talk about what is driving the numbers. >> reporter: yeah, that is really the focus is the agricultural community. it is places like watsonville, salinas, areas where there is a great agricultural presence where we're seeing the biggest outbreaks in the disease and as we know, the agricultural community, the workforce, is predominantly hispanic. the working conditions and the living conditions don't really lend themselves to social distancing. and that is when you get to see the disproceceedisproportionate the numbers here. and as you mentioned, about 39% of california's population is latinx. but nearly two did n-thirds of cases are in the hispanic community. whites about 36% of the population and just are 17% of the cases. we told you last hour about a local clinic here in watsonville where they are seeing a 30% positivity rate in the testing they are doing and that may be deceiving because they say a lot of people are reluctant to get tested in the first place. >> people are sometimes not wanting to be tested because they don't want to not be able to go to work and they didn't want their whole

. >>> and now to the $54 agricultural community. look at what farmers say need to be done. >> reporter: it's harvest times for for berries across the fertile fields of california. >> everybody talks about essential workers. we know agriculture is essential workers. health care workers get the publicity about this, but agricultural workers most important in the world. >> reporter: they have struggled with short supplies of masks and some resistance to using them. and washing hands has doubled in water use. but there is close to 16,000 infections at fresno county. >> it tells us i can't get a test for three or four days and then i can't get results for three or four days more. i have lost another week and i want to go back to work. >> reporter: farmers and ranchers say they can't afford to lose workers due to covid-19 and from testing delays since fewer workers have come north from mexico. >> faster testing and particularly for people who exposed. the other thing we need is an appropriate place to self isolate. >> reporter: farm worke

albig part of that was agricultural community there's a lot of question marks over the last three year since donald trump started there's been a lot of herd across the agricultural industry over the last three years and we've continued to hear among a broad cross section that they have wanted to take this fight on the question here in this fall is how long does that patience run? president trump questioned the future of the china trade deal which leaves a lot of questions. >>> thank you. >>> a departure of the most prominent chrisian yumpts. jerry falwell has resigned from liberty university the announce mat came just hours after the school issued a statement that he agreed to resign before reversing course he with drew his resignation after media reports surfaced he's been on a leave of absence after posting a photo on instagram. an alleged sex scandal between falwell, his wife and a fellow business partner they're defending themselves against these allegations. >>> we're back with more on those dangerous storms in the gulf >> yeah, we are also watching the flooding threat along with

dealing a destructive blow to the agriculture community still reeling from the pandemic. iowa's governor has mobilized the state's national guard and declared a state of disaster for 25 counties there. tom? >> janai, thank you. >>> now to the turmoil threatening to disenfranchise voters during the november election. president trump's newly appointed postmaster general, louis dejoy, imposing strict cost-cutting measures ahead of a huge sil-in voting because of the pandemic. protesters showed up at his home this morning accusing him of engaging in voter suppression. here's abc's rachel scott. >> reporter: tonight, with millions of mail-in ballots at risk of not being counted, protesters lining up outside the postmaster general's home, accusing louis dejoy, a trump ally and gop donor, of dismantling the postal service after putting in place cost-cutting measures that critics say will slow mail delivery. >> louis dejoy is working very hard. >> reporter: today the president tweeting, the democrats know the 2020 election will be a fraudulent mess, threatening to block funding f

the question is by how much is one of the things about the agricultural community, concern about tariffsern about trade. >> reporter: randy is a corn farmer. >> don't think the trade war was necessary. now. totally now. we had a good thing going. right now brazil has taken over. >> reporter: he is voting for biden not because of tariffs but because he doesn't like the president's character. >> it is more against trump. >> this trump supporter acknowledges that while tariffs hurt, the covid-19 pandemic shutdown restaurants and he blames democrats for that. >> of the restaurants could open up a little bit more our dairy prices would go up. my milk phrase would go up. >> reporter: he blames the economic hurt more on democratic governor tom wolf for shutting down the local economy than he does donald trump. daymac thank you. the democratic national convention leaving racial storylines in an attempt to make their case to social justice voters but as jason riley noted in january those, quote, playing the race card should proceed with caution writing it is possible the decision by mister booker

one of the things particularly in the agricultural community and farmers is a concern of balance, terroristsommit concern about trade. >> randy is a soybean and corn farmer. >> i don't think the trade deal was necessary, no, totally know. we had a pretty good thing going and half a pirate beans went overseas to china. right now, brazil is taken over. >> but he has voting for biden not because of tariffs but because he doesn't like the presidents character. >> it is more against trump. >> naylor a trump supporter while terrorists hold stomach hurt the covid-19 shutdown of restaurants, hurt more, he blams democrats for that. >> with the resident could open up a little bit more, and work to prices will go up. >> naylor blames the economic war on democratic tom wolf for shutting down the local economy and he does president trump. shannon. >> shannon: bryan llenas in pennsylvania, thank you. the democratic national convention this week leaving plenty of racial story lines in an attempt to make their case to social justice voters. but wall street journalists, numbness jason said playing the race c

and this is a big agricultural community.could be working against himself here. this is a county that is two hits latino, and has a deep long history of working in the agricultural industry. ces cesar chavez grew up just six miles from here. >> you spoke to krisening. are you familiar q-- kristin urquiza. are her words coming out differently there? >> reporter: we heard as a powerful voice. we talked to her the day after she laid her father to rest. i was messaging with her this morning. we have a big 75 days here in arizona, and she plans to be a part of getting folks to hear her out. as you heard her say last night, her father voted for donald trump in 2016, yet they came from a heavily latino community. she says she's going to do everything she can to turn out voters. four years ago donald trump won by just 3 1/2 percentage points. points. nods there's a time that kristin says she is wants to be out there, and encouraging people, and that her father's life won't be lost here. >> thank you so much, vaughn. >>> president tru

agricultural communities as well. thanks very much. >> thank you. >>> we do have this breaking news this morning. new reporting in to cnn from sources inside the administration, that president trump's oval office meeting with the white house coronavirus task force how it went. let's go live to the white house. jim acosta, so what happened inside that room? >> yeah, jim and poppy, we talked to a source familiar with the president's meeting in the oval office with the coronavirus task force. this was the first in depth, comprehensive meeting with members of that task force since april. and the source familiar with the meeting said that the president is still not demonstrating that he has a firm grasp on what is happening with this pandemic in the u.s. in the words of the source familiar with the meeting, quote, he still doesn't get it. he does not get it. one thing we should point out what happened inside this meeting according to this source, officials on the task force continued to have trouble relaying to the preside

it was in very rural agriculture communities, small towns. i was shocked. i didn't know at that point. now we are very aware of it. so i focused on this as soon as i was elected a put my lieutenant governor in charge of a task force focused on opioid addiction. we came up with a number of suggestions and pass a peace of legislation to enact all of them prayed we have attacked it from every direction because it is tearing apart families and communities from one end of the country to the other. it is killing people. and it's costing us lives and money and focus. it is ravaging the country. we've gone after it with everything got. we've made some strides stop the explosive growth but it is a tough one to get a handle on. can't the coronavirus you fix one part of it another one pops up till bit like whack a mole. not growing at the rate but we haven't stamped it out. this fence and all is a very dangerous drug. got part of it under control than the spent milk came in from china which is more deadly. >> yes absolutely. >> host: mga. it's a tribute, governor, tha

it was in very rural agriculture communities, small towns. and i was shocked. i didn't know that -- at that point. now we're very aware of it. but, so i focused on this. as soon as i was elected, i put my lieutenant governor, boyd rutherford, in charge of a task force focused on opioid addiction. we came up with a number of suggestions and passed a piece of legislation to enact all of them. we've attacked it from every direction because it's tearing apart, you know, families and communities from one end of the country to the other. it's killing people and it's costing us lives and money and focus. and it's just ravaging the country. and we've gone after it with everything we've got. we've made some strides and we've stopped, you know, the explosive growth, but it's a tough one to get a handle on. kind of like this coronavirus, you know? you fix one part of it, and another one pops up. it's a little bit like whack a mole. it's not growing at the rate it used to be. this fentanyl is a very dangerous drug. we got part of it under control, and then this fentanyl ca

all the long distance of lines after that is what is still working our local farms and community supported agriculture and links between the growers of food call us the problem and it's the land of the my book oneness was one percent isn't how the so-called philanthropists activity landreau capitalists my book is analyzed every sector that has been shaped and driven by bill gates there was no gene dry still he started to finance it it was. or 5 years ago there is pushing it is deregulating the european court of justice said it's a g.m. they're trying to have it declared and not g.m. or all the instability of this gene try. the negative is coming out gene tries to push species to extinction can you imagine the mines the miners that would imagine it has the power to engineer extinction i wish extinction rebellion what drives up against this deliberate extinction difficult arguments difficult to have a demonstration on at the moment but there is no direct evidence at the moment that the creation of monocultures by capitalism by greed directly created coronavirus surely we need that proof before big agric

marie: preserved by people who practice agriculture and rural communities that are very different from the city because ivan sheltering in place . i been ordering polls which i think he probably could nebraska. in a kind of them a ago. and occasionally go out there to see if there starting to come out pretty is a don't have faith in the process. they just have it around the ground yet . they look like they're sounding pretty think a really good farmer would not do that spring up back so makes sense that certain old traditions that we revolve around having faith and believing in the power of nature to preserve life cycle. there are existing and rural communities that they died in the city will reschedule our lives times. danny: having spent so much time writing about the urban and rural divide, to see a way for path forward for increased mutual understanding between the coast and in the middle rated. marie: such a great question. if i could come up with pretend like i have full points . know that i could probably major media really happy. i resist the temptation to say here's what we ne

agricultural heartland. the state will deploy three teams to eight counties in the central valley toboost contact tracing, testing, and atoutreac the will also provide $52 million in federal aid for affected communities. essential workers in agriculture and meatpacking tino are especially nly vulnerable to getting sick and dying from ththdisease. fresno county health department says latinos make up roughly half of the county's nearly 70 percent of covid-19 deaths. with me now by skype is fresno city council president and enjoining by skype from fresno is steve randel. thank you both so ch for joining us. >> thanks for having us paid >> you are a formerfarmworker, úabout the conditions that makeo it so hard contain the virus among farmworkers. >> these conditions are very specific artoorkers including living in high density substandard housing with intergenerational living conditions, the fact thate they uninsured and have limited access to healthcare, a lot of them have pre-existing medical conditions like diabetes d high bloessure and they live in an area with the highest poution ra in the country and they do not have access to paid time off on a problem with language access for aclanguage in g and

i did not know what you just shared about the department of agriculture and these rural community grants. this is an opportunity to talk about reshaping things. should that line she reshaped so that those moneys come under another set of authorities? or do we need to do better marketing on where they are? >> that has been a subject of discussion throughout the years with a variety of different people. my feeling is there just needs to be a better marketing program. there needs to be more. when you talk about housing and rural communities, it is housing for people who live in rural areas of the country. the way the agencies are structured, way the agency is what'sred within itself, going on in louisiana. with any hurricanes or whatever. one thing you don't have when you have an emergency like a hurricane is that the usda is right on the ground. centers allicing across the country. and are able to get folks it usually happens, in some areas it is a rural community that is more impacted. if we talk about maybe more cooperation amongst the agencies. a deregulation. i think that is important.

mental health care, funding for broadband, airports, and agriculture, rental assistance, and support for community banks and credit unions to help them provide $100 billion in loans to the hardest hit communities, including rural communities and farmers. they don't want anybody to get that. they don't want anybody to get that. democrats are obstructing all of it. therefore, i am taking executive action. we've had it, and we are going to save american jobs and provide relief to the american workers. i'll be signing these bills in a very short period of time. first one is i am providing a payroll tax holiday to americans earning less than $100,000 per year. in a few moments, i will sign a directive instructing the treasury department to allow employers to defer payment of the employee portion of certain payroll taxes from september 1 and we are actually going to be making that. we just got the word. we are just getting word from a lot of people we didn't think we would have to do this because we thought the democrats would be reasonable, but they've been not only unreasonable, they've been ridiculou

they buying food, they buying agriculture, buying food for black communities and stuff like that. the 1% is doing good, better than the old 1%. this morning, talking about kamala harris in her policies. deep dive on that today in "the themork times," comparing on a variety of policy issues, left of center is what they say in the paper version headline. among the policy issues they look into is racial justice and leasing. obviously a major issue this election cycle. they write that is harris planned out her vision for criminal justice reform, standing up for black america, as part of the plan she call for ending mass incarceration, cash bail, death penalty, and a review board, making attending historically black colleges and universities debt-free for students, and every -- and many other measures on capital punishment. she chose not to seek the death penalty in major cases on moral grounds. as the attorney general she appealed the decision declaring the death penalty law unconstitutional. they wrote that perhaps the most memorable moment of her presidential campaign came in the fi

. >>> well, agricultural workers are among the most vulnerable communities during this pandemic. they work and live in close quarters. as nbc bay area's thom jensen reports, though, napa valley vineyards and health care agencies are helping. >> reporter: it's just after 7:00 this morning, and more than a dozen workers -- >> i'll be back next week to do it again. >> reporter: -- have already been tested for covid-19 at this remote location in st. helena. it's all being done out of this mobile testing van funded by st. helena hospital association, the napa valley vintners and other nonprofits. >> we heard over and over again from people in the community that they couldn't afford the hours required to sent their employees to the napa test site and then wait for weeks to get results. >> reporter: the team has already conducted more than 1,500 on-site tests across the valley in the past month. vineyard owners say the ability to go where workers live and work will likely save lives and possibly the wine industry itself. >> it could really could run through those communities quickly, co

communities. ♪ >> the reason why san francisco is there is because of the culinary mecca that we are, the incredible agricultureine that we are around. it's probably the best city inaf it's a community with such a beautiful diversity here. there is a sense of unity here. there's a sense of taking care of the overall man and also a sense of joie de vivre. people think that restaurants are just too feed the customer, but we should be also feeding the community that need it. so let's take the time and rethink about how we interact with others and how we can give back with others. ♪ i have a bachelor in economy and i study international business. i mean, i got into cooking with chef jeremiah tower in the '90s, with stars restaurant. i didn't know much. the only thing that i knew, that i knew the recipes of my mother and my grandmother, and because i am french, we have a little advantage, i think, on food. i just love it and really realized that perhaps you could change the way that people are living and eating through food. >> demand for food has doubled since the pandemic started, as families lost their jobs. >> t

agriculture. rental assistance. and support for community banks and credit unions to help them provide $100 billion in loans to the hardest hit communities, including rural communities and farmers. they don't want anybody to get that. democrats are obstructing all of it. therefore, i am taking executive action. we've had it. >> as the president delves into politics more than the substance of what he is doing attacking nancy pelosi, chuck schumer, joe biden, we're going to step back from this for a moment because it is not the presidential event that had been advertised and certainly not a news conference. josh ledderman, let's talk about the facts that he is claiming because he's gone from talking about a sharp "v" shaped economy and the great jobs improvement, which is contradictory to everything that the economists are saying, to misstating what is in the actual legislation that he has rejected and hasn't exactly, hasn't at all described the executive orders he says he is going to sign. >> that's right, andrea. quite a bit to fact check in

hoosier state is ready to lead america's recovery with our diverse communities, our talented workers, and our best in the world agriculture. joe biden's plan gives us a blueprint to revitalize industrial cities and rural areas alike. 86 votes for the next president, joe biden. >> iowa. >> we were going to talk about biofuels, but the powerful storm that swept through last week has taken a terrible toll on our farmers, small businesses and families were still without power. >> while we have the honor of casting i was votes, 11 for bernie sanders and 38 for joe to keepe want to ask you to keep islands in your thoughts. >> kansas. >> i am a fourth-generation farmer but i worry about the next generation. many of our young folks are moving from rural communities to find jobs. joe biden has a plan to help new farmers get a good start, and by care, he will make sure rural communities remain great places to live, for, and raise a family generations to come. kansas proudly cast 10 votes for bernie sanders and 35 votes for our next president, joe biden. >> kentucky. >> one day when i was 14, my mom woke up calling 911 -- my mom wou

hoosier state is ready to lead america's recovery with our diverse communities, our talented workers, and our best in the world agriculture. joe biden's plan gives us a blueprint to revitalize industrial cities and rural areas alike. 86 votes for the next president, joe biden. >> iowa. >> we were going to talk about biofuels, but the powerful storm that swept through last week has taken a terrible toll on our farmers, small businesses and families were still without power. >> while we have the honor of casting i was votes, 11 for bernie sanders and 38 for joe to keepe want to ask you to keep islands in your thoughts. >> kansas. >> i am a fourth-generation farmer but i worry about the next generation. many of our young folks are moving from rural communities to find jobs. joe biden has a plan to help new farmers get a good start, and by care, he will make sure rural communities remain great places to live, for, and raise a family generations to come. kansas proudly cast 10 votes for bernie sanders and 35 votes for our next president, joe biden. >> kentucky. >> one day when i was 14, my mom woke up calling 911 -- my mom wou

furthermore, i am directing the department of agriculture department of health and human services and the federal communicationsn -- we were just with the heads of each one in the oval office just before i came up to the podium. to form a task force that will break down barriers to expanding rural health care. $165 millionnearly through the cares act to support nearly 1800 small hospitals who have done an incredible job, as well as $11.5 million to expand technical assistance for rural and underserved areas. we allocated another $10 billion rural000 hospitals and health clinics. we waived burdensome licensing certification and registration requirements which took tremendous amounts of time. these are people that had great reputations and great track records for practitioners that serve on the front lines in rule areas. allowing more medical personnel to serve. we are also, in terms of ppe, ensuring that the state and local areas have the supplies they need. we have been supplying hospitals and cities and states, governors, helping governors at a number no one has ever heard of before. homes have nursing receive

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funding for broadband, airports and agriculture, frontal assistance and support for community banks anddit unions to help them provide $100 billion in loans to the hardest hit communities, including rural communities and farmers. they want anybody to get that. democrats are obstructing all of it. therefore, i'm taking executive action, we've had it. we are going to save american jobs and provide relief to the american workers and i'll decide these in a short period of time. first one is providing a payroll tax holiday to americans earning less than $100,000 a year. in a few moments i will sign a directive instructing the treasury department to allow employers to defer payments of the employee portion of certain payroll taxes from september 1 and we are going to be making that. we just got word, we didn't think we would have to do this because we thought the democrats would be reasonable. they've not only been unreasonable, they've been ridiculous. so we are going to make that first most likely, august 1, we will let you know the exact date. it's looking like august 1. so august 1 throug

furthermore, i am directing the department of agriculture and department of health and human services and the federal communicationsust with the heads of each one in the oval office just before i came up to the podium -- to form a task force that will break down barriers to expanding rural health care. this order continues my administration's focus on rural health care. we allocated nearly $165 million through the cares act to support nearly 1,800 small rural hospitals who have done an incredible job as well as $11.5 million to expand technical assistance for rural and underserved areas. we allocated another $10 billion to 2,000 rural hospitals and more than 2,400 rural health clinics. we waived burdensome licensing certification and registration requirements which took tremendous amounts of time, and these are people that had great reputations and great track records for practitioners that serve on the front lines in rural areas allowing more medical personnel to serve their wonderful patients. we're also, in terms of ppe, insuring that the state and local areas have the supplies they need. we've been supplying ho