crisis. the extra $600 gone. what washington is doing? and the states that flattened the curve now seeing a rise in cases. >> it is hard to put your life on pause for a virus. especially when you're young and stupid. >> i never thought i would be in this position to be two weeks away from turning 21 and i'm basically losing a lung. >> the warnings going out to so many kids of the dangers they face every day with covid crisis. we say good morning. it is saturday, august 1st. i'm kendis gibson live from msnbc headquarters in new york. millions of people could be affected when hurricane isaias makes its way toward florida later today. this is the radar that we're good eveni getting. it is battering the bahamas at this hour. a hurricane warning is in effect for the sunshine state's east

coast. it is expected to bring high winds and heavy winds and flash flooding. gentlem janessa webb is here with the forecast. we are expecting updated conditions at the top of the hour. what do we know about the storm? >> reporter: unfortunately overnight we have even from the national hurricane center and hurricane hunters that isaias has really strengthened. now part of the storm has run into drier air and split into two. it is trying to break apart. kendis, the problem from west palm beach to freeport, it is a body of ocean that is very warm. we think the storm system will continue to rolecome together. let's look at what is happening. the track as you said as we get the update pretty soon. we are seeing sustained winds up to 85 miles per hour this afternoon. that comes very close to the coastline of miami.

now this is very close for comfort. from this latest update from ft. pierce area to daytona beach, possibly seeing a landfall. this is the center of the storm. that's only a 30 miles difference. if we see a wobble in the system, we could have a landfall there. that's why hurricane warnings extend all the way from jacksonville to south florida. now the continuous track we could potentially again see another landfall for wilmington, north carolina. it goes back out to sea and now the forecast is saying landfall also for portions of the northeast. that's a lot of time that we'll continue to watch this track. the cone of uncertainty has started to come together due to the consolidation of the center of the storm as it is starting to gain steam. i looked at the radar. we are not seeing a ton of moisture from isaias. potentially up to a foot of

rain. that's going to cause flooding for low lying areas of miami. the big problem is tropical storm-force winds. they extend. we could see 80-mile-an-hour wind gusts. that is really on our radar across the florida panhandle this afternoon. you are seeing that live shot at the beach with the waves picking up at the beach. what i haven't touched on is the low tide and high tide. with the tropical storm-force winds, the storm surge is something we are watching even for the bahamas. now the left side of the storm system is always the strongest of it and we're going to watch miami to daytona beach and jacksonville for the potential of the flooding to be a big-time threat. this is going to be a big-time update that we get. at the center of the storm, as i

said, kendis, wobbles just a little bit. you could have a landfall this afternoon into this evening and also just nine months ago we were talking about hurricane dorian that was impacting northwest bahamas. right now, the portion of the left side of the storm system is impacting that area. we have to watch that closely. kendis. >> look at that storm right now. curious to get the update from the national hurricane center. isaias looks split right now. perhaps there's still strength eveni strengthening going on. it looks like cybil right now. janessa, we will check back in with you. let's get to florida. parts of the state are under a hurricane warning. chris pollone is in daytona beach. you saw the tower cam from

daytona where the waves were picking up. the storm is probably hours from getting to your area, chris. >> reporter: good morning, kendis. it is a picture perfect morning here at daytona beach. let me stop ruining the view for you. i'll step out so you can see the sunrise. quite a few people out on the sand. it is just after high tide right now. if the hurricane is coming here, you could not tell it right now. people are enjoying themselves. this slow-moving storm is the thing that is getting people which is the uncertainty. will it come over land? will the eyewall make land? people here at daytona beach have little more than 24 hours to get ready. florida, the clock ticking. >> signed executive order for state of emergency in every coastal county of the florida east coast. >> reporter: hurricane isaias is on the way. no projected to skirt the east

coast, but experts show a change in the track by a few miles west can turn a gentle storm into a major disaster. >> i lose sleep. >> reporter: at the florida coastal cities, people are not wasting timie preparing for the peak of the storm. >> people are getting ready in case something happens. >> reporter: isaias caused flooding across puerto ricostre storm. >> most have a week to prepare. >> reporter: president trump in town for a fund-raiser on friday night. >> i ask all of those in the path of the storm to follow the guidance of your state, local and tribal officials. my administration will be here for you every single step of the way. >> reporter: one of the nation's

coronavirus hot spots, a major hurricane could cause a dual threat to public health and businesses. testing centers have been shutdown. >> situation is fluid. >> reporter: hurricane season during a global pandemic. a test of wills and the government's ability to keep people safe. back now live in daytona beach where it is a gorgeous saturday morning. people, if they're concerned about the hurricane, don't seem to be that concerned just yet. as for preparations, daytona beach so far, this county with no evacuations planned. that could change if they have to adjust. governor de santis says there is plenty of supplies ready to go in all of the state's nursing homes. the governor says all of the state's nursing homes and elder care facilities have generators in case they lose power.

it is so dangerous for the elderly if they lose power. the governor says they are ready to go, kendis. >> they have a lot of work indeed. especially with the storm tracks west. chris pollone live in daytona beach. we will check back in with you at miami beach. we move on to other news. americans lose another lifeline. the $600 expanded unemployment benefits expire last night. lawmakers remain at odds over how to extend the benefits. josh lederman has been following this back and forth. josh, what is preventing a deal from getting done? >> reporter: kendis, negotiations are to bring two sides together. the longer the negotiations go on, the further apart the two

sides are. at the top of the list of disan agreements with republicans and democrats at this point is how long of a deal to sign with the white house seeking a one-week extension of the unemployment benefits while they hash out a broader deal. democrats insisting a longer term deal and wanting a full extension of the $600 of federal unemployme unemployme unemployment. republicans suggesting a smaller amount. the gap between the two sides seems to be very wide. house democrats are saying the blame is on the other side. they are saying democrats already passed their version of this. the heroes act back in may. the republicans have yet to put out a bill. white house chief of staff mark meadows is saying the blame is on the other side. >> we have made no less than four different offers to democrats on capitol hill. four different offers have been

actually rejected. more importantly than that, they have not even been countered with a proposal. what we're seeing is politics as usual from democrats up on capitol hill. >> reporter: and kendis, democrats and the white house are expected to resume negotiations in just a couple of hours in speaker pelosi's office on capitol hill. in the meantime, pessimism here is growing. the house has sent their members home. telling them to sit tight and be ready to come back to washington at a minute's notice if and when they reach a deal. kendis. >> in the meantime, josh, you were on air force one as the president made a threat talking about tiktok. planning to ban tiktok. >> reporter: the president came back to talk to us on air force one last night didn't seem to know what his timeline would be. he decided to go ahead and announce he plans to ban tiktok.

the social media platform owned by a chinese company from conducting business here in the united states. we don't know what that will look like or if it is an executive order or some use of the president's authority. we know there have been deep concerns of privacy and data collected on americans by tiktok that could potentially be handed over to the chinese government. this has been a major issue in the last few weeks. a source of embarrassment with the president with the tiktok platform used as a way to mock him on social media. >> a source of embarrassment for me. i finally learned the moves to dojo the cat's song. >> reporter: just in time. >> thank you, justin. to more on the coronavirus pandemic. california reaching a grim milestone. the first state to reach 500,000

cases. the first has more than 500,000 infections and 9,000 deaths. florida reported 257 coronavirus-related deaths on friday. that is the fourth straight day that the state has set a single day record for the number of fatalities. a reality check from the white house testing czar on turn around. as he and others testified before congress. >> would it be possible for our nation to have results for all covid tests completed and returned within 48 and 72 hours? is that a benchmark we can achieve? >> it is not a possible benchmark we can achieve today. >> interesting. new reporting from yahoo! news, the cdc reports the death toll could hit 182,000 by the end of august. we are in the 150,000 range. that is according to an internal document that has not yet been

released to the public. this comes as the u.s. surpassed 150,000 deaths just a few days ago. in new jersey, a crackdown on house parties after three dozen lifeguards tested positive for the virus. the state is bracing for hundreds of additional cases linked to just one party. airbnb is moving in. cracking down on rentals to young people and suspending listings that violate restrictions. cori coffin joins from us long beach island on the jersey shore. there's a lot keeping officials there in lbi. >> reporter: there is so much going on. hurricane isaias officials have to worry about, but the rise in cases in the coming weeks. new jersey's governor said where we are right now will be fully reflected closer to a month from now. he is worried about the numbers given the spike.

let's talk about the outbreak when it comes to the lifeguards. we're told 34 of 35 of the lifeguards are recovered. one is monitored for symptoms at this point according to the health department here. the latest case was reported july 24th. this is all linked to indoor parties. not only smaller indoor gatherings, but massive ones. including one that the new jersey governor phil murray had to address. take a listen about what he said. >> it was the massive house party in jackson that had an estimated 700 people in which took nearly the entire jackson township police force and state police and other jurisdictions to break up. we don't know yet how many coronavirus cases may ultimately be the outcome of the out of control party. judy, you think many. yes, it's hot. yes, it's summer. yes, we all want and in many cases need to blow off steam,

but this is no time for anyone to be vying for induction in the knucklehead hall of fame. unfortunate unfortunately, all of the above instances qualify. >> reporter: airbnb has suspended 35 properties for violating the mass gathering and house party rules. that property that we're talking about with the 700 people was part of that. latest numbers are 700 new reported cases yesterday. 2,500 over the last five days. to put that in perspective, at its lowest point, new jersey was able to get as low as 70 reported cases a day. kendis. >> how big is that house for 700 people to be there for a house party? just curious. anyway, cori, stick around. >> reporter: you saw the area. it did not look big. >> hang on. we will bring in dr. holly phillips. doctor, thank you for being here.

i'm sure you saw that big three. the powerful three when it comes to health care and the government. on capitol hill they were testifying. including dr. robert redfield. the head of the cdc. >> we can get back without these unintended consequences. the face masks and hand hygiene and staying smart about gatherings and staying out of crowded bars and restaurants. if we did those things, we did modelling data, we get the same bang for the buck as if we shut the economy down. >> is it that easy to avoid the shutdown? >> you know, i think a lot of it has to do with how well we do those five things, right? right now, there's an actual mask debate going on. were that not to be the case and everyone to mask up and social distance and avoid large crowds and do all of these things

without issue, i think that it would maybe come close to some of the projections that we just saw him give. i think there are also other aspects. for example, testing. these long, long delays in testing have broken down the key strategy which is to test, track, trace and clamp down hot spots where we see the virus spreading. if we can't do that and can't get results in 48 hours, then that model breaks down. that's a really crucial tool as well. >> reporter: dr. phillips, let's talk about the trend of younger people getting infections. here is one of the main factors driving the infection spike in new jersey. new data out shows that children are at least just as you sesusce to spread coronavirus.

what does this data tell you? >> there are two important studies about kids. one out of "jama." kids have between 5 to 100 times of covid material. it did not look at trans mi transmissability. that came on the heels of a korean study that showed children between 10 and 19 transmit the virus to adults as easily as adults transmit the virus to adults. what this really brings us is, number one, we have to remember despite what is spreading and people have said, children are not immune to the virus. even if they might not get us sick, they can carry the virus and potentially spread it. these are things we are learning that we continue to focus on with school opening in a couple

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we're back now with the 2020 race. presumptive democratic nominee joe biden is set to make a decision on his pick for vp some time next week. several candidates considered for the campaign p. who is at the top of the list? we have ali vitali with me now. many candidates on this list. they narrowed down the search or have they? >> campaigning all around the country until the pandemic and last week when i was on with you, you referenced me never being home.

here i am now. as far as the veepstakes go, look, i had one democratic operative. i heard her say this is silly season. if you talk to the biden campaign, we know what the former vice president wants in his own vice president. he wants a partner. that's because he knows the job better than anybody else. he knows what made him effective in that role to then president barack obama. now he is looking for his own number two. in the context, you see names popcorning up having their moment in the press. we are getting down to the final days and weeks before vice president biden makes that pick. as my colleague likes to say, those who know probably aren't talking. those who are talking are probably allies for the women who would like to give them that one final push be it publicly or privately with the campaign to get them over the top and make them the pick. you have to also consider here,

kendis, how long and drawn out this process has been. politics doesn't happen in a vacuum. certainly the impact of that this year couldn't be stronger. think about the timeline when the campaign ended. you had elizabeth warren drop out in march. you had debate in march with biden and sanders. that's when we knew we would have a female vice president. sanders dropped out in april. since then, joe biden has been in the state of veep searching. we don't know where it will go. we know that things like the recession and pandemic and, of course, the civil unrest following the killing of george floyd. i thought that would have an impact. >> i thought the season of "the bachelor" was long. one candidate is congress member karen bass.

"the sacramento bee" endorsed bass over harris. there's been a lot of push back and stuff that's been going on behind the scenes. what is it about it with this name and this 67-year-old congresswoman is a frontrunner? >> we have seen new names entering the process throughout the time it has been going on. certainly karen bass has come in late and has gotten a lot of attention as rising on the veep list. you mentioned a lot of stuff and things going on. especially between karen bass and kamala harris. both from california. "the sacramento bee" is one piece of it. there is a politico article that highlights kamala hararisharris.

she seems like an obvious choice. in recent days and weeks, we have seen acrimony sinking in the process. so much so that karen bass said the other day on the breakfast club radio show that she and kamala harris spoke about the anti-kamala stuff. pitting against each other with the quotes in the press. both agreed this is not something they will do. that is something a lot of women who are looking at this process are happy to see. people saying we're not pitted against each other at this point. we want to move forward. we're in the fight broadly as democrats. not as two women vying for the same job aggressively against each other. >> i'm not speaking politically. it is unfair. you had joe biden running for president for 27 years. when barack obama picked him, nobody said he is too ambitious. give me a break. this person is too ambitious. ali vitali joining us from the

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we are back now with the breaking news on hurricane isaias. the national hurricane center plans to update the storm strength and trajectory in just a few moments. right now, you see where it is. it is strengthening. 85-mile-an-hour sustained winds. located 180 miles from nassau and miami right now. it is crawling. it slowed down moving at 12 miles an hour northwest. sam brock is about 180 miles from where the center seems to be located. he is in miami beach where you see the winds are picking up. sam, i know folks are keeping an eye on this.

>> reporter: kendis, good morning. it has been sporadic. the tents are shaking at the moment. we got hit with a strong band of rain which stopped temporarilte. officials from the state telling people to be prepare with seven days of food and supplies as they grapple for a hurricane response in the middle of the pandemic at the same time. overnight, the bahamas battered by isaias. sending flood waters surging through parts of the caribbean. cutting power to hundreds of thousands in puerto rico. now the attention shifts to florida. >> just signed executive order to declare state of emergency in every coastal county of the florida east coast. >> reporter: parts of the sunshine state under hurricane warning. chewing up the coastline. with the region reeling from covid. >> do you have to treat everyone

as if they have covid? >> we have to operate that way. there are many asymptomatic carriers. >> reporter: the broward county emergency services director says they don't anticipate opening shelters at this point, but will have to consider safe distancing for future storms. some areas boarding up windows as they treat patients. >> the covid is one fear. just surrounding the connection. the other is an environmental fear. we don't know what to expect. >> reporter: outdoor coronavirus testing sites are closed with the hurricane approaching. at a time the state can ill afford to do so. how detrimental is it to shutdown the testing centers? >> it hurts. we don't want to do it. we have no choice. here is probably a little positivity. they are projecting we will catch up by the time we reopen.

>> reporter: florida is bracing for an impact. the eastern seaboard from north carolina to new england potentially in its path. in the united states, nearly 80 million americans right now in the cone of concern from miami beach where i am all the way up to maine. some states have already preemptively declared a state of emergency in virginia, north carolina and myrtle beach, south carolina as well. in this state, governor ron de santis requesting for an emergency declaration of the damage about to come today. kendis. >> it is trippy and on brand for 2020. it is august 1st and new york and the northeast have had a tropical storm already. bring on isaias. we're ready. sa sam brock in miami. stay safe. let's look at the other headlines. the news press front page leads with florida's four days of record numbers of death from covid-19. the paper in cape coral with the

eye on isaias and plummeting poll numbers for governor de santis. the headline of the four days of record deaths. and from colorado springs and pikes peak region. not all rockies fans are stiffs. cutouts placed behind home plate. the season played without fans because of covid-19. the virus safety measures taken there. and fresno. "the fresno bee." the sad news. a 17-year-old has died from the virus. the health department saying this reaffirms that children are not immune. president trump has been pushing for states to reopen schools, but it does impact the very, very young. and the "jersey journal." the transmission rate reaches

the highest since april. alarms are going off. airbnb shuts down a party. a lot going on in new jersey. we'll keep an eye on that. cori coffin is there in ship bottom on long beach island at the jersey shore. the governor of that state had harsh words for people going out and partying. >> reporter: yeah, kendis. he is calling them knuckleheads here. there is a very easy way to prevent this spike. it seems that people are not heeding experts warnings. we want to bring in the medical director of the county. we appreciate you being with us this morning. good morning to you. alarm bells is how it was described. is that how you feel about the spike? >> we certainly see it being

called a spike as opposed to a gradual increase. we are keeping an eye on and we are aware of. yes. >> reporter: what are we finding is leading this spike? >> well, we are seeing a number of things. we are showing you pictures out there. there is concern particularly among the young adults. more and more cases pop up. related to house parties and other things such as that. we also see concerns as far as people coming in from other states. we are seeing it in a number of different areas. >> reporter: now when it comes to the cases on the rise, do hospitalizations also reflect those same numbers? what are you seeing for hospital sayi izations? >> we are not seeing more visits to the emergency department and we're not seeing more hospitalizations and more deaths. it is hard to know if we are early in the process or

hopefully we are not seeing that big a peak. >> reporter: that really is the hope. we appreciate you being with us this morning. we will continue to follow your guidance on all of this. for now, back to you, kendis. >> cori, it looks to be the start of the beautiful beach day in new jersey. i hope people say distant. former president barack obama's message about the 2020 election and the strategy seems to be shifting. get this, the one battleground state where things are not going as planned. second chances. but a subaru can. (dad) you guys ok? (vo) eyesight with pre-collision braking. standard on the subaru ascent. the three-row subaru ascent. love. it's what makes a subaru, a subaru.

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there are those in power who are doing their darnedest to diskdi discourage people from voting by closing polling locations and attacking our voting rights with surgical precision. even undermining the postal service in the run-up to an election. it's going to be dependent on mail-in ballots so people don't get sick. >> former president barack obama eulogizing john lewis. obama condemning the attacks and

as president trump wages a crusade against mail-in voting. joining me now is political analyst is susan and morgan. morgan, let me start with you. driving the president's push of mail-in voting in the 2020 election. he says there are many ways to corrupt it. that has been proving otherwise. many republicans, in fact, vote by mail-in balloting. what is behind this? >> well, you know, i think you hit a point where there are republican strategists are concerned this could hurt republicans ahead of the election. it could, you know, they have been trying to turn out voting. you know, despite the president's attacks, the consensus is there will be more mail-in voting in november because of the pandemic. the risk is does this back fire? >> a lot of people are thinking

it might back fire. s susan, what states could this hurt the president? we know a lot of seniors in florida use mail-in balloting. is that a place? >> that is a perfect example, kendis. in 2016, president trump won by 1.2%. obama won it by 1.9%. it is always tight. republicans have been spending tens of millions of dollars in florida to increase their vote by mail program. it is important to recognize in 2016, florida changed their process from absentee. the name of it from absentee to mail-in ballots. the reason why they did that was because they no longer required an excuse or reason to vote by absentee. that is the only difference. both require an application and

both require you fill out a ballot. there is no difference. when the president is saying, absentee ballots are good and mail-in is bad. it is absurd and makes no sense glchlt . >> it is the same thing. >> in new york, where you are supposed to request one, they changed it for the primary because of covid. they are one in the same. you both have to apply for an application and you have to fill out a ballot. >> increasingly so many seniors are using it. years ago, president trump won with senior citizens. this year, he is trailing in those polls. let's talk about the polls and battleground states that were not supposed to be battleground. cnbc poll shows trump trailing in arizona, florida, pennsylvania, wisconsin and michigan and north carolina. the trump campaign has stopped buying ads in michigan. that withdrawal comes as the

campaign shifts money to other advertising in battleground states like iowa. i thought iowa was baked in, morgan? and michigan for that matter. >> it is striking. it is not surprising if you are tracking the polls from michigan. they show joe biden with the lead. the campaign says they have resources invested in michigan. they are not buying new advertiseme advertisement. it is a sign the campaign is looking at other states because biden is leading michigan. >> susan, you have been part of so many campaigns and followed politicians for years. 94 days out and incumbent in this much trouble. as far as the polls go? >> yes. not a presidential candidate, but it happens. things can change. the problem is with this

president, he doesn't want to change anything. from the first day he took office, he played to his base. you typically expand that to do your job properly and govern for the whole country. he has done nothing to expand it. michigan, kendis, was far from baked in. it was because hillary clinton under performed president obama by 9% of the vote is the reason why donald trump won. he roughly received the same amount of votes as romney did in 2012. >> we'll leave it there. susan and morgan, thank you both. i should mention as we talk about the balloting. early voting begins in five weeks. your absentee ballot you should get in by october 20th. who knows if baseball will be around by october 20th? what do you think? maybe? it's right now on the brink.

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just days after the start of the baseball season, coronavirus threw teams a major curveball. games have been put on pause as cases rise and now the league's commissioner is threatening to shut it all down. nbc's kathy park is at yankees stadium in the bronx with the latest on that. where does the league stand at this point? >> good morning to you. you might know the yankees play their home opener last night, under normal circumstances this stadium would have been packed, but it has been an unprecedented year for baseball with no fans inside, games postponed and now the possibility of a canceled season. this morning major league baseball's short season is in

jeopardy. >> espn reporting mlb's commissioner warned the player's union that the season is at risk if the virus is not better managed. teams reporting 29 coronavirus cases in the past week, with two st. louis cardinals players testing positive friday, postponing their match-up against the brewers. the league says a decision is consistent with protocols to allow enough time for additional testing and contact tracing to be conducted. eight different teams have been affected. the marlins have been sidelined for days after an outbreak infected 17 players and two staff members. the list grew friday when another player tested positive. >> will there be a full season? >> what you have seen is baseball tried to adjust on the fly. certain protocols and certain regulations of how players are supposed to comport themselves when they're not on the field or not at the baseball park. >> reporter: restarting baseball meant adjusting to new health and safety protocols, but unlike

the nba, nhl and mls, mlb's pandemic plan did not include a bubble. >> we would have had to have multiple locations. >> if you look at the nba, the bubble seems to be working extremely well, which has returned several weeks now of no positive tests. >> reporter: the nhl hits play today after a four-month pause. >> the player rest beimra eplay every day in the bubble, all the tests have been negative. >> he leaves the ice! >> reporter: sliding back on the ice safely for a chance at the stanley cup. and the backdrop of the nhl will be the safety zones or bubbles in edmonton and toronto, and in the absence of fans, there will be additional cameras capturing new angles and all the action on the ice. >> at least they're back and in a little bubble, that will be

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182,000 americans will have died from coronavirus before the end of august. that's a new prediction by the cdc. 40 million people may lose their homes in america, a number that's four times what it was during the great recession. and the 3rd of november, election day. trump suggested delaying it. we'll count all the ways that's never going to happen. "velshi" starts now. good morning. it is saturday, august 1st. i'm ali velshi. overnight according to an intern government document the centers for disease control is forecasting the death toll from covid-19 could reach over 180,000 by the final week of august. those are daunting estimates cons