The freeman foundation. By judy and Peter Blum Kovler foundation; pursuing solutions for americas neglected needs. And by contributio to this pbs statiofrom viewers like you. Thank you. America, reporti from new york city. Numbers four Coronavirus Infections but also for new bs, how the u. S. Economy is trying t cases sore. N track as Jeffrey Epsteins exgirlfriend arrested, Ghislaine Maxwell accused of helpingyo him abuse g girls. She pretended s pretended to be a woman they could trust, all the while she was setting them upo be abused b epstein and his some cases by maxwell herself. Laura should it be a museum or mosque . Turkeys top court ways the iconic building ends in stem ball. Thapple trying to welcome torts, the july 4 Holiday Weekend in new york would be the same wont be the same. Laura for you watching around the globe, welcome to worlnews america. The numbers show the United States being pulled in different 5 million jobs were created in june, a record. The country saw more than 50,000 new coronavirus cases on wednesday, the most ever. Fears tonightmi at the eco recovery could be threatened by device and infections. Our north ampoica editor s. Reporter america is into its fourth month emergency measures to tackle coronavirus and the situation is getting worse. Way worse. Yesterday broke all records with nearly 53,000 new cases recorded in a single day. Resulting in hospitals, like this one inon hou, drowning in a sea of covid. All you have to dneis look at th at night and you see people congregating at bars without masks, congregating ins different ty groups that are well beyond the recommended number of people. And you dont mask, you that get the kind of outbreaks we are seeing. Reporter here is a sizable chunof the population that refuses and almost real men dont wear masks attitude, a viewpoint that at times has been aided and abetted by the president. Can you take it off . I cant hear you. You want to be politically correct. Go ahead. Reporter look at the last vaey rally inna arizo where cases are going through the roof. At no point did donald trump tell anyone they should put on a face covering. He has done all he c to avoid being found wearing one. He now saythat my change. I have no problem, i had a mask on, i like the way i looked. You look like the lone ranger. Reporter it is a sign of the division in america, maybe the man is not a mask has become a political issue. Not just a matter of publicin health d a pandemic. There is a danger that this becomes the new frontier in the culture wars that pitch coervative against liberal horrid time for donald trump. Today, his bounce was bs k with good n the economy. These are historic numbers in a time that a lot of people would have wilted. Reporter with many states thatb open to talkint shutting inwn again, those that were about to open pu plans on hold, the nightmare goes on. Presiden trump vowed to defeat the hidden enemy, but coronavirus has been a curveball that he is hasea nowhere been able to master. Laura one further note on the mask issue, the governor of texas has made it mandatory for people to wear face coverings in public. That applies to counties with more than 20 infections. He also gave local officials the power to restrict gatherings of more than 10 people. That com ahe of the july 4 Holiday Weekend. Texas reported nearly 8000 new infections, just shy of the record they hit a day earlier. As we t heard latest Economic Data in the u. S. Looks encouraging on the surface. The economy added 4. 8 million jobs in june. The Unemployment Rate ticked down to 11. 1 . It was nearly 50 in april. We have not seen this many people arly 15 in april. Junes jobless claims were compiled before cases spiked in the south. Thanks for being with us tonight. The jobless re ticked down in june, what is the economy owing again as coros infections rise . Two months of solid data we have are encouraging. We had jobs increase by a half million in may and another 5 million in june, which was a surprise. We have a made back abohird of the jobs lost. Thowever, june data was based on the second week of june and we know we the last two weeks based on other data, tngs have slowed down. It looks like the rate of business is reopening has slowed down and we he see the first signs that is surge in infections across the south and ntwest is going to eat spending. Credit card spending declined last week after eight weeks of growth. It does look like we have hit a roadblock. Laura in your latest column, you reveal that spending in restaurants actually predicts ere new coronavirus cases where begin. That is a troubling link for it is. Ers. It raises questions abo why restaurants and bars were allowed to open. Think about bars. You go to this crowded placesp d k loudly because there is a lot of loud music. Those seem to be conditions that are optimal for spreading the virus. It is worth asking, why were they allowed to open as so as they did the data does seem to suggest that there is connection between those things it will be interesting to see if a few weeks from now, the ste that texas a florida and california are taking to closers gain result in a significant inflection downward. Laura meanwhile, those Unemployment Benefits when out in july. What is washington going to do . Congress is out of session but when they come back, i think that is the fst order of business. Democrats have passed a bill that would maintain the benefits to the end of next year. Republicans and some businesses disincentive for people to come back to work. It will be a tussle. I, the relatively good jobs numbers today might strengthen resistance among some people and atke it harder to achieve goal. You will continue to have this tugofwar between improving job market, which is putting wage in pme onples hands, and the resistance of the fading impulse, fitting stimulus you got from the checks sent to people in these jobless benefits. Laura in new yorky, c i see these momandpop stores closing, maybe for good. Other restrictions are restrictions hitting small bunesses the most . Absolutely. Countless Small Businesses have os, probably for good. We saw troubling signs of that in tos job report. People who are unemployed say they are unemployed temporarily because they expect to be called to work or the job loss is permanent and we have seen that most all of the increase in employment is about peopleg gettlled back to work from temporary layoff. We have seen the number nt people perma laid off, probably because they work for small businesse that close for good, that number is going up. Through the worst part of this, he could be stuck with a pronounced high level of unemployment for a long time. Laura are we going to sees t w shape recovery or it is a v . We had eight weeks of good growth and it looked like ar v while. It seems to have stumbled in june. The last two weeks look like a flat line. What you get when you take a partial v that ends to th right that bends to the right . It looks like a square root sign reversed. I heard it described as a check mark. Saessentially, it ing the same thing. We had eight weeks of gsewth, we to be hitting a soft spot now. Hi think this econo surprised us and it is too soon to write it off. Once cases are under controlaway again and good growth can resume. Laura thank you so much for joining us. Thanks for having me. Laura while the u. K. Socialite Ghislaine Maxwell has been arrested, prosecuted say she played a cidtical role in tifying and grooming victims for Jeffrey Epstein. He was found dead in his prison cell last year. Maxwell has denied anyno involvement oredge of epsteins sexual misconduct. This report contains distressing themes. Until now, Ghislaine Maxwell has are made out of sight ever since the arrestf sex offender Jeffrey Epstein as his former girliend and closes the associate, she is central to the fbis probe of his sex crimege against undeirls. Caps on her whereafor theing last year. They moved into arrest or thursday, she was ling on a property that she bought in cash to shield heidentity. We have been keeping tabs on maxwells whereabouts as we work thisnvestigation and more recently, we learned she slithered away to a property in New Hampshire. Continuing to live a life of privilege while her victims liven with trauma inflicted u them years ago. Ederal prosecutors in ne york have charged her with six criminal counts to epsteins alleged sex trafficking, including enticing a minor to travel to engage in illegal sex acts and two counts of perjury. They allege the victims were as young as 14 when the crimes ok place between 1994 and 1997. She has previous denied all allegations against her. X12 would discuss sexual topics with the victim maxwell would discuss sexual topics with the victim or present for sex acts involving the minor victims in epstein. Maxwells present presents as an adult woman put the victims at ease. As maxwell and epstein intended, th grooming process left the minor victims susceptible to sexual abuse. The daughter of Robert Maxwell o is a longtime frie Prince Andrew in this now infamous photo01 from the two are seen with ridging . Freight who says she was seen with virginia, who says she was traffic. Prince andrew was asked directly about it. I have no recollection of evereeting this lady. You dont rember meeting her . No. Prince andrew has long denied ng sex with underage gir but prosecutors reiterated their desire to speak with him. We would welcome Prince Andrew coming in to talk with , we would like to have the benefit of his statement. Maxwell appeared briefly in court in New Hampshire and remains in custody. Her trial will take place in new york where she faces 35 years in prison if convicted. S major moment for epsteins victims, who had to relive their trauma in the public eye while fighting for justice for decades. Laura in other news from around theor, 160 people have been killed after a landslide in miramar. This happened inr,orthern mirailling workers collecting stones in a jrich area. A rescue operation is ongoing and the death iseexpected to hugh downs have ed at 99. The longtime host of the magazine 2020 was known for his smooth delivery in scholarly nner. He began his career in radio before moving to tv in the 1950s. He held the Guinness World record for the most hours on commercial television, more than 10,000. A Turkish Court is due to rule c on atroversial plan to convert istanbuls Iconic Museum to a mosque. Turkish president to provide revive muslim worship. Our National Correspondent repos. Reporter an architectural wonder that has endured through the ages. I a sophia i would like to be byntine and ottoman era. Since 1935, it has been a museum, a symbol of secular turkey. Onbut for how muchr . Step inside, as so many tourists have. Beneath the golden dome and see mosaics of the virgin mary alongside islamic calligraphy after 900 years as a cathedral, it was conquered by the ottomans and converted to a mosque. Turkish president has been vowing to conquer it on new. They changed i a sophia from a mosque to a cma while ago to a museum a while ago. God willing, we will change it back reporter ha some caly bear to wait. Is islamic grassroots B Organization hn praying outside once a year. His leader told us, i a sophia should be back in muslim hands. I want to displace to be a mosque. All muslims wanted. Look at this structure. A asone in the world. What does it look like . There is only one answer. This is a mosque. Reporter that not how christian leaders see it. At the church of the 12 apostles istanbul, a gathering of greek orthodox. The faithful came to park a feast day and hear a warning from a patriarch who leads the Orthodox Church worldwide. He said i a sophia belonged not just to turkey, but to humanity. The conversion of i o sophia will disappoint millions of christians around the world. More so, at a timehe have suffered mankind, due to the pandemic of the coronavirus, is in need of unity aat common orien. Reporter this is a towering monument to faith, but critics say what is happenie is about more than religion. They say president erdogan is using the issue to bolster his support and they say it makes a great distraction from the beverage from the damage done to the turkish economy from covid19. Distractions dont come much bigger than this. The u. S. Opposes any move to ghconvert sophia from a museum to a mosque. It says this remarkable building should remain as a muchneed bridge between different faiths. Laura the futureia of higher sohere. You are watching bbc world news america. Delta, rethinking our food, still to come, rethinking our food. How the pandemic has created new markets. Laura thousands of restaurants in the u. K. Could close forever due to the covid pandemic as the lockdown puts owners into the red. As the warning from groups that track britains restaurant industries, many say they will struggle to reopen. Our asia editor now reports for us. Reporter y would have struggled to get a table here on the weekend despite there being over 30 curry restaurants on this one street. When the lockdown was put in place, they were not rdy to move, so the doors had bee shut and many say they will struggle to reopen. For the last three months, i is like a ghwn. You see a majority of the restaurants will not botr opening at all. Which is very sad. We are famous forever curry entity some curry houses gone, it is aick in the stomach, to be honest. Laura during this era of lockdown, even going to the Grocery Store can be stressful. The pandemic has many us rethinking how we get our food. If you heard of a Sustainable Food broker, mark lillian virginia is one and he says business is booming. I got into this linef rk through research i did in grad school. One of the lettersas wazards and threats of the future. They did a 20 year forecast on our food system and it made me e,aghat was going on with our current food system. Which is unsustainable. I wanted to design a system that s more sustainable. My main objtive is to support local farms and local farmers into get theoo fto people who want it. I drive 600 miles a week all over the state just to source peoples food for them. Thbu far was a mobile Market Concept i had, i took an old school bus. I wanted to create that local, sustainable model. That was the premise. Know what to expect. I think people wereearful that they wouldnt be able to access food supplies, that fear ma them want to focus more on local food. Threeppened within two o weeks. I had to shift. I hado hire people, i trucks, put a lot of cash by trucks, put a lot of things it i had to buy trucks, put a lot of things into motion. The Retail Outlet farmers a hurting pretty bad. Covid hit and they cided to close restaurants and farmers were really scraping to find out what they were going to do. Where my model comes in, i have been paid for the products, so i can go to any of these farmer with any surplus, whatever they have laying around. There is a trickledown effect. F factory far are closing, that is channeling more business to me in small farms that are raisingls ani so sourcing from people like me or going to the farmers market, tihaving a direct re to your food and being able to see and touch where it comes om, people really are resonating with that idea. Local trout. The less hands touching her food as possible, thats what you want. If you can only have one or two hands touching her food touching your food, you are in a good place. Laura the food broker there. New york city is usually swarming withhi tourists time of year, here for the july 4 fireworks or a broadway show. The pandemic has not the touewsm industry ss with International Travelers grounded and visitors from 16th states high infection rates must quarantine up arrival in new york city. Hotels are trying to make guests feel comfortable and hotel staff must decide if they feel safe at the view oftu the sof liberty is stunning from the water, there is nothing blocking the view from the harbor cruise. Tourists are scarce and the city is losing millions of dollars as day asors avoid what was the heart of the u. S. Coronavirus outbreak. We will give you a call and let you know when it has been confirmed. Laura most of the guests are medical workers. E american tourists arting to book rooms. He is working on how to be weoming behind plexiglas. Hospitality is an industrio based on relhips. Smiling with a mask on makes it harder to communicate that warmth and hospitality. How do you smile and show that through your eyes . We were talking about those things as i recall these comeback to work. Laura how toel make staff safe is the challenge. She has beenolunteering at a od bank since she was laid off from her job at a hotel. A union is pushing for safe conditions. She is on the fence abo going back, given the number of guests she normally sees. In a regular day, more than 300 people. People are leaving theot c and people acking in. Laura are you anticipating you will return in july . Tote to manhattan, taking feel the train. Im t still waiting ft and see how i feel. Laura new york city is one of the most popular desons in the world. Usually attracting 60 millionts tour year. The coronavirus outbreak has static on topic a catastrophic impact on tourism. Ngit is unclear hohe recovery will take. Jonathan was a think take which focuses on new yorks economy. Whether welfare was held in 1964,a he says the city ha history of resilience. We have to go above andyo to show people that the a city hublic Health Response that makes people safe from a pandemic. I think the good news is neth york has don before. Significant fears the globe that people would not come to new york because of fears of teorism. I think the city took a lot of steps to make people feel safe. Laura how to do tha as manhattan bustles again with tourists is the question. The coronavirus maxine might reassure travelers, maybe b july for next year, new york city will be as be escrowed itself again. Be its crowded itself again. Before we go, for all you dog lovers, a tale of mans best friend stranded at sea. Naval officers in chile came upon a struggling dog a mile offshore after bad weather had struck and pulled the pooch from the coastal waters. 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