steve patterson is outside an emergency room in burbank.

these ballots are missing you saw patterson, new jersey. you saw many other instances. there's tremendous litigation on that right now. that does not include absentee. absentees different. you have to send in four applications and go through a whole procedure. for example, i'm an absentee voter because i can't be in florida because i will be in the white house. i will be an absentee voters. we have a lot of absentee voters. it works. we're in favor for absentee, but it's much different than millions of people. in california, there will be sending tens of millions of voting forms. where will they go? you're reading that postman are

. >> last month patterson wrote a letter calling for an audit.>> we need to get the attention of them to clean up their act now. but we are also going to have to get how the auditors involve it so we can fix the long-term problem. >> patterson points out that a 2011 audit found that the department failed to meet acceptable performance levels.>> from 2011 to this very day, the edd is still quote unquote planning to get their technology in order >> edd says it's working to process claims and is hiring 4000 more people. >>> a bleak situation for california despite early action with new coronavirus cases skyrocketing, bay area residents are now rushing to get tested. >>> a big jump in coronavirus cases last week of the most troubling part so far there is no sign of a slowdown.>> here are the latest numbers, california reported more than 5600 new cases with the average rate of people who tested positive in the last seven days of 7%, hospitalization rates also went up to a record 50%. we're live and hayward were hundreds lined up to get tested after the holiday weekend.>> reporter: this sit

our steve patterson is there. steve, this has been moving very quickly today. >> reporter: lester, protesters held this six-block area for more than three weeks. their encampment was dismantled in less than a day this morning the mayor ordered officers to retake the capitol hill protest zone. there were 30 arrests. but little in the way of violence. chop was created when the city ordered officers to abandon the east precinct on june 8th protesters declaring it a police-free zone. the mayor is facing intense backlash for not moving in sooner the police chief had called chop lawless and brutal after a series of shootings where two teenagers were killed. tonight, protesters say they plan to march across the city with police bracing for any sign of retaliation. lester >> steve patterson in seattle tonight, thanks. >>> in 60 seconds, elijah mcclain's father speaks out about the death of his son after a violent encounter with police. >>> back now with the father of elijah mcclain speaking out for the first time since a

steve patterson, nbc news >>> up next, is there bias in the courtroom before the jury is even seated? >>> we turn now to our series inequality in america. a new study finds issues of systemic bias during jury selection in california in the very system that promises to be fair and balanced. here's miguel almaguer. >> reporter: tonight the demand for change is stretching beyond law enforcement and into the courtroom where nationwide black people are convicted at higher rates. >> they're prosecuted more they're arrested more. they're punished more. and very few people who look like them actually sit in judgment of them. >> reporter: brendan woods, the chief public defender, says it all begins with bias during jury selection. >> i have an african-american woman in our office here who has tried over 20 cases and she can count the number of black jurors she's had on her jury in one hand. >> reporter: discrimination is illegal, but peremptory challenges allow the prosecution and defense to dismiss potential jurors without any cause, while either side has the right to object to strikes that a

the man's account shocked the community and sparked protests here's steve patterson with the story. >> reporter: growing outrage in indiana after an alleged attack caught on camera >> let him go, dude. let him go >> reporter: video captured by a bystander posted by fox booker appears to show him pinned to a tree by white men in what he describes as an attempted lynching >> it was the most disturbing situation. >> reporter: the have you had yo does not capture what led up to the incident and nbc news hat has not identified others in the interview. the men confronted them saying he was trespassing >> there's a moment where a woman yells for him not to kill me and i realized that she's talking about killing me >> reporter: booker says he was beaten and verbally assaulted with racist speech >> you nappy headed [ bleep ]. >> reporter: one of the men yelled "get a noose. the alleged comment wasn't caught on video. his account shocked the community. >> i've known mr. booker for several years. to see what could be seen on that video was nauseating and aggravating and heartwrenching >> we gath

correspondent steve patterson with us from burbank, california, and steve, talk us through the kind of case history of what happened in california for people who haven't followed the plot line and are we looking at still, again, more cases where reopening will be rescinded and a lockdown put back in place? >> reporter: well, brian, for everybody here i think there's a history about the beginning of this virus to where we are now because it's so dramatic turnaround this state has seen, back if march, you know, when the first stay-at-home order was issued across the country, there was sort of a widespread view that this state was doing everything right, and by all respects, a lot of messaging from the governor, from state and local officials saying, wear masks, stay indoors, stay-at-home orders stuck in people's minds, but then as time went on and cases declined, there came that moment where the governor said we bent the curve and they started opening businesses back up, from that point, we have seen in more states, as ambulances roll into this hospital, where cases started spiking early

>> steve, thanks. >> steve patterson, thank you. joining the conversation, two of our good friends, axios reporter and dr. irwin redlener from colombia university. i want to start with california. they had a stay at home order in place for a long time. what is happening in california, can it all be attributed to human behavior, failing to wear masks and social distancing? >> hi, nicolle. there are a lot of factors, before i mention those, keep in mind, if there are 12,000 new cases, as the reporter steve was discussing, multiply that by ten. it has been repeatedly stated by experts that confirmed number, test confirmed number of 12,000 is no more than 10% of the actual total number. we're talking 120,000 cases, new cases in california. why is that happening? i think we had a rush to reopen, had too many people not following the rules, we have people instead of following health rules are following the horrendous example of the president of the united states. all of these things come together. people on the beaches without masks and d

they're calling it the patterson fire this fire has burned almost 40 acres and the wind is pushing the smoke from this fire into fremont union city and newark if you're in those areas and that's what you're seeing. this is the reason. the smoke is so thick in the area that we have learned at least one business is closing because of the conditions that patel co credit union in fremont it's encouraging their customers to visit other locations. we're also going out to west for an where there's a grass fire burning, here's a look now at the smoke from near white gulch this is view that we're seeing now is coming to us from a camera on barnum will peak. this fire is within the boundaries of the point reyes national seashore lot of fires burning it out there right now it's let's get the latest on the weather conditions with our chief meteorologist lawrence karnow we know it's super dry out there we can see that that's helping the fire spread so quickly but what are the wind conditions like right now that's something firefighters are going to need to know, yeah and the winds are picking up we

we want people to come and have a great time going to totally change the playing field jesse patterson is with keep tahoe blue patterson says the main focus during the 4th holiday is keeping visitor trash off of the beaches and lakes however many of those resources have been dispersed because of the pandemic now more than ever patterson says people need to respect their natural surroundings so we're asking everybody to be a tahoe blue good or just means clean up after yourself an even better than you found it. whether it's spreading garbage or a virus locals like loughlin's are pleading for people to show respect to the area and its residents we have to social distance whether we like it or not that's not the choice we have to. >>so we need to leave these people where they are and they need to leave us alone as well dan mclaughlin also telling me that he is seen more and more people who normally just live up here part time living up here full time at least temporarily for last 3 or 4 months, not wanting to go back to their homes in bigger cities where they could possibly more easily co

steve patterson, public health officials in arizona are now giving residents a reality check. they're speaking out against governor ducey and what he has done. >> reporter: yeah, we'll get to that in a second, but andrea, there is breaking news overnight, arizona just updated their numbers, they added 3,600 plus new cases, meaning a total of more than 105,000, up from 101,000 yesterday. new deaths now total 65 overnight. the total there is 1,900, now close to 2,000 deaths in this state. i spoke to the public health director last night. they were concerned about the direction of the state, specifically the increase in the number of cases we've seen since the may 15 stay-at-home order lapsed. governor ducey, as we all know, let that lapse, and let businesses reopen in a very fast fashion. we saw bars open, nightclubs open, restaurants open, malls open, all really at once. the health department says they were accounting for some spike in the number of cases as things kind of settled out, but what they didn't count on in this state were people just simply not paying attention, dis

steve patterson, we heard a second ago or mentioned dr.auci said some of the states where hot spots are need to consider shutting down. is that even under consideration in arizona? >> reporter: i had the director of public health of arizona on the phone the other night, i asked that question directly to her. she said yes, that is an option on the table. it is not as if they're completely negating another stay at home order. they're relying on messaging, relying on outreach. they said that would be a last case scenario. they would like to exhaust all other options before they go there. you know, i asked if this is all about social distancing, this is all about things we heard from the federal government from the beginning, why not do it now because anything you could lags another two weeks. and they said they're sticking to that. we'll see if the strategy works, but it's not looking good right now. >> there were studies done in new york, they found if we shut down a week or two earlier, thousands of lives would have been saved. a week or tw

. >> reporter: california assemblyman jim patterson is joining salon owners in calling on governor newsom to temporarily waive a state law. it prevents hairdressers, barbers, manicurists and cosmetologists from providing services outside a licensed establishment. >> governor, you got to pay attention to this and fix it. >> reporter: patterson cites that the department of alcoholic beverage control was allowed to waive regulations in order to serve outdoors. salon owners say in the absence of this option, they are struggling. >> we are not able to pay our bills. >> reporter: the professional beauty foundation of california says the request would not be limited to haircuts and could include mantuicures, pedicures, and waxing services. >> allow the beauty professional to get creativity on the best ways that they can perform their services. >> reporter: bay area residents seem to think it's a good idea within reason. >> the way the wind's been blowing, there could be quite a hair storm. >> we have to do it responsibly. if we ever want to get back to some kind of normalcy. >> reporter: in an e

let's turn now to my nbc news colleagues, carol lee at the white house, steve patterson at phoenix andriscilla thompson in houston. carol, i want to start with you, the president is saying that we are going to reopen no matter what, he's claiming baselessly that the democrats want to keep schools closed, to politically hurt him. it sounds like the reality of this pandemic is not making it through the oval office. >> well, katie, it's a similar argument that we heard the president make just on reopening in general. early on when he was -- the focus was on the virus and then he wanted to shift to the economy and reopening, he talked about the reopenings in that same way, blaming democratic governors for not reopening fast enough, really putting pressure on state and local officials to do what he wanted them to do, which was reopen. and you saw in his remarks today he praised governor desantis in florida who is saying all schools are going to open this fall, saying that that was the right decision, even though florida is one of the hot spots and they don't know where that state will be at

we want to begin with nbc's steve patterson. he is in los angeles. steve, good morning. >> reporter: good morning. the u.s. has now recorded more than a thousand cases four days in a row, as this virus continues ravaging hospitals and hot spots across the country. this morning, health officials and in hot spots around the country are bracing for the worst, calling states like california, florida, texas, and arizona the next new york. >> we have to change our behavior now, before this virus completely muse baoves back up h the north. >> reporter: as the cases of hospitalizations spike. >> definitely makes the day-to-day difficult, as health care workers, not knowing, when is the end? >> reporter: this week, california surpassed new york in total cases and had its own highest single-day death toll back to back. in texas, hospital workers say they're at a breaking point. >> in a perfect storm, we've had six nurses die, two doctors die. four hours ago, i was putting a chest tube in a nurse i've known for 30 years and putting them on life support. >> repo

this is ryan patterson. i appreciate that. i would direct the commissioner to slide 6, the certificate of final completion issued for the project for two units which have always been there and continue to remain a second unit. then at the end, slide number 10, which senior inspector paul ortiz came out to the project two years ago to look at and found this wiring in the down stairs kitchen date stamped march 11, 2005. we know the unit reconfiguration was done and part of the cfc. our compromise proposal preserves the tenant's ability to remain in place until the time they decide to leave and preserves mr. roddick's ability to have an ada elevator and live out the rest his days on his property with his family. thank you for your time and i'm happy answer any questions. >> commissioner moore. >> looking at the project and the commission has taken on similar cases the owner indeed had intended to sell the building. i believe the building should be constructed to its original two-unit configuration with the poss

joined now from scottsdale, arizona, by steve patterson. steve, it only took two weeks there for cases to reach 100,000 and double. how are folks there responding? >> 101 -- the number arizona adding another 3300 plus cases overnight. so if the question is how are people reacting, i mean we're in a business district. you know, been talking to some of the owners here, it's a little bit slow because we're coming off a holiday weekend, but i say, if i've seen 100 people, i think i've seen maybe ten people wearing masks. maybe less. this is obviously a crisis. people are aware of it, but i think the mentality here is that since that stay at home order lifted back in may, is that people have just simply moved on. there are many, many people on the ground here including politicians in places of power, running cities, who say that is a mistake. icu beds are at 99% capacity. normal hospital beds, 84% capacity. ventilators at crisis levels. the curve needs to be flattened here. it is simply not happening in this state. so we spoke to one woman who w

new a look at patterson, jersey. a small city in new jersey. something like 20% of the ballots were or something happened with them. 20%. 2016 election, 1% are in question. but i don't want to talk about that one -- i e don't want anybody going back and looking, all right? about going to talk 2016. that was the greatest election, and now we have to do something very important. to keep it going, or big, bigntry will be in trouble. pla [applause] >> chris, you're the one, watch chris, will you? watch that, chris, okay? you've got to speak to the man what andles it, you know i'm talking about. got to do it, chris, in good hands. uperintendent richard woods, richard, thank you very much. thank you. and members of the georgia service commission and the state senate, and house transportation committee, has a of politicians in this room, and really good luck to karen and rich. out and go get them. today's part of my committed to , slashing the web of what's holding things back. day one.to do this on it takes a long time, you have requirements, you hav

craig, back to you. >> steve patterson for us there in arizona. thank you. >>> let's go from arizona to florida. the largest county in florida now rolling back its reopening as cases continue to spike there. late monday the mayor of miami-dade announcing that starting tomorrow restaurants will be limited to just takeout and delivery once again. gyms, short-term vacation rentals and party venues and other businesses also having to shut down once again. nbc's catie beck is in miami-dade county. she's on the miracle mile strip in coral gables, a popular shopping and outdoor eating area. catie, what was the biggest factor behind this move by the mayor of miami-dade? and how are owners, business owners there and folks reacting? >> reporter: craig, the biggest factor by far is this massive surge in cases. in just a week's time, 60,000 new reported cases of coronavirus in the state of florida. those alarming numbers also spilling over into hospitalizations, worry about icu bed availability in hospitals, those are the driving factors. the response for the

also with us, robert patterson, professor of african-american studies at georgetown university.ructive desires, rhythm and blues culture and the politics of racial equality. good to see you again. nicole, thank you for being back with us. nicole, you wrote about reparations and the fact that it's time for american to pay its bill and you offered your view of what reparations look like. can you share that with us? >> yes. so, the piece that i wrote is called what is owed. and it really looks at this idea that for 350 years black americans were legally denied the ability to accumulate wealth and for 250 years the ability to even have an income. and that almost every disparity that we looked that. this country can be related in some ways to the economic status of black americans. black americans and indigenous people have the highest rates of poverty, the lowest wealth. black people have about t$10 of wealth for $100 of wealth that white americans have. i argue that the decision not to make up for centuries of economic exploitation has led black americans to so much of the inequali

that's steve patterson joining us from phoenix.the pandemic continues, questions remain about how it might affect the lex. mail-in voting could become a necessity for millions of americans who won't be able to vote in person safely. our panel is back to discuss it. let me start with you. president trump tweeted about that saying the 2020 election will be totally rigged if mail-in voting is allowed to take place. it sounds like he's kind of sewing the seeds of not concede fg he loses which we'll discuss later a little bit further on, but how do you see this strategy of kind of sewing doubts about the election before the election? >> well, he was sewing those doubts before he thought he was going to lose in 2016 and then he won and had to backtrack and say i lost the popular vote because peel cheated then. this is pretty consistent and i think one thing you need to key in mind, though, is trump's actions are often very different from his idle reps and this talk of losing or contesting the election if for some reason he doesn't win is

steve patterson, thank you for that. meantime in texas, hospitalizations just hit a new all-time high and just as school reopenings are weeks away. texas schools will have in-person teaching as an option and austin is now stockpiling millions of ppe for teachers and classrooms when in-person classrooms return. priscilla thompson, dr. mark ascot with austin public health predicted that reopening schools could lead to 40 to as many as 1,300 deaths. what are you learning as austin is getting ready for this new reality of school during a pandemic? >> reporter: chris, a very stark warning he issued there. that's something schools have been thinking about for a while, how to keep students safe. i actually want to take a look. we're here at the austin isd operations center where you can see there are boxes of hand sanitizer, disposable face masks as well stacked up here. this is just a fraction of the 3r ppe that the district has gathered. i'm with linda coronado, the ace stand director of housekeeping and operations for the au

nbc's sam brock is in miami for us, nbc's steve patterson is in mission hills, california. sam, let me begin with you. give us a quick read on the situation there and how officials are responding to these staggering numbers. >> eamon, good morning. you talk about mask mandates, in south florida, that has been the case for weeks now, that cities themselves required mask mandates as the governor refused to do so, so far. in miami-dade county, where i am, about a quarter of all of the cases in florida have been recorded, they have put in restrictions on where you can eat. the question becomes at what point will there be roll-backs on gyms, salons, public spaces, even beaches. to this point, our leadership here has been reluctant to put something like that in place. in the city of miami, frances suarez met with businesses the end of last week, kind of waiting for the other shoe to drop to find out if he'll roll anything back. the cases on the screen 380,000, 5,345 fatalities, the numbers in florida seem to be surging. here is the good news, eamon. in the last couple of days, un

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nbc's steve patterson joins us from scottsdale, arizona, now. steve, good morning to you. what's the scene there in arizona? >> reporter: well, craig, you know, i'd like to be able to report to you that there's some big change in testing, but i can only report what the problem is, which is a crisis of capacity. the state, as you mentioned, was already in trouble when they had 50,000 cases over a short period. now, over the last two weeks, they've added 50,000 cases, which puts an incredible strain, as you mentioned, in the medical center. crisis levels in icus. crisis levels with regular hospital beds. crisis levels with ventilators. also, that strain filters down to testing capacity. last week, we saw an image, 3-mile long line of cars, people waiting six hours, people waiting eight hours, people waiting 13 hours to get tested. the people in the back of the line were told, "you know what, you have to go home because we've ran out of supplies." last week, the "new york times" report thad the biggest lab in the state to handle these covid testing cases got a request for 12,

we caught this parade as it passed on patterson boulevard. the pleasant hill fourth of july commission organize the event as they have every year for 4 decades. this parade honored essential workers. >>> another san quentin inmate died today from complications related to covid-19. he has been identified as--. they say they 59-year-old death row inmate past lycc at an outside hospital. he is the third inmate to die at the prison from coping complications. close to 1400 inmates and 165 present employees were confirmed to have covid-19. criminal justice advocates pointed to the recent transfer virus to spread at san quentin. >>> a public health expert is warning about rising coronavirus cases as million celebrate the fourth of july holiday. christina coleman reports florida is emerging as a hot zone.>> reporter: for many americans this holiday will be like in the other in recent memory. this weekend some bars are closed and beaches deserted. 80% of fireworks shows have been canceled as the pandemic continues to spread rapidly. >> we do see about

let's cross over to steve patterson in arizona. a state expected to hit the 100,000 case mark here. it took three months for arizona to hit 50,000 cases and just two weeks to add another 50,000. officials, obviously, taking this very seriously. what about residents there this morning? >> well, that's the life or death question, ayman. are people taking this seriously? that will determine the trajectory of the state moving forward. you can almost draw a line to this recent surge of cases directly to when the stay-at-home order ended on may 16th. since then there's been this incredible surge. 50,000 cases over the last two weeks. a lot of the blame officials are putting on people here were on people my age. 44 and younger. in may, they totaled about 40% of the positive cases. now they total about 60%. these are the same people we saw in images packing bars, nightclubs, restaurants, malls and now you get the sense broadly that even with these dramatic numbers that life in a lot of ways has come back to normal. and that bears out in talking to people on the ground here, people saying th

nbc's steve patterson joins us. i mentioned the explosion. what else can you tell us about this scary scene? >> the good news is everybody is accounted for. the 17 sailors, four civilians all sustaining according to the spokes people who are handling this, minor injuries, being treated in the hospital for those minor injuries. this was a three alarm fire accompanied and confirmed by the fire department starting off with an explosion. that happened at around 8:30 this morning. the first alarm, second alarm by 9:00. third alarm by 9:50. the crew member who is normally operate the ship are trained in fire deterrent as well as the fire department that was nearby. so them working together got the fire under control in about four hours. as you mentioned, it has been spo smoking on and off for at least four years. sometimes thick black smoke. the biggest danger now is to the other ships docked there. mainly the u.s.s. fitz jirld and u.s.s. russell. both moved out to sea away from that ship that is on fire. and the chief, the fire chief there in san

let's cross over to steve patterson in tempe, arizona, some encouraging signs this morning when it comes to the numbers in arizona, which has been a hotbed over the last couple of weeks. bring us up to speed this morning. >> reporter: it is as if the acceleration has suddenly slows down. curving down over the last few weeks or so. the hospitalization rates and icu beds, the capacity is still there, near capacity, but the numbers are trending down overall case count is still high, but the daily average that we're seeing every single day come in is starting to trend down or starting to plateau. i want to get right to the former health director for -- tell me -- i mean, how did we get to the point where the numbers are starting to at least look good and then where would you say we are as far as getting out of the woods or finding the edge of the woods at this point. >> yeah, so, what happened here is we had a really successful stay at home order and when we ended that order, we went to a fully voluntary system, pretty much everything opened at the same time and we have this big explosion in

jim patterson led the plea to governor newsom to let salons have the option to operate outdoors like the governor has allowed for other businesses, includi including allowing restaurants and wine tasting rooms to take operations outdoors. the assemblyman says they are unfairly targeted and singled out calling the financial and emotional emotional impact on them unnecessary and cruel. now, no word yet from the governor if he'll make this exception and let them perform operations outdoors. hair salons and owners say they are running out of time. if they don't get the money they need to keep businesses going they will have to shut their doors permanently. they are plead for the state for help. >> it is a difficult situation for sure. thank you, janelle. >>> a troubling turn at an east bay high school. some athletes participating in summer sports conditioning have tested positive for covid-19. the students attending brentwood high school classes that -- the classes don't start for three weeks. when it does it will be a hybrid model with some learning online and some in class. the superin

let's go to nbc news correspondent steve patterson, outside of providence, st. joseph's hospital in burbank, california. when the numbers were skyrocketing like this here in new york, the governor issued a pretty strict stay-at-home order. california has been issuing patchwork orders to try to get people to stay home. are we going to see something from the governor that is the entire state, that is more strict in order to not just flatten this curve but to bring it down? >> that's the question, i think, on the lips of everybody in this state and everybody will be watching in about an hour, is will there be more serious rollbacks, if not a complete reversal into another stay-at-home order here in california? there certainly has been signaling both by the state government and by local governments as one of the ambulances is driving behind me, that's the noise you hear. but however, the governor wants to take his time to look at the rollbacks that were just included about a week and a half ago. as you mentioned, quite a patchwork depending on where you live, but pr

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take a look at patterson, new jersey. small city in new jersey. ballots were corrupted or something happened with them. 20%. and even in the 2016 election, 1% are in question. but i don't want to talk about that one because i won so i don't want anyone going back and looking. i'm not going to talk about 2016. that was the greatest election and now we have to do something very important. we have to keep it going or this country will be in big big trouble. i want to thank also for being here georgia attorney general chris carr. you're the one, chris. watch that, chris, will you? you going to watch that, chris, please, okay? you got to speak to the man that handles it. you know what i'm talking about. got to do it. thank you, chris. it's in good hands. superintendent richard woods. richard, thank you very much. thank you. and members of the georgia public service commission of the state senate and house transportation committee, got a lot of politicians in this room and really, good luck to karen and to rich. go out and go get them. great people. tod

>> steve patterson, stay with us, over to catie beck in miami. the story there is about hospitals and more importantly icu beds, essentially hospitals there running out of them. >> reporter: that's right, ayman. they're quickly diminishing the space in icu and hospital beds across the state of florida. right now hospitals are operating at about 80% capacity in the state of florida. if you come to an area like miami-dade, more populous and hard hit by the virus, you're going to see it 90% and up at capacity. we already know there are nine hospitals in miami-dade that are at capacity right now. others are inching closer. they have seen a tremendous surge of cases here. the mayor was interviewed earlier and saying with weeks ago we were seeing between 600, 700 cases of covid-19 inside our hospitals. now that number is around 1500 cases. there is a lot of concern in this area about will we have the resources, will we have the staff and will we have the space for all of these patients that are going to be flooding in. additionally they're concerned th

you see patterson, new jersey, where i believe 20% of the vote was fraudulent. it was all sorts of things happen. i understand a mailman was recently indicted, someplace for playing games with the mail-in ballots. you will have tremendous fraud, if you do these mail-in ballots. now absent tee ballots are okay. absentee ballots you have to get applications. go through a process. i'm here, i vote in florida, you get an absentee ballot but you have to go through a process. absentee ballots are great. mail-in voting where a governor mails millions of ballots to people all over the state. california, millions and millions of ballots. they come back. they don't come back. who got them? did you forget to send them to a republican area or a democrat area i guess you could say? but if you take a look at all of the unbelievable fraud that has been involved with mail-in voting over the last, even short period -- look at patterson, new jersey. it was a massive error and a massive miscalculation and there was incredible fraud. look at the city council, what's happened to it

let's turn to nbc's steve patterson in scottsdale, arizona. good to talk to you again. cases in arizona expected to hit a new milestone today, unfortunately. what more can you tell us about that trend? >> reporter: much like where priscilla is in texas, the state of arizona is in an absolute free fall. it took three months for the state to reach 50,000 cases. it is only taking two weeks to reach that next milestone, currently we're at 98,000 cases, we're expected to reach the grim milestone of 100,000 cases today. so who is to blame? what is to blame? we have been looking at officials, local communities, the mayor of phoenix, heavily pointing the finger in a few different directions. one of them is at the governor of this state saying the tenor of the state has been set by this being one of the last states to close down. one of the first states to reopen after there is the slightest hint of a trend downward in the cases. since then we have seen bars and restaurants and malls and nightclubs open back up. another finger that was pointed was at the age group of people that

you see that patterson, new jersey, where i believe it was 20% of the vote was fraudulent.ll sorts of things happened. i understand a mailman was recently indicted someplace for playing games with the mail-in ballots. you have tremendous fraud if you do these mail-in ballots. now, absentee ballots are okay because you have to get applications, you have to go through a process of i'm here and i vote in florida. you get an absentee ballot but you have to go through a process. absentee ballots are great, but mail-in voting where a governor mails millions of ballots to people all over the state. california, millions and millions of ballots and then they come back, they don't come back, who got them, did you forget to send them to a republican area or a democratic area i guess you could say. but if you take a look at all of the unbelievable fraud that's been involved with mail-in voting over the last -- even a short peer as well. but look at patterson, new jersey, it was a massive error and a massive miscalculation and there was incredible fraud. look at the city council what's

. >>> let's go phoenix now where steve patterson is standing by. arizona is a state where one in every four coronavirus tests are now coming back positive. that is the highest percentage in the entire country. steve, what does that number tell us? >> reporter: chris, the official rate is 25.3%. that's higher than texas, it's higher than florida, it's higher than california, it's higher than anywhere else in the country. it means a few things according to health officials, none of them are good. first of all, when you have more testing, that rate is supposed to be much smaller. it's supposed to get smaller because the testing is reaching asymptomatic people, it's reaching people that aren't sick, it's reaching maybe people that are just looking to do a job. and so it indicates that the demand for testing is far behind the surge of the virus in this area. it also may mean that the virus is surging, that community spread has increased to a point in which it's out of control in some places and that they cannot track it. when you're not able to track th

. >> reporter: california assemblyman jim patterson is joining salon owners in calling on governor newsom to temporarily waive a state law. it prevents hairdressers, barbers, manicureists and koz metologists from providing services outside of a licensed establishment. >> governor, you have to pay attention to this and fix it. >> reporter: patterson cites that the california department of alcohol i can beverage control was allowed to waive regulations in order to serve outdoors. salon owners say in the absence of this option they are struggling. >> we are not able to pay our bills. >> reporter: the professional beauty foundation of california says the request would not be limited to haircuts and could include manicures, pedicures and waxing services. >> allow the beauty professional to get creative on the best ways that they can perform their services. >> reporter: bay area residents seem to think it's a good idea within reason. >> the way the wind's been blowing there could be quite a hair storm. >> we have to do it responsibly if we ever want to get ak to some kind of normalcy. >> report

tom crowder used to be the mayor of houston and the couple he allegedly had in patterson said when he asked for the information he began swearing at them and flashed a badge and took off. >> they caught him and they asked him if he knew the law and why he played the game with the lot and he pretended to put -- and that is a big no. >> he was later arrested on suspicion of driving under the influence and impersonating a police officer. >>> you know all of those things you have been ordering from amazon while you are stuck at home is paying off for jeff basis. the amazon ceo is so wealthy that he just had a new record and now worth nearly $172 billion which is a new record for the world's richest person and he is reportedly on track to become the world's first billionaire. >>> coca-cola shutting down and the juice and smoothie brand was founded in 1980 and moved his headquarters to half moon bay and it was acquired by coca- cola back in 2001. coca-cola said consumer preferences are shifting away from smoothies and production will stop at the end of the month. >>> some new support for ge

that is connected with the diovery of hundrs of ballots in one mailbox in the city of patterson.ears ago congressional election hadoe re-run out of the republican campaign seemed to break the law. the campaign consultant is facing criminal charges related delegation he hired people to collect postal bel.n fill them -- postal ballots and fill them in. the results were annulled. at the board, he said thesh resultld not stand. >> i believe a new election should be called. it has become clear toe that the public's confidence in the ninth district in this electn has been undermined to an extent that a new election is mandatory. >> it is very hard to fight fraud. thereit is verye from, but where we find it, it is systematic, and it is meant to overturn elections. what i am concerd about in thiser election is theption of fraud, and how that might lead to feelings of the legitimacy of people' votes, and you know, a feeling that if election is in jeopardy, maybe it is not h feel the election is free and fair. the whole enterprise of democracy becomes more difficult. ros: some of theru nam

executive director of the philippine nurses association of america and a professor of nursing at william patterson university. he says the philippines a deep commitment to the profession began over 100 years ago during the u.s. occupation at that time there were many soldiers american soldiers in the philippines and they started training philippine nurses to take care of the u.s. soldiers. after world war 2 the system intensified as the american set up more training programs and a new visa system of allowing filipino nurses to easily move to the u.s. . by the late sixty's filipino nurses were heading all over the world the philippine nurses were celebrated as ambassadors because of how much they have contributed to the philippine economy they improve the livelihood all of their families they were able to send members of their families to school and they were able to improve their way of living. today eva philippines is the largest exporter of nurses globally new york even has its own little manila and it's estimated to 25 percent of the filipinos who live in new york state and the surrounding area

. >> reporter: california assemblyman jim patterson is joining salon owners in calling on governor newsom to temporarily waive a state law that prevents hair dressers and mn curists from providing services outside. >> governor, you have to fix it. >> reporter: he says that the department of alcoholic beverage control was allowed to waive regulations in order to serve outdoors. salon owners say in the an essential absence of this option, they are struggling. >> we can't pay our bills. >> reporter: the beauty foundation says the request would not be limited to haircuts and could include manicures, pedped cures and waxing services. >> allow the beauty professional to get creative. >> reporter: bay area residents seem to think that it is a good requested within reason. >> the way the wind is blowing, it could be a hair storm. >> we have to do it responsibly to get back to normalcy. >> reporter: and in an emailed statement, a spokesperson with consumer services and housing agency writes the administration understands and is very sympathetic to the possible economic hardships on salons. for now