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knocks systems out around the world. flights temporarily grounded, hospitals and businesses hit hard, too. what caused it and the race to get everyone back up and running. exit strategy. nbc news has learned the biden family is starting to discuss what the president's possible departure from the race could look like. the pivotal questions that could be answered in a matter of days. making it official. former president donald trump accepts the republican presidential nomination five days after his attempted assassination. how he describes that day and his vision for the next four years. last laugh. tributes are pouring in for comedy trail blazer bob newhart. a look back at his remarkable life and the delight he brought to generations of fans. thank you so much for ending your week with us. we are going to start this hour with the chaos from arguably the largest i.t. computer outage. it has paralyzed systems around the world and the impact is absolutely massive. emergency services is were hit hard. several states had 911

disruptions. hospitals were forced to cancel appointments and delay procedures. transportation was not spared either. flights grounded, air travelers stranded and others unable to access their train tickets. banking systems were knocked offline. many could not use their credit cards or transfer money. the outage brought many other businesses and corporations to their knees. some had to cancel their work days all together. >> too much, you know, this can't be happening especially when everything reies on technology. >> i've experienced delays, overnight delays, and usually those are things related to weather. right now what's interesting to watch is the airline have no idea what's happening. because it is such an issue they don't have a grasp on yet. >> it's such an issue. what exactly caused all of this? an apparent glitch in a software update from a cyber security firm called crowdstrike. their software is used in i.t. systems worldwide and the company says they have fixed the issue but it could take time to

get all systems back online. we have a lot to talk about so joining us in studio, nbc news correspondent rehema and brian chung, also with us nbc news correspondent antonia hilton at newark airport. rehema, any time we hear about an outage to emergency services or hospitals, our ears perk up. what should people know if they're trying to dial in right now? >> one thing folks are saying is if you're trying to dial 911 and you can't get 911, try calling your local police department or the fire station directly. you might be able to get through there. other spots, for example, here in new york, we have one hospital, memorial sloan-kettering, they are saying they are pausing any procedures that has to do with anesthesia because they're having difficulty accessing patient records. let's go north up into massachusetts. mass general brigham, they are having problems today. and they can't access clinical records either. as a result, all nonurgent visits have been canceled. one of the things they're saying

is their emergency departments are open if they need to get in there. miami is talking about their hospitals remain open but patients are told they should be understanding because there might be some delays in accessing some procedures. the other thing we hear about 911 is that they are up and operating in many places. they went down overnight but many have been able to restore it. some other places, one hospital talked about, they have found a fix for the system they were having a problem with, but they're having to go computer by computer to install that fix. it's going to take a little while. >> a lot of institutions going analog who have grown accustomed to being digital. antonia, i know transportation airports are one of those places. you've been at newark all day. what are you hearing from folks who are trying to fly and could people still run into issues this evening? >> reporter: oh, boy, zinhle, people are frustrated and they've been frustrated since about 5:00 a.m. this morning. i watched as people arrived to newark airport. they first tried to use their

kiosk to print their boarding passes. that didn't work. they would walk over to the board, try to figure out, what does the delay look like? the board wouldn't update. they were told by staff that the board had inaccurate information on it. you see it's busy behind me here but there were hundreds of people packed in here earlier. the wait for some passengers to get through the line just to talk to someone was four to five hours by some estimates. you can imagine there were tears and a lot of frustration. a lot of people gave up at this point and they left because not only could they not get information on a flight they hoped to take today, they could not rebook because all of the rebooking systems depended on all of this technology. we kept hearing at times after we heard microsoft restored these programs, the systems would get back up and running. things would look normal on the staff member's computer and then they would crash all over again. we're still hearing frustration. just a moment ago, one of the staff members stood up on a counter and yelled out a

customer service number. that gives you a sense of how frustrating things are and we're heading into the evening now, zinhle, so if you're coming to the airport, make sure to reach out, check your email and apps in advance. >> as we look at this web of cancellations, delays, brian at the center of it all is that company, crowdstrike. talk to us about what they do and their leadership is saying. >> this is not a household name. crowdstrike sells cyber security software to companies like, for example, these airlines being impacted like the banks being impacted, like the hospitals, in addition to newsrooms like nbc where we had issues logging in this morning and getting the blue screen of death where you couldn't log in. crowdstrike is essential and they have business with so many different types of industries. not just in the united states but abroad. what they tried to do is push an update overnight hoping it would just be a quiet thing, nothing would happen and it took down almost the entire global computer system. an alarming situation that

underlines the fragility of the situation. the crowdstrike ceo spoke to the "today" show earlier today. >> the system was sent an update and that update had a software bug in it and caused an issue with the microsoft operating system. and we identified this very quickly and remediated the situation. as systems are kochlg back on, rebooting, they are working. >> that was the company's ceo george kurtz. he said they resolved the issue. but the problem is all the companies that use crowdstrike have to basically go in manually to essentially turn the computers off and then turn them back on again to reset it. that could be a long process. >> that's my final question. people should know, even as a company, it's resolved it's essentially case by case now? >> crowdstrike said their issue was resolved earlier in the morning but the problem is the implementation for the companies to then implement that fix.

again, you have to restart these computers. we've been hearing anecdotes of people needing to reset it 15 times to get it going again. you do that for one computer, and then move to the next computer. this could be a while, which is why you're seeing delays at the airport. this backlog could happen for quite a long period of time. patience is warranted for basically anything in the next few hours and, perhaps, even beyond today. >> i think that's the perfect word to end on, brian chung, thank you all. we're following breaking news in the race for the white house. four sources tell nbc news that vice president kamala harris is holding a call with major democratic donors right now. it comes as president biden faces mounting pressure to drop his 2024 re-election bid. let's bring in monica alba. what can you tell us about this call? >> reporter: i'm told specifically the vice president was asked by president biden's advisers to hold these conversations with top

democratic donors, which is significant. we're also understanding a little bit of the reasoning for this call. we know there have been issues with some of the major top donors expressing concerns and anxieties about the president's path forward. some will be gathering on this call to discuss, quote, the urgent and emerging needs. so, that's in terms of the fund-raising picture overall, but really probably to discuss a little bit of the status of the race. it's significant the vice president is the one who will be holding this call and maybe trying to attempt to calm some of those concerns and anxieties, though we understand that's really difficult from some of the donors we have been in touch with who are worried about what might happen here should the president decide to step aside and not be the democratic nominee. >> to that end, publicly the biden campaign remains defiant for the many calls for the president to drop out, but privately we are hearing a different story. what kind of conversations are going on behind the scenes? >> reporter: yeah, you're seeing a pretty dramatic split between

those two things. the biden campaign, the co-chair was on msnbc this morning saying the president is all in. the president released a statement earlier today saying i'm going to be back on the campaign trail. that is what they are trying to project confidence wise publicly. privately we're reporting on new conversations we know the biden family has been part of in potentially mapping out what a potential exit from the race could be. should he evaluate the situation and say, okay, i am going to bow out of the race, what would that look like? we know these are difficult conversations and that the people involved are saying, they want to make sure it reflects the more than 50 years of public service that joe biden has had in this country. >> monica, in addition to these calls, the president is still recovering from covid-19 at his home in delaware. his doctor just gave us an update. what did he say?

>> this is a more detailed assessment from the president's doctor than we've had over the last couple of days. we know, for instance, he's on his fourth dose of paxlovid. we know also he had some blood work done, all of that came back normal. we know he did a pcr test in addition to the rapid test that confirmed the covid diagnosis. that also came back but they don't know what variant it is. they're going to continue to monitor him but they say he's taking treatment well and he is on the road to recovery there. >> monica alba from the white house, always appreciate it. thank you. time now for today's cnbc money minute. a popular cleaning tool is being recalled. netflix is phasing out one of its most cost-efficient plans. kate rogers joins us now. hi, kate. >> hey there, zinhle. that's right. bissle is recalling 3 million steam cleaners that caused over 150 injuries. the consumer product safety commission said the cleaners spit out hot water or steam which can cause burns on the

user. the recall affects steamers sold in retail stores nationwide and online from 2008 to 2024. meta is in talks to buy 5% stock in ray-ban. according to "the wall street journal" that's a $5 billion share of the company. if it goes through, it would allow meta to build more devices with the eyewear giant. finally, netflix is ending its cheapest ad-free plan. the streaming giant told shareholders it was phasing out the plan in the u.s. and france while netflix stopped offering the plan for new subscribers last year, customers who remained on the plan will be notified today to choose another plan. the move could drive more customers to its cheaper ad-supported plan that costs $6.99 a month. zinhle, back over to you. >> what you're saying is, when i turn on netflix tonight, that's the message i'm about to get? >> yeah, exactly. >> all right, all right, i accept. kate rogers, thank you. coming up, we have breaking news. nbc news has learned exclusively

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weekend. it will also be mr. trump's first rally since the assassination attempt in pennsylvania. he spoke about the near-death experience in his republican nomination speech last night and paid tribute to the rally goer who died. nbc's bri jackson was at the republican national convention and joins me from milwaukee. what did trump say about surviving that assassination attempt and how did the crowd react? >> reporter: good afternoon, zinhle. last night we heard former president trump describe in the greatest detail yet what he remembers about that assassination attempt. taking a somber tone, he talked about hearing a whizzing sound by his ear and feeling a pain that he described that are -- saying he felt something hit him really, really hard on his right here. he went on to say that he does not plan to talk about this experience any more because it's so painful. trump also expressed his gratitude to the american people for their support during all of this. now, when it comes to the crowd,

you could feel the emotion as former president trump was speaking about his experience. you could see people crying in the crowd and you could just feel the sense of people -- just hearing him speak about his experience, they felt the emotion he had last night. and during his speech he said in referring to the assassination attempt that surviving it -- in surviving it, he said, i'm not supposed to be here tonight. that's when we heard the crowd chant "yes, you are, yes, you are." >> the nomination speech reflected the former president's typical campaign rallies, at least to the end. in addition to discussing priorities in a second term, he did repeat lies about the 2020 election being stolen and went after democrats. can you just fact-check this speech for us a bit. >> reporter: yeah, zinhle, there were several things here we can

talk about. let's start with the former president's claims about crime. last night he said, our crime rate is going up while stats all over the world are plunging. that's misleading. just last month attorney general garland said the latest data shows a significant drop of crime in the u.s. and 15% in the first three months of this year compared to 2023. during his speech former president trump boasted about his administration giving the largest tax cuts. that's not true. according to the nonpartisan committee for responsible federal budget, it's the eighth largest tax cut. several misleading claims made by the former president last night. >> putting it all in context for us, thank you. today funeral services are under way for the trump supporter who was killed shielding his wife and daughter from gunfire during the assassination attempt at the pennsylvania rally on saturday. as we mentioned, the former president paid tribute to corey

comperatore during his speech last night at the republican national convention. he brought out the former firefighter's gear and kissed his helmet. nbc news correspondent shaquille brewster is in pennsylvania. how are people reacting to trump's tribute last night and what do we know about the funeral services today? >> reporter: well, those services have officially wrapped up. they took place in the church behind me. while the service was private, the high honors given onto corey comperatore were very, very public. we're talking about his casket draped in an american flag as it came out the church, you heard a 21-gun salute, "taps" was played and then that processional with dozens of firetrucks went past his home, past the fire station where he volunteered, all honoring him. he's being remembered as a father of two, a husband to his wife, someone who was a strong supporter of former president trump, who last night at that convention speech, you

mentioned, honored, comperatore had his uniform up on stage with him. you'll notice the spelling on his uniform is different than his name, but that is consistent with the honors that we saw here in pennsylvania when they had his uniform on display. a heavy moment today as people paid their last respects to this american hero. >> shaquille brewster, thanks so much and thanks for your reporting this week. we appreciate it. coming up, where people could see temperatures close to 115 degrees. that's ahead on "nbc news daily." hi, i'm sally. i'm from phoenix, arizona. i'm a flight nurse on a helicopter that specializes in trauma. i've been doing flight nursing for 24 years. i had a fear that i wouldn't be able to keep up. i wanted all the boost i could get! i heard about prevagen from a friend. i read the clinical study on it and it had good reviews. i've been taking prevagen now for five years and it's really helped me stay sharp and present.

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it from our own television station to airlines, even police forces were taken off line. and on a morning when people really could use some caffeine, even some mobile ordering systems were down, too. a cybersecurity expert told us that's because of the way updates go out. the nature of the cloud is you don't do it computer by computer. what you do is you deploy it to all the computers at the same time. so if this software and update there is a problem with it, or it's conflicting, this is what's going to happen. homeland security posted that they and the cybersecurity and infrastructure agency are assessing california's office of emergency services posted that 911 public safety, communications and critical infrastructure is functioning. but even as the crowdstrike ceo says, systems are coming back online, both the santa clara and alameda county courts notified the public that they are still feeling the impact. the outage and duration likely have businesses and organizations talking about backup plans because cloud systems are here

to stay. cloud services and they're very beneficial. we have seen this one during covid 19. without it, we couldn't even do a single thing. but at the same time, because there is a concept in computer network called single point of failure. and that's what we are facing here. the crowdstrike ceo said. they're trying to isolate the problems so they can make sure it doesn't happen again. but we asked the cybersecurity professor what he thought it could be, and he said at the end of the day, any updates are sent out by humans. and so this could come down to just human error in sunnyvale. kris sanchez nbc bay area news thank you, chris. as she just mentioned, the outage impacted airports across the globe. this is video of united airlines this morning at sfo. you could see lines backed up. it systems went down at major hubs at airports around the country. it caused the faa to stop air traffic and for hours, passengers couldn't find updated flight information on airport screens. technicians, though, have updated the software. the screens are back up and running, and a spokesperson for sfo, who

says airlines they're still continuing to work out the kinks. we are hearing that their check in systems, their ticketing systems, their flight dispatch systems are back on track. but still there is some slow processing that we're seeing at airline ticket counters. so we do expect some residual impact in the form of delays and cancellations. today, it's a ripple effect. nearly 1400 flights have been delayed and canceled across the u.s. since last night. by the way, delta and american airlines told us they're offering vouchers to passengers impacted by that outage. get ready for a hot day, especially inland. here's forecaster cinthia pimentel miramar park. we are winding down the workweek, but bumping up those temperatures. upper 90s los gatos, 100 morgan hill and we continue with that heat scorching out in concord today and livermore, those low one hundreds 97 in martinez to 89 in hayward. that heat advisory doesn't include the peninsula and the city, but it will be pretty toasty in san francisco,

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country's supreme court recently reinstating a quota system. that reserves government jobs for various groups, which they say benefit supporters of the prime minister. the students want the jobs to be merit-based. they have defended the quota system while others have favored changes it. we're following breaking news. nbc news has learned exclusively that for the second time the food and drug administration has pushed back a proposal to ban the chemical formaldehyde in hair straightening products. they are frequently marketed to black women to straighten curly or coarse hair. a wide range of studies have linked the chemical to concern cancers. the timeline for fda's proposed ban remains undetermined. a slide with a bumpy history is reopening today. it went viral in 2022 after video captured riders bouncing out of control, sometimes even slamming their heads. the slide was shut down over

safety concerns and crews have since wiped away the wax and softened the landing surface. officials say the improvements should make for a much slower and safer splash. in russia american journalist evan gershkovich has been found guilty of espionage and sentenced to 15 years in a maximum security prison. "the wall street journal" reporter was accused of spying for the cia, charges gershkovich, his employer and the united states government have all denied. we're following this story closely. josh, this guilty conviction is not exactly a surprise but it is no less disappointing, of course, gershkovich has been held in russia on espionage charges since march of last year. so, what exactly comes next for him? >> well, obviously, evan gershkovich and his family would have liked to see an acquittal but that was not in the cards in russia where the conviction rate is well above 99% for these kind of cases.

the best hopes now for him to be free any time soon is some type of a prisoner deal with the u.s., something that "the wall street journal" and his family have been pushing for for a long time. russia has always maintained they would not reach any kind of a deal before there's a verdict. now that there is a guilty verdict, in a sense, the hope is that can kick into high gear. the russian government has confirmed behind the scenes there are contacts between u.s. and russian spy agencies about potentially working out some type of a swap. >> and i know that's something "the wall street journal," his family, the u.s. government are all pushing for. josh, notably here gershkovich is the first american journalist arrested on espionage charges in russia since the cold war. that's pretty historic. what's been the overall reaction to this? >> we've heard from "the wall street journal" just in the last few hours. they are calling this a sham, disgraceful conviction, saying we will not rest until he is released. we're also hearing from

president biden saying, in fact, they are trying to work to get him released. the president praising evan gershkovich's remarkable strength, saying there is no higher priority than bringing not only him home but other americans they believe are wrongfully detained around the world, including former u.s. marine paul whelan, also detained on espionage charges in russia. >> important reporting from london for us, thank you. as we talked about earlier, tomorrow former president donald trump will hold his first campaign rally since the attempt on his life just last week. he'll be in grand rapids michigan which sits in a county and state that could be critical in deciding this year's race. kent county had been reliably republican over the last few decades but in 2020 president biden won it by six points. last night voters across the political spectrum who watched the former president's acceptance speech at the rnc very carefully. nbc news correspondent watched the speech with some of those very voters. she joins us from grand rapids, michigan.

so, you were at a watch party last night. i wonder what it was like. how were voters reacting as they heard from the former president as they watched the audience react? >> reporter: good afternoon from this swing county in a swing state, a place to really look when you're trying to decide how this election that has been wild and evolving is turning out. we did sit down with voters and watched closely that rnc speech by former president trump. take a listen to what they told me. >> by a show of hands, who thought former president trump did a good job on his speech today? by a show of support, who detected a sort of change in tone from former president trump? >> like in the beginning i thought he started out okay but then as the speech went on, it just sounded like the old trump. >> i was hoping, though, for the good of the country, right, if he does win, that we would see

that this message of unity would carry through more consistently through the speech, and it did not. >> what resonated most with you? >> i go back to saturday where 20-year-old kid tried to take his life and assassinate him. that's a miracle he survived. that he kept saying, i shouldn't be here, i shouldn't be here. he's here. that's a testimony to what he did in the past and what he plans on doing in the future. i think he's going to unite people. i think he's going to bring people together and do the right thing, that's best for the country. >> you think in watching this speech you saw a different prosecute rt? >> absolutely. >> reporter: it was really interesting to watch former president trump's speech with this group of voters. the trump supporters were smiling and cheering on former president trump, saying he was a unifier, liking things when he was talking about the economy or building the wall at the

southern border, but when you look at people who trump might want to say, including a nikki haley voter who tells me he's still undecided, he was unmoved by what president trump had to say. he he said, in fact, at the beginning the speech was okay because it was talking about unity but that devolved, he said, into more attacks on democrats and did not like that and definitely did not change his vote. it was also interesting to watch the democrat on this panel. she was shaking her head, frustrated, angry at dimes because she said the president simply was not telling the truth, former president trump, that is, saying there were times about the 2020 election, big tax cuts. those times she was visibly and audibly sighing. >> nbc news washington correspondent, thanks. while there are calls across the aisle to turn down heat around the country, it's only getting hotter. this summer's unrelenting heat could be to blame for more than 300 deaths in just one arizona county.

maricopa is the fourth largest county in america. 322 deaths from the beginning of the year to july 13th are being investigated as possibly linked to this year's record-breaking heat wave. today millions are heading into a weekend of scorching temperatures yet again. nbc news meteorologist bill karins is tracking all of it for us. what should we be looking out for? >> a lot of heat and the fire danger, too, in areas of the west. much of the country saw extremely hot july. that's changing where the east is cooling off and the middle of the country is cooling off. not so in the west. it's come roaring back. we had a couple days where it was average. now it's going back above average. we're 107 in vegas. as we go throughout the day today, we are expecting interior sections of the northwest and the desert southwest and a little bit there about central portions of california through the valley southward to bakersfield, those are your hot spots. those are where excessive heat

warnings could be in effect. these temperatures are only 5 to 10 warmer than normal. this time of year is the peak heat. this is usually when most locations are at their hottest. if you add 5 to 10 to the hottest, typically that's why we have some areas in those excessive heat warnings and not a lot of relief this weekend. redding, 110 on saturday. 105 on sunday. vegas, 113, 114, 111. yuma, phoenix, 115 to 112. it's not the record-breaking heat. we're still going to be extraordinarily hot. as far as the weekend outlook goes, this time of year you're not going to get the rain throughout many areas of the west. we have monsoonal areas of cool off, new mexico, colorado, maybe a few showers into portions of utah. as far as we go into sunday, spokane sticks out with 106 degrees possible record highs throughout the region there. we'll have a little more moisture sneaking into arizona. hopefully that will give people

relief throughout the afternoon. as we head through the rest of this july, we are looking at likely for many areas of the west, the hottest july they've ever experienced. >> wow. important people stay cool. thanks for the context. we appreciate it. today fans are remembering legendary comedian bob newhart. he made audiences laugh with his deadpan style. he was 94 years old. nbc news correspondent kayly hartung takes a look back. >> reporter: hey there. bob newhart made laughing cease i with his perfect timing and understated delivery. his sitcoms ran in the 1970s and '80s for years are still considered groundbreaking and working well into his 90s, he gave new meaning to a successful second act. he was an insecure psychologist, understated innkeeper and a kindly papa elf. >> we have to talk.

>> reporter: mostly, bob newhart was always bob newhart. >> here he is, bobby newheart. >> reporter: we met him doing stand-up but his comedy album that catapulted him into the national spotlight. it sold more than a million copies. his comedic chops so good, he won a grammy for best album beating out the likes of frank sinatra, harry belafonte and nat king cole. his first show "the bob newhart show" perhaps part of the best night of television ever. airing on cbs alongside other unforgettable shows. his second show "self-titled as well, reminding us simple is funny. >> i'm larry, this is my brother darrell, that's my other brother darrell. >> reporter: and ending with a legendary homage to his first show. >> you won't believe the dream i just had. >> reporter: he visited "today" frequently over the decades, chatting with al in 2017. >> how does a 30-year-old accountant break into stand-up comedy? >> first of all, i wasn't a good accountant.

people kept telling me, you're funny, you ought to go to new york. so i said, i'm going to give this a shot. >> reporter: newhart also made deadpan chic, using his accounting background and midwestern sensibility for laughs. resurrecting that timeless telephone bit for harry smith in his 90s. >> hello. would i want to do the harry smith show? sure. it's on -- it's on cbs, right? >> reporter: he was married to his beloved wife for 60 years. they lived in los angeles, a town famous for youth. yet as he got older, newhart experienced a career renaissance. winning an emmy for guest role on "the big bang theory" at the age of 84 and he never lost his thirst for a laugh. >> ben, ben, ben. i'm still alive. >> i kind of had a chance to retire this year.

and it drove me nuts. just drove me nuts. so i said, get me some dates because i got -- how can you be tired of making people laugh, you know? how can you? >> reporter: universally beloved and revered, costars from across the eras paying tribute. a comedian from a bygone era whose comedy was timeless. bob newhart was 94. his publicist tells us he died after a series of short illnesses. back to you. >> thanks so much for helping us remember him. up next, how racial discrimination impacts the mental health of young black people. that's ahead on bc news "n

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(janet) nice! (janet) houston we have a playroom! in today's mental health check, there's an important new study that looks at how black young people react and respond to racial discrimination. it finds racism may put them at a higher risk of depression and anxiety. the study was conducted by researchers at the university of georgia and published in the journal of american medical association. joining us is dr. brown, a licensed clinical psychologist. thank you for being here. >> thanks for having me. >> notably researchers looked at the part of the brain that regulates emotion. it's not lost on me that young people's brains are still

developing. walk us through what exactly they found. >> this is really interesting because it looked at the part of the brain called the amygdala and we know how we process our emotions, fear and anxiety. what the study found when you look at this group of young people, when some of them were presented with negative stimuli. it shut down and they reported more internalizing symptoms when they were experiencing fearful things. >> i wanted to ask you about that. the study broke it down between internalizing symptoms, externalizing symptoms. what did that look like in young black people? >> yeah. when we talk about internalizing symptoms we're talking about things like sadness, anxiety. externalizing symptoms we're thinking about yelling or temp

tantrums or external, behavior, you're seeing it. internalizing you're not seeing what's going on. >> one of the practical impacts effects of this, of racism? >> yeah. if we think about the study and shutting down and you experiencing more internalizing symptoms, that really points to more symptoms of depression and anxiety. so sadness, fear, difficulty navigating tough situations, not having the words to say -- experiencing these things on a daily basis and not talking about it. all being bottled up inside. we know that has long-term impacts for everyone's mental health and also health in general. >> especially coming at a formative time. i was excited when we chose to do this because for me my mental health journey started in high school after i had a racist encounter. i didn't know what to do. it was the first time it happened. i didn't know how to process. how can young black people navigate this depression and anxiety they may be feeling, as

the study is showing? >> i love this question. one of the things i love to talk about is thinking about protective factors. one of the protective factors we talk about is having a strong community. and and part of that strong community is talking about racism, what that looks like so when young black people experience racism, they have the words to talk about it, they have the language, they have the community they know that they can go to speak about these things. >> you talked about what these young black people can do but they are young. for folks listening, specifically those who are not black, what can they do if they have a young black person in their life and as studies show, maybe they are grappling with these feelings? >> that's an important question. number one, don't be afraid to have the conversation. it's happening, so making sure that if a young person you know is experiencing racism, have the conversation, talk to them specifically about what that looked like, what that felt

like, and also giving them practical tools around what are the things you can do if you experience that, who can you talk to, how can you stand up for yourself, what are the resources available in our community for you. >> i love that you said that, have the conversation because people can feel like, oh, mental health, race, i don't know if i can touch that. i think if you approach it human to human, it can make such a difference. dr. brown, thank you for making a difference in our show. appreciate it. >> thanks for having me, as always. thanks for being with us. we have a lot more news ahead. don't go anywhere. you're watching "nbc news daily." this is a cottonelle toilet paper service announcement. is your toilet paper leaving you with an unclean feeling you can't shake? you deserve cottonelle ultra clean and flushable wipes. together, cottonelle ripples clean even better

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