thanks to my panel. thanks to all of you for watching. i'm pau paul gigot, hope to seeu all rightat here next week. arthel: this is a fox news alert, massive demonstrations after a deadly explosion and angry protesters in beirut calling for regime change. the mayor of lebanon's capital saying the death toll is now 220. more than 100 people still missing. this is a brand-new hour of america's news headquarters. i'm arthel neville. hi, eric. eric: hi, arthel. hello, everyone. i'm eric shawn. rescue workers are searching the rubble, five days after the explosion, looking for possible survivors after thousands of tons of that extremely volatile ammonium nitrate that had been stored in beirut's port for six years suddenly explode offed with such massive force on

tuesday. that huge blast felt nearly 200 miles awa away on the island on cyprus. two government officials resigned today, including the information minister. the protesters in the street want the whole government to go. trey yingst has been covering those protests on the ground. he is live in beirut where it's just after 11:00 p.m. at night. hi, trey. >> reporter: eric, good afternoon. another day and another round of anti-government protests, just across the city, rescue workers are still searching through debris for survivors. the governor of beirut today raising the number of missing to 110 people. as you mentioned, a number of ministers and members of parliament have resigned in the wake of this deadly explosion on tuesday. that isn't keeping protesters out of the streets, though. they are calling for regime change. take a look at what the scene was like earlier today. clashes are erupting again in

beirut today and demonstrators are demanding that more people resign from the government. right now, security forces are trying to keep the demonstrators back from the parliament. you can see they're firing tear gas. just yesterday, we saw live ammunition used against the protesters. many of the people firing the bullets are associated with the lebanese militant group hezbollah. the protesters say they no longer was hezbollah to be influencing what this country does and the decisions it makes. they want to h see change and ty say they will stay in the streets until ifth get it. >> we are so angry. i couldn't sleep. i cannot live with myself if we do not get something, after what happened. it's not acceptable. they think they can get away with this after such terrible, terrible, like i don't believe -- are they human? >> reporter: you can hear the

emotion in the voices of the people in beirut. international donors are trying to come together to find a solution. on a conference call with world leaders earlier today nearly $300 million was raised for relief efforts. president trump did make a few statements there, calling for an investigation that is transparent. there is still concern today that any investigation into this explosion on tuesday would be faced with the normal corruption that the lebanese people have seen from their government. this is making many world leaders hesitant to hand direct cash to lebanon in the wake of this tragedy. eric. eric: trey, it's astounding and encouraging that the people are even rising up against hezbollah. we'll see where this takes that country in the middle east. trey yingst reporting live, where it is night in beirut. thank, trey. arthel. arthel: well, eric, washington reacting to president trump's decision to go around congress and sign four executive orders on coronavirus relief.

critics questioning the legality of the measures while the president blames democrats for negotiations hitting a dead end. >> we didn't think we would have to do it. we thought the democrat woulds be reasonable. they've been not only unreasonable, they've been ridiculous. >> something's wrong. when you look at those executive orders, either the kindest thing i could say is he doesn't know what he's talking about. to characterize them as even accomplishing what they set out to do, as something that is--would take the place of an agreement is just not so. arthel: mark meredith is standing by near the president's new jersey golf club. mark. >> reporter: arthel, good afternoon. president trump says he had no choice but to act because congress and the white house could not agree on a more broad economic stimulus package. as part of the directives, the president is hoping to boost the economy by doing a few different things including suspending the repayment of student loans.

he'll be directing the housing and urban development department to work so people don't get evicted. this will also temporarily stop the collection of the payroll tax for some americans, depending on how much they make and this will provide $400 in additional unemployment insurance but states this time will have to contribute 25% of that 400, roughly $100. the white house is tapping into its disaster relief fund, allowing $44 billion to go towards these new checks. the president's economic team was asked today how soon can people expect to see these new funds? >> i don't think there will be a huge delay. labor department has been working with the states. the states are the ones that process the federal benefits before. so i don't see any reason why it would be all that difficult. >> reporter: but democrats, they are pushing back, claiming the new rules will create more chaos for state unemployment agencies. senior democrats are encouraging

the white house to return to the capitol to negotiate one more time. >> the event at the country club is what trump does. it's a big show. it doesn't do anything. as the people look at the executive orders, they'll see they don't come close to doing the job. >> what the president proposed yesterday at his country club surroundhood by his people who -- surrounded by his people who spent thousands of dollars to join, is something that won't work. he's talking about i'll put up 400 and the states will put up 100. >> reporter: the president heavily criticized senior democrats during the news conference on saturday. he did indicate the white house could see negotiations yet again. there is no timeline on when that would happen. president trump is going to be doing a fundraiser within the next hour in new jersey and back to washington where it will likely be a busy week again. arthel: mark mayo meredith, th.

eric: we reached a grim milestone in the coronavirus pandemic, topping 5 million confirmed infections in our country with over 162,000 deaths so far. the u.s. tones have the highest -- continues to have the highest number of cases in the world. brazil and india are number two and three. this as president trump is pushing to reopen schools across the country. it turns out that more children are getting infected. brian llenas is live in fort lauderdale, florida, where the broward county schools have gone to entirely 100% online. >> reporter: good afternoon. we'll begin in florida. broward county and miami-dade counties will be starting their academic school years completely virtual, palm beach county also is expected to follow suit. that's at least for now. they're going to be playing it by ear. this decision being made amid a record number of covid-19

hospitalizations this week in florida. the good news is, the infection rate is on the decline. the bad news is, there's been over 532,000 cases and rising. nationwide, the number of covid-19 cases surpassing 5 million. 40% of those cases are in five states, california with the most, followed by florida, texas, new york and georgia. cases are continuing to rise in about 20 states and up to 30,000 americans are projected to die from covid by the end of this month. the death toll also projected to reach 300,000 by december 1st. this as we're getting a better idea of how covid-19 affects children. there are new statistics compiled by the academy of pediatrics which shows nearly 339,000 children in the u.s. have been infected with covid-19. that's a rate of 447 cases for

every 100,000 children. for comparison, that is less than the general coronavirus infection rate of 1500 cases per 100,000 people in the united states. about 97,000 children were diagnosed with covid-19 in the last two weeks of july. that's about a 40% increase and the data, though, does show that severe illness in children from covid-19 is rare among children. among children, the mortality rate is between zero and 0.8% with 20 states reporting zero child deaths. we're also getting a better idea about whether people will be willing to take a new covid-19 vaccine and according to a gallup poll, one out of every three americans say they would not. 65% of americans say yes, 35% of americans say they would not take an fda-approved brand-new vaccine. the top two competitors for a

vaccine say we could see one as early as this fall or early 2021. eric. eric: yeah, the president's operation warp speed hopefully will result in a vaccine. we really need that. brian in fort lauderdale. thank you. arthel. arthel: well, eric, on the campaign trail joe biden back outside of his home today for the second day in a h a row as n miss station grows -- anticipation grows about who he would name as a running mate. yesterday, he jokingly suggested a biden doocy ticket. >> reporter: that would be some yard sign. joe biden was back out of the house today. he popped up at a local church near his home, even getting close enough to a fellow worshipers to take a selfie on this the second to last weekend that he has as just being the presumptive nominee. once he makes it official and

accepts the nomination, a lot of things are going to change. he spoke this morning about the way his wife has been helping him behind the scenes fill out a campaign staff. >> jill is best at helping me figure out who the people around me would be most compatible with me. she knows me ingber than i know -- i think better than i know me. >> reporter: the trump campaign blasted out a question of the day for joe biden, and this is it. why can you travel to campaign events in pennsylvania but not to a tv studio in wisconsin and the communications director for the trump team reached out to me after that to ask why it is that biden can go to church but he can't go to wisconsin, pointing out they believe biden encountered more people at church today than he would at the slimmed down convention speech in milwaukee. about the convention, we don't know where in delaware biden plans to speak. but the plan is for the dnc to beam out two hours of content,

four hours in a row, we expect it to be slickly produced stories by hillary clinton and bernie sanders and bill clinton. and the night before, his running mate will address delegates virtually. it's not clear if the running mate knows yet she won the veep stakes. >> and mr. vice president, have you picked a running mate yet. >> i have. >> you have? who is it? >> you. >> reporter: so right here yesterday biden made a joke about who his running mate was. but he was straightforward in the clip. he said he picked one. judge for himself. arthel: peter doocy, thank you. and by the way, in a moment we'll look at biden's actual possible choices for vice president and what they bring to the ticket, that's going to happen with jamie weinstein. alright, i brought in ensure max protein to give you the protein you need with less of the sugar you don't.

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was happening in southeast d.c. some type of dispute broke out among the hundreds of people that were attending the cookout. that's when police say several folks took out weapons and started shooting. >> we had a lot of people that were in a dangerous situation last night and sadly several people who have no regard for human life opened fire at what had been it looked like people together enjoying themselves. eric: police say they have made no arrests so far but they do believe there were at least three shooters in the incident. police in sacramento, california are investigating a shooting there that happened at an airbnb party overnight. that left three people injured. no arrests there either. arthel. arthel: well, eric, joe biden could announce his running mate anyday now. with the democratic national convention a little more than a week away, all we have are reports that several women are on his short list.

as a presumptive nominee has promised. joining me now, with a look at the likely top candidates, is jamie weinstein, the host of the jamie weinstein show, podcast. all right, so there is a short list. what, jamie, do the contenders on that list say to you and how critical is the vp pick to joe biden's chance of winning the election? >> i thin i think that the two p names you're hearing the most, and i wouldn't bet all my money that those will be -- one of those two will be the candidate. but the ones you're hearing the most right now are susan rice and kamala harris. i think both of those say two things to me. one is, that those aren't hail mary picks, they're not mccain in 2008 choosing sarah palin in the hopes of energizing a portion of the base that won't go out and vote. it shows that biden might be confident that the left of the base that was bernie sanders supporters and elizabeth warren supporters will ultimately vote

for him and he doesn't have to go pick a vice presidential candidate to excite them. that will be the first thing that would tell me if it was one of those two. the second thing it would tell me is that in some ways it undermines one of the key messaging points, i would say the number one messaging point that seems to come from the trump campaign, the number one attack which is that joe biden in their view is -- might be senile and that he won't be the one making decisions, that it will be the defund the police wing of the democratic party that will make the decisions if he's president. i think both of these candidates, especially susan rice, defeat that narrative because they're not of that wing of the democratic party. susan rice, there's plenty of criticisms republicans will throw at her but she is an establishment democrat, not of the twitter democratic world on the fund the police wing of the democratic world. those are the two things that would jump out to me if it's one of those two candidates.

i think it would be entirely different if he surprised everyone and chose elizabeth warren. that would suggest that he wants to throw a hail mary out there, is worried about the left wing base and hopes she would unify the party around him. arthel: listen, president trump knows how to excite a crowd and his base. can joe biden galvanize democrats and independent voters that same way? >> what we're seeing right now is i don't think he thinks he needs to. so there's certainly no question that we've seen no evidence that he can get a stadium crowd like donallikedonald trump did in 20d could right now if he want todd in many states around the country. he doesn't draw that type of passionate support that we saw elsewhere with trump in 2016 and even 2020. but from what we're seeing, he doesn't think he needs that type of passionate support to win this race. so far, he's flying under the radar and leading in the polls.

it seems like he thinks that might be enough. the hatred of donald trump in the democratic party and among some independents might be enough to propel him into the white house. arthel: should swing states and the power of the electoral college system be on the forefront of the former vice president's mind as he looks to choose the potential future vice president? >> sometimes that comes into play. presidential candidates think about-- mitt romney, picked paul ryan who might win the swing state of wisconsin. he didn't. it turns out more often than not vice presidential picks don't help you win, even in the state they're from. that might be tempting in the case of governor whitmer of michigan who is supposedly on joe biden's list and recently met with joe biden again. the evidence suggests that rarely, rarely helps you win any state, even the pic state the pk is from. arthel: is there one biden

potential pick who would fare better or worse than others in the category of opposition research? >> well, i think all of them are certainly getting the trump campaign excited to do opposition -- they're doing it right now and we're seeing right now with karen bass, the congresswoman, who is the head of the congressional black caucus, who has seen a deluge of opposition research thrust upon her, perhaps by one of her rivals for the post of vice presidency. that may have already sunk her campaign. all of these candidates have weak points that the republicans will use to go at them if they're tapped for the nomination. arthel: we will leave it there. jamie weinstein, thank you so much. >> thank you. arthel: eric. eric: well, arthel, it could be a real message to beijing, secretariasecretary al alex azag

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arthel: now a look at our top stories. a police officer has been killed in beirut as thousands of protesters stormed government buildings. protests rocking lebanon's capital since last tuesday's massive explosion killed at least 150 people. a sad milestone in the fight against the coronavirus. the u.s. surpasses 5 million confirmed cases. more than 160,000 americans have died. and the white house defending the legality of president trump's executive orders on coronavirus relief, lawmakers on both sides of the aisle called them unconstitutional. the president signing the orders after congressional talks

derailed. eric: well, it could be a pointed message to beijing and a possible pivot from the decades-long courting of communist china for the free and democratic nation of taiwan. alex azar arrived in taiwan for a visit earlier today, drawing pushback from beijing. say glair is the highest -- azar is the highest ranking cap net -- cabinet official to visit in years. gordon chang joins us. it's a provocative move by the trump administration. some would say it's about time, washington should stress taiwan more. what's your view of this trip? >> this is a great trip. the united states needs to make it clear to beijing that they no longer have a veto over american foreign policy because previous presidents, and especially the two previous ones, bush and

obama, made it clear to beijing that it was running america's taiwan policy. and that was vo soc provocative. it's provocative what trump is doing. it's also absolutely necessary. the reason is, if beijing thinks the united states doesn't have will, it could very well decide to invade taiwan. there are recent satellite images, eric, showing that china is amassing a amphibious vehicls on their coast. we could stop it with six words and those words are the united states will defend taiwan. we say that and this goes away. eric: azar we see walking from the 737, the plane, which he aprescribe earlier today -- arrived earlier today. taiwan has been successful with the coronavirus. they can use that as basically a cover. but as you just said, how far would we back up taiwan, do you

think that china, which has always threatened to do that, range ocommunist red china woulo invade that island nation? >> under xi jinping with his recent wolf warrior di plows di, they are capable of anything. i'm sure japan is extremely concerned what beijing will do at the middle of this month when beijing says it's going to send its vessels, hundreds of them, into japanese waters. so we have to take any sort of threat from xi jinping seriously. even if we think it's just bluster. because at this time, if he senses weakness in washington, he could very well roll the dice and that is obviously going to be an event that history will remember. eric: what would you think and how would it roll out if indeed that were to happen? >> well, i mean, we could see, for instance, china trying to grab some of taiwan's offshore

islands. it might not go after, for instance, the main island itself. but there are thoughts that it could try to grab one of those islands which is just about two miles from the chinese coast. you know, eric, we've got to go back into history. the korean war would never have occurred if dean ach atcinson, e secretary of state at the time said we would defend korea. saddasaddam hussein would have r invaded kuwait until he wasn't told we had no interest in what was called inter-arab disputes. i think the president of the united states needs to make it clear in public and in private that we will defend taiwan. if we do that, i don't think beijing will try take us on. eric: how should the president do that, number one? and number two, what is the status of our mutual -- if there is a mutual defense treaty? they have a sophisticated

military, much american provided. >> yes. we have the taiwan relations act. but that is not a mutual defense treaty. we have for decades this policy of strategic ambiguity where we tell neither beijing nor taipei what we would do in a war like situation. the idea is that we're supposed to prevent war by keeping our cards close to our chest. that might work in normal peaceful times but not when china right now is on this bender. you know, it sent its troops into deep into indian soil, killed 20 indian soldiers on june 19th. china is threatening to break apart japan. in beijing, you hear thoughts that china should take over large parts of the russian far east including vlotovstok. there's talk about trying to settle a treaty and take more territory from central asian

countries. right now you see in beijing extremely disturbing tendencies. when they talk about taiwan, as they have been since the middle of february, about invading it, we ought to take that with the greatest amount of severity. eric: besides the president taking action, shouldn't the world body and others? taiwan was kicked out of the un. let me read you part of an editorial. it says the nations standing up to communist china are democracies that value individual freedoms and the dignity of the individual, the exact opposite of xi jinping's dictatorship where survival of their brutal ccp, communist party of china, of course, is what it's all about. a committed alliance of like minded free democracies cannot only stand up to the bully but make is internationally unimportant. besides the president of the united states, what should

democrats do? what can -- democracies do, what can others do, how does china get the message, beijing get the message, do not touch taiwan, one of those islands, don't do a thing? >> there's three countries in the region that i think need to say the same thing that i would recommend the president of the united states say. they are australia, india and japan. especially japan. because japan right now is under threat from china and we've got to remember that the southern most inhabited japanese island is south of taipei. so it makes it difficult to defend japan if taipei and taiwan is in china's hands. so japan has a really direct interest in joining us in a statement warning beijing. but all the countries in the region are at risk. some of them more so. they of course should be joining with us in a coalition. coalition would be unbeatable. chinese generals and admirals would understand they have no

choice of taking over taiwan if everyone in the region were to say the same thing. eric: china has been called the challenge of the 21st century. the president saying that beijing does not want him to win re-election. it seems that they are a threat to western democracy and values, especially to those nations that are important allies. gordon chang with an important message and insight. gordon, as always, thank you. good to see you. >> thank you, eric. arthel: thank you gordon. thank you, eric. president trump's executive orders on coronavirus relief drawing swift reaction on capitol hill with democrats and republican law make ergs lawmakg their legality. lauren blanchard explains. >> reporter: democrats and even some republicans say that president trump's executive orders are an overreach because constitutionally congress controls the federal purse. speaker pelosi wouldn't say if they're planning to legally

challenge the orders but it isn't off the table. >> it was unconstitutional flop, while it has the illusion of saying we're going to have a moratorium on evictions, it says i'm going to ask the folks in charge to study if that's feasible. >> if the democrats want to challenge us in court and hold up unemployment benefits to hard-working americans that are out of a job because of covid, they're going to have a lot of explaining to do. >> reporter: so what now, if there are legal challenges the money could be tied up in the courts for months and the timing is unclear when or if americans will see the extra money from the executive orders. speaker pelosi and minority leader schumer called the president's announcement unworkable, weak and narrow. the next spending deadline is the end of september. congress will have to figure it out by then. democratic leaders seem to suggest they will come to an agreement eventually. >> the bottom line is very similasimple. our republican friends should come back to the table. we've agreed to meet them halfway. >> i'm not saying they're not

going to come back and negotiate. they might very welcome back and negotiate. >> reporter: this isn't the first time president trump has gone around congress. remember, he declared a national emergency along the border in order to shift billions from the defense budget to his wall. in washington, lauren blanchard, fox news. eric: the college football season, it's set to begin less from three weeks from today. you know with one conference calling it quits and others following suit, will we even see college football and will there be a kickoff? we'll have a lot more on that. college football and the doubts in the coronavirus era, when we return. another bundle in the books. got to hand it to you, jamie. your knowledge of victorian architecture really paid off this time. nah, just got lucky. so did the thompsons. that faulty wiring could've cost them a lot more than the mudroom. thankfully they bundled their motorcycle with their home and auto.

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eric: college football could be thrown for a loss, the mid-american conference has canceled its 2020 college season over coronavirus concerns. it is the first conference in

the so-called top level subdivision to scrap its season. many wondering what it means for college sports this fall. aishah hasnie live in new york city with more on what we can expect. hi, aishah. >> reporter: hi, eric. the concern now is will this start a domino effect for other leagues. so we know that over the weekend the mid-american conference president voted unanimously to postpone the fall season including football with plans underway now to perhaps have those seasons play out in the spring instead. no decision yet on the winter season. that commissioner told espn that college players are not the same as professional players, they cannot live in a bubble like we're seeing successfully play out for the nba. listen to his explanation here. >> clearly, we are charting a conservative path and it is one that has been recommended by our

medical advisory group. there are simply too many unknowns for us to put our student athletes in situations that are not clearly understood. >> reporter: okay. so what does this mean for the other conferences? right now, the power five are planning on having a season, but there are reports that big ten commissioner kevin warren would rather play in the spring. no decision yet. the acc moving ahead, releasing the fall schedule already. u-conn has canceled their season. in the pac-112 ther12 there hasn back and forth over coronavirus concerns. and league presidents have a phone call on tuesday. players are speaking out about this, a group of ohio state football players say they want to play as 1,000 big 10 football players wrote a letter to the league expressing safety concerns.

the nfl, the professional football league, the league struck a deal with the referees association giving them the option to sit the season out. if they sit out, they will get a $30,000 payment and guaranteed job next season. 66, at least 66 players in the nfl have opted out of this season. the new england patriots being the hardest hit team there. eric. eric: you've seen what's been happening in the mlb. we'll see if we get football. aishah, thank you. arthel. >> upon putting those steps out there, we've seen improvement every week, week over of week, for four weeks. we're going to keep our guard up. we're going to stay vigilant. but there's a real path forward and a common sense approach that we can apply in arizona, not only around saving lives, but also safely and successfully getting our kids back to school at the appropriate time. arthel: that is arizona governor doug doocy during

wednesday's meeting with president trump who called the state's managing of the coronavirus pandemic a, quote, success story. arizona was a hot spot just a few weeks ago but new cases have been dropping there. the governor acknowledging that progress and there is still work to be done including a delayed start of in-person schooling. let's bring in dr. ross vesgol, president of the arizona medical association and district medical group vice chair of surgery at valleywide health. welcome back. we spoke with you back in late june when cases in arizona were rising at record rates. now you're enjoying praise from president trump. what changes did you make in under two months? >> good afternoon. thanks again for having me back on. so yeah, we're seeing kind of a plateauing of hospitalizations, case numbers are going down. really, it is i think a combination of things. first of all, i think we are seeing the public response has

improved from where we were before, we've seen people take these measures seriously with the governor's response as well as the hospital's response. it is a combined effort of everyone working together to try to help get control of the numbers of the virus. arthel: you said the public is taking responsibility to the measures. what measures are we talking about? >> our standard, the social distancing, mask wearing. there's still a large -- not a large group, some groups that are having trouble with the mask wearing recommendations. many more are taking it more seriously than before when they saw what happened when we weren't doing it. i can tell you from the arizona medical association standpoint, we teamed one the arizona chamber of commerce, the campaign, be safe, be open arizona, encouraging businesses to follow recommendations, to make sure we keep things up and running while keeping everyone safe. arthel: you know your governor decided to delay the start of in-person schooling at least

until later this month. so clearly precautions are still in place. what do you think led to the governor's decision? >> i appreciate the fact that he's listening to the science and the data and we put together -- we provide information as well as other groups to the state regarding recommendations on when we would be safe to open, looking at national guidelines. you want to have benchmarks where you know things are safer. you need to realize we need to be very flexible with this. if when we get to the point of having in-person schooling and we start seeing problems, we have to be able to adapt those problems when they occur. i think it's good we're putting benchmarks in place to know when it's safer to bring people face-to-face. arthel: i want to take a look at testing right now which i believe is on the decline in arizona. for example, in the t last week in june, more than 120,000 test results had been reported compared to less than 58,000 reported the last week in july

and then with only 5900 tests reported in the first few days of this month. so can you tell us how many tests are currently being taken in arizona? >> that number seems pretty accurate. again, that's one concern we have is we've got to remind everyone even people who feel good, they should still get tested. one benchmark if people want to look at on how to open things back up is the percent positivity rate. you need to have more testing to do that. the more negative tests we have, that will drop the percentage. if people are only getting tested because they think they have it or they're worried, then we're not going to see a large number coming. there's a large number of asymptomatic patients. we want to encourage everyone to get tested. norcrest was having trouble with testing. they caught up and they did a yowman's job to get rid of the backlog. now we're seeing normal turnaround times. i encourage everyone to get

tested so we can bring the percent positivity down. arthel: we certainly wish you continued success and we want the best for the folks in arizona. dr. ross goldberg, president of the arizona medical association, thank you so much. >> thank you. have a great day. arthel: you too. eric. eric: arthel, police say protesters blocked traffic and set a dumpster on fire in portland o oregon as another so-called peaceful protest turned violent. they even targeted the police union headquarters. we'll have more on that, next. looks like they picked the wrong getaway driver. 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. i just... when i... let's try again. everybody back to one. accident forgiveness from allstate.

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arthel: a magnitude 5.1 earthquake rattling parts of north carolina today, the quake's epicenter in sparta, near the virginia border. earthquakes are not unheard of in the tar heel state but anything over a magnitude 3 own 3.0 isvery rare. this was the second strongest quake to hit the state since 1900. the national weather service says even people in atlanta felt it. thankfully, no reports of any damage. eric. eric: how about that. now to the continuing unrest in the other side of the country, in portland, oregon. police declaring a riot last night after they say protesters broke into the police union

office and set it on fire. that building is about five miles north of the federal courthouse where the crowds have been gathering all summer. look at this, from inside the office. christina coleman has more on all of this from los angeles. >> reporter: some pretty disturbing video. three officers were hurt in last night's protests. two were taken to an area hospital and later released. its it's unclear how they were injured in the violence. protesters set a police union building on fire. protesters blocked traffic from getting near the building and destroyed security cameras on the property. the fire crews were still able to ex hing extinguish the flame. protesters hurled glass bottles at officers. local democratic readers wanted federal agents to leave the protests saying they're making the situation worse. the feds agreed to pull back from the courthouse even though they're still in the area.

here's the head of the department of homeland security today on fox news. >> there was a point where the portland mayor said we caused the violence and it was quickly pointed out that the violence was going on for five weeks before we added officers from outside of portland and of course when a state police finally comes in to police the area, which the locals wouldn't, and you've seen the last six nights in a row riots declared by the local police with no federal facilities involved. very sad. >> reporter: the protests in portland and all over the country started after george floyd was killed in late may. this large peaceful protest took place in utah yesterday. many civil rights and church leaders are calling on demonstrators to be peaceful as they push for racial equality but some protesters continue to resort to violence as we're seeing in portland. several arrests were made there last night. eric. eric: yeah, kristie narks man,

-- christina, man. keeps going. thank you so much. and we'll be right back with more news.

arthel: coming up tonight on the fox news channel, chris wallace gets reaction to the president's coronavirus relief executive orders from house speaker nancy pelosi and treasury secretary steve mnuchin, you can catch it at 7:00 p.m. eastern time. at 8:00 p.m., mark levine has attorney general william barr as

his guest on life, liberty and levine, all tonight on the fox news channel. eric: mark levine as they say. arthel, thank you. folks, thank you for making fox news channel your choice for news. i'm eric shawn. ♪ greg: one of the telltale signs of hysteria, when behavior typically deemed mentally unstable becomes entirely acceptable. if you ever wonder how people ended up drowning witches or killing neighbors in civil wars or following chrissy teigen on instagram, you can bet hysteria was the driving force. we've seen idiots defending looting while laughing off rising murder rates. in nyc the rate of shootings is expanding faster than brian setter's sweat pants.