New york reporting, again, the most deaths yet in a 24 hour period. It was also the deadliest day nationwide with nearly 2,000 people dying yesterday. Pushing the overall death toll to nearly 16,000 now. Meaning if the current projections are accurate, new york has only suffered about half of the deaths that it could see by august and the u. S. Hasnt even really seen a third of the deaths projected during that same time period. The economic pain of all of this is setting in today in a new way. Take a look at this. The government reporting that this morning that 6. 6 million americans filed for one employment for first time this past week. San antonio the past three weeks almost 17 million americans have filed for unemployment. Unprecedented, lets be honest, starting to lose its meaning. Lets start in new york where the governor says today there are more signs of hope, but he also made clear, again, that in no way means its time to relax or let up on anything. Cnns erica hill is here st
Across the border a major assault in the key city of mosul. At many as 20,000 iraqi troops could be involved in the assault along with u. S. Air power and possibly u. S. Ground troops as well but its also several months away. So why Start Talking about it now . Richard engel is nbcs chief Foreign Correspondent in istanbul, turkey this morning. Richard, good morning. Reporter good morning. Its good to talk to you. First about that deal that has finally been put to paper between the United States and turkey to train a relatively small number of syrian rebels. They would get some training get some money. Radios. They would get some vehicles. Potentially pickup trucks with machine guns mounted on the back but a lot of analysts here in turkey say it is too little, too late and i think you hit on the key question in your introduction there. What are they really supposed to be doing . The United States wants them to be fighting against isis. Turkey wants them to be fighting against isis and b
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