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this afternoon near the corner of 38th and masterson street just a few blocks away from laurel elementary school officers say a second victim turned themselves in to a local hospital with a gunshot wound. not clear if the injuries are connected and there's no word yet on the victim's condition. and this comes after 6 people were injured in a shooting at bay area technology school that was in oakland wednesday. the victims are all 18 or older. they include 2 students. >> a counselor security guard and 2 other people who are working at the school. we know 3 of the victims have been released from the hospital, but one is still in critical condition tonight. and the 2 people police believe are responsible for the shooting wednesday. they are still on the loose tonight. kron four's dan kerman spoke with police chief leronne armstrong about what it will take to reverse this skyrocketing trend of violence. here's dan story. oakland police say so far none of the tips they've received have led them to the 2 people. they believe. >> are responsible for shooting 6 wednesday at red. still high school on the king, a state's campus friday chief leronne armstrong called on those who know more about this shooting to step forward. this is not a time to think about not snitching and not bring forth information. >> people who commit these crimes have to be held accountable. so really calling our can on our community right now to bring forth the information that we need to find the individuals that committed this heinous crime. the chief says with the increasing level of gun violence in his city, it was just a matter of time before someone on a school campus would be targeted and he says he's not convinced any level of security could have prevented it. these are very difficult situations that, you know, it's hard to say if you can prevent them. i have somewhat at any location when you have 2 armed suspects when 10 issues the chief blames groups and gangs for most of oakland's violence in mali says they'll continue to use diversion programs like cease-fire to curb the recent increase. he also thinks it's time for congress to step up and past needed gun safety legislation. we need legislative support to help prevent some of these high powered weapons from entering our community. we obviously that far too many shootings with rifles, high caliber weapons as well extended magazines that are often used in the shootings as well. all of those could be controlled by some legislative law help us in terms of preventing future school shootings. the chief says it's a combination of police presence coupled with the school community sharing information with police about potential threats and firearms on campus. dan kerman kron. 4 news. >> the smash and grab of a car garage break. it really shock anyone here in the bay area these days, but it might surprise you to hear about someone who is able to track down the thieves themselves. that was the case for a man in the marina district of the city who had a briefcase full of thousands of stolen from his home kron four's rob nesbitt. he spoke with the man about his chase, what he chased down the thief do do tell prompted vicki chased down the the thief themself in uber was waiting outside cyrus senate dodges home back in june. ready take him and his family to the airport. you need to catch a flight to italy for his wedding. >> but while packing up the car, he realized a bag with his valuables had been stolen. >> laptop ipad. >> medication, passports, cash. >> most would panic knowing that all that had been stolen from their front doorstep. but cyrus dodgy did some quick thinking at his marina home in san francisco using his cell phone he was able to track is air pods in the stolen bag that we're paying at the intersection of fillmore and chestnut. he followed the blue dot that slowly made its way up. fillmore realizing that the thief was on a muni bus eventually transferring from the 22 to the 38 on geary with uber driver. we followed the bus and then cut the bus off at the next. >> at the next stop, i jumped on his bag was nowhere in sight on board the bus, but it was when he got off that he saw a man handing his laptop off to another person on the sidewalk. at that point, i was seeing red and i just head down and charged tackled him. got another ground and wrestle a driver was great because he stepped in and pulled the backpack off of the the guy. >> senate dodgy says the suspect managed to get away and run up the street as far as the stolen items, everything was accounted for except for his ipad. and cash is 9,000 eur in cash. that was what we needed to pay all or different vendors for the wedding. officers responded to the scene. surprise that sand and dodgy was brazen enough to tackle the suspect in the tenderloin back in his own neighborhood of the marina. the crime scene to be getting more serious within. >> 2 weeks of us of this incident happening june of this year, someone was shot and killed 2 blocks down from from our house. he blames a number of factors from the soft on crime policies of the former san francisco district attorney. >> to low morale at the police department concerned that the theft he experienced will stay the norm. yes, we have our problems like every other major city does. >> it's sad to see. our city that has so much potential is not living up to it. >> san and dodgfiled a police report the day his money and belongings were stolen. he's doubtful, though, that he'll ever recover what was lost. more than an arrest will be made. reporting in the newsroom. i'm rob nesbitt kron. 4 news. >> well, quite a tale, rob. thank you. san ramon police meanwhile, have arrested a man who they say committed lewd acts with a child during a guitar lesson. police say 69 year-old rex lee bell of allay was offering private guitar lessons across the bay area through his website, guitar confidence dot com. police say there could be additional victims spell who is already a registered offender has been booked into the martinez detention facility. but the bail set of nearly 10 million dollars. and tonight one man is in the hospital after driving his car off a cliff in pacifica. happened around 09:00am near devil's slide along highway one. you see the car way down there. chp says they got a bunch of calls about a car that went off the cliff. now on the beach, 400 yards or so below the roadway. officers found a man still inside the car. >> unsafe speed was a factor in this collision, possibly driving a little bit too fast. the vehicle was entering a curve portion of the roadway at the time of the collision, there was no fault or minimal haziness in the area. as you can see, the fog has now overtaken this area. so, yes, we need everyone to be cautious anytime they're driving through this area and pay attention to the road especially under adverse conditions. >> first responders 70's the jaws of life to get the victim out of the car. that person's allen hospital with serious injuries, but is said to be in stable condition at this time. lucky crews, sir, considering delaying removing the car because there has been thick fog in the area. different points today. so if you're driving along highway one tonight in the devil's slide area, maybe tomorrow if they can't get it off today, just know you could experience some delays. >> the situation in florida is far more devastating. we're just beginning to see the scale that destruction. it's likely to rank among the worst in the nation's history. >> has weakened to a post-tropical cyclone after making landfall today in south carolina as a hurricane leaving a deadly trail of damage in florida. of course, officials say the dangerous storm surge and other threats continue despite the downgrade. >> it is now moving inland over the carolinas with tropical storm force winds. this is that the latest video now this afternoon, many communities they've already been flooded, impassable streets. the eastern part of the region feeling the most impact. the focus now is also on florida where at least 20 deaths have been confirmed. kareen wynter has the latest developments. >> america's heart is reallf breaking. to some watching people watching on television. just want the people of florida, no, we see what you're going through and we're with you. president biden speaking out on the massive undertaking under way to restore battered florida communities rocked by hurricane ian. he said the largest team of rescuers in recent history have been deployed to the region. >> dramatic water rescues in parts of florida. ian steamrolled its way through the state and left behind catastrophic damage. rescue crews, piloting boats assisted in getting pets and people waist deep in flood waters to safer ground and sanibel island. then the urban search and rescue teams and just where they're at right now, those are coming back doing that very, very technical. >> to door, knock on it, turn debris over, yelling to the structure, try to search it as best they can. florida governor ron desantis confirmed emergency teams launched at least 700 rescues. many of them by air on thursday with the u.s. coast guard and national guard and urban search and rescue teams all assisting. we will be able to bounce back from this is tough as it's been. there's resiliency. there's greg in these communities. these aerial images capture the devastation from above. fort myers, flattened by ian with structures ripped from their foundation and debris fields stretching for miles other areas also shredded by the storm. >> and was one of the strongest hurricanes to blast the u.s. and it's now taking aim at south where residents taps and backs in flood prone areas and left their homes and businesses behind to ride out the storm in safer areas. >> winds whipped through communities with some areas expected to receive massive amounts of rainfall. >> that was kareen wynter reporting for us tonight. south carolina, north carolina, georgia, all feeling the effects of this storm, according to the national hurricane center in is expected to reach west virginia by early sunday. >> achievement joins us now. large, just feels like a supercharged storm. yeah, boy, it's been going and going right. the second landfall now on this one coming just south of myrtle beach near georgetown into south carolina and north of charleston. you see coming on shore earlier today and now it's falling apart, but they're still a lot of damage. this system can do all that moisture. now a leftover. and so that's got to go somewhere. and they're starting to see more heavy bands of rain moving on shore. you see that right now circling around that. we've had some reports, some places over 3, maybe 5 inches of rain in some of that path. and of course, because of that, they're talking about some flash flooding. that seems to be the issue right now. taking the focus a little further north into fayetteville. yeah. under flash flood warning right now. you've got more stormy weather toward the east near kitty hawk is we're going to see the chance of some tornadoes developing as you've got a lot of that wrap around moisture, some instability that continues to head in that direction. and you continue to see a storm surge along the coastline. so the storm system, yes, come on shore, but it's not done. a sustained winds now 60 miles an hour. and so it is tropical cyclone making its way across parts of the east and will continue to do so right in the weekend. it's going to be a messy weekend along the east coast. all right, lawrence, still to come on kron, 4 news at 5. >> with interest rates still going up is the housing industry going from a seller's market to a buyer's market? financial experts are weighing in. and as we've reported at the top of the newscast, another mass shooting at school, this one close to home later, we'll get some advice on how to help kids process this latest school shooting. and you've probably seen a gas prices are shooting way up yet again with governor newsom says he's doing to help ease the pain. kevin: i've fought wis for twenty years. here's the reality we face every day. this is a crisis. we need more firefighters, more equipment, better forest management to prevent wildfires and reduce toxic smoke. and we need to reduce the tailpipe emissions that are driving changes to our climate. that's why cal fire firefighters, the american lung association, and the california democratic party support prop 30. prevent fires. cut emissions. and cleaner air. yes on 30. >> many bay area residents seeing higher prices at the pumps. take a look at these numbers. according to triple a drivers are paying $0.61 more in napa than they were last week. 68 more in oakland, san francisco, the highest with $6, $0.50 a gallon. but the price it's really gone up. but the most in san jose with $0.70 more in just one week for a gallon of gas. and a rose is nearing san francisco prices at the $6.43. a gallon. governor newsom writing a letter to the state's air resources board calling for refineries to begin distributing winter blend gasoline earlier than usual. the governor saying in part, quote, allowing refiners to make an early transition to winter blend gasoline could quickly increase fuel supply and provide a much-needed safety valve with minimal air quality impacts the switch to winter blend gas from summer blend. usually doesn't happen until around halloween october 31st. meantime, gas experts say as some of the main reasons for the high gas prices include supply not matching demand the war in ukraine, of course. and now the aftermath of hurricane in in florida. it's always something's of gas is going up. houses, though, are going down in the tide is starting to. >> turn in the housing industry from a seller's market buyer's market is home value growth is finally slowing down from during the pandemic. you know, we saw those record highs are firstly to call shares zillow study that points to a full shift in favor of buyers next year. >> in a recent survey of more than 100 housing market. economist zillow asked which year might decisively turned into a buyer's market? and by far the most common answer was next year 2023. but number of folks also actually said this year, like maybe it's already happened. 56% of economists say sometime next year. 24% say 2024. 13% predict the shift in 2025. and 8% are tracking a buyer's market after 2025. senior zillow economist jeff tucker says those surveyed also anticipated decline in home prices. >> in coastal markets like the bay area that matches up with what we're already seeing in the market. we've already seen our price index for both san francisco and san jose metro areas decline about 3 to 3 and a half percent just since this summer, the real estate market certainly shifting. they've already shipped and anticipate they're going to continue to shift as long as rates remain high. david stark speaks for the baby's association of realtors and says while high mortgage and interest rates have sidelined many potential homebuyers, he does not see those variables dropping dramatically any time soon. whether it's going to become a truly buyer's that's to be seen because as those interest rates change. >> it not only changes sales prices, that sellers are asking that it also changes how buyers are behaving prices may be coming down, but those prices are still high for homebuyers based on the kinds of mortgages they can they can qualify for. it isn't exactly a buyer's market yet. i see it becoming more of balanced market between buyers and sellers. philippe djegal all kron. 4 news >> i local weather time now as we take a live look outside at the bay bridge toll plaza got hardly strictly bluegrass festival going on this weekend, golden gate park. so folks might be trying to get there. who knows. but a beautiful day in the bay warm here in the city conference. chief meteorologist lawrence karnow here to talk about the rest of the weekend. that's right. we're getting ready for what looks like a beautiful fall weekend. can you believe that the beginning? >> of october and so looks like the weather going to work out perfectly outside to kind of give you a little bit of a taste. lot of sunshine around most the bay area. now some fog low clouds starting to creep on shore and that will kind of lead into the weekend. so we're going to back off on the temperatures a little bit. don't get me wrong. it's going to be a nice weekend. but you see the bay. now you've got a couple patches of fog rolling in through the golden gate bridge right now in the san francisco as well. temperatures as you might expect, cooler co-signed got 58 in half moon bay. it is still 79, though. i'm beautiful and sunny and san mateo. 71 in oakland, 90 in hot and conquered right now. 83 in napa and 90 in the bottle. but here you go. here's your ridge of high pressure overhead. little bit of a northerly component to the wind today, at least in london, kind of a stock. those temperatures just a bit brought you up in the 90's. but along the coastline, enough of the sea breeze there. and of course, that sea breeze bringing the fog and cool weather along the coastline. you see that fog begin to surge back on shore. high pressure kind of the access is kind of shifting a little further to the east. and that means, well, we're going to see temperatures cooling down just a little bit. a couple of storms came knocking at the door this that time of year we watch is really closely eventually won a punch, too, but not just yet. we've got a great weekend ahead. lots of sunshine, except for along the coastline. you got your fog and low clouds, sea breezes. yeah, they're going to pick up again by tomorrow afternoon and that will help to cool down the temperatures a little bit. but still numbers looking pretty nice as we head toward the afternoon. temperatures running up in the 80's in the valleys will see a lot of 70's inside the bay and sunshine. a cooler 60's and breezy and the fog at the coast. thanks, lauren. still ahead, we take a look at it. tasty fusion spot that >> started out as a food truck. but he's now san francisco staple. >> and continuing payroll issues for one bay area school district. what's causing the holdup and what's being done to fix it? >> is payday for educators in the san francisco unified school district. but some teachers didn't get paid. lingering problem with a new payroll system is the issue apparently harper's haaziq madyun has details. >> and it doesn't matter which specific issue it is at this point. we are now in september and train october rent is due tomorrow. >> it is the end of the month and just imagine that the working full time for the last 4 weeks finding out you didn't get paid. that is what's happening to some teachers in the s of unified school district. and it's a major problem. all of us in education. >> it is not a non issue. we work paycheck to paycheck. we are not exorbitant lee paid. >> entrepreneurial as the president of the united educators of san francisco. she represents 6,000 teachers in the sf unified school district. she says some of whom are beginning to report not getting paid for the month of september. the problem, she says, is connected to the school district's new payroll system launched back in january by march, the teachers union stage a four-day sit-in at the sf usd administration building in protest because teachers are not receiving their accurate pay employees of s usd have spent the last 9 months. >> with stress anxiety and full panic about whether or not they will be paid at all accurately and how much the transition from a very old antiquated system to a new system. >> lead to some heirs, however, sf usd spokesperson. laura, does it talks about the upside of the new payroll system. this system will have a lot to offer and will be ideally user friendly and once we address all these issues, that is why we were transitioning to this new system because it there is a lot for it to offer. and so that's what we want to work toward. and that's what we're actively focusing on is maybe a little buyer's remorse at this point on the new system that working exactly we do. sounds like you didn't think that when you sign, do think that to be here right? we're doing everything we can to address the issues. >> who do you hold responsible for this? >> our employer at the end of the day, step us. steve officials at sf usd suggest any employee experiencing not receiving their accurate pay to inform the district as soon as possible. how's kron? 4 news. >> next up, why local street has been renamed after a man who was killed. >> plus, it's terrifically brutal disease with no cure how the ice bucket challenge shelf fund research that led to a new promising treatment for a less. >> how to talk to your kids about gun violence, especially when it happens at a local school days after the mass 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dupixent, a breakthrough eczema treatment. >> students have not returned to the classroom since that mass shooting in east oakland on wednesday, the campus is going to remain closed until at least monday. maybe they'll go back to school tuesday as they cleanup and what have you. but when students do return, it will no doubt be a tough, emotional day. no doubt. unfortunately, this is just the latest school shooting to take place in our country. >> within, you know, the past few months, the subject always a really tough one to talk about with your children. but here to help us shed some light on how to help kids process this violence as well as other violent acts is clinical psychologist doctor brenda wade, a friend of the program. doctor, wade, good to see you. thank you for being with us. it's all so upsetting so much. how do you begin to to process yet? another one of these? it's different from uvalde students were attacked in their classrooms. but it's still so horrible. >> it is so horrible. and it is so absolutely painful. i'm a mom. and the first thing i always think about, of course, like any other parent or grandparent or family member is this could have been my and as you said, this is a trend that is grow 8. it's not something that's new. and unfortunately it's expanding. so one of the first questions is why is it happening?
Allen-hospitalGeorgiaUnited-statesCharlestonSouth-carolinaOaklandCaliforniaMyrtle-beachMarina-districtFloridaTogoSan-francisco about that is that what is portrayed sometimes as being seeticized, what you really is the operation of different judicial philosophies at work. these are legitimate philosophies. they tend to drive them in a principled way towards answers to the same question. if you are able to perceive that a lot of times that is not the right way to aink about it erie it this is well-thought-out philosophy about the law and the constitution, but they just don't have the same philosophy. this generates different results. you could say the same thing about the great battles in the supreme court over the new deal. there were philosophies about how you did -- interpret the constitution in certain areas. this generates some sharp differences. times, the court was not just political in this sort of cents, how they align with political ideology, but they were actual politicians. had one justice run for president and another former president, chief justice taft, appointed to the court. the first -- the first chief justice resigned to run for governor of new york, john j. justice frankfurter would continue to advise the president. he remained very close to president johnson and would give him advice. there were times when the court involved in the actual nuts and bolts of politics. writing articles under pseudonyms to influence policies. this may be one of those things where we all want the good old days, no matter where we were. i am not certain that however political this is now is more political than it has been at other times. i do think -- maybe someone will correct me. court, they are not priornt to disregard supreme court decisions. i would not call that political. but they will not be deterred by what the prior court said. >> we will leave this conversation and take you live to the fairgrounds in indianola where joe biden is getting ready to speak at the harkin steak fry, there is senator harkin. these remarks are thought to be a stepping stone to the white house. president's joe biden stepping- possible a -- possibly a stepping stone to the white house for himself. [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2013] [captioning performed by national captioning institute] >> do we start this off? here we go. you have to pay for these. ok. that --ant you to know this is a lot more tender than -- that one.oud of this is pretty good. >> thank you, mr. vice president. >> we have the wonderful rain, which we needed. you brought the rain. >> i did. [indiscernible] [indiscernible] [indiscernible] [indiscernible] >> this is tom's brother. he lives down in portland. you know what i mean? >> this is the home week -- [indiscernible] >> 51 years. >> god love you. get in here. [laughter] >> there is plenty of it over there. [indiscernible] >> mr. vice president, are you ready for 2016? some seatsdy to win in the house and the senate right now. >> when was your first time in iowa? inampaigning for john coburn 1974. [indiscernible] >> campaigning for john coburn in 1974. [indiscernible] [indiscernible] >> just watching some of the fry, with joe biden and julian castro. a few people asking if he is ready for 2015. he says he is ready to win some seats in the house and senate. he was also asked about syria. his remarks were going to be "ok." podium we willhe catch some of the program going on right now at the stake fry in indianola. miller.ve tom treasurer, mike fitzgerald. from the iowa house, -- john forbes. kurt hansen. [indiscernible] kearns. haverom the pilot sent we -- senate --m the iowa rob gorski, herman kraumbach. least, ourt not majority leader, mike -- [applause] forget congressman dave congressman bruce brailey. now, we can keep these folks in office and they can offer so much more next november. we know we are greater together than on our own. we cannot let republicans continue to stand in the way. let's put iowa on the map with theng the country forward. congressman has been a terrific asset for all of us, helping iowa families. he is committed to ensuring that our children and grandchildren receive of her's class education and get the training they need from -- for the work they want to do. and helping veterans and families by providing the resources and support they have earned on the homefront. he is working hard to make sure that everyone has the same opportunities to reach their full potential. -- good friend >> it is good to be here. thank you. especially thanks to those people i represented before the redistricting. i think that we need to say thanks not just to the elected justials, and not recognize those who are hoping to win office in november, bruce and i are married to two very special women. my wife is in washington at the moment. doing the right thing by being there and doing the family thing. we should give a round of applause not only to the spouses of the elected officials but all of you who are volunteering and have volunteered in the past and will volunteer for us in running for office. give yourself a big round of applause. we really don't thank you enough. i really do believe that. big round of applause, this was mentioned, to those serving in the military and who have served in the family of those folks as well. thank you so much. well, i want to say thanks to tom harkin. what a fighter. well, butnow him not i got to know him in 1974 when he was running for office. i was a graduate student at iowa state university. there are some people there who did not win but they want to clap. i represent the hawkeyes now. divided loyalty to say the least. in 1974, this was watergate. in 2006, 1 of those elections like 1970 or. in 1976, that was a tougher election for him. one, election that he has this has been tough. for the house or the senate. but tom harkin has one. people,o the for the who, like me when i was growing up -- he stood up for those who didn't have the opportunity to do better. and stood up for those who needed that ladder of opportunity. and when we make it we don't pull that ladder up. we keep it there for people to have that opportunity. people willing to take personal responsibility for themselves, that they can succeed in this country because we know that they can, but they have to have the opportunity. those are the people he has been fighting for. the seniors and the young people who want to go to college and get an education. else, he isyone fighting for those with disabilities. we should give him a huge round of applause for that. tom harkin, he fights for those who don't have power and who are often overlooked. that is what he has done his whole career. i know that he will get replaced by somebody who will be just as good. he has to hear me talk a couple more minutes before he gets up here. this is fantastic. we came in together in 2006. we have been great friends. tom harkin, doing the right weng for the middle last. talk a lot about the middle class but we never talk about what we mean. who wantsn is someone some food to put on the table for his family. i talk about someone who does not want to lose their job with bad trade agreements that ship those jobs overseas. someone who wants to have enough money to be able to send their kids to college and maybe take a two-week vacation, and maybe have some kind of money put away for retirement. because you know social security won't be enough. when they get to be that age where they are collecting social this does not privatize and medicare does not doubt your eyes. -- voucherize. i will keep fighting for the middle class. and for those who want to get into the middle class we want to expand this. because of that middle class. that is why we are special and exceptional. everything, thank you for helping me get here today. let's keep working, let's keep fighting. thank you for being here today. [applause] >> thank you very much, congressman. before i go on i have to knowledge that as a proud board from orin county, thank you for this steak fry. we are proud to have our other democratic congressmen here with he learned the -- the power of our work at an early age so it is no surprise he helps middle-class families in congress. teaching the people of iowa skills to work in alternate energy, so more people could afford to go to college. bruce has proven that he can people together to be an effective fighter for iowa. we need bruce in the u.s. senate. ladies and gentlemen. let's welcome the next senator from the great state of iowa. our friend, bruce. >> thank you, everyone. thank you. thank you. thank you, everyone. you for that warm welcome and introduction. my good friend dave, thank you for showing -- throwing me under don'ts and suggesting i think my wife enough for the amazing sacrifice that she made so i and serve the people of iowa. i thank her every day because i know what an extraordinary sacrifice this is, and i know that you think terry -- thank terri every chance that you get. theuld like to have all of harkenistas who have ever worked on one of his campaigns or worked on his house or senate staff, to please stand up so that we can recognize you for the amazing work that you have done or us, and helping our good friend, tom harkin. can you -- tom, all of your harkin. you? u stand up, all of is for the people who go out and do the amazingly challenging work every day to help the people they represent. that has been the strength of tom harkin, that he has surrounded himself with these great people. i am so glad that i know so many of them. i am here of people, today because tom harkin got me involved in democratic politics. i was a young college student at iowa state when i saw that a congressman from southwest iowa was going to be speaking at george washington carver hall. i decided to go check him out. all of you, i was blown away from the moment i met tom harkin. here was a man who never forgot where he came from. who never forgot the people who had worked so hard to elect him to represent them, and who always understood that is fundamental job was to help the people he served, no matter what that took. i am proud that tom harkin is my friend, my mentor, and my hero. and that is why i am so honored to have this opportunity to work in -- walked into the senate chamber after tom harkin walked out for the last time. but i also learned a valuable lesson from tom. that is, i need your help. i can't do this by myself. many people have come up to me and said, you're going to have big shoes to fill, if you are elected for this senate seat. i immediately corrected them. because i will never fill tom harkin's shoes, and i am not going to try. but i will say to everyone that if you stand by me on this months,over the next 14 i will work tirelessly in every corner of the state of iowa so a proud, patriotic, progressive democrat is walking into the senate chamber the day that tom harkin walks out. [applause] this is not about me. this is to celebrate an amazing senator, an amazing human being and an amazing american. i think it is appropriate for us to say, thank you, tom. thank you for giving us the americans with disabilities act. thank you for giving us a comprehensive health care reform for the first time in our history. and thank you for fighting every day, to expand the middle class. thank you for protecting and securing our social safety net, social security, medicare, and medicaid. thank you, tom harkin. but tom is also the first one to harkinus that the first elected to public office was not for those of us who went to college in story county, when ruth was the county attorney, we learned to respect and honor the legacy of ruth harkin. let's give her a big round of applause. dave mentioned the ladders of opportunity that he has talked about so much in his life. i was one of those people who benefited from those ladders of opportunity. my parents both grew up on iowa farms during the great depression. my grandfather was a sharecropper who somehow managed to send all four of you to get a college education. my dad left the farm near montezuma ammann enlisting in the marine corps when he was 17. landing on iwo jima the day that they raised the flag. he taught me the meaning of sacrifice and patriotism. but the day that he landed they did not ask the marines who are getting on that landing craft to have the democrats sit on the left side and the republicans sit on the right side. that is the lesson i learned growing up. in brooklyn, when people had a problem, they did not ask what party you belong to. i asked for your help and they got your health. that is what the people of iowa want in the next editor, and with me, that is what they are going to get. i was blessed to grow up and have a great middle-class opportunity, but i never would have gotten through college without the opportunity to get tell grants, and federally insured student loans at 1 and 2% interest rates when the markets were at double digits and being able to work a part- time time job 25 hours per week. this is what the people of iowa expect. they expect you to work hard but also that there should be a safety net there, and i learned that question. my dad fell 30 feet and shattered his leg at the grain elevator he worked that, nearly losing his life. my mom decided to go back to college and get a four-year teaching degree. she is still teaching at the age of 84. i couldn't be more proud of her. [applause] i'm proud of my wife carolyn who spent the last two weeks in waterloo teaching in an unair nditioned classroom in triple-digit temperatures because she and my mom both know that what they do matters in this state. if we're going to have a future in iowa, education has to be a fundamental part of it and that's why it needs to be fully funded and we need to honor the professionals who teach our children. cheers and applause] >> so i just want to leave you with this. i want to leave you with 12 keys to success for me and every other democrat running in 2014. so there will be a quiz on this later. the first four things i want you to take away from today is i need your help and so does every democrat who is going to be on the ballot. number two, what do you think? i want to hear from you. i have been traveling all offense the state. i have traveled to almost 2/3 of the 99 counties and i'm coming to your town soon. i want to know what you think we need to be doing on this campaign to get our message out so that republicans, independents, and democrats have a reason to show up next november and vote for bruce brule. final four things, final four things, let's get to work. we don't have the luxury of waiting until labor day next year to get excited about democratic politics. we know we won't have the protective cocoon of president obama in 64 field offices in iowa. we have to make that magic happen ourselves. so the time to start is now. so i want to leave you with this last story as extra motivation. about two months ago i got a text message while i was out of iowa and all the message says was, "bruce, i finally graduated." that message was from a 31-year-old man in waterloo named deandre. i met deandre when he was in fourth grade and carolyn and i started mentoring at long fellow elementary through our church. through that experience, i started spending time with deandre outside of fourth grade as a big brother. two years later, he started having pain in his abdomen. he went to the great community health center in waterloo where they diagnosed a possible tumor, referred him to allen hospital. he had no health insurance, and they removed the tumor and he was diagnosed with nonhodgkins lymphoma in sixth grade. the only place for him to go without health insurance to get chemotherapy was the university of iowa hospitals and clinics. i went home and talked to my wife because it was impossible for anyone else to go there with deandre. i moved into the pediatric oncology unit in iowa city for almost a month and i saw extraordinary things. i saw young people who had lost all of their hair and had ports in their chest walking in and out of each other's rooms taking care of each other and some of those kids didn't make it. but deandre got world class health care even though he couldn't afford it and he came back to waterloo and he has had a lot of peaks and valleys in his life and i have been there with him every step of the way. the reason he sent me that text message was after all these years, he finally passed his g.e.d. and he was so proud that he had to share that with me and i got tears in my eyes when i got that text. if the deandres of this world are not going to give up on theirselves, we have to make sure that we're out there fighting for them, giving them hope, giving them opportunities to have their shot at the american dream. that's why i'm a democrat. that's why i'm running to be your next senator and that's why i need your help. thank you all very much. cheers and applause] >> thank you. how about these great iowa democratic leaders! let's hear it for them! cheers and applause] >> thank you, again, the main program will resume shortly. ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ >> and just taking a break here at the harkin steak friday, this -- fry, this is a long standing political event started by tom harkin who is retiring after 40 years of service at house and senate. vice president biden talked about harkin's career and his work on the americans with disabilities act. they are campaigning on the democrat we saw earlier, bruce braley, he is a congressman be and is running for harkins' state. back then, the attendance was 20 people and since then, for example, when bill clinton attended in 1992, there were about 5,000 people at the steak fry, when candidates including hillary clinton attended in 2007, 15,000 people attended. this is kind of considered a stepping stone to the white house. there have been a trio of events today, other fundraisers. vice president joe biden making inroads with iowa democrat .eaders as reported and senator harkin was asked if vice president biden's visit was a testing ground to 2016, senator harkin said he liked to eat steak. that is from the "des moines register." earlier at the barbecue here at the steak fry, one of the reporters standing outside was asking vice president biden if he was ready for 2016. he responded that he wants to win some house and senate seats now. and then another asked him about syria and vice president biden's response there was i think we're going to be ok. so we should be hearing from a number of speakers shortly. just taking a break here. while we wait for the next folks to appear on the stage, we're going to listen to a reporter with the "des moines register" who talked today about vice president biden's appearance. this is the 36th annual harkins steak fry and what the vice president's potential 2016 intentions might be. hakem: joining us on the phone is jennifer jacobs, a political reporter with the "des moines register" to talk about vice president joe biden's visit to iowa today. jennifer jacobs, why will the president be in iowa, what is happening? >> good morning. there is a lot of chatter that e is interested in 2016. that's the big buzz here. some people think it's not about joe biden running for president. he is trying to set his son up for a future race. >> he will be iowa. why today? what is happening? >> today is the harkin steak fry. we have a very popular democratic senator here, tom harkins, this is the 36th year. it's a very high profile event. it's nationally televised. it attraction many people who have presidential as per raises. if you attend, people think you're interested in running for president. >> is it necessary to go to the harkin steak fry? why would joe biden go, whether it's for him or his son? >> right. we asked senator harkin that and harkin said, well, we're old friends. he runs iowa. he has deep roots here. he has campaigned here three presidential cycles and he likes steak. harkin kind of joked about that, it has nothing to do with 2016, there are iowa democrats that think otherwise. >> what are you hearing on the ground about his son, beau biden? >> he is a sparkplug for democrats here. one activist said if beau biden would run some day, not 2016, everyone has their eye on hillary clinton for 2016, if beau biden were to run in the future, one activist said her job as a political visor would be easy because beau biden would be so popular here in iowa. >> is hillary clinton going to be there? >> she will not be here. we have not seen hillary clinton since the day she found out that she did not come in first in the iowa caucuses back in january of 2008. she has not been here. some democrats are hoping when she publishes her book she will come here on her book tour. otherwise have not seen her at all. >> why not? why wouldn't she come to the harkin steak fry if she is contemplating a run? >> well, some operatives would say it's too early. we're three years out from the general election in 2016. it's too early for her to get into the race in general. they don't want people to get burned out on her. it would be better for her to keep increasing speculation. if she is going to run, make the announcement much later. >> who else? what other democratic figures are going to be at the harkin steak fry today? >> an interesting pair from texas, the identical twins, the castro brothers, and actually they're celebrating their 39th birthday tomorrow, the day after the steak fry. one is a congressman from texas and one is a mayor of san antonio, texas. democrats here are fond of both of them. they saw one speak at the democratic national convention last summer and really, really liked him. these two castro brothers are considered up and coming democrats. i know that people here are pretty excited to see them. >> when people tune into see the harkin steak fry, what will they see? >> they'll see a stage with straw barrels and a big u.s. flag and the speeches start 2:20 iowa time, we have the castro and harkin speaking and vice president birdie. >> jennifer jacobs with the "des moines register," thank you for your time. >> you're welcome. >> we'll be hearing shortly from vice president birdie. you can see here in the crowd san antonio mayor julian castro. again, we're going to be taking their comments. join the conversation and let us know what you think. of hashtag is at the bottom he screen. #cspanchat. fema is continuing to support the response to the flooding. president obama has made federal assistance available to individuals there and he is having the administrator of fema get on the ground in colorado tomorrow. again, that update from the "associated press" on the flooding in colorado that continues there. ♪ ♪ >> ladies and gentlemen and great iowa democrats, welcome to the 36th tom harkin steak fry. please welcome back to the ley. congressman bruce bra please welcome to the stage ruce harkin, senator tom rkin, please welcome special and mayor julian castro your vice president joe biden! cheers and applause] >> ladies and gentlemen, please remain standing for the pledge of allegiance but iowa army national guard veteran and fourth congressional district candidate, james mahr. >> i pledge allegiance to the flag of the united states of america. and to the republic for which it stands, one nation, under god, indy visible, with liberty and justice for all. [cheers and applause] >> please remain standing for our national anthem performed by sidney lett of des moines. see by the n you dawn's early light ♪ ♪ what so proudly we hailed at the twilight's last gleaming ♪ ♪ whose broad stripes and bright stars ♪ fight gh the perilous ♪ ♪ oer the ramparts we watched were so gallantly streaming ♪ ♪ and the rockets' red glare ♪ the bombs bursting in air ♪ gave proof through the night that our flag was still there ♪ oh, say does that star -spangled banner yet wave ♪ ♪oer the land of the free brave ♪ home of the cheers and applause] >> please welcome to the podium, let's hear it for ruth harkin! [cheers and applause] >> thank you, thank you very much and welcome to the 36th harkin steak fry. we are so honored today to have vice president biden and mayor castro join us. our family and the bidens go way back and we share many family values. as you know, when the vice president was a senator, he took the train home every night to be with his family. now that says a lot about who he is. cheers and applause] >> then there is mayor castro, wow! >> many of us heard his speech and heard him speak for the first time last year at the democratic convention. wow, wasn't he extraordinary! and come to find out he has a twin running for congress! he and his congressman brother are rising stars and definitely what our party is all about. [cheers and applause] you know, i have been thinking about our first prize in the early 1970's. these were modest events we would climb up a little hill on joanie and gary's farm in madison county, steaks, $2. we always had cold beer. but guess what, we had a rule that there would be no political speeches. can you imagine? [laughter] >> we just gathered, drank beer, talked politics. and i recall the first event having less than 50 people. but you know, it was kind of fun. so we have just kept on doing it. no texting or facebook postings, you had to be there. then tom began to invite guests who spoke and we moved to the mueller farm, a bigger space, started having larger crowds and upped the price of the steaks and by 1987, the event features candidates running for the presidency, paul simon, gore sr. were al all among them. in 1991, tom announced for president at the steak fry on mueller's farm. [cheers and applause] >> actually, that was one of our best ones. in 1992, candidate bill clinton was the guest. nd he came back in 1996 as our president. [applause] >> so the harkin steak fry over the years has become a real tradition. rain or shine, we have been in mud, wind, cold, and some very hot weather. a couple of people have even told me they got engaged at a steak fry. [laughter] >> through the years the constant has been tom fighting for us, for equal rights, working people, education, and health care and most of all, fighting for people with disabilities. cheers and applause] last month tom and i were in ethiopia and we visited a clinic run by members of our piece core. among -- peace corps. among other things, they were working with disabled children making wheelchairs. they were pretty excited to meet tom, the guy who started it all, the father of the americans with disabilities act. [cheers and applause] >> his impact has been felt here in iowa all over the country and all over the globe and it's been really wonderful to witness firsthand the efforts of his good legs. but i have also been a witness to tom's personal life, as you know, he has been' wonderful husband for 45 years. [cheers and applause] >> a terrific parent and a doting grandparent. so please welcome a wonderful, wonderful senator who hasn't forgotten his first steak fry, tom harkin. cheers and applause] >> thank you! thank you, thank you, thank you all very, very much. steak , 36 harkin 36th friday, 36th and we haven't fried a steak yet. i don't know where that name ever came from. as you heard, i have a better record, a better winning reak, 45 years of love and partnership with a woman by the name of ruth harkin. [cheers and applause] >> i thank you, ruth, for those keend words, a very formidable troduction by a formidable woman, the only woman county attorney at that time and the only democrat in the county courthouse. i ran for congress that year. i lost, ruth won. and i said she was the only democrat in the courthouse, only women prosecuting attorney in the state of iowa so i ran two years later for congress and more than once i heard it said that, well, if she is that good, he can't be that bad. [laughter] so i rode her skirt tails into office. and then ruth became the deputy general counsel at the department of agriculture appointed by president jimmy carter. [applause] >> and then she became the president and c.e.o. of the overseas private investment corporation appointed by president clinton. [applause] >> and then a senor attorney with one of our nation's top law firm which was headed by ob strauss and for whom both hulean castro and joaquin castro worked in that same law firm also. and then ruth went into the private sector, became senior vice president for one of our largest manufacturers, united technologies corporation and through it all, a great mom to our two daughters and now a wonderful grand mom to our three grandchildren and i remember one time some years ago our oldest daughter amy coined -- she was studying french in high school. so she coined a phrase that has stuck with us ever since when she described her mother, ruth. la petit her general. [laughter] [applause] >> for those, that means the little general, you got it? a very special welcome to the vice president of the united states, joe biden. cheers and applause] >> now, folks, i got to tell you, i have enormous respect for the office of the vice president every time i see the vice president i refer to him and address him as mr. vice president. but having joe for so many years and knowing the down to earth type of guy he is, it's just hard not to call him joe. so, mr. vice president, no disrespect, but to everyone here and to all of us here in wa, you're our friend, joe biden. cheers and applause] >> and you're right, it's just joe, right, exactly. he wouldn't have it any other way. i can tell you that. he wouldn't have it any other way. thank you all for putting up with the extra security today. i mean, in addition -- [laughter] >> i guess in addition to the secret service and everybody hecking tickets and the secret service doing their security checks, i heard that donald trump was outside checking birthday certificates. cheers and applause] >> so it is always a big deal to have the vice president here with us. it's also a big deal to have san antonio mayor hulean castro here with us today. [cheers and applause] and if you'll just turn a little bit, i'll introduce his brother, congressman joaquin castro is right there. cheers and applause] >> so i'll tell you, our two speakers today really embody the strength and the genius and the heart of the democrat party. mayor castro is young, charismatic, one of our bright stars with new ideas, new energy the constituency of party. vice-president by me, who embodies enormous experience and wisdom, the sound judgment of our party that perilous times. we need both, the new and the seasoned. it's a great strength that we have as democrats and such a great honor to have you both here with us today. [applause] year the steak fry marks the change of seasons. there was an attack on a buttered cow. [laughter] isn't anything sacred anymore? [laughter] over the summer we have endured visits by rick santorum, rand ted cruz, governor way --rry is on his >> [booing] thell i can say is that's calendar is filling up rapidly. on a more serious note a couple of weeks ago we celebrated the 50th anniversary of the martin luther king jr. i have a dream speech. [applause] vision forember his all of god's children. ,arlier in the summer congressman steve king made headlines with a very different vision. the children of immigrants who aspire to become citizens, let me say it loudly and clearly, i am the proud child of an immigrant mother and i know which speech is for me. [cheers and applause] folks, congress is back in session. i want to say this, yesterday the announcement came through. russia, the u.s. have reached an agreement. weapons is being dismantled in syria by 2014. this happened because of the strength, the wisdom, the courage of president obama. this guy right here, vice president joe biden [applause] and our great secretary of state, john kerry. we reached this agreement with the international community to secure and dismantle by 2014 and we did not lose one american life. that is leadership, folks. that is leadership. once again, republicans of threatening to shut down the government or default on the debt unless we dismantle obama care. as one of the principal authors of the affordable care act, i do not know whether to laugh or cry at that. republicans have now voted 40 times to repeal of the affordable care act. folks, the good news for these republicans is that obsessive compulsive disorder is covered under obama care. [applause] [laughter] even better news is that the affordable care act is already working for all americans and as you know, next month we start sign up, ending the denial of coverage for all children based on pre-existing conditions. following abuses from insurance companies, such as giving canceled, it allows young people to stay on their parent policies until age 26. october 1,days, millions of americans will be able to sign up on the exchanges for subsidized health care. [applause] at long last, every american qualitye access to affordable health insurance and cannot be taken away. i want you to know that that includes every american with a disability. no more segregation, no more exclusion, no more second-class citizenship for people with disabilities in america. so, bruce, i understand that they're probably going to vote again on ending obama care. they are going to fail. because they are on the wrong side of history. americans will not let republicans drag us back for the social security, medicare, obama care, or opening new opportunities for young people with disabilities across this country. so, we are going forward. [applause] we are going to build a reformed health-care system that works for all americans. before i go further, i want to acknowledge some special people. first of all, all the steak fries for just about all of them, my dear friend joey has been the death interpreter for almost all of them. thank you, joey. interpreter for almost all of them. as well as susan, let's hear it for her. they always trade-offs. on that not a great job national anthem yeah cupful [applause] the ground crew spent -- national anthem? [applause] the ground crew spent days setting up. our grillers, glenn perry, valerie deal, again, let's hear it for all of the people who made this possible. applause]d and we have some wonderful rain last night. now it is nice for all of this year. i want to thank the one responsible for that, too. [laughter] [applause] have a lot round of applause for scott ran, who once again answered the call to be the state democratic chairman. scott? [applause] lost by contact, but where is jim? againck here, thank you for leading the pledge, thank you for your service in iraq and your future service as a united states congressman defeating steve king. thank you. [applause] our former state senator, stacy apple is with us. thank you for your future in the third district. i want to recognize and honor all of our state democratic dignitaries, including mark smith. he is here somewhere, i saw him earlier. [applause] thank hours want to -- our senate leader for being our rock of gibraltar through the last session. [applause] where in the heck is t.? mike, thank you. i want to all to never forget that those of you who call iowa home, those of us who care about keeping this state on a progressive course, nothing is more important than getting more democrats in the senate and winning back the governorship next year. [applause] our fighting second district congressman. dave? is dave? i just lost dave. -- dave? where is dave? i just lost dave. to come upsomeone here with me now. bruce. [applause] folks, and you have been so kind and generous to me in the years i have represented you in the house and the senate. when i announce my retirement in january i said that i would sit back and that this was going to be a passing of the baton, but that i would work every day until that day in january. i want you all to know that there is only one person i want our nexthe baton to, united states senator, bruce. [cheers and applause] >> thank you. >> thank you, buddy. ok, it is on with the show. you have your stake, for some sizzle. our first speaker, the mayor of america's seventh largest city. new to iowa, you have all seen him before. take to be the keynote speaker at the democratic national convention in charlotte. the ovation that he got at the end of his speech, all the talk about him ever since reminded everyone of the ovation for a previous keynote speaker eight years earlier, an obscure state senator named barack obama. [cheers and applause] the reason that there has been such outgoing love and support, many people see this young man as the future of our party. in fact, if you do this you can try it at home in your iphone, castro and rising star and you will get 410,000 hits. he was introduced by his twin brother, whom i introduced earlier, who is also with us as well today. as he said in that introduction, for 18 years they shared a small bedroom and a lot of big dreams, raised by a single and he became the youngest councilman in the history of san antonio. he was first elected mayor in 2009, reelected to a third term this year. the youngest mayor of a top 60 american city. there is much to admire about him, but what really caught my eye was two things. one, the phrase that he used in his speech last summer when he isd that the american dream not a sprint for aar but it is a relay. think about that, he generation growing up to pass on the opportunity to the next. for almost 20ing years to years something done for early childhood education in america. this last january in his state of the union barack obama $75 million to a program for young people in america. we have not gotten there yet, the mayor of san antonio decided not to wait. business community came together and they passed a sales tax measure for preschool and next month the first san antonio children will be enrolling in preschool and they are going to cover every single kid with preschool education. [cheers and applause] a round tolet's give one of our bright young leaders, a courageous young man, the mayor of san antonio, texas, coolly and castro -- julian castro. [cheers and applause] >> thank you. thank you. hello, i love. it is nice to be here. all, let me say a huge thank you on behalf of the regenerationand and this is your senator, tom harkin. a leader and a true public servant for so many who often if you can be in public service and stay true to who you are. tom has said yes and showed us and he couldyears not done half of what he had a and thank you for having us today. sometime ago president obama said that the best political made in hisever life to -- was to select joe biden as vice president. i agree with him. commend president, we you on your leadership. thank you for joining us. i had nothing to do with the security here. next greatse, the senator from iowa, bruce. [cheers and applause] i know we have got a lot of folks from all over iowa. dubuque,ot folks from desmoines, and indianola. i come from a city that google maps says is about 1,000 miles away from here. of theonio, texas, one fastest-growing in the united states, economically prosperous, vibrant, 1.3 million people. i have been mayor for about four years. i told the folks that a couple of months after being elected mayor i had a meeting with a woman in my office in city hall and i do not remember how we were meeting about any more, and as an elected official you get a lot of gifts. most of the mark trinkets or t- shirts. i have something like 200 t- shirts, five of which actually fit. before the meeting was over -- i was a rookie mayor and this woman, she gave me this gift bag that was covered in tissue paper. she asked me to go ahead and open my gift. i started to unwrap the tissue paper, i took the gift out and it was a prayer card. it was of st. thomas more. not know it, but he is the patron saint of lawyers and politicians. so, right before she walked out the door she said by the way, he was beheaded. [laughter] that is true. i thought to myself, what in the world have i got myself into. in thishat many audience have been sold during the way in iowa, in the trenches as democrats for a long time. people hereobably who have been here since the first state fried. lock walking, letter writing, ing, and sometimes you wonder why we are doing this. today we are gathered at this special moment in 2013, a moment when our world is changing at a faster rate than it has ever changed in human history. a time when it is easier to travel than it ever has been. easier to communicate with folks than ever before. computing in an iphone is faster than the computer. a computer that cost millions a few years ago. united states is engaged in a 21st century global economy that is more competitive than it ever has been, with countries around the world who are producing well-educated young people capable of learning and manipulating technology that a timefine this century, in which brainpower is the new currency of success. which the divisions that have often separated us, the divisions of geography, creed, are crumbling at a faster rate than any other time in human history. the question before us is -- what is the blueprint in this , the, in this century blueprint that america should to ensure prosperity. our friends on the other side of the aisle, they say the blueprint is this -- if everyone goes on their own, we will be fine. if everyone does their own thing and government leaves everyone alone, everything will be great. but i believe in a different blueprint. i believe in investing in the gi bill so that millions of americans can get a higher education. i believe in shepherding medicare to congress so that millions and millions of senior citizens can get the health care that they needed. ofelieve in the blueprint president obama extending health care to all americans in the united states. that this is the blueprint, because it has worked like this. in the united states we have always had the basic bargain. we expect you and your family to work hard, but when you do, we reward the hard work with opportunity. i know that it is more than just words. i know it from my own life. at the convention, i spoke about my grandfather -- grandmother. she came over to the united states as an orphan from mexico. she dropped out of elementary school and, eventually because of that she wound up working as a maid, coke, and babysitter her whole life. with myer and i grew up grandmother and my mother. i remember on april 3, 1992, we got two packets in the mail. these packets were from stanford university. we had gone to public schools in san antonio and we tried to apply to the best school in the united states. april 3, 1992, we got that acceptance letter and a couple of weeks later we got the bill. [applause] cost $27,000 per person to be able to attend stanford university. my mother was making less than $20,000 that year. my grandmother made a few hundred dollars in social security checks. here were these two women, both of whom have worked hard during their lives, watching their sons and grandsons with an enormous opportunity and wondering how in the world it would be able to pay for it. i can tell you this, the only reason i was able to reach my american dream to go to college and become a professional was because i worked hard, my family worked hard, and because there were grants, work studies, stafford loans. because iords, invested in myself. but fundamentally, i reached my dream because you invested in me. because the american people invested in me. that is america. that is what is great about this nation. that is the blueprint for success in the 21st century. that in san antonio. last november for the first time ever the voters said yes to the educational initiatives. 22,004-year-old will get high quality pre education so that we have the best prepared, best educated, most likely to succeed kids in all of the state of texas. [cheers and applause] my grandmother, when i was young, she used to tell these stories about when she was a girl. that after she was pulled out of school, she used to go and work the fields with her family. now, this is the first time i have really been in iowa. i have to admit, i was here for about five minutes a few years ago, but this is the first time i have been here and when we were coming in on the plains i looked out the window and i saw all the fields, the green space and i thought how proud she would have been that she had been picking crops and her grandson would be here where you guys pick a president of the united states. that is the american dream. so, we have the blueprints. we know what we have to do. we need to continue to elect great leaders, like president obama, like vice president biden. and of course, congressman soon to be senator bruce [indiscernible] working, keep phone banking. i look forward to election night on november, 2016. i will be in san antonio, i will probably have the television on. i am sure you will be at some victory party somewhere. i look forward to watching cnn, cbs, msnbc, abc, i look forward to that moment on fox news where they turned to which other and they say -- we call the electoral votes in iowa for the democratic nominee for president. thank you very much. [applause] [cheers and applause] thank you. thank you, julianne. -- julian. [applause] remain standing for a second. tomorrow is a momentous day. tomorrow is his birthday. we would give them the biggest happy birthday. are you ready? youppy birthday to happy birthday to you sappy birthday dear castro at a birthday to you ♪ [applause] [laughter] truly honored to have is our key note speaker the vice president of the united states. i am sure that i do not have to remind you that joe biden first ran for president here in 1987 and 1988. he spent some much time in iowa, he spent so much time in iowa he has friends all over the state. i am pretty sure he is from iowa at heart and one of the few people outside this state who can say he has been to every one of our counties more than once. so, he does not really need an introduction. here's what i want to say about my great friend. for years he was a powerful senator. now he is the second most powerful person in the world, but he is the same, decent, unpretentious, approachable joe elected at the ridiculously young age of 29 in 1972. all the years he served in the senate, very seldom did you see him after hours in the washington social swirl. the senate quit work for the day, he was at unions station, riding back to wilmington, delaware, to spend the evening with his family. that has meant a lot to ruth and me. this job pulls you in a lot of directions. there are always demands on your time, demands to do something in the evening. when we started having our families, only two nights per week out, we abided by that. every night joe biden went back to his family. hime that says more about than about anything else you could say. [applause] with his humble roots. he has always been a fighter for the working people. he understands what it means to be middle-class. he has known tragedy in his own life. heart isl you that his always open to others. senate, years in the there was always one place to the him, at the center of action. he was the chair of the judiciary committee during some of the most contentious supreme court nomination hearings. he also made his mark on ,riminal-justice system's passing the violence against women act. [applause] understand this, last year, to he led ourredit, the justiceognizing of marriage equality for all americans. [applause] so, we all know why he is so popular here and wherever he goes. he is the real deal. president obama calls him america's happy warrior. smart, witty, tireless, irreverent. the mention irreverent? [laughter] those of us who know and love him so much know that he is also , and in this case that is a good thing. my friends, i wish i could put into words what joe biden has meant to needy in my years of coming to the house, the senate, and having him as one of my me, instillingg in the his great values that he always had. there.anding why we are not to make a comfortable comparable, but to help those who need a government. there are opportunities for advancement and growth in america. as i said many times, i always want to refer to the vice president, all due respect, as mr. vice-president, but it is him for me not to just call my good friend. [cheers and applause] >> hello, folks. be back in iowa. how are you? it is great to be with you all. alls great to be here with of you. that mytart by saying son senses love, support, and affection. he and jim served in iraq for one year. did for our administration, what he did for the veterans and their families, it will not be forgotten. [applause] i know that many will find this as a shock, but it is amazing when you come to speak at the steak fry, a whole lot of people seem to take notice. [laughter] you have attracted the entire national press corps here. quite understood it, but i am learning. know, when the mayor was , he mentioned st. thomas more and how he did not he was the patron saint of judges, lawyers, and public officials. i do not want to change this into a mutual admiration society, you know, as well as i do, but i know them both very he made that reference it reminded me of a play about that time when thomas more was taking on henry the eighth, seeking to change the law so that he could get married. remarried. famous scene in that camewhere his son-in-law over with a fellow named roper to try to get compromise to overturn the law. he said, in response, if i cut down all the laws in england to what will you do when the devil turns around and you? these are god's laws, not man's. you have to stand sometimes despite enormous pressure. that is what i have watched him do. i have served with a lot of , but nonen and men with a conscience, none with the , none with more certitude about why he ran for office in the first place and tom. let me tell you, everyone knows about his work with americans who have disabilities. but the thing that they do not realize, we talked about it on all fewover, first of men or women ever get to see the fruits of their labor. especially when the labor was in the face of overwhelming opposition. tom took on the business community. he took on everyone. not only did he change the lives, literally, of millions and millions of americans with disabilities, the same way he ,id with his school programs not only did he change, but here's what did -- [applause] he did something remarkable, he changed all of america, turning able people either into not orking at the disabled looking at them with nothing but sympathy and pity, to looking at them as equals. them in a way at the value of a had to offer. he not only changed the state of affairs for the disabled in america, he changed the soul of america. think how different it is from what it was 25 years ago. , able orle look for disabled, is to be treated with dignity and respect. that is what he changed. of a handful of people, and this was supposed to make me feel good, but it made me feel bad, more than most people in american history i have served longer in the senate. [applause] so, it is astounding. tom does not leave it to just what happened here at home. think of what he has done and how loud his voice has been for those around the world. not only the disabled and the only thed, not disabled, but the people who in fact have no voice. tom has never been afraid to speak out. the war in vietnam? in centralquads america? the outrages of everything from a general mutilation of no women in africa to what is going on in syria. had a profound impact on how we view ourselves. today he remains the conscious of the senate. anyone the allow comfort of the nile in the democratic caucus. permit the willing suspension of disbelief that so many of us would rather engage in. these problems are hard to a knowledge, they place a burden on us. the good news is we have tom for another whole year. the good news, as i have gotten to know him well, we campaigned with him. he won despite me in 2006. got to see him, i have got to see him up close and personal. in 2006 it was not a certain thing, but i have watched people reacting the way you did, people engaged in politics, you can feel and taste that. right dec? the same thing that i respond to this the same reason that he will be a great senator, he is absolutely authentic. he has no phony bones in his body. [applause] i told bruce that i would come campaign for him against a group that helped him the most. [laughter] folks, folks, look. when the president knew that i i spentng, sincerely four hours the six hours per day with him and we became close friends, he was a hell of a man. he knew that i was coming and destiny of i would thank you for what he had done for handling and for delivering iowa in 2008 and 2012. [cheers and applause] standing where we are if it were not for all of you assembled before us today. the key to ouren ability to govern. from that day in 2008 when the ticket was announced, the president and i have had a laser focus on one thing. the middle class has been battered, as you all know. the eightot just by years that preceded us, but the decline began much earlier. i do not know how mealtimes i have walked the picket line. i do not know how many times i've been with you in your hometown as factories were padlocked and the jobs were sent to overseas. watching people who have had the ability to raise their families with decent income, watching it does appear before them. thing i have learned, mr. mayor, people often say that they say what they mean. literally, and they hit me for using literally all the time, literallybut folks the president and i had a handshake when he asked me to join him. i ask him only one question, was he committed as he said he was? committed to rebuilding the middle class? him two things i would not do as vice president. i would not wear funny hats and i would not change my brand. i kept my promise and he has kept his. ladies and gentlemen, let me tell you how we will measure the success and failure of the administration. it will not be whether the gdp continues to grow, and it is growing. it will not be whether or not they have returned and defeated the time they have. just be any old job. the measure of the success of will beadministration whether or not the middle-class is growing and the things that allowed it to grow and feel secure are able to be put in , jobs that you raise a middle-class family on. unlike any other country in the world, we are uniquely a product of having the largest middle class. the middle class, the one thing and thevery well president has demonstrated that economy like you always have, from the middle out, not the top down. he has acted on that belief. [applause] the unitednt of states and i understand this and i will keep saying it, middle- class is not a number. it is a value set. it is about keeping your farm and not having to sell it. living in a state with a decent neighborhood, sending your kids to a school where if they do well they have a chance of being admitted to college. if they get into college, having an equal chance to get their not based and your income but based on the fact that you earned it and work for it and you have a chance. [applause] that has been the american story. it is the story of the history of the progress of this country. note your children will have to take care of you if you take care of your own parents. because your government friends fought on your behalf, not got in the way. my dad had an expression, and i know that so many of you? what it is all about. forget someone asking me why everyone in delaware was so upset with the president. and he makes me sound like a and it was not that. my dad after the war in the early 1950's, i remember my father coming up to sit down and he had this -- you have seen and i am moving them to and and i will come back and bring jimmy and valle. 157 miles and i will be home most weekends. we believed it would be ok. not going on the blu-ray or losing a job, whatever and and he said? " it is about respect. it is about being able to take and of those a things, legitimately or in the power of the government, could and it possible to enhance all but and that is why the and something he and he decidedrd that instead of seeing those factories padlocked, he wanted them open. i'm and hollowht creating good jobs, creating good jobs for process. manufacturing jobs brought back to the united states of america. 500,000 of them since is a with high-tech industries for which there are not trained people. in combination here arrested $2 andion in community college at the rescuer of the of a more automobileystery -- industry, creating 300,000 jobs, saving millions. energy costs, reducing the cost of energy for middle-class families, doubling mile in standards, saving $1.70 trillion. over 12 billion barrels of imported oil. ladies and gentleman we are the world's leading producer of oil and the double renewable energy , and i will not take the time, but college affordability, we have increased the number by 3 million since taking office. over 9 million middle-class families can keep their kids in $500ge because of a troy it will not double or have to and ladies and despite since to is his to a doesn't 8. and his leadership has reduced the national debt by $2.50 trillion. we have created 7.5 million new have and the most educated and they do not understand why andannot generate besiegers canan generate you understand me. and theygoes on from a want to talk down to america's >> age java is allah and it goes beyond the job. it goes beyond how you treat the people of our country. and i could the iran silent any more. and 11 even regina and 11 million people came out of the shadows to get their opportunity to treat those people with dignity. that is what has been expressed and as in essence the i will prepare for is he will use ahead and it is not a as a and a review the in made for us. mypresident is absolutely daughter and four granddaughters will have every single solitary opportunity my and itd ran funds have .s not >> i have been saying this for the last four years. the american people are weighing in. you notice that when we announced our gay marriage decision, the american people agreed with us. immigration, what a surprise, the american people are always ahead of leadership. ladies and gentlemen, it's always been the story of the history of the journey with this country that the american people have been ahead. i know i have been criticized for saying it and i will say it again, that's what makes america exceptional. in the area of foreign policy, the president and i were determined from the outset to reestablish that notion of a shining city on a hill, where we are once again the most respected nation in the world, we are once again looks to not just for the example of our power, but the power of our example. world hasy the repaired to america for so long. you at this steak fry in 2007 at opposite ends of the platform, but he and i said the exact same thing, coincidentally. we said the first order of business if either of us were elect and would be to and the war in iraq and we did. we ended the war in iraq. [applause] thepresident gave me responsibility of coordinating the effort to end the war trade the proudest moment as vice in this gods ending awful gaudy palace of saddam hussein before american troops and iraqi troops and having the great honor of dismissing the american troops and saying like every american troop it for you, you are going home with nothing in hand but the certain knowledge that you did your job and you are coming home. [applause] gentlemen, we promised you we would end the war in afghanistan, and i guarantee you we will end the war in afghanistan. [applause] but what we believe from the havet, everybody says why you become such good friends? i have great respect for everyone for whom -- with whom i ran into thousand seven. but if you go back and look at those 13 debates, the only two people who never disagreed on a single, solitary subject in those debates were barack obama and joe biden. the reason i tell you that is this -- this has been seamless. it has been a great honor to work for him, worked under him, work with him. from the outset in foreign policy, he was thermined, as i was, that best way to defend our national interest was working in consort with the international community, not at odds with it. obviously every president reserves the right to act alone if american interests are at stake. but he knows we are much stronger when we act in consort with our allies in the international community. that is exactly how he stepped up to deal with the atrocities of -- that were occurring in syria, with a fundamental violation of human rights by the use of gas for the first time without the world responding since early on at the end of world war i. wasrs have used it, but he not going to allow it to happen on his watch. as the president said, the use of chemical weapons anywhere in the world is an affront to human dignity and a threat to the security of people everywhere. let me note parenthetically that i think john kerry has been one of the best secretaries of state so far in the history of the united states of america. [applause] because the president charged him when the president when do the g-8, he is the one who raised with vladimir putin why , why don't wely jointly, since it's not an either of our interests to allow the largest stockpile in the world to go unattended, why don't we jointly moved to the united nations and jointly secure it and destroy it? a lot of cynics were of the view that putin would not respond, but he did respond, not because he's a good guy, because it's in his naked self-interest. self interest of russia to see these weapons not fall into anyone's hands. as a consequence of the incredible work of john kerry with his counterpart, the weeign minister of russia, are going to the united nations with a resolution this week that will in fact call on the united nations and the world to put to have thesyria confiscation and destruction of all those weapons. gentlemen, as the president has said, while we made important progress, much work remains to be done. the united states will continue russia, the united kingdom, france, the united nations, to ensure this process is verifiable and there are consequences should assad regime not comply to the framework agreed to. the president's vision is absolutely clear and absolutely straightforward. then fact is the reason why world community is facing up finally to this hideous aspect of these largest stockpile in the history of chemical weapons being confiscated and destroyed. ladies and gentlemen, we have a clear vision of america. it rest on a growing and prosperous middle class where the playing field is level, where the middle class has a fighting chance, and where again we lead the world by the power of our example, ending torture, ending the war, refusing to yield to the baser side of human nature. convinced -- i said to tom, he and i came into politics at about the same time. when i got elect it is a 29- year-old kid, i was referred to as the young idealist. even to this day, even on the old guy in the white house, they talk to me of -- talk about me as the white house optimist. i am an optimist. i am more optimistic about america's chances today than when i was one i arrived as a 29-year-old kid. there is not a single reason in we will not leave the world of the 21st century trade the reason for that is really simple. peopler the american have been given half a chance, they have never, never, never ever let their country down. is what my president is about, making sure the people have an even chance. ofi told the president china, who i know well, as i told mr. putin when i last had a conversation with him, it is never, ever been a good that tube that against the american people. very god blessll our president and may god protect our troops. thank you. [applause] ♪ [captioning performed by national captioning institute] [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2013] >> thank you again for showing up for the 36th annual harkin steak fry. we will see you next year. ♪ ♪ stop" by fleetwood mac playing] ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ >> you can see vice president joe biden parse remarks again at 6:30 eastern here on c-span. we are going to take you live now to birmingham, -- birmingham, alabama for the 60th anniversary of the 16th street baptist church bombing. >> every person who hears my voice to confront injustice wherever it is found, to isolate those who act out of hate, and to make real a brighter future and the more just world that addie may, cynthia, carol and denise never had the chance in which to live. [applause] as the father of two young daughters who are now almost , itn, it is heartbreaking is heartbreaking for me to look at photographs of these little heroine as i have so many times over the years and see how innocent and how full of hope and use they were when they were taken from us and denied the chance to become the remarkable women they might have been. our nation lost something precious on that sunday. earlier this summer, i was honored to stand with president obama -- and let's think about that -- president barack obama. [applause] >> the 50th anniversary of the 16th street baptist church bombing. you can keep watching coverage on our companion network, c- span3 until 6:00 p.m.. you can catch a streaming online. now some news surrounding the obama administration and the president must possible choice of larry summers, the president of harvard university, for the chair of the federal reserve. a letter was sent from larry summers to the president. he withdrew from consideration as the fed chairman says i have reluctantly concluded any possible confirmation process for me would be acrimonious and would not serve the wrists of the federal reserve, the administration or ultimately the interests of the nation's ongoing economic recovery. obama says he has accepted summers withdraw and says he was a critical number of my team as we face downward economic crisis since the great depression. i will always be grateful to larry for his tireless work and service on behalf of his country and i look forward to continuing to seek his guidance and counsel in the future. obama also declared a major disaster in colorado. as and severe flooding and then slides there. he has opened federal aid for temporary housing, home repairs, low-cost loans. boneresident spoke on the to the colorado governor that he is going to be sending fema administrator -- the fema administrator to colorado to manage the federal response there. internationally, the u.s. for the report on chemical weapons in syria is expected to be released tomorrow, to confirm the use of chemical weapons and what kind of chemicals were used. there was a breakthrough -- inations in dosh russia on saturday. representatives from france were not present at the negotiations. the french president says he has not will doubt intertel -- ruled out military intervention in syria but france will be involved in meetings held in france tomorrow and they will be working on a u.s. resolution setting out how serious will be securing and destroying its chemical stockpiles. we talked about syria's chemical weapons this morning on "washington journal." host: we have reached a deal, it says to dispose of the arms. and delay indefinitely any sort of military strike. let me show our viewers the language of this deal -- what do you make of that? this is a big breakthrough in a number of different ways. just a week ago, we were looking at the possibility of cruise missile strikes to degrade syria are sizable chemical arsenal. arewe are not now -- we talking about eight nonmilitary means to do even more which is to account for, verify and eventually eliminate this stockpile which is about the fourth largest in the world. so there are going to be a lot of difficult steps along the way, but when i think is remarkable about this is it's not just the united states and france, but it's also russia. syria's main patron. assad may try to delay or obtuse gate, but i think it is now in his interest to cooperate with russia as part of this package and to move through this a very accelerated schedule, which is faster than most chemical weapons. language says immediate and unfettered access. what does that mean? the agreement says a complete accounting of all of its chemical weapons. the precursor agents, the production sites, etc. he should be able to do that. assad has very tight controls over his weapons and he should be able to do that. that would be the first test. following that, the inspectors from the organization for the prohibition of chemical weapons need to move in, they need to go to these sites and verify that declaration which means they need to eyeball the stockpiles and make sure the syrian declaration is accurate. aided u.s. and russian intelligence which is a good. one of the things in this agreement says the u.s. and russia have agreed on, have a common understanding of the extent of syria's arsenal. there were reports yesterday that the united states and were going to get more information about the stockpile. unlike the situation in iraq in 1991 after the first gulf war, the united states and russia and the organization for the prevention of chemical weapons should have a good idea of what they're looking for which should make the accounting and instruction job easier and faster. when it says immediate, does that mean as soon as this assigned customer who are these inspectors? first thing the agreement says is the united states and russia will take this to the chemical weapons convention. that organization i expect is going to meet weekly this week and approve this. i don't think there's going to be any trouble. simultaneously, the u.s. and russia are going to take this plan to the un security council, where the council will adopt a resolution that parallels this agreement. i think even before then, the u.s. and russia are expecting assad to comply with the schedule. immediate and unfettered means immediate and unfettered. it is not in his interest to deny the inspectors access at this stage. thursday, assad said they would join the chemical weapons convention and the prime minister welcomed this agreement. resistance,there is the united states reserves the right to use military force even over russia's objectives. that sort of damocles still hangs over a saw but said. it's not just the united states, but russia. the organization for the prohibition of chemical weapons has been working for over 15 years to verify the destruction of the world chemicals. aisles. world's chemical stockpiles grade they have about a hundred inspectors but they have a lot of jobs to do. inspections of chemical industrial facilities around the world. they oversee the remaining and russian of u.s. stockpiles. they continue to do work in libya. sources andx their teams and they are going to need additional financial assistance to make this happen. they are going to need additional inspectors that they will have to call upon. i think they are scrambling to at their together organizational headquarters in the hague. >> how will they be able to do this when there is no cease-fire to the civil war in syria? guest: that is one thing that makes this unprecedented. there have been situations where stockpile has been accounted for, inspected, destroyed, but not during wartime. one thing we have to remember is the syrian government has been keeping tight control over their a love and hundred tons or so of chemical weapons agents. rise toe their most literary possessions, so these are likely in the best controlled areas of government territory. assure,uld be able to the syrian government, the security of the in specters and the work of the inspectors. in the contested areas outside of the masochists -- outside of damascus. once they are there to the sites, they should be able to do their jobs. get theirdid syria stock i love weapons and does that help them try to get rid of them? of their job will be to look into the history of syria's chemical weapons program. thea has been developing arsenal for about 20 years and it really accelerated after the iraq war when saddam hussein was using chemical weapons in that war with regularity. syria saw the international reaction then, which was very weak. the united states and other countries did not protest nearly as loudly if at all. so syria started opening up its stockpiles. the problem with chemical weapons is the precursor chemicals used to make the deadly poison gases are really common chemicals. there are all sorts of industrial uses. so it is relatively easy to acquire the chemicals and production facilities for useful, normal industrial purposes. it will be helpful to know how to put this program together. >> you can watch the rest of that on recession online. just go to www.c-span.org coming up, newsmakers with representative rob wittman. 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VietnamRepublic-ofAlabamaUnited-statesCarver-hallIowaErieWashingtonChinaDelawareSyriaRussiatonight, the next test for america. how and when do you reopen? saving jobs without risking lives. and what the president said moments ago about testing in this country, with pressure to ramp up tests, to get americans back to work. and tonight, across the country, the fight to save lives continues. new york's governor pointing out about 1,000 new patients a day. 337 lives lost in the last 24 hours in new york. he says he will extend the shutdown beyond may 15th in parts of the state, and hopes to unpause others. tonight, a devastating toll. news that one of new york city's top e.r. doctors treating covid-19 patients, coming down with the virus and then recovering, then taking her own life. 28 new york city teachers have now been lost. but tonight, looking for signs of hope. the last patient leaving the
u.s. navy hospital ship comfort. georgia, ohio, and texas among the states taking those first steps to reopen. some restaurants now seating customers for the first time in weeks. some without masks. there is new reporting on antibody testing, as americans look for any proof they've been exposed to the virus, and whether that means they have any immunity, and for how long. tonight, the new study on the reliability of these tests. and new york state revealing today, nearly 15% statewide of those tested do have antibodies in their systems. but what does that mean? as the world health organization now warns, we do not know if it means you have immunity. could there be a new treatment? the new research tonight involving a common heartburn drug. and tonight, the science. why they think it's worth studying. the food in your grocery store. the warning tonight from a major food producer that, quote, "the food supply chain is breaking." what that could mean for meat at the supermarket, and the prices you pay. and the crowded passenger plane here in the u.s. the flight nearly full. little chance of social
distancing. but is there any way to avoid it if you have to travel? good evening. it's great to be with you tonight as we begin another week together. another week in america, and the newest test for this country, how and when to reopen. the president moments ago trying to give americans some reassurance, calling on several private companies. they talked about how they're ready to increase testing in the coming weeks. he also talked about trying to reopen schools in parts of the country before the end of the school year. what the president just said about that. and all of this as we mark nearly 56,000 lives lost in this country. nearly 5,000 more lives just since friday. in hard-hit new york, the last patient seen leaving the navy hospital ship the comfort. but the state is still registering 1,000 new covid patients every day.
massachusetts still at the peak of the outbreak. ramping up testing for first responders and nursing home residents and staff. and scenes across the country of businesses beginning to reopen. in georgia, waffle house welcoming customers. tennessee doing the same. inside, what social distancing looks like. a waitress in a face mask. a table with blue tape where you're not allowed to sit. and the image i showed you, the scene on the flight, nearly full, little room to social distance. we saw many masks there. can you avoid this if you have to fly, with so few flights? and the major concern over the food supply, one meat producer saying the food supply chain is breaking. what will that mean at the grocery store? and how much will you have to pay? we begin with tom llamas, right here in new york. >> reporter: as restaurants in georgia open for business, and talk in washington turns to
reopening, at the epicenter of the coronavirus outbreak, the battle is far from over. >> the number of new cases, still 1,000 new covid cases every day, puts it in perspective. >> reporter: in manhattan, ruth caballero of the visiting nurse service boards a city bus, heading to the new front line of this fight. >> i'm the nurse who spoke to you this morning. we're outside. >> reporter: she suits up. gown, mask, gloves. >> i'm now going to see a covid positive patient that was discharged from the hospital yesterday. >> reporter: for the patients she sees, leaving the hospital is just the first step. >> they are weak and emotionally they are afraid. they are afraid that they're going to die. they're afraid that they sent them home to die. >> reporter: in the hospitals they leave behind, the work never stops, taking a profound toll on the doctors and nurses witnessing so much pain. tonight, "the new york times" reporting the medical director of the emergency department at new york presbyterian allen hospital, dr. lorna breen, dying by suicide.
dr. breen had contracted the virus herself, recovered, and gone back to work. her father telling the "times," "make sure she's praised as a hero, because she was." tonight, anguish from her friend dr. debbie yi madhok. >> i originally felt sad, and now i just feel devastated, with all these people who are asking for lockdown to end, what about us? we didn't sign up for this. >> reporter: and in new york today, governor andrew cuomo urging residents stay at home so any gains aren't lost. >> may 15th is when the pause regulations expire statewide. i will extend them in many parts of the state. >> reporter: in other parts of the country, the virus still raging. massachusetts now seeing its surge plateau. the governor announcing nearly 2,900 people have died, a staggering 56% of them in nursing homes.
>> the numbers are tough to comprehend, but they illustrate the lethal grip covid-19 can have on seniors. >> reporter: but in one hard-hit state, a reason to cheer. for the first time in 36 days, no one in new orleans died of covid-19. parts of the south now planning to reopen. restaurants in tennessee and georgia started welcoming customers today. steven leslie's restaurant roasters has been open for 30 years. today, supplies rolling into the kitchen. >> i'm kind of excited because these are my family. i'm getting emotional. but these guys need work. they need to make money. >> reporter: texas restaurants, museums, libraries, and malls now allowed to open their doors on friday, at 25% capacity. in ohio, manufacturing and construction can resume next week. some offices can open, too, with reduced staff, masks, and health checks. >> i think we found the sweet spot.
but it's a risk. >> reporter: health officials warn americans should still practice social distancing. but over the weekend, crowds flocked to california's beaches. >> this virus doesn't go home because it's a beautiful, sunny day around our coasts. >> reporter: but today, president trump sending a different message on a call with governors. urging them to seriously consider reopening the nation's schools. and as states reopen, the president is under pressure to step up testing. today, he brought business leaders to the white house. >> the testing that has been developed and being developed right now has been truly an amazing thing. >> let's get right to tom. we heard the president moments ago talking about testing. several private labs announcing they're ramping up the testing. the president is under pressure to reassure americans that tests will be available. to try to rejoin society. but i took note that he talked about opening schools in some parts of the country, and trying
to do so, perhaps, before the end of this school year? >> reporter: he did, david. the president said several schools could open for a short period of time. he didn't say where. he also added that young people seem to do well with this virus. but early on, a doctor explained to me the big fear with children and coronavirus is them coming home and infecting their parents and grandparents. >> tom, thank you. there has been so much talk about antibody testing. new results for new york tonight, after the world health organization said there's no proof yet that antibodies mean you have immunity. so we ask, what is the hope here? if we do have some immunity, for how long? what we've seen in other viruses and the common cold. here's kaylee hartung. >> reporter: tonight, states laser focused on testing, expanding screening for covid
antibodies. new york has run 7,500, nearly 15% testing positive. 5,000 more on the front lines will be tested, including emergency workers and police. >> nypd was out there every day and they paid a terrible toll. >> reporter: in miami, researchers estimate 165,000 have antibodies indicating prior infection, dwarfing the entire state's known cases of roughly 30,000. but accuracy is an issue. a new study of 14 coronavirus antibody tests found only three delivered consistently reliable results. >> i worry a lot that people are going to draw conclusions from some of these tests that may not be accurate. >> reporter: the w.h.o. warns even if you have antibodies, there's still no conclusive evidence of immunity. >> i think what w.h.o. was saying, we don't know how long that effective antibody lasts, and i think that is a question that we have to explore. >> reporter: while it's unknown whether there's immunity to covid, with sars it's estimated to be 24 months.
in the common cold and flu, just six. but people with antibodies may be key to treating the most critically ill. that's why i donated plasma after recovering. i just can't believe that i have the ability to do something that could be so helpful. just 2 1/2 weeks ago, jimmie hayden was in a coma and given a dose of experimental plasma. >> in my heart, i believe that the plasma did it. >> reporter: today back home with his wife and four kids, meeting the man they credit with saving jimmie's life. >> david, i just can't -- i can't -- i can't put all the words together to say thank you. >> all i want to say is, i was happy to do it, and i'm glad you're well. >> just know that you're our hero. >> i love that, seeing the donor and patient brought together. kaylee, i know the plasma donations can help up to four people, and the red cross just contacted you, they have an update about your donation?
>> reporter: yes, they said it's been processed, and is helping three people. i'm scheduled for another donation in a couple of weeks. david? >> great news. thank you, kaylee. there has also been talk about whether a common heartburn drug could help. a hospital group is looking at whether the key ingredient in pepcid could actually help. tonight, the potential science, and the extreme caution. because they do not want a run on pepcid. here's eva pilgrim. >> reporter: tonight, the search for a treatment. scientists in new york now focused on a popular heartburn drug, famotidine, the active ingredient in pepcid. >> we're not using conventional what we call pepcid or over-the-counter reflux doses. we're using much larger doses. >> reporter: doctors at northwell health are giving the drug intravenously to some patients in the study. coupled with hydroxychloroquine, that controversial anti-malaria drug.
until now, they have been very discreet about the research. were you worried if word got out that you were doing the study, there'd be a run on pepcid in pharmacies? >> well, i think that's a definite real possibility. >> reporter: the study started after doctors in china noticed that patients who just happened to be taking famotidine for heartburn fared better in their fight against covid-19. the basic theory, famotidine may help slow down the virus. they think it could latch onto the drug, limiting its ability to spread through the body. >> famotidine might be very effective as an antiviral agent. >> reporter: the study has about ants.isrug csired tore hoping be generally safe, researchers warn you should not go out and buy the drug for home treatment of the virus. they don't know yet if it works. david? >> eva, thank you. and we continue to follow the food.
the farmers forced to discard aging produce, milk, and now meat. the warning tonight from a major meat supplier that the food supply chain is breaking. what could that mean at the grocery store? here's steve osunsami. >> reporter: these are the lines across the country, thousands waiting for food that they can no longer afford to buy on their own. and this was the governor of new york today, talking about dairy farmers upstate overflowing with product that they can no longer sell. >> we have people downstate who need food. we have farmers upstate who can't sell their product. we have to put those two things together. >> reporter: one of the country's largest meat providers has taken out this ad in large newspapers explaining that the food supply chain in america is breaking. and predicting limited product and higher prices for their meats. covid-19 has forced 13 of the country's largest meat plants to close tonight. and the chairman of tyson foods says that protecting workers
means millions of pounds of meat will no longer be shipped to grocery stores. he says there is a serious food waste issue, and that these same producers could have fed the nation. we first told this story here in a report that has now inspired a movement. >> we watched your program last tuesday, april 14th, and it started with the idea that we need to do something about this. >> reporter: hundreds of volunteers are raising money to buy food from farmers. >> we're able to buy food from farmers and simultaneously feed the people in the south bronx that need that food. >> reporter: this tonight is the fruit of their labor. more than 43,000 pounds of potatoes, trucked across the country from a farmer in idaho. >> we just love that. we've celebrated where we've seen it happen. tonight, i know new york's governor has announced a plan to get food from farms in new york state to the food banks that need it. >> reporter: that's right. it's a plan to buy the food, and give it to people in need. but it takes it a step further.
also, they're working with companies like cabot cheese and chobani to process the extra milk and turn it into yogurt and cheese that will be given to food charities. >> steve, thank you. and our reporting continues on small businesses in our country. today, another desperate scramble to get help from ppe program. and trouble on the website that didn't help. here's mary bruce. >> reporter: tonight, the race is on for small businesses to apply for a new round of government funding. but already it's off to a rocky start. the online loan application process today plagued with technical problems. the $310 billion is expected to go quickly. there's already a massive backlog after the first round of funding ran dry in just 13 days. in california, comic book store owner joe field has been trying for weeks to get a loan. tonight he tells us he's still waiting. >> the funding is going to help pay for some of the expenses that we've incurred through this. but it won't get anywhere close to paying for all the losses
we've incurred. >> reporter: but many bigger companies have been able to get funding. like ruth's chris steakhouse, shake shack, and sweetgreen. with outrage growing, they gave the money back. today, the l.a. lakers announced when they learned the fund had been depleted, they returned the $4.6 million they were given. experts say this fund could run out of money again within a week. and there are already calls for congress to fully fund and expand the program if they want to have any hope of meeting this huge demand. david? >> mary, thank you. in the meantime, a troubling headline overseas in the uk. an urgent alert about a rare and dangerous reaction to the virus in children. james longman from london. >> reporter: tonight, concern in britain about a rare but dangerous reaction in some children testing positive for coronavirus. an alert sent out to doctors across england warns of a multisystem inflammation with flu-like symptoms, causing severe illness.
>> i have asked the national clinical director for children and young people to look into this as a matter of urgency. >> reporter: described as something akin to toxic shock syndrome with fever, rashes, and difficulty breathing. fewer than 20 cases reported, and children still overwhelmingly the least affected by coronavirus, but a worrying development. prime minister boris johnson is back to work. he was out of action for weeks after catching coronavirus. he has a lot of work to do. his government has faced a lot of criticism about how it's handled the crisis. >> james, thank you. when we come back here, the widening mystery surrounding north korea's kim jong-un. the president saying moments ago he has a very good idea of what's happening here. martha raddatz is standing by in just a moment. a's kim jong-un. martha raddatz is standing by in just a moment. on our most popular toyotas. that's 0% on camry... 0% on rav4... or 0% on tacoma. plus toyota will defer your payments for up to 90 days.
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