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alabama to honor a landmark day for the civil rights movement. that march will be taking place later on today. good morning on this sunday, march 1st. >> good morning. >> let's start with the breaking news on the coronavirus. health officials in seattle say they may have a possible outbreak. all this at a long-term care facility where two women tested positive and a number of people are ill. we're learning more about the first person to die from coronavirus inside the united states, a man in his 50s with underlying health conditions and no history of overseas travel. but officials say he was not associated with that long-term care facility. they do not know how he became infected. >> what we're seeing is the tip of the iceberg. we're seeing the most critically ill individuals. usually that means there's a significant percentage of
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individuals of less severe illness floating around out there. in all likelihood there is ongoing low-level transmission. we don't have the epidemiological link to figure out exactly how these individuals were infected. president trump meanwhile says there's no need to panic. >> i'd like to just ask and caution that the media we would respectfully ask the media and politicians and everybody else involved not do anything to insig inincite a panic because there's no reason to panic at all. >> scott cohen joins us live from washington where these cases show up. i want to hear what you're learning. also, when does something officially becomes an outbreak? what needs to happen before they label is it that? >> they're evaluating that. let me take you through the course of events. washington state was where the virus first showed up in the
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u.s. back on january 21st. that was someone who had traveled to china, but now we know the disease is spreading locally, that has led to the first it death in the u.s., a man in his 50s with underlying medical medical issues who was being treated here at the every green hospital in kirkland. and then about a mile from here at a skilled nursing facility, there are two patients, one was a worker, a woman in her 40s, and the other is a resident at the facility, a woman in her 70s. and associated with that, some 50 people at least that may have come into contact with them. they are all being evaluated and tested. there are firefighters who responded to that facility who are self-quarantining as they continue to get a handle on that. the thinking is this might have been spreading here in the staelt area or washington state for several weeks. >> trying to ramp up the
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testing. >> we do not have widespread community wide transmission locally. we have it that's associated with an outbreak at this long-term care facility. we'll be watching closely and going to be providing guidance as we learn more. >> all right. so scott, that doctor said that 80% -- >> and they will be. >> my apologies. continue, please. >> sure. i was just going to say that they will get reinforcements at that site, facility, which as i said is did about a mile from here with the team for straz for disease control here on the ground today. as they try and get a sense of what exactly they are dealing with. if this has been spreading as they fear for several weeks, he with could be looking at people in the hundreds that may have been affected here. >> the doctor said that 80% of the cases will be mild, but there will be some that are severe. when you have a community like that, that is so tight-knit, and as you said it could be much
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worse because it could have been spreading for weeks. how do they advice people to stay stiffr saafe? >> basically hygiene, wash your hands, wash your hands, wash them again. they're also talking about avoiding situations where you're coming into contact with a lot of people. they're not implementing any particular advisories with that yet, but that is certainly something that they're looking at, things like curtailing nonessential travel and the like, being conscience of your surroundings and practicing, as i said, that good hygiene. the people that are most at risk are people that are the elderly, people with compromised immune systems and the like, but everyone needs to vigilant. >> practicing the good hygiene we have should have been doing. we want to bring in the founding dean of the founding school of tropical medicine,
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dr. peter hotez. yesterday on twitter, you said protecting health care workers should be the number one priority. they are the front lines. what's the best way to keep them safe? and also please tell everybody out there why this is so important to heed these warnings? >> thank you for having me on. good morning. you know, i think we learned some less ones from what happened in wuhan in china, where more than a thousand health care workers became infected. there were five or six deaths. and the chinese just reported in the journal of the american kmald association, 14.5% were very sick. i'm very concerned. if the health care workers go down the whole thing could fall apart. i think the number one priority is to make certain that our
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health care workforce is intact, feels safe and protected. and we have to do a few things. of course ensuring that the protective gear is available, the personal protective equipment, ppe, i think that's happening mostly. and we really started our preparedness in that after ebola in 2014. but two other things i think we have to think about. one is the clinical guidelines right now may not reflect the reality of who needs to be tested. the cdc revised their guidelines saying that if it's somebody has restry s rest restry symptoms and have been exposed to someone known to have this virus or come from one of the affected areas globally, iran or italy, they should be tested. now they've added anybody with severe illness. that's still going to miss a lot of people who still have this virus. so i think hopefully we'll start
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seeing some additional revisions come out for guidance recommendations for testing this week. and then i think the other big thing is we still need a rapid diagnostic test. the system is still too cumbersome for health care providers. >> which we do not have in the u.s. i want to pick up on something you said. the coronavirus symptoms are very identical to the flu. is it possible that there are a lot of people out there who have contracted this and don't know it? >> yeah, certainly possible. as you pointed out, about 80% of the cases are mild. but according to a number of studies coming out of china, around 20% are not. so we're looking at maybe 20% with severe illness and about 5% requiring icu admission. i think yesterday's press event at the white house, you know, they kept on emphasising this is
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a mild illness, mild illness, but it is and isn't. a significant percent of people are quite ille. now the world health organization is now reason forcing that 1 to 2% severe rate which is higher than flu. it does seem to be gaining a foothold in the united states, possibly beginning in washington state. >> and doctor, are the travel restrictions, are travel relations and warnings and quarantines, is that enough when you say we're about to see more cases likely in the u.s.? >> you know, they emphasized a lot yesterday the travel restrictions and supplying to italy, if flights from italy and iran. but i think we need to have a better recognition that we're about to be entering a new phase where we're going to likely start to see community-level tra transmission in the united states. this was predicted by the cdc
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director, dr. redfield, about a week or so ago. i think now we may be beginning that phase. i think we have to emphasize that reality, and really look at what we need to do in the next couple of weeks. and i think the number one priority as we've been talking about is if our health care workers go down, then it's lights out. we'll be in serious trouble. >> doctor, we have to clear something up. the president has said or suggested that it could the coronavirus could kind of reseed with the spring weather and as the warmer weather gets out, akin to the flu. is that even possible? clear it up for us. >> serge some respirtry viruses show sharp seasonality. even some coronaviruses, we don't know about this one yet, show seasonality. they peak in the winter then with the warmer weather start to decliner. but remember, this is a brand new virus agent. we have no idea. we've not been through a whole year of this virus. this virus just emerged at the
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very end of 2019. so we're still in the steep learning curve about this virus. it would be great if indeed we started to see decline with the warmer weather. but we have no evidence for that right now. so i think we have to prepare for worst-case scenarios that will continue to see increases in transmission here in the continental united states. >> dr. peter hoe teds for us this morning, thank you. >> thank you. a race for the white house, looks like a rising tide for joe biden. nbc is projecting he'll be the winner of the south carolina primary. he's got the majority of the vote right now. >> celebrating in columbia, south carolina last night, he had a message for his own party. >> this is the moment to choose the path forward for our party. this is the moment, and it's arrived. maybe sooner than anyone gis guessed it would, but it's here. and the decisions democrats make
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all across america in the next few days will determine what this party stands for, what we believe, and what we'll get done. >> here's where the other candidates stand from south carolina. bernie sanders, almost 20%, tom steyer 11, pete buttigieg 8. >> they all con gradlated biden and kept pushing their own campaigns. tom steyer making the decision to suspend his. >> honestly, i can't see a path where i can win the presidency. so am i going to continue to work on every single one of these issues? yes, of course i am. >> i believe very strongly that the people of this country on super tuesday and after are going to support our campaign because we are more than a campaign. we are a movement.
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>> we are picking a president, and we need someone whose core values can be trusted, who has a plan for how to govern, and who can actually get it done. >> we cannot afford to succumb to the politics that have failed us. we can't go on with the plingsz that has us at each other's tleets instead of having each other's backs. >> i give virtually all my company's profits to charity, and there's no better investment i can make in the future of our country than spending to get donald trump out of 1600 pennsylvania avenue. >> no matter what happens, when we head into that convention in milwaukee, we have a mission, despite all these fights we're going to have, what unites us is bigger than what divides us. >> so today the seven remaining candidates are spread across the country, many focus on southern states, as super tuesday approaches. >> let's bring in laura tranche,
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at the boston globe. you wrote that this was a needed win for biden i think many people agreed. but the polls didn't even predict him winning by this dined of a margin. are you surprised? and also are you surprised that tom steyer didn't do as well as he did? >> it's really interesting. yeah, biden definitely exceeded expectations. but being here on the ground i feel like the week leading up to last night, you did start to feel people coalescing around biden like in the past. i think that had to do with his very good debate performance this week and the endorsement of jim clyburn from south carolina whose opinion is very zbloufrl in fact, biden got more votes and all of the other candidates combined. >> what does it say about the south carolina voter that biden did do so well and people seem concerned with not only wanting to nominate a moderate but someone who will ultimately beat
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donald trump? >> i think it's important and we have to keep it in perspective. south carolina is just one state. and while in a large part of that has to do with the fact that biden is very wlen here. he's come to the states a lot. he's friends with a lot of the officials here. i think he is trusted among the democrats here. i think he'll have to prove that again on tuesday, across the country, on a much larger scale. >> laura, what did biden do right versus where the other candidates fell short? >> i think that he has that name recognition that is so hard to compete with. talked about tom steyer, he spent millions of dollars here on afrdtizing on television. when i talk to a lot of voters across the state, they all knew him and were kind of wavering, maybe i might vote for tom. but they always knew biden. that was kind of their backup,
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kind of like they were looking for a reason to still support biden. and i think that this week with his debate performance and with clyburn's endorsement it kind of tipped them over the edge. >> did bloomberg has gotten a lot of poll boost from his advertising. biden has done little advertising in the super tuesday states. do you think that could hurt him? >> i think it definitely will. again he has that name recognition. but bloomberg has been blanketing all the super tuesday states. i was in north carolina earlier this week where a lot of mayors have actually endorsed him. i was speaking with the mayor of a small town in north carolina, an african-american man, who feels like bloomberg is the best choice to help his city. he's going to have an uphill battle, compete with a lot of groundwork that bloomberg has done. biden has not. he's going to have a tough time. >> at this point it's too late to try to advertise at any super tuesday state. >> it is. >> bloomberg has bought up all
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the air space. you can't get it in at that point. >> thank you. >> something that could provide a boost, biden/harris trending on twitter. a lot of voters feel like it would be a perfect ticket. >> it's a little early. >> uh-huh. >> one victory. thanks, laura. remembering a pivotal moment in civil rights history, a historic march getting underway in selma. ironlaneland. 5 indicators of brain performance. memory, focus, accuracy, learning, and concentration. try neuriva for 30 days and see the difference. when youyou spend lessfair, and get way more. so you can bring your vision to life and save in more ways than one.
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here's a live look if you're walking in memphis, 6:22 a.m., 50 degrees. >> how about you walk on over for your morning headlines. tens of thousands of syrian refugees are gathering along the border of turkey and greece, little to know shelleder. that number is expected to grow. this after erdogan threatened to
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allow migrants to threaten to europe. turkey currently hosts 3.6 million syrians. wow, really makes you feel like you're there. the cameraman nearly toppled over. storm jorge is topping the uk, up to 70-mile-per-hour winds. blizzard conditions in parts of the uc and rain father south in spain. actual lane university is removing a bell prominented displayed on campus because of its ties to slavery. it was used to direct movements on slaves on plantations.
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the university chairman said now that we understand it's history, continuing to use it in a celebratory manner would be wrong. no timeline yet for when they'll renoofb. >> fascinating they discovered that. >> and didn't take any time to act. they said we're going to do this. >> pretty wild storms in ireland and the rest of the uk. this week marks the 55th anniversary of a landmark moment in the civil rights fight. events are planned today in honor of the men and women who marched over the ed mon petis bridge. but they faced state troopers, many of them beaten prompting the name bloody sunday. >> blayne alexander, tell us what's happening today in selma. >> guys, good morning to you. as you said 55 years ago today, that is when this city selma,
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this bridge, ed mon pettis, the entirety of bloody sunday became almost synonymous with the fight for rights for african-americans. you see every year a large commemoration. so many people came across this bridge. congressman john lewis, one of them, and were beaten. that's what led to the voting rights act of 1965. also almost impossible to ignore the timing of all of this. we are in the middle of a heated 2020 presidential race. we are looking just hours away from super tuesday. and alabama is one of the states that's going to be voting on that very big day. so when we talk to a lot of people who have come from really all over the country to mark bloody sunday anniversary, that fact was not lost on them. take a look. >> i wanted to get the experience of what happened back in 1965 and knowing the things
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that happened in our history. it helps me to know more about what my people went through and other people that joined them. >> this is like the birthplace of the right to vote for blakds where for basically paving the way for all americans. blacks, indigenous people, native americans. >> and so guys, we are certainly looking at an empty street right now. the bridge is open to traffic, but that is going to change shortly. let me walk you through what we're expecting. a few hours from now we'll see that march re-created. we're going to see hundreds of people coming from brown chapel church marching through here and then over the bridge. kind of a backward march. we'll see a rally at the end pft church services this morning. about those political undertones i talked about, we're going see for the first time here a presidential candidate's forum taking place later this evening moderated by joy reed.
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that's going on as well. the theme about this is going that i want to highlight. this year's theme is called lift our vote 2020. and the organizers have said they hope of course the history of selma, the appearance of selma, will encourage people to come out to the polls to turn out, to exercise their right to vote on tuesday, guys. >> blayne alexander. thank you for breaking that down for us. joy reed will have much more live from selma alabama coming up at 10:00 a.m. >> taking part in many of those events. preparing for an outbreak, hospitals across the country are clearing out floors and training staff to try to contain the spread of the coronavirus. breaking down exist polls in south carolina, they give us a clue about each candidate's success on super tuesday. (mom) were you planning on mowing the lawn today?
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health officials in seattle say there may be an outbreak of coronavirus at a long-term care facility. >> it begs the question, will hospitalsp ready if there is an outbreak? >> let's go to steve patterson with more. >> at kaiser medical center in oakland there's an entire floor empty. no doctors, no staff, no patients, just ten rooms primed for an outbreak. >> how would a hospital like this operate in case of a real crisis? >> we have teams that are working right now to take care patients to make sure we're getting that right. >> getting it right involves training the staff by conducting drills using isolation rooms that have separate ventlation systems designed to contain the spread of infections like the coronavirus. >> we'll get on the gear, go into the room, go around the bed as though we're giving patient care.
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>> the entire process including treatment watched closely by a supervisor. >> just going to be eyeballing this to make sure we don't have breaches, don't feel -- add anxiety, this is a patient with a disease. this is one additional safety check, to have that person outside watching. >> currently there's no specific treatment for coronavirus. >> how many people are trained up for this? >> if you admit even one patient there are multiple shifts for multiple days and specialties. at all of our hospitals we are pushing to have a significant proportion of our clinical staffed trained. >> but even hospitals with proper training are facing supply shortages for things like masks and res raters because of shipping delays in an active flu season that has put a strain on resources. >> do you feel like you are prepared for an outbreak that is very serious? >> we've been planning for this for months and i think that's kind of the key to any real
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response and all preparedness, is planning ahead. >> preparing for the worst at a decisive moment. steve patterson, nbc news, oakland. >> that was steve patterson reporting. turn now to the south carolina primary where we are projecting joe biden will win. the latest exit polls from yesterday's race giving us a look at how they performed among different dem graskds. >> joining us now a political correspondent for business insider. first up, joe biden of course basking in the glow of what was a massive victory there. is it enough to revitalize his campaign? >> this race was do or die for joe biden. if he hadn't won, then there were some predictions he could have dropped out before super tuesday. this is a very much needed boost for him. as far as, you know, whether it's going to be enough for him to continue to carry that momentum into super tuesday and
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into other primary races in march itself, actually, that's still up for -- that's up for question. what this does do is invigorate his argument that he is the most electability candidate because he won in the most moderate states so far among all the democratic primaries and caucuses. >> let's break down the exit polls. he took the black vote by 61%, a larger margin than predicted. it seems like he pulled some support away from tom steyer. were you surprised? and what do you think resonated? >> big name recognition. i in south carolina that's a big deal. he got the endorsement of clyburn who is a powerhouse in that state. one thing did i find interesting was among block voters biden certainly got the majority but
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it's interesting if you look by age, he demolished sanders when it came to older black voters. but younger more progressives, sanders won that group. >> by 43%. >> exactly. >> talking about electability, i was on the ground in columbia, south carolina, and i spoke to voters coming out of the voting room, many had voted for biden. they said beating donald trump was their number one concern, some picked it right at that moment, the person they felt could be stacked up against him in november. what does that look like moving ahead to super tuesday? everybody says it's a huge cry tier tieriafor them. what does that look like? >> this has been the case throughout the race. it comes down to electability more than ideology. it doesn't matter that much to voters whether a candidate agrees with them on every issue but more whether they think this person can beat the president. super tuesday tuesday is going
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to be a reckoning for both joe biden and sanders who are both the front-runners. where as pete buttigieg and elizabeth warren and amy klobuchar are very much, you know -- they're not as much in the picture. so super tuesday is going to be very indicative of whether this electability over ideology holds. >> that leaves bloomberg in the race. >> not all the candidates match up on policy. >> absolutely. >> what do you think it means after biden had such a resounding victory, bernie had a revounding victory in nevada, chances wise, for this to be a brokered convention in july? >> i think higher than normal. the vote is splintered right now. bernie is commanding the progressive wing of the party. but biden, he is the front-runner in the moderate wing. but there is a lot of people that vote is very contested. so there is a significant
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chance, especially given the fact that so many of bernie sanders' supporters haven't pledged to support the nominee in the general elects. so we can see a lot of infighting going into that c convention. >> especially if you have bernie winning california, and biden winning texas, very, very splintered there. >> right. very up in the air. >> thank you so much for joining us. >> thank you. >> appreciate it. coming up, turning texas from red to blue, the expectations for super tuesday and beyond. next. as a struggling actor, i need all the breaks that i can get. at liberty butchemel... cut. liberty mu... line? cut. liberty mutual customizes your car insurance so you only pay for what you need. cut. liberty m... am i allowed to riff? what if i come out of the water? liberty biberty... cut. we'll dub it. liberty mutual customizes your car insurance so you only pay for what you need. only pay for what you need. ♪ liberty. liberty. liberty. liberty. ♪
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trying to keep it a secret but two days until the next votes are cast in the 2020 election, the stakes pretty high. >> on super tuesday 14 states and one u.s. tirtry will be holding primaries, more than 1300 delegates in play. >> manny garcia, director for the texas democratic party. texas will be one of the states holding the primaries on tuesday. they have a lot of delegates up for grabs. do you think what happened in south carolina has any impact on how texans vote? a lot of time with the latino mantra of what we vote we win, that has been top of mind this time around. >> ywe've seen vice president biden picking up in the polls, showed a neck and neck race at
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24% for joe biden and bernie sanders, with elizabeth warren and bloomberg coming in at third and fourth within the margin of error of each other. almost a million texans have voted. that's mind boggling during the easter early vote. traditionally our early vote is about half of what happens on election day. so you can expect another million or so to come out on election day. there's certainly a very fluid race going on right now. >> as you know, latino voters are going to play a huge roll in the primary there in texas. bernie sanders won a majority of latino voters in the nevada caucuses. what do you get a sense of where they will fall come texas? >> you know, the univision released a poll renal showing senate sanders with about 30% of the latino votese votes. it's important to remember the
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regional diversity of texas, where many states combined with a lot of different histories and traditions. so, you know, the thing to look at on super tuesday is, are latinos in san antonio or further south in the rio grand valley and el paso, are they going to be voting in the same patterns as you're seeing latinos in austin, texas or harris county or houston, that have slightly different histories and ideologies. >> michael bloomberg going to be on the ballot for the first time tuesday, been flooding the airwav airwaves everywhere, do you think that will payoff? >> really robust campaign, and experiment with the bloomberg campaign and what they've been doing. recent polling has shown him and elizabeth warren battling for third place in texas. it will be very interesting to
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see what happens on tuesday. but it's also the thinking about, some folks have maybe been holding back their vote for some people. we had heard of a lot of seasoned democratic voters, educated voters, waiting until election day because they wanted to see what happened in nevada and south carolina. so tuesday everything is up for grabs. and it's going to be an all-out battle. >> manny, what do you predict as the chances that texas could turn into a blue state? i know there's been some rumor of that. it's been less red over the years but could it actually flip? >> you know, texas is the biggest battleground state in the country. we're very excited to now have the support of the democratic national committee, they recently announced battleground build-up and supporting us to expand our operation. we already have 50 talented opera tifbds at the texas democratic party at headquarters. we got dozens of folks out
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across the state as well. we will be growing exponentially over the next few weeks and months. when you look at what's going on here, we're nine seats away from dpliping the texas house, 22 within single districts. >> let me ask you, say -- >> top of the -- nominee. >> is that going to hurt you guys in trying to flip those? >> i think senator sanders has a lot of energy and enthusiasm here. if you look at just our growth over time, in 2016 we became a single digit state for the first time in two deck zblaids will bernie sanders hurt that down-ballot candidates in texas? >> this energy is because of everybody, because structurally the state of texas is changing. >> all right. thank you, manny. appreciate it. >> thank you. after 200 tries over the course of more than a hundred years, an antilynching bill is approved in the how's. cousins of emmit till weigh in next. .
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as black history month comes to a close. congress passing an anti-lynching bill more than a century after legislation was introduced. >> the bill makes lynching a federal hate crime it was named after emmett till who was lunched in mississippi back in 1955. this torture and murder was a civil rights movement and wednesday's vote was 410-4. >> makes you question the four. joining us now eric is the executive director of the till foundation. good morning to both of you. we're honored to have you in. i want you to both talk about your reaction when you heard the bill passed the house. >> for me, it was very emotional. my thoughts reflected back on emme emmett's mother and the work that she did fighting for justs for her son's death. i just thought about how she would feel and how tearful she
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would be and happy she would be about the bill being passed. so, for me, it was an emotional moment as i reflected. >> i had many of the same feelings as airicka. i was very elated and overjoyed to hear that the bill had finally passed through the house. and i was also rejoicing for the other families that will benefit and be able to seek and receive some gestures that have endured the same atrocities as our family. >> what do you make of those four lawmakers. the four lawmakers that voted against a bill in the house. >> i always say that the moral of the south still exist with a lot of people. and i believe that those four people may carry underlying racist personalities or
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something is wrong with them. this bill is not just for african-americans. it's for all of us. any one who is lynched by a hate crime. so, i just don't understand the thought process of the four senators, i mean four congressmen who did not vote. >> now, it goes to the senate and then the white house. are you optimistic it will become law? >> yes, we're very optimistic. we had an senators kamala harris, cory booker, congressman bobby rush and we were able to sit and discuss the bill and we were disappointed it didn't pass while we were there, we were waiting in the chambers. we are optimistic it will pass on monday. >> what do you want people to know about your husband? >> i want you to know that
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emmett was your typical 14-year-old. he had just turned 14. prior to his lynching he was jubulent and friendly and a jokester. he loved to make people laugh. he was also very atlantentive t myself and those that lived in the home with him. he was very helpful at home since he was in a single parent home, he helped his mother with her chores and he actually paid the bills. he was astute enough to pay the bills and take that responsibility. >> many of those lawmakers who voted against us said this bill is not needed. i recall all of the abuse at the emmett till memorial has taken over the last ten years or so. is it now all good, by the way, at that memorial?
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it's been shot up and some ugly incidents here. >> there is a new marker up and it has surveillance cameras which everybody knows about now because there was a group. they're formed. and the alarm, it also has an alarm. when the alarm started blaeriri they ran away. it seems to be standing still, tall and bulletproof and has a glass on it now. hopefully this is the last sign that we need to erect in the memorial for emmett. >> does that refresh the wounds any time you hear something like that and you see the white supremacists and you had to put up a bulletdproof casing for ths memorial? >> it reminds us of the hate especially in mississippi. when they shoot the sign, i feel like they're still trying to kill emmett. they don't want to remember that
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emmett was there. mississippi wants to forget what happened with emmett till in 1955. we're not going to let them forget. >> now, with this vote passed the rest of the nation, not only will they not forget, but it's clear that in 2020, they do not want to forget. >> it has taken 120 years. >> isn't that insane? well, appreciate the work you have put into all of this and appreciate your time here. thank you. >> thank you. all right, everybody. that does it for us on this sunday. i'm lindsay riser alongside kendis gibson. >> next up, joe biden's rerival. what impact will his victory have? doug jones is joy reid's guest later on "am joy." everything's stuck in the drawers! i'm sorry! oh, jeez. hi. kelly clarkson.
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