[closing bell rings] liz: i like your thinking. homebuilders index up 79% since march 23rd that will do it for "the claman countdown." we end with the dow up 521 points. melissa: reopening of america, stocks soaring as the economy gets back on track despite nationwide lockdowns. the dow surging past 26,000. closing above the milestone since march 6th. s&p 500 up for the fourth straight day, marking its longest winning streak in four months. the nasdaq is less than 2% away from a record close. i'm melissa francis. this is after the bell. connell: i'm connell mcshane, reporting live today from the streets of new york city. wow, what a market rally. we're getting set here for more protests meantime to get underway this evening. the hope of course that they will be peaceful protests as they have been during daylight

hours. it is nightfall when the problems have started especially for local business owners. that has been our focus. last night, however, here in new york, the citywide curfew that went into effect at 8:00 instead of 11:00 at night, that seemed to have helped the situation. that is the same plan that they have for tonight. now we did see some protesters who defied the orders from officials. overall though, there was less violence. there was less looting than we had seen the previous two nights. now businesses we've been all around manhattan today have been boarding up. you can see it here. you can see it as local cvs in lower manhattan. this is the rule rather than the exception. just about all retailers, many closed already for the coronavirus lockdowns, now taking extra precautions because they have had windows broken by looters over the last few days or they're afraid that that might happen over the next few. this cvs is open for business, as it has been but again, it is

boarded up. a block or two away from here is washington square park which we'll show you later on in the show. protesters are gathering there for the protest that is expected to start, really in the next few minutes. we'll talk a lot about that. we'll have much more from here in new york. much more from other cities around the country coming up, but first, let's get to blake burman with some news at the white house. blake? reporter: hi, there, connell and we heard from the treasury department and the irs this afternoon that some 159 million americans have received those direct payments as a result of the cares act in response to covid-19, totaling some $267 billion. now here is why that is important. at this point the treasury department and irs feel they have gotten that money out to everyone whose information they have and everyone who should have received that relief money. meantime back here at the white house we continue to hear that the president's top economic advisors will be meeting by week's end to discuss their ideas for the next

potential economic relief measures. one of the president's top economists, kevin hassett this morning laid out the goals for that meeting. >> what we're doing as a team, we're preparing a number of options for the president that we expect, we expect to present them to him. he is going to decide what he wants to do in a phase 4 deal. he will have a complete menu of options that are really conditional on what we're seeing in the economic data. so that if the data worse than expected then we'll have a plans for that. reporter: elsewhere the white house is leaving the door open to the possibility that the president could invoke the insurrection act should the riots and vandalism we've seen in spots across the country worsen. that would allow active military personnel to patrol u.s. streets, however the secretary of defense mark esper said this morning he does not believe that is needed at this point in time. this afternoon the white house press secretary kayleigh mcenany would not say if president trump has confidence in the secretary

of defense. >> with regard to whether the president has confidence i would say if he loses confidence in secretary esper i'm sure you all will be the first to know. reporter: as of now he is still there. >> secretary esper is secretary pester. if the president loses faith we will learn about that in the future. reporter: mcenany says the president is making sure that governors quote-unquote, surge the streets with national guard. melissa, back to you. reporter: blake burman on the white house north lawn for us this afternoon. melissa. melissa: all right the lockdown riots. economist steve more calling for end to the shutdown, saying quote, they're making america an unhappy, unsafe place, and he joins us now. steve, how do you think it is that the lockdowns have contributed to these riots? i mean we said all along that

there are bunch of factors and we're not discounting what went on in minneapolis in the video people is saw that images they will never be able to unsee. a lot of other factors played a role as well. how do you think the lock downs played into it? >> that's right, melissa and i think it was on your show a couple weeks ago i predicted if the lockdowns continue we would start seeing rioting in the streets. look what happened in minneapolis was certainly the match that lit the fire but this was a tinderbox, there is no question about it. that is what happens unfortunately when you keep young people locked up for eight to 10 weeks without anything to do, without a job, without incomes. so i think this was certainly, one of the negative repercussions of that lock down and hopefully we'll never, ever do this again. my other concern, melissa, what is going to happen to these great american cities? i'm from chicago. i love chicago. i think it is one of the great

world class cities, to see what happened on michigan avenue is just so heartbreaking. you're seeing it there, melissa in new york. we're seeing it in los angeles. we're seeing it in philadelphia and in these downtown areas. what i had found in my analysis, melissa, is takes a long time, when you have riots, we looked for example, what happened in the riots of the 1960s. it took years for a lot of these cities to come back. the most tragic thing, melissa, is the people who were hurt the most from rioting were the low income people, mostly minorities who lived in those neighborhoods. melissa: yeah. let me ask you because, so before, before even the lockdown happened, we had a lot of vacancies in new york in commercial buildings especially because of the tax situation had driven out a lot of businesses. in the abandoned store shops, you saw a lot of broken windows. this is where that phrase broken windows policing comes from. when a space has been vacated,

inevitably there is something of value in there. and criminals go by, they notice no one guarding it for a couple days and they break in. they see amplification of that during this lockdown because, as these businesses sit there and collect dust and are locked up, it attracts people to come break in. we were already seeing some break-s in. now the rioters are really targeting a lot of these stores. channel being closed down, looking and seeing there are bags in there. soho got ransacked that is where there was stuff to get. it was businesses, you know that weren't being guarded because of this lockdown. like you said, it kind of adds to the whole thing. so how do you, how do businesses decide if it is worth coming back, i guess is the question i have? >> that's a tough question to answer because you know, you're right, retail sector already been really under siege over the last couple of years because of the competition with online retail.

so you saw a lot of the retailers were on the verge of bankruptcy before this you have to really wonder whether retail stores on fifth avenue for example there in new york are going to come back. it is not, you're right, by the way, about the broken windows. that is one of themost frustrating things about the way the police and mayors have responded to these riots. if they had taken a tough stand right from the start, you wound see the kind of carnage that we're seeing in so many cities. i have a good friend, melissa, who is a major investor in a lot of businesses in outside of seattle, in, one of the major shopping areas there. bellview. last night this was not well-offered because it is happening all over. you ad rioters come in, these weren't rioters, these were professional criminal elements, they knew what they were doing. they went into the apple stores, nordstroms, they know which stores to go to, they ransacked the place, literally walking out

with millions of dollars of merchandise. they would fill their trucks and their cars with as much stuff as they could possibly put in it. why wouldn't the police block those cars from getting away but the police took a very passive position. my point is, i think it will be really hard for some of these retail, especially in inner cities for the retail sector to come back. melissa: the other really big problem is right now a lot of people are trying to decide if they're going to come back to the city. they're trying to see if the schools are going to be open. they're not here. i talked to many families who are out in the suburbs, have gone to some much their location, this sealed the deal not to come back. one of the really dangerous lessons our mayor and governor here in new york have taught us is that we don't actually need to work here. we were all under this belief that the only way to earn the kind of income we wanted to do the jobs we wanted if we physically lived in new york so we could work at these different institutions, banks, media, this and that, that is only located

here. now everyone is doing it remotely. steve what kind of long-term implications does that have for new york city and other cities like it that have gotten away with murder because we all just needed to be here? >> you know, what is so sad about this, melissa, when you look at, i think there will be long term, i say long term, five-year, 10 year, 15-year implications of rioting and way the mayors so inadequately dealt with this, what is so sad first time in 50 years, last 10 or 15 years we've seen a resurgence in cities, even detroit and places like cleveland and chicago and philadelphia coming back because older people wanted to move back into the city for all the restaurants and cultural attractions that cities have. i really fear, melissa, this will reverse that trend, especially because older people were moving back into cities. older people don't want to live

where there is crime. so i think it will be a very tough thing. i think these really incompetent mayors like the one in new york city, de blasio, have a lot of explaining to do and they should be apologizing, not just to their citizens but the people who own these stores and these restaurants and these delis. you know what? melissa, a lot of them are immigrants. they're minorities who came with everything they have to build these little businesses, see them destroyed because of the mayor didn't want to take on the looters. i just find that reprehensible. melissa: yeah. really unfortunate. steve moore, thank you for coming on. connell. connell: much more on that to come but let's get back to the market rally we saw with the dow up over 500 points. lauren simonetti covering all of that for us. lauren: it is amazing connell, it is called unloved or perhaps misunderstood rally. it goes on. the s&p 500 advanced over 1%.

the nasdaq jumping and the dow, the best performer of the group here up 2%. back above 26,000, so for perspective it gained 8,000 points from its march low. it is about 3,000 points from the all-time high. leading the market, financials, industrials, energy. they're all economically sensitive sectors. they're getting boost from the country reopening and people spending money. american express and jpmorgan, they're among dow leaders, boeing surging 12% on a compensation package with the largest travel company in europe over grounding of its 737 max jet. airlines in general putting in a stellar performance again. that is on the reopening hopes. you had another analyst cautioning on the sector today, cowan says the carriers are too large. fleets will have to be cut off by 20% to match demand in the near future. look at that delta up 8% today. drive home reopening theme for you. which is overshadowing the

protests, cheesecake factory, that stock is surging t wants most restaurants open for dine-in by june, up 15%. lyft, says ridership is growing. largest mall operator in the country, simon property group, those shares rallying 15%. people are shopping. job losses in the sector not as high as but with the price of oil it was at a three-month high. real quigley, connell, warner music being speaking of coming back to normal. we had an ipo priced at $25 a share. closed at 30 a share. so a nice gain today. back to you. connell: lauren, thank you very much. we're actually on the move as you were doing that. we were talking earlier about the some of the protesters that were gathering near our location and they have just started to move. so as we go to break here we're looking live at fifth avenue in lower manhattan at a protest that has just begun.

these are the type of protests that have started and continued in this city peacefully during daylight hours. as we mentioned earlier it has been the concern about what happens after the night falls. but probably see as frank zooms in some of the signs. george floyd, rest in peace. that type of thing and this protest that started in washington square park is now moving north into the streets of manhattan. so we will have much more as we continue our coverage here. we'll be right back. more live on "after the bell." don't go away. it was a very struggling period of time. up and down. depression to exuberance. and you could name many, many cycles like that over the years. my generation, having come through so many wars and so many things... persistence. it's the heartbeat of this country.

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melissa: former united auto workers president gary jones pleading guilty to embezzling union funds as part of a broader investigation into corruption involving more than a dozen top union officials and at least three executives from fiat chrysler. jones admitted to misusing more than a million dollars in union funds and will cooperate with prosecutors on the ongoing investigation. connell. connell: hey there, melissa, we're there with the protesters we showed you before the last break, walking up fifth avenue in new york city. we just about made it to

12th street. this is the type of day time protests we've seen in this city and others over the last few days. signs supporting black lives matter signs, and saying things like george floyd rest in peace and order -- orderly almost festive atmosphere to some degree. people on other side of the street handing out water to people, cheering from apartment buildings. that is sharp contrast what happened in the streets two nights ago, two nights after that, when there was a lot of violence and looting. i want to step over to the side to talk about that a little bit. as our focus has been mainly on the business community, how they reacted. businesses, boarded up and the like. we're joined by howard safir, the former police commissioner in new york city. commissioner, good to see you. talking to a lot of people today, it was striking how different the city handled last night. there was still incidents of looting and violence in the

night but nothing like we'd seen the night before, the night before that. what changed and, what do you expect from here on out? >> well, the first thing they changed they move the curfew from 11 to 8:00. it was ridiculous to have a curfew of curfew to give three hours of darkness to groups like antifa and other groups organized here. that changed. i also think that the pervasive looting that took place the night before last, finally convinced the mayor who has been orchestrating all of this that he had to do something. so he put more cops on the street which were necessary. then he started using tactics that they should have used from the beginning. for instance, boxing the protesters on the bridge. made sure that those hooligans didn't get into manhattan to cause havoc. the nypd is the best police department in the world. they can do this, but they can't

do it if they're hamstrung bit mayor. up until last night that is exactly what was happening. connell: you had to deal with things like this many times when you were commissioner. like you said the nypd has a long history of being able to handle this type of thing. i want to follow up one of the points you made. it has been very interesting talking to business owners in the city. some have taken this into their own hands, hired private security like saks did and others have boarding up their businesses but that should have been handled right, by the police force, and to your point could have been handled. i spoke to officers i know said they weren't allowed to do certain things they might have done in the past. that certain equipment were being used. that horses were not being brought out. why wasn't any of that being done? would that have made a big difference? >> yes and, sources that i have in the police department tell me up until last night they were basically told, hands off, unless you see somebody really

getting harmed, just let them go, and let them vent. that is the absolute worst thing that can happen. you know all of this started unfortunately in minnesota when the mayor of minneapolis said let the protesters take the third precinct. that was a signal, not only to the criminals in machine minn, it was a signal to rest of the country you can do whatever you want and nothing is going to happen. for 100 years the nypd has been handling these kind of protests. one of the things i'm very proud of and i know mayor giuliani during his entire tenure we had no riots. as you recall we had significant unfortunate shootings and abuses of black men while i was police commissioner. dallo, but we worked with the community. we made sure there was a very, very large police presence. we let the peaceful protesters protest in front of one police

plaza. there was no damage and no injuries. that is unfortunately didn't happen with this mayor. connell: all right. we'll watch it very closely over the next few nights, hoping that the worst is over. again peaceful protests that happened by day are underway in new york again, looking at pictures west hollywood in california. howard safir, thank you very. former police commissioner joins us here in new york city. we'll hear from business owners later in the show. melissa, back over to you. melissa: "fox business alert, minnesota attorney general keith ellison holding a news conference right now in st. paul saying the investigation of george floyd's death is ongoing and that the evidence available supports the stronger charge of second-degree murder against former officer derek chauvin. the state charging three former fevers officers with aiding and abetting in the death of george floyd late this afternoon.

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♪. connell: we're back here in new york with some of these protesters who have been making their way up fifth avenue behind me. many have already walked north in the city. the street is still open, so they have to walk where we are up on the sidewalk. they're doing so, making some noise. it has been peaceful here so far. looking at it from the business perspective, something of a double-whammy for businesses in the area. restaurants already hit by, you know, by covid-19 as we've been talking about for months are now being impacted by these protests. take a listen. >> we've seen waves of protesters coming up through the week and everyone's been peaceful, vocal but really

getting their point across but really in a peaceful way, in a powerful way i think. connell: now what i notice many of the businesses, mostly retail businesses that are not even open yet chosen to board up their businesses trying to protect themselves. are you guys still open, doing take-out and doing delivery and you're not boarded up. what went into the decision whether you boarded up or don't? >> our restaurant community is part of the neighborhood and we're opening our restaurants for business. in the last two weeks we opened all four restaurants for pickup and delivery. so we ourselves as a vital part of this neighborhood. so we're open. so we did, i'm sorry we did close yesterday out of respect for what was going on. we closed yesterday. connell: oh, okay. that was just a decision made in support of the protesters. >> exactly. connell: how did you make your way through the lockdown? say you can do take-out and delivery. we're all waiting for phases that might include sit-down

eating for restaurants, where are you on that for the protest movements? >> a small group of us has been working together to make these businesses be able to open. and we've really pivoted to provide what we think is a great product and just kind of have our great experience but have it at home, not in one of our restaurants right now. connell: has that changed things, businesswise? have you come up with things you do now you wouldn't ordinarily done? >> we have 10 people or 11 people, working really hard to come up with new plans and new products an you have had to kind of pivot to be able to change in the market, right. connell: you mean menuwise or things like that? >> we changed our menu. having cocktails and wine available for delivery was a huge boon for us. we're really working to make the businesses open. connell: let me ask you one final question. you seem like a relatively

optimistic person by, i don't know if that is fair or not. what you do think is in store for this city over the next few months or even the next year as we try to come out of everything we're going through? >> that is a great question. new york and the dining scene, restaurants are so important to new york city and we're going to come back. it may look different for a while and we're all going to have to figure out what that new normal is so we can keep both our guests safe, we can keep our teams safe but we will be back. we'll be back strong. connell: dealing again with the protests and of course dealing with the virus already as he talked about, melissa, they own a couple restaurants here. that one where we were just at, was just down the street where this protest had been taking place. no real precautions, no damage to it either. one of the other restaurants had a brick thrown through it the other night, happened to many local businesses. back to you. melissa: connell, thank you for that. meanwhile looted businesses are picking up the pieces.

some owners though, really have nothing to go back to. the town talk diner and gastro pub is a historic restaurant in minneapolis. it burned to the ground during these violent riots. the owners of that restaurant, casey white and charles stots, join us now. i'm so sorry for you both. i know you had been open during the lockdown, doing take-out service, and delivery. and trying to make it through and you are getting ready to reopen outdoors, is that right? tell me about that? >> correct. >> yeah. on june first governor walz allowed restaurants to begin full service at your restaurant only outside. so it was just a few days before we could actually put some tables outside, serve guests again at the property. melissa: and what happened? you just, you came back in the morning and you found that your place had been burnt to the

ground? >> so our restaurant was kind of in the ground zero location, if you will. it was, we were a block from the third precinct which was -- on thursday night that was the precinct the police, that involved with the killing of george floyd were from. so we were kind of the ground zero of all of it being in that, in that block and, on thursday night, early friday morning, the whole block went up in flames. melissa: what do you think you're going to do now? >> well, i have been cooking for more than 20 years, and i won't say how long casey has been cooking but, running restaurants and cooking is in our dna. >> that is what we do. melissa: we want to be entrepreneurs. is there going to be a spot in longfellow, minneapolis shortly? no.

there is a lot of healing and a lot of repair that needs to be done to that area. there will need to be a significant investment into that community. but it's what we do for, you know, that is our make-up. we'll be running a restaurant here soon. >> we live within the neighborhood of, you know, of south minneapolis where the restaurant was as well and we plan, this neighborhood is amazing. the community is fantastic, and our desire is to keep cooking and keep being a part of this community. melissa: will you look for a different location and how close or how far? >> well, i'm born and raised in minneapolis. i spent most of my adult life in minneapolis. it's going to be hard for me to consider anything but minneapolis. it's what i consider home.

hard to say that i, that we would look in the same place. there is a lot of reconstruction that has to be done in that exact area but certainly, south minneapolis is what we know. >> it is our neighborhood. our home. >> this is where we choose to reinvest our restaurant. melissa: casey, charles, god bless you both. you've been through so much. thank you for coming on, putting a face to the businesses that we've seen because it is so important for people to understand, you know, that each of these places represents people like yourselves who have poured our heart and soul into this. like you say, it is in your blood. it is in your dna. this is what you do. the fact you believe in the neighborhood. and you don't want to go somewhere else. it is heartbreaking an reassuring at the same time. thank you so much for coming on

today, for suring your story. we really wish you the best. we love an update. we want to stay in touch. >> play for minneapolis and for us, please. melissa: yeah. a push to jump-start the summer fails. it is not prime day but amazon is planning another big shopping event to give third party retailers boost following the lockdown. the event dubbed the big style sale, it will take place later this month t will have deals from park brands. connell. connell: as we continue here in new york, some businesses are taking security measures into their own brands. this is another business where we are in lower manhattan has been boarded up. we'll take you to different parts of the city show you other measures taken, and up to "the diamond district" talk to a new york city jeweler about extra precautions are put in place before the store he

operates reopens. that's ahead. we're hours from curfews going into effect across the country. this city and many others. we'll bring you live to the nation's capital, check in where things stand in washington. that is next. and walt does any world has tapped some well-known characters to help enforce social distancing, how about that, deploying "star wars" stormtroopers at disney springs encouraging guests to follow health and safety guidelines as the parks continue to reopen. we'll be back. ibly tooth loss. help turn back the clock on gingivitis with parodontax. leave bleeding gums behind. parodontax.

♪ connell: back here in new york city on "after the bell." walking at tail end of a protest group that is largely peaceful, i believe making its way to new york city's westside highway now. we're focusing on business community in new york. we were up in midtown manhattan earlier today. most of the businesses we saw were boarded up or were in the process of getting boarded up, even though the looting as we mentioned last night was nowhere near as bad as it was the night before. in the diamond district of new york, many of the shops brought in their own security. they have cleared out a bunch of their inventory, hoping for the best, but certainly from what we saw preparing for the worst. we talked about it with a gold refiner, he works at gold refine max inc. >> things over here are pretty

smooth. nypd has done a good job keeping it secure here. security has been beefed up. hopefully we make it through this. connell: i notice a lot of businesses locally especially down the block here are boarded up. some businesses are taking it into their own hands, private security, and the like. have you guys looked into that? >> everyone is fearful what can happen. so taking some caution is necessary right now, because we don't know what to expect. connell: the idea was that the city would start to reopen on monday for certain businesses. i don't know if that would include yours or not but what is your plan for reopening? what do you think what is happening here will slow that down a little bit? >> we're definitely going to beef up the security. we're going to open. we're not staying fearful of these riots. and hopefully soon things will be back to normal. connell: but you plan to reopen when? do you know yet? >> as soon as we get the green light from the mayor. connell: you're on a different phase, not phase one?

>> i don't think we're on phase one. connell: forget about the violence in the streets the last few days, or the protests how have you got into the lockdown? >> first week during covid, the first week of the lockdown i would say march 19th for me. right around then i was chopping wood in my backyard. i'm from new jersey. i'm chopping wood in my backyard to let all the tension out. then i built a massive garden week two and three. connell: all right. >> and every time it rained would come in and check up on my office and make sure everything was okay -- connell: what about financially? did you have to take out a loan? how is the business doing? >> we applied for all the programs that the government has issued out and, we're just waiting around, you know. connell: like everybody else. >> like everybody else. connell: waiting around like everybody else, but dealing with a lot, melissa, in the process but, you know, hoping to get reopened. back over to you for now. melissa: yeah, absolutely. all right the mayor of washington, d.c., pushing back

the start time for its mandatory curfew for tonight. our own hillary vaughn live with the latest on that. hillary? reporter: hi, melissa. i believe i just lost ifb. i will quickly show you what is happening on the ground in washington, d.c. what you're seeing to my left is essentially a human barricade between the white house and protesters right here. i'm actually going to weave you throughed crowd to show you what happened here. thousands of people have fathered to protest peacefully. it has been relatively calm here compared to other days, especially later in the night where we've been at some of these protests but what is remarkably different and i'm going to show you actually, if we want to turn around, there are two big military trucks here. we saw midday the national guard deploy about 30 of their members to this line to bolster support. originally protesters were blocked by a fence and we saw law enforcement standing behind that, between the white house

and. now we're seeing that there is human barricade blocking the protesters from going on to white house grounds. back to you. melissa: hillary. thank you for that. connell? connell: all right. we'll go relative calm here in new york as well. as we continue, hours away from an 8:00 p.m. curfew from going into place, in this city, cities across the nation now, preparing for what could be another night of unrest. we'll talk to a business owner in pittsburgh in a few minutes about the plans she has to try to protect her business after what was another night of destruction there. we'll be right back. don't go away.

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♪. connell: in cities all across the country they're working to clean up the destruction we've seen in the last week or so. it has been tough on small business owners as they repair damage caused by some violent rioting. we've seen looting that we've seen. we're joined on the phone by the owner of the original oyster house. it's located in pittsburgh, looking at some pictures there, jen, what happened at your restaurant? tell us about it? >> so we had a protest a peaceful protest that had gone

south saturday afternoon into the evening and we had a young gentleman throw a brick through our window so. one positive i got out of it, i have a nice new paper weight for my office. connell: you know i was talking to a business owner right down the street from here in new york who had a very similar experience the other night. of course you're all dealing with so many different things, dealing with the shutdown, only being open for take-out and delivery. so what is your, what is your next move? was there a lot of damage done? do you have to go through insurance? what are you doing next? >> so we do have to go through our insurance. thankfully we did not have as much damage as some of our other downtown neighbors did, which was obviously heartbreaking to see as we come into the city to assess our own damage. the only difficult part about the damage that was done in, to our property was that the window

that was broken is a part of a historic landmark. the original oyster house bar side is a historic landmark t was established in 1870. unfortunately that window was broken was a part of that original structure. but what can you do about it? connell: yeah. you can't do anything i guess. they're looking at some of those old pictures now. it is emotional now, right? it hurts and becomes personal. how do you feel about being a business owner in this climate right now? how do you feel? >> oh, man, i feel like the city of pittsburgh going through four seasons in one day. one moment i feel sad, i feel confused, frustrated, happy and powerful and all these other emotions and the only thing that you can really do is take it moment by moment, try to

navigate it, know that at the end of the day, me, specifically speaking, someone from the city of pittsburgh, born and bred, so very proud of the people of the city of pittsburgh. i know we're stronger together. around i got to really see that on sunday morning when we were down, and all of our businesses. we had neighbors from all areas of the city of pittsburgh come down to help us. and it's moments like those that really make what's so bad not feel so bad anymore. connell: yeah, that makes sense. as a final thing, have things improved there? are you seeing what weir seeing so far here in new york today, but you know to be fair we've seen this the last week or so in the day time. we're seeing peaceful protests. we were middle of one but at night problems seem to come in. are things getting better, maybe

the worst is behind you? >> as far as we're concerned i do believe and i do hope the worst is behind us. we did have a protest, peaceful protest that started and ended in market square yesterday and it really was something to see and, of course all of the downtown neighbors, we were a little bit on edge just because we weren't really sure what to expect, but we prepared for the worst, hoped for the best and everything worked out. we don't really know exactly what is going to be happening for the rest of the week but we are just together, taking it in stride, communicating with each other, making sure our staff around businesses are safe. connell: we wish you nothing but the best, jenn. thank you for calling in today. we hope the worst is over and protests and everything that has been going on and you get back on your feet businesswise. in pittsburgh.

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melissa: fox business alert, fedex adding new delivery fees to manage the strain from the coronavirus. according to "the wall street journal," the extra charges are designed to hit some of the largest shippers as americans have hunkered down inside their homes, and they are ordering online during the lockdown. connell. connell: all right, melissa. as we wrap up our hour of coverage, take a deep breath here in new york city and hope that things stay calm.

there's a heavy police presence in lower manhattan where we are right now, and the protest group that we were walking with earlier just came to this corner just while we were doing commercial and turned to the right on eighth avenue, and they headed uptown. to they're walking there. the police are out in full force, some in riot gear. the back of where i'm standing i see one of the poll cars right behind me x they were making announcements over a bullhorn saying you're not authorized to be in the streets, you're blocking traffic, and if you look behind us, some of those police are starting to move out and really take control of this situation whiched today so far they've had complete control of and really last night they had complete control of with the exception of a few isolated incidents. so the hope here in new york is that the tide has turned, that the violence that we saw that really impacted the business community in a big way has subsided and that we will not see that the next few days.

that's it, frank, come back to me here as we wrap things up. that just about does it for melissa and i. we'll see you back here from new york tomorrow. we thank you for watching "after the bell" as always. "lou dobbs tonight" starts right now. have a great day, everybody. ♪ lou: good evening, everybody. the left-wing nationwide demonstrations went on last night, and there were far more police and national guard on streets, and the result was as intended; there were far fewer protests that turned violent. we'll show you how the demonstrations expected tonight across america are shavenning up. and there are -- shaping up. and there are developments in the murder case that started all the protests, peaceful and violent, crimes and looting over the past ten days x. this breaking news: prosecutors in minnesota have added second-degree murder to the charges against derek.