in you have only 25% access to put people into stores, you will be looking at a wave. ♪ closing bell rings] would i say -- liz: gus, we got to run. thank you so much. there is the closing bell. markets close in the red, off the lows of the session. tomorrow is friday. we'll see how we close out the week. that will do it. melissa building trucks to making ventilators, president trump just wrapping up remarks with reporters. he is about to tour a ford plant in michigan producing emergency equipment. i'm melissa francis. connell: connell mcshane. good to be with you here on "after the bell." the stock market down, not much percentage wise. almost half of 1% on the dow. a little over 100 points. concerns working into the market about the pace of recovery today but we also had millions more americans filing for unemployment benefits we found out about this morning. we'll work through all of that

and more. fox business team coverage as the market closes. blake burman following the president's movements. edward lawrence is in washington. blake, we start with you as president trump moves on to a tour of this ford plant. reporter: exactly a tour of the ford plant in ypsilanti michigan. this plant was making auto ports parts. they brought back workers in to take on the health care fight. what we'll see president trump highlight the ford plant in particular for making up ventilators which the president, vice president, feel is really one of the main success stories. the ability to sort of reposition to take up the health care fight over the last couple months. so we anticipate that, that meeting with the ford president here shortly. what we did hear from the president today is this continued push for his belief that the economy and that the country needs to reopen sooner

rather than later. for example, the president saying that earlier today he had a phone call with the cdc about opening up places of worship and the president says, announcement on that is likely coming if not today, then potentially tomorrow. listen here to president trump from earlier. >> we did the right thing. but now we're opening up again. we'll open our churches. i think cdc will put out something very soon. i spoke to them today. they will put something out very soon. we have open the churches. people want to go in. reporter: before he left for michigan the president also said he met with the top republican up on capitol hill about potential next step relief measures. >> we have a lot of good things going. we just had a meeting with mitch mcconnell and the group and we're working on a package of very positive things. we're getting some very good numbers. it looks like the numbers will be very good going into the future. reporter: to give you an idea,

connell and melissa, how the president wants to move things forward he also said today that a decision should be coming next week or announcement next week about bringing back the g7. the u.s. was supposed to host that in a few weeks time over at camp david. that was scrapped a couple months ago, once the covid-19 outbreak began. but the president feels this is an event that could bring world leaders over and back into the united states, potentially here in the upcoming weeks and months. we'll see. back to you. connell: we will indeed. blake, thank you. dr. tom price joins us now, the former hhs secretary. >> hey, connell. connell: good to see you. we'll talk about some beg picture ideas you presented in terms of what we learned from this crisis but news of day first if that is okay with the president out in michigan. we're waiting for him to walk through this ford plant. a lot has been made before his appearance whether or not he would wear a mask for example. it is the rules there you're supposed to. you see everybody inside is

wearing one. any thoughts about that subject before i ask you others? >> i think it is important folks follow instructions of medical personnel and scientific personnel. obviously you leave it up to each individual but i think it is important to follow the instructions of the scientific folks. connell: fair enough. the instructions were, everybody is complying with them we see on camera. this facility you wear masks. that is the rules. we're waiting for the president to come out. blake talked about, one of these companies, ford is one of them, shifted the gears, pardon the pun to get involved in the health care fight. as former health care official, what do you make of that? company like ford or others completely different than what they have done in the past to make ventilators or other health care equipment? >> i think it is really exciting. it shows the spirit and the patriotism, frankly of the american people and american corporations. it also shows the importance of the private sector and how we're

responding to this incredible emergency, this pandemic that couldn't be anticipated at a particular time. we knew it was likely coming at some point. folks were he predicting it would come for decades, literally. exciting to see the private sector engaged. exciting to see companies like ford and elsewhere get involved and do things to be able to help the entire population of the united states. connell: okay. that back and forth between the private sector and the government, it is a subject of an opinion piece to some degree that you wrote for fox news. as i said, i wanted to ask you about that. let me put part of what you wrote up on the screen. i will ask you about it. covid-19 convinced some in our nation that the solution to the health care crisis we face is giving government the power to run the system. yet many of those same people believed the government failed to properly respond to the virus. you wrote about this flawed response as you see it.

expand on that a little bit if you can? >> well i think it is important for folks to appreciate that the government has a role to play in these kind of challenges but the what i was trying to say in that piece is to make certain that the lesson that comes out of this is not that the government ought to have a greater role in health care because i don't believe it should. i think government had a greater role in health care, then you have the patient have a lesser role in health care and i believe it is incredibly important for us to have patient centeredded health care, not government-centered health care. when you look at entities responding in incredibly positive way, and you just mentioned the automobile companies but the private sector pharmaceutical companies, the companies out there, tens of them, hundreds of them literally working as diligently as they can to come up with effective treatment for the pandemic as well as a vaccine. at some point we'll have both of those. that shows the flexibility and the entrepreneurship and the

enthusiasm of the private sector to be able to assist and respond to a challenge that the entire nation, entire world is seeing. connell: you know the push is on, i guess that is what you're getting at, for programs, that it was in the campaign before all of this happened for programs like "medicare for all." you're saying that is the wrong lesson to take away from this is your point? >> absolutely. i think the push will be even greater because we have another 30 million individuals out of the workforce at least temporarily. many folks will have the health coverage provided for them by their employer. that is the way most of us in america get their health coverage. you have many of those individuals out of work, many will likely lose their health coverage because they may not be able to afford or pay the cobra that would allow them to continue the coverage. the lesson from that is, not that we ought to put government in charge. the lesson we ought to make certain we have a health coverage system that allows so much greater flexibility for individuals so that every person

is able to afford the kind of coverage they want for themselves and for their families. you have seniority articles written, maybe this is the time health coverage will be divorced from employers. that makes some sense. we want to make certain people, patients have the control over their health coverage, not government, not employers. certainly not insurance companies. connell: all right. one last question on the government response then. you were critical of people who, as i pointed out in that excerpt, who have said that the government failed to respond adequately to the virus itself. what about that, that response as we go through this process of debate how we reopen. were we too late in responding, that columbia study got a lot of attention the last couple days suggest 30,000 some odd lives could have been saved if we put the social distancing measures, for example, one week earlier. what do you say about the government response to this virus? >> i think one of the important

lessons for all of us to appreciate in what has happened is we are seeing in this country now in real time a new disease and the scientific and medical community responding to a new disease in real time and usually that doesn't happen at all. usually all of that happens behind the scenes. so all of the fits and starts, all of the stops and difficulties and challenges the scientific community has in putting together a treatment plan, getting a treatment plan and new vaccine, most of people don't see that because the it is not urgent. now we're seeing that play out in real time. all of us want great certainty, that is what the market wants, great certainty how this will all end. remarkable thing about all of this, if you sit back and think about it, nobody really knows how it is going to end. that is why there is uncertainty. i think it is important for folks to appreciate, the kind of

flexibility, ingenuity and entrepreneurship and enthusiasm folks brought to bear to solve this challenge together is what is exciting and what makes one proud of the american system that we have. connell: we have to leave it there. right now as we wait for the president at a ford plant in michigan, former hhs secretary. the president now not wearing a mask as he meets with those officials at ford. former hhs secretary, again dr. tom price. thank you, sir. melissa. back over to you. melissa out of work, 2.4 million americans filing for unemployment benefits last week. bringing total number of filings to more than 38 million since the lockdown began. go to edward lawrence with the details on that. edward? reporter: everyone expected that number to be bad. 2.44 million people asking the government for help because they didn't have a job. the trend though over the past seven weeks it actually has been coming down. now boston federal reserve

president eric rosengren told me thinks the unemployment rate will be 20% at the peak right now and come down towards the end of the year, but still be in double digits by the end of the year. in an exclusive interview with me on "cavuto: coast to coast" he said the solid economic foundation is still there. record unemployment could be back by 2022. >> if we're relatively successful controlling the pandemic. if we get medical solutions with new medicine or vaccine. that is a very different outcome then if we don't get those things. reporter: he adds consumers must feel confidence in order to get back there. we are not quite there yet. the boston federal reserve is heading up the main street lending facility. they will be running up by june 1st. rosengren says it is not too late to save businesses from going under. he says the delay has been, they

are complicated agreements that need to be written between the fed and banks and banks and interested companies. >> we have to have very complicated legal agreements simplified in a way we can provide financing. that would work for a wide variety of borrowers and lenders. that complication and amount of feedback we tried to get from the industry is one of the reasons why it has taken so long. reporter: we're watching the president tour this facility here. president and fed chairman rosengren said there is level of uncertainty only the virus can answer. will there be resurgence. the president is still talking with those executives. rosengren says first time in his career he consulted doctors to come up with his economic forecast. back to you. >> who are you with? good, very good.

reporter: my question to you because of this, all the ventilators here at ford and efforts of all the manufacturers -- we now have enough manufacturing going on for time being of ventilators? do you think we have enough to share with other countries. my question to you, sir, is looking six months from now, a year from now, how many more, how much do we need to kept in the stockpile? >> we were just talking about it. we have a very big stockpile now. we're building it bigger. helping a lot of countries. nigeria we sent 1000. we have various, various countries, france, spain, we have a lot going to italy. we have a lot going to a different, probably, 15, 18 countries they are calling us. we have the capacity to do this. nobody else did. every state now has more than they need and our stockpile is totally full. we have a tremendous amount. now we're really helping other

countries where they're losing a lot of people because they don't have ventilators. ventilators are hard to do. i want to say that ford and general electric have done an incredible job working together and also the companies that work with you. they really did a great job. they do a great car and they do, they really did a great job on ventilators. i hear the quality of the ventilators has been really top of the line. so we really appreciate it, fellows. >> thank you. reporter: mr. president, there was a lot of interest whether you would end up wearing a mask today. could you just take us through your thought process of why you decided not to wear a mask? >> i did wear. i had one on before. i wore one in the back area. i didn't want to give the press pleasure. i had it on in the back area. i put the mask on. reporter: did you have goggles? >> i did. goggles and a mask. reporter: why are you not wearing isn't. >> because in this area -- reporter: why are you not

wearing it here. >> not necessary here. everybody has been tested. i have been esed it. in fact i was tested this morning. its not necessary. reporter: [inaudible]. >> that is their choice. i was given a choice. i had one on in area where they preferred it. so i put it on and it was very nice. was very nice. they said not necessary here. yeah, please? reporter: what about the example that it would sent for -- >> sets an example. i think it sets an example both ways. as they say i did have it on. thank you. yeah, please. reporter: mr. president, [inaudible] >> liked your question so much t was such a nice question. reporter: here is the question for you. >> go ahead. reporter: we've seen manufacturers here, ford, gm, small businesses turning things overnight making ppe materials. as someone who is the president of the united states in terms of our manufacturing might, how do you see what has taken place?

>> this is the biggest mobilization since world war ii. these people were in charge of it. they did it. they did a fantastic job. they did a really fantastic job. we appreciate it. all of these companies, they came together. they used to make cars here. they used to make other things here. now they're not only, potentially, masks all of the other, what other product do you make? head of ford. not bad. >> hi, carol. how are you. you know what we're making. we have the pressure respirators. obviously the ventilators, the masks, the gowns. you know, we've, really anything that, that anybody needs we responded quickly and we're very proud of our workforce. they have been amazing. >> is he doing a good job? >> he is in fact. bill, you have been through so many crisis through your years as chairman owning the company here, how does this crisis dealing with the pandemic making ppe materials here? >> everyone's different. you know, i won't take you through all of them going all

the way back to maybe the oil shocks and then the dot-com meltdowns and all this. every crisis is different but what is amazing how our people responded. this one they didn't wait to ask to do something. they said, here is an opportunity and let's go. what i love about our culture. they didn't ask for permission. they just went. that is something that we've done throughout our 117 year history. i hope we'll always do. >> by the way, here is my mask right here. and i liked it very much. i actually, honestly, i think i look better in the mask, i really did. i looked better in the mask but i'm making, but i'm making a speech. so i won't have it now. but i did have it on right here. i think some of you might have gotten a shot. reporter: mr. ford, can you confirm the president was told not to wear one in this area? connell: president trump taking questions from reporters as he

tours the michigan ford plant. he was coming in there were questions throughout the day, whether the president would wear a mask who took a plant. when we saw him on camera, when he was in another area of the plant he was wearing one. produced the mask he was wearing earlier right before walking away. he will make a speech now as he said at this plant, which as the president pointed out has turned from making cars on a daily basis to making personal protective equipment, whether it be masks and also medical equipment like ventilators. so the president is touring that area now. we'll continue to monitor him out there in michigan as he moves on to make the remarks, but, melissa, over to you for now. melissa okay. thank you so much for that, connell. i want to bring in fox business's own david asman as we segue from the mask police to some issues that may be of greater importance to americans right now. i don't know, it may be, may not

be. specifically the cover of the "new york post" from this morning, really struck a chord with a lot of new yorkers. tons of people talking about it online. there it is right there and talking about the lockdown. this is an editorial saying it needs to end right now. the big apple is dying. the streets are empty. tens of thousands have been plunged into poverty. our leaders have no plans, no answers and it goes on. one of the points that this, that the opinion writer got to in here was this idea, you know, don't, as good writer you paint a picture. don't tell me, show me. he talked about 3500 people in new york lining up at a catholic church in queens, hours in advance to get a free meal. >> right. melissa what picture that paints in new york city, that you have almost 4,000 people who are hungry enough to stand in line for hours in the morning.

we're going to listen to president trump but i want to hear your thoughts on that in a second. >> sure. melissa let's listen in for a second. don't move, david. >> i think we're going to be helping people out. we'll get money for them during the artificial -- this is artificial closure. now we're going to be able to open it up. this isn't like long-term problems and takes years and years to have it come back. the depression took 12 years, 14, 15 years. we're going to be back next year, maybe even in the fourth quarter, in a few months we're going to be back because we, we closed it and now we opened it. but i would say there could be one more nice shot, one more -- reporter: what do you think [inaudible] >> i let you know, i know exactly but i would rather do it at the appropriate time. today we're celebrating these great companies doing ventilators and other equipment. but we have a very specific plan. and it will be great for the american people, and our economy is going to be back soon.

ford and general electric and these great companies that helped us so much in a time of need, they're going to be very happy. you're already gearing up. i know you're gearing up. your lines are starting to roll, making cars again. so a lot of things are happening. by the way on our southern border, it has never been so secure. we're up to almost 200 miles of wall and we have never had, that whole area is, nobody comes through that area, the area where the wall goes up, that is the end of that. reporter: [inaudible]. speech this afternoon what are you thinking about in terms of campaign rallies? when will you be able to get back -- >> as soon as you're able to have people get in. we never had an empty seat, since the day i came down the escalator with our future first lady, we never had an empty seat, you know that. and we would have thousands of people we sent away. i think demand now from what we see is greater than ever before. we'll have to go to certain states where we're able to, look, i don't want to have a stadium where you're supposed to have a person and then seven

empty seats and then other person. we might to some outdoor big ones. we may also just wait until the stadiums can open up. i think it is going to be soon. we'll go to a place like florida. we'll go to a place like maybe georgia, some other place where they will be opening up. whoever opens up first. the demand is getting incredible to get going with the rallies. the music in the background. i'm saying we had rallies like nobody has ever had. we would love to get back to that. i think it is going to be sooner rather than later. reporter: you were asked about this briefly this morning, this new astrazeneca vaccine from oxford, hhs is investment of one billion dollars in, how much promise do you think that holds for an early vaccination program? >> i think it hold as tremendous promise. we have many other companies who are just about as far along. we have many companies. we have, the greatest pharmaceutical companies in the

world. they are equal, i mean really in a position and i'm only, i'm not only talking about vaccine, i'm talking about cures and therapeutics. their therapeutically we have things coming out but they have to be tested very quickly and we're doing quickly. reporter: who would get the vaccine first, first-responders, elderly? >> we're setting logistically with our military. our military is in gear so we can give 150, 200 million shots quickly. military is in gear. you know we could move a couple hundred thousand soldiers immediately in time of emergency. so this is not nearly as big of a deal as that. it is equally as important perhaps but it is not it's not as tough low business i cannily. reporter: how would you prioritize them? >> i will sit down with a lot of people an figure them out. we'll sit down with the military. we hope to be in that position fairly soon. rather than having the vaccine, doing the tests and then

starting to gear up, we're taking a risk because you know it could be that if something happened, but i don't think that is going to be. but in addition to that company we have other companies very far advanced. and also, don't forget, therapeutics and cure. we're talking about a vaccine in this case. therapeutics and cure. frankly that is my first choice. that would take care of people in trouble right now. okay? reporter: mr. president, on issue of testing there are questions whether you're satisfied or not with what the cdc is doing, the work they're doing, particularly the director, dr. redfield, can you address that? are you satisfied with the work -- >> really good job and in a very complex situation. we started off, nobody knew what the virus was. it came in from china. nobody knew what it was. frankly i think they have done a very good job. i'm very happy about it. a lot of other people think they have done great work. we're up to, this is beyond even cdc. we've done it, between jared kushner and a lot of geniuses

coming in from "silicon valley" and a lot of people, these people can make ventilators. what we've done with ventilators is incredible. we geared up in a short period of time through general electric, ford, they're represented here at the top level, through other companies we were at honeywell the other day, they make masks. who would think honeywell is making a mask. that's what they're making now. they're making a mask. it is a very high-tech company. they make dashboards to an airplane, lots of other things. now they're making masks. our companies are geared up so quickly, so fast. honeywell opened a plant in three weeks, literally, zero to open making masks in three weeks. that is incredible achievement. there is never been anything done like this since the end of world war ii. reporter: you said a number of weeks ago we can't let the cure become worse than the disease. >> true. reporter: where are we? >> i think i was first one to

say it, i don't know. would you say i was the first one? but you can't let the cure become worse than the problem itself. reporter: where are we? >> i think we have to, i think the governors have to start opening up. we now know the disease. we know the weaknesses and strengths. we know that older people are affected gravely and younger people are not affected gravely frankly. you look at the statistics, it is uncredible. we know that we have to protect some people much more so. i think a lot of the governors have done a very, very poor job on nursing homes but they have done a good job on other things. i know every governor. i can give you, i can grade every governor but we made a lot of hero governors. we have done a great job for the governors and my relationship with them in almost all cases is very good. and remember this, one of the beauties, we were just talking about, not one person who needed a ventilator didn't get a ventilator. reporter: with another 2.4 million people claiming first time unemployment

insurance benefits today how close are we to the cure being worse than the disease? >> i think that a lot of these states will have, ones that are sort of sticking to a certain very rigid pattern i think they will stop. i don't think the people will stand for it. this is a country meant to be open, not closed. we did the right thing, john. we saved millions of lives. millions and millions of lives. would you have had anywhere from a million five to two million five, three million lives, think of it. so if we were at 100,000 instead after 100,000, multiply that times 15, 20, 25, it wouldn't have been acceptable. it wouldn't have been sustainable. you couldn't have done it. so we called it right. now i want it open. and we're going to open. if there is a fire, an ember, a flame, someplace we put it out. but the people have done a great job. general electric, ford, and all the other people that work with them have done fantastic work. honeywell, again i was there

last week, honeywell, they have done fantastically well are also. thank you very much. reporter: smaller fire, talked virus popping up. are you concerned about a potential second wave of? >> people say that is very distinct possibility, it is standard. we'll put out fires. we'll not close the country. we'll put out the fires. whether it is an ember or a flame we'll put it out. we're not closing our country. thank you very much. reporter: are you replacing dr. redfield? >> no. melissa. melissa that is president trump touring the plant in michigan. would be prepared to put out many members or a large fire. he will not close the country again. david asman, i would bring you

back in. i bring us back to the point we're talking about. as reporters peppering him about not wearing a mask and people lining up for food because the city is closed so long. >> 10 of thousands, depend on how much longer the city stays in lockdown. the question how good is the lockdown for new york. we had 20,000 deaths in the city alone, just in this city. that is more than twice what the whole country of germany had in terms of deaths, et cetera. the lockdown, there is some questions about whether the lockdown was the right mechanism. we have 66% of new covid cases in new york coming from people who have been locked down, who have been sheltered in place in their apartments or wherever.

so there, it may be that the whole concept of the lockdown is not the right way to go in the future. yes, social distancing is important. cleanliness is important, et cetera, killing the germs. but lockdown, particularly in the summertime, when people need to get out in the fresh air is not -- we're seeing in countries like denmark that opened up successfully, the numbers have gone down. they have not spiked up. or places like hong kong which never closed down the economy and actually have a mortality rate of just a tiny, tiny fraction of what those countries like italy and france that have completely shut down have had. so we have to rethink this. that is what the "new york post" did today. by the way the mayor of new york city, de blasio, seemed to be responding to that cover of the "new york post" saying that we are going to open up new york city by sometime in the first half of june, maybe as early as the first week of june. so there is a lot of pressure on new york governor and new york

city mayor to listen to what the people are saying. new yorkers love to work. they love to work hard. the lockdown hasn't been that successful. it may have long-term consequences going into the future. melissa: well, i mean there is also the point of picking winners and losers and there are stores forced to shut down. somebody like target has been open through the whole entire thing and they have taken away business of the small business owners who sells house wares or stuff for your kitchen or sells toys, a lot of the things people are going to target for. they have stolen that business saying one can be open or the other. everybody is welcome to stay home. that is one of the big points. >> leaders of this city, they keep moving the goalposts. at first was goal was to prevent hospitals being overrun, to plat enthe curve. they changed that. they keep changing and adding on more rules an regulations and

changing the goalposts. they have to stop that. i think that in fact is, that they are just getting a accustomed to ruling by decree. a lot of politicians get accustomed to that. that is why we have a constitution to prevent that from happening but some, some leaders in this country have been overstepping their role as governors. they have to be pulled back. and it seems like there is a popular uprising to force them back. melissa: that is starting. david asman, thank you so much. >> okay. melissa: connell. connell: as we continue here we might have some relief for your wallet. as one of the things that have been going up is grocery store prices. some sky-high prices are starting to ease up in a big way. so we're going to talk about that. mark zuckerberg from facebook, we heard from him today. he is shifting to something of a permanent work at home model at least for a lot of employees. after the pandemic, he expects

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♪. melissa: celebrating in style. americans looking to fire up their grills this memorial day weekend. will be delighted to see sky-high meat prices are easing in a big way. gerri willis is live in massachusetts with the details. gerri? reporter: hey there, melissa,

that's right. good news for barbecuers out there. got to tell you last week we talked about 4.5% increase in beef prices in the stores. just this week the opposite is happening. according to the department of agriculture in fact prices were down 15% at the wholesale level. six days in a row prices come down. hopefully that filters down to consumers very soon. the owner of this fine institution, guaido's in the berskshires. what he is expecting for sales this weekend? >> 600, 700 customers, i would say. that is the most. we find people are buying more. we'll have long, long lines outside. i think they're excited. you know the weather is beautiful. they want to get outside. everybody wants to get outside. everybody is wanting to be barbecuing. reporter: before i let you go, melissa, i just want to tell you, this institution locally

owned and operated. two brothers start the it. they had it for 40 years. if you're here buying you might want to pick up some hotdogs. americans eat 818 dogs per second between memorial day and labor day. back to you. melissa: my family is only responsible for 400 of them. gerri, perfect. connell. connell: that is a lot. let's go back to michigan for a moment. the president is making remarks that he referenced about to b to be introduced at the ford plant in michigan. he has spoken to reporters already twice. we heard from the president in the last 45 minutes or so twice. we'll keep an eye on this more formal speech, bring you any headlines out of it. alert you that is about to begin at the ford plant in michigan. now as we watch that, we know school may be out for summer but for a lot of parents the question becomes, now what do we

do with our children? families are waiting to hear if summer camps will open. and in fact the federal government is out with some new information on that and lauren simonetti joins us with the details. lauren. lauren: don't you parents want to know, right? for your kids, all right. parents looking for child care this summer or just to give the kids something to do outside like the four walls of your house and backyard, can breathe a sigh of relief that the cdc has issued these new guidelines that will allow some camps to open their doors. here are the suggestions. only accepting kids whose parents are essential workers and live in the area. staggered drop-off times. facemasks. no field trips. close the playgrounds, close the dining halls. keep the kids in small groups. listen. >> sizes that are as small as practically possible and to basically within those groups, the kids can socialize like a family household.

like a family household would. lauren: tom rosenberg, head of the american camp association adds that camps are likely going to hire more staff to comply with all the new rules. i guess that is good news. some states planning to allow day camps to open right now. georgia, maine, vermont, massachusetts, just to name a few but sleepaway camps might not be so lucky. in fact connecticut's governor signed an executive order banning reopening of sleepaway camp. one overnight cam in california, told foxbusiness.com, i quote, we felt changing our way of doing things beyond what we already planned for would have completely changed the way kids experienced camp. we didn't think that was fair. so it is the state's decision to license the camps. the camp's decision whether they want to open. but with these new federal guidelines parents have an idea what they can expect. i don't know what you guys are doing but most parents are on

the fence right now. they say no to the sleepaway camp but maybe to day camp. have you guys made any decisions. connell: i think a lot of it is just being able to, as you said, being able to plan something for the summer. our kids are a little older. one has to get a job somewhere. but just having some kind of clarity being able to plan for the summer would be helpful. thank you, lauren. good luck with your own planning for the little ones. melissa. >> they're home. home all summer. melissa: just wait. all right. i'm going to send my four-year-old to work at a bar. from "full house" to the big house. actress lori laughlin and her fashion designer husband pleading guilty in the college admissions scandal. molly line with more on this from boston. reporter: hello, melissa. lori laughlin, and her husband mossimo giannulli will make it official tomorrow. they will plead guilty to conspiracy charges.

do it via videoconference. not in case as usual in boston federal court due to the covid-19. they're the 24th parents to admit guilt. loughlin will plead to one count to commit conspiracy and wire fraud under the agreement. she gets two months in prison. giannulli's agreement calls for more time, five months. both on conspiracy count. both agreed to fines, probation, community service. additional charges of bribery and money laundering would be dismissed. the pair paid half a million dollars to the scheme's ringleader to create phony profiles to get their daughters into members of southern california crew team though neither was actual rowers. they had pictures showing them posing. defendants will serve prison term reflecting their perspective roles in the conspiracy to corrupt the colleges admissions process

which are consistent with prior sentences in the case. thus far 19 defendants have been sentenced, two coaches, 1parents. they faced a range ever sentences from home confinement to nine months in prison. the judge doesn't have to stick to the terms of the sentencing. the sentencing will come at a later date. melissa: molly, thank you. connell: we have a path forward in the sunshine state. news of some of florida's biggest tourist attractions reopening. we'll have information on that. a mayor coming on how businesses in south florida are adapting, and are they adapting well enough to lure their consumers back in. that's next. it works fast. relieving pressure, bloating, and discomfort

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connell: wanted to alert you to president trump who has begun his remarks at the for the plant in michigan. we heard the president as he was speaking to reporters after touring the plant. now his speech has started. we are monitoring that speech. we'll bring you any headlines as we get them, if the president makes anymore news. melissa? melissa: theme parks reimagined after coronavirus. orange county's mayor, jerry

demings is now deciding if he will approve the plan presented by universal orlando to reopen the parks. universal asked for the parks to be open to the public on june 5th, with guidelines put in place such as managing capacity in the parks, increased social distancing, temperature checks before entering, face coverings being required and having ambassadors around the park answering any questions. guests may have about new protocol. disney and seaworld are expected to present their outlines at a later date. we'll see, connell. connell: we'll stay in florida talk about something called stand up miami. it is phase one. the name the city gave to its reopening plan aimed at insuring that businesses and restaurants open safely for workers and for customers. we're joined by the republican mayor of miami frances suarez who has been on with us a number of times. mr. mayor, good to see you

again. give us details what is going on. give us an update on reopening. you're just getting started. how is it so far? >> we started on wednesday. it is going well so far. obviously a bit slow. people have to get accustomed to going out. we opened, basically, our sort commercial sector. we opened parks. we opened grooming salons. we opened commercial businesses up to a 50% capacity. and so far the reports are good. we haven't had thankfully any sort of negative incidents so far. we should be opening restaurants a little less than a week from now, next wednesday to a level of 50%. we're trying to expand outdoor seating so the restaurants can take advantage of the sidewalks and even potentially parking spaces to be able to get closer to that 100% capacity which is really what they need to survive. connell: right. we're talking to a restaurant owner happened to be from

new orleans yesterday. they were at 25% capacity. he said you have to get at least over 50. to your point, even a lot higher than that to make money in the restaurant business. you brought up people may be, seemed to hint people may be reluctant to come out again? is that true? even though you're allowing people to go back to hair salon or place like that they're reluctant to do so? is that what you were getting at? >> at some places hair salons, people are desperate to get a haircut, many of them, but i do think, certain businesses there is some sort of a reluctance. i think with restaurants being one of them. i think people will take a little bit more time. but there are, you know, you know the businesses are certainly clamoring to get back open and begin the process. because this is going to be a process, right? going from phase one, hopefully to phase two over the next couple weeks, to phase three god willing if the data allows it over next few weeks after that. this is a process.

we are, you know, excited about the fact that we're standing up miami and that we're beginning this process. i think our residents and business owners are also thankful we're beginning this process as well. connell: you can be creative. like i said, you have the weather certainly. how much of the streets can you close down realistically let people spread out a little bit to have a meal on south beach, the middle of the street, is that the kind of thing you're think about or already doing? >> that is already happening. that is already happen right now in miami beach. they closed the streets in preparation for them opening up restaurants and certainly in the city of miami we'll be looking at that as well. one of the things we're targeting, our commission has approved is expanding the capacity outdoors for sidewalks and even for using parking spaces as additional space so that, like i said, restaurants get closer to that 100% capacity. remember that a lot of restaurants and small businesses fail. so you know they need the capacity space as much as

possible within of course safety protocols for them to be able to succeed. it is very difficult to stop and start. so the one thing we're hoping we don't have to get into a situation where we have to reverse any of these things. we're hoping this continues in the right trajectory. now that businesses taken on enormous effort to get their businesses ready, to make whatever purchases they need to make, to be prepared for this reopening. they don't have to do it again after a shutdown. connell: right. i thought it interesting the order you went in, correct me if i'm wrong, some retailers, nail salons, barbershops, stores like, businesses like that were actually open before dine-in restaurants. some states are doing it differently. what was the logic in terms of your order that you looked at there? >> there were a few things we looked at. we wanted to coordinate with the state. we got the rules of the county opening up restaurants late in the week prior. so we wanted to give our

residents and business owner to adjust rules, to procure materials needed. in the case of restaurants, you know, obviously they have to get hand sanitizing lotion. they have to get the face coverings. they have to be able to equip their restaurants in some cases are getting plexiglass to create separations and physical barriers. connell: right. >> we wanted them to procure the materials and ramp back up. it takes anywhere from seven to 10 days to rehire employees to train them on rules and regulations to make sure once we open we're ready to go. connell: i'm sure one of the keys we'll continue to talk about this when we have you on, just like orlando getting tourists back in as well, economically at some point. >> no doubt, mayor suarez good to see you again. the mayor of miami. melissa. melissa: all right. a quarantine first for me at least. i started my morning off with a few of my favorite friends.

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what that's about -- >> i wrote a cookbook! melissa: this is my official taster. grayson thorne. let's see it, grayson. [laughter] he tasted it, it was so delicious! what do you think, did i pass? >> you did pass, and it's delicious. melissa: so you can find the recipe on fox&friends.com. connell, i think this was the first time in the history of television cooking that the talent actually cooks the food. you know, normally we go -- connell: well, that's impressive. melissa: yes. but i had to do everything, all the cooking, all the chopping, the whole thing, the recipe, the camera, the sound. i'm exhausted. i'm ready to go to bed. what did you think? connell: another actor in the family. [laughter] and by the way, melissa's invited me over for dinner, look, two or three times? and every time we've orderedded food, so the next time --

[laughter] obviously, there's some capability here that you could actually deliver with that. so there's that. thanks, everybody. [laughter] we will see -- melissa: i'm going to volunteer you to cook with friends. connell: "lou dobbs tonight" starts right now. take care. ♪ ♪ lou: good evening, everybody. it has been 111 days since president trump issued his executive order blocking travel of non-u.s. citizens from china into the united states. the president's decision, a decision unpopular with many of his public health and political advisers and certainly the left-wing media. that decision, however, saved american lives, perhaps hundreds of thousands of lives. and he made his decision early in the fight against the wuhan virus. no americaned had at that point died of the disease. the