my old boss, ed truck, has died. [gasps] oh, michael, that's such terrible news. st feel so sad. yes, i am. it's very sad. because he was my boss. oh, that's a shame. ed was a good guy. that's right. you worked with him. so did creed. well, i'll be in my office. in case anybody wants to drop by. cheer me up. so did you hear the news? the news that you just announced? that ed died? yeah. is there anything i can do? oh, gosh, what can anybody do, really? just...psh. he was almost 70. circle of life.

trucks could not run away and therefore hurt anyone. that is kind about he sums the situation. emily: so, what is nikola actually plan to do? what's next? edkola has different stages of goals. the first is to build a factory electric semi-truck which it is in germanyia plant which is already built. that will be in cooperation with another company. at the same time, they are looking to build a factory in arizona about 30 miles south of phoenix where they will eventually build a hydrogen fuel cell semi-truck. that is much further into the distance. they are not expecting to make any serious revenue on any of these products until around 2023. goals,re more realistic but the break umbrella point people are picking up on his nikola wants to develop a hydrogen network that it can use to fuel these hydrogen fuel-cell trucks. just as you go to the gas station and get gas for your car, they will have a broad network across the u.s. and beyond as hydrogen stations that will make the logistics of filling up these trucks and economic viability more realistic. emily: ok. bloomberg's ed ludlow, thank you for bringing us that scoop. coming up, our contin

going to show you large crowds of people scrambling to get out of the way of a truck that drove ed had on into their protest. this was on sunday. obviously hours ago now. the demonstrators then chased the truck down, as you can see there. remarkably cnn understands no one was hurt. want to show you another view of what happened. this is on the ground. and you can see there it was moving at some speed there. get a sense of how fast it was going. obviously people are pretty worried at the time. the 35-year-old driver being held without bail. he's accused of assault. and you know, in this picture here you can see what appeared to be minor injuries on his face that the state governor said could have happened as the crowd pulled him out of that vehicle. all right. and we are now coming up on a full week of watching american streets seeth with anger like that. and it was sparked, let's not forget, by the death of george floyd. >> his family was able to hear from the minneapolis police department for the first time right here on cnn on sunday night as our colleagues sarah sidner relayed quest

. >> ed: more than 350 people were arrested in the twin cities over the weekend. also, the shocking video. i think your truck drives towards a crowd of demonstrators. look at that highway in minneapolis yesterday. still unclear whether it was intentional, but the driver is now in custody. amazingly, no reports of any serious injuries, thankfully. meanwhile, the former officer charged with murdering george floyd has reportedly been moved now to a maximum security prison. is court date move next monday. >> sandra: joining us now for more on all of this, juan williams, cohost of the five great good morning and thank you so much for being he here. so i saw you on with bret baier last night, and you talked about the national outrage that we had seen following the death of george floyd. you called the reaction complex and multifaceted. explain. >> sandra, i think we are at a moment in american life where you have to look at joining so

ed henry. minnesota so the epicenter of the unrest after a black man, george floyd, died when an officer kneeled on his neck for several minutes. in one instance, a tanker truck last night driving toward protesters hand in washington, d.c., anger and frustration fueling a night of utter destruction. several fires set right near the white house. >> sandra: meanwhile, over two dozen states and d.c. have activated the national guard to try to restore some sense of calm. here in new york, largely people protest gave way to violence as writers clash with officers smashing windows and ransacking high-end stores. recounting the scene. >> we have found officers deployed last night, made radical shifts literally from all ends of the department. in terms of protests and in terms of balancing the protests that respecting people rights to peacefully assemble, that was going all day throughout new york city in large crowds at smaller crowds in queens, significant crowds in manhattan, but that it turned dark and it turned ugly and it turned that way fast. >> ed: fox news coverage now, standing by with the latest from our nation's capital but we begin live in new york city

makeran electric truck and their shares have surged last week after they debuted on the nasdaq. for more on the company, edw is with us. what exactly does nicola do what are they hoping to achieve? eventually make fuel-cell electric vehicles, which are different from the battery electric vehicles from the likes of tesla. they use hydrogen and that is the source fuel that is stored in the semi truck. it is broken down into electricity which powers the electric motor. interestingat is so is they are actually openly a long way off from doing this. in the meantime, what they plan to do is partner with an italian industrial company and build a .actory electric version thecomp kid thing around -- comp kid thing about it has been the buzz around the electric pickup truck. we know that the board plans to do more. , andhen it comes to them will become -- comb through the filings in the last few days, it's as clear as day that nicola won't be making the pickup truck lesson finds an automotive partner. when i spoke to the company, i asked the plan this. they said they would announce a partner soon but they could not

truck maker nikola debuted. the company, though, is orecasting zero revenue for 20 20 and first $1 billionier noah 2023. we bring in ede have seen this before, but it is obviously not the same type of story as we had with tesla. talk to us about the differences here. >> nikola's ultimate goal is to build long range fuel cell ectric semi-trucking, haul trucks that use hydrogen as fuel. hydrogen is converted into electricity. it would give a range between 500 and 700 miles. a lot of the buzz around the stock in the last few days has been on an electric pickup truck called the badger. if you go on twitter, people tweet the stock particular ticker a lot. reservations for the badger open on june 29. going through the company's filings, it says clear as day that the company won't build that pickup truck. they don't intend to go ahead with it unless they can find an an auto make tore partner with. i put that to the company yesterday and they said an announcement was coming in the near future, but they didn't give us any details. but they are a really interesting company how they are set up. their ultimate goal is hydrogen fu

or change routes if you feel unsafe and third, don't try to protect the truck or merchandise now overall, e marketer has force ed that e commerce would grow by 0 50% this year. if these protests continue, it's not clear how that could impact deliveries in the near term. back to you. >> frank, thank you. >> frank, it's, i was going to say frank, it's, these delivery trucks, the fact you have companies like amazon that are potentially curtailing some of those packages right now but then you think about the post office and some images we've seen of post offices that have been vandalized or ooempb bu even burned and some of those very, very time specific shipments that might be needing to go out to people. is the usps still operating on conditions or taking a similar tactic to some of the private sector peers >> this has been a continuing story about essential workers. the postal service is essential i've spoken to ups directly. they say they're not ready to comment on this, so i believe a lot of companies including the post office are taking wait and see approach many people including us here at cnbc are hoping the

ed henry. minnesota so the epicenter of the unrest after a black man, george floyd, died when an officer kneeled on his neck for several minutes. in one instance, a tanker truckrd protesters hand in washington, d.c., anger and frustration fueling a night of utter destruction. several fires set right near the white house. >> sandra: meanwhile, over two dozen states and d.c. have