hillary vaughn. over to you, connell. connell: all right. melissa, we, as we wait for the president's comments on social media let's bring in edward lawrence on a different story today. information for small business owners as we have adjustments being made paycheck protection program. edward. reporter: exactly. the house of representatives passed the paycheck protection program flexibility act t makes critical changes to the paycheck protection program. in fact overwhelming with the support they're, 417-1. the only one holdout was representative thomas massie from kentucky. it was again, the changes here make critical changes. it increases the amount of time that businesses have to use the payroll protection program from eight weeks to 24 weeks. it creates a new ratio for those businesses of 60% of loans on salaries, 40% on other costs. the bill also allows businesses to get the loan to deferral payroll taxes. the administration says the ppp program has saved over 50 million jobs so far. >> there have been a number of people, particularly i

hillary vaughn is in washington. let's kick it off with blake. reporter: hi, there, guys, we're expecting to hear from president trump momentarily in the rose garden here as the president and the white house will tout the progress that has been made on testing. senior administration officials say across the country, 1.9 million tests over last week, nine million since the start of covid-19. senor officials are pointing to go going ward, that $11 billion set to the states, that is money set aside in the cares age. they identified state goals and needs for month of may. earlier today, vice president, when he spoke to state governors encouraged those governors to have staff members within nursing homes tested. testing of course what many positives want to see ramped up before states reopened but the president criticized many governors, the president saying that he believes that states aren't reopening because of politics this election year this is part of the tweet from president trump earlier today saying quote, the democrats are moving slowly all

hillary vaughn is here with those details. hillary.ter: cheryl, travelers are flooding the department of transportation with thousands of complaints, complaining that airlines are not giving them cash refunds for flights that the airlines have canceled. in the last two months over 25,000 complaints have been filed with the department of transportation against airlines, many of those complaints relate to refund travelers say they are not getting. the secretary of transportation, elaine chao issued a second notice to airlines, telling them essentially hand over the cash if they cancel a flight, saying quote, the department has received an unprecedented volume of complaints from passengers and is examining this issue closely to insure airline policies and practices con form to.'s refund rules. they are asking airlines to revisit their customer service policies and insure they are flexible as con sider rat. if they significantly change the flight schedule but travelers complain they're just getting vouchers and not cash. consumer groups ar

hillary vaughn from washington, d.c.eporter: cheryl, some senators are not waiting for the next coronavirus package to take retaliatory action against china. martha mcsally and marsha blackburn filed a bill to allow people to file lawsuits against china, removing sovereign immunity shield, to sue for damages related to deaths and also the financial destruction caused through china's misinformation. today senator josh hawley is calling for the u.s. to leave the world trade organization because of the way china has handled this virus tweeting this, in a post-coronavirus covid-19 world lots of things will change. one of them should be this, the wto should be abolished. the global economy needs reform top to bottom to stop china's economic imperialism and secure the needs of american families and workers. part of the coronavirus recovery package could include some ways to hold china accountable as congress weighs what to put into the next package. >> there has been, not just a lack of transparency, but very aggressive attemp

and hillary vaughn join us with more from washington with all of this.eporter: connell, during this pandemic more parents are working from home and more kids are going to school online and technology is becoming essential to daily life and a lot of board members, representatives of top u.s. companies part of that american workforce advisory board say this pandemic has proved that they need to train workers for a high-tech environment and also build up high-tech infrastructure. >> education and training providers must take the lead in quickly retraining, reskilling workers for new in-demand fields arising from the pandemic. these can range from telehealth and i.t. technical support to logistics and supply chain management along with sustaining fields like software engineering, guild trades and even many service sector jobs. reporter: the advisory board is chaired by ivanka trump and also the secretary of commerce wilbur ross. he said today there is no doubt that the economy will bounce back. he said this pandemic paves the way for emergence in other high-

hold up the coronavirus relief money for states that use mail that ballots, this is hot story, hillary vaughn in washington. reporter: president wrapping up a meeting with governors today, and talking with krec gretchen whitmer this afternoon, after criticizing secretary of state for, sending out mail in ballo. the president threatening to hold up funding over this, saying he is concerned what role the mail in ballots will play as it relates to voter fraud in the upcoming election. >> i have specific funding, we discussedr. more the topic at hd and the dams breaking, but we'll let you know, if st necessary. you will be finding out, they will be finding out soon if it is necessary, i don't think it will be e-mail in ballots are a dangerous thing. they are subject to massive fraud. reporter: as all 50 states begin to open some parts much their economy, total confirmed cases for virus in u.s. hitting over 1.5 million and 12 million tested so far, this news, link pentagon memo obtained by web site task and said they might not have a vaccine for the virus until end of next summer. testing number n

hillary vaughn has more for us from washington. great to see you, hillary.o be with you, liz. the fbi say tag it took them months to unlock the pensacola terrorist, mohammed al sharami's iphones. it shouldn't have taken that long but apple refused to help the fbi when they asked. >> we received effectively no help from apple. can canvased every partner out there and every company that might have a solution to access these phones none did despite what some claimed in the media. so we did it ourselves. reporter: terrorist iphones had key evidence on it. the fbi says they needed access two months ago but didn't get it until now including a final will that al sharami typed out on the iphone. evidence proved that he was in communication with al qaeda before he arrived in the united states. apple's refusal the the fbi say, could cost them critical time giving his associates the ability to destroy evidence. bill barr wants legislation that prevents companies like apple that builds their devices in a way that essentially build buils row block for law enforcement to

in the killing of george floyd, hillary vaughn is in washington with more. >> the minneapolis policeficer that pinned down george floyd with his knee on his neck and the minutes leading up to his death has been arrested and charged with third-degree murder, the now fired police officer is one of four people who were at the scene but the first to be arrested in connection with floyd's murder. prosecutors say three other police officers that were on the scene are also being investigated. >> we can only charge in case we have sufficient evidence to prove the case beyond a reasonable doubt. as of right now, we have that. i'm not going to speculate the other officers, they are under investigation, i anticipate charges but i am not going to get into that. reporter: 's arrest followed a hair weighing riots to the strata minneapolis, protesters angry that it took prosecutors four days to bring charges against derek chauvin, they raided and set fire to a precinct last night. the minnesota governor putting the city under a curfew, tonight and bringing in the national guard to help contain the

hillary vaughn in washington. minutes away from hearing what the president plans to do. >>> meantime, we have robert delaney with us, the south china morning post u.s. bureau chief, expert in everything that's going on in that neck of the woods. robert, always good to have you. i'm wondering what china is prepared for. if we are going to crack down, if we are now saying all right, there are really separate policies or separate countries or separate issues between hong kong and china, you have joined them at the hip. where does this all go? >> well, of course, the government in china is making preparations for any sort of eventuality. they are waiting to hear what the final determination is in terms of what decision we'll make about whether or not the trump administration considers hong kong to be sufficiently autonomous from china. obviously they are waiting to see what decision is made about students and so this is just -- there's just many fronts that -- where this relationship is becoming frayed. they will resp

let's go to hillary vaughn. you a little about how the fbi has found a link between the gunman in the pensacola shooting and a key al qaeda operative and even apple in this mix here. hillary has it all for us. reporter: well, the fbi says they were finally able to unlock two iphones belonging to the terrorist mohammed al shamrani, the terrorist behind the attack on the air base in pensacola that wounded eight americans and killed several. the fbi says it took their team months to hack into the devices because apple refused to cooperate. >> we received effectively no help from apple. we canvassed every partner out there and every company that might have had a solution to access these phones. none did, despite what some claimed in the media. so we did it ourselves. unfortunately, the technique that we developed is not a fix for our broader apple problem. reporter: the fbi says the iphones had key evidence on it that they needed months ago but did not get until now, including a final will that al shamrani typed out

hillary vaughn live in washington. hillary?orter: billions of dollars congress approved in the first cares act still has not been spent but house democrats are getting ready to roll out an additional phase of funding in a cares act 2.0, it could have a price tag of over two trillion dollars. the bill is being put together right now. this is where democrats want to see some money headed. expand nutritional benefits. foods is stance to americans. another round ever direct payments to workers, similar to 1200 buck as lot of people got in their bank accounts a few weeks ago. billions of dollars of funding in the u.s. postal service. expanded unemployment benefits. most of the money could go directly to state and local governments. that is an idea president pushes back on. he does not want to bail out states or cities that mismanaged the budget leading up to this crisis but something house democrats want to go all-in on. secretary stephen mnuchin is ready to consider another round of money to american workers. they are not in a rush

hillary vaughn has it in washington. she has the latest. hillary. reporter: liz, the president wrapping up a meeting with governors of arkansas and kansas today, talking with gretchen whitmer, the governor of michigan this afternoon after he criticized her secretary of state for sending mail-in ballot applications, over seven million of those to their constituents throughout the state ahead of general election. the president threatening to hold up funding over this, saying he is concerned what, the role mail-in ballots will play as it relates to voter fraud in the upcoming election. >> well i have very specific funding. i spoke with the governor. we didn't discuss that. we really discussed more the topic at hand plus the dams breaking so we didn't -- we'll let you know if it is necessary. you will be finding out. they will be finding out very soon if it is necessary. i don't think it will be necessary because mail-ballots are a very dangerous thing. they're subject to massive fraud. reporter: as all 50 states begin to open, some parts of their econo

hillary vaughn. of all things china related, we told you earlier that the senate overwhelmingly passed a measure that would push for delisting chinese companies on exchanges here. senator martha mcsally joins us right now, republican from the beautiful state of arizona. senator, were you among those supporting this? >> of course. look, neil, this is part of a multi-faceted approach. i think americans are waking up that china is our adversary. we need to stop having double standards for them, for them to be on the new york stock exchange, they need the same sort of oversight and auditing standards as american companies. we should be looking at chinese companies that are operating in america. we've got local law enforcement using chinese drones to monitor contact tracing. i'm working on legislation related to that. there's so much more that china has been doing over the last 20 years and it's time for us to wake up and in every way, hold them accountable for their malevolent behavior, hold them account

hillary vaughn is live from the across the pond pub in washington. well, some bars in d.c. are are petitioning the mayor to actually close down the streets to they can open back up for business. the idea is they want to move what they have going on inside outside so that customers feel more comfortable. it would look a lot like what you see in europe where people are wining and dining al fresco. this pub would move their tables and chairs on the sidewalk but also on connecticut avenue, this street. it would only be for a limited time, kind of something like what you see when farmers' markets and street fairs take over the street for a small chunk of the day, into the evening. that's what bar owners are asking the mayor to do, allowing them to safely socially distance customers, keeping them 6 feet apart in the open air. that would allow them to have a lot more business and also boost the morale of the city that has been locked down for months. >> yes. the dupont business association, they're full blown behind it. we're all for it and ready to roll. th

hillary vaughn has more.gress does want to hear from amazon ceo jeff bezos himself to explain why company representatives told congress something different that now 20 former amazon employees are telling the "wall street journal." they say that the company does use access to third party sellers' information to make copycat products that then directly compete with those same or similar products. that caught the attention of the house judiciary committee that now wants bezos to come forward and explain the difference in opinion himself. congressman david cicilline, tweeting this. amazon has had multiple chances to come clean about its business practices. instead, its executives have repeatedly misled the committee and the public. enough. as ceo and founder of the company, jeff bezos must be accountable for amazon's record of dishonesty before congress, together with six of my colleagues i am calling on him to testify in light of the gravity of the situation, i am also considering whether a perjury referral is w

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hillary vaughn, come into this, please. report on it, please. is this about the virus?uart, it is. in fact, the owner of this grilled cheese restaurant in washington, d.c. paid for business interruption insurance. they have had to close their doors due to the pandemic so they filed a claim with the hartford financial advisory group, their insurer, that they paid for this business interruption insurance. within 36 hours they receive what they call a form letter essentially saying that under their policy they don't apply for coverage due to the pandemic. they are suing them because they won't hand over the cash. we talked to him this morning. >> we felt that we had, like you said, we had purchased the right coverage and we are hopeful and expecting that when we actually did need the hartford that they would be at our back. we are spending so much of our time trying to figure out a way to get people back to work, trying to figure out if we can reopen again, what the scenario is going to look like, what the model is going to look like. you know, the streets are deserted by

hillary vaughn in washington with more on that. hey, hillary.eporter: neil the state department says no reasonable person can claim hong kong is independent from china's communist party and that secretary of state mike pompeo's digs to denounce hong kong's special autonomous status is not an escalation coming from the u.s. towards china but rather an undeniable reality as china continues to undermine hong kong's freedom, a new law was passed as the state department says is a communist party take over of the region. >> in the national peoples congress in china essentially calls these freedom-loving protesters terrorists. they're using national security in order to justify violent crackdowns on democracy. so i think we'll see what president trump and of course the congress has many options. reporter: some of those options could include sanctions. the treasury department in response to beijing's battle over control of hong kong could include freezing assets of chinese officials and businesses but also looking at visa restrictions for chinese govern

hillary vaughn with more from washington. of the coronavirus recovery package could include holding china accountable as lawmakers on capitol hill look at what they need to include in a bill, the next bill, to address the pandemic. >> there has been not just a lack of transparency but a very aggressive attempt at squelching important information that could have prevented the spread of this disease had china just been much more open and forthcoming with information. now they are caught in it and it's just going to bring on not just the wrath of the american people but the entire country, the entire free world. reporter: that wrath could look something like this. according to analysts at an investment banking company cohen, congress is looking at ways to crack down on china, including limiting chinese stocks and bonds from u.s. indexes, forciing chinese companies traded on u.s. exchanges to follow u.s. rules, and blocking federal pensions from investing in companies, but some aren't waiting for a phase four bill to get retaliat

hillary vaughn is with. drink in d.c., i can get one but i can only drink outside. is that true? reporter: stuart, you have to order it to goo. you can't drink with open container. you can order it to go. what bars in d.c. are asking mayors to do to open up the streets so they can open up their business to bring what they have inside outside. they say it will make customers feel a lot more comfortable, allow them to socially distance in the open-air. it will boost morale in a city essentially been in lockdown for months. >> for u.s. one of the things we're trying to petition for on connecticut avenue, some way shut traffic down southbound lane, from our door here, to that door, straight across, be able to have outdoor seating to coinvite what we have on the inside. we're asking for it to be shut down on the weekend from saturday, sunday, 10:00 to 8:00 on weekends, like they do over in europe. reporter: d.c. does allow you to buy alcohol to go but really, stuart, the sales do not compare. you of course drink