been fantastic. rather than try to time the performance of the business we think this is a very long runaway toll taker. cheryl: i agree. brian, thank you very much for those picks. love it. [closing bell rings] no record today, folks. not far off the all-time highs. that does it for "the claman countdown." jackie deangelis take it away. jackie: thank you, cheryl. stocks falling from all-time highs as hopes for $2000 stimulus checks fade. senate majority leader mitch mcconnell blocked an effort to quickly increase the amount of money being sent to americans. i'm jackie deangelis in for connell mcshane. welcome to "after the bell." it is time for the news happening at this hour. ♪. we have fox team coverage. mike emanuel in washington, hillary vaughn in wilmington, delaware. mike, let's start with you with the latest on stimulus.

reporter: jackie, good afternoon. senator chuck schumer and bernie sanders tried to force the issue on those $2000 stimulus checks. >> some of my republican colleagues said they support the checks but there is a major difference in saying you support two thousand dollars checks and fighting to put them into law. >> we should all be very, very clear. the working class of this country today faces more economic desperation than at anytime since the great depression of the 1930s. and working families need help now! not next year but right now. reporter: senate majority leader mitch mcconnell objected. he is grouping three of president trump's priority issues together, passage of $2000 stimulus checks, repeal of section 230 protection for big tech companies and election integrity but his timing is a

little vague. >> the president highlighted three additional issues of national significance he would like to see congress tackle together. this week the senate will begin a process to bring these three priorities into focus. reporter: two republicans in georgia competing in the critical runoff races one week from today are in favor of larger stimulus checks. there are two of five senate republicans so far on the record in favor of larger stimulus. >> i'm delighted to support the president. that is 1400-dollar increement what we've already done. with the vaccine coming, i think this is appropriate but i fully support what the president is doing. reporter: first senate gop leadership wants to override the president's veto of the 740 billion-dollar defense bill. sanders and others plan to slow that down, pushing for a stimulus vote too. jackie? jackie: thank you so much for that, mike. quick question for you. >> you bet. jackie: is it clear at this

point there are enough votes to pass the $2000 stimulus check if it was brought up for a vote? there was questions that there would be republicans not willing to support this? >> that's right. you look at it this way, there are 48 democrats in favor of the stimulus. five republicans so far are own the record saying they are favoring it but you got to get to the 60 vote threshold. so they need at least 12 republicans to vote in favor of the $2000 stimulus checks. this is the deal, they approved $2.3 trillion of spending to fund the government through next september and also 900 billion-dollar covid relief package. there is some thought that a lot of republicans may not want to spend more. after all a new administration coming in could want to do a whole lot of spending as well. it is not entirely clear they have 60 votes to pass it. that is one reason mcconnell is buying more time to win over more support. jackie: that make as hot of

sense. mike emanuel, thank you so much for that. reporter: thank you. jackie: bring in fox contributor james freeman from "the wall street journal" to discuss this a little bit more. james, want to get your take on this and mcconnell possibly buying some time here to figure things out? >> yeah, thanks, jackie. i think the use of time might be put to realizing that bernie sanders is completely wrong. this economy has nothing in common with the great depression, whether you want to look at income growth, number of people employed. this economy has really been roaring back. most of the country has unemployment rates below 6%. 12 million jobs added since the spring shutdowns. the only -- the pain that remains is very concentrated in the retail and hospitality travel sectors. you look at the states with the highest unemployment rates, hawaii, nevada.

big tourism industry and then it is new york and new jersey with incompetent governments that imposed these blunt lockdowns. so the point is most of the country is now thriving and on the way back. so we have a lot of stimulus from washington as you noted. a lot of monetary, a lot of fiscal stimulus. it is time to let the economy run. jackie: james, mike also brought up the point once the incoming administration takes control there may be even more spending that could be why you have republicans saying whoa, we need to slow things down here. yes, maybe we have another six months where things will be touch-and-go but the 600-dollar checks will tide people over until things do get into better shape? >> very few people by the numbers need to, need tiding over. they are largely employed. again, you're talking about pain largely in the retail sector, in places like new york and new jersey where they will not allow people in the restaurant

and hospitality business to make a living in many cases. generally the good news is, and it's due in part to some good policy and also a lot of spending we'll have to pay for eventually, the economy in most parts of the country is in booed shape. so i would hope hope as people said, october report for committee for a responsible federal budget estimated the biden spending plans over $10 trillion not including covid. there is an effort by mr. biden and mr. sanders to say we have a huge crisis. i think mr. biden is making a speech on that right now to justify all of the unrelated spending they have planned now. i don't think republicans should buy into that diagnosis of the country. it is rebounding really in a very encouraging way. we just need to let that continue. jackie: yeah. that was one of the things that

nancy pelosi was saying when she was, before the election, kind of dragging her feet with this saying we want the covid relief, yes, but we want a lot of other things too. that was part of the problem here. but it is also interesting because this becoming an issue of you know stimulus from the government. do we keep mailing out these checks? do we keep expanding unemployment benefits for people who don't have jobs? or do we actually get our act together as a country and start to reopen some of the places that are under the stricter lockdowns. we can't evidence that the lockdowns are working. california, for example, and here in new york are great examples. >> i think it has been frustrating all year, especially for lots of people but, with these school closures where there is very little data to suggest that this has any scientific benefit, medical benefit and we see the enormous cost in terms of lost education,

lost future earnings for children, but you have seen a new york, new jersey are great examples by the numbers some of the worst results medically and also economically. so we've had these kind of job-crushing company-crushing lockdowns but very little evidence that they have improved public health results. so i would hope we're finally with millions of vaccines being distributed every week now out of that cycle. and really, the news is positive. i know you wouldn't know it from a lot of the chatter in washington but the rebound is well underway and the vaccine is more good news, both in terms of cutting that spread of the virus but also making people comfortable for the reopening. jackie: can i just ask you real quickly james, about georgia? all eyes on january 5th. basically a split government lies in the hands of georgia and those two senate seats.

there will be a runoff at that time. the question about stimulus is how that will impact what happens with the stimulus, how will it impact that race with respect to the voters there? >> yeah. i think this debate, splitting the republicans has put the republican candidates there in a bit of a difficult spot but i think the choice for voters there is pretty clear in terms of much bigger government or not. this is basically the question they're voting on is whether you want to enact that full biden program with the 10 plus trillion in spending, the four plus trillion in taxes, whether you want a big government effort to shift us from electric, from gas powered to the electric cars or not. or if you think generally the trump economy has been pretty good? i think, i think it really is a referendum. in a sense they're kind of deciding for the whole country which way to go. jackie: they sure.

james, thank you so much. great to see you as always. president-elect joe biden delivering remarks on the covid-19 crisis. let's go to hillary vaughn on the scene in wilmington, delaware. hillary? reporter: hi, jackie. president-elect joe biden really gave americans today a grim forecast of what is ahead. he said that he knows it's not what americans want to hear but that the hardest days of the entire pandemic are in front of us and not behind us. he also says that he expects that deaths and infection rates will be going up over the next few weeks and criticized the trump administration for what he calls a slow sack/seen rollout. he came up with some of his own ideas to speed up the distribution of vaccine. his administration will put vaccination sites around the country and send mobile units to hard to reach communities to deliver the vaccine. he wants to address vaccination hesitancy for people who are on

the fence whether or not to get the vaccine. biden himself already got the vaccine. today vice president-elect kamala harris did as well. harris is someone who previously said she would not take the vaccine if president trump told her to but today she had a change of tune. >> i would like to say there is a big difference between the vaccine and vaccinations. i want to encourage every one to get the vaccine. it is relatively painless. it happens really quickly. it is safe. i trust the scientists. it is the scientists who created and approved this vaccine. reporter: the new relief bill president trump signed into law on sunday does have $69 billion in federal funds to help speed up the vaccination rollout. jackie? jackie: it is interesting, hillary. she trusts the scientists that created vaccine now but she didn't before the election which is an interesting point. meantime as the republicans in

congress are sounding the alarm on more stimulus what's that going to do with the national debt, i wonder if that is anything president-elect biden is concerned about. reporter: he was concerned about it at least two decade ago. he considered himself a budget hawk in the senate. in 1995 he was encouraging his senate colleagues on the senate floor to back a budget freeze out of concerns that the national deficit was growing. >> i, when i argued we should freeze federal spending, i meant social security as well. i meant medicare around medicaid. i meant veterans benefits. i meant every single solitary thing in the government. reporter: the national debt back then was $3.6 trillion. today it is seven times that, 27 trillion and counting but president-elect biden is not making the debt his top priority as president and this month even cheered on the ability of

running up the debt to help stimulate the economy. >> you know the founders were pretty smart. there is a reason why all the states and localities have to have a balanced budget and we're allowed federally to run a deficit. reporter: the committee for a responsible federal budget says biden's entire agenda will increase federal spending by $11.1 trillion. in turn that would bring the deficit to 127% of the gdp by 2030. jackie. jackie: wow. hillary, those numbers are staggering. thank you so much for that. cracking down on vaccine fraud one state is promising action after a health care provider allegedly obtained vaccine doses in violation of the state guidelines and then distributed them to the public. plus china jailing a citizen journalist for her accounts of covid in wuhan as one report suggests that the city's number of infections were much more widespread than the official number. we'll talk to steve forbes,

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♪. jackie: "fox business alert," california is extending the stay at home orders for the san joaquin valley and southern california regions indefinitely. officials say they expect an additional surge in cases in the coming weeks. now moving out-of-state to survive the pandemic. with new york coronavirus restrictions mounting and driving away customers one restaurant enter is leaving, moving his business as well, and some of his workers down to florida. joining meed ward buddy foy, jr. owner of the chateau maria. what was the last straw? we heard about residents leaving new york for example, because of the crime, because of the pandemic, because of the quality of life but businesses are actually saying we can't do business here? >> jackie, the last straw was the 10:00 shutdown. when you're dealing with that restriction and that quick of a serve, lights out at 10:00 and customers are gone for restaurants in new york. we can't do the business. we are going to be back in new york when we can open fully.

our restaurant in bolton landing new york is still there we decided to shut down for the winter, move to florida. more importantly we were in discussions for the whole year expanding our operations because of the tv show on the food network and take advantage of the coverage in new york, saratoga, albany, new york. we halted the conversations 90 days ago. we quickly picked up conversations with florida developers. literally two week ago we opened up in florida. this is where we will expand. jackie: how do you expect business will go? it is not easy to start a business in a new location under these circumstances. are you optimistic that the business and the consumers are down there and they're not as restricted so if you are open they will come? >> jackie we opened a week ago this friday we opened. we have been open for one week and about four days. 11 days we've been open, our restaurant is sold to the capacity we're operating. we're operating, we are utilizing what we were

successful in new york doing. we have 45,000 customer touch points in our restaurant from june to october in new york, following the cdc guidelines with outdoor dining, indoor 50%. here in florida we're at about 60% that we're operating at. we're allowed to operate at a 100. we're allowed to do social distancing. we do outdoors. we sold 100% of our seats literally the last 11 days. jackie: if you could have a conference call with governor cuomo and mayor de blasio, what would you say to them. >> look it i understand the stress of a pandemic obviously. we almost lost everything. there are people losing everything. it doesn't mean we have to act irrational and go completely off the deep end when it comes to decisions we're making. sit down talk about who is successful, how many people are served at a grocery store and no spread. how many people served at mega-retailers. why can't big box, retailers all perform and make their money, why can't us independent operators prove to you that we

can operate without getting our employees sick or becoming a superspreader? 45,000 customer touch points. i own three restaurants within a mile of each other in bolton landing, new york. we had over 100 thousand touches with employees in three restaurants. not a single traced back to the our institutions. why? we followed the guidelines. we wore the masks. we kept social distancing. we're cleansing. we are regulated by the agencies, liquor, health department. let them penalize whoever. i'm assuming a lot of people are not following guidelines. i don't see it. they're making these decisions. they're seeing something i don't see otherwise they're making an irrational decision. jackie: that is part of the problem, the facts that show that restaurants are not necessarily the problem here in new york. it is the fact that the restaurants are closed and people are gathering and congregating in their homes. that is how the virus is spreading. it seems backwards with respect

to the approach. but we really appreciate you coming on and sharing the story and sharing that message with us. hopefully they're listening. hopefully they see an example like yours and think about what to do in future. >> we'll build our business wherever we can where we're welcome. jackie: that is the american spirit. thank you. >> thank you. jackie: shane eric son issuing a voluntary recall for three products due the potential presence of methanol. the recall products are packaged in a whyte, opaque or clear plastic bottle with a blue, clear or black cap. there are currently more than 220 products on the fd a-list. most cases the toxic chemical does not appear on the label. this game's boring. only pay for what you need.

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♪. jackie: "fox business alert," moderna says that it is making its vaccine available to its workers, contractors and board

members in the united states adding that all doses will be paid for by the company and are separate from those committed to the government. now a one million dollar fine hanging in the balance. new york attorney general letitia james investigating a local clinic over allegations that it is giving covid-19 vaccines to people who shouldn't be getting them just yet as new york's covid-19 infection rate surpasses 8%. fox's bryan llenas is live in brooklyn with this story. bryan? reporter: jackie, parcare's clinics received 2300 doses of the vaccine, moderna's vaccine some two weeks ago and administered 850 shots to anyone who was a health care worker, anybody who was over the age of 60 or if you had any underlying medical conditions but now the new york attorney general letitia james announcing an investigation into parcare for wrongfully giving out the covid-19 vaccine to the general

public ignore, the state rules specifying that the first round of vaccines go directly to front line health care workers and residents and staff inside of long-term care facilities. quote, in order for the vaccine to be most effective in protecting our communities we must all follow the same distribution plan. we will not tolerate any attempts to circumvent that process. parcare could face falsifying business record charges for allegedly misrepresenting itself in order to receive vaccines through the state of new york. >> we provided emthis vaccine because they fraudulently filled out a form that said that they were a qualified health center. that was incorrect. that is strike one. number two, they moved it from one area to another area which was inappropriate. so that's strike two. and then they gave it to people who were not on the priority list. so that was strike three. reporter: now parcare denies any

wrongdoing and they provided fox news this packing slip showing they received the vaccines legally through new york's department of health and they received verbal confirmation from the new york state department of health they could distribute vaccines to their clinic. jackie, governor andrew cuomo signed an executive order makes it punishable to a million dollar fine and loss of a state license if any of these health care providers are caught with vaccine fraud. interestingly enough they also left the door open to potentially prosecute any patients who receive a vaccine they know willingly they should not have received before others. jackie? jackie: wow a lot at stake here, bryan. thank you so much for that. the push to hold china accountable. one new report saying wuhan's covid outbreak may have been 10 times higher than the recorded tallies. steve forbes, forbes media chairman, weighs in on that. plus new guidance of the faa could bring delivery by drone

one step closer to becoming reality. the nfl taking action reportedly fining the baltimore ravens $250,000 for violating protocols. it led to 23 players on the covid list and coaches, staff, and multiple game postponements.

♪. jackie: nashville on edge. investigators are still on the hunt for a motive in the bombing

that shook the city's downtown as police released new bodycam video showing officers responding to the explosion. fox's mike tobin is live in nashville with more. mike? reporter: jackie, as we learn more about the investigation we learn more about the difficulties faced by investigators. a big part of the problem is the fact that the rv which that bomb was planted was blown to bits. investigators with the tennessee highway patrol criminal investigation division and agents from the atf and the fbi painstakingly went through the vehicle. they found parts to produce a 17 digit identification number. that led them to anthony warner. dna evidence from the scene and vehicle he had given to someone else, a few items from the vehicle produced a dna match for the positive i.d. meantime police body cameras show eerie moments as officers responded to the warning and the

rv blaring the warning in the distance. then you hear the blast. after the blast officers can be seen running to danger and getting people out of the danger zone. as parts of nashville open up, businesses here are struggling to survive via curfew for the immediate blast area has been extended for another day. the future is still uncertain as they go in first clean up and test the buildings for structural integrity. all the while, jackie, we still don't have a solid idea about the motive. jackie: still working on that. body camera footage is terrifying and shocking at the same time. thank you. going back to the source of the pandemic, wuhan, china. new findings from china's cdc suggest that the covid-19 cases in wuhan could be 10 times higher than the recorded number. this means up to half a million

people in that city may have been infected. this as an independent chinese journalist who documented the pandemic in wuhan was sentenced to four years in prison overcharges of quote, picking quarles and provoking trouble. here to help us understand the headlines, steve forbes, forbes media chairman. steve, always great to see you. you and i have been following china for years. we've been seeing them manipulate numbers when it comes to business, statistics, all kinds of things that have to do with the markets and the economy. does it shock you that it is possible they ma nip mated covid case numbers too -- manipulated. >> not at all. the numbers they reported nobody believed when you look what happened in the rest of the world including parts of asia. that 10 times number is shocking but doesn't surprise anyone. we see what they did with flights. closed down the country,

isolated wuhan and allowed international flights to continue and spread the virus far more around the world than otherwise. this underscores what we know and what happened to that journalist underscores unfortunately president xi is on a real, sadly a real effort to suppress any internal dissent. that eventually is going to hurt the economy. right now they're saying oh, the chinese economy is great but over time, in that kind of atmosphere innovation withers. one thing china has done in the past was politically, if you stayed out of politics you were given a wide latitude and to be innovative and entrepreneurial. that is now changing and long term not good for china or for the world. >> when it came to president trump he took a tough stance on china. if he was reelected he would see it through with respect to the coronavirus as well but with with the incoming biden administration do you think they will hold china accountable in any bay? >> not like what we have

expected under donald trump. there is other issues coming to the fore with china. what will the new administration do if china puts pressure on taiwan and tries to do to china what it did to hong kong? we continue to make efforts to the south china sea international waterway than effectively a beijing lake? there are issues out there. the new administration the officials should be closely in the senate what policies they will pursue because china is in a very aggressive, belligerent mood right now. their neighbors know it and they're looking to the u.s. to be a counterweight. jackie: you're bringing up the issue of human rights and giving certain freedoms to those who legally had the right to it. it brings us back to the case of wuhan with the journalist being jailed and the government essentially saying that the charges were quote picking quarles and provoking trouble. it sounds like what she was attempting to do to document actually what was happening with

the coronavirus in wuhan at the time. you can't do that under xi xinping? >> that tells you a lot about the regime where truth is a crime. jackie: yeah. it certainly does. you know, there is a lot when it comes to the economy as well. i was talking to gordon chang yesterday. he would expect new administration would give china a some sort of a grace period before it carries out whatever plans there are. we're still looking at two global economies, china and the united states that are interlocked here, really intertwined. one essentially at this point can't really operate without the other. what president trump was trying to do with his tariffs was, you know, unlock them so that we could bring more jobs home and have more booming, thriving economy here. but that doesn't seem like it is likely to happen under the current leadership, or the new leadership, pardon me. >> well it was going to be interlocked when you have an economy of that size but the key thing is, the new

administration, i already know the answer. i think you do too, jackie, pursued policies that enabled the american economy to be really strong and innovative. that is how we ultimately undid the soviet union, creativity, innovation and high-tech created under ronald reagan in the 1980s afterwards. if we don't create that kind of environment the world will conclude the u.s. is a spent power. these times coming up will be fraught with potential dangers. the republicans need to have their game up so the american people are aware of this so we investigate that with investigations in the meantime, but with the 2022, 2024 elections. it is not our security and well being. it is the world's security and well being. jackie: steve forbes, well-put. great to see you. >> thank you. jackie: mark your calendars. charles payne will host a virtual town hall, "the future of capitalism on

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♪. jackie: back in the air boeing 737 max returning to commercial service today during a successful american airlines flight from miami to new york. the faa grounded this plane for 20 months after two crashes that killed 346 people. boeing's coo offered comfort saying that both pilots and flight attendants are confident in the plane's safety. here to discuss it a little bit more, gary kaltbaum, kaltbaum capital management president and he is also a fox news contributor. gary, always great to see you. not that we were looking for a quick fix with respect to the boeing plane. having said that almost two years is a very long time to fix the problem as well and i think there are going to be people

hesitant to get back on the planes and carriers that will be hesitant to want to have this plane in their fleets. your thoughts on what boeing does to get people on these planes, to convince them that they're safe, and to push the ball forward with respect to its business? >> there are polls out there. i think only 60% of the people are real excited to get on this plane. and the airlines that are going to fly that plane actually come out and stated they will advertise that it is the plane in case people had any qualms. there is a bunch to get past as we move forward but usually time heals all wounds. boeing mishandled this whole thing. the crashes were a tragedy but afterwards didn't handle it very well. ended up a ceo had to leave. my big issue, 1.12 million people went through tsa checkpoints but the year before

it was 2.5. i just wonder if business travel which is a huge part of the industry and how that will affect boeing. there are a ton of planes in the desert and hangars. i'm not sure great things are ahead but it's a start. jackie: you bring up such a great point of the we've been discussing this on the network how the coronavirus pandemic impacted the way we live, the way we travel and that we work and that will have consequences with people thinking that it will go back to normal at some point but it may not. >> every airline right now pretty much on a daily basis is gauging where things are and where things may be. i'm usually a pretty big traveler and i haven't done much this year but i'm always looking for new things last year. the amount of flights are 50, 60% left. there used to be so many flights

left out there. the quicker we get the vaccine the better. the farther along the vaccine most definitely would help. but again i'm a big worrier on the business travel going forward. i think everything's changed. i think the culture may have changed. that will be a direct impact on the airlines as well as boeing. jackie: you're right. they have to consolidate those schedules. on another note, this is interesting too. there is hope for commercial drone delivery. the faa announcing new rules to allow small drones to fly at night. your thoughts on that? >> get out the construction helmets. they better get this right. safety and security is the number one job of governments and drones flying overhead i hope they start slow and build into it. i'm all for modern technology and moving forward but you know, i don't mind having amazon trucks come to my door. so, again, we'll see what happens. it is definitely a technology

that is going to get bigger going forward. i have to say again i hope they get it right. jackie: they better get it right. you're watching these pictures. i wouldn't want a drone to hit me in the head there. gary a record breaking number of holiday deliveries. amazon announcing specifically to your point it transported 1.5 billion items across the globe this season and the tally across the site's entire catalog is even higher than that your thought about shopping patterns even if we changed our other patterns because of the pandemic? we've been consuming and consuming in different ways and that has benefited amazon and jeff bezos. >> amazon, bezos, fedex, fred smith, ups, doordash came public, with a 45 billion-dollar market cap. all this is here to stay, all i can say about bezos just an

absolute genius. for him to be able to do the numbers that they're doing, getting into all these other businesses they see a business that is not doing as well as they should. they get in and doing it much better. kudos to the man that just gets it, and is one of the great visionaries of our time and again 1.5 billion deliveries, just a big wow. jackie: kudos, yes, gary but he may be a target in 2021 of example of big tech that may be too big. every time he enters into a new space it appears amazon keeps growing, growing, having more tentacles out in the marketplace bringing the competition down. do you worry something could happen to amazon in that respect? >> i've got a sneaking suspicion, mr. bezos, mr. zuckerberg, man from google and microsoft are all going to be on capitol hill a few times in the next year or two, given the once and twice over. i guess there is a lot of people

that don't think big is good. they don't like people getting great. i'm a big believer in letting companies grow. they're creating massive wealth and tons of jobs. what's the matter with that? jackie: to bring it back to brick-and-mortar retail as well, it is interesting, gary, i've been going through some of the shops here in new york city, the number of people pales in comparison to what it normally would be this time of year. you wonder how some of these flagship stores are going to be able to stay open and compete with the likes of amazons of the world? >> the good ones are going to stay open and flourish. the bad ones are probably going by the wayside, it is as simple as that. there is a litany of retailers that have gone out of business, tens of thousands of stores have been shut it not more over last years while walmart, target, costco that get it are doing it right. it's a big battle, and if you

get it right you will flourish. if you get it wrong see ya. jackie: we're living sue a sea change but it is sad one ones may not get it. great to see you, gary. >> happy holidays. jackie: you too. limits on the second round of ppp loans posing a new problem for some small businesses. we've got details on that next. "fox business alert," colorado officials confirmed the presence of the new covid variant first discovered in the uk. the man is a individual in his 20s, currently in isolation and has no travel history. ♪

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the smaller buzzes like this one -- businesses like this one, maybe you've been to one of these locations. it's where they come and they teach you how to paint and maybe you got some wine too if you're lucky. i think my painting always comes out better if i'm drinking wipe. small business, 10-20 people. typically, this room would be filled with as many as 50 or 60 people taking part in a party. now they're limited to 18 people, and so ppp becomes increasingly important to you, pam barrett -- bartlett, i should say, has run this business for seven years, very successful. hard to beat a pandemic. >> yes, it is, it's really taken our business down quite a bit. we're down over 35%, so this ppp money that's coming up will really help our business. >> reporter: this new ppp program, jackie, is aimed at small or businesses, small and

medium-sized businesses, self-employed people, independent contractors and some nonprofits as well. ing and you mentioned that you're down about 35%. you've got to be down at least 25%, and then -- that's in terms of gross are seats, and then you've got to be less than 300 employees. you qualify. you're going to apply. >> oh, yes, definitely going to apply. already in talks with the local bank here, and we are looking forward to the second round of ppp money to-us. >> reporter: and, jackie, here's what they've done. show them what is going on here. in addition to this class which is taking place live, for streaming this now, something they didn't do before, as a way of trying to get more people involved. you've also got take-home kits now. of so you do kind of a virtual, you know, class that you do at how many. you are one of the entrepreneurs trying to find a way to stay alive. >> yep. we've changed everything. we have new products now, take-home paint kits. you can follow along from home with one of our live classes.

we call this many hybrid classes -- them hybrid classes. you can follow along, ask questions online, or you can wait and do the class later. it'll take you right to a youtube video that that you can pause, rewind it and new products. >> reporter: and, of course, you don't get the wine. you have to come up with your own wine, jackie. we could do that if we have to. jackie: we probably could. if you come to new york, you'll stop by my office, and you will see on the wall my version of starry night. i is have done this, and there was some wine involved, so it doesn't look exactly like van gogh, the way he did it. but let me just is you, the limits for businesses real quick? >> starry chicago, by the way, just for you. jackie: sorry, chicago. >> reporter: starry night chicago. they even decorated the air handler. jackie: yeah, that one looks better than mine. [laughter] all right, jeff, thank you so much.

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