when it came to the economy, the scales tipped to trump's favor we have more from jennifer johnson. >> reporter: from hundreds and thousands expected at the south dakota state fair to beach goers marking the official end of summer americans are celebrating this labor day holiday weekend health officials are fearing another spike in covid-19 cases. similar to what happened after memorial day and the fourth of july holidays. as they see americans growing weary of the virus >> people willingness to comply with the simple things we know can reduce spread will start to fray >> reporter: america's covid-19 death toll is approaching 190,000 people president trump said a vaccine could be out by the end of the year if not sooner are his democrat opponents aren't buying it. >> i think we have learned that this pandemic started but really before this that there's little we can trust >> reporter: the president facing backlash over the pandemic and reports he denigrated american troops who died in war calling them suckers and losers one white house official defended the president >> this president

but when it comes to his handling of the pandemic just 38% approved our jennifer johnson is in d.c. with more. >> reporter: from hundreds of thousands expected at the south dakota state fair to beachgoers marking the official end of summer, americans are celebrating this labor day holiday weekend. health officials are fearing another spike in covid-19 cases, similar to what happened after memorial day and the 4th of july holidays as they see americans growing weary of the virus >> people's willingness to comply with the simple things we know can reduce spread is going o'start to fray as we head type the fall and the winter. >> reporter: america's covid-19 death toll is approaching 190,000 people president trump says acould be e year if not sooner but his democrat opponents aren't buying it >> i think that we have learned since this pandemic started but really before that that there's very little that we can trust that comes out of donald trump's mouth. >> reporter: the president facing backlash over the pandemic and reports he denigrated american troops who died in war, calling them

jennifer johnson, nbc news, washington. >>> keep counting.der from a federal judge of the u.s. census bureau this weekend. a judge has issued a temporary restraining order against the consensus bureau. a coalition got together to demand that order, to give census workers until the end of october to finish their work. the work was supposed to end in september. concern is that the new timeline could force workers to overlook communities. at stake, a lot. $1.5 trillion in funding and congressional seats based on population. another hearing is set for september 17th. >>> last night, the 100th-straight night of protests in portland. like many demonstrations, things are peaceful until late in even thing. that's when some protesters allegedly threw molotov cocktails and other things at officers. they then moved in and deployed teargas and arresting people. the clash came after hundreds of people gathered to honor a conservative activist killed in portland last weekend. the memorial for aaron j. danielson was held at a park in vancouver, washington,

here's nbc's jennifer johnson. >> reporter: house speaker nancy pelosi laying flowers outside the u.sg pelosi vowing to stop president trump from filling ginsburg's seat before the election possibly stalling the nomination with a new impeachment hearing against the president or attorney general william barr. >> we have our options. we have arrows in our quiver that i'm not about to discuss right now. >> reporter: the president says he will submit his pick to senate majority leader mitch mcconnell this week and it will be a woman. democrats are calling mcconnell a hypocrite after he blocked president obama's supreme court pick for over nine months. >> they made a new precedent and that new precedent, which they all defended incredibly passionately is to wait for the next president. >> reporter: president trump cheered on by supporters say it is his duty to fill the vacancy but already republican senator susan collins and lisa murkowski have released statements saying the process should be delayed until after november 3rd. others disagree. >> if the shoe were on the other foot and the d

here's nbc's jennifer johnson. >> reporter: house speaker nancy pelosi laying flowers outside the u.s. supreme court. pelosi vowing to stop president trump from filling ginsburg's seat before the election, possible stalling the nomination with a new impeachment hearing against the president or attorney general william barr. >> we have our options. we have arrows in our quiver that i'm not about to discuss right now. >> the president said he will submit his picks to mitch mcconnell this week and it will be a woman. democrats are calling mitch mcconnell a hip contract. >> they made a new precedent, and that new precedent which they all defended incredibly passionately is to wait for the next president. >> fill that seat! fill that seat. >> reporter: president trump says it's his duty to fill the vacancy. but susan collins andd statements saying the process should be delayed. others disagree. >> if the shoe were on the other foot and the democrats had the white house and the senate, they would right now be trying to confirm a member of the supreme court. >> conservative judges amy coney

johnson, should a face mask, face covering cover the nose as well as the mouth? 0ne a nswer nose as well as the mouth? 0ne answer from each of you? chris? both. jennifer?. i think that is breaking the rule of six and afraid. these are eight people meeting, despite having social distancing. i don't think this is allowed. chris, you are nodding. it is in breach of the magic number of six, so it is six now indoors or outdoors, groups of six maximum. so if you have eight people then actually you are in breach, so in theory if you were in a group of six and you bump into two friends even with physical distancing, you should really urge them to move on or some of you should disperse away so you are now in a new group of six people but you are not in a group of eight, because they are trying to reduce mass gathering type aggregations of people, because this is how viruses spread, because people tend to let their guard down more in big groups and you have less ability to do consistent physical distancing when you are in bigger groups, which is why that guidance stands. jennifer, quickly, it is six months since this nightmare really began. then the message was