boston university, the university of arizona and california state university are among the schools that have announced layoffs. others like duke, georgetown and northwestern, have cut salaries or their contributions to employee retirement accounts. opening in person does maximize revenue but potentially at too high a cost. >> you've got to maintain the fm health of your institution, but you also need protection to get everyone back to campus and a lot of people got sick, that's actu college. >> reporter: that's what happened at unc chapel hill this week when a covid outbreak in dorms sent them to on line learning. and keeping the campus safe will be a challenge, experts tell us >> do anything like that and let students do whatever, i'll probably just have to go back home. >> reporter: and the schools work out how to conduct class. here at rice university in houston, it's going to be a combination of in-person and on-line learning. hundreds of students are back on campus here. some of them when classes start will be taking classes in temperatures like the one behind me. it's part of the

we are spending the hour withh boston university professor ibram x., founding director of the bu center for antiracist research, contributing writer at the atlantic, and author of many books including "stamped from the beginning: the definitive history of racist ideas in america," which won the national book award for nonfiction, and "how to be an antiracist." as we said, on friday, thousands gathered for the 57th march on washington on the national mall for an event organized by the national action network. among those who spoke were family members of victims of police violence. this is jacob blake sr., the father of jacob blake, followed by g george floyd's brother philonise floyd and the mother of breonna taylor, tamikika palmer. >> we're going to full-court today. we're going to hold court. --ystematic racism unsystematic racism. we're going to have court right now. guilty. guilty. l2. against all of us. guilty. racism against trayvon martin. we find them guilty. racism against george floyd. we find them guilty. racism against jacob blake. wrong,

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

i want to bring in anne thompson at boston university where they set up a massive testing lab. bout 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 end

nahid bhadelia of boston university. >>> plus, trailing in the polls. the president floats delaying the election, blaming without evidence increased mail-in voting. >> these elections will be fraudulent. they'll be fixed. they'll be rigged. >> many republicans push back. >> we'll cope with whatever the situation is and have the election on november 3rd as already scheduled. >> why even mr. trump's allies say this time he's going too far. >>> also while honoring john lewis, president obama takes on president trump. >> george wallace may be gone, but we can witness our federal government sending agents to use tear gas and batons against peaceful demonstrators. >>> and who will joe biden choose as his running mate? >> i am going to do everything i can to make sure that he gets elected, and once elected, make sure that he's a successful president. >> i'll talk to a rising contender, congresswoman karen bass of california. joining me for insight and analysis are nbc news chief foreign affairs correspondent andrea mitchell. journalist and author robert draper

dr herschel jek used boston university's new crude database to satisfy his curiosity of how many hospitalized patients became addicted to opioids grad student jane porter helped compile the statistics dr jacques rogge house press secretary typed it up and submitted it to the new england journal of medicine. short letter was one of the many printed in january of 1980 the power graph simply stated the statistics and made no conclusion. what everybody was citing as evidence that we didn't have to worry about getting our patients addicted in some cases this was being described as a landmark study it was this a one paragraph letter to the editor of this of course would tell you nothing about the risk of addiction when you put a patient on long term opioids but it turns out in fact they have always been just as addictive as we always knew they were there for many hundreds if not thousands of years when people used the obvious see it in the early derivatives of opium for pain control. as patients began to exhibit symptoms of tolerance and addiction to do former was quick to pacify fears we were ofte

boston university believes more tests are better it's built a covid lab on campus where eight robotsre than a dozen people process up to 6,000 covid tests a day. part of bu's massive effort to test undergraduate students twice a week and get results in 24 hours. >> if someone is positive we can call them and do contact tracing and get them isolated as quickly as possible >> reporter: putting students like junior katherine gorbowski at ease. >> i want to keep everyone around me safe as i want to keep myself safe. >> reporter: across the country outbreaks. where students gather in large parties with few safe coverings 207 cases at auburn, 658 at university of north carolina a fate bu hopes to avoid. >> even if someone doesn't adhere to those individual safety practices and they're not keeping socially distanced we're going to catch them on our testing. >> reporter: to keep students healthy and learning, anne thompson, nbc news, boston. >>> the nfl is investigating a claim that a lewd video was made of cheerleaders for the washington football team for the team's owner, geoff bennett rep

hong kong public don't his association and in boston matthew fox professor of epidemiology at boston's university school of public health a warm welcome to you all i'd like to begin in boston with you matthew fox we his so much about numbers rising about numbers for ling we has so much about what these numbers might mean whether they're going to have an impact on people's livelihoods on people's lives but what do these numbers actually mean what does it mean when cases go up because 9 months on it seems to me that we don't really have a handle on the statistics it's there it's right it's a really complicated to try to understand these numbers by themselves so looking at the number of cases of course important but looking at a number of cases by themselves doesn't really tell us the whole story as cases go up obviously we want to take action to try and mitigate the impact but we also want to look at the percent of people who are testing positive so all the tests that we're doing what proportion of those are tested positive we want to see that number below because that's an indication that we're do

be followed in the test results come back within 24 hours. >> to meet that ambitious target boston universityd. students harping stagger for social distancing but it relies on a robust covid-19 testing program. >> we have the best test so the result can be turned around quickly. >> we believe we have in place the information and a system to monitor the health of our community. >> when a student schedules tesp commitment to wear a mask report symptoms and abide by quarantine rules. other universities areequiring unprecedented -- asking students to sign waivers or risk of mollegen and forms noting no guarantee they won't be exposed to covid. in boston molly line "fox news." jon and we will be right back. look here, it's your very own all-in-one entertainment experience: xfinity x1. it's the easiest way to watch live tv and all your favorite streaming apps. plus, x1 also includes peacock premium at no extra cost. this baby is the total package. it streams exclusive originals, the full peacock movie library, complete collections of iconic tv shows, and more. yup, the best really did get better. m

be followed in the test results come back within 24 hours. >> to meet that ambitious target boston universityup its own lead. students harping stagger for social distancing but it relies on a robust covid-19 testing program. >> we have the best test so the result can be turned around quickly. >> we believe we have in place the information and a system to monitor the health of our community. >> when a student schedules tesp commitment to wear a mask report symptoms and abide by quarantine rules. other universities are requiring unprecedented -- asking students to sign waivers or risk of mollegen and forms noting no guarantee they won't be exposed to covid. in boston molly line "fox news." jon and we will be ta-da! did you know liberty mutual customizes your car insurance so you only pay for what you need? i should get a quote. do it. only pay for what you need. ♪ liberty. liberty. liberty. liberty. ♪ ♪ where everybody knows ♪ someyour name ♪ant to go ♪ and they're always glad you came ♪ applebee's. now that's eating good in the neighborhood. sprinting past every leak in our softest, smoothest

incoming students planning to attend boston university -- if they don't agree to follow the social gathering guidelines. a university in new york has handed down interim suspensions to 23 students after he gathered on the campus quad. >> cannot go to bars and incompetent door dining. you have to do the thing that matters the most, to get our kids through the school year. realize what we do today matters tomorrow. let's put in the work. >> as far as latest numbers. in south carolina, the state is nearing 110,000 coronavirus cases. the georgia department of public health reports 95 new covid-19-related deaths. in florida, the cases nearing 600,000. good news in new jersey, the lowest number of hospitalizations since march 24th. the governor tweeted saturday. >> the problem is, when we see some states make some gains, we see other states become hotspots. even badly affected states like arizona and south carolina, likely seeing a decline in deaths, but at the same time, minnesota is starting to see an increase and also, we're worried about the midwest in general becoming a next hotspot for covid

. >> this morning i'll talk to admiral giroir of the task force and boston university. >> plus, trailing in the polls. the president floats delaying theec

ocasio-cortez was very popular in democrat circles and has come off the campaign, a graduate of boston universityedy has retaliated by getting the support of nancy pelosi, the house speaker. so the irony there is nancy pelosi said i don't want my members getting involved in primary races against incumben incumbents. >> martha: right in the middle of it. >> she is fighting him in combat. it's great. >> martha: it's great. politics are great. >> was the last time you cried. >> yesterday. >> when was the last time you cried? >> it was on sunday. at an event, i heard a statement that was made that was so powerful that i could not stop. was an emotional reaction to it. >> martha: this is the most ridiculous moment, and then to ask the question and not even to find out why. now i want to know what made you cry? i guess he was crying when he thought about it, he is going to have to move back to massachusetts from the beltway after 43 years down there, those are just my theories about what they were talking about. >> martha: i bet if joe kennedy said that, i cried because i saw the polls, would have won

notre dame, oklahoma state, boston university, and villanova also reporting more infections and increasedowded parties like these appear to be the culprit, harris. they are prompting urgent pleas. listen. >> not this semester. we have to get through this pandemic together. >> that was the basketball coach at villanova, and if colleges are of a blueprint for grade schools, oh, boy... take a look at this. 71 of mississippi's 82 counties reporting positive cases in kindergarten through 12th grade schools as of yesterday. in arizona, and entire school district had to shut down because teachers didn't show up they staged a sick hyphen out. the new york city primitive education tells us with the infection rate of 1%, new york city's assay has major city in the country. we are committed to providing quality instruction five days a week, regardless of the setting." but will parents be convinced? a gallup poll finding only 36% are okay with sending kids back to school full-time. the national homeschool association says this could be the beginning of the end of public education. >> they are doomed

. >> this morning i'll talk to admiral giroir of the task force and boston university. >> plus, trailingthe polls. the president floats delaying the election

also oklahoma state, boston university, villanova reporting more infections and more testing.ed parties. take a look at these pictures appear to be the culprit? wow. they're prompting urgent pleas. take a look at this pas fromville november's basketball coach. >> we love to party. nobody does it better but not this semester. we have to get through this pandemic together. lauren: if colleges are the blueprint if you will for grade school, we have a problem. 71 of mississippi's 82 counties reporting positive cases from kindergarten through 12th grade. arizona, entire school system shut down. the teachers staged a sickout over health concerns. new york city department education with a citywide infection rate of 1% new york city is the safest major city in the country t continues. we are committed to providing instruction five days a week. but, charles, can parents be convinced to send their kids? a recent "gallup poll" finding only 36% are okay with sending kids back to the classroom full time. the national homeschool association says this could be the beginning of the end of pub

joining me now, associate professor at boston university school of medicine.e just mentioned california has got 600,000 coronavirus cases, but the hospitalizations are down and the new daily cases are dropping. are you hopeful this is an actual slow in the spread in california, or are we just riding that roller coaster? >> i think, garrett, it might be a little too early. the indications, at least of the peak of cases we saw last month, hospitalizations and deaths are now reflecting that from a month ago. positivity rates are going down, which means we're getting a better handle of the disease activity going on in california. an interesting sort of pattern has emerged in california, as has other places. longer that states battle this pandemic, the more this seems to go from big cities to rural areas. rural community reported their first test of positive covid-19. you're seeing more rural areas getting affected by this. they not only have less access potentially to medical care, patients live farther away and rural communities tend to be older and may have morb

in boston university, we're doing 5,000 to 6,000 tests daily to give you an idea. the state does 10,000 to 15,000 daily. that level of testing, the contact tracing, it's important. the thing that colleges have to balance, though, is that you need to have a compassionate approach to this. if you're with students, they're less likely to be forthcoming with their activity, less likely to share information that you need to make contact tracing important. that's why it needs to be a collaborative experience with both the students and with the universities. and for universities to then be ready to pull the trigger if they see cases rising and to have on-campus parameters on which they would switch to completely remote learning which be we've seen already. >> let's talk about the younger kids, too. there's a study by researchers at massachusetts general hospital. and they're warning that children may be even bigger silent spreaders than we thought previously. they say the infected children regardless of their age had a significantly higher level of the virus in their airw

. >> this morning i'll talk to admiral giroir of the task force and boston university. >> plus, trailing in the polls. the president floats delaying the election blaming without evidence increased mail-in voting. >> these elections will be fraudulent. they'll be fixed. they'll be rigged. >> many republicans push back. >> we'll cope with whatever the situation is and have the election on november 3rd as already scheduled. >> why even mr. trump's allies say this time he's going too far. also while honoring john lewis, president obama takes on president trump. >> george wallace may be gone, but we can witness our federal government sending agents to use tear gas and batons against peaceful demonstrators. >>> and who will joe biden choose as his running mate? >> i am going to do everything i can to make sure that he gets elected and once elected make sure that. >> i'll talk to a rising f insight and analysis for nbc news chief foreign affairs correspondent andrea mitchell. journalist and author robert draper and heather mcghee of color of change. welcome to sunday. it' press." >>> from nbc t

oklahoma state, boston university, villanova reporting more infections. why? crowded parties like these. they are off the campus. but they're crowded. prompting urgent pleas like this one from villanova basketball coach. >> we love parties but not this semester. we have to go get through this pandemic together. lauren: if colleges are the blueprint for grade schools, melissa, we have a big problem. only 36% of parents are okay with sending kids to school full time. expect stressed out parents. i'm curious what you're doing with your kids as we wait for school to start? melissa: i'm desperate to send all three of mine back to school full time. i don't think that is going to happen. but we'll see. fingers crossed. lauren, thank you. ashley, over to you. ashley: all right. guys, thank you very much. escalating war of words. president trump slamming new york governor andrew cuomo over the state's response to the pandemic and the exodus that has followed. is the future of the big apple looking that break? we'll get into it. >>> record breaking temperatures in calif

one expert from boston university school of public health telling "the boston globe" now, quote, i would back up to the last level the governor had that we know worked. somewhere between that and now is the sweet spot. level two worked. level three didn't work. right. when your case numbers are going up, your positivity rate's going up, your hospitalization numbers and death numbers are going to follow that trajectory too. if that's the trend line you're on, it means what you're doing isn't working and you have to do something else. if you had been doing well before and now you've stopped doing well, go back to what you were doing when you were doing well. it's not rocket science. we don't have a cure. the only interventions we have are these simple, dumb, hard things that we fight over -- masks and social distancing and keeping schools closing and having rules about gatherings. that's all we've got. it's not rocket science, but you do the things that work, and when your numbers show you that new things that you're trying don't work, you stop doing them. but, you know, who's to tell you

she is the medical director of the special pathogens unit at boston university school of medicine and an msnbc medical contributor. >>> still ahead they say the united states postal system fell to a friday night massacre. the disat the matt i can dismantling on the postal system and your ability to vote safely this november ahead. ♪ ♪ i got it all from you ♪ i'm always pushing through ♪ i know we'll make it to the finish line ♪ ♪ i know you're waiting on the other side ♪ ♪ i'm like you on-demand glucose monitoring. because they're always on. another life-changing technology from abbott. so you don't wait for life. you live it. >>> there are some deeply distressing antidemocratic events going on around the country right now. remarkably, appalling news around the world, by the way. appalling news out of hong kong where the new secretly drafted national security law police arrested a pro-democracy media mogul named jimmy li. officers raided the newsroom of his newspaper which is critical of the hong kong government and of chinese leadership. they arrested activists and a freelance journa

in massachusetts, boston university is reporting 12 covid cases since testing began on campus late last month. five students at virginia tech have tested positive for covid ahead of the fall semester which starts next week. that's on top, of course, of the situations at unc chapel hill and notre dame having to move to online learning only after outbreaks on their campuses this week and in kansas health officials are investigating at least five covid clusters at universities across that state. let's go there. joining me right now is the health secretary for the state of kansas dr. lee norm ena. thanks for coming back on. i appreciate it. first, i want to ask you what you think dr. birx is advising about campuses and colleges doing surge testing. are are the colleges and universities in kansas capable of that? >> we have some of our colleges and universitieses that are doing surveillance testing when students, faculty and staff come in. we have some that are not doing surveillance or testing. we do have the ability to do surge testing, and, of course, to follow anybody that's going to be

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she received a law degree from boston university and was the first black woman elected to the texas senate. house,erving in the u.s. she taught political ethics at the university of texas at austin and later chaired the u.s. commission on immigration reform which recommended immigration in the usb cut by 1/3. she spoke to delegates in new york city. ♪ ♪ [applause] >> ladies and gentlemen -- [applause] >> ladies and gentlemen -- [applause] ladies or arer you gentlemen. gentlemen, in case you don't know it, may i now present our second keynote speaker, the honorable barbara jordan, democrat of houston, texas. [cheers and applause] >> thank you. thank you. thank you, ladies and gentlemen for a very warm reception. was 144 years ago that members of the democratic party first met in convention to select a presidential candidate. since that time, democrats have continued to convene once every four years and draft the party platform and nominate a presidential candidate. and our meeting this week is a continuation of that tradition. but there is something different about tonight, there is somethi

as an assistant professor of public policy in northeastern university in boston thank you both. now the explosion happened in the port area of the lebanese capital of beirut let's go through what is known it's a densely populated district with plenty of residential buildings nearby the blast destroyed buildings over a wide area the shock waves could be felt for a field the cypress that's around 240 kilometers away no the exact cause of the blast is still unknown but lebanon's interior minister has said it happened in they were hosts storing ammonium nitrate a volatile chemical compound used in both fertilizers and. let's take a look right now it was something these are live pictures of water all going fires that's what happened after the immediate. then in nearby regions of swelled in the beirut port area and further into the city center to 20 minutes after. the blaze has been raging for over 6 hours the lebanese interior minister says the explosion appears to have been caused by about a huge stock pile of ammonium nitrate in the ports area the 1st explosion in beirut was report

. >> this morning i'll talk to admiral giroir of the task force and boston university. >> plus, trailingsident floats delaying the election blaming without evidence increased mail-in voting. >> these elections will be fraudulent.

reporter: to meet that ambitious target boston university set up its own lab. >> we have the best testst is in house, and results will be turned around quickly. reporter: when a bull. student schedules testing they commit to a health commitment wear masks, tell about symptoms and abide by quarantine rules. but other universities and colleges are requiring unprecedented agreements asking students to sign waivers, risking a knowledgement forms with no guarranty that they will be protected from getting the covid-19 virus. neil? neil: incredible. after all that no guarranty. molly line, thank you. that was a fascinating report. i want to raise all of this with dr. devi nampiaparampil. she guided us through recommendations, now coming out with schools doing all of this. doctor, i'm wondering, they want to police the kids especially on college campuses, don't congregate in bars, honor social distancing, it is almost inevitable when things reopen, regather, they're honoring that or not but just the sheer number of new people gathering, is itself going to lead to a spike in cases, right? >> i a

oklahoma state, boston university, villanova also reporting more infections and as a result, more testing these appear to be the culprit on college campuses. and they are prompting urgent pleas like this one from the basketball coach at villanova. >> love the party, nobody does it better, but not this semester. we have to get through this pandemic together. lauren: if colleges are the blueprint for grade school, oh, boy. let's take a look at what's happening in some of the school districts that have already opened across the country. in mississippi, 71 out of 82 counties reported coronavirus cases. in arizona, the entire school district in one area had to close because of a sick-out. a sick-out. the teachers were protesting their health concerns and just didn't show up to class. so that's a scary thought when you think about it like this. the former epicenter of the virus, which is new york city, the department of education tells us this. with the city-wide infection rate of 1%, new york city is the safest major city in the country. they continue we are committed to providing quality inst

which have been theresa gatherings or let ix incoming students planning to attend northeastern university in boston, massachusetts this fall only to find another school if they don't agree to follow the university social gathering guidelines. syracuse university in new york has already handed down interim suspensions to 23 students after they gathered on the campus quad wednesday night we cannot go to bars and indoor dining we have to wear masks, we have to do the hard work to do the thing that matters the most which to get our kids through the school year. so i'd like to see people realize that what we do today matters tomorrow, let's put in the work. >>as far as latest numbers in south carolina, the state is nearing 110,000 coronavirus cases in georgia department of public health reports 95 new covid related deaths on saturday bringing the state's total to over 5,000. >>in florida state's covid-19 cases are nearing 600,000. good news in new jersey, the state is seeing its lowest number of coronavirus related hospitalizations since march 24th, the governor tweeted saturday the problem is when we s