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1st. president trump will travel to wisconsin where local leaders have voiced concerns that the visit could inflame the situation over the shooting of jacob blake. >> outbreaks ex-ploiding on college campuses, the covid swat team being dispatched to one university and the coronavirus has put millions of small businesses at risk new details this morning on a
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nonprofit offering loans that don't have to be paid back >> and getting ritd of something most travelers can't stand "early today" starts right now glad to have you with us i'm frances rivera >> i'm phillip mena. >> protests in portland are marred by violence we other seeing clashes between groups on opposite sides of the political spectrum across the country. >> reporter: protests literally turning into political battlegrounds. president trump blaming what he calls radical left mayors and governors and promising law & order ahead of a tuesday trip to wisconsin despite the mayor urging him to stay away.
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>> the wave of violence and destruction has occurred in sts dominated by the je point d kyle rittenhouse after killing two people, injuring a therd >> he was trying to get afrom them and they vie lantly attacked him >> joe biden condemning violence on both sides. >> a president that sews chaos. >> reporter: and blaming the president and his followers for the growing unrest >> he may believe mouthing the orr makes him strong but his failure to call on his followers shows how weak he is. >> reporter: the issue is much bigger and much deeper that
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conservative or liberal politics >> we're sick and tired of the violence we're tired of it. we want to see change. that's what we want. >> as unfortunately the anger and violence seems to be growing, nbc news. >> president trump is pushing his law & order message as a center piece in his re-election campaign during an interview he offered this comparison for officers who use excessive force inappropriately. >> they choke. shooting the guy in the back many times i mean, couldn't you have done something different? couldn't you have wrestled him in if meantime he could have been going for a weapon. it's a whole big thing there just like in a golf tournament >> you're not comparing it to golf >> i'm saying people choke
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>> tracie potts joins us with more and that's the latest comment from the president as he heads to kenosha today >> in the fox interview he also called black lives matters a discriminatory name. he called it a marksist group and he talked about joe biden linking him to the protesters and he seemed to defend that teenager who killed two people in the violence. >> the rioters and joe biden have a side. they're both on the side of the radical left >> you're going to defend the reactions of vigilant hes like kyle rittenhouse >> you saw the same tape as i saw and he was trying to get away from them it looks like and then they violently attacked him. >> he's stroking violence in our cities do i look like a radical
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socialist with a soft spot for rioters? i want a safe america, safe from covid, safe from racially motivated violence, safe from bad cops let me be crystal clear, safe from four more years of donald trump. >> reporter: joe biden describing the looting and the rioting and the unrest as donald trump's america. he also said as president he would clarify that looters are not the same as demonstratores d and he'd prosecute them. joe biden so going viral this morning for his dead pan response to a heckler telling him he can't win in the state of pennsylvania he was yelling at him from the top of a pickup truck. >> you finally got out of the
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basement >> that's right, joe >> don't jump. don't jump >> biden laughed off that heckler while he was delivering some pizzas to firefighters in pittsburgh >> schools are preparing to open classrooms to student this week even with many regions still grappling with spikes in coronavirus cases. officials in the uk, france and other countries enforcing new measures to keep students sach talk about those measures now. >> reporter: good morning. well, you know, frances, like most approaches to dealing with coronavirus it seems schools are no exception there seems to be no one size fits all across europe and across the uk. very different ways of what they're trying to do so here in the uk the government is keen to getting people back to school, but students here in
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england are starting this week, northern ireland, wells and scotland have already started back school. students in secondary school will be required to wear masks at school. that is also similar to france where students and secondary school i believe ages 11 and both have to wear masks. however, in places like poland there is no mandate for student to wear masks in squools but there will be like here, staggered school starting times and pickup times to try to reduce exposure amongst parents. interestingly, places like germany where there's not -- schools are handled on a local level, not on a national level, places like berlin have seen notout breaks but cases in school and they've been forced to close schools there
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they're going to be implementing temperature checks at school gates but there has been an outbreak in that many countries and we'll see how the opening of cases contributes to that uptick of coronavirus >> that is what we're fearing here at home here as well. >> we're seeing that spread throughout colleges and universities throughout the nation as well several schools are seeing a surge in cases just weeks into the fall semester and some universities are taking drastic new measures like sending those students home or cancelling in-person learning >> reporter: from universities in california to college campuses in new york, as coronavirus explodes institutions of higher learning officials are locking down student housing and even sus spending part of the school year >> students will not be allowed to leave the campus. >> in new york a covid swat team
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is deploying rapid testing after more than 1 4u7b students caught the virus following a series of parties. on campus learning now off limits for two weeks. >> it's a wakeup call for all ages we hear about these parties that make place and it spreads like wildfire >> unc chapel hill, tcu and alabama confirm hundreds of cases as temple university also suspends classes for two weeks but the virus comes at a higher cost than just education health officials hoeching to curb community spread say infected students mostly with mild symptoms should not return home >> things aren't going to get better until we start taking it seriously. >> we've got to realize the times that we're at right now and not have parties there are so many parties like
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around my house on a nightly basis. >> as the virus spreads across the country at a slower rate the nation has now surpassed 6 million covid cases, california leading the u.s. with 700,000 cases. because of that number, schools like usc have turned to all online learning but students are gatheri gathering campus >> a lesson to be learned by the very students who should know better nbc news, los angeles. >> let's check in with janessa webb who's keeping a close eye on potential flash flooding areas. janes janessa, good morning. >> good morning. we have flash flooding concern and the heat continue to build across texas and aa. it does make its way into alabama this afternoon currently we have 25 million people impacted by some kind of heat alert
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lake charles forecasted for this afternoon to hit 106 degrees and we still have over 3,000 people without power. we could see up to 4d humidity n we'll continue to watch the heat build all the way into san antonio, 100 degrees this afternoon. hopefully going to see some relief i'll show you when coming up >> they need it. no ac and that heat extremely dangero dangerous. yao still to come, the nonprofit that's helping small businesses keep their doors open. >> and chad lick boseman's heroic battle against colon
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as the world continue to reel from the loss of chadwick boseman, it's sparked a talk about colon cancer >> a superhero gone at just 43 years old. chadwick boseman died after a four-year fight with colon cancer news of the death sending shock waves around the world he was diagnosed in 2016 and ball led with it these last four years as it progressed to stage four he died at hom he never spoke publicly about his battle he shot some of his iconic films. the interviewer said you've bun been through the wringer you don't even know, he laughs
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one day i'll live to tell the story. >> life on chemotherapy, it really is a challenge. it takes a special person to be able to work through it. >> reporter: he was diagnosed at stage three, the cancer already through his colon wall, later progressing to stage four which means its spread beyond his colon. the toll of his disease apparent in one of his instagram videos >> colon cancer is the second cause of deaths in the u.s. infecting an increasing number of young americans >> the rise remains an inig ma we need to raise awareness that people under the age of 50 can get this disease boseman took time to visit children with cancer >> the two little kids, ian and
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taylor who recently passed from cancer, throughout hour filming i was communicating with them. and when i found out that they -- yeah, it means a lot >> a superhero on and off screen who still has the power to save lives. >> that last interfew hits different now. >> it sure does. makes you want to go back and listen to everything he ever said >> we'll tell you what's bringing brad pitt andngin aela jolie back together. >> and the reunion cast of fresh prince
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today's quick hits to celebrate the 30th anniversary of the fresh prince of bellaire, it will premier around thanksgiving will smith have signed on along with other show regs >> brad pitt is a wine maker he says the cabin he owns with ang -- angelina produces wine.
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>> and we're talking about the christmas season already >> and the pandemic has put millions of small businesses at risk but nonprofits are helping store owners stay afloat >> reporter: among the most painful impacts of the coronavirus, millions of businesses struggling to stay open or forced to shut down. >> i had something most of my staff. >> reporter: the owner reached a breaking spoint. >> without any help we'll have to close in a month to two months but he got help, a much needed boosthe average small bu has only two weeks of cashfe fo nonprofit in march >> our number one mission is to
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save as many small businesses as we can. >> reporter: walk about outfitters for owner tina miller the financial help was just part of it >> these folks are eating away at their retirement just to make sure they're putting food on the table for their employees. >> from there it grew and has now helped more than 600 small businesses >> in contributions as small as $3 or $30 that pool has grown to over $3.1 million. the thanks keep pouring in from business owners across the state. >> it has been some of the most heart warming and heart breaking work that i've ever done in my life >> a helping hand offering hope to those who need it >> a great thing they're doing a lot of these small business owners are feeling forgotten >> we're hearing in community after community as we just saw
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the submarine was equipped with a video camera and powerful lights and there was no mistaking the titanic when they came upon it >> the ship is in beautiful condition where it is. it's sitting upright and it looks gorgeous and i think it ought to be left where it is >> a u.s. french ex- bepigs located the 73-year-old wreckage of the titanic on the floor of the atlanta using that remolt controlled deep sea vehicle. the first images were of its
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boiler >> and vermont became the fifth state to legalize same sex marriage vermont was also the first state to allow civil unions in the year 2,000 >> delta and american airlines are dropping flight changed fees for domestic and some foreign destinations there is a catch so some cases like the basic economy, those fees may still apply but it's great to see they're moving this that direction. next will be the baggage fees too. who knows? >> they got to do something. ford says its michigan factory is back to making vehicles full time the company says it's completed the delivery of 50,000 vaer
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ventilators. >> over 171,000 boomer from 2016 to 2018. they found men between the ages of 60 to 64 had the highest usage with 12.6% despite the study 18 to 25-year-olds remain the biggest cannabis consumers at 38%. >> all right with some down time in the bubble, celtics rookie is learning how to swim the 7'5" man did not do it alone. he's still learning though the team will continue their playoff series against the defending champion raptors but now he's got something else to do >> i'm glad those guys areg himp ariana grande has reached 200
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million followers on instagram >> all right we want to leave you with our shot of the day. stunning, colorful time lapse video of mountains in southwest chin
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breaking right now at 4:30, breaking records. the bay area hit 15 straight days of spare the air alerts today. up next, the serious health warnings you need to know. plus, all new overnight, the governor extending a life line for millions of californians by protecting them from evictions, but for how long? a live report straight ahead. and students and covid-19. the california university now canceling all in-person classes after an outbreak. plus, the move at the state capitol to give high school students a second chance to graduate. "today in the bay" continues right now.

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