As the country continues to reopen for business, one of the hardest hit industries will still have a difficult time recovering. Restaurants will see a long slow ramp up back to the way things were. Real-time industry data is showing that while people are starting to get out there, restaurants are only seeing a fraction of the business they used to have, partly due to capacity limits for social distancing. The estimates are still dire as to whether some businesses can remain open after the comeback. Jordan Weissmann, senior economics reporter at Slate, joins us for more.

Next, we’ll tell you about the pirates of the highway. Thieves are stealing big trailers often times without even knowing what is in them hoping for a big score. In one case, two men made off with $30,000 of canned corn. The operations in stealing these trailers range from getting lucky and picking up an unattended trailer to elaborate schemes in paying off low-level workers for tips on cargo and location. Dylan Taylor-Lehman, writer at narratively, joins us for how these highway pirates are making off with precious cargo.

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