it was in the great state of south dakota at a meatpacking plant in sioux falls, south dakota.0 people employed by that plant. ultimately, more than 1,000 cases of coronavirus traced back to the people who work there and the family members and close contacts to whom they brought the disease home. and in response to that huge outbreak, one of the biggest outbreaks in the world, the cdc sent in one of their elite disease detective squads to do what's called an epi-aid investigation into the nature of the public health threat there at that plant in sioux falls and what needed to be done to stop it. and the -- one of the things you should know about the cdc and what the trump administration has done to it is that epi-aid teams from the cdc, these -- these disease detective teams from the cdc, forgive me, they are badasses. sorry for swearing, but they really are. they are who gets called when there's an e. coli outbreak associated with romaine lettuce like there was years ago. dozens hospitalized. five people dead. call the cdc. send in an epi-aid team. they will figure it out, and

he lost losing to longtime senator from south dakota.o, john kennedy felt that perhaps his candidacy had brought mcgovern down in south dakota, so he offered mcgovern a position to run a program in the kennedy administration. to run the food for peace program. greta: and so, we are talking about george mcgovern's legacy, his candidacy. we are going to delve into the primary run he made in 1971. before we do that, let's get in kirk from akron, ohio into the conversation. go ahead. caller: thank you, c-span, for this wonderful series "the contenders." i just hope one day you will do one about the cabinet, too. anyway, my comment and my question is i heard somewhere -- i do not know what the truth is behind this -- but just moments before senator robert f. kennedy was assassinated in 1968 after winning the california primary, senator mcgovern was actually participating in a phone conversation with senator kennedy. i wondered if it has been revealed what the conversation was about and if you know anything about that phone conversation? greta

well, this was the scene in south dakota last month. the surges motorcycle rally held over ten days. now, this took place seven months after the lunar new year banquet in wuhan, china. at the start of this event, 160,000 americans had already died. and it has been abundantly clear for months that big events, mass gatherings without social distancing, are extremely high risk for spreading coronavirus. but south dakota's republican governor christie gnonoem did n want to hear that. she's a rising republican star. lectured or violence in the streets during the rnc, and just the other day showed up at a republican party event in, huh, iowa, appearing to set the stage for a future run for president and governor noem has made it her regular practice to thumb her nose at all the condescending liberal talking heads who say we should take the pandemic seriously. >> there's concern about this big motorcycle rally that's happening this weekend in south dakota. and we don't have to play the sound bite. oh, my god, on television, all the cable news.

at facilities like the smithfield plant in sioux falls, south dakota, more than 1200 people ultimatelypositive in loeg gans port people tested positive there were outbreaks in minnesota, nebraska, illinois, wisconsin and nearly every other state where the plants operated. early on we saw parts of the federal government and states themselves to force these meat processing facilities to stay open no matter what, telling them they had to shut down because of danger. today we have reason to believe that scientific advice may have been purposefully watered down by the trump administration to try to keep the meat industry going. later we saw republican governors in multiple states crack down on people's ability to even know about outbreaks at specific meat packing plants by hiding that data and not letting it be announced when they had multiple people testing positive as egregious as that has been over the past three months, there have been two new revelations in the last several days that have put even me back on my heels. we've been covering this from the beginning and that story is next s

come visit south dakota.ovid new infection rates are quadruple the rest of the country and our country's the worst in the world and we don't wear masks our governor thinks it's not really happening so ditch the mask and come play on the side of the road here i mean, that's what they spent their covid money on they spent $5 million in covid money on tourism ads because the governor doesn't think it's that big a deal meanwhile, the south dakota infection rates are, like, highest or second highest in the country. the pandemic is alive and well, and the news about it is flabbergasting in some new way every day. and we are about to hit the terrible milestone of 200,000 americans dead from this thing and i don't know if it will make a difference in terms of the country making its choice between trump and biden. but the response to covid at the federal level continuoes to not just be bad. it's getting worse and in out-loud, obvious public ways. just tonight in a town hall thing with abc news, the president tried and

we go to the so-called badlands of south dakota worldly a 3rd of native americans are registered to vote and even those who are signed up to find it difficult to actually cast their ballots to toss california's wine country is burning again as fast moving wildfires terror cross region tens of thousands are forced to flee as the most destructive fire season in the state's history rages on. i'm sumi so misconducts great to have you with us the corona virus has claimed the lives of more than 1000000 people but experts caution that the true figure is probably much higher now the johns hopkins university days. base recorded this tragic milestone of the database shows the virus has spread to at least 188 countries and fatalities have been rising through most of august and september after weeks of gradual decline many countries are seeing a resurgence in corona virus cases including right here in europe now experts say the crisis is far from over. that let's take a look at the countries with the most deaths resulting from covert 90 we'll show you the map now these countries include the u.s. bra

plus we go to the so-called badlands of south dakota we're only a 3rd of native americans are registered to vote and even those who car signed up find it difficult to actually get there. and the piece of the berlin wall that everyone loves the gallery marks 30 years since to turn the wall. of color and fun. hello i'm terry martin thanks for being with us the corona virus has claimed the lives of more than a 1000000 people. but experts caution that the true figure is probably much higher the grim milestone has been officially recorded by the johns hopkins university database it shows the virus has spread to at least 188 conference and fatalities have been rising through most of august and september after weeks of gradual decline many countries are seeing a resurgence in corona virus cases including here in europe experts say that the crisis is far from 0. 006 a look at the countries with the most deaths resulting from covered 19 they all are the u.s. brazil india mexico the u.k. italy spain france and iran but if we look at the number of deaths as a proportion of the population of each co

hearard come november.. >> this is the heart of the south dakota badlands.e are approaching the border of the pine ridge reservation, home to 18,000 members of the lakota tribe. we want to talk to voters here bubut were stopped a at a checkpoint. the guard tells us that because of the threat of covid-19, only residents and essential workers are allowed in. i show my press id and she waves us through. we drive for nearly an hour across prairie land before reaching a town. we want to know why people living here are less likely to vote. >> they feel like it is not important and their voice won't be heard. the pandemic, too, they are scared to be around a lot of people. >> we live in third world conditionsns. the majorority of our people d't own vehehicle how arere they supposed to geteo a pollining p place? >> most of pine ridge looks like this, remote, rural, and largely cut off from natitional politic. a l lot of the houses don't have street addresses and people liliving there don't have governmentnt issued ids, two things often used to register voters. now t

. >>> before the 4th of july, the republican governor noem of south dakota. campaign event would not require attendees to wear masks announced we'll not be requiring to wear a mask and definitely do not have to social distance at trump's rallies. a big maskless crowd packed in for president trump's rally there. south dakota refused to have a mask requirement or any change in plans for the annua the motorcycle rally has been linked to hundreds of new coronavirus cases. and one death. cases in south dakota doubled. the rally alone led to astonishing number of new covid infection. christie noem defended under her leadership saying that south dakota will not listen to an elite class so-called experts. the state went ahead with the state fair, no coronavirus rules for that gathering either. now, as a few days ago, south dakota has the highest number of covid-19 cases in the country. south dakota leader refused to take orders to stop the spread rejected the warnings of the so called experts here we are. where does this crazy denialism comes from when it comes from

cases in south dakota doubled in the two weeks after the event. there's a study out today that projects that the sturgis rally alone may have led to an astonishing new number of covid infections. south dakota governor christie gnome has defended the denialist state saying they will not listen to so-called experts. as of today, south dakota has the highest number of covid cases per capita in the whole country. south dakota leaders refuse to take measures to stop the spread of covid. they'll jekted the warnings of the pointy-headed so-called experts, and now here we are. where does this crazy denialism come from? obviously particularly when it comes to republican politicians, it comes from the top, and that's part of what makes the revelations today from bob woodward's new book so stomach-churning, the real-world consequences of this stuff. the reports today, recordings of the president during the pandemic telling woodward wildly different things about the coronavirus than he was telling the public, it's not just a political story where the presiden

this is the heart of the south dakota badlands we're approaching the border of pine ridge reservation home to around 18000 members of the oak lalo lakota tribe. we want to talk to voters here but we're stopped at a checkpoint the guard tells us that because of the threat of copa 19 only residents and essential workers are allowed in we had to show her my press idea and she waves us through. we drive for nearly an hour across prairie land before reaching a town we want to know why people living here are less likely to vote than the other and there. they feel like it's not in korean and a voice will be heard to them and having to scared to be around a lot of people a lot of elderly still want to beat out a lot of people we live in 3rd world conditions majority of our people don't even on being called so how are they supposed to get to a polling place when they live 10 miles out in a country outside of a few small towns most of pine ridge looks like this remote rural and largely cut off from national politics a lot of the houses here don't have official street addresses and many of the p

south dakota sigs its highest cases here.ight now it has the highest positivity rates but the governor says no plans to issue new restrictions. you can see the seven-day average and this is what it looks like in sioux falls, the mayor of sioux falls joins us now. the case count is going up. we talked months ago. you had meat packing issues and clusters. is it something like that? is it schools or is it a little bit of everything? >> john, hey, thanks for having me back. good to see you. i think it's a little bit of everything. when we got back to school in fall, schools were all open, colleges are back, meeting in person, we're having events aik that. we are at a state that values personal freedoms and values liberties and because of that we haven't had a lot of restrictions. we haven't had a lot of lockdowns or government mandates, and with that comes an increase in cases, and so we're certainly surging right new and we're not -- not hiding from that fact. we also know though that our health care systems are very comfortable

the south dakota state troopers will do this investigation.r talking about this investigation this afternoon. >> south dakota highway patrol will run the investigation and the department of public safety craig price will oversee that and report directly to me. >> don, you and i both worked in local news. when you go to a fatal accident, you get a lot of information usually from state troopers. today as they went through details, what we didn't find out is whether or not there was any car accident before hand. where was the man while he was walking in the street? was there any streetlights? that descriptive information that would go along with an accident was not given. obviously, this is a very high profile case at this point. i'm sure they will have to do a thorough investigation using state troopers that do this accident investigation all the time. as they piece this together, hopefully we'll get more. >> thank you, appreciate that. we'll be right back. just like that. shipstation. the #1 choice of online sellers. go to shipstation.com/tv an

south dakota, same deal. from august 2nd to august 9th, to september 6th, south dakota went from 64 cases per 100,000 population, 64, to 71, to 235. and the white house tells them they're going from the yellow zone to the red zone right? oh, my god, by the time the white house is wrapping up its recommendations to south dakota, oh, my god, you're now the second worst state in the country, but yet, the white house drops its recommendation on masks the white house started out when things weren't that bad in south dakota with this stern recommendation that south dakota should, quote, require face masks in indoor settings and then as the state of south dakota got worse and worse and worse, they just dropped that recommendation all this exposed in previously private, secret, white house documents, white house advice to individual states that have now been made public by clyburn's committee. what's going on here right? you see this pattern right? i mean, we are at 200,000 dead americans. we are stuck every day at t

voting as begun the end for states people have been costing that ballots in person in minnesota the south dakota and wyoming voting by mail is already on the way in other states i was there as john hendren reports now from minneapolis from the shores of its 10000 lakes minnesota looks to serene to be a battleground but joe biden and donald trump are treating it like one billionaires in america during his pandemic you may know that $300000000000.00 if you want i just said in the middle of the pandemic that they are left to wonder as a consequence ordinary folks who's looking out for me but it is even pledged to terminate our travel ban jihadist regions geodes regions. they've already been doing that to you have opened the floodgates to radical islamic terrorists. long reliably democratic stronghold minnesota hasn't voted for a republican for president in nearly half

voting has begun in 4 states people being cast in their ballots in person in minnesota the ginia south dakota and wyoming voting by mail is already underway in other states too john hendren has more now from minneapolis. from the shores of its $10000.00 lakes minnesota looks to serene to be a battleground but joe biden and donald trump are treating it like one billionaires in america doing as pandemic you may know 300000000000 dollars here what i just said in the middle of the pandemic that the left to wonder as a consequence ordinary folks who's looking out for me but it is even pledged to terminate our travel then jihadist regions jihadist regions they've already been doing that too you have an opening the floodgates to radical islamic terrorists. long reliably democratic stronghold minnesota hasn't voted for a republican for president in nearly half a century but he came close in 2016 when donald trump did better than expected in

so i got to work in congress, along with other members of the south dakota delegation. my first priority was simply to get hot springs veterans a hearing with the v.a. in 2016, after years of trying, we persuaded then-v.a. secretary bob mcdonald to visit hot springs. unfortunately the visit didn't work and soon after the secretary signed an order finalizing the decision to close the majority of the facility. madam president, the battle wasn't over. in 2014, i had succeeded in attaching a measure to an appropriations legislation prohibiting the closure of the hot springs facility until a national v.a. realignment strategy was proposed. and each year with appreciation to the appropriations committee i managed to renew that measure. after a new v.a. secretary, secretary robert wilkie took the helm, i repeatedly urged him to come to hot springs and to check out our facility for himself. earlier this year the secretary announced that he would visit the facility in march. i organized a letter with the rest of the south dakota delegation strongly urging the secretary to make t

the presiding officer: the senator from south dakota. mr. thune: madam president, last week leader mcconnell called up a bill to the floor of the united states senate. it was a coronavirus relief bill which included a number of components that both sides had agreed needed to be in in a coronavirus relief bill. it wassing a targeted bill. it was -- it was a targeted bill. it was a fiscally responsible bill and it was a bill rooted in reality. in other words, there was a belief that it could be signed into law if, in fact, it was passed by the congress. and so when it was called up, obviously, we talked about the features in the bill, many of which are things, as i said, enjoyed bipartisan support. when i say it was fiscally responsible, it actually repurposed funds from the previous coronavirus bill, from the cares act, that had not been spent, so it took some of those dollars, repurposed them and used them in other ways which i think would be a fiscally responsible way to approach the whole issue of how we spend taxpayer dollars on any issue

states where new cases are currently increasing and i want to point to 2 states now north and south dakota right now are the nation's top hotspots for called over $1000.00 infections out south carolina and south dakota scuse me is currently seen an increase 170 percent from the average 2 weeks ago north dakota on the other hand is seeing an increase of a 71 percent yet that hasn't stopped another large scale event from kicking off this week and i'm referring to the annual south dakota state fair which is already started and said to run through labor day and it's expected to have an attendance of $200000.00 people all with no requirements to wear a mask or any kind of social distancing so lawmakers are really cautioning americans to not let their our guard down during the labor day weekend because it's particularly important to mention that we had a much worse place now than. who are backward other holidays like 4th of july and memorial day when we saw cases spiking and that's because we have a lot more virus in the community right now than we did so if americans don't follow proper social

coronavirus infections as you mentioned in north and south dakota are growing rapidly, faster than anywhere the country. the dakotas have led the country in new cases per capita for the last two weeks here. south dakota also seeing the nation's highest positivity rate, 17% for this last week, meaning that infections there are spreading more than testing is actually catching them and that's putting a big spotlight on a debate there over large gatherings and the lack of people wearing masks. in brooking, south dakota, the city council is considering a mask mandate. many residents are intensely opposed to that idea. this is happening as president trump continues to face the fallout from his interview with bob woodward and pushes back on criticism that he purposely played down the dangers of the virus. senior advisor steve cortez defending the president on fox news sunday this morning. listen. >> dr. fauci, somebody who is lilionized by critics of presidt trump, who is not a trump partisan, dr. fauci as late as february 29th, he appeared on national television and said no americans should chang

look at the case number curves right now in the dakotas, in north dakota and in south dakota. ook at that, north dakota upper left. south dakota upper right. look at wisconsin and oklahoma, bottom left and lower right there. i mean, here we go again. with over 202,000 americans dead already and 1,000 americans dying per day and numbers in these heartland states just taking off like a rocket again, i mean, more than six months into this crisis and more than 200,000 americans dead, we are trending worse and not better, and there is no reason to expect that that will let up between now and the election, not with the way the president at least is modeling behavior and not with the way that trump-supporting republican governors are following his lead in terms of not taking aggressive measures to try to slow the spread of the virus. the unemployment numbers today were also worse than the government expected. 870,000 americans filing for unemployment in the past week. that means we've now had, i believe, more than 25 straight weeks of unemployment numbers being worse than they were in

>> mount rushmore is in the state of south dakota. south dakota has the black hills. we are on the western side of the state, and if you're looking at rapid city, we are not 2000 feet higher than rapids. some people refer to this as the turtle on the prairie. you can see the black hills from a long distance. tribes that consider this a sacred site considered the black hills a sacred site. they were referencing, they could seat in a distant it looked like because of the ponderosa pines. so you can see us along with across the state of south dakota. >> now, over the years there has been discussion from native americans and others about the location of the black hills, it is sacred to native americans, and right here you have something that represents to some people the u.s. governments policy towards native americans has not always been -- they have a look at it the same way. what do you talk about when you tell people about that issue and mount rushmore? >> there was some controversy right from the start. carving in the black hills. that controversy came from tribal pe

maureen: mount rushmore is in the state of south dakota. south dakota has the black hills. we are here on the western side of the state. if you are looking at rapid city, we are about 2000 feet higher than rapids. some people had referred to this turtle on the prairie. you can see it for a long distance. tribes consider the black hills a sacred site. they were referencing they could see it in a distance. it looked black because of the pines. you can see a long way across the state of south dakota. >> now, over the years, there has been, you know, discussions from native americans, and others, about the location of the black hills, sacred to native americans, and right here you have something that represents to some people the u.s. government's policy toward the native americans has not always been, you know, they have not looked at it the same way. how do you all -- what do you talk about when you tell people about that issue and mount rushmore? maureen: so it is a controversy right from the start, carving in the black hills. that controversy came from tribal people as well

. >>> south dakota's attorney general was involved in a deadly car crash and a pandemic shutdown is rulednconstitutional. "pittsburgh post gazette" ruled federal judge ruled business shutdown and other pandemic restrictions ordered by governor wolf is unconstitutional. restrictions required people to stay-at-home, placed size limits businesseslosethe dge d wi rded business owners opposing the ruling. the owner of the barber shop which re-opened in may reacted to the decision. >> it brings tears to my eyes. we didn't have any money coming in from anywhere and it was awful. >> a spokeswoman for the governor says the administration will appeal the ruling. >>> the "rapid city journal" said south dakota attorney general reported hitting a deer with his car. but it was actually a pedestrian he killed. investigators say he reported striking a deer while driving saturday night. the attorney general's office said he immediately called 911 after the crash and had not been drinking. the body of a 55-year-old man was discovered the next morning. relatives say the man crashed his truck in the area ear

don me and worked here for ane robinson and the state of south dakota. he and his sun lincoln traveled until they found this big granite outcropping. the next challenge is -- how do you turn that into a sculpture? as an artist, the first thing was makead to do small sizes and get the bigger and bigger until he gets to a 1/12th model, and we today have that 1/12th model. as your sculpting, that might be nice and easy and clay, but when you are looking at the mountain, you are talking granite, very fine-grained, tough stuff, so 90% of that sculpture is carved with dynamite. i do not think of dynamite as an artist's brush, but it certainly in this case. the927, when they start blasting, that is the very beginning. there were people coming up here, visiting the sculpture, watching that whole carving process the entire time. so there was not that formal opening date. they had multiple dedications for each president, and borglum was big on dedications and celebrations, because he knew that was how he would get everyone's attention, and ultimately, that is how

else in the country, they have led the country in new cases per capita for the last two weeks and south dakota of the nation's highest positivity rates, 7% for the last week, health experts in the dakotas are warning the rising above infections could cripple the already vulnerable and often times role of care system in both states have rejected mask mandates and south dakota for example the city council has been considering residents to wear a mask but many are intensely opposed to the idea and meanwhile in minnesota that state is experiencing the deadliest threat, the state helped to permit reporting 57 deaths in the last five days up significantly from the 25 in the previous five day span, doctor anthony fauci is worried about the rising number of cases now that we had a holiday weekend with people often travel in the weather is getting colder. >> you have threats of increased positivity in certain regions of the country such as dakota, montana and places like that, what we do not want to see is going into the fall season when people will be spending more time indoors and that is not good fo

now, as a few days ago, south dakota has the highest number of covid-19 cases in the country.th dakota leader refused to take orders to stop the spread where does this crazy denialism comes from it comes from the top. the real world consequences of this stuff these reports and the recording telling woodward wildly different things than he was telling the public it is not just a political story of a president saying one thing. this is a president saying things publicly that we now know he knew to be untrue things that have deadly real world consequences here is what he was saying in an interview with woodward all the way back on february 7th >> it goes through air, it is tougher than touching. the air you just breathe the air and that's how it is passed. that's a very tricky one and ad a delegate one it is deadly than your strenuous flu. this is more deadly. this is 5% verses 1% and less than 1% so this is deadly stuff. >> this is deadly stuff, a recorded interview with bob woodward on february 7th acknowledging the coronavirus way more deadly than the flu quote "this is deadly

. >> two states, north dakota and south dakota, have the highest number of new viruses in the countryth south dakota posting a positivity rate of 17%.> this as the national eati nearly 80% increase in calls in online chats for help since the pandemic began >>> israe her indictment says se earned about $7.2 million between 2009 and 2012, while claiming to reside overseas to avoid yi israeli taxes on her income prosecutors say the model had been living in luxury homes in israel, leased by her mother to hide her residency status. the two were ordered to pay a $1.5 million fine on top of the millions in back taxes owed to the state. >>> fast food giants mcdonald's and burger king are setting aside their beef in the name of lbgtq pride. the two competitors have come together for a new ad in finland in honor of pride week, postponed due to the coronavirus pandemic this ad shows burger king's mascot locki ining lips with rod mcdonald, titled love conquers all. a burger king executive said our brand is bold and fun. >> love is love is love, whether it's a whopper or bigmac >>> down but not ou

from south dakota through nebraska, kansas and into m missouri our journey took us across 15 states.n across the country was turning to schools. the country weighing the desire to get children back into the classroom for their emotional well being while not risking their physical health. >> school was done in march, you know, we don't know what the fall looks like right now so how is that impacting their mental stability. >> any scenario is scary. staying at home the mental health decline in some of my kids that are social is scary. >> reporter: protests calling for justice and equal rights never stopped. >> federal agents violently clashing with protestors in portland. the wall of moms trying to keep the peace. >> reporter: the president once again doubled down. >> we're not going to let new york and chicago and philadelphia, detroit and baltimore and all of these oakland is a mess. we're not going to let this happen in our country. all run by liberal democrats. >> reporter: hi e intended not run on the covid-19 record but law and order. >> people say protesters, these people are an

because south dakota had not adopted the national standard of a drinking age of 21.congress authorized the treasury department to withhold those funds and i think you can say with certainty that congress is not going to authorize the president to withhold funds in this case, dana. >> dana: probably not. the warning is what it is. >> yeah. >> dana: new york governor andrew cuomo warning president trump about visiting the big apple. >> he can't come back to new york. he can't. he's going to walk down the street in new york? forget body guards. he better have an army if he thinks he's going to walk down the street in new york. he's persona non grata. he will never come back to new york. new yorkers will never forget how mean he's been. >> dana: let's bring in andy mccarthy and richard fowler. andy, new york city has been your stomping grounds for a long time. what do you make of the feud between cuomo and trump and also this question of could the president withhold funds to cities even if he wanted to? >> well, i think, dana, this is more politics than law in effect. wh

north dakota, south dakota, wisconsin. south dakota has a 22% positivity rate.s raging and is not going to go down unless every one masks up and we get more testing in there. where is the political will to do that? it's going to be a tough winter. >> tonight the fda commissioner said a vaccine will be based on science and data and not politics. the president has said they could override that. are you confident that science will win out over politics. you said you believed that the president could override it and we shouldn't be surprised by it. are you confident science will win out? >> vaccines are a good thing and the president not with standing, it's a matter of when we get a safe, reliable vaccine. i think the drug companies, knowing what they know, knowing what the president said, it would be irresponsible for them to submit an application if they were not entirely ready. it's unlikely to imagine that happen before election day without that getting politicized. once it comes in, the fda scientists have a choice to make whether they want to review it. should

south dakota believe in their governor but governor believes in the people of south doctoral, masters of the responsibilities as governor? >> this is the best day. >> there's nowhere else in america that an event like this happens. it was close to 20,000 people. i wonder if because of covid-19 people would stay home. what we found is people looking for an opportunity to stay normal. reporter: you as a governor are famous. >> south dakota noem, the reason she's a star in trump universe right now is because she's resistant to lockdowns. >> how has that worked out for you? >> i think it's working out well. i think the only reason people know that now because liberals went after me. i'm going give you all of the information that i have. i'm going lay it out for you and make recommendations and i'm going to let you have the flexibility to do what's right for your family. reporter: you posted video on social media and you said this is how we social distance. governor: the outdoors is where people have been able to enjoy parks and hunting and really not think about covid-19 for a little bit

>> well, the workers in south dakota are lucky because they're represented by a union. pandemic started, our union has worked with a number of companies in the meat-packing industry to make it safer. i think the current numbers across the industry are showing that the work that we've done as a union with employers have made the industry at least for this time being safe. but i go back to what osha can do. in this time, all the work that we have done with the employers across the industry, it's not too late for osha to issue that emergency standard because there may be a second wave. and if there is a second wave, we need that enforceable standard so that everybody across the meat industry understands exactly what they have to do to make their workers safe. there's none of this half of the industry do this. half of them do that. i'm terribly concerned about what's happening to nonunion workers across this country ands they industry. >> you don't believe it's too late to have some sort of national standard? >> no, i think we need to have one. osha had an opportunity when

now take you to one of the most recognizable, mount rushmore national memorial, near rapid city, south dakota. >> the mount rushmore memorial in the heart of south cota. there it is, the 60-foot head of george washington. three other units will follow -- jefferson, lincoln, and theodore roosevelt will be honored in an unveiling ceremony. >> when i look at the presidents, the first thing i think about is some individual achievements from each of those people, but really what they do for me, and what this whole memorial does for me is it reminds me about what they stood for. standing for freedom, for democracy, for the republic. i get to think about that every day. i get to share that with people every day, and meet people from all over the world who may not know who those presidents are, but they understand what freedom means. the original idea was by donor robinson a famed historian, and he had conceived of carving statues in the round, and he was going to carve all the way around and have people like lewis and clark, chief red cloud, sacagawea, fremont, and when he hired his artists, they wh

he left and came up here to work for the state of south dakota. of course, the first challenge was to find a place to carve, finding some place appropriate. he and his son traveled through the black hills until they found this big granite outcropping. your next challenge is how do you turn that into a sculpture? as an artist, the first thing borglum had to do was make small sizes and then make them bigger and bigger until he gets to a one 12th model. we today have that original one 12th model. so every inch on that model is a foot up on the sculpture. as you are sculpting, that might be nice and easy in clay or plaster, but when you are looking at the mountain, you are talking granted. hard granted, it is very tough stuff, fine grain. so 90% of that sculpture is carved with dynamite. i don't always think of dynamite as an artists brushed, but it certainly was in this case. in 1927, when they start the blasting, that is the very beginning. there were people coming up here visiting this sculpture and watching that whole carving process the entire ti

now, coronavirus cases are surging out of control in south dakota, that sharp rise in just the past twoks. that same trend also seen in iowa, where senator joni ernst this week repeated a widely- debunked claim that the number of covid deaths is greatly inflated. today, in a statement to cbs news, the senator, who is in a tough re-election fight, walked back those comments, saying over 180,000 americans have died because of covid-19. even states where numbers are declining are seeing a disturbing trend. today, the university of georgia announcing 821 students and staff tested positive just in the last week. that's nearly a 350% increase over the week before. the university president now pleading with students to keep their distance. in florida, a photo of an overcrowded hallway at this high school in velucia county has gone viral. it's a different problem further south in miami-dade, where some students and teachers couldn't get online after cyber attacks disrupted the district's remote learning for a third straight day. >> yesterday's attacks, we know, some of them came from outside of

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south dakota's a.g. saying he thought he hit a deer. >>> the changes at "jeopardy!" alex trebek is back. the new role for ken jennings. and what you'll notice tonight. >>> and america strong. the firefighters saving the animals. >>> good evening and it's great to start another week with all of you at home. and as we come on the air tonight, two parts of this country are now dealing with weather emergencies. there is an urgent search right now for the missing in those wildfires and the uncomfortable exchange with the president today over climate change. but first, at this hour, hurricane sally, upgraded to a category 2 hurricane late today, set to slam into the gulf coast. now, this would be the third hurricane just this season alone to strike the gulf coast. it's a massive storm, winds already reaching 100 miles an hour, growing stronger over the warm waters of the gulf. expects to move slowly once it hits, which is never good. the outer reaches of the storm dumping rain on south florida. flooding streets there. washing over the sea wall in bay st. louis, mississippi

that's what's so frustrating is i know the media does not like what south dakota has done.wrong decisions by letting my people have freedom, by using personal responsibility, but listen. our people are happy. we've had big events. we have in south dakota 124 cases that were tied to the sturgis motorcycle bike rally out of half a million people that came, so what they have done here is completely false and it's unfair and it's not doing the public service. steve: have any other organizations looked at the sturgis event to figure out whether or not it did spread the disease or are you just saying this is the only study out there right now and they're using pseudo science to make you look bad? you know, other states are track ing cases, i think we have 11 other cases that have tracked , you know, people that have traveled to the sturgis motorcycle bike rally but it's less than 300 cases, and i think that is really what's wrong with this study that we see that was released that the media jumped all over is the kind of speculation that they put out there, the inaccuracies are ju

south dakota is also seeing the nation's highest positivity rate. 17% for the last week, meaning that, more than testing is catching them. that as both astronauts reject -- states reject the mask mandates n. brookings, south dakota, for example, the city council there has been considering requiring residents to wear masks, but many are intensely opposed to that idea. minnesota experiencing its deadliest stretch, the state health department reporting 57 deaths in the last five days. that's up significantly from the 25 deaths in the previous five day span. on the vaccine front, drug maker astrazeneca is resuming trials on one of the strongest contenders for a vaccine after the study was suspended for a few days when a u.k. patient reported a side effect. and pfizer's chairman and ceo on "face the nation" this morning said he believes the drugmaker will know if their vaccine works or not by october. listen. >> i don't know if we have to wait until 2021 because, as i said, our start, we have a good chance that we will know if the product works by the end of october. and then, of course, i

tonight, we've learned of the first death linked to last month's motorcycle rally in sturgis, south dakota, as well as more than 260 cases in 11 states. and with the labor day holiday on the way, health officials issuing strong warnings to take care. abc's victor oquendo leads us off tonight from florida. >> reporter: tonight, the cdc director urging governors in all 50 states to get ready by november 1st to help with the release of a possible vaccine. dr. robert redfield saying in a letter obtained by abc news, the government is "rapidly making preparations to implement large scale distribution of covid-19 vaccines in the fall of 2020." that letter dated on the same day the president promised a vaccine at the republican convention. >> we are delivering life-saving therapies and will produce a vaccine before the end of the year, or maybe even sooner. >> reporter: critics worry a vaccine might be rushed, but the white house says the timing has nothing to do with the election. earlier, dr. anthony fauci said he thinks that a safe vaccine will be identified by the end of the year. >> i believ