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Speedway, nascar rallying around bubba wallace, the sports only full-time black driver, one day after a noose was found in his garage stall tonight the fbi and nascar are investigating. heres nbcs sam brock. >> reporter: in a sign of solidarity. >> has rallied around bubba wallace. >> reporter: in a rejection of racism. nascar drivers walk alongside bubba wallaces car, number 43, overcome we motion. >> reporter: a despicable act by someone. >> reporter: less than 24 hours earlier a noose was fou...

This afternoon, i spoke to his mother, desiree wallace. how did you hear about it? >> he facetimed me and he said, mom, they found a noose in the garage where my car is. i said, this will not break you. if anything, were going to use this to rise above that. >> reporter: has there been a moment where you have been able to sort of process everything thats happening to your son? >> absolutely. after i got off the phone with him, i got in the shower, and i just started screaming as loud as i could....

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Have to be in the fight against racem. nascar releasing a statement saying we are angry and outraged and cant stress how seriously we have taken this act. we will launch an immediate investigation and do everything we can to find the person responsible and elimnatd them from the sport. lebron james offering his support, saying no, you dont stand alone. im right here with you as well as every other athlete. i want to continue to say how proud am of you for taking a stand for america and sports. n...

Called for it. so its good to see his fellow competitors rally around him. >> yeah, when they call nascar a family, theyre usually not kidding. when that family closes ranks, whether its the death of dale earnhardt. whether its a show of support around bubba, its really a powerful thing to see. it was powerful to see dale earnhardt jr. tweet that he hopes bubba wins the race. because dale jr. as, of course, financial swrinterests in other teams winning this race. lets talk about the layout at ta...

Cases a day. when that happens, you get to the situation where you dont see a second spike. what you really see is continued and sustained burn like the doctor mentioned. and its unfortunate, because its going to lead to much greater pain and suffering here in the country, and takes that much longer before we can all get back to life at normal. >> got you. dr. ramirez, great have your insight. thank you. coming up, youre fired. new york citys top federal prosecutor is out after a standoff over...

Do you think it is surprising? >> it is not surprising at all. nascar has been around for over 70 years. and outside of college football in the south, probably no sport that has been a greater stage for confederate imagery in this country than nascar. so for people to think that in a span of just a couple of weeks because we have had the uprisings all over the country after the murder of george floyd, that -- and nascar responded by saying that they were going to remove confederate imagery from ...

Have they differed at all after this despicable discovery? >> no, theyve been very uniform in their condemnation of this act and in their vows to avowal punish this person to the furthest extent of their policies and also working with law enforcement, nascar working with law enforcement on the local and federal level to -- so that this person is -- whoever the perpetrator is, is punished to the fullest extent of the law. but i would say the spirit within the garage is one of unity. that this is ...

Nba superstar lebron james offering his support to wallace, tweeting, know you dont stand alone. im right here with you, as well as every other athlete. i want to continue to say how proud i am of you for continuing to take a stand for change here in america and sports. nascar, i salute you, as well. it comes as the confederate flag ban was met with resistance from some fans returning to the track in talladega. a confederate flag with a de-fund nascar banner was flying overhead. on the ground, d...

Some atlanta police officers say they dont feel supported by leadership. >> were being attacked. these guys are our brothers. and were being attacked by paul howard. we do the job to protect. we expect to be protected by our leaders and theyve all failed us. all of them. i appreciate you all being here. >> meanwhile nascar says its investigating a noose found in the garage stall of black driver bubba wallace sunday. nascar says its angry and outraged. bubba wallace is the only black driver in th...