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15,000 eateries, many of which shuttered because of the pandemic joining us is impossible foods ceo pat brownith us want to start by talking about the meat shortages grocers are rationing the meat products are you seeing demand for your products going on an uptick? if so, will it cover the losses from the restaurant business >> well, first of all, actually, our restaurant business definitely has been hurt by the covid outbreak although not as badly as the industry at large in part because the number of our customers have a significant drive-through business and also a lot of restaurants, we have been helping them to weather the crisis in the major sit-down business by helping them actually sell our product directly to consumers and that's the hundreds of them doing that and quite successfully but yes right that the impact on the restaurant business has been counter balanced by surge in retail sales for us and just in general. >> your deal with kroger represents a 18x increase in your retail footprint but still we mentioned beyond meat has partnerships with the likes of costco, target, walmart

pat brown, impossible foods ceo and fox business exclusive tomorrow. >>> breaking news, let's take yought now live. the honeywell plant where they are now manufacturing these very important and in-demand n95 face masks. we are waiting to hear from the president. he has arrived. president trump will be appearing before the cameras in a roundtable discussion and of course, this as states begin making moves to reopen their particular economies. of course, we are looking at institutional stock exchanges, also possibly looking to get back into the in-person business. but not necessarily business as usual. to charlie gasparino, as we await the president. charlie? charlie: yeah, couple of headlines here from the nasdaq and the new york stock exchange. new york stock exchange will hold a meeting with the trading community today at 4:30 so any talk about when, if, how the reopening will occur on the floor of the stock exchange, we are going to probably get some insight into that later today. 4:30. i don't know if there will be any grand announcement. no announce tment might be a bi story in the

and then impossible foods founder, pat brown, on filling a void in the food supply as meat shortageshe country. don't miss that. a lot to come right here. stay with us. food...it brings us together, inspires joy and gives us life. but we can't forget that during this crisis, over 37 million people don't have access to nutritious food. that's 1 in 12 seniors, 1 in 7 children. in fact, millions of kids aren't able to receive a free or reduced- priced school lunch right now. the good thing is we can all help. learn how you can get involved at feedingamerica.org when we help each other, we nourish ourselves, our families and our communities. maria: welcome back. safety in the skies, beginning today travelers at los angeles international airport will be required to wear a face mask, a covering to help curb the spread of covid-19. frontier airlines will check temperatures before boarding planes. beginning june 1st, anyone with a temperature of 100.4 or higher will not be allowed to fly. this picture went viral. passengers are packed into a plane. they're filling every single seat. dagen mc

a lot of places in rural communities don't have the best internet so we can't do that. >> brown: pat on the new orleans scene. she lost her home during hurricane katrina, along with her professional connections. music maker helped her relocate to north carolina and pick up her career. she was scheduled to perform at jazz fest earlier this month, in fact, and in portugal later on. but now all the gigs are gone, the money nocoming in. >> and so you don't know exactly what you're going to do, especially if all you do is sing or play instrument or whatever it is, you don't know what you're going to do. you wonder if it's ever going to be over. you don't know how things are going to change. and, you know, it's going to change. will there ever be live concerts again? >> brown: she used to be paid to perform inside the nursing home. now, there's just singing outside, to lift up her brother and others. music maker's tim duffy says it's another example of why the musicians he's worked with for 25 years deserve our respect and help. >> she just keeps on going. and now she literally has very li

its ceo, pat brown with us right now. iously your business doesn't need any meat shortage to benefit. i'm sure this moved a lot of people to plant-based meat and the like and you have been benefiting. what are you seeing happening now? >> well, actually we haven't been benefiting from the meat shortage in terms of sales. sorry, i'm getting feedback here. we haven't been benefiting in terms of sales. but we have been benefiting indirectly in a different way. and that is that a lot of current meat consumers, the consumers that we really want to reach out to, are looking at plant-based products for the first time and looking at the impossible meat for the first time. so we were already selling before this covid event and spot meat shortages. i think what's happening is new consumers are trying our products for the first time and we've seen historically that a vast majority of people that buy our products are becoming -- i think in the long run the meat shortage are expanding the number who have tried this. neil: it tastes lik

pat toomey, pennsylvania, thank you, sir, very much. appreciate your joining us. >> thanks for having me. >> woodruff: senator sherrod brown is the highest ranking democrat on the banking, housing, and urban affairs committee, and he joins us now from cleveland. senator brown, thank you for being here. let me start by asking you about what senator toomey said, and this is that in his view it's now clear that covid is mainly dangerous to the elderly and that it's time for young, healthy people to be able to go back the work. >> well, what senator toomey said essentially is it's not government's role to protect workers. i don't know if he's not seeing the numbers. abraham lincoln, one of my favorite quotes is, "i have to get out of the white house and get my public opinion back," meaning i need to talk to people about their lives and where they're hurting and what they're doing. i spend every day talking to people that are staffing homeless shelters and talk to people at food banks and talk to people that are laid offer, and the pain is great out there still, and in the end, that hearing today showed that the administration continues to ca