there it is. it has been a real rocky ride. [closing bell rings] as long as people know to strap in their seatbelts we'll look at your ideas to see how they play out. steve dudash, thank you so much. folks, dow jones industrials down. tomorrow, richard clarida, vice-chair of the federal reserve. connell: back to business at the white house. president trump holding a round table at this hour with governors and small business owners. they're focused on the recovery and efforts to reopen. we'll watch that as well. we watch it as the dow finishes lower for the second day in a row but well off the lows of the day. i'm connell mcshane. melissa: i'm melissa francis. and this is "after the bell." dow down slightly as the covid-19 infections rise in more than a dozen states. the s&p fighting for gains. the nasdaq inching closer to record territory, up for the fifth straight day, marking its longest winning streak in more than a month. fox business team coverage for

you now. blake burman is at the white house. jackie deangelis is in the newsroom. hillary vaughn is in washington. we kick it off with blake. reporter: we continue to keep our eye on the event going on at the white house, with president trump sitting down with the governors of oklahoma and nebraska. it has been going on half an hour. the focus is on the recovery and rebound going forward and the pp small business program that helped out so many small business owners like you see the one on your screen. you can't help but notice, rather, that the president is meeting with the governor of oklahoma just about 48 hours before he also set to head to oklahoma to hold his first campaign rally since the covid-19 outbreak. there are many questions as to whether now is the appropriate time to do such a thing. here is president trump talking about that event sitting next to oklahoma's governor. >> and we're going to be in oklahoma and it's a crowd like i

guess nobody's seen before. we have tremendous, tremendous requests for tickets like probably never happened politically before and one of the reince we chose your state, kevin, that you have done so well with the covid. reporter: elsewhere at 1:00 tomorrow afternoon a federal judge here in washington will take up the department of justice lawsuit to try to stop the release of the book of the former national security advisor john bolton. of the many potentially damaging claims, the former national security advisor says that president trump in osaka, japan, pled with the chinese president xi xinping to try to help him win re-election as he was negotiating the trade deal with china. peter navarro one of president's trump advisors in the room at the time time contended today that was not the case. >> let me be clear, i was

sitting at the dinner, bolton was next to me. i believe the pictures will bear that out. bolton's depiction of that event is not how i would describe it. that is an alternate universe. that is an alternate universe. that's what i'm saying. reporter: busy day because ruling today from the supreme court as it relates to the daca, as the supreme court today said that the trump administration cannot unwind daca. the president took to twitter and described it as a shotgun blast for conservatives. connell, melissa. back to you. melissa: yeah, that was really something. blake, thank you for that. meanwhile "tale of two cities." manhattan apartment contracts falling more than 80% versus year ago. for single-family homes priced over a misdemeanor bucks in southern florida, they're surging more than 45% over the same period. here is bill mcgurn from "the wall street journal." he is a columnist and fox news

contributor. bill, this is amazing to me. both places people were locked in for a period of time. there were restrictions if you could show homes and how you do it because of social distancing. it is not a function of not being able to get out. people in new york fell under contract running for their lives. my mother sells real estate in florida, high-end, they can't keep it in stock. what do you make of it? >> i think it has been helped along by the virus but i think there are a lot of conditions that are making people rethink whether it is worth it to live in new york. i live in suburban new jersey and i'm told in my town there is a new demand for housing. i know a lot of people are moving from new jersey because some people from new york are moving in. well it is not paradise but it is better than new york and the circumstance. i think this is also just the

beginning. look, a lot of people like me have been working at home and they have been managing well at home. i think a lot of people will start to consider, gee if i can do that from new jersey, why can't i do it from a tax-free state or somewhere where i get a lot more land for my kids or something? i think the implications for city revenues, for real estate prices, business i think we're just seeing the beginning. melissa: absolutely because a lot of companies and especially you know, office buildings in midtown, they're saying wow we're paying huge rents to have our employees here. turns out they can work as efficiently at home. we can save money on real estate. they save money on commuting. they say if we're a little more efficient, the money they're saving by real estate is through the roof. how long do you think it will take before our very dense public officials realize what they have done?

they have accidentally taught everyone, if you want a fantastic new york jobs and big city jobs anywhere you don't actually have to live there? how long will it take for them to realize that and mend their ways? >> well the second part, i think they're realizing it and they're scared. they're probably looking attacks revenues and. record isn't good. look at detroit when it was going bankrupt. i think the last person that was making $50,000 there was probably taxed 40,000. they tend not to do the kind of radical change they need unless there is a crisis as new york had back in the '70s and so forth. i'm not optimistic. i think they're being challenged on so many fronts because they have people leaving with their revenue. and it is accelerating. people have been leaving before but now people as you say, people have confidence. yeah i can do this, for me. melissa: right. >> i can do everything from my home that i could do at work and

there are millions like me. a lot of people say, maybe i should do it in montana. maybe i should do it in texas? melissa: so meanwhile while you're here, "the wall street journal" had an op-ed today detailing, quote, what covid models got wrong, arguing we should focus on the burden on hospitals, not on the often mistaken forecasts and some of the numbers were really compelling. they go through the places where you're hearing resurgence, second wave, seeing a spike where they have been open, what you guys note, what we were talking about in the beginning was hospitalizations. the frightening thing was that the hospitals would be overrun and they wouldn't have enough beds but if you look in places like california, covid patients are only taking up 16% of beds. texas 11, georgia 10, utah nine, florida 7. you go through and there are still empty beds. arizona has uptick in hospital beds but they're still 43% are

unused. so in all these places they still have a ton of open beds if people do get sick enough they need to go to the hospital. we're seeing number of hospitalizations from people test positive go way down. they don't need to go to the hospital. >> right. yeah i think look, i think there are several messages in there. if you look the american people now understand that a lot of these forecasts were not just off, but wildly off. i think governor cuomo was talking about 140,000 beds or something. they ended up needing only 18,000. i mean that is almost a factor of 10. and there are similar track records on icu beds and so forth. so part of this is taking these things with a grain of salt. part of it is that the things that get attention tend to be the more extreme things. then i think part of it was, you know, quoted stanford epidemiologist who points out

your models are only good as your assumptions and the assumption seemed to be wrong how the disease reproduces and it kind of assumed we're all kind of equally susceptible when we know that is not true. and we also know that some people get very mild symptoms and so forth. so again, i dent think there is anything wrong with making models. in the beginning you have very little information but these things were treated as, as oracles and we have to be a little bit more careful and willing to adjust. melissa: yeah. >> i think the larger message of this we should keep this in mind as now everyone seems to be going back to extreme mode to predicting, catastrophe because of the reopenings. look we're going to have more people test positive when we start testing more. it is not yet clear we're really going to be overwhelmed the way some people are carrying on right now. melissa: right. that's the point is that you

don't want us to overreact this time. again you're right, the headline number was the models forecast that we were going to use about 50,000 beds here in new york and the peak there was 18,800 beds that were filled. just a fraction of what we thought, less than half of what we thought was going to happen. bill mcgurn, always brilliant. thanks for coming on. we appreciate it. >> thanks, melissa. melissa: connell? connell: let's get to big tech now, melissa which has come under fire. representatives from facebook and twitter facing some tough questions from lawmakers today how they're patrolling their platforms ahead of the election. to hillary vaughn live in washington with the latest on that. hillary? reporter: connell, online platforms like facebook, twitter and google have been largely protected over being sued what happens on their sites. a lot of companies get safe harbor from a rule, section 230, that has pretty much protected them but that could be changing in a major way thanks to the

doj. representatives from all three companies faced democratic lawmakers from the house at a hearing today and this question was directed to the representatives from all three companies. >> facebook does not consider itself a media platform. are you still espousing that kind of position? >> congresswoman, we're first and foremost a technology company. we -- >> you may be a technology company but if you're technology company is being used as a media platform. reporter: that media platform could be getting more regulation. the justice department mapping out changes it wants to make to the section 230 rule that essentially bars companies from receiving lawsuits over content moderation. the doj now says they want to, quote, make changes that limit immunity for content moderation decisions, encourage platforms

to be more transparent and accountable to their users, rather than hide behind blanket section 230 protections but tech companies today told lawmakers that ripping away these protections could dramatically change online content. >> this was, this instrument protected the whole internet. how did companies like ours grow from one part of one country? the answer is section 230. reporter: a new bill introduced by a group of republican senators would allow users if passed to sue these companies if they think their guidelines are being unfairly enforced, essentially letting the users be able to get 5000-dollar payout from a company if they win the lawsuit, also requiring these social media companies to pay their attorneys fees. connell? connell: all right. hillary vaughn for us live in washington today. melissa. melissa: let's go to jackie deangelis with more on the markets.

jackie. reporter: good afternoon to you guys. it was an interesting day. it was one of these days that was really fueled by uncertainty and choppy session for the market as well. you can see the dow finished down 39 points. we're watching reopenings and jobless claims as well. jobless claims fell a little bit, 1.5 million. it was a little higher than expected but a little bit lower than we saw last week. that's a positive sign for the market. having said that there is this juxtaposition between what's happening in terms of the fundamentals and the data and people getting back to work. the concern with reopening right now of course is that you know, maybe you will see that spike. maybe you will see that second wave after the summer is over. and of course that is what the market is struggling with here. it is also struggling with the fact that it might have moved a little bit too far too fast. you're seeing the dow right now around 26,000. but we had positive action in the s&p and some positive action with the nasdaq as well, guys. so it will be something to watch here but folks are telling me traders are cautious right now

especially if you look at new york city for example. we've got a phase two scheduled for monday. governor cuomo says i will give you final decision tomorrow when i'm sure, even though he was positive about the numbers coming out of new york city. on the other hand you have got mayor de blasio, saying no, we're moving forward with it. there is the push and pull right now, folks are saying let's pause for a second to see how this goes. new york was the epicenter of this. it is also the financial capital. so many reasons that the eyes are focused locally. guys? melissa: right, jackie, but everything he says he is doing on monday is already happening. everybody has the tables out on the sidewalks. they're serving people. so no one is listening to either of them. thank you for that. over to you. connell: that is true. as we continue with this coverage of reopenings from a business perspective we have six states who have reported the largest one-day increase in new cases of coronavirus this week. now oregon is one of those states. so the governor out there,

decided to put the reopening of the economy on pause. the question now is, whether businesses can bounce back as they do prepare to reopen tomorrow. we'll take you there, talk to a portland cafe owner about the hurdles ahead. plus a possible break through, what new research is suggesting might be playing a role in the severity of the coronavirus in different patients. an empty "field of dreams" and a season still in jeopardy. we're live today from nationals park in d.c. as baseball fans will be facing the possibility of a real letdown. stick and

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well with all the calls to defund the police and civil unrest we've seen on the streets as well. interesting, the company is saying outdoor products and accessories spin-off will be complete in august. that is really showing that smith & wesson is focusing on the gun side of its business, guys. back to you. melissa: no doubt. all right. jackie. thank you. connell? connell: to a new headache now for businesses as we take you to portland, oregon, restaurants preparing to open their doors tomorrow after last minute delay in the plans to reopen last week. joining us kaitlin johnson, the co-owner of fat city cafe. thanks for coming on. kaitlin, i was looking at people in portland, they were ready to get the reopening underway. the governor put it off. they were stuck with some food and other things. how did it work out for you guys? >> well, so, basically the restaurant is run by my sister and i and my mom and dead, it is

just the four of us. we got so excited to open up on friday, last friday. my dad went out and bought 1000-dollars worth of groceries. we were so excited, 7:30 at night, we found out it was not happening. which meant a lot of our fresh food went to waste. it was, yeah, really poor timing, it affected a lot of businesses around us because not like we had a bunch of saved up from all the to-go orders the last few months so that put us deeper in the hole. connell: yeah. are you kind of understanding of the governor's position or just growing more and more frustrated how it is being handled? kate brown is the governor out there. just give you an example. we were talking to somebody from florida, lieutenant governor yesterday, i brought up the numbers don't look to great in florida and how many more people are testing positive, the percentage has gone up above the

5% threshold health experts say they want to be but in oregon it has gone up but still below that. is it frustrating for you to say these numbers haven't spiked that much, and you're still on pause? >> i mean. really at the end of the day we are grateful that you know, people are trying to keep us safe but you know, people forget that there is a lot of people who prepared for this opening and put, you know, opened their wallets and, even though it isn't, even though there are not a crazy amount of cases i am thankful that it is happening but at the same time that, it is really frustrating because even phase one is, 40% of our sales is to go and our diner is known for only five tables and five stools. we can't do counter service anymore. we can only have five tables open. really phase one may not be good for us. the fact it is not moving along

in the slightest until tomorrow is a big problem for us. connell: i know it's a tough question. are you guys going to be able to survive this though the way it is going businesswise? >> i mean, if this happens again, i don't know. thankfully lying the community has been extremely helpful. we did ask, we opened a go fund me page. it reached the goal. we asked for the bare minimum. we asked for full rent. my dad has a bad knee. my sister and i are trying to make it happen. we can't hire back employees until we know we can afford them. if it keeps going like this, i don't know, which is really tough because my parents have -- [inaudible]. so it is like, my home, you know. it would be like losing a whole entire part -- connell: i know. that is tough. boy, i hope that, to maybe tomorrow, hopefully is the start of something. you stay positive and people start coming back and then you go from one phase to another.

we wish you nothing but the best, kaitlin. from portland, oregon. >> appreciate it. melissa: so heartbreaking people and their businesses. reemerging trend amid the pandemic. americans are spending big on outdoor spaces and one particular item is up over 200% from last year. we'll let you guess what that is. plus nasa is preparing to fly a helicopter to another planet for the first time in history. you know i can't wait for that! how this will change the face of space exploration. that is later this hour it's a thirteen-hour flight, that's not a weekend trip. fifteen minutes until we board. oh yeah, we gotta take off. you downloaded the td ameritrade mobile app so you can quickly check the markets? yeah, actually i'm taking one last look at my dashboard before we board. excellent. and you have thinkorswim mobile- -so i can finish analyzing the risk on this position. you two are all set. have a great flight.

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lawn this summer. jeff flock is live in i will i will snow with that story. jeff. reporter: there spending on their homes and rediscovery of the front yard. you said what is up 200% in terms of sale? that is the lawn furniture. this is lervey's center. you have been swamped. >> we've been so busy. reporter: that means flowers. flowers, larry. >> all the colorful stuff. reporter: people are very interesting in spruesing up their home right now. the front yard has become like the 350's and '60s where we all hung out in the front yard, right? >> absolutely. curb appeal is the big thing. a lot of curb appeal.

flowers and annual beds too. reporter: the other thing i want to focus on too, something that would typically be swamped in here. right now there is very little of it. that is vegetables. people since coronavirus want to grow their own vegetables. >> yeah, absolutely. we can't keep the vegetables stocked this year. it has just been crazy. we typically will bring in three deliveries a week. we can't keep them stocked on the shelves. reporter: what is that? millenials i hear a lot, want to grow vegetables, to be self-sustaining? >> ought sly l millenials are loving doing vegetable gardening and gardening at home. raised beds and all the vegetable products that support planting vegetables in the garden. reporter: always great to hear about a business doing -- we have been hearing about some businesses harmed by coronavirus. great to hear of one that is actually booming and great thing

to be booming we love vegetables plants and nowers. >> absolutely. great to see people getting out and enjoying their space and outdoors. absolutely. >> melissa, back to you. melissa: jeff, we love it. connell. connell: millenials and their vegetables. jeff flock. in the search for answers, a new study is linking blood type to your risk of developing a severe covid-19 infection. we'll talk to a infectious disease expert about the implications of this new study. that's next. plus there are questions around the potential of a baseball season in 2020. still unclear and all this is raising some new worries for small business owners, many of them really depend on the games being played for their revenue. as summer travel demand increases airlines jumping into action. jetblue is adding 30 more routes between july and october. delta plans to had 1000 flights

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of a risk, type o, maybe not as high of a risk. medical community as far as i can tell is mixed how it looks at this, at this study. what's your interpretation? >> i think this provides more evidence that blood type does have some sort of genetic role in your susceptibility of the severe disease with this coronavirus and with we're seeing is, if you look at people with severe disease almost 1 1/2 more times likely they will have type-a blood than other type of blood. so i think this is really putting a lot more emphasis trying to find genetics links to what causes more severe disease, getting more granular. not just blood type but genes found in this new england paper, multiple things that make you more susceptible to certain disease. connell: we know for certain people, older people, people with underlying conditions are in higher risk groups. would you now say after looking

over this research that a younger person, otherwise healthy with type-a blood should be considered high-risk? how do you interpret it in terms of people we thought wouldn't be in a high-risk group necessarily? >> it doesn't change what we know at a macrolevel, meaning high-risk in diabetes, hyper tension obese. type-a blood may be a marker for propenscy for severe disease. doesn't mean everybody with type-a blood will get severe disease but that is one of the factors helps you decide whether someone is at higherristic. doesn't necessarily mean everyone will have that. connell: by the same token, maybe it's a silly question, if you're type o, would you say you're, you could take more risk, say, would that be something you would advise people or you wouldn't go that far? >> i wouldn't advise people. i'm type-o blood. so i have not changed my way of dealing with this virus.

i think it is important to remember everybody can still have a severe disease. this gives you a little bit after way to judge likelihood of somebody having severe disease is but it doesn't change the fact that everybody needs to think about this virus and try to reduce their risk of getting infected or spreading it. connell: what else are we learning as we get into, you know, we're multiple months in now, as more and more states reopen and people try to make decisions what they are going to do, a lot of people are going out getting tested especially for antibodies. what are we hearing about the virus on that front? what are we hearing. we didn't know if you antibodies immunity for couple years. some people say it is couple months. some people say it hasn't been proven if have any at all. what have we learned if anything? >> it is shifting. some people recover have high degree ever antibodies. some people have newtizeing antibodies are highly effective. some people can donate plasma

for research studies on con have less ant plasma. we don't know how long it is. we don't know if everybody that recovers is protected or what magnitude of antibodies need to have to get that protection. in general what we know about infectious diseases as a whole. we'll find out more as we follow people who have recovered. connell: right. i was going to say as a final point, i didn't mean to cut you off there, doctor, you mentioned con val less ant plasma. final point is that a treatment as we move into the fall of a treatment that is available, that wouldn't available when the virus first broke out, that might help us? whether a second wave, continuation of a first wave, whatever is happening how big of a deal can the plasma be with us as we're fighting this. >> we're waiting for trial data. some is mixed. we've seen not great results from china. but some better results anecdotally. we need results from randomized

control trials to know for sure. we heard about steroid use might be helpful foresevere patients. we have remdesivir. we have more tools as we move into the fall but we're still coping with a pretty tough respiratory virus season regardless. connell: right. as always we learn a lot when we have you on. thank you for coming on. dr. amesh from johns hopkins. melissa. melissa: a return to the red planet now in jeopardy. nasa is racing the clock on its mission to mars and failing to launch could lead to a two year delay. plus socially distant entertainment. we're live from the tracks of a indoor speedway next. ♪

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♪. connell: all right, here we go. start your engines. local speedways are trying to offer some safe summer entertainment as other theme parks and attractions begin to open following strict social distancing guidelines. grady trimble is live from the tracks in mikina, illinois with more. there he is. he is slowed down for us a little bit. come on, grady. reporter: okay.

i will pick it back up. here we go. a lot of summer camps are canceled this year. here is an option for people who have a need for speed but also want to keep their social distance. how about go-cart racing? we're at accelerate indoor speedway outside of chicago and they have really ramped it up when it comes to cleaning to make sure all the social distancing guidelines are in place. as soon as you walk through the door you notice it. they have signs reminding you of social distance but have contactless payment, so you don't have to touch anything until you're in your car. once you're in your car you know it is freshly cleaned for you. the cars are cleaned after every single race especially the main touch points like the steering wheel and other points somebody might have touched. also the helmet, those are cleaned as well. you can't see it underneath the helmet as i try to round this

corner but i'm wearing a hood under the helmet. and that hood acts as a face mack. then as you get off the track they have hand sanitizing stations pretty much everywhere you could possibly go around here. so it's a very clean operation. and they usually would run through 100 people on this track in an hour. you might not have it to yourself like i do right now which is probably for the best because i would be slamming into people left and right right now but they're keeping reservations down to 10 groups, 10 people at a time. of course also to abide by social distancing rules. and they have two tracks here. the other track has a family i think of about four people on it. you're pretty much by yourself or with the people you came with, isolated. so, how is this for some summer fun? my word. connell: usually the fun, usually the fun part, grady is -- how did you, did you just

crash by yourself? you meant to do that, right? usually you're not only one out there. reporter: i meant to stop, i didn't mean to stop so abruptly like that. i was trying to do like a cool stop. it didn't go as planned. let me see if i can do it again coming around the bend. hold on a second. oh, jump joe jump ad little. we're all good though. connell: for two. you're okay though. i checked with legal. we've hit our limit i think on insurance at the moment. grady, we'll wrap this up right now. great job. grady trimble car number 40 today. melissa. melissa: i love it. all right, on to another race. the race to the red planet. nasa is on a strict deadline to make sure its july launch stays on track or it will have to wait another two years until the earth and mars are aligned on

the same side of the sun. it will also mark the first time a helicopter will be used on the planet exploration. here to talk about it, tariq malik, space.com editor-in-chief. thanks for joining us. first of all, why do we want to fly a helicopter on mars? >> melissa, the helicopter nasa is sending on the perseverance rover first of its kind. the astronauts will need ways to really expand their reach. one way to do that would be to send drones. we use on earth and fun and deliveries whatnot pretty easily but the atmosphere of mars is very different. it is much thinner and, nasa doesn't really know how to fly on another planet right now. so this space, this helicopter is going to test a lot of those theories. can they fly a helicopter on mars? can they do it remotely and safely? how much can they see of the

planet? the goal hopefully they will see a lot more of mars they would without this kind of a device. melissa: okay. so i understand that they have to head off to mars within the next month or else it will be two more years before we're aligned properly in order to do this. what are the odds that they will be able to launch the mission? >> nasa had an update this weekend. they are really confident they will make the deadline. their goal is to launch the mission on the july 20th. that is the anniversary of the apollo moon landing. they're pretty excited about that they have already delayed the launch because of a couple of delays that piled up the last few months. they have been responding just as we all have with the ongoing covid-19 pandemic that impacted a lot of their preparations. they have a few weeks every two years to do this. they have until early august to get off the ground. they are confident they can make that. if they don't however, they will have to wait another 26 months

when orbits of earth and mars are in the right place to make it easy and efficient to get to mars. melissa: so then how does that set back the whole program then? we're on a strict timeline in order to get humans to mars. >> it does, you know, basically, making that timeline is really important not just for this mission but for its follow-on. this mission in particular, the perseverance rover will collect the first samples of parts of mars to come back to earth and those samples will be left like little bread crumbs on the surface of mars for another mission. that next mission needs to come after, in the next window in the a couple of years. if this mission gets delayed, that sam return mission gets delayed, the push to get astronauts on mars does also get delayed. so nasa really wants to get this we saw earlier because of technical issues a european mission is going to miss this window to get to mars. they have to wait another two years to try again in 2022. melissa: wow.

that's amazing. are there private companies involved in this one? everybody was looking at spacex in that last launch. it was such a big deal to have them involved. is it just nasa or others are involved? >> this mission is really a nasa and jpl, jet propulsion laboratory led effort. if you recall, this is the same, the same center that built the curiosity rover, nuclear powered rover exploring mars today, much longer than its initial planned mission to and this is very similar in design. they basically landed a two-ton car on mars with a sky crain. this new rover will use that same type of approach. it does have some new bells and whistles. it has the sample return, the sampling system on it. it has the first camera and microphones that we'll hear and see what it is like to land on mars and it has this helicopter to test some new technology that restaurants -- astronauts will use when they get there to

explore the red planet. melissa: so cool. thank you very much. we look forward to hearing about it. connell: maybe we can send our buddy grady trimble in his car to mars. baseball season is still stuck in limbo. unclear whether they have one or not. that raises a lot of small business owners who depend on thousands of fans coming to stadiums each day. we're live from nationals park in washington with the story next needles.

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♪ yeah ♪ ♪ y-yeah ♪ ♪ yeah ♪ hey, hey ♪ ♪ connell: there may be crying anything baseball after all as mlb is still stuck in kind of a state of limbo on its season amid the pandemic. no deal to start the season has been announced yet x small business owners who operate near baseball stadiums, they are really rooting for something to get done. lucas tomlinson joins us from nationals park in washington with more on all this. lucas.

i don't know if you heard us, lucas, but you might now, and if you do, you are on from nationals park. boy, oh, boy, i thought he had us. listen, while we try to reconnect with lucas, the idea there, you know this from the way these stadiums are built, nationals park an example which is located in the city of washington, you think of places like wrigley field in chicago, many of them are located in cities and around the stadiums, camden yards in baltimore, there are a lot of bars, restaurants and all the rest that are set up x they rely on those stadiums. and now we do have lucas set up. i believe he does hear us, and he knows about that story. i was just saying they need the business, and it's not clear if they're going to have it have year, right? >> reporter: sure do, connell. in fact, the world series champs were supposed to host the san francisco giants right behind me

at 4:00. as you can see, baseball is not playing. now, earlier i spoke to the owner of walter's sports bar here behind me, he needs packed fans. he can't just have people watching baseball on tv, he needs tens of thousands of fans from the stadium to go into his bar. he described the carnage earlier. >> i still don't really know how long it'll be, and so turning to staff and saying, hey, guys, it's two more weeks and we're going to be fine, we are not going to be fine until baseball fans are allowed back into the stadium. >> reporter: minor league affiliates are also suffering. a staple of small town america for over a century. we spoke to the owner of the nationals' a affiliate outside the nation's capital. >> well, it's obviously disappointing to us and our fans that it doesn't look like we're going to have minor league baseball, this season hasn't been officially canceled, but at this point we're not expecting to have affiliated games. so it is disappointing.

>> reporter: d.c.'s major says restaurants will be able to open monday at 50% capacity. connell? connell: all right. still hoping for the best. we were optimistic yesterday. lucas, thank you. melissa and i will see you back here tomorrow on "after the bell." "lou dobbs tonight" right now. ♪ ♪ lou: good evening, everybody. it has been an historic day in washington where the supreme court today ruled on the trump administration's right to rescind former president obama's executive order on deferred action for childhood arrivals program, or daca as it's more commonly known. it was created by president obama's 2012 executive order. his order provided temporary amnesty, work permits, other federal benefits to more than 700,000 illegal immigrant withs who were brought -- immigrants who were brought to the united states as children. in a 5-4