equity portfolios. covid stock and post-covid stock. [closing bell rings] that is the way it is going. probably will continue that way. liz: john, thank you very much. john augustine. join me 6:00 p.m. on twitter. we'll do futures trading. the dow closes down 205 points. melissa: all right. wall street bracing for relief. stocks sinking into the close as lawmakers begin talks on our fifth round of coronavirus relief. i'm melissa francis. >> david: i'm david asman in for connell mcshane.

david: w very blake burman in washington, d.c. with the latest. reporter: treasury secretary steve mnuchin, chief of staff mark meadows set to meet with the top two democrats. nancy pelosi and shuck chuck schumer. it was this time yesterday that the mitch mcconnell released senate republican plan. you can fast forward 24 hours to this moment. there is very real acknowledgment from senate republicans in this town, even though they have that framework what they want going forward, there is still not a consensus among republicans about whether or not they stand behind this plan. watch here. >> at the moment we seem to have unity and disagreement. that's the bad news. the good news is, how can i put this? we're for the most part we're gnawing on the same bone. we're just gnawing at different ends of the bone but at least it is the same bone. reporter: many issues of

contention for schumer and pelosi they say the republican plan tries to quote, bully schools to get open. they take issue with tax breaks for meals entertainment. their biggest contention the republicans want federal unemployment benefits reduced upcoming months, and then capped. >> god provide forbid we provide 10 of millions to people when they need to get it on feet. republicans seem this think americans are bunch of loafers but they are not. reporter: we expect to hear from president trump at the top of the next hour, he will step into the briefing room for one of those coronavirus updates. among the many questions that could be sent the president's way, melissa, do you support what republicans have put out there. keep in mind the top two negotiators for the white house,

mnuchin, meadows, up on the hill now to figure out a way forward with democrats. back to you. david: very interesting, blake, thank you very much. melissa. melissa: here now is james freeman from "the wall street journal" to talk about all of this. james, first of all i love this idea, you know when chuck schumer says you think the american people are a bunch of loafers, no, they have a brain and i personally have talked to at least 15 business owners now who have said that when they called their employees to say come back, their employees said directly, i am making more money after tax being at home. so i don't want to come back. i mean there is not much confusing that message. what are your thoughts on that, james? >> yeah. you were talking at the top of the show how stocks are sliding and lawmakers are talking. there is that old saying about how, no one is safe when the legislature is in session and you have exactly described a policy failure. we cannot be encouraging people not to work.

it is time to go back to work. the good news is that, this virus is turning out to be not as deadly as we feared. it looks like, i mean, taking a while to learn why it was such a disaster in new york. was it a combination of just horrible management by the governance, political leadership in new york and other things but in most of the country you're not seeing that kind of mortality rate. in the absence of a vaccine you can't set your economy on fire as a measure to somehow fight this thing. we need wealth to be healthy and we've seen a lot of consequences, a lot of negative consequences from isolation from keeping kids out of school. melissa: yeah. i don't understand why do you think republicans don't battle back with the fact that there is going to be direct checks deposited in everyone's account? democrats are arguing for more unemployment benefits. that only benefits people who

aren't working. it is a much bigger package if you send everyone on the planet a check. so, why don't republicans make that point? we're not forsaking people. we're actually sending everyone a check rather than making it part of unemployment? >> i think, i guess to be optimistic, i think there is part of the debate this week in a sense we really can't go on this way. it seems wonderful, i guess to some people if the fed can print 2 1/2, three trillion dollars and people still maintain faith in the dollar. they can kind of maintain this financial system even when the economy shuts down and we can have enormous spending but, nobody has been presented with a bill yet. we haven't had our taxes raised to pay for this. we, thank goodness haven't watched our dollars lose value but i think there is a dawning

sense, there wasn't already among lawmakers that there is a price to be paid for this and the good news is, this thing is not, as deadly as some people fear when these lockdowns started. back in the spring, imperial college of london saying millions and millions of people in the u.s. would die. fortunately that wasn't the case. we've got to be careful. we have to do the hand washing, all that stuff but we have to get to work. melissa: you really think somebody is taking fiscal responsibility in washington? because that would be new. both sides have been willing to spend and spend and spend. it is not like they're not spending in this bill. although according to nancy pelosi she must be so rich that like a trillion dollars doesn't even, it doesn't even register. i mean it is like a pittance. none of this has an impact on her from a money perspective. so, i don't know, you think some of the folks have found religion? >> i guess i'm an incorrigible

optimist, melissa but what i do like to see, when you saw that wonderful jobs rebound in may and june, we know what we're capable of. we know this economy is ready to roar again. we've gotten a lot of good news lately in earnings it of being more comfortable knowing that kids are not at great risk. that, that, kids are actually so far doesn't look like they're even big spreaders of the virus. so lots of reasons to go back to school. lots of benefits to that. lots of reason for people to go back to work. i think if there is some calm and perspective from washington we can get there. that is -- melissa: maybe the reason why they don't want to do the unemployment benefits even more because they know it is, it discourages people from working not necessarily because they're afraid of the bill coming down the line. james, thank you for that. good news, i have a prompter here as well. david, over to you as well.

my system is working. david: good. i love james's optimism. 4.2 million.cases to a lot more testing going on. casey stegall in dallas, texas, that rice is coming down a little bit, right? port period of time here in texas, couple other states, it seems to be plateauing in terms of new cases however the pandemic is proving deadlier here in texas than first thought. 675 fatalities were added just the last 24 hours. not all of those happened in a single day, but rather the state changes the way it records covid related deaths, now logging death certificates instead of taking reports from local officials. so that new method pushed total number of coronavirus deaths here to more more than 5700, higher than first thought.

the virus claimed lives of more than 6,000 now no florida. today the sunshine state set a new record for the highest number of deaths in a single day, 186. more than 9,000 are hospitalized there. so clearly of the race is on to find a successful vaccine. as you know yesterday biotech firm moderna entered the third phase of its clinical trial as did the drugmaker pfizer. 30,000 healthy volunteers from all walks of life will participate in each study. so 60,000 total. some will be given the vaccine. others a placebo. then scientists will monitor them. the feds remain hopeful a vaccine will be ready by the end of this year or early 2021. >> they tell me they're going to do one for the covid-19. i said okay, i'm in. as long as i am able to do it, because, i'm up there with the age. so they said, yeah, you qualify.

so here i am. reporter: meantime kentucky is the latest state to roll back some reopening measures after a surge of new infections there. the governor ordered all bars to close effective at midnight. restaurants have to scale back the indoor seating capacity to 25%, david. david: casey stegall, thank you very much. we have a "fox business alert." visa reporting third quarter results. let's go right away to jackie deangelis with the numbers. hi, jackie. reporter: david a beat on the top and bottom line so let's go through this. revenue at 4.84 billion. expectation, 4.82. it was three cent beat on earnings, $1.06 a share versus estimate of 1.03. visa is not providing a fiscal 2020 full year outlook. a lot of companies are saying that because there is so much uncertainty out there. but in the last it eight quarters only missed earnings per share once. it is still on the positive streak even though this brought

estimates down. last year it earned $1.37 at this time. as we have more we'll bring it to you. back to you. david: by the way, visa could shave 10 points off the dow tomorrow if numbers stick with it. thank you for the numbers. jackie. back to you. melissa: back at home, the white house is working on shifting production of life-saving medicine from china back to the u.s. amid covid related drug shortages and maybe getting results already. edward lawrence is in washington with the details. edward. reporter: melissa, a name we all heard, eastman kodak. this could be revising the company here. the international development finance corporation worked out terms for a 765 million-dollar loan to repurpose kodak plants to make two generic or two components of generic drugs used in all types of illnesses. listen. >> my goal here is to say, listen, how can we reshore

things? how do we assure americans feel safe knowing we're not reliant on anybody else for generics, drugs we take 95 every other day. how do we reduce the deficit and it's a win all around. reporter: kodak already has orders from a capsule maker. that has weight to give them the loan. 95% of the drugs we take are generics, you heard him say that none of them sourced or made in the united states. when the factory is at full capacity, 25% of the chemicals needed to make generic medicine will be sourced in the u.s. that means 375 jobs right now in rochester, new york and about 40 jobs in michigan. it also means faith in what you are taking. that was discussed at a senate finance committee hearing later today or earlier today. >> seems to me that the most important thing we can do to improve the reliability of our supply and deal with the fraud and county fit we talked about

earlier today -- counterfeit, reshore it and make it in america. reporter: this could be the first in a many changes. report by goldman sachs, select industries will do more onshoring and stockpiling more inventory as lessons learned from the coronavirus. the report says, some companies or many large companies will use global supply childrens still but regional. meaning u.s. companies will look to possibly mexico to do their manufacturing and not china. back to you. melissa: very interesting edward. thank you for that report. david? david: intensifying reopening debate. one of the nation's largest teachers union vowing to strike if schools open, reopen without certain safety measures in place. now some families are pursuing so-called underground schools. plus fireworks on capitol hill. attorney general william barr defending the federal response to protests as portland sees more now than 60 days of unrest.

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♪. david: uncertain state of play for schools as covid cases are in the country. there is growing concerns about school reopenings. students, parents, teachers, are balancing safety concerns with strong desire to reopen. here now to discuss that balance is dr. jenette nesheiwat, medical doctor, family emergency medicine spent a lot of time in covid infested hospitals. she is fox news contributor. we're very happy about that. good to see you again. thank you for being here. >> dived, good to see you here. david: there is new south korean study out petting a lot of attention in mass media. says kids between 10 and 19 are far more susceptible, capable of passing on than we had thought before. this is holding up or at least being a greater concern for teachers unions for reopening of the schools. does this study concern you? >> you know, there may be some truth to this study, david. if we look at the cases that we

have here in the united states many of the cases that we have are in the older seniors. also those above the age of 10, those who are in middle school, high school. we don't have any many critical cases under age of 10. even going along with the cdc, they even suggested in their reporting, their studies that children under the age of 10 are low risk of transmission of this virus and also, low risk of transmitting it to their teachers. so, it is definitely something we need to continue to follow. we certainly need more studies and more data. this is, this is good news that it is not affecting our children at the same degree as seniors or older people but you know, there may be a lot more that we just have not uncovered. we do know there is discalled pim, pediatric, anti-inflammatory multisystem disease, that can be serious in children. more studies need to be done.

david: i don't want to drown our viewers in statistics, 157,000 covid deaths, only 37 are under the age of 15. any kid death is a tragedy. we don't close schools for 190 flu deaths every year. should we close the schools for 37 covid deaths? >> this situation, remember this is a new virus. we're learning more about it, day by day. this only has been around for six, seven months. we don't know what the long term outcomes are going to be. we don't know it will have little or great impact on children so we're learning, we're going day by day. so, with influenza, for example, it has been around for many years. we know what to expect. we have treatments for influenza. we have vaccines for influenza. with coronavirus, it's new. yes, even though just a small number of deaths, it is very important to take all necessary precautions. now i think that as far as schools reopening, even though the number of deaths is very low

we need to have low prevalence of covid in the community before you proceed with opening. i don't think it's a good idea right now to open up full blast in miami where there is a hot spot or parts of texas, arizona, or california. i think that is too dangerous right now. even for example, in florida, the governor is giving parents options. david: yes. >> schools will be open, parents have the option for alternative teaching, teach from home, you know -- david: he is also, also focusing on different, he is treating different districts within his state differently depending on in their own states. >> exactly. david: there are dangers of kids not going to school, not only, you know, physical dangers but psychological dangers too. kids who are unfortunately, there are many kids who are in abusive homes. those abusives are not being recognized now by teachers. bill, this is led bill gates, who has done a lot of research on this. he spent a lot of billions of

dollars on research into vaccines and health concerns, he says, i'm quoting him now, the benefits of opening almost every location outweigh the risks. what you do think of what gates says? >> almost. that is the key. now, first of all, you're right, this, this disease is not affecting, for example, in florida, it is not affecting the entire state. there are certain areas where there is outbreaks. you don't shut down the entire state, shut down all schools because there is an out break in one area. 100% right, physically, emotionally, mentally, nutritionally, children their brains are developing. they do belong in schools. schools give them structure. it relieves anxiety. it provides them a hot meal. again, like you said, some children may be suffering. so it is critical. the fact that he says, they should almost all be open, i do agree with that. i thought he said everyone should be open regardless. david: no. >> not every school should be open. if there is a hot spot an

outbreak where people are dying and hospital capacity is met and you don't have resources and doctors and nurses are stretched thin. let's pause a couple weeks. pause two to three weeks. then reevaluate. david: okay. >> i agree children belong in school. let's ease down the hot spots first? >> dr. jenette nesheiwat, as always we thank you. we thank you for the work you do as well. thank you for being here. >> david, thank you so much. david: melissa, over to you. melissa: as schools remain in limbo for the fall, parents are seeking alternatives like underground classrooms apparently. let's go to fox news's laura earning gel engle for more on this i can't wait to hear about this, laura. reporter: melissa, this is a hot thing happening across the country. it is underground. so a lot of people haven't heard about this yet. as parents and teachers are wondering what their kids school year is going to look like, trying to keep everybody safe, some parents are going to this classroom pod idea. they're hiring educators.

they're banding together to do it all in one kind of grouping, meaning a pod. so that their kids can be taught privately and in small groups. >> children miss seeing other children and they miss that in person classroom instruction and, any kind of regression that we might have seen in our children i think they have picked right back up, especially at younger ages. they thrive on routine and on this classroom setting. reporter: elizabeth bergman started a pod in her neighborhood for her young kids and their friends, led by an educator in an outside classroom. they keep the size of the group small and social distanced. classroom setting this fall seems to be what most people want. according to a recent fox poll, 2/3 of those surveyed want children to attend public schools in person to some extent while 25% would prefer schools to be fully remote.

now, another tool that parents are using is supplemental on line classes. many school districts instituted remote learning this spring, will implement some type this fall. parents are saying not enough. whatever happens to the u.s. department of education is encouraging parents to be involved. >> try to think that we can just put our head down, wait it out, in our homes, be shut out of an educational opportunity in a calendar that is already too short, i think is a fool's errand. reporter: while some parents say look, this private education and pod idea is a good one, not everyone can afford it. it costs money. that is why parents are banding together to make that happen in their neighborhoods. that leaves other folks who can't afford what will happen to their kids this fall if they have this hybrid situation going

forward. melissa? melissa: laura, that is exactly the point. i have three kids. i'm able to do something about it. i think about the parents who don't have those resources. it will just drive this gap between rich and poor so much further apart. important stuff in that story. thank you for bringing it to us. david, over to you. david: "got milk?" why the dairy product is making a come back after hitting pandemic lows. an update next. one food truck is trying to follow the guidelines and trying to keep his business afloat. he will be with us next. the

♪. melissa: milk is back, apparently pricier than ever. a demand for dairy make as come back across the u.s., reversing downward spiral at the height of the pandemic. jeff flock is live on the farm in cedar lake indiana, with the details. jeff.

reporter: we don't styles do a good job following up on stories. look at those cows, by the way. mind if i pet you? not too much. remember the pictures we saw prices so low for milk that the milk producers were actually dumping their milk down the drain? grady trimble, my colleague at fox business had a great story about, not a great story. it was interesting picture but terrible, terrible situation. now take a look at the latest chart for what is called class three milk futures. almost all-time high, completely rebounded. got doug, producer indiana, dairy producer association. you have seen a tremendous turn around. that is good, right? >> we like to see good prices but the price to the farm is not there yet. because the way milk is priced but, we got a great resilient bunch of dairymen. we'll get there. but you know --

reporter: they're not seeing money right now. >> they're not seeing money. reporter: melissa, it is so complicated melissa is priced. we have the klein family dairy farm. we'll talk about prices. chris robinson out here with us from the cme. all-time, almost an all-time high. just, is this going to continue or what? >> we'll see. it is a very good recovery. we're near, about a dime away from all-time highs. that is going back 30 years. reporter: this whole way milk is priced, it is class 3 milk futures. nobody understands that. >> right there are four different classes there is a big long math problem that politicians developed a long, long time ago. that is really the problem. sometimes you get very, very high prices and it does not transfer to producers who are doing all the work. reporter: last word to the producers, dave klein, your daughter, your son, are going to follow in your footsteps despite

the hard life you have had on the farm dealing with government programs, but the government wants to try to keep milk flowing and price stable. but you got cows to deal with? >> you know. this is what we like to do. we like to work with the cows. we like to make a nutritious product with milk, you know. this is, this is -- reporter: deal with the government when you have to? >> yes. reporter: tammy, greg, good luck to you, dealing with the government. here is mom, taking a picture. look at mom. she was a school teacher in town until a short time ago when she retired. the classic farm family behind me is perhaps you see, melissa. melissa: jeff flock. those are some good looking cows. i like them. david, over to you. david: good-looking americans as well. let's go off the earth for a minute. tourists knifing to space. virgin galactic unveiling the new spaceship cabin design.

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shame on you, mr. barr. >> mr. chairman, you have conflated two different things. the effort like legend, is to deal with violent crime, crime that is committed on the street the of the city. again proceeder to violence like murder, shootings which are soaring in some cities right now. that does not involve encountering protesters as you refer to it. david: that was from today's congressional hearing which attorney general barr faced tough charges from democrat, including chairman nadler as you heard who still does not accept the administration charge that many protests around the country have evolved to uncontrolled riots. for more on that, latest on covid relief bill, we welcome republican congressman french hill on the house financial services committee. the cares act, congressional oversight panel. good to see you, congressman. did you ever think we would have a congressional hearing and argument what a riot is? people look at video coming out of portland and there is very

little question in most people's minds that what's happening at that federal courthouse is anything but a riot? >> look, david, great to be with you. general barr was the statue in patience today, offering calm demoon demeanor in face of all charges from house democrats. there are two issues general barr talked about. there is mayhem and rioting damaging federal property, including the federal courthouse in portland. federal authorities are protecting the federal property. that is their job. operation legend working with people in kansas city and other urban areas to bring calm to a handgun, murder, mayhem that shot up, no pun intended over last few weeks. very dangerous, very dangerous times. i thought bill barr did a good job examining exactly what he should be doing. david: two issues should be separated but they are related

in one way, the democrats are suggesting, at least not rejecting the idea that police should be defunded at least partially what they are doing and that will not affect crime rates or the rioting in the streets. and republicans are saying no, the, it is the rioting in the streets and rising crime rate are directly related to non-support for police. >> i agree. defunding police is a terrible slogan. bill barr came to little rock with snort senator tom cotton a few weeks ago and talked about how we need more funding for police. that will come with better training, better rules, better procedures. we need to advance fundings for the law enforcement agents, we need to honor 800,000 people get up every day and protect us in our communities. david: congressman, let as move on to the covid relief bill which you have oversight over. the senate came out with a plan,

the gop, which essentially pulls down the amount of money from the unemployment insurance, the unemployment bonus if you will from the federal government from $600 down to $200. they were it would end up at 70% of a workers last wage. democrats are not accepting this. if there is no agreement by the end of the week, that $600 goes away completely, doesn't it? >> it does and the 20 million people who are out there still unemployed due to the coronavirus need our support getting back to work. we do that by maintain our state unemployment payments. i believe we'll reach agreement in next few days, david on some middle ground that allows some support on top of that. when harry reid ran the senate, speaker pelosi was in charge of president obama, their idea of great weekly bonus from the federal government was only $25 in the 2009 recession. look, we need to have some replacement of wages here but we've also got to have incentive to get people back to work.

david: finally, there is a huge money difference between the republican plan which is one trillion dollars, no small change and democrat plan which is $3 trillion. one of those trillions the democrats want would go directly, money directly to states and municipalities, a trillion dollars for states and municipalities. republicans say that money would basically go to cover up bad spending habits of democrat-run states and cities. how will that end up? >> we've approach rated a trillion dollars that went out to the our states to support education and other covid priorities and we're prepared to do more for education. but i think the best solution for general state revenues is let's take the $150 billion that we gave cities and states in the cares act, we have more freedom and nor flexibility to spend that money, help fight covid, expand their ability to do that timewise by eliminating, 12/31/2020 date. that it all we need to do.

it doesn't require trillions more in spending. david: good luck t will take a lot of diplomacy, congressman. we appreciate you coming in. french hill from arkansas. thank you very much. melissa? melissa: checking in on the small business amid covid-19. how one food truck is driving for success despite the circumstances. plus president trump expected to speak at the white house any minute. we will take you there just as soon as it begins

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♪ melissa: quick follow-up on one of our favorite and most patriotic small businesses throughout the pandemic. we've been checking in with food truck owner josh gate wood how his business weathered the shutdown. two months ago we spoke with him before the first phase of reopening in new york. take a listen. >> we actually had a decent day. it wasn't great by any means. less than half what we normally made in midtown. but it was an unbelievable experience. i took for granted how successful we were getting. i got back to the roots and started where we weren't making any money. it is humble. it re-energized my fight.

melissa: here now is josh gatewood. founder of "yankee doodle dandy" food truck. it is interesting to hear you say that. because it is really true that when you're in midtown during the normal season, i would decide if i would eat at your truck based on how long the line was. sometimes the line was all the way down the block. i didn't have that kind of time. when you talk about at some point you took your tremendous success for granted. obviously that is not the case now. you're back up and running. it is hard because your business is about people like myself that work in an office in midtown and can't go to a restaurant and can't sit down and can't do that kind of thing, don't have the time. you want to get something delicious that isn't fast-food but people are not in offices right now. so how is it going? what is the latest? >> hey, melissa. so, today was kind of a bad day. we were downtown today. it wasn't so great.

it has been that way not just for my truck but for pretty much every truck in new york. some of the more popular trucks in new york city are saying the same thing that i am. we're doing about a quarter of what we did last year in mid-july. so yeah, humbling continues so, yeah. melissa: yeah. how hard is it to try and find the crowds? i know i was surprised to hear last time we checked in with you, that there is so much permitting, there is so much regulation, that goes on in this city because in my mind, i think about where am i seeing crowds right now? on the weekend, they are anywhere that there is open space. whether its on the side of the hudson river, near the parks or at the beach or that kind of thing, it seems like you can anticipate where the crowds will be with the truck but it is not quite that easy? am i right about that? we did pivot. we've been going out in brooklyn and primarily concentrated an

manhattan. the park in east river, dome know park in brooklyn pretty much every day now. it has been better than manhattan. it is crazy like this, i spoke with building managers, offices are like 10% capacity. so my concern now is all these businesses that pay these rents are going to end up working from home permanently. what is, what is the value proptics of bringing your office back when you learned how to work from home. i still believe in new york. i think it's a place people want to be. it attract as certain type of person to be here. that is our saving grace for our city. we've got our store. we're not giving up on it yet, so. melissa: where is your store located? is it in times square? is that where you were looking? >> two blocks south of times square. 40th and 7th avenue. jimmy buffet is opening margaritaville hotel across the street.

we were opening in january. we definitely pupped the brakes on opening based on how the truck is doing. we're looking to go ahead next few weeks. follow our twitter instagram, usa food truck as you do. thank you so much for your support. it means a lot to me. so we will post when we're open. the dream of mine to start a business in your restaurant in your city is about to come alive regardless of the environment. melissa: we will make a trip down to see you. i'm sorry you haven't been in midtown to see you. as we always said the upper east side and upper west side are jamming right now, which is so unusual because they're old fogy neighborhoods where people like me live. everybody is out eating up there. if you came on up, let me know. i will retreat the location because you guys are so terrific. we love small business. you have worked sew hard and it is just that classic american success story. we're rooting for you, josh. thank you so much. thanks for coming on. david, over to you. >> we're not quitting.

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tests since last friday among the 29 clubs with the exception of, as we know, the miami marlins, there was over 17 people, players and coaches, that tested positive which is why the mlb has moved forward to postpone their season through sunday. the mlb also announced within the hour that the yankees/phillies games are going to be postponed this week. so we know it's been a rough start. even 2020 contender joe biden weighed in about 30 minutes ago saying the mlb shouldn't continue with its season. but we know that the league as a whole is trying to grapple with how to move forward with all of the games during a pandemic, and we know the nfl, national football league where i am right now, the headquarters, is paying close attention to this news. and this comes as today the nfl's welcoming 32 teams, some if covid hot spots, to start their training camps.

and already six players have announced they're going to opt out because they're choosing health over playing the game for this season. they're able to do so because they signed a deal, the players' association, with the league, so they're able to opt out. but the nfl is taking it one step further, they sent a memo out to players saying that if they contract the coronavirus through high risk activities -- so that means indoor clubs, indoor concerts, house parties, even houses of worship -- if they contract by attending any of those locations, they could be fined or disciplined. so we'll end with a positive note too, the nba hasn't had any positive cases as of last friday as well. they're focusing on -- everybody's trying to talk about these bubbles, but we now how the mlb, whatever they choose to do right now will be closely paid attention to because that could have a direct impact on college and professional football. hence, the reason why i'm here. back to you. melissa: yeah. thank you so much.

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