s elson actually garra is in malawi and explains what's at stake. president metallica are you thinking you think in 5 year term the nearest but political pundits say it's too close to call he faces the main will position talent. who leads the grand alliance on little more on. this is the 5th time in malawi where we now according to law must have at least 50 percent plus one just like the boards the election in iran comes after the court decided in february 2 are now the 21000 board or bar. it is their decision on or that is supreme court of appeal last month. ministration has been dogged by allegations of corruption disrespecting the rule of law and poor governance. is according to think far be tipped to win the presidency. elson chicago in malawi donald trump's decision to pull nearly a 3rd of americans american troops out of germany is continuing to make waves within nato the us president confirmed last week that america will cut its military deployment here 225000 reduction of almost 10000 germany currently has the biggest contingent of u.s. troo

instead of retiring he purchased speakeasy elson locker brewery hunters point one of the brands he distributed to bars and restaurants. >> speakeasy was a wonderful product and it was an institution in san francisco. it was going under hard times and i wanted to save it. >> reporter: traditionally, african-americans haven't tapped the marketplace of this is largely made up of german americans for decades. craft brewing and brewpubs have open up the gates. >> i'm not complaining. we've got to make do with what we have and try to make it successful. >> they are working with the san antonio brewer to make a positive impact in their own markets. >> he lends out his recipe and everybody tries to make the product and sell it and then we get back to the community and the black lives matter efforts. >> reporter: he's on the board of the oakland african-american chamber of commerce resiliency front to assist many black businesses that did not get federal pandemic relief funds. >> that is why i would encourage everybody to purchase african american ale. >> i asked him about george floyd who was killed a

. >> elson barber on the ground for us in alabama. thank you. of elected leaders wanting to act like leaders is the biggest head scratcher to me during this pandemic, but so it goes. >> they made it political. they made it an us versus them. it's owning the libs if you're a die-hard conservative. i heard that a number of times. >> i don't get it. >> i have been yelled at for saying wear a mask. what are you talking about? you're a tool of the government. you're a sheep. it's wild. there was a city council meeting, i think, in california where a woman went through a whole litany, it's online. i'll text it to you later. you can find it online. a litany of reasons why she thought she should not wear a mask. really interesting. >>> anyway, california's governor is defending the state's reopening in spite an increase in cases and hospitalizations there. before before reopening and after, there have been steady increases in cases across the great state of california. but four counties in particular have seen sudden increases since reopening. including

nbc news correspondent elson barber joins us from springdale, arkansas, where tyson food has its headquartersring dale, where we are, it's actually part of two counties. washington and benton counties. together, those two counties currently have over 1700 active cases of covid-19. tyson's food as far as we know, so there are kind of three big companies that operate the different poultry plants in northwest arkansas. as far as we know, tyson foods is the only company of those three to do any sort of large-scale on-site covid testing of their employees. and the employees we have spoken to, say they that testing they had go across ten facilities in nerk arkansas, it's the first time they have been tested by their place of work since the pandemic began. as you said, 95% of the cases tyson found were asymptomatic. because of that, workers we have spoken to say they do not feel safe going into work right now. they want the plants to temporarily close and go through some sort of extended sanitation process before they're brought back to work. the governor of arkansas said he does not feel that is ne