At here. What is happening in new york city bears watching because if this phase one plan goes well in couple weeks, they could extend to restaurants, other offerings. It gets a little it about more involved than that. Kristina partsinevelos following it all. Kristina. Reporter neil, you said the word busier and that is a great way to explain it. There is a lot more traffic on the street. A lot more people on the corners. Im seeing people waiting in line on bus. A lot of retailers in the city remain closed. Im in times square, normally we would be packed like sardines trying to get to a shop. The old navy behind me, the gap behind me kept their doors closed. Phase one is supposed to allow, agricultural, manufacturers, construction sites, retailers all to open their doors but were seeing not even Curbside Pickup. A lot of major retailers saying theyre holding off. They want to see if people are comfortable going back out on the street especially since many businesses urged their workers
Meantime i want to go to blake burman on this back and forth so far how the cases are going because this is happening we have had backtoback days of 30,000 cases reported in this country. Something we have not seen since the beginning of may. To you, sir. Reporter neil, yes, the number of cases growing across the country. Over here at the white house though they continue to be adamant in their view, according to public experts they talked to and listened to here there is not a second wave right now. The white house view at the current moment. Though we are continuing to see the Economic Impact of covid19 and what it is having all over the country in just about every pocket you look, the latest example in northwest arkansas because china has come out today and said it is not going to be buying poultry from tyson foods facilities in northwest arkansas. When you look at the numbers, neil, there is a reason why because according to that company there have been roughly 3700 employees been t
In chicago some ways this was very specific in the wicker park neighborhood. Theyre hitting Liquor Stores and salons, getting bottles of shampoo. Hitting clothing stories. Other ways it is very indiscriminate. They are hitting Small Business and you can see they hit the target which is now being boarded up as we speak. It is about cleaning up, boarding up buildings that have been hit. Boarding up other buildings to prevent this from happening again. I want to show you video from over the weekend. What happened here in chicago, they shut down Public Transit into the downtown areas where we saw protested on saturday night. They shut down main arteries into the downtown area. As a result of that, the protests and looting became more scattered. They hit suburbs and south side. Where we are outside of the Downtown City Center in wicker park. I talked to a Small Business owner not far from here. She was getting ready to reopen the clothing retail space on june third. Because of this it is de
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They are getting under way. Protesters in new york citys union square are holding a kneeling moment at this hour. While we see a standoff at city hall in philadelphia, to the right of that, then we have the aerial shot of protesters who are marching in gaithersburg, maryland. All of this follows a tense weekend filled with violent protests, riots and looting of businesses both big and small, in cities and towns across the nation. This is not simply limited to big urban areas. Weve got team fox business coverage here ready to show you some of the damage on the ground live. And Corporate Americas reaction as companies from apple to microsoft to nike to netflix and others comment and make moves on the state of race in america. Plus, a major voice on wall street and a leader in the africanamerican business communi community, Tracy Maitlands family has a historic tie to Martin Luther king jr. The president of Advent Capital Management who drew the company to 9 billion, is here to tell us wh