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gillian: more unrest in atlanta after 27-year-old rayshard brooks was killed in officer-involved shooting friday. protests erupting overnight last night shutting down a major highway there where the wendy's where brooks was shut in the parking lot went up in flames. you can't the images on your screen there. some powerful images. welcome to america's news headquarters from washington, d.c., this sunday, great to be with you at home, great to be with you, leland, i'm gillian turner. leland: gillian, nice to be with you as well. they let the wendy's burn for hours, i'm leland vittert.
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showing the moments leading up to brooks' death. jonathan outside of the wendy's where brooks was shot in atlanta. hi, jonathan. jonathan: as you can see protestors, peaceful protestors so far have gathered outside of wendy's that was gutted by a terrible fire yesterday, no one was inside the building at the time, take a look at this video from last night but there were so many people in the street that firefighters weren't able to reach the restaurant until it was fully engulfed in flames, at one point protestors moved to downtown connector, north-south highway through atlanta where interstate 75 and 85 converge for about 7 miles. they temporarily blocked traffic in both directions, so that is a huge disruption to traffic on this major thorough fair. the fatal shooting to rayshard
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brooks, authorities say he fail ed field sobriety test and resisted grabbing officer's taser, fleeing police and briefly pointing what police believed to be the taser pointing at one of the officers. the officer draws his gun and fires at books who falls to the ground. mayor asked for immediate termination of officer garrett who fired the fatal shot and another officer on scene has been placed on duty and the mayor accepted resignation of police chief erika shields. >> chief shields has offered to immediately step aside as police chief so the city may move forward with urgency in rebuilding the trust so desperately needed throughout
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our communities. >> for now the plan is that former chief shields will continue to work for the city, they haven't decided in extracapacity yet and the georgia bureau of investigation has been called in to conduct own independent investigation. leland: more planned protests throughout the day and including at possibly atlanta headquarters jonathan: there are, indeed, right in front of atlanta police headquarters in downtown atlanta and we anticipate that they'll be very large crowds and certainly it seems like the crowd only grow as we go into the evening hours and will, of course, have coverage throughout the day and into the night, leland. leland: and later the potential for violence only goes up. jonathan, thank you so much. gillian. gillian: as we continue tracking those protests in atlanta president trump is getting ready
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to head back to washington, dc; mark, do you think we will hear about any of this? mark: it's certainly possible because he has stopped to chat before boarding air force one many times before, whether or not that will happen this afternoon that's yet to be seen. you may remember, of course, it was just last week the president talked a lot about this police reform and the possibility of an executive order that could be developed. we have not seen the language yet, though, of what that could include, however, we are hearing more from congress, more likely this week from senate republicans. today we are hearing from hud secretary dr. ben carson, he says he's not rush to go judgment in the situation in atlanta because he needs more information. >> when somebody turns at them and points a weapon at them, is he absolutely sure that it's a nonlethal weapon, you know, this is not a clear-cut circumstance.
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now could it have been handled better, in certainly in retrospect there are probably ways to do things but, again, we don't know. we -- >> mark: a lot of unknown at this point. last week the president had a chance to meet face to face with some law enforcement groups. it's unclear whether or not that's going to happen again this week. we haven't gotten the schedule yet for the week ahead. the president, though, he certainly will be back out on the campaign trail and this is an issue that is going to be coming up all week long. there's been a lot of debates about whether it's safe for the campaign to resume and now the president is pushing back his first official rally which is going to be happening in tulsa, oklahoma on saturday, it was supposed to happen on friday, that's now been pushed back to saturday after the president faced criticism for holding on a day that marked the end of slavery in the u.s. the president says more rallies in the works including stops in battleground states. >> it'll be packed in 2 seconds and we will have a great rally and we are going pensacola, we
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are going to arizona, we are going to different places and we will start -- we haven't started the campaign yet. i guess you can say we are starting it. mark: campaign says this is the biggest demand they have seen for a rally. the president's birthday today, 74 year's old. we have not heard how he plans to celebrate. we will let you know if he has any response of what is going on in atlanta, gillian. gillian: happy birthday to the commander in chief, live in bridgewater, new jersey. leland. leland: we bring in cbp commissioner with 30 plus years in law enforcement mark morgan, commissioner, we appreciate it. after the george floyd murder and people watched that video there was a universal feeling of sickness especially by career law enforcement people who could tell and understood instantly how wrong it was. what's your initial view of the video that we saw of the shooting in atlanta?
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>> leland, completely different. first and foremost any use of force, especially use of force that results in someone's death has to be intensely scrutinized. you're right. you showed viewers right now, mr. brooks, he didn't just resist a lawful arrest, he did so violently. he fought with the police, again and again. he took their weapon, one of their weapons and tried to use it against him. that's a differently complete set of circumstances. i've been there and i've on full on fights before and it's a difficult thing and police officers have to make a split-second decision in that time and here is what hasn't been mentioned. the supreme court long time ago graham versus connor, at the split-second time did the
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officer, did he or she reasonably believe that they were in fear of bodily harm and death and was the use of force applicable and righteous, that's the standard. that's what we have to look at here. leland: you think of the reasonable officer who has been in a tight, taser has been grabbed and the person turns around, you have no idea what's in their hand, whether it's a gun hidden in waistband or taser, what do you make of the fact that there needs to be an investigation, what do you make the atlanta mayor hours of this, she came out and said unreasonable use of force and she came out and said the guys need to be fired? >> that's unfortunate and the standards have been hijacked by the emotion. we have to resist the emotion hijacking our processes and,
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look, leland, you're spot on with what you just said, taser, i heard a lot of narrative, the taser could have been used against the officer, mr. brooks, it's happened before where the officer's weapon is taken and used against them. a lot of heroic officers that have died in a similar situation. what i am seeing knee-jerk reaction before we know all the facts and before the investigation is completed. we need to step back, have meaningful dialogue, be transparent but we have to let the process work out based on the facts, not emotion. leland: as you see things going through right now and obviously the most radical proposals, abolish the police, defund the police, then there are the democratic proposals in congress that seem to have different things in them in terms of ban chokeholds and how funding would work and federal dollars would work, different uses of force
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continuums, et cetera, you have some of the tim scott republican proposals which are incremental in nature. of those based on your career in law enforcement, what should the president get behind if you were to recommend a couple of things that would really make a difference and could have prevented a tragedy like george floyd? mark: leland, i served in 4 different police departments, none of them were overfunded and defund asking not the answer and i hope what the president is doing and what we need to do as a nation is get together and have meaningful dialogue that will result in reasonable common sense changes. let's talk about deescalation policies, we need to have additional dialogue about that. what does deescalation mean and we can talk about implicit bias, what does that look like and where should we have the training, the leadership within law enforcement agencies across the nation?
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leland: real quick, how worried are you that atlanta turns into minneapolis 2.0 with the protests that jonathan talked about scheduled for this afternoon outside of police headquarters? mark: i'm very worried. wendy's was burned to the ground. again, what should be a peaceful protest is being hijacked, we can't stand for it. we have to get united as a country and have meaningful dialogue, burning buildings is not the answer. leland: well, it seems as we can end on the point, at least most people in washington and around the country seem to agree that burning buildings is not the answer. we appreciate it, good to see you, sir. mark: thank you. leland: gillian. gillian: well, meanwhile out west seattle protestors are holding firm in what is now newly renamed the capitol hill occupied protest zone in seattle. as authorities continue to go work on negotiating with those protestors. jonathan hunt still on the
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ground following everything inside the zone. jonathan. jonathan: gillian, pretty relaxed sunday morning here inside what you say is now renamed by the protestors, the capitol hill occupation protest zone. as you can see a lot of people just coming out, a lot of local residents, in fact, coming to take a look at this to fulfill their own curiosity and to see what is happening. most of them supportive of the protestors. i would say almost every one of them very supportive of the black lives matter movement but, of course, across the country and here in seattle, a lot of people are asking how long can this go on, how long can local authorities allow these protestors to occupy what is essentially about a six-block rad use of major city. the police chief was on cbs face the nation earlier today, she was asked the question directly,
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she said she simply doesn't know how long it will last, listen here to common best. >> my concern besides going back to precinct and doing the work, we don't want anyone to be harmed and something that evolves into a forced situation so we are really trying to take a methodical practical approach to reach a resolution where everyone gets out of here safely. jonathan: and, of course, this is about the safety of residents and businesses as well. i want to give you a quick view at the edge of the protests, you see a man with no shirt next to his car, we watched over the last 24 hours, gillian, as he apparently high on a number of different drugs, i should point out he's not a protestor and was ranting against the protests today the kind of people in this area that's acting as magnitude and we spoke to business owners
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whose business has been boarded up. i should say one of the workers and not the owner of the business but their business is being boarded up because of the pandemic for several months. they only reopened exactly a week ago when the protests, the violent protests began here. they've been taking appointments only and yesterday because people were literally seeing that man destroying vehicles, throwing things at protestors, they were getting a lot of calls saying we are canceling, we are not coming down. that's a concern for some of the businesses. on the other hand, you have taco restaurant where our crew ate here, some businesses don't seem to be bothered by it and others are clearly losing a lot of business and the question on a lot of people's minds is just simply how long will this go on and the answer to that at the moment, gillian, is neither local officials and therefore certainly us do not have any idea at all, gillian. gillian: jonathan hunt live in seattle, jonathan, thank you.
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leland. leland: mark morgan just talked about a national dialogue on police reform. that begins on capitol hill this week as democratic control house and republican senate try to find some common ground, garrett tenney joins us live with the negotiations on the battleground >> there's a lot of consensus that congress needs to address criminal justice reform and the real question appears how far will the changes go. senate republicans are poised to unveil their legislation, their proposal this week and senator tim scott said yesterday that it'll include 3 major items, increase police training to minimize racial bias and drastically expand information sharing on cases of officer-involved violence by having every state and local agency share their data with the fbi and then making it easier to remove officers who have a pattern of misbehavior.
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>> if we can drill in to officer misconduct, we do it on local level, houses have been talking about doing in state level, the president's executive order talks about national level. garrett: would create nationwide ban on the use of chokeholds by police, eliminate the use of no-knock warrants in drug cases like the ones that resulted in death of breonna taylor and immunity which makes it more difficult for officers to be sued for using excessive force. a number of republicans have encouraged no chokeholds but many ending qualified immunity is a nonstarter. the chairwoman of congressional black caucus says the tides are changing and optimistic lawmakers will be able to work out a deal. >> we are finding a lot of support from police officers. yesterday i had an hour-long meeting meeting with the paternal order
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of police and they are very supportive of idea of national standards and significant training. you should be accredited to be a police officer, any profession that allows you to be lethal force there should be significant training. garrett: president trump to talk action of his own next week in the form of executive order to address police reform. leland. leland: we will wait for that. garrett, thank you, gillian. gillian: well, brand-new coronavirus so-called hot spots are popping up across the u.s. this week. several parts of the country now seeing a spike in new case numbers. we will break down the latest numbers right after the break. i. do it. only pay for what you need. ♪ liberty. liberty. liberty. liberty. ♪
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gillian: we return now to top story of the hour. a deadly police shooting in atlanta and the protests that have followed overnight, for more insight, criminal defense attorney and former dc homicide directive ted williams and also fox news contributor. ted, thanks for joining us today. you had a late night breaking down everything that was happening in atlanta. let's start with the nuts and bolts, when is it justified
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legally for an officer to use legal force against the suspect as happened in atlanta? >> there's a supreme court decision, tennessee versus gardner that says that a law enforcement officer can use deadly force to protect himself or to protect others and that's primary to the law. i heard one of your earlier guests mention graham versus connors and that's law enforcement officer has -- when he has a reasonable or good-faith belief can also use deadly force pursuant to graham versus connor and tennessee versus gardner. gillian: so did the police officer in laymen's terms, does the police officer have to feel that his or her life is under direct threat in order to use lethal force against the suspect? >> no, it's a little more than just they feel or believe. if lethal force is being used
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against the police officer, the police officer does not have to wait until that lethal force is used. they can go ahead on and use lethal force to bring down a suspect and in this situation here, the question is going to be one of proportionality because what we know here is that mr. brooks struggled with two of the officers, had gotten one of the officers taser, had taken off and the officers were chasing after mr. brooks and they were in close proximity with mr. brooks. mr. brooks turned and fired the weapon -- the taser at them. it is believed that he fired. we are not really sure, but the officer then used his gun to return fire and as a result of that mr. brooks was killed, so you've got the georgia bureau of investigation conducting an investigation. that investigation has not
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concluded and i think that we all need to take a pause, take a breath, step back and let that investigation conclude. gillian: so, ted, it sounds like and not putting words in your mouth, sounds to me like you've saying what we are seeing on this security and body cam footage from the police officer is very different than what we saw the killing of george floyd in minneapolis on memorial day, this doesn't look to be an open and shut case, nothing is ever an open and shut case but to a degree can be, that was the case with mr. floyd. the case of mr. books is still sort of up in the air, an investigation should be allowed to carry out its course? >> you're absolutely right. there's a clear dichotomy between the death of mr. george floyd there in minnesota and what has happened in atlanta,
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georgia with mr. brooks. the investigation in minnesota, in minneapolis clearly shows that the police officer, chauvin, was clearly wrong putting his knee on the neck of mr. floyd but this is a clearly different. here you have a man that has a weapon, and i've heard several individual that is a person can't die as a result of a taser. let me say that i have represented as a lawyer a young man who was killed by a police officer who was, in fact, using a taser, so a taser, in and of itself be a deadly weapon. gillian: all right, ted, we have to leave it there. a lot of unanswered questions, we will talking about this on your very important perspective. >> my pleasure. gillian: leland. ♪
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♪ leland: new spikes in coronavirus cases around the country are creating real concern for health officials and some talk of rolling back the reopening of america. christina coleman following the latest case counts from los angeles. christina: as of today there's more than 2 million confirmed cases of coronavirus in the u.s. and 115,432 people have died according to john's hopkins university and near half of states are seeing rise in cases more quarantine restrictions are being lifted. texas, arizona with reported increase of cases. arizona hospital officials have been told to prepare for the worst. there's also been a spike in covid-19 patients being hospitalized in texas. now the rise on reported cases could be a result of the increased amount of coronavirus testing, others say it has to do with the continued rollback on quarantine restrictions, but there's still so much to learn
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in terms of tracking the spread of the disease and its impact on different communities. some health experts say hospitalizations for the virus is a key indicater. >> yes, cases begin to go up again and particularly if they go up dramatically, it's important to recognize that more -- more mitigation efforts such as what we are implementing back in march maybe needed again and that is a decision that really needs to be made locally based on what is happening within the community regarding disease transmission. christina: a lot of different factors being considered right now but what is clearly concerning to federal officials are flair-ups of the virus in other countries and the possible impact it could have on the u.s. as of today china reported its highest daily total new covid-19 cases in 2 months with 57 new confirmed cases since midnight
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saturday, that includes 36 from the capital. beijing's cases are linked to food market which is being shut down and officials hope to prevent second case of deadly virus. as of today, there's been more than 7 million coronavirus cases worldwide and 431,141 deaths, leland. leland: always important to put an asterisk of numbers coming out of china. christina coleman in los angeles, thank you. gillian. gillian: protests in minneapolis carry on this weekend. several police officers there have now resigned from their post following fallout after the death of george floyd. matt finn is on the ground, matt. matt: gillian, this is the location where george floyd was killed an unrest began, and what
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gillian: multiple police officers are resigning from the minneapolis police department as protestors there gather for what is now a third consecutive sunday of demonstrations. matt finn live in minneapolis with the developments. matt. matt: gillian, sunday afternoon where george floyd died, you can see hundreds of people are still pouring in here, very large mural and growing memorial as what's become historical and somber place. this intersection is barricaded in every direction. the city has given neighbors and organizers free rein over the space and the minneapolis police tweeted, mnd will not be altering and respect the memory of him and would not distract importance of his life.
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the city council passed to begin dismantling the police department and developing transformative public safety model. city council wrote in resolution, quote, the murder of george floyd on may 25th, 2020 by minneapolis police officers is a tragedy that shows that no amount of reforms would prevent legal violence and abuse by some members of the police department. this week we sat down with police chief but he stresses he wants city council to have fact-driven conversations about police because lives are at stake. >> i want people to know that the events that culminated with the death of mr. floyd, those former officers do not represent the vast majority of the men and women who serve today in this minneapolis police department and they are not going to allow that one incident to define this police department.
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matt: and this afternoon the minneapolis police department tells us that 7 officers have recently resigned, gillian. gillian: matt finn, live report out of minneapolis, matt, thank you. leland: nationwide protestors and police officers across the country are trying to find ways to work with communities and bring america together as they head out on patrol. joining us from avon, indiana, town's first black police officer about 2 years ago. i understand you were also the town's first black kindergarten student a while back as well, so you have some experience in breaking down barriers around the town of avon. what's it like being on patrol right now? obviously the feeling in america about police officers has become a lot more polarized. >> well, yeah, i mean, you know, obviously we have all the events in the back of your mind, why you're on patrol, however, our community has taken kind of a different shift towards, you know, the civil unrest.
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right now we are seeing a lot of support from our community, you know, i was at a stoplight the other day and, you know, a guy rolled up next to me and said, hey, i want to let you know that i appreciate the job that you do so those kind of interactions with the public helps us day by day because obviously we know what's going on around the country right now. leland: that trust between the department and the community it serves is so important. we just heard from the minneapolis police chief who -- who indicated he understood why there wasn't a lot of trust between the minneapolis african-american community and his department and then in atlanta, we just saw the police chief resign within hours of the shooting down there. you could only imagine in the bigger department that the morale is not what you and avon are feeling. >> that's important to mention. i'm glad that you highlighted that in bigger departments you see morale issues. the resignation of the police chief even before, you know,
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thorough investigation can be conducted, you know, she's out the door which i think that shines a very negative light not only on the police department but also reflects, you know, the community relationship that the police holds. it's important to highlight that the bigger departments can sometimes, you know, have the bad apples, you know, creep in, but, you know, as far as community policing it's extremely important to build a relationship with your community obviously. we do these and not only doing the job and interacting with the public but also in a more lighten sense where they can see us outside of a badge. we have a national night out where it gives people the opportunity to attend free gathering, a bunch of vendors, volunteer their services and people just get a chance to come down and see us outside of the uniform. leland: we are watching video of you all delivering care packages it looks like to kids during
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graduation times as people were celebrating. what is the answer because the fear, of course, among all of us who rely on police officers like yourself to answer the call late at night when we call 9-1-1 and are in dangerous situations, the fear is that good men like yourself will see what's happening and see the lack of morale in city departments and say, look, there's a lot of other things i can go do my life and not have to put a badge on and gun every day and i will do that rather than protect and serve. what -- what is the recipe to keep that from happening? >> well, i think -- i think number one is leadership, right. i think number 1 is leadership. you pick the right people in the administration office that, you know, have a transparent, you know, -- transparent process to where they pick good candidates who are passionate about the job no matter what's going on. we all understand that, you know, right now there's civil unrest, however, we are morally and ethically sound to continue
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to keep serving because we are passionate about it. leland: officer, we are glad you are out there and thankful for that and appreciate you sharing your perspective, thank you. >> absolutely, have a good day, thank you for having me. leland: all the best, god bless, god speed. fellow deputies and pregnant wife will say good-bye to sergeant damon guthriler, he and police officers were ambushed, federal officer patrick was killed in california, possibly by the same gunman in what's become growing threat to law enforcement across the country. guthriler leaves behind wife. >> he was a very good man and in this day and age, he was the picture of a community policeman and he was beloved here at the sheriff's office and by our
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community. leland: yesterday we told you about memorial to help young people, we raised nearly $60,000 in the hours after the show and you can still donate, go to scsheriff.com. that's the homepage to honor and you can click at memorial fund scsheriff.com. so far they have raised over $60,000 and it shows you what respect and admiration and gratefulness there is in the hearts of so many people for people like officer high that we just talked to and sergeant and so many others that put their life on the line every day. gillian: yeah, it also shows, you know, that whenever the worst in humanity rears its ugly head, the best of humanity usually rushes in afterward to fill that void left, so it's
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another really encouraging story here. leland: wed said, we need more of those these days. gillian: yeah. after the break, we are going to look at outdoor recreational businesses, how they are gearing up to take on the summer during the coronavirus pandemic coming up
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there are now some small signs of recovery in time for summer vacation season. we are joined by two small business owners to discuss. nicole paleta, she manages short-term rentals on ana maria, florida, retailer in springs, colorado. thank you for joining us on this. nicole, i want to ask you first on what the season you're gearing up for now really looks like for you, have you rented out your properties, are you doing as well as you normally would coming up on summer? nicole: it's an interesting thing because obviously shutdown with everyone else for 10 to 12 weeks which in a year doesn't seem like a big deal but for us those specific 10 to 12 weeks account for 40% of yearly revenues, losing those specific weeks in march and april pretty devastating and obviously with
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vacation, little different. you can't just open doors and start the next day. people plan, you know, weeks, months if not a year in advance for vacation so the reservations we did have reserved for the summer because we weren't sure how or when we will reopen, people we wanted to rebook, cancel, move it to a later date or even next year, so we kind of started from square one when we did get the green light to reopen in memorial day, slow start that weekend but basically filled through first week of august. we have a handful of openings for the 23 homes that we managed. people were excited to get away, spend time with friends and family and distress and even first responders looking to get away. gillian: yeah, sounds like things are looking up for you which is great news, certainly i can sympathize with the need to get out of the city for those of us who live in the city, get out into the beach, to the country
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side, commune with nature after being cooped up for 3 months. david, sounds like to me like it's the perfect kind of summer-time activity and you should be gearing up for a pretty good season, right, your business? david: that's exactly it. it's been kind of crazy. we went through april and it was abysmal and i didn't know that i would have my business this summer and may first we opened and we sold a thousand flies in one day and it was just crazy. what i've come to realize is that fly-fishing is in the bucket of a good thing to do. you can't go to graduations, you can't go to birthday parties but fly-fishing you can do, and -- gillian: alone in great outdoors david: exactly, it's pretty awesome. gillian: that's fantastic.
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nicole, tell me about the 10 weeks you kind of lost, account for 40% or 10 of the many weeks you lost, excuse me, account for 40% of your revenue, is there a way to make up for some of that on the back end or it's just gone, you have to write it off? nicole: it's kind of interesting because vacation rentals started reopening for memorial day but we are operating under restriction so we can't have guests that are from international places, we can't have groups more than 10 and we can't have guests currently from my hot spot states. while we are fully booked through the summer, we are interested to see how it's going to work in the fall because most fall guests were international travelers. how we will recoup the loss later in the year is still to be determined but we are excited about what we are doing now. we've got beautiful luxury, clean homes. it's different than going to a hotel or resort. you have a single-family home that are supported for 10 people
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you can stay at your home, clean for 6 hours prior to arrival, you can walk to the beach and, you know, we have a small community here, so when we were hosting those types, restaurants, fishing charters and it impacts everybody. gillian: well, nicole and david we have to leave it there but i and i'm sure many viewers, i can't speak for them, would like to make it to florida and we would like to make it fly-fishing this summer. we wish you the best. thank you very much for sharing your stories with us. nicole: thank you for having me. david: thank you. leland: it's happening, fans at sporting events to the first one in nascar race. when we come back rick levanthal is track high, hi, rick. rick: no tailgating and very limited access to miami speedway but there's racing today as you might be able to hear behind me and a thousand lucky fans get to see it live in person.
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i'm rick levanthal to track with the story right after this. ♪ ♪ [ engines revving ] ♪ ♪ it's amazing to see them in the wild like th-- shhh. for those who were born to ride, there's progressive.
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for 37 years we have been fighting for survivors of child sex abuse. even in these uniquely challenging times we're still fighting with dedication and devotion. california law gives survivors a chance to take legal action, but only for a limited time. if you were sexually abused by a priest, scout leader, coach or teacher contact us confidentially today. it's time. leland: fans are back and nascar donated 1,000 tickets to local service members and families to come watch race in homestead, florida. hi, rick.
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rick: great day of racing and good news for first fans, a thousand total, members of military and their families but the tens of thousands of others who would normally attend here will just have to watch it on tv and that includes us because the media also not being credentials for inside access because of new rules regarding covid-19. the track donating 1,000 tickets to homestead air base and the u.s. southern command, issued to service members on first-come, first-basis. another first here at the track today nascar ban on confederate flags. it prohibits the rebel symbol from flying in all nascar events and properties, dramatic shift for sport whose early history considered emblems on some events in the south.
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bubba wallace was instrumental in launching the ban and he circled the track this week in a car with black lives matter, the flag ban could anger race fans and attract new fans and that's the hope and new race in alabama on june 21st, that one will allow 5,000 spectators so everyone here, leland, hope to go put the coronavirus in the rear-view mirror. we have a race here scheduled to start at 3:30 this afternoon. we do have a chance of thunderstorms but things are pretty good right now. leland: green flag goes down, you can see at local fox station. rick, thank you, that does it for gillian and i here, mr. sunday chris wallace himself with ben carson up next. we're. i'm greg, i'm 68 years old.
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i do motivational speaking we're. in addition to the substitute teaching. i honestly feel that that's my calling-- to give back to younger people. i think most adults will start realizing that they don't recall things as quickly as they used to or they don't remember things as vividly as they once did. i've been taking prevagen for about three years now.
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people say to me periodically, "man, you've got a memory like an elephant." it's really, really helped me tremendously. prevagen. healthier brain. better life. chris: i'm chris wallace, another deadly shooting of a black man by the police this time in atlanta, president trump promises reforms but will it be enough? ♪ >> vigorous discussion about how to ensure fairness, equality and justice for all of our people. chris: the president finalizing executive order in response to protests over the killing of george floyd, but making clear he's against one idea. >> we will take care of our police. chris: we will talk with hud secretary ben carson about the president's plan to reduce racial inequality and democrats
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