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i'm jackie deangelis, and this is "fox business tonight." ♪♪ jackie: good evening and welcome, everybody. our top story this evening, the crime wave in our nation's capital. washington, d.c. diners sent fleeing as two people were shot just two miles away from the white house. fox news' lucas tomlin. son is in washington with the details for us. good evening, lucas. >> reporter: good evening, jackie. all is calm here on the corner of 14th and riggs, but a different story last night when gunfire erupted in one of washington, d.c.'s most popular neighborhoods around 8 p.m. the police chief held a press conference this afternoon at the crime scene. this is what he had to say. >> i'm mad as hell about this, and and i hope y'all are too. we want to help people, yes, we should. but you cannot -- >> chief, are calls to defund the police helping? >> i don't think that those calls are helping. >> reporter: d.c. police released this new video of the

two suspects wanted in last night's shooting which witnesses described as a war zone. two people were shot and wounded when 20-30 not shots were fired -- shots were fired. many dined outside on one of the nicest ooh evenings of this summer. d.c. mayor muriel abuser wants police to -- bowser wants police to use any overtime necessary. >> we saw a guy come in with a gunshot wound and knew immediately this was real and wasn't just firecrackers. >> reporter: d.c. recently crossed the hundred-homicide mark two weeks ago. it's the earliest d.c. has crossed that threshold in eight years. carjackings are up 74% compared to last year. this comes just days after a shooting outside nats park. it comes less than a week after 6-year-old naya courtney was

shot and killed by a stray bullet not far from the ballpark. and, jackie, all the suspects both in the shooting last night here on 14th street, the killing of naya courtney and the shooting at nats park, those suspects remain at large. jackie: jack lew cat, thank you so much for that. -- lucas, thank you for that. the police chief didn't stop there, listen to this. >> i'm going to tell you the truth. the real issue is we have a crisis of bad actors who will do things, no accountability, and they end up back in community. and the police officers, i guarantee you, when we lock up whoever did this, they will be no stranger to us, i promise you that. we see more of this in our communities. and then what happens? once someone's shot, you know, people are outraged. i'm outraged every time. watching families suffer when they don't have to. because we're putting violent criminals, allowing them to be back out in communities.

that's unacceptable. jackie: very powerful words there. joining me now to discuss it further is howard safer, former nyc police commissioner. great to see you, how'd. two issues -- howard. we'll talk about the impact of black lives matter, defunding the police and what we've seen within the forces across country. but first let's talk about what he said about how bad actors end up back in the community. that's on the shoulder of lawmakers. >> absolutely. you know, what's been described in your previous piece sounds more like beirut than our nation's capital. the fact is that police have been vilified. the leftist mayors and congressmen have passed laws and details that require the police not to do their job. and as the police are more and more vilified, what happens is that they just sit back and let things go. and when we have these things like no cash bail, it tells the criminals in our society you can

do whatever you want. jackie: and the messaging is really off. it's interesting that he's got someone like muriel bowser now saying, well, let's hire the police back, let's pay them overtime, let's get them out there. once the damage is done, it's difficult to do that. people don't want to be police officers anymore. what's the incentive? >> there is no incentive. why would you want to be a police officer when the president of the united states says that police are racist and brutal? why would you want to be a police officer when the protection that you used to have of qualified immunity in doing your job is gone? why would you want to be a police officer when everybody looks at you as if you're doing something wrong and videotapes every one of your moves? jackie: yeah. >> it is -- things are upside down. we had a national epidemic of crime, and it's not going to get any better until we start doing what we did six or seven years ago, assertive policing. jackie: as a former police commissioner yourself, you must looked at robert conti there, the d.c. police chief and,

listen, you could hear his frustration, right? he certainly doesn't want them to be happening right now, he'd like to do more. but in some ways, his hands have been tied. >> absolutely, his hands have been tied by the city council and by congress. i mean, the fact is we were so proud six or seven years ago when we had reduced homicides in new york city to under 300 from 2400 in 1994. most of the major cities in the country followed suit. but now live in is the most -- philadelphia is the most dangerous city in america, homicides are up in just about every major city is, and is when you look at who's running those cities, it's liberal democrats. i hate to say that, but it's a fact. jackie: i've been here in new york since day one since the pandemic started, and i watched the spiral downwards, if you will, last summer. everybody says, oh, new york city's coming back. nope, not -- i'm on the streets. i have altered my life of to make it safer so that i can be here, but this is not a place

that i want to be. it's not offering me quality of life right now. >> no. if you're in times square as a tourist, you get shot. look what happened in harlem last night. a woman walking with a walker gets knocked to the ground, and they steal her walker. this is not the united states that i knew. this is not thenitis that i -- the the new york city that i knew. we've got to go back to the bad old days, and we have to do manager about it right now. jackie: i look at what's happening here in new york city or los angeles, chicago, whatever, all these blue statements, right, and blue cities, we're talking about mayors too that are in charge, we're talking about the legislature as well, and you see that because of the pandemic the quality of life issues including crime, people have left, howard. my personal view is they're not going to be a in a particular rush to come back to new york city until you figure it out. but i think this gets worse

before it gets better. >> absolutely. i am asked by people all the time should i go back to new york, should i go to new york. and, quite honestly, i can't recommend anybody going to new york city, and that breaks my heart because i'm a new yorker and always have been is. jackie: it really is unfortunate. americans want to work hard, they want to have a family, they want the achieve a little bit of that american dream. part of that american dream is feeling like you're safe in your community, right? so that's really shocking right now, it's really jarring for a lot of people. >> it absolutely is. and, you know, what we're really missing here is who are the victims? the victims are primarily people of color, and they're primarily people of color who are being assaulted by other people of color. so we really need to looked at how we protect those underserved neighborhoods. that's what we did in new york six or seven years ago, that's what we should be doing right now. but when we looked at organizations like black lives matter and antifa, they love

this chaos because it funds them, and it lets them take over parts of cities that have been ceded to them by these leftist mayors. jackie: howard safer, great to see you tonight. have a wonderful weekend, sir. thank you. >> you too, jackie. thank you. jackie: well, tourists are returning to san francisco, but the thieves are returning as well. fox's claudia cowan is in the city by the bay with that story for us. >> reporter: in tourist hot spots, visitors are coming back right along with criminals looking to steal their stuff. car break-ins are up, 700 incidents more than this time last year, say police, concentrated around tourist areas like pier 39 as this woman discovered in may when she and her friends returned to their rental car. >> the back window was completely shattered, and my suitcase and my girlfriend's backpack was gone. >> reporter: this man fought back when a couple of guys tried to drive off with his suitcase and backpack, but usually victims find shattered glass and

nothing else. during san francisco's 15-month shutdown, visitor spending plunged by $8 billion, a devastating blow to the local economy. now with crowds trickling back, the uptick in smash and grabs has the city's mayor doing damage control. when we talk about the burglaries and car break-ins, at least a thousand car break-ins every single month perpetrated by ten groups of people. so when those folks are arrested, we see those car break-ins go down significantly. >> reporter: maybe so, but critics argue if the same people are always arrested, a tougher approach is needed. the police chief wants to beef up patrols around tourist areas and hire 400 more officers. the city is relying on highly visible ambassadors to answer questions and provide a sense of safety for tourists and locals alike. most of the city's attractions are open, but some experts say it could be 2024 before the city's tourism industry fully rebounds, and only then if

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jackie: president biden is brushing infn off, he's saying it's not a concern. edward lawrence is at the white house with the latest. hi, edward. >> reporter: if you talk to white house economic advisers, they'll tell you that inflation will eventually settle back down. in addition, they're also saying that the marked increase in inflation is not enhanced by the extra government spending. jared bernstein told me this, white house economic adviser, we expected shots in arms and checks in pockets to generate strong demand, and that would create separate price pressures as supply came back online. but we also expect those pressures to abate as the supply chains gradually stand up and meet accelerated demand. but other economists tell a different story, one where the government stimulus is putting more money in people's hands, those people are spending more, and that's creating more inflation. just look at this. if you closely look at the

number, women's dresses, for instance, increased 15.8% year-over-year. the price of jewelry has gone up 12.3%. because we are non-gender biased here, men's shorts and pants have gone up 11.1% from june of this year compared to last year. gas prices, 46.4%. airfare up 24.6% over the past 12 months, and the big number here, rental car and truck prices up 87.7% over the past 12 months. economists see this going on for at least the next few months, possibly into next year. >> so the pandemic's not over, the supply chain disruption ares are not over, and the surges in demand are not over, and so this inflation storm has not yet passed, and how long it lasts, well, that's the big question. >> reporter: now the administration also pushing for more spending, possibly two more packagings, as you know, and that could put more money out

into the economy pushing, again, prices back up. back to you. jackie: edward lawrence, thank you so much. bill mcgurn from the "wall street journal," fox news contributor here the discuss. bill, what do you make of the argument that it's all about supply chain disruption and pent-up demand, that's where the inflation is coming from. it's certainly participant of the story, but the administration is using that maybe not telling all of the story. >> right. what i take from it is that the president has been talking about inflation quite a bit telling us that it's not really there, or if it is there, it's temporary. they're clearly worried about it because they see that's something that americans can feel. they feel it when they go to the gas pump, when they go to the grocery store, restaurant or whatever they're buying. so they're obviously worried about that. you know, one of the falsities in this is that the administration is talking as though everyone expected this.

yeah, well, of course there'd be a temporary rise. but that's not what the fed said, that's not what the white house predicted. they did not foresee it jumping the way it's jumped recently. and i don't really understand their argument that more government spending is the answer -- jackie: yeah. >> i think they have a long, convolute ared formula that the investments are in productivity, and the productivity increases, that's the better -- but i don't know. does anyone get the idea that these are going to be wise government investments like any different from the 2009 stimulus? i don't think so. jackie: well, you bring up a great point, you know, and that's really what i was trying to get at in my previous question which is that spending certainly isn't going to help the problem but spending might, in fact, be what caused the problem. when you keep printing money, you devalue what's out there in current supply right now. i'm not sure gas prices up 46% from last year, what's the reason for that? >> right. jackie: we all were driving before the pandemic started.

there are not name supply chain disruptions when it comes to gas specifically. i can look to president biden's policies and say they're more of a problem than people hitting the road for the fourth of july. >> yeah. you know, it may not be the '70 and so forth, but with all this spending, it seems to be a problem. they seem to be ignoring it and telling us not to mind. now, maybe they're right, maybe it will be temporary and disappear by the end of the year. i'm not sure that's what the evidence is telling us right now, but that's the gamble. and, look, it's not just republicans and conservative critics and free markete ers complaining about this. larry summers, you know, a democrat, he's been worried about the spending and what the inflationary effects will be. so there are a lot of people out there really worried about this. i'm not sure9 that the biden explanation is really persuading anyone. you know, we used to have a fed that kind of, they made inflation one of their top

priorities. now they're saying it's going the kind of go away an its own. that's not very reassuring. jackie: really quickly, bill, i'm used to watching gas prices fluctuate depending on what kind of supply we have. okay, fine. but the price of your oreo going up, for example, once that price goes up, i don't see oreos trading a little bit higher or lower. i feel like the price goes up and goes up and those kind of price increases, they hold. they stick. and those are the kinds of things that are going to impact consumers. >> yeah. and people see it, you know? if they feel it. i mean, i feel -- i can't tell you, you know, the exact amount that bacon's gone up or, you know, oranges or whatever it is. but i can tell you when i go to the grocery store and it feels that i give over $50 and i get -- jackie: yeah. >> -- some coin change for just one bag full of change. it's a big difference from, say, a year or so ago. jackie: yeah. and you try to feed a whole family on that, i think there's

pent-up demand so people are going to pay a little bit more for a while, but how much longer? and the administration is saying it's transitory, it's transitory, they better make sure that transitory doesn't last much longer, through the end of the year, for example. it's going to start to hurt people. >> i agree. and it's going to start to hurt them politically. they've made all these statements asserting that they knew this was coming, you know, this was expected and it's just temporary. well, we're going to have a test very quickly, and we're going to find out whether that's true or not, and i think it's going to come back and hurt the president and hurt his party at the elections next year if it turns out that actually it's a little more than temporary. jackie: bill mcgurn, great to see you. thanks so much for joining us tonight. >> thank you. jackie: all right. the mayor of one major city, well, he's calling for a vaccine mandate. we're going to tell you who that is coming up next. ♪ ♪ we are thrilled we finally found our dream home in the mountains. the views are great, the air is fresh.

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♪♪ jackie: welcome back, everybody. time for more mandates? new york city mayor bill de blasio calling on employers to require the covid-19 vaccine. listen. >> we tried purely voluntary for, you know, over half the year. we tried every form of incentive. jackie: here now, joe concha, the hill media columnist, he's also a fox news contributor. great to see you. your reaction to de blasio. he wants to tell employers you need to make people get the shot in the arm before they can come back to be work. >> right. this appears, jackie, to be the next big power grab by democrats. and just like the government shouldn't be working with facebook in deeming what is and isn't misinformation because it might get weaponized or might be done to, perhaps, benefit in this case the biden administration, the government, mayors like bill de blasio shouldn't be telling employers what they should and should not do. yet here you have the mayor who,

thankfully, is exiting very soon probably for eric adams saying employers should do, quote, the maximum you feel you can do. let me share some numbers, jackie, because i think the delta variant at this point is overblown by the media when you look at deaths. yes, cases are up, but let me explain for a moment, okay? covid-relates deaths july 13th and 14th, 627 deaths related to covid in this country those two days, the last two days we've had 429 and 427. so deaths aren't exactly going up. cases are, but when you think about it, the elderly in this country, the vulnerable in this country, they're overwhelmingly vaccinated, okay? so that's why the hospital rates, as bill de blasio has said, are going down. therefore, most of the cases are among the young and healthy, so this just appears to be intentional overreaction the grab more power, and i think people will overwhelmingly reject it. they've had enough. jackie: okay, i hear you. and i keep saying this virus has

been out there for more than a year and a half now. we have a ton of information about it, we have a vaccine. that vaccine is free. you can go get it. anybody can have it, we've encouraged people to do that. isn't there a point in this country where we say, you know what? we are wise enough to make our own decisions. a certain group of the population doesn't want to get the shot in the arm and wants to bear that risk and they're fully aware of what that risk is, then you can't make them do something. >> exactly. here's the thing, the flu vaccine in this country is something like 48% of americans get the flu vaccine. i get it, my kids get it, i got the covid vaccine, i hope people will get it, but i can't force them too. if i go on tv and say you should go get that vaccine, you have to save lives, not one person is going to listen to me. people have made up their minds a long time ago. and we saw today with an assistant coach9 with the minnesota vikings of the nfl, and he said i'm not getting the vaccine shot. we don't know why exactly, maybe

somebody in his family had a bad reaction, maybe he has some sort of condition. i don't know, it's not my business. that's why they have hipaa laws in this country, and he got fired by the minnesota vikings. lawsuits are going to start coming when you tell people they have to put something in their body that they don't want to put in, and bill de blasio is the last person who should be talking about this when he flaunted covid regulations in his own city by going to brooklyn for walks when you weren't supposed to have any essential travel. it's all hypocritical b.s -- jackie: well, i have a huge problem that it's coming from bill de blasio because he has made a lot of mistakes. we were talking about crime and quality of life in this city. at a certain point, we've got to get used to the fact that we're going to have to deal with covid-19 the way we deal with the flu. we have to go on with our lives. he's not mandating to clean up the streets and make it safer when i'm walking out and i feel like i'm at risk. i wonder to myself, where are our priorities here?

>> exactly, jackie. and this is the same bill de blasio who said, okay, stay at home and wear masks, and you have to shelter in place and socially distance until it was time protest, and then he had no problem with people going out in mass numbers because then at that point we were told, i believe, the cause is bigger than the virus. you can't pick and choose when covid is dangerous and when it is not, and that's exactly what bill de blasio is doing here, jackie. jackie: it almost seems to me like there is some sort of incentive to sort of tear this is city down so that you can beg the federal government to rebuild it with funds, and that's how you do this. you say to employers you've got to mandate the vehicle seen. they're not -- vaccine. they're not going to probably too to that. the economic situation continues to stagnate, things get worse before, ultimately, you know, they get better. but why do we have to hit rock bottom? >> why? especially in new york city where more than a thousand restaurants have closed because we kept them closed too long, where you're going to have kids

as young as 3 years old going back to school next year with masks on. jackie, i've got a 5 and a 7-year-old. it's a miserable experience particularly when it's hot. and we've seen the science. that's the whole thing. the democratic party keeps talking about how they follow the science and listen to the doctors, and hen they reject the science in these situations because we're told that kids can go back to school without masks, there's no risk and yet now we're going to do this. we're not listening to the science and the doctors, and it's mind-boggling at this point. jackie: speaking of following the science, what we do know about the breakthrough cases of those vaccinated, for example, if you want to go back to mask wearing, whatever the case may be, the breakthrough cases are not as severe. that's why people got the vaccine. at a certain point this becomes if one person has a breakthrough case, then we have a national crisis on our hands. >> unbelievable. jackie: i gotta leave it there. great to see you. >> thank you. jackie: the wildfires are forcing new evacuations as one state faces the nation's largest

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♪♪ jackie: well, nearly 80 wild fires erupting across the western united states forcing thousands of evacuationings. fox's william la jeunesse reporting from los angeles for us. >> reporter: because of the brought and higher temperatures across the west, fires are burning earlier, faster and more intense as firefighters enter a housing development near lake tahoe, fire surrounding their truck, pelting the win shield. >> every afternoon those winds pick up, the fuels are extremely, critically i dry, and that contributes to extreme fire behavior. >> reporter: lightning started the tamarack fire burning some 50,000 acres across nevada yesterday. >> we've been suppressing fires for so many generations, when we get one, this is what we get.

everything burns. pine trees going up, ancient stuff that'll never -- not in my lifetime or even generations after. >> reporter: this image shows the fire and northwest of that a few hundred miles california's largest fire, the six city fire, at 142,000 acres, creating a pyro cumulus nimbus cloud. embers traveling up the plume, then blowing out 5 miles ahead of the fire jumping containment lines. almost 4,000 firefighters battling flames as high as 40 feet. officials say a downed power line likely caused the fire. yesterday pg&e, which is already paying out billions of dollars to victims in the 2018 paradise fire, said it is burying 0,000 miles of -- 10,000 miles of existing power lines to reduce future fire risk. >> i have a team of dedicated

men and women who wake up every day to serve. >> reporter: so, jackie, that nexus -- drought, fire, power lines -- usually spells one thing in summer in california, potential blackouts. back to you. jackie: it sure does. william la jeunesse, thank you so much for that. meantime, the biden administration downplaying ties to a radical activist group that urges teachers to, quote, disrupt whiteness in school reopening guidelines. but former education secretary betsy devos doesn't believe it's a mistake. fox's mark meredith has details. >> reporter: the department of education says it did not mean to include a link to the abolitionist teaching nerc in a handbook -- network in a handbook that was sent out nationwide. but critics are not buying it. republicans say this was all part of a plan. the white house is claiming, though, they didn't mean for this to happen. >> it was an error in a lengthy document, to include this citation. the specific site does not

represent the administration's view and we don't endorse the recommendations of this group. and i believe it's been removed or is in the process of being removed. >> reporter: but the clarification is likely to do little to calm critics and concerned parents. we've seen protests at school board meetings all over the country. former white house chief of staff mark meadows said the white house could go a whole lot further to appease americans who don't want critical race theory taught in their child's classroom. >> they can do one other thing, they can make sure that no federal funding goes to teaching critical race theory in our schools in k-12. congressman dan bishop and russ vought are both working on that. we need to make sure that we say enough of the radical agenda in our children -- >> reporter: in virginia the debate has generated a lot of headlines, may also impact this year's gubernatorial race in virginia. later tonight president biden's going to be campaigning for virginia governor terry

mcauliffe. the president and mcauliffe go way back, and this race will be interesting to watch because it could be a bellwether for how the rest of the country feels about the president's agenda so far. jackie: here now to discuss, david marcus from the new york post. booted evening, great to see you. -- good evening. i'm wondering if it legitimate was an error or it's an error because they got caught. we all know the higher up on the totem pole, the less margin there is for errors like this. your thoughts. >> the biden administration excuse here doesn't hold a lot of water. they keep saying that this was one citation out of a thousand citations which makes it sound like some footnote in a dusty, giant leather tome. and, i mean, it wasn't. it's a relatively short document sent out by the department of education to 13,000 school districts with guidance for reopening, and there's one section that says very important

to teach about race and racism, and that part is highlighted. and if you click on it, you don't go to a list of resources, you go directly to the abolitionist teaching network web site that has things like, you know, guides for agitators and offers to send activists and residents to school districts. somebody with a fair amount of power put that in there on purpose. somebody else edited it. i mean, this was not a typo. jackie: okay. so that was my next question. how the heck did it get in there? [laughter] >> yeah. i mean, well, that's the question. the only connection that we have so far is that there's a deputy secretary of education who had been the head of the san diego school district at a time in 2020 when they invited the cofounder, a woman named patina love. they paid her $11,000 to come and speak at an event for the school district. this is a woman who's on video saying that white supremacy is literally in everything.

so there is that, that connection to the administration. but more broadly, these kinds of anti-racist, critical race theory, whatever you want to call them, these kinds of approaches are widely used in academia. for them to pretend that this isn't happening is a defined of gaslighting and i think clearly a lot of american parents recognize this, and they want some answers. jackie: but they pretend that a lot isn't happening, and i love saying this president biden just turns the other way. he does it when it comes to the crisis at the border, when it comes to the economic crisis we're having right now and the inflation that consumers are feeling, he's doing it when it comes to this as well. where does it end? this is supposed to be our commander in chief. >> yeah. you know, a couple weeks ago i was struck when jen psaki was doing a press conference, she was asked about nikole hannah-jones and the university of north carolina thing, and she said a statement, she said of course we know that there's systemic racism in some of our

learning institutions. almost like a throwaway line. and it's like, wait a minute, which ones? what do you mean by that? jackie: that's a big, blanket statement to make. >> it absolutely is. and the question then becomes what are you doing to fix it, and clearly one of the things they were doing to fix it was the department of education pushing this really radical group. so, look, we need to have a conversation about this, and it's not good enough for the biden administration to just say is, whoops, you know, we didn't know. jackie: right. no, it absolutely isn't. as a matter of fact, it's not acceptable. when it comes to critical race theory, there are a lot of parents across the country that are absolutely outraged by this. they send their youngsters to learn, to learn history, to be better little humans, you know? to lead the way as we move forward. and they're really concerned about the messaging that goes along with, you know, what you're discussing here, for example, what you would find if you went to this radical abolitionist teaching network web site. >> yeah. there's one -- there's actually

a job application, it's not quite a form, but you can go there to become one of these activists in residence, and it's apparently a $30,000 a year job where you work 20 hours. i'm not making this up. part of the job description read, quote, create media and propaganda, end quote. i've never seen an organization refer to their own stuff as propaganda before. that was brand new to me. so, yeah, i mean, if the biden administration is sending this material out to 13,000 school districts, we really do need to dig into how, and jen psaki saying, you know, it was done in error is not a good enough answer to the question. jackie: it is wild that they call it propaganda themselves. and when you think about teaching that to our children, you know, in effect, david, you know, it really is, that messaging goes forward it really is sort of brainwashing the youth of america. >> look, it's very close. a conversation needs to be had about critical race theory.

so far far too many in the democratic party and in the white house have basically said, what? no, this isn't happening. what are you talking about? it only gets taught in law school. it's nonsense. it's not true. we all know it's not true. so, look, if the biden administration thinks there's a place for this, let's have that conversation. right now we're not having the conversation because they're obfuscating it. jackie: david marcus, great to see you tonight, thank you. >> thank you. jackie: all right. a warning for florida beach withs bringing a new threat to local businesses. ♪♪ jason, did you know geico could save you hundreds on car insurance and a whole lot more? cool. so what are you waiting for? mckayla maroney to get your frisbee off the roof? i'll get it. ♪ (upbeat music) ♪ ♪ ♪ whoa. here you go. (in unison) thank you mckayla! dude, get it. i'm not getting it, you get it.

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it's getting worse. and for the local businesses, fears that sights like this and, quite frankly, the smell is going to put tourists off. i spoke to the manager of a local restaurant who said we know this is going to happen, it's not great, but we would really love to find a cure for what is called the red tide. take a listen. >> i think, for me, just with the advancements of technology and everything else that it's baffling that it's been around for as long as it has, and there still is not a concrete solution for it. but i do think that our leadership is doing their very best to try to mitigate the issue. >> reporter: in 2018 analogy outbreak cost the local economy $130 million, and certainly it's hoped it's not going to be as bad this time around, but it certainly does not do good things for tourism and especially for local businesses who are just now trying to fully recover from the pandemic lockdowns. jackie, back to you.

jackie: ashley webster, thank you so much for that. we're also talking about a potential skills gap. commerce secretary gina rah mundo brushing off claims of a worker shortage in the restaurant industry which has been slammed by the pandemic. listen. >> i don't know if it would call it a shortage, per se. i would say there's a skills gap. what i hear all the time is, from companies, we are ready to hire, but people need to have the skills, they need digital skills, cybersecurity skills, data, you know, data skills, cloud computing skills. jackie: here now, skyler reeves, hospitality group proprietor. skyler, i don't know there are definitely some hospitality jobs that would have to do with cloud computing and digital skills and what she's talking about, but generally speaking, it doesn't take, you know, skills that she's referencing to put an

order in and take the food to the table, and that's where we're having a problem, getting people to work jobs like that. >> yeah. i don't, i don't know anything about cybersecurity because i certainly don't have anyone working in that within my restaurant group. but my issue with what she said is we don't have a shortage just in the restaurant business. it's not like everyone left of the restaurant business only in mass exodus. you know, there's a reason we have masks, big retail employers like target and home depot are having a hard time finding people, also my friends in the construction trade are having a hard time finding people. i don't think it's a single mass exodus from the restaurant business. jackie: that's actually a really great point and also this skills gab -- gap. the world didn't change that much where where all of a sudden we've got this huge skills gap. >> correct. and the restaurant business is known for taking people without a lot of skills.

i was the same way when i was 16 years old. we often take people with no skills, little skills whether they be young or going through a transition in their life and bring them in and train them on busing tables and prepping food and then, you know, you have the opportunity to grow within the company, within the business and make great money. jackie: what do you hear from people that you're trying to hire or your staff that comes in, for example? just the grassroots, on the ground, what are people saying? are they saying we're getting paid more to stay home? are they still having childcare issues? what are they saying about the legitimate reasons that they're not.coming back to work? -- not coming back to work? i'm just curious. >> so with my experience, i was surprised to hear a lot of people tell me to my face that they are choosing to stay home and take unemployment as long as they can. jackie: okay. >> you know, that's -- there are some other factors, but to me, that seems to be the most consistent. and also i think it's left

behind in that conversation sometimes. it is not just that we're paying the same or a tiny bit more, but you're looking at going to work 40 hours a week and making, you know, x amount or doing nothing and making the same x amount, right? so we are in this kind of competition with that unemployment insurance that they're getting. jackie: and thank you for clarifying that for me based on your experience. and is what do you think when you look past labor day, for example? right now i think a lot of people are saying, well, the unemployment benefits are going to last until then and hopefully things will get better, but now we're talking about a delta variant. now we're talking about vaccinated people wearing masks indoors again which is not conducive to an indoor dining experience. some people are worried it may go as far as shutdowns to a degree. that could, essentially, just kill your business. i mean, i'm just going to say it. >> yes. and we fought through the pandemic, we survived and even

managed to thrive and pivot and change and tweak and adjust, and so, you know, but the bigger problem is we're forced through this, another set of changing, moving goal posts. the people that are going to survive are going to be your big, corporate chains, big, huge companies that can rely on markets and financing to bridge the cash gap whereas your local restaurant, you know, they don't have six months worth of cash in the bank -- jackie: they're, they tell me, the smaller businesses and restaurants, they a barely have enough gas in the tank to go right now. >> correct. and so, and so with a continued moving goalpost is the best way i can put it, it becomes so, so frustrating x. then on top of that, having this staffing crunch. again, not just restaurant business is experiencing it. sometimes the intended moves like the unemployment -- that

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so -- prince harry to court so he can see his grandchildren, telling fox news that he will be petitioning the cali courts for the right to see them adding that he hopes the queen doesn't punish his grandchildren for the duke and duchess' bad with behavior. all right, that does it for us on "fox business tonight." we wish ♪ ♪. maria: from the fox studio in new york city this is "maria bartiromo wall street". maria: happy weekend everyone took him to the program that analyzes the week that was in position you for the week ahead i am maria bartiromo another volatile week for stocks, i will ask orlando where he's investing now coming up. investigation blocked china rejecting the world health organization plan for a second study for the origin of covid-19 senator marsha blackburn sounds nd