thank you very, very much from the bottom of my heart. thank you all. it means the world to me and my family, and i'll see you on thursday thank you, thank you, thank you. >> joe biden officiall nominated during the roll call on the second night of the democratic convention. a big night of who's who of major speakers >> notre dame, one of the major universities pushing for online courses. at least 20 state launch a

legal attack. a new report published in the "journal of pediatrics" finds a three-fold increase in dog bites during the pandemic. we'll tell you why. wildfires raging in california as temperatures soar and power outages grow throughout the states. "early today" starts right now good wednesday morning i'm phillip mena. >> and i'm frances rivera. covid-19 is now the third leading cause of death in the united states. the news comes as over 5.4 million americans have now been infected and over 1712,000 people have died from the virus. the virus is also sweeping through college campuses across the nation just as the fall semester begins. students attending notre dame university will go online for at least two weeks and students at chapel hill are headed home. >> reporter: notre dame going

virt you for at least two weeks after 19% of students tested positive for covid-19. the surge attributed to at least two off-campus parties according to university officials who say they may be forced to send students home. that's already happening at chapel hill after a week of classes. >> i knew it was going to happen it was just a matter of time. >> reporter: now offering classes online only. is this what you thought college would be >> not at all. >> reporter: the decision comes after 135 new covid cases were reported including a cluster at this fraternity house. now 500 students are quarantined. this junior says the university should never have allowed students to come back. >> how do you feel you just unpacked your bags and

now you have to go home again. >> right it's been very frustrated. >> reporter: the university is refunding room and board but the deadline to get a tuition refund was the same day as the announcement was made. residence halls were only 60% full and less than 30% of classes were held in person. >> when activitieses began to happen off campus and bring some of that back into the residence halls, that's where we began to see the positive cases. >> reporter: the struggle to control the virus and student behavior happening across the country. at iowa state, this was the scene over the weekend and at villanova, students crammed together in a tent converted into an outdoor classroom. back at chapel hill, a painful lesson learned. >> i think it's going to see -- very soon you're going to see that college campuses are going to have to send their students home. >> reporter: as students pack their bags here at chapel houle,

another university is asking its students not to come back. michigan state has told their students to begin their fall semester online. as the global race for a coronavirus vaccine continues, the surveymonkey tracking poll finds only 44% of adults say they would get the vaccine 267892% portland say they would not get it and the over 32% say they're not sure. the 2020 matchup is officially set joe biden secured the nomination last night in a virtual roll call on night 2 of the national convention his wife delivered the headline speech. >> there are times when i couldn't even imagine how he did it, how he put one foot in front of the other and kept over, but i always understood why he did it

he does it for you. >> he's a person with integrity. he's the right kind of person for the moment he recognizes the challenges facing our family and has the heart and the talent to make life better for all americans. >> joe biden will be a president we will all be proud to salute with joe biden in the white house, you will never doubt he will stand with our friends and stand up to our adversaries, never the other way around. >> when this president goes overseas, it's never a good will mission. it's a blooper reel. >> if you want to watch someone zapping people, he's your men. >> 19 million people tuned in to major networks, however, democratic officials said there was a big bump with online

streaming. str tracie potts joins us. tonight could be the showstopper. >> reporter: tonight we could see momentum building and kamala harris could accept her nomination her speech is happening tonight. the headliner was joe biden's wife, dr. jill biden she talked about his personal struggles and used them as motivation to continue to serve. we heard from general colin powell endorgs joe biden and the party's faithful mrs. carter and alexandria ocasio-cortez they spoke of president trump of his record, his character, and others looking forward to the parties' future. biden says he's looking forward to tonight

>> all right hey, guys. >> thank you very, very much from the bottom of my heart. thank you all. it means the world to me and my family, and i'll see you on thursday we'll see that again today when he speaks to the black caucus, spanish caucus, and we look ahead throughout the day president trump visited a pair of battleground states in iowa where he offered federal support after he helped rebuild last week and tospoke at the border wall. >> biden's plan is the most radical, extreme, reckless, dangerous plan ever put forward by a may

party candidate. >> a bipartisan senate panel just released a mattiv were eager to accept help. pete, what else is in the report >> this is a bipartisan report from the senate intelligence committee endorsed by republicans, too, giving it extra weight like the muller report it finds no evidence of a coordinated n conspiracy with him. it goes further saying he was in close touch with a russian intelligence officer who became a business partner it says manafort posed a grave threat he may have reported on the leak of the hillary clinton emails, a

directive by president putin as for the promotion by president trump, he said it was the government of ukraine, not russia he said that report originated in russia as propaganda. and the report says trump's foreign policy team was so inexperienced it left things open to russia manipulation. there are new developments in the battle over the post office after a lot of uproar and the even protests outside the postmaster's home, the president said there will be no more cost-cutting changes until after the election. >> there are still questions about changing that happened across the country nbc's peter alexander has this report. >> reporter: facing fierce scrutiny over major mail delays, the postmaster is suspending operational changes until after the election to avoid even the

appearance of impact on the election mail. t this ig to impact the election. >> they're afraid of the voter and the american people. why? because people are onto them. >> reporter: the costcutting of sorting machines and slashing of overtime are blamed for significant lags in mail service. this photo shows packages the employees says have been sitting in a distribution in new york for nine days. dejoy now says mail processing equipment and collection boxes will remain where they are no facilitied will be closed, and overtime hours will be continued to be approved as needed still, it's unclear whether the changes made it and equipment removed will be restored

there will be a democratic controlled panel on monday. >> we need to get him under oath on a committee letting us know what is happening and we have to undo the damage that he has already done. >> reporter: ahead of visits to iowa and arizona, president trump again attacked universal mail-in voting for the first time he's suggesting there may need to be a presidential do over, which cannot happen. >> universal is going to be a disast disaster, the likes of which a country has never seen they'll have do it again and nobody wants that. and i don't want that. >> reporter: this morning dejoy says the postal service is ready to handle all the election mail it gets this fall. nancy pelosi is not satisfied calling it, quote, an insufficient first step,

sabotaging the campaign. massive wildfires are still burning up and down the state of california the lake fire in los angeles is under 40% containment after nearly a week. it spread to more than 20,000 acres and a dozen structures have been destroyed. and evacuations have been ordered in sonoma. >> janessa webb is watching the heat and the tropics let's check in with her. good morning >> good morning, everyone. the heat won't back off the pacific northwest and now moving into the southwest this afternoon. now, some hope, we're seeing a little bit of circulation that's providing some moisture for the upper midwest and parts of the pacific northwest. it's very dry. the winds are going to continue to pick up throughout the afternoon. we'll continue to watch thesals

storms, tornados touching down across central florida, and we'll continue to see that throughout the afternoon and then the tropics, they're heating up we'll talk about that coming up. major league baseball, that have suspended a texas rangers pitcher and manager after some controversy about baseball's unwritten rules. fehr nan dose tatis jr. crushed this grand slam with his team up by seven the rangers didn't like it, so they threw the next pitch right behind manny machado the pitcher is out for three games and his manager chris woodward is out for one game in tuesday's game tatis jr. ended up stealing a base when they were up by six. they're baseball players

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right now at 4:30, breaking news, fires in the north bay now moving through neighborhoods, destroying homes. we know multiple people have suffered burns overnight as they ran for their lives. "today in the bay" starts right now. a good wednesday morning to you. i'm marcus washington. >> i'm laura garcia. let's get right to the breaking news this morning. situation across the bay area getting worse for firefighters already stretched thin. this map shows you where the fires are now burning in the bay area and santa cruz