, particularly well-suited in a health crisis, to be a big part of the recovery, one, because if you're a restaurant, you should be following stringent health and safety standards i inaway and we have a nice tool kit we developed with food group about all the lessons we learned after first responding to covid that happened to be in japan in a

ship quarantined in yoke hama. we react quickly. we figure out all the coordination as we go along. the longer meetings you have, the longer it will take to get anything done. melissa: god bless you. you're sew right. josh, you just go. that is what you do every single time. thank you for coming on and every single thing you do. >> thank you for having me. appreciate it. melissa: connell? connell: follow on another one ever americans giving back, an organization in detroit giving business to local restaurants and helping front line medical workers in the hospitals at the same time. monica is the cofounder of the line appreciation group in metro detroit and monica joins us right now. this is really impressive to us, monica, not like you're some big organization behind yours. as i understand it six women, get together, they raised 300,000 plus. you buy up meals. you delivered 30 some odd thousand meals to the hospital workers.

tell me how that came about. first how did you come up with the idea and how did you scale it up so quickly? >> sure, thanks, connell, thanks for having me here. i heard about this idea from a friend of a friend. she mentioned hey, see what this organization is doing. it is really doing wonderful things. so i looked into it. it was in a town called chatham, new jersey, the neighboring town where i used to live. i looked into it, thought maybe my neighbors were involved. so i bought that idea back to some friends here locally in bloomfield hills, in michigan. these are gals that i worked with together before. i shared the idea with them. we all, we saw the simplicity to it, right? you heard before what wck was saying, you're pooling donations. we're giving those straight to the restaurants and feeding the front line. it was an idea people could grab on to easily and get involved with. connell: i wonder if that is

what it was that led people to, people have a choice. people who are lucky enough to have the money to give to charity, have a choice. they could give it to some large organization, wonder what happens to it. why do you think in big numbers, $300,000 plus, they went to you guys? >> i think, you know, we, from the beginning right away we created a facebook group. so i heard about it in the afternoon of march 23rd. that evening by 6:00 i had created a facebook group with my friends. we just started sharing it with people. i think the power of social media is incredible. it is a way to get information out so quickly. and i think people were looking for a way to give back. that is why we got involved. we're six local moms here. we just knew we wanted to do something while we're staying at home and staying safe. when we shared that with people right away they were having that same feeling, like this is great. now i can do something because

we all, our hearts went out to the front line. they are just doing so much and risking so much and this was the way for people to easily give, you know, $20, even 10-dollar donations. once you pool those, that adds up really quickly. our first 24 hours we had raised almost $2,000. in 48 hours we book ad meal for 100 at local hospital. we were running first minute, it was a absolute passion project for us. we put our entire hearts into it. connell: great, work, congratulations i guess, whatever the appropriate term might be. you're doing terrific work to help people. flag of detroit if you're in the metro area look them up. monica, thank you. >> thank you. melissa: new warning from police, porch pirates are back operating at levels once only seen during the holidays.

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