we have everything you need to know at kpix.com. we have you covered. cbs this morning is up next. have a great day everyone. stay safe. ♪ good morning to you, our viewers in the west, and welcome to "cbs this morning." we made it, it's friday, august 21st, 2020. i'll gayle king with anthony mason and tony dokoupil. biden takes the mantel. the former vice president officially becomes the democrats' nominee for president delivering a forceful speech about the soul of america. we'll show you the response to his message. >> steve bannon indicted. president trump's former chief strategist is charged with fraud accused of stealing from supporters of the border wall. how the president is reacting and what bannon himself is now saying. >> fight for survival. deadly wildfires force california homeowners into a desperate struggle to save their neighborhoods. and some are taking matters into

their own hands. >> and schools stress test. crowds ignoring rules on social distancing and masks create new challenges for schools nationwide. we'll answer questions from parents about how their children can stay safe. >> every mom and dad wants to know. here's today's "eye opener." it's your world in 90 seconds. >> love is more powerful than hate. hope is more powerful than fear and right is more powerful than dark. this is our moment. this is our mission. >> joe biden is officially the democratic nominee for president. >> you want a vision of your life under biden? pick up the smoldering ruins in minneapolis, the violent anarchy of portland, the blood-stained sidewalks of chicago. >> steve bannon has pleaded not guilty to charges that he ripped off donors trying to fund a wall along the border. >> this is for government. this isn't for private people and it sounded to me like showboating. >> deadly wildfires continue to rage through california. >> the fast-moving flames forcing entire towns to

evacuate. >> you can feel the heat and the wind blowing from the fire. >> kansas city chiefs fans notice some changes. >> they are banning native american headdresses and face paints. >> the mets had games postponed after two members tested positive for covid-19. >> all that -- >> in the field to right field. in the corner and back. it's gone! become to slamdiedo. >> they became the first to ever hit a grand slam in four straight games. >> and all that matters. >> if you entrust me with the prr presidency, i'll draw on the best of us. >> this is the third time biden has run for president. third time is the -- yeah, fine, i'll vote for you i guess. sure. >> on "cbs this morning." >> when his teacher mimicked him and he ran home from school, his mother drove him back. >> my mother stood up, if you ever talk to my son like that

again, i'll come back and rip that damn bonnet off your head. >> wow, rip the bonnet off her head. the corn does not fall far from the pop. joe, why have you been hiding that story? you've got to put that on a yard sign. biden 2020. my mom threatened to beat up a nun. >> this morning's eye opener presented by toyota. >> welcome to "cbs this morning." stephen colbert made a joke about it, but that was a very moving piece when they did the setup piece about joe biden's life. it was really -- >> that's a very catchy slogan. >> that was very well done, mr. colbert. >> don't mess with moms is another takeaway for sure. >> my mom beat up a nun. catchy hash tag. and that's where we begin. not with his mom beating up a nun but with joe biden. he painted a clear picture for voters last night saying this election is a battle for the soul of america. the former vice president celebrated with his wife, dr. jill biden, after officially accepting the democratic

nomination to be president in wilmington, delaware. they were joined by kamala harris and her husband and supporters at a drive-in viewing party. >> but the main event was biden's impassioned remarks to the nation. he pledged to unite the country and overcome this season of darkness. he said love is more powerful than hate. hope is more powerful than fear, light is more powerful than dark. ed o'keefe is in wilmington. good morning. >> good morning, anthony. last night, just like so much this year, unlike anything we'd seen before. as you guys mentioned, it looked like a drive-in movie theater outside. when they liked what they heard, they honked in agreement. biden tried to do two things. he wanted to explain how he'd take the country out of this pandemic and economic downturn and he wanted to convince americans the country can unite again. >> the current president's cloaked american darkness for much too long. if you entrust me with the

presidency, i will draw on the best of us, not the worst. i'll be an ally of the light, not the darkness. >> reporter: it was a moment joe biden dreamed of for nearly 50 years, accepting the democratic party's nomination for president. he vowed to be a unifier. >> while i'll be a democratic candidate, i will be an american president. i'll work hard for those who didn't support me as hard for them as i did for those who did vote for me. >> decency, science, democracy. they're all on the ballot. >> reporter: just as speakers had all week, biden attacked president trump for his response to the coronavirus pandemic. >> just look around. it's not this bad in canada or europe or japan or almost anywhere else in the world. and the president keeps telling us, the virus is going to disappear. he keeps waiting for a miracle. well, i have news for him. no miracle is coming. >> reporter: the more than

24-minute address capped an extraordinary week that forced a rethinking of conventions. an american political tradition, what was produced like never before. outside the building where biden spoke, the campaign invited hundreds to come watch the speech in a drive-in movie-style setup capped by fireworks. the night included video tributes from his children. >> he likes ice cream in hidden ways. eating it like in the freezer so that like my grand ma doesn't see. >> and his two surviving children hunter and ashley, plus of the late beau biden at the democratic convention eight years ago. illinois senator tammy duckworth who lost both of her legs while serving in iraq said biden understands the sacrifices of military families and president trump shouldn't be the commander in chief for another four years. >> they have a coward in chief who won't stand up to vladimir putin, read his daily intelligence briefings or even publicly admonish adversaries for reportedly putting bounties on our troops' heads.

>> and without joe biden -- >> one of the most powerful moments came from a speech by 13-year-old braden harrington who has a stutter like biden. >> i'm just a regular kid, and in a short amount of time, joe biden made me confident about moving forward about something that's bothered me my whole life. >> several of biden's opponents got together to reminisce. >> you can think of this like survivor on the interviews of all the people that got voted off the island. >> that's exactly what it was. and if there's anything that should be repeated again four years from now it's a reunion of the vanquished opponents. as for biden and harris, they hit the campaign trail but they're expected to do so mostly virtually. aides say there are no plans for them to visit any battleground states, and that the pandemic will dictate the travel schedule. tony? >> ed, no one is voting you off the island. thanks for a great week. we'll see you next week. president trump, meanwhile, campaigned in pennsylvania yesterday on the same day

another of his former close associates was put in handcuffs. former white house chief strategist steve bannon was arrested on fraud charges over an alleged scheme connected to the president's long-promised border wall. he was later released on a $5 million bond. paula reid is following all of this from the white house. >> reporter: as he left federal court in manhattan, steve bannon suggested the trump justice department's case against him is a setup. >> this entire fiasco is to stop people who want to build the wall. >> i feel very badly. i haven't been dealing with him for a long period of time. >> reporter: president trump tried to distance himself from his former chief strategist who prosecutors allege was part of a group that raised more than $25 million to build a southern border wall, then stole hundreds of thousands of dollars in donations for themseles. >> i know nothing about the project other than i didn't like when i read about it i didn't like it. >> reporter: bannon pleaded not guilty to charges of wire fraud

and money laundering and was released on a $5 million bond. after being arrested that morning on a yacht off the coast of connecticut. bannon is the president's sixth close associate to be criminally charged by trump's own justice department. >> what does that say about your judgment if these are the kinds of people -- >> i have no idea -- >> reporter: thursday afternoon, president trump hit the campaign trail near joe biden's childhood hometown of scranton, pennsylvania. >> there's only one thing standing between your family and the radical left wing mob, and that's your vote this november. >> reporter: as biden was formally accepting the democratic nomination for president, mr. trump called in to fox news with new attacks. >> i can't imagine they are ever going to endorse anybody who is going to endorse biden because they really have a very unsafe policy for our country. >> reporter: and repeated his baseless claims about universal mail-in voting. >> they're trying to steal the election. this will be the most fraud lent election in history.

>> a former member of the postal service board testified before lawmakers yesterday that the current postmaster general, louis dejoy, was selected to run the organization even though he was the, quote, least qualified. and dejoy will have the opportunity to respond to that criticism and answer questions about how he's been running the postal service when he appears on capitol hill later today. gayle? >> we'll be following that postal service story. thank you very much, paula. "face the nation" moderator margaret brennan joins us now. good morning. >> good morning to you. >> late night for you. big night for joe biden. he painted a picture between light and dark and the soul of america. and he says, listen, we have two choices. we will know, i think, 74 days, if third time is a charm for joe biden. did he do what he needed to do in that speech? he is getting rave reviews this morning. >> well, he had no technical flubs, no missteps, and he did not look like sleepy joe, the moniker that the president has

put on him. so he countered that it was impassioned. it was empathetic and it really delivered around some of those points trying to relate to the american people. eye to eye. it was that head-on shot the entire time, almost like a presidential address. and so in some ways, the biden campaign was able to use this unconventional format to his strengths which is to give some empathy to those who have lost family members and loved ones during the pandemic for example. so he did achieve those things. whether it's enough to persuade progressives that a centrist democrat is their man too or to get independents on board is up to the voters. >> he said decency is on the ballot and decency matters to a lot of people. it was a very unconventional convention. instead of the balloon drops, they had fireworks that bursted in air, car horns to honk for people in agreement. did the convention deliver and work this time?

>> well, there were parts of it that were awkward. you know, the zoom meeting back-to-back over the past few days, but there were parts that worked. and i think on the most important exclamation point to the week which was joe biden's own personal address to the country. they made the format work for him the same way they did for former president obama the day before. there weren't cheers, there weren't boos. there was no one to react. it was kind of like a presidential address. so they made that work for the candidate. but we'll have to see what happens during the debates. we'll have to see what happens over the 70-odd days still ahead of us. >> we just saw steve bannon, his arrest. he's leaving court with the attitude of nothing to see here, but he is the sixth close associate of the president to be arrested. what impact, if any, do you think this will have on president trump directly? >> sixth to be arrested. second former campaign chair to have some very serious legal

problems just this week. remember, of course, paul manafort, his former campaign chairman, who is already behind bars we learned this week was accused by bipartisan group from the senate of being a grave counterintelligence threat to the country. that was a bipartisan finding from this report this week. so this definitely draws some serious scrutiny around those close to the president, past and current. but it also in some ways speaks to what joe biden is trying to sell as his main message which is that content and character is what is on the ballot. maybe you don't agree with his policy initiatives but he's a nice guy. and he has the character to restore america's moral leadership. if that's joe biden's ultimate argument on the campaign trail, these news headlines couldn't have been scripted better to serve that, though clearly these were the results of years-long investigations. so the facts themselves have been quite damaging for the

president's campaign. we'll talk about some of that on sunday. >> to be continued. let me tell people what you have coming up on sunday. you have a great lineup. margaret's guests on "face the nation" sunday will include former fiform er fbi director james comey, rona mcdaniel and los angeles mayor eric garcetti. a series of massive fires burning up to 1,000 acres an hour are blamed for at least five deaths. tens of thousands of people in northern california have been told to leave their homes. satellite images show heavy smoke and ash which made the bay area's air quality the worst in the world. carter evans is in hard-hit vacaville, california. what are you seeing there? >> well, good morning. this is one of the many homes that burned here. it is unrecognizable. the fire was so hot, you can see where it melted this glass. this looks like it was a piece of a window.

in addition to the five people who were killed, at least 30 firefighters and other civilians are injured. flames continue to advance toward more communities in northern california overnight. more than 10,000 firefighters are on the front lines, but officials say even that is not enough. >> honestly, our resources are stretched very far. >> reporter: with hundreds of major fires burning in the state -- >> push it back off this fire line. >> reporter: some homeowners are taking matters into their own hands. >> how much fire line did you cut? >> over the period of day, about three quarters of a mile. >> just keep it away. >> reporter: zach and his sons protected the property with shovels and bricks. >> we weren't going to wait for it to come to us. what can we do to protect it? everybody else abandoned. >> the sky which i've never seen before was totally glowing red all around. i knew there was a very big, very angry fire coming this way.

>> reporter: firefighters chase mcgrew and his brother russell had just gotten off duty wednesday when their father, a retired firefighter himself, call to say the massive lnu complex fire was threatening their childhood home. >> this has to be sentimental to you? >> yeah, that was a big concern was losing the house. my dad put so much work into this place. built it so much from what it was. and this meant a lot. to not only him, but us. very sentimental. >> reporter: at least some of the fires are believed to have been started by the state's worst lightning storm in decades. in addition to the 150 structures that burned, at least 50,000 are threatened. >> carter, thank you. from the fires to the rain. this morning, a lot of rain. a storm east of the east caribbean became tropical storm lara. forecasters say it's possible that both could reach the u.s. early next week, within 24 hours of each other. that's a big deal. lonnie quinn, chief

weathercaster for wcbs tv is tracking these storms. lonnie, here's the question. where are they right now? >> well, right now, the first one, tropical storm laura is about 230 miles from the virgin isles. the second storm around nicaragua. the key is, where are they going? take a look at how this is going to progress off toward the northwest possibly making landfall around the florida keys, maybe south of that or north of that as well. and then it's right around the alabama/florida border with a category 1 on wednesday morning. but watch this when you compare it to that other storm out there. that's going to become tropical storm marco later today or some time tomorrow. it also becomes a category 1. it makes a landfall. the exact same time. wednesday morning perhaps. maybe a little bit later. but it's somewhere between the texas and louisiana border. also with 75-mile-per-hour winds. now the water in the gulf of mexico right now is so warm, it's averaging between 85 and 90 degrees. the key temperature that we look

for in order to cook a hurricane, make them bigger and bigger is 81 degrees. it's 85 to 90 degrees. this could certainly get stronger and as a matter of fact, i always show you spaghetti models where we think this is going. there's also spaghetti models for how strong it's going to get. and some of the models take it up to a category 4. some keep it down in the all i'll say is anybody along the gulf coast for that time frame like tuesday, wednesday, thursday, keep your eye on both of these systems. guys, back to you. >> yeah, start making a plan now. lonnie, thank you very much. ahead, cbs news got exclusive access to coronavirus vaccine trials here in the u.s. we'll show you what happens in the final phase before the vaccine is approved for public use. a lot of people counting on

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coronavirus scare. how a game was called off just an hour before it was due to start. plus, more college students are caught on camera choosing parties over safety. students, your mom and would dad don't like it when you do that. and why teachers unions are stepping up their challenges over the coronavirus

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this is a kpix 5 morning update. it is 7:26. a group of wildfires continues to expand in san mateo and santa cruz counties. the czu august lightning complex fire now covers 50,000 acres and more than 60,000

people have been evacuated and containment is at 0%. in the north bay, the walbridge fire is also burning out of control. it is west of healdsburg and is at 20,000 acres with an unknown number of homes destroyed. this fire is part of the larger lnu lightning complex. about half of santa clara counties under an evacuation order or warning right now due to the scu lightning complex also burning in san joaquin county. it is 5% contained. we are looking at smoky and hazy skies, unhealthy air quality with a "spare the air" alert through the weekend. there is not a lot of change as we go through the next few days. temperatures are above average with extreme heat. it is 70s around the bay. we are watching late sunday into the monday for the potential of tropical moisture and isolated showers and thunderstorms with lightning strikes a possibility late sunday. as we look at the roadways, foggy conditions on the golden gate bridge. there is limited visibility. just a heads up if you are taking 101. your travel

♪ welcome back to "cbs this morning." high school football returned last night in fair hope, alabama, near mobile. as you can see on the screen, many fans are not wearing masks, and that's in violation of school rules. the principal says he wanted people to cover up but, quote, we can't make anybody do something. it's just one example of the problems that schools and colleges all over this country are facing. as coronavirus cases continue to go up. some teachers unions say they'll not be forced to work in those conditions that they say and feel are unsafe. our national correspondent david begnaud is in miami with more on this story. david, the question there is, how far are the unions willing to go now? good morning to you?

>> good morning to you. look, here in florida, they're suing. in fact, today they'll deliver their closing argument. they are fighting the mandate that the school system is saying you have to have in-person classes. other teachers unions are saying, listen if we're not going to fight you in court, we're going to fight you in the court of public opinion and we'll threaten to strike. >> we won't go until it's safe! >> reporter: new york city teachers protested in brooklyn thursday demanding the city implement what they say are essential safety measures. in the midwest, teachers in detroit say they're prepared to strike if the city does not provide adequate testing before classrooms reopen. and out west, one arizona school district delayed in-person learning after teach tleers the staged a sickout. some are urging officials to err on the side of caution. >> we can only go back when community spread is under control and when aggressive risk reduction strategies are in

place within the four walls of the school. >> reporter: risk reduction appears to be a problem at colleges across the country. schools in at least 17 states have reported positive cases on campus. parties like this at north carolina state university forced that school to put all classes online. at purdue university in indiana, 36 students were suspended for holding a party in violation of the university's health rules. at penn state university, a party outside a freshman dormitory was broken up by campus police. and at syracuse, hundreds of freshmen students, many without masks, were seen gathered together on the quad. the university says it may have to shut down campus before classes even start. >> it's infuriating to see people my age thinking they're just kind of invincible. >> reporter: patrick penfield is a senior at syracuse. he's also a coronavirus survivor. he caught the virus during a semester abroad and says he

dealt with lingering symptoms for four months. he's urging other students to remember what's at stake here. >> everyone wants the college experience. everyone wants this huge party at syracuse university and i want to have a college experience, too. i want to have graduation. i want to be able to go to class. and it's just not going to happen if people don't follow the guidelines. there's going to be consequences and there's going to be a lot of angry people. >> reporter: dr. deborah birx, part of the white house coronavirus task force is advising colleges to invest in surge testing. what does that mean? she's recommending that colleges do five to 10,000 tests every day. that's a lot. but it gives you an idea the type of scale that's needed to handle things and try and get back to some type of normalcy. tony? >> yeah. it's amazing we're talking about scaling testing all these months after the outbreak, but here we are. david begnaud, thank you very much. ahead, an inside look at the final phase of a coronavirus vaccine trial here in the u.s.

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it's not going away. covid-19. more than ever, california needs rapid coronavirus testing. robust contact tracing. support for community health clinics. masks and ppe for those saving lives... for teachers and school personnel educating students. these heroes are doing their jobs. now government must do theirs. keep working through a special session to combat this crisis right now and provide the revenues to solve the problems we know are coming. scientists around the world are racing to complete testing of coronavirus vaccines. we have an inside look at the final phase of development. two u.s. pharmaceutical giants, pfizer and moderna, are in this phase three. oxford university is expected to start its trials in the u.s.

this month. our chief medical correspondent, dr. jon lapook, shows what it's like to be part of the pfizer trial. >> i wanted to be part of the solution. >> reporter: for dr. victoria smith who practices family medicine near new orleans, covid-19 is personal. she's lost three patients to the virus. >> i'm not an imnologist, but by being part of a trial, i can be part of the research front. >> reporter: in late july, dr. smith became one of the first of 30,000 participants needed for pfizer's phase-three vaccine trial. >> look that way -- >> reporter: she received her first dose at a medical center in louisiana. it's a double blinded study meaning neither she nor the scientists know whether she received the vaccine or placebo. are you hoping you got the vaccine? >> yes, i do. >> reporter: cbs news got an exclusive look at ochsner's five-three trial site. every week pfizer sends packages of the vaccine and placebo.

the vaccine is then stored in this freezer at a temperature of at least minus 60 degrees celsius to remain stable. >> this vaccine is new. did that give you any pause? >> not really. i trust the process. >> reporter: to be approved by the fda, a covid-19 vaccine must prevent or decrease the severity of the disease in at least 50% of evacuates vaccinated people. >> there's no evidence that the vaccine makes the disease worse at all. so that's really, really, very encouraging. >> reporter: dr. kathryn edwards is on pfizer's vaccine safety board. once a week the five members of the committee video chat to carefully look through data for adverse effects, especially serious ones such as hospitalizations. >> we're very, very cautious in how we look at the data. certainly if there were a severe reaction, we would get that information right away. >> reporter: dr. edwards says there is no evidence so far the vaccine causes serious reactions

but that mild reactions are common and should not deter anyone from getting vaccinated. >> you may have a sore arm, or you may have a little tenderness, or you may have a little headache, a little fever. so those are things to be expected. it's just your immune system getting tweaked, and you're making a better response. >> reporter: trial participats are required to self-monitor and log their symptoms on an app reporting their temperature and any reactions daily for a week after each injection. >> logging into my phone -- >> reporter: they will continue to log any symptoms on a weekly basis for two years. on wednesday, after 21 days, dr. smith received her final dose. early trial results show a second shot boost neutralizing antibodies that block the virus' ability to attack our bodies. >> if you look at the immune responses in the people that got one dose and two, the two doses, their immune response was higher. so i think that they're probably going to need two doses. >> reporter: a vaccine is not

expected to mean an immediate return to the way things were. >> if the vaccine's 50% effective, it's not going to reduce all the disease. you know, social distancing, the masks, these things may need to continue, and people will continue to need to have some thought about what their activities have and the implications that they have for the rest of the community. >> dr. jon lapook joins us now. good morning, jon. there have been some issues i gather regarding enrolling enough volunteers for the vaccine trials. particularly among minorities. how is that affecting this? >> good morning, anthony. as you know, covid-19 has been disproportionately affecting african-americans, latinx, native americans and pacific islanders. it's importance that these communities -- important that these communities are well represented in the trials. i spoke to the head of the national institutes of health, and he said that's not happening. that these communities are

underrepresented and, in fact, he said he was hoping that some prominent members of these communities, perhaps even celebrities, would step forward and volunteer to serve as an example. that's one of the reasons why i was so impressed with dr. smith, who is the physician who we featured in our piece today, because she said that one of the reasons she took the vaccine was to serve as an example for her patients. many of whom are black and latinx. >> i wish you could have seen gayle squirm when she got the shot. >> i know -- i know it with gayle. i know it well. >> it's true. >> thank you. >> been there, done that. >> vlad duthiers, ahead, looking at the stories you'll be talking about today.

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bit tired this morning if they've been staying up all week watching the convention. i'm glad to report we have a special "shake it off" edition here of "what to watch." >> that's a good tease, tony dokoupil. that's good. >> a good tease. you know what they say, guys, you know what they say, the player's gonna play, play, play, play, play, player's gonna hate, hate, hate, hate. but you salt lake it off. shake -- you shake it off. shake it off. major league baseball faces another blow as two people with the mets tested poise for the coronavirus putting the team's season on hold. the mets game against the miami marlins last night was called off one hour before it was scheduling e-- scheduled to start. tonight's game between the mets and the yankees will also be postponed to allow for additional testing and contacts tracing. the major leagues have been forced to postpone more than 30 games since the delayed season began less than a month ago. anthony and tony, long-suffering mets fans, the problems for

baseball continue as we look ahead to the nfl. >> that's why we say, if you're awe mets fan, it's part of your life. i know there as wehave been 30 postponed in major league baseball, other teams, as well. the nba i heard reported five straight weeks without a -- >> i spoke to women the other day, they said their season is going on in september. they're ready, too. >> yeah. although the big question with the nfl is yeah, they're going to play, but are they going to do the bubble. baseball didn't do it, they're getting positive cases. basketball did do it and seem to be doing well. >> what else do you have for us? >> all right. there is a rare bipartisan moment as we mark 100 years since women earned the right to vote nationwide. political leaders of both parties are telling us what the 19th amendment means to them. here's what some former first ladies had to say about it. >> the first woman in my family

to vote was my formidable paternal grandmother. >> i encourage all women to exercise their century-old right. >> we cannot take that power for granted, and we cannot give that power away by failing to use it. >> it is part of the #firstwomanvotercampaign which is encouraging women to share on social media what this historic anniversary means to them. former secretaries of state condoleezza rice and madeline albright, plus lawmakers and celebrities shared those stories of the first women voters in their families. gayle, you also saw there nicole richie and our hen margaret brennan. her great grandmother voted right here in hell's kitchen. and margaret talks about standing on the shoulders of all the women that came before her. >> i love this campaign. it's a great campaign. gives you the back story about voting and says once again how important it is. john lewis said it's the most important weapon that we hav in our democracy today.

i love what theis campaign is doing. brings it home. you got a big pop star, tony set you up nicely, providing that she's got a heart of gold. >> i didn't know tony dokoupil was a t-swift fan like you and i are. anthony, you love t-swift, too. guess tony dokoupil does, as well. a young woman from portugal living in london is going to college to study math, thanks to t-swift. the pop star donated 23 pounds, about $30,000, to vitoria's site raising money for tuition. swift found the story on line and wanted to give her the rest of the goal amount because she was, quote, inspired by the 18-year-old's drive and dedication. vitoria is, of course still in shock over the donation. watch. >> i'm blessed, blessed because it's more than 50% of what i needed. it blew my mind.

>> and you know, anthony, t-swift is known for her generosity. throughout the pandemic, she has sent cash donations to fans on twitter looking for help. so this is not a one-off for her. >> to the staff of grimy's, a great record store in nashville, she paid for their health insurance for three months during the pandemic. so yeah, she's -- >> she does that a lot. when nobody's looking, nobody -- she doesn't ask for publicity. she does a lot behind the scenes. that's great. >> thanks. ahead, vice president mike pence will give us the republican response to the democratic national convention. (brian) i've had a heart attack, copd... a heart transplant... lung cancer... and part of my lung removed. my tip is: if smoking doesn't get you one way, it'll get you another. (announcer) you can quit. for free help, call 1-800-quit-now. come on in, we're open. ♪

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much. friday, august 21st, 2020. weekend's here. welcome back to "cbs this morning." i'm gayle king with tony dokoupil and anthony mason. joe biden's big moment, the accepts his party's formal nomination. we'll get reaction from current vice president mike pence. the quality milestone, we celebrate the 100th anniversary of women winning the right to vote, but some women were left behind for decades, how the battle to remove barriers continues even today. and how safe are schools? dr. tara narula will answer your questions about sending kids back. >> a the lo of worried mom and dads but first here's today's

"eye opener" at 8:00. joe biden painted a very clear picture for voters last night saying this election is a battle for the soul of america. >> biden tried to do two things, wanted to explain how he'd take the country out of this pandemic and economic downturn and wanted to convince americans that the country can unite again. president trump campaigned in pennsylvania yesterday on the same day another of his former close associates former white house chief strategist steve bannon was arrested on fraud charges. sixth to be arrested, second former campaign chair to have some very serious legal problems. this definitely draws some serious scrutiny around those close to the president. >> this is one of the many homes that burned here. it is unrecognizable. the fire was so hot, you can see where it melted this glass. this looks like it was a piece of a window. 750 million genetically engineered mosquitos have been approved for release in the florida keys. >> the mosquito altered to

produce female offspring that die well before hatching. >> any other year i'd be excited about this year but in 2020, why would you take the chance? they're going to get the mosquitos loose and in a couple weeks the scientists will come out there's good news and bad news. >> i think i can tell looking at that picture what the bad news is. welcome back to "cbs this morning." trevor noah is having a good time during this quarantine, his hair is looking great. >> glad somebody is. >> he's looking great, nice job. joe biden accepted the democrats' presidential nomination last night with a promise to move beyond party lines. >> but while i'll be a democratic candidate, i will be an american president. i'll work hard for those who didn't support me, as hard for them as i did for those who did vote for me. that's the job of a president, to represent all of us, not just our base or our party. this is not a partisan moment.

this must be an american moment. the current president has cloaked american darkness for much too long. too much anger. too much fear. too much division. >> biden painted the election as a battle for the soul of america, unlike his running mate, senator kamala harris, he did not mention president trump by name. the president reacted to biden's speech on twitter, he accused the former vice president of being unable to actually do the things that he says he can. >> i was just saying i didn't notice until anthony read his lead, tony, that joe biden never mentioned president trump by name. i had to go back and look through the script and say he never mentioned him by name but painted such a vivid picture of what he believes is at stake here. >> as you heard in that clip he called him "the current president." >> i never noticed that. >> yes. no, it's a very interesting choice that each speaker makes on their own.

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to you. we agree there is a pivotal moment for the country. so with your indulgence, i'll just right in. steve manning yesterday was arrested -- good morning to you. steve bannon yesterday became one of six close associates of the president to be criminally charged during his administration. you're campaigning as the law and order administration, drain the swamp, does this undercut that message? >> no, i don't think so. and steve bannon certainly deserves his day in court. i don't know any more about it than what i've seen in the news or that president trump actually denounced that effort months ago. i think one of the great accomplishments of this administration is after democrats like joe biden opposed our effort to build a wall on the southern border that the american people voted for, with the crisis of illegal immigration across this country, the president used his executive power to secure resources.

now we've built more than 300 miles of border wall -- >> mr. vice president -- >> that's the right way to do it. and it's all part and parcel of a record that we're going to be talking about next week. it's been a record of results -- >> mr. vice president -- >> and it also -- >> the question -- >> it includes a commitment to law and order which amazingly last night joe biden never mentioned the violence that has beset major sets across this country -- >> let's talk about the violence. let's talk about the violence, mr. vice president. yeah. i think there's also a question of character. when you have a string of people arrested inside the administration, there are questions about judgment and character. let's talk about biden's message. you bring it up. joe biden claims that the administration has in his words cloaked america in darkness, in anger, in fear, in division. you mentioned the violence in the streets. there was also partisanship at resort levels, hate crimes at record levels. on the point of division and anger, does the vice president have a point? >> i found not just those words

by joe biden last night, but so many of the speeches that the democratic national convention were so negative. they presented such a grim vision for america. i think next week what you're going to hear is we're going to talk about the first three years of this administration where we rebuild our military, we stood with our allies, stood up to our enemies. we destroyed isis, took down their leader, took down the most dangerous terrorist in the world. you'll hear how we revived the economy not through higher taxes that joe biden called for last night but by cutting taxes, rolling back regulation, unleashing energy, appointing conservatives to our courts, supporting law enforcement across the country. that's going to be our message next week. but -- but you know, honestly, other than the grim picture of america painted through most of the week at the democratic national convention, you didn't hear much detail, and one of the

things we're going to work to do flex week is make sure the -- next week is make sure the american people understand the choice here is between a president who's rebuilt our military, revived our economy, stood by all -- stood for law and order, and joe biden and the democratic party that have been overtaken by the radical left that support higher taxes, socialized medicine, open borders, abortion on demand -- >> mr. vice president -- >> and would continue to walk away from the men and women who serve on the thin blue line of law enforcement. >> mr. vice president, all of those points i'm sure you will make next week at the convention. i want to get your comments on the possibility for a free and fair election. the president has been undercutting confidence in our elections system -- actually for years now, saying it will be rigged it will be corrupt. and the only way that you guys can lose is if there's some sort of cheating. respectfully, where is the evidence of ballot fraud? >> well, i think there's lots of

evidence of ballot fraud, instances across the country -- >> there's not, mr. vice president. >> sure there is, tony. check out indiana, 2012, the state of indiana, people were prosecuted for manufacturing ballots in the state of indiana. and it's happened around the country. look, what the president's pointing out is that while we all support absentee balloting, i've voted absentee, you may have, as well, where people apply for a ballot, there's lots of safe guards so that one person-one vote principle. now you have democrat governors and legislatures around the country advocating what's called universal mail-in voting where they're going to send ballots to literally every name on the voter list, even though many of those lists are outdated and expired. they have people that have died. they're going to send ballots unsolicited all across their state, and then in most of the states, they're going to allow people to do what's called ballot harvesting to go out and gather up the votes, very little

accountability. that's why we're in courthouses across the country. we're going to defend the integrity of the ballot, and we're going to win a victory on november 3rd. >> mr. vice president, these are very -- very important points that you raise. in fact, the universal mail-in voting idea, it's nine states that are sending ballots out, and five are going to be doing it anyway. you bring up the example in indiana. that wasn't ballot fraud, those were applications. it didn't have any party slant at all. and the reality is that when be people look at voter fraud -- >> it was election fraud. people were prosecuted for election fraud, tony. you can paper over that -- >> that's the system working, mr. vice president -- >> people who are associated with a democrat super pac were manufacturing documents and were prosecuted. that's also happened in places like new jersey and around the country. look, my -- >> i think we need to -- >> my son is a marine, my son-in-law's in the navy. through every generation, american men and women have put on the uniform to defend our

democracy -- >> mr. vice president, i have to add -- >> the one person-one vote. president trump and i are going to stand for that every day between now and election day. >> mr. vice president, this conversation here at the end underscores something very important which is we do not have a shared reality in this country. in many cases on many issues. one thing i would like to agree on in closing is that qanon, the conspiracy theory that says the president is fighting a cabal of cannibals and pedophiles inside the white house, those being democrats, that's not true, right? the president doesn't really believe that. you don't really believe that. >> well, i don't know anything about that conspiracy theory. but i -- i've got to be honest -- >> you could say the president is not -- this is important -- >> the fact that you're spending time on a major network to talk about some conspiracy online theory instead of talking about what the democrats laid out this week, i mean -- joe biden last night said that democracy's on the ballot, character's on the ballot. you know, tony, the economy is

on the ballot. i mean, we've already -- we lost 22 million jobs in the course of this coronavirus pandemic. but because of the solid foundation that puresident trum poured of less taxes, less regulation, more american energy, more free and fair trade, we've seen nine million americans already go back to work. joe biden said last night the economy's not going to come back until the coronavirus is over. newsflash to joe biden -- the economy is coming back. the only real threat to our economy is a joe biden presidency. i mean, the fact that he wants to raise taxes by $4 trillion, pass a green new deal -- >> mr. vice president -- >> $2 trillion. that's where the american people are focused. that's where our campaign is going to focus in the days ahead. i think it's why we're going to win four more years for president donald trump. >> mr. vice president, the american public will have ample time to evaluate all of those statements. i will say on the economy, there

are more people out of work than jobs that have been created since the rebound from the coronavirus. but the point of the conspiracy theory, the reason it's important to get on the record about it is because it's an easy thing for us to come together and say of course that is not happening. i'm not hearing you say that. you're actually adding oxygen to this conspiracy theory -- >> i'm not -- >> unbelievably outlandish point of view. come on -- >> tony -- >> tell me it's not true and the president doesn't believe it. >> i don't even -- i don't know anything about that conspiracy theory. i don't know anything about qanon. and i -- i dismiss it out of hand. it -- >> okay. >> the fact that -- the fact that you said earlier on that we don't have a shared reality. tony, what we have in this country is reality. it's amazing that joe biden never mentioned china in his entire speech last night. i mean, he presided over decades in washington, d.c., that result in an economic surrender to

china. and remember, the coronavirus came from china. and when president trump suspended all travel from china in january to put the health of th american people first, even though china's the second largest economy in the world, joe biden said that was citizen phobic. said it was racist for the president to suspend travel from china. the fact that joe biden never talked about the violence in the streets of our cities, there's one reality, the american people are going to make their decision this fall based on that reality. and that's why i think we're going to win four more years for a president who has rebuilt our military, revived this economy, stood by law and order and our most cherished liberties and stood up to china from the first day of this administration. >> mr. vice president, mr. vice president i'm getting the big good-bye here from my producers. thank you very much. i do enjoy our conversations. come back soon. we'll talk to you later and see

you next week. thank you. >> we will. thank you. >> you're watching "cbs this morning." we'll be right back.

in our special series "school matters," we're looking at the debates over how to reopen schools safely. this morning we're focusing on the concerns of parents. more than 56 million students will attend elementary, middle, or high school this fall. either remotely or in person in more than 13,000 school districts. what that looks like varies, leaving families with endless questions and worries. >> i will be sending my 12 and 14-year-old daughters to school. i will not be sending my 6-year-old to school and my 4-year-old will continue to go to day care. >> do have a 12-year-old autistic daughter who is entering the sixth grade this year. >> i have two daughters, age 8 and 17. my eldest will be going fully on line, the high schooler. for our youngest, she will be

remote. >> my husband and i have always provided after-school care for our grandchildren. our granddaughters, age 12, entered seventh grade this year while her brother, age 8, goes into the third grade. >> how can we be sure this a vaccine will provide long-standing immunities to this disease? thus, when can our society get back to normal, all my babies can go back to school? >> how do the school districts ensure that children with disabilities are being kept safe? i know that my child when she's having a meltdown does not comprehend social distancing. >> with increased exposure risks as we keep the children after school, how can we make sure tha we as their grandparents is stay safe? >> we're worried about equity. making sure all the kids get what they need equitably. that means food, education, being able to get everything they need this school year in a safe manner. >> stay with us. up next, dr. tara narula will answer your questions about the

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the advice from doctors is to stay home if you can. >> we are watching the hazy and smoky skies. there is a "spare the air" alert in effect through the weekend due to the unhealthy air quality. temperatures for today are cooler compared to the extreme heat we had earlier. we're talking mid 90s in concord and livermore, and 70s around the bay. it is similar around the next several days. we are watching the potential for tropical moisture late sunday into monday. it could bring a few more showers and even isolated thunderstorms with lightning strikes. the last thing we need, keeping a close eye on this sunday to

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welcome back to "cbs this morning." we just showed you how many parents are worried about the new school year, as we continue our special school matters series. we're joined by cbs news senior medical corresponde enent dr. t narula. >> good morning. >> we heard some of the questions before. we're going to go to them now. the first comes from melanie, who wants to know what to do if her child has chronic seasonal allergies. she asks, are they going to be sent home all the time? >> that's such a great question and i know a lot of parents are wondering the same thing, if my child goes to school and sneezes or coughs or says they don't feel well, what cascade is that

going to trigger, so this is really a great time to do two things, plan and communicate. so you want to communicate and plan with your school and your school nurse, if they have one, and really tell them my child has seasonal allergies. this is typically how they present. this is how we treat them. and then you want to talk to your pediatrician or allergist and get them on a good regimen. a lot of allergy planning and treatment involves starting medications early and then one last tip is that the kids are going to be wearing masks. those masks can attract pollen and hold it in so you want to make sure you're washing those regularly and one plug for vaccination, very important during flu season. that's something else that can potentially be confused with covid. >> next question from lindsay who asks "how will the lack of in-person social interaction between our younger kids impact their learning and development?" >> i love this question. she's talking about

social/emotional learning. . this is critical now almost more than ever. we're talking about kids learning empathy, how to make decisions, how to communicate, how to regulate their emotions and talk about their feelings and really that's something that needs to be built into the classroom, and while it's harder to do with distance learning, it's something that can be done online. teachers can incorporate that into their curriculum. families can talk about those things at home, and really ask their children how they're feeling and teach them how to regulate their emotions, and especially if they have siblings, it's something they can work on and i think the important thing here is that kids are resilient, and if anything, this is going to build resilience in our children, and really ultimately what they need is a loving, safe, secure environment so as long as you're providing that, our kids will be just fine. >> with so many students learning remotely, one viewer wants to know if there are concerns about young children spending so muany consecutive hours in front of a screen. >> i have two little ones as well and we talk about screen time in our house and it's not

really a black and whitishe iss now. the american academy of pediatric released a statement in march acknowledging the fact we'll see increase in screen time use. the two important things being the context ant and context. to interact with family and friends is important, using it to learn is critically important, and what the aap really suggests is that you preserve offline activities, it doesn't interrupt with sleep or reading or even connecting with family, exercise, and just down time to reflect. >> we all need a little of that. we heard from sarah, a grandmother who will be caring for her 8 and 12-year-old grandchildren. "how do i protect us from possible spread of covid while they're here?" >> this is a tough question and the real sit we're learning more and more each day how much children really do transmit,

even if they're asymptomatic, and i think clearly there are things you can do in the home like cleaning, disinfecting, having proper ventilation, hoping the windows but then when the kids come home there's little steps, having them take their shoes off at the door, making sure they wash their hands, leaving their backpacks and belongings by the front door and even changing their clothes, all of the little things can go a long way. it's a tricky situation when you have people who are elderly caring for young children in those elderly may be at increased risk of severe complications from covid. >> one more quick one, pam wants to know how long covid could live on books and surfaces. >> we still think that the primary route of transmission is droplets or potentially airborne, and not really through contact. there have been some studies that have shown that covid can live on surfaces for hours to days, so cleaning and disinfection is going to be important and really the cdc is recommending that schools not only do that but avoid having kids share things like pencils or markers or things that

couldn't be cleaned very easily to have their own cubby and locker. so taking these little steps is going to be important because we don't have all the answers yet on exactly how long it can live on surfaces. >> it is part of what makes it confusing. tara, thank you so much. we'd also like to hear from students. we want to hear your questions about the school year, whether your collapses are in person or online. email your questions to coronavirus@cbsnews.com. we did not forget, time to bring you some of the stories talk of the table. we changed it over a little bit, where we pick a story we like to share with each other and all of you. tony, you're up. i could have listened to you and mike pence for another half hour. it's very difficult to do an interview, because it should be a give and take. it's hard on satellite but hard when someone answers and presses go and keeps talking and puts out information that you know not to be true so you have to try to get in there to ask the question. i thought you did a great job under those circumstances. i could have listened to more. >> thank you. >> i could have listened to

more. >> i think he'll come back. he seemed pleased at the end there. >> we're not trying to do a gotcha here, just trying to get the answers. what is your talk of the table? >> absolutely. well i have a little shotglass of hope for people who are like me, who get extreme hangovers, even if they have just a little bit to drink. >> uh-oh. >> so researchers -- yes, researchers in finland have found that if you take an amino acid called lcistine it may prevent or reduce headaches, nausea, anxiety, stress, all characteristics post celebration and a couple other things, it involved 19 people in this study, all of them men, all probably happy to drink and feel better afterwards and we should also note that it was funded by a company that markets and sells the very ingredient cistine.

it's a small study and there's a financial interest involved, but, but -- >> if it works it doesn't matter. >> yes. >> right? >> what have you got, anthony? >> my story is something vlad teased the other day. pharrell williams and jay d released a new song and music video called "entrepreneur" which celebrates black ambition. take a look. ♪ >> the video features blackent prefewers around the world, in pharrell's words the song is trying to communicate that when we stick together, treat each other better and welcome each other, there's more money and more opportunity for everyone. the song was released in conjunction with the "time" magazine special issue "the new american revolution" that looks at the systemic inequalities

black people have faced throughout u.s. history. i am really looking forward to this song and i love it. it's terrific. >> i can't wait to hear it. i say pharrell and jay-z together, count me present. that's a one-two punch for sure. mine is about the coronavirus, how it's affected how we work, we travel and how we hang out with people that we actually like, even the way we celebrate birthdays. so check out this video made in may by a woman in quarantine, showing a life hack she created to avoid spitting on her take when she blows out the candles. the candles are on the cover. people admit the act of blowing out candles has always grossed them out. others say it's one of their favorite traditions. we've all been at birthday parties and you see them blowing out the cake and the -- all over the cake. that's a little bit of spittle but i'm still going to eat that cake. now in the time of coronavirus, i go, it's just a little -- i

don't want to do that anymore so i like this idea. so we can still have our cake and eat it, too. >> that is quite an invention. >> i like it. i am >> i'm glad someone came up with that. probably wouldn't eat the cake. i don't know, the whole thing, now you got me totally grossed out. >> you've been to parties and seen it. >> yep. >> you've seen it. ahead a tribute to the women who fought and won the right to vote 100 years ago and those who continue to struggle to remove the barriers today, but first, it is 8:39. time to check your local weather.

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this week marks the 100th anniversary of the ratification of the 19th amendment which gave women the right to vote, but most black women could not actually vote until decades later. in the words of my favorite philosopher chris rock from "head of state," that ain't right. on this historic centennial, we are celebrating a milestone and exploring the long struggle for full equality. adriana diaz reports from chicago where she spoke with generations of women about the past, the present, and the future and the fight for women's rights. >> reporter: in illinois, women had the right to vote in national and municipal elections before the 19th amendment, making this the first state east of the mississippi river to grant partial suffrage to women. in 1915, here at the art institute of chicago, women advocated for national voting rights. they had a banner that said "we demand an amendment to the u.s.

constitution enfranchising women." not all women were included. >> can you read what that says -- >> reporter: jim crow laws and other barriers made it nearly impossible for black women to exercise their legal right to vote. native american and asian women often faced citizenship questions when they went to the ballot box. >> it was kind of a victory for white women and still a struggle for women of color. >> reporter: michelle duster is the great granddaughter of ida b. wells, investigative journalist and anti-lynching crusader, and a fierce suffragist. it's amazing to think that she walked up these steps. we met outside the chicago home where wells lived with her family. what is the pride that you feel being the great granddaughter of ida b. wells? >> i'm honored to be related to somebody who's contributed so much to our country. >> reporter: born into slavery, in 1862, mississippi, wells spent her life championing justice and equality. in 1884, at just 21 years old, she was on a train and refused

to move to the colored car. then she sued the railroad. it's almost as if she was rosa parks before rosa parks. >> rosa parks wasn't even born. she was ida b. wells before rosa parks was ida b. wells jr. >> women have deeper freedoms in mind -- >> reporter: for women of color, the struggle for full voting rights continued for decades after wells' death. [ applause ] until finally at the height of the civil rights movement the voting rights act was signed into law in 1965. still, barriers remain today. >> are you registering for the first time? >> yes. >> reporter: the league of women voters is on the front lines of that fight, combating voter suppression and opposing discriminatory inventory i.d. laws. >> reach out to everyone you know. >> reporter: abelong its ranks are league members lali watt and her 23-year-old daughter liah. >> i think it's more critical than ever, and that has really focused us on making sure that

every voter gets to vote how they want, safely, and in an informed way. >> reporter: the right to vote is something that watt, an immigrant from india, does not take for granted. >> as a naturalized american, i made a decision to be american, right. i felt i was joining a country which was working to be as good as it could be. that's what keeps me going. it's like i can actually have an impact in this country. >> reporter: as you look toward the presidential election, what are the concerns that you have as you try to get out the vote? >> voter suppression is a huge concern because there's an easy way with the pandemic and covid to say we're shutting down all these polling stations for safety. but then you look at the ones that are being shut down, and it's kind of clear voter suppression at work. >> reporter: the continued fight to defend every citizen's right to have an impact through voting is the lasting legacy of american suffragists. the monument will be here? >> yes. >> reporter: like ida b. wells.

her great granddaughter hopes to create a permanent symbol of inspiration for future generations. >> for many, many years only men could vote. >> reporter: like these young cousins who we found near the steps where suffrage leaders stood more than a century ago. >> i think it's incredible that women can come together and get what they want and what they believe they deserve in this country. i'm so proud of that. >> reporter: is everybody here going to vote eventually? >> yes. >> yeah. >> reporter: when you're 18? >> definitely. >> reporter: those girls give us hope for our future. and honoring our past, last year this street was renamed ida b. wells drive. it's the first major street in chicago to be named for an african-american woman. her great granddaughters, michelle duster, was of course part of the effort. she's written several books the latest will be released next year by simon & schuster, a division of viacomcbs. and i just love the title -- "ida b.: the queen." gayle, thanthony?

>> i love your story and love michelle duster, the great granddaughtegrand granddaughter, when she said let's put this in perspective. it's interesting how much we take for granted. that's why the story is so important to let young girls know what people went through so we can all have the right to vote. >> reporter: absolutely. you know, we all have to exercise that right that so many people fought for for all of us. >> yes, all right. 74 days, we get the chance to go to the polls. thank you, good to see you. on today's "cbs this morning" podcast, jazz musician wynton marsalis discusses his album, "the ever funky" -- i was trying to think, is that a spelling error? >> i don't know. >> says the new album "ever funky lowdown." "cbs this morning" saturday co-host michelle miller. with wynton marsalis, i'm not quite sure. could be funky or funky. either way, it's going to be good. we'll be right back.

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before we go, when the coronavirus forced an ohio couple to cancel their wedding reception, they came up with a new plan which also help some families in need. melanie and tyler tapajna donated their reception dinner to a local crisis shelter, called laura's home. right after saying "i do," the couple, still in tuxedo and in wedding gown served fried chicken and mac and cheese to dozens of women and children at the shelter just last weekend. instead of the original reception food, the home got to pick a new menu that the kids would like. i love that detail. and the couple told us here at "cbs this morning" that what they wanted to do was to give these children something special during hard times like this. you know, guys, they say that rain on your wedding day is good luck. i'm quite certain that something like this on your wedding day is good luck, as well.

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this is a new this morning update. the lightning complex fires has reached 50,000 acres and stands at 0% containment. more than 60,000 people have evacuated. one fire crews near healdsburg in sonoma county and is 20,000 acres and also with 0% containment. this fire is part of the larger lnu lightning complex fires. and overstressed crews are working around the clock with less resources than previous years due to the pandemic.

they have the national guard conservation corps in seasonal firefighters to help make up some of the shortfalls. meteorologist mary lee is tracking the smoke and also the hazy conditions for the "spare the air" alert and effect. we are looking at unhealthy air in fairfield and unhealthy air for sensitive groups for san jose and oakland. it is moderate to good for the rest of the bay area. because of that smoky air come we are looking at a "spare the air" alert in effect today through the weekend. we have another warm to hot day, and temperatures are very similar as we go through the next several days. there is a chance for some tropical moisture to move in sunday into monday for the possibility of isolated thunderstorms.

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