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alabama troopers saluted the man who nearly died as he marched across the very bridge or attempted to. mr. lewis body has arrived at the alabama state capitol where he will lie in state until another service tomorrow ma will celebrate the conscience of congress. priscilla, let's begin with you. you're there outside the edmund pettus bridge which many people are trying to get renamed the john lewis bridge. what's it like there so far? >> reporter: well, an emotional day here on the ground for sure. so many people gathered along that procession route earlier as john lewis was carried from brown chapel to the edmund pettus bridge to make that crossing with folks singing many of those old spirituals that we know from the civil rights
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movement and what a remarkable thing to see. yesterday he lied in repose at troy university, a school that was segregated at that time when he was contemplating going there that he would not have been able to attend and today lying in state in the alabama capitol. another place that in the 1940s, '50s and '60s when he was coming up was something that would not have happened and so so many people here thanking him for all that he has done but also a reminder of the work that remains to be done. you saw there a little while ago, representative suell laying that wreath with the american flag. i had an opportunity to speak with her yesterday and she talked about the need to restore the voting rights act. something that john lewis and so many of those folks on that bridge in the '60s were fighting for. that fight continues today. even some folks here who gathered on this bridge to pay their respects, shouting out the
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name of george floyd as that casket crossed. truly, not only a deck indication and honoring of john lewis but the reminder of the work still to be done. lipds say. >> as we watch those images, we see john lewis brother, sister, son, chief of staff as well. we're looking at image earlier of the hearse carrying his casket. jamil, you wrote a powerful piece for rolling stone honoring not only lewis but reverend c.t. vivian saying despite their work, this is a still a nation that failed them. can you explain more. >> yes. i feel like we have been a nation that continues the mourn here r heroes like this but continues to come up short with regards to the promise that they have fought for. i think john lewis demand ed vividly in that march on washington in 1963 freedom now.
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not later. not eventually but now. here we are all these years later still fighting the same battles. i think what we need to do to honor him is not preoccupy ourselves with perhaps naming bridges or acts after him to honor him but carry forward his work and to really make sure that he will not simply the voting rights act is fixed but legislation like hr1, the democrat house legislation that he was preoccupied with when i spoke with him in 2019, the carried forth and passed. when we talk about honoring our leaders and our hero, to do things like today, we mourn them properly but we also make sure we carry forward the struggle they fought so hard for and gave their lives for. >> andrea mitchell, i want to bring you in as well. we're talking about somebody who
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served congress for 33 years. how will his absence be felt there at our state capitol? >> in washington his absence will be felt by the fact that he was always the reminder. every year he brought members of congress from both parties to the edmund pettus bridge as a reminder of all that said has not been done yet. the voting rights act that will be renamed and reintroduced by jim clyburn, his friend of 60 years, tomorrow is the first step. section 5 was obliterated by the supreme court in 2013. that was the key part of the voting rights act, the enforcement and pattern and practices that still has to be restored. we see the voter suppression in state after state that has still persisted and most recently what happened in georgia on the recent primary election day with the hours of waiting, which is
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way of suppressing the vote and discouraging people from coming out and in fall we have to expect it will be with a continuing pandemic and more fears of coming out. there's so many ways that he can be honored but real action on mission that he had but to see today him lie ng the rotunda there in the montgomery capitol, for those of us watching the civil rights movement and covering it in the later years and watching the march in washington as well as the march across the bridge that never took place until he finally crossed it today with this remembrance as he transitions is so remarkable. as a young reporter i covered george wallace in 1968 and 172 when he was running for president. e went to his rallies and experienced what it was like to deal with this anger and hostility against the press. the incredible racism and segregation of george wallace.
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he was a reconciliation before wallace died with john lewis, which shows, again, what john meachum called the humble mu tillty of this man. he never held hatred in his heart. he was always able to reach out across bridges. >> what an important context there. jamil, do you have any confidence that the bill that jim clyburn is said to sfwro deuce will pass and be signed by this president? >> doini don't have any confide that any bill passed by this congress will be signed by this president. john lewis understood the racism of this president very well and called it out. when i spoke to him in 2019, he called it out. he said this president is racist. when i asked him what he would say to his friend martin luther king, he said he would express to his friend that there's a president that doesn't
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understand the struggle that he articulated. i think what we need to do is first have a president that understands the fight for which they bled and almost died for and in martin's case did die for. that's the fight, as martin said, make this country be true to what it said on paper. not give african-americans more per se than white people or other privileged groups but make us equal. give us the same opportunities to fulfill the american promise that others have had. that's all they've been asking for. >> presill iscilla what happens in alabama and what hap happens tomorrow? >> right now he's lying in state at the capitol here. folks are having an opportunity to stop by and pay their respects here in alabama. then he will journey onto the
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u.s. capitol tomorrow where his casket will be placed at the top of those stairs and he will lie in state there. for folks there to pay their tribute to a man who obviously came from small town alabama but grew to become this great congressman in washington, d.c. and did so much for his constituents there in atlanta. he will be in d.c. and then the final leg of his journey will be to return to the south. he will come to atlanta, georgia whether it will be a couple of different services and ceremonies before he is laid to rest in atlanta. >> andrea, to lie in state at our nation's capitol is quite an honor that not many get. what are your expectations as he lies in state, particularly in this time when the capitol building is closed. we're in pan ddemic and so many mourners are earn couraged to participate by streaming events online rather than going in person. >> i think there will be an out
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pouring especially in this city that he loved. first week in june he was at black lives matter plaza here honoring the protesters, encouraging the protesters who had been really confronted by forces, federal forces on june 1st that day when the president was crossing across from the white house. he honored that president, visited with the mayor of the city who has been so strongly objecting to the president's intervention in law enforcement. the people of this city and the surrounding area and colleague will be turning out. they can pay honor indoors. the casket will be moved to the top of the east steps.
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people can be properly socially distanced. then the various commemorations by members of congress indoors that will be led by nancy pelosi and his other colleagues. he was loved in congress for so many reasons. also the fact he renewed the call to heed our better spirits and do the honorable thing and make america more perfect union and complete the journey which is so far from finished. >> that image was so powerful of john lewis with his arms crossed there at black lives matter plaza with the mayor of washington, d.c. pri s thank you so much for your time. we appreciate it. today, also marks a milestone in the 2020 race. it's 100 days to election day. all day long we're looking at the states where things could be
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won or lost for the candidates. let's turn to ali who is live in harrisburg, pennsylvania. the state went to trump in 2016 but by really slim margins. pennsylvania is a battleground state but it also happens to be the site of biden's hometown, scranton. will that help biden? >> reporter: i guess we're going to see. we're 100 days out. a lot can happen twebetween nowd then. let's compare 2016 to where you're at now. you're right pennsylvania was a razor thin margin. just over a point ta trahat translates to hillary clinton losing. democrats looking to make this a referendum on the president because what's different now is when i was here with him in 2016, pennsylvania voters that i spoke to told me they liked his manufacturing messaging. they liked fact he wasn't a politician among other things. what's changed, trump became the most ultimate of politicians and that he became president of the
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united states and with that running as an incup benkucumbene has 3.5 years of thing he's already done for voters to ask themselves, are you better off than you were four years ago? for democrats, they would answer no and part of their task here is multi-pronged efforts to turn out more voters than they did in 2016. we spent the day in this neighborhood walking around with one of the progressive groups who is back knocking on doors even though there's a pandemic going on. they are taking precautions but this is notable considering most group, republican and democrat have embraced digital organizing in the age of the pandemic. listen to what the organizer told me. >> i loved talking to the people in person. i feel like i can read their facial changes. i can hear their change in tone. i can ask them the questions of so you say you don't like but why don't you like this. i feel like i can get to know
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the person better. getting on the doors has been proven to be successful. that's what we need right now. >> reporter: the goal here for this group, which is interesting, they are looking to turn out progressives. people who will democrats but maybe they don't vote as often as democrats groups like them to. they hope they will turn out more people, not just the folks energized to get to the polls but also the folks who may have sat out last election and aren't voting as frequently so that come november, 100 days from now, they are seeing more democrats at polls in places like pennsylvania and other battlegrounds. >> makes you wonder how much hand sanitizer was in that backpack of hers. >> reporter: a lot. >> thanks so much. we are still a long way to go on passing a new coronavirus relief bill. at risk if a bill isn't signed by friday, millions of americans losing enhanced unemployment benefits and federal eviction
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protection. the white house and senate republicans say they are on the same page for a slimmed down legislation to be unveiled and that will happen tomorrow. the 1 trillion proposal differs from the 3 trillion package. house democrats already passed. shannon, what does this gop proposal look like and what is reaction from the other side of the aisle? >> reporter: it looks like they have been able to break up this stalemate between republicans over this supplement $600 a week unemployment benefit that people have been getting. there was talk of getting rid of that. some people wanted $200 a week. now they sort of kcoleased aroud a plan it would reduce unemployment benefits to 70% of what they were making if employed. that's a deal they have reached.
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they have thrown in other things like liability protection for companies so they can't be sued if someone gets coronavirus and said it happens at their establishment. a you noted, there's a big gap between where we are with the senate republicans and where the house democrats are and nancy pelosi talked about that earlier today. have a listen. >> again, that they would now be trying -- they're in disarray and that is causing suffering for america's families. we have been ready for two months and ten days. i've been here all weekend hoping they had something to give us. they promised it this week. it didn't come. now they are saying monday. >> will you stay in session until a deal is negotiated? >> we can't go home without it. >> reporter: you hear democrats haven't been brought into the negotiations yet. that's really going to be the hard part now that republicans are on the same page. it will be real rough week and congress trying to get something
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through. millions of people face unemployment benefits being reduced come the end of the month. >> yeah at the same time the moratorium on evictions is set to expire. thank you. we want to get to latest on some of news we're following including the coronavirus vie sis. in the early days of the pan demonstrate i thi pandemonstratic kra c was the first to issue a stay t home order and now there's an exploding case load of 450,000. really as quickly as things opened up, they are shutting back down. scott, what's the latest? >> reporter: well, as you said, the cases are taking off. santa cruz is about 70 miles or so south of san francisco. it's a popular get away place for the bay area. they had large rise in cases over the last few weeks.
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the way it works in california, if the statistics warn it, you go onto the governor's watch list. after three day, new restriks are put into place and that three days comes to an end at tend of the day tomorrow. >> we'll be joining to move indoor activities to outside. indoor components of gyms, fitness centers, shopping malls, religious and cultural services, protests, office work all need to move out doors or go virtual. >> reporter: rolling back to where we were in april and may and that has a huge impact, not least of which on the economy. behind me is the iconic santa cruz beach boardwalk. it's been here for more than a
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century. they have just announced they are laying off one third of their full-time staff. they have tried to partially reopen. this company is feeling it as the rest of the state is now. a huge rise in cases here in california which is one of first to shut down but also was early opening up. next, more of our special coverage. 100 days until the 2020 election. north carolina is the fist state to begin early voting. rest there can cast their ballots as early as six weeks from now. we'll look at the competitive race, the impact of the pandemic and inexperience with mail in voting. a live report, next. n voting a live report, next. when the murray's started using gain ultra flings
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stock market is not the real economy. thousands of small businesses have been shut. millions of people are out of work and just not getting back on the job. as it relates to this november, i'm focused on money. a nation divided by greed. >> while there may be 100 days to the election, there's only six weeks until north carolina begins mail in voting on september 4th. let's turn to jordan jackson. coronavirus cases, unfortunately, in north carolina on the rise. today the at a time is reporting nearly 112,000. how is that impacting mail in voting. >> reporter: officials are telling me they are confident in the work that they have been doing but they are bracing for a swell of just mail in voting,
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unlike anything they have ever seen before. they have been prepping for some time trying to get things in order here in the state. i spoke to a county board of elections shachair about what t are seeing and how the numbers in vote by mail, what numbers could look like in this election. take a listen. >> usually we have like a 4% increase in absentee ballots. i think they are expecting 40%. we are expecting a lot more. it's already double what it was at the same time in 2016. >> reporter: it's crunch time for officials and candidates here in the this state. president trump trails biden in the most recent polls here. i spoke to a republican party official from this county who just said that, the enthusiasm
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for president trump in this state is high especially among women here even though it's not necessarily reflected in the polling that we're seeing. she had an interesting explanation as to why. take a listen to what she told me. >> women want to come out and support him but again, it's almost like when they -- when you're eating a grimy piece of meat, i don't think i can put this out publicly. i think a lot of womenlosing fr want go and submit their vote and not put it out there publicly. i think there's that fear of putting out your political position. >> reporter: on thursday, president trump cancelled the jacksonville portion of the rnc. the charlotte mayor is saying the city is committed to hosting a scale down version of this convention with no intention to
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roughly five months into a pandemic that's claimed close to 150,000 american live, members of the trump administration continue to down play the severity of the testing delays plaguing our nation. >> what is true now is that anyone who needs a test can get a test. the two week turn around, the data is 4.27 day for half of those tests that are done in the commercial labs. i'm highly confident that turn
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around will decrease this week. >> the president will basic sure he works with congress. there's adequate funding for testing. i'm going to leave it to the chief of staff and the secretary of the treasury who are negotiating with congress now. woo we'll sure there's adequate money to meet the needs of this response. >> we heard it there, 4.27 days. first of all, i don't know anybody who has gotten a test that quickly. second of all, isn't 4.27 days still problematic in the age where we're supposed to be contact tracing? >> yeah, absolutely. good afternoon to you. 4.27 days is by definition not enough. it's too many days to have any consequences. think about it. you get a test because, only suspicion still not enough testing. until my practice, 7 to 8 days.
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you're right. i don't know of anyone watsi in four days. i would be relieved if i had four days. we told patients quarantine yourself. get your contacts, get in touch with your contacts and they take another week to turn around. we're seriously under performing in all aspects of giving the american public faith that we can try to control this virus. reopen schools and have a progressive progress on our economy. >> you're rely ong the honor code to make sure people stay home and contact people that they've seen. i want to play something we heard from mark mad does this morning about their strategy. >> we're not going to have a solution to this. it's not mask. it's not shutting down the economy. hopefully it's american ingenuity that will allow for
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therapies and vaccines to conquer this. >> this feels like it's flying in face of medical experts who say wear mask and the chief of staff saying mask wearing isn't enough. >> i have to rely on science and data because the political spin and the marketing campaigns are not what i want to be telling my own patients and doing for myself. what the data tells us time and time again is the combination of masks keeping distance, hand hygiene and also limiting gatherings to just very small numbers as much as you can out doors when possible that has not only decreased the transmission of the virus but if we had done it it it earlier werks probably could have kept the numbers in half of what we're seeing today. i have to stick with the facts. yes we're making progress on so many fronts including treatments and vaccine but by that token that means we have to allow for every one on the get sick and
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what we really want to do is do as much as we can to prevent that. >> we're also seeing a lot of mixed messaging in terms of the coronavirus task force, namely dr. anthony fauci. he's not doing a ton of broadcast interviews. mostly print, things online. there's been continued attacks against dr. fauci. sin claire broadcasting said they will delay airing segment featuring a baseless conspiracy theory about fauci's role in the coronavirus pandemic. this segment widely panned by everybody. now making the decision they will add some more context to that. fauci says he and his family have been serious threats against them. how dangerous is it so have somebody the leading expert demonized. >> it's quite dangerous. it really distracts from what we really want. in my heart, i believe americans are just wanting to -- they want
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to feel safe. they want to feel healthy. by putting this poison out there, it's not only a direct attack on dr. fauci, whose family and friends but i think more importantly, it's the symbolic gesture around sicienc. it saying that science has an agenda or this is a hoax. we have too many deaths, too many sick people, children, adults around the world to think that's where we are. i have to believe there's more sensible people out there and that's why they decided to stand down. >> to your point, we did hear press secretary say we can't let science get in the way of roping schools. dr. patel, thank you for your time. up next, a look at what else is happening around the nation and what's missing from a proposed coronavirus relief bill. relief bill - [narrator] the shark vacmop combines powerful suction with spray mopping to lock away debris
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welcome back. this is a live look outside the alabama state capitol in montgomery. people, as you see there, are lined up around the block to pay their respects to congressman john lewis. he would lie in state throughout the evening. part of several days of events marking the death of the civil rights hero. in seattle, protests last night led to 45 arrests and 21
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officers hurt. the clashes are continuation of the calls for justice since george floyd's death back in may. despite a peaceful protest in the afternoon, tensions began to flare as police say some businesses were damaged. the police soon declared the scene a riot and called on the crowd to midisperse. the protesters in portland and seattle were not alone. thousands of people demonstrated across the united states, including in aurora, colorado where someone droefr a car, look at that blue jeep right there. driving into a crowd of protesters on the interstate sending people scrambling. a protester fired a weapon in response grazing one person. witnesses say someone else was hurt while dodging that car. the protests call for justice for 23-year-old elijiah mcclain. the scene in portland, oregon has remained tense as police
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declare the protest a riot overnight. demonstrators overtook a fence that surrounds the courthouse. the building has served some kind of meeting place for protesters lately. they have been calling for an end to police brutality. police, federal officers and protesters were still in the streets early this morning. happening now, the state of texas is feeling the effects of hurricane hannah despite it having made landfall yesterday. the eye of storm has moved west into mexico but texans are still dealing with high winds and heavy rain. because of the pandemic right now, some evacuees have been given hotel vouchers instead of sheltering in large public areas. texas governor has issued a disaster declaration for 32 counties in texas. hawaii is feeling the effects of a hurricane as well. hurricane douglas. a category 1 storm is beginning to impact the islands. hurricane warnings were expanded
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to the island of maui and hollywood is mourning the loss of double oscar winning actreba olivia de havilland. she died from natural causes in paris where she lived. de havilland fought for equal treatment challenging hollywood's right to extend an actress contract without consent. she won the case in a landmark ruling. it's till knostill known as the dehavilland law. she was 104. a preview how key parts of the coronavirus bill could impack millions of americans. the lack of funds for local governments and a potential reduction of unploemployment benefits that will not only impact the economy but the ability of local governments to combat the virus as well. we'll break it down, ahead. ll we we'll break it down, ahead
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there's less than week left until the cares act expires. this is program that's been helping millions of americans since they were approved in march. those millions of americans have a story to tell about how this money has opinion allowing them to survivor through this pandemic. >> had the kind of figure out how to save my own life. sflp nobody can live out there like that. >> i spend at least 400 regularly on food. wh what am i going to do with $200. >> when you have a child to care for, there's no choice. you can't let your child go hungry. you can't let your child hear in south florida we have 100-degree heat. you can't let your child be that
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hot. you have to have electricity, food and a house. >> we wanted to see how important these emergency benefits are to people around the country. we got in touch with a few recipients. >> i was working for car dealership in albuquerque. i was a cashier. i had direct contact with customers. i have type one diabetes. i've got multiple side effects. i then and this is my insulin pump. every time i order so every three months it costs me about $2,000. i'm also on a dexcom.
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my job pays for my diabetes. my husband's job pays for everything else. i have health obstacles. i mieg nght not get to go back this job forever. i haven't heard. i don't know if i have a job. they've replaced me. i have to look at this like i don't have a joob. >> i can't imagine what it's like to be holding back death's door with your hand on the door every day. >> my doctor doesn't want me to go back to work until we have zero cases coming in for days. that could be next year. >> tony is a single father. >> i actually applied for unemployment shortly after the quarantine was announced. my regular unemployment is 365. that's all i can draw. with everything, bills, my kids, work, i have to pay for insurance. 365 a week will not suffice to
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pay the bills. i'm coming back out and trying to find a way to make the money that i need the make to survive. if this money will not continue and things help the american people stay a bit more safe and stay quarantined, the ones that need to, i have a 4-year-old son who asthmatic so he's a little more prone to the coronavirus. at the end of the day, i would hate myself if i decided the stay home and not provide for my family, not provide for my son when i could have just, for instance, bought a sneeze guard or worn ppe and tried to make the money that i need to without penl iealizing my son for somet he has nothing to do with. >> natia johnson was a waitress.
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>> i'm the breadwinner in my family for me and my daughter. i'm used to making $1,000. i'm used to go from $1,000 to 53. that's kind of like a kick in the gut. that's why this is hard. if it was just me, i'll take risks. i'll do people hair. i'll baby sit people's kids but i'm risking her life too. i can't take risks like that. now that i don't want to take risks, me and my daughter's health, i have to get $200 a month for money from unemployment. what are we going to do? >> that was ben reporting. as republicans prepare to unveil their coronavirus relief bill, one major provision that will likely be missing from it, aid to state and local governments. many are municipalities are strapped facing crippling budget
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issues. clarence, can you break down how these state governments are struggling from the pandemic. their revenue has been wiped too. >> yeah. thank you for having us and having this conversation. we're celebrating the life and legacy of john lewis and this fight for dollars for state and local government is what congressman lose refers to as a good trouble to get into. what we are seeing is approximately $360 billion. we estimate over the next three years will be a loss of revenue for cities, towns and villages. as i looked at that story about the unemployment benefit, it just breaks me heart. that's the heart of what we're
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fighting for every day for local governments. what we're having to do is layoff employees all over our nation. it's estimated over the next year, three million municipal employees will have lost their jobs. they will be laid off or furloughed because of the pandemic. that's shameful that there's no dollars right now, as we see it, for state and local governments. >> can you explain $360 billion loss. is that from sales tax? is that from people's paychecks as well? >> it's from sales tax. it's from revenue tacks. it's from all types of assessment, if you will, that local governments will not be able to see the outcomes because
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of the pandemic. we estimate $30 billion will be lost because of the small businesses and main street businesses not having the purchasing power to help with the recovery. we don't like it's a political thing. unemployment resources, fire emt services is not democrat or republican. we need congress to do their jobs and to put dollars, direct dollars into the hands of those that can turn our economy around. that's mayors, council members of large, small and rural cities. that's what i also think is lost. a lot of times when we think of this pandemic, we think about
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those big cities. >> i've covered local city council meetings where these councils are forced to make budget cuts because they have to make up a deficit. the first thing ons that list are closing parks, closing pools. what does this look like for americans in these small towns and larger cities. >> what it looks like and we did a survey and asked what are you cutting now? first thing was summer program. we may not think of that as essential. i grew up in rural community in south bay florida. i can tell you that that summer program was my lifeline to being able to have something to do.
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