what is the book i should be reading during the holiday, he said this one. dow, s&p 500, they see some gains. [closing bell rings] it is a record for the russell 2000. not so for the nasdaq. i wish you all a happy holiday season. it's a shortened session tomorrow. that will do it for "the claman countdown". connell: so we close it out with stocks mixed here today. the nasdaq does end down. a bit up and down. actually hit a all-time high early in the session. couldn't close as a record. turns negative in the final few minutes of trading. investors still hoping stimulus can boost the economy down the line. we have back and forth on stimulus before that. we also have new signs that the economy might be starting to slow down. as more restrictions are put in place across the nation to fight off the virus. we also are seeing, we'll talk about this for better or worse, plenty of people are planning to travel for christmas. we'll cover all of that at this

hour. at the close you look at numbers. the dow is up 114. s&p 500 higher by almost three points. but the nasdaq turns lower, closes down by 37 points. that is .3 of 1%. there you have it. so it is great to be with you. i'm connell mcshane here on the last full trading day before the christmas holiday. welcome to "after the bell." the news is happening at this hour. our reporters are set. fox team coverage, blake burman whether he thought he would be or not still talking stimulus. susan li with the economic numbers. edward lawrence with the vaccine news coming out of pfizer. gerri willis with the covid impact on business. garrett tenney on holiday travel. we'll get to everyone. susan we start with the economy. reporter: the u.s. economy recovering as we know the consumer might not be strong as we head into year-end. weekly jobless claims is 800,000. that is better than anticipated. long term unemployed, continuing claims we call them, here is a

bright spot falling to 570,000. things are getting better there. here is the bad news, u.s. households spent less no november that is the first time we've seen a drop in eight months. we have to go back to april. u.s. consumers power over 70% of the u.s. economy. they're spending less because they're not making as much. we saw personal income falling by over 1% last month. what this tells us is that covid cases are on the rise. that means more lockdowns are put in place. in colder weather that tells us the u.s. economy might be struggling as we head into next year, 2021. into the springtime until we get wider vaccine distribution. u.s. economy forecast to shrink in the final three months of this topsy-turvy 2020. wall street expecting a contraction of over 4%. next year, should be better. i caveat should. most predictions on wall street expect the u.s. economic recovery to grow expand over 4%. more bullish from goldman sachs,

one of the highest on the street according to goldman they are forecasting 5.3% gdp expansion, you know pinning a near 50% stock market rally next year. here is the caveat, connell. the only contingent on split congress and more stimulus in place. connell: right. so watching georgia. as it turns out still watching stimulus. susan, thank you. get virus numbers in to expand what susan is talking about. the u.s. reporting nearly 200,000 daily cases of coronavirus. you look at hospitalizations. they're hitting record highs. currently there are 22,000 patients in intensive care units, first time we've seen the number that high. several areas, cities or states are imposing the strictest restrictions since the spring peak. most recently the city of philadelphia extending a ban on indoor dining through january 15th. the state of massachusetts putting new limits on gatherings, business capacity. all of this comes as an estimated 85 million americans

are set to travel in one way, shape or form for the holidays. fox news correspondent garrett tenney today at o'hare international airport in chicago with more on all of that. reporter: well, connell, one out of every four americans is expected to travel this holiday season according to aaa but only a small fraction of those folks are expected to be boarding an airplane to do that. around three million people is all. compared to 81 million who will be driving to visit family and friends. holiday travel is down significantly overall though with 34 million fewer people traveling compared to last year. that could be an indication that a lot of folks are heeding the advice of public health officials to stay home for the holidays to try to limit the spread of the coronavirus. those who are traveling say they are fully aware of the risks and after the year we've had they feel like it's a risk worth taking. >> i think we all are scared of covid, you know, during our daily life. so i think this is something i

have to do you know, just to see my family a couple days and come back. >> i will see my mom and grandmother pour christmas. i want to make sure i'm negative. my grandmother is 90. >> feels like nothing going on this year tragedy after tragedy. i felt i needed to be around who i can be before i lose too many more. reporter: new york city is going beyond travel recommendations for folks arriving from the uk and announced it will be sending sheriffs deputies to insure that those folks are quarantining to limit the spread of a new strain of the coronavirus. connell: garrett, thank you. garrett tenney live at the airport in chicago. president trump is calling on congress to revise recently passed covid relief bill. he called it disgraceful. he is in favor of increasing those individual stimulus checks

from the agreed to amount of $600 all the way up to 2,000. even though his own treasury secretary was involved in those original negotiations. let's get the latest where things stand, where they think they stand from blake burman. blake. reporter: he was involved, treasury secretary steve mnuchin in these negotiations, connell. the white house even told us sunday evening less than 48 hours ago that the president would be signing this legislation but then the president came out and said he wants direct payments to be three types higher than what they are. that has thrown a wrench into everything. many wondering what exactly the president is going to do. suddenly he has allies in the form of nancy pelosi and democrats as the house speaker said today that if the president wants to up those direct payments to $2,000 for an individual, 4,000 for couples democrats are willing to do it. she is calling on republicans not to block the republican who occupies the white house his request. this is what pelosi wrote to her

democratic colleagues earlier today. she said quote, if the president truly wants to join us in 2000-dollar payments call upon leader mccarthy to agree to the unanimous consent request. remember, connell. congress already acted. house and senate, got an agreement together. they overwhelmingly passed it. they are in the process physically sending the bill to the white house. even though the president said last night he wants changes made to the bill he didn't necessarily say that he would veto the bill. it remains an outstanding question at this point what might the president do? will eventually sign it? will he veto it or will he stand by and do nothing, either allowing it to go into law after 10 days, potentially running out the shot clock on this current congress and nothing happening on that front. still a lot of questions as we wind down the new year here, connell. connell: right. he has these strange allies politically with the democrats, the president on same side as

nancy pelosi on this another democrat republicans senate republicans are in a tricky spot, right? they're up against him. reporter: they have to figure out what to do. negotiating this for most part was five people, top two democrats, nancy pelosi, chuck schumer, top two republicans mitch mcconnell and kevin mccarthy and white house had a representative in these meetings, treasury secretary steve mnuchin. now they have to figure out if they are going to support the president's request or not. there of course are some republicans who are saying and continue to say these stimulus payments, these direct checks shouldn't even go out at all. listen to republican senator rand paul from earlier today. >> my kids are working and don't need a check. they're not rich. they don't need a check. most working americans don't need a check right now. it's a really foolish, left-wing socialist idea to pass out free money to people. reporter: by the way as we talk about potential vetoes the president issued a veto,

connell, a little while ago. that being a veto of the 740 billion-dollar defense bill. the president says, that he wanted a repeal of section 230. those are the legal protections for social media companies involved in that, in that defense bill. it didn't happen. one of the reasons why he is vetoing it, nancy pelosi just put out a statement a while ago calling it a quote, unquote, staggering recklessness that harms our troops. now that will be sent back to congress. they overwhelmingly approved that bill. will eventually override the president's veto. connell? connell: they should have 2/3 majority to do so. we'll see. never know. blake burman in washington. more vaccines meantime are getting to the american people. the trump administration and pfizer striking a 4 billion-dollar deal to increase supply by 100 million doses by the spring. edward lawrence in washington with the breakdown on this.

reporter: this is classic what can we do for you, what do you need from us? u.s. paying pfizer $1.5 billion for an additional 100 million doses of the vaccine. also agreeing to help pfizer to get raw materials. pfizer is limit in the capacity to make more vaccine because it needs more stuff used in the vaccine. the u.s. will get 200 doses from pfizer alone. under the agreement, 70 million extra doses will be delivered by july 31st. the remaining 30 million doses after july 31st. everything is political in washington. leadership got in capitol hill for security reasons. alexandria ocasio-cortez got it. some lawmakers very upset about that. dr. anthony fauci saying regardless of the vaccine we still need to wear masks and do social distancing. this is what he had to say. >> nothing should really change right now with regard to the public health measures that

hopefully we have all already been doing until we get the level of virus so dramatically low in society, in the community, we must practice public health measures. reporter: 30,000 doses have been given today in new york city. one single report of allergic reaction. broaden it out, one million doses have been given for the virus vaccine across the nation. there have been six allergic reactions including one from new york city. nine million doses have been shipped. "operation warp speed," the head of that says they will be able to deliver 20 million vaccines this year and vaccinate with moderna and pfizer all 100 million people that they need to by march 1st. back to you, connell. connell: that is good news obviously percentage wise in terms what you're talking about

with reactions to the pfizer side, six out of a million. what about moderna, that just started to roll out, do we know anything about the vaccine yet? reporter: literally minutes ago the head of "operation warp speed" said they have no allergic reaction to the 100,000 doses of moderna given out. there will be 6.9 million doses by the end of this week of the moderna. right now no allergic reactions. we saw one on the pfizer pool. that is good news on the moderna side. connell: good news. so impressive as we talking about scientifically how fast we moved, how safely we appear to move as well. thank you, edward lawrence live from washington. health officials are warning that the new covid strain we're reporting on this week out of the uk it is most likely here in the u.s. and has infected possibly hundreds of people that prompted one state to order hospitals to begin testing for

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♪. connell: welcome back, everybody. hospitals are strug long across the country. we've been talk about this for weeks with many on the brink of full capacity. some are at or overcapacity. another virus surge is expected in the next few weeks with the holidays we're joined by a doctor senior director for systemwide pathogens in new york city hospitals. we'll talk about this and start to talk about the new virus strain overseas. the thinking about the experts, dr. fauci said as much this week, the likelihood it is already here in the united states for better or worse, thought to be more contagious if

it is not anymore deadly. a headline before we were coming to you out, this is pretty good news for moderna, one of the companies with the vaccine on the market. seems like what they're saying their vaccine can neutralize and be effective in neutralizing antibodies against any strain of the virus known so far. that was the expectation, right? this wasn't outside of the vaccine, that means we could deal with it? >> yes, that's right. that is great news and when we look at the current vaccines available, pfizer and moderna, the mra genomic sequence for the proteins, even mutations on certain aspects of that protein you will develop develop antibodies for the remaining areas. that is something we've have known but when we talk about mutations as far as cove v 2, there is still more information coming out what the over all effect will be on sars cov-2.

the information we do have it is more transmissible based on data, based on epidemiological model data. in terms of making individuals more sick, is it causing increased of death? we haven't seen that yet based on information provided but a lot more scientific investigation is being done receipt now and in the coming weeks. connell: yeah. i was looking at the statement, like i said moderna is putting out in the last few minutes. they're basically saying as much. they think their vaccine will be effective against it but they will do more tests and perform additional tests to confirm all that. that is good news. the idea that you have another strain. you have mutations of these viruses this one in particular all the time, that might be more contagious should we do anything differently? some suggest in the u.s. we should test in the hospitals for particular strain. does that make sense or would it not matter? >> that is excellent question.

more knowledge is more power. what will you do with the information. will it change anything we're currently doing? based on the new variant discovered in the uk and probably highly more globalized give how community transmission all over the united states and all over the world will it change anything we're doing right now? is it changing mitigation or prevention measures we're taking? the answer is no. is it going to change any of our clinical measures we're taking when patients come in and we treat them? the answer is also no. will it change anything in terms of contact tracing? the answer is no. as we learn more about this variant while see if additional things need to be made but it will not change any measures we have in place. we need to double down on what is working and all the preventative mitigation measures we are using right now. connell: right. wearing masks, keeping your distance, things we talked about for months and months we know and now we have the science that proves they're effective.

what about the next two weeks? two days before christmas, new year's is another time people are off from work, stuck in their house, many people are stuck in the house for months and want to see family and people, what do you think of stronging that balance, do you say stay home completely or what are you telling people? >> important to see what is happening not just here in the united states and around the world. there is increased number of cases all over, cases hospitalizations, deaths. not just in one locality but throughout the different regions on the united states. it is important to put things into context. what we've seen for example, during thanksgiving, when the holiday, individuals gathered we saw increased number of individuals testing positive for covid-19. we saw increased number of hospitalizations in the united states. unfortunately deja vu with knowingly 3 million americans participating in air travel the past weekend which is the highest number since the pandemic has started, it is

important to understand if we can limit number of people moving around and coming in contact with non-households that will ignite mutations and transmiss. that is what we don't want to do. we're seeing light at the end of tunnel with covid-19 vaccines. we have a long way to go, especially looking at hospitalizations increased by 14% over the last two weeks. it will only continue to increase knowing that cases are increasing every single day. connell: yeah. just slow that down a little bit over the next few months, at least get us to the point where more could pet the vaccine. thank you, doctor, good luck with everything you're doing. appreciate your insights today. we have changes to report to the olympic games that have come in from tokyo where officials say the closing and opening ceremonies will be carried out with a simpler more restrained approach obviously with the pandemic. additional measures expected to be announced by the olympics in the coming months. the games were supposed to be earlier this year and they

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♪. connell: so we have seen a number of famous brands, you know names you would recognize, closing tear stores in new york city. in fact if you look at the numberss the big apple saw a record number of recognized chain store brands just shutting their doors this year. get more on the trend from gerri willis. reporter: hey, connell. that's right. this is astonishing. more than 1100 chain stores pulled up stakes in the big apple in the last 12 months alone with almost half of these occurring in manhattan of course where one in seven nationally recognized chain store branches closed their doors. this is an amazing 14% of all chain stores. now let's take a look at this in detail. the shutdown 70 duane reades.

54 starbucks, 22 papyruss. a much longer list. you don't need a greeting card company to be a great city but it adds to the tax base when you add stores all over the city. the empire state residents are leaving as well. 323,655 folks hightailing out of new york state between july 2019 and july 2020 and that is the largest loss among all of 50 states. you remember when new york attracted people? not anymore. now this is a small proportion of the state's total population to be sure. it's just over half a percent, right, but it marks the third year in a row that the empire state's population has been declining and ramifications frankly huge. the state could lose a seat in the house of representatives. you know what that means? less pork, less money. so the last year of course

particularly difficult for new yorkers as they have endured the pandemic. of course a lot of them complaining about taxes. a lot of complaints on the list of folks leaving manhattan. i have to tell you this, is a story we'll have to watch for some time. connell, back to you. connell: yeah. man, the trend certainly not new york's friend. gerri thank you. gerri willis. there. in a moment defying cdc guidance. we'll talk about why the governor of one state says there is one group that will not be prioritized in the next round of vaccine distribution. brings up an interesting discussion. plus catering to a surge in demand and the busy holiday season. if you're looking for a last minute gift for somebody, maybe also want a rapid covid test there is a new business partnership that has you covered on both fronts. details on that later in the hour. then, fast-food chain kfc is introducing a new gaming console. it is shaped like a kfc bucket. genius. include as built-in chicken

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♪. connell: all right, we're back here with stories in the headlines "after the bell." first of all congress is scrambling after president trump last night slammed coronavirus relief and government spending bill as a disgrace. he called for 2,000-dollar direct payments instead of the 600 currently on offer. demanding wasteful spending as he sees it be removed. democratic congresswoman ilhan omar seizing on comments calling on fellow democrats to bring a clean up for a 2,000-dollar payment. in the state of florida, the governor, ron desantis has signed an executive order. he is giving priority to older residents in the state in terms of vaccine deployment. could get in line ahead of some of the essential workers in florida. president-elect joe biden continues to make picks for his cabinet but the confirmations could hit a snag. the results of the georgia senate runoff races on january 5th will determine who controls the senate. it could delay consideration of

biden's picks. congress needs to certify the presidential election on january 6th. those are some headlines. here to talk about them with us is bill mcgurn from "the wall street journal" bill is a fox news contributor. you know on the biden cabinet, bill, that last headline, if for some reason we don't know, the polls are close, maybe we don't, who won one or both of these races in georgia, that could push it out to mid-january, something like, that it slows down the new president getting his cabinet in place. i wonder if will change any picks he might put up although most are already public? what do you think? >> well it could. i mean because the margin is going to be razor thin for whoever has the senate majority. so it will be a thin margin. depending on how many votes they have, if the democrats know that we can get this through if we all stick together, that changes the risk level for nominating someone.

the same with the republicans. if you think that if we hold our team together we can defeat a nominee. that changes it too. it will be changed by so many people will switch committees around. so someone might been planning on confirming one cabinet pick might end up chairing the hearings for another cabinet pick. i don't think it is a catastrophe. it probably slows it by two or three weeks but you know, in the end senator mcconnell has promised that everyone will get a vote. connell: let me talk a little bit what is happening in florida as well. kind of interesting what happened this afternoon with governor ron desantis. i want to be clear what he said in terms of the age limits. executive order i should say that he signed putting an emphasis on people 65 and older in the state. not 75. that was the original suggestion but the executive order he actually signed this afternoon he says if you're 65 and older in florida, now you will get priority. the cdc had suggested it would

be 75 and older after the front line workers but essentially he is saying you're a little bit older we'll put you ahead of some other people who are a little bit younger even if they're quote, unquote essential. it brings up this discussion how we should do this or if we even should be arguing so much about how we should do this. what do you think? >> well i think there are a lot of legitimate ways to debate this. you know now the debate seems to be between younger essential workers and older people in nursing homes for example. i heard a colleague we should put the the emphasis on young people because they're more likely to be the spreaders. so if you get them, you can stop the spread. the amazing thing to me is when people pretend there is one answer. seems to me ron desantis chosen a legitimate answer. he presides over a state has a lot more he he elderly than othr states. he wants to protect them from

dying. that is reasonable choicepeople behaving like one answer, that it is clear-cut, we have states we can try different things to see what is worse. i'm not sure one size fits all for all the states is a wise idea. connell: right. and you make an interesting point is that some states have different, or might have different priorities of the way their population is made up. you have a lot of senior citizens in florida. you get that population taken care of first. you know, theoretically you do more to slow down the spread. we'll see if it works. final point on headlines. we mentioned stimulus. what is going on do you think with the president last night coming in? it surprised a lot of people, what he says, i -- $2,000. what is going on? >> right. he says $2000 before. i think in summer when he was being blamed for the breakdown in talks, with mrs. pelosi he mention ad figure above $2,000. look, i'm halfway with him.

i'm with him idea there is way too much pork and waste in these things. i keep going back to the point we can't say often enough. the real stimulus is the vaccine plus reopening the economy. everything else is second best, right? there is a lot of stuff i would get rid of in both those bills but at the end, to do it, a couple days before christmas i'm not sure how effective it is. one thing that i do worry about is this puts a lot of pressure on the two republicans running in georgia kelly loeffler and david perdue. they both voted against the 1200-dollar figure that was proposed a couple months ago. and so now, if donald trump says, i want $2000, that puts them in a fix. they will vote for a 2,000-dollar measure and they were voting against a 1200-dollar measure. puts them in a contrary prediction. either they stick to what they have done before and vote against it in which case it

riles up the president, so forth. they got other way and accused of hypocrisy of democrats. i worry that is a sleeper down there. connell: it might be of the president put them in a tough spot before with the election fight. now with this we'll watch georgia. everybody will. january 5th. merry christmas, bill. good to see you. we'll talk to you again. >> merry christmas, connell. connell: bill mcgurn. how about a white christmas? there is a possible winter storm we're watching expected to take aim at the u.s. starting today. it will bring snow to parts of the midwest and parts of the northeast. heavy rain on the gulf coast. gusty winds along the east coast through christmas day. a chance, depending where you are, of a white christmas. i have an idea for a trade. oh yeah, you going to place it?

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area like new york and california. mayor frances suarez joins us. there are so many last couple weeks. it even got my attention. we have to get mayor suarez on the show. that is all he is talking about. is he working? are you turning into silicon valley east in miami? >> it is absolutely working. the series of tweets that i have tweeted in the last few weeks have gotten 16 million impressions. that is with nothing paid, completely organic. and it is created this virtual meeting place where newfounders of vcs, even engineers who are either in miami recently, coming to miami or thinking about coming to miami, are completely rallying around this sort of marketing campaign/virtual sand hill road and it's, you know, something created a tremendous amount of momentum for our city that we're going to capitalize on. connell: politician using

twitter. i don't know where you got that idea from. wherever came from it is working out. you know what is interesting, it is like, we do stories about companies leaving silicon valley. oracle, for example, or elon musk got a lot of attention. in both of those cases they said we'll go to austin, texas. that is always been another tech hub. if you want to stay west that probably makes sense. is that where your competition is for kind of the new tech world? if so, what is your argument for miami? >> yeah, look, i think miami speaks for itself. it always have. we have incredible weather. we have incredible tax structure. we have a city that never sleeps. we're open for business. we're a city with low crime. we had the lowest homicide right since 1954, adjusted for population growth. city of miami hosted the last super bowl in january. we have gotten a tremendous

amount of attention. with a company like spotify that just announced that they signed a a long-term lease for one of their headquarters, blackstone, goldman sachs, we're having all the major companies coming to the city of miami day in, day out. so my job is to tell the story, to make sure that people understand this is not a moment. this is a movement. and we're going to continue to do everything we can to attract the entrepreneurial and intellectual class in our country to create high paying jobs in a city like ours that wants to continue to grow. connell: that last point about high-paying jobs is obviously a positive from economic view. just from about any point of view, except i saw an editorial in the "the miami herald" whiche miami mayor races high-tech dreams he can't forget people stuck on the ground. that brings in a question. you bring in a lot of people. they make a lot of money.

they drive up real estate prices, does it drive out people living there for a long time, something a mayor has to deal with. how do you deal with that issue? >> gentrification is happening in every city in america. it was happening before the buzz about tech industry. my first year we grew 8 1/2%, second year 10 1/2%, but this year in covid we've grown 6 1/2%. we have infinite asset capital, chasing a finite asset in land. something we have to deal with. one of the few cities in america dedicated over $100 million in funds to provide affordable housing in our community. we're leveraging public lands that are underzoned, underdeveloped to develop affordable housing in combination with the private sector. we're getting leverage rates of one to 20, in terms of every dollar we spend we get 20 times the investment in lending equity capital from the private sector.

we're creating a model after city, be successful, create entrepreneurship, scale up and a tech industry without trying to marginalize anyone or creating a have not situation. connell: yeah, it is interesting, one of the trend we're following. good to have you on today. we'll discuss this more, one of our famous road shows. another excuse for to us go to miami. you've been on a few times with us. maybe we'll see you next year. merry christmas. thanks for coming on. >> thank you, mayor francis suarez. speaking of miami. the show must go on the miami ballet company is performing the holiday classic "the nutcracker" outside while social distancing. the audience is in pods. here to talk about this really interesting right here christmas week is lordes lopez, miami city artistic partner.

we have a ceo very support i have of this effort. tell us about this first of all. we love a story where people get to do anything normal this year and this is something normal this year. how is it working out? >> first of all thank you so much for having us on. it is brilliantly. it is unimaginable. while everybody is indoors we're outdoors in the beautiful miami weather. putting on full recommend two acts of george billion lan teen's "the nutcracker." this is hybrid version. we have video. we have animation, we have project and live daners. 50 dancers from miami ballet and 18 children t comes to life. it's a new way of looking at performing on stage. connell: anna maria, not intention almost doing a miami commercial talking to the mayor about all the tech companies coming in. what would you say about the

area? to lordes' point, here in the northeast that is depressing getting people down around the holiday season. we can't go out to do these normal things. you guys have that advantage. how are things down there economywise in miami? >> so economywise in miami things are you know, obviously we have been affected by covid but we're in a very business-friendly city. our project where "the nutcracker" is taking place is actually doral, florida, right smack in the center of miami-dade county. my company, codina partners, controls 250 acres in the middle of the city of doral. partnering with the ballet is ground breaking way, art sector, medical sector partnering with us to make it safe and coming together to do something positive for the community. really spurring the economy. getting dancers back on the stage.

getting artists dancing. we have restaurants and shops. bringing in the public. they're socially distanced. our street of shops and restaurants is closed to vehicular traffic. we take everything to the street. everything is outside. being able to bring people together, support our local businesses. it is just been a beautiful thing to see all of these pieces come together. it's a gift to our community here in south florida to be able to do something. like you said, normal. it is funny. everyone who has gone calls me, it felt so normal to see a performance of "the nutcracker" in december. connell: that is what we're supposed to be doing. it is christmas. congratulations to both of you do it in a safe way. runs through new year's eve. thank you to both of you for coming on. >> thank you for having us. >> thank you. connell: we meantime have a new excuse if you need one this time of year to go to the mall. grady trimble, what do you have coming up for us? reporter: connell, get your last minute christmas gift right there at the mall and get your

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gauge. you, obviously, are not exactly targeting last minute shoppers, but you kind of have a monopoly on that being in a mall parking lot. >> it is. here's the deal, if you want to qualify for an appointment, you can get a free one through the state. you can wait a couple days for your appointment, a few days for your results. if you're willing to pay $99 for the convenience of just a 5 minute experience of driving through in your car, you stay in, it's totally safe and then getting your results within an hour or two, then that's thal we give. but there's two different, discuss at this point choices. you can either have it free and wait for the week, basically, or you can get results instantaneously, psalm-day results, same-day appointment. >> reporter: a lot of private companies doing it, $99 is right on par. >> actually, i think we're the lowest, i think there's someone down the road doing it for $175. >> reporter: and you have sites all over the place, and they're not always in mall

parking lots, this just happens to be a convenient location. there's a lot of spas out here, and -- space out here, and it happens to be a couple days before christmas, so you get a few shoppers. >> absolutely. and people don't want to expose their loved ones that may have underlying conditions. >> reporter: yeah, that's important, because there are people who are going to be gathering for christmas. this gives people a little peace of mind and are that negative test result within an hour, they can feel a little more comfortable on christmas. >> the fact of the matter is, for instance, we've helped keep restaurants and bars opened in kansas city and des moines, not so much in chicago yet. we've literally tested hundreds of those facilities. and what it does is they're not symptomatic, but maybe a bartender was -- >> reporter: right. and here this is, obviously, just anybody who wants it,com, i got my test, came back negative. tomas if behind the camera, he's going to get his right now so he can spend his christmas with

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