hello, everybody. tom of the hour. i'm john king in washington. thanks so much for sharing your day with us. a very busy news day it is, including more anger and frustration on america's streets. the breonna taylor case, the current flashpoint. protests in louisville and many other cities last night after a kentucky grand jury did not file any charges directly related to taylor's death during a police raid on her apartment back in march. one officer was charged with wanton endangerment for spraying gunshots during that raid but an attorney for taylor's family calls it another protect the police outrage. >> if they want an indictment,

they were get an exonerate thes police officers, as they so often do in america when they kill black people, they exonerate them, and we just cannot have these two justice systems in america, one for black america and another for white america. >> we'll go live to louisville in just a few moments, but we begin with a moment of testing for america's democracy. in a raw display of power lust by president trump. in just 40 nights we'll be counting your votes, the peaceful transfer of power is a staple of our american democracy, but this president makes clear he might not honor the results if they show him losing. >> we'll have to see what happens, you know that. i've been complaining very strongly about the ballots and the ballots are a disaster. >> i understand that, but people are rioting. do you commit to making sure that there's a peaceful transfer of power? >> get rid of the ballots, and we'll have a very peaceful -- there won't be a transfer

frankly. there will be a continuation. the ballots are out of control. you know it, and you know who knows it better than anybody else, the democrats know it better than anybody else. >> what the president says right there about mail-in voting is a lie, but he is brazenly transparent about his strategy. trump campaign lawyers are furiously mounting legal challenges to new pandemic voting rules across the country are. the president makes clear he not only wants a new supreme court justice confirmed before the election but that he expects that justice to side with him in post-election challenges. >> i think it's better if you go before the election because i think this -- this scam that the democrats are pulling, it's a scam, this scam will be before the united states supreme court. i think it's very important to have a ninth justice. >> reporter: the bulldoze diagnosis of tradition and norms did not stop there. just hours before the white house briefing yesterday, top government scientists made clear on capitol hill that they would not bow to presidential or any other pressure to rush a

coronavirus vaccine to market. now there are long-standing legal and regulatory steps for vaccine approval, but the president insists this, too, is up to him. >> well, i'll tell you what. we're looking at that. that has to be approved by the white house. we may or may not approve it. that sounds like a political move. i think that was a political move more than anything else. >> john harwood live for us at the white house. john, this the the i alone presidency. we've known from the very beginning that this president believes that he has powers well beyond what he actually does, have but to see a president of the united states, and he's hinted at this before but standing at that lecturn saying that i may not honor the results was stunning. >> reporter: john, i think that's very important that you linked what he's trying to do about the election trying to discredit lawful ways of voting with losing with the fda remarks

yesterday which are really part of a broad range of actions that the president is taking that challenged the integrity of the government as he tries to bend the government to his will. think about the ways that this has happened. ever since the impeachment he has purged the government of people that he thought were critical of him. he just announced yesterday that he was replacing the intelligence community inspector general who -- a position that referred the whistle-blower to the congress with a former devin nunes aide who, of course, tried to undercut the russia investigation. he installed at the department of health and human services michael caputo, someone not qualified on health issues but a loyalist to trump who then set about with his adviser to interfere with cdc guidance. he's now taken a leave of absence. the president's indicated he's going to make liaisons with various federal agencies.

think about the justice department, bill bohr has joined him in trying to discredit the election along with the other actions that bill barr has taken to serve of the president, cutting short the krensus, interfering with the postal service, the president openly saying he wanted to deny funds to prevent them from funding mail ballots. this is a president trying to exert every lever of power that he has over the cost, and there's a cost to the proper administration and integrity of the u.s. government as a result. >> without a doubt. exercise every power he has and exercise some powers he does not have. john harwood, grateful for the live reporting for us. let's continue the conversation now. dana, it's not supposed to be news when the senate majority leader tweets that we will have an election on november 3rd and then we will have an inauguration on january 20th and we will have an orderly transfer of power and mitch mcconnell tweeting that after senator mitt romney and congresswoman liz

cheney, two other republicans, mostly quiet among republicans, but saying fundamental to our democracy is what romney says is the peaceful transition of power. cheney says our peaceful transition of power is fundamental to the survival of the republic. the republican leader mcconnell saying we will have this orderly transition. it is remarkable, in this case more republicans than normal, coming out to say stop, mr. president. >> that's exactly right. mitch mcconnell didn't wait to be asked in the hallway. he went to his twitter feed and put that out, you know, rather unsolicited. i'm sure he was getting phone calls to his office. he wanted to make a point, as did the -- one of the top republicans in the house, the top female republican for sure in the house, liz chain de, wanting to make a point. mr. president, as you said, cut it out. please don't even go there, and,

you know, it was stung to hear the president say what he said last night. it's not as if he hasn't hinted by saying over and over and over again how fraudulent the mail-in ballot system is, which is, as you said not true, but the fact that he just put it out there in such a flagrant way that he might not be going anywhere, and effectively sending a signal to people that, you know, a non-peaceful transition is okay, is -- is remarkable. i mean, there's -- we're running out of words to use. the only thing i will say, i know you feel this way as well, there has not been an inauguration that i've covered where i've not stopped and thought that we should not take this for granted, that there is a peaceful transition of power in this country thanks to our constitution and our democracy, and the fact that we may not be taking that for granted, the fact that republicans are coming

out the way they are says it all. >> it does say it all, and let's connect the dots. first to you, carrie, in the sense that the president is quite open. i want my supreme court justice confirmed before the election. i pecks there to be post-election challenges. he calls it a democratic sham, and that's why we need a ninth justice. cannot have a 4-4 court. if you pick up a legal ethics book and you're an attorney, please help me if i'm wrong, the president saying something, i expect my justice to overturn "roe v. wade." i expect my justice to vote this way on a corporate case. it is not done in american politics. it is viewed as outside the bounds and normally you would expect that justice to then have to recuse him or in this case herself. he promises to nominate a woman because it's been an open part of the process that that's why the president picked you. >> it's also just not true, john, that we need a ninth justice. if there were some case that went to the supreme court regarding the election, if they couldn't reach a majority decision and the decision was

4-4, then simply the decision of the lower court would hold so there's no constitutional crisis. there's no mystery about what would happen. there's a process that would be laid out, but i also think it's really important that we keep the president's comments yesterday in the context of all the things that he's done over the last four years to damage our democracy. john harwood started the list, but i have more on the list. he has solicited foreign interference in the election in the last four years and welcomed forn assistance. he's destroyed the republican party so that it is now just a cult of personal. it has no policy platform except for wanting conservative judges which is ironic given that so much of what he does flouts the constitution. he has politicized law enforcement so that if there were some public safety issue where the department of justice or the department of homeland security needed to step in over the course of the next several months, he has politicized them

so much that the public will not believe that they are acting legitimately, that the public will interpret their actions as actions politically, and finally, and we don't talk about this very much, but he has installed family members as senior government advisers which is something that we see in autocratic countries or failing democracies in addition to the fact that he has subverted the senate confirmation process for many of his senior government officials, so his comments yesterday should not be a surprise. he telegraphs exactly what he's trying to do repeatedly, and it's consistent with everything that he has said and done for the past four years. >> and so, abby, we're in another situation where some republicans and more republicans in this case, as i noted, including the majority leader, are pushing back against the president. we'll see what all republicans say. senator ben sasse trying to

shrug is off. the president shunned say crazy things about the most sacred part of our democracy and that is the peaceful transition of democracy. christopher wray is saying we see no evidence of any widespread mail-in voting fraud. yes, we'll keep an eye on individual states when allegations pop up. but, again, when you connect the dots, the president keeps delegitimizing and lying about mail-in voting which actually increases turnout and can be done quite efficiently. at the same time he's assembling this team of lawyers to challenge, challenge, challenge, and then he says, well, the election might not be legitimate. this is all part of a buildup. >> exactly. it's a systemic chipping away at the process and it begins with the fact that months ago the president began politicizing the way people vote. that is not the -- that is not normal. we now see a sharp partisan divide between who is going to vote in attorney on election day and who is going to vote early or by mail. that was largely created by the president's rhetoric, and so now

you see the second step of that which is the president saying the only way that he thinks that this ought to go is that those ballots should be thrown out. that's what he said at the beginning of his answer to the question. throw out those ballots and we won't have to have a transfer, a peaceful transfer or otherwise. we've got to put all of this in context. this is happening in the context of a massive legal battle being played out in the courts to delegitimize the changes that are being made to allow more people to cast ballots by mail and many states in this country and now the president is saying after the election we're hoping to take it to the courts, and i can't confirm that i'm going to step aside if that process comes to a conclusion and i'm not the winner. i think it -- it's the bigger picture here and -- and it's also in addition to the fact that the president has also said he'd be willing to push back election day so it's one of many, many, many comments to

this effect. >> it is mind-numbing to hear a president of the united states, of any party, of any name, standing in that building saying throw out the ballots, just throw out the ballots. it's remarkable and stunning. appreciate the reporting and insights there. we'll continue on the story. grief and outrage across the country, that after no charges, no officers were charged directly in the march death of breonna taylor. i felt like... ...i was just fighting an uphill battle in my career. so when i heard about the applied digital skills courses, i'm thinking i can become more marketable. you don't need to be a computer expert to be great at this. these are skills lots of people can learn. i feel hopeful about the future now. ♪ is now a good time enough, crohn's. i feel hopeful about the future now. for adults with moderate to severe crohn's or ulcerative colitis,

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back in march. one of the three officers involved was charged, but he was charged with indiscriminately firing his weapon into the other apartments nearby back during that march raid. protesters took to the streets of louisville, kentucky to voice their dismay and their anger over this grand jury decision. those protests turning violent at one point as police clashed with the demonstrators. there were more than 100 arrests in louisville and two police officers were shot. both are recovering and the man who allegedly attacked those officers is in police custody. not just in louisville where we saw protests last night. they turned out in cities from st. paul to los angeles to chicago to charlotte. protesters voiced their disbelief and calls yet again for police reform and accountable. cnn's brynn gingras is live in louisville with the very latest. >> reporter: yeah, john, good morning. we just got an update from the mayor here of louisville and the police chief about those activities that turned violent last night. during those protests which were largely peaceful, and as you even mentioneded there were over

100, actually 127 arrests made by police last night. there was some looting and then, of course, we also know about those two officers who were shot. the police chief says one of those officers was a major, been with the force for a long time, the person leading the ground effort for the louisville metro police department with protests, and he was shot in the hip. now he is going to be okay. actually released from the hospital at this point. the second officer was slot in the stomach, the abdomen and underwent several surgeries or at least two according to the governor this morning, and he is going to be okay but he's still being hospitalize. we also know and knew half night that someone has been arrested for this. we know the name, 26-year-old lorenzo johnson and he's now been charged with two counts of assault and 14 understand could of wanton endangerment. again, there were a number of instances that police were responding to last night, 127 arrest in all. now, we also, again, heard from the mayor who again called for

peace, called for protests but for the fact that they should be peaceful and again tonight we'll see a curfew here in louisville at 9:00 and the national guard is here. everything is still boarded up in the downtown area, so there is a lot of frustration. there is a lot of emotion that came out last night, not only from the people marching in the streets but also from breonna taylor's family who even the governor said on our air this morning they didn't get justice, didn't get any answers as to why none of these officers were charged in the direct death of breonna taylor, and that's what people want is just more answers. in fact, kentucky's governor said the attorney general just release the transcripts of those grand jury proceedings done in secrecy but to give more information to the public as to what they were considering, what charges were in front of themmand did they come to the decision that they actually came to. we know that there are possibly more answers that could come out in the future. listen, we know that there's a civil lawsuit that's pending by kenneth walker, breonna taylor's

boyfriend, so there might be some information that comes out of that. we also know there's an fbi investigation as to how that search warrant were obtain were. any civil liberties compromised in obtaining the search warrant and also the investigation by the louisville police department, and there's still a lot of answers needed and still a lot of emotion. this memorial still stands and more people are gathering and we expect more protests, hopefully peaceful, as the day continues on today. >> brynn gingras thankful to the reporting live on the ground at this tense moment. joining me from louisville is a community activist, pastor and resident of louisville. mr. finley, grateful for your time today. you heard brynn explain the anger and frustration. this is your community and i know you're disappointed with what you heard from the attorney general and grand jury yesterday, largely peaceful demonstrations last night, but we can't sugar coat it. there was some violence and two police officers shot. what is your sense and your temperature check, if you will,

on your community today? >> well, yesterday was extremely disappointing, very frustrating, so we're hurting. we feel as though our city was held captive for the last six months and to hear what came down yesterday. i can't begin to explain the amount of trauma that people have been sent through and what they are feeling, but we're also motivated because we understand that if there's going to be change, we're going to have to have the mayor on down, there's going to have to be change at every position. >> one of the interesting wrinkles, maybe interesting is not the wright word in this is that you have an african-american republican and attorney general who is leading this investigation. there are a lot of people critical that he would in the middle of all of that speak at the republican national convention on behalf of president trump. when he explained all this yesterday that he said he because of his life experience

could understand the frustration that you're talking about very well. let's listen. >> i understand that as a black man how painful this is and -- which is why it is so incredibly important to make sure that we did everything that we possibly could to uncover every fact. >> are you satisfied with the work of the attorney general, and if the answer to that is no, what must he do now to satisfy the feeling on the streets? >> well, i'm absolutely not satisfied anymore and as a matter of fact anyone who would stand with this president, anyone who would stand with mitch mcconnell, it doesn't matter who they are, they don't identify with my experience and i suspect the vast majority of black people in the country. if there's going to be change, if he wants to aid in healing this community, then i think we

need to look at the criminal justice system and not just talk about reform. we have to admit and acknowledge that the criminal justice system is not broken. it is doing exactly what it was designed to do, and that's why black people in america don't feel safe today. they don't feel safe -- they haven't felt safe yesterday. we have to change a lot of things that are going on right now. >> pastor timothy finley live from louisville, greatly appreciate your time and perspective today. we'll keep in touch as the next few days play out in your beloved city. thank you, sir. >> thank you. still ahead for us, president trump threatens to overrule new stricter vaccine standards being discussed by the food and drug administration. s inhabits these waters. if he's here, this devour white cheddar mac and cheese with bacon will lure him out. ahhhhhhh eat like an animal.

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president trump says the united states is rounding the turn, his words, when it comes to the coronavirus and that most of the metrics like hospitalizations are getting better. let's look at the numbers though, and they tell us it's much more complicated than that. first the 50-state trend map.

orange and red is bad. there's a lot of orange and red on this map. 2 is states reporting more new infections this week compared to last week, 21 states heading in the wrong direction. more new coronavirus infections this week compared to last week. 21 states holding steady, the beige, the southeast, middle of the country and eight states reporting fewer infections this week than last week. the case curve, yesterday, 37,330 cases, but seven-day average, you can see the red line, trending back up, back up above 40,000. it was 77,000 at the peak of the summer surge, so, yes, we've come down some but still above 40,000 on average new infections a day, and if you look more closely at that average two weeks ago we were averaging 36,000 new infections a day, just two weeks ago. back up now to 43,000 new infections a day. the president says we have turned a curve. we've turned a curve for the worse. this is worse two weeks ago than where we are today. in the terms of positivity, these are the states right now

10% positivity. you see them stretched across the country right here. more higher positivity. it tells you we'll have more infections. when you have more infections you wait a couple of weeks and sadly you have more deaths and if you look at the numbers here, erday the coronavirus.above abg this number had come down, trickled up and plateaued are and now it's edging again, somewhere right around 1,000. around 1,200 around september 15th and 1,000 americans dying yesterday, more than that, from coronavirus, and yet, listen to the president at a white house briefing. he says things are getting so much better. >> we've reduced the fatality rate 85% suns. for individuals under 50 they have a 99.98% rate of survival from the china virus. i think we're rounding the turn very much. you can see what's happening in europe, however. they have a very big spike, countries that we thought were

doing well aren't doing well. you're approach is pro-science and biden's approach is anti-science. if you look, i don't think they know what their approach is although a lot is copied from what we've done. >> joining us now is the chief of infectious diseases at massachusetts general hospital and also a cnn medical analyst. doctor, good to see you. i'll skip the part about joe biden at the end there from the president, just not true, but in terms of the rounding the corner. have we rounded the corner? >> i don't think you can look at that map, john, and say that we've been rounding the corner. i think that we've squandered our summer. we went into the summer with 20,000 new cases a day and we're now double that. you layer on top of that the fact that we're getting into colder weather. people are going to be inside more. people are going to be gathering morin in schools and colleges and what not. it's hard to tell whether this increase is really due to what happened over labor day or the fact that people are simply congregating more and masking less, but i consider it a

concerning turn of events. i would say stable events. >> and so one. remarkable things that happened yesterday is the president's coronavirus experts were all up on capitol hill, and it's striking to your point, so many of them saying things that are just contrary to what he says and does, what the president says and does, stay away from crowds and wear a mask, not directly criticizing the president because they work for him. you can pretty easily correct the dots and one thing that director hahn of the fda said he would not respond to any political pressure when it comes to an emergency use authorization for a potential coronavirus vaccine, and a short time after that at white house the president said, well, the fda may say that, but that's my power. listen. >> well, i'll tell you what. we're looking at that. that has to be approved by the white house. we may or may not approve it. that sounds like a political move, sounds extremely political. why would we do this when we come back with the great results and i think you'll have the great results. why would we be delayingterm

we're going to look at it. we'll take a look at it. >> it's another example of the president undermining his own scientists questioning the credibility of his own scientists, the loyalty of his own scientists, but to the point that if the fda says we're not ready, can the president of the united states overrule that and accepted a vaccine to market? >> you know, i want to be very clear here about what the end game is. the end game is not an approved or an authorized vaccine. the end game is getting us out of this pandemic and from an authorized or approved vaccine we need to have public trust in order to be able to take the vaccine and then we need the vaccine to work and we certainly need the vaccine to be safe, and then we start thinking about how we can get out of this pandemic, so i would say that anything that politics is doing to get away from this end game, that is getting people to take it, undermining the public trust, is

really a huge problem, and i would say i suppose, i don't know if the president has the capacity to do this, the ability to do this, but i would say it would be detrimental to the trust that we need to get people to take this vaccine and that we need to listen to the scientists. >> doctor, as always, grateful for your expertise and insights and your time. i know you're busy. thank you. >> thanks for having me. >> thank you. when we come back, the president standing at the white house podium saying he may not honor the results of the election. shocking to many but not those who know him well. ryone, our min is to provide complete, balanced nutrition for strength and energy. whoo-hoo! great tasting ensure with 9 grams of protein, 27 vitamins and minerals, and nutrients to support immune health. and nutrients to ♪water? why?! ahhhh! incoming! ahhhahh! i'm saved!

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this is not supposed to be news. the senate majority leader tweeting today that the winner of thisser yoo's presidential election will be inaugurated on january 20th. yet the leader, mitch mcconnell, felt compelled to promise, quote, there will be an orderly transition. he felt compelled to say that because president trump is once again forcing republicans to answer for his outrageous statements. >> you can commit to make sure that there's a peaceful transferral of power after the election. >> we'll have to see that. i've been complaining very strongly about the ballots, and the ballots are a disaster.

get rid of the ballots and you'll have -- we'll have a very peaceful -- there won't be a transfer frankly. there will be a continuation. >> journalist michael dantonio wrote the truth about trump back in 2015. he is not surprised of the president's threat to ignore the election results in 2020. michael dantonio is with us now. michael, it's supposed to be shocking, shocking to hear a president of the united states do anything but respect the constitution, anything but uphold the treasure of our democracy and the trish ufrt tradition of a peaceful transfer of power, but when the president said that yesterday i'm guessing for you it was a there it goes again. >> it was a there he goes again moment. you know, after 20,000 lives, it isn't really shocking, and if you know the president's backgrown, you know about his upbringing. you understand that he was raised to have a tyrannical

personality and to throw tantrums when he doesn't get what he wants. there's nothing in his background that indicates that he ever experienced power sharing in any circumstance. he wasn't educated on the american system of a balance of power or democracy. what he believes in is raw power and manipulating the public to get what he wants, so this -- this crazy stuff he says about ballots and about how he won't necessarily accept a peaceful transfer of power is consistent with his authoritarian personality. he's the most dangerous person to ever occupy high office in america. >> let's listen to a bit. you used the word ashore tearian. you listened to the president's own words on presidential authority. >> i have the ultimate authority. when somebody is the president of the united states, the authority is total, and that's

the way it's got to be. >> your authority is total. >> total. >> he likes to tell us he went to the best schools, but the president's authority in the united states is not total. we have three branches of government for a reason. we have a system of checks and balances for a reason, but he repeatedly ignores the congress, defies the will of the congress and now he's talking about rushing a supreme court justice on the bench which he has every right to try to exercise his power but he blatantly says so that i have a vote if there are post-election challenges to the voting. >> well, you're observing something that has been part of donald trump's game plan throughout his life. he sets up the circumstances of the competition before he begins so in this case he wants to load the federal court system and ultimately load the supreme court with people that he thinks will cheat for him. he's assuming that these justices he's appointed will be loyal.

you know, this is very dangerous. he -- you know, if you look at what has happened around the pandemic and you look at his policies on the border where we all saw the body of a child floating in the rio grand and we know that there are tens of thousands of extra deaths due to his mishandling of the pandemic and he's packing people into these rallies where they risk their own lives, you can see there's nothing, not human life, not the sanctity of our democracy, not the balance of power that will stand in his way. he will do anything and accept any loss for the rest of us in order to keep his power. >> michael dantonio, grateful for your insights today. i want to read a line you wrote in your second book. intensely competitive young man who believed he was superior to others. we're watching that play out, so that was good reporting at the time and it stands up today. michael, thank you so much for your insights. coming up, a global look at the

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moscow reporting its highest single day coronavirus case count in months. yesterday russia's anti-coronavirus crisis center reported 150,000 cases in the capital city, the highest since june 23rd. the country saw nearly 6,600 cases in the last day. more global headlines now from the cnn correspondents around the world. >> reporter: here in china the government announced on thursday

that a capital city of beijing punished over 1,000 local officials and public servants failing to carry out coronavirus control and prevention measures. although they did not specify the punishment given, it is not the first time local officials are being held accountable for not properly implementing the government's strict coronavirus containment policies. in june two officials were socked and punished after a local outbreak of a wholesale food market and in may multiple officials removed from the post for the same reason in hubei. authorities say they have largely contained the virus within the borders. almost all of the cases imported from overseas. steven jung, cnn, beijing. >> reporter: here in jerusalem, prime minister netanyahu announced that israel will

tighten the restrictions for the second general lockdown after critics said it wasn't enough and had too much exceptions and loopholes to seriously reduce the number of new infections in israel. it's because of that surging number of cases and we saw it again yesterday with 6,808 new cases according to the ministry of health this netanyahu said this has to be a tighter lockdown with restrictions on places of work, many businesss that are not essential will be closed and pharmacies, supermarkets and other essential services open. meanwhile there will be restrictions on public gatherings including prayer and protest to limit the ability of the coronavirus to spread. netanyahu says this will last for two weeks until early to mid-october and then another two weeks of lockdown hopefully he says with reduces restrictions but crucially he points out that depends on a restriction in then next rate in israel which is

incredibly high. still ahead for us, economic recovery slows. first, though, because of this pandemic more americans have started to grow their own food. in this week's "impact your world" companies share knowledge in a milwaukee neighborhood. >> we were all under quarantine and couldn't get to the store and didn't feel safe going out. that really helped the decision making of grow it in your backyard. i first heard about victory gardens with a seed giveaway the againing of the season. they gave away big bags that you can go and sift your own compost, picking the greens and seeing the tomato sprout and knowing that it started from nothing started from my son sifting compost and now we're growing okra and kale and lettuce.

we did that. >> this is a nonprofit based in milwaukee, wisconsin. anywhere you can put a garden we will put one and provide seeds, compost, the resources that we can as well as mentorship. we have had many more families reach out to us in this year than previous year and we have built 5,000 garden beds in milwaukee. >> i'm contemplating on next year. i feel like it's brought the family closer together, empowering us. we are not going to the stores anymore and it's therapeutic for me like you're watching life happen. >> that is awesome. to learn more go to cnn.com/impact. we'll be right back. when our daughter and her kids moved in with us...

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more evidence today the economy is struggling to find its pandemic footing. another 870,000 americans filed for first time unemployment benefits last week. christine romans breaks down the numbers. >> john, it is no wonder that unemployment was the top google search related to the u.s. election over the past two weeks, the numbers, 870,000

people filed for the first time for state unemployment benefits in the week ending september 19. weekly jobless claims are more times pre-pandemic claims. almost 12.6 million people, look beneath the headlines and the store of chronic unemployment, on state of benefits, 630,000 people filed for special pandemic relief programs, self employed people trying to get government aid. altogether, 26 million people getting some sort of jobless assistance. this data fits a pattern, america's recovery of the pandemic crisis is slowing down, looking less like a v-shaped recovery by the day. millions out of work. temporary job losses are permanent for many and growing concern that the recovery is a k-shape, worsening inequality. especially for people working in retail, restaurants and bars,

travel and leisure. john? top of the hour. hello, everybody. to our viewers in the united states and around the world, thank you so much for sharing your day with us. a very busy news day it is. anger and frustration on the streets of america. the breonna taylor case, the flashpoint. protests in louisville and many other american cities last night after a kentucky grand jury did not file any charges directly linked to taylor's death in a police raid on the louisville apartment back in march. one officer was charged with wanton endangerment. an attorney for taylor's family calls it yet another protect the police outrage. >> if they want an indictment they would get an indictment. if they want to exonerate the police officers, as they so often do in america when they kill black people, they exxon rate them. we cannot have the two justice systems in