Who is in jordan, says the navy is investigating. Secretary mattis my thoughts and prayers are with the sailors and the families of the uss john mccain. We obviously have an investigation underway, and that will determine what happened. The uss mccain has docked in singapore with significant damage. It is the second fatal collision involving a u. S. Warship in the Pacific Region in two months. Army surgeon Bowe Bergdahl is choosing to be tried by a judge, chargeslitary jury, on he endangered his comrades by walking off a post in afghanistan. He faces charges at a trial scheduled for late october. Bergdahl walked off his post in afghanistan in 2009, and was subsequently held by the taliban and its allies for five years. Global news 24 hours a day, powered by more than 2700 journalists and analysts in more than 120 countries. This is bloomberg. Lisa i am lisa aronowitz. Julie i am julie hyman. Joe we are happen hour from the close of trading. Lisa the dollar slightly lower ahead of jacks
We begin on the streets of minneapolis with nbcs shaquille brewster. What has happened since those charges were announced and what is the situation there tonight . Reporter lawrence, a major step forward for anyone who wanted those charges, especially the people here, who since george floyd died at this intersection, theyve come out night after night, sometimes staying overnight. When the charnels weges were an, there was chanting, cheering, songs, prayer. Youre still seeing it now. Sometimes it is somber, sometimes it is exciting. Right now youre seeing people pay their respects in the foreground. Flowers all around. People have notes they come with. They bring their kids, their families. All to pay respects. When that moment came, when the announcement was made, thats when you saw the reaction. It almost turned into a celebratory mood and thats what youre feeling right now as people are milling about, having those conversations and reflecting when they can. Ill tell you, one thing we
These two stories, and youve done a brilliant job, i think, of pulling these two stories together in your hour. It has been such a struggle to keep some kind of focus on coronavirus. Especially as we see these giant crowds assembling, which could all be, well know at the ends of june, what has happened with all that. The possibilities in the protests for infection. Our friend and colleague chris hayes closed out his hour as he tossed to me by saying straight to camera, if you in america have been to one of these protests and youve been around other people, whether or not you were wearing a mask, if you have access to testing, it is a good idea to get tested. I will reiterate to say what he said there. It is good to see people in masks, so many of them at these events, and nobody is going to try to floud the guidelines or deny the coronavirus is serious. But we have to look out for each other and that means encouraging everybody who has been at one of these events to get tested. This is