breaking news in "america this morning," suspect killed. a man believed to be behind the murder of a protester during a pro-trump rally in portland is shot by police. what led to the deadly confrontation. new this morning, how president trump's response to the racial unrest across the country is affecting his poll numbers as early voting for november's election kicks off today. possible turning point. the new prediction about the coronavirus death toll in the united states as we head into labor day weekend.how ti a rpin safety precautions and just how many collegeotand her hoywd testing positive. pretending to be black. the stunning admission from a prominent professor that she's been lying about her race for years.

plus, animal crossing. a family of bears wandering into the pathth of this roller coaster with a man heading straight toward them. the new sleep crisis in america. what's to blame for even more of us not getting enough shut-eye. making magic one-on-one with the director of disney's "mulan" reboot. what fans can expect. and a good friday morning, everyone. i'm will reeve in for kenneth. >> and i'm mona kosar abdi. we begin with breaking news. the prime suspect in the death of a trump supporter in portland, oregon, has been killed by federal agents. >> investigators say they found michael reinhoehl at home outside portland where allegedly he pulled out a gun prompting agents to open fire. >> during an interview published hours before that shooting reinhoehl admitting to killing aaron danielson claiming self-defense. video shows a person shooting danielson after a caravan of

trump supporters drove through the city. also breaking overnight, two men have been arrested in connection with the unrest in kenosha, wisconsin. investigators say the men from missouri were heading to kenosha to, quote, pick people off in the wake of the shooting of jacob blake. prosecutors say the men were seen on facebook with guns and a blue lives matter flag and say guns and tactical gear were found inside the men's vehicle. we turn now to a prediction about the coronavirus as we enter the holiday weekend. >> the cdc predicts the number of deaths in the united states could reach 211,000 by the end of the month. it comes as we learn of a second death traced to a wedding in maine. another reminder of the danger of large gatherings. >> doctors say this weekend could be a turning point in the fight against the virus if americans follow social distancing guidelines. this morning, the cdc warning americans to brace for nearly 30,000 more coronavirus deaths before the end of the month. the sobering statistic coming as dr. anthony fauci breaks his silence on that controversial vaccine time line.

>> i don't think that that's likely. >> reporter: saying while it is possible it's still unlikely that the government will have anything ready to distribute by november 1st. >> i think most of the people feel it's going to be november, december. >> reporter: fauci also warning that these seven states are at a high risk of new covid cases amid labor day celebrations. >> we don't want to see a repeat of the surges we have seen following other holiday weekends. >> reporter: still cities across the country are gearing up for this weekend's holiday rush. california hoping to prevent a new spike by bringing in private security guards to ensure social distancing on busy beaches. florida taking a similar approach. >> this will be the first major holiday weekend that miami's beaches will be open since the beginning of the pandemic they were closed over memorial day and the fourth of july because miami's numbers across the board were so bad, you can expect an increased police presence in weekend to help control the crowd side. >> reporter: meanwhile, colleges

are shuttering busy bars after scenes of them ignoring safety guidelines. >> after you leave campus rules go out the window. >> reporter: eight universities reporting more than 1,000 cases of covid on campus. in indiana the positivity rate is nearly 90% in some sororities and fraternities. this video of a class at james madison university raising new concerns. the socially distanced desks only holding a fraction of the students enrolled. >> i'm just not sure being face-to-face in most cases is helpful or necessary at this point. >> reporter: from college campuses to main street, a different concern. the growing economic impact of the pandemic. restaurants in new york city now filing a $2 billion lawsuit against the state to resume indoor dining. one survey revealing nearly two-thirds of restaurants in the city could close by the end of the year. and now hollywood is facing a new setback. one week after hyping up fans with a new trailer filming for "the batman" starring robert pattinson is on pause. "variety" and "the new york

times" has reported that pattinson has the virus. it will still bring one summer blockbuster. chris nolan's "tenet" is in the air. cashless tickets, concessions sold online and the use of disinfectant fog in between movies is being used. now we turn to rochester, new york, where protesters confronted police hours after seven police officers were suspended for the death of a black man. >> police used pepper balls to disperse the crowd. some of the protesters were pushing against the police barricades. the tension follows the release of video showing daniel prude's encounter with police back in march. prude, who had a history of mental illness was naked when an officer placed a so-called spit hood over his head. he allegedly said he had coronavirus. he stopped breathing and later died. it was ruled a homicide. >> what i saw in that reunited video was a man would needed

help, a man who needed compassion, a man who needed humanity. he lost his life because of the actions of our police officers. >> reporter: rochester city officials say the new york attorney general's office has asked them not to release information about the case including the police body cam video because they said it would interfere with the investigation. the first mail-in ballots for the presidential election are being sent out today. this comes as a new poll finds 55% say president trump's rhetoric on the racial unrest in big cities is making matters worse. and now the president is raising concern after suggesting his supporters try to vote twice. here's abc's ines de la cuetara. >> reporter: this morning early voting in the presidential election is kicking off. the first mail-in ballots are being sent out today to voters in north carolina. >> these mail-in ballots are a disgrace, and they know it. >> reporter: it comes as president trump tries to clarify his comments when he suggested americans try to vote twice.

[ crowd chanting ] in pennsylvania last night the president seemingly encouraged his supporters in some cases to vote by mail and then in person. >> sign your mail-in ballot, okay. you sign it and send it in, and then you have to follow it, and if on election day or early voting that is not tabulated and counted, you go vote. >> reporter: laws can vary by state but voting twice could be a felony. pennsylvania's attorney general weighing in writing, our election laws are clear, one person, one vote. on wednesday the president created a firestorm for a similar suggestion in north carolina. >> send it in early, and then go and vote, and if it's not tabulated, you vote, and the vote is going to count. >> reporter: election officials expect a record number of ballots this year because of the pandemic. something the president warned

could lead to widespread voter fraud and now abc news learned russian propaganda is also spreading that same unsubstantiated claim. a homeland security bulletin warns russia is trying to undermine public trust in the electoral process by spreading disinformation that mail-in voting creates vast opportunities for voter fraud. in the meantime, while in pennsylvania the president stepping up his attacks on joe biden. >> but did you ever see a man that likes a mask as much as him, and then he makes a speech and he always has it -- no, no, a lot of times he has it hanging down because you know what, it gives him a feeling of security. if i were a psychiatrist, right, no, i'd say, i'd say this guy has got some big issues. >> reporter: biden on wednesday visiting kenosha where he met with the families of jacob blake, something president trump did not do when he visited earlier this week. biden speaking with blake himself from his hospital bed where he is now paralyzed after being shot seven times in the back by a white officer.

>> he talked about how nothing was going to defeat him, how whether he walked again or not, he was fault going to give up. >> reporter: today joe biden will be holding a virtual event from his home in delaware. the president will be hosting foreign leaders at the white house. will and mona. >> ines, thank you. the justice department is reportedly planning to file an antitrust charge against google as soon as this month. that's according to "the new york times" which reports that attorney general william barr overruled career lawyers who say they need more time to build their case. one month after that catastrophic explosion in beirut rescue teams are carefully searching through a collapsed building after a dog and electronic sensors indicated a possible heartbeat in the rubble. that dog is part of a team that helped find the chilean miners ten years ago. the explosion in beirut was triggered by ammonium nitrate. 200 people were killed.

>> time now for a look at your friday morning weather. the national weather service has confirmed a tornado touched down near annapolis, maryland. it was part of a storm that brought heavy rain and damaging wind gusts to the d.c. metro area. the radar shows mostly dry conditions except for showers and thunderstorms from texas to arkansas and into tennessee. checking today's high temperatures, 70s and 80s for the midwest. 80s from philly to boston. triple digit heat in the west could trigger more blackouts in california. 86 in los angeles. coming up, a warning for pet lovers, the scam taking advantage of more americans. but first the white university professor who admits she pretended for years to be black. what we're learning about her past. and protesters hanging hair dryers and curlers outside nancy pelosi's home. the new details on her controversial visit to the hair how will 2020 census data be used?

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we're back with protesters gathered outside house speaker nancy pelosi's home in san francisco. some wearing hair curlers. others hanging blow dryers from a tree. they say pelosi ignored rules banning indoor hair appointments. pelosi's stylist backs up the claim that pelosi was set up by a salon owner, a claim the owner denied. new algss of sexual harassment against executives with the washington football team. four former employees telling espn that team owner daniel snyder deserves much of the blame for what they describe as a culture of misogyny and harassment and told never to look snyder in the eye. one woman claims she was followed by a player who repeatedly asked to date her. turning now to the white university professor who admits

she pretended to be black and kept up the lie for years. she's now explaining why she did it. here's abc's megan tevrizian. >> reporter: this morning a white university professor admitting she's falsely claimed to be black.onin a blog post writing, every move i've made, every relationship i've formed has been rooted in the napalm toxic soil of lies. she's at professor at george washington university teaching african-american history. she's a published author, a finalist for the harriet tubman and frederick douglass book prizes. >> we want to find practices, black practices in the americas and trace them back to some specific place in africa and that impulse is rooted in the tragedy of the transatlantic slave trade. >> reporter: in her post she exposes she is a white jewish woman raised in the suburbs of kansas city who struggled with unaddressed mental health demons saying she assumed a false identity when she was younger as a response to severe trauma adding, mental

health issues can never, will never neither explain nor justify her actions. krug's story drawing similarities to rachel dolezal, the white former president of the naacp branch in spokane who identified as a black woman. dolezal's race exposed in 2015 sparking controversy. >> i did feel at some point i would need to address the complexity of my identity. >> reporter: while dolezal adama adamantly defended herself identi identifying herself as a black woman, professor krueger is apologizing calling them wrong, immoral and unethical. it's unclear what led up to it and what's behind the timing of her statement. will, mona. >> our thanks to megan tevrizian. coming up, the new sleep crisis in america and what is to blame. also ahead, a real-life roller coaster for a person going down the track with a bear in the way. guys! guys! check it out.

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thank you for joining us. the cdc is predicting up to 211,000 deaths from coronavirus before the end of this month, which is about 1,000 deaths per day for the rest of the month. what is your reaction to this number, and what needs to happen to bring it down, or is it too late? >> well, mona, these numbers don't surprise me. recent trends and future predictions of covid new cases do show a glimmer of hope, however, the best we could hope for is a gradual decline of cases. the level of interaction and easing of restrictions across the country make it almost impossible to see a sharp decline in cases. >> we are getting information every day from the various covid vaccine trials. johnson & johnson is now reporting that its vaccine has been successful in preventing illness in hamsters. what is your take in this? encouraging or irrelevant? >> the way the johnson & johnson potential vaccine works is slightly different than the current vaccine candidates in phase three trials, so it's important to have these different mechanisms given we

don't know if one will work better than the other. so while it is good news that this candidate is hopefully moving forward, obviously hamsters are not humans and we'll have to wait to see the impact of the human trials. >> lastly, something we can all relate to, particularly on this shift. we are not getting enough sleep but apparently the coronavirus pandemic is making this worse. how big of an issue is sleep deprivation right now? >> unfortunately, many of the good sleep hygiene habits we preach are being violated during the pandemic. we're moving our work life into home life, unfortunately, and that makes it harder to stay away from electronics, brings into our bedroom our home office many times and the increased stress of a pandemic, whether it's financial, the physical health or worry about caring for our children can increase hormones which make it harder to sleep. >> our thanks to dr. ravi. up next after the break the change coming to "jeopardy." also ahead, the highly anticipated release of "mulan." we talk to the director about what to expect. once-weekly ozempic® is helping

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. making news at 4:27 #, hair raising reopening. if you have been waiting months to get your haircut or styled in the east bay, today is your day. and salon-gate outrage. a san francisco salon owner denies nancy pelosi was set up and makes a demand. and developing news, federal agents shoot and supporter. we'll get to all that in a moment, but let's check in with drew tuma for a look at the day ahead. another spare the air? >> yeah, another one. the 18th consecutive spare the air and then the holiday heat wave kicks in tomorrow. so we're tracking a lot.

today, thein comfortable day in terms of our temperatures before the dangerous heat kicks in tomorrow. so outside this morning, the explos exploratorium camera, you see some fog. the day planner, there is the spare the air day in effect. today is a little warmer than yesterday, but pretty close to average for this time of the year. around the bay shoreline, upper 70s. our hottest spots inland will go into the low 90s. and then temperatures will really take off tomorrow. and that is when our heat advisories are issued and also the excessive heat warnings for much of the bay area will also start at 11:00 a.m. saturday, lasting through monday night for a high risk of heat iguodallnes. allowing businesses to reopen is key to boosting the local economy and building a better bay area. today alameda county is taking a huge step forward in doing just

that. julian glover is live with what this will mean for a lot of people anxious to get those haircuts. >> reporter: good morning. yeah, it is a good morning. hair salons can reopen back inside their actual shops for the first time in six months. you can imagine this is a great day for a lot of people. today again is the day that those salons and barber shops can finally reopen with limited capacity with a number of new state and county wide health requirements in place. i want to go over some of them. so clients may be asked to do the hair washing at homes so appoint tim appointment times can be kept to a minimum. and clients can't bring anyone else with them. you can only bring a child getting a service or a parent who has to care for that child or if the person getting the service needs assistance. stylists can only see one client at a time, they can't dry one client while another is getting

a cut. and if the service requires those face masks to be removed, that service is not allowed right now. this shop has their plan in place. >> come in, you get a temperature check, you have to have a mask on and yes, you have to have an appointment and each stylist can only have one client in the salon as a time. >> reporter: so they have the plan in place. and the procedures of exactly how it will be run there. i also want to tell you that nails, skin care and waxing services must only operate outdoors for now. other changes include noncontact fitness classes can begin holding classes outside. and i do want to let parents know that bounce houses, many of kids might want to do for this holiday weekend, those are all still closed in alameda county. but the big headline, hair salons, barber shops finally being allowed to reopen indoors. julian glover, abc 7 news.