so i think jeff flock is back with us and can explain how this works. jeff, can you hear me?utiful day. i have no excuse. this is the latest one. new york is thinking about it, l.a. proposed a similar program earlier in the week. all of these cities that have pilot programs for what is called guaranteed income. cities from diverse as san francisco to pittsburgh to richmond, virginia, providence, road road. 5,000 people, $500 a month for a year. the only stipulation, no strings attached. the only stipulation is if you have to be poor and have a child in school somewhere or be a college student yourself. the illinois policy council, which is concerned about chicago's dealt and finances session that, well, you know, you can do it in a lot of places but chicago is not the place to do it. listen. >> chicago is broke. so we don't have the money to do this in the first place, this isn't the best use of federal funds that are supposed to be emergency funds for us to offset the economic effects of the pandemic, which have devastated the small business community and to pay off debt. >>

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jeff flock has details from indiana. hi jeff.r gasoline and refineries humming along behind me. we'll tell but the future of big oil when we come back. ♪ mom and dad left costa rica, 1971. and in 1990, they opened lrazu. when the pandemic hit, pickup and delivery was still viable. that kept us afloat. keeping our diners informed on google was so important. the support from our customers, it honestly kept us going. i will always be grateful for that. ♪ ♪. david: welcome back. as the push for green energy gets underway this week at the white house the demand for oil showing no signs of letting up. there is the price at $63.32 a barrel. jeff flock is live at a refinery in whiting, indiana, with the very latest. jeff, you're braving the rain for this one. reporter: no problem. it's not snowing. that is a good thing. snow tomorrow in chicago fyi. aye yi yi. reporter: this is the biggest bp refinery in the world in whiting, indiana, started by john d. rockefeller in 1889. quite a history. we have record in terms of utilization of refin

ashley: you know what that's what you call being on the edge of your seat, jeff flock frozen, that signal0 exactly up more than 5.5%, susan is out, what is driving the rally speaker very busy on the lock doesn't that show consumer interest, it'll be very interested to see that report. but as for tesla we had a record blowout first-quarter in delivery nearly 185,000 cars in the first three months of this year and production also cost 180,000 as well in tesla is a direct to consumers car seller no middlemen and that's why delivery is probably the most important metric for tesla and for numbers way ahead of wall street forecast so you have wedbush yanai's going really bullish this morning calling a buy with a thousand dollars a share he said $300 upside from here because these forecasting 850,000 car deliveries for this year, a blowout j.p. morgan, cowan raising the price targets china's another big factor for the rally the pasture up 600% and that's because they reported strong model wife three sales in the first quarter of 21 in china as we know with the shanghai factory opening finally as

so let's go back to jeff flock, he's at a home installation in illinois.w you love to look at bills , especially when you don't have to pay them. this is his cost before he installed solar, $208 and some odd cents for the month of august i think. the month of september after he installed it, $14.89. is that, i mean, is that weird or is that something that you can actually count on? >> that else pretty typical. before solar you might have 150- $200 monthly bill and after solar it might look like $15 so you're saving 150-$200 a month. reporter: so there's the upfront cost and here is the other thing , you get a subsidy from the state of illinois because you put solar in. now, if i don't put solar in, you're getting a subsidy but i'm not. is that fair? >> well it's not a detriment to somebody that's not able to use the subsidy. it's more of a benefit to people that are using the sub id it for solar so it's helping them save money every month. reporter: gotcha i just leave you with this is the panel. this is what it looks like and this was made in alabama, if

jeff flock in naperville, illinois, where a lot of plants are being completely retrofitted to addressl, in naperville, illinois. i'm surrounded by gas-powered vehicles. these are gms. this is woody buick gmc, but they are waiting on this electric hummer that's coming out. people are very excited about that, and, you know, the idea is for gm to have an all-electric future by 2035. no more gas-powered cars. you know, the question is, is that really good for the environment? and recently "the wall street journal" and university of toronto did a deep dive on this and studied it. take a look at these interesting findings. if you build a car, either an electric or a gas-powered car, it actually puts out more co2 to build the electric car. that's because of the batteries. more co2 there. now, once the car gets on the road, and they're comparing, by the way, a tesla modeling 4 -- model 3 with a toyota rav4, if you drive about 20,000 miles, it begins to even up. if you drive the car for its full length of life, which is about 200,000 miles, then, yeah, the electric car wins big for the environ

our jeff flock reporting now from michigan with the latest. what's going on there, jeff?> reporter: well, it's a big resort area, and, you know, we're in the western part of the state here. the spike has been in the eastern part of the state, but the restrictions stay in place here. i've got leslie, the owner of one of maybe the most popular restaurants called the stray dog here in new buffalo. the governor here has been under some fire for her, you know, handling of this. you don't have metrics. some states, even new york they say if you achieve this, you can open back. >> right. we have no guidelines for when we can reopen, at what level. so right now we're just kind of saying that we're going to be the same as we were last summer. >> reporter: take me through, if you would, go ahead and lead the way, leslie. i want to take you inside the restaurant. we've got to put asthmassings on, neil, because there's still a mask mandate. take a look at the restrictions that have been left in place by the governor. governor whitmer said, you know, there were supposed to be restrict

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jeff flock is also in chicago at a separate vaccination site. unately, stuart. this vaccination site outside of wrigley field. they're doing covid tests. if you spin around you can watch a baseball game. that is wrigley field. and a new vaccination site. in an effort to be more equitable who gets the vaccine. this is the entrance. we'll walk in the shade. vice president harris will be here to talk about that issue. chicago at one hospital on west side of chicago, loretta hospital, serves primarily black and brown, poor people. what did they do? they conducted vaccine appointments for kook county husbands and wives. they were in the eligible. one. executives own ad condo at trump tower. they vaccinate ad bunch people. those people were not eligible. the city trying to improve their reputation. is you see a little bit after line. things have gone fairly smoothly. leave you with one notion, vice president harris today, when she comes to town, will be visiting a vaccine sight just for union, at least has been just for union workers. some people quest

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our own jeff flock is at a vaccination site in chicago. utiful day, by the way, to get a vaccine, and this is the line)pá you see at one of these vaccination sites. the problem in chicago has been getting the vaccine out to underserved pop rations -- populations, that is to say black and brown populations, poor folks, people who don't have access to computers, that sort of thing. this is a scene right outside wrigley field in chicago, the cubs' ballpark, and they're partnering to set this one up. the scandal is where a hospital, for example, on the west side that typically serves the black and brown community, poor folks, they set up vaccines for cook county judges that were not eligible to be vaccinated. they also went to trump tower because one of their executives had a condo at trump tower, and they inoculated a whole group of folks there as well. they were also not eligible to be vaccinated. another doctor vaccinated ten members of his own family. again, not el justifiable to■ç e vaccinated. -- eligible. these folks all have passed the

jeff flock is in chicago. hi, jeff. >> the answer is complicated.cago. all gas-powered. electric is the future for g.m. and other automakers. take a look at the numbers from the "wall street journal." building an electric car generates more co2 than a gas car. where the savings comes in, over the course of a car's lifetime, 200,000 miles or so, the electric car is better for the environment. question is real quick, i want to put it to woody of woody buick gmc, do people want electric cars? are they going to buy them? >> i'm sure they'll buy them. i guarantee it. >> you believe that? >> absolutely. it's down the road. we've had great success with the hummer ev. good things are ahead. >> woody is being optimistic. he told me, hey, i don't know. i don't know. >> sandra: we don't know what we don't know. i'm sandra smith. >> john: i'm john roberts. "the story" with martha starts right now. >> martha: thanks. good afternoon. i'm martha maccallum live in new york. here's the story. the firestorm in georgia that has the whole country watching is heating up

morning, it was heard by not only energy but spreading like corn that has been soaring of late, jeff flockhis is jim robin's corn been. and prices at an 8 year high, inside the corn silo and they put up the prices right now, 8 year high for corn. >> it is an offering at $6. >> futures are 585 at the moment. you mentioned food. the other thing is ethanol. ethanol is a huge piece piece of what corn is used for but ethanol is green. >> it is definitely green, 40% is already used for biofuels, we will increase that, and it is a definite positive for agriculture. >> it is inevitable. the been we are showing you, right now the usda came out with a crop report, an hour or so ago, there's a lot less corn like this in storage than they thought and there will be a lot more demand because of people back on the roads, more ethanol and gas conception. prices go up i am afraid. neil: thank you very much for that and the impact of what is happening on that front. imagine running a large food company as this gentleman did, i remember we talked when you are running that conglomerate about there are things

jeff flock in chicago is in favor of this kind of stuff so what is chicago's plan?ave to do, and income of less than 30,$000 a year and have to be a college student, as you point out this is all over the country. san francisco, jackson, mississippi, pittsburgh, multiple cities trying this and with everybody from elon musk to milton friedman to martin luther king jr. endorsing this concept what could be wrong with it? take a listen. >> chicago taxpayers already owe 40,$000 in debt, hasn't balanced the budget since 2003. >> but they can afford it. why is that? because chicago is getting $1.9 billion and coronavirus aid. then pay for this program, when you get the screed going. they did a study in the program. the disincentive to work, more people got jobs after they got the stipends. they spend the money not on alcohol and cigarettes and nonessentials when i track there spending and find people are healthier, happier and had less stress. they give you an extra $500. stuart: i completely reversed my opposition to free money from the government. it is a wonderful thing,

jeff flock is, here is where we find him. he is in a box facility in indiana.you're ordering too much, people are ordering too much on amazon. do you even use amazon? i'm not sure you do. you're like me probably going to pick the thing up at the store. this is where it starts. too many people are ordering on amazon and other places with the pandemic. this is what though call craft. this is the paper that starts to make cardboard boxes t comes in the huge rolls. six tons of role. i think i ripped that one. that is fine. on the outside of the box. it goes through a huge machine, a place caldwell much packaging in elkhart, indian. andy, you're going 24 hours a day, non-stop. >> we're operating three shifts, full time. we run eight million square feet every day off of this cora gator. reporter: i want to show you the machine. put the numbers up. how much, you learn in this industry, don't say cardboard. >> right. reporter: it is called corrugated material? how much did the business turn out? >> 407 billion square felt. reporter: for you and viewers, stuart, i want

jeff flock is in michigan. he joins us now.ictions. tell me. >> reporter: on rare occasion, mr. varney, you are correct. and this is one of them, by golly, yes. particularly here in western georgia. you know, we're so far away from detroit and the area where there's some spikes in coronavirus cases. this is a resort area: no problems here but still -- i don't want to say they're in lockdown mode, but you can see the restaurants, you can't even go into this restaurant here. you have to orderer at the takeout area. take a look at the restrictions in place. in addition to extending what had been in place, now masks for children between ages of 2-4. i see one right there. i don't know, probably not between 2-4, but if you're between 2-4, a toddler, that is, you kind of have to wear a mask now. in addition, 50% capacity on stores as well as bars and restaurants, and there's an 11:00 curfew. do these restrictions really make a difference? if you go on the internet, you can probably find data that will support whatever opinion you hav