>> a state department source now telling fox news that mike pompeo recommended that president trump fire inspector general of the state department, steven linick. with that welcome to headquarters, i'm leland vittert. kristin, the plot is thickening here. kristin: i'm kristin fisher. there was an open investigation into mike pompeo. david spunt has more on why the president decided to do this now. >> hi, kristin and leland. good afternoon to you both.

we're hearing from a source, they told rich edson that mike pompeo, the secretary of state himself went to president trump and said you need to fire this guy, steve linick. we found out late last night that he would be dismissed in 30 days. an obama era employee who briefed on ukraine last fall. the white house not commenting why the president did this. house speaker nancy pelosi put out a lengthy statement about the friday night firing. it's concerning that the president has taken the action as the house passes the heroes act, which contains critical funding for the state department ig to oversee and ensure the effective wise spending of coronavirus response funds. this firing will set back the important work of the office of inspector general to perform critical audits, investigations and inspection of u.s. embassies and programs around the world

during the crisis. kristin, this is interesting, this is from the chairman of the foreign relations committee eliot engel. i've learned that the office of inspector general opened an investigation into mr. pompeo. and strongly suggests this an unlawful act of retaliation. engle not expanding on allegations there. yesterday afternoon in the rose garden, the president announced warp speed, to beat covid-19, a partnership between the military, human services, and at risk population, 300 million doses by december. also 300 million by january, 2021. after announcing that he's stopping payments to the world health organization last month, there's a report that the white house will green light payments to the organization the same amount from china. that china's paying the who. now, president trump in a tweet

this morning says no decisions are final. he's still working out this, but appears the white house will be paying more to the world health organization. kristin, leland, president trump is at camp david with republican members of congress and close advisors to talk about the vaccine research that he mentioned yesterday in the rose garden, kristin. kristin: camp david, not a bad place to be stuck in quarantine. >> not today. kristin: david spunt on the lawn. leland. leland: beautiful day in d.c. senate republicans are trying to figure out what do with the house democrats' $3 trillion coronavirus relief package. it passed last night and it is the most expensive legislation in the history of the republic. garrett tenney joining us now with what senate republicans are plotting. hi, garrett. >> leland, good afternoon to you. senate republican relationship have suggested that this bill is essentially dead on arrival. majority leader mitch mcconnell called it a parade of

absurdities. house democratic leaders put together the heroes act without any input from republicans and the bill includes 200 billion dollars in hazard pay for essential workers, extension of increased unemployment benefits through january and $900 billion for state and local governments, but also includes several controversial items such as a $25 billion bailout for the u.s. postal service, $50 million for investigating leads between pollution exposure and covid-19 and allowing undocumented immigrants who pay taxes to qualify for a second round of direct payments. >> is this a joke? because it certainly isn't based on reality. $3 trillion of virtue signaling to your base is no way to govern in the mid of a crisis and you know it. >> it's not just republicans who are criticizing the bill as a partisan wish list though. most of the 14 democrats who voted against it are moderates facing tough reelection battles this fall and several described it as a political statement filled with unrelated waste of

taxpayer dollars. despite those criticisms, the legislation narrowly passed by a 208-199. democrats are blasting g.o.p. opposition to their bill. >> the republican party says, we don't have any money to help you. are you kidding me? where do you guys live? food lines around the blocks at our food banks in the united states of america. one in five kids are going hungry. your party can't even get food to them. this isn't a wish list. if it's a wish list, it's for the working class people. >> the house speaker nancy pelosi is now suggesting this bill wasn't a sincere effort at passing a law. instead serve as an opening offer for negotiations for the republicans and the white house for the next coronavirus relief package, leland. leland: a lot of negotiation the

to be had over the coming weeks and months, garrett. thank you very much. a lot more on this bill from both sides of the aisle. and the congressman from virginia and democratic congressman cartwright joining us. and chris wallace talks to colorado governor polis how his state is dealing with the coronavirus. and check your listings for time and channel. and howard kurtz will look at michael flynn's unmasking and the media coverage surrounding that. media buzz tomorrow 11 a.m. easte eastern. kristin: well, there's a new warn from the c.d.c. director. dr. redfield says the u.s. models will have more than 100,000 deaths by june 1st. aishah hasnie is following the developments from and ma-- manhattan. >> hi, kristin. let's take a look at his tweet.

dr. robert redfield tweeting that 12 different forecasting models forecast an increase in deaths in the coming weeks. the northeast continues to lead the nation in those deaths. new york, new jersey, massachusetts account for nearly half of all covid-19 deaths across the country. despite that, new jersey reopening several popular beaches on friday under new social distancing guidelines. new york plans to reopen all of its state-run beaches memorial day weekend while new york city's public beaches will remain closed. >> and so please, folks, keep doing what you're doing, even as we begin to open more doors, we are clearly, without question, making enormous progress and the more progress we make, the more steps we can take, the faster we can get back to some sort of a new normal. >> and listen to this, travel is

changing. tsa preparing to check passenger's temperatures at roughly a dozen airports as soon as next week. a senior trump official says the initial rollout would cost less than $20 million and passengers would not be charged any additional fees. no word on which airports are going to launch this first as plans are worked out. and money that was supposed to go to unemployed americans could be in the hands of scammers. according to the website crebson security, warning states around the country that a nigerian crime ring is exploiting this pandemic and committing fraud against several states, their unemployment insurance programs. according to that same website, the potential losses are somewhere in the hundreds of millions of dollars, kristin. kristin: wow. that's a lot of money. thank you so much. leland. leland: well, the coronavirus hot spot of waterloo, iowa is

now center stage in the home of the debate. it's home to tyson meats where hundreds contracted the virus. waterloo mayor is with us. thank you very much. where are we right now as this tyson plant has reopened? are we -- is the outbreak under control? are things still spiraling? >> thank you for having me. good morning. on may 1st we had an opportunity to sit down with tyson officials, steve stauffer and the plant manager and others there, and they laid out the plan that they're willing to take for reopening. so we heard about a 45 minute to about an hour presentation after which we toured to see some of the safety precautions put in place. the following week they began with the orientation for employees. then they went to harvesting and then last friday, they opened up

at 50%. so we're been watching, we've been communicating with the company. you know, still a little bit of uneasiness with people given the parameters of the outbreak. leland: uneasiness is understood, sir. has there been some massive spike in case there is in waterloo again? or do you feel like you have the numbers under control? >> well, right now with only about four or five days from that situation, our numbers have been, you know, lower than they have been in the past. so that's a good sign and that's one that we are keeping our eyes on. leland: sure. understandable. the sad reality as relates to these meat packing plants is that folks who are working in them are doing it because they have to. it's unpleasant work, very difficult work at times. there's a lot of immigrants, often times, not even with the same second language or third language.

english is certainly not a first language. they're living in difficult conditions back at home where social distancing is not necessarily possible and families are stuck together. you know this better than anybody, being the mayor of a town like waterloo with so many meat packing plants. what's being done to protect these folks and workers outside of the plants where they don't have the ppe and the training and the oversight that they do inside? >> well, you know, to that point, what i'll say is that i don't want to group every particular person that works at tyson as they work with-- they live with 10 to 15 people at the house, they don't do that, they don't practice that. we know that we cannot necessarily stop anything that comes into the plant. that the conversation and what i have been optimistic with working with the officials at tyson are the measures put in place to help stop mitigation or spread. from that, there is

multi-lingual communication. there are best practices. there are on-site testing that's done at the plant, so you know, we've had people that-- my very own relatives, they are african-american, born and raised here. leland: right. >> that had contracted the virus. so, it's more than that. it is just about putting in parameters that help stop the overall-- >> i guess what i'm asking, mayor, have you done any research to figure out whether these communities that are closely associated with these plants, some have -- do live in the way you described, some do not live in the way you describe, but what efforts are you taking to try to help these folks at home? have you done any research to figure out whether the transmission is happening at the plants or happening once these folks go home from the plants and back in their communities and socializing that way? >> well, if you take a look at the overall numbers of those that are working at the plant, there were 444 that had been tested over that three-day period where they tested on

site. prior to that, there were more than 700 cases, which our local health care officials say that 1,032 are directly related to the plant. now you take into the impact of other places that we have. we're not just tyson's. we have a broad economy here, but when you take a look at that has been directed to the plant, that's where the number comes from, but that also spills out to those that may live in some of the households or those that may have gone to a grocery store or work at a long-term care facility. leland: i guess i still haven't heard about the efforts that you all are making inside the communities. i just keep hearing about the plant. >> i just told you that. so very early we put in the emergency operations center. that center consolidates all of our local governments, our health care, it consolidates in

our school system. we are all working coordinated. we're tracking the numbers. we are communicating twice a week to everyone here. we are becoming a resource, our health department is becoming the resource. leland: mayor, i appreciate it, we've got to run now. thank you very much. mayor quinton hart there in waterloo, iowa. we wish you the best there. kristin. kristin: right now scientists all over the world are racing to develop a vaccine or treatment for covid-19, but mutations in the virus could make the fight against it all the more difficult. so, i have a lot of questions right now for the former f.d.a. associate commissioner and president and co-founder for the center for medicine and public interest. peter, i'd like to start by asking you what you meant by something that i read that you wrote a few days ago. you described the coronavirus as a wily virus. what do you mean by that?

>> one of the things that is not helping us in our battle against covid-19 is that it is wily. it's doing things other viruses haven't done before. in this case, it's mutating quite quickly to become more contagious. it's what viruses do to stay alive. they are living things. partially it shows it doesn't react the same way relative to warm weather. it mutates more quickly. antibodies don't provide a greater degree of immunity as it does with other viruses so in addition to our science relative to a vaccine and our personal responsibility on social distancing and wear masks and therapeutics helping people at the hospitals, we have to understand that covid-19 is a moving virus. we have to be smart in our science and mitigation practices. kristin: so if it is a moving target, how much could these potential mutations, limit the effectiveness of vaccines that are in development? >> i think there are a lot of

vaccines being developed all around the world. the real story is the cooperation of government and academic institutions. there are a lot of shots on goal. we have to be sure the vaccines that we produce and give at large scale to the people is as potent as possible. i'm concerned on vaccine signaling, that somehow we're going to develop one vaccine quickly that will magically cure everybody's problems, that's not the case. bringing the vaccine to market even in a year is incredibly fast, but we have to be sure that the vaccine that we bring to market meets the prompts of being safe and effective. effective being key. we don't want to send false messages about vaccines. we want a vaccine to come to market that's as potent as possible while the vaccine continues to mutate. kristin: so peter, you talk about the end. year. yesterday in that rose garden press conference, president trump says he believes that the united states can get about 100,000-- excuse me, hundreds of millions of doses of the vaccine out to the public by the end of this

year. do you think that's possible? >> the thing is you can't manufacture a vaccine until you have a vaccine. i don't think that anybody thinks that a vaccine is going to be created, reviewed and approved between now and the end of the year. i hope i'm wrong. to have a vaccine by the end of the year and manufactured. the president is trying to be op optimistic. we can't wait for a vaccine in having a smart tactic to reopen the economy and hoping for a vaccine by the end much 2020 i think is pretty much living in fantasy land. kristin: i want to ask you about one more hopeful step with regard to the coronavirus. this coming from a california pharmaceutical company which says it's discovered a successful antibody treatment. sore rento therapeutics, if you

have the neutralizing antibody if your body, you don't need social distancing, you can open up society without fear. what do you think of this claim that they've discovered a succe successful antibody. >> if i had a dollar for every cure that they talk about, i'd be a rich man. i'd certainly want to see the data. i hope what they've got is terrific, but this is a company with no f.d.a. approved product so i haven't seen any discussion of the science. i've seen a bump in their stock price, good for them. hopefully it's more than a stock ploy that there's really science behind t rather than cautiously optimistic at this point, i'll just be cautious. kristin: peter, thank you so much. your points about the virus mutating. my father is an emergency room physician in houston, texas, that's his number one concern since the beginning of this. he says all he wants to do, number one focus is just focusing on the different strains and monitoring how this

virus mutates. so thank you very much, fascinating stuff. leland. >> my pleasure, thank you. leland: the countdown is on to restart the nascar series. we'll tell you how tomorrow's big race is going to look a lot different than anything you've ever seen. the biggest week in television is here.

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>> well, as i am sure all of you are well aware, almost every sporting event has been halted due to the coronavirus, but that is about to change tomorrow when nascar drivers hit the track. our mark meredith walks us through the many changes in place to keep the drivers and their teams safe. >> when drivers return to the darlington raceway sunday they won't find fans in the stand or much else that resembles a typical nascar experience. >> the cars are going to be spaced out greater. the haulers are going to be spaced out greater. there will be sanitizing stations in the garage. >> sunday's event marks the return of racing after a 10-week coronavirus hey hiatus. and nascar's president says social distancing will be in force. >> we'll work with local, state and federal officials, health officials to make sure that our

competitors are safe. >> nascar is consolidating its weekly schedule, canceling qualifying runs and practices. teams are now limiting their members from 21 people down to 16, including the driver. >> it will be really only the people who are absolutely necessary and even those groups will be completely compartmentalized from each other at the race track so there won't be a lot of interaction from team to team. >> journalists are impacted, sports 2 announcers will call not from darlington, but from studios in charlotte. >> there's a hunger for sports to come back. people want to see sports. >> jordan covers nascar for the athletic. he predicts sunday's race will appeal to more people than ever. >> i think even for a non-nascar fan for a casual nascar fan, it's an opportunity to turn on and you know what i'm going to escape what's going on there. >> other major league sports will likely study how the race goes as they draw up plans to resta

restart sports in the era. >> each cars will feature a name after frontline worker helping to battle the coronavirus. in washington, mark meredith, fox news. leland: big changes how the race will be broadcast. for more on that, new rules on the course, we bring in fox nascar pit reporter. matt, appreciate it. other than no fans in the stands and sort of the ideas of sanitation and everything else, the product that people see on tv of cars going around the track, how similar is that going to be? >> i think the entire nascar world is thrilled to get back to work and to get their product out on the race track and i think sunday at 3:30 on fox, leland, it's going to really check all the boxes, what we've seen and the -- if you've never seen one lap of nascar racing your entire life, you'll see the ultimate reality show, nascar

back on the track. when you're watching my teammat teammates, and the action-- (inaudibl (inaudible) >> matt, we're also seeing occasionally what happens with technical difficulties, too, which we hope we don't have. we're having some hits on your mic. play a sound bite for one of the drivers for tomorrow, talking the past 10 weeks they haven't been able to practice or train and we'll get your thoughts. >> there's nothing like the real thing. not being in the race car for two months now, there's certainly going to be some rust to knock off when we get back in the race car and unfortunately, we don't have any practice. leland: he said that the first lap they take around the track will be the green flag. as you've talked to drivers who aren't able to train and aren't

able to go around the track at 194 miles per hour around the track the past few weeks, what have they been doing to do anything they can to stay in shape, so to speak? >> unlike a golfer who can go into the driving range or practice chipping, these guys can't go to a race track and do laps. they can do some sim training, at home simulators, we've gone broadcasting the past weeks. they'll go into turn one and having worked at orlando, you know about the fairbanks curve at rush hour. that's what it's going to be like sunday when they go into turn one, 40 cars, it's exciting. but for those guys, it's muscle memory. it's a lot like the all-star break, maybe with a few weeks, not like the off season into the season. they've had a little bit of a break, but the muscle memory will be there and shell' shake

off the rust because these guys are professionals, the best 40 race car drivers in the country. and suiting up for battle on sunday. leland: i covered the daytona 500 once and it's an experience you never forget for many reasons. real quick, that driver who was on fox and friends was talking about some of the physical training they're doing, going around for 500 miles at 190 miles an hour, et cetera, it's got to take a pretty big physical toll on these guys. what physical training have they been doing in the 10 weeks off? >> well, i've polled a number of drivers and for the most part, you know, they're not sitting at home watching television, they're actually upping their normal workout program. you know, if you're typically cycling 10 miles a day, maybe up it to 20. >> and kevin harvick said he spent time on his road bike to up his program when he got behind the wheel. and aaron on earlier, same thing.

these guys are cyclists because that pretty much mirrors as close as what their heart rate. during the race your average heart rate could be 140 to 170 beats per minute. so that's the closest activity that they can do that will mirror them being behind the wheel. leland: wow. 140 to 170 beats a minute for three hours, that's endurance. matt, appreciate it. we'll watch your guys coverage. and it will be great to see sports on tv, whether it's nascar or golf or anything else. thank you. >> thank you, leland, appreciate it. leland: this will be on your local fox station, big fox we like to say, tomorrow, 3:30 p.m. eastern, live from darlington, south carolina. >> former bernie sanders campaign advisor is warning joe biden about his lack of support from sand eers supporters.

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>> well, families across the country are facing unexpected financial hardships due to the coronavirus pandemic. and at chatham university in pittsburgh they've come up with a unique way for people in their community to put food on the table. here with more is the program manager. cassandra, tell us a little more about what this neighbor loaves program is and how exactly it works. >> sure. yes. so the neighbor loaves program originated at the artisan grain collaborative in madison and we thought it would be perfect to bring to pittsburgh so basically, one of our -- any of our participating bakeries have a neighbor loaf listed in the online store. you can go there, anyone across the country or the world can go there and purchase a neighbor loaf. that is baked with local grains from our region and donated to good banks in the area.

kristin: so what's demand been like? how many loaves have been sold so far? >> so nationally over 5,000 loaves have been sold and donated to people who need bread right now. which has been incredible. we're helping bakeries keep their doors open by supporting them with purchases and we're also helping grain farmers in the area who really need some steady business right now. so you know, we're helping three different groups of people all at the same time through this one program. kristin: yeah, helping these bakeries stay open, obviously an additional bonus. how many bakeries have you been able to help. >> in pittsburgh we have six bakeries signed onto the program they are wonderful bakeries. they're community focused organizations and so it's wonderful to see the community support them as well. kristin: something else that's happening at chatham university

is at the agua culture center, i believe that's a fish farm or a hatchery, correct? >> exactly. yeah. kristin: okay. and obviously -- oh, well, i just want to give folks a preview exactly what happened. because of course this agua culture center had to close down during the pandemic, but you all have come up with a creative way to kind of keep it open and help make sure that these fish don't go to waste, right? >> exactly. so usually we can raise around 500 fish at a time in the culture lab and usually they stay close to home. we use them in our campus dining services or sold to local restaurants, with students being gone and restaurants mainly closed we found other creative ways to make sure they don't go to waste. donated over 100 fish to a local food organization, a food rescue and donated live fish to other fisheries and we let go around

300 live block trout into a local stream that's currently undergoing restoration. kristin: are you having a tough time getting these fish to where you would like them to go given some of the supply chain disruptions? >> not really. there's actually a huge need and so the food rescue has been taking the fish and processing them with their chefs and we really, because of covid, we have really started to move into doing conservation work with the fish as well so it's been really easy to find streams and places that need fish for that restorative purpose. kristin: you guys are doing a great job of getting food and fish to where they need to go. if people want to help you want to put in a plug for your website and people know where to go to help. >> sure, see any of the bakeries that are participating at

craft.chatham.edu and learn more about our program and our university as well. kristin: it's always nice to see how colleges and universities, businesses and communities are coming up with creative ways to help out during the coronavirus pandemic. thank you. >> thanks for having me. kristin: leland. leland: new information in the helicopterer crash that killed kobe bryant. the autopsy results that could shed new light on what happened. don't you dare. i don't think so! [ sighs ] it's okay, big fella. we're gonna get through this together. [ baseball bat cracks ] nice rip, robbie. ♪ raaah! when you bundle home and auto insurance through progressive, you get more than just a big discount. i'm gonna need you to leave. you get relentless protection. [ baseball bat cracks ]

>> an update on the kobe bryant helicopter crash. the autopsy results for the pilot showed he did not have drugs or alcohol in his system at the time of the crash. the report states that all nine passengers including bryant and his 13-year-old daughter gee --

gianna were killed instantly. leland: who released the potentially viral video who captured the georgia jogger. steve harrigan where the investigation continues, hi, steve. >> leland, new details about this case continues to come out and appears one of the men accused of murder, greg mcmichael may have leaked the controversial video. that shows 25-year-old ahmaud arbery being pursued and eventually being gunned down, killed by the two mcmichaels, this sparked tremendous protests across the u.s. the elder mcmichael thought by leaking it, he would apparently reduce racial tension in the area and exonerate him. instead the opposite happened. and now they're behind bars charged with murder. in addition, the home under construction near the mcmichaels

house thought that is where he was trying to burglarize, he said, no, he's trying to get a drink of water. and the home owner said if they wanted someone to look into the house, it could be their neighbor, mcmichael. and this was in effect deputizing locals to do the police work. untrained locals. finally, a protest underway en route from atlanta to brunswick. a lot of cars making the protest movement, headed to the site to have speeches and demonstrations this afternoon outside the brunswick courthouse where that shooting took place back in february. leland, back to you. leland: all right. we wait and see about other possible arrests. bond hearings as well. and steve harrigan in atlanta. thank you. >> thank you. kristin: well, joe biden is addressing 2020 graduates at delaware state university's virtual commencement today.

we're seeing a lot of those now in this coronavirus pandemic. the former vice-president will be speaking to the young crowd just one day after a top bernie sanders campaign advisor warned that biden may be in trouble with securing support from sanders' supporters. jacqui heinrich with the latest. hi. >> hey, kristin. former sanders' senior advisor jeff weaver warned of a clear and dangerous trend that could block biden's path to the white house if he couldn't pull more from sanders' base. he says the former vice-president needs to improve with latinos, working class voters and young people saying that will make a difference in seven key battle ground states. despite sanders' rally to his base, a poll showed 14% of sanders' supporters don't plan to vote for biden and 60% said they weren't excite today support his nomination.

weaver says he's got to get them on board with bigger initiatives and policy task force which includes sanders and progressive darling aoc. and treating sanders supporters as throw away votes, to entract real policy solutions for americans. biden and sanders have been working together to shape the party platform. as recently as friday they diverged on health care amid the pandemic. >> there are 26 million people who in fact have lost their jobs, that their companies, after they paid into a health insurance policy they liked. there's a thing called cobra. that will be paid fully by the federal government while this pandemic lasts. >> sanders tweeted instead of subsidizing cobra, a massive give away to the health insurance industry, medicare must pay the bills of the uninsured and underinsured until this crisis is over. meantime, biden is continuing to

deny a sex assault allegation coming from a former staffer and yesterday people came forward, talking to pdf, talking with former staffers who said they never experienced or heard of misconduct while working for biden. kristin: jacqui heinrich following the 2020 campaign for us, leland. leland: kristin fisher broke the news this was going to happen. president trump unveiling the official flag of the space force. talk a little about the flag and also about nasa's first mission back into space aboard an american rocket when we come back.

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>> the launch of the atlas five rocket was scrubbed this morning due to bad weather. you can see the rain on the cameras. the mission is said to be the first one operated by the space force. details of the mission are classified, but the spacecraft can be used for research and experience along with some military uses. next launch window 9:14 a.m. tomorrow if the weather clears. kristin: always the weather. meanwhile, nasa is less than two weeks away from attempting launch american astronauts from u.s. soil for the first time

since the space shuttle fleet retired in 2011. and this will hopefully end nasa's nearly decade long dependence on rush shaun soyuz rackets. astronauts hurley and benkin are set to launch from the kennedy space center and the first time flying in a private company spacecraft, the dragon. and it's something that president trump talked about when he was presented the new space force flag in the oval office just yesterday. >> space is going to be -- it's going to be the future both in terms of defense and offense and so many other things and already from what i'm hearing and based on reports, we're now the leader in space. >> that was a special moment in the oval office yesterday. it was the first time in 72 years that a new flag for a u.s. military service and new u.s. military service was presented to a commander-in-chief, but

it's also going to be pretty special in about two weeks when the nasa astronauts launch on board a spacex rocket. and you know, leland, nasa-- astronauts have been going into quarantine since the beginning of nasa. it's the first time that these astronauts are now in quarantine, official nasa quarantine at the same time as everybody else almost in the entire world. leland: i think their quarantine is different than ours, correct? >> just a little bit. leland: i remember them-- one time on the show we got a tour of their facility. they have their own living facility that they're sort of locked down inside. they eat all of their meals there and then do they have any contact with people from the outside? >> there's a few people that they can have contact with, but you know, for the most part they're on their own, unlike us, unlike most people, they're kept very busy. they're still keeping a very strict schedule as they count down to launch date, but you know, this is going to be quite

a moment and i'm told that this is one of the hottest and hardest tickets to get, members of congress, local officials, they all want to be there for this launch. but nasa is severely restricting the amount of people that can see it. the last space shuttle launch there were hundreds of thousands of people that crowded the kennedy space center to watch and this year it's different, nasa is urging everybody to stay home. i'd love to go. leland: you may have seen a shuttle launch or two back in the day when you were a little younger? >> yeah, but this is different. leland: up close and-- >> this is spacex launch. leland: the family gets a better viewing than the rest of us. back when i worked in orlando, people would crowd the beaches, jetty beaches around the cape and camp out for the day and watch the launch. one wonders whether they will be allowed to do this or they'll rope areas like that off. as with everything now in quarantine, even going to space

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kristin: a state department official is telling fox news that secretary of state mike pompeo is the person that recommended that president trump fire the department's inspector general, steve winnick. welcome to america's head news headquarters from washington. i'm kristin fisher. leland: this broke last night as a surprise to many. i'm leland vittert. the president said he no longer had full confidence in almost l. david spunt is as the white house. >> reporter: this is a big story, it broke late last night. president trump has not spoken directly on this. it happened around 10:00 last night. president trump is at camp david r50euright now. this happened several hours

after he left the white house south lawn to take marine one up to camp david. now, steve linnik has been with the state department since 2013, he's an obama era appointee who has been critical of the trump administration. he briefed members of congress about ukraine back in the fall. linnik by no means the first inspector general to be removed by the president. late on a friday night in early april, the president fired michael atkinson, a few days later he removed glen fine, the inspector general on the department of defense. on a friday night he removed kristie grim at the department of health and human services. i want to read a statement from eliot engel, he wrote this firing or i have learned that the office of inspector general had opened an investigation into secretary pompeo. mr. linnik firing amid such a probe strongly suggests this is an unlawful act of retaliation.

a democratic aide told fox news the investigation centered on a political appointee at the state department who allegedly performed personal tasks for mike pompeo and his wife. yesterday, here at the rose garden, president trump talked about vaccines, switching topic to coronavirus. that's why he's up at camp david. i mentioned camp david this weekend. yesterday he announced operation warp speed, a public, private partnership with private companies and the military and the department of health and human services to get vaccines to the american people as soon as possible. 100 million doses by fall, it's quite an ambitious deadline, 200 million doses by decembe december 300 million doses by january of 2021. president trump before leaving the white house yesterday, leland, said that he hopes to make this vaccine free to all americans. the president called it one of the biggest projects since the manhattan project back during world war ii. leland: first off, you need a vaccine that works before you

can make 100 or 200 million doses of it. still working on that. david, thank you. kristin. kristin: the house passed the largest bill in congressional history, a $3 trillion coronavirus relief package to help struggling states and governments. senate republicans say it is essentially dead on arrival. garrett tenney is here to explain where congress goes from here. >> reporter: it will be head fog the senate. senate -- heading to the senate. senate leadership suggested it's dead on arrival. unlike the four previous coronavirus relief bills, this was not put together in a bipartisan fashion. house democrat leaders put together this legislation on their own and it narrowly passed, 208-199. 14 democrats voted against it. mostly moderates from swing districts who face tough re-election battles this fall. several of them along with republicans are criticizing democratic leaders in playing politics and wasting precious

time instead of working toward a deal that can become law and help the american people. >> they knew it wasn't going anywhere. they knew that the senate wasn't going to take it up. but it was basically a wish list for the democrats. to be fair, i think it is a jobs bill but it's just about the speaker's job and keeping her job as speaker. >> reporter: the heros act includes $200 billion in hazard pay for essential workers, an extension of increased unemployment benefits through january and more than $900 billion for state and local governments. it also includes items not directly related to coronavirus relief, and others that are controversial, such as a $25 billion bailout for the u.s. postal service, $50 million for in. heatherinvestigating links betwn pollution exposure and covid-19 and allowing undocumented immigrants who pay taxes to qualify for another round of

direct payments. democrats who support the measure argue it's what the country needs. >> the republican party says we don't have any money to help you. are you kidding me? where do you guys live? food lines around the blocks at our food banks in the united states of america, one in five kids are going hungry. your party can't even get food to them. this isn't a wish list. if it's a wish list, it's for the working class people. >> reporter: majority leader mitch mcconnell says he does expect there will be another relief package but republican leadership, they want to wait a little bit because a lot of the funding that has already been approved is still working its way out so they want to wait to see exactly what steps need to be taken next. no idea, no time line right now on when that might happen. kristin. kristin: yes, certainly sounds like it's still several more weeks away. garrett tenney, thank you. leland. leland: one congressman who voted for, one congressman who

voted against the bill coming up in a couple minutes. meantime, a u.s. official say models are predicting the country will top 100,000 deaths in just the next couple of weeks. aishah hasnie following the latest on that from what is still ground zero in new york. hi, aishah. >> reporter: hi, leland. good afternoon to you. yes, it is a grim milestone and it's coming up here fast. we're expected to surpass 100,00100,000 deaths by june 1s, that coming from the cdc director. he tweeted some details about that, saying 12 different models forecasted an increase in deaths in the coming weeks. so far, new york, new jersey and massachusetts, they account for nearly half of the nation's coronavirus deaths. despite that, new jersey reopening some popular beaches on friday under social distancing guidelines, of course. new york plans to reopen all of its state run beaches memorial day weekend while new york city public beaches will remain closed.

governor cuomo announcing just a little while ago that he's open to restarting even more parts of the economy. listen. >> what economic activity is willing to reopen without a crowd, they're talking about this in terms of sports, you're going to have baseball without a crowd. but it can still be televised. great. if you can have economic activity without a crowd, that's great. >> reporter: meantime, jc penney now the biggest retailer to file for bankruptcy since the pandemic. the department store chain says it will have to shutter some of its stores. niemann marcus, j crew have also gone bankrupt. travel is going to change. whenever you decide to get on a plane again, tsa prepared to check temperatures as soon as next week. a senior trump official says the initial rollout will cost less than $20 million and passengers will not be charged additional fees for that.

no word on which airports are included in the initial rollout. the details are still being worked out. leland: so much to figure out about that. aishah, thanks so much. kristin, it's interesting, i was talking to a senior homeland security source who was telling me is the issue is the difference between security and security theater to effectively check temperatures is incredibly difficult, if for no other reason you have to get close to somebody to do it and they're not sure they can train the tsa agents in the next week to be properly protected to be able to walk up to somebody who is potentially sick and take their temperature. kristin: there's certainly a lot of questions about how this is going to be implemented right now. so as the country works to really try to contain the pandemic, another top priority is of course making sure that our hospitals, nurses, doctors, that they have all of the ppe that they need at this point in time. so joining us now to discuss how the u.s. is modernizing its

supply chain, we have the fema supply chain task force lead, navy rear admiral john beluvchek. i would like to ask about the project air bridge, to ply ppe from asian manufacturers to u.s. host suppliers. it is apparently winding down. i wanted to ask you, why now? >> sure, kristin. thanks, that's a great question. in the beginning, when i first got to fema from the pentagon, quickly realized that we're dependent on asia for a lot of this medical supplies. and so to beat the time distance equation from asia via surface transportation, via maritime means, the quickest way was to fly it here. so to beat that 37 days. so that first air bridge flight

i believe was on march 29th. so well after a month now into that. and so as the supply chain has stabilized, it's time to shift the air bridge down to back to the surface maritime mode. i can't guarantee that we won't fly some items here and there as we go through the month of june into july. kristin: so if more needs do arise in terms of ppe, fema will consider flying more flights from these asian countries on a case by case basis or how would that work? >> right. on a case by case basis. right now, i personally am concerned about the amount of isolation gowns for our healthcare workers, for various means within the supply chain. if isolation gowns don't become more available, we may fly them. we have stood up u.s.

manufacturing to manufacture isolation gowns with our textile industry and so as that comes online, if we have a higher need than what i'm projecting then we may fly additional gowns in. but i'm really looking forward to the u.s. production of textile gowns. kristin: are you confident -- aside from these gowns, are you confident that the united states has enough ppe going forward as we head into what could be a potential second wave of the coronavirus? >> so, kristin, what i'd like to do is run through the strategic national stockpile and what we're calling strategic national stockpile next. president trump, his trip toalentown, veins veientown, ped out the strategy. it's about being self-sufficient, more resilient. if i could walk through the strategic national stockpile

next, it's about more items on the shelf, more range, the numbers of line items and more depth, the boxes on the shelf. so for example, strategic national stockpile did not have swabs or testing supplies in it. we're going to put those items on there. and for example, it didn't have enough depth. it had about 5 million isolation gowns in it. and when we use those 5 million isolation gowns, we were done and 5 million isolation gowns is like a week's worth of new york city's hospital of isolation gowns. so more items on the shelf, more depth. also, a better way -- kristin: admiral -- >> yes, go ahead. kristin: i just wanted to make sure i get in one question. and i have to ask you about some of the criticism that's come from some governors who say that there hasn't been enough

visibility from fema in terms of where these supplies are coming from, where they're going, how they're being distributed, how much of these supplies there are. what would be your response to those governors who say that, who have complained? >> so my response to the governors that are indicating that they don't have visibility, the vice president holds a weekly governor's call that impart of and every monday these governors are getting down to a county level a report that details out on a county by county basis what the commercial industry has provided to them and what fema has provided. we do that in a sense of very open transparency. in fact, the commercial marketplace, i have access to all of their business data. we aggregate it here and fema and i can tell you down to the hospital level of who's got

what. we provide that to the governors. kristin: you say their complaints are unfounded. final question. what would you say to doctors, nurses, people working in hospitals, what would be your message to them to reassure them that they are going to have the supplies that they need going forward to fight covid-19? >> we are rebuilding our national stockpile. we're looking to put 90 days of material in the national stockpile. along with -- kristin: and do you think it will be rebuilt in time? >> i believe we're going to have a lot of the work done by this fall and we're also going to be bringing u.s. manufacturing back to here so we can have surge capacity to not be reliant on overseas sources. kristin: admiral, thank you so much. i know you're a busy man these days. we appreciate you taking the time to talk to us. >> thank you. thanks for having me. kristin: thank you. leland. leland: congressional democrats voted late last night to spend 3 trillion of our dollars on

coronavirus relief and a few other things along the way. the vote broke largely on party lines. dennis rigl eman voted against it. he joins us now. you know it better than just about anybody given your district and the way it lays out, how many folks are hurting and need help right now. what's your message here? this isn't the right bill? it's not the right time for a bill? they need to go to local food banks more? what's the mess damage. >> i think the message was this, when i first saw this bill there's a military acronym, wgbsm. i'll give you the pg verse. you've got to be spitting me. i put in a top 10 list of things i couldn't believe. one was why are we giving i'll legal immigrants stimulus checks. i couldn't believe it. i couldn't believe the osha requirements. i know people want to say wish liss. this was an overtly political

bill. i couldn't believe it. i'm affected by this personally. i have two companies in pennsylvania and virginia. we had to open those yesterday in phase one in virginia. it was a pretty tense day and we can go into that another time. but right now, we actually need to just help those individuals an businesses getting up on their feet right now and not looking at some political bill that just came out of the blue or looks like they compiled everything from the past 16 months and threw it into a covid cares act. leland: mitch mcconnell seems to be willing to say we need to wait, we need to see, we need to let the stimulus of phase one, two and three get through the system, et cetera. from what you're seeing on the ground with your businesses and your constituents, is there time to wait or is additional federal dollars needed. >> >> on the ground, we had to leverage three different lines of credit in order to get through, plus ppp going forward for our companies. we're seeing people getting the ppp, they're doing okay, not great, but they're doing okay. leland: congressman, i'm not talking about business, i'm talking about folks who lost their jobs. listen to congressman tim ryan.

democrat, who seems to think republicans are heartless. take a listen. >> global pandemic, 36 million people unemployed, 40% of families who have a worker that makes $40,000 a year or less lose their job last month. 4 million people didn't pay their rent and the republican party says we don't have any money to help you. are you kidding me? where do you guys live? leland: do you not have money or you don't want to spend it the way the democrats want to. >> we don't want to spend it that way. instead of emotional high per he -- i think i'm tired of that crap. why don't we have a solution based response and have adults in the room, looking how we help businesses. businesses drive people getting back to work. instead of screaming and yelling, putting tripe in a bill, why don't we look at this like we did in the past three bills that were bipartisan and say this is how we want to go forward and do things. that's why i did the wgbsh in

the beginning. it's just enough. we turned 13 democrats on my mtr. you saw how many democrats voted against the bill. leland: nancy pelosi, there's nobody better probably in washington with the exception of maybe mitch mcconnell to be equal to, whipping votes and getting the party in line and she lost more than a dozen democrats who came from swing districts. any fourth version of coronavirus relief is going to include something conceivably as it relates to china, bringing back u.s. manufacturing, et cetera. this is what we've gotten from the chinese, this is from one of their propaganda rags over there. the global times. i think i'm okay to say that. >> you're exactly right, lee hand. it's a problem bega propaganda . leland: the u.s. has to pay a heavy price for suppressing huawei, the expansion of china's market is in the global economy.

the u.s. initiated decoupling with china's high tech sector, which will weaken their global competitiveness. earlier this week they were threat thing members of the united states senate individually, some of those members of the senate took it as a matter of pride. the question is this, do they have a point, that decoupling from china is not going to be a pain-free process for the united states and are we in a position to do that? >> it won't be pain-free. in some aspects we have to. i'm on the china task force and me and you have talked. beforehand i was a senior consultant at the pentagon, electronic warfare and counter measures. i'm going to tell you right now, china is a threat. we can come to the table and say hey. is it not sunshine and lollipops right now. how about we look at three areas where china is threatening us or not treating us fairly, geopolitical, economically and militarily. leland: i'm not sure there's a fourth way in life when it comes to issues between two countries.

i want to get to this real quickly. you turned one of your distilleries into a hand sanitizer manufacturer at your own expense to help communities that couldn't get hand sanitizers. where are we on that project? >> i think we've given away a half million ounces of hand sanitizer. the people that have come to the distillery and the hospitals, uva testing centers, any type of ambulance driver, emergency medical technician, we will give you hand sanitizer. the list is long. we've seen america come together and it's a beautiful thing to see. leland: it certainly has and you were one of the very first people to make that conversion and we appreciated that. we're glad to have you on to talk about it then. we'll have you back when we can sit next to each other, either on the set or sometime out in the field. >> nice digs out here. looks like i'm really outside. i love it. leland: the magic of television. good to see you. >> thanks.

leland: reaction from the other side of the aisle, democratic congressman matt cartright who voted for the bill joins us live. also tomorrow chris wallace has an exclusive interview with the former cdc director on fox news sunday. you're going to want to check your local listing for time and channel. kristin: controversy in michigan where governor whitmer is facing criticism over her state of emergency. we'll talk to a leader in the state legislatures about the lawsuit they're filing against her after the break. ♪ limu emu & doug [ siren ] give me your hand! i can save you... lots of money with liberty mutual! we customize your car insurance so you only pay for what you need!

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leland: the largest earthquake to hit western nevada in over 60 years split the main highway between reno and las vegas. you can see the cracks in the highway right there. the magnitude 6.5 earth quake shook the region early friday. no injuries were reported. the cracks in the road were 35 miles from the epicenter. kristin: more and more states are beginning to reopen. local lawmakers are trying to balance restarting their economies with keeping people safe. joining us now are two officials from states that have been hit particularly hard by the coronavirus. we've got michigan state house speaker lee chatfield and the

chairman of the board of supervisors in madison county, new york. john becker. thank you both so much. it's sofa so fascinating. michigan of course still under a state-wide stay at home order. in madison county, you're one of the counties in new york who has started phase one of reopening. so chairman, i'm going to start with you. how's it going? >> thank you for having us. it seems to be going well so far. we're in a five county region in central new york and our circumstances are different than they are in new york city and we've been pushing the governor to open up and he has opened up some of the regions in the state. we feel that it's very important that we get our small businesses back to work, get our sales tax revenue moving along and we've been shut down for two months. we can't afford much more. kristin: when you see what's

happening in madison county, new york, how it is beginning to reopen, are you a little bit jealous? >> well, we would love to see that here in michigan. obviously, the state of michigan, the law's very clear. in order for a state of emergency to be extended it requires an act of the legislature and it requires our approval. we did not give that to the governor because there was no real concession on her part that she would work with us but what she did after that is she took really what you could describe as an unprecedented and unconstitutional action in extending the state of emergency on her own and now we are in court. this was avoidable. during a crisis and during a pandemic we would prefer a patch, that's how we've -- partnership. that's how we've gotten through them in the past. we have a governor who declared she is above the law and we are in court over that. kristin: what would you like to see happen in michigan? >> i would like to see us uphold the regular democratic process. the question before the court right now is not the policy of

the governor's executive orders. the question is not her intentions or has she taken it serious enough. the question before the court is can the governor not just declare a state of emergency but carry on, kristin, indefinitely, therefore rendering the legislature completely meaningless. my question is what would congress say if president -- kristin: i guess my question -- sorry to interrupt. there's a bit of a delay. i guess my question is if you were governor, how would you go about reopening the state right now? >> well, the one size fits all approach is the wrong call for our state. we have 83 counties. each region has been impacted in different ways. i think our strategy needs to recognize that. over 90% of the cases and deaths are in four counties in southeast michigan. we are regionalizing our relief efforts, getting them the supplies, the resources that they need but the governor's one size fits all approach is leading to millions of families being hurt unnecessarily and they're being told they can't work a job eve when it can be --

even when it can be done safely. we have to ditch the essential versus nonessential model and get rid of the one size fits all. we have to make it regional and risk based. we have been calling on the governor to do that. we have to uphold the laws. in a pandemic, the laws need to be followed. all we want is a partnership. the people of our state deserve a seat at the table. we're going to keep fighting for them. kristin: i want to jump in. when you talk about the patchwork approach that's kind of what's happening in new york state, new york city still under lockdown but many other counties reopening, madison county where the chairman is from is one of them. so chairman, how do you think that approach so far has been going in your state since the speaker would like to see that happen in his state. >> well, i think it's worked out well. the governor realizes that we have to move forward. we're a heavily reliant state on sales tax and if we don't have

any businesses open and people aren't working they're not spending money on goods and paying sales tax and if there's no businesses open, we're not generating any sales tax. it's not all about sales tax. it's about keeping people safe and i've said it before. only you can keep yourself safe. by wearing your face covering, keeping your distances, the governor said that, not having mass gatherings. we feel that retail can open up, hair salons, barber shops by appointment only, dmv by appointment only, people keep their distance and keep masks on, we think they can stay safe and we can be open for business. i'd like to see in the next three or four weeks everything get open for business. kristin: final question to the speaker. a detroit man is facing a felony charge after allegedly making credible threats to kill governor gretchen whitmer and the attorney general. what would be your message to some of the protesters who have

been so upset with what she's doing? >> well, obviously there's nothing more american than sharing your frustration with government and showing up and protesting but we've been encouraging everyone to do so in a safe and responsible way. some of the threats made against the governor are completely wrong and people should be punished for it. millions of families are hurting in our state right now. there's a process by which we make our voice heard to government. it's not through threat, not through some of the way we've seen people in our state protest. there are real people who are hurting and there's a safe and responsible way to protest and assemble and petition. we encourage everyone to do that in our state. kristin: chairman, speaker, thank you so much. best of luck going forward. leland: that's why people have got to -- >> that's why people have got to go back to work. they're frustrated. they need to get back to work, some sort of knol normalcy here. kristin: thank you both so much.

leland: some states are starting to reopen. others are still closed. there's signs of frustration even when one city's open and and the suburbs aren't. that debate and how it's playing out in missouri when we come back.

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how is this divide going where you've got city -- parts of cities that are open and parts of cities that are not open? >> well, that's really interesting, because you have st. louis city, which is within its own county and surrounded by st. louis county and starting monday st. louis county will only allow bars to be open if they serve food and then in the city of st. louis bars will be open even if they don't serve food and then across the river you from to eddie sholer's place and no one can go in for dining in because that's in illinois and the guidelines are completely different. leland: how well are people taking all of this? are you feeling like people who are in eddie's position, not him specifically, are going to be at the point of saying if the guy across the street can be open, i

might as well open up as well? >> that's exactly it. it cuts two ways. first of all, you've got fast eddie's, bonair, that's a bar and their customers will go to the city of st. louis if they want to go to a bar and not eat. at the same time, there's a health club in st. louis county, it's called house of payne, two locations, and the owner there wants to open up in defiance of st. louis county's guidelines. the guidelines say no gyms can be open. how fair is that to the competitors of house of pain who have to remain closed. leland: i'm guessing there's gyms in st. charles county or other places nearby that can be open. how fair is it to them? has any of this been tested in the courts in missouri like it has been in which is consistent son? are you hearing rumblings of that. >> the house of pain case is in court right now and there was a technical difficulty last

thursday. it's continuing. so the judge hasn't ruled. you bring up st. charles. that's a completely different county and the county executive there has let businesses decide what they want to do. so it's really cattywampus around here. leland: has it gone cattywampus in terms of how people are dealing with it? are people saying i'm going to go for it anyway or are people believing in the elected leaders. >> there are some defiant ones who want to stick it to the governor of illinois or the county executive or whatever. but i think, leland, most people are flying under the radar and they're doing what they want to do, some to stay at home, safely, and others like during cinco de mayo, gathering at a kirkwood, missouri mexican restaurant or outside in downtown st. louis, urban youth

gather at shoddo and the whatever owharfin the evenings. the police have been breaking it up. people haven't been loud about it and doing their own thing, going to their offices in clayton. traffic is heavy in clayton, even though there's no retail, no schools are open, but people are going about their business. leland: we're watching a video from jefferson city three plus weeks ago, there's no social distancing in that video at that protest, nobody is wearing masks. if you look at st. louis who is not exactly an economic rocket ship before all of this happened, is this going to be the push off of the cliff for parts of the missouri economy and st. louis specifically? >> well, i don't know if it's going to go off the cliff. but it's a huge problem for the city of st. louis, for the county, for the state. if people aren't working, they're not paying the same taxes, if they're not pieing things, not paying sales

factions. i -- sales taxes. if you're a business and the government shut you down, do you have to pay the same property taxes? you can bet there will be a lot of appeals there. yeah, it's going to be a disaster. leland: already in chesterfield, the police all took pay cuts to avoid furloughs of 10 or 12 officers. the pain is just beginning. charlie, appreciate it as always. have a great rest of the weekend and looking forward to have a ted bruze together some time when i'm back in town. all the best, my friend. kristin. kristin: one of the brightest spots throughout the pandemic have been our heroes in the healthcare industry. along with grueling hours, many have to learn new skills on the job. matt fin takes us inside one of chicago's hospitals. matt. >> reporter: kristin, there's been so much talk about how life-saving ventilators can be for critical covid patients and

doctors and healthcare workers tell us placing a patient on a ventilator is one of the most dangerous procedures because it requires healthcare workers to stand over a patient's mouth and insert a tube into their throat and for months now medical professionals that are trained to use the ventilators have been working grueling shifts. if they get sick or need time off, other healthcare workers could get called in. some of the most highly qualified medical providers, even doctors with more than a decade of experience, tell us if that's tomorrow they would not be fully prepared to place a covid patient on a ventilator. >> is about 15 years since i've done an intubation. yes, i've done it. but it's not something that i would feel comfortable doing right now off the bat. >> reporter: so here in cook county, chicago which johns hopkins lists at the county with the most confirmed cases nationwide, they are training hundreds of medical workers to

be ready to intubate should they be called in. trainees tell us working with ventilators on life dark like-ls is preparing them for the real deal. >> now that i've done it 100 times in the past month, i feel more comfortable. >> reporter: the american medical association and doctors we talk to say this type of training is in demand globally and any facility that conducts the training is expected to do so as needed. kristin. kristin: matt fin, live in chicago. thanks. leland. leland: nursing homes and other assisted living facilities have become a hot bed for the coronavirus with thousands upon thousands of deaths. what's being done now to protect america's most vulnerable population, when we come back.

kristin: we all know nursing homes have been hit incredibly hard by the coronavirus. senior living facilities, they face very similar risks.

our next guest says they've been one of the most overlooked players in the pandemic. and he's trying to change that. president and ceo of arjentem, james baldis. i would like you to explain the difference in funding for nursing homes versus the senior living communities and how that's hurting the senior living communities in the pandemic. >> thank you for having me. there is a distinct difference between senior living facilities and nursing homes. our communities are predominantly a private pay model where residents choose to move the communities for the support and socialization. nursing homes and skilled nursing facilities are reimbursed through medicare and medicaid. so as a result, we have been overlooked for ppe certainly, for testing, and for financial support. we think we're the only provider, caring for seniors that have covid-19 that hasn't received any financial support

yet and we're trying to make policy makers aware. kristin: nothing? >> no support yet. kristin: you say no financial -- what about loans through the ppp program? are you eligible to apply for those? >> some very small providers, we're able to qualify for some of those loans. but most communities wouldn't qualify because the companies have more than 500 employees caring for residents and so where restaurants were able to get support through that program as part of a carve-out, our communities were not able to. and it's really critical that we get access to some of that financial relief and the financial relief that's in the hhs provider fund that was initially passed as part of the cares act. kristin: so you say these senior living communities, who help and house obviously one of the populations that's most veal in yourable to the vie -- vulnerable virus, receiving no financial support help overall. you say they've been overlooked. what do you want to change?

>> we need to be prioritized for personal protective equipment, just as other healthcare providers have been. that's really critical for us as well as access to testing for our residents and our team members. but our communities have been solving that problem from day one. they've been putting together purchasing co-ops, shipping ppe overseas -- from overseas to make sure team members have adequate supply. but all of that is putting a real financial strain on the communities and this is at a time when we know the rest of the country's going to return to normal but our communities are going to be battling this virus for the next 12 months, at least. kristin: right. and we know that the death toll has just been horrific at a lot of these nursing homes. what's it been like for senior living communities. >> we're cautiously optimistic that the outcomes will be better. while our residents do fit in many cases the same profile as those in skilled nursing facilities, a lot of nursing

home patients do have more complications related to medical issues. but our residents are over 85, have multiple chronic conditions, but our communities we're also putting in place protocols early on, often before states were requiring things like restricting visitation or limiting communal dining, they were implementing those policies early on in the crisis. our communities physically are a little different. most residents have their own apartment. when you do need to isolate and self-quarantine, it's easier to do that and reduce the spread of the virus. we are cautiously optimistic that the outcomes are better. we're seeing that in providers that are talking about 1% cases of covid-19 across their entire residence population. kristin: i've got to run. thank you so much. best of luck getting the funding you need. >> thank you so much. leland: elon musk says he's ready to move, a noted elon musk

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leland: memorial day weekend is coming up in just about a week, a time to honor and remember our nation's war heroes.

not everyone will be able to visit the final resting place for many of those heroes. arlington national cemetery will be closed to the public this memorial day due to the coronavirus pandemic. families of fallen military service members buried at the cemetery will be permitted to visit graves of the loved ones but tours are not allowed. having spent several memorial days at arres arlington, it wile interesting to see how it goes. there's a chance that it being reserved for the families will give them peace and quiet and time to spend with loved ones that they haven't be years past. kristin: they will get a lot more solitude than they normally would over memorial day weekend and at least the families get to go and do this. if you've been to arlington national cemetery, you know it involves a lot of driving. i think there is a way for everyone to do it in a safe way and maintain social distance. a lot of times you stay in your car. i hadn't thought of that, leland.

that's a nice way of putting it, at least the families will get to visit their loved ones in peace and quiet. leland: indeed. kristin: as more businesses reopen their doors, customers and employees embrace a new normal. we're going to be talking to a small business owner about what they are doing, the steps they're taking to keep everybody safe, that's up next. i just love open road and telling people that liberty mutual customizes your insurance, so you only pay for what you need! [squawks] only pay for what you need. ♪ liberty. liberty. liberty. liberty. ♪ tuna for jj. turkey for tj. turkey for jj. tuna for tj. this is why we named your brother derek. get a free footlong yup, free. when you buy one on the subway app. order now.

kristin: fox news is learning new information about president trump's decision to fire the state department inspector general with a source saying that it was secretary of state mike pompeo who recommended the move. reel come to america's news headquarters -- welcome to america's news headquarters from washington. i'm kristin fisher. leland, two hours down, one to go. leland: one to go and a lot of news breaking on this saturday. i'm leland vittert. president trump's decision came in a letter quite literally late last night amid reports that linick opened an investigation into pompeo. david spunt live at the white house with more on this. and also the list of inspector generals that the president has let go. >> reporter: good afternoon. this is the fourth in recent weeks. a democratic aide confirms to fox news that mike pompeo was under investigation for aledgedly using a political appointee at the department of state to perform personal tasks

for hi he and his wife. president trump took off for camp david yesterday afternoon. but by 10:00 p.m. last night, that's when the word broke that trump had fired linick and it would go into effect in about a month. mr. linick began working as the inspector general at the state department in 2013. he's been somewhat critical of the trump administration. he briefed members of congress behind closed doors back in the fall about ukraine in the middle of congress' impeachment inquiry. late on a friday night, as i mentioned friday night in early april the president fired michael atkinson, inspector general of the intelligence community. a few days later he removed mike fine and then again on friday, he took action to remove kristie grim, this was in early may, over at the department of health and human services from her position. now, i mentioned camp david. that's where the president is

right now, meeting with republican membe members of cons and close aides talking about vaccine development, a mot moden day manhattan project. the goal is to get as many vaccines to as many people in the united states as possible. i want to show you this graphic, it's quite remarkable. it's an ambitious deadline, 100 million doses by fall, 200 million doses by december, 300 million doses by january 2021. now, when asked in the rose garden yesterday during the announcement if president trump was worried about competition with other countries getting a vaccine first, he said he's not worried about it. so be it. listen. >> we have no ego. we have no ego. whoever gets it we think it's great. we're going to work with them, they're going to work with us. likewise, if we get it, we're going to be working with them. >> reporter: when asked if china developed a vaccine first, president trump said he believes china would share the vaccine with the united states, this comes as the department of

homeland security and the fbi warned just a few days ago that people in china are already hacking vaccine research right here in the united states. leland. leland: really important warning in terms of what the chinese have been doing, stealing corporate secrets, et cetera. david spunt, thank you very much. house democrats passed a $3 trillion relief bill, despite opposition. joining us now, member of the house appropriations committee, matt cartright and co-chair of the communications committee. we appreciate you being with us. reasonable people can agree there are a lot of americans who are in enormous pain right now financially and need help desperately. the question is this. why in that case pass a bill that you all know has no chance of becoming law? why not focus on a bill immediately that would have the best chance of getting any money into these people's hands? >> well, hi, leland. great to be with you again.

look, here's my major concern in all of this. we are looking down the barrel of a bad, bad economic recession in this country. leland: we are. >> and look, i love what the fed is doing to loosen up monetary policy but we have to loosen up fiscal policy as well. we have to get the money flowing in this country and it has to include money going to states and counties and cities. look, there are police nan have to be paid and their families have to be fed and if we go without policemen this country, that's not something that we want. leland: true. we had a police chief on a couple weeks ago, his entire department took pay cuts in order to make sure that nobody got furloughed. but you say we need to be able to get money into the hands of policemen and do other things like that, all meaningful things. but if you look at the list of what's in this bill, there's a lot of other stuff in there. here's sens senator mike lee, hs some of the things were in the

heros act. $75 billion for testing and contact tracing among other things, rent and mortgage relief and this was senator mike lee's specific issues. take a listen. >> the word cannabis appears more times in this bill than the word jobs, trillion dollar payout with mismanaged states. leland: go back to the first question. if this is so urgent as you point out, why not just pass the direct fiscal stimulus of direct payments to americans, get that across the board and then come back later if you need to and negotiate on these other points the rest of the summer? >> leland, it's a fair point. i didn't put that in the bill. what i put in was hazard pay for frontline workers, an extra $13 an hour for nurses. emts, first responders, grocery store workers keeping us alive. these people are in harm's way. while we're passing federal money out, i don't think we

should leave the heros behind. i was thrilled that my bill made it into the heroes act. another one of my priorities was legal help lines for seniors, that made it in the bill as well. there's a lot of things -- leland: is there anything -- for give m me for asking in this way, is there anything that people proposed that didn't make it in the bill? $3 trillion, there seems to be something for everybody. >> this is a starting point. i'm coming to you from washington. this is a place where we -- if you go around looking for a fight, you can find one. but there's a lot of compromise that goes on. it doesn't make the news. but it does go on. and, yes, we need mitch mcconnell to come to the table and sit down with democratic leadership and work out what can remain in the bill because here's the thing. right now we've got 15% unemployment, for the next six months according to the cbr which is nonpartisan. leland: you don't need to make -- we've been doing segment after segment about the tough time that americans are having and the lines at food banks and

how people are having to skip meals because they need to be able to feed their kids, et cetera. no argument there. the question is, why start with a starting point? if the need is so dire and it is across america, why not pass an emergency bill to send out another $1,500 in checks and leave it there and have a chance perhaps to have gotten something done this week and next for the american people rather than saying we're going to start negotiating and maybe by the end of summer we'll have compromise? >> well, now you're talking about the nuts and bolts of legislation. and what do they say, don't examine how sausage or legislation is made. [ laughter ] >> you know, that's an old saying. and it's true. but the truth is, we need to come together. this is not a time when democrats and republicans need to be s quabbling over every little thing. mitch mcconnell needs to come to the table, tell us what he doesn't like and a lot of the

stuff will come out and we'll move forward many this is a time to come together. we're looking at 9.5% unemployment through the end of 2021. leland: we're already in a terrible spot. i know as you head back from washington, as you often do, back home, you see folks who are in really tough places and want to help them. congressman, we appreciate your time as always, sir. thank you. >> my pleasure, lee hand. be well. leland: you too, sir. kristin. kristin: as you know, more and more businesses are reopening across the country and they're implementing new strategies to try to keep people safe. so joining us now is the owner of village bowl in menominee falls, wisconsin, pete rabell and the owner of a spa in arizona, mark honik. your business has been back open for a little over a week now. how is it going and what are some of the new strategies you're implementing at your salon? >> you know, things are actually going really great.

we're able to get back to the nail salon, for people to pamper themselves and people with a medical need, with diabetes or the elderly and people that can't get the jobs done themselves. we can't have people going to the podiatrist when you have a nail salon that can take care of it for you. people are loving being back. we're taking extra, extra measures to make sure we clean even light switches to the front door, to every station, after every client, whether it's a station or a manicure station. we're going that extra mile above and beyond the cdc and giving our clients a bottle of free hand ti sanitizer when they leave for ventures throughout the day. kristin: pete, you're watching from wisconsin. perhaps you're jealous of mark because your business, your bowling lane is not allowed to be back open and your family owned village bowl since 1961. how are you guys doing?

>> well, we actually opened yesterday. the state supreme court made a decision and opened everybody up on wednesday night. we decided to open on -- last night. so we're actually open now. kristin: well then i imagine you're not jealous at all and you're probably thrilled to be open after weeks of being closed. so what are some of the new strategies that you have put in place to keep people safe? and you know, i've got to say, i never thought about how viruses and germs could spread so easily at a bowling lane but you start to think about it, everybody's touching the same balls and equipment. so what are you guys doing? what are some of the change that's you've made? >> well, fortunately our trade association, the bpa, created a thorough resource center for us and proprietors around if nation to go on and look at the

recommendations, the cdc guidelines they've developed for us to implement. we have actually decided to go to a 50% capacity at our center so that we can do social distancing, every other lane or every pair of lanes depending on how many people come in, we're doing sterilization of the bowling equipment, the shoes, so we've got a lot of protocols to keep our customers safe and our employees safe. kristin: and i know just because you're open doesn't mean that people will actually come. so pete, i know you've been open for less than 24 hours, but what has the demand been like? how many people are coming in. >> actually, we were cautiously optimistic and we were very busy last night. so it was a great first test. our customers were happy to come in, nobody had any complaints about sitting at segregated

tables, nobody had any issues with any of the equipment. it's been great feedback from all our customers and they know from the signage that they have that our first priority is our -- the health and safety of our customers and our employees. kristin: mark, final question to you. what has demand been like at your nail salon and what is your response to some other small business owners in arizona who have said that they feel like it's simply too soon to reopen? >> we've had a huge demand, actually. we got the opportunity -- the eighth was the day we could reopen. we opened at midnight and we were booked from midnight to 6:30 p.m. with customers, definitely loving to be able to get their nails done, pedicures done, all the different services we provide. as far as the -- people and their mindsets, maybe this is too early or whatnot, obviously everyone has an opinion and right now i would say majority

of the people that come into our shop right now i would say probably around the 80/20 rule, 80% are saying oh, my god we need to get on with our lives. this is america. we didn't build america based upon fear. yes, there is a virus out there but let's be smart, keep families safe but move our families, friends, relationships and our businesses forward so that way when this is over, we can look back and know that we were prepared to make things happen and continue to make america the way it should be, which is great. kristin: mark, pete, i don't know about you but i would love to get my nails done right about now and i would also love to go bowling. best of luck as you begin reopening. stay safe and thank you for taking the time to come on the show and talk to us. >> thank you. >> thank you. leland: kristin, you're a bowler, i didn't know that. i learn something new every day. kristin: i'm not. i'm also not a golfer. i recently started to play golf or watch others play golf. leland: you like the margaritas

and the beer while your his plays golf. kristin: you've outed me, yes. leland: your instagram outed you. i did not. but the nail thing i can understand. moving along. there are new questions about whether the u.s. will continue to fund the world health organization. china is calling out the united states for owing more than $1 billion to the united nations in unpaid dues. kitty logan joins us with the accounting. hi, kitty. >> reporter: hi, leland. the background for this is increasing tensions between the u.s. and china. the u.s. government has been highly critical of china's handling of the coronavirus crisis. president trump has even threatened to cut trade ties over this. the chinese government yesterday calling the greater cooperation between the two countries over the pandemic and today in wuhan we saw the authorities have started there a large scale

testing program, the turnout has been so high it's caused concern about the crowds gathering there. this is all because there have been some reports of new cases in wuhan since the lockdown was lifted there around a month ago. in all, around 4,600 people have died of the virus in china, although that figure has of course been questioned and president trump has often said that china is ultimately responsible for the global outbreak and critics say that china's control of the information flow at the very start stalled the early warning system about the disease. speaking in the u.k. two days ago the chinese ambassador to britain denied his country was responsible, saying china has been a victim of the outbreak. the ongoing tensions between the u.s. and china over coronavirus are threatening this trade deal between the two countries that was signed back in january, of course. a white house economic advisor

says the deal still stands although there have been concerns it could fall apart after president trump said he would reconsider it, sparking fears perhaps of another trade war developing. but back in china, away from all this, away from the politics, there are some signs of normal life returning. on saturday, today, hundreds of people were allowed to visit the beach in the south, albeit with strict controls, masks and temperature checks. meanwhile, the questions about how this virus originated and who perhaps might partially be to blame for the spread around the world, those questions, leland, will linger for some time to come. back to you. leland: and also questions about what data and information out of china we can even believe at this time. kitty logan. thanks so much. kristin. kristin: joe biden is addressing 2020 graduates at delaware state university's virtual commencement today.

the former vice president will be speaking a day after a top bernie sanders campaign advisor warned that biden may be in trouble in securing support from sanders' supporters. jacqui heinrich live with more. hi, jacqui. >> reporter: hey, kristin. biden delivered brief pretaped remarks at the delaware virtual graduation, touched on rebuilding america after the pandemic. a former senior advisor to bernie sanders' campaign is pushing for biden to rebuild is campaign. he warned biden hasn't pulled enough support from sanders' base to beat president trump in november despite the policy task force coalition. he pointed to a usa poll which showed 14% of sanders' supporters don't plan to vote for biden and 60% said they weren't excited to support his nomination. we've said the former vice president needs to get latinos, working class voters and young

people on board to make a difference in seven states, writing the biden campaign and democratic national committee are far behind in digital organizing and coalition building, critical to winning supporters. president trump's campaign is ramping up ad spending in swing states as biden's committee announced a new fund raising agreement which allows them to match the advantage coordinating with the party and state parties. biden is facing a sex assault allegation from a former staffer. he denies the allegations and says that voters should listen to their hearts. >> i think had should vote their heart. if they believe tara reade, they probably shouldn't vote for me. i wouldn't vote for me if i believed tara reade. look at tara reade's story. it changes considerably. >> reporter: yesterday pbs published an interview with 74 former staffers including 62 women who worked in biden's

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leland: elon musk has suggested that tesla is going to move its headquarters from california to texas or nevada so it can start reopening his businesses. over the last few weeks, musk has criticized california's shelter in place orders and restrictions related to the pandemic. last week his company pushed back on the county there, saying we will continue to put people back to work in a safe and responsible manner. however, the county's position left us no choice but to take legal action to ensure tesla and employees can get back to work. elon musk enthusiast kristin fisher with us, as always on these topics. all right, so this is sort of musk getting into this idea of the politics of reopening and how it works. it's not -- doesn't seem that far away from some of the other controversial issues he's weighed in on. kristin: yeah, you know, i

wasn't all that surprised that he decided to wade into this debate. leland: has anything elon musk ever done ever surprised you, ever? kristin: yeah, but i don't want to say it on national television. leland: okay. kristin: i'll tell you during the commercial break. [ laughter ] kristin: but you know, i also would not be surprised if elon musk did decide to move part of tesla to texas because spacex actually has a facility there as well. he's very familiar with texas and as a ta texan myself, born d raised, 18 years, they are business friendly. leland: he's talking about austin, but you've got an enormous standard of living benefit when it comes to california, no state income taxes, et cetera. et cetera. it was interesting how this sort of all ties together because the

president of bar stool sports went on a rant, if you will, on social media about the need to reopen. here's the rant and then we'll talk about about his response. kristin: it was good. >> we're not opening the city until we find a cure? what? find a cure? who said we're going to find a cure. la is shutting down, arizona is opening, florida is opening, seems along political lines. what is going on? and what about people who own businesses? you can't stay closed indefinitely. leland: with that, musk says he would support the run for political office, not president of the united states but el presidente of something. kristin: not only that, but dave portnoy went a step further. you were telling me this. he went a step further and actually created portnoy, musk, 2024 t-shirts.

as journalists we don't like to tip our hat, we like to stay down the middle an don't say what our political affiliations are but since you like to introduce me as a noted elon musk enthusiast, i have to say i'm intrigued by the ticket. leland: imagine that, dave portnoy taking it a step further. he's never done such a thing before. ever. [ laughter ] kristin: it would not be the first time. i've got to say, his instagram or bar stool sports instagram, they have put out quality content during the coronavirus, we can count on them for a good feed. leland: in pinehurst, that's part of the empire. talk about a business that has had to change and recapitalize on the situation, they've done that in a pretty incredible way, considering there's no sports to talk about. we'll see what comes out of dave and elon. a judge's ruling has made major changes in the lives of homeless people living in los angeles

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kristin: a federal judge in los angeles is ordering los angeles city and county to relocate thousands of homeless people who are living under freeways. christina coleman is live to explain. christina, this seems like quite an undertaking. that's a lot of people. how would this happen. >> reporter: this has been an ongoing problem. the judge is giving officials until may 22nd to come up with a plan to provide rieu main humo those that have been staying under overpasses, bridges and near freeway ramps. in ruling he states without adequate access to shelter, hygiene and sanitation fat facilities, individuals facing

homelessness face a greater risk of getting the coronavirus. this comes out of a lawsuit filed by a group called the la alliance for human rights. they say officials aren't addressing homelessness in a comprehensive manner and keep in mind, homelessness in california has been an ongoing crisis. it won't be solved quickly. calcalifornia has more homeless people than any or state in the nation and between 2018 and 2019, homelessness in california increased by more than 21,300 people or 16.4% which is more than the total national increase of every other state combined. this in part due to the severe affordable housing problems here. add the coronavirus crisis to the mix and it presents a tougher situation. efforts are underway to help the homeless throughout california during the pandemic. additional mobile showers and trailers have been set up in various locations. dithe governor announced a progm

that using federal money to obtain hotel and motel rooms to provide shelter to the homeless, for those that are considered most vulnerable to the virus. >> i'm certainly committed to that being a priority. it has been for me for months. if not years. because i think that those folks are the ones that we see, those are the ones we can help, those are the ones where clearly they're having a greater disproportionate bad impact on their health. >> reporter: so far, in la county, just over 2200 people have received shelter through project room key but critics say the program is not helping people fast enough. kristin. kristin: christina coleman, live in la. christina, thanks. leland. leland: health officials in several states are investigating an inflammatory disease impacting children that could be connected to the coronavirus. dr. christopher belcher, good to

see you, sir. we appreciate it. big picture here. are kids in america at real risk of this or is this a one in 100,000 kind of thing? >> you know, even kawasaki was a somewhat rare disease but i see it on a monthly basis or so and there has been a spike recently, as everyone who takes care of these cases has seen. it is something of concern that we're seeing it go up. leland: when you say of concern, in terms of the number of cases you see, you see most of the cases in the state of indiana, are we talking about tens of cases in hundreds of cases? thousands of case? >> a handful. new york city reported over 100 of them, even though they have severe covid outbreak. it's not going to be every child but it is something to be aware of. leland: and how is it manifesting itself in kids? >> the finding mainly is some association with covid, either they've had it or close contact

has had it in the last month and then they get fever and it can affect any system of the body. they may get rashes or gastro intess an -- gastrointestinal complaints. any system can be affected. normally shows itself -- the kids are severe enough to go to the hospital so most people will show up and present for care. leland: as we look at this, as you're sort of watching things happen in indiana, have you yet to see the effects on kids of the shutdown in general in terms of the kids who aren't getting school lunches, for example and responsibility getting supplemental -- for example, and kids who aren't getting supplemental nutrition, increased cases of child abuse that aren't reported, et cetera. >> as an infectious disease doc i don't often deal with those but i have seen a slower uptake of the disease than you thought there was going to be. leland: when you say slower

uptake, you're feeling that the initial thoughts that kids are probably with some notable exceptions safe from the coronavirus still holds true? >> generally, yes. they tend to do better and the severe complications are less frequent but they're not absent. leland: what's the take-away to parents who have seen the headlines, the reason we're doing the segment here, of children now at risk of severe inflammation and kawasaki, et cetera, et cetera, versus the reality of what the risk to all of us is? >> right. it's something to be aware of. not be afraid of. watch for your kids. if they get a fever, if they get illnesses, bad vomiting, bad rashes, diarrhea, things that make you want to call your provider, call your provider and talk about it with them. be aware. leland: when you say be a wear, not be afraid -- be aware, not be afraid. if your kid has a cough and runny nose, that probably doesn't mean he has kawasaki or

the inflammation disease caused by the coronavirus? >> i would agree. yes, that's common sense stuff. these are pretty dramatic illnesses and parents should have a good instinct on when to seek care. leland: the pictures we were showing on the screen, the rain inflammation in some of the kids fingers and feet as well is pretty dramatic. with the best care they can get at the children's hospital, are you seeing kids recover from this or is it a long and dangerous road? >> our patients have done well with this. needs a lot of care, often in the intensive care unit but things have turned out very well for us, thankfully. leland: that's great news and a testament to yours and your seem's skill and dedication. doctor, we appreciate you joining us. >> thank you. leland: all the best. kristin. kristin: a growing number of countries in europe are beginning to relax coronavirus restrictions while still trying to figure out how to keep people healthy and safe. our amy kellogg is live in

florence, italy and amy, how is this effort to loosen restrictions, how is it going in europe? >> reporter: well, it's speeding up and kristin, so far there have not been many setbacks. germany and austria opened up restaurants yesterday and italy is just plowing ahead. they've added both hair salons and restaurants to the list of businesses that can be opened up on monday. and then they're saying, kristin, from june 3rd they're going to throw open borders here, not even requiring those who arrive in italy to go into quarantine. now, again, caution is being urged on all of this and details really are yet to be learned. but the tourism industry, which is so important here in italy and particularly places like venice has just been slammed. some estimate loss as much as 85% for this year. generally, italy's economy is expected to shrink 9% this year. but many people have found ways to recover from disaster like

this, rosen tear near florence that lost a lot of business when spring flower fairs and shows were canceled but made up for it by jazzing up the online marketing to discover a new love of gardening spawned by quarantine. >> people change with this covid because they think more of the way to stay alone without other persons and then it's easy to stay with plants, to work with plants, to get energy with plants. >> reporter: some businesses in europe are back to business with a vengeance, like a place called hair stage in bucharest, romania where friday was d-day but they have so many clients desperate for a fix that they opened up at the stroke of midnight thursday into friday and were taking bookings at 2:00 in the morning, not to let people down. they say they can't keep up this pace for much longer. for now, they plan to be working

from early morning until late at night and kristin, it is still somewhat of a mystery, it's good news for east europe that they didn't get hit in the way that western europe did. the cases and the deaths in places like romania and the czech republic were far fewer than they've been in france and germany and italy. so again, we're seeing a lot of openings here. europe is basically getting back to business, albeit with social distancing and some very close monitoring to make sure those curves don't spike back up. kristin. kristin: wow. after everything that all of europe but where you are, italy in particular has been through, that's so nice to hear and i hope -- i love that salon, staying open until 2:00 a.m. to get through the customers. i hope the salon i go to does that when they finally reopen. would love a haircut. amy kellogg, thank you so much. >> reporter: getting to the root of the problem. [ laughter ] leland: all right. a look at how the pandemic is affecting college students and what one university is doing to

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assist students primarily with those expenses that were completely unexpected, be it rent, utilities, travel, transition to technology and today we've raised $62,000, thanks to the generosity of the trojan nation who really have embraced the culture of caring we espouse here. kristin: how many people have received some of these payments? i mean, $62,000, that's not an insignificant amount. >> no, especially in a short amount of time and already 245 people have benefited from these payments. kristin: that's great. >> that 225 were students, 20 alumni and staff and faculty who also were affected by this. but not only that, we have -- we recognized immediately because of having to leave campus, many of them having to transition online, there was disruption there. we prorated all of the housing,

the parking, meal fees, things like that, and made sure people have that either getting it as a refund or as a credit towards the next semester, if they're coming back. of course, we're a -- kristin we're a flag waving yo university, a grt relationship with the military and we waived the application fee for all of our military as a part of something to help them as well. kristin: looking ahead to the fall semester, i know some universities in california have already come out and said they're not going to be holding in-person classes for the fall semester. what is the status of troy university? are you all at all considering doing something similar? >> no, we're not. we're actually leaning forward and we are going through all the preparations necessary with full intention of opening for classes in the fall. of course, we're balancing this,

following all federal, state guidelines and recommendations for this, meeting regularly, have a task force that stood up because we hold the student at center of everything we do. we care about the student. we care about our faculty and staff. we're going to make sure it's safe and we're going to follow all the precautions. but we're ready to come back. our goal is to be ready to come back in the fall and hold classes of course with modifications to allow for safety. kristin: well, i certainly hope you get to. you and all of the students get to return in the fall, general, thank you so much. >> pleasure being with you. thank you. kristin: leland. leland: quick programming note. water's world tonight, 7:00 p.m. eastern. at 8:00 p.m., graduate together special featuring lebron james, he's going to honor high school graduates of 2020. all right here on the fox news channel. coming up tomorrow, there is the first live golf event since

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for a $3 million purse, that goes to charity. david ablese joins us now. this is unlike any golf tournament i've ever heard of. >> it's special, going to be excited, played at seminole golf club tomorrow. we're fortunate to be a part of it with our partners at the pga tour and importantly nbc. you compete with them but they're doing a wonderful job getting it going. leland: tell us about the charity aspect of this, where the $3 million goes. >> yes. so fortunately we've partnered with the united healthcare group who brought $3 million to the table. of which, that charity, it's all charity, will be donated to the american nurse's foundation as well as the cdc foundation. so every dollar that's earned, every dollar that's competed for tomorrow will go directly to those charities and a series of nominated charities from additional funds that come in throughout the course of the day. leland: so for nongolfers, who are watching this, what to watch for that makes this special?

>> well, i think it's going to be a very relateable event. first of all, all of us as golf fans and sports fans in general will have an opportunity to see live sports which will be absolutely fantastic. we haven't seen live golf since the player's championship was canceled in march. we'll be practicing all the appropriate social distancing, the pga tour will be operating the event. you'll see our athletes in shorts which is something very new. you'll see our athletes carrying their golf bags which for many of us that play and love the game can relate to when we got started. they won't be muching pins. leland: no caddies? >> no caddies. leland: wow. >> no caddies whatsoever tomorrow. the boys will be carrying their bags. leland: have they had to workouts for this? this is not something they're used to. >> we've been in touch with the athletes with great frequency during the pandemic. they're in great shape, very fit. they're ready to go, they can't wait to compete, can't wait to compete for an incredible cause. the winner are the charities

involved. leland: there's $3 million at stake. based on who wins, do they get to decide where this money goes? >> well, they do. so there's $3 million at stake put up again by united healthcare group. each team starts with a half million dollars for their designated charities, primary charities, american nurses foundation, the cdc foundation. it's a skins game format, starting on number one where the teams play for $50,000 a hole, working up to half a million dollars on number 18 and so that money will be distributed to those foundations. but outside of that, if you go to taylor made golf dot-com or pga dot tom yo dot-com you can . all in support of charity. leland: that's awesome. something to watch tomorrow. i'll be there with you guys. i know unfortunately you'll be watching from home, i guess, rather than from seminole golf club but we all have to have our

duty in life. >> we do. we do. but we wish the team the best down there. it will be a wonderful event, i think millions and millions of sports fans around the world will be watching. leland: very cool what you're doing. appreciate you being here. thank you, sir. >> thanks, leland. thanks very much. leland: we got in elon musk and we got in your favorite sport which is golf but you can play tomorrow the same way you normally do with a beer in your hand and watching. kristin: okay. look, i'm just going as a spectator right now because there's not all that much else to do and i would learn -- i would love to learn to play golf. i feel like it takes a long time to get good. but i'll watch on tv. leland: we're sending this clip to your husband. he's going to enjoy that promise. we'll see you tomorrow. is a time for action. so, for a second time we're giving members a credit on their auto insurance. because it's the right thing to do. we're also giving payment relief options to eligible members so they can take care of things like groceries before they worry about their insurance or credit card bills.

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♪ ♪ ♪ eric: most expensive spending package in our nation's history. the three trillion dollar coronavirus relief bill narrowly approved in 208-199 vote last night. democrats say it would help american who is are struggling to make ends meet but republicans have made it clear they say the bill is likely dead on arrival in the senate because they claim that it is just too much money. hello, everyone, welcome to america's news headquarters, i'm eric sean. hi, arthel. arthel: hi, eric, hello, everyone, i'm arthel neville, this is all coming as the cdc