us retailers suffer their worst 2 month sil's drop ever can businesses recover lost ground as they slowly reopen or as a wave of bankruptcies in the making. also coming up as if things weren't strange enough europe is rooting for german football the bundesliga is starting back up. and with a car parts market at a standstill one german company revs up its production lines to make protective equipment. this is your business report i'm stephen bears in berlin it's good to have you with us u.s. retail sales plunged by a massive 16 percent in april far worse than analysts had. specked it as the crow virus pandemic kept americans at home in the retail slump of the world's biggest economy on track for its worst 2nd quarter since the great depression businesses are reopening as states and local governments ease travel restrictions the stores are operating well below capacity and there are fears a 2nd wave of infections could keep consumers out of the shopping malls. and let's talk to our financial correspondent yens korda in new york. state economies are slowly opening can businesses recover this

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so trying to be fa sil facilatad helpful. so in july and august, the other two buckets are more about supporting business resiliency over months and even years as we continue to deal with covid-19, thinking about some of the issues that have come up with outdoor spaces and use of the outdoor space and how to support workers and workers resilience. and then the a aspirational thinking, using the better resources we have, tackling the longer-term challenges and using this time to experiment and pilot new ideas and think about things like the greater challenges around environmental crises and how this period can inform that. so a lot of work to do and members of the board who are interested in engaging stakeholders in their districts, there is a website and folks are encouraged to fill that out and there's an email, i believe, that members can members can get in touch with melissa or carmen. and i think that's what i have. thank you, mr. president. >> thank you, supervisor mandlemm man. mandleman. >> there's a lot going on in th

they're given aggregate information based on their preferences and they can live in a sil yworld whereonspiracies are reinforced. what do we do? >> so everything is organized against the side that wants to put out empirical information, observable truth, right? in other words, social media is not organized to rank things that are true. they're ranking things that are popular, right? when you have, as i said, when you have a national leader who advances the theories, you're on your back foot anyway. i think in our profession over the last three years or four years, considering, you know, what happened during the cam pa campaigne you covered, we've been asking this quechlt it doesn't seem like it's enough to just put out what we think to be correct information. how do we breakthrough the cognitive bubble that some people are in? you say it's not true. bill gates is not trying to commit genocide. and he's not developing secret vaccines. they say it is true. and you say, can you prove this? how do you prove it? there is no need for proof. the problem is, i hate to keep going back to this,

so trying to be fa sil facilatad helpful. so in july and august, the other two buckets are more about supporting business resiliency over months and even years as we continue to deal with covid-19, thinking about some of the issues that have come up with outdoor spaces and use of the outdoor space and how to support workers and workers resilience. and then the a aspirational thinking, using the better resources we have, tackling the longer-term challenges and using this time to experiment and pilot new ideas and think about things like the greater challenges around environmental crises and how this period can inform that. so a lot of work to do and members of the board who are interested in engaging stakeholders in their districts, there is a website and folks are encouraged to fill that out and there's an email, i believe, that members can members can get in touch with melissa or carmen. and i think that's what i have. thank you, mr. president. >> thank you, supervisor mandlemm man. mandleman. >> there's a lot going on in th