steve watkins, a republican member of congress. it looks like he has been defeated in his primary. all sorts of scandals around

thank you, joe watkins and ayesha moody. >>> coming up, the gop goes postal. i'll explain next. >>> first, my colleague richard lui with today's other top news stories. >> all right, thanks, rev. the stories we're watching this hour for you, more than 170,000, that's a total number of covid-related deaths nationwide. in the latest count by nbc news, the number of cases nationwide now topping 5.3 million. >>> now, more students are heading back to class this week. but not one arizona school district. more than 100 staff members there are refusing to show up at a school district outside phoenix indicating here they did not feel safe returning to the classroom with students. >>> and the food and drug at station granted emergency authorization for new saliva-based tests for the virus. this comes as the federal government pushes to expand testing capacity. developers at yale are calling it liess invasive and less expensive. more news later. "politicsnation" with reverend al sharpton returns right after the break. looks like they picked the wrong getaway driver. the

and for basketball recruit donovan watkins, just 5'9" on paper, it's critical he show off his skills in person. >> they may say, oh, he's too smohort and this and that, but you'll see i've got it. >> reporter: on top of his ability to soar through the air, watkins has maintained a 4.3 making him a standout to ivy leagues and division ii recruiters who showed interest in donovan earlier this year, but now, uncertainty. >> he's worked so hard. you know, we've worked hair. we made a lot of sacrifices. and to see that he may not even get to play in front of coaches? >> reporter: and for donovan's coach, it'sal. >> my heart breaks for these guys, because, you know, they've put in all this time, you know, the majority of their childhood has been gearing up for this time. >> reporter: young athletes working to fulfill lifelong goals. >> my thing is about proving people wrong. >> reporter: hoping their senior year doesn't leave their dreams sidelined. steve patterson, nbc news. >>> and when we come back, a brand new ca calling. the young man with the big heart who turned his own job loss int

steve watkins in kansas, republican primary, some scandal around watkins, he'll lose this thing handily. and then if you go to missouri, st. louis, lacy clay, long serving congressman, there 20 years, and before him, for three decades, his father, william lacy clay held the seat, the clay family for half a century held this seat, no longer. cori bush, progressive challenger, defeated him. she wins by several points. another incumbent member of congress losing. there are folks saying, hey, could this happen? could an incumbent member of congress lose in detroit? rashida talib, two years ago, talib got the seat, crowded field, need to get 50% plus to win, small percentage to win. some talk that if she gets a one on one primary, she could be in trouble. she got a one on one primary from the president of the detroit city council, talib has won this handily. check mark there. she wins, gets the democratic nomination for a second term easily. she's not defeated. she avoids that fate. seven members of congress, got them listed here, four republicans, three democrats, with the two yesterday, la

watkins harper comes in and she's deeply skeptical of just about everybody in the room. she is quite sure that no one quite appreciates the circumstances that african-american women face in this new extraordinary moment as they look to law and politics to address both racism and sexism simultaneously. it isn't possible in watkins harper's view to take a position that speaks to anti-black racism and doesn't also speak to gender. her often quoted line is, we are all bound up together in one great bundle of humanity. this becomes the signature contribution that african-american women will make to this ongoing debate over voting rights that will continue i would say even until our own time. this view that it is not possible to parse out access to the polls, access to office holding, to jury service and more along manmade differences as she put it like race and gender, that she asks this, including stanton, including douglass, to really lift their sights to the interests of all humanity as she would put it and this is the position that black women will put on the table. they

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lot of scandal and controversy around watkins, defeated in the republican primary. in missouri, st. louis, another member of congress, 20 year incumbent laci clay defeated. you got a democratic member clay losing to cory bush the challenger in the first district of missouri. clay held this seat for 20 years, his father held it -- same seat for 32 years before him. so since 1968, a member of the clay family has held this seat, no longer. cori bush defeats lacy clay. it looks like rashida talib had a primary, she will survive that primary easily in detroit. you add this all up, seven incumbent members of congress have been denied renomination. lost primaries, lost their party's renomination. seven of them. that's a high number. decades since you've seen numbers that high. >> wow. all right. setting up the excitement and urgency as we get closer to election day in november. steve kornacki, thank you very much, appreciate it. >>> we're following two big developments from the joe biden camp. a major new multimillion dollar ad spend blitz as part of the campaign's growing

lanny watkins made 30 two beat jean wheeler for watkins' only major championship.in 2016 in rio de janeiro that jamaica's using bolt became the only sprinter to win gold in the 100 meters in three different olympics. at this day in sports, august 14th, i'm joe fonzi. >> bolt, the most decorated sprinter in olympic history. i will be back in 25 minutes with mark, but now it's time for the 11:00 news. >>> next at 11:00- >> when those rotating outages took place, there was not sufficient enough supply to meet the necessary demand. >> northern california's heatwave triggers rolling blackouts for the first time in years the state faces a soaring demand for power. >> pg&e says up to 250,000 customers were affected by rolling blackouts for about an hour and a half each, a rare move ordered by operators of california's power grid. >> cal iso issuing a flex alert for today, asking people to conserve energy. that wasn't enough. at

all sorts of scandals around watkins. looks like he has lost in a republican primary. michigan, we're keeping an eye on this one. rashida tlaib, she's got a primary challenge from the city council president in detroit. you see an early big lead here for talib. not a lot of votes. all that sort of absentee ballots yet to be counted. we will see what happens there. one other piece of news. this is not a primary that took place today, not a primary that took place this month. this is a primary that took place at the end of june for united states house of representatives, congressional primary in new york. but carolyn maloney tonight was finally certified the winner of that race by the board of elections in new york. it took them forever to get all these ballots counted. there are still some legal questions there about what exactly will be counted but the board of elections says that carolyn maloney, long time member of congress has survived her primary. welcome to voting in the age of the pandemic. >> the president said yesterday they should just rerun the race. i guess t

i'm joined by joe watkins, a republican strategist and former white house aide to george h.w. bush.od to see you. thanks for joining us. >> good to see you also. >> the rnc made an attempt to appeal to black voters on more than one night of the convention. let's take a look back. >> mr. vice president, look at me. i am black. we are not all the same, sir. i am not in chains. my mind is my own. >> democratic party does not want black people to leave their mental plantation. >> abandoned buildings, liquor stores on every corner. we want safety in our neighborhoods. >> it hurt my soul to hear the terrible names people call donald. the worst is racist. in the deep south, i have seen racism up close. i know what it is, and it isn't donald trump. >> now, we know that black voters are certainly not a monolith. we also know, i believe the number is around 13% of black men who voted for trump in 2016. during a time right now when social injustice is so front and center, is the president doing enough? >> i think certainly more could be done, and it would be great to see republicans and democr

republican strategist joe watkins is with us now from philadelphia former white house aide actually to president george h. w. bush nice to have you with us what just said there isn't that what the president should be say. well i think that the milan the trump took advantage of the state of course these protests have been happening in just in the last couple of days at some point that shooting took place and malani that from took advantage of the fact that she was the keynote speaker at the convention and that she had a massive american audience listening and she took time to say what needed to be said about the need. for americans to to love each other. and not consider the color of a person's skin but to love each other because we're all human beings with respect to that doesn't answer the question isn't that the type of thing the president should be saying the president's going to appear every night at this national convention not just on his acceptance night do you think he should be addressing it directly. i think that the american public would expect the president to address this

mike watkins says he woke up to an alert on his phone, he thought it was his son leaving for work.amer, this is what he saw. he and his wife had just install this had camera about a week ago and he has alerted pacifica police and animal control. so be careful. >>> a young man from pennsylvania is on a mission to reassure kids everywhere when it comes to distance learning. >> it is okay to feel overwhelmed or anxious or nervous about remote learning. >> so this is 9-year-old jermaine edwards. and his video on youtube has captured the hearts and minds of a lot of people with help from his mom. >> it made me feel happy because i was helping other people feel better. >> just the world felt very heavy at the time and i thought what can i do to get them motivated and excited to return. >> jermaine also reminds everyone to, quote, give each other grace, not grief, and that we are all in this together. thank you, germane. we needed that. >>> and coming up next, messages that go beyond music. big not molts moments from >> >>> and the push from someav you can adjust youriggest sacomfort on b

we're going to talk about one of the major african-american suffrages whose name was francis ellen watkins harper and she gave a speech at a suffrage convention in which she said, we're all bound up together, and so she was trying to explain to people that she's also an african-american and a woman, sort of combined. it's bound up together, it's intersectional. black women really couldn't just sit around and let people take away their rights and not advocate for them, so they became active in church groups and they really worked on learning how to speak in public, understanding their rights, understanding how to get those rights by their local communities, by being involved in the local community church groups, and that's a really interesting topic that not a lot of people have gone into or understand as much. people do understand that the suffrage movement was divided but they don't understand that african-americans remained very active and so this exhibition endeavors to make sure that we include african-americans and their stories, like sara parker ramon whose portrait is on the far wal

her name was francis ellen watkins harper. she famously gave speech at a suffrage convention. she said we are all bound up together. she was trying to explain to soshe was trying to explain to, people that she was also an african-american and a woman combined. bound up together, intersection al. black women couldn't just sit around and let people take away their rights and not advocate for them. so they became active in church groups and they worked on learning how to speak in public, understanding their rights, understanding how to get those rights by their local communities, by being involved in those local community church groups. that's an interesting topic not a lot of people have gone into or understand as much. people do understand the suffrage movement was divided, but they don't understand that african-americans remain very active. endeavors --xhibit this exhibition endeavors to make sure we include african-americans and their stories, like sarah parker, whose portrait is on the far wall. she was an activist in anti-slavery society of massachusetts. she took her activ

my last name is watkins. henry clay was my seventh cousin. his grandmother, sarah watkins, was sister to my great-grandfather. i am real proud of henry clay and that connection. my question is -- the three times he won the nomination, it seems like the timing was really not good for his candidacy. they seemed doomed. do you believe there was a presidential election during his time of prominence that would have been better timing, that he could have won the presidency? >> he could have won in 1840 pretty reasonably. in 1848, zachary taylor was the whig nominee. taylor had done nothing in his background other than be a general. clay very reluctantly tried to get the nomination in 1848 and failed. had clay gotten that nomination, i think he would have won. the democrats were divided that year. clay was quoted by someone as saying that the nearest he could get the nomination, his friends were basically deserting him. clay felt it was a betrayal of all the things he could have done. >> let us move ahead to 1850. henry clay's last big effort on pub

all platforms you cannot avoid it you definitely need to download it coming up author and educator watkins joins us to discuss a.o. c's collapse back again sexism in the language of abuse in congress and then ringing the bell on the reopening of u.s. schools under cobra state to watch all. the. elderly forward to talking to you all that technology should work for people. i robot must obey the orders given by human beings except where such orders that conflict with the 1st law show your identification or should be very careful about official intelligence at that point obesity is too great trust evidence here. going on there he's not saying with artificial intelligence will summon the demon. the robot must protect its own existence and. all across the board trump is down in the polls and not just by a pointer to traditionally incumbency alone is enough to win the election but this time around it is a race trump need to lose and let's be clear this has little to do with joe how did we get. 54 jets and more than 1300 military personnel are headed to air force base in alaska where is that to sa

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david watkins joins us on the line from hong kong.ting given the overlay of the fact that tech continues to drive the nasdaq and broader markets higher in the u.s.? how much is political uncertainty weighing? we have a mixture of factors, obviously. china will step up support as it looks to preach greater development at home. there seem to be expectations for policies for the technology sector. chinaomes at a time when is moving towards the domestic economy. it helps to domestic demand. strategy whichis is looking at the domestic market first. don't really have a clear idea of the intentions. shery: this group rising at a time when we are seeing the tech growth stocks gaining ground around the world. how much of a tailwind are the new economy names getting right now because of the uncertainty out there? david: well, we have seen huge shanghai tech startups. yesterday, it gained 10 point 3%, a record gain. china, overy, in the past month, we have seen a big ramp-up in stocks. we have seen beijing actively encouraging that. i think will

platforms you cannot avoid it you definitely need to download it coming up author and educator b watkins joins us to discuss a.o. c's class back again sexism in the language of abuse in congress and then ringing the bell on the reopening of u.s. schools under cobra stay tuned to watch it all. now look forward to talking to you all that technology should work for people. must obey the orders given by human beings except where such orders to conflict with the 1st law should your identification or should be very careful about official intelligence at the point is to create trusts everyone of them shia. on various shots and with artificial intelligence will summon the demon. the robot must protect its own existence as a mixer. thinking of getting a new puppy once we got our shoes no problem was he didn't know what to do he was trapped in this tiny well wired we don't need a crate with him he will just. freaking out and he won't let us bring him anywhere near. breeding dogs. caged in the in human conditions on puppy farm i mean 67 years you know they've been locked up in cages outside you see

my last name is watkins. gerald watkins. henry clay was my seventh cousin. his grandmother was a sister to my fifth great grandfather. so i'm real proud of henry clay and that connection. my question is -- the three times he won the nomination, it seemed like the timing was really not good for his candidacy. they seemed doomed. was there a presidential election during his time of prominence that would've been better timing that he could have won the presidency? >> i think they could have won in 1840 pretty reasonably, and in 1848, zachary taylor is going to be the whig nominee, and henry clay opposed any general. clay particularly opposed zachary taylor because taylor had done nothing other than be a general, and he had never voted even before he ran for president. clay very reluctantly tries to get the nomination in 1848 and fails. clay gotten that nomination that year i think he would have won, too. the democrats were divided that year. clay was quoted by someone as saying, you know, that year he could get the nomination, and his friends are basically dese

the handyman nate watkins is one of those californians. >> it is really stressful to me. with everything shut down, i don't know. i don't like not working. >> reporter: he lost his home and had to move into a hole. >> the people that i worked for in napa and in sonoma county, both don't want me in their homes. they don't want me working around them. >> reporter: the u.s. department of labor's monthly report shows white people and hispanics are returning to work while black males have faced the slowest recovery since the worst of the coronavirus pandemic layoffs. californians who benefiting from $600 a week saw that expire in july. >> it was extremely helpful. it kept a roof over our head. it kept my 7-month-old daughter fed. >> reporter:ar an executive order is expected freeway an additional $300 a being. governor newsom said he doesn't believe it is enough. new eligibility rules could delay the process go of those payments mean unemployment pay could take longer to get. >> we were depending on that money. so our lifestyle will change drastically if we don't that have inc

watkins said he, his wife had just instaled the camera a week ago. he notified police and animal control. >> good timing on getting that camera installed. a little bit different than his son, you know, lurking about. >> yeah. i'll go for that. drew, how about a look at the weather forecast? >> hey, guys. what we're going to find, over the next couple days, is that we'll continue to have some issues with our air quality. so the spare the air days have been extended until tuesday. tonight, what we are finding is our marine layer's bumped up right along the immediate coastline right now. and we are seeing some issues with visibility. live doppler 7. we switched it over to visibility mode and you can see half moon bay. tomorrow morning, we'll likely have some patchy fog. i want to show you where the smoke was coming from earlier today. this is a satellite image from nasa over northern california and we're tracking several fires in not only mendocino county. and that smoke was getting pushed into the bay area. thanks to some light but westerly and southwe

. >> reporter: on top of his ability to soar through the air, watkins, a fellow centennial husky hasned a 4.3 gpa his entire high school career making he ining stand out to to league who showed interest earlier this year and now uncertainty. >> least worked so hard. we have worked so hard. we made a lot of sacrifices and to see that he may not even get to play in front of coaches. >> reporter: and for his coach, it's personal. >> my heartbreaks for these guys because they have put in all this time. the majority of their childhood has been gearing up for this time. >> reporter: young athletes working to fulfill lifelong goals. >> my thing is about proving people wrong. >> reporter: hoping their senior year doesn't leave their dreams sidelined. >> stooeeve, thanks for that. now to college sports, it's not only entertainment but big business. two of the five power conferences, the pac-12 a and big ten have postponed their entire fall seasons due to health concerns surrounding the coronavirus pandemic. the pac-12 athletic departments generated $1.3 billion in revenue last year while the

looking at the baltimore baltimore sun, they report this explosion destroyed one of the homes of major watkins 88-year-old and this u.s. army artillery veteran and he's quoted of saying the blast sounds like korea. is it still active and how could this have happened? >> i have no idea how this has happened but i know they are digging the street up to shut the gas lines down. this blast destroyed three city row homes and debris went probably two city blocks. >> no kidding. no kidding. you could see the pictures it is completely gone. rich langford, good luck to your team and your crew and try to stay cool through all of this heat. i know you're experiencing that in baltimore through covid and everything else. thank you so much. >>> hundreds of people stormed down chicago looting stores, clashing with police, damage businesses all along the city's magnificent mile. a live report on that ahead. and the government of lebanon resigning today in the wake of the massive explosion that killed at least 160 people last week. demonstrators are blaming the government for the whole thing. so what happens n

steve watkins lost his primary to state treasure jake la turner.ay lost the nomination to progressive corey bush, who had the backing of justice democrats. missouri voters also approved medicaid expansion under the affordable care act at the ballot box yesterday. they became the 38th state to do so, following oklahoma's ballot initiative last month. we'll be right back. insurance so you only pay for what you need. almost done. what do you think? i don't see it. only pay for what you need. ♪ liberty. liberty. liberty. liberty. ♪ come on in, we're open. ♪ all we do is hand you the bag. simple. done. we adapt and we change. you know, you just figure it out. we've just been finding a way to keep on pushing. ♪ we've just been finding a way to keep on pushing. ♪ ♪ we've always put safety first. ♪ ♪ and we always will. ♪ ♪ for people. ♪ ♪ for the future. ♪ ♪ and there has never been a summer when it's mattered more. wherever you go, summer safely. get 0% apr financing for up to five years on select models and exclusive lease offers. >> tech: when you've g

watkins joins us to discuss a.o. c's collapse back and sexism in the language of abuse in congress and then ringing the bell on the reopening of u.s. schools under cobra state to watch it all. now look forward to talking to you all that technology should work for people. must obey the orders given by human beings except when such a conflict with the 1st law should your identification we should be very careful about official intelligence and the point obesity is to create trusts in the shia. areas chops in with artificial intelligence was something the team and. the robot must protect its own existence is. all across the board trump is down in the polls and not just by a pointer to traditionally incumbency alone is enough to win reelection but this time around it is a race trump name believes and let's be clear this has little to do with joe biden how did we get. ah. no pressure. no shots. action. needs to know the system in. which your thirst for action. toxics met toxic masculinity is something women are faced with

test test test test captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2008 >>> it isn't possible in watkins harper view to take a position that speaks to anti-black racism and doesn't speak to gender. her often quoted line is, we are all bound up together in one great bundle of humanity. this becomes the signature contribution that african-american women will make to this ongoing debate over voting rights that will continue i would say even until our own time. this view that it is not possible to parse out access to the polls, access to office holding, to jury service and more along manmade differences as she should put it like race and gender that she asks this, including stanton, including douglas, to really lift their sights to the interests of all humanity as she would put it and this is the position that black women will put on the table. they will not carry the day in the 1860s but they will press this position coming all the way through the 19th amendment and beyond. i'll leave it to another panel to decide whether we've arrived at that ideal. it's francis harper who puts that on the

we can speak now to the chief executive of the sixth form colleges association, bill watkin. day for nearly all of them. it is true that a lot of students will get better grades now that we are using the teacher grades rather than the algorithm led grades and if you get better grades the chances are that you want to take the opportunity to go to an aspirational destination, sixth form colleges have a long tradition of success in getting students into the best universities. a lot of students will wa nt to universities. a lot of students will want to go to a sixth form college and that may prove a challenge for some colleges. it is too early to say yes just how big a challenge will be but we do need to be ready for it. so yesterday, when the news came out that colleges were told not toissue came out that colleges were told not to issue btec results, and schools we re to issue btec results, and schools were told, as well, late afternoon yesterday, what was your reaction? well, it's very unfortunate that the announcement came so well, it's very unfortunate that the announcement c

i'm joined now by bill watkin, ceo of the sixth form colleges association — a national network of sixthcutive told me in the west midlands a few years ago that more youngsters study a—levels at sixth form colleges than at schools in england? not overall. sixth form colleges are larger than schools. just over 100 of them. each of them has about 2006th forms. —— sixth formers. you might get several hundred students doing maths a—level, even 1000. they tend to be high performing, long established traditions of high results with specialist experts in a—levels. the reason we are particularly concerned is it cannot bea particularly concerned is it cannot be a coincidence that all of these hundred colleges have suddenly had a dreadful year. something has gone very wrong clearly. there are two separate but connected issues. one of them is a chasm between the teacher grades and the algorithm grades which the students received on thursday. and the second is the failure of the algorithm to make sure results remain the same year on year which was instruction the designers of the algorithm were give

let's speak now to bill watkin from the sixth form colleges association. good morning to you.ll is as they are not acknowledging that there is an error in the algorithm. there is micro—to separate but connected issues here, one of them is the chasm between teacher grades, the centre assessment grades, and the computer grades, the algorithm grades, the ones the students were actually issued last week. and the second is the failure of the algorithm to ensure that this years results are broadly in line with previous years. so we've just done a study and we've looked at 65,000 entries which is almost half of all the a—level entries in sixth form colleges across 41 a—level subjects, every single a—level subjects, and in every single one of those 65,000 entries in 401a—level subjects, they came out lower than the previous three year average so the algorithm is failed. so we understand the extent of the problem. one in five stu d e nts extent of the problem. one in five students in sixth form college got grades lower than they would have got if they'd sat the exam, we understand the