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Talk to the county executive steve malone about the plans he has to reopen the beaches out there, and also, youll meet a very creative local Business Owner who has managed to turn his restaurant into a drivein movie theatre of all things so all thats coming up busy hour ahead first though fox Business Team coverage of our top stories here on a friday with blake burman reporting from the white house but we start with lauren watching the markets for us here is to wrap up the week. Lauren . Lauren hey, connell very quiet session, ahead of a long Holiday Weekend stocks actually traded in the narrowest range in three months and in the end i thought the dow was going to go positive but it fell about nine point, s p up 7, nasdac up 39. The sectors that led the weeks rally, energy, material, financial, they led todays retreat and you can see that if you take a look at the laggards on the Dow Jones Industrial average today, chevron, caterpillar, boeing. Investors weighing opposing forces connell hopes for a Coronavirus Vaccine and states reopening, against chinas move to impose new National Security laws on hong kong that would cramp its autonomy that is adding to already high end u. S. China tensions as you can see here steep losses for chinese stocks that list here in the u. S. , andluckin coffee down 30 and oil fell for the first time in seven days closing at 3,347 but for the week it is up almost 13 as all 50 states have started to reopen their economies. Look at this major averages for the week up at least 3 the nasdac up almost 4 , and the russel 2,000 a measure of the small cap stocks, to show you how this rally has truly broadened, the russel 2,000 is up almost 8 on the week, connell back to you. Connell lauren thank you. Now, as you mentioned all 50 states have started to ease up to some degree on these pandemic restrictions that had been in place, and President Trump is actually now calling on churches to reopen since they are essential and can start to reopen this weekend. That and more, live from the north lawn of the white house today with blake burman, hey, blake. Reporter connell it was really a demand from President Trump earlier this afternoon here at the white house for governors all across the country to allow for places of worship to open up this weekend, saying that they are essential services, and with that, the cdc followed up with new guidance. Dr. Deborah birx saying churches synagogues and mosques should wait a week if they are in an area with a high covid19 infection rate but the president left with this general threat for governors. Watch. President trump the governors need to do the right thing and allow these very important essential places of faith to open right now. For this weekend, if they dont do it i will override the governors. In america we need more prayer, not less. Reporter after that during a presentation in the Briefing Room dr. Birx made the case in the overwhelming majority of states and major cities cases are declining. This was her message as many ponder their memorial day weekend plans. So please, as you go out this weekend, understand you can go out. You can be outside. You can play golf, you can play tennis and go to the beaches if you stay six feet apart, but remember that that is your space and thats the space that you need to protect and insure that youre social distanced for others. Reporter connell and melissa dr. Birx did the asymptomatic spread is still a very big concern. Back to you. Connell already blake burman for us. Melissa . Melissa here now is steve forbes, forbes media chairman. Let me ask you first of all about this move by the president do you think that local municipalities are going to follow it because of course, it is the mayor and the governor who is the last word in a city like mine. I think most will. I think youre going to see more and more stark contrast between states that are moving with deliberate speed to open up and those who are lagging. Heard about vermont today is about as a rural space as you can find, theyre still acting like its new york in march. So i think youre going to see pressure from other states to open up and i think people are recognizing that if you practice what physical distancing and the like, you can go out. There are always risks out there but people have had enough. This has lasted far longer than anyone anticipated. This lockdown. Melissa yeah speaking of having enough, theres already this talk about what happens if it comes back and if there needs to be another lockdown, the president has said we will not do this again, but if there are embers or even a fire well put them out but not shutdown the economy again. Do you think he can hold tough on that, how much pressure will there be if there is another wave. Oh, i dont think theres going to be another National Lockdown again. I think we know enough now. Its among the elderly, Nursing Homes and the like, people with conditions like diabetes who are especially vulnerable so you can take a much more nuanced approach. You dont need to shut everything down. Weve learned a lot since then. You see a state like florida which was expected to be a hot zone. They did sensible things. Theyre doing very nicely, thank you in contrast to what happened in new york and the Nursing Homes, so we know a lot more. Not going to happen again on a general basis. Itll be much more laserlike on the real problem, not nationwide focus. Melissa so what does it mean for the economy as were reopening right now. How many businesses do you think are going to be gone on a percentage basis if you had to guess and how do we handle this recovery . Well this is the thing and this is where the Government Treasury Department especially hasnt been nearly aggressive enough in getting those funds out to smaller businesses, having a lot of arbitrary regulations with the Treasury Department should remove, but in the fall, a lot of businesses are going to face that question. Do they open up or are they just going to throw in the towel and thats where i think the faster we open up the better and one of the things i think youll see criticized in the next few week, why these arbitrary rules about 25 capacity, 42. 9 capacity. They are just picking numbers out of the air. They should restaurants and others should be allowed within the safe limits. Physical distancing, they should be allowed to make their own decisions. 75 as long as you have a safe environment, none of these crazy things they are just picking numbers out of the air. Open up. Lets do it. Melissa yeah, not only that, i mean, it is so much easier to see things in hindsight, but if i look out in my neighborhood for example, the government picking winners and losers they allowed stores like target to stay open saying they were essential, they sold, you know, tons of stuff that these other Little Stores mom and pop stores werent able to do, so the toy store down the block, the florist, all kinds of things that you can get in both whole foods or target who were allowed to stay open the big box retailer but it was the little guy who sold hardware, who sold, you know, all kinds of things like that who now has been shut all this time, and in my neighborhood is opening even though they havent been told they are able to at some point they just have to say lets do it. They have masks on they are doing it safely but what do you think about the way that government intentionally or inadvertently has favored these big chains over mom and pop stores . Well initially when this thing was brand new horrible thing coming along, you could understand they made instant decisions, but as the weeks went by should it become very clear what made sense and what didnt make sense , and discriminating against Small Businesses, then saying oh, you can only open 25 , the only way these businesses survive is with revenue and the only way you get revenue is by ending these arbitrary lockdowns that weve seen in new jersey and elsewhere open it up. Well learn. Were learning as we go, but we also know the real consequences in terms of physical health and Financial Health by these general orders of lock everything down, in certain states like new york and new jersey have been lagging, states like florida, colorado with a democrat governor who started businesses before he became and went into politics therefore knew no revenue you dont survive, so i think a practical approach is in order. Let every business open that wants to as long as it practices Safety Measures which we all know what they are now. Melissa steve forbes, youre fantastic, thank you appreciate it. Connell . Connell well were getting ready, melissa for the memorial day weekend and the beaches on long island are open should help those local businesses out a little bit. In fact weve seen some people Walking Around enjoying the afternoon along the Long Island Sound where we are here in bayville, so well continue from here, earlier today, we were out eiten Suffolk County as the waves crashed in from the atlantic ocean, we spoke to the county executive steve malone about the longawaited reopening and what a lot of people have been waiting for. Were definitely ready to get things rolling. Were a beach town too, so you get everything open, everyone hanging out outside, so definitely for our town, for sure. People around here really want to get out and they really want to go outside and spend money and be with their family. Every Financial Plan needs a cfp® professional confident Financial Plans, calming Financial Plans, complete Financial Plans. Theyre all possible with a cfp® professional. Find yours at letsmakeaplan. Org. Theyre all possible with a cfp® professional. There are times when our need to connect really matters. 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Matt, look, first of all, i do believe that people make their own choices and i respect that, but here is what id say. I think were in a moment of history where less is more. Its just smart to keep it simple. Im not encouraging people to do a lot of traveling. Connell earlier today we caught up with the Suffolk County executive steve malone at a place called Smith Point County Park and thats a beach that will be open this weekend. Were excited to have people be able to come back to the beach and i feel very strongly when i announced we were going to reopen on memorial day but people are going to come. Kids are home from school and its unrealistic to think they arent coming to the beach. Lets have them come with safety protocols in place to do this the right way. Connell what does that look like . Do some people have to wear makes or what type of safety protocol is in place . Were trying to create as much normalcy as possible so when people are on the beach in their groups you dont need a Face Covering and when youre in the water you can socially distance, but when youre on the boardwalk, when youre in the restroom, or in the concession area, around other people thats when you have the Face Covering on. Connell i see the signs all over the place stay six feet apart, which is what were doing and were not wearing a mask but when you get closer to people it make sense what about the back and forth this week which speaks to reopening about jurisdictions in terms of which beach is open and which is closed mayor mayor deblasio keeping the city beaches closed. Weve tried to do things on a regional basis and were opening together and it hasnt always been possible, municipalities have to make their own decisions and i have to do whats right for the people of Suffolk County while theres reduced capacity its 50 under the state order and there are municipalities we need to make sure residents have access. Connell but people from the city cant come out and go to the beach. Not at this point. They are able to go to their beach, thats a decision the city has made but this is a temporary order that just makes common sense that the people paying for these beaches, that staff them up with extra staff this weekend to keep them safe they will be able to have access to them. Connell where are we in Suffolk County which did get hit hard by this virus, so did Nassau County well over 30,000 confirmed cases of coronavirus, where are we now in the reopening process . You talked to local businesses, for example, a lot. Is there frustration building, do people want you to move faster . How are things going . People feel ready to reopen, and ill tell you memorial day weekend is always the unofficial start to summer and in this Global Pandemic what it feels like now is that memorial weekend is the unofficial start to reopening our economy and if we can do this we can do this safely. I think itll be a real shot in the arm and show people we are on the road to recovery. Connell because people have been hard obviously economically what worries you more the economic damage thats been done or that you open up too soon and theres a second wave maybe the coronavirus . I think there has to be a balance. Everything about this , theres no black and white decisions here. Everything is about competing risks, and we know the damage this has caused economically. We need to reopen but i believe we can do that safely and reopening memorial day weekend, the beaches is an indication that we are getting to the point that we can do this safely and we can be on the road to recovery. Connell most of the decisionmaking process was in albany with the governor or has some of that been passed to the local level, whats the relationship between you and the Governor Office, as to what types of decisions youll make on the reopening . Weve been working very closely with the Governor Office with a regional control room that communicates with the municipalities so theres been a back and fourth there and weve communicated that look we think that with the contact tracing, the testing in place, were ready to move towards reopening. Connell what are you worried most about . I think its fair to say mistakes made on the other end as well. Nursing homes, for example, in this state what would you say a lot of people on long island have lost parents or grandparents in Nursing Homes, people that were covidpositive were allowed to be admitted or readmitted to Nursing Homes what would you say about that . Its a tragic situation, we dealt with Nursing Homes every day when we were here and communicated with them and they were really working to put safety protocols in place, segregating staff, isolating patients, but this virus was attacking the most vulnerable and thats what Nursing Homes are people with underlying medical conditions and the elderly. Connell people that had the virus shouldnt be allowed right . The problem is were also managing the Hospital System. The biggest concern was the Hospital System was being overwhelmed. It was strained and stressed to the max, unlike anything weve ever seen so again, very difficult. No black and white decisions in dealing with this virus. There will be Lessons Learned but were still working towards connell well now i hear about churches for example, where its a push to open up churches even if its with 10 worshipers or whatever the case may be. That has to be a concern. I think thats an important thing and again, its about how do you do it . Can you reopen safely and i believe if we can start to reopen beaches safely really is an indicator we can do other things other aspects of our life and get them transitioning back to some sense of normalcy. Connell as we come back here live and talk again about the beaches which are open on long island for the long weekend its definitely not business as usual in bayville for example , this deck were on im suspecting would normally be packed with people getting ready to have an early dinner or happy hour but now you have the bar manager mike murphy joining us live being forced to make adjustments, its only the two of us and were standing 10 feet apart so what are you doing differently this year . Well well take off premise only. Unfortunately i cant even let them sit on the beach and enjoy it because then i would serve them. Its very hard right now for us to actually serve the food and drinks and have the people actually leave the property. Lets face it you cant social distance here. Where can you. Connell i was asking the Suffolk County executive this question about whats the level of frustration you feel, do you think the lockdown has done what its supposed to do, are you saying to yourself all right lets get back at it. I feel were fighting an air war , the president keeps talking about an unseen enemy, were fighting an air war with nothing but bomb shelters and its running high and itll all go by i really think this is a perfect spot for us, we can spread tables out and get back to normal here. Connell youll probably do that right have tables spread out . As we continue, thank you, mike, the owner will join us also later on in the hour. Plenty more to come, melissa from here on long island but right now back to you. Melissa looks beautiful. All right, the pandemic brings sports and summer camps to a standstill, well talk to one Youth Soccer Club about a potential path forward and what happens when the lockdown final ly comes to an end . Do these moves look familiar . 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Yeah, listen its a great question thank you for having us melissa. It stopped us. Theres no question it stopped us. We are coming right in the spring it was a time where kids get out into the wild and theyre playing soccer and its our favorite time of the year and it stopped us and it really forced us to do a lot of things because we have these amazing coaches weve been doing this for 20 plus years and its our responsibility to impact these kids so revenue went to zero. We said do you know what no different than what the schools are doing were following education. Its our responsibility. Keep these kids moving so we went virtual. We took our classes and our coaches and went online and were teaching these kids, out of coaches living rooms that opened up their homes making their living rooms soccer fields and asking their parents to make their soccer fields and engaging with kids like weve never been able to do before and its been unbelievable. Its certainly not what it was when we had a business that overlaps 20 years, we impacted over 1 million kids over these year, and we cant see their faces and interact with them so that has been very different, and its hurt us we had to make a lot of difficult decisions like most Small Companies have, to lay people off, we had to apply for government loans but were not stopping because just like the educational systems, you have to continue to educate and we have to continue to get these kids moving. What if our kids stop playing sports and moving theres a much longer issue we have to keep that behavior going. Melissa so summer is a huge time for you summer camp has to be a great revenue driver. Everyone wants to get outside and play. Its one thing to stay with the classes when kids are inside anyway, but as a camp, its so much harder to think about being inside. I know that like a lot of the smartest schools, you made a bunch of contingency plans what are your thoughts . We have and no different the schools are approaching the hybrid approach so our contingency plans are launching Virtual Summer camps for the first time and were going to be out there doing summer camps weve actually partnered with a lot of local new york businesses to provide soccer plus enrich. So were having kids play soccer and also doing science and doing broad way and doing theatre and were basically were moving sports and education together, so we can keep them together, and i think whats really important and we have to get parents over this is that screen time and activity time are two different things. This isnt a vehicle for us to be able to communicate now and so this is our best way to impact those kids, so we have coach michael has been doing this for 13plus years wants to see your kid an impact your kid. Give us an opportunity and were going to do that virtually and we believe we can do it and we also have our plans to get back into the physical world where we do four kid soccer, eight kid soccer following cdc guidelines, u. S. Soccer guidelines and how to play safe and coming up with our own curriculum so we can continue to reach these kids and impact these kids even if its different. Melissa yeah, let me ask you, you havent given up on the idea of outdoor camp right because weve heard in the last couple weeks stories of businesses coming back and Even Companies coming back to the city sooner than they thought, opening up in midjune. Theres still a possibility youll have outdoor camp, yes . 100 and were going to do it with faith and follow the phases, when they tell us we can go we have plans to go. Were working with our partners and we have every safety guideline mapped out that parent s need to feel safe, the kids immediate to feel safe but they need to be active and active minds are so important, active bodies are so important for our kids. Melissa yes, right now is the time when you sign up the big travel teams for the fall. Are as many people coming back or are they reluctant to commit because theres money involved and they dont know if its really going to happen . Adam kinzinger you hear us . Oh, no, all right, well, well get the answer and well bring it back to you, adam, thank you, soccer stars united good stuff. All right, with beach towns reopening, with restrictions, more americans are dipping into their own backyards for a solution, but it doesnt have to cost you. Plus, a possible return of one of the countrys biggest theme parks, the Orange County task force endorsing universal orlandos plan to open june 5 to the public. Wow with temperature checks, face masks, limited capacity and the plan must now be approved Florida Governor ron desantis. We look forward to that. Connell well have much more melissa at bayville we talked earlier at the show about how its a tough landscape to get in a long weekend and when thats the case it trickles down after fishing but the orders arent coming in for the fish that they catch. Were out on the docks checking in with one of them when we come back we are live today on long island. Theres a live look at the sound if youre a good swimmer you could make it to connecticut straight across, well be right back. Looks like they picked the wrong getaway driver. Theyre going to be paying for this for a long time. They will, but with accident forgiveness allstate wont raise your rates just because of an accident, even if its your fault. Cut sonny. Was that good . Line the desert never lies. Isnt that what i said . No you were talking about allstate and insurance. I just. When i. 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Some guys are open for takeout, obviously. The thing we mostly do is clams and oysters and a lot dont want to do that for take out, they get cold, people think they arent as good , so a lot of places our sitdown restaurants as a whole they do a lot of clams on the half shell, people dont know how to open clams so they are still doing pizza and that kind of stuff but not doing clam s, and they arent on the half shell. Connell are you frustrated youd like to see the state get open quicker than it has . I love it. I think its going to happen either way people are itching to get out and i think outdoor eating is where baymen gets his bread and butter is made in the outdoor eating, in the clam bars outside. I think people will be able to do that at a safe distance. Connell were at a safe distance right now youre floating away a little bit, but good luck with everything. I hope your business comes back as strong as it once with us, Douglas Rogers in bayville where well have much more coming up but melissa right now back over to you. Melissa Backyard Pools are increasing in demand as many public pools and beaches still face restrictions due to the pandemic. Jeff flock is live in orland park, illinois with more on the pool boom, jeff . Reporter oh, boy i am surround ed by pools and you know the ones that are big right now, melissa these are aboveground pools which maybe some people turn their nose up at but you can get one right away. If you are going to dig an in ground pool it gets kind of crazy. Bob jones in the Family Business 60 years. You say its busier now than ever, right now. Right now its been busiest may that weve ever had, just cant believe the demand for swimming pools right now. Reporter take a look theres all sorts of these, various different sizes that you can get and as i said the key to this is that if its an above ground pool you get it right away. You got to dig a pool its months. Months to put an inground in its a big construction project. An above ground pool can be put in in one day and like right now were about three or four weeks from an installation standpoint, just because were busy. Reporter now some folks and this is all anecdotal melissa but some folks said they are running out of stock. They dont have all of the above ground pools that they need. You bought big time because you thought the economy was going to be good and then of course along comes coronavirus and you thought i could be out of business. It was pretty scary there in march when the state of illinois shutdown, all our stores were shutdown, but thankfully, our phones kept ringing, and so we just kind of saw the demand and it just kept building. Reporter here is the other thing melissa in addition to pools in the backyard, everything from Patio Furniture to stuff for the kids. You got the play land and that sort of thing, everybody is trying to take maybe the money they would have spent to go somewhere and instead spend it on enhancing their own environment and ill tell you the sun is out. Spring is springing into summer, and at least where pools are concerned the economy is booming melissa . Melissa looks nice, jeff, thank you. Connell . Connell as we continue, melissa , here at the restaurant weve been broadcasting from in bayville, we were talking earlier normally this is a huge weekend, well see what theyre expecting this year. Plus a mostly forgotten business making a major comeback in one long island restaurant, maybe not the way youd expect we have a drivein movie theatre and a restaurant parking lot thats coming up. Were right back live with you on the beach today ahead of the memorial day long weekend the Long Island Sound, a few beachgoers and a little dog out there well be right back. Of all the places youre looking forward to where will you go first . Wherever you may go lexus will welcome you back with exceptional offers on exceptional vehicles. Get zero percent financing and make no payments for up to 90 days on all 2020 lexus models. Experience amazing at your lexus dealer. Connell it was the fourth friday in a row weve taken the show out to a Small Business to see how they are managing their way through the pandemic and today we continue from wall s wharf, a restaurants in bayville, new york and weve been joined live by the owner bill, whose been kind enough to host us, youd rather have people filling up these tables on your deck than the two of us. How are you managing your way through this what types of changes have you had to make . I know youre doing takeout and delivery. Well were doing takeout, we dont really do delivery. For a while we tried wholesale, but then people became ill so they stopped doing that, too high end, a grocer and a fish perveyor. Connell your business is one that really relies moreso than others on the human contact that somebody could walk right off the beach and you have an outdoor seating so how much longer can you kind of survive like this . We have you taking advantage of some of the government assistance . Well we were lucky enough to get the payment protection loan which helps and right away i put back all the kitchen workers. Now on the other side of that, anybody whose a tip person does not want to go back to work, because theyre getting the subsidy in unemployment. Connell has that been an issue not to work . Youre making more money under these circumstances, but they are making more money if you were fully open. Connell what if they extend that unemployment . They have the enhanced Unemployment Benefits in place supposed to go out of existence at the end of july i believe if they extend that does that actually complicate your reopening a little bit . Well it complicates it because if were open even in a limited basis people come back to work but if youre not on a limited basis or its 25 then its going to be very difficult. Connell that math is tough, for a lot of people i was talking to a guy the other day on our show from the new orleans area and he says well if im only at 25 yeah ill reopen but i cant make any money that way. You need almost full capacity or at least 50 . Well the margins are very low to begin with, and if you cant sell any alcohol meaning anything over the bar or bottle s of wine, its very difficult to survive. What they really should do the payment protection loan should be each tended through the yearend and not an eight week period. They gave us a loan and they dont allow us to open. Connell so it helps some Small Businesses that were operating to keep their people on the payroll but you cant operate. I brought them back but they are really under employed. So itll be nice if they extended it to 1231 and let more businesses really take care of their employees and keep them with a job longer. Connell okay when you do come back the other thing you have to deal with id think is some of your costs go up in terms of how you operate the restaurants. Have you started to plan for the changes youll have to make . We already planned for that. Everything will be disposable, theres no washing of glasses or dishes. The bathrooms will be clean, a m atron, male and female to keep the bathrooms continually clean. So weve already planned for it and thought it out once we get the okay. We have the perfect setup here. Connell yeah you do its beautiful today would probably be packed on a normal friday afternoon. I guess its happy hour. Well this would normally well do 10 of what we do and thats what you do even with the takeout. You really cant support a large restaurant like this on 10 . Its impossible. Connell the way this has been handled, the virus some parts of the country the virus didnt hit hard at all and in this part of the country it hit Nassau County with 30 some thousand odd confirmed cases over 2,000 deaths just in this county and around new york city, how do you personally look at how its been handled whether this was necessary, whether it went too far, we didnt go far enough how do you look at it . I think they handled the right way. I believe the health of everybody is important first. If you dont have your health you cant do anything and people have to feel comfortable to go out and come into a place like this. We have a large group of people, so before they get a vaccine or better treatment for the virus i think this business and anything we have a lot of people its going to be very difficult. Connell youll make it through youll stay in business no matter what . Weve been here 80 years now connell wow. So weve saved a lot of money but its going to be very close and going to be tight and very difficult. Connell you look great for a guy whose been here 80 year, im kidding. Wrong, im 74. Thank you very much. Connell i hope you do. Thanks for coming i appreciate it. Connell people in the Community Love this restaurant and hopefully itll be back up and running at full speed. As we do continue from here weve met so many creative people when weve been out doing these shows over the last few weeks just a few miles from here theres a restaurant that might win the award for the most creative during the pandemic. Dennis lundstrom runs it and its called coach meeting house, so even before he could put his plan a in place, it was effectively already time to move on to plan b. Take a listen. First thing we adjusted to was the togo food which was a whole other animal not a sit down restaurant any more, so the menu changed, taco tuesdays, tacos werent even on our menu. From there we started doing drinks to go, and we figured vodka soda to go and i had frozen drink machines from another business and that took off and then a ushaped driveway and that became a drivethru, organically kind of funny, entrance and exit and it blew up on social media and it was funny because people were doing drivethru for frozen drinks. Connell that led to what is the most interesting part when you talk about drivethru you have a drivethru movie theatre in the back of your restaurant. Tell us about that. Yeah its kind of so people it was nice because people were driving through and happy but i really wanted to figure out a way to socially distance, and still experience our restaurant here and our food so we have a big enough driveway where we map ped it out and we put a popup basically drive in movie theatre back there with a screen people park six feet apart and text their order we bring it to the car, they have a nice night out with their family, weve got a lot of people who six cars and they are all related and they havent seen each other besides skype in three months, and they are sitting there, cars next to each other kids are eating cotton candy with their head out the window and people are happy and nobody is i dont want to say nobody is happy but its a dark time and its really cool that were able to kind of give people social normalcy, while being socially distant, and theyre happy. Connell well it is a really cool setup melissa. They actually sell out the parking lot over there every weekend that theyve been doing it or that they are planning to do it in the future for these drivein movies some of the old classics a guy said they had dirty dancing one night and goon ies, so if you want to take a trip out to long island drivein movies are back. Melissa they had me at drivethru frozen drink bar. That was it. I dont even care about the movie who are you kidding . Connell i should have thought of that. Melissa i thought the pretzel machine im in, ill be there in 10 minutes that looks amazing wow i love it. Well, presentencing over zoom. Actress Lori Loughlin and her husband pleading guilty to mail and wire fraud today, on zoom. Due to the coronavirus pandemic, they each face up to 20 years in prison, the judge set the final sentencing date for august 21, requiring both parents to be in boston for the verdict. Well be right back. You wouldnt accept an incomplete job from anyone else. 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You know, its interesting, melissa, in talking to people, you saw some of them, theres a small crowd out on the beach sitting, locks like safely far apart from each other. Its memorial day weekend, normally people would be flocking out to the island are, tomorrow would be packed, sunday and monday as well. I dont think the weathers going to be great tomorrow, itll be really interesting to see how frustrated are people with being in their own houses that they just come out even if its pouring rain because the beaches are open. Most people we spoke to said theyve been looking forward to this for quite a while. Melissa no, i have no doubt. I mean, it lookses absolutely beautiful there. I loved all the innovative ways people are looking to try and stay in business and to just make other people s lives a little brighter. It does is have that feel like were moving towards recovery, like things are Getting Better and its time to begin venturing out. Like you said, here in manhattan it was the same thing. The weathers beautiful, and people are outside. They just cant take it anymore, they cant stay penned up any longer. Connell i noticed it on the roads traffic wise in driving out here. Today wasnt a lot of traffic, usually long island is noted for its not exactly friendly traffic roads, the lie and the northern state. They werent packed, but there were more cars than a couple weeks ago. So people are starting to get back up and running. And the thing thats really and you and i talked about this last week continues to strike me about all this is the innovation, the creativity, the ability to adapt like that drivein Movie Theater in the restaurant we were talking about a few minutes ago. That guy literally opens up the restaurant pretty much a day or two days before the lockdown goes into place, and its supposed to be a totally different restaurant, a place where you only go sit down and eat. A classy joint, now also hes doing takeout, frozen drinks, having drive hip movies, and hes found a way to make it work as opposed to just giving up and saying this is going to get the better of me. Pretty impress youive stuff wheu see it. Melissa you know, even when we were talking to soccer stars united earlier, they do all say they had to make some tough choices and had to lay off some people, and i just hope the business comes back. I dont want to forget about those people and, of course, the businesses next to them that arent going to reopen. It is so heartbreaking because that is the american spirit. You have an idea, you have a concept, it is your passion. Youre doing it because you love it and you want to make people happy, and you want to see them smile. You know, i just, i hope for all those people theyre able to bring their employees back and that, you know, we can come out of this stronger than ever. Connell the trickledown effect when one restaurant closes, and then youve got a guy as a fisherman whos getting no orders, and his business is down 90 . Its really striking when you see someone in person and see how much theyve lost are. As you said, hopefully it comes back sooner rather than later. Hopefully all of you guys watching have a terrific memorial day weekend, and we will see you with another edition of after the bell on tuesday afternoon. Live from bayville, new york, its been good to be with you. Lou dobbs tonight starts right now. Lou good evening, everybody. This just in fbi director Christopher Wray today announced that the fbi conduct an Internal Revenue review, rather, of how the bureau conducted the Michael Flynn investigation. That review will begin with the interview of general flynn which was carried out on january 24th of 2017 in the white house by disgraced fbi agent peter strzok, agent joe pientka. 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