priscilla thompson, shaquille brewster. texas taking in some new measures this morning to try to get things back to normal with gyms now allowed to reopen their doors. >> reporter: that's right, ayman. we've seen a steady stream of folks coming out to cross fit. some of them are behind me getting that midday work out in. we're seeing safety measures implemented here as we're seeing across the country. at this gym, they moved some of the equipment that was inside outside in order to create more space and promote that social distancing. but this does come as texas has seen record high numbers in terms of covid-positive cases. saturday saw a single-day increase and so i asked some of the gym goers about that. take a listen to what they told me. >> does it surprise you that we're seeing these spikes in numbers? >> no. as contagious the disease is, you're going to risk having more positives. >> as we open up, we have increased testing. we've had limited testing in texas, we're getting more and more testing. as we open up, we're

shaquille brewster is doing fantastic work out there in the streets of minnesota. thank you, shaquille. >> reporter: thank you. >>> i want to bring in pilar menendez a reporter at "the daily beast" who had a great piece today titled cop who kneeled on george floyd tried to kill me in 2008. the police officer david chauvin has a record. you found an individual who had a run in with him so to speak. tell me what your reporting said. >> yeah, so i was told today in 2008, chauvin was one of several officers that reresponsiblspond offi house for a domestic violence call. without warning, the police entered his house. he ran into the bathroom. he says chauvin entered the bathroom and started beating him up and then shooting him in the stomach that's so close range he still has a bullet wound and hole in his stomach today. >> so he -- this was in 2008. so this was 12 years ago. he shot him, he discharged his weapon and shot him in the stomach at close range in his own bathroom. >> correct. so basically si, , he said the r of his child called for domestic violence cause but

shaquille brewster live in minneapolis. stay safe on the ground there. >>> i want to crossover to hans nichols. this already evoked a controversial reaction as my colleague peter alexander noted with the president's tweet about that. even twitter taking notice of the president's language. >> reporter: and both sides double down this morning, ayman. the white house's official account "tweeted the president" and re-upped the quote the president put out many read is inciting violence, twitter itself said was inciting violence and offered additional information. now twitter has done that to the white house's version of the president's tweet. so there's a response there. you know, the social media director using have very, shall we say strong language about twitter. that's the tactics on all this. probably take a step back, tactically this the fight the white house wants to have. the strategy, longer-term strategy for the president, put himself on the side of law and order. we'll see to what extent he continues to do this, and h

nbc's shaquille brewster is live outside the third precinct in minneapolis tonight where i can see behind him already crowds are gathering. shaquille, i know it's a little early for some of the information from the news conference to trickle to the crowd out there, but what's your sense about how things will play out in the coming hours now that we have heard from officials and it does not seem like there will be any arrests or charges this evening? >> i can tell you, amyman, that is not what people, protesters wanted to hear. i don't know if that has made their way down to the protesters who are here, who are protesting. but that news has not gotten to them. what you've been hearing, their main message for several days now is they want the officers involved arrested. they want the people -- the officer who was on that tape, that tape that really went viral earlier this week, they want to see an immediate arrest because they believe that is enough. that's all you need to see. just to set up what's going on right now, there is actually -- the crowd is back there, several hundred protesters

our own shaquille brewster is live in minneapolis tonight.haquille, i've been monitoring a fire at an auto zone there that promptly went to two alarms and there was some trouble getting apparatus there to fight the fire as police have changed the crowd lines going backwards. what can you report from there tonight? >> reporter: you got it, brian. i'm sure you saw the images from this feed. let me just warn you and our viewers that as i do this live shot you may hear flash bangs. you may hear fireworks. you may hear some foul language by some of the protesters. but that is just the scene that we're seeing right now. what you have is an angry reaction. for some it's an angry reaction to what they consider and have called a senseless death, another senseless police-involved death of a black man. but for others they're openly saying this is an opportunity. they're exploiting an opportunity, an open wound that you see in the community. let me let you look around a little bit. the police line is back there. you see the front line of protesters there

shaquille brewster starting us off on the streets of chicago there. let me go to bring you in here, peter baker. peter, it's sort of a -- we're living an interesting experiment here. we're going to find out. what i also find interesting is the role the president both wants to play here. he doesn't want to -- he wants the country to reopen, but he doesn't want to own any individual decision. >> right. that's exactly right. so he wants -- he's sort of had it both ways. he's talked about the need to, you know, not do too quickly as you pointed out. georgia even at the same time seems more sympathetic to the protesters, the people who are couped up. sympathetic to the people whose businesses have been shuttered and whose jobs have been closed down for the moment. he wants the country to get back going again. obviously he feels that this has come along and knocked out the economy that he created or he built or he fostered or he encouraged, whatever word you want to use. that he was going to take into the fall as his main selling point. and there's a lot of

shannon pettypiece at the white house, catie beck in virginia and shaquille brewster in wisconsin.hannon i'm going to begin with you and talk about the new cdc guidelines for us and how to get back to business. what is this new path forward. >> reporter: well, ayman, these guidelines are less comprehensive than ones that the cdc had proposed but much more detailed than anything we've gotten from the federal government yet about the steps that businesses can take to reopen. so these guidelines lay out specific steps for certain industries, restaurants and bars, childcare facilities, those sorts areas and the steps that they can take from extra disinfecting, cleaning more regularly, social distancing. a lot of these things are common that people have already been doing. but businesses were really out on their own to figure this out and some companies were putting their own plans in place, like mcdonalds that put out a 60-page guidelines for its own restaurants prior to these guidelines coming out. one other development, though, ayman, i would mention today on the vaccine front, the w

. >> joining me now is nbc's shaquille brewster with the latest. shaquille, that was the mayor right there saying that this isn't just a moment in time. this has been building for hundreds of years in this country. anybody watching who has lived for more than 36, 40 years will look back on all the other riots we've seen in this country. the race riots. tell me what it is like there now and whether there is a sense that the community still feels angry enough to continue with this rioting into a third or a second evening. >> that press conference that you heard from mayor frey, that was at least the third press conference this week that i've heard him that emotional. you heard him on tuesday right after this video became public and circulated and you heard the pain and emotion in his voice. you heard him yesterday when he talked about -- he can't answer the question of why this officer has not been arrested based on that video alone. and then you hear him today talking about the total pain in the community. that is the tone that you have from the mayo

joining me from ypsilanti, shaquille brewster and peter baker. shaquille, tell me about the visit.irst, we see the michigan state officials are not happy with the president, yesterday feuding with secretary of state, today feuding with the attorney general. what did you see in the tour? >> reporter: well, the president just left this facility behind me, a ford facility that makes battery packs for hybrid vehicles, plug in cars, has been making ventilators, 50,000 they plan to make in july, 6,000 a week once you get to june. the president toured the facility. one thing we were asking, would he plan to wear the mask. he was not wearing a mask on the tour. when bill ford was asked about it on tour, you saw the executives wearing the mask. when he was asked about it, he said it is up to him. it is in violation of the governor's orders in that regard. in terms of his speech, what you heard from president trump, you got a sense of what he was trying to do, what his purpose was. he was trying to highlight his administration's efforts responding to the coronavirus outbreak, talked about th

. >> shaquille brewster is in minneapolis with the very latest for us. we were mentioning the initial response from the police. there's been new video emerged showing the initial moments where george floyd was taken, didn't seem to be resisting arrest. do we know anything more about what has happened and what the scene there is like this morning? >> reporter: well, ayman, i'll start with the scene right now. this is where protests ended last night. you see behind me, there's a street sweeper going around. you see some graffiti, some cars that were damaged in the protest last night, were pulled away and towed out. this is the cover of the star tribune. you see the phrase "please, i can't breathe." that was the message that you heard from the protestors last night, the protests were largely peaceful, as they started at the scene where mr. floyd was pinned down with a knee to his neck. and you heard their message over and over, it echoed what you heard from the family. they want these officers not only fired but they want the officers to face some sort of j

nbc's shaquille brewster joins me from a new drive-up testing center in chicago. why are the numbers up? >> stephanie, it's important to note that chicago's cook county is more than double the size of new york's queens county which was the previous first space in that coronavirus positive cases. but despite that, officials -- when you listen to them, they're saying the testing is still far, far, far, that's a quote, below actual numbers. they're saying expanded testing will help reveal the true size and scope of this outbreak in chicago. that's what you're seeing at this new drive-up testing facility. both the state and city are expanding the testing that they're doing and also expanding the testing criteria. now any essential worker, any frontline worker can go and come and get tested without doctor's referral. anyone with a chronic illness. anyone who has tested or interacted with someone who has tested positive can now go and get tested. the state is receiving a lot of pressure still to reopen. and governor pritzker says the state is about two weeks from enteri

craig. >> shaquille brewster on the ground in minneapolis, thank you. as i mentioned a few moments ago, earlier this morning i had the chance to speak with former nba player stephen jackson about his close friend george floyd. the two of them grew up together in houston, texas. as jackson grapples with the news of floyd's death, i asked about their lifelong friendship. >> it was meant to be. i'm from port arthur texas, probably 45 minutes from houston. we was introduced through a mutual friend that's passed -- rest in peace to him. but once we saw each other, the first question we asked, who your daddy, who your daddy? it went from there. we always hung together. every time i went to houston, it was my first stop to stop and pick him up and see what he was doing. what's killing me most about this whole thing, being a professional athlete, so many people abuse your friendship and kindness. he was one of those guys that genuinely supported me. he didn't call unless he really needed it. you don't have people that genuinely support you without motives. floy

joining us from michigan is nbc's shaquille brewster.t whether or not he wore a mask, that may be the exactly the news the president wants out of this. >> that's right, chuck. ford has been very clear about their policies for their plant here. they say that personal protective equipment is required. nbc actually got an exclusive look of this plant before earlier this week. and we saw the different measures that they have in it place. this is a 30 acre facility. there is one entrance. social distancing is enforce bid technology and marks on the ground. employees wear watches that buzz if you're too close to another employee. and then there is also that personal protective equipment that is required ford said they told the white house about their guidelines and it's up to the white house to determine what exactly they will decide to do. but chuck, the reason why president trump is coming to this facility specifically is because this is one where they have been producing ventilators. they plan to produce and deliver by the end of july. next

craig. >> shaq brewster in minneapolis. shaquille, thank you so much. >>> i'm joined by george floyd's brother, rodney floyd. also with me is george's cousin sharita tate. i'm joined as well by the family's attorney, benjamin crump. good to see all of you. thank you so much for your time. rodney, let me start with you. tell us a little bit more about your brother. what do you want people to know about george? >> okay. he was a great brother, father. he always excelled in sports his entire life. he was a high school star, excelled in football, basketball as well. went to college the florida, he started out there and was also an athlete as well. and he went to texas in kingsville and played football. as a person, besides sports, he coached kids as well in his spare time. he was a local rapper as well. he was an all-around man, and good to his family, kids, mother, brothers, friends. he would help anyone who needed help. he had a great understanding of life and great people person. walk in a room and absorb the whole room. if you got a

. >> my college shaquille brewster is in minneapolis. shaq, where do things go from here?>> reporter: this is now in the hands of state investigators and the fbi, both running their own independent investigations. we were belt hear today on the official cause of death for in floyd. nbc news obtained new video yesterday showing the initial interactions between in floyd and the officers. you see him getting out of the car, walking over to a wall, you see them talk and that interaction happen. it still leaves many questions to what led to that moments with so much -- meanwhile, on the ground the outrage continues to grow. one local officials described it as the largest gathering of people, largest protests that you have seen in minneapolis, a city that's had tensions before. you saw the protest start peacefully as they were at the point where mr. floyd was pinned down, then moved about 2 1/2 miles to the police station. you saw police officers cars being damaged in graffiti on the wall, some things being thrown. they respondwood tear gas and rubber bullets. we expect more to

. >> shaquille brewster live in man yap poli minneapolis. >>> the coronavirus pandemic, breaking news and devastating impact on our economy this morning. new numbers showing another 2.1 million americans filed for unemployment benefits last week alone. that is pushing the total past 40 million since the coronavirus pandemic began. that is the equivalent of one out of every four american workers. let's get right to msnbc's jo ling kent for more. a staggering number there, jo. we've come to dread thursday mornings over the past several weeks because of what they reveal about our economy, as we are learning that an estimated 40% of those jobs will never return. >> reporter: yes, that's research coming out of the university of chicago, in terms of what jobs will come back, what we know is if you look within this 41 million, the jobless claims here and the new 2.1 million that were filed in just the last week, we see companies continue to make very, very big layoffs. the good news is, though, is that there's two pieces of data that continue to improve. you see continuing jobless claims act

shaquille brewster is in wisconsin for us. what are you hearing and seeing on the ground? expecting to see the same type of folks that we saw in michigan yesterday. >> reporter: well, ayman, it's currently not the scene that you saw in michigan yesterday, the size and scope of that protest. but it is a protest that will be beginning in about two hours, according to the organizers who i spoke with just this morning. the opposition, the reason why these protestors are here, they have signs here, we demand illinois open right now. but what protestors are saying and why they're out here, they say they're out here in opposition to the extension of the stay-at-home order here in this state. under his order, masks must be required now. they're mandatory in any public setting where social distancing cannot take place. there are some restrictions that also are eased at this point. certain retailers that are nonessential businesses can reopen if they provide curbside deliveries, for example, or if they do dropoffs. curbside pickups for folks who want to get their products. you think

nbc's shaquille brewster is in downtown waukesha, wisconsin, just outside milwaukee with more on how that city, that state is reopening. shaq, what are you seeing there in wisconsin this morning? how are people reacting to that supreme court decision there? >> reporter: craig, there's still a lot of confusion with the supreme court decision. that came by surprise to many people. what you're seeing in different parts of the state there are different rules and regulations. we're here in waukesha, for example. there are no restrictions. you don't have any restrictions to bars. the county executive here is suggesting that folks follow what the guidelines are, but it's really up to them what they want to do. while you have dave's restaurant which is fully open and allowing people to come in and sit, you this doughnut shop here, bobby is the owner, and you guys aren't allowing that, not letting people come in and sit down. >> we have two locations. in milwaukee county we can't fully open yet, so it's strictly carryout and pickup only. we don't want to conflict both businesses and people th

nbc news reporter shaquille brewster joins us from a new drive-up testing center on chicago's south side chaq shaq, what are people saying there about the spike in cases? >> reporter: andrea, officials are saying that despite the numbers that you're seeing, much of it has to do with the testing involved, the increase in testing here in the state of illinois. it was weeks ago when they were testing less than 10,000 people every day. now they're averaging about 20,000 people. but local health officials are still warning that the numbers you are seeing are, quote, far, far, far -- that's a quote -- below actual numbers in terms of the infections. so that's why they're prioritizing and emphasizing the testing. this new facility came up this weekend, and they're not only expanding these facilities like the one behind me, but they're also expanding the criteria, the testing criteria. starting this weekend, any frontline or essential worker can go in and get tested, come to a drive-through facility like this one, without payment, without referral, and get tested. that also includes people who h

>> shaquille brewster getting us starred in minneapol started in minneapolis, shaq, thank you. blaine is here to report. >> reporter: what we saw play out on the streets of atlanta was a much different and much calmer scene than what we watched unfold on friday night and due in large part to two things. more rules and more resources. atlanta mayor ordered everyone off the streets of atlanta by 9:00 p.m. a citywide curfew. we saw national guard troops coming in edition to local law enforcement to contain the crowds. atlanta police told us they made 70 arrests overnight and this morning, georgia governor brian kemp has authorized even more national guard troops, as many as 3,000 to fan out across the state of georgia as officials here prepare for another night of protests. chuck? >> thank you. garrett hake is here in washington where he is following the night long protests in lafayette park across from the white house. it was a rough night friday night. how was it last night, garrett? >> reporter: another rough night out here. large-scale public protests are nothing new in washin

i want to go right to my colleague shaquille brewster who has been on the ground in minneapolis since the protest started. and i want to remind our audience, shaquille and his team are protected with security there. shaq, let's start with that. how are you? >> doing okay, stephanie. just want to point out the scene that you see right now is much different than what we saw when our team first arrived here. when we came here, we were doing a "morning joe" live report and tried to do it from here but you saw buildings still engulfed in fire. you saw power was out completely. you saw people, dozens and dozens of people still shooting off firecrackers. very active scene and no police presence. look at what you're seeing now. you see state patrol officers who are now seeming to leave or go to different locations right now. they've been protecting the firefighters that have come in and have gotten -- taken those fires out. if you come this way you'll see there's still some smoldering. you see firefighters still doing their job back here. what we did hear overnight is we heard from the mayor

. >> nbc's shaquille brewster is outside the capital in lansing with the latest.esters telling you? >> these are people who simply want the state back open. you heard the governor there say that these protests have been political in nature. i'll let you see some of the scene behind me. that's generally true when you see the sign there. you see the freedom sign but also signs for president trump. the make america great again signs. behind the camera, anti-abortion signs. you get a sense of the pain that many are feeling and the reasoning of why they are here talking about opening back businesses. i spoke to one person who has family in small business and said that she's experiencing real pain and frustration. she said she was with governor whitmer in the beginning of the stay-at-home order but feels she's been mocked by the governor in her words. i'll tell you across the state there have been 1.7 million people who have filed for unemployment since these orders have been in place. you hear people here mentioning that, mentioning they want their small businesses ope

nbc's shaquille brewster joins us with more from chicago.hey grappling with the coronavirus in its communities where it's been able to have an influence on violence? >> reporter: i spoke to an outreach worker from that organization and he described it as fighting a two-headed dragon, because, yes, as you saw in that video, as they're working with the community to do things like pass out meals, pass out masks and hygiene kits to help stop the impact of the coronavirus and the spread of that virus in the disproportionate impact on that community, they're dealing with the uptick and continuation of gun violence in this city. we learned from police data released in the past couple days that in the month of april, chicago, while they saw a 30% decline in overall crime, so things like burglaries were down to 20-year lows, thabs nt is noe same with shootings. shootings were up in the month of april, 7%. i spoke to the superintendent and a senior director from that community group. listen to how they explain the difficulties of having to combat both

shaquille brewster is live at a polling station there. tell us about today's special election and what is being done specifically to protect both the voters and the poll workers. >> reporter: well, stephanie, you're seeing similar measures to what you saw in last month's statewide election. at the door there are hand washing stations, portable hand washing stations that were brought in. workers are wearing masks and enforcing social distancing with tape marks on the lines. you're seeing this is a special election, so it's much more confined. this is one congressional district. you have the state republican, the republican state representative tom tiffany going up against tricia zunker to replace shawn mcduffy who retired in the fall. this is the largest polling station in the city and you're seeing no lines, but you're seeing people going in and wearing masks and going ahead and voting. we saw absentee voting did increase. it matched what we saw on april 7th. and then you're also seeing that this is a much more rural district, a conservat

. >> let's go live to minneapolis and nbc's shaquille brewster is standing by. what's the latest? >> you see a building still actively on fire. you see firefighters trying to still put out the fire. some of the buildings are smoldering in this area. this is right near the police precinct where you saw many protesters gather last night. what you saw yesterday as we went through the course of the day, you saw peaceful protests for the majority of the day. that turned into nighttime and evening clashes down there at the police station. which then turned into destruction. one person lost their lives as they were near this protest site. and then you also saw some looting. that target right there, a grocery store in that shopping plaza, fully looted. this all came on a day when we learned a lot about mr. george floyd. we learned -- we heard from his family about how he was someone who cared about kids. he was athletic. someone who coached kids in his spare time. but that he was also a man of peace. that is something you heard over and over as we talked to family and friends. but the fam

flbs's shaquille brewster is in chicago. i believe within the last hour we heard from the mayor of minneapolis. >> reporter: that's right, craig. officials have not made the identity of this man available yet. it's video of him taking what we know to be some of his final breaths that is cautioning so much outrage this morning. this is the lasting image from that video. in it you see a police officer with his knee on this man's neck for at least seven minutes. the man is asking for air and asking for help as a crowd watches and asks the officers to stop the situation. what police say and what police say started this, they were investigating a forgery. that's what brought them to this south minneapolis business. that's when they encountered this man. at a certain point they say the man was complying. he got out of his car. at a certain point they say he physically resisted. that's where this video picks up. in the video which is about ten minutes long and posted to facebook, you see the officer restraining the man with his kne

shaquille brewster is in minneapolis near the scene of last night's fires and shaq, i know you've been moving around the city a bit over the last few hours. where are you now? are you seeing and what are you hearing on the streets? >> reporter: craig, unfortunately, i have to repeat what i told you yesterday. that's after a night of clashes after a night of some violence, there is now the cleanup happening. of course, last night what we saw was a much greater scale than what we had seen in the previous two nights and behind me, this is on the opposipposit of the police precinct. that's at the end of the block where you see the majority of clashes. last night the third district police precinct was over run by protesters who then later set fire to it. you also now see people spectating and this is something we've seen in the past. people come out the next day and take pictures and assess the damage of what happened, what is going on in their community. the big difference today is you have a stronger police presence. you saw the state patrolsman there. we know the national guard is on sce

. >> joining us with the latest on the ground in minneapolis, nbc news reporter shaquille brewster and shaq, perhaps one of the best ways to quell some of these demonstrations is some action from prosecutors. where are we on that? >> reporter: still no action, chuck. we heard -- right now the investigation is in the hand of both faib and state investigators and we heard from them a little bit yesterday. there is no action, no decision has been made yet. when you listen to protesters that's what they want to hear. that's what they are awaiting for, arrests of the officers. within the past two hours we heard from the governor of minnesota and one thing he said is that he pleaded for folks to restore order here in minneapolis. he said we need to restore order in order to be able to focus and shift attention back on getting justice for mr. floyd. if you talk to protester, if you talk to even some of the citizens and people in this community, people who are out right now, we're in front of 3rd police district and this is where you saw a lot of clash, a lot of buildings being burned. people

>> shaquille brewster, thank you so much.e safe in minneapolis. >> great job. >> appreciate your reporting. >> reverend al, let's talk about this statement from the hennhenn county prosecutor. there is other evidence that does not suggest a criminal charge. rev, we have clear video from two separate angles. again, we warn everybody, this is disturbing video, but we're going to show this video again. he says there is other evidence. you have a man lying on the ground for nine minutes, who is saying, "i can't breathe." who is talking, calling out for his dead mother. who obviously is being choked to death while this officer just stares at him. there is no guidelines, no police training guideline that would ever allow this. it's horrifying to see this officer doing it while three others just stand by and let him do that. you wonder, not just about their training, but you wonder about the lack of their humanity. so, rev, what in the hell is mike friedman waiting for? we understand people being angry. they should be protesting. we

shaquille brewster joins me from chicago. shaq, good to see you. what are you learning?rter: health experts say it's testing that's the key. the trump administers said a goal of testing -- that would be about 78 millions tests a year. while i was in wisconsin this week, i visited a manufacturer working in overtime to extend testing, making part for test kids, using technology that you might have used before. essential workers versus hard at work, churning out parts for a new covid-19 test. >> it's so easy to use. you spit in a cup, you put a cap on it, send it back. it's not that difficult. >> reporter: if it sounds familiar, it's because they made similar test kits for ancestry.com. three machines now running 24/7. eventually you'll do 28 million a year? >> yes. >> reporter: that's a lot of growth quickly. >> easily within our capacity. it's a lot of parts, but still small in the overall testing that will be required. >> reporter: it requires no swabs or ppe, which are in short supply across the globe. >> you send it back to a lab. within 24 to 48 hours, you'll know if

>> shaquille brewster, definitely hard to watch.ecially when you watch it in full and see the people who crowded around and were begging the officers to get off his neck and they were ignored. i said ten-minute video. it was a seven-minute video as you corrected me. and it's just infuriating. shaq brewster -- >> ten-minute video, but the officer was on his neck for about seven minutes. >> good clarification. shaq, thank you very much. chuck, it's -- there aren't any words when you look at video like that. it's just hard to understand how somebody can die lying there underneath an officer as he is handcuffed with a knee on a neck. it's beyond words. >> you know, five years ago when -- after ferguson and after trayvon martin we were going to have this conversation as a country and talk about all these issues with policing and we were going to make these improvements here and there and i wonder how many people in america think that that was nothing but lip service when they see what's happening right now. that's not to say there aren't

nbc news correspondent shaquille brewster joins me if a new testing center on the south side of chicagoo shaq, how are they able to scale up the testing dramatically? >> they're expanding the testing cry tear yachlt all essential workers, all front line workers can now go and get tested. they can come to a drive up facility like the one behind me that is state run. and get tested without payment or referral from a doctor. that is also true for anyone that has a chronic illness. they can do so even if they don't have a symptoms. they can do so for someone that encountered someone that tested positive can use the same facilities. officials are saying they're hoping that the increase in testing will help them understand where things stand in this state as they try to stop the spread and control the virus. however, a local official here in chicago said the numbers that we're seeing in cases are far, far, far behind the actual numbers in terms of infections. so they're hoping that the testing will help shed some light on exactly where they stand. it's also important to know as the state is i

our own shaquille brewster joins us from a polling station in wausau, wisconsin., what do you see? >> reporter: well, you're seeing some similarities and some differences from that election about a month ago. the similarities, the same safety precautions are in place. people are going in. there's a hand-washing station before they go in. there's plexiglas up. people have masks on. social distancing is being enforced. but this is a special election. it's limited to just this one congressional district that's more rural than what you saw. there aren't those lines that you saw just about a month ago. despite that, voters have mixed feelings on having to come out. listen to what a couple of voters told me just earlier today. >> do you normally vote ste absentee? >> no, i don't. >> why did you do it this time? >> strictly because of the covid situation and being safe at home. my wife is -- her health right now is compromised, so we're being extra careful right now. >> i don't like the idea of so much mail-in stuff. i think it's just easier to commit fraud when you do t