joining us now is the president and ceo of the naacp, derrick johnson. you for being on our show. whereu talk about african-american support was for the democratic ticket's four years ago and what needs to change for joe biden? derrick: we had a high percentage of voters supporting the democratic party in 2016 but we did see a drop in voter participation, about 7%, which is the first time in 20 years you have seen a drop in african-american voting. i believe as a result of the announcement of kamala harris, you will see an increase in voter turnout compared to 2016. n voter turnout compared to 2016. down i understood you set with candidate biden to talk about issues, racial equality at the top of that list. guest: we are in the midst of the george floyd controversy. there are lots of questions about structural racism. i thought it was a good opportunity to talk about how we address racism, something that has plagued to this country for decades. we must grow beyond our negative past to get to a future and perfect this union. what does a biden administrati

host: derrick johnson, president of the naacp. available wherever books are sold. host: the democratic national convention and what you are saying come from it, that is our topic until 9:00. biden, you support joe (202) 748-2001.

derrick, thanks so much for doing this. we appreciate it.rris's selection as joe biden's running mate is historic. let's listen to senator harris in her own words. >> by joe asking me to be his running mate, he has pushed forward something that might've otherwise taken decades if you just track the progress that we've had so far. and what it means is the significance of it is an understanding by joe and what will be, god along, our administration about the need to be conscious about the disparities that exist, be conscious about the systemic racism that exists, be conscious about the active and affirmative acts that must take place to actually get closer to an equitable and fair society. >> derrick, what's your reaction to seeing a woman of color reach this milestone? >> well, i've been getting the energy from african-american women all across the country this week. i feel a lot of energy, excitement. many of our foundational organizations that are women-led, whether it is our sororities, deltas, thetas. there is energy i have not seen since

. >> dropped down to his knees and said it's that [ bleep ] derrick. >> a moment of unguarded grief andnd, thus, a possible suspect. derek mower, ken's adult stepson. >> it was apparent that there was difficulties between those two. >> the trouble in the family didn't stop with derrick. >> there seemed to be a riff. >> but not between dee and ken. theirs seemed to be be a genuine love story. but now, a grieving dee told detectives she was as baffled about the murder, as they were. >> she was not able to provide us any information, as to who he was meeting that day. or anything about his day. >> reporter: and despite all that friction, the infighting over money and control, dee's family produced not a single, viable suspect. not even ken's stepson. >> derrick had an alibi, at the time of the murder. >> but those initial interviews were not entirely in vain. a clue emerged from ken's assistant. night before the murder, she said ken got a call on his cell. >> she knew that he had set up a meeting to meet with whoever he was talking to at 7:00 a.m. on the 15th. >> the day and time, at which

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insights thanks for having me time for more of your questions now over to our science correspondent derrick williams. can covert 19 cause bad breath. this can be caused by a wide range of different factors from inadequate dental hygiene to to a more serious underlying condition but the w.h.o. doesn't list it as a symptom for covert 19 however there is an interesting connection between bad breath and the virus mouthwash sales have spiked during the pandemic which i guess was to be expected i mean plenty of people probably hope that using mouthwash is regularly will have a preventative effect even though there is currently no evidence that gargling with them protects you either that or or breathing into a mask all the time has made people hyper aware of how their own breath smells. can you catch covert 19 from drinking unfiltered tap water. there's no evidence you can get cove at 19 from drinking treated water and the risk of transmission through water in general even untreated wastewater appears to be very low even when the viruses genetic material can be detected in untreated water in most

more aspects to this condé make and it's time for your questions now as our science correspondent derrickwilliams. vaccines work for young children or be tailored for adults. this question addresses one of the reasons why it's a good thing to have so many different teams working on on so many different back scenes there's a widely acknowledged problem with testing not only vaccines but but new therapies in general which is that early trials in particular are usually conducted on groups of healthy adults under $65.00 and of course they aren't the people who need it most with covered 19 elderly men with co-morbidities are the group that's most at risk but especially in early safety and efficiency trials nobody will be trying vaccine candidates out on backward because not only could it be dangerous it could also skew the data and lead researchers to false conclusions the same holds true for testing new vaccines in children it can be risky because you can't just treat them. like little adults they they can react differently to vaccines it's certainly possible this is not likely that children

time to head over to our science course one of derrick williams is going to answers to some of the questions you've been sending us on the corona virus. how different is some. other viruses that in fact for example do people who catch influenza sometimes have no symptoms yes although asymptomatic is a is a pretty squishy term we've known for decades that people who don't report flu symptoms can test positive as carriers for the bug and older estimates usually put the number of asymptomatic carriers for flu at around 50 percent much cited british study from 2014 however determined an even larger number of people infected with influenza never develop symptoms 77 percent to be exact now if that's correct it means not even one in 4 people who catch the flu will ever show any signs of it one way or the other even if the estimates don't all agree there's plenty of evidence showing that it's quite common for us to catch a range of other viruses and show no signs of illness and there's also broad agreement that those asymptomatic carriers are likely contributing significantly to the spread of those

are your questions now over to our science correspondent and that's derrick williams. does sars kovi to incorporate genetic material into your d.n.a. that remains even when the disease is passed. a number of different viruses among them for example hiv or herpes viruses use a variety of different methods to incorporate their own genetic material into that of the cells that they invade in fact a substantial portion of human d.n.a. we think around 8 percent isn't strictly speaking human in origin it's genetic information from by risk is that integrated into the human genome at some point in the far distant past and has been hanging around in our genetic code ever since which is it's kind of freaky when you think about it i mean it's thought that these sequences might be involved actually in a wide range of what we consider to be non infectious diseases like cancer or or dementia but source code too isn't the kind of virus that replicates by integrating into our genome it doesn't have to invade the cell nucleus where our d.n.a. is it can find everything that it needs to m

and now it's time for your questions here's our science correspondent derrick williams. for how many days are as symptomatic people contagious. this is one of the questions that medical professionals would love an answer to but it's pretty complex and we haven't even nailed down answers to to simpler related questions like like what percentage of people who get the disease can even be classified as as asymptomatic or or how infectious they are you most remember last month there was an uproar when a w.h.o. official appeared to say that there were indications that asymptomatic people very rarely passed on the disease to others that was that was followed by a lot of backtracking but maybe it helps to look at what we do know one expert i read on this said that transmission from people with symptoms generally tails off completely within 8 days after the onset of those symptoms and that he thought it unlikely that an asymptomatic person would be infectious for longer than that that sounds plausible to me but it doesn't constitute proof. and before we let you go here's a story

well time for your questions now and that means over to a science correspondent derrick williams. what is the size of the coronavirus in microns. with all of these large scale animations of coronaviruses that i look at every day sometimes it's hard to remember how tiny they actually are to answer this question let's 1st get the terms down micron is an old way to say micro meter which is one millionth of a meter to put that maybe in terms that we can visualize it takes a 1000 micro metres to make a single millimeter now the small ones that is a virus is much smaller it's down in what's called the nanometer range a 1000 nanometers makes up a single microcomputer at around $125.00 nanometers in diameter source code 2 is actually a pretty large virus at least among the viruses that in fact humans but it would still take 8 of them lined up to stretch a single micro metre or micron if you prefer. hair is always used to illustrate stuff like this a human here is around 50 microns across so it would take around $400.00 coronaviruses end to end just to span the width of a human hair you kn

here questions now anderson's correspondent derrick williams. can you tell us more about dixon meth as a. dexa meth as own it is one of the drugs that doctors now prescribe at that critical stage of coke at 19 that i just mentioned when the immune system has gone into overdrive and starts attacking healthy tissue and the body a major study in britain that's still in peer reviewed discovered that in critically ill patients who need respiratory support the compounds lowers mortality by between a 5th and and a 3rd which is actually pretty huge dexa meth is known as what's known as a corticosteroid and it's widely used to treat many different conditions that cause painful or dangerous inflammation it's also an immuno suppressant so it can help calm down the immune system when it's running a mock but that also makes doctors wary about about giving patients the drug too early when the immune system needs to be active it's not a new drug but one that's been approved for use for well over 50 years now so so it's cheap it's widely available and perhaps m

now you got to ask the questions here's our science correspondent derrick williams. i've heard research just talk about trying to mute the immune response but also saying that a young stronger immune system is more successful in fighting off covered 19 is not a contradiction. to understand the apparent contradiction here you have to understand that there are are different stages of covert 19 that patients can go through the 1st is usually an initial infection in the upper respiratory tract and that's usually where it stays with most people that's where having a strong fast acting immune system is really great it's able to keep the disease in check and eventually wipe it out in some cases it keeps it so effectively unchecked that you might not even notice that you had it but in more severe forms of the disease if the virus eventually makes it to the loans or to other organs it can kick in a severe immune response and when that happens the immune system can start attacking not just diseased tissue but but healthy tissue as well that's when doctors have to step in and t

somewhere between steven spielberg's duel and joel shumacher‘s falling down, unhinged from director derrickte is a nuts and bolts affair that does exactly what it says on the tin without ever really stopping to think about it. andy. whose phone is this? i'm sitting here across from a friend. we know from the trailer that the action is going to involve crowe wreaking mobile phone havoc in a diner and a giant truck running over a car, and that pretty much sums up the movie. a popcorn mix of interpersonal craziness and big crunchy carbound carnage. can you see him? he's catching up. it helps, of course, that playing a character with anger management issues is hardly a stretch for russell crowe, although unlike michael douglas's more interesting character in falling down, crowe starts crazy and then just gets worse. you can hardly call this an analysis of societal rage, but watching 90 minutes of head—banging pedal to the metal big screen thrills, ifound myself happy to be back in a cinema, succumbing to the magic of the big screen. better bring your a—game. cos you're going to need it. also ge

then, naacp president and ceo derrick johnson on black voters and the important issues in campaign 2020. "washington journal" is next. i am pleased to announce that vice president joe biden has officially been nominated by the democratic party as our candidate for president of the united states. vice president biden is hereby invited to deliver an acceptance speech. ♪ thank you very, very much, from the bottom of my heart. it means the world to me and my family, and i will see you on thursday. ♪ that took place after a first ever virtual rollcall vote officiallyn is selected as the nominee for the democratic party. just some of the activities on night two of the democratic national convention. watch our coverage of night three starting at 9:00 tonight on c-span, c-span.org, and follow along on our c-span radio app. in the first hour bang, you can give us your impressions of the activities. -- in the first hour, you can give us your impressions of the activities. if you support joe biden, (202) 748-8000. if you support president trump, (202) 748-8001. if you are undecided, (202) 748-8002

joining me is the president of the naacp, derrick johnson. thank you for joining us on this busy saturday. you see postmaster general dejoy's actions as a direct and deliberate threat to people of color. tell us more about why. >> well, we are looking at a health pandemic, and now we're going to ask voters to choose between their health and their constitutional right to vote. our goal is to prevent the horrific scenes we've seen in milwaukee during the primary elections, where you had a dispurporoportionate impact of number of precincts not open, forcing african-americans who we learned had a disparate impact as a result of covid, standing in line putting their health at risk to exercise their right to vote. that should not be the case in a democracy. and the fact that this administration would attack an american institution, an institution where so many of our veterans and seniors depend on the delivery of their medications for their survival, we're done dying. we should not continue with this type of approach. it's almost treasonous in my o

mayor derrick henry, we're glad you missed the brunt of this storm.nks so much for being with us. good luck going forward. >> thank you, john. >> erica? >>> we want to remember some of the more than 154,000 lives lost to coronavirus. lieutenant eric lloyd was set to celebrate 30 years with the las vegas metro police department last month and planned to retire at the end of the year. before contracting the virus, lloyd served as the president of the injured officers police fund, where he raised money for colleagues hurt in the field. friends remember him as a man who dead indicated his life to helping others. >>> angie and eugene hunter were married for 35 years. they died from coronavirus just four days apart. their son, justin, a high school senior, plans to dedicate his final football season to his parents. angie and eugene will be remembered for their big hearts and their desire to give without thinking about getting back. we'll be right back. gillette proglide and proglide gel. five blades and a pivoting flexball designed to get virtually every ha

when i used to be over there and i would lean over to derrick jeter or robinson cano, everybody wouldu guys talking about? the game, if we just kind of reveal everything and open it up, i think it's an immense opportunity, because people want to be taken behind the curtains. so let's do it. this is the year. >> sebastion: so you want everybody mic'd and everybody filmed, and i can see where that's coming from, because you walk around with your own video crew yourself. so i would love to see that implemented into major league baseball. listen, man, i got to thank you for joining us here. really appreciate you taking some time out. watch alex on opening night next thursday and all season on "sunday night baseball" on espn. we'll be right back with our healthcare hero of the week. ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ however you go back, we've got your back. ♪ hi. what's on your mind?in. can you help keep these guys protected online? easy. connect to the xfi gateway. what about wireless data options for the family? you can customize and save. what about internet speeds that can keep up with my gaming? let's hook you

for a look at some other aspects concerning the coronavirus it's over to our science correspondent derrick williams with your questions. we've heard about the underlying diseases and conditions that can influence the severity of college 19 outcomes but does viral load also affect so verity. when i began looking into this i quickly realized that there's still no clear answer to this question partly because the amount of virus in the patient's body changes from day to day as the disease progresses we know from other diseases that that high viral loads are linked to infectiousness but do they also affect disease severity in covert 19 well the information coming out of the studies this kind of conflict in a recent fairly large scale one for example found a clear link between mortality and high viral load in hospitalized patients and even suggested it could be used as a tool for stratifying patient risk but other studies that have measured viral loads in for example children who had very mild forms of the disease found they were generally carrying even more virus than adults who develop severe

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for a look at some other aspects concerning the coronavirus it's over to our science correspondent derrick williams with your questions. we've heard about the underlying diseases and conditions that can influence the severity of coded 19 outcomes but does viral load also affect some verity. when i began looking into this i quickly realized that there's still no clear answer to this question partly because the amount of virus in a patient's body changes from day to day as the disease progresses we know from other diseases that that high viral loads are linked to infectiousness but do they also affect disease severity in covert 19 well the information coming out of the studies is kind of conflicting a recent a fairly large scale one for example found a clear link between mortality and high viral load in hospitalized patients and even suggested it could be used as a tool for stratifying patient risk but other studies that have measured viral loads in for example children who had very mild forms of the disease found they were generally carrying even more virus than adults who develop severe fo

paying attention to these protests i think it's more a symbolic step it shows that europe is still a derrick it's an extent but then without making any particularly strong promises i think in terms of practical if you it's on the regime here i don't think it will make that much of a difference because being under sanctions time time again and those checks have then been withdrawn without him doing much in return i think alexander the fact that those in definitely on the symbol that the kind of just tickles excited things that was important step for people here on the streets to know that they are being watched and that the events here are being followed bring us up to date on where russia stands in all of this because it has traditionally been a very close ally of the us. exactly russia's closest ally they are currently so-called union states they have a kind of loose association which russia has always wanted to deepen to further integrate belarus into effectively one country with russia. preselection has spoken to several times this week and being assured of russia's willingness to support

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somber message of the grief that they still live with and will always live with so let's bring in derrick johnson he's the president and c.e.o. of the national association of the advancement of colored people and. johnson good to have you on the program this was a march to commemorate the 57th anniversary of martin luther king's famous speech but given the social injustice and huge racial divide that many say has ripped apart the social fabric of america does that speech still resonate today and is the dream still alive do you think. oh absolutely the speech resonate in that speech with some more than that much more than a dream it was a call to action the reality that our constitution guarantee that everyone was created equal that it doubtless certain it in a local rights when it came to african-americans we could not take that commitment to the bank of justice and so we are seeing that same reality today 65 years ago we had a young man who was lynched in money mississippi many people who gathered in 1953 recognize the beautiful murder of emmett till it was one of the sparks that started