bet against their management team. >> [bell ringing] >> liz: great to hear and carter henderson great to have you. all right as we head into this weekend, we thank everyone who served in our military, thank you for everything. markets closed flat to slightly higher. melissa: optimism about an economic recovery pushing stocks into winning territory for the week, for the day, stock s closing near the highs in the session, amid renewed tensions between washington and beijing. major averages all up more than 3% on the week although we do see the dow settling in negative territory down about nine points i'm melissa francis welcome to after the bell. connell: i'm connell mcshane reporting live today from bay ville, new york. now as you can see we're right here on the beach and as they get set for what promises to be a different kind of memorial day weekend. later on in the hour we'll head out east to suffolk county and

talk to the county executive steve malone about the plans he has to reopen the beaches out there, and also, you'll meet a very creative local business owner who has managed to turn his restaurant into a drive-in movie theatre of all things so all that's coming up busy hour ahead first though fox business team coverage of our top stories here on a friday with blake burman reporting from the white house but we start with lauren watching the markets for us here is to wrap up the week. lauren? lauren: hey, connell very quiet session, ahead of a long holiday weekend stocks actually traded in the narrowest range in three months and in the end i thought the dow was going to go positive but it fell about nine point, s&p up 7, nasdac up 39. the sectors that led the week's rally, energy, material, financial, they led today's retreat and you can see that if you take a look at the laggards on the dow jones industrial average today, chevron, caterpillar, boeing.

investors weighing opposing forces connell hopes for a coronavirus vaccine and states reopening, against china's move to impose new national security laws on hong kong that would cramp its autonomy that is adding to already high end u.s. china tensions as you can see here steep losses for chinese stocks that list here in the u.s. , andluckin coffee down 30% and oil fell for the first time in seven days closing at 3,347 but for the week it is up almost 13% as all 50 states have started to reopen their economies. look at this major averages for the week up at least 3% the nasdac up almost 4%, and the russel 2,000 a measure of the small cap stocks, to show you how this rally has truly broadened, the russel 2,000 is up almost 8% on the week, connell back to you. connell: lauren thank you. now, as you mentioned all 50 states have started to ease up

to some degree on these pandemic restrictions that had been in place, and president trump is actually now calling on churches to reopen since they are essential and can start to reopen this weekend. that and more, live from the north lawn of the white house today with blake burman, hey, blake. reporter: connell it was really a demand from president trump earlier this afternoon here at the white house for governors all across the country to allow for places of worship to open up this weekend, saying that they are essential services, and with that, the cdc followed up with new guidance. dr. deborah birx saying churches synagogues and mosques should wait a week if they are in an area with a high covid-19 infection rate but the president left with this general threat for governors. watch. president trump: the governors need to do the right thing and allow these very important essential places of faith to open right now. for this weekend, if they don't do it i will override the

governors. in america we need more prayer, not less. reporter: after that during a presentation in the briefing room dr. birx made the case in the overwhelming majority of states and major cities cases are declining. this was her message as many ponder their memorial day weekend plans. >> so please, as you go out this weekend, understand you can go out. you can be outside. you can play golf, you can play tennis and go to the beaches if you stay six feet apart, but remember that that is your space and that's the space that you need to protect and insure that you're social distanced for others. reporter: connell and melissa dr. birx did the asymptomatic spread is still a very big

concern. back to you. connell: already blake burman for us. melissa? melissa: here now is steve forbes, forbes media chairman. let me ask you first of all about this move by the president do you think that local municipalities are going to follow it because of course, it is the mayor and the governor who is the last word in a city like mine. >> i think most will. i think you're going to see more and more stark contrast between states that are moving with deliberate speed to open up and those who are lagging. heard about vermont today is about as a rural space as you can find, they're still acting like it's new york in march. so i think you're going to see pressure from other states to open up and i think people are recognizing that if you practice what physical distancing and the like, you can go out. there are always risks out there but people have had enough. this has lasted far longer than anyone anticipated. this lockdown. melissa: yeah speaking of having enough, there's already this talk about what happens if it comes back and if there needs to be another lockdown, the

president has said we will not do this again, but if there are embers or even a fire we'll put them out but not shutdown the economy again. do you think he can hold tough on that, how much pressure will there be if there is another wave. >> oh, i don't think there's going to be another national lockdown again. i think we know enough now. it's among the elderly, nursing homes and the like, people with conditions like diabetes who are especially vulnerable so you can take a much more nuanced approach. you don't need to shut everything down. we've learned a lot since then. you see a state like florida which was expected to be a hot zone. they did sensible things. they're doing very nicely, thank you in contrast to what happened in new york and the nursing homes, so we know a lot more. not going to happen again on a general basis. it'll be much more laser-like on the real problem, not nationwide focus. melissa: so what does it mean for the economy as we're reopening right now. how many businesses do you think are going to be gone on a percentage basis if you had to guess and how do we handle this

recovery? >> well this is the thing and this is where the government treasury department especially hasn't been nearly aggressive enough in getting those funds out to smaller businesses, having a lot of arbitrary regulations with the treasury department should remove, but in the fall, a lot of businesses are going to face that question. do they open up or are they just going to throw in the towel and that's where i think the faster we open up the better and one of the things i think you'll see criticized in the next few week, why these arbitrary rules about 25% capacity, 42.9% capacity. they are just picking numbers out of the air. they should restaurants and others should be allowed within the safe limits. physical distancing, they should be allowed to make their own decisions. 75% as long as you have a safe environment, none of these crazy things they are just picking numbers out of the air. open up. let's do it. melissa: yeah, not only that, i mean, it is so much easier to see things in hindsight, but if

i look out in my neighborhood for example, the government picking winners and losers they allowed stores like target to stay open saying they were essential, they sold, you know, tons of stuff that these other little stores mom and pop stores weren't able to do, so the toy store down the block, the florist, all kinds of things that you can get in both whole foods or target who were allowed to stay open the big box retailer but it was the little guy who sold hardware, who sold, you know, all kinds of things like that who now has been shut all this time, and in my neighborhood is opening even though they haven't been told they are able to at some point they just have to say let's do it. they have masks on they are doing it safely but what do you think about the way that government intentionally or inadvertently has favored these big chains over mom and pop stores? >> well initially when this thing was brand new horrible thing coming along, you could understand they made instant decisions, but as the weeks went by should it

become very clear what made sense and what didn't make sense , and discriminating against small businesses, then saying oh, you can only open 25% , the only way these businesses survive is with revenue and the only way you get revenue is by ending these arbitrary lockdowns that we've seen in new jersey and elsewhere open it up. we'll learn. we're learning as we go, but we also know the real consequences in terms of physical health and financial health by these general orders of lock everything down, in certain states like new york and new jersey have been lagging, states like florida, colorado with a democrat governor who started businesses before he became and went into politics therefore knew no revenue you don't survive, so i think a practical approach is in order. let every business open that wants to as long as it practices safety measures which we all know what they are now. melissa: steve forbes, you're fantastic, thank you appreciate it. connell? connell: well we're getting ready, melissa for the memorial day weekend and the beaches on

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>> ♪ ♪ connell: live look at the beach in bayville and the battle over reopening is playing out in realtime on the beaches of long island, most are only allowing local residents, a move that seems aimed at keeping people from driving out from new york city where the mayor bill deblasio decided to keep the

beaches closed. >> i'm asking what you would say to a new yorker whose thinking do you know what? i'm going to go to the island because city beaches are closed. >> matt, look, first of all, i do believe that people make their own choices and i respect that, but here is what i'd say. i think we're in a moment of history where less is more. it's just smart to keep it simple. i'm not encouraging people to do a lot of traveling. connell: earlier today we caught up with the suffolk county executive steve malone at a place called smith point county park and that's a beach that will be open this weekend. >> we're excited to have people be able to come back to the beach and i feel very strongly when i announced we were going to reopen on memorial day but people are going to come. kids are home from school and it's unrealistic to think they aren't coming to the beach. let's have them come with safety protocols in place to do this the right way. connell: what does that look

like? do some people have to wear makes or what type of safety protocol is in place? >> we're trying to create as much normalcy as possible so when people are on the beach in their groups you don't need a face covering and when you're in the water you can socially distance, but when you're on the boardwalk, when you're in the restroom, or in the concession area, around other people that's when you have the face covering on. connell: i see the signs all over the place stay six feet apart, which is what we're doing and we're not wearing a mask but when you get closer to people it make sense what about the back and forth this week which speaks to reopening about jurisdictions in terms of which beach is open and which is closed mayor mayor deblasio keeping the city beaches closed. >> we've tried to do things on a regional basis and we're opening together and it hasn't always been possible, municipalities have to make their own decisions and i have to do what's right for the people of suffolk county while there's reduced capacity it's 50% under the state order and there are municipalities we

need to make sure residents have access. connell: but people from the city can't come out and go to the beach. >> not at this point. they are able to go to their beach, that's a decision the city has made but this is a temporary order that just makes common sense that the people paying for these beaches, that staff them up with extra staff this weekend to keep them safe they will be able to have access to them. connell: where are we in suffolk county which did get hit hard by this virus, so did nassau county well over 30,000 confirmed cases of coronavirus, where are we now in the reopening process? you talked to local businesses, for example, a lot. is there frustration building, do people want you to move faster? how are things going? >> people feel ready to reopen, and i'll tell you memorial day weekend is always the unofficial start to summer and in this global pandemic what it feels like now is that memorial weekend is the unofficial start to reopening our economy and if we can do this we can do this safely. i think it'll be a real shot in

the arm and show people we are on the road to recovery. connell: because people have been hard obviously economically what worries you more the economic damage that's been done or that you open up too soon and there's a second wave maybe the coronavirus? >> i think there has to be a balance. everything about this , there's no black and white decisions here. everything is about competing risks, and we know the damage this has caused economically. we need to reopen but i believe we can do that safely and reopening memorial day weekend, the beaches is an indication that we are getting to the point that we can do this safely and we can be on the road to recovery. connell: most of the decision-making process was in albany with the governor or has some of that been passed to the local level, what's the relationship between you and the governor' office, as to what types of decisions you'll make on the reopening? >> we've been working very closely with the governor office with a regional control room that communicates with the municipalities so there's

been a back and fourth there and we've communicated that look we think that with the contact tracing, the testing in place, we're ready to move towards reopening. connell: what are you worried most about? i think it's fair to say mistakes made on the other end as well. nursing homes, for example, in this state what would you say a lot of people on long island have lost parents or grandparents in nursing homes, people that were covid-positive were allowed to be admitted or readmitted to nursing homes what would you say about that? >> it's a tragic situation, we dealt with nursing homes every day when we were here and communicated with them and they were really working to put safety protocols in place, segregating staff, isolating patients, but this virus was attacking the most vulnerable and that's what nursing homes are people with underlying medical conditions and the elderly. connell: people that had the virus shouldn't be allowed right? >> the problem is we're also managing the hospital system. the biggest concern was the hospital system was being overwhelmed. it was strained and stressed to

the max, unlike anything we've ever seen so again, very difficult. no black and white decisions in dealing with this virus. there will be lessons learned but we're still working towards -- connell: well now i hear about churches for example, where it's a push to open up churches even if it's with 10 worshipers or whatever the case may be. that has to be a concern. >> i think that's an important thing and again, it's about how do you do it? can you reopen safely and i believe if we can start to reopen beaches safely really is an indicator we can do other things other aspects of our life and get them transitioning back to some sense of normalcy. connell: as we come back here live and talk again about the beaches which are open on long island for the long weekend it's definitely not business as usual in bayville for example , this deck we're on i'm suspecting would normally be packed with people getting ready to have an early dinner or happy hour but now you have the

bar manager mike murphy joining us live being forced to make adjustments, it's only the two of us and we're standing 10 feet apart so what are you doing differently this year? >> well we'll take off premise only. unfortunately i can't even let them sit on the beach and enjoy it because then i would serve them. it's very hard right now for us to actually serve the food and drinks and have the people actually leave the property. let's face it you can't social distance here. where can you. connell: i was asking the suffolk county executive this question about what's the level of frustration you feel, do you think the lockdown has done what it's supposed to do, are you saying to yourself all right let's get back at it. i feel we're fighting an air war , the president keeps talking about an unseen enemy, we're fighting an air war with nothing but bomb shelters and it's running high and it'll all go by i really think this is a perfect spot for us, we can spread tables out and get back to normal here. connell: you'll probably do that right have tables spread out?

as we continue, thank you, mike, the owner will join us also later on in the hour. plenty more to come, melissa from here on long island but right now back to you. melissa: looks beautiful. all right, the pandemic brings sports and summer camps to a standstill, we'll talk to one youth soccer club about a potential path forward and what happens when the lockdown final ly comes to an end? do these moves look familiar? then you might have a condition called dry mouth. biotène is clinically proven to soothe and moisturize a dry mouth. plus, it freshens breath. biotène. immediate and long lasting dry mouth symptom relief.

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♪ melissa: grab your soccer balls stretch your legs and charge your laptop. summer camp is looking a little different this year as companies look to adapt during the pandemic. here now is adam geisler, ceo of super soccer stars adam thank you so much for joining us you guys are in more than 25 markets more than 100,000 kids from toddlers all the way up to big kids that are in travel teams. you are in the middle of your season and boom, the lockdown

started. you had to cancel everything. what has it been like and what has it done to revenue? >> yeah, listen it's a great question thank you for having us melissa. it stopped us. there's no question it stopped us. we are coming right in the spring it was a time where kids get out into the wild and they're playing soccer and it's our favorite time of the year and it stopped us and it really forced us to do a lot of things because we have these amazing coaches we've been doing this for 20 plus years and it's our responsibility to impact these kids so revenue went to zero. we said do you know what no different than what the schools are doing we're following education. it's our responsibility. keep these kids moving so we went virtual. we took our classes and our coaches and went online and we're teaching these kids, out of coaches living rooms that opened up their homes making their living rooms soccer fields and asking their parents to make their soccer fields and engaging with kids like we've never been able to do before and its been unbelievable. it's certainly not what it was when we had a business that overlaps 20 years, we impacted

over 1 million kids over these year, and we can't see their faces and interact with them so that has been very different, and its hurt us we had to make a lot of difficult decisions like most small companies have, to lay people off, we had to apply for government loans but we're not stopping because just like the educational systems, you have to continue to educate and we have to continue to get these kids moving. what if our kids stop playing sports and moving there's a much longer issue we have to keep that behavior going. melissa: so summer is a huge time for you summer camp has to be a great revenue driver. everyone wants to get outside and play. it's one thing to stay with the classes when kids are inside anyway, but as a camp, it's so much harder to think about being inside. i know that like a lot of the smartest schools, you made a bunch of contingency plans what are your thoughts? >> we have and no different the schools are approaching the hybrid approach so our contingency plans are launching

virtual summer camps for the first time and we're going to be out there doing summer camps we've actually partnered with a lot of local new york businesses to provide soccer plus enrich. so we're having kids play soccer and also doing science and doing broad way and doing theatre and we're basically we're moving sports and education together, so we can keep them together, and i think what's really important and we have to get parents over this is that screen time and activity time are two different things. this isn't a vehicle for us to be able to communicate now and so this is our best way to impact those kids, so we have coach michael has been doing this for 13-plus years wants to see your kid an impact your kid. give us an opportunity and we're going to do that virtually and we believe we can do it and we also have our plans to get back into the physical world where we do four kid soccer, eight kid soccer following cdc guidelines, u.s. soccer guidelines and how to play safe and coming up with our own curriculum so we can continue to reach these kids and

impact these kids even if it's different. melissa: yeah, let me ask you, you haven't given up on the idea of outdoor camp right because we've heard in the last couple weeks stories of businesses coming back and even companies coming back to the city sooner than they thought, opening up in mid-june. there's still a possibility you'll have outdoor camp, yes? >> 100% and we're going to do it with faith and follow the phases, when they tell us we can go we have plans to go. we're working with our partners and we have every safety guideline mapped out that parent s need to feel safe, the kids immediate to feel safe but they need to be active and active minds are so important, active bodies are so important for our kids. melissa: yes, right now is the time when you sign up the big travel teams for the fall. are as many people coming back or are they reluctant to commit because there's money involved and they don't know if it's really going to happen?

adam kinzinger you hear us? oh, no, all right, well, we'll get the answer and we'll bring it back to you, adam, thank you, soccer stars united good stuff. all right, with beach towns reopening, with restrictions, more americans are dipping into their own backyards for a solution, but it doesn't have to cost you. plus, a possible return of one of the country's biggest theme parks, the orange county task force endorsing universal orlando's plan to open june 5 to the public. wow! with temperature checks, face masks, limited capacity and the plan must now be approved florida governor ron desantis. we look forward to that. connell: we'll have much more melissa at bayville we talked earlier at the show about how it's a tough landscape to get in a long weekend and when that's

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island we've moved down the beach a little bit, and we are out on the dock in bayville joined by our local bayman named douglas rogers out on the water as he can see douglas good to see you. we've been talking to so many businesses about how they've been effected the last couple months by this. how is your business doing? >> it's down 80-90%. connell: that's a lot. >> some guys sell directly to restaurants and some sell directly to wholesalers but the guys that sell directly to restaurants are down 100%. connell: so you're a fisherman and you go out and what you catch goes directly in many cases to a restaurant? what's going on just no orders right now? some guys are open for takeout, obviously. >> the thing we mostly do is clams and oysters and a lot don't want to do that for take out, they get cold, people think they aren't as good , so a lot of places our sitdown restaurants as a whole they do a lot of clams on the

half shell, people don't know how to open clams so they are still doing pizza and that kind of stuff but not doing clam s, and they aren't on the half shell. connell: are you frustrated you'd like to see the state get open quicker than it has? >> i love it. i think it's going to happen either way people are itching to get out and i think outdoor eating is where baymen gets his bread and butter is made in the outdoor eating, in the clam bars outside. i think people will be able to do that at a safe distance. connell: we're at a safe distance right now you're floating away a little bit, but good luck with everything. i hope your business comes back as strong as it once with us, douglas rogers in bayville where we'll have much more coming up but melissa right now back over to you. melissa: backyard pools are increasing in demand as many public pools and beaches still face restrictions due to the pandemic. jeff flock is live in orland park, illinois with more on the pool boom, jeff? reporter: oh, boy i am surround

ed by pools and you know the ones that are big right now, melissa these are above-ground pools which maybe some people turn their nose up at but you can get one right away. if you are going to dig an in ground pool it gets kind of crazy. bob jones in the family business 60 years. you say it's busier now than ever, right now. >> right now its been busiest may that we've ever had, just can't believe the demand for swimming pools right now. reporter: take a look there's all sorts of these, various different sizes that you can get and as i said the key to this is that if it's an above ground pool you get it right away. you got to dig a pool it's months. >> months to put an inground in it's a big construction project. an above ground pool can be put in in one day and like right now we're about three or four weeks from an installation standpoint, just because we're busy. reporter: now some folks and this is all anecdotal melissa but some folks said they are

running out of stock. they don't have all of the above ground pools that they need. you bought big time because you thought the economy was going to be good and then of course along comes coronavirus and you thought i could be out of business. >> it was pretty scary there in march when the state of illinois shutdown, all our stores were shutdown, but thankfully, our phones kept ringing, and so we just kind of saw the demand and it just kept building. reporter: here is the other thing melissa in addition to pools in the backyard, everything from patio furniture to stuff for the kids. you got the play land and that sort of thing, everybody is trying to take maybe the money they would have spent to go somewhere and instead spend it on enhancing their own environment and i'll tell you the sun is out. spring is springing into summer, and at least where pools are concerned the economy is booming melissa? melissa: looks nice, jeff, thank

you. connell? connell: as we continue, melissa , here at the restaurant we've been broadcasting from in bayville, we were talking earlier normally this is a huge weekend, we'll see what they're expecting this year. plus a mostly forgotten business making a major comeback in one long island restaurant, maybe not the way you'd expect we have a drive-in movie theatre and a restaurant parking lot that's coming up. we're right back live with you on the beach today ahead of the memorial day long weekend the long island sound, a few beachgoers and a little dog out there we'll be right back. ♪ of all the places you're looking forward to where will you go first? ♪

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>> ♪ ♪ connell: it was the fourth friday in a row we've taken the show out to a small business to see how they are managing their way through the pandemic and today we continue from wall 's wharf, a restaurants in bayville, new york and we've been joined live by the owner bill, whose been kind enough to host us, you'd rather have people filling up these tables

on your deck than the two of us. how are you managing your way through this what types of changes have you had to make? i know you're doing takeout and delivery. >> well we're doing takeout, we don't really do delivery. for a while we tried wholesale, but then people became ill so they stopped doing that, too high end, a grocer and a fish perveyor. connell: your business is one that really relies moreso than others on the human contact that somebody could walk right off the beach and you have an outdoor seating so how much longer can you kind of survive like this? we have you taking advantage of some of the government assistance? >> well we were lucky enough to get the payment protection loan which helps and right away i put back all the kitchen workers. now on the other side of that, anybody whose a tip person does not want to go back to work, because they're getting the subsidy in unemployment. connell: has that been an issue not to work?

>> you're making more money under these circumstances, but they are making more money if you were fully open. connell: what if they extend that unemployment? they have the enhanced unemployment benefits in place supposed to go out of existence at the end of july i believe if they extend that does that actually complicate your reopening a little bit? >> well it complicates it because if we're open even in a limited basis people come back to work but if you're not on a limited basis or it's 25% then it's going to be very difficult. connell: that math is tough, for a lot of people i was talking to a guy the other day on our show from the new orleans area and he says well if i'm only at 25% yeah i'll reopen but i can't make any money that way. you need almost full capacity or at least 50%. >> well the margins are very low to begin with, and if you can't sell any alcohol meaning anything over the bar or bottle s of wine, it's very difficult to survive. what they really should do the payment protection loan should be each tended through

the year-end and not an eight week period. they gave us a loan and they don't allow us to open. connell: so it helps some small businesses that were operating to keep their people on the payroll but you can't operate. >> i brought them back but they are really under employed. so it'll be nice if they extended it to 12-31 and let more businesses really take care of their employees and keep them with a job longer. connell: okay when you do come back the other thing you have to deal with i'd think is some of your costs go up in terms of how you operate the restaurants. have you started to plan for the changes you'll have to make? >> we already planned for that. everything will be disposable, there's no washing of glasses or dishes. the bathrooms will be clean, a m atron, male and female to keep the bathrooms continually clean. so we've already planned for it and thought it out once we get the okay. we have the perfect setup here. connell: yeah you do it's beautiful today would probably be packed on a normal friday afternoon. i guess it's happy hour.

>> well this would normally we'll do 10% of what we do and that's what you do even with the takeout. you really can't support a large restaurant like this on 10%. it's impossible. connell: the way this has been handled, the virus some parts of the country the virus didn't hit hard at all and in this part of the country it hit nassau county with 30 some thousand odd confirmed cases over 2,000 deaths just in this county and around new york city, how do you personally look at how its been handled whether this was necessary, whether it went too far, we didn't go far enough how do you look at it? >> i think they handled the right way. i believe the health of everybody is important first. if you don't have your health you can't do anything and people have to feel comfortable to go out and come into a place like this. we have a large group of people, so before they get a vaccine or better treatment for the virus i think this business and anything we have a lot of people it's going to be very difficult. connell: you'll make it through you'll stay in business no matter what? >> we've been here 80 years now

connell: wow. >> so we've saved a lot of money but it's going to be very close and going to be tight and very difficult. connell: you look great for a guy whose been here 80 year, i'm kidding. >> wrong, i'm 74. thank you very much. connell: i hope you do. >> thanks for coming i appreciate it. connell: people in the community love this restaurant and hopefully it'll be back up and running at full speed. as we do continue from here we've met so many creative people when we've been out doing these shows over the last few weeks just a few miles from here there's a restaurant that might win the award for the most creative during the pandemic. dennis lundstrom runs it and it's called coach meeting house, so even before he could put his plan a in place, it was effectively already time to move on to plan b. take a listen. >> first thing we adjusted to was the to-go food which was a whole other animal not a sit down restaurant any more, so the menu changed, taco tuesdays,

tacos weren't even on our menu. from there we started doing drinks to go, and we figured vodka soda to go and i had frozen drink machines from another business and that took off and then a u-shaped driveway and that became a drive-thru, organically kind of funny, entrance and exit and it blew up on social media and it was funny because people were doing drive-thru for frozen drinks. connell: that led to what is the most interesting part when you talk about drive-thru you have a drive-thru movie theatre in the back of your restaurant. tell us about that. >> yeah it's kind of so people it was nice because people were driving through and happy but i really wanted to figure out a way to socially distance, and still experience our restaurant here and our food so we have a big enough driveway where we map ped it out and we put a pop-up basically drive in movie theatre back there with a screen people park six feet apart and text their order we bring it to the car, they have a nice night out with their family, we've got a lot of people who six cars and they are all related and they

haven't seen each other besides skype in three months, and they are sitting there, cars next to each other kids are eating cotton candy with their head out the window and people are happy and nobody is i don't want to say nobody is happy but it's a dark time and it's really cool that we're able to kind of give people social normalcy, while being socially distant, and they're happy. connell: well it is a really cool setup melissa. they actually sell out the parking lot over there every weekend that they've been doing it or that they are planning to do it in the future for these drive-in movies some of the old classics a guy said they had dirty dancing one night and goon ies, so if you want to take a trip out to long island drive-in movies are back. melissa: they had me at drive-thru frozen drink bar. that was it. i don't even care about the movie who are you kidding? connell: i should have thought of that. melissa: i thought the pretzel machine i'm in, i'll be there in

10 minutes that looks amazing wow i love it. well, pre-sentencing over zoom. actress lori loughlin and her husband pleading guilty to mail and wire fraud today, on zoom. due to the coronavirus pandemic, they each face up to 20 years in prison, the judge set the final sentencing date for august 21, requiring both parents to be in boston for the verdict. we'll be right back. you wouldn't accept an incomplete job from anyone else.

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sitting, locks like safely far apart from each other. it's memorial day weekend, normally people would be flocking out to the island are, tomorrow would be packed, sunday and monday as well. i don't think the weather's going to be great tomorrow, it'll be really interesting to see how frustrated are people with being in their own houses that they just come out even if it's pouring rain because the beaches are open. most people we spoke to said they've been looking forward to this for quite a while. melissa: no, i have no doubt. i mean, it lookses absolutely beautiful there. i loved all the innovative ways people are looking to try and stay in business and to just make other people 's lives a little brighter. it does is have that feel like we're moving towards recovery, like things are getting better and it's time to begin venturing out. like you said, here in manhattan it was the same thing. the weather's beautiful, and people are outside. they just can't take it anymore, they can't stay penned up any longer. connell: i noticed it on the roads traffic wise in driving

out here. today wasn't a lot of traffic, usually long island is noted for its not exactly friendly traffic roads, the lie and the northern state. they weren't packed, but there were more cars than a couple weeks ago. so people are starting to get back up and running. and the thing that's really -- and you and i talked about this last week -- continues to strike me about all this is the innovation, the creativity, the ability to adapt like that drive-in movie theater in the restaurant we were talking about a few minutes ago. that guy literally opens up the restaurant pretty much a day or two days before the lockdown goes into place, and it's supposed to be a totally different restaurant, a place where you only go sit down and eat. a classy joint, now also he's doing takeout, frozen drinks, having drive hip movies, and he's found a way to make it work as opposed to just giving up and saying this is going to get the better of me. pretty impress youive stuff wheu see it. melissa: you know, even when we

were talking to soccer stars united earlier, they do all say they had to make some tough choices and had to lay off some people, and i just hope the business comes back. i don't want to forget about those people and, of course, the businesses next to them that aren't going to reopen. it is so heartbreaking because that is the american spirit. you have an idea, you have a concept, it is your passion. you're doing it because you love it and you want to make people happy, and you want to see them smile. you know, i just, i hope for all those people they're able to bring their employees back and that, you know, we can come out of this stronger than ever. connell: the trickle-down effect when one restaurant closes, and then you've got a guy as a fisherman who's getting no orders, and his business is down 90%. it's really striking when you see someone in person and see how much they've lost are. as you said, hopefully it comes back sooner rather than later. hopefully all of you guys watching have a terrific memorial day weekend, and we will see you with another

edition of " after the bell" on tuesday afternoon. live from bayville, new york, it's been good to be with you. "lou dobbs tonight" starts right now. ♪ ♪ lou: good evening, everybody. this just in: fbi director christopher wray today announced that the fbi conduct an internal revenue -- review, rather, of how the bureau conducted the michael flynn investigation. that review will begin with the interview of general flynn which was carried out on january 24th of 2017 in the white house by disgraced fbi agent peter strzok, agent joe pientka. an interview from which the fbi's original 302 report summarizing what was said in the interview has, well, it's gone