I'm Carla Zeus will be producing a Siris of shows to keep you up to speed on events taking place around the world.

That starts today with an objective overview of civil unrest in America.

For weeks, there have been protests, marches and calls for changes.

They followed the deaths of several African American civilians and controversial encounters with or investigations by police.

One major catalyst for the protests was the death of George Floyd.

He was a 46 year old African American man who lived in Minneapolis, Minnesota, and he died after a white police officer knelt on Floyd's neck during his arrest for allegedly using counterfeit money to buy cigarettes.

The officer involved has been charged with murder.

In the days after Floyd's death, demonstrations flared up across the country, accusing police of excessive force and racism.

Some of the protests have been peaceful.

Some have been violent civilians.

City and state officials have pushed for modifications to police departments and the way officers do their jobs.

And while some officials in Minneapolis and beyond have called for police departments to be defunded or abolished entirely and replaced by public safety systems run by individual communities.

Other leaders say the vast majority of police do their jobs right and that they're necessary.

And they point to looting in property destruction in some of the protests as reasons why there have also been a number of attacks, some of them deadly on police officers across America.

Discussions are being held nationwide about what can be done to ease all of these tensions at the federal level.

Democrats who lead the House of Representatives and Republicans who lead the Senate have been looking at ways they can pass a package of laws to address these issues.

12th trivia Oil Crisis, Rolling Adjustment and union are all the names of what recessions, amendments, taxes or Wall Street rallies thes air all the names of historic recessions.

The coronavirus recession is official.

The National Bureau of Economic Research is the arbiter of America's economic booms and busts.

It found the nation's longest expansion ended in February, and a recession began.

Never before has the N B E.

R so quickly designated the onset of a recession.

Economists there note, quote the unprecedented magnitude of the decline in employment and production.

Never before has a recession been so unusual.

It's not an energy shock or a natural disaster or a financial crisis.

It's largely man made.

The economy was shut down on purpose to slow the spread of a deadly virus.

As recessions go, it may end up being one of the deepest.

The economy cratered 5% in the first quarter, with forecasts for contraction of up to 40% in Q two, and it might be short, very short made jobs.

Growth was the best in history.

Economists noted what they call hidden hiring in the economy amid slow reopening and their stimulus record epic stimulus, nearly unlimited backstops to the credit markets from the Federal Reserve and trillions in payments to businesses, the unemployed and consumers from Congress.

The fact that it was manmade is what made it so hard to predict.

Economists had expected that America would have seen eight million jobs lost in the month of May, and they thought the unemployment rate the percentage of American workers who didn't have a job would rise to around 20%.

But the report that came out earlier this month showed that the economy added 2.5 million jobs and the unemployment decreased from 14.7% to 13.3%.

So good news there.

There's still a lot of uncertainty about the economy, just like there is about the coronavirus itself.

The disease is still spreading, though, at different rates in different places.

The U.

S is still the country with the most confirmed cases, with more than two million of them and more than 115,000 deaths blamed on Cove in 19.

There are still concerns about a possible second wave of the disease, but stores are reopening again.

Americans are starting to travel again, and the efforts of heroes continues to help those in need.

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Ast Food banks across the country are struggling to keep up with the increasing number of people needing food while also facing supply and volunteer shortages.

Thes cnnheroes air mobilizing to try and make sure those in need don't go hungry.

Way alright, cable Catherine Cow Choose the founder of Syria's Community Project, an organization that engages youth volunteers to cook and deliver healthy meals to people facing cancer and other serious illnesses in Northern California.

A Z pandemic broke.

It became clear that people with underlying medical conditions were most a risk, and Couch knew her work was more crucial than ever.

The clients we serve are very medically fragile, vulnerable, primarily low income people, many of them living alone, and many of them have lost caregivers because of the pandemic.

That population has the potential for the most complications and mortality if they get the illness.

So it's really, really important that this population stays home and stay safe.

I have serious on.

Also, we've been asked to serve people who are quarantining either with Kobe it or because they've been exposed.

So she's expanded to help more people, doubling the number of meals she provides.

Medically tailored meals are specifically tailored to the nutrient requirements of the clients.

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We are committed to 100% organic and sourcing as many things locally as we can are caring for one another is one of the most important things that we can do That could go a long way right now to helping us get through this time.

Welcome, Thio, Kathy Momentum way have created our makeshift assembly line, CNN hero Chad Houser as quickly reorganized his program to feed students left without food.

When schools were closed, CNN honored Chad for his Cafe Momentum, a nonprofit restaurant in downtown Dallas that provides employment, educational support and career counseling to young people coming out of juvenile detention facilities.

Today we're making new kids for people that are in need of food Amid the pandemic, he's temporarily closed the restaurant, and with the help of his program participants, he's turned this space into an emergency food distribution center.

We start with goods way Get thio shelf stable, fresh produce, sweet potatoes, new potatoes, zucchini, squash.

We refocus the mission really by listening to the community.

And we received a lot of calls from folks asking for help in specifically feeding food insecure students that were dependent upon school meals for their basic nutritional needs.

And we're no longer going to be able to be afforded that opportunity because schools were closing not just for spring break, but being suspended indefinitely amidst the pandemic.

They say.

Okay, we had a competition yesterday who could build 25 boxes, the fastest who won near you, you did the young men and young women that we serve are doing a tremendous job stepping up to the plate during this time of crisis.

So many of these young men and young women have gone to the schools that the meals were going thio.

They've lived in the neighborhoods that the meals were going to.

It's a full circle opportunity for them on opportunity that ultimately furthers the mission.

How does it feel to be making all these boxes?

It makes me feel like I'm actually a part of something like I'm actually helping the community, and that brings me back to Cafe E.

Get to see a lot of old Chef E everything to survive.

So I just feel good that I'm able to help people that need the help.

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For 10 out of 10 today, how do you beat a video of a giant ant eater with a video of two giant anteaters?

These animals air twins.

One boy, one girl.

They're the first to be artificially bred at a zoo in China.

Bad news for ants.

Good news for the anteaters who are considered to be a vulnerable species.

They were placed on to their mothers back where they typically hang out for a year while learning to hunt insects.

They're also known as Aunt Bears, though ants can't bear to be around them.

The mammals have an insect, a voracious appetite.

So if ants think they could get away, there are barking up the wrong tree.

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