reporter: tonight, new york mayor bill de blasio says you got to be tough to make it here in new york. he says amazon had an opportunity here but it chose to walk away and throw that opportunity away. for its part, amazon says it is not restarting the discussions about where hq2 will go. northern virginia will still get the bulk of those 25,000 jobs. nashville will also get some. brian? tom costello reporting the story for us tonight. tom, thanks. and coming up, the results are in. what the president s doctor had to say about the president s health when the 11th hour continues. (client s voice) remember that degree you got in taxation?
this is basically amazon picking up their toys and leaving the sandbox. this was a revolution for queens economy. this could have been something outrageously awesome for us. reporter: amazon s cancelled order means a loss of 25,000 jobs and billions of dollars in economic impact. i think the protesters are going to realize long term that while they won the battle, they lost the war. reporter: tonight, new york mayor bill de blasio says you got to be tough to make it here in new york. he says amazon had an opportunity here but it chose to walk away, and throw that opportunity away. for its part, amazon says it is not restarting the discussions about where hq2 will go. northern virginia will still get the bulk of those 25,000 jobs. nashville will also get some. brian? tom costello reporting the story for us tonight. tom, thanks. and coming up, the results are in. what the president s doctor had to say about the president s health when the 11th hour continues.
welcome back to, velshi and ruhle. amazon announced it would not build its hq-2. amazon new headquarters would cause soaring houses. the product was championed by andrew cuomo and mayor bill deblasio. you have to be tough to make it in new york city. we give amazon to do business in the greatest city of the world. instead of working with the community, amazon threw away that opportunity. joining us now, our new york state senator, working in the state legislaturelegislatures. he lives near by the long island city site where amazon planned
i am here to announce a brand-new delivery option that doesn t involve the post office at all. amazon caravan. any package going to any trump building will get delivered by hundreds of honduran and mexican immigrants. i ll pick up the bill and i want to make sure to give back to the new communities we re joining. that s why i m purchasing a building in queens that used to be the crown jewel of fred trump s real estate empire and converting it into public urinals. in virginia we ll be very close to arlington national cemetery so we can pay our respects to fallen veterans, even when it s raining outside. the former vice president joe biden is welcoming a new addition to his family. take a look at major. mr. biden and his wife adopted the german shepard this weekend. major came from a litter of surrendered puppies. the bidens fostered him to good health and decided they just couldn t let him go.
and that part of what motivated her to do this docu-series, which was grief. quote, grief for the pain i caused others, grief for the broken young woman i had been before and during my time in d.c. david? all right, linsey davis here with us tonight. linsey, thank you. next here, amazon s big reveal, after all of the hype. dozens of cities across the country applying, hoping they would be chosen. well, they chose new york city and the d.c. area, and tonight, not everyone is happy. here s abc s chief business correspondent rebecca jarvis now. reporter: tonight, the winners of that great amazon bakeoff, following a year-long search, 238 communities, the retail giant announcing not one but two cities. new york and arlington, virginia, the new homes of hq-2. the company investing a total of $5 billion, pledging to bring 25,000 jobs to each location. we needed to go to a place that had access to existing talent. reporter: in exchange for those jobs, amazon, one of the most valuabl