robert turner is the reverend at the vernonn ame church. at the vernon ame church. the ground during the massacre. the church was rebuilt with parishioners' money as the insurers refused to pay out. after the massacre, - there was this movement by the white community to not ever talk about it _ because they knew they had gotten away with murder. . they didn't want to ever bring it up, and any of the black- people who brought it up, they were either killed, i run out of town or - intimidated into silence. not a single person was prosecuted for the murders, for the looting or for the arson. not one black family received a penny in compensation. it would take 75 years for there to be any official recognition that a massacre had taken place at all. and now, as tulsa marks the centenary, locating where the victims are buried is onlyjust beginning. i know what's there. kavan ross is overseeing the search. he says archaeologists now believe dozens were buried in mass trenches. the digging begins in earnest tomorrow to try to find them. the dead, where they fell, were picke

a pastor at the church, reverend robert turner of vernon a.m.e. thanks for being with us.ot a 100--year-old tragedy, it's a century-long tragedy. explain why. >> it is. thank you for having me on your show. it is a tragedy not just for 1921, but it is still a tragedy today in 2021 because it is still the largest uninvestigated crime scene in america that every day we go by and not investigate and not give repair, we are continuing the damages and the harms from the race massacre of 192 is. >> there are to things you've been protesting. i understand you go and protest every week. there are two things you're calling for. reparations and also for this p posthumous investigation. tell us what that would mean for you, your community and our country. >> for there have been the first bombing in american history to curb right here in greenwood. not 9/11 and not pearl harbor but right here. and for nobody to go to jail, for nobody to even get arrested except for the black men trying to defend their homes, that is a gross miscarriage of justice. so, i feel that our state attorney ge

robert turner is the reverend at the vernonn ame church.eral burned to the ground during the massacre. the church was rebuilt with parishioners�* money as the insurers refused to pay out. after the massacre, there was this| movement by the white community to not ever talk about it - because they knew they had gotten away with murder. they didn't want to ever bring it up, and any of the black- people who brought it up, - they were either killed, run out of town or intimidated into silence. not a single person was prosecuted for the murders, for the looting or for the arson. not one black family received a penny in compensation. it would take 75 years for there to be any official recognition that a massacre had taken place at all. and now, as tulsa marks the centenary, locating where the victims are buried is onlyjust beginning. i know what's there. kavan ross is overseeing the search. he says archaeologists now believe dozens were buried in mass trenches. the digging begins in earnest tomorrow to try to find them. the dead, where they fell,

my friend robert turner who is the pastor of vernon church in the heart of greenwood. we were visiting on the phone, talking to things coming up in the days ahead and as we were chitchatting with my friend, he told me about a sermon he preached a couple of weeks ago. so i said, tell me all about it. he said you know, i preached on matthew the tax collector also called levi and we spent time talking about that. while told my -- what i told my congregation was that jesus called him the tax collector to be one of his disciples but he also called simon the zealot to be one of his disciples. you may not know but the tax collectors were loyal to the romance. they were jews loyal to the roman authority and the zealots were jews that were adamantly opposed to the roman authority. jesus grabbed two people from opposite political perspectives, opposite political parties and he grabbed them both and said i want you to be my disciple. pastor turner said there is a lot that we can learn from jesus. jesus said everybody is welcome from every political perspective to come and follow

my friend, robert turner, who's the pastor of vernon a.m.e. church in the heart of greenwood, he and i were visiting last week on the phone, talking through the things coming up in the days ahead, and as we were just chitchatting with my friend, he said i've got to tell you about my sermon that i preached a couple of weeks ago. so i said tell me all about it. he said, you know, pastor turner said i preached on matthew the tax collector, also called levi. and we spent some time talking about that. he said what i told my congregation was jesus called matthew the tax collector to be one of his disciples, but he also called simon the zealot to be one of his disciples. now, you may not know, but the tax collectors were loyal to the romance. they were jews that were loyal to the roman authority, and the zealots were jews that were adamantly opposed to the roman authority, so literally jesus grabbed two people from opposite political perspectives, opposite if i can say it political parties, and he grabbed both of them and said i want you to be my dis

it was right here in the greenwood district. >> pelley: reverend robert turner's vernon a.m.e. o was crudely and imperfectly hand-lettered at the >> turner: 3odd res, city blocks, were destroyed. and before they destroyed it, they looted. they took nice furniture, money. >> pelley: when the black hospital burned, white hospitals refused to take greenwood's wounded. those who bled to death included greenwood's most prominent surgeon. ultimately, one hospital did make space in its basement for black casualties. the number of dead is estimated between 150 and 300. survivors included 10,000 now- homeless african americans. 6,000 of them were herded into internment camps, and then released weeks later. >> turner: i don't know how they did it. but the following sunday after the massacre, they came and worshipped in our basement. and that's the same basement that we have today. >> pelley: the murder of a black man at the hands of police is, today, shouted into the national memory. thanks to all of you for being here. but in 1921, it remained possible to erase a genocide. >> wright: i g

the reverend robert turner has been vernon's pastor for almost four years. >> and our membership and our church has seen the worst race massacre in american history. and the survivors of that massacre came back to this church. and our basement surviving the race massacre, it carries a weight. it definitely impacts all of what i do as a pastor, as a preacher, you know, as a community activist. soledad: turner's activism includes a weekly pilgrimage to tulsa city hall, demanding reparations for the massacre. >> america needs to repay, repair for all the horror and devastation. soledad: reverend turner and kavin ross both say few americans know the full story of the massacre. the official death toll reported and repeated for years was 37, 25 black and 12 white. but those fabricated numbers were part of an enormous cover-up -- mass graves, dumped bodies, and hundreds, not dozens of deaths, all hidden history. >> when we start talking about the mass graves back into 2018 when white tulsans came forth and passed down stories to their descendants, talking about when they were children seein

robert turner of the historic ame church. teran, let me talk to you first.ant you to just walk us through ways people are trying to honor the memory of the tulsa massacre. >> reporter: certainly relatives of victims and survivors are trying to focus on the narrative of injuries that occurred here. also on the white side of town, i've been here a few weeks and tried to engage with folks. a lot of them did not want to talk. i actually did find a young lady named bailey mcbride who was willing to engage with me on the idea of white folks in this. what kind of conversations are they having in their families? she broke it down like this. let's take a listen. >> i can't change what my great-grandfather did. i can feel shame about it. i can wish that it wasn't that way, but wishing doesn't get me anywhere. white people are the ones with the problem here, not people of color. white people are the ones who burned down greenwood. so white people need to do the work to look internally and to look at our city and to do the work to fix it. >> reporter: bailey is an outly

reverend robert turner shows us the original cornerstone where he is listed among the founding trusteesall. >> reporter: the original basement is still intact where people hid from the white mob. >> if you can imagine just being in here 100 years ago, hearing the bombs go off, hearing women crying, babies screaming, and you not knowing if you're next. >> reporter: turner believes there should be reparations to families who were harmed and a long overdue criminal investigation. >> you know, people can give apologetic statements, but as far as this government and this city, they've always passed the book when it comes to being accountable for what they allowed to happen. >> reporter: turner is adding a prayer wall here outside the church. a place for people of all faiths to pray for racial healing and a better world for all. the remember and rise concert that was scheduled for tonight featuring john legend was abruptly canceled last week, but officials say there will still be a candlelight vigil held this evening. in tulsa, danya bacchus, back to you, anne-marie. >> thank you so much. >>>

robert turner is the reverend at the vernon ame church.parishioners�* money as the insurers refused to pay out. after the massacre there was this movement by the white community to not ever talk about it because they knew they had gotten away with murder. they didn't want to ever bring it up and any of the black people who brought it up, they were either killed, or run out of town or intimidated into silence. not a single person was prosecuted for the murders, for the looting or for the arson. not one black family received a penny in compensation. it would take 75 years for there to be any official recognition that a massacre had taken place at all. while tulsa unites to mark the massacre, there are divisions. that has meant the cancellation of a major concert, the survivors at odds with the city over who should pay them reparations. the centennial is not about concerts, it's not about speeches, it's not about interviews. it is about focusing on the people that were harmed, and doing everything in our power to make sure those people receiv

robert turner is the reverend at the vernon ame church.ound during the massacre. the church was rebuilt with parishioners�* money as the insurers refused to pay out. after the massacre there was this movement by the white community to not ever talk about it because they knew they had gotten away with murder. they didn't want to ever bring it up and any of the black people who brought it up, they were either killed, or run out of town or intimidated into silence. not a single person was prosecuted for the murders, for the looting or for the arson. not one black family received a penny in compensation. it would take 75 years for there to be any official recognition that a massacre had taken place at all. while tulsa unites to mark the massacre, there are divisions. that has meant the cancellation of a major concert, the survivors at odds with the city over who should pay them reparations. the centennial is not about concerts, it's not about speeches, it's not about interviews. it is about focusing on the people that were harmed, and doing ev

while this debate on how to commemorate the events and push for reparations continues, pastor robert turnerm.e. church wants people to focus on justice. >> i hate that incidents than that we are still trying to figure out all of what the details are. i want to shed light on what was hidden for so long in our community, and that was the act of racial terror. >> reporter: president biden will be in tulsa on tuesday to pay his respects, the same day the city plans to start digging in an area that could contain a mass grave of victims from the massacre. jericka. >> duncan: omar villafranca for us in tulsa, thank you. tomorrow night, gayle king will host a cbs news special on the 100th anniversary of the tulsa massacre. that's at 10:00 eastern, 9:00 central. recovery efforts are underway ongoing tonight after a small crashed into a lake, 20 myles southeast of nashville, seven people were on board and were killed, among them, diet guru and church leader gwen lara and her husband, actor joe lara. well, the remains of 215 children have been found in a mass grave in canada. tributes have appeared at

robert turner is the reverend at the vernon ame church. rebuilt with parishioners' money as the insurers refused to pay out. after the massacre there was this movement by the white community to not ever talk about it because they knew they had gotten away with murder. they didn't want to ever bring it up and any of the black people who brought it up, they were either killed, or run out of town or intimidated into silence. not a single person was prosecuted for the murders, for the looting or for the arson. not one black family received a penny in compensation. it would take 75 years for there to be any official recognition that a massacre had taken place at all. while tulsa unites to mark the massacre, there are divisions. that has meant the cancellation of a major concert, the survivors at odds with the city over who should pay them reparations. the centennial is not about concerts, it's not about speeches, it's not about interviews. it is about focusing on the people that were harmed, and doing everything in our power to make sure those

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i want to go to another clip from your documentary of reverend robert turner of the vernon a.m.e.on greenwood avenue, in tulsa, the only surviving structure from before t massacr >> when came to paor vern churnulsa, i knew nhing abt the hiory of this church. one ofy trusts gave ma tour when saw theornersto ouide, whi is stl there, he rds "bamentrected 19." said, is thathe same one? they sd, it isheame on it surved the 11 race massre. i was ke, do you know what this is? we have something left. all is not lost. amy: nearly 100 years after the tulsa race massacre, a team of scholars is working to uncover the unmarked graves that stanley nelson just referred you of victims with hopes of identifying some of their bodies. in this clip from "tulsa burning," we hear from brenda nails alford, a descendant of james and henry nails, who owned businesses in black wall strt. >> aays ew my grdmother had to hiden entry r some reason b i nevernew what thateant. faly memrs would com townith myreat unc would comeo town a we would b dring ande woulpass kland cetery. somee in the c wou always say, "u

reverend robert turner, the current pastor is joining us now.community as you all remember this painful anniversary? >> good morning, and thank you for having me. this moment that we're in -- most anniversaries you can celebrate. this one we cannot. we are simply commemorating what happened because there's still nothing really to celebrate because we have not yet received justice. as a church, we celebrate and we thank god that we are still here, but as a community, we still mourning and lament the loss of our loved ones, the loss of our businesses, the loss of our homes, and it still not to this day has been justified yet. >> the push for reparations has made its way to d.c. we know some survivors actually spoke to congress. let's listen to that. >> even at this age of 100, the tulsa race massacre is a foothold in the history books for us. >> i still see black men being shot, black bodies lying in the street. i still smell smoke and see fire. i still see black businesses being burned. i still hear airplanes flying overhead. i hear the screams.

robert turner is the reverend at the ame church.ssacre. the church was rebuilt with parishioners money as the insurers refused to pay out. after the massacre, there was this movement by the white community to not ever talk about it. because they knew they had gotten away with murder. they didn't ever want to bring it up and any of the black people who brought it up, they were either killed, run out of town or intimidated into silence. not a single person was prosecuted for the murders, for the looting or for the arson. not one black family received a penny and compensation. it would take 75 years for they are to be any official recognition that a massacre had taken place at all. and now as tuldsa marks it centenary locating where the victims are buried it's onlyjust beginning. kevin ross is overseeing the search, he says archaeologists now believe dozens were buried in mass trenches. the digging begins in earnest tomorrow to try to find them. the dead where they felt were picked up and tossed in various different areas of the city.

reverend robert turner, who pastors vernon ame church, which barely survived the race massacre says hets people to focus on justice. >> we knew the massacre was denied for so long until the last 25, 30 years. it is something that we must grapple with and atone for and seek to provide justice. >> reporter: there's a divide. there's been dust-up. how do you sort through it? >> i hate that incidents happened that we're still trying to figure out all of what the details are. i want to shed light on what was hidden for so long in our community. that was the racial terror. >> reporter: president biden will be in tulsa on tuesday to pay his respects, the same day the city plans to start digging in an area which could contain a mass grave of victims from that massacre. jericka? >> wow. so much history. thank you. >>> tonight gayle king anchors a cbs news special "tulsa 1921: an american tragedy," at 10:00 eastern, 9:00 central on cbs. >>> ahead, tennis star naomi osaka was hit with a big fine after skipping a news conference at the french open. how she's risking even tougher punishment if she

this is reverend robert turner of the church you are standing in front of, mr.fit of having a funeral. that touches me at the core. and it should any conscience human being. the fact that we just dumped bodies of human beings, of patriots, of veterans, of teachers, of husbands, wives, children in mass graves. >> mr. nelson, we are running out of time. i will end with you. since you are there on the ground in tulsa, are the commemorations and the remembrances 100 years later, are they -- from what you have been able to see, are they healing for tulsa, for greenwood, or are they sort of adding to the pain? >> i think it's a first step in a healing. it's just the first step. i mean, there's very much here a sense of community, a sense of resolution. i think it's a first step in the healing. you know, it's nowhere the completeness of the healing that needs to happen. >> all right. we are going to have to leave it there. stanley nelson, marco williams, great to see you again. remember, their documentary "tulsa burning, the 1921 race massacre" premieres tonight on the

robert turner is the reverend at the vernonn ame church.ten away with murder. they didn't want to ever bring it up, and any of the black- people who brought it up, they were either killed, i run out of town or - intimidated into silence. not a single person was prosecuted for the murders, for the looting or for the arson. not one black family received a penny in compensation. it would take 75 years for there to be any official recognition that a massacre had taken place at all. and now, as tulsa marks the centenary, locating where the victims are buried is onlyjust beginning. i know what's there. kavan ross is overseeing the search. he says archaeologists now believe dozens were buried in mass trenches. the digging begins in earnest tomorrow to try to find them. the dead, where they fell, were picked up and tossed in various different areas of the city. we don't know, but we're going to act, we're going to get them. while tulsa unites to mark the massacre, there are divisions that has meant the cancellation of a major concert, the survivors

this is reverend robert turner of the church you're standing in front of, mr. it should any conscience human being. the fact we dumped bodies of human beings, of patriots, of veterans, teachers, husbands, wives, children in mass graves. >> mr. nelson, we're running out of time. i'll end with you, you were there on the ground in tulsa, umm, are the commemorations and the remembrances 100 years later, are they from you've been able to see, are they healing for tulsa? for greenwood? are they sort of adding to the pain? >> i think, you know, it's a first step in a healing but it's just the first step. you know, i mean, there's very much here aceps of community. a sense of resolution. so i think it's a first step in a healing. but, you know, it's nowhere the completeness of the healing. >> all right. and we're going to have to leave it there. stanley nelson and marco williams, great to see you again. remember, their documentary "tulsa burning: the 1921 race massacre" premiers tonight on the history channel. >>> coming up the descent ends of dr. martin luther king ar

roberts. >> gillian: good to be with everybody at home and i'm gillian turner in for sandra smith today. according to "the wall street journal," previously undisclosed u.s. intelligence report is now claiming that three researchers at that wuhan lab were hospitalized with covid like symptoms way back in 2019. that is a full four months before china reported its cases. this is also revealed after it

my friend, robert turner, who's the pastor of vernon a.m.e. church in the heart of greenwood, he and i were visiting last week on the phone, talking through the things coming up in the days ahead, and as we were just chitchatting with my friend, he said i've got to tell you about my sermon that i preached a couple of weeks ago. so i said tell me all about it. he said, you know, pastor turner said i preached on matthew the tax collector, also called levi. and we spent some time talking about that. he said what i told my congregation was jesus called matthew the tax collector to be one of his disciples, but he also called simon the zealot to be one of his disciples. now, you may not know, but the tax collectors were loyal to the romance. they were jews that were loyal to the roman authority, and the zealots were jews that were adamantly opposed to the roman authority, so literally jesus grabbed two people from opposite political perspectives, opposite if i can say it political parties, and he grabbed both of them and said i want you to be my dis

roberts. i'm gillian turner. "the story" starts rights now. >> martha: coming up a pipeline for russia but not the united states. the "wall street journal" says this is the kind of deal that prompted the media to call president trump a russian agent. so is the biden white house trying to have it both ways? they're still against building nord stream 2, which would put the russians in control of europe's oil supply. at the same time, they're lefting sanctions against putin's crony who happens to be in charge of the pipeline company. so this release for russia came as the secretary of state blinken sat down with his russian counterpart, sergey lavrov. rick perry calls this the most pro russian move by a sitting president this modern history. let's start with lynn allen, a laid off keystone pipeline worker. lynn, good to have you back again. thanks for being here. what is your reaction to what the biden administration is doing here? they're making it easier for this pipeline project to go through by lifting sanctions

i'm john roberts, joined gillian turner in me at the top of the hour for "america reports." >> kayleighhem massless at an off-campus party. now parents of at least two of those students are fighting back, filing a class action lawsuit against the school after it kicked the students out for their spring semester and refused to refund their $16,000 tuition. and well umass says the students violated its covid policies, the parent say the school at its national championship hockey team hold a parade with no social distancing and some students even going massless. kennedy, let me start with you here, this seems a little harsh, one of these girls as the valedictorian of her school, class president of her high school and they are just kicked out entirely, no tuition. >> kennedy: they weren't just suspended, they were not allowed to take their final exams, so that means that they had to scrap the year and essentially reapply for next year. this will not be, again, you and emily obviously are both lawyers but as a parent i would be doing is searching social media, for other students here to see

john roberts will join gillian turner and me at the top of the hour for "america's newsroom." >> harrisew video of the shots that were fired at george floyd square. they were caught in the middle of gunfire, hundreds had gathered to commemorate one year since his death. look at this. >> some gunshots. it sounds like gunshots. they seem to be gunshots. >> we are okay. we are okay. >> harris: last hour our reporter was telling us, he had to take cover, he told us he believes it was the result of an argument. there is no confirmation of what was going on from police. neighbors told our crew it's not uncommon for that to happen. he says, everybody is going back life right now. when you look at this and the crime stats, a hundred and 13% rise and we are seeing things where it started. you had the death and murder of george floyd. the country says we must have justice reform and police refer. they filled the streets with cities across america and the first street was george floyd's home in minneapolis. look at it later. you've seen all of these capitulated ideas, but nothing solved and their

roberts. i'm gillian turner.e united states. the "wall street journal" says this is the kind of deal that prompted the media to call president trump a russian agent. so is the biden white house trying to have it both ways? they're still against building nord stream 2, which would put the russians in control of europe's oil supply. at the same time, they're lefting sanctions against putin's crony who happens to be in charge of the pipeline company. so this release for russia came

roberts. good to be with you. >> gillian: you too. another hour flying by. i'm gillian turner it's exactly a year since minneapolis police officer knelt on the neck of george floyd in the city street. floyd's death has led to protests nationwide as well as a push to defund and dismantle police departments. >> john: in the year since, we've seen a spike in crime from coast to coast that have pushed back against the defund movement. senator john cornyn is here from texas to talk about it all. >> gillian: plus, bret baier on the about face for many in the media when it comes to the origin story on covid-19. this is as republican lawmakers are pulling for a full investigation into china as the president biden and whether the virus may have actually leaked out of a lab in wuhan. >> john: we begin this hour with the person that shot and killed a 6-year-old boy in an apparent road rage incident. the boy was alpen laos. >> gillian: first, we've got jonathan hunt on the story. he joins us from orange, california. hi, jonathan. >> gillian, good afternoon. throughout the day here we've s

roberts. good to see you. >> gillian: i am gillian turner and four sandra smith. the u.s.ned congress was going to hit the debt limit within 90 days. >> john: more than $28 trillion, the context of your household, that means the average taxpayer has more than a quarter of a million dollars of the government's debt. >> gillian: that's a lot of money. we have a brand-new exclusive, you won't believe what they're asking taxpayers to fund. the pickle bar court, two of the controversial projects that are being proposed. >> john: byron donalds is standing by with the spending. >> gillian: first we have hillary vaughn as she joins us from capitol hill. >> some of these projects are raising eyebrows because they are surprising and offbeat. half a million dollars for a yoga and meditation program in new jersey or a quarter of a million requested for an expansion of the michelle obama library, but others are more shocking and politically controversial. there are dozens of projects that fund diversity and equity focused projects including 740-2004 program featuring inclusion and heal

roberts. >> gillian: good to be with everybody at home and i'm gillian turner in for sandra smith today. according to "the wall street journal," previously undisclosed u.s. intelligence report is now claiming that three researchers at that wuhan lab were hospitalized with covid like symptoms way back in 2019. that is a full four months before china reported its cases. this is also revealed after it is revealed that dr. fauci appears to be changing his tune after the virus may be developed in china. >> are you so confident that it developed naturally? >> no. i'm not convinced about that. i think that we should continue to investigate what went on in china until we find out, to the best of our ability, exactly what happened. >> john: wisconsin congressman mike gallagher is one of several republican congressman demanding answers and he joins us just up ahead. >> gillian: live at the state department with the latest breaking development on the story. >> the united nations has just opened a massive international health conference to examine ending the pandemic and preventing the next. though,

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turner. sandra is back today. >> john: chicken is in new wagu beef. great to be with use. >> gillian: thanks for having me. it was fun. >> john: i'm john roberts. "the story" with martha maccallum starts now. >> martha: good afternoon. here's the story breaking right now. >> have to be careful with gun shots. >> martha: shots fired at george floyd square in minneapolis a year after his death. garrett tenney is on the scene with what we're learning about that and the rest. garrett? >> we've been across the street from this shooting. we were watching an argument about an hour or so. it was getting heated until the women left and said she was going to get her brother. a little later a man showed up who was yelling at his sister. a few minutes later, the a.p. reporter standing next to us was reported live when the shots started. >> a bill of comprehensive police reform to be -- have to be careful here with gun shots. excuse us. [shots fired]. sounds like gun shots. imagine what this is. seem to be gun shots. >> a short time later, minneapolis police say a individual showed up at a local hospital with a gunshot wound. one of the neighbors that we sp

roberts. >> only two more working days until monday. >> john: i got a face full of backlash. backlash. >> for some of us anyways. great to be with you. i'm gillian turner in for sandra smith today. if so earlier this week, school officials -- pleading for their kids to be allowed in schools without masks. fox news has got new video showing that contentious exchange that has now gone viral. >> john: state law requires students in utah to continue wearing masks until june 15th because that's the day that school gets out but according to scientists, the science does not support the public health mandate. >> if you let a senator come up here and speak in the name of my children who you guys are abusing, are you serious? >> we have had our citizen participation. >> no more masks! >> i ask that we had this meeting. if >> we have a motion to adjourn and a second, all in far say aye. >> gillian: we will talk to sophia anderson, one of the parents at that board meeting earlier this week but first, senior correspondent alicia acuna joins us with all the details on how that school district is now responding. >> we are waiting to hear back from police on the possi

turner and it is a sprint to the end. mike lupicia, thank you so much for being with us and for writing these books. they're great. >> we love them. the new book is "robert, may 4th, let's get smarter. >>> this morning we're one step closer to the covid vaccine being available to all americans. the fda reportedly expected to make an announcement at any time authorizing children as young as 12 to get the pfizer vaccine. the move comes as the average number of vaccines being delivered is down more than 30% over the last month from high of 3.4 million a day in april to roughly 2.3 yesterday. we will hear from president biden on that in the next few hours. but for now we're talking about signs that american is starting to put this pandemic in the rearview mischer. new york, new jersey and connecticut, who were hammered early on, will look to lift capacity restrictions in sports, bars and