going on a rv trip. are you in. griff: i'm in, i hope we can go swimming with sharks. jedediah: i'm if there's no bugs. we'll see you here tomorrow, bright and early. neil: we're on top of two storms barreling down, one of the mother nature variety, the other of the political variety, and both really front and center for us this morning. keeping an eye on hurricane eye sighas and -- isaias, it could be a category 2 and barreling right towards the florida coast. we're also following developments in washington where the principal players to try to get a stimulus effort going on the coronavirus are at least still talking so that's a promising sign. what we don't know is whether they have come to any agreement on those unemployment benefits that expired at least at the federal level just yesterday.

we'll have to wait and see on that. but a lot going on. very, very happy to have you, my friends. i am neil ca cavuto. for the next two hours we'll get the latest not only of on where this virus relief stands but where the virus itself stands as well as what's happening with that hurricane. and not so incidentally, how it could affect those astronauts who want to return from the uniteinternational space station tomorrow. that could be jeopardized or at least put off. we'll talk about that but first to the big story of the moment and that is the coronavirus relief effort where the two sides are divided by trillions of dollars. the cheapest plan on the table is the republican plan for about a trillion bucks. the more expensive one, the democratic plan for 3.5 trillion bucks. it's what's going to happen to the unemployment benefits, the $600 a week benefit that has now been on top of regular state unemployment benefits that have been handed out. republicans want to scale it down or wipe it out because it

disedisincentive advertisesincet work. we have the latest from mark meredith. >> reporter: there wasn't as lot of o optimism going into the talks. speaker pelosi said she's not interested in any chere short-tm deal. we're waiting to see what things will look like between senior democrats and white house officials on the next economic symptom liss bill. among the people in the room include treasury secretary steve mnuchin as well as mark meadows as well as house speaker nancy pelosi and the senate my medical report leader chuck schumer. americans who were used to getting the additional $600 for weekly unemployment, that vanished overnight. democrats want to see that extended through january of next year. the white house says it's willing to extend the benefit but only for a little bit longer. we heard from the chief of staff on friday. >> it surprises me that when we

talk about compassion and caring about those that truly are in need, that a temporary solution to make sure that unemployment enhanced unemployment continues has been rejected not once but multiple times. >> reporter: president trump is threatening to ban the app tiktok. the president telling reporters last night he plans to block the program here in the u.s. although it's not clear yet how that may happen. there's been fear that the chinese may be given too much access to americans' privates data through the app. there's reports that the company behind it is willing to divest it entirely to make sure a deal can go through. there's reports that microsoft may be trying to buy tiktok. it's unclear whether or not that would impact the president's decision to try to ban this. we'll wait and see. the president left the white

house a while ago, heading to virginia. we'll let you know if he has more to say on this as well as negotiations on capitol hill. neil. neil: thank you very much, mark, at the white house. any updates on this, we'll keep you posted. the principal players are meeting to hash out substantial differences. chad, where do things stand? >> reporter: you don't have a big meeting on capitol hill at 9:00 on a saturday morning with four major players unless you're facing a cries civile a a crisi. there are no staff in the room and that speaks volumes, the fact they're holding it early on a saturday, that says a lot. even if they remain far apart, pelosi is keeping her cards close to her development she refused to say what republicans may be willing to give up to get a bill.

fox is told the highest republicans could go is $1.7 trillion. democrats would need to secure policy wins to accept a lower price tag. the house of representatives is out of session for the month. steny hoyer said he would recall them if they got a vote. pelosi said she's not willing to do a bill unless a broader package is within reach. when he was a the leader of the freedom caucus, mark meadow's signature move was throwing a wrench in the legislation. the question is, can he forge an accord. a final deal with need democrat votes. mitch mcconnell says 20 of republicans in his chamber oppose a big bill. the key to dictating is when issues become ripe. the expiration of the extra unemployment assistance, rising coronavirus cases, that may not be enough to make this bill ripe for passage.

but that could change if cases continue to spike and there are more job losses, schools and universities face chaos heading into the fall. neil. neil: thank you, my friend, very much. let's get the read from senator bill cassidy of louisiana. senator, where are you, first of all, on the jobless benefit issue? curtail it? wipe it out? what. >> i think there needs to be a continuation of the benefit. i think it needs to be a little more tailored. some people are making 400% or thereabouts of what they would earn if they were working. now, clearly that is an incentive for people to not work. that may be good in the short term. long term, long term unemployment leads to longer term unemployment and severe problems for a family, for an individual. so i think we need something but it needs more tailoring to kind of where people's needs are. neil: i'm wondering where that middle ground might come.

is it your thinking, senator, that republicans are willing to accept an extension of that federal benefit, albeit at a lower level? i know mitt romney kicked around a plan where it's reduced by $200 a week. and rechecked at every 30 days. others have said extend it at the present level another couple weeks. where do you think that middle ground will be? >> i deal i ideally it would bet of someone's income. if you're making this much shals there. we want folks taking the jobs that are out there. there's a more important question. we can't debate against ourselves. it's pretty clear democrats are willing to let the unemployed suffer for them to get their policy gains. your reporter just said, they are not willing to give unless they get policy. their heroes act mentioned marijuana more than it mentioned

jobs. think about that. marijuana more than jobs. they are willing to let those unemployed suffer with no benefit in order to achieve policies which i don't think are critical in responding to coronavirus. neil: you know, they point to -- we were showing a chart of it, that jobless claims in the last couple weeks have been ticking up and that maybe this is further evidence we do need these federal benefits, maybe tour point, not at the $600 a week level. but that -- when all is said and done, that's going to be there. i know we're getting ahead of ourselves, wondering how we pay for all this. but we're already $10 trillion into rescues and stimulus from the federal reserve and what it's been doing and what you and your colleagues on both parties have been doing. anyone consider how we are going to get this spending under control? >> clearly, that is an issue. but what you don't want is for your economy to just totally

deflate. if that happens your deficits really climb. if you can keep the economy kind of through this rough patch, then it begins to grow, then things will better address themselves. by the way, this is endorsed by conservatives across the conservative spectrum, if you will. so -- but going back to this, republicans do think we need to support those folks who are facing unemployment. i would just ask democrats to join us. let's just carve out unemployment. let u.s. just put that on the table. we can fight about marijuana or anything else we need to fight about but let's first take care of those folks who are going to lose their supplement and they don't have a job to turn to. now, if we can do that, then we can work for the american people. i'm just asking democrats to put people before politics. i hope they do. neil: senator, thank you very, very much.

it's interesting, the senator's point of, what he was mentioning about how you get ahead of the curve. that's the political storm. when we come back, the very real mother nature storm, what's happening right now with hurricane isaias and what's going to happen now in florida and what effect that might have on a certain international space station couple of astronauts who are scheduled to return to earth tomorrow, via splashdown off the florida coast. can they still go through with that? after this. i just want to know, am i gonna be okay? i know people who specialize in "am i going to be okay." you may need glasses though. guidance to help you stay on track. ♪

neil: the scene on the international space station, about an our ago-they go through rituals when astronauts are departing and getting ready for a new group coming in. this is video from earlier of when the astronauts were getting prepared to go through the formal pack-up and get out process off the international

space station. we're talking about the spacex astronauts who are scheduled to crawl into the dragon capsule tonight at 7:30 p.m. eastern time, so they'll return around 2:48 p.m. eastern time tomorrow, just off the florida coast. now, there's just one hitch here. there's a wicked hurricane, a category 1 now, could soon be a category 2 storm and that has a lot of folks wondering whether they have to change their plans, delay their plans, land in the gulf or try to -- remember, this will be the first splashdown for u.s. astronauts since apollo soyez in 1975, that's when gerald ford was president. we're kind of rusty at this right now. you don't want to complicate matters any. rick reichmuth has been following the storm very closely, where it is right now and what the prospects might be for that return. hey, rick. >> 45 years, it's hard to

imagine it's been that long since we had a splashdown. it's going to be an incredible sight to see if it can happen. it's planning to splash down in the gulf of mexico around the panama city area, not on the eastern shore of florida which would be good news, if it can go in that direction. i think they've got seven different spots that they have as an option for it. here's where we are. it's august 1st. we have had nine named storms already, it's our second hurricane that will be impacting the u.s. within the last two weeks. so you get the idea. this is what we generally would see in activity in the first two months of the hurricane season. then you take a look at what we have ahead of us, the bulk of hurricane season is ahead of us and we're nine named storms in. normally in an entire year we see about 12. a lot going on. this is what we're talking about with our hurricane warnings we have in effect right now, all of the bahamas under hurricane warning and anywhere from south of west palm all the way to just north of daytona beach we have

hurricane warnings in effect and eventually we're going to be seeing the hurricane force winds very, very close to the shore. do we get them on the shore or not? little hard to say as of yet. 85-mile-an-hour sustained winds as of right now. it continues to pull off towards the northwest. radar picture shows some of that action already starting to make its way on-shore. we'll continue to see that throughout the afternoon. and by tonight we're going to be seeing our first approach very close, right around the fort lauderdale area will be the closest approach and get a little closer as we move in to the north of, say, west palm, up towards daytona beach. that's where we have cat 1 storm probably just off the coast. the worst of the energy on the right side of that storm. so that would be good flus for florida, if it tracks that way. it's so close, a little bit of a deviation going 10 or 15 miles to the west of that center track. we have a lot more impacts across parts of florida. we've got monday off the coast of georgia, monday evening making some sort of landfall

likely around areas of north carolina. nevertheless, we're certainly going to see significant rain there. i think the worst or at least the heaviest of the rain is going to be in places from south carolina all the way up to parts of new england. we'll see isolated spots, up to 6 inches of rain and a lot of spots maybe 3 to 4 inches of rain so that's going to cause localized flooding. we've got about four to five days we'll be dealing with this. it all begins this evening across the coast of florida. neil. neil: rick, thank you very much. rick reichmuth following that very closely. rick leventhal, i think he's had more than a few brushes with natural disasters and calamities. i like to call him our of calamity editor. he joins us right now from fort lauderdale. here we go again, huh, rick? >> reporter: absolutely, neil. right now it's hot and sunny on the beach in fort lauderdale. we had squalls move through earlier and got soaked. now it's a beautiful day.

for now. i want to show you what it looks like here on the beach in fort lauderdale which is basically closed, all the way up the coastline there. 19 coastal counties in florida have all been now issued a state of emergency. so the beaches, the marinas and parks are closed. there are a few people out here taking advantage of the weather. the surf isn't that bad right now. you can see that locked down the chairs. they closed hurricane shutters on the building. we want to show you drone footage that we shot this morning along the beach in fort lauderdale. you can get a sense of how empty things are, how shut down everything is and how prepared this area is for the storm. now, again, a hurricane warning is in effect from about boca, north. but there's a hurricane watch in effect in fort lawler daily -- lauderdale because the storm will be right off the coast and the tropical storm force winds extend 75 miles out from the center. even if it's 50 miles offshore, we'll feel it along the coast. they felt it in the islands as

well. turks and caicos got hit pretty hard over the last 36 hours or so. puerto rico got slammed as well. they had flooding down there, tree damage and lines down. those areas have been hit hard by storms over the past few years. back in florida, they're dealing with complications related to the coronavirus, neil. they have 20 of shelters on standby but they're a little concerned about people running to shelters right now because they have to prep for covid-19 and make precautions for that here's what the governor said about that this morning. >> we have the non--congregate options available for people who may experience covid-19 symptoms and a lot of that will be using hotels to be able to do that. and that has been something that's been prepared for. that has not been necessary up to this point. we'll see over the next 12 to 24 hours whether that will be but that is an option. >> reporter: so again, we have

hurricane watches and warnings up and down the coast, neil. we just saw the latest forecast. the storm had jogged a little to the west. that means we could see a little bit more of that wicked weather sometime later this afternoon, into tonight. neil: all right, rick. thank you very much. rick there in florida. this could be an issue all along the southern coast and all the way, depending on the trajectory you look like, all the way to maine if it, again, just hugs the coast but never touches land. so for those who are looking at how to prepare, apparently try to prepare for this, a lot easier said from this. the read from the fema administrator. (neighbor) whatcha working on... (burke) just an app. it's called signal from farmers, and it could save you up to fifteen percent on your auto insurance. simply sign up, drive and save. ♪ we are farmers. bum-pa-dum, bum-bum-bum-bum ♪

neil: we are very, very closely following hurricane isaias and one of the things that comes up is how close it gets to the shore, does it hug the shore, any surge possibilities there. when you get real surge possibilities of, that's when they start telling people to evacuate. they've not done that along the areas likely first to be hit, that would be florida, south carolina, north carolina. because there will be winds but so far they're not anticipating any big surges. that could complicate things if we get to the surge picture here. let's go to peter gainer, the fema administrator, was kind enough to take some time to join us now. administrator, good to see you. if there's not the feared surge -- there could be some surge, shortness of breath russly, but not -- some surge, obviously, but not enough to have people abandon areas. is that where we stand. >> heed your local emergency managers.

what i will say generally is don't bet your life on what the forecast, the tracking intensity will do. today is the day to make those final preparations so you're ready no matter what happens. so if i can ask everyone out there in florida especially those along the track of the storm, take preparedness actions today. make yourself, your family, your business safer today so you won't regret it tomorrow. neil: you know, we've seen a lot of flooding in puerto rico and some of the outward islands. is that what these folks are in store for at the very least, i lot of flooding, like in puerto rico overnight they had better than 5 inches of rain. what are you seeing thus far? >> again, the forecast changes. i think the national hurricane center has confidence in the forecast today. it will change. it's a forecast. it's a prediction. so if it stays on its predicted path, florida will likely get more rain. they may have some surge.

tropical storm force winds inland. so again, just because the track is offshore doesn't mean you're safe. so again, don't bet your safety on what the hurricane will or will not do. take some actions today to protect yourself and your family. neil: a lot of folks are very nervous about leaving their homes or going into these shelters, especially with the coronavirus which is pretty pronounced in florida right now and south carolina as well, if it were to continue up the coast. so obviously they have to be aware of distancing issues that could make it problematic and you know from frying pan into the fire. how is that addressed? >> so great point, neil. early on in our covid-19 response, back in late february, early march, we knew we would be here in hurricane season. and we wanted to prepare not only the federal government but our partners at the state, local tribes and territories to make sure they look at their existing

plans, pre-covid plans about things like evacuation and sheltering with the overlay of covid-19 challenges. so you're exactly right. local cities and states will need more time if you have to give an evacuation order. you need more transportation assets and you need more square footage if you decide to put people into congregate settings, you may need to put people who are at risk into non-congregates. all the actions they're doing today, they're looking at those plans and they're adapting those plans to this storm and any storm that comes after. neil: all right. well, we'll watch it very, very closely. peter, i think you're going to be a busy fellow the next 48 hours at a minimum. thank you very much for taking the time. we are also following developments on the political front. by the way, here is the clearest sign yet that california senator kamala harris might be the frontrunner to be joe biden's

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neil: we understand they are still talking on capitol hill, if we can take a peek of what's going on there. normally it's just a door. behind that door you have steven mnuchin, the president's chief of staff, mark meadows, nancy

pelosi, the speaker, chuck schumer, democratic leader in the united states senate and they've been pow wowing for the better part of 90 minutes. at issue is that coronavirus stimulus measure, which might or of might not include extended jobless benefits at the federal level. jobless benefits at the various state levels still continue as is. the federal protection, $600 a week, that was an add-on given for the coronavirus and for the rampant escalation in unemployment that resulted. republicans want to dial that back a little bit now. some in the party want to wipe it out all together. they're working on a plan that will address that. they might do it in pieces. but they're still talking so of that could be a sign, who knows, maybe they're making progress. we'll follow that very closely. we're following politics base that will have a thing or two to say about where this goes. right now, everyone is going to be watching joe biden because this is the week coming up that

he is supposed to settle on a running mate. kamala harris' name as come up, the california senator, a former challenger to joe biden for the democratic nomination. they've had a touch and go relationship right now. the fact of the matter is, the very idea that her name has risen in prominence and that people start to look at the former vice president notes talking about her, people seized on that, that maybe she's a frontrunner for the job. there's been controversy around that. jacqui heinrich following all of that for us, hey, jacqui. >> reporter: reports indicate there's been a shuffling of the deck at the last minute with the one-time front runner kamala harris shifting into did background over questions about her loyalty stemming from her attacks on biden during the first democratic debate. harris allies organized a call to the vetting committee to set the record straight. there are reports she doesn't hold much support from black

voters. house democrats are campaigning for congresswoman karen bass. she has no presidential ambitions, is known to be loyal and wouldn't give president trump a target for criticism in the same way that harris or senator elizabeth warren would. bases has been calling -- bass has been calling union leaders to gain endorsements. susan rice has a strong relationship with biden, a known figure who could be trusted, a rumored top quality for biden. senator tammy duckworth has also slipped into the background over legal concerns about her birth place. her father was in the military. she was born overseas. biden has said he will make his choice for a running mate this week. we may not expect the announcement until the week after, which is right before the convention. neil: thank you very much. i want to pick don peeble.

brain about this. always good to have you. first on the various names that are being bandied about, seems like the biden approach might be do no harm. some of these ancillary candidates, besides kamala harris, might be risky and they don't want a sarah palin issue that looks good from afar, once in the campaign, far from good. they want to avoid that. does that actually help someone like kamala harris or susan rice who have been certainly well-vetted, they've been in the national sphere for a while now and in the case of the senator, run for president herself. what do you think? >> well, i think harris is certainly battle tested but she doesn't poll very well. she doesn't poll very well regardless of race, by the way, in terms of democrats. i think the top pollster is elizabeth warren. i think biden has to pick --

it's going to be an energized campaign throughout the election season in the fall. i would think that warren or governor whitmer out of michigan would be his top two choices. also, the fact that he has rolled out president obama so early in this process, he's outlined an economic policy objective for african-americans, makes me wonder if he's desense desensitizing black voters. neil: i wonder if there would be hell to pay if he were to do that, the african-american voters, the democratic party takes them for granted, if they were passed up here in a selection to be a running mate, would that -- i'm not saying they would jump to donald trump, that would be specifically tough to do given the environment, but

that they might not vote at all. >> i think he's got to look at what base needs energizing. i think more moderate democrats, democrats who are not on the far left, he's probably already got them, black, white, everybody in between. i think it's the left that doesn't trust him. i think the left would have a big -- [audio difficulties] -- he would not be the nominee if it wasn't for warren. we would be talking about mike bloomberg. neil: we're having some audio issues with you. i apologize for that. if he's right, don't be surprised if it isn't an african-american woman at all, it might not be an african-american woman. the elizabeth warren name has come up in a lot of circles. we'll know sometime next week.

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neil: you know, things are peaceful for the first time in about 64 nights because this has been going on one night after another in portland, oregon. peaceful demonstrations returned to that city. as you know, on a number of nights, things got pretty chancey, pretty dicey and oftentimes pretty violent. they worked out an agreement where foreign agents, guardsmen, would be replaced by local authorities, local law enforcement officials and that might have done the trick. again, it's too early to he'll. we're looking at how this type

of cooperation and sort of mutual agreement could work in other cities where there have been protests, seattle, chicago come to mind, even new york. let's get the read on off of this from matt whitaker, the former acting u.s. attorney general. always good to have you. so far, so good. one night does not a trend make but what do you think of what transpired there? >> well, i think what's transpired is there were a couple tactical things that changed that were very important. there was a park across the street from the courthouse that was cleared out as a staging area so that some of these fireworks and other things that were being used couldn't be staged and used at night. obviously, the deescalation from -- that happened by putting the local law enforcement in the primary responsibility for protecting the courthouse helped but i will tell you for the first five weeks that was the same state of affairs. so obviously i think there are

things, learning that law enforcement's doing to not only deescalate the violence and thee consistent front station but to also -- confrontation but to take away some of the elements that allowed this to happen. so i'm encouraged. i'm happy for people like my former colleague and friend, don washington, who runs the u.s. marshals who o went to portland who was very involved in striking the deal with the local political officials to get this arrangement where local law enforcement would take on a large majority of the protection of this courthouse. neil: you know, a lot of the local mayors in portland, these other places, the presence of these agents, whatever you want to call them, matt, just agitated the situation but they're only a more recent appearance. as i said, we've had 64 nights of protests in portland. the arrival of federal forces, agents, whatever you want to call them, was only in the last week or two. so is that a fair criticism? >> yeah, neil, i don't think it

was a fair criticism. i think you had some violent extremists that were agitating the law enforcement that were trying to protect this courthouse. let's remember, this is a courthouse that we all paid for as taxpayers and it should not be destroyed. it should not be defaced or anything. it seems appropriate to establish a perimeter. i don't think federal law enforcement, many who live and work in the community in port hand, would do anything to agitate the protester whose ultimately became rioters and i think there was a -- it was a little touch and go there but i think cooler heads have prevailed. i hope that by the local politicians engaging in this situation, allowing law enforcement from the state and the city to be involved in the protection of the courthouse, i hope that does deescalate the situation. no one wants to see that and certainly no one in portland wants to see that in downtown

and their own community. neil: matthew whitaker, former acting u.s. attorney general. good to see you again. >> always enjoy being with you, neil. thank you. neil: same here. we've got a couple of developments we're following here. the baseball season that just started, well, it could soon be ending right now. we've seen coronavirus cases ignite among a number of teams, whether the players in the marlins or the phillies or the st. louis cardinals. one of the greatest baseball players who ever lived, johnnie damon, remember about johnnie damon in a field where people come and go, he played almost 20 years. his perspective on what happens to baseball this year.

neil: you know, we interrupt this shortened baseball season for, well, the end of the baseball season. don't dismiss it. already given the fact that the coronavirus cases have been spiking among either team members or team staff members, the likes of the philadelphia phillies and th the marlins ande st. louis cardinals. it's disrupting game schedules and it has the baseball commissioner himself saying it could happen. i wonder how jamie damon feels about that, one of the greatest baseball players of all time. i hated you back in 2004 when you won a world series for the red sox. i loved you when you did the same for the new york yan yanki. now i love you. it's great to have you. how you doing? >> i'm doing fantastic. [audio difficulties] neil: all right. we might have some audio issues.

i hope they fix them. johnnie, what if the baseball season were to end right here? i mean, this is spreading. i don't know how owners would have thought that that wasn't a risk anyway. but do you think that they -- if this keeps spreading they just end the season? >> well, i really hope that it's not -- [audio difficulties]. all the travel these guys are doing -- [audio difficulties]. neil: we're going to try to fix the audio we're getting from you. it's not your fault, my friend. maybe it's just someone who didn't like the boston red sox or the new york yankees. we're going to try to fix it and get back to you. in the meantime, i hope we can

fix this. i want to get to the mayor of miami. he has more urgent worries for the time being, the approaching hurricane. very good to have you. how are things looking there right now? >> well, we're obviously preparing for the worst and hoping for the best and obviously understanding that we're dealing with this poe pen potential hurricane in the mitt smoke detectomidsts of a pandem. i'm in the emergency operations center in the city right now. everyone's wearing masks and socially distanced and everyone has been taking their temperature check as they arrived here which is different from the way our emergency operation center usually works. proximity is a benefit when dealing with emergencies, having people close to each other. that's obviously a challenge. we have not had to deploy evacuation areas for now. that might be a challenge if we have to in the future. neil: you know, what's complicating things, to your point, mayor, is the virus. a lot of people who are very leery of going to any shelter,

because obviously crowds gather at shelters, what kind of precautions have been made to deal with that possibility that people do have to leave their homes and they do have to head to one of these things? >> thankfully, right now we're under a tropical storm watch. we have not had to activate the shelters. we're preparing for the possibility that people have to be socially distanced, bringing their own hand sanitizer and wearing the masks in the shelter, things we haven't had to contend with in the past. neil: do you get any sense from floridians right now on the virus, mayor? that the worst is over? i noticed the seven day average of cases has dipped a little bit, so things are getting a little bit better than they were. the peak seems to have been reached and we're dipping down a little bit. >> you know, that's certainly the hope. we've implemented a variety of remedial measures here in miami and we are seeing our percent

positive drop by about 2% over the last few weeks. and it does seem like we have reached a peak. we're hoping that based on the measures that we've taken, we're going to see continual progress. it's probably slower than we would like. obviously, we would love to see the new positive numbers we are optimistic with what we're seeing over the last couple of weeks. neil: mayor suarez, thank you very much for taking the time. we do appreciate it. i want to go back to johnnie damon, the former major league baseball star. he played for 20 years in the pros. that's longevity. i think think we fixed the bugs. you might have heard the mayor in florida was talking about the coronavirus cases, still an issue, a big issue for sports, a big issue for baseball. it's an even bigger issue for whether baseball can continue even with this abrie abbreviated

season. if it were stopped, what do you think? >> i think it would be a major embarrassment. i really thought all the games should have been in arizona, las vegas or florida. try to keep these guys in a bubble. right now, they play a game, they get on a bus, they go to the airport, go through security, they fly, get on another bus when they land and then go to the hotels. so there's a lot of moving parts that they are doing and it makes it very difficult to control the coronavirus and this is going to be here forever and we have to learn how to live with the coronavirus. we need to take our vitamins, do what we need and try to stay as healthy as possible. and show respect to people. sometimes you have to wear a face mask, sometimes you don't, like when you're at a beach, no. but when you go to publix or a store, show consideration for

the older generation. neil: yeah, you're right on publix, the grocery store chain is requiring everyone who goes in and out of the stores to wear a mask, regardless of the rules in the various states. i'm curious about one thing, though. there have been stipulations on football players besides what they do on the job, off the job, where they're sending players warnings, don't congregate in crowds, don't go to bars, don't do that sort of stuff. a lot of those players sort of wince at that intrue testifiness. what do you think of that. >> it's really tough to tell an american citizen that you have to be confined and locked up. i just think we are smarter than what the media's telling us. we know that when we're sick, don't go out to bars. we know not to congregate so much. so let's be smart and baseball players hanging out in the hotel

room, play cards, get your miller lite after the game. the bars are struggling. the small businesses are struggling. so that's the number one thing that we really need to do and help out and especially the people whose businesses were torn up in the riots. insurance doesn't cover that. so there's a lot of things we need to get moving and hopefully congress can figure something out. i mean, they haven't really done much in the past three years, so -- neil: you're right about that. johnnie, thank you very, very much. thanks for great memories. i only care about the ones with the new york yankees days, just an incredible career and i've enjoyed watching you. so best of luck in the future. johnnie damon, only he and babe ruth won world series on the boston red corks anboston red sk

yankees. we're watching what's going on with the hurricane and the other political storm where they're trying to iron out differences to keep the stimulus flowing. we're on both, after this. iver. they're going to be paying for this for a long time. they will, but with accident forgiveness allstate won't raise your rates just because of an accident, even if it's your fault. cut! sonny. was that good? line! the desert never lies. isn't that what i said? no you were talking about allstate and insurance. ... accident forgiveness from allstate. click or call for a quote today.

> >> so many storms so little time. weekend to the second hour, with neil cavuto, i am he. two storms are going quickly, one of the political variety. two hours' worth of talking and so that's progress. and meanwhile, the big one on the storm that's sneaking up the east coast right now, and of course, we're talking about hurricane isaias. right now, a category 1 storm, could be a category 2. a lot of flooding associated with this. puerto rico found out the hard way and san juan, they had better than four inches of rain

and some e-mailed that it was better than six inches. it works its way up the coast. and florida gets ready for this, the seminole county emergency manager. alan, thank you for taking the time. what are you seeing? what's the latest on this? >> so the storm continues. in florida we're used to the hurricanes, weeble and wobble, and it moves left and right and we have to prepare because we're in the error cone. as long as we're in the error cone, we're planning for a direct hit. we hope that's not the case. we mope it will stay-- we hope that it will stay off the coast and not bring the damaging winds that it brings to the central area. neil: maybe you can help me. when you evacuate people, i'm told you don't evacuate in the case of high winds. you do evacuate in the case or potential case of dramatic surges of water, that sort of

thing. since the latter doesn't appear to be happening, right now they're not evacuating anyone. is that -- are they still sticking to that? >> yes, so, there's a couple of different things. we definitely will evacuate for storm surge if necessary along the coastal communities, but we also evacuate mobile home, manufactured homes for wind, certainly if we're going to get hurricane sustained force wind, as well as low lying areas. you mentioned flooding. that's something at that we should be aware of as well. in fact, all week long, we've had sand bag operations open throughout the entire county and multiple locations, letting people get prepared for the localized flooding that we potenti potentially could see over the next couple of days. neil: and mentioned with other guests, to a man or woman, they're very nervous about telling people you're going to have to go to a shelter because a lot of people don't want to go to a shelter and obviously, the spike in coronaviruses in your beautiful state might have

something to do with that and whether they risk, you know, even more harm going into a crowded high school gym or that sort of thing. you're not at that point yet, i understand that. is that a concern? how do you convince people if you have to, no, no, you're going to have to go to one of these places? >> yeah, so the message this year, of course, is if you can go to a friend or family member's house that has a concretemationry block structure, that's the safest thing to do. again, we would only be calling evacuations for individuals in mobile homes and manufactured homes. we're only moving people that have been covid positive. we've been in contact consistently through the entire event starting back in march. we know about those individuals and we've talked to those individuals throughout the week and we know the ones that live in mobile homes and manufactured homes and we're already starting to move those individuals into a specialized shelter for those individuals. now, the general population shelters and the special needs

shelters now will have ample space, additional social distances, triage, a lot of things to help protect individuals. the shelters are refuge of last resort. the best thing to do is to find a friend or a family member, maybe someone that goes to your church, a service organization, if you belong to a rotary or something like that, if someone is there that has a concretemationry block structure, definitely best to go there, best to go to a family member's house than go to a shelter where there's multiple individuals. neil: you know, we were talking about the complication of the coronavirus cases. people have been thinking this week that your state in general has hit a plateau and sub deciding and they follow seven-day averages and it's dipped a little bit. still stubbornly high. you might be over the worst of it. any sense of where things are

going? >> we're definitely cautiously optimistic. our hospital numbers here in our community, as well as in the metro orlando area have started to go down, which is really good. the number of new cases coming in has started to level off, even lower a little bit. so that's good. so there are some good indicators out there. there are also some concerns, of course, initially the illness was mostly in the younger population, we're starting to see it getting into the older population and that's certainly a more concern for us, because of the fragile experiences that we've seen in people that are seniors that get this virus. so, we're cautiously optimistic. we're hoping that we have stopped the spread of it or at least slowed it down a little bit and maybe we can get this under control. neil: i have no doubt that you will. alan, thank you very much for taking the time. i know you're a busy fellow. alan harris, seminole county emergency manager. i want to bring ken graham into

the mix here, the national hurricane center director. he has been closely following this. of course, in the bahamas, director, it already made landfall, director. what can you tell snus? >> it's made landing on the southern part of the islands, hurricane force winds, just waves battering the island and heavy precipitation, just a little preview what's to come going from the bahamas and approaching the central florida coastline. neil: what are we looking at with this? i mean, there were reports that some of these wind are still pretty severe at 80 miles an hour and that it could move up and get a little more aggressive as it hugs the coast. what's the latest forecast sort of of tell you right now? >> we're looking at the latest forecast here. it's really important everybody watching knows that it's not just the point in that forecast. those tropical storm force wind really looking out at the

northern portion of the storms and stretch out 120 miles from the center. the hurricane force wind right around the center. so as we progress, this right here is sunday morning. this is monday morning, so, you know, looking tonight and tomorrow makes the closest approach to the florida coastline right where we have this hurricane warning along the central portion of the coast. so as it makes the close approach here, that's when you can see people start getting the hurricane force wind. that's a dangerous time right there. if it stays off the coast, most of the wind will be there. a small wiggle, 10, 20, 30 miles per hour could bring the hurricane force wind right on the coastline of florida. >> you know, you mentioned the coastline, the east coast of florida, as you know, probably very, very well, ken, the-- you know, the international space station astronauts are expected, two of them at least, those who flew via spacex are due back to have a splashdown just off the florida coast tomorrow. latest indications are they want to make it somewhere in

the gulf. at the florida panhandle. how will the waters be there if they're to do that. >> most of the high seas are out in the atlantic. those of the wind for the most part are on the right-hand side of the hurricane so that's where the biggest impact is going to be, less impact in the gulf of mexico. that's you're going to see the wind and seas and balance erring rainfall and most along the right-hand side of florida. neil: ken graham, national hurricane center director. he knows this stuff inside and out and every little nuance as well. so, we are well-protected with his expertise. we're also following another storm and that's in washington d.c., but it's a storm that offers at least some promising talk between top democrats and republicans who are hashing out another stimulus measure to deal with the coronavirus and the economic fallout. right now the principal

players, including the treasury secretary, the white house chief of staff, nancy pelosi, chuck schumer. trying to get whether, a, we continue those $600 a week unemployment checks and b, whether to extend anything else, like aid to cities, states, and businesses directly in harm's way as a result of these coronavirus escalated incidents that have slowed down recovery efforts pretty much across the country. we're on that a lot more after this. (mom) come on, hurry up! all systems go? (mission control) 5 4 3 2... and liftoff. (vo) audi e-tron. the next frontier of electric. get audi at your door remote services through participating dealers.

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bonds, treasury bonds to keep interest rates low and i guess the wheels of commerce well-greased. right now, this is the issue of the moment whether this latest stimulus measure ever gets off the ground because the two sides are pretty far apart, especially on this issue of unemployment benefits at the federal level. those $600 a week checks that republicans have been balking at because they say it disincentivizes those individuals from finding any work at all. let's get the read from democratic senator ben cardin of maryland. senator, great to have you back with us. how are things looking? >> neil, first of all, it's good to be with you. i think we're all pleased that negotiations are taking place today. and when we passed the cares act in march we anticipated that our economy would be performing at a much higher level today than it is. the people that are unemployed and those numbers are going up, they desperately need help through the unemployment insurance system and our economy needs that. so we know we have to extend is and we need to get this done.

we should have gotten it done before now, the deadline is now. we're pleased to see the negotiations are taking place, but recognize that state and local governments need help, we're working authorizations for another round of help, and anticipated being fully open, but they're not. we need to help people, but also to help our economy. neil: you know, is there any chance, senator, that you know of for a skinny bill, i guess they're using that jargon, whether we continue the $600 a week, a lesser figure gradually phased them down, and then address some of the other provisions, down the road? where are you on this? >> well, if we don't take care of state and local government we are going to find millions of more federal and state and local workers laid off. they have to have balanced budgets and they just can't keep their service levels, including the department of

education and dealing with the education of our children and our first responders. if we don't give another round of help to those small businesses that are still ordered not to fully open, they're not going to be around in the fall. so, it's urgent that we deal with these issues now, and should have done two and a half months ago when the house passed the bill, but it's desperate that we deal with it before we go on our august recess. neil: you know, republicans on the unemployment benefits, senator, saying you don't want to do something that inhibits someone from looking for work or puts business owners in a pickle trying to hire people for work when they do much better with their own state benefits and the federal benefits. i think it's 67% are in that camp where they're earning more on unemployment than they would at their job. what do you say? >> well, first of all, the jobs aren't there. secondly, i'm not too concerned about people being-- don't want to go back to work.

they want to go back to work. there shouldn't be a penalty to go back to work so there's a legitimate concern that we want to make sure that the unemployment benefits do not exceed what a person was earning. these are issues to deal with with the administration, but we don't want to deny the help. the type of cuts that the republicans were talking about this week would be devastating to american families. we will have more foreclosures, more evictions, it's not what we need for our economy. neil: you know, senator if you don't mind me skewing into politics this year, the talk is this week joe biden is going to announce his running mate, whether he publicly does so, we'll see. but kamala harris' name has come up as a presumed frontrunner and a horrible filing r piling on for her, saying don't go that way, joe. many in the biden camp don't want to take a chance on lesser-known person, maybe the sarah palin argument, good from

afar, once involved in a race, not as good. not to disparage the former alaska governor, but to stay that joe biden wants to play it safe. kamala harris would be a safe choice. how do you feel about that? >> well, i think that joe biden has had the luxury of a lot of really good candidates that he can select as his running mate. we're excited about this, he's had ample time to do the necessary vetting. i'm very confident he's going to choose a person that will work well with him, fully qualified, and help us win the white house in november. neil: you know, the president was talking about pushing the election back on fears of election inproprietienproprieti dialed it back. and then we hear that one wants to push the council back over

the pandemic they say, both sides criticized the chinese for doing this. can you ever envision an event where the pandemic and reluctance to go out and vote would jeopardize the election? >> no, no, the election will take place on november 3rd. we'll have the transition to the current administration or to a different administration on january 20th of next year, that's what the constitution requires. we're going to comply with that. the pandemic will not stop us. there's an easy solution here and that is encourage individuals to vote by mail. it's a safe way to vote and it's an easier way to vote. i know in the state of maryland, tried that in the primary and it works well. we had some-- we could work those out. en courage people to vote by mail and that's the way to go. and the election will take place on november 3rd. there's no reason whatsoever to consider anything else.

the constitution requires us to move forward with this election. neil: all right. senator cardin, always good to talk to you. to your constituents, maryland is one heck of a state. >> thank you, be well. neil: be well, too. the hearings on capitol hill-- not hearings, talks i should say. at least they're talking and that means the other side is hearing. if we get any news out there, it's going on close to two and a half hours so that's progress, right? we're following what was a very peaceful night in portland, oregon. a lot of people say that's to do with cooperation between local officials, federal agents, federal officials, that have tried to find a way to keep the calm and make sure that protests remain peaceful and not get out of hand. that's something that extend way beyond portland.

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>> all right. the worries about a hurricane. worries about whether we've got a stimulus deal. worries about the spike in cases of the coronavirus in this country and throughout the world. yet, if you look at the markets, the month we just completed, what crisis? i find it interesting at corner of wall and broad, so focused not on the here and now, but what they see as a promising future the major market averages advancing with the month along with record low interest rates. the dow close to 2 1/2%, nasdaq 7%. s&p 500 51/2%. and amazon rocking 72%. apple 45%. facebook 23%.

so with all the doubts and all of those ceo's who were getting like reamed on capitol hill, the fundamentals as they like to say, the underpinnings of our economy and all that, safe and sound and looking green. the president, of course, has said if he goes, that goes away. you can play politics, left and right, i'm telling you the numbers what they are. with the fears and anxiety, people making money hand over fist. all right, we're focused on that and focused on indeed promising news at least on the violence front across this country. calmer, cooler heads prevailing certainly in portland, overnight. the operation legend that aims to crack down on violence in these cities, orchestrated by the administration to bring law and order back and still allow people to peacefully protest is alive and well. it's an issue that will be front and center in other cities with similar

disruptions, including in detroit. the detroit police chief joins us, james craig. how are things looking there now and what are things likely to look like tonight in detroit? >> well, neil, we're in week nine. by and large our protests have been peaceful. we had a protest on a federal building last night. we were the face of enforcement around that building. we had no disruption, so, very pleased about the work of the men and women of the detroit police department. just the fact that we haven't seen some of the violence that you've seen in many of the other large cities. so we're optimistic and really, weak nine and we're still pushing through, but got to give a lot of thanks to our cops and certainly our community that continue to stand with us each and every day. neil: well, i mean, you're not giving yourself for a lot of credit. and a lot of things about you, and obviously calmed down. but let me get your take on

that. there is criticism when they bring in the foreign agents in or national agents, police, whatever you want to call them, and that they make the situation worse. there's little evidence of that, but there has been some evidence, certainly in portland, even though though cases were going on and the violence was going on long before these agents came into being. what do you make of that, that sometimes they could do more harm than good? >> yeah, you know, it's hard to try to figure out the whole portland, seattle. i know there have been a lot of scuttlebutt behind enhancement to the federal enforcement. here is the bottom line, neil, we have been working with our federal partners for some time now. you may remember in december, general barr came out, stood with me, our u.s. attorney, the heads of the fbi, u.s. attorney, to really talk about enhancements. and so we go through covid, we start into the protests and all

the major cities have seen a tremendous uptick in violence, detroit is no difference. to get another enhancement to that, that's good news for us. and you know what's interesting, the protesters certainly do not speak for most detroiters. most detroiters want us -- they want the collaborative relationship, reducing violence in our city. so nobody is talking to the community and that's shameful. neil: that's a very good point, chief. thanks for all you're doing. hope things continue to go well in your fine city. i think a lot of it does have to do with you. chief, thank you very much, be well. >> appreciate it, neil. you as well. neil: we're following the hurricane not only all that, but the planned return of the spacex astronauts tomorrow. as things stand now, they are a go for a splashdown tomorrow.

you know the last time we had a splashdown and the astronauts returning on water from space, you'd have to go back to 1975, the apollo soyuz mission, a joint undertaking between ourselves and the then soviet union. we'll revisit the plan tomorrow. the only difference, the only wrinkle is exactly where will they splash down? after this.

>> all right. yesterday you might have seen dr. anthony fauci defending the fact he thinks we're making progress on the virus and that a vaccine could be as early as next year. some are saying it could happen sooner than that. the government has a variety of ways, pushed hundreds of billions of dollars-- actually i should say close to $5 billion on various measures and drug therapies coming up getting the vaccine into people's hands sooner rather than later. and joining us is a professor of health and metric sciences and much more on this. you know, doctor, the vaccine talk is all promising. similarly, a lot of americans, a lot of people across the

world are leary of vaccines and don't want to be the first to volunteer for one. what do you make of that? >> we have asked for volunteers for the vaccines involvement and you have a lot of people volunteering, more than we need. about 30,000 in the its who volunteered to take the vaccine. what i'm concerned about is the attitude against vaccines in general as you said. i hope for once we have a vaccine, everybody will take it otherwise we will not have herd immunity with the vaccine. neil: where do we stand with this? the companies in the united states, either supporting efforts to help them produce and get out the vaccines and s sanofi, glaxo-smith klein.

and sim lore. does anyone have the inside on this -- i don't want to call it a race about you the push for the vaccines, the therapy? >> we have different phases right now at trials. some are in second phase, some have moved into the third face. and the investment in giving these companies money right now to producing the vaccine is very wise. once you have a vaccine that's effective. you need to have the vaccine and you can start vaxnating-- vaccinating people. and even if the vaccine has not yet proven to be effective. it's started production so when the vaccine is proven to be effectiv effective, we have it. neil: and ultimately it's who decides to take it. the normal for those who already tested positive or--

in other words, how would we decide who gets it? >> usually people who get it first are those at higher risk, our medical staff and people that are essential workers and right now in the united states, the national academy of science has a group looking at how we distribute the vaccines. who gets it first, and who gets it next. we have to be ready. the most important part, some of these vaccines require two doses so we have to be ready to produce more than what we need in order to make sure that we can provide everybody in the u.s. and in the world a vaccine to be safe. neil: all right. hope springs eternal. we have all of this stuff churning at the same time, it does get you excited and you always caution let's not get ahead of ourselves. thank you very much. good seeing you again for coming in on a saturday no less. and i want to thank john for coming in. we have you on because in states across the country and

in minnesota, minneapolis more particularly, they're shutting down the bars, or at least preventing you from going up to the bar, just to order food at tables, if you can do that. a lot of this after they were already open for a few weeks. what do you think of all of this? >> it's bothersome, neil and obviously, it's devastating to the business. they open and try to get entrenched and get a little business going and their legs are cut out from them and they're closed. it's interesting, neil, restaurants can be open in many cases, but bars cannot be. but yet, the airflow is the same in a restaurant and bar. if they're six feet apart, the spacing is the same between a restaurant and bar. i would suggest that a bar has one point of contact, your glass. when you eat, you have all of these other points of contact. so i would suggest to the employee spacing wasn't put in place and masks, and the fact of the matter is, a bar environment has less points of

contact and i would argue is safer than a restaurant environment, spacing the same. so it really annoys me, neil-- >> you know, think about it what you just said, too, and it makes sense. in a bar if you don't want people straddling up to the bars together and why not tables, and have the same distancing provisions, right? >> there's no standing areas in bars, they separate the tables, you have to sit just like-- you know, i have a friend who goes out to a bar and he lifts his mask and puts the straw under his mask. when you eat you've got to expose your whole face and breathe. we can make many, many arguments that isolating bars doesn't make sense. i'd stop dance floors, because that's dense, make certain that people aren't lined up at the bar, i wouldn't use the bar, seating next to the bar, but to suggest that the bar is more dangerous than a restaurant

environment with the same seating in place, that's just not true. neil: you know, your very present in a lot of areas here and i remember when we first started talking as we were going into this lockdown, shutdown, whatever you want to call it. you would saying, i don't know with a lot of the restaurants if we'll reopen. now we have numbers by the national restaurant association saying one out of four never will. what happened? >> well, that's 25%, but you know what's interesting, neil, nobody is talking about this. yelp is saying 50% are not reopening. let's say it's between those two numbers. what nobody is talking about, don't we lose another 6% or so next month and another 6% the following month? the more this drags on, the more they expire their resour resources and then they don't have the ability to reopen. and i don't think these numbers are flat, i think they go up

each month. when you look at vaccines the beginning of the year, we have another six months of attrition here to go with more and more fallouts as more and more bars lose resources. and raises the question, we talked about before, do i close and hold my resources until the marketplace is more normal or expend all of my resources in this disruptive unpredictable marketplace. that decision itself could determine the future of the restaurant. with each month it's getting tougher, neil. neil: it is, and you've been sadly right about that. i hope it doesn't get much tougher. >> can i add one more point? in . neil: sure, please. >> neil, we're six months into this. if we assume it's over at the first of the year and i think we're all hoping we'll have vaccines at that point now we're halfway through, been in it six months and six to go. i think the clock is ticking down now, not up anymore. it's a very motivating thought when you hear that and also,

neil, i know you're a restaurant guy and if you've got the vaccine and had the antibodies, wouldn't the next place you'd go be to go out for dinner? dinner? >> without the vaccine it would be, but i'm different, my friend. i would take a great risk for a great restaurant, a great steak and all, i'm probably the wrong guy to answer that. but, john, that's a very good thing and you're right on this and maybe the next six months, slow, but steady improvement, there is hope so we'll see. thank you, my friend. is this your own bar, by the way, is that where you are, your own private bar? >> this is my home bar, this is why i've been inviting you over. neil: man, oh, man. >> enjoy with me! >> i'm impressed, i'm impressed. jon, thank you very, very much. that's pretty cool. jon taffer, he practices what he preaches. we've been telling you what's

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>> all right, think quick, what do the coronavirus and tik-tok have in common, what if i told you china at their core. the chinese virus because it emanated from there and by and

large seven out of 10 americans agree with him, that china is to blame for all of this spilling to our shores and the rest of the world, which is why the president continues to pound tik-tok, of course, the big social media concern, it's a rage for people in this country and all over the world because it does have the chinese connection and there are concerns that chinese are spying on users, including u.s. users. and lo and behold, microsoft comes along for an interest in tik-tok. the president says i don't care who is interested in it, it's not going to have a presence here and i'm going to stop it. lee carter, whether it's more about the market forces and maybe a winning political argument to go after anything from china. lee, what do you think? >> listen, i think the whole thing is fascinating. i understand why microsoft would want to make this move. it would be a great asset for them, really move them to the social media space very, very -- i'd be very concerned about

the chinese ownership and all of that would have to work out. now, the president is also not surprising that he's going to run tough on this issue. he is hard on china and an issue he's opinion pounding on for a while, tik-tok in particular. it's something that a lot of people are concerned about, a lot of our young people are using it and concerns that the chinese government is spying. and it's not surprising that the president, anything related to china we'd hear about between now and the election that he is going to be extremely, extremely hardlined on. neil: wait until that beautiful baby is a teenager and try to claw that tik-tok away from them and it's not going to go well. let me go to the search for a running mate for joe biden. this might be the week that he might decide it, kamala harris'

name is coming up, but she's running into a buzz saw of criticism it might be to the fact that she's aspearing to be the front runner. what do you think? >> i think that joe biden is probably a risk averse candidates. one of the three, he says he'll announce on august 1st or thereabouts. kamala harris makes a lot of sense for him. she's proven to be a viable candidate. she's strong, she is black, she's woman, all things he promised he's going to have. the things that kamala harris has, the biggest problem she ran into, was authenticity. it's not her record on being a d.a., it's not those things, it's simply authenticity, she ran on one thing and her record suggests another thing. and she will have to reconcile that. and it's clear she's very much running for vice-president. she's been posting a lot on

social media and showing up at events. and showed herself on and she's got to come out, this is who i am for real now and i think this could be a really, really good moment. other candidates i think are fantastic. i would love to see joe biden name duckworth, i think that would be a surprise. a woman who gave birth while in office and i think that would be a good partner for him. neil: we'll know soon. thank you very, very much. and to the international space station right now. we're told later on tonight the great separation will begin. those two astronauts, spacex astronauts will climb into the dragon capsule and get ready for splashdown maybe 2:38 p.m., the atlantic coast, maybe

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>> my son and doug's son are really excited, not only to get their fathers back, but to get our apotosaurus to go on the mission to the international space station. neil: that's their big moment. that's bob behnken, and doug, and now the first to go back to earth. now, the problem is, will they

be able tomorrow at least by indications that it's supposed to be late tomorrow afternoon, that they are supposed to land off the florida coast, but there's that nasty little hurricane in the neighborhood. they could always switch to the gulf or the florida panhandle areas where the waters are decidedly calmer. we should get a pretty good idea what the plans are because they're supposed to climb into their spacex dragon capsule tonight i believe around 7:30, 8:00 p.m. the nasa administrator jim bridenstine joinses now. talk about a cool job, nasa administrator. how are things looking for a splashdown tomorrow? >> i think we're in good shape. we have a meeting in about an hour where we'll make a determination with the nasa team and the spacex team and if it's a thumbs up, we'll be looking forward to undocking at about 6:34 p.m. central time, central time because houston is

central time. and then we'll be bringing them home. now, if it doesn't look good, we can always make a determination that we can try again on monday, but if we undock tonight, we'll be looking to bring them home tomorrow afternoon. neil: so what if they go ahead and undock tonight and then others decide, you know, it's still a little risky. how long can they stay in that dragon capsule before you have to decide, all right, this is a go? >> yeah, that's a good question. first of all, we're not going to undock unless we're very sure that they're going to be able to return as planned. that's number one. number two, if something happens, if there's an anomaly or something, we have about 36 hours of life support, so they could continue orbiting for a period of time and look for alternative locations to land. neil: you know, this is the first time we're looking at a splashdown, with the emphasis on water since the apollo soyuz

return in 1975. gerald ford was president. i wasn't even born yet-- okay, maybe i was. are we ready for this? we don't have a lot of experience on this lately. >> well, this is a test flight, neil. of course, we are ready. we have tested this vehicle before uncrewed. it's very similar to the ones that we go with cargo. we're in fact ready. no question there's risk with space flight in general, but we're bringing america back. we're launching america again. you probably saw on thursday, we launched to mars and here we are on sunday bringing our crew home. this is a big deal for our country. we need to lead in space and that's what we intend to do. yes, there are risks in this endeavor, but there always are when you talk about space. neil: yeah, that mars one, by the way, looked super cool, along with the microsoft and the helicopter thing, the rover. man, oh, man, that's a movie

there. let me ask you a little about the next flight coming up, the next spacex journey that will involve four astronauts, including the japan astronauts naguchi. that's scheduled for september, how is that looking? >> that's in good shape. this one we're on now is still a test flight. we're going to bring this vehicle home and go through it top to bottom. we've got lots of data on every component and subcomponent. we'll go through it. that's one thing the president has given us, the budget and discipline to go forward and do great things. we're competed about getting back into operations. we haven't had operations since the retirement. space shuttle nine years ago. neil: super cool, looking forward to it, jim bridenstine, the nasa administrator. talk about a fun job. again, hopefully everything

goes well onset for the splashdown tomorrow, let's say it is in the gulf, but they will arrive tomorrow. so our first journey up and back from space on our own ever. ♪when you have nausea, heartburn, indigestion,♪ ♪upset stomach, diarrhea pepto bismol coats and soothes your stomach for fast relief and now, get the same fast relief in a delightful chew with new pepto bismol chews.

>> this is a fox news alert. congressional democratic leaders now meeting with top white house officials behind closed doors. they're trying to get to a deal on the next round of coronavirus relief. it's been about three hours now since they first got into that meeting. there is no clear end in sight per our sources on capitol hill. welcome to america's news headquarters from washington d.c. on this beautiful afternoon. leland, it's great to be with you and great to be with everybody at home. i'm gillian turner. leland: good to be with you. it's called a principals only meeting from the white house,