. >>> and olympic legend michael phelps, powerful new message about mental health and the pandemic. >> announcer: this is "nbc nightly news" with lester holt. >>> good evening, everyone, for places appearing to escape the worst of the covid-19 pandemic, this news tonight, it's coming, new states in the middle of the country seeing fresh hot spots. with that top infectious disease doc anthony fauci, warning that many others may be on the verge of outbreaks and that it will sneak up fast the number of states in the red zone is expanding as parents and teachers weigh critical questions about the coming school year. a lot to process tonight, miguel almaguer starts us off. >> reporter: the troubling signs of a new outbreak are emerging in states like ohio, indiana, kentucky and tennessee. the nation's top infectious disease doctor warning several american cities who have mostly avoided covid's crippling crush are now on the verge of being hit hard. >> if you're not getting your arms around and suppressing that surge that's coming up two to three weeks down the pike, you're in trouble. >> r

: phelps made his olympic debut at 15. >> michael phelps looking for another world record >> reporterget his sixth olympic gold here. >> reporter: in beijing, his performance propelled him to super stardom. >> michael phelps has done it again! >> reporter: shattering records with a career 28 medals, 23 of them gold cementing his place in history as the greatest olympic athlete of all time. but behind his public persona as the greatest athlete was a painful struggle with depression phelps opened up about it here on "today" in 2018 >> i was so down on myself i didn't have any self-love and quite honestly, i just didn't want to be alive i finally realized i can ask for help and it's okay to not be okay for me that's what changed my life >> reporter: he's not alone. studies suggest one in five americans struggle with mental illness. >> i'm somebody who still struggles with depression and anxiety. >> michael phelps coming out the most decorated -- >> reporter: phelps has become a mental health advocate sounding the alarm after the mental health advocate sounding the alarm after the tokyo p

phelps. guest: thank you. i am proud to present testimony representing the national emergency association. on behalf of mike colleagues, the national stockpiles during the covid-19 pandemic. 122,000 covid-19 related deaths in the united states. each life lost, is personal to me. hard felt. [inaudible]. governor brown took forward action, hundreds if not thousands . [inaudible]. utilize our entire management emergency system. it's important work for public health partners. continue to adapt for insufficient . [inaudible]. we expect action. [inaudible]. surgical masks, and disaster declaration is appreciated. 75 percent federal at least 44 other states have also . [inaudible]. lack of guidance and unwillingness, nervous about spending. our expansion in oregon, has led to recommendations. we need to understand. [inaudible]. [inaudible]. [inaudible]. [inaudible]. [inaudible]. states and resources, stockpiles, and a minimum state led emergency management. [inaudible]. other recommendations -. [inaudible]. lack of i

also olympic legend mike phelps opening up about his mental struggles in a way he never has before. when we see you back here tonight. ♪ menutaur get a load of my southwest cheddar cheeseburger. let menutaur make it a doubleeee, yeah! it's beautiful! say what? i said it's bea.... try my $5.99 southwest cheddar cheeseburger combo and make it a double for a buck more. order now with no contact delivery. >>> just into the newsroom, ruth bader ginsburg back if the hospital. the justice had a nonsurgical procedure to revive a bile duct stent. her doctors say it was standard procedure. ginsburg is expected to be released from the hospital by the end of the week. >>> nearly 17 million covid cases have been tallied worldwide. but the pastor of a san francisco church is telling his followers, it is fake news. the pastor of star of the sea catholic church posted online bulletins for his congregation. this week the father writes about the three people he knows who are recovering from coronavirus while he concedes that covid is real, he said the news media is exaggerating its severity to unseat

before the pandemic, mark phelps sat down with the lead authors of the study. >> we're off the coast of florida near palm beach hunting for scars. not because they're in the news for all the wrong reasons. but because they're no too few places. they use simple contraption with a complicated name. or bruv, bruf for shorv for sho. did you invent this photo trap or is it common to use this? >> i'd say we perfected it. >> you drop it overboard and lower it to the ocean floor. the project they call fin print has done this over 15,000 times over four years in 58 countries. the idea is to leave it down there for an hour and see how many sharks show up. sometimes at some places, quite a few. sometimes none. >> almost 400 reeves that been surveyed around the world, 20% we didn't see a single shark. >> is that right? >> an indicator of the problem. >> absolutely. >> caught by fishermen sometimes accidentally, often on purpose, to provide the growing shark meat market. in this drop off the florida coast, the pickings were slim. >> nurse shark. >> nurse shark? >> yeah. big one. >> sometimes they

i was about to go get a bite to eat with fellow competitors, and the president of nascar, phelps hadght. most of my team, most of the garage, most of the industry was already on a flight back home. so the first person i thought of when it was brought to my attention that there was a noose found in my garage was a crew member who happens to be african-american on my team. i texted him right away. i said hey, man, are you all right? and he had played it off. he was like, "yeah, what's up"? and i called him and said i guess you haven't heard about what's going on? and he's like, actually i'm the one who found it. i didn't want to tell you and have your mind messed up before the race. i wanted you to have a clear head. it wasn't brought to my attention, it was brought to my attention hours later after the investigation was going through and i woke up monday morning to find out i could potentially be talking to the fbi about it. because it was in their hands now. not once did i report it. i didn't even see the picture of the noose, the garage pull until tuesday after the race, after i'm a

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. >> how would you describe the process to somebody who's kind of on the phelps about getting the test it's something that you have to commit to. it's not pleasant. it's not fun but that's not the point. the point is safeguarding yourself and others. >> in dallas this location was testing 600 people a day and th maxed out.o they i a row the demand for tests is so great we're told people start lining up at 6:00 a.m. this was the scene last weekdn april, health officials were ta day. now, it's over 50,000. but the state falls behind41 others in terms of tests performed per 100,000 people. according to targets laid out by the harvard global health institute, texas would need to increase testing to 117,000 people a day to keep the outbreak under control. health officials say the lone star state faces chaenge size demographics. rebecca fisher is an epidemiologist at texas a&m school of health. >> we have rural populations and we have urban populations and everything in between and then hidden populations. individuals who may b

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ken phelps, he is one of our regulars. wheneverwe have a request, he is at. i think he watches the whole flight our lot. thank you, ken. i know, right? send me a request. facebook, twitter, instagram. you can use the hashtag #ktvu. >> thank you, sell, and think you can. that is a song that you crank up in the car when you are driving alone. very nice. the nfl is highlighting a commitment for social justice. >>> the song will be played before the star-spangled banner known as a black national anthem. the league is also considering putting names of victims of police vitality on helmet decals or jersey patches. pressure is mounting on the no washington redskins to change the team name. the main stadium sponsor, fedex has made a formal request to the team in order to make the change. fedex paid $205 million to the team for naming rights to the stadium, in a deal that runs through 2025. >>> the worriers ask fans to help defeat the coronavirus. >>> over the fourth of july weekend, practice social and physical distancing. wear your mask. >> the worriers released a p

and not a human being. >> that's just a taste of what phelps and other athletes say they felt in themer who raked in 28 olympic medals goes on to say, as long as we were performing, i don't think anything else mattered. last year the committee created services it says are aimed at promoted sustained well-being for athletes. and i think this is an important issue, not just because, obviously, they're athletes, it's an interesting perspective into the life and sort of what they're going through, but just because this impacts so many people and this documentary is really trying to take away that stigma and educate people that mental health is not a weakness. so, i haven't seen it yet, but i definitely want to check it out. >> he's been talking a lot about that, a lot of the athletes have been talking about that. it's really important. >> vlad, i know you have something -- >> more of us need to talk about it. >> absolutely. >> vlad has something that's pretty upbeat and throwback to one of my favorite emcees of all time. >> this is the hammer time edition of "talk of the table," gayle. l

this is for ken phelps. for the love of money, by the o'jays. send me a song. use facebook, twitter or instagram. you can use your hashtag #ktvu. >>> mr. traffic jams, i am glad you are back. speaking of money, today is the deadline for filing your federal and state tax returns. the date was extended from april 15. the irs says as of july 3 they have processed more than 130 million returns. that is just about 10 percent fewer than the same time last year. the irs warns processing returns will take several weeks longer and they advised americans to file returns electronically if possible. the pandemic limited in-person staffing and there is an unexpected task of processing 160 million coronavirus relief checks, meaning the irs is behind schedule. >> hopefully the irs has overcome the backlog of payments. they are in a place hopefully where they can process payments more quickly. >> tax filers can request a three month extension. if you owe money to the government, you will have to calculate what you think you may owe and send it by today in order to avoid any fe

ken phelps, one of the regulars, wanted to hear this. i am not sure what year this is from.r the request anyway, ken. he had a lot but i chose this one. send me a song, facebook, twit, instagram, use the hashtag k #ktvu. >>> san francisco's panhandle neighborhood finally gets at that new bike lane after years of debate it. shows where cyclists can ride on feld street. pedestrians on the sidewalk, cars have three lanes on the other side of the plastic posts. over the weekend, work was completed on the project that was expected to go on through next month. >>very brave little boy from wyoming who saved his little sister from a vicious dog attack is getting more praise. he is healing after that dog attack on july 9th. but since then, he has been able to talk with chris evans, who plays captain america in the marvels movies. he and his sister enjoyed a shopping spree at a candy store in denver. >> it's been surreal. never expected any of this to go viral the way it did. i asked him the or day, you know, does this make you anymore special and he said, no i said, what makes you sp

disease leader inside the government has been sidelined by the president well it's quite simple anthony phelps has been quite critical of the response he said if you look at other countries can you say that we're doing well well we're not we're just not and this is an administration that once the so the message that things are going back to normal the economy can reopen schools can reopen and he doesn't necessarily like the fact that she is contradicting him and remember this is a president that takes any even the slightest criticism very very personally so what we saw over the weekend is the media and white house media were given what looks like opposition research basically white house staffers saying all the ways that they thought. that he felt she had been wrong during this pandemic worth pointing out everything they mentioned is exactly things that the president vice president said at the exact same time still it became clear that they were trying to send the message they were going to try to discredit and that he felt a doctor fauji worth noting the american people like dr fauji he's bee

. >> it's going to be worth your time >> also be sure the great michael phelps, he is the most decoratedmentary out it's called "the weight of gold." it sheds light on the post-olympic mental health struggles that many athletes face that he's been talking publicly about we look forward to talking to him about that and a lot more, savannah. >> that's going to be a good one. >>> let's get right to your news here at 8:00 coronavirus cases have surged beyond another milestone, unfortunately. and the nation's schools have gotten some new guidance from the cdc on how to reopen nbc's sam brock's in miami beach with three things to watch today. sam, good morning. >> reporter: savannah, good morning. it is not just that the united states just crossed 4 million cases nationally, but did so after logging another 70,000 new infections in the last day we are now approaching as a country, savannah, 150,000 deaths as the south and sunbelt have been hard hit states like florida, texas, and arizona. here's dr. deborah birx i didn't recall on "today." >> what we have right now are essentially three new yo

we have a special conversation with michael phelps for you. >> yeah, the olympic legend is joining usental health issues that often face olympic athletes. we cannot wait to hear from michael. >> we look forward to that >>> let's get to your news at 8:00 this morning. a spokesperson for the world health organization declared that we are still in the first wave of the covid-19 pandemic and added that, quote, it's going to be one big wave that will continue to go up and down a bit. >> and here are the three things we're watching on the coronavirus. the u.s. logged nearly 60,000 new cases yesterday. bringing the total ever closer to 4.5 million >> but there is some hope on the prevention front this morning. pfizer is ready to start phase three clinical testing of its vaccine candidate on monday. moderna launched the biggest vaccine study with some 30,000 volunteers getting shots >> cautious optimism but also a new warning from adviser dr. deborah birx in nashville yesterday, she urged the state of tennessee and other states in the midwest and south to close bars and limit indoor dining at

there is no michael phelps i spoke to caleb, and he is excited about where his preparation is savannahto put together their back-to-back. that would be winning the world cup, as they did last year, and double that up with an olympic gold medal, which would be four in the last five olympics. then women's basketball. we don't talk about this team enough savannah, they're going for their seventh straight olympic gold medal they are a remarkable group. veterans, youth, experience, they have it all it could be the team to watch, that is the biggest guarantee for the u.s. to win gold in tokyo. >> well, it's one year out i sure hope we reunite and get to host the opening ceremony as planned in tokyo it'll mean a lot to us and a lot to the world, to see all the athletes together. thank you, mike. appreciate it. of course, you can see all of this action on the networks of . >> savannah, good to see you, nbc universal. >>> carson, to you >> savannah, good to see you, too. on "pop start," prepare yourself for martha stewart unfiltered. a sneak peek at her new show hi. we're glad you came in. what

phelps to cut i cut them off prematurely. >> thank you mr. chairman. mr.barsa, we have been speaking about the local works program. i appreciate your support on it. i encourage incremental investment because it is one of the most compelling programs that we offer. i also want to talk about kids and youth. house appropriations committee included my r recent report that would quote encourage inclusive and meaningful participation of youth, in management and resolution as well as post-conflict relief and recovery efforts. we can all celebrate the fact that kids, youth of the majority population in many conflict affected countries. my question is, how will the administration, how would you prioritize the role of youth in conflict prevention, resolution, and recovery? i believe they have unique role to play. i would love your comments on that. >> thank you, congressman. the old saying holds true, an ounce of prevention is worth a a pound of cure. so investing, investment in education, making sure youth have access to education, not just helps with economicss in