eric: well, president trump set to depart the white house for tulsa, oklahoma less than 2 hours from now. he's heading out for campaign rally, the first one there since the start of the coronavirus pandemic and with the president kicks off bid for second term. tens of thousands of people to attend tonight both inside and outside of the arena. it is exciting afternoon in tulsa, oklahoma, hello, everyone, welcome across the country, this is america's news headquarters, i'm eric sean, hi, arthel. arthel: hi, eric and i'm arthel

neville. it all comes as fox news poll show the president trailing joe biden by 12 points. mark meredith live in tulsa ahead of tonight's rally, mark what can you tell us, how is it looking right now? mark: arthel, you can see the barricades that have been set along the perimeter outside of center. that's where the rally will be happening tonight, similar what we saw in lafayette park outside of the white house. as i am going to show you, though, this is what people have to go through as they get ready to go inside, original checkpoint where people have to give up water bottles, lawn chairs, if you need a water bottle this is a place to get one. people have to give up a lot lot of the stuff they brought with them. after inside, masks, hand sanitizer and temperatures checked going in the arena, certainly conference of the coronavirus because first rally

since early march. i talked to a number of people who have said this is exactly what they we wanted to see. they we wanted to see the campaign get back to normal. we have seen come come from as far away from texas, oklahoma, florida. we have seen people outside of oklahoma make their way for this rally. arthel, you mentioned demonstrators that are out here. i've only seen handful of folks, not too serious so far in terms of counterdemonstrations. the day is young. we are in solid-red oklahoma, certainly interesting idea of what it will look like once the event gets underway tonight. we know the president will be speaking with supporters inside center, these are rallies they can go on for hours at a time. i've attended a number of them and it's never clear how often they will go on for but the crowd that's been out here has certainly been fired up to hear directly from the president. we need to see how much he talks about what's going on with the coronavirus, with the campaign, also interesting to see if he brings what's been happening with john bolton and book that will be coming out in a couple

of days from now. the president certainly will be eager and fired up to be back out with supporters, those folks that have been out here have been relatively calm. i know the question you asked, arthel, what about the masks, how many people have been wearing the masks, i say about 75%, most the press and security out here. i've asked a number of the trump supporters are they going to wear the masks inside and a lot of them said they will wait to see what it's like in the arena and it's always possible that they may decide to take them on or take them off and depends what things are like inside. beautiful weather in tulsa, it's been calm, we haven't seen any sort of major arrests or anything like that. really feels more like festive atmosphere, eric and arthel we will be watch if that continues to play out through the the rest of the afternoon, arthel. arthel: yeah, let's hope there are no arrests, let's hope everything remains peaceful and we will see what happens mark meredith, thank you very much there in tulsa.

eric. eric: well, arthel, another big breaking story that we are following for you today, the showdown of the justice department and the controversy over the attempted remove of top justice department official. jeffrey berman for the southern district of new york and northern city and suburbs and refusing to resign after attorney general william barr moved to remove him from office. berman is overseeing investigations including giuliani and that raising critics of recuse the administration in political motive to try to move berman aside. berman releasing the statement, quote, i will step down when the presidentially appointed nominee is confirmed by the senate, until then, our investigation will move forward without delay or interruption. jacqui heinrich in new york city with the very latest on this, hi, jacqui. >> hey, eric, as ag barr's

announced replacement, berman slapped that down refuse to go leave post and it's setting up a showdown in the justice department also fueling criticism that barr has politicized the agency. the southern district of new york has been a thorn in the president's side for years overseeing multiple investigations into trump allies including michael cohen and rudy giuliani and recently came into view again after the justice department tried to block the release of a block by former national security adviser john bolton which continues allegations the president wanted to interfere with the probe overseen by berman, barr in late friday announcement proclaimed berman was stepping down and the president was nominating jay clayton, the chairman of the fcc as successor. clayton although a lawyer has nerved as prosecutor, berman hours later said he only learned to have situation in a press release and challenged the process writing, i have not resigned and i have no intention of resigning my position to which i was appointed by the judges of the united states district court for the southern

district of new york. under federal law u.s. attorneys appointed by judges can serve until the vacancy is filled. berman was permanent by federal judges since trump hadn't made a formal nomination. accordingly he was never confirmed by the senate. new york senator chuck schumer called for investigation and called on clayton to withdraw name and say no to presidential abuse of power writing he can allow himself to be used in trump-barr scheme by interfering in southern district of new york or he can stand up to this corruption. barr has said berman's last day will be july 3rd but he was seen reportedly this morning going into the offices there at the southern district, eric. eric: that is a job that rudy giuliani himself once held before he was elected mayor of new york in 1993. jackie, thanks so much. well, more about the controversy later on in the hour. meanwhile celebrations are taking place this weekend across the country marking juneteenth,

1865 when slavery ended in america. this tributes carrying more significant especially in minneapolis the city where george floyd died in police custody that, of course, igniting outrage and protests we have seen around the globe. mike tobin, live in minneapolis with more, hi, mike. mike: hi, there eric, let me run down a few developments, one minneapolis has developed its own autonomous zone. ly step out of the way so you can look at it. it's different than what we are seeing in seattle. this is less about protests, more about necessity, tent city, they are call it a sanctuary and the necessity is because there was so much structure damage with the riots and with the arsons that a lot of homeless people were displaced. the entire city is depending on donations, only similarity that we are seeing in seattle, even if there's trouble the police are not welcome here. people are trying to work things out on their own. other developments, second

police officer connected to the death of george floyd made bail and left jail, jay alexander king met the conditional bond and left jail late last night, about 7:00 p.m. last night. he cannot work in law enforcement while awaiting his trial. and attempts to pass police reform failed in the minnesota legislature, measures that would have banned the use of chokeholds and warrior-style training as well as measures to make bad cops more accountable included. debate blamed for the failure of the legislative measures is being placed along party lines, eric. eric: well, mike, we have seen statutes, confederate statutes and others and monuments being targeted including in some places thomas jefferson and george washington. what's going on with the statutes in terms of the protests? >> well that continues, they got one in st. paul, statute of christopher columbus and yesterday in dc a statute of confederate officer was torn

down. also state capitol in raleigh, north carolina, protestors got them down and hung them from trees, eric. eric: all right, mike, thanks so much. mike: you got it. eric: arthel. arthel: seattle police investigating a shooting that left one person dead and another wounded. it happened early this morning in the city so called chopped area, that's the autonomous zone where protestors have taken over several blocks and took over the police precinct there, so when there's gunfire, it happened and we will find out more now from dan springer who is live in seattle with an update. dan. >> dan: this is the most violent example yet of what happens when police in the city are not able to patrol and police a section of their area, of their city, it happened at 2:20 this morning, shots rang out inside the capitol hill occupation protest which used to

be called the autonomous zone but still is because they are not allowing police in but somebody called the police to let them know about the shot that is welfare fired and then dispatch got on the horn to police in the area to let them know what was going on. let's see here what the dispatch had to say. >> male running towards the restroom of the previous location with a gun and 6 possible gunshots heard. we do have a report of a victim shot outside of rancho bravo. >> here is the key, police officers who were in the area, we know 6 or 8 of them, we can see them from the pictures of people on the grounded there, tried to get into the area to get to the victims who were shot and they were turned back by a violent crowd. one of the victims actually who was maybe taken out of the area before that by volunteers, the so-called medics from the chopped zone, but we do know that one man was inside the

zone, he was injured, police tried to get to him and they were repelled by a violent crowd that was throwing stuff at them. the police department said that they were -- they tried to get in there and tried to get the fire department in but they were not able to do so. now just before this all happened last night, president trump tweeted and he said in a tweet, waiting to hear from dem-run washington state as to whether they want help in taking backseatle, ready to move quickly, of course, the response to anything that trump has said about coming in here and helping the situation has been rejected by the local leadership in seattle and also by governor inslee, they don't want national help from president trump and they have -- they have said so so right now we have instance where shooting happened on the ground and police responded, police were not able to get to the people who were hurt. one person dead, one person fighting for his life in a local hospital.

arthel. arthel: very unfortunate. dan springer, thank you very much, meanwhile there are new developments in the breonna taylor case. the fbi is opening investigation into the deadly shooting of the african-american woman in her home in louisville, kentucky last month. she was asleep, again, in her own apartment when police barged in as part of a drug probe. louisville police say bret hankison, one of the officers in the shooting will be fired and two others on administrative leave. ms. taylor was struck with 8 bullets, her boyfriend says he thought the officers were intruders and he fired his gun at them prompting the exchange, taylor was a licensed emt. eric: well, supporters are lining up in tulsa, oklahoma. you know, some folks have been camping out for one week, they cannot wait to attend president trump's first rally that's being held there later on tonight in

months. so what can we expect when the president takes the podium in tulsa, oklahoma? what does it mean for the president's campaign? we will discus all of that straight ahead here on the fox news channel.

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eric: well, stunning reversal the navy is putting the position to fire aircraft to protect crew from the coronavirus outbreak. you may remember captain served as the commanding officer of the uss theater and released of duty after raising aalarm of outbreak seen by many and the crew seen as hero. the decision marks a major reversal of senior leaders recommendation that he be reinstated but the latest review found that the captain and admiral did not do enough to address the coronavirus infection when it first broke out on that carrier. arthel. arthel: well, eric, thank you, president trump set to return to the rally stage tonight in tulsa, oklahoma for the first

time since pandemic and comes as latest fox news poll shows the president trailing behind presumptive democratic nominee joe biden by 12 points. steph, political reporter. let's talk about deliverables, what must the president deliver tonight? >> i think the main thing that the trump campaign and president trump is hoping to deliver tonight is energy. president trump told my colleague jonathan in an interview that he expects this to be a wild evening and, you know, the trump campaign rallies have become iconic. it's full of energy, the songs, trump's comments, spaces where there's a lot of energy and something that the president hasn't been able to do in the past few months because of the coronavirus. this is really being approached as a comeback tour as really the kickoff to the trump campaign and so i think we are going to expect to see a lot of energy and exactly what you'd expect from a trump rally.

arthel: but apart from the fanfare which i'm sure the fans will be waiting to see, what must the president accomplish? >> i think president trump is first of all trying to show that he is first of all taking a different approach from joe biden, joe biden has pretty much stuck to virtual events during coronavirus. this is really president trump showing that, you know, he wants to everything reopening but he feels safe having the big rallies, you know, he told activists that he doesn't plan to wear a mask, this is really an answer to some of the pushback from the way he's handled the coronavirus. this is also, you know, an answer to protest that is we have seen outside of the white house and the protests we have seen across the country and trump again showing that he has enthusiasm with his base and despite the polls he will show, no, my base is still here and enthusiastic about me and i can

still win in november. arthel: let's look at fox news poll on president trump east performance, currently 44% approve, 55% disapprove. you look at last month, may, you had 44% approve, 54% disapprove and in april, you had 49% approve, 55% disapprove, so mostly holding steady with his base, slight slippage but not much. with a base like the trash talking but would the president speak only to his base but talking points to capture some of the 55%? >> at this point based on our reporting what we have been hearing, we expect trump to certainly focus on his base. we know that trump campaign is certainly eyeing other groups that they could potentially win over for november and i'm sure we will see some, some catering to those, but when it comes to trump rally, especially when we are taking off the kinds of

people howling up in the rally despite coronavirus are going to be trump's true supporters. i think we can expect trump to keep to talking points, favorite talks points but we can expect him to talk a lot about the economy, talking about how he believes despite coronavirus the impact from shutdowns across the country that he's the person to bring the economy back, so i think we are going to see him really make the case that he is the person that they should be voting for. arthel: i want to take another look at fox news poll, biggest motivation in voting for president, 63% of biden supporters say it's fear the other candidate will win, in other words, the 63% will vote for biden to get president trump out of office. now looking at the end us -- enthusiasm for your candidate, 61% excited about president

trump and 32% supporters of biden for president. how does each candidate play that hand? >> certainly. we see it in the way that joe biden campaigns and campaigns against trump and, you know, even the biden supporters who i've spoken to at rallies in the past have said that they want to vote for joe biden because they think he has the best chance of beating trump than some of the other democratic candidates who were running for president early on and that's a key reason that joe biden got the nominations, people see him as the most likely person to beat donald trump and what we are watching is whether that antitrump attitude is enough to -- to propel joe biden to victory in november or if the solid base that trump has and as we have seen in those polls is enough to propel trump to another victory in november and those are, you know, it is -- it'll be real interesting to see that play out whether it's enough to just have a strong base or whether the reaction to trump is enough to -- to give the white house to a democrat.

arthel: steph, we have to leave it there, thank you very much for your reporting on axios. eric. eric: arthel, the coronavirus cases this past week, they've been spiking across the country, tulsa, that county with rally will be held tonight up as state and local leaders are scrambling to contain while reopening economies. will they be able to pull that off or will we head into a second possiblenation -- possible nationwide lockdown? the president says no. right ahead.

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now because more than 27 states are seeing an increase in the number of confirmed cases especially florida, texas, arizona, string of other states down south, the midwest and out west. for anita vogull in los angeles california and more on the situation across the country. hi, anita. >> anita: as people were starting to feel freedom again some rules are getting more strict because in the last week or so as you mentioned 27 states including california have seen the number of covid-19 cases go up. in some cases dramatically. health experts and government officials say many factors are to blame including cities and towns opening back up for business, people forgetting to social distance and wear their masks. remember, we saw large gatherings during the protest and as well as the simple fact that some people, some more people are now taking tests. officials in texas say this is no time to let your guard down.

>> spike of hospitalizations is real and more dangerous than it has ever been. to be clear, this is not a free pass to avoid social distancing, minimizing contacts or washing hands, all of the experts have told us face covering is not a replacement for social distancing. >> anita: as a result of the spike in cases rules are tightening in some states with mandates of wearing masks, 14 states now require the use of face mask in most public places. each day a different phase of reopening so the rules for different state differ a little bit and for the most part most public places and public transportation even cars especially when you're riding with other people. while data from johnson hopkins university show cases spiking around nation the number of deaths are actually down, experts say there's a couple of

reasons for that, first the situation in new york has dramatically improved and with increase testing the numbers of people coming down with coronavirus are actually younger, for example, here in california almost half of the new cases are reported to be people under the age of 34 and those people tend to recover more quickly. health experts say social distancing, wearing a mask, washing your hands, they are still your best defense against the virus. eric, back to you. eric: all right, anita, thanks so much. there's been a lot of concern about the rally tonight that the president is going to hold in tulsa, oklahoma, well, it turns out that the campaign now confirms that 6 campaign workers involved in tonight's rally, well, they have come down with coronavirus. the trump campaign says the quarantine procedures were immediately implemented they say, also claiming that no covid positive staff or anyone in immediate contact at today's rally will be there. we have no other information at the moment about what the positions in the campaign, the

staff members hold, their condition or how they came down with coronavirus. you see part of the campaign statement there on your screen, again, in advance of the president's rally being held in tulsa, oklahoma, a lot of concern of 19,000 people arena and more tens of thousands of people outside if they would social distance or not wear masks, concerns that coronavirus could spread, the governor of oklahoma earlier today on america's news headquarters said he did not have that concern, but now turns out that 6 trump campaign staffers were told have come down with coronavirus, we certainly hope that they recover and wish them the best, arthel. arthel: absolutely, we do wish that they recover fully. listen, we want to get back now to anita vogel's report on spike of coronavirus cases around the country and for more on that i will bring dr. dina grayson.

dr. grayson, i want to ask you what are the numbers spiking, what concerns you more about the spike? doctor: well, the numbers are spiking, arthel, very simply because the virus is spreading like wild fire and in general this is happening in a lot of states that are reopening like here in florida. you know, we are seeing this huge surge in cases in florida, we set record numbers of new cases, 7 out of the past 10 days and it just keeps going up and up and up. it's very, very concerning. arthel: so how do you stop the spread and what's your optimism level regarding a treatment or a vaccine? doctor: well, sure, arthel, it looks like the vast majority of cases appear to be happening via direct person to person contact with someone who is infected and the real challenge here is that people who have no symptoms can spread the virus very easily, in fact, people are most contagious two days before they ever show a

symptom so the best way to stop spread of the virus for everyone to wear a mask, not so much that the masks protects you but it actually protects you from spreading it to other people. so if everyone wears a mask, it decreases the availability for the virus to spread. with respect to treatments and vaccines, we should have a treatment that's shown to be very effective at hospitalized patients and that's antiviral caused remdesivir, decrease duration of symptoms by 4 days. this is very impressive. no antiviral has shown this kind of activity ever in hospitalized patients. having said that it's not the silver bullet and very important in our fight against virus. arthel: important weapon -- yes, go ahead. doctor: please, go ahead,

arthel. arthel: yeah, yeah, that's where i was getting to, the vaccine, you're wrapping that up for me. doctor: the jury is still out on vaccine. the good news is that i called back for this in february, arthel, let's do everything at risk, meaning with manufacturer, do that in parallel with the clinical testing so that once we have those results, boom, we can quickly start vaccinating, that's the good news here but right now it's just now we are waiting to see if those vaccines are actually effective. arthel: i want to talk about this, it seems that some people are making a bigger deal about president trump's rallies where, unfortunately, eric just broke news for us with some of the trump's team being infected but there seems to be bigger deal made of rally happening in tulsa versus what's happening when we see the protestors all across the country walking arm in arm,

is there a bigger concern on either side or bigger danger on either side? doctor: mass gatherings in general are a threat to spread the virus. i've been raising the alarm as you know for many months. i've been on the program several times. you compare people gathering outdoors while many of them and most of them appear to be wearing face coverings, wearing masks, that is a much lower risk than putting people inside, we know that people being inside is greater risk than outside, they are breathing the same air, recycled air and i don't expect unfortunately that a lot of people attending mr. trump's rallies that evening in tulsa will be wearing masks and that's a huge, huge risk. i mean, we know -- they're going to be shouting and screaming whether that's for joy or out of anger, it doesn't matter. we know when people are shouting, singing or even breathing at a restaurant

indoors, that this -- this virus spreads like wild fire. arthel: yeah, i want to wrap up here, dr. grayson, because, you know, there are many people who are still isolated, many of them who live alone, alone and they are extremely lonely but high risk, elderly, immune compromised, they have heart conditions, you know, it doesn't seem fair to them that others are not doing their part to stop the spread, so, you know, everyone can enjoy getting outdoors. i'd like to hear your comments on that? >> doctor: arthel, i think you're exactly right about that. the median age of those infected has gone from the mid-60's down to mid-30's which is showing us that essentially older folks, higher-risk folks are staying at home but now we have younger folks going out, going to bars, not wearing masks, not practicing what i like to call physical distancing because i think we can be social with skype and other means,

unfortunately, you know, what you worry about is the younger folks then go and take care of grandma and grandpa or parents and they spread the virus to them or working, for example, in nursing home or a hospital facility or a prison or other areas where, again, the virus can spread like wild fire, so when it comes to deadly contagious virus -- >> arthel: we keep hearing this, dr. grayson, the young people not wearing the masks, how do we convince them, guys, if you don't care about yourself, care about your parents, care about your grandparents? how do we get the message cross to them where it sticks? doctor: unfortunately what we are seeing is that states are starting to impose this and require this and fine people when they don't. unfortunately, you know, it's sort of like someone being a reckless driver and speeding, going 1020 miles an hour. one way most people generally are reasonably obeying speed limit because they don't want to

die in a fatal car crash; but you know what, we have ways to levy fines so we can more than encourage people to do the right thing here and i unfortunately -- i think that's the situation we are in, where i think you just have to impose, you have to wear masks. i know here in florida we don't have a statewide order so what has happened is locals like here in orlando area, tampa and other areas are just mandating, you have to wear a mask and if you don't, you'll be fine. arthel: dr. dena grayson, we have to leave it there, thank you very much for joining us. doctor: thanks for having me, arthel. >> here yet i'm trying, i'm not the type of person to give up, you know, and i'm going to keep going until i make it to where i want to be. eric: heartbreaking look, the late rayshard brooks opening up about struggles after life in incarceration. this is an interview that he gave months before he, of course, shot and killed by

atlanta police officer. that video comes as the protests continue over his shooting death and against racial inequality. now atlanta police are staging what they call a blue flu style sickout in protest of murder, officer charged in shooting brooks. bryan llenas is live in atlanta with much more on this. hi, bryan. reporter: she's pictured in the surveillance images. accused of arson, one of multiple people suspected of burning down the wendy's where rayshard brooks was killed last saturday. the wendy's was torched and also set off inside the restaurant, this as there's growing concern about reports that atlanta

police officers walking out or calling out sick in protest since charges of garrett rolfe and bronson and majority of police officers not showing for work and two of six city police zones yesterday. they were far too quickly and without due process. >> what we are trying to get across is if you continue to arrest officers and charge them with murder without due process and terminate them without due process and you don't give the officers the ability and the guidelines to do their jobs, you know, the reality is there's bad people in this world and they are going take advantage of that. reporter: meantime there's another controversy involving officer rolfe who faces 11 charges, including murder

charges, rolfe's mother fired from her job 24 hours after her son was charged. the family believes it was retaliatory but just last night the company, well, rolfe's attorney said they were made aware that the company fired the stepmother over offensive social media post that was posted. no details on what that social media post was, but all of that controversy surrounding this and then rayshard brooks, public viewing will be on monday, a private funeral for him, eric, will be on tuesday. eric. eric: all right, bryan, thanks so much. well, explosive new political controversy and has to do with the u.s. attorney who is refusing to go. his name is jeffrey berman, he's in new york, pushing back after the justice department tries to apparently force him out. critics say the trump administration is trying to fix investigation supporters, though say not so is the president's right, who is right, we will take a look next.

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together in hospital. together at home. eric: jeffrey berman is the u.s. attorney for new york southern district, that's considered preeminent u.s. attorney's office in the nation. you know, giuliani once held the job before elected mayor of new york in 1993. well, the current occupant, mr. berman is pushing back because the administration announced last night that she's resigning and setting potential standoff with the justice department. berman says, nope, i'm not leaving, berman overseeing several probes of allies of the president including mr. giuliani says ain't going anywhere until the senate approves and then gets my successor, so what is this all about, fox news contributor, brad blakeman,

former assistant to george w. bush. brad, let me start with you, you know what critics are saying that president and barr are politicizing prosecutions, an attempt to derail the investigations that include not just giuliani but trump campaign financing or reporter probe into super pac, deutsche bank that did business with the trump organization and the administration is trying to move berman out, give him the hook so they can quash those investigations, do you buy that? >> no, i don't. i think this is a political play by democrats. i guess they have a short memory, democrats, when barack obama was sworn in as president within months eric holder told the congressional committee he was testifying before, soon they'll be a batch of new appointees by the president of new u.s. attorneys and after that first batch they'll be a next wave. you know the reasoning he gave, because elections have consequences and they sure do. the president for political appointee like a u.s. attorney can hire or fire for any reason

or in reason at all. it happens with democratic administrations, it happens with republicans, the president has the right to do it and he did it. now, they can argue what they want as to intentions of the president but that's all speculation and hearsay good luck, the president has the right to do it. eric: what about that? i remember president clinton in '93, ordered the resignations of all 93 u.s. attorneys across the country. >> well, certainly the president has the right to appoint any u.s. attorney that he wants, but we have to remember that this particular u.s. attorney actually was appointed by donald trump and then actually had the judicial system put him in there because the senate didn't confirm him. this is a trump supporter who like many before him has somehow

crossed this man whose decision making is purely on his personal motives. we know that directly from john bolton who was in the room, but also it shouldn't be a surprise that the man who claims fame was firing people we would have so much dysfunction in his white house, in the cabinet, he's got the highest turnover rate, our country is in crisis, brad, we need civility and this attempted friday night massacre -- >> one person. >> attorney general of the american people is very concerning because it does kind of reek up something sinister that the investigations, the president doesn't want them, he makes decisions only to protect himself, not to protect the american people. eric: brad, reference to sad night massacre. wait a minute. what about that?

is this like saturday night massacre where nixon refused to fire cox and resign? >> mr. berman doesn't want to go because he wasn't, quote, unquote personally fired. the president will fire him if that's what he wants. i see as not a firing at all. that's a promotion, and apparently that wasn't good for him either. even though you're appointed by the president there comes a time when you no longer are useful service. service to the president is an opportunity and not a career. turnover is quite healthy. nobody has a lock on being a u.s. attorney and the fact that it is a very powerful position makes it even more important that the president has people who he trusts. eric: 20 seconds left. >> service to the american people instead of service to this president. i think that is what we are all

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♪ ♪ ♪ eric: well, the run for the triple crown turned on its head because of coronavirus. this year the belmont stakes which is traditionally the third and last leg of the iconic horse races well, it will instead kick off series that for the first time in history, aishah hasine with the details on this kind of flip-flop, hey, aishah? aishah: things will look different tonight but organizers are happy the race is happening. it's becoming a reality. plenty of cleaning and social distancing also in place. the length of the race have been shortened from one and a half miles to now wasn't and one eighth miles, the biggest change that you will see tonight will be all of the empty seats and that's because spectators are not allowed inside the grounds and because there weren't any ticket sales this year, the purse has been trimmed down from

1.5 million to a million, of course, the focus on keeping everyone safe. the 150-belmont stakes is now the first leg of the triple crown, and have been rescheduled because of coronavirus, normally the races happen within 5 or 6 weeks, this year happen over several months. here is a look at post positions. tiz the law favored to win. eric: aisha, good to see you, thank you. [laughter] eric: time for arthel neville 1 in 2 kids is underhydrated.

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