The freeman foundaon. Judy and Peter Blum Kovler foundation; pursuing solutions for americas neglected needs. And by contributions to this pbs station from viewers like you. Thank you. America. Reporting from new york city, i am nada tawfik. At least 16 people have died after a jet overshot a runway and broke in two. Images from the scene are shocking. Sifting through the rubble in lebanon,e resrkers continue their search for survivors in a city devastated by this weeks explosn. A massive clear up goingve on from allr the country. E vastation here is enormous. Nada one even when even good news is not great, the u. S. Added a milln jobs last month. Why latinos in texas are more likely to d from the cosnavirus than other group there. We have a special report. Nada for all of you watching on pbs and around the globe, welcome to world news ameca. We begin tonight with the latest on a passenger flight thatil has crashed landing in southern india, breaking in two. At least 16 people are thought to have been killed, including the pilot. More than a dozen others are seriously injured. India Officials Say the fight overshot the runway during heavy rain in the city. Our correspondent reports. This plane was bringing home indians who had beentuck abroad amidst the covi pandemic. Landing in the dark amy n rainfallat many say is a challenging runway, the plane could not stop in time. Both pilots e among those dead. Off the runway. Have skidded we must remember it is a tabletop runway. So it seems to have crossed that runway and fallen into a ditch sort of place. Because of that impact, there seems to have been a breaking of the front portion has been very badly damaged. He locals were among t first to resnd. The injured taken to in taxis and prite cars. Families searching for loved ones they have waited months for. Many on board are believed to overseas to earn a living. Gone the crash is yet another blow for a region that is grappling with landslides and the covid crisis. Bbc news, mumbai. Nada as this is an unfolding story, we encourage youou to sit website for all the latest news. Investigators are on the scene and we are learning more and more each hour, so check that out at bbc. Com news. Moving on now, global aid agencies are warning of a humanitarian crisis in lebanon following tuesdays explosion at the port in beirut. More0 than 300,ople have been left homeless, and food is growing scarce. Theountrys economy was already on its knees with rampant inflation and the impact of the coronavirus pandemic crippling many industries. Yet through all of that, many lebanese are committed to cleaning up as our middle eastt corresponden reports. The lebanese are used to taking matters into their own hands. Singing e national anthem,am they c from all over the country to clear up the capital. We have come all the way here. Why . For volunteering. To support all those that are damaged. Ath homeless right now. Tripoli cleaning s. Of the from just up the course from beirut. They toldem me wen united no matter how mucthey try to separate us. They are all one band. Itev seems like y second person in beirut is carrying either a shovel or a broom. It is a massive clear up going on. Methey have corom all over the country. D theevastation here is enormous. These homesre not going to bebi ted for a long time. In some neighborhoods, the devastatn is total. No house has been spared. More than 300,000 people are now homeless. And the crisis is far from over. Here, they are rushing to h evacuate anothe. There is a house up there. It is almost can you see the roof . We are helping them get their stuff out from the house before the building falls down. French firefighters are helping with the seah. [applause] they are welcome but there is tfrustration that lebanese authorities are not doing enough. Wlan says his family are homeless. He took us inside their apartment. His father was badly injured. His blood was everywhere. Llhis dad wiake it. But 12 of their neighbors died on tnes one Street Corner alo. In lebanon, nobody comes to check. Three days, this big catastrophe in the been on. Nobody can come and tell me in lebanon. Nobody can come and tell me in this room. They are still finding survivors. Mobile footage in the last few hours. This person was pulled from the rubble. Inside the port at ground zero, it is a scene of annihilation. The russian rescue teams are still looking for survivors. And french rese workers, too one said, we always hope of still finding people alive. If there is still structures standing, there is still a chance. Lebanons president says a missalay have detonated the chemicals, which flattened this area. But he offered no supporting evidence. He has rejected calls for an international invtigation. Ny case, leaving such a large store of chemicals here in the heart of the city was gently was deadly. Nada the need is going to be massive there. They we already facing so much. Turning out to the u. S. Economy, the latest jobs data8 showed million jobs were added in july and that Unemployment Rate we stlor to ver 10 . On the surface, that would seem like good news, but this round of job recovery paled in comparison to the previous two months and unemployment claims remain shockingly high. For more than 20 weeks straight, more than a million americans apply for benefits. Treasury sectary has said ere is no progress on a deal between the white House Republicans and democrats on a 50 emergency aid bil Steve Mnuchin says he will recommend President Trump take executive action. Joining me now is the chief economist at grant thoin chicago. Thank you so much for being with us, diane. Lagiven thr market lost mental last month andow we are seeing more shutdowns in certain next month . Worst for it is actually. We are very concerned about the overwhelming majority of those payroll Protection Plan loans actually expire in august. One survey out ofornell sugges as many as four out of 10 workers covered by the ppp loans actuay are not working right now. They are being paid but not woing, so when the fun run out, those workers will be among the first to be cut, which means we could see some actual decline in august or september. So this is a very mixed bag. We still have a very high level of u benefits that expired last weekend, that is 18 billion a week no longer in consum pockets that we are going to pay the basics of food and shelter. In fact, we are facing the worst Food Insecurity and thomelessness since depression in the months and weeks to come. Even if the president does an executive order on the moratorium on federally subsidized evictions, not doing evictions to subsidizeta r properties, there are millions of people being evicted in bst federally ized buildings. Nada you touched on the stall negotiations stalled negotiations. Whatouhink needs to be in a final bill to make sure the economy can recover and help americans . Diane first and foremost, there haneeds to be ements to Unemployment Benefits. To what regula Unemployment Benefits are by the state level and wipe out the extra 600 a week entirely, that eliminates over 4 in growth from the u. S. Economy. That is more than we lost in parts of the great ression. That really is not acceptable ofven the ten millions that are still collecting the Unemployment Benefits today and providingupport. Issue oortant is the transfers to the state. Transfers to the state are absolutely essential. Although state and local public hiring actually picked up, in thethfficial report in the m of july, that is a bit of a misleading number becausee saw 300,000 jobs created in education. After seasonal adjustment, the data declined. It was because of cuts in edation earlier and what is in the pipeline for cicconeornd cuts goingrd given what the state and local government space. It cost 80 distortio a distortio privatesector payrore only up by 1. 5 million. These are the numbe we are talking about now. Only over a million in job gains. Nada so what would you say to lawmakers about what the impact on society will be . You mentioned homelessns. What else arens ameri facing if lawmakers do not act quickly . Diane this is really because we know t0 per levels week, even if they lower it to 400 or 500, it would still be something. Tthe 600 was not j disincentive many are arguing it is to get people to work because it was so much money. There are five economic studies disincentive to work in a pandemic and provided a much needed support for consumer spending. If you take away or lower it gnifictly, you will see a major route in consumer spending. You could see consumer spciding after bo back and after a quarter retreat in the fourth arter and the stakes are already high given a high pace of infection. D they are opening up colleges in areas where bars will be open as well. That is something we are worried about, a second wave and how quickly the u. S. Economy reacts to that. The course of the economy is dependene on the cou the virus. The only place that does not seem to be resonating is in washington and congress. Nada certainly Health Officials have repeated that. Thank you so much for being with us. Dian thank you. Nada now the Trump Administration has imposed sanctions on hong kongs chief executive and 10 other top Officials Saying they are responsible for undermining the territorys autonomy. It comes after china imposed a National Security law on hong kong, which critics say threatened itsreedoms, and it llows President Trumps crackdown on tiktok and wechat. Barbara joins me now to discuss all of this. Barbara, how significant are these sanctions . Uchowof an escalation is this in the tensions betweend china e United States . It is pretty dramatic. This is the first time the u. S. Has sanctiong kong and chinese officials over the suppressionf prodemocracy protests. Americans to do that to the leader of another country so in that sense, she joins the ranks of the leaders of venezuela and iran. Symbolically, it is important. Practically, not so clear. Previously, miss lam saidshe had no assn the u. S. To sanction and made light of the whole thing. Analysts here ar suggesting there may be implications for hong kong banks so there may be a financial fallout yet. Butf would say especially i you look at this move and together with the move last night as you were saying were President Trump bardi was countries from doing business with specific barred countries from doing business nada the president says they are a threat to National Security. Is there any evidence that . These chinese apps do collect a lot of data on users, although different amounts than american apps do. What washington is saying is that theoretically the chinese vern data and therefore it is a National Security threat. Tiktok hasaintained all along that the Data Collected by its u. S. Operations stays in the u. S. Rabut the counument has been it is a Chinese Company subject to chinese law and subtoct potentiallhinese government pressures. So that we do know there is censorship in china. China has block u. S. Social media like facebook and twitter. Now that the u. S. Is blockin chinese soci media, although it says for different reasons, it is a landmark moment. The idea of technological neutrality that came out of Silicon Valley in the earlyays of the internet, that is gone. Now the talk is about weaponizing technology by a rival wer. Nada very briefly, how much does politics play int this . It plays into it a lot. President trump has made getting tough on china a big part of his Election Campaign so i think you will continue to see steps like this going into it. But it is more than that because the china hocks in his at ministers and believe this is a batt of ideas. It is an ideological and strategic confrontation so they are adng that to the mix. That is probably why you see so many actions in recent months. Nada always good to get your take. Thank you so much. Now in other news,danada has fi backtl in the bat with United States over aluminum tariffs. Officials announced a 2. 7 billion dollars measure aimed at u. S. Products. A dayli e, President Trump slapped a 10 tariff on some canadian exports. R,last yhe two sides reached a deal to lift tariffs. The new measures by ce didate will tfect next month. U. S. Authorities say they discovered a highly sophisticated 400 meter long tunnel running beneath the border with xico. It was found by arizona officials wheara sinkhole ap in the desert. Images show a solid looking construction with a ventilation system, waterline, electrical waterin wiring, and railroad trs along the floor. They believe it would have been used to smuggle drugs, weapons, and people between the two countries. Former president george w. Bush will publish a book of his oil painting to next year with a focus on immigrants called out of many, one. The publication will feature 43 porches of immigrants painted by americas 43rd president in the introduction, mr. Bush insists immigration should not one that unites uue but rather you are n watching bbc wors america. Still to come on tonights program, in the middle of all the chaos and hope, there are three newborn babies resed by a nurse in the devastated city of beirut. Nada large parts of the u. K. Have been experiencing high temperatures with the south of england baking in a heat ve. Some see sand and social distancing. This is british time in our new normal. The sun seekers of essex flocked to the seafront as temperatures across englands summer coast have soared. The government is urging people to keep their distance from one another but with limited success. We sudden got here, realized there is a lot of people and not a lot of space. With thounds of people having canceled therefore and holidays, they will instead probably flocked to beaches like this one. Even so, they are urging members of the public, painicularly thosulnerable groups like the elderly and very young, to limit their exposure to the sun and make sure they remain hydrated. Nada lets turn to the global coronavirus pandemic now. The governor of new york has said that schools can reopen here this fall for in person classes but only under certain conditions. Olscwill have to be in an area where the average weight of positive tests is below 5 . Tlcurr new york has a Positivity Rate of about 1 , which points to just how wellun the state has d back from its darkest days of the outbreak. This does not mean all schools will reopen. It is up to local officials to decide whether and how to reopen their individual schools. That news from new york comes as we are learning more about which communities are affected by the re is more than others by the virus more than others. Inexas, more than half of those who die come from the latinos are more than four times likely to be hospitalized than other groups. We report now from houston on my that is. After more than a nth battling covid19, octavia is back at work as a mecnic. Like many othelatina texans, ushe was hit hard by the v i had sensations i never felt before. I had to completely isolate and take care of myself to not spread to my family, he told me. Coast of the other workers here are hispanic. The risk of getting infected hangs in the air but if they do not work, they have no income. Rk this job, you cannot wo from home. Bluecollar workers in texec have been elly hardhit by the coronavirus. Many are working in places like this. Peir work involves close contact with othple. They are expected to show up for work that is available because there are fewer opportunities with the economic crisis. We do not have the same amount of hours that we normally have. Th dont do the production they are used to. From 30 drivers, we are down to 15. Ou the number of positive cases and deathsed in houston in july compared to the previous four months. This Committee Health center that has been conducting tts for its predominantly latino patients has seen a Positivity Rate of 39 . Our patients are part of the essential workforce. They are construction workers. They work inrocery stores. They are caregivers for other people. That makes it extremely challenging to be able to practice those safesm mecha for social distancing and also to decrease the spread. The consequences of record Coronavirus Infections are both clinical and financial here. Fearing a language barrier with immigrants from latin america, the Houston Health ipartment running a multilgual covid19 campaign. Thoue mayor says thieach is critical. We have people in the community w may be fearful and distrustful of government and maybe waiting too late befe seeking medical attention because they are scared and concerned. The mayorsr bettegether campaign is time to overcome those barriers with information. Texas has the highest number of People Without Health Insurance in the u. S. , and 60 them are hispanic. In a pandemic this prolonged, the worst affected are also the least protected. Nada often the ones who sacrifice the most. Lets circle back now to one of the stories that has dominated the explosion in beirut and its aftermath. Despitete the despe situation there, stories of heroism and survival are emerging. Our correspondent has been speaking to a nurse who managed to rescue three newborn babies peafter the explosion rip through the city. This is normally a place joy. Butuesdays explosion ripped verough the neonatal inten care unit. Three premature babien their incubators. Amid the chaos, the only nurse on shift who was unht picked them up, a picture that spread across the wld. The only thing i could think up was the safety of the babies i had in the unit. The first thing i d to do was rescue the babies and just carry them and get away with them. I thought i could never leave them alone here and go away. Pamela looked for over 30 holding them close to keep them warm amid the havoc. I felt like the babies are very important to me. They are part of me. I have to keep them safe ueyil each their destination. People were givi me their jackets so i co