angus crawford, bbc news. now it's time for a look at the weather with chris fawkes. hello, a lot of cloud across england and wales through the day today. furthermore, a cold front bringing rain to scotland and northern ireland, it will sink a cross into northern england and wales but the rain is light and patchy. showers in scotland, mild in england and wales, but some cool air in northern ireland. it stays quite windy today, mostly in the shetland, with gusts of around 60 mph. 0vernight, the weather front pushes to the south, taking light rain and drizzle with it, into england. the skies will clear a bit further north, but further showers for scotland and northern ireland, driven in. a windy

day on sunday, with blustery showers continuing in scotland and northern ireland. more sunny in england, wales, the midlands and parts of east anglia. for most of us it will feel a bit cooler.

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now, on bbc news... 0ur north america correspondent, michelle fleury, chronicled the story of her neighbourhood in brooklyn, new york, as the coronavirus pandemic first swept across the world. we are all dealing with the great unknown, a disease that we don't understand and we have seen nothing like this before. new yorkers were hardly shocked over the city's first confirmed case of coronavirus. a second person has died from the virus. we have an invisible enemy, a ferocious enemy. the new york mayor holding his news conference right now, he says "new yorkers should be prepared for a shelter place order." new york remains the epicentre of this outbreak. new york is now reporting more than 1,000 deaths. with a death toll now

passing the 4,000 mark. each of those are human beings and a family represented. new york suffered the worst, outbreak in the united states. in the city that never sleeps, neighbourhoods fell silent. the sense of fear, isolation and the threat of financial ruin grew as the virus spread. no neighbourhood was spared, including the one where i live in brooklyn, home to about 80,000 new yorkers. those who live here, like so many around the globe, are grappling with realities brought on by the pandemic that were unimaginable just a few months ago.

i haven't seen these in years. look at that, i like that one. salvador is trying to hold onto the good memories. this is my parents wedding pictures. when coronavirus hit new york in march, he killed his business and moved in with his parents to help them get through pandemic. this one is my favourite pitchers of them. it is hard. i thought i was protecting them i guess i have it. i was doing everything i needed to that i was supposed to do and was told today. but i still got it.

he lost his father to covid—i9 on april two. he woke up just shivering, i'd never seen him like that. i called 9/11 and that was the last time i saw him. sorry. it's ok. it happens often. two days later, the virus claimed his mother. my mother was beautiful, she really, really was. it breaks my heart, it really does. my dad died april two, my mum died aprilfour. my aunt terry died april six. so that week was terrible. you know, memories, at this point, it's all you had left. i don't know if my father

is buried, i don't have a clue. i don't think i will ever have closure. he is still sleeping on the couch of his parents four story home. i haven't gone into the bedrooms. tomorrow is four weeks since they have been gone. i haven't gone into their bedrooms. i can't. i just can't. his parents are some of the more than 7,000 coronavirus victims in brooklyn. this is like a small town in a big city. for decades it has had a large italian and irish community. today it is a lot more diverse with growing arab, chinese and latino populations.

it still retains that small—town feeling that neighbours know each other, families have lived here for generations, but the coronavirus pandemic is making the future a lot more uncertain. with many in the neighbourhood in desperate need, charities have stepped up. he is picking up one for his friend. mohammed runs the volunteer group, muslims back. we will see you next friday, have a good day. he turned his mosque into a food bank. times are very rough and a lot of these families are undocumented so they don't get the stimulus payments that many of us enjoy they don't get unemployment that many of us take for granted. even before the crisis, he saw the need to help working—class immigrant families in his community.

but he wasn't prepared for what happened when new york closed virtually overnight to combat the virus. once the lockdown was announced, there was a surge, a spike injust numerous families coming out and saying, we are going to need your help in the next ux because it is going to get bad for us. families across the neighbourhood are struggling. mohammed's food pantry is now feeding 125 families a—week, nearly triple the number before the pandemic. clearly this coronavirus has caused a lot of pain. you've had a lot of stories, what is the most heartbreaking thing you have heard? the worst ones are the numerous widows that all of a sudden exist our communities where the breadwinners and the father is

passed away because of coronavirus. leaving behind children and nine out of ten, these families were not financially secure to begin with. it is may and the virus is still raging in the city. nearly 20,000 new yorkers have died due to covid—i9 and lockdown measures still remain in place. it's also the holy month of ramadan but social distancing has made it different from past years. this is the month where you are supposed to just the —— just feed spirituality, strength, increase your faith, so it's a very important month. free food! we have made over 300 meals.

to help, mohammed and his crew are handing out free meals. the meal used to break the fast during ramadan. it is one for the memories, i will remember this ramadan for the rest of my life. this neighbourhood is the most populous arab area in new york city. if the community cannot come to us, we will go to them. you want to see a plate we give out? we have gyro chicken in a beautiful salad with chickpeas, cucumbers. many muslim families rely on the three nightly meals they receive at the mosque but with masks closed due to the virus, that help is gone. it became a very difficult, to be honest, in our community. 0ur mosque is closed and for a lot of the recent immigrants

and refugees in our community, undocumented, the mosque is their refuge. for sal, who is grieving the loss of both his parents to covid—i9, his refuge is work. he owns hom with his partner, a cafe and home goods store, it has been a staple on the high street for 19 years but when the pandemic hit, the pair were forced to close up shop. in may, they decided it was time to reopen. me being here, it is keeping me busy so it is keeping me focused, which helps me with my pain with my family. i try to keep it together

but inside i am really hurting. sometimes you just gotta let it out. it's tough. but the decision was bittersweet. hom reopened on mother's day in america. somebody told me that particular day that my parents want me to do what i'm doing. i have to push through. real help. we will be here until 6pm. neighbours even set up a gofundme page to assist with the mounting bills. this is a very tight—knit community, we all support each other. the reopening isn't the only change for him and damien. the couple have

decided to move out of their apartment and back into sal's parents house. welcome, how are you? it has been a while. i just started cleaning out my parents‘ bedroom and it's only clothes and material things but if i pick up a shirt that i knew my mum would wear or a jacket my dad would wear, it was just very... it really affected me. it is hard. so, i try to keep it together at work.

muslims giving back meet up to pray before heading into manhattan. the volunteers had been feeding the homeless since the charity started six years ago. they recently scaled—up their operation. we found a replacement for that spirituality or that worship that we lost. we found a replacement for that spirituality or that worship that we lost. so, it used to be, praying here all night, shoulder to shoulder but now it is going out every night and feeding the homeless. this is what praying looks like, this is praying through action. he realised during this crisis the city's homeless were being forgotten. churches and places of worship that had soup kitchens are closed.

the amount of people, even though it's raining. you know how to make it, man! my wife was like, you are going to kill us, these homeless people have the viris. at one point, i was like, uh—oh, am i going to risk my family now to help others? what is my respomsibility? day 100 of the coronavirus crisis and it is the day that we start to liberate ourselves from this disease, the day we move forward. a lifeline for people out of work and businesses that have been closed for months now. after three months of lockdown, new yorkers finally phased into phase one and it is a huge landmark that the city as it continues to recover from the peak of the coronavirus pandemic. it means that retailers can finally

open their doors, even if it is just for curb—side and in—store pick—up. sal and damien are trying to adjust to the new realities of running their business. it is scary, knowing on a saturday and sunday, we are crazy busy and, as you can see, this is the new norm. i am not sure how we are going to survive an 80% drop in sales when we are paying when 100% on everything else. i have two mortgages and a rent. i have three electric bills, three phone bills, three cable bills, i have three of everything.

we cannot survive on just masks alone, we cannot am it is just impossible. i have always paid my bills, i pay everybody before i pay myself, that's the way i was brought up but but when there's no money coming in, it is pretty much nothing we can do and i don't think they understand that and there's not much help. sal is worried his business might be the next thing to be taken away from him because of the coronavirus. according to the partnership for new york city, one third of all small businesses in new york could go bust because of the pandemic. i am about to pass a korean restaurant in the neighbourhood and it has been here for well over a decade but it is one of the

casualties — the company has announced it is going out of business. it is august and the infection rate in new york city has dropped below 196. i hope you guys like painting. i hate it. this is our master painter right here. for mohammed and his group, the demand for help is slowing. but there is still plenty in need. today he is doing a home makeover.

the mattress, see what i told you? look, it is horrible. redoing the apartment of a single pregnant mother with two young girls who was abandoned by her husband. people like her are always praying for help. always praying for help. and for us to be people chosen to answer their prayers, that is like a priceless feeling. this is one of the best safety nets you could give to families. that gives them a little help that we are here and we are going to do as much as humanly possible now the hardest job, where to put on these decorations? has drop in cases given you a chance to catch your breath because you are working flat out? maybe the rates have gone down by the infection rate has gone down and people are less sick but theirjobs are still closed, the bank accounts are still dry so the problem really

didn't go away. mohammed is bracing himself for a second wave of the virus. still, it is the ongoing economic crisis, not the health crisis, he fears the most. i think for me, that is the true second wave that is coming in. i am not worried about the covid—i9 second wave, i think the evictions will be the deadliest second wave we are going to have. ijust miss my mum. waves of grief continue to watch over sal four

months after his parents died at covid—i9. i still cry myself to sleep at night, i do. i cry myself to sleep at night. it is hard, it is hard. he now feels strong enough to move into his parents bedroom. so now this is yours? yes. that must have been tough? yes. i slept downstairs and i just moved up here a month ago, so five months, four months, i slept on the couch. ijust needed to sleep on a bed, i needed some sense of normalcy. i love you. sal now has four dogs. the two he owned and the two he inherited from his pa rents.

four is a little much but it's ok, i'm getting used to it, kind of. 0h, heavy. this is the dress she wore to my brother's wedding. if i publish had the opportunity, i might bury her in it. i might have done that. my mummy, that's my mummy. the start of the outbreak feels like a lifetime ago and yet this area, like much of america and indeed much of the globe, is still lost in this pandemic. from the immeasurable heartache to the goodbyes that were never said, to the economic devastation. the coronavirus has taken

memories we thought we make and left us all struggling to adapt. for mohammed, the work of helping his community is only getting started. has your faith changed at all throughout this pandemic? i think it has definitely strengthened my faith but as well as my humanity, because it kind of forced me to translate my faith into action. no matter what class you are in, it doesn't matter if you are poor or rich, you live in the west side, the eastside, north or south, you are vulnerable like anybody else. i think a lot of people kind of bonded or came together and i saw that, especially support for social workers, we would see strangers putting signs outside their window like, thank you for saving lives.

it was a really beautiful thing to see, to be honest, that one of the most diverse cities in the world could really unite and come together during this time of need. that's humanity right there. that's humanity.

hello there. we have a change to cooler weather conditions taking place this weekend but before the cooler air arrives across england and wales, we have a lot of cloud to come through the day today, so clouds like these pretty widespread. the cooler air will be arriving behind this cold front, that's been bringing rain earlier today across scotland and northern ireland and as that continues to push southward through the weekend, you will notice those temperatures dropping away with the cooler air last to arrive across the far south of england during sunday. here is the cold front, bringing rain to northern ireland and scotland. it will tend to turn lighter and patchy as it works its way across northern england

and into wales as well. a lot of cloud to the south, still an occasional spit of rain in the air. for northern ireland, scotland and the far north of england, it brightens up a bit, some showers, still some strong winds, those winds could gust to around 50 or 60 miles an hour into shetland through the rest of the day today. mild in the south of england and wales, 12 to 13 degrees quite widely. cool air spreading in scotland, northern ireland and the far north of england as well. through saturday evening and overnight, the cold front pushes southwards taking the cloud and the light rain and drizzle with it. the skies clear for a time across wales and the midlands with temperatures dropping away here. further showers for scotland and northern ireland, still with some fairly strong winds and certainly feeling cold given the strength of those winds overnight as well. 0n into sunday, a day of sunshine and showers again for scotland and northern ireland. much brighter weather for northern england, wales,

the midlands and east anglia with some sunshine and that sunny weather should arrive across the far south of england probably later in the day. temperatures dropping, highs of 7—10 celsius on sunday. the cooler air doesn't last too long because on monday, the next area of low pressure moves in, warm front pushes across the uk, winds turn to a south—westerly direction and, that said, on monday morning, we start off on a cold note, probably some patches of frost around. as that milder air works in, we see some low cloud, hill fog patches across wales and the pennines with some damp weather here. more general rain for scotland and northern ireland. turning milder in the south—west, 13 in plymouth but still quite chilly across the north—east of scotland. into tuesday, the milder air spreads right the way across the country before it turns colder again mid—week.

this is bbc news. i'm rebecca jones with the latest headlines... borisjohnson is facing questions about whether he tried to tone down an independent report which said home secretary priti patel broke the ministerial code by bullying staff. an online summit of the world's biggest economies is under way in saudi arabia. top of the agenda — the coronavirus pandemic and its economic fallout. the nhs starts setting up coronavirus vaccination centres, and the first doses could be delivered next month. a rocket attack on the afghan capital, kabul — at least eight people have been killed and more than 30 injured. the firebreak is over, but the visitors remain locked down.