Escalated in portland, oregon. We have the new video coming for us within the last hour from the scene in portland, oregon. The live images we are seeing went up until just a half hour ago which means this situation has been ongoing throughout the night. This is pretty interesting video. This is day 57 of the protests that have been taking place in portland. They have been happening ever since George Floyds death. Authorities overnight unleashed what we believe to be tear gas and pepper balls on the crowd. Marches against Racial Injustice have been happening for two months since the death of george floyd. Joining me is the former director of the atf jim kavanaugh. Jim, what is your concern here . My concern, kendis, is they really dont have a strategy to deescalate this. That is contributing to the exacerbation. The department of Homeland Security has the right to protect the courthouse as the department of justice. We need to protect the federal courthouse and building there. We have to protect the courthouse. That is the system of democracy and justice and law. The tactics can come into question on how we do that. If there is not an effort to deescalate this, it will continue. The only other option is to escalate from here. You imagine the federal authorities will try to clamp down or somebody in portland says this has to end at some point. Right. When you do things at the wrong time for the wrong reason, you get a tragedy. We could result in a death here. We have cases around the country like we see all the time. Look at breonna taylor. We are serving a search warrant in the middle of the night to rescue dope from being flushed down the commode. And look what happens. Some dies here. Here we are doing something to protect the courthouse. Leadership matters. We dont have a career Law Enforcement proper it fefessiong the department. The president has him acting. He is not really the right person for that. They have 10 or 12 vacancies at the command at the top. This is rolling and rolling and rolling. If you want to get it down, you got to take the tactics and reasoning to get it down. You have to try. You have to try everything. I was a crisis negotiator. We deal with a lot of difficult things. Set up a necessity gosh natigot Community Act groups and a door hanger with the city leaders. Not everybody is going to comply. Im not naive. I know how you these things work. Not all of the anarchists will do everything. You get the leaders and you try and you talk and you vent and you hear them out and find out what is going on and you discuss things. You scale back the troops. Some of the criticism has been rightful against the markings on the officers. The officers you should have every Law Enforcement in a civil disturban disturbance, city, county, state or federal should have the word police on the uniform. It is a universal symbol. Kend kendis, it is recognized across the globe. Everyone recognizes that word. It needs to be prominent. We used to wear police atf. The reason we put police is we had International Citizens we would arrest over the years and did not know what atf was. They may not know fps. You need police and the city and agency and your bardge and a badge number. When you are in camouflage in an urban environment. Thats a mistake. It should be police blue. Jim, do you get a sense of those unidentified federal authorities just exacerbated the situation out there . Yeah. Let me just explain whats going on. Everybody talks about unidentified. It is really not so. They are identified. If you clearly look closely with the camera and you inspect, you will find they have shoulder patches that identify their agency or unit, bortac or cvp. It is a camouflage uniforms for operations. It can be used by military and Police Officers dont want to be shot. Camouflage is a protection from being shot in a rural operation where many of the agencies have to work. You have to work urban and rural areas. City police generally have to work urban areas. The federal officers you need to have when you work in an urban environment, you need navy blue or solid green. You dont need camouflage. The message it sends is the message america is getting, kend kendis, and what you described. You are getting a negative message. You shouldnt do that. It hurts your operation. It hurts the citizens. Perhaps thats the message they are trying to give out to scare people. No, i dont disagree with that. That is the message. If you want to give the right message, you would change that. You would have a visible marking. A badge number or different style. Yes, maybe it is the message the leadership is giving. Jim cavanaugh joining us with the insight over what is happens in portland. Ill move on to the other breaking news. The National Hurricane center update on hanna. It is nearly a hurricane. Hanna expected to make landfall this afternoon or early evening in the most rural parts of texas. Many areas will get a lot of rain and wind. Many beaches in Corpus Christi are closed. A hurricane warning is in effect for much of the texas gulf coast right now as hanna nears. Sand bags were filled and distributed for what is expected to be flash flooding. Storm preparations are more complicated because of covid19. Take time to prepare yourself and your family. Dont be the one that says i wish i did a little bit more before that hurricane or Tropical Storm came. Wait. Theres more. In the pacific, hurricane douglas is a powerful major category 3 hurricane. As it moves closer to hawaii, the storm will weaken. A hurricane watch is in effect for the islands of the big island and oahu and maui. We are anticipating significant wind, rain, flooding impact as well as storm surge along the east facing shores. Whether it is a direct hit or not, everyone who is in quarantine, you should remain in quarantine to the extent possible. Heavy rainfall and dangerous winds are expected in hawaii starting tonight. The worst rain will be hitting tomorrow. A picture there from oahu. Looking at the winds kicking up. My coanchor cori coffin joins us from lorain, ohio. Tomorrow marks 100 days until the november election. Ohio is a key swing state as we approach the milestone. Cori joining us there. This is an important area for joe biden and donald trump. It is one that votes with the economy. Reporter absolutely. That is their number one issue here in Lorain County. That was like that previous to the pandemic. According to the polls that will remain an issue here for 2020. Of course, 101 days out. It is almost hard to believe weve made it this far, kendis, because it has been a long year. Tomorrow is 100 days. Here in ohio, voters start casting votes in 73 days. Thats when early voting begins. Ohio is one of the few states that allows absentee ballots. You dont have to have inperson voting, but offer mailin voting. Ohio is going to be a key state. That is the case every year. Some years it is more of a battleground state. This year, the reason it will be key is, of course, a bellwether state. It has correctly predicted the president , or person who has won ohio in each president ial elections since 1948 except for 1960. Trump, that was the same case for him in 2016. He won over Hillary Clinton by nearly nine points. A fairly large margin. When it comes to Lorain County, that was different. There were eight counties in 2016 that were blue. Lorain was blue going toward Hillary Clinton. Manufacturing jobs will be a main point for that. Now here in Lorain County, ohio as a whole has an Unemployment Rate of 10 . Lorain county is 18. 8 . They lost a massive amount of manufacturing jobs because of covid19. The mayor told me earlier they will closely watch this election because people will be voting with the economy in mind and with jobs in mind. When it comes to polling numbers, although biden is favored in many cases when it comes to dealing with Race Relations and covid19 recovery, voters still marginally favor trump when it comes to the economy. A mere fact it is that close in parts of ohio is really a critical thing for the Trump Administration and trump reelection campaign. Cori will join us in a few minutes to talk about the coronavirus coverage and cases there in ohio. Thank you. Now to the covid19 pandemic and what we are learning. The surge in cases across the country showing few signs of slowing down. Several months into the fight, the u. S. Falling short of breaking its single day record in new infections. Yesterday, adding more than 73,000 cases. Here is dr. Deborah birx pleading for people to follow safety precautions. I want to make it clear to the American Public what we have are essentially three new yorks with these three major states. So we are really having to respond as an american people. Thats why you hear us calling for masks and increased social distancing. Overnight, the cdc changing their guidelines based on what they learned from the white house and how long the coronavirus patients need to be isolated. People who have mild cases levies legislatileav leave isolation after ten days. Ten days after they begin experiencing symptoms. They also changed School Guidelines and encourage students to return. They are discouraging those infected to get tested a second time. Popular retailers are giving morle leeway on mask policies. Walmart and cvs and home depot will not prohibit customers who refuse to wear masks while shopping. This comes to avoid confrontation between angry customers and employees. The entire Michigan StateFootball Team under quarantine after a staff member and team member tested positive. The reports say the quarantine will last days before fall camp is scheduled to get under way. In washington, senators are leaving town without progress on a new Coronavirus Relief package. Leaving among other things boosted Unemployment Benefits for millions of people at risk. You see the long lines across the country. Nbcs Shannon Pettypiece is traveling with the president. Shannon, what will happen next week when the lawmakers return to capitol hill and the first covid19 relief bill expires. Reporter reporter we are in store for a big battle here when members come back on monday. Usually we see the fights on capitol hill between democrats and republicans. I any evethink everyone is used two sides hitting heads. There is deep divides within the republican party. Mitch mcconnell is struggling to bring the two camps of republicans together on this. You have one side that is raising options about the 1 trillion price tag. Some members dont want more money spent relief. On the other hand, you have nervous Senate Republicans up for reelection in november who are worried about what will happen to them and their political future if you see a 600 a week unemployment run out or additional testing for states put into the next phase relief bill. Mcconnell, who has been very successful in the past of bringing republicans together, has failed so far at this point. Next week, the focus is getting republicans together. You still have democrats who have not even been brought into the negotiations and picture yet. We will see how they bridge that gap and there is always President Trump who has been able to throw a Monkey Wrench into the negotiations. He wants to see a payroll tax cut. Democrats are opposed to that and some republicans are opposed to that. It is unclear if he will be able to or be able to compromise on that front. As you mentioned, of course, millions of americans in the balance here. The eviction deadline is approaching and the 600 week unemployment benefit that expires at the end of the month. That is helping pay bills and keep with regular spending and keep the economy afloat. What happens when that runs out with the economy and jobs and if people can keep their homes, kendis. They are worried this week is critical with that because after that in august, they go on another recess. Shannon in new jersey for us. Thank you. A new twist in the lawsuit that georgias governor filed against a mask order that was issued in atlanta. A Fulton County superior court judge ordered Governor Kemp and Atlanta MayorKeisha Lance Bottoms into a mediation. It say is a deescalation and t judge telling them go figure it out yourself. Catie beck is following the latest. Catie, the two politicians are talking a little bit . Reporter frankly, kendis, it is not good for them to have the eyes of the nation seeing this issue with the governor and largest city in the state of georgias leader having a fight and a conflict over what is becoming a National Conversation about people needing to wear masks. I think politically for both of them it is not advantageous to be at odds. I think the judge saying lets work this out and not go to court over this. It puts it in perspective. The mayor says she has already had productive conversations with the governor. The governor has said he is not antimask. He is antimandate. He does recognize these masks are a way of protecting people. He doesnt believe people should be mandated to wear them. This does have wide reaching implications beyond atlanta. Lu atlanta not only city with a mandate in place and defying the governors orders. Bigger cities like athens and savannah and smaller cities are saying we will do this our way. It also comes down to businesses independently to make that decision. In atlanta, you will see the store fronts with signage saying no mask, no service. They are following what the mayor here has put into place. There are a lot of places in the state doing the same thing. Whatever the decision from the mediation will have statewide implications. Kendis. We will see if that changes. Catie beck joining us from the capital in atlanta. We head back to ohio with 100 days to go until election day. We will have cori coffin talk to the mayor there. We will get to the issues that are important to the voters there. Thats next. There. Thats next. And you can see your transactions and check your balance from here. You can save for an emergency from here. Or pay bills from here. So when someone asks you, wheres your bank . You can tell them heres my bank. Or heres my bank. Or, heres my bank. Because if you download and use the chase mobile app, your bank is virtually any place. Visit chase. 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I know the housing rate, National Vacant housing rate, is 20 times higher in youngstown and the poverty rate is higher as well. You are losing jobs faster. We are, cori. Thank you for spotlighting youngstown, ohio during this difficult time. You mentioned covid19. We suffered like anywhere else. What we did more than anything is we stood up and said lets make sure and be aggressive with the virus. We took it serious. I think we had daily briefings with governor dewine and the mayors across ohio. We focused on what we can do across the state of ohio. It has proven to be a great issue for us. As mayor, i recently implemented a mandatory mask order for those wearing outside their home and when they are inside as well. The governor put in place a mandatory mask. That will make a difference in youngstown, ohio with our vulnerable population. Reporter what are your residents need to help get them back on their feet with the Economic Impact of the crisis . There are three things we learned and focused on. The health and the education. We will make sure everyone is tested. All of our citizens need to know where they stand. If you know, africanamericans and latinos are most susceptible to the virus. We need to make sure the health is up front. The economy as well. We have to put people back to work. We need to make sure people are working and the educational system is protected. We learned a broadband gap when we sent kids home and specifically in the africanamerican and minority communities. That was an issue. This president has not been talking about