housewife of boynton beach who became a worldwide sensation is now simply florida w-2222. really. that's all for this edition of "dateline." i'm natalie morales. thanks for watching. first up on msnbc, postal showdown. congress may come back from break to get to the bottom of the mail service slowdown driven by the president's appointee. >> it's here almost. the democratic convention kicks off tomorrow. we're going to tell you how the biden/harris ticket is preparing and roy to expect in the days ahead. >> not exactly backtracking. president trump again weighs in on the false and racist conspiracy theory on kamela harris. >> fear factor. one district canceling classes tomorrow, the reason, not enough teachers willing to take the

risk. we're willing to take the risk. i'm kendis gibson. >> and i'm cori coffin. we're live at nbc headquarters in new york this morning. let's get a look at the city of detroit. >> detroit from the canadian side. this is the closest we can get to our canadian friends. >> that's right. >> because they've extended the block for non-essential travel straight through september 21st. hello to detroit. >> and a wave to our canadian friends. >> the state senate passed a bill yesterday that gives school districts the freedom to decide on the type of introduction they'll supply. i assume we're talking about michigan. >> yeah. it's specific to that. let's go over to florida.

they have another week to decide whether they're going to start practice in the fall for that state. good morning you do guys over there. >> we do have a lot of news to get to you. we have breaking news that took place during the overnight hours. this particular situation is in portland, oregon. of course, it is day 79 that these protests have been going on. this one every night since the death of george floyd, those protests turning violent overnight, police declaring a riot. >> let's go over to chicago, a day lasting into the night. police say at least 24 were arrested, 17 officers treated for injuries. cautions sparking there after marching through downtown chicago. in michigan, a rally by a far right group turning violent in downtown kalamazoo, demonstrators clashing with anti-racists and protesters at a

count countervigil. it make you wonder if this is a sign of things to come. things squaring off in stone mountain, georgia, a suburban jaxson the home of giant rock ca carvings of leaders. >> and protests outside postmaster louis dejoy's home. >> quite a bit of unrest taking place in the country throughout the weekend and will be ongoing. let's go to that showdown now between the president and the postal service with 79 days until the election, the president firing back against complaints that his newly appointed postmaster louis dejoy is implementing changing that will cause delays in the mail delivery and intentionally

affecting the integrity of the mail-in voting system. >> nancy pelosi is insisting on bringing the house back. he added we need to subpoena the postmaster general and if he fails to appear, we should send the sergeant-at-arms to arrest him. he said, it's not just the ballots being slowed but life-saving medicines affecting the elderly. tampering with the mail is an offense. she responded to the president's comments. >> he'll be a great postmaster general, and he needs -- obviously if you're going to do these millions of blots, he's going to need funding, but the democrats are not providing other things. >> the president has made clear

that he is holding this money hostage because he does not support mail-in voting. think about that. think about it. it's one of the most undemocratic actions i can think of, and he is admitting it. >> well, the president's latest postal service remarks came at an event nbc's kelly o'donnell is there with the latest. >> reporter: vote by mail is enveloped by politics. >> universal mail-in voting is going to be catastrophic. it's going to make our country a laughingstock all over the wo d world. >> reporter: a side effect of the pandemic is a greater demand for mail-in ballots. they warn states with more volume and late deadlines, some votes will not be processed in time. >> the steps the postmaster is taking are creating --

>> no, no. >> are you trying to discourage -- >> no, not at all. the steps he's taking are trying to stop the tremendous losses that have taken place for many, many years. he's trying to streamline the post office and make it great again, okay? >> ohio's secretary of state urged voters to act quickly. >> we have up to tell days after the election to receive it. those votes will be counted. we need to reassure every ohioan, do not delay. >> reporter: protesters gathered outside the home of post pastor general louis dejoy, a trump donor. dejoy is under scrutiny for reducing costs that eliminated jobs, cost overtime, and led to delay. he defends it as unintended consequences. >> it will hurt our seniors, our veterans, others that depend on their medications by may.

>> reporter: some veterans say not getting medications on time is life-threatening. >> the v.a. has been rock solid with our skrips. they've been really, really good and this is chamging us. >> reporter: the post office promised to stop the removal of any mailboxes until after the election. >> that was nbc's kelly o'donnell with the president in bedminster, new jersey. now let's get to the white house. overnight in an announcement, the president trump's younger brother robert trump has died. he traveled friday to visit his brother. nbc's josh letterman is at the white house. what do we know about robert trump's death and the reaction that's happening at the white house. >> good morning, cory. the white house has not disclosed the cause of death of his younger brother robert trump, but we do know according to the president he had been

seriously ill in recent days and spent some time in the hospital, the president traveling now less than two days ago to new york presbyterian to visit his younger brother as his situation was deteriorating. that was a notable difference from the way the president approached the illness and death of his other brother who died decades ago, that according to mary trump, the president's niece in her recent book, the president on the night that his other brother was admitted to the hospital declined to visit him, instead went to the movies. we did see the president in this case pay a visit to his ailing brother. notably it was also robert trump who filed the lawsuit a few weeks ago against mary trump to stop the publication of her book, which ultimately came out anyway. the president weighing in on the death of his brother in a statement overnight saying it is with a heavy heart that i share

ma my wonderful brother robert peacefully passed away tonight. he went on to say he was not just my brother, he was my best friend, he will be greatly missed. cori, we're waiting from the white house about in potential funeral arrangements. the president might travel to be part of any ceremony that might take place. meanwhile comments pouring in including ivanka trump, uncle robert, we love you always. >> josh letterman, thank you. now to the latest on the national democratic convention. kicking off tomorrow, joe biden and kamela harris are gearing up for the event. they're slated to give their speeches from delaware this week. wilmington getting all the

attention this week. what are the candidates doing to try to get ready for a virtual convention? are you checking your wi-fi, making sure it's 5g? what are they doing? >> reporter: kendis, that's a great question. it's very rhamy this morning. i want to point out we were supposed to be in wisconsin. it has take an lot of prep, a lot of shifting around and adjusting. they're gathering for this virtual event. they're taking questions, doing a lot of meetings and things like that. what we're going to see is kamela harris and joe biden speak later this week. we've also seen a lot of other things going on in the

background. i'm sure you've seen this and been paying attention. in the last 24 hours donald trump has come out and raised this birtherism once again. we know this is false, we know this is racist, xenophobic, not true. she was born in oakland, california, and is perfectly eligible to be president or vice president, but it's different to see these different lanes come up with donald trump talking to his base. in the meantime joe biden and kamela harris put out an ad focused on latino voters. we have a piece of sound. let's listen to what they both said. >> our dear friend will be the first indian-american vice president in the history of the united states of america, kamela harris. we all know she's smart, she's tested, she's prepared. another thing that makes kamela

so inspiring is her mother's immigrant story to america which started in india. >> when my mother shamala stepped off the plane when she was 19 years old, she didn't have much in the way of belongings but she carried lessons she'd learned from back homing including ones from her parents. they taught her when you see injustice in the world, you have an obligation to do something about it. >>. >> reporter: you see there, kendis, this parallel of donald trump reaching out to his base, and at the same time the biden ticket reaching out to minorities, trying to turn up the excitement and the vote going into september. >> i'm curious. obviously we learned from the white house, the president, that he plans to do his acceptance speech at the white house itself. give me a sense of the lay of the land of what we can expect in wilmington. do we have any idea where joe

biden and kamela harris will do their acceptance speech? will it be inside of a high school gym, outside or anything? >> reporter: they're going to be at the chase center, which is where we're standing right now. kamela harris will accept her nomination on wednesday and joe biden on thursday. i can tell you there's a lot of action. >> it's a beautiful center there. thank you. let's turn to the countdown of the election. let's brick in rashad richie. good morning to you. i want to jump right in with arguably the most important piece of new this week, which is about the postal service situation. it's an affront to our

democracy. should nancy pelosi bring back the house to investigate, and what could they do in this situation to possibly make any sort of change? >> yeah. this is an attack on democracy. she should bridge back the congress and convene them and investigate the guys for assault on dmom. this is one of the most zreechl acts this president has done. i would even argue this act is even more extreme than what they impeached the president for but they have a decision to make. many will say, well, this will distract from the election on hand. it may. at some level it may distract from it. however, is the president committing a criminal act. that's the obligation of the congress to decide, and i believe we have seen clearly that this president is willing to go to the extreme of the law and violate it in order to

retain his power. >> rashad, in the meantime, i want to talk about the dnc. there are some complaints out there already about who's getting to speak, the lack of latino and muslim voices among them to speak. yes, aoc is expected to speak but mike bloomberg and john kasich. should they give some of that time to the democratic constituencies? >> yeah. the dnc always create as messup. bloomberg is there because he wrote a check, kasich to appeal to moderate voters. it's not a reality. that could change given the public pressure now moublting, saying and demanding we would like to see more diversity in the convention. >> they took bloomberg off the

schedule. he's not eve listed. he may speak burke that was a notable change. how about the fanfare when it comes to this convention being virtual? they're going to make it accessible to viewers, but will this help and give more thoughtful feeling toward the topics and what's happening in the country, or could it hurt them that we don't have the public in person with the roaring crowds? >> if they were to do one that invites the public, it would affect their brand as it relates to covid-19. they're being responsible. yes, you're going to lack the energy and the response, but you're getting the echo chamber of the media. after the convention, we'll talk about it. we'll talk about it on television and radio. their strategy has to be good, perfect almost execution of what they say and how they brand

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not going to show up. a school just outside phoenix said more than 100 staff members called out ahead of the first day of classes tomorrow, indicating they did not feel safe returning to classrooms with students. and there's new signs of progress for new york, the state that was once the epicenter of the coronavirus. governor cuomo announcing hospitalizations have dropped. it's the lowest number since march 17th. but he announced a record-high number of tests, over 88,000 on saturday. that's for the eighth straight day. less than 1% is positive. >> clearly the touring business has not returned to times square. >> and as the u.s. is pushing to expand its testing overnight. they granted emergency operation for a new saliva-based test. developers at yale are calling this a less invasive and less expensive way to test for covid-19. the fascinating part, do you

know who the guinea pigs are for this? the nba players. they were in the bubble and tested it. >> they're doing really well. that's the sport to watch. joining us now is dr. eucha blacklock. we want to get to the saliva test. kind of a reflection of how many teachers feel right now. in fact, i talked to three educators in new jersey about the situation for them and the possibility they were facesing returning to the classroom. take a listen. >> i just felt like they were totally disregarding our roles as educators and i felt they were looking at kind of like we were expendable stoo we need the funding in order to put these things in place that we would happily come back to our

buildings with and do it. unfortunately the districts don't have the funding that they need in order to ensure what is needed in order to open school buildings. >> when we're ready to go to an indoor restaurant, we we're ready to go see a concert, then we're ready to attend school in person. >> since then school has got virtual. doctor, what needs to be in place for schools to reopen for teachers to feel safe and their students too? >> we have to listen to the concerns of the educators as well as the families. there are two main factors. one is the community transmission rate. right now we have too much of the country where the transmission rate is above 5%. it's too dangerous to reopen. they have to make sure their

ventilation systems are working appropriately, hand sap advertiser, just a place to create an environment where it's safe to have a lot of people indoors. right now we don't have that. in many cases that won't be able to be done for a few months. i see this happening throughout the country. >> doctor, we mentioned the new saliva test that got emergency approval. they're calling it a major breakthrough. you know something about this. this is something they tested on nba players who are in the bubble in orlando. how did this come about, and is this really that big of a deal? >> yeah, no, absolutely. it's a game-changer. right now what we're seeing across the country is severe backup in testing and laboratories where people are waiting 10 to 14 days to get results back. when you're waiting that long, it makes no sense to be tested. with saliva tests, you can do them very quickly, pull samples

together. people will appreciate that, that you don't have to have a nasal swab being poked up your noise. and they're overall less expense everybody because they use fewer reagents and the gold standard tests do. hopefully we'll be seeing, you know, more testing happening as a result of these saliva tests. >> and quicker results to return too. >> exactly. >> in "the wall street journal" a member of the tech community said there's treatment that shows viral distancing cells eliminate the virus and repair damaged tissue. what are these signaling cells, and if this treatment is available or has such potential, why isn't it more widespread, or why haven't we heard more about it? >> first of all, there's only been two very small pilot studies that have been formed for this signaling cells. essentially they're celling that

live along the walls of blood vessels, but what we know about coronavirus is most people when they do very poorly from it, it's because of an inflammatory response and the signaling cells decrease the immune response from the body and help with the blood vessels being repaired. so they help with tissue repair as well. and so everything sounds quite promising. i believe the researchers are going to be starting larger randomized control trials in a few months. we hope to see this as essentially essential and therapeutic. >> dr. blackstock, a little bit of good news when it comes to testing. we'll take it. >> we'll take it to start our morning. all the president's dog whistles, they worked in 2016. how voters heard and had enough by now. had enough by now needles.

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out of virginia where they're evacuating the area due to flooding waters out of richmond. flash floods making roads impassable and crews being called in. up to a foot of rain fell in some areas. more flooding possible today. >> to california where the state is bracing for another day of extreme heat and rolling blackouts. right now power is restored for nearly a quarter of a million people mostly in the bay area who had their power shut off again overnight. the risk of outages goes through wednesday. the west is baking in triple-digit temperatures right now, oakland and san francisco broke records. las vegas set a new record-high at 113 degrees. wow. let's turn now to president trump's renewed attacks on the biden/harris ticket as he

refuses to accept the ticket. >> we have more when confronted with the question. >> reporter: president trump seeming to backtrack from false racist conspiracy theories about senator kamala harris's eligible to run for vice president. >> will you say now that kamela harris is elable to run and be vice president or president based on being born in oak lan, california. >> so i have nogs thing to do w that. >> kind of. >> you thought she would have been vetted by sleepy joe. >> harris, the center of the campaign attacks, a fund-raiser event calling her the meanest, most horrible, most disrespectful. >> i heard it today that she doesn't meet the requirements. i have no idea. >> harris ignoring the onslaught

instead making it a referendum. >> this is what happens when we elect a guy who just isn't up for the job. our country ends up in tatters. >> rolling into the democratic national convention with a duo message against trump and for party unity, harris set to make history wednesday as the first woman of color tapped to be a major party saying this moment was something she's prepared for for a while. >> my mother raised me with many sayings, and one of them, she said, kamela, you may be the first to do many things. make sure you're not the last. >> reporter: less than 48 hours from the convention, high hopes. >> reporter: he'll be right near biden's hometown of scranton, pennsylvania, thursday delivering remarks meant to draw a clear contrast between himself and biden. >> nbc's ali vitali.

thanks. >> rashad richey joining us again. you heard ali's reporting there. do you think because this is so false and racist that this will do more damage to the president. >> yeah. obviously he doesn't realize that. here we go again. republicans need to get a new bag of tricks. they tried this one on president barack obama. it didn't work on him. it damn well sure won't work on a woman from oakland. he pledged the idea. the idea takes root with many of his base. i've had republicans call my show every since he say it to basically defend the position that she's not eligible to be vice president or president. let me be very clear. the u.s. constitution and the 14th amendment solves this equation simply. the u.s. supreme court in 1898 with a case of wong kong arc --

arc versus the united states, if they're born in the united states, they ee citizens. that supreme court decision has never been overturned. that is our rule of law, and that is how we operate in the united states of america. we are a land of law still. >> you know, rashad, a lot of people are coming to her defense burke do you know who's not coming to her defense, senator harris herself. she department feel the need to justify this with a response and she's staying on campaign message. what do you think of that? >> she doesn't need to respond to this foolishness. it does get her off-message. it puts her in a defensive posture, which right now she needs to tell her story and talk about why she is the best choice for vice president and why biden is the choice for president. and in my neighborhood, we played a lot of basketball and

we used to have something called self-check. that's when somebody is unable to actually score a point themselves. right now trump is in self-check mode. he's unable to score a point himself. he's defeating himself with his own message. so i would let him do exactly what he's doing. it shows the contrast and leadership that both biden and harris have spoke up in their speeches recently. >> and hopefully it will be reflected in the vote of 2020. rashad richey, thank you. no relief in sight. the long wait for americans. and it's making the gap between the rich and the poor even worse. e gap between the rich and the poor even worse it was built on blue-collar, hard work. hard work means every day. getting it right. it's so iconic, you can just sit it on a shelf if it's missing, you know it. your family, my family, when they drink that coffee, and go "man, that's a good cup,"

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>> that's right. the economy is struggling. that's the major point. there's a huge gap between the rich and poor. we're seeing the stockmarket. right now we're seeing investors, analysts, economists trying to see if we'll actually beat the highs we saw in terms of the s&p 500 in february, if we can beat that now during the pandemic. but when you look at what's happening to average americans, people earning less than $20 an hour, they're struggling to find employment, to not be evicted from their homes, put food on the table. there was already a gap between the rich and poor in america prior to the pandemic. we're seeing it's only getting worse. the way to close the gap is to have americans back and get this next round of fiscal stimulus in play. >> i kind of feel like those lawmakers are not necessarily seeing the impact. you see that in july.

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assist assisted living homes have spiked. chris has more. how are things over there? >> reporter: the report released the week is from a frade group that represents about 14,000 nursing homes and assisted living facilities across the united states, and they're sounding the alarm, warning states and the federal government to take better care of residents of nursing homes because the number of deaths in the facilities across the country is so high. the flaw in their report ends around july when there was an increasing spike in the number of deaths and coronavirus across the country. since then, the state officials in florida say the number of infections in nursing homes and assisted living facilities is going down, however, ron desantis is warning as the state is seeing a peak right now in the number overall of coronavirus deaths, he fears that the number of deaths in nursing homes and long care

facilities could go up for a while. he argues that the state has taken really strict protective steps to keep the disease out of these facilities. since mid march they banned essentially all visitors in those facilities. the governor expects that as the number of cases continues to decline here slowly in florida, you could see increased deaths among nursing home residents. >> i kind of fear that if the -- you know, the fatalities and the jen val public get on a downward trend you could see a tail kind of at the long-term care because it may take a little longer to get to those facilities because we have mitigation measures and all the other stuff. i think we know when it gets in, it becomes problematic. >> reporter: the numbers are stunning, quite frankly. here in florida, they're approaching about 9,400 people

dead from covid-19. if you look at the numbers from nursing homes and long-term care facilities, that's up around 3,800 directs of both residents and health care workers. that's around 40%. that mirrors the nationwide trend of about 40% of the nation's death from coronavirus coming from people who live in nursing homes. despite all that, the state of florida has formed a task fofrmts they first met on friday, they'll meet again on tuesday to figure out a way to start allowing some of these residents to get some visitors. they say in addition to the disease, the loneliness, the inability to see their family is really taking a toll on people in those facilities as well. >> that is has got to be one of the most heartbreaking aspects in the uptick in nursing homes. nbc's chris pollone in florida for us. would you do this? volunteer to be infected with

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welcome back at 6:57 this morning on the east coast. you're looking at the 9/11 memorial. and we have a big update to a

story following this. 9/11 museum leaders were originally worried about the safety of the dozens of people who work side by side on the display at ground zero. now governor cuomo said the state will help with extra resources to make it safer, and former mayor michael bloomberg has donated money to offset costs. >> that's good to know. as some vaccine developers enter late-stage trials, thousands are volunteering to be exposed to the virus to test how effective these vaccines really are. >> it's a brave and risky move that's held experts divided. nbc's ralph sanchez offers more from oxford. >> reporter: more than a thousand worldwide have agreed to what many think is unthinkable, to be deliberately infected with coronavirus. their aim is to help speed up

research for the vaccine. are the benefits of being involved in an experiment like this at risk? >> there are risks, and everyone is worried, but it's not going to stop me because i know what i'm doing and i know why i'm doing it. >> reporter: more than 160 covid vaccines are in development but only a handful are in phase three, ready for large-scale testing. russia approved a vaccine, but without going through phase 3 test standards in the west. scientists usually only know if a vaccine works by waiting for volunteers to catch the virus naturally. that could take months, even years, but there's a more controversial path, human challenge trials where scientists infect volunteers with the virus on purpose. results can be faster, but the stakes are high. none of the research labs have

started challenges yet but scientists here at oxford who have one of the most advanced programs in the world say it could play a crucial role in speeding up the process. others warn such experiments are neither safe or necessary. >> desperate times may lead us to cut corners but there are reasons human challenge trials have been set up. we have to have either a rescue therapy or it has to be self-limiting. >> reporter: backed by noble laureates and leading scientists their messages are clear. if the vaccine can be found even one day soon e, it would save thousands of lives. for this man's