harry smith introduces us to michael in our sunday spotlight. >> reporter: the great recession luredave any idea what working in the oil field was going to be like? >> it's sort of like having an idea of what going to the jungle is like. when you get there, it's a very shocking place to be. >> reporter: 37-year-old michael patrick smith was a greenhorn with a green hard hat. he wrotewrites about it. >> they smoked, chewed dip, they sweat and cursed. when they saw my green hard hat, they identified me as a [ bleep ]. >> reporter: he was on the low end of a steep learning curve. he found himself in the middle of the great american divide. red and blue, urban and rural. >> the resources are being extracted in these rural areas. they are being spent to the urban areas. that leads to resentment that country folk feel for city folk. >> reporter: he found men willing to endure most anything to get a paycheck. to restore their sense of dignity. >> the desperation etched on people's faces and becoming one of them. i learned how rough it was and how strong people are and how much people are wi

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. >>> then from matt damon to harry smith. onversation with, get this, the so-called happiest man on earth. he's got some amazing wisdom to offer that will make us all a little grateful for what we have, no matter where we are in life. >> i love that. >>> coming up on the third hour, we'll have more from cleveland our "reopening america" series continues. >> that's right, guys. this morning, nba star kevin love will tell us all about the changes he's seeing in cleveland, and he's also going to open up his mission away from the court to erase the stigma surrounding mental health. if you'd like to send us your videos and pictures about how your town is reopening america, use the hashtag reopening america today. >> love that. >> better get on the road here all of us want to. >> we are. >>> get excited, kids. tomorrow is a big one. >> who >> country king luke bryan is joining us with big news to share. he's about to take a very big stage. we'll talk about that. >>> al, let's get a check of the weather real quick. >> let's check out

nbc's harry smith joins us with more hey, harry, good morning. >> it's hard to imagine a neighborhoodood would exchange 12 times before it came back out again what happened there was so hei heinous, so racist that it was really literally swept under the rug and well-hidden for decades, hard to comprehend what happened there, unless of course you lived it on june 1st, 1921, 9-year-old eldoris was awakened by her mother what her mother said next she never forgot. >> she said we have to go out, get out. she said the white people are killing the colored people. >> eldoris agree up in the greenwood area of tulsa, a buoyant, bustling community of some 10,000 african-americans. there were schools, churches, stores, theaters, and a hospital. >> it was a place where for african-americans the american dream was working. >> scott ellsworth is a tulsa native he's been searching for the truth of what happened here most of his life, reporting his findings in a new book t"the ground breaking". >> something happens in an elevator in an office building in downtown tulsa between a 19-year-old shoe shin

our friend and colleague harry smith traveled to tulsa for a revealing look back. >> reporter: on juneaid we have to go out, get out. she said, "the white people are killing the other people." >> reporter: el dorous grew up in the greenwood area of tulsa, a buoyant, bustling community of some 10,000 african-americans. there were schools, churches, stores, theaters and a hospital. >> it was a place where for african-americans, the american dream was working. >> reporter: scott is a tulsa native. he's been searching for the truth about what happened for most of his life, reporting his findings in his new book "the groundbreaking." >> something happened in an elevator in downtown tulsa between a 19-year-old shoeshiner named dick roland and 17-year-old white elevator operator named sarah page. >> reporter: a scream from page leans to roland's arrest the next day. and then a lynch mob gathered outside the house where he's jailed. >> the mob gets large, 500, 800 people. >> reporter: and a group of black men show up to help defend him. >> as they're leading an elderly white man to a tall blac

. >> harry smith with one remarkable story tomorrow on "today." >>> how about, dylan, a check of theere is a lot going on. i'll break it down for you first, at 5:44 tomorrow morning, we have got a lunar eclipse. you'll only really be able to see it west of the rockies that's when the earth kind of blocks the sunshine to the moon, so it appears reddish in color as it casts that shadow. then an hour or so later, at 7:14, we have the moon passing and making its closest pass to earth. the full moon looks bigger, about 7% bigger than a regular moon we have a lunar eclipse and a full super moon all happening overnight into early tomorrow morning. >> what's the flower part? >> the flower is because every month names their new moon >> super flower. >> see >> something fun if you want to peek at that later tonight it'll be nice and clear up and down the east coast. least the super moon again, west of the rockies, where we have clear skies to see that lunar eclipse in the middle of the country, you have clouds and rain and also the chance of stronger storms today that's a l >>> good morning. i

let's break down vice president harris's first 100 days with jamil smith, senior correspondent at voxdon't even begin to know where to begin in terms of things she is crossing off or has crossed off. what to you is the biggest to-do item of the first 100 days that she has gotten done? >> the i don't know if it's about getting things done. i think 100 days is a bit of an artificial marker that we in the media love to set so that we can measure some sort of progress. but a hundred days isn't even a baseball season. we're talking about major things that need to be getting done right now. i think what vice president harris has done, effectively, is shown that the job can be done, not only by a woman, not just by a woman of african-american and south asian descent but these particular qualities that have made her successful in politics can be put to use from that position. she's concentrated not just on the triangle countries but also on domestic priorities. i see her talking about, you know, water inequity. i see her talking about poverty in new england. various different things that go a

introduced a measure called combat sexual harassment in science act and senator smith of minnesota originally cast by senator harris i would like your commitment to support at least the goal of the legislation to and harassment to be incorporated. >> you have my enthusiastic support and commitment to those goals. they are extremely important. there are many approaches we have to take two and that. >> also introduced a measure supporting early career researchers act to give americans stem researchers who are just beginning in their field, especially women and traditionally upper on - - under representative minorities, more opportunity in the world of science in particular. because of the impact of covid it was a establish a new postdoctoral fellowship program for the stand talent in one of my colleagues klobuchar is joining in this effort we lose valuable talent because of the potential obstacles and inequality for certain minority. so again i ask for your support for this kind of effort for this legislation. >> i commit to that. i have been very interested. as a former prosecutor and a litigator with your work on f

join sandra smith and me at the top of the hour for "america reports." >> harris: a frustrated parentpened at a school board meeting in virginia, watch. >> in the words of martin luther king jr., i have a dream that my children will one day be in a nation where they will be judged not by the color of their skin but the content of their character. i have a dream that we will implement love, not hate. crt is not a dialogue, it's a tactic used on slavery many years ago to dumb down my ancestors so we cannot think for ourselves. crt is abusive, it's racist, it discriminates against one color. let me educate you. an honest dialogue does not commit hatred or injustice. it's to communicate without deceiving people. we don't need your agreement, we want action. what we asked for today is to ban crt. think twice before you indoctrinate the such racist theory. you cannot tell me what is or is not racist. look at me. i had to come down here to tell you to your face that we are coming together and we are strong, this will not be the last. respectfully. >> harris: and that's our show, ladies and g

smith. he the director of marketing here at hurricane harbor. how are you feeling? >> harris step over here in the sunlight a little bit. a little bit back actually. >> how are you be able to open after. >> nearly a year and a half. yeah, we're thrilled after year and a half and it's really things like the ambient noise, the water splashing the chlorine smell in the air. it's the excitement and it just speaks that we are going to be opening for the first time since october of 2019. so we're fired up. >> yes. so what should people know? obviously when you're slide, you don't have to wear a mask, but you should put it on afterwards, which. >> i have my mask over their opened on sunday night. your if you're participating in a water attraction like you just did. share. you have to wear. you don't have to wear your mask but everything else. if you're walking from point a to point have to wear your mask over your nose just like we do. and in other places, you'll also be required to wear your mask upon entry into the park. >> and even in the wave pool, you don't have to wear a mask.

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harris did meet with george floyd's family today. can america get its act together rebuild trust between civilians and police and the communities they serve customers the party panel is back, karol markowicz, dave smithd was discussed and outrage over the murder of george floyd. what i thought my fellows but libertarians have been asking for for a long time, that was criminal justice reform. and smart ways of retraining cops and how they interact with their communities to make things safer and better for everyone involved. that is not happen. >> no. instead we got was rich neighborhoods which generally have lower crime, defining police force from poor neighborhoods with have higher crime. it is really been a disaster for everybody. we spent a year demonizing police officers. something we do not due to any other group there's a small segment of the group commits an offense we do not blame the entire group like we did the police. we've seen the repercussions of that special in places like new york city where crime is gone up so significantly. on the defend police movement which began again and these rich areas continues to take hold. i think it is an ongoing problem to bluer people to the police field

harris. there is a direct correlation between education and public safety. thank you so much, this meeting is adjourned. >> clerk: thank you. >> today's special guest is sherisse dorsey smith. she's the director of program grants for the department of children, youth, and families, and she's here to talk about the learning grants, and she's the project lead. miss dorsey smith, well come to the show. >> thank you, chris, for having me. >> can we talk about the learning hubs in general. what it is, who it's designed for, and why it's so important during this pandemic. >> yes, definitely. so the community hub initiative was created to offer support for distance learning. we wanted to ensure that young people, their basic nutrition needs were met, that they had access to wifi and digital devices, and they were able to engage with their peers in a safe environment. the community hub initiative or c.h.i., as we like to refer to it, supports our most vulnerable youth. our priority population was to focus on youth that lived in public housing, youth in s.r.o.s or in foster care or homeless, and maria su, our director, likes to say to give kids the golden key, but to focus on our a