you. [closing bell rings] liz: especially when you're at the helm explaining to us, scott redler we'll put those on facebook.com/lizclaman. much more news after the bell. stay tuned. connell: we're kicking off the week with gains on wall street. you look at all three major averages and they do end the day firmly in positive territory. we're around the highs at the close. president trump's doctor, you saw it live, coming out the president expected to leave the hospital this evening. we're following that and a number of other headlines here. on a busy monday good to be here. i'm connell mcshane. melissa: i'm melissa francis. this is "after the bell." we start with fox team coverage. edward lawrence live from walter reed hospital. kristina partsinevelos following the markets. start with you. reporter: within the last hour the president's physician says he is back.

the president donald trump will walk out of walter reed medical hospital or military national hospital in about 2 1/2 hours to go back to the white house either by car or by marine one. we'll have to see which route he takes, his physician, dr. sean conley, said they will do everything necessary to make sure he is safe while working in the residence or the white house. listen. >> we're in a bit of uncharted territory when it comes to a patient that received therapies he has so early in the course. so we're looking to this weekend, if we can get through to monday, with him remaining the same or improving, better yet then we will all take that final deep sigh of relief. but as i said, 24/7 world class medical care surrounding him down there. reporter: down there at the white house is what he was talking about. here at walter reed the president getting all treatments basically. new developing treatments for

the coronavirus at some point during the stay here this is what he received. supplemental oxygen. the doctors say because he was not short of breath t was a precautionary measure according to his doctors. regeneron antibody cocktail, remdesivir and dexamethasone. the president said you can't let covid dominate you. he is looking to get back here to work in the white house. there are supporters here. people are honking back and forth waiting for a last glimpse of the president as he comes out of the building. back to you. melissa: i mean the outpouring has been staggering. thanks, edward. now to fox news's chad pergram with the latest on the stimulus from capitol hill. chad. reporter: good afternoon. there was another today between house speaker nancy pelosi and treasury secretary steve mnuchin as they're trying to forge an agreement here. they traded paper. they traded numbers. we're told president trump would certainly like to get a deal certainly going into the election. even if they were to forge an

arrangement, we're probably several days away from getting that. probably several days before the house and senate would vote for it. they're a long aways away. there was a meeting last week between those two as well as head of federal reserve jerome powell. there seems to be movement. they will talk tomorrow. the other big issue on capitol hill is the issue about testing and also about safety. the senate was supposed to be in session this week. mitch mcconnell, the senate in majority leader, there is no testing here on capitol hill that sticks in the craw of rodney davis, the top republican on the house administration committee. >> it is about members of congress being able to use that service or not. maybe us ineligible. don't stop rest of the capitol moving ward and and modalities to begin the process opening

facility back up. reporter: davis is one of 14 house members that tested positive. two republican senators tested friday, two of those sit on the senate judiciary committee. the committee plans to launch hearings for amy coney barrett. the senators don't have to be there. >> the american people want us to be busy with our work, working remotely, virtually or in person. so we are going to move forward with these hearings and they're going to begin next monday, october 12th. reporter: you can vote by proxies in committee. the senators don't have to be there we expect some senators to be there in person, some beam in remotely. we'll see what that looks like t will be very different for a confirmation hearing. keep in mind there is maximum of 51 republican senators in favor of amy coney barrett. you cannot vote by proxy or remote on senate floor. if you're down in the numbers, if the mathematics don't work,

that could be a problem if other senators are quarantining or sick as they get to the confirmation vote toward the end of the month. melissa. melissa: we will see. chad, thank you for that. connell? connell: melissa, let's go to kristina partsinevelos that is following the markets for us. obviously a good day, kristina for stocks. to me if you put the two stories we heard about on top together, the president's health, how the talks for the stimulus going, may be affected by that, whatever it is, up 466 nearly on the dow. reporter: you highlighted two major catalysts for this movement upwards. you have the fact, i guess the general word is optimism. optimism the president will have speedy recovery. so there will be no uncertainty before the election. optimism, hopefully those on capitol hill can come to a conclusion about a stimulus package. you saw the dow climb up 465 points. you saw the s&p 500 up 60 points. the nasdaq, that is a key one. it is tech-heavy, up 257 points.

so all three markets are, indices that you saw did recover their losses from friday. so that is a lot of positive momentum. if we take a look at the individual leaders on the dow you've got a few on there, amgen. this is an interesting story. you have shares of health care climbing a little bit higher. that is because they're is still concern maybe the confirmation on supreme court. that would be of amy coney barrett. there might be a disruption if she were to join the assumption, that she would tilt towards voting against affordable care act and if that is the case it, would hurt health care. because there could be a disruption, that is why you're seeing some health care shares climbing a little by higher. travelers, you are seeing financial companies higher because of optimism about a stimulus package. similar situation for the dow climbing higher. caterpillar higher because of a deal to acquire wheeler oil and gas for $405 million in cash. let's talk about big tech that is the main reason you saw the

nasdaq higher. you have gone across the board, apple, amazon, microsoft up more than 1.3%. let's talk a little specifically about target. amazon is going ahead with the prime day. target will not be left in the did they too will launch their own discount day. the stock is climbing well above 25% year-to-date, well over 25% year-to-date climbing at $161.45. they will not go lightly against amazon. overall we did regain those friday losses. back to you, guys. connell: thank you, kristina partsinevelos. melissa. melissa: here to react is dan henninger from "the wall street journal" and he is also a fox news contributor. dan, i was looking at the sound bites from different politicians over the weekend. nancy pelosi on cbs's "face the nation," saying we want to see what we can agree on, what we need to do to crush the virus so we can open the economy and open our schools

safely. all three of my kids are finally back in school starting tomorrow. they have missed the boast. what is she talking about, so we can finally reopen the schools and the economy? these people move so slowly, what difference, does it make a difference what they do at this point? it takes so long for any kind of help that they try to administer to make it through the system t kind of feels like it is too late. what are your thoughts on that? >> i think it is probably too late at this point. nancy pelosi talking about quote, unquote, reopening the economy, that may be the first democrat i heard in several months uttering that phrase, reopening the economy. mostly what they have been about is lockdowns but you know, melissa, we're in an election. don't think about it just in bloodless political terms, look at it the stimulus package from nancy pelosi's perspective. you may ask why does she really

need a deal at this point? she has an issue. she is using it against the president. she is using it against the republicans. where i'm nancy pelosi sitting may look to her as though joe biden is going to win the election and republicans are going to lose control of the senate. that means come january, the democrats will be in charge of all three branches of government. and if she doesn't pass the stimulus package, she will have pocketed over $2 trillion to spend next year as she sees fit with a lot of pressure from progressive democrats to do exactly that. so why exactly is it in her interests to spend the two trillion dollars in the next month or two if she believes joe biden is already on his way to a victory in less than 30 days? melissa: what about the inverse of that? you know what if she thinks that the president is thinking about winning, possibly winning, looking like he might win even that is more incentive not to do it to try to stop that from

happening, not give him any kind of a win at all? >> yeah. well, yeah, i think it is an incentive for her to stop it. i mean the thing that the president wants to do is send out the 1200-dollar checks under his name to people. nancy pelosi wants to enhance unemployment benefits, again the $600 a month which would be a disincentive for many people to go back to work. she wants that bailout and there as well for the blue states. again, recall, this has to go through the senate. i just do not see those senate republicans voting for a $2.2 trillion package that includes bailout for the blue states. those republican senators now, including the ones who are on the bubble in their own races are focused on one thing, getting amy coney barrett confirmed before this election is over. they are not focused on spending another $2.2 trillion. so i am really, melissa, pretty

pessimistic about the possibility of this stimulus happening before the election. melissa: okay. so if it doesn't what are the implications of that? does it hurt the market? does it hurt the economy? how do we start planning for that eventuality? >> well, i think the economy was recovering on its own. i know there is has been a lot of talk today about the stimulus doing things for airlines and so forth. just a straightforward keynesian injection of several trillion dollars into the economy. it may be a bump for the stock market but i think the economy has been recovering just fine on its own. the big question that i think the market and the economy has to start grappling with is what i was just suggesting, if per chance the democrats to gain control of the government where is the economic upside going to come from? joe biden himself in that debate that we had a week or so ago was saying the coronavirus has to be

crushed first. then the economy can open. i think a democratic party is many about the party of lockdowns rather than the opening of the economy and their answer to the lockdowns is to simply put out depression levels of spending on the economy. i don't think at this point, given the level of the national debt, the trillions they have already spent, that the stock market over the long term is going to be able to absorb that level of federal spending and federal indebtedness. melissa: yeah. they want everybody locked in their homes. they have the most control. they can control the spigot of money, put it where they want it. it is terrifying. dan, thank you forethat. connell? connell: all right. in new york city the reopening efforts took a step backwards with the mayor bill de blasio pushing to lock down neighborhoods where covid-19 cases have spiked but then we hear from the governor and it is somewhat of a different tone so we're trying to figure it all

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♪. melissa: on the brink of another shutdown. governor andrew cuomo ordering schools in nine hot spot regions in new york city to close but non-essential businesses can stay open for now, despite de blasio's on going call to shut them down. fox news's david lee miller is live in new york city with the latest. david lee, it is very confusing. break it down for us. reporter: indeed it is. the bottom line, melissa, this is a significant setback for new york city's recovery from the coronavirus. as you just mentioned new york city officials starting tomorrow are going to shut down all public and private schools in a total of nine zip codes in the city because of a spike in the virus. the city wants the epicenter of the virus is experiencing an increase in the infection rate not so much in manhattan but the

outer boroughs of brooklyn and queens. all the affected zip codes have seen an infection rate of 3% or more the past seven davis. some have more than double that 3% threshold. new york city mayor de blasio has called for the shutdown of non-essential businesses including indoor and outdoor dining in the nine zip codes are affected, but that part of the city's plan has not received the required approval from the state. it appears the mayor and the governor are at odds how to move forward. many of the hot spots have significant number of orthodox jewish residents who not adhered to social distancing or masks. supreme court ruling religious institutions adhering to religious protocols must remain open, governor andrew cuomo today issued this warning. >> i will meet with members of the ultra-orthodox community tomorrow. i will have that conversation directly myself. this can not happen again.

if you do not agree to enforce the rules men we'll close the institutions down. reporter: now in addition to meeting with the ultra-orthodox jewish leaders como says he will meet with the black church community and catholic community. north of new york city, other areas in the state are seeing spikes in covid cases. the governor says the so-called clusters must be contained and he criticized local governments for not doing more to prevent the spread of the virus. new york state will be in charge of compliance of health and safety rules n the rules of governor andrew cuomo i quote him, you will see more people die if woe don't do more enforcement. melissa. melissa: david lee, thank you for that. connell? connell: all right. melissa, let's talk to one ever the small businesses that could be impacted by all of this. kathy and megan join us.

they are owners of a gym, tfw, in brookline. as melissa said, david reported it, some of this is very confusing today. cathy i will start with you, some of you guys can stay open as i right? as the back and forth goes between the governor and mayor although i'm not 100% how this will play out next couple days. what have you been told if anything? >> i do have to agree with you it is very confusing. yesterday we were assuming we have to close on wednesday. today governor cuomo said we don't yet. connell: yet, right. so that means for now, i know, i think the mayor might try to still push forward with that but it seems from those comments we just heard the governor is kind of taking control of this. these two have gone back and forth if anybody is following what is happening in new york throughout the last six months, have not agreed all the time. in that time frame, kathy, you guys were shut down and, you

know, it's interesting as we look at the gym behind you, you have reopened, right? megan, can you tell us a little bit what you put in place? you spent a lot of money, right? you only reopened a short time ago? >> yes. we were closed initially like the rest of the world. then we were taken out of phase three reopening with no date to reopen. so we've actually been very close to closing our doors for good over and over again. finally got the okay to open gyms but have restrictions on classes. and we are for the past 10 years have been a class-based facility. over the last few weeks we have completely remodeled and rebranded our facility to be a open gym model where we have pods set up behind us. everybody can come in and reserve a training pod for an hour and 15 minutes. it is very controlled. we follow all the covid protocols. we haven't been able to sensely open yet. connell: okay. so if, oh really? you're not officially opened yet

even with this, is that what you just said? >> right. so once we were supposed to actually open today officially. we had a little bit of a, kind of like a small opening last week and we once we heard we might be shut down again on wednesday, we decided not to roll it out just yet. there are so many unanswered questions, we don't, we don't know how to proceed right now. connell: right. so you were literally about to get started to try to get back to normal so how are the financials, kathy? i don't know how much you can disclose to us. this is really tough in small and medium-sized business? how are the financials even if they shut you down for a couple week what would the impact be if that happened? >> the impath already we're down 80% in revenue. neither one of us took a paycheck since march. this is what we do for a living. we're a mom and daughter shop. this is all we do for a living.

i don't know if we can survive another shutdown and especially money we spent on cleaning supplies to make sure our members are as safe as possible. i don't have any -- connell: this, tomorrow -- if you're allowed to open, if it stays like we think it is now, what do you think you do? do you think you'll open this week? >> we'll definitely open. the feeling of defeat it is very hard but we're not quitters and we're going to keep going. we have wonderful landlords that are working with us. we have a lot of great members trying to help us through. if it wasn't for that we would have nothing. so we're going to keep fighting. we'll definitely keep fighting. connell: i guess the other, the only thing, megan i've heard on how -- there are nine sip zip codes in new york city. it is not all of new york. the state of new york in terms of positivity rate is 1%, in yesterday's numbers. these nine zip codes, your one

in brooklyn that have seen the spikes. i guess the argument is, megan if we see a spike, go up 3, 4, 5%, close it down for a week or two we don't have to stay closed down for a week or month like last time. what do you say to that or your thoughts on that? >> not really sure. we haven't had opportunity to stay open and how it goes. we don't know. there is a lot of questions we're confused on. >> we're confused why just gyms and indoor dining. what about home depot or lowe's or any other big business where there are people? why is it the gym? i want to see the data that says gyms are transmitting covid and there is no data. connell: right. rather than just an assumption they're not giving you hard data on that. i get it. it is really, really tough spot to be in. we'll follow up. like we said at the start of the interview it seems so uncertain even how the next couple days are going to go.

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♪. melissa: "fox business alert." the former vice president, joe biden, speaking now on the crucial swing state of florida. fox news's peter doocy is in miami with more. peter? reporter: and, melissa, joe biden is here at a gym in little havana. he made a stop on his way to a stop in little haiti.

two stops so far. he has been on the ground so far for about two hours. we've seen a different joe biden today than the one we saw over the weekend who really said he did not want to say anything negative about the president. >> the community here in little haiti, grows and prospers the whole of miami-dade prospers. nobody loses. everybody wins. it is all about addition not like the administration talks about subtraction. reporter: the trump campaign says that even though biden pledged to pull all negative campaign ads, almost 100 of them ran on sunday in swing states including one that tells voters they have a chance to put the darkness of the past four years behind them. the trump campaign, rather the biden campaign i should say tell us their candidate is not tested for covid-19 every day. just before trips going forward. the democratic nominee he would like to come back to miami in 10 days to debate trump again,

while he was saying that somebody noticed there was not enough social distancing between him and the press corporation. it wasn't a public health expert noticed. it wasn't a secret service agent. it was instead his wife. >> no i, look, if the doctors, listen to the science. if the scientists say -- >> come back. >> i'm sorry. if the scientists say that it's safe and distances are safe, then i think that's fine. reporter: it is a very hot day here in south florida but notable, joe biden while speaking outside never took his mask off while he was speaking. melissa? melissa: wow. all right, peter, thank you. connell? connell: one of the things we're watching is the early voting already underway in many of the swing states the timeline for the counting of ballots is causing some to raise concerns in key battleground states. we'll tell you about that coming up.

plus president trump and his coronavirus diagnosis, we know he is leaving walter reed this evening. still vice president mike pence active campaign schedule ahead of this week's debate raising some red flags among national security experts. we'll talk to retired general jack keane and more. an update from the virus professional about what experts know and don't know about the coronavirus after nearly seven months. we'll be right back. you run it by an expert, you talk about the risk and potential profit and loss. could've used that before i hired my interior decorator. voila! maybe a couple throw pillows would help. get a strategy gut check from our trade desk. ♪

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♪. melissa: it has been nearly nine months since the very first covid-19 case was reported in the u.s. it feels like it has been nine years. what has changed? now back with us is dr. ian lipkin director of center of infection and immunity at columbia university. he is also known as the virus hunter. i were one of the very first people to come on and talk to us about this. you were at the source when it happened. you had the coronavirus yourself. i'm sew glad you're willing to check with us. i feel like so much time has gone by and a lot of things have changed. for example, it feels like now when we hear about people getting the virus it is much less likely they have a really severe reaction and that they have the same responses that they did way back in march or in february. is that accurate or is that just your perception and if it is

true why is that the case? >> well i think there have been many things that have changed. you're asking whether or not people are less frightened of the virus? i'm not sure i would draw that conclusion. we're learning a great deal more about the spectrum of disease. we tend to focus on the death count which of course is very, very high and a major concern but there are number of people who have other sorts of signs and symptoms that can last for a very long time. so we initially focused really on just the lung disease. now we know about heart disease. we know about people who have lost digits, toes and fingers and such. people who have cognitive dysfunction. we didn't know about lack of smell. there is so many things -- melissa: forgive me i didn't actually say, i didn't mean they're not as frightened. i meant that they don't seem to be getting quite as sick.

the people i know got it in the beginning really had a terrible respiratory response. they did lose the taste and smell. they really felt like they had an awful flu for a long period of time. now more people that i know feel like they have a cold and so i'm saying is that, does that reflect you know, sort of the physical response that we're seeing across the board or is it just you know, in my area or just the people i'm talking to? is the body's response changing over time, that was my question? >> gotcha you. there is no evidence that the virus is changing. it may well be we're seeing more of a full spectrum of disease. some people have milder symptoms than others probably because we're doing more testing but the virus is just as dangerous as it was when it first appeared on our shores. there are some advantages we now have that we didn't before. we've discovered, for example,

that convalescent plasma will probably be effective in some cases. probably some of the mon cronenal antibodies. we have this drug remdesivir seems to shorten hospitalizations. we are closer to having a vaccine. we know dexamethasone can be useful in people with severe disease but the most important thing that has changed for us is we now appreciate in a very robust way the importance of masks. this has made a huge impact on the number of people who have become infected with this virus. so in new york city where i live you see it is very rare to see people who are not wearing masks. this has made a huge impact on transmission. melissa: yeah. you know, i read earlier today that we've only achieved maybe, we're far from herd immunity.

only 10% of the population shows any signs of the antibodies at this point. are you surprised that the number is that low and what does it tell us how long this is going to stick around? >> i think the number of people who have been infected is probably greater than we appreciate. many people are not getting antibody tests. the antibody tests are not that sensitive but we have this new problem now which is we don't know how long immunity lasts. so the fact that you have antibodies doesn't mean that you can't get infected with the virus again. in fact there are several examples where people have been reinfected. i'm much more optimistic about the immune response that we're going to see to the vaccines and those are moving much more rapidly than any other vaccine program in history. so that is sort of the silver lining i think to this very dark cloud. melissa: i wish we had more

time. i hope you will come back again. that was a great update where we are from somebody who has been on top of it from the very beginning. dr. lipkin, thank you so much. connell? connell: really was there at the beginning. that was a good conversation. now we move to some uncertainty over battleground ballots that has come up. we had more than a million early votes cast already in the 2020 race. in several swing states what we're seeing mail-in ballots will end up going virtually untouched until right before the election. let's go to fox's eric shawn. more on that as he has been doing some reporting on that issue. reporter: hello, connell. 31 states in the country don't start counting their ballots until election day including wisconsin, michigan, pennsylvania, including some of the big states. michigan by the way just pushed their ability to count a vote that is counted as long as it is postmarked on election day, 10 days later t could take quite a while until we know about all the votes this is combing as there has been new developments

on the legal front. several lawsuits across the country. one dealing with ballot boxes. you know the boxes you put your vote in in ohio a federal judge ruled that state's requirement to have only one ballot box per county was unreasonable and not right. so just a few hours ago, breaking the secretary state of ohio ruledded boards of election can have more than one ballot box, but they have to be put on board of elections property. if you live in ohio, you will not vote in a shopping center. in texas there are two lawsuits basically the same thing. they claim the state is limiting the drop-off-site to one per county is unfair and wrong. governor greg abbott says it is protecting election security. it puts undue voters traveling around huge counts especially minorities. >> to have hundred ever thousands of seniors here in harris county and millions of voters pay cross the state of

texas to use a single drop-off location in these massive counties is not only prejudicial but it is dangerous. reporter: in michigan supporters saying the ruling by the election officials to let 10 days continue after the election is great but critics like republican state senator kevin daily think stretching the deadline can abuse the process. >> our constitution is very clear. there is election day. votes are voted on election day. people have plenty of time to get their absentee ballot taken into the township or their counties or their cities and turn it in in advance of election day. the election day should be election day and that should be the end of it. reporter: not just election day but should be election few days if not more because of those laws. connell? connell: yeah. a lot to keep track of this year. eric, thank you. eric shawn. melissa. melissa: wildfires in california have now burned more than four

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♪. >> we have a great vice president. we have a government that is steady. the government's doing well. the president's doing well and i am not going to address hypotheticals but we do have a, we have plans for everything. connell: so that was the national security advisor robert o'brien over the weekend saying officials are prepared for any situation amid the president's covid diagnosis. we know the president is going back to the white house later this evening. we also know the vice president mike pence is heading out as we speak to the state of utah. has the vice-presidential debate there and in-person events scheduled this week. president trump's former homeland security advisor, tom bossert, telling abc news, we're quotes him, right now i would be telling vice president's pence despite the instinct to get out on the campaign trail that he has a larger obligation to the constitution and the country. he needs to sit himself down.

get somewhere where he is not exposed, not take any risk. he have is in the line of succession and he is going to have to park himself somewhere. retired general jack keane joins us, senior military analyst to talk about this and other security questions that have comb up the last few days. so what would you say, just strictly from the perspective the national security, not health and safety about the vice president's travel schedule for this week? >> i wouldn't have any concern about it. largely because the president of the united states, our commander-in-chief, his health is moving in a very positive direction. he is being released from the hospital. he began improving on saturday. i think, connell, if his health situation was deteriorating i think we would see a completely different behavior on the part of the vice president and the team around him. yes, he would likely be sheltering in place. but given the circumstances we're all dealing with, we've seen ourselves, we have a very

vigorous commander-in-chief who is meeting with his own staff and, dealing with foreign leaders. he is conducting the business of the president of the united states regardless of where he is. so i think that really is the driver here. and it is certainly -- connell: i did hear the president's doctor today say that you know, for all the positive prognosis that you spoke about they have for president trump that they are allowing him to go back to the white house today, he is not quote, urn quote, out of the woods yet. they're really watching it closely, at least until the weekend other monday, so maybe that is why some questions are coming up about the vice president? >> that is certainly possible but i still think -- listen, the vice president doesn't operate in a vacuum. he has medical advisors around him just like the president does. he has national security advisors that are talking to him. and, then he takes his own counsel just like the president does. so i think, it was likely a decision that was given some

thought to it. and they think it is okay. i support it. connell: the other national security questions that have come up the last couple of days are about whether some adversary of ours, china or russia, iran, somebody would try to quote, unquote, take advantage of this situation with the president in the hospital and fighting off covid. as far as we know, right, there is no indication that would happen but what would your concerns be there if there are any? >> yeah. well, first of all i mean, so our viewers understand the fact that the president took ill with the virus in of itself does not present us with a national security crisis or even a throat because of his illness. the reason for that it does not disrupt or very robust national security process we have and our command-and-control system. it is very significant so that, that is point one. secondly, our adversaries are

always looking for leverage, connell. they can find something to exploit they would. i do think there is one aspect of this that we can expect, it is probably ongoing as we speak is china, russia, in particular, those two countries, a lesser degree iran, they're are also players use cyber activity and social media to plant false information and create misinformation as well and they have been doing that robustly for some time now, trying to undermine peoples trust and confidence in their government and undermine the peoples trust and confidence also in the elections so is an area where they would add this, to already agenda that they're exploiting as another item. connell: doesn't that make it even more important thinking as you speak, general, for the white house to be as transparent and accurate regarding

information about the president's health and you know, making sure that they're getting out information in timely basis, answering questions that have come up, just what you brought up? doesn't that make that even more important and what do you think of the job they have done over the last few days? >> yeah i think it is essential for -- and what we're dealing with the president of the united states that his medical staff be as transparent as they reasonably can be. i don't think you have to dot the i and cross the t on every little thing they're doing to the president but in terms of the major indicators of what is his health status in terms of temperature and other things that they're doing and what they're prescribing to him i think that is information that the american people should have and it should be fact-based and that's it. and i think they had a little problem saturday with principals saying one thing, doctors saying

another, looks like they cleaned that up and they're on the same page. you put your finger that is very important on the. american people want to trust the government and leaders certainly. they give them the every benefit of the doubt if there is any indication that is not taking place that is completely unsatisfactory. connell: as always we appreciate your analysis and expertise. general jack keane. thank you, sir. melissa? melissa: all right. major airlines cutting more routes leaving some airports with no flights at all. we'll tell you which ones next ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ this is the feeling of total protection now that we protect your identity, and mobile phone, as well as auto home and life you've never been in better hands allstate

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♪ ♪ melissa: feeling the hurt, a struggling airline industry cutting more routes from smaller markets. grady trimble is at chicago o'hare with the details. >> reporter: cutting jobs and cutting routes now, more route cuts on the way for american airlines they i say if they don't get more federal aid.

american will cut routes to and from 15 airports across the country, those routes will be eliminated for a month at least. and you'll notice on this map nine of them have no other airlines serving them the, meaning these will be towns with airports but no commercial airlines and no flights. and smaller cities, all of them, where the airport can be a big economic driver, they will be hit hardest by this. this comes as uted and american are laying off -- united and american are laying off a combined 32,000 employees. they say they could reverse that if the a federal government comes forward with more money. we don't know when that will happen. this also comes as americans are getting more comfortable with the idea of air travel. it's picked up in recent months, but it has been since march martha more than a million people went through tsa checkpoints in the country. now fewer than half of that at this point. if you booked a flight lately, melissa, you noticed there are a lot fewer flight options, and

that will continue to be the case. it'll be even more obvious in some of those cities which will have no flight choices at all. ♪ melissa: yeah. it's really something. grady, thank you for that report. we really need that vaccine. that does it for us. we will see you -- ♪ ♪ lou: good evening, everybody. president trump to make a triumphant return to the white house this evening. the president has spent about 72 the hours at walter reed hospital where he was treated for the china virus. he is upbeat, as you would expect. the president tweeted this, quote: i will be leaving the great walter reed medical center today at 6:30p.m. feeling really good. don't be i afraid of covid, he said. don't let it dominate your life. we have developed under the trump administration some really great drugs and knowledge. i feel better than i did 20