cynthia mcfadden, nbc news, kampala, uganda. >> a reality check for the entire world >>> up next for us, simone biles looking ahead to the olympics. >>> start the countdown. the tokyo olympics now just 100 days out. the cherry blossoms are blooming in tokyo. a sign summer and the olympics are just around the corner. but pulling them off will be a monumental challenge. covid infections are on the rise in tokyo, prompting new restrictions and japan's vaccine rollout has lagged when the games kick off, there will be strict safety measures in place including a ban on foreign fans. gymnastics superstar simone biles says that's okay with her >> it's going to be very different but it's still worth it because we've all trained so hard. >> reporter: now 24, somehow biles has only gotten better since rio. >> i'm like can i do it again can i be this good and can i repeat what i did last year, last time, last olympics? and i feel like that's what motivates me. >> reporter: she's just one of many team usa athletes expected to dominate. >> katie ledecky, who won four golds in rio, she has a chance

here's cynthia mcfadden >> reporter: jamelle brown makes $13.77 an hour, cleaning a very busy emergency department at this hospital in kansas city, missouri >> i'm not greedy. i just want to get by. >> reporter: covid has made it particularly difficult this year with some workers he says quitting out of fear so you were working especially hard? >> yes, ma'am. >> reporter: on his feet all day, risking his own health but not making enough to rent an apartment, he crashes at his sister's and talks to us from his car. did you get a bonus for that extra hard work >> we didn't get nothing. >> reporter: nothing >> nothing we didn't get hazard pay. we didn't get a bonus. >> reporter: what he did get was covid. when he got back to work, they made him employee of the month and gave him a $6 voucher to the cafeteria. >> it felt like a slap in the face. >> reporter: while jamelle got no bump in his salary, new federal filings reveal hca healthcare, which owns the hospital, gave its ceo, samuel hazen, a 13% raise, bringing him to a whopping $30 million a year over 500 times the average hca worker an

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they're a very brave bunch. >> reporter: for "the news," i'm cynthia mcfadden. >> incredible work 40ell, two doormen have been fired. it happened today for not immediately helping an asian woman attacked on a manhattan sidewalk this is the surveillance video of the brutal assault. it happened on the 29th of march, broad daylight, middle of the city the victim, a 65-year-old filipina on her way to church. you see one of the doormen shuts the door as the woman lay on the ground the other standing by watching along with a deliveryman the brodsky organization, which owns the building, released a statement today saying the doormen did help the victim but only after the attacker left they say they fired them for not following emergency and safety protocols. the union weighing in saying the doormen planned to file a grievance, but that process n could take weeks or even months. >>> could history repeat itself in california? a recall election for governor newsom and now word another celebrity could be eyeing a move to the mansion >>> and nasa sent it hundreds of millions of miles to mars on

. >>> an nbc news exclusive, cynthia mcfadden's trip to africa for a firsthand look at the global race to stop the spread of the coronavirus, the challenges they need to overcome >>> coming up, the adorable never before seen photo of prince philip with seven of the grandchildren as the military rehearses ahead of saturday's funeral. >> we'll have much from windsor castle but first a check of your local news, weather and these messages feeling sluggish or weighed down? it could be a sign that your never before seen photo of prince philip with his wife the queen and seven of their great grandchildren as the military reverses ahead of saturday's funeral. >> we'll have much more in a live report from windsor castle. first on a wednesday morning a check of your local news and weather and these messages to promote healthy blood sugar levels. so you can feel lighter and more energetic metamucil. support your daily digestive health. and try metamucil fiber thins. a great tasting and easy way to start your day. no one likes living with a broken phone. (vo) you broke your phone. so verizon broke

robert mcfadden, also former ncis special agent and co-case agent for the ncis/fbi investigation of the "u.s.s. cole" bombing. if we can go back to the beginning, i'd like to ask you, when were you first notified about the bombing, and what did you hear and learn initially? >> so, if you go back on, 12th was a thursday, and i was actually stationed in naples, italy, at the time, and was doing criminal investigations at the time, and major case response. so, the first call i got was to come back to the office, and told that there had been an explosion on "the cole." that it was hazy what the information was coming out. people were saying that it was a refueling accident, that the fuel going into the ship had actually exploded in some way. and the initial photos we were seeing actually from cnn showed that that was not the case at all from the way that the damage looked. so that was my initial information. and then i was told to get ready, that myself and my co-team leader in naples would then be flying within the next 24 hours to aden, yemen, to begin on the ship. >> agent mcfadden, were

. >> this is miss mcfadden. >> black people moved out of the south to escape racism and they moved toern cities where there is no racism. >> there were so much racism. the north aor the middle west north buying into the narrative that they are far more superior in terms of character and tolerance, we call it midwest nice. you are doing raciist af. >> it was a series of maps that was produced by the federal government. they did signatureurveys of neighborhoods. everybody black pretty much concentrated in this area. they made a distinction of where the black people live. no other ethnic groups. the exist of the blackness devalued these spaces. that's what you are seeing. it is by design, this was intentional. so we can point to a legacy of like systematic inequality. >> when you see this on a map like this, racism is not a feeling but it is an institution. >> this seems like good a time as any to define the word racism. racism is hating someone based on their skin color. i have black relatives who are racist. hating someone or treating someone poorly because of skin color is prejudice.

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women like sybrina fulton, leslie mcfadden. last week a few of them gathered to speak out and embrace katy wright, the mother of daunte white who was shot and killed by a police officer during a traffic stop in minneapolis a couple of weeks ac. one of those mothers offered these words of comfort from one grieving mer to another. >> you are not in this alone. we are here. we are here for you. as these mothers reached out to you, i reach out to you. i embrace you. i empower you. i hold you in my heart because i know what it is you're going through. you don't know which way to turn. you don't know who to listen to. but pray. pray to god. he will guide your footsteps. >> amen. >> in my son's case, i didn't get a case in court. only a departmental trial. i fight so hard. i don't only fight for my child. i fight for everyone's child because -- [ applause ] >> that could be any one of yours any day. >> gwen carr the mother of eric garner, killed in 2014 when a new york city police officer put him in a chokehold while arresting him on

we'll bring nbc senior investigative correspondent cynthia mcfadden in right there. to this device. some of them with profound autism they're on the device 24 hours a day, when they sleep, when they shower advocates say it helps control them, that they can better control themselves so they don't harm themselves or others. i began reporting on this facility back in 2007 and wanted to know how painful the shock, the skin shock was they hooked me up to the device, and i can tell you, it hurt. it really hurts. i asked the founder, dr. matthew israel about that. he said, to work, it has to hurt now, the price tag is $275,000 per person, per year we're going to show you some things that you may find disturbing take a look. this is the only place in the world that uses a therapy on children with disabilities, many with severe autism, that the u.n. has called torture. they've been doing it 30 years. >> the abuse is happening every single day. >> reporter: human rights lawyer eric rosenthal is outraged. >> people tied down screaming, "stop, stop, it hurts, please stop." you d

>> this is serita mcfadden, a milwaukee native, writer, and new york city english professor. about the racial history of this city. >> people believe that black people moved out of the south to escape racism and then they moved to these northern cities where there was no racism. >> there was so much racism. >> yeah, exactly. >> with hilarisad. >> i never heard that word but i think i knew exactly what you meant. or sadlarious. >> sadlarious. the north or middle west north buys into this narrative that they are somehow far more superior in terms of character and tolerance. if we call it midwest nice. >> i was going to say that. yeah, yeah. >> but there's this like veneer of like, i'm not in my heart racist. but you're doing shit that's racist a.f. let's just go with why the city has the shape that it does. so this map is from 1937. it's what they call a security map. but in common parlance we call it a redlining map. >> okay. >> it was a series of maps that were produced by the federal government. they did these surveys in kind of like neighborhood appraisals to determine wher

also robert mcfadden cookies agent for the and see i.s., fbi investigation of the uss cole bobbing. if we can go back to the beginning i would like to ask you when were you first motive fight about the bombing in with you here initially? >> so if you go back. october 12th whiskey thursday and i was stationed in naples, italy at the time, and was doing criminal investigations at the time, and major case response. so the first call that i got was to come back to the office. i was told that there had been an explosion on the cool. it was he easy, the information coming out. so people were saying that it was a refueling accident. the fuel going into the ship have exploded in some way. in the initial photos we were seeing from cnn show that that was not the case at all. from the way that the damage looked. that was the initial information. i was told to get ready. myself and my co-team leader enables would then be flying within the next 24 hours to begin on the ship. >> were you in the region at the time? i know you have been there for a while. >> i was not. i had just left a tour with t

. >>> we got a good one tomorrow cynthia mcfadden has the story of three young women in the unlikelyys club, we'll find that out tomorrow on "today." >>> let's get to your news at 8:00 the national guard has been mobilized in minnesota, where a police shooting yesterday led to a night of protests and clashes. it happened outside of minneapolis, where the former officer accused of murdering george floyd is currently on trial. nbc's gabe gutierrez joins us with the latest on all of it gabe, good morning. >> reporter: savannah, good morning. with tensions already high during the derek chauvin murder trial at the courthouse behind me, now, new anger sparked when a police officer fatally shot a black man sunday during a traffic stop in brooklyn center. that's a minneapolis suburb just ten miles away from here police clashed with demonstrators, and national guard troops were brought in there was also a curfew in effect the encounter unfolded sunday afternoon when police say a man had a warrant out for his arrest, and officers tried to take him into custody. he then got back into his vehicl