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to resemblance of life that we once knew which was less than 2 months ago. hello, welcome to america's news headquarters, i'm eric sean. arthel: and i'm arthel neville and with those covid-19 stats of background, eric, more americans venturing out front doors looking to shake quarantine fatigue as pressure mounts on governors to ease restrictions. florida is among states allowing state parks, restaurants and stores to open back up tomorrow. >> we are going to follow a safe smart step by step approach to florida's recovery. we will follow data and facts but we are intend on moving forward to be able to get the society on its feet again. it's not going to be like turning on and off switch again but tomorrow will be first step. arthel: steve harrigan in atlanta with more. hi, steve. steve: arthel, one state after another reopening the economies even if they don't hit federal

benchmark of two weeks of steadily declining of virus cases. mississippi was set on friday to reopen even more businesses, allowed them to operate and instead they had to nuance a spike, spike in the number of new cases and also in the number of deaths. mississippi's governors said different states need different models. >> up in the northeast part of our state actually one new case in the entire last two weeks and so we treat all county in mississippi exactly the same way we treat new york city. steve: georgia has been one to have most aggressive states when it comes to reopening but some business leaders do not share the governor's confidence, 50 restaurants in georgia took out a full page ad in atlanta newspaper to say why they are not reopening their restaurants, they are concerned about safety both for themselves and their clients. two major shopping malls in atlanta were suppose today reopen on friday, instead thursday night those plans were delayed.

and finally the fda has given emergency approval to new antibody test by the swiss drug maker rosch this will help find who has immunity from the virus, arthel, back to you. arthel: steve harrigan, thanks so much, eric. eric: we saw florida governor desantis and reeves and businesses are trying to get on track without compromising public safety. 30 million americans, 30 million now out of work, some say the reopening is not having fast enough wile others caution as we heard moving too fast and too loose. christina coleman in los angeles. christina: the hardest state new

york is not one of them. andrew cuomo says new york is collaborating with other states on the northeast on this effort. >> we want to work together, we are doing regional planning on the reopening because every state is linked to every other state. we do something in new york, it affects, new jersey, connecticut, delaware, et cetera. people are mobile right now. christina: 28 states have partially reopened and including alaska, oklahoma, georgia, arkansas, colorado and florida. loosen restrictions vary in different states from allowing hospitals to get ready to elective surgeries again to reopening county and state parks, restaurants and movie theaters. on april 17th, jacksonville florida restored access to beaches. jacksonville's mayor says staying home is not sustainable and people need to get back to work in safe an methodical way. >> the virus doesn't spread itself, people spread it.

without a vaccine we are going to have to manage it. we've got to get back to work in a smart methodical way and do it in a way that's safe. the president has layed out phases to follow which we are following as a blueprint. our governor is moving methodically and our people are behaving responsibly. christina: meantime the protests to ease coronavirus restrictions or address certain economic consequences of these stay at home orders continues. michigan is third in the country behind new jersey and new york for the most coronavirus cases, rather, the most coronavirus-related deaths with more than 4 tow -- so far and people protest that governor whitmer's orders are unconstitutional and restrictive and governor loosened while people driving in-state homes and lawn services to reopen. today the governor defended her actions. >> we have to keep listening to

the epidemiologist and expert and not listen to partisan rhetoric, political rallies or tweets for that matter. we have to keep doing the right thing. the next right thing. >> and even as more states roll back restrictions people continue to protest a variety of issues across this country from beach closures to what some call a need for more eviction protection during this tough economic time. eric. eric: all right, christina, thank you so much, arthel. arthel: well, we are trick the west coast to east coast as the nypd is cracking down on new yorkers not practicing social distancing the warm spring weather here is causing many to head outside but mayor bill de blasio has a warning for people going out. aishah hasine in new york outside with more, hi, aishah. aishah: hi, arthel you're right.

so far at least on saturday nypd officers issued 50 summons and most of them occurred in parks. now in the meantime governor cuomo announcing today a regional consortium to buy ppe together. moving forward the 7 governors will bypass ventilators and medical equipment in hopes of increasing market power and bringing those prices down. >> we have to go to china for the ppe, i mean, think about that, you couldn't even get it in this nation. we started making our own in the state, but but that's a national security issue to me. aishah: also 90-day supply of ppe moving forward and the city will 3-day print expecting

30,000 by the end of this week on track to produce 50,000 swabs a week. >> we've learned a tough lesson, that we have to create and we have to protect ourselves, that's why we are going to have a strategic reserve going forward for new york city to protect new york city. aishah: michigan surpassing 4,000 deaths now. new york still leading the country in nursing home deaths, a lobbying group preparing to ask the state for protection from both civil lawsuits and criminal prosecution. the industry is launching a campaign to get other states on board as well. they say that because of this unprecedented crisis, nursing homes should not be liable for things like ppe shortages that were simply out of their control. arthel. arthel: aishah hasine, thank you. eric. eric: president trump has

arrived back at the white house this afternoon, meeting with top advisers at camp david spending the weekend there. this as the administration is considering various policies and proposals to try and help pull the economy out of the coronavirus recession. the president expected to unveil some of those plans later on tonight, you can see in the clock 3 hours and 50 minutes because that's when the president will be attending fox news virtual town hall. program is called america together, returning to work. it will be broadcast live from the lincoln memorial and, man, that would be quite a sight just under four hours from now. mark meredith picks up our coverage in the north lawn of the white house with the latest, hi, mark. mark: hi, eric, good afternoon, the white house is bracing for a rough week ahead when it comes to economic datament we will be getting the april job's report on friday giving us an idea of what new unemployment rate will be and we have seen breakdowns and now the numbers for the

month. the white house predicting it would jump and already the administration is trying to put optimism out there. this is what larry kudlow had to say earlier today. >> it's going to be very difficult in the months ahead. no question. having said that, i will note that the congressional budget office and a bunch of private forecasters, wall street journal surveys and so forth are looking for a very strong and suggesting that 2021 next year could be one of the fasters-growth rebounds in american history or recent history. mark: now the senate is expected to get back to work tomorrow. the house is not going to be in session. we are expecting to hear a lot, though, about what a potential stimulus could look going forward. lawmakers as you may remember recently approved a package to put more money into the payment protection program, 310 billion and now we have an idea of the money going out. we got new numbers. 2.2 million loans have been issued that equal more than

$175 billion spent to far, but this is interesting, the average loan that's been going out, only $79,000. the they break down not necessarily where they are going by the company but by state, they are all going by 50 states with biggest recipients in places like texas, florida and new york, michigan, those are the states where the businesses are really applying for help and while there's talk of the next stimulus, we are hearing from former vice president joe biden who says the current administration isn't doing enough to make sure that money doesn't end up in the wrong hand. we have heard from the former vice president as well as senator elizabeth warren, they put out an op-ed, the administration is letting billions of dollars flow out without publicly tracking where the money is going. this is what bind had to say, quote, the biden administration will appoint an inspector general to review every coronavirus relief transaction currently evading serious scrutiny. wasteful scrutiny and it's

possible that the president could respond to biden's attacks during the fox news town hall that eric you were talking about. that will be happening this evening and no shortage of topics that may come up. eric: that's for sure, mark, 2 or 3 guests throughout the newscast on the economy and more on what to expect coming up. there will be much more with the president. there it is, you see right there, the time left to go before tonight's special town hall, it's the fox news coronavirus town hall about what the country is facing, titled america together returning to work and will air at 7:00 p.m. eastern hosted by bret baier and martha macallum and the president live from the lincoln memorial, well, he was will be in the white house. if you have questions, you can get involved too, send video message on townalfoxnews.com.

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>> president trump cut taxes and regulations for middle-income folks, better trade deals, booming and that worked, we had terrific growth in the earlier years, beginning of this year we were drawing better than 3% and those will build on those incentives so that coming off of the pandemic we could have bigger economic growth rates in american history in 2021 next year. eric: white house economic adviser larry kudlow with optimistic prediction, he says there will be economic rebound.

coronavirus shutting down businesses as you know large and small across the country and the result 30 million of us filed for unemployment just in the last 6 weeks. how fast and how soon, let's bring in jon hilsenrath, jon is senior writer for the wall street journal and fox news contributor. jon, good to see you, what do all,redict, and how do you see in terms of confidence that larrylow lays out, i think we as american people should be confident. this economy, this nation has recovered from civil war and terror attacks an great depressions and it's going to recover from this. in terms of what it's going to look like, you know, i think the numbers are going to be pretty dark for the next few months. we are going to see some pretty steep declines in output, the job's numbers that are coming

out are all very weak. the rebound, i think, it's -- we will get a rebound and it will come as the economy, you know, start opening up again. one way i like to think about it is think about a bouncing ball. if you drop a ball from the first floor of a building, you'll get a little bit of a bounce out of it and if you drop it out of 10 floor, you'll get a big bounce. we are dropping a lot and the bounce that we are going to get, you know, could be pretty impressive, but in terms of getting back to normal, in terms of getting back on our feet as a nation it's going to take time and it's not going to be easy and we shouldn't underestimate the challenges that are ahead. eric: what do you think like the benchmarks are? what should we look out for? is it the local store in your street opening up? is it the big-box store being back and people buying

automobiles? people are telecommunicating and using zoom and corporate offices are continuing. what should the average person look out to see, hey, it's turning, we are seeing that ball, that ball is going to bounce? jon: well, you know, for me the thing that i'm watching most carefully right now is unemployment insurance. you know, right now about one out of every eight americans is getting government unemployment benefits and we want to see that stabilize and we want to see it come down. you know, when people are back in their jobs and not getting those unemployment checks, that's when we know the economy is getting back on its feet and we have some time to get back on there. in terms of official statistics, they're going to be kind of screwy over the next few months and hard to read them and when we and our neighbors are back working, that's when we will be spending again and the economy is going to get back on its feet. eric: yeah, that's a great metric. when you wake up in the morning

and if your neighbor's car isn't in the driveway, that means they've gone off to work and that would be a good sign. here is larry kudlow. he's optimistic and confidence as you are. he talked about the wall street journal predictions and metrics as well as congressional budget office and what we can expect, here he is. >> they are looking for a substantial rebound of says 7 to 20% in the second half of the year beginning in the third quarter, the growth rate in the third quarter could be well -- and to add to that as we formulate our own policies, they'll be additional policy discussions with congress. we want to move towards long-run growth incentives. eric: do you see the administration or what proposals do you see the administration have to try and have the long-term growth and get to those levels that kudlow just talked about? jon: let me say two things, first of all, in terms of the

numbers that we have seen in the second half of the year. yes, they are going to be big, they are going to be big because big bounce-back because there was such a big decline in the first half of the year, so i -- i would approach that kind of talk with some level of reservation or skepticism. in terms of what has to come next, you know, there's a big debate brewing in washington right now about state and local governments, so state and local governments general i will have to run balance budgets and what that -- right now they are taking an enormous hit. you know, when you close a restaurant or retail stores, a lot of people depend on sales taxes to fund themselves, and they are paying for first responders, and so the next really big debate in washington is going to be does the federal government provide any support to state and local governments. the federal government as we know does not run balance budget

and was running trillion dollar deficit and now going to 3 trillion. the federal government has the wherewithal to help states if they need and if it doesn't, here is the challenge. they will be cutting back, raising taxes an cutting back on jobs for police officers and first responders and so there's a very important debate brewing about what do we do about state and local budget governments, i'm sorry, state and local government budgets and that's going to get caught up in some politics. eric: cuddly said they are having discussions you say behind closed doors that could be one of the next stimulus policies that we see, but as you said we will see what happens in capitol hill and the white house. jon, thank you for your insight and optimism. we will get through this, of course. jon: thanks very much. eric: arthel. arthel: eric, thank you, as more states to get residents safely back to school and to work, the

pain-staking practice of contact tracing is key to containing the spread of coronavirus, so how exactly does that work? this report from fox affiliate in dcwttg lindsey watts explains. >> contact trace asking happening all across the world. different countries have different systems in place to track people's comings and goings. because coronavirus is so contagious we have to know where people have been, who they've been visiting to safely open the economy we have to have a system in place to find everyone. >> reach out to every possible case -- >> the process is nothing like you see in a blockbuster spy film. dc contact tracer stewart says when the health department finds out about a positive covid-19 test there's an interview with the patient by phone. the person is asked to identify all the people they may have exposed. ideally they can give names and

phone numbers. the process is the same for hiv and other std. >> a lot of times people that do a lot of -- like sexual transmitted diseases, some people may not know who they met in the bar or online exchange so that's the job of the investigator to take a little bit of information and be able to sort of find you. >> here is where it's tricky, he can't tell people he is calling who exposed them or any specific details about the encounter. it has to be vague enough that the person could not identify who it was that was -- >> correct. right. >> testing positive. does that pose a challenge for you and do people get frustrated when they want more information? >> i haven't experienced any one getting frustrated because they want more information and to be honest with you, the reason for that is that a lot of people are transparent and a lot of people

already know. oh, my coworker told me, my friend told me they tested positive. i was waiting on your call. >> he answers people's questions and let's them know if they need to self-quarantine. some countries are using smartphone technology to track exactly where people have been and notify those who are around them, but here in the u.s. some are skeptical of that kind of digital surveillance. apple and google are rolling out new programs you can choose to use that could help health departments where their tedious work. eric: some american workers are saying they are simply not being protected against the coronavirus. you know, we've had reports of some dying and others being sick, so how can businesses reopen while keeping the workers safe? we will talk with former director of oasha and what american corporate companies can do to protect us

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arthel: balancing worker safety with the need for essential products is an ongoing challenge for many businesses from nail salons to meet-packing plans, senate majority leader mitch mcconnell and house minority kevin mccarthy have said liability protections for employers must be part of any future stimulus bill. they put out joint statement saying, quote, as the nation continues fighting this pandemic and parts of our economy begin to emerge from shutdown, senate and house republicans are united in our demand that healthcare workers, small businesses and other americans on the front lines of this fight must receive strong protection from frivolous lawsuits. so far thousands of complaints having filed with federal agency in charge of regulating workplace safety. joining us now is dr. david

michaels who served as director of osha and thanks for joining me and i want to get your take on liability protection. for business owners if you're writing the bill, how should a liability protection clause read, what language should be included? >> first of all, arthel, thank you for inviting me on your show. great to see you. you know, i think mitch mcconnell really holding hostage any sort of future aid for small businesses, unemployment workers for states and counties is a tragedy. fear of lawsuits makes corporations behave better and we have a situation now where you have thousands of workers who are getting sick because their employer has protected them. that's what we see in the

streets. we've had recommendations from cdc and osha but we have all of the workers getting sick because the recommendations weren't followed. as we reopen, everyone wants to desperately open the economy, we have to make sure that workers are protected or we will have second wave of terrible epidemic, workers bringing disease home to their families, their communities, it threatens the senior citizens in every community, but what is happening now with the federal government and osha, the agency that i ran, it's saying, look to workers, you're on your own, we will issue some recommendations to employers but as i said recommendations don't work. we have no requirements. osha said they are not going inspect if most of the facilities and therefore we can't just give a free pass, look, do what you want, do what you can do because if we do not

we will not stop epidemic from growing and and preventing from bringing back to homes. arthel: you're saying there shouldn't be liability clause per se to protect employees, employers, the businesses, the owners, because possibility for litigation is what keeps them in line and i'd imagine you're also concern that language would necessarily perhaps weaken protections for workers. so let me move on, though, i want to get your position on president trump's executive order that compels plants to remain open during the coronavirus pandemic. >> well, you know, executive order aimed at the meat industry. the meat industry is going through really some difficult times and they are being closed not because governors and public health authorities who are saying do things differently, they are saying, look, you didn't protect your workers.

these meat companies essentially one what some people call human sacrifice zones, workers are getting sick and they need to be protected. the reality is if you read the executive order, it's not what many people said it is and it's still allows local authorities to step in and it allows the meat companies if they need to close them down but it's being used as an excuse to say we will just go pedal to the medal and expose people without necessarily protecting them and, again, that's just going cause more people to get sick and not only meet workers, everyone one of those workers has a family. they go home -- everybody is staying in their homes now but they bring diseases homes to their families. when the families go out and they go to the streets they will expose other people. we need everybody to come together here and say let's protect workers, that's what we ought to be doing. what's disappointing is the secretary of labor eugene

scalia, osha has been handcuffed. they are not out there saying let's make sure that worker protection is the number one thing we need to do because if we don't have safe workers we are not going to have a safe food supply and we are going to have people increasingly exposed all around the country. arthel: so dr. michaels, where does the buck stop? i'm not sure where you think who should be leading the charge and who lays the outline as to protect the workers, how do we keep them safe, you know, in compliance and how businesses can somehow protect themselves from frivolous lawsuits. >> you've asked the right question. the buck stops with the employer, the law is very clear, the osha law is clear that it's up to every employer to provide safe workplace for their workers and it's not that they should follow recommendations.

we don't put up signs and say it's a recommendation, it says that you have to protect your workers. workers have to be able to go to work and feel safe. right now they are feeling terrified and if they -- arthel: okay, let me jump in, dr. michaels, the buck stops with the employer -- excuse me, employer, if they are not following the rules, then what happens to them? >> right, well, osha, the labor department ought to be putting out clear rules. they are not doing that now. what osha needs to do is put out recommendations and follow recommendations, now we are going make them requirements and the way you do that you have president trump, vice president pence, secretary of labor eugene scalia get on tv every day -- arthel: excuse me, i get it. what's the penalty, quickly, what's the penalty for the employer if they don't follow

whatever specific guidelines that are presented from the top down? >> well, right now they are known but if osha has a standard then osha can issue fines. governors can do that too. governors can issue executive orders with penalties as well but right now there are no penalties for not following these that's why liability protection is to crazy. arthel: well, as we've been saying all of this is bringing everybody into unchartered waters via by way osha should have been in place for the first place, dr. david michaels, thank you very much. >> thank you. arthel: i will see you again, sir. >> i hope so, great to see you, arthel. arthel: likewise, eric. eric: well, u.s. professional sports leagues, they are still in limbo unable to play in front of large crowds. they are trying to figure out next steps to safely resume and in las vegas, people bet on

sports, still in the state of shutdown in sin city, ben brown tells us what the professional book makers in vegas are doing now to stay in business. >> just like the final seconds on a game clock, sports around the country came to a dramatic end. >> i had bet on okc-utah game. i watched the game get canceled at the moment. at that moment i'm like oh bleep. >> it started with the nba, then nfl and other sports leagues suspended their seasons as covid-19 spread across the world. >> it was a scramble to try to find live betting events. >> with no live sports to watch, sports looking for alternatives to keep fans happy. >> in las vegas there's very little going on in any casino or sports world so some of the casinos and sports world are being more aggressive to try to

get some revenue coming in. >> that means getting aggressive and a little creative as they look for anything to bet on. >> russian table tennis, soccer league, ukrainian third division, they are just scrambling to keep whatever and whoever customers they can in difficult time. >> while some sports are staying hope some aren't worth the headache for others. >> we were searching for events all across the planet and every time we found, you know, a league playing then two would drop off. >> there's some optimism for sports in the summer. pga tour and german soccer league all plan to resume in the coming weeks but the real action could start this fall. the season that usually holds the biggest money for betting. >> if nfl does not come back for betting action this fall, i can't imagine what the books are going to look like. i really don't. that is where they get the majority of their revenue for the entire year is football

season. >> while the nba, nhl and mlb all try to salvage seasons, gamblers believe they will start this fall but most likely with precautionary measures like playing in empty stadiums. in las vegas ben brown, fox news. arthel: thanks, ben brown. while more democrats come to defend joe biden amid sexual assault allegations but the woman accusing him argue she's being held to a different standard than other victim who is have come forward. we will have more on that coming up next. robinhood believes now is the time to do money.

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1993. biden is now asking the secretary of the senate to direct a search for the alleged victim calling for any findings to be made public. joining us jeff mason. jeff, should archive documents be searched and does it benefit all parties involved, mr. biden, ms. reade, democratic party, the republican party, everyone who wants to have the issue brought to light and solved one way or another? jeff: well, i think clarity seems to be something that all sides want for sure and the fact that vice president biden or former vice president biden called for that in an interview on msnbc on friday and said that he wants senate and letter to senate requesting that any information about this be released is a suggestion that he wants -- he wants it all out there. now some will say that the fact that he's not saying the same thing in papers in the university of delaware.

he and many others that would shed any light on this particular situation would not be in those papers. arthel: well, let's go back to mr. pérez's comments. listen, you know, president obama could not afford to have anyone in his cabinet let alone number 2 in line to have these sorts of -- that sort of behavior as part of his past, so does that hold any water saying, listen, he was vetted when he became -- before the obama administration? >> democrats see that as a strong argument. certainly the connection between vice president biden and president obama is strong, was strong and is one of the things that has helped vice president biden get to where he is now in the race for the presidential nomination and he, of course s the presumptive nominee. it doesn't surprise me to hear

people like chairman pérez talking about that connection and there was rigorous process for the vice presidential vetting in the 2008 election and vice president -- now former vice president biden passed it. so i'm -- i expect that we will continue to hear that. that said, when -- when mr. biden says, look, this is something that happened 27 years ago. well, a lot of the cases that have come forward and have come to light in the metoo movement were from decades ago, so that -- that argument is understandable, but it's also one that people have counter arguments to. arthel: well, you know, innocent until proven guilty and also every essential sexual assault allegation must be taken seriously. given that, who bears the responsibility more to prove their case, jeff, final answer? jeff: yeah, i don't have the answer to that. i think that it's -- you know, the vice president has said that people need to -- women need to

be believed and finding the truth is a tricky thing right now with the particular case and no doubt there will be reporting and further questions to try to get to that. arthel: yes or no if it's fair for you to answer this, are politics at play in any way? jeff jewel, it's certainly politically tricky. it's very tricky for vice president biden who has made a career of supporting the violence against women act for example and going onto college campuses and encouraging students to take that seriously. it puts him in a very difficult position so in that way politics is front and center. arthel: and that is the final answer for this segment, jeff mason, thank you so much, it's a serious matter and let's hope it gets sorted out for the sake of all of us. thank you very much. eric. should i keep going producers?

eric: thanks, arthel and jeff, you know what's going to happen tomorrow? something unusual, the highest court of the land, well zoom meetings, they are going to do it too going virtual. how the supreme court will hold hearings from their homes.

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eric: supreme court is taking a step into the new normal. it is breaking tradition and going digital with its first session, that's happening tomorrow. david spunt is here to explain how it works. david, usually the heated back and forth as the justices sit together but can't do that now david: you can't do that now. justices will be phoning in for supreme court arguments from all across the country. i want to show video right now of empty stream court chamber. the reason you can't get video inside when the justices are deliberating and hearing cases but that's what's going to be happening tomorrow. the courtroom will be completely empty because justices will be all around the country and the courtroom will be silent. the 9 justices, eric, and their attorneys will teleconference in, just audio feed on news sites and on c-span and for all

questioning justices this time, eric, will speak one at a time and seniority matters starting with chief justice roberts and finishing with justice brett kavanaugh. eric, this will be the first time in history anyone at home can actually hear the arguments live as they are happening. i spoke with the georgetown law professor paul smith who has argued 21 times in front of the court, listen. paul: the court actually was doing itself a disservice but not just having live video frankly. it would be impressive if they can see how well prepared they are and how difficult the cases are and that they never shown any interest. david: tomorrow at 10:00 a.m. the arguments start, eric. eric: viewers listen, tune in, they go after each other. it's really surprising. you wouldn't think so. thank you, david, and we will be right back.

arthel: president trump back in washington after meeting with top advisors at camp david this weekend. he is preparing to take questions about what's next for the economy at tonight's fox news virtual town hall live from the lincoln memorial as our nation grapples with unpress denned unemployment levels amid the coronavirus pandemic that persists. hello, welcome to a brand-new

hour inside america's news headquarters. i'm arthel neville. eric: thank you for joining us. i'm eric shawn. larry kudlow says the president will not rule out anything in the next potential coronavirus relief bill. and that he says includes possible direct aid for states and local governments that have been suffering so much because of covid-19. this, as more states are beginning to open parts of their economies slowly, looking to get businesses safely back up and running even as the data has shown our country just passed the largest single day death toll so far, 2,909 americans succumbing to coronavirus and some states still have adressing coronavirus numbers. >> the states themselves will have their own guidelines, everyone's emphasizing best practices behavior, distancing, testing is picking up very, very rapidly. so i think things look a little

better. it's going to take a while. but i think america wants to go back to work, maria, and we would love to see it. eric: what is the president planning? mark meredith is live at the white house with more on that. hi, mark. >> reporter: good afternoon, eric. we expect president trump will have plenty to say about the economy at the town hall tonight. many governors started to make the decision to allow certain business toss reopen and president trump has long said he is eager to see americans get back to work. as you mentioned, the president spent the weekend at camp david. he had a chance to speak with a few foreign leaders by phone. he had a chance to speak with his economic team. larry kudlow predicted the economy has a long way to go before full recovery but he said congress should not rush out another aid package immediately. >> there's kind of a pause period right now. you know, we put up $3 trillion of direct federal budget assistance in one way or another. the federal reserve has actually put in as much as $6 trillion.

so it's a huge, huge package. let's see how it's doing as we gradually reopen the economy. >> reporter: the white house has been repeatedly voicing support for a potential payroll tax cut, something that would have to be worked out with congress. now, later this week we're going to get a better idea of how dire the economic situation is because on friday the april jobs report will come out, giving us an idea of what the new unemployment rate is going to be. we expect it to jump between 16 to 19%. and we're learning more about one program that's meant to help keep people on the payroll, the small business loan program or the paycheck protection program. the sba put out details today saying they've issued 2.2 million loans so far, $175 billion going out that the average loan size is some $79,000 per business. the head of the federal reserve in atlanta says his staff plans to comb through the data closely in the weeks ahead. >> what we're going to do over the next week, several weeks, is continue our outreach, call

businesses, talk to people and really try to find out whether the relief that's been offered is sufficient or whether they need more and also whether there are pockets that are missing. >> reporter: over the last week the president had a chance to meet with some of the business that's have been participating in the paycheck protection program. it's possible to see more of those type of meetings in the weeks ahead. the president has the town hall tonight. on tuesday he'll head to arizona to tour a facility that's manufacturing personal protective equipment, so a sign that some things are getting back to normal, at least here at the white house. eric. eric: mark, i'm sure he's looking forward to getting out in the country, especially something as important as the personal protective equipment. there will be much more tonight with the president. there it is, tonight's town hall, just about two hours and 55 minutes away from us right now. during the coronavirus town hall he will discuss what the country is facing and the plans to continue to fight it. the program is called america together, returning to work.

it airs at 7:00 p.m. eastern in that beautiful spot you see there live, the glorious and gleaming lincoln memorial, bret baier, martha maccallum will be live from the lincoln memorial on that. if you have a question about the economy, you can send a video message to town hall@foxnews.com or you can upload it on our facebook or instagram pages and i'm told brett and martha will take some of the questions that folks send in on the videos and will pose them to the president himself. it will promise to be an interesting program and town hall tonight. arthel. arthel: okay, eric. more than half the states across the country have eased up on closures but with a big chunk of the u.s. workforce unemployed due to the pandemic, businesses especially that are hit hard, the small ones, are figuring out how to get back on track without compromising safety. this, while protesters, some of

them armed, have shown up at some state capitols calling for reopening. let's go to christina coleman, live in los angeles with more on this story. christina. >> reporter: hi, arthel. well, the ease on restrictions is heated in michigan, people protesting at the capitol and today the state's democratic governor, gretchen whitmer, defended her actions. michigan is third in the country behind new jersey and new york for the most coronavirus related fatalities with more than 4,000 deaths so far. people protested in the state, saying governor gretchen whitmer's restrictions are unconstitutional and excessive. april 24th, the governor loosened some of the restrictions in michigan by allowing people to once again travel between their in-state homes and by allowing bike shops and lawn service companies to reopen. >> we have to keep listening to the epidemiologists and experts and not listen to the partisan rhetoric or the political rallies or tweets for that matter. we have to keep doing the right thing, the next right thing.

>> reporter: at least 28 states have partially reopened by allowing dine-in services or at least some nonessential retail whether that's curbside or in-store shopping. and a total of 34 states will be partially reopened as of tomorrow. loosened restrictions vary in different states. colorado is embracing a safer at home approach which advises but does not require citizens to stay at home unless it's necessary to leave their house. colorado's democratic governor says the rollback will be slow and in georgia, gyms, bowling alleys, hair salons an tattoo parlors were allowed to reopen as long as owners followed strict social distancing rules and hygiene requirements. restaurants there have been allowed to do limited dine in service. in new jersey, states and county parks open this weekend. here's new jersey's democratic governor phil murphy on fox news sunday with more on the state's progress and his concerns over

those protesting restrictions. >> i don't begrudge their rights to protest. i wish they would do it virtually and safely. my biggest issue is they were congregating without face masks. we decided to open state and county parks this weekend. i have to say yesterday the reports in, compliance was very high in terms of social distancing and not congregating. >> reporter: in california, there were more protests over the past few days, thousands protested governor gavin newsom's order to close the beaches in orange county. others protested in los angeles, calling for rent cancellation on top of the state's long-running fight over affordable housing. arthel. arthel: christina coleman reporting in los angeles. thank you. eric. eric: well, arres arthel, in ht new york people are flocking to the streets and the parks, enjoying today's warm weather. the new york police department is cracking down, making sure the social distancing we heard

about is enforced. aishah hasnie live here in new york city outside with the very latest on if new yorkers are complying. hi, aishah. >> reporter: hi, eric. so about 1,000 nypd officers are out and about, patrolling the streets of new york city. they're out on foot, on bicycle, and honorsback, trying to disperse any crowds. yesterday they issued about 50 summons, mostly in parks. in the meantime, governor cuomo is looking ahead, creating a regional consortium to purchase ppe in the future, so moving forward the governors of these seven northeast states will jointly buy tests, ventilators and medical equipment in hopes of increasing market power and bringing down prices. also, new york will require all hospitals in the state to have a 90-day supply of ppe moving forward. >> we can't go through this day-to-day moving masks all

across the state, right. this mad scramble that we were in. and still are in, in many ways. also, as a nation, we can't go through this again. >> reporter: meanwhile, for the first time, new york city is producing its own coronavirus test kits. the city will 3d print swabs, expecting 30,000 by the end of this week, on track to produce 50,000 swabs a week. >> by the week of may 17th, we will begin to pair the locally made swab was the locally made transport medium and then like that cup of coffee we'll have all the pieces come together for the first time in the city's history. we will have our own test kits produced in large numbers right here in the five boroughs. >> reporter: a colorado paramedic who drove an ambulance 1800 miles from denver to new york city has passed away, 66-year-old paul carey had been

helping first responders on the ground for weeks when he fell ill with covid-19 and, sadly, eric, he died on thursday here at a new york city hospital. eric. eric: aishah, god bless paul and his family. we are thinking of him and we're so grateful that he decided to come here to our city to help us here. he is certainly a hero who will be remembered. thank you. arthel. arthel: indeed. well, eric, coronavirus restrictions are loosening throughout western europe. italians are counting down the hours until they regain some measure of personal freedom after two months of nationwide lockdowns. starting tomorrow, parks and public gardens can reopen for walking, jogging, or biking as long as people maintain social distancing. amy kellogg is live in florida -- oh, no, much better, you're in florence which is nicer.

i love florida, but i'm just saying. you're in florence with the late latest. hi, amy. >> reporter: they're both great places, arthel. today we had the lowest daily death toll that we've had in a month's time. as you mentioned, we are getting ready to partially lift our lockdown here. the prime minister says tonight that the future is in our hands. this is going to be a very difficult phase of things. of course, this is the first western country as you know, arthel, to get hit with coronavirus and the pandemic. this was the first country to go into such a major state of lockdown and now things are going to start rolling back, but this will be very challenging in terms of keeping the situation under control. now, here's some video of business getting back, somewhat as usual. you see food getting vacuum packed in this restaurant, nice and sterile. some of the things occurring as businesses slowly fire back up. there's been confusion about what people are allowed to do

from tomorrow, actually, with some clarification. you can visit a relative to the sixtsixth degree or to the fourh degree on the side of a spouse. you can visit a boyfriend or girlfriend but not a friend from tomorrow. the governor of the may pell's region -- naples region who has been fiercely protecting his region from the north, put it in simple terms. >> my answer is simple, don't be an idiot. we're not going back to party time. there are people who are drunk off their minds and have not understood we will recover in a constant caution. >> reporter: mass was allowed again in germany, here it was at the 401-k ha famous cologne cay, but no singing. the curve went back up slightly after restrictions were recently loosened. and iran will allow mosques to open in 132 cities from tomorrow. people have been entertaining

themselves during this lockdown ramadan at drive-in movies and they had been doing that too for prayers. arthel, iran has had 96,000 cases of covid-19, 6,000 deaths. and finally, there is going to be a donor conference in europe tomorrow to try to raise funds for vaccine research and they're hoping to drum up just about $8 billion with that tomorrow. arthel. arthel: absolutely. good luck with that, there from florence, italy, amy kellogg, thank you very much. eric. eric: arthel, you know, back at home, lawmakers are weighing options for a potential second stimulus package as states and businesses are beginning to reopen slowly, but will there be enough of an economic rebound to avoid more billions in relief spending? the former head of the white house council of economic advisors will tell us, next.

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ppp, these small business loans and so on and deciding whether we're going to need another round or that or whether we can move on to sort of thinking we're on the other shore and we can refocus on growth. arthel: and that is white house economic advisor, kevin hassett, saying another round of coronavirus relief may not be necessary. the white house is weighing options, thinking about whether our nation needs another paycheck protection program or small business stimulus. joining me now is austin goolsby, professor of economics at the university of chicago's booth school of business. good to have you here, first up, i'd like to get your response to the trump administration's position that more coronavirus stimulus may not be needed because more than half of the states are starting to reopen. >> well, i'm friends with kevin

hassett. i'm not sure that's necessarily the official trump administration position. i kind of think it's almost nonplanetary to think we're about to grow and put our economy back to anything like what it was before coronavirus showed up. i mean, we've just gone through the first five weeks in the history of the american job market. i do think that the ppp small business programs had a bunch of administrative problems with it. they didn't monitor the money well enough so we've seen all the stories, big businesses got the money, private equity, real estate investment trusts, various people were able to get the money and the banks favorite candidates are the ones that were favored not everyday businesses. so they blew through that money very rapidly. we have the second round.

but if the unemployment rate jumps to 15 or 18%, this next month, are we really going to go to small businesses and say, hey, i'm sorry, you're all just going to have to die because we think it's going to come back on its own. arthel: right. you know, here's another question. can the american economy afford another stimulus package? i mean, will that increase the national debt to a point of unmanageable proportions? >> well, i mean, it will increase the national debt. there's no question. it won't be to unmanageable proportions, for sure. you can see that the debt markets are not penalizing the u.s. government for adding debt. they're actually -- our interest rate is even going down because i think markets recognize you've got to do something, you've got to prevent these businesses from liquidating and us getting permanent damage from something

that we hope to be a temporary shock. you know, as i say, it's kind of like in june of 1944, the last thing you want dwight iceen hower to be thinking is -- eisenhower is let's not send as many boats over to the normandy invasion, how can we make d day neutral. that's the last thing you should be thinking. we should be thinking now how do we slow the spread of the virus. if we can slow the spread of the virus, that's the number one rule of virus economics, you slow the spread of the virus, the economy will come back. i think the administration knows that, wants that to happen. they're just itching to do it a little bit too fast, i think. i think there's a high risk they get the virus spreading at an uncontrollable rate again. arthel: so then you're saying they have to consider not only the health of the economy, but the health of the people because

if you don't have a workforce, then you don't really have an economy. >> yeah, that's a nice way to say that part. i was going to say i don't view the expression that there's a tradeoff between how the economy's doing and the virus. i don't think there is a tradeoff. i think in the short run those are both on the same side. you've got to address the health of your workforce and your people and that will make the economy come back and if you try to do the opposite, if you try to just reopen, you will have the experience that they've had in some of the countries where they did that, where the infection gets running out of control again. we already got 66,000 people dead in this country at a minimum. that's just the official numbers. dead of the virus. and if you just slow the infection rate and follow what they've been able to do in four,

five or six other countries, korea, germany, now about to be australia and new zealand, they do enough testing so the only people that got to come out of the economy are the ones who are infected and nobody's afraid that they if they walk down the street you might get it from someone that doesn't know they have it. once you get out of lockdown, the economy can come back. just ordering everyone to leave their house and go back to work, that will definitely not improve the economy. that will send us right back into lockdown. arthel: so here i am, austin, we got you on to talk about the economy and you end up talking about mitigation and staying inside, you know, and stopping the spread. so clearly the two are married. you can't divorce them. >> yeah, no, married, they're the same thing. i mean, that is the number one rule of virus economics. the best thing for the economy is whatever slows the rate of spread of that virus, because

that's what -- i mean, if they waved a magic wand and we had a vaccine on monday, the economy can go right back to what it was doing before. this isn't a normal recession, as bad as the numbers look, it's not a normal recession. so what we've got to do is slow the rate of spread of the virus so we can get out of lockdown in a healthy way, and that workforce depends on it. we've got millions of people, not just the elderly, other major risk factors include obesity, they include previous cardiac problems, previous immune disease problems, or living with anybody who has those problems. that's 150 million people in the united states who are in at-risk categories. you can't be cavalier with saying we should go back out and the people who are at risk should just stay home because that's half the country. arthel: i'll leave it there, austin goolsby. no follow-ups right now. thank you very much for your

expertise. >> thank you. arthel: take care. eric. eric: fascinating. meanwhile, scientists, arthel, around the globe, they're racing to answer key questions. why do some people show symptoms and get so sick from coronavirus while others do not? we're told now the answer may having to do with your genes. what you should know, next. ♪ it's velveeta shells & cheese versus the other guys. ♪ clearly, velveeta melts creamier.

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responsible for the way people experienced symptoms. so what can we all learn from this. dr. robert green joins us, a medical geneticist, physician and professor at the harvard medical school. dr. green, welcome. why do you think this study is important? what does it reveal? and what can we learn from it? >> thanks, eric. this is a great new study that is in preprint, meaning it hasn't been published yet but it gives us early insight into the fact that covid vulnerability, the vulnerability to severe symptomatology probably has something to do with genetics. we shouldn't make a mistake of confusing this with vulnerability based on underlying medical conditions. so we know older people are at greater risk, people with lung disease, diabetes, hypertension, immune disorders and so fort. some of those have a genetic basis. the real question we're asking here is, if everything else is equal, why do some people barely

get symptoms at all and some people get very severe symptoms at every level of age. eric: do we have an answer for that right now? >> no, we don't. but we have some pretty amazing experiments underway. there are people who volunteered over the past five or 10 years to be in biobanks that are associated with healthcare centers. so they got their dna on file here, some of it's been analyzed. they've got their symptomatology on file. and as they come back in and they get covid or get covid symptoms, they either get mild covid symptoms or severe covid symptoms, we can match up their symptomatology with their dna, almost in real-time. and some of my colleagues being led by people at university of helsinki and the rhode inches ie in boston, have organized 160 10 research groups around the world

who are combining forces to try to answer that question. i've never seen anything like it. the speed with which experiments like this are being set up all over the world to try to work together to find these answers. eric: you know, it's been so frightening about coronavirus, is its inpredictability. you know if you're older, underlying conditions, we can understand that. but you have all sorts of reports that it's not just the older people, younger, 24-50 and the young bates college stunted, people have been struck down. are we at a point yet where let's say you go on ancestry.com or a genetic marker site or something, or can i go to my doctor and get my genes analyzed to see what would happen if i got coronavirus or how -- i see you're shaking your head so i guess the answer is not yet. when could that happen and when can they tell me that, yes, i'd i'd be more susceptible or maybe

not. >> it's a great question. we're just about there with the other parts of medicine. we've got a preventative genomics clinic at brigham health, one of the first in the world to let you analyze your genes and look forward in time to see if you're at risk for cancer, other heart disease and other conditions. we're not there for covid yet. the other thing this is going to do, the reason it's so important to do it quickly, it's not just about prediction, it's about finding out the clues to what you can use for treatment or a vaccine. you know, we have this precedent with hiv, the ccr-5 gene, you might have heard about. certain people have variations in their dna that make it much, much harder for the hiv virus to get into their cells. so everyone's looking to see is there a genetic variation that would make it much harder for covid to get into your cells. now, if there were, you could have a clue right there as to what's going on in that

variation and how you could create a protein or a molecule or a treatment or even a vaccine that would take advantage of that knowledge. this is one of the amazing things about genetics is it's not just good for predictions. it's not just good for diagnosis. it's really good for understanding the path of physiology of the disease and helping to find an answer when you're not sure where to go. eric: if you guys to engineer that and dissect whatever the thinga-majiggies are, that would be incredible. final question on that point. what will it take to get a vaccine, will it be the type of engineering and understanding the virus, how it attacks and globs onto something, as you say, what we're learning through genetics? >> yeah, there's over 90 different vaccines being explored all over the world. it's just an incredible set of

cooperations between industry, between academia, between government. you know, the front lines rightfully get a lot of attention for the danger they're putting themselves into and the heroic and extremely fatiguing work they're doing, taking care of people and putting themselves at risk. i think everybody should know that all medical scientists working in laboratories, working in epidemiology, working in pharma companies, it's incredible how much people are working long hours around the clock, working together, cutting through bureaucracy, trying to make science work behind the scenes to make this better at every level. it's actually a good news story in the sense that it's transformative. we're going to learn things about how to do science together, when we come out of this, that i think will stand us in good stead for years to come. eric: it will be up to science to finally get this done. dr. robert green of the g2p research project in harvard

medical school. thank you. and thank you for your work and thank you to your colleague as you said, those who are on the front lines and the laboratories. we will beat this. there will be an answer. it's just a matter of getting there as soon as we can. dr. green, thank you. >> thank you. eric: arthel. arthel: yeah, eric. absolutely science is fascinating. there is no question about it. i say that as a pre-pharmacy major myself at xavier university. moving on now. passengers on major u.s. airlines will now be required to wear a face mask. this after bac after backlash ft attendance over the lack of protection. details on those new rules and whether they go far enough, up next. i am robert strickler.

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eric: more major u.s. airlines are announcing they are going to require passengers to wear masks during flights. they're following the lead of jetblue. the move comes as the airline industry contemplates how to comply with social distancing recommendations in the middle of this coronavirus pandemic and what to do when you're sitting in an aluminum tube with strangers streaking through the sky at 500 miles an hour, 3900 feet in the air. dan springer in everett, washington outside of seattle.

hey, dan. >> reporter: yeah, hey, eric. jetblue will start requiring a mask or some other face covering tomorrow and at least seven other airlines will be following suit over the coming weeks. american, delta, united, southwest, alaska, horizon and frontier will force passengers to cover their faces while going through ticketing, waiting by the gate, as they board and dliewrng ' during theen -- during the entire flight. the flight attendant union said 250 flight attendants tested positive for the coronavirus and video recently posted showing some flights are packed with no social distancing. the more typical scene is a plane with virtually n no passengers on its. the average number of passengers on domestic flights right now is 17. the airports and airlines are suffering, even with the $25 billion federal bailout, american, united airlines lost a combined $3.9 billion in the

first quarter. warren buffet sold every share of airline stock, more than $7 billion worth. he said he made a mistake in his valuing. his bicke fund dropped in the ft quarter. airlines won't buy planes anytime soon. boeing and airbus announced massive layoffs. boeing will cut 10% of its workforce, costing the puget sound about 10,000 jobs. to try to ease the fears of people flying, payne field airport has begun taking the temperature of people before they head through security. it's the first airport in the country to do it. some in congress want a federal mandate on face covering. peter d difazio says we all hava role to play to stop the spread of this vicious virus and it's reckless and wrong for the federal government to shirk its responsibility. time will tell if the new airline rules and fever checks lead to more fliers or if

they're just another reason not to fly. we talked to some people as they were moving into the airport today, flying today, and they said you know what, you've got to do what you've got to do, if you're motivated to fly you will put on a mask or some other covering. a eric. eric: whatever is the best protection, certainly, to be safe. dan, thank you. arthel. arthel: eric, for more on the future of air travel, i'm joined by sarah nelson, president of the association of flight attendants. what do you think about the new measures put in place? is that enough to protect you and passengers? >> well, we sent a letter to d.o.t. and hhs about 10 days ago and we've made tremendous strides since then. so most safety and security regulations that are in place in aviation are in place because people died and again, we are seeing people die because of coronavirus and safety is foundational to aviation. we know that when people are concerned about the safety of aviation, they don't buy tickets. so the two go hand in hand. we've got to protect the people

that we represent, the flight attendants on the front line. but we have to be able to assure the flying public that it's a safe place to be. we want to commend jetblue who 4red us off and the -- led us off and the other airlines are following with the face masks. arthel: so is that enough? and should more be done? >> so more has to be done. safety and security is always a layer of issues put together. so there has to be social distancing policies, some of those are already in place. but flight attendants have to have the ability to deal with anomalies on the plane. children under the age of 2 are not going to be required to wear face covering. we have to have space to be able to put them off with their families and not have other people around them. we also are going to still have medical emergencies in the air where we're going to have to separate people and stop the spread of the virus. and also, flight attendants should have n95 masks but they're not even available to

healthcare workers on the front line. this is a case of everyone being in this together and when everyone takes the safety measures we'll be a lot safer and ultimately we'll get back to a place where people are confident to fly. arthel: meanwhile, how should compliance be enforced? what if the guy in seat 14-c refuses to keep his mask on during the flight? what happens? >> flight attendants handle these things every single day in flight when people don't want to put their seat belt on or put their tray table up. we will encourage them and usually if they're holding things up, other people on the plane are like come on, man, let's get with the program because we want to go. usually that peer pressure works. when it doesn't at the end of the day those passengers are required through federal mandate to follow crew member instructions so there are consequences for people who ultimately don't do that. arthel: yeah, so you mentioned protection, the n95 masks for flight attendants and i've read some articles where maybe you have almost like a -- not a wet

suit but some sort of robe if you will that covers you and protects you. i mean, there are various new rules and regulation that's we'll be seeing unveiled. do you think that this will force flight attendants or pilots into early retirement or perhaps even deter new applicants? >> look, we're very, very concerned about what's going to happen in the fall when we run out of federal funding to keep the airline industry afloat and there may need to be more relief. but we are going to be doing everything we can to negotiate with the airlines, early retirements, early outs, other options for people so people are not forced out of work. it's a real concern. because until we have a vaccine that is readily available, this virus will continue to interrupt our daily life and our economy and we know that we're not going to be able to get back to full strength until that's in place. arthel: so last question. at what point can i feel safe to get back on an airplane? >> well, we're working on that right now, arthel. i think that the policies that

we have in place are really a very good step and people should feel better and should definitely go to the airline websites and read all through that and read through the cdc guidelines, make sure you are doing all the normal things that cdc recommends and we believe that we're in a place where we can keep you safe. but we need to continue to assess this with the government and with the airlines and peter difazio is correct, this needs to be a mandate from the government so there is consistency across the board in the airline industry and we flow exactly what to expect, exactly how to implement these rules and so that passengers are very clear about that. at that point, actually, i would say that would be a little bit safer and we would love to have you come back and fly with us. arthel: well, i do love flying and i want to get back on. so hopefully we can get something happening sooner than later. but we have to be safe and i know you're working really hard at making sure and seeing to that. sarah nelson, thank you so much. take care. >> thank you. arthel: eric. eric: yeah, we all want to get

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>> coronavirus leading people to delay big events like weddings and birthday parties, but one engaged couple didn't let that get in the way of their big day. jamie and chris lazard decided to get married over zoom. this is their wedding picture right here. the newlyweds are with me now. jamie, i'm going to start with you, who was the romantic who said let's keep our original wedding date, no matter what? >> honestly it was chris. after hearing governor cuomo's executive order, we figured we should dive into other counties to see if anybody was doing it. we had a marriage license in our hand on wednesday. arthel: how did that feel getting married by way of zoom? >> it was a very interesting experience. i think it is kind of amazing to

know what the technology can do in this pandemic world we're all living in. it was great to see it come together and have our family and friends here with us even if they weren't physically here with us. arthel: yeah. and actually you know what? that way you get more people to your wedding than you might have thought you could in the first place. that said, when we're all able to get together and socialize again, jamie, do you have any big plans? >> well, we're still having our big wedding in july, fingers crossed. we will be doing that, with everybody and anyone, so we're very excited for that day to come, when we can all gather together. arthel: well, hold up, i'm watching this video of people -- okay, you are -- oh my gosh, jamie, you are doing it, girl. look at you. i'm sorry, i got distracted by your dance moves. i love it. oh, wait, who is that next to you? behind you? is that your dad?

>> mom and dad. >> mom and dad. arthel: i love that. i love it. well, listen, i know you said you're hoping to do something in july, but clearly you have contingent plans after that because we still don't know. but having said that, i want to again wish you a lifetime of happiness, and good on you for making love prevail. jamie and chris lazar congratulations and best wishes. >> thank you. arthel: we will be right back. thanks, guys. we will be right back. d strong. yes, you are. i'm gonna get this place all clean. i'll give you a hand. and i'm gonna put lisa on crutches! wait, what? said she's gonna need crutches. she fell pretty hard. you might want to clean that up, girl. excuse us. when owning a small business gets real, progressive helps protect what you built with customizable coverage. -and i'm gonna -- -eh, eh, eh.

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eric: president trump in a fox news virtual town hall, live from the lincoln memorial. america together returning to work, 7:00 p.m. eastern. thanks for joining us. arthel and i say -- jon: some states moving to return to normalcy while other states not so fast as figuring the best way to reopen the economy continues to divide the nation. good evening, i'm jon scott. this is a special two-hour edition of "the fox report". antilockdown protesters across the country refusing to stay at home, hitting the streets to demand loosening or end of restrictions imposed due to the pandemic. those rallies in the northeast, south, midwest and west coast, coming as 13 states are set to take steps tomorrow to join those states that have eased restrictions. among them, new hampshire, minnesota and florida, all of

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