we come on the air right now with breaking news. here is a live look at stone mountain, georgia, where white nationalist groups and protesters are squaring off. police just moving in a short while ago as tensions rise there. a sub shall an atlanta park, home to giant rock carvings of confederate leaders. this had closed ahead of this planned white nationalist rally and protest. far right group had applied to hold a rally at the park today to defend their second amendment rights. officials denied that application because of violence at a similar event four years ago. despite this, several groups still showing up to the park met now by an option group holding a counter protest. we'll keep an eye on what's going on down in georgia. breaking news out of chicago. thousands of demonstrators are expected to shut down a major expressway this scheduled protest is over police brutality. it's expected to be peaceful but the city of chicago is deploying at least a thousand extra fors to help prevent another weekend

of looting and unrest. kathy park is live in chicago with the latest. kathy, what are you seeing there? >> hey, garrett, good afternoon to you. so the demonstrators are gathering right now about seven miles away from where we are. and we are actually told from law enforcement officials that if this crowd doesn't grow to about 500, they're actually not going to be let on to the dan ryan expressway, one of the major expressways here in the city. we're still monitoring the situation there. but here is where we are. this is michigan avenue. and just over to my left is the magnificent mile where just a couple of days ago, looters ransacked a lot of these high-end stores, and a lot of these businesses are still boarded up. so the city is very much on edge, and officials have vowed to take back the city and really crack down on any sort of looting and crime that might actually occur. these protesters actually are

saying that they are revolting police brutality. and that is the purpose of this event. but the trigger for the looting, according to police, happened sunday night. there was a shooting of a 20-year-old man and allegedly there was a lot of misinformation and rumors that spread on social media and then it spiraled out of control and led to the looting here. we had a chance to hear from the police superintendent not too long ago. here is a warning he had for would-be looters today. take a listen. >> the men and women of the chicago police department will do everything we can to protect the safety and first amendment rights of peaceful protesters. but what happened last week downtown and on the west side had nothing to do with protest or peace. the community continues to speak out loudly and clearly to looters. not in our city. not in our town. you can run, but you can't hide.

>> reporter: and city officials have really laid out this strategy, this tough strategy on fighting crime in the city after this recent spike in looting. so, you might hear the bells chiming behind me. a lot of these bridges here in chicago have been lifted to limit the flow of traffic. this is one of the many strategies put in place in the city. another plan they put in place is to monitor social media. the rumors that spread online a couple of days ago, which may have triggered the looting, according to police, was spawned on social media. there is a task force that will be watching that closely. garrett, this is very much a tense situation and, obviously, the city would be packed this time of year. this kind of walking up and down this busy corridor, it's pretty empty. garrett? >> kathy park keeping an eye on

things for us in chicago this afternoon. kathy, thank you. now to new details on changes inside the postal service that the agency says may lead to ballots not being counted in time for the november election. procedures implemented by mr. dejoie, ally and donor to president trump. a decision to remove mailboxes from towns across the country. >> i saw the collection boxes on facebook yesterday being taken off the street, just like other people did. so as these changes are being made it's not something we're being made aware of in the offices. it's changes we're being told about the day that they're happening. >> these changes are now fueling fears around the country that slower service by the postal service may contribute to voter

suppression in the election. this is something that speaker pell owesy has been very outspoken about. a short time ago, she slammed the president again for these moves, calling them sabotage. bring us up-to-date, josh, and tell us what's happening now. >> reporter: whether the post office would be ready for all of these ballots has been a theatrical issue looming in the background of these negotiatings of the now, garrett, it's much more urgent and front and center in light of the letters that the usps have been sending to states around the country, warning they may not be able to get those ballots returned for processing in time. we're hearing from nancy pelosi on this, as democrats are seizing on this as a new campaign message. given the very high popularity of the post office around the count country. pelosi saying in a letter to house democratic colleagues that before our eyes, president trump is openly working to destroy the post office and sabotage its

ability to deliver absentee ballots in time to be counted. she said that democrats will continue to fight for funding for the postal service and safe and fair elections for our democracy. as far as those negotiation on a deal that would extend covid relief and potentially add funding for the post office and elections, garrett, not a lot of signs of optimism. making clear in that same letter that democrats are not backing off of their position, that they're only willing to go back to the negotiating table if the white house is willing to go up about a trillion dollars from what the white house had been previously offering. white house and president trump making clear they're not willing to go that far at this point. as far as the president, he has been up this morning, tweeting from his golf course in bedminster where he is spending the weekend. a series of tweets from republican national committee spokespeople, making question ybl and in some cases false claims about dead people voting, massive fraud elections, things

like that. the president adding in a retweet that the democrats know the 2020 election will be a fraudulent mess. we'll maybe never know who won. of course, that possible fraudulent mess that the president is talking about is exactly what democrats say they're trying to invert by infusing the post office with another $25 billion of funding and several additional billion for state resources as well. another reminder of how far the two sides are apart at this moment. >> always striking to see the president undermining we'll never know who won an election now just under 80 days away. josh lederman, thank you. the four-day event of the democratic national convention will be very different this year than anything we've seen in the past. the first presidential convention to be completely virtual. several prominent democrats are slated to give video speeches until joe biden accepts the nomination on thursday.

congresswoman gwehn moore. what can we expect to see? no one has ever seen a convention quite like this before. >> well, you know, i'm not on the production end of it, but one thing i gather, it's still going to be very fabulous. i think that given the upside of all of this is that i think delegates will be able to participate in ways that perhaps they would not have been able to participate had they actually come to a convention in person. and that is, they'll be able to not only watch all the luminaries speak for the four nights but will be able to attend training academies and how to get the vote out, attend the caucuses, like the equality caucus or the his ppanic caucusr the women's caucus, and where they might have had to travel from a hotel that was some

distance from the area, we'll be able to see each other and go from zoom to zoom and literally gather virtually. and so i do think it's almost like a pay per view event. people here are geared up to watch tv monday night. and then, as you mentioned, there will be so many luminaries. i'm sure they'll be watching monday night to see me and not michelle obama. >> i'm sure you'll both be viewer draws, congresswoman. let me ask you, it's not an accident this convention was supposed to be in wisconsin, a state that hillary clinton lost by fewer than 30,000 votes. the idea is to generate enthusiasm in a swing state. do you lose any of that by the convention not being physically present in wisconsin, or do you

think you could still get that traditional bump you might otherwise see? >> nothing like sitting down and having a brat and beer and some of our cheese kurds, there's no substitute. that being said we are going to try to set table for re-establishing democratic values in this country and what a better place to do it than in milwaukee. this is the place where people died for the eight-hour workday, shed blood. this is the place where the fugitive slave law was challenged. joshua glover fled from missouri, was captured and put into prison by federal marshalls being and 5,000 milwaukeeans stormed the jail in 1860 and freed him. it's the place of one the first states that ratified the 19th amendment for women. when you think about the core values -- we have a diverse

population. our native folks. we've women comed new imgrnts here. we're going to try to give them a little bit of flavor of milwaukee and what it means toward reek connect the american values. we've seen a major disconnect over the past three and a half years. >> there is nothing that prevents you from having a brat and a beer watching the convention from your home, to our viewers. the selection of kamala harris to be joe biden's running mate, first black woman vice presidential nominee, historic in any number of ways. how important was that selection nationally but in a place like milwaukee, what does her ex-to those folks? >> i can tell you, to the extent it's been possible to socially distance, identify been out on

the street and met with regular people and they are very, very thrilled it's kamala harris. i tend to look at it at the way that donna edwards, former congressman for maryland, you thought it didn't matter and then it happened. i think it just raised the excitement to that level as well. kamala is a black woman. of course, that is the most loyal constituency of the democratic party. she's also somebody we're so proud of. she is so smart and as a member of the congressional black caucus, i know that she cares about stuff that really matters very deeply to many folks who have been left behind. i mean, she cares about child care. she cares about stuff that single moms, who have never been at the table, care about. and she's partnering up with joe biden and all of his misfortune,

being a single dad and being bereaved. he gets it, what it really takes to keep, understand. so ware excited at having minimum wage being at least 15 bucks an hour, income tax credit, having family-friendly policies as well as criminal justice reforms and many of the things that we're going to talk about on monday night when we have senator bernie sanders take the stage. i think that our platform committee is going to demonstrate the big impact that he has had. and kamala is somebody who could actually help him execute these things. i mean, her competence, her brilliance and, yeah, her blackness, are all very helpful. >> congresswoman gwenn moore, i feel like you're testing out your speech lines on us.

thank you for joining us this morning. appreciate it. >> i'm just excited. >> i can tell. next week msnbc will have special live coverage of the dnc every night monday through thursday starting at 7:00 eastern right here on msnbc. and now to the latest on the coronavirus pandemic, texas is now the fourth state in the u.s. to surpass 10,000 covid-related deaths as a stark new forecast from the cdc predicts the u.s. death toll could reach 200,000 by labor day. 170,000 americans have died. in georgia, governor brian kemp is expected to sign an executive order today, allowing some local governme governments to impose a mask manda mandate, days after he dropped a lawsuit against atlanta mayor keisha lance bottoms. it will allow them to enforce mask mandates if they meet health metrics.

canada extended the u.s. ban until at least september 1st. in new jersey, big win for the teachers union. schools can begin to choose the semester with all remote learning, major reversal for governor murphy, who originally asked all schools to offer some form of in-person option. cory kaufman joins me from elizabeth, new jersey. what does this mean for individual school districts? >> reporter: yeah, there's a lot of planning that has to move forward now, garrett. there was a lot of consideration for this development. the government looking at recent spike in cases after they flattened the curve. the spike in children getting the virus, 90% spike after the past two weeks and seeing how it's been done in other states, in schools reopening and covid cases just coming forward, making these schools have to

close once again. a lot of factors were taken into consideration for this lastest change. of course, this is seen as a step in the right direction for the state teachers union as well as local teachers unions. i spoke with some who said this week this was very heavy on their hearts. it is a life and death situation, quite literally. listen to their stories. >> she looked at my chart and she said stay home. so i let the doctor make my decision. >> during the summer a life had been changing event happened with a family member who lives in my home. they became sick and is considered immune compromised. >> i have a 6-year-old son that was born with a con jental heart defect. we had considered making him stay with my parents while i worked but then i found out that the district was offering the medical accommodation and i applied for it, and i was supported. >> yeah, for teachers like toni, it could truly mean bringing the

virus home, and that could be fatal for her son. it was just not an option. and if the districts did not have this option to go virtual, many of them would have to either retire, they would have to quit or possibly go on leave, further complicating the issue. let me just say, garrett, this is not a 100% reversal of the governor's original order, rather something in the middle. he is still requiring districts to have a plan moving forward. they have to prove that they do not have enough ppe or ventilation to open and that's why they have to go virtual. then they have to give a plan as to how they will move forward and a set date for reopening, garret. >> cori coffin for this afternoon, thank you. rise of kamala harris. he worked with her for 15 years. what he has to say about their time as a prosecutor may change some of the headlines you've been seeing. i'll talk to him next. seeing. i'll talk to him next. 1 in 2 kids is underhydrated. if your child doesn't seem themself at times, they may not be hydrated enough.

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kamala harris' record as krz's attorney general. two day before the start of the democratic national convention, she and joe biden sign papers to appear on the ticket in all 50 states at the time of america's reckoning with police. here is what harris said about this issue back in june. >> a big part of this conversation really is about reimagining how we do public safety in america, which i support, which is this. we have confused the idea that to achieve safety you put more cops on the street instead of understanding to achieve safe and healthy communities you put more resources into the public education of those communities, affordable housing, home ownership, access to capital for small businesses, access to health care, regardless of how much money people have. >> i'm joined by two people who have known kamala harris far longer than most of us, long

before she came on to the national stage. pa we're joined by paul henderson and seema meadow from the national times who covered her from years. paul, the senator harris you just heard there, is that the same kamala harris you knew as a prosecutor? >> it is even before she was elected as the district attorney. she's been talking about reforming the justice system. she's been talking about an inclusionary agenda. she's been talking about dis disenfranchised folks and representing them. and that's part of the reason why she has done the work that she's done and part of the reason why i've always had an outstanding career working alongside of her and been honored to work with her. she's an upright person who is really focused as a black woman on reforming our justice system. so, yeah, that is reflective of who she is and her stage is

expanding now for more people to know about her record and more people to know about her work, and more people to know about her commitment. and i think those are all things that are going to inspire the democratic ticket and hopefully things that will inspire people to vote and support to make a change. so, yeah, i'm excited. >> seema, as you've seen senator harris come up as a prosecutor, give me your perspective as a journalist, how do you think she has refined her positions on criminal justice issues? >> she has evolved over the years but so has the country. >> sure. >> in terms of how we view accountability, race relations, that kind of thing. if you look at her record overall, she speaks about how she wanted to change the decision from the inside, a decision she made to try to make things better. she has critics on the left and the right. some people would argue she did not do enough when she was in office for office-involved shootings, providing cameras, having to do with race relations for treatment of

underrepresentative communicates. she definitely made some steps and had innovative programs, she is not without critics who said she could have done more. >> given that this is her background, her specialty is criminal justice, how do you see senator harris walking this line between supporting police and supporting the police reform movement in i think she's going to face more scrutiny, perhaps, than a nominee who didn't come from that same background. >> more scrutiny but i don't think she could be more clear on what her approach is and perspective is in terms of being smart on crime. you look back at her speeches, her presentation, even at congress at c-span in 2006 when she was talking about what justice reforms look like, those things speak for themselves about what her commitment is in wanting to change things, as do the programs that she ran, as do her initiatives that she ran in leadership positions, as district attorney and attorney general and, i will say one of the things that we worked

closely with that stands out is her increase of diversity into the prosecutor's office by over 85%. and so bringing people in, specifically women and people of color, communities of color to the decision-making table makes a difference. those are records and these are just facts. you don't get to argue with that history as it exists, and those are the kinds of inclusionary agendas i think she's going to bring to the white house that people are excited about, especially some of our most powerful blocks on the democratic party, which is black women. i will say this is coming at a time right now that it is more important than ever that we talk about those issues in reforming our justice system while this administration has rolled back and attacked many of the civil rights. again, these are just facts. this administration has cut the civil rights division and the department of justice to less than half of what it was from the previous administration. that's a problem. this is the area that focuses on the pattern and practice

evaluations for police this is the area that focuses on the law enforcement reform in our country and that division has shrunk. this is what we need to face and this is what i'm excited about. yes? >> it's a good point. personnel is policy, who you choose to hire and whose voices you elevate are absolutely part of your policy. seema, how does that play on the left? some folks in the primary especially were distrustful of harris as a senator, based on her background as a prosecutor. >> i think you do still hear critics talk about it this isn't 2016 n 2016 we had such a sharp difference between hillary clinton and her supporters. people have come along a little more easily. i don't know if it's because bernie sanders and joe biden decided to put their difference as side much earlier and it wasn't quite as intense between them. some critics, talking to voters in the early states, all last year, priority number one was

who can beat president trump, and for democratic voters if they think joe biden believes that kamala harris is the best addition to his ticket to do that, they'll stick behind him 100%. >> we'll all get to know kamala harris a lot better. nice to have two people who know her well this afternoon. paul, seema, thank you very much. two college football conferences decide to cancel all their games. how that could spell trouble for the president this fall. troublr the president this fall. the chase mobile app, your bank can be virtually any place. so, when you get a check... you can deposit it from here. and you can see your transactions and check your balance from here. you can save for an emergency from here. or pay bills from here. so when someone asks you, "where's your bank?" you can tell them: here's my bank. or here's my bank. or, here's my bank. because if you download and use the chase mobile app, your bank is virtually any place. visit chase.com/mobile.

the coronavirus is sidelining two of the college football powerhouses, big 10 and pac-12 announcing they will not play in the fall. ohio state football spotlighted in "the new york times," saying the cancellation reverberated across ohio where the buckeyes

football program looms not just large but culturally enormous. some voters blame president trump's handling of the virus. ohio democratic congresswoman enjoys beatty, former senior vice president of outreach and engagement at the ohio state university. congresswoman, i want to ask first, what was your reaction to the big ten's decision? people had strong feelings with this. did you agree with it? >> yes, i certainly agreed with it. i thought that the ohio state university and all the administration, the board, put health and safety first, and that has to be the thing we think of. certainly we understand the economic impact this will have, but we still have schools that are not opening. we still have in this great state of ohio 12 165,000 people dying across the country, some 3,000 and 4,000 people dying right here in ohio and especially african-americans dying at a disproportionate rate. i think they made the right

decision. i think that ohio state has positioned themselves to always put the students first, to put the family and the faculty first. maybe if we would have had an earlier start by this administration on doing things at a national level, we may have been able to have flattened the curve, but that did not happen. so, here we are. but i salute ohio state for putting the safety of all of those students, all of the families and the faculty in the forefront. >> look at those pictures of packed stadiums, it just feels like a different lifetime. >> yes. some 100,000 people attend. so when you think of the amount of money that football brings into state and local government, the small businesses that will be affected, while i support it, it certainly will be devastating to us. >> right. what does that do not just in columbus, but i'm thinking of

ann arbor, state college and all of these college towns where, you know, those couple of saturdays in the fall are such a huge part of the economy. >> absolutely. it also means that state and local government also take a hit. maybe the message should also be to my colleagues on the other side of the aisle that we need to implement the hero's act. we need to make sure that we come back to work about put those dollars back into state and local government, that we put funds in for essential workers and all those small businesses who are in those cities of the big ten will certainly be affected when you think of restaurants, bars and all the essential workers, when you think of uber, lyft, nail salons and paragraphber shops. they'll take a huge hit with this. and so we'll have a responsibility to pitch in and do our part. >> the idea that football could be the way that so many people wake up to this or approach this pandemic differently, i think,

is an interesting issue. that "new york times" article that i mentioned, they point out in crucial battleground states like ohio, michigan and pennsylvania, where college football serves as an autumn religion norkts just on campus but in the rural areas where mr. trump's support runs the deepest, what do you think, congresswoman shall do you think the president takes a hit on this? you mentioned at the top that certainly he has some responsibility for it. do you think his supporters will connect the loss of football with the administration's response? >> i'm not sure how many of his supporters will, but i am certain some, those who are devastated because football is their first versus health or safety versus wearing a mask, or looking at the data, as i look at it and others. i think they'll be disappointed. i think they'll be upset. if that affects the president and those who are now not going

to support him, so be it. he should have been more engaged. he should have been more in the forefront and here we are. i am proud of ohio state and the decision as well as all of those in the big ten. you just have to put health and safety first. >> absolutely. tough call for everybody involved. congresswoman, thank you so much. coming up, the voting group that could determine the outcome of the election and how those voters are leaning right now. e voters a lreeaning right now ♪ ♪ we've always put safety first. ♪ ♪ and we always will. ♪ ♪ for people. ♪ ♪ for the future. ♪ ♪

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now to decision 2020, 80 days to election day and the reaction to kamala harris as his veep pick. here is what former president barack obama said about the choice. >> he chose somebody who would be prepared on day one to assume the presidency in the event that that was necessary. he chose somebody who is experienced at just about every level of government. >> joining me now, former california senator barbara boxer, host of the boxer podcast and la tasha brown, co-founder of black votes matter. you said something interesting on yahoo!'s skull duggery podcast, that harris should apologize for her prosecutorial

record if she believes she erred in the past. do you think she erred? do you think her record as a prosecutor then could be political badge npolitic al agoa al baggage now? >> no. that was taken out of context, what you just read. we all evolve, every one of us. i, myself, have said many times at the moment, for example, i'll give you my story, after 9/11, i voted to set up the department of homeland security. i never realized a president like donald trump, who whoa pray is an anomaly, would use that department as his own private militia. so you evolve. you just tell the people. that's it. she's terrific. she has won several times in california. we have 40 million people. they all had different ideas. nobody agrees with everybody on everything. and she knows how to walk am

people's shoes. you don't win in california if you can't take your message across the entire state. we are so diverse. >> yeah. that's a good point. i want to bring you in, latasha, on that question of evolution. if you were running as the vice president, on the top of the ticket's policies but you are running on your record. how should former prosecutor harris acknowledge, talk about her time as a prosecutor running in today's democratic party? >> no, i think that senator harris has a unique opportunity to be a transformative leader. now in the light of what's happening in the uprisings in all 50 states, there were people who were standing up against police brutality and calling for a reformation, complete reformation of the justice system. she has a unique opportunity to literally be on the forefront as a leader that actually has learned from her days as a prosecutor, has actual ly heede

to the call of people asking for something different, asking for a complete rehaul of our criminal justice system and really crack down on police brutality that's been inflicted on our communities. i think she and vice president biden had that opportunity. just as senator boxer said, you can always win evolution. i think people are looking for that. people who are supporting her, supporting this ticket are also expecting that, and i'm looking forward to seeing this kind of evolution as we go forward. >> let's talk about that opportunity, you mentioned. we're learning a little bit about how the biden campaign wants to deploy senator harris. the washington post is reporting that the campaign plans to send her to swing states at times in person, at times virtually, to connect with young activists and suburban women. i'm wondering how you think she can help the ticket appeal it those groups and to the broader electorate, beyond what we just

discussed. >> i think part of what is important is people have moved from the days of having a candidate. people want an aenda. we're in the largest pandemic health crisis in the last 100 years, 30 million people without employment right now. you have health care in the middle of this health crisis. folks don't have adequate health care, and their hospitals are closing. folks want to hear, what is the agenda? what is going to be the agenda that this ticket is going to push to take americans forward, to undo the damage that donald trump and the administration has done but also what are we going to create that is a new radical vision for america going forward that centers working class people, poor people and the very people who have made this country what it is that we actually have an agenda to make sure that we're lifting them. >> pard mon me. it's tough on these digit al

interviews. senator barbara boxer, take a listen. i have a question after this. >> it's hilarious she is being called a moderate, joe biden has found a fellow moderate or centrist. she supported something very close to medicare for all. she's for the green new deal and has one of the most liberal records in the u.s. senate. >> i found this interesting. the trump campaign has tried to paint senator harris as a wildly left liberal and as a secret undercover cop, but i wonder if the flip side of that coin for the biden campaign allows them to say, look, joe biden is running as a moderate democrat, but he has also got this liberal progressive voice on the ticket with them. how do you see them playing her record in the senate, which is more progressive than the vast majority of other senators, as a positive for the biden campaign and a potential weapon for the

trump campaign? >> here is what i think. we start getting into this liberal, conservative, moderate. guess what the ticket is about. it's about making life better for people. you cannot pick kamala as an ideologue. she's just not. she may be for this bill, that bill or voted for one or the other. she's kamala harris. she's going to try to make life better for people. frankly, i think it's the same as joe. i've worked with joe on so many important issues that were quite progressive, but he appeals to a broad array of people. and i think kamala does too. taking it back to california, i ran four times state wide, won four times. very tough. very large state. it's like a country. and you have to walk in everybody's shoes, and kamala has done that, regardless of the color of your skin or who you worship, or what your zip code is. you have to, in order to win in california, you have to understand everybody, from

farmer's to entrepreneurs to silicon valley, to the entertainment industry. it goes on and on. so he can send her everywhere. she's not an ideologue. as stated, joe and kamala will have a very clear platform. we are living in donald trump's america and it is a disaster. people are hungry. they're starving. they're frightening. >> that's right. >> and they want justice. >> that's right. >> this ticket is going to be very hopeful. >> senator, thank you for mentioning that. one of the things that appeal to the biden team about senator harris was her campaign experience. a lot of people think about that as her time running the presidential campaign but you make the point her time running in california is also incredit ebly valuable to them. >> yes. >> we could talk about this for the next 80 days. i suspect we will resume this conversation at some point. for now, we're moving on. thank you. >> thank you. coming up, one doctor's effort to keep track of every health care worker lost to

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(. the pandemic for me has been mentally and emotionally exhausting. not knowing if you are going to bring it home to your family, to your loved ones, because for me i take care of my grandmother

and my grandfather on a daily basis. you never know what you are going to bring home. >> front line medical workers have been putting their own health at risk treating coronavirus patients during this pandemic. but their sacrifices aren't being officially documented. that's why when one doctor realized no one was accurately tracking health care workers who died she started cataloging those deaths herself. doctor, you did this with just a twitter account. what made you realize at first there was a discrepancy here? why did you decide to start do this? >> well, i initially started it as a way of managing my own feelings and emotions about the pandemic. it's something i had done in residency in medical school, keep track of my patients who had died. at the end of each year i would sort of release those names and say a prayer for them and relieve myself of that emotional

burden. so i started keeping track of health care workers as well, because i was also scared of the pandemic. and then in mid-april, the cdc came out with their first official status on how many health care workers had passed from covid. i believe their thnumber was abt 27. at that time, i had over 150 names. so i realized there was a big discrepancy in what they were counting and what i was able to find just googling people. >> where do you think that discrepancy came from? why do you think your number was so much different are the cdc's? >> i am not entirely sure why it is so different other than maybe nobody really wants to know. i know that the cdc collection form lists four occupations for health care workers and one more that just says other. you have to have somebody who knows that the patient is a health care worker to fill that out. >> do we need to standardize

this? i mean, do we need to make this something that's uniformly reported, people's occupyings, the folks who do test positive, or worse, pass away because of this virus? >> yeah, i think that would be helpful. if you don't know who is getting sick, you can't figure out why they are getting sick. and then you can't prevent them from getting sick. >> for the folks listening on sat leigh light radio, the account is @ctzebra. what are you hearing from people? i imagine there must be an outpouring every time you tweet? >> it has actually been a very positive response. i have heard from some family workers or coworkers of some of the people that i have posted. they have been relieved that their family member is being recognized for their sacrifice. >> doctor, thank you very much for your service. both as a doctor and for keeping track of this on twitter for us.

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the administration continuing its work to undermine and underfund the post office. and by extension, the mail-in voting the president sees as a threat. we expect to hear more about that in just a few hours in a newly announced presidential briefing. also, trump's soinl and close adviser jared kushner admits to meeting with kanye west. >> and the president also amount of phiing completely baseless claims about the right of kamala harris to be on the democratic ticket. coming up this hour i will talk about an evident by supporters of the new vice presidential candidate to fight back against those kind of smears. we begin with breaking news on a couple of protests we are keeping an eye on right now. a tense scene in stone mountain, georgia as a white nationalist demonstration is facing counter-protests in the city's downtown. members of the white nationalist group, many carrying guns, and dressed in mi