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>> reporter: the good news, the fda said there is no evidence people can contract covid from food or food packaging it's most often transmitted between people in close contact. but interesting in cities like minneapolis and philadelphia which saw big protests recently, no sign of a surge in cases. possibly because protesters were outside in warmer humid temperatures, many wearing masks. researchers are seeing a surge while you may be done with in cities where people have covid, covid is not done with us tried to escape the heat by congregating without masks >> los angeles's mayor sounding inside with air conditioning and the alarm as the number of new poor ventilation if cities and states don't limit coronavirus cases in the u.s. large gatherings, experts warn explodes to almost 46,000 in a america's death toll could soar single day, shattering the later this year. previous record by 10,000. >> we don't have to hit 2100,000 >> plus what doctors have this fall. we don't have to hit 300,000 by learned over thet 100 days the winter in treating covid-19 patients. those are all up to us plus the latest on the risk of but if we don't take it being infected by your food. seriously and if we don't act >> it has been one month since aggressively, unfortunately i do the death of george floyd. worry that those are the kinds in that time hundreds of of numbers we're going to be thousands have marched in the seeing by the end of this u.s. and abroad with a global calendar year. reckoning on race. >> reporter: president trump's former fda commissioner with a so what has actually changed in that time? stark warning.
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>> and a hero come along >> there is certainly a we will introduce you to the possibility we face a second sheriff's deputy who ran toward wave in the fall that could be bigger than the a burning truck to save that first wave >> reporter: and the first wave driver just in the nick of time. >> this morning, another 1 1/2 with 120,000 dead isn't even over yet million new jobless claims are tom costello, nbc news, washington >> this morning new fallout from expected, but we'll tell you the skills employers are looking for most when hiring these days. president trump's saturday campaign rally in tulsa. "early today" starts right now the "washington post" reports dozens of secret service agents good morning and officers are being ordered i'm frances rivera >> and i'm phillip mena. to quarantine in their homes for the nationwide outbreak of two weeks after providing covid-19 is taking on a new protection for the president this comes after it was revealed trajectory nearly 2 1/2 million americans that six members of trump's team are now infected with cases rising in more than 20 states. in oklahoma, including two secret service members, tested >> the virus has reached a record single-day high of more positive for covid-19. the report says two other staffers tested positive after than 45,000 new cases. returning to d.c the bulk of them coming out of >> as coronavirus courses across california, texas and florida the nation, president trump is where the total number of focusing his attention infections have all surpassed elsewhere. mr. trump is heading to 100,000. >> in california, the happiest wisconsin today to tour a navy place on earth is staying shut contractor shipyard one day for just a little longer after welcoming the president of disneyland was set to reopen on poland he's the first worlde since the july 17th, but that's now postponed because of that uptick in cases start of the pandemic. >> in mexico, newborn triplets our capitol hill correspondent have tested positive for the tracie pot
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virus. the parents both tested negative officials are investigating whether they were infected after >> reporter: hi, phillip the president continues to downplay it despite the spike birth. the pandemic also sent the stock market into a downward spiral. reported 23 states are seeing an increase the stock market dropping 700 of 25% or more many of them in the south and points while the s&p 500 and nasdaq fell 2% making it the out west where states started to worst day since june 11. our tom costello has more on the open sooner rather than later. the president has been very risks of being infected. focused on developing a vaccine >> reporter: from the new front and he's made some comments about that he's promised that it can be lines of the pandemic -- >> half of them are intubated on done by the end of the year and the president says it looks like ventilators. one of them required cpr for the vaccine development is on track. first three hours of our shift >> we are making great progress >> reporter: the kind of horror stories we heard from new york on therapeutics and vaccines to spring as the death rate as far as the joining with us on the vaccines and therapeutics, skyrocketed. experts say there has been real by the way, because the therapeutics to me if they gave progress in fighting the pandemic in i.c.u.s doctors are delaying you a choice now probably therapeutically i'd like that even better, but we're working putting patients on ventilators very well on both. and treating them with 100 i think we're coming up with oxygen and on their stomachs to some great answers i think you're going to have a allow better o 2 flow. big surprise, beautiful surprise using blood thinner to avoid sooner than anybody would think. >> reporter: now, the trump blood clots and strokes.
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they have remdesivir to treat administration has announced that they are ending federal the sickest patients researchers just reported funding for community test steroids are also saving lives >> we are doing a better job of sites. the question about whether more preserving life, but there are testing needs to be done, the still a lot of people who haven't been infected. president said less testing this is a virus that'so go would show fewer cases but health and human services says they are broadening support for retail sites, pharmacies that do testing and federally qualified health centers phillip? >> all right, tracie potts for us thank you, tracie. >> attorney general bill barr will testify before the house judiciary committee next month after witnesses told lawmakers they have personally seen political interference in big cases, including roger stone's meanwhile, former national security advisor michael flynn scored a big legal victory, but the case might not be over just yet. alice barr has more. >> reporter: president trump holding his first in-person meeting with a world leader since the coronavirus lockdowns. the focus quickly turned from the future with poland's president to the past with the russia investigation >> very happy about general
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flynn. he was treated horribly. >> reporter: president trump praising a d.c. appeals court decision ordering a judge to drop criminal charges against former national security advisor michael flynn who had admitted to lying to federal investigators about his contacts with russia. >> what happened to general flynn should never happen again in our country >> reporter: but this may not be the end. the judge could ask for a new hearing. also, the house committee heard from a prosecutor who claims the trump administration interfered in the case involving one of the president's long-time confidants, also accused of lying in the russia probe. >> roger stone was treated differently because of politics. >> reporter: it comes as the european union is considering blocking travelers coming in from the u.s. because virus numbers are still too high here. with cases surging across the south and west, florida, texas and arizona all seeing record numbers. >> the motion is not agreed to >> reporter: meanwhile, the republican bill on police reform
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that president trump supports hit a dead end in the senate democrats blocked it saying it doesn't go nearly far enough in creating the accountability and transparency that protesters are demanding. republicans ripping democrats for not allowing debate. in washington, alice barr, nbc news >> fbi director christopher wray says china's communist government is the biggest threat to the united states >> there's no country that presents a broader, more comprehensive threat to america's innovation, to our economic security and to our democratic ideas than china does >> during an interview with fox news, wray revealed there had been 1300% increase in espionage investigations into the chinese region in the past decade. wray also claimed that china is interested in influencing american political thought and policies to, quote, try and shift them in a more friendly
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pro china, pro chinese communist direction. >> the astronaut they plan to use, the space agency will crash a spacecraft into an asteroid to change its motion in space nasa has named that celestial body demorphos >> at least there is no dust storm headed to the united states isn't that something janessa webb joins us. oh, there is >> it is you called that. the south and the southeast are bracing for it first then, you know, i've been watching the models. we could possibly have a second wave of this dust storm. i'll talk about that later on, but first i want to talk about the severe weather that's happening across the deep south making its way into the carolinas right now. also be watching the northern plains this aftern
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often for the upper midwest. we're in the lower 90s today, mostly sunny skies and we still need to talk about that dust storm. >> all right, janessa, we'll talk about that. if we have time, the murder hornets. thanks, janessa. >> spike lee's classic film "do the right thing" will be free to stream online june 29. part of the american institute movie collection of the week the 1989 film is available for free across a variety of streaming platforms, including apple tv, voodoo and google play it will be accompanied with a live conversation with spike lee focusing on the meaningful legacy of the film and its social significance today. that discussion will take place today at 8:00 p.m. on youtube. >> coming up, renewed calls to open a controversial case in colorado pa ath a look back at the global imctt e death of george floyd one month later. this is "early today."
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leading the news in colorado, officials are reexamining the case of a 23-year-old who died in police custody last year. this comes after 2 million people signed an online petition urging officials to investigate the death of elijah mcclain. in august he was stopped by three white officers as he walked home with a mask on and groceries in his hands police were responding to a call of a suspicious person investigators say mclane resisted arrest and a struggle ensued they wested mclane to the ground an officer placed him in a choke hold and he lost consciousness they released the hold and he struggled again. when paramedics arrived they administered ketamine. mclane suffered a heart attack in the ambulance and died three days later >> it's about one month since the death of george floyd in the custody of minneapolis police. since then, thousands of protesters have taken to the streets in the u.s. and around the world. a global reckoning on race, policing and even the symbols of
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our past nbc's morgan radford takes a look back at just how much has changed since then >> i can't breathe, officer. >> reporter: it's the moment that launched a movement >> i can't breathe >> reporter: nearly 8 minutes of video that shocked the nation showing a white police officer kneeling on the neck of a black man named george floyd protests in hundreds of cities across all 50 states more than 17,000 national guard troops deployed. over 9,000 civilians arrested. a national reckoning that has brought both chaos and -- >> breaking news, an arrest has been made in the death of george floyd. >> reporter: all four officers now charged in george floyd's death. in atlanta, one officer fired and two facing charges after the shooting death of rayshard brooks after months, one of the three
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police officers involved in the killing of breonna taylor now fired. the country also grappling with its past already more than 67 statues have been removed from coast to coast. either by choice or by force >> we all need to be in solidarity together. >> reporter: the calls for justice echoing an unexpected wave, too. companies in the world like quaker oats changing their branding and their messaging even nascar shifting gears, banning the confederate flag at events for the first time in its history. leading to a powerful moment of solidarity with the circuit's only black driver. but as the fires die down and the glass is swept up, more lasting signs of change have emerged. the city of minneapolis now banning choke holds and neck restraints a majority of the city council promising to disband the police department and rebuild it entirely in los angeles over $100 million
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now pledged toward health and education in black communities, money previously allocated for police >> black lives matter. >> reporter: but many activists say this is just the start >> what does this movement look like a month from now? what does it look like in a year, five years, ten years? >> i do think this movement will shift. i do think we'll continue to see an evolution in interest, in tactics being used, with folks beginning to kind of embrace a much more explicit electoral posture. and so i absolutely see the mobilization continuing through the end of the year. >> what do we want >> justice >> reporter: a change that can only happen in the months and the years to come. >> our thanks to morgan radford for that report. >> still to come, why coronavirus isn't the only thing worrying wall street right now >> and a heart-pounding highway rescue a deputy saving a man from a fiery crash.
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wednesday, dropping over 700 points on the dow. it wasn't just coronavirus that had investors running for cover. cnbc's geoff cutmore has details and more information on getting higher good morning >> very good morning to you. obviously the spike in coronavirus cases seen in part as a culprit alongside the imf scaling back growth forecasts. but the other one, could it be joe biden running ahead in the polls at the moment? some analysts at bank of america have crunched the data back to 1951 and they say when the presidency flips to the democr you get in the following three months under performance for the s&p. that and the fact that the democrats have talked about rolling back some tax breaks has some in the market nervous now, always great advice if you're a fresh college grad looking to get hired, then people scout has some advice communication skills high on the
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the gillette skinguard. hi, everyone the sahara dust is on the move i really think the south and southeast will notice it pretty much going into tonight. but friday you'll really see the impact it should be really pretty, but please look around jamaica and puerto rico area i think this is a double dose of dust say that ten times we're going to start to see it make its way into the gulf of mexico, but, phillip, no murder hornets on top of that, so -- >> keeping our fingers crossed >> at least we have that thanks, nea.jass the iconic rose bowl using its face to host classic movies. eeeeeww! dead skin cells! gross! so now, i grab my swiffer sweeper and heavy-duty dusters. duster extends to three feet to get all that gross stuff gotcha!
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in today's top stories, the three white men that were arrested in connection of the shooting death of ahmaud arbery have officially been indicted by a grand jury father and son duo mcmichael and neighbor brian face malice, murder and felony murder lawyers for the milk michael caution of a rush to judgment. brian's attorney maintains he was merely a witness the jury came to that decision in less than ten minutes the news comes one day after georgia's legislature passed a hate crime bill and a day after one of three louisville police officers in the breonna taylor case was fired today arbery's mother will meet with the mother of breonna taylor to push for the officers to face charges. >> those received coronavirus relief payments and the irs wants the money back the federal tax agency is asking state officials to claw back the
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hundreds of dollars allegedly sent the legislation that authorized the payments during the pandemic didn't specifically exclude jail or prison inmates when the checks were sent out the irs has directed state correction departments to intercept payments to prisoners and return them. >> amazon has announced it's launching a new team to crackdown on the sale of counterfeit goods. it's the company's latest effort to address a growing problem that has plagued the site for years. amazon says the counterfeit crimes unit will be made up of former federal prosecutors, investigators and data analysts. and it will mine the site and collect information from external sources such as payment service providers to collect bad actors who attempt totry to sell knock-off products. >> the federal judge has ruled you can argue till the cows come home but you can't sue twitter over parody accounts it was an you hadudder mess forn
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nunes. one posed as a imaginary cow and another pretending to be his mother causing him to end reelection by a smaller margin than 2016. a judge dismissed the case saying twitter can't be held liable the cow account milked it for all it was worth tweeting a picture of nunes now as a chicken. >> he looks pretty good. poor references in the story the rolls bowl has hosted some of college's biggest games and is going to host some of film's biggest attractions the stadium in pasadena, california, will transform into a drive-in theater next month. first on the marquee is "jaws. another classic that will play, space jam and field of dreams will air in the weeks after. >> now is the time to do it if you've never seen it >> catch up on all that. thanks for watchin"early today. g
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right now at 4:30, an alleged shoplifter is dead after a confrontation with a grocery store worker. we'll tell you what investigators say happen. we're seeing an increase in spread as more people, as the economy opens up and more people are out and about. wear a mask. growing covid concerns as cases spike across the state. some bay area businesses are rethinking their reopening plans. it's all coming up as "today in the bay" starts right now.
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