anne thompson has her story. >> the weekend was a glorious one it was filled with love and laughter and smiles >> reporter: painfully, angrily esther salas describes the weekend she and her husband mark celebrated their son's 20th birthday and lost him. >> and daniel said, mom, let's keep talking. i love talking to you, mom. and it was at that exact moment that the doorbell rang. and daniel looked at me and said, who is that and before i could say a word he sprinted upstairs within seconds i heard the sound of bullets and someone screaming no but daniel being daniel protected his father and he took the shooter's first bullet directly to the chest. the monster then turned his attention to my husband and began to shoot at my husband. one shot after another. mark was shot three times. >> reporter: salas reveals the shooter, attorney roy den hollander who appeared in her court had a dossier on her family from where they live to where they worship, personal information about judges that she says should be private. >> while my husband is still in the hospital recovering from his multiple surg

anne thompson has the latest. >> reporter: pummelled by criticism the cdc clarifying the new covid testing guidelines all close contacts of confirmed or probable covid-19 patients, walking back yesterday's recommendation, still on the cdc website, that people exposed to covid, but without symptoms, do not necessarily need a test. >> i think this is the black eye for the cdc. >> reporter: dr. tom frieden led the cdc under president obama. can we control covid by doing less testing? >> testing is bedrock. it's essential to finding the virus and stopping chains of transmission. >> reporter: in new york city dr. jake deutsche says currently three quarters of those who test positive here don't have symptoms. >> i actually recommend that everybody who thinks they need to get rested gets tested. >> reporter: it's peace of mind for erin robinson before she travels. >> i wanted to make sure that i didn't have anything, i wouldn't be bringing anything with me, i guess, basically. >> reporter: some states are going their own way too. >> i don't agree with the new cdc guidance, period, full stop. >> r

families safe from covid some say it's just not worth it, while others are taking the risk nbc's anne thompson has their stories. >> reporter: in the age of covid, the school nurse has never been more important. >> i've had some sore throats and headaches today. >> reporter: jen bueller is at an elementary school in orlando. >> so the mask is included under there. >> reporter: if students present with just one covid symptom, that go home >> if i send this child back, i could expos an entire class. >> reporter: to say nothing of bringing it home to her own family in iowa, heather weber has dual challenges of covid and geography. >> people trust me with something that they hold so d r dear, their children >> reporter: she's the nurse for 750 students, and each afternoon adds 300 high school students across town. >> they called on me to come over there, i would have to make sure that the kiddos on this side of town had what they needed >> reporter: school nurses are stretched thin the national association of school nurses says most oversee 920 to 1200 students and 25% of the nation's schools don'

scandal, his relationship with falwell's wife he spoke with our anne thompson late today. >> reporter: the man behind the fall of jerry falwell jr. today defending himself, giancarlo granda not trying to -- >> no, i'm not and that allegation is completely false i just want to move on with my life. >> reporter: granda shafs 20 years old when as a miami hotel pool attendant he began an affair with becky falwell and jerry falwell watched when his wife and granda were together. >> there was two beds. he was laying on one bed, drunk, ask just, you know, giggling and i told him, hey, if at any point you feel, you know, jealous or upset or anything, just let me know and i'll walk out of here. >> reporter: falwell, then president of liberty university and one of the nation's most prominent evangelicals this week acknowledged the affair to the washington examiner but said he knew nothing about it at the time and had no involvement. how long was jerry falwell jr. involved in this affair >> since day one, march 2012. >> reporter: to back up his claims granda released a tape of a phone call with

anne thompson explains. >> reporter: ask teachers what they did on their summer vacation and many will say worry. >> i understand parents need care, but turning my school into a covid laboratory is not the answer. >> you could be the person that brings i home to your family and affects your whole family. >> it's just not -- it's not safe. >> reporter: that fear driving detroit teachers to overwhelmingly approve a potential safety strike in new york city where public schools are set to open their doors in three weeks teachers are threatening to strike as well. >> we have promised the teachers and the parents of new york city that we would stand and fight if we felt a school was unsafe and that is a promise we are going to keep. >> reporter: the union representing about 120,000 school employees issuing a three-page checklist, including no-contact they a thermometers, sanitizing sprayers, exit and entry protocols for students and staff and upgraded ventilation systems. that's what's key for elementary teacher christine joseph. >> most of the windows do not open for more than a few inches.

it comes as the cdc is sparking controversy by suddenly changing its testing guidelines here's anne thompsonrter: despite a 37% drop in cases nationwide since late july, furious pushback on the cdc's new recommendation, that people exposed to covid and have no symptoms no longer need to get tested the change igniting confusion among public health experts. >> that's an essential component of case-based interventions, doing effective tracking and tracing. >> reporter: new york's governor calling the move indefensible. >> you cannot justify that on any public health basis that's politics. >> reporter: president trump in june suggested less testing. >> so i said to my people, slow the testing down, please >> reporter: today the department of health and human services, which oversees the cdc, says there was no direction from the president or vice president on the new guidelines defending the change when pressed by reporters, saying tests should now be focused and strategically done, not for the sake of being tested. >> if we're not testing these people they will infect others and the viral transm

anne thompson, thanks so much.us in the classroom continues all week on the networks of nbc news. >>> coming up, a sunday sit down with keanu reeves on picking up where bill and ted left off nearly 30 years later, doing his own stunts and how he manages to keep a relatively low celebrity profile. >>> a life well lived. the pioneering jazz musician who pushed back against discrimination with her slide trombone. >>> as we head to break, our photo of the week. a police officer rushing to help a driver who got stuck in rising waters as tropical storm isaias roared through this week. some poarts of the northea ♪ add some resistance. sara, your movie plus trial is about to expire. do you want to continue or cancel? ♪ capital one knows life doesn't update you about your credit card. so meet eno...the capital one assistant that looks out for charges that might surprise you and helps you fix them. another way capital one is watching out for your money when you're not. what's in your wallet? ♪ ♪ however you go back, we've go

for "today," anne thompson, nbc news, new york. >> how sweet. animals, but for those seniors, who i'm sure it means so much of to have their pets right now. >> and pets -- pets go -- they're just there by your side. i normally have bosco sitting right next to me, but she's still asleep this morning like the rest of my family. >> i like that little frenchie. i like the quarantine beard. like a lot of people are growing. >> exactly, exactly. we can't wait until they're all reunited. that is going to do it for us on a saturday morning. >> we hope you have a great and safe weekend. we appreciate you being with us every saturday. have a great weekend. >> have a great one. what happens to your body language when your underarms are cared for? ♪ it shows! ♪ introducing dove advanced care. its new formula with natural oil... is effective and kind to skin... leaving underarms... feeling healthy and protected. and you, more confident and carefree. and eatiting the smamall bits o of cheese s stuck to a a mcdonald's's wrapper.... is t the right w way... to s

so let's bring in nbc news correspondent anne thompson. i'm confused by this.n in new york is well less than 1%. it's a place that's really gotten the virus under control. why is the teachers union saying it's not safe to reopen? >> because from their point of view, katy, this is about more than the positivity rate. the union has issued a three-page list of safety demands that they say they want enacted before anyone steps foot into a classroom on september 10th. that list includes well stocked cleaning supplies, ppe and proper ventilation for every school. a clear plan of action and a covid response team for each school. and testing for every single student and adult before they enter a school building. that's some 750,000 people, a huge number. now, like many officials, new york's mayor bill de blasio said he will not open schools if it is not safe, but here and elsewhere around the country, there are a lot of parents, students, and teachers who just don't buy it. >> anne, what is the city saying about the ability to make sure that the schools are safe to mee

i want to bring in anne thompson at boston university where they set up a massive testing lab.about the approach the university is taking, how hopeful they are that they can avoid the spikes we've seen at other campuses? >> reporter: boston university believes the best way to avoid spikes is to test everyone, students, faculty and staff wlrks they have symptoms or not. it's implementing an ambitious program to test students. those tests will be processed in a new lab built over the summer over the summer. eight row bolts and 16 people can turn 6,000 tests a day, getting results in just 24 hours. rapid testing that is part of an overall plan to contain any outbreaks. >> first of all, if someone is positive, we can call them and do contact tracing and get them isolated as quickly as possible. if we start to see numbers going up quickly or going up in a way that is doubling too soon, we'll know a lot about where the virus is on campus and if we have to pivot and change. >> brrku has a doosh board wher you can track the positive tests out of more than 16,000 tests done since the en

anne thompson has more.week involving controversial projects in last frontier, alaska, a goldgold golden and copper mind. it could be sitting on as much as 12 billion barrels of oil. >> vast wild and spectacularly picturesque. a nursery for polar bears. the trump administration intends to open to oil and gas drilling for the very first time. >> this is a carefully tailored piece of legislation developed to mandate energy production of significant national importance. >> reporter: give me a sense of how big is 1.5 million acres. >> well, it's about the size of the state of delaware. >> reporter: environmentalists fear drilling could harm the refuge first established by president dwight eisenhower, destroying wild life including polar bears. th what would be the basis of your legal challenge? >> this was a reckless rush to drill, as a to circumvent. the pro-drilling supporters, to promise in the thousands. but some wondering if they'll ever come. oil demand is sinking and bankers have cold feet. they're all re

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. >> anne thompson presenting. >> that's great. >> let me just pull up the presentation. again, this is anne thompson and i will be joined my my colleague on a couple of these slides as well. when we get to that point. >> it was revised yesterday as the president mentioned earlier. this is a moving target on data a count as more information comes in and so we did our best to try to update with information as of yesterday. that is the -- on the table of contents. i don't have my camera on either. we'll take a look at some national and california data, some sfhsf specific data, we have updates from the health plan and we have some comments on testing to get to commissioner's question as well as the current status of any benefit change and related to covid-19 and at the end we have a couple of slides on emotional support resources and some links to some very important services for those out there who are looking for some help. looking at this first slide, in the united states and we'll start off large and bring it down so as of 8/12, there's 163,651 deaths in the u.s. due to

sound anne thompson ec anecdota.ates is massachusetts, attorney general mara joins us now. good evening. what are you planning on doing, to not mess with the ballots? >> as we said, we'll take them to court. right now, as we speak, ari, people are worried about receiving, unemployment checks, prescription drugs, we're concerned about what's going to happen with mail-in ballots. so we've said we're going to go to court today in response. you saw that dejoy appears to have issued a statement rescinding some of those positions, so we're going to continue to press ahead. no gains are going to be played and that the extent, things have been played. those are immediately. >> more explicit in the current situation? >> exactly. you know, we need to make sure we have an order in place or at least an ingredient, a binding agreement. supposed to be about free and safe elections, we need to look at what dejoy came up with today. for the first time in the country, we'll have tens of millions of people voting by mail and we need t

open, with an in-person option the first day of school here is september 10th hoda >> all right, anne thompsong woman who decide today add a little fun to everyone's day with a hop, a skip, and a jump she gets out her chalk she draws a hopscotch course on a busy sidewalk in san francisco. check out what happens young and old, everyone in between, some people hopping one direction. some people go the other way a few kind of race through the course some are real careful. people with dogs on leashes. >> i love it >> people carrying boxes and look, because you're as young as you feel, there's a lady coming up who hops through the course with a cane >> there she is. >> go, go, go. >> who doesn't love a hopscotch. >> draw some people? >> you would have folks who stop and jump. >>> up next, if you have ever picked up a golf club, stick around. even if you haven't, this is such a cool a community hopscotch. >> that would be a good trendy thing to do, people drawing hopscotch. >> i think we should draw one right here >> draw some people? >> you would have folks who stop and jump >>> up next, if you hav

nbc's anne thompson is at one of the 1,700 public schools here in new york. 1.1 million students, classrooms are set to reopen in three weeks. but with the coronavirus still raging in parts of the u.s., teachers, students, and parents don't think that going back into buildings is necessarily the only when it's safe. >> reporter: as teachers across the country protest for a safe return to the classroom. >> this is not about not wanting to tea best idea. this morning, a very real civics lesson >> only when it's safe only when it's safe. >> reporter: as teachers across the country protest for a safe return to the classroom. >> this is not about not wanting to teach i'm a teacher. that's what i do it's about wanting everybody to be safe. >> reporter: many teachers and students are uneasy about going back to school with the coronavirus still unchecked. in oklahoma, teacher nancy shivley deciding health risks aren't worth it. she's resigning after more than 40 years. >> i love teaching i love the kids. i'm worried about them >> reporter: even in connecticut, where

anne thompson is at boston university where they plan to do in-house testing of students and staff andre they going to pull this off? >> reporter: they're going to pull it off, steph, by doing more frequent testing here at boston university. undergrads will be tested twice a week. graduate students, once a week. that's more than 20,000 people. and that's going to be whether they have symptoms or not. over the summer bu built a special lab to process all these tests. it involves eight robots and 12 to 16 people that can turn as many as 6,000 tests a day. that frequent testing, along with contract tracing after somebody tests positive, officials believe, will help the school be able to contain any outbreaks. outbreaks that inevitably happen on college campus because college students just do things that college students like to do. they gather in large groups and forget about all the precautions, especially face coverings and social distancing. dr. julie clad is director of student health services. >> that's the importance of regular testing. if they're not keeping socially distanced we'r

the trump administration finalized plans to open that wildlife refuge to oil and gas drilling >> anne thompsonrnig >> reporter: good morning, guys. there are new developments in these highly controversial projects up in america's last frontier alaska. one involves a gold and copper mine the other, drilling in a wildlife refuge that could be sitting on as much as 12 billion barrels of oil it is vast, wild, and spectacularly picturesque. the coastal plain of the wildlife refuge on alaska's nu bears. 1.5 million acres that the trump administration intends to open to oil and gas drilling for the very first time. north shore. birthing grounds for porcupine caribou, a nursery for polar bears. 1.5 million acres that the trump administration intends to open to oil and gas drilling for the very first time. >> this is a carefully tailored piece of legislation developed to mandate energy production of significant national importance. >> reporter: give me a sense of how big is 1.5 million acres >> well, it's about the size of the state of delaware. >> reporter: environmentalists fear drilling could harm t

price is now a living reminder to pay attention to your health even during a pandemic for "today," anne thompsonk good how do you feel? i know you've had your surgery >> good morning, savannah. i'm feeling surprisingly well. i look like i lost a knife fight. all things considered id say i'm 90% back to normal, or at least my new normal. >> and you know, you got that email from a viewer. and all of us know who work in tv, sometimes you get email from viewers and sometimes they can be a little whacky and it might have been easy to disregard. why did you pay attention to this one >> honestly, because i read it to my boyfriend. i think we were having dinner the night that i received that i go, read this weird email i got today. i was totally just going to dismiss it i was like, i don't see anything who knows. and he's like, you know, it's not going to hurt just to call your doctor and check it out the worst that happens is that it's nothing so i'm glad that i listened to him. >> no question and i know we all just want to go on with our lives you don't want to have a health problem, but thank goodnes

less testing, so that raised the question whether this was a politically motivated change nbc's anne thompsonhow us the science to explain why nearly six months into this pandemic, and some 180,000 americans dead, the government is recommending fewer tests instead of more. new cdc guidelines that say people exposed to covid with no symptoms no longer need to get tested brought a swift backlash from the medical community >> i think most public health officials believe that this is a bad change we need to be testing people who are asymptomatic, not shying away from doing those tests. >> reporter: the american medical association calling the change a recipe for community spread and more spikes in coronavirus. and new caution from the nation's leading infectious disease expert in a statement, dr. anthony fauci said he was under general anesthesia and in surgery the day the task force adopted the guidelines he recalls quickly reviewing them after reviewing them carefully, he has concern they could be interpreted as lessening the importance of asymptomatic spread of virus in the community, adding,

anne thompson, nbc news >>> there is news tonight raising more questions over whether coronavirus survivors have some measure of immunity researchers believe they have found the first case in the u.s. of a person who caught the virus a second time a reno, nevada man who tested positive in april apparently recovered, then got sick again in late may. >>> and even after recovering from covid the stigma can linger, leaving some reluctant illness, which makes contact tracing more difficult. let's get more on that tonight from kristen dahlgren's candid conversation with two survivors. >> reporter: when health care worker patricia burn tested positive for covid-19 back in march he cough was so bad she wasn't sure she would make it. >> i was devastated and i was scared and i thought i need to write a will. >> reporter: but her reli isolation, even after she tested negative and returned to work. >> people i ate dinner with for almost ten years i noticed weren't coming in the room i actually broke down and cried. i felt like a leper. it's the only way to describe that. >> reporter: deshana ballard kn