started and now not selling too much of it. there is more then we need. sadly. >> dana: i bought some. >> lower prices so that's a good thing. >> dana: thinks for joining us. i am dana perino. we'll see you on "the five." i've bought a lot of chocolate, bill hemmer. >> bill: nice to see you. see you at 5:00. i am bill hemmer. good afternoon, everyone. a major event about to begin in the east room. president trump set to meet with educators any moment about us safely reopen schools. in april he called on schools to reopen and sent a suggesting the same but educators are warning against a one-size-fits-all approach. we have coverage on this throughout the hour. the head of the nation's largest teachers union. i will get analysis from a doctor about the benefits and risks of getting millions of kids and teachers back in the classroom. laura ingle has the latest on how some local leaders are planning to do just that.

to kristin fisher taking off coverage from the north lawn. kristin, good afternoon. >> hey, bill. today we are seeing on an administration wide push to get schools across the country reopen this fall. it started with the vice president on a call with governors this morning. the president is set to speak any moment now and in between there's been a panel discussion going on for several hours moderated by dr. deborah birx. she expressed real reservations about the inadvertent impact that the shutdown has already had on students. >> in the rush to close things down, there was -- everything was not completely considered in that moment about how we were going to protect our children. children are social beings. we are all social beings. not being able to be together with students of similar age groups and with friends over extended periods of time, it's

unhealthy for anyone. >> the administration is saying that school decisions are local decisions but they are strongly encouraging k-12 schools and colleges and universities to hold in person classes this fa fall. florida just ordered all schools must reopen in august th august. harvard has announced classes will be online for the entire school year until the spring of 2021. there is a huge range for educators and parents to consider. the one thing that the trump administration has been clear on is that they cdc guidance never recommended that school should close in the middle of this pandemic. >> when it comes to reopening our schools, nobody should hide behind cdc's guidance as a way to not reopen. >> nothing would cause me greater sadness then seeing a school district or school years our guidance is a reason not to

reopen. >> the biggest concern is not necessarily for those young students because we know the virus does not impact them as some other age groups. the concern is that the young students will all be in classrooms together and then go home and transmit them to the more vulnerable populations, their parents and grandparents. that's really what a lot of educators and parents are considering and now we wait for president trump to speak and he will be joined by the first lady any minute now, bill. >> bill: thank you, kristin fisher. florida issuing an executive order for schools to reopen next month. other states including new york have yet to make a call. laura ingle reports on what's happening across the country on that and more. laura, what did you find out? good afternoon. >> good afternoon, bill. as parents in new york wait to find out what the school year is really going to look like, there's been a lot of back-and-forth. moms, dads, and caregivers in

dozens of other states are getting ready to make some major life adjustments as they get their kids ready to go back to school. take a look at this map where we see at least 39 states have released school reopening guidance, including california, florida, and arizona where covid cases continue to surge. the american community of pediatrics advocates students start the year physically present saying there's already evidence of negative impacts on children with schools closed in the spring. several school districts throughout the u.s. are planning a mix of classroom and virtual learning for the new school year where students would attend school a few days a week, limiting the number of children in the classroom. according to the u.s. bureau of labor statistics, 40% of u.s. workers between the ages of 20 and 54 have children at home. that brings up the biggest question for working moms and dads, how they are going to be able to work full-time while their kids may be in school part-time. in new york city,

mayor bill de blasio said today that the city still doesn't have a plan in place but hopes to have some news in a few days. >> the bottom line is this: safety first. health first. everything we are going to do is going to be with that prism, to make sure we are convinced we can do things in a healthy manner for kids, parents, educators, staff, everyone. >> right now only four states and d.c. have dates for the upcoming school year beginning in august including hawaii, north carolina, missouri, and when and rhode island. the price tag on all of this is staggering. officials with the association of school business found that the average u.s. school district may need to spend an additional $1.8 million to reopen school building safely. that money comes with expenses for health monitoring, cleaning, additional staffing, personal protection, and also transportation. >> bill: it's a big job. let's see how it goes. thank you, laura ingle. states have made plans for students to go back to school.

teachers say they are worried about getting sick. let me bring in the president of the national education association. thanks for coming on and good afternoon. i am keenly interested in this story, millions of people affected by it. one of my sisters as a high school teacher and speaking with her earlier, she can't wait to go back to school. >> yeah. >> bill: what will stop her from making that happen. >> we want is not impossible. we want our kids back in a safe school. that's the part we are kind of confused over people who would just say, because it fits the president or governor, just saying open the doors, put kids back in the way they left. what could go wrong? a lot could go wrong. >> bill: a couple things. the recommendations. plexiglas. social distancing. follow-up -- follow protocols. wear masks.

if you can get everybody to do that, why not go forward and see how it goes together? >> here's the thing. >> bill: when you consider the alternative for all of these kids and their parents and what they just went through in this spring and past winter. >> i really want to get this out. there's a way to do this safely. we are like the most creative people in the world. i taught sixth grade. i had 3912-year-olds in my class. that was not healthy on the best day of school. it's so different. schools are germ factories. kids blow their noses and sneeze on you. it comes along with the job. i never thought i might get sick. they may take it home to their mom and dad and grandma. we have to get it right. i told my sixth-graders, if you don't have time to do right, when are you going to find time to do it again? we are already seeing what

happens. but -- >> bill: help us get to yes on this. >> here's what we need. what complicates everything that wasn't part of the discussion that i was listening to before you got to me, the funding we have for our public schools. income tax, property tax, it's fallen off a cliff. as we have been talking about creative ways to schedule, use space, do those things that you said about sanitizing. there's less money right now, fewer dollars. they are talking about -- they are talking about massive layoffs. how are we going to do this if the federal government doesn't do what they did for shake shack? if the federal government which is cs the same way they saw businesses, layoffs and staying in business for a public school means you've got to give us the same kind of consideration. so we can build those safe

schools. >> bill: all right. help me out. you're saying that it's money. if you get the money you can do it effectively. if you get the plexiglas and other things but does it always come back to dollars? >> nobody is giving us the plexiglas and no one is going to -- >> bill: the behavior of millions has changed already. >> yeah, well, everything you just mentioned, face masks. i bought my own set. i had to pull it out of my own pocket. those books weren't free. i paid for them. we can't pay for 1.9 million teachers and support staff that are looking at pink slips, because there is no to pay them after this horrible, horrible -- >> bill: give me a chance. what are the consequences for parents, students, and children if it doesn't happen? >> here's what i've heard. i have heard from republican

parents, democratic appearance, socialist parents, independent parents. every parent loves their kid and they want them back at school when it's safe. let's do it. let's build that safe school. no one has talked about, and here's what you can count on from us to make sure that you have all hands on deck. you have the soap that you need and everything else. all costs money at a time when they are slashing budgets. the little bit we had is even less now. it's going to take some help. help your public schools. help us. help us. >> bill: think you for your time today. we'll see what we get from this event. it's about to get underway in the east room of the white house. lillie, thank you. nice to see you and we will see what happens in the coming weeks. thank you. lily eskelsen garcia from the teachers union. as i mentioned, president trump is going to speak any moment with educators and we are watching the white house. we will take you there. folks in the room will tell us

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>> bill: as promised, the event underway. the president talking about reopening schools in america. we want to drop in and get the word from the white house. >> president trump: that is something people haven't been hearing about it and nobody talks about it but it's a big deal. we pioneered new treatments that are dramatically improving the health outcomes. vaccines are doing very well. therapeutics are doing very well. the therapeutic research has been incredible. i think you're going to have a lot of big things happening long before the end of the year on both vaccines and therapeutics. therapeutics and i guess a little bit of a word we can use for on the way to a cure. they make you better. to me, the therapeutic is even more important than the vaccine at this point because people will get better. but the numbers are, the testing numbers are the highest they've ever been. we are almost up to 40 million in testing. 40 million people which is unheard of, far more than any other country.

many times when any other country is done. therefore we have more cases because we are doing more testing. we have more cases. if we did have the testing we would have far fewer cases. people don't do it that way. but they have to view is if you look at the chart and maybe mike has it. we looked at it before. if you look at the chart of deaths, deaths are way down. so what we want to do is we want to get our schools open. want to get them open quickly, beautifully in the fall. and as you know, this is a disease that's a horrible disease but young people do extraordinarily well. i was with the governor of new jersey. we were talking and he said out of, and he mentioned a number which is a very high number, but it's a number nevertheless. thousands of people, there is only one people that died that was under 18 years old in the state of new jersey and that was somebody i guess had a problem with perhaps diabetes or

something else. but one person out of thousands of people, one person died who was under 18 years old. so that's pretty amazing. i would like to now just give the microphone to our first lady. she's going to say a few words then were going to go with mike and karen pence and we were go around the room a little bit and say a few words. kellyanne, you did a great job this morning. if i minded, first lady, please. >> thank you. the first pillar of my be best initiative is the well-being and taking care of children's social, emotional, and physical health. it's never been more important than during the covid-19 pandemic. the administration has worked around the clock to protect americans from the coronavirus. but many challenges for children

and families can be just as invisible as the virus and just as dangerous. when children are out of school, they are missing more than just time in the classroom. there missing the laughter of their friends, learning from teachers, and the joy of recess and play. for children with disabilities without access to technology or whose homes are not a safe place, the situation can be even worse. at the start of the school year gets closer, i encourage parents, teachers, and schools to teach children about the importance of cdc guidelines and to implement them when appropriate. children's mental health and social development be as much of a priority as physical health. the same is true for parents.

many will be forced to make stressful choices between caring for their children and going back to work. we must address those needs as well. their own mental health and well-being. as we continue to come together as americans to tackle these challenges, i am honored that you all be here today to offer your thoughts. i look forward to working with you to make sure that american children and families can be healthy and thriving. thank you very much. >> president trump: thank you. what a job you're doing, i see you sitting over there. thank you for being here. thank you, melania, very much. mike was telling me governor desantis did a terrific job. he just announced schools will be open in the fall and we hope that most schools are going to be open and we don't want people

to make political statements or do it for political reasons. they think it's going to be good for them politically so they keep the schools closed. no way. we are very much going to put pressure on governors and everybody else to open the schools to get them open and it's very important. it's very important for our country. very important for the well-being of the student and parents. we are going to be a lot of -- putting a lot of pressure on opening schools in the fall. >> vice president pence: thank you, mr. president. thank you for your leadership. i've seen it day in and day out since you asked me to lead the white house coronavirus task force. >> bill: a big moment here with a lot of people really holding their breath and trying to anticipate what's coming their way in the month of august and september. every school district seems to have a different idea or every state in every county has a different plan or some of them are still trying to put that

plan together. the president said we're going to put pressure on the schools to reopen which means put pressure on governors to do that. you have the first lady talk about following cdc guidelines. we will bring in dr. bob or quito. how do we do it? can we afford not to do it? >> the suggestion among pediatric experts is to bring children back together again. the togetherness of kids is important, particularly in the elementary schools and pre-k groups. what's going to happen is it can happen by socially distancing these kids, by having classes in shifts, by having rooms to allow greater space between children and those children who can wear masks have to wear masks. the big concern is as you heard from the teachers that you interviewed is that one of the children may get the disease and bring it home. that's bad for their parents and

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>> bill: keeping a close eye on this event from the white house. vice president mike pence talking about reopening schools. want to bring in dr. bob wojda. didn't need to cut you off. i want to give you a chance to finish your point. >> it's okay. we have been talking for months now and the behavior of millions has changed. can you think of a surefire way to do this, whether it's in new jersey or colorado, to do it

safely? >> yes. >> bill: give us the answer. >> you heard vice president pence say kids have to come back to school because they learn better in groups. what we are going to have to do is have classes in shifts. it's not great for the parents of the children who are going to have to somehow finagle their job schedules to accommodate having children in and out of the house. but kids have to be in much smaller classes, spaced apart, wearing masks. the teacher is certainly going to keep her distance from the children and wear a mask because he or she is concerned about acquiring an infection from an asymptomatic elementary school child, a second-grader who perhaps is infected but not showing symptoms. we know kids below the age of 20 are less likely to have symptoms when they get the coronavirus. so that's where the rubber hits the road and that's the problem in america right now. kids are going -- >> bill: what would your

position be, would you open schools and see how it goes? >> yes. >> bill: you would. >> yes, i would. i think you have to do that. in areas where it really depends on the local outbreaks, i have a note to myself, local outbreaks where, say, you have 20,000 or 30,000 cases in a particular locale, then i would cool it for a bit and be adaptable with regard to opening school. i might not open the school if i have been the area where i have 50,000 cases a day which could be the case in states like arizona, southern california, certain parts of texas. in other parts of the country where the death rate has flattened and most of the infections are in people below the age of 40, yeah, i would consider having the kids go back to school but staggered.

>> bill: so it's sort of like you manage it as you go? that would be your plan? you can do that successfully, doc? >> i hope so. it's going to take judgment, political judgment as well as municipal judgment. >> bill: nice to have you on today. we'll talk again, dr. bob wojda from new jersey. the trump campaign responds. georgia's governor sending in the national guard after a violent weekend. i'll ask the states attorney general about the decision to deploy the military in the moment. what you need. what do you think? i don't see it. only pay for what you need. ♪ liberty. liberty. liberty. liberty. ♪ the course structure the it just suits my life perfectly because i am a mom, i'm a wife. and i was able to complete those short courses- five to six weeks- and then move onto the next

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pressure on the governors to reopen schools in the fall. how do you do that? >> think the president has the biggest megaphone and i think really a lot of the pressure will come from parents in these states because we all know the president has made very clear that it's important to get schools open in the fall and open on time and safely of course. for a couple reasons. one is it's just a bad idea to interrupt the educational development of kids all across the country and second, parents need to have some certainty because as we get this economy moving again, parents need to be able to get back to work so everybody can enjoy -- >> bill: we had the head of the teachers union on to begin the program. i don't know if you saw that or not. she says it's about money, money that comes from washington. joe biden said this on friday last week. >> the longer schools are closed, low income students and

students of color fall behind. i would mobilize the federal government to provide for schools to reopen. make sure states and districts have the funding to keep educators on the job. >> bill: he is talking about federal help too. in what form does that, how does it happen? >> i'm not going to get ahead of the white house or the president on this and how he approaches her but i would point out there's no question joe biden is in the hip pocket of the teachers union and he won't do or say anything abou unless it s the approval of your prior gas. we know that joe biden does not have a thought of his own when it comes to education policy and he has to do with the union tells him to do. the president is looking at this from the perspective of the students and parents. students need to get back in the classroom and keep learning and continue their educational experience. parents want their kids to keep learning but also need to be able to go back to work and get the economy moving again. joe biden is a guy who's beholden to the teachers union

and he will come up with a variety of reasons why it's not possible. >> bill: how do you manage this, if you get a flayer or a spark up, or maybe you've got a state governor who says were not going to. we are going to go back to virtual learning and we will keep it online. >> again, i think the pressure is going to have to come from parents. education is very often a local issue and state issue and the pressure is going to have to come from the parents and i think a lot of governors have shown that they can handle these flareups and address them. >> bill: may be parents. maybe parents don't want their kids to go in it at school. maybe parents are saying i am worried about you bringing that home. >> i think if you had a public opinion poll of parents who've had their children at home with them coming up on for months in a lot of cases, they would think

that by the fall, they absolutely want schools to reopen again and have children go back to the learning situation and have their education continue. american association of pediatrics knows it's important kids get back to school. they learn better in groups and it's better for their mental well-being and health and better for the parents to be able to go back to work and i think that any parent who has a school-age child would see that and would see that when joe biden is going to be hesitant to act and hesitant to say anything without the expressed written approval of the teachers union, there's going to be one candidate, president trump, who wants schools to reopen and another candidate, joe biden who is really going to drag his feet just as he dragged his feet on calling for the economy to reopen. >> bill: let's keep our fingers crossed and toes crossed and all that that it can happen and we can do it safely. tim, thanks for coming back today. tim murtaugh with me. you mentioned joe biden.

primary day in delaware and a limited number of polling places are open. mail-in ballots are an option for every registered voter this year. new jersey is letting voters mail in their ballots. the big contest includes two congressional swing districts. democrats competing to take on jeff van drew who was a democrat and switched parties. he has a district in the southern part of new jersey. six house democrats facing challenges from progressives. we likely will not know the results for at least a week as mail-in ballots trickle in. county election officials have warned states not prepared for the surge. will co see a ghost. republican in georgia declaring a state of emergency setting of the national guard after a violent weekend in atlanta, five people gunned down including an 8-year-old girl. early on sunday morning, some protesters smashed up a government building where georgia state patrol's headquarters. atlanta's mayor and the state democrats slamming the governor for calling the military.

we will call the republican attorney general of georgia, good afternoon. >> great to be with you. >> bill: was it necessary? >> it was. the people of atlanta and georgia and the people want to be safe. article one section one paragraph two of the georgia state constitution says protection to people and property is the paramount duty of state government and must be done equitably and completely. that's what the governor did. this shouldn't be a bipartisan issue. it's should simply be a safety issue. i strongly support with the governor did to make sure folks in our state and in our city are safe. >> bill: what will the national guard do. i have read about three different locations that they will protect. what's their job? >> they will protect buildings which is what our state patrol has done that by having the national guard protect those state buildings, it will free the state patrol to go out and patrol our roads, patrolled the

city and support the atlanta police department which will make the community safer. >> bill: the atlanta mayor, i know you have a disagreement with her. she doesn't like it. here's what she said. >> the irony is that i asked governor kemp to allow us to mandate masks in atlanta and he said no. he has called in the national guard without asking if we needed the national guard. we have been chording with the georgia state patrol but at no time was it mentioned that anyone felt that there was the need for the national guard to come in. >> bill: so she write about it? >> i have great respect for the mayor but wearing masks to protect yourself from covid has zero to do with the 24 people shot through the 8-year-old little girl that was killed, and the 60 to 100 people that went to the headquarters of the department of public safety and rioted and vandalized and terrorized. it had nothing to do with it. those are two separate things. we need to make sure. i would encourage the mayor to come together with the governor.

they have worked together on this issue. they worked together a month ago and we had the rioting to begin with. it's not a bipartisan issue. it safety. i will say bill, georgia is known as the number one state in the nation in which do business. we are a great place to live, work, and play. violence is not part of that legacy. coming together in solving problems is what we've done and that's what i would encourage the mayor to come together with the governor to make sure that people of georgia and people of atlanta are safe. >> bill: how long will they be on duty, do you believe? >> great question. the order that the governor signed will expire next monday the 13th. >> bill: chris carr, thank you. we'll keep an eye on it. from georgia, the ag. their significant fallout over the national security law in hong kong on what it means in the battle between the u.s. and china over cyber security. gordon chang on the tensions between washington and beijing in the moment.

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>> bill: the conversation continues at the white house. the president is hosting a number of state officials, educators, governors on safely reopening schools and we will track it. in the meantime, news from the secretary of state. >> worked on this issue for a long time. with respect to chinese apps on cell phones, the united states will get it right. i don't want to get out in front of the present but it's something we're looking at. >> would you recommend people download that app on their phones? >> only if you want your private information in the hands of the chinese communist party. >> bill: mike pompeo talking about the social media apps tiktok. a senior u.s. official telling us of the chinese government is using tiktok to spy, the u.s. government would have the authority to blockade. a spokesperson for the app

telling reuters the company has never provided user data to the chinese government, nor would it. tiktok says stopping operations in hong kong after officials in beijing past us weeding national security law. -- sweeping national security law. military drills in the south china sea with chinese navy ships nearby. gordon chang, expert on asia and author of the upcoming "collapse on china." you make the point that the world is reaching a tipping point on china. >> we see what's happening with the coronavirus, china spreading it beyond its borders, also with what it's doing in hong kong with the national security log, ending autonomy, certainly ending freedom. you see in governments and businesses are real change in their perception of china and that's going to have an effect on policies that i think are going to be widespread.

>> bill: christopher wray, fbi director, says half of the bureaus intelligent cases are related to china. he's talking about 2500 cases and said most americans have likely had their information stolen already. you put that headline with tiktok, and what does it make sense to you? >> certainly tiktok has been i believe used by the chinese government to spy on americans. they are terrible implications for all that. there is another issue, american apps cannot be available in china so why are we allowing chinese apps here question rackets an issue of reciprocity. the issue of spying and the issue of reciprocity and clearly we should be banning tiktok. >> bill: you believe beijing spies through your smartphone. >> certainly it does. not just tiktok but other apps as well. i thing we have to have a broad examination of our relationship with china. >> bill: okay. there was another headline about

an hour ago suggesting that the administration may withdraw from the world health organization. have you seen it? if it's true and it comes to pass, how do we understand now? >> i think the reason is that china was complicit with the world health organization -- the world health organization was complicit with china in spreading the disease. beijing knew that coronavirus was human to human transmissible that it maintained it was not. the way it got its message out to the world, the false narrative, was that january 14 tweet from the w.h.o. saying it's not human to human transmissible. at the same time, the w.h.o. supported china's pressure campaign to not impose travel restrictions. if you put those things together and that's how this disease which should have been centered only in the part of china has become a global pandemic. the w.h.o. helped china spread

this disease. >> bill: what is the status of covid in china today? how are they doing? >> there was a spike in beijing about two weeks, three weeks ago. most of that spike is over i think, but we really don't know because china has exercised extraordinary controls over information. there's a lot of cases we just don't know about. at this time we can save the disease probably has passed through most of china but nonetheless it's still a factor in some locations. >> bill: gordon jane, thank you for coming on. it's a big topic and there's a lot to discuss and we shall again very soon. nasa astronauts gearing up to return to earth after a historic mission on board the international space station. they have got some stories to tell and you will hear a few of them when i speak to them next.

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>> neil: american astronauts bob behnken and doug hurley captivated the world with their historic launch into space aboua month ago and they are about halfway through their mission on for the international space station and they joined me earlier today along with the iss commander chris cassidy in space. nasa astronauts bob behnken and doug hurley captivated the world with their historic launch into space about a month ago. they are about halfway through their mission aboard the international space station. they joined me now along with iss commander chris cassidy, and good afternoon, gentlemen. great to see all three of you. >> hi, thanks a lot, great to be with you. >> bill: i am interested in your return to earth. they are doing an old-school space reentry. you used parachutes to -- a water landing hasn't happened since 1975. bob behnken, how are you getting

ready? >> right now what we are doing is wrapping up our mission on board the international space station and we have turned into long-duration crewmembers here in about three weeks we will get a good solid review of the procedures we need to be familiar with prior to entry. just to cover those things you discussed, make sure that we understand how the sequence of events would be, we slow down and reenter the earths atmosphere. we can monitor the performance to make sure it's doing well. same thing on the parachute side should we need to intervene and put the parachutes out manually, we have to understand exactly when the right time to do it is. i think right now the biggest focus is taking care of ourselves so that we are ready, like any astronauts coming home, to be in the best physical condition that we can be in. splash down like he referred to

as a little bit of an unknown police for our generation of astronauts. we will want to be at our best when we splashed out while we wait for the ghislaine to pull our capsule out of the water and get us out of the capsule. >> bill: my next question to doug, i loved the way you passed the microphone. how do you differentiate the jobs? we had several years of training on the dragon. it have the manual push buttons for a lot of those features if they don't work automatically and both of us are kind of following the procedure as we descend into the atmosphere. there is different gates we have to meet. we will do our burn. the trunk will detach and then we will slow down as we descend through the atmosphere and then the parachutes will come out and we will monitor those things and

then the manes come out and then splash down. hopefully with dragon it's in the automated vehicle. we will intervene if we need to. >> bill: you could be bobbing in the ocean for a while. chris, how are your friends up there? are they good roommates? >> well, the nice thing is they are not new friends. we have been colleagues for a decade and a half i guess. doug and i have flown in space together before. bob and i, our first time that we've been together in space. we did a spacewalk together two weeks ago and that was the first time we'd ever done even a training spacewalk together. we are -- it doesn't feel like a new crew. it feels like old friends getting, coming to a new place to work together.

to me it's amazing that it's already been five weeks. it's gone by in the blink of an eye. >> bill: we are watching and waiting. thank you so much to doug and bob and chris. thank you, gentlemen. good luck. bring it on home very soon, maybe august 2nd, may be a little longer. the moment ago we were watching this event in the east room of the white house and i want to play what seems to be the headline so far from the president about >> we don't want people to make political statements or do it for political reasons. i think it's going to be good for them politically so they'll keep the schools closed. no way. very much going to put pressure on governors and everybody else to open the schools. >> so that is underway at the white house with educators and governors across the country. a really sticky issue here that will affect millions and millions of parents and students, children, teenagers,

college students, and also administrators and teachers and how do you do it and how do you do it effectively? that continues from the white house and wanted to share that with you. set your dvr at 3:00 eastern time, see you tomorrow. here is neil. >> neil: thank you very much. we are monitoring the same thing you are, this white house education event where the president is talking about opening up schools this fall. at some governors might take exception republican and democrat to the notion it is politically advantageous to keep them closed forward to their opening right now. for many of them, has proven a huge hassle and a controversy with parents who want to see their kids back in school as well so where are very closely the same day the andrew cuomo in new york was saying he would like to see schools reopen, just not sure individual school districts across the state are ready for that. therein lies the dilemma, wh t