Risk. Were willing to take the risk. Im kendis gibson. And im cori coffin. Were live at nbc headquarters in new york this morning. Lets get a look at the city of detroit. Detroit from the canadian side. This is the closest we can get to our canadian friends. Thats right. Because theyve extended the block for nonessential travel straight through september 21st. Hello to detroit. And a wave to our canadian friends. The state Senate Passed a bill yesterday that gives School Districts the freedom to decide on the type of introduction theyll supply. I assume were talking about michigan. Yeah. Its specific to that. Lets go over to florida. They have another week to decide whether theyre going to start practice in the fall for that state. Good morning you do guys over there. We do have a lot of news to get to you. We have breaking news that took place during the overnight hours. This particular situation is in portland, oregon. Of course, it is day 79 that these protests have been going on. This one every night since the death of george floyd, those protests turning violent overnight, police declaring a riot. Lets go over to chicago, a day lasting into the night. Police say at least 24 were arrested, 17 officers treated for injuries. Cautions sparking there after marching through downtown chicago. In michigan, a rally by a far right group turning violent in downtown kalamazoo, demonstrators clashing with antiracists and protesters at a count countervigil. It make you wonder if this is a sign of things to come. Things squaring off in stone mountain, georgia, a suburban jaxson the home of giant rock ca carvings of leaders. And protests outside postmaster louis dejoys home. Quite a bit of unrest taking place in the country throughout the weekend and will be ongoing. Lets go to that showdown now between the president and the Postal Service with 79 days until the election, the president firing back against complaints that his newly appointed postmaster louis dejoy is implementing changing that will cause delays in the mail delivery and intentionally affecting the integrity of the mailin voting system. Nancy pelosi is insisting on bringing the house back. He added we need to subpoena the postmaster general and if he fails to appear, we should send the sergeantatarms to arrest him. He said, its not just the ballots being slowed but lifesaving medicines affecting the elderly. Tampering with the mail is an offense. She responded to the president s comments. Hell be a great postmaster general, and he needs obviously if youre going to do these millions of blots, hes going to need funding, but the democrats are not providing other things. The president has made clear that he is holding this money hostage because he does not support mailin voting. Think about that. Think about it. Its one of the most undemocratic actions i can think of, and he is admitting it. Well, the president s latest Postal Service remarks came at an event Nbcs Kelly Odonnell is there with the latest. Reporter vote by mail is enveloped by politics. Universal mailin voting is going to be catastrophic. Its going to make our country a laughingstock all over the wo d world. Reporter a side effect of the pandemic is a greater demand for mailin ballots. They warn states with more volume and late deadlines, some votes will not be processed in time. The steps the postmaster is taking are creating no, no. Are you trying to discourage no, not at all. The steps hes taking are trying to stop the tremendous losses that have taken place for many, many years. Hes trying to streamline the post office and make it great again, okay . Ohios secretary of state urged voters to act quickly. We have up to tell days after the election to receive it. Those votes will be counted. We need to reassure every ohioan, do not delay. Reporter protesters gathered outside the home of post pastor general louis dejoy, a trump donor. Dejoy is under scrutiny for reducing costs that eliminated jobs, cost overtime, and led to delay. He defends it as unintended consequences. It will hurt our seniors, our veterans, others that depend on their medications by may. Reporter some veterans say not getting medications on time is lifethreatening. The v. A. Has been rock solid with our skrips. Theyve been really, really good and this is chamging us. Reporter the post office promised to stop the removal of any mailboxes until after the election. That was Nbcs Kelly Odonnell with the president in bedminster, new jersey. Now lets get to the white house. Overnight in an announcement, the President Trumps younger Brother Robert trump has died. He traveled friday to visit his brother. Nbcs Josh Letterman is at the white house. What do we know about robert trumps death and the reaction thats happening at the white house. Good morning, cory. The white house has not disclosed the cause of death of his younger Brother Robert trump, but we do know according to the president he had been seriously ill in recent days and spent some time in the hospital, the president traveling now less than two days ago to new york presbyterian to visit his younger brother as his situation was deteriorating. That was a notable difference from the way the president approached the illness and death of his other brother who died decades ago, that according to mary trump, the president s niece in her recent book, the president on the night that his other brother was admitted to the hospital declined to visit him, instead went to the movies. We did see the president in this case pay a visit to his ailing brother. Notably it was also robert trump who filed the lawsuit a few weeks ago against mary trump to stop the publication of her book, which ultimately came out anyway. The president weighing in on the death of his brother in a statement overnight saying it is with a heavy heart that i share ma my wonderful Brother Robert peacefully passed away tonight. He went on to say he was not just my brother, he was my best friend, he will be greatly missed. Cori, were waiting from the white house about in potential funeral arrangements. The president might travel to be part of any ceremony that might take place. Meanwhile comments pouring in including ivanka trump, uncle robert, we love you always. Josh letterman, thank you. Now to the latest on the National Democratic convention. Kicking off tomorrow, joe biden and Kamela Harris are gearing up for the event. Theyre slated to give their speeches from delaware this week. Wilmington getting all the attention this week. What are the candidates doing to try to get ready for a Virtual Convention . Are you checking your wifi, making sure its 5g . What are they doing . Reporter kendis, thats a great question. Its very rhamy this morning. I want to point out we were supposed to be in wisconsin. It has take an lot of prep, a lot of shifting around and adjusting. Theyre gathering for this virtual event. Theyre taking questions, doing a lot of meetings and things like that. What were going to see is Kamela Harris and joe biden speak later this week. Weve also seen a lot of other things going on in the background. Im sure youve seen this and been paying attention. In the last 24 hours donald trump has come out and raised this birtherism once again. We know this is false, we know this is racist, xenophobic, not true. She was born in oakland, california, and is perfectly eligible to be president or Vice President , but its different to see these different lanes come up with donald trump talking to his base. In the meantime joe biden and Kamela Harris put out an ad focused on latino voters. We have a piece of sound. Lets listen to what they both said. Our dear friend will be the first indianamerican Vice President in the history of the United States of america, Kamela Harris. We all know shes smart, shes tested, shes prepared. Another thing that makes kamela so inspiring is her mothers immigrant story to america which started in india. When my mother shamala stepped off the plane when she was 19 years old, she didnt have much in the way of belongings but she carried lessons shed learned from back homing including ones from her parents. They taught her when you see injustice in the world, you have an obligation to do something about it. Reporter you see there, kendis, this parallel of donald trump reaching out to his base, and at the same time the biden ticket reaching out to minorities, trying to turn up the excitement and the vote going into september. Im curious. Obviously we learned from the white house, the president , that he plans to do his acceptance speech at the white house itself. Give me a sense of the lay of the land of what we can expect in wilmington. Do we have any idea where joe biden and Kamela Harris will do their acceptance speech . Will it be inside of a high school gym, outside or anything . Reporter theyre going to be at the chase center, which is where were standing right now. Kamela harris will accept her nomination on wednesday and joe biden on thursday. I can tell you theres a lot of action. Its a Beautiful Center there. Thank you. Lets turn to the countdown of the election. Lets brick in rashad richie. Good morning to you. I want to jump right in with arguably the most important piece of new this week, which is about the Postal Service situation. Its an affront to our democracy. Should nancy pelosi bring back the house to investigate, and what could they do in this situation to possibly make any sort of change . Yeah. This is an attack on democracy. She should bridge back the congress and convene them and investigate the guys for assault on dmom. This is one of the most zreechl acts this president has done. I would even argue this act is even more extreme than what they impeached the president for but they have a decision to make. Many will say, well, this will distract from the election on hand. It may. At some level it may distract from it. However, is the president committing a criminal act. Thats the obligation of the congress to decide, and i believe we have seen clearly that this president is willing to go to the extreme of the law and violate it in order to retain his power. Rashad, in the meantime, i want to talk about the dnc. There are some complaints out there already about whos getting to speak, the lack of latino and muslim voices among them to speak. Yes, aoc is expected to speak but Mike Bloomberg and john kasich. Should they give some of that time to the democratic constituencies . Yeah. The dnc always create as messup. Bloomberg is there because he wrote a check, kasich to appeal to moderate voters. Its not a reality. That could change given the public pressure now moublting, saying and demanding we would like to see more diversity in the convention. They took bloomberg off the schedule. Hes not eve listed. He may speak burke that was a notable change. How about the fanfare when it comes to this convention being virtual . Theyre going to make it accessible to viewers, but will this help and give more thoughtful feeling toward the topics and whats happening in the country, or could it hurt them that we dont have the public in person with the roaring crowds . If they were to do one that invites the public, it would affect their brand as it relates to covid19. Theyre being responsible. Yes, youre going to lack the energy and the response, but youre getting the echo chamber of the media. After the convention, well talk about it. 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Back with the latest on the coronavirus pandemic. The u. S. Now surpassing 170,000 covidrelated deaths. Thats according to an msnbc news tally. The number of cases now tops 5. 3 million. Arizona and the School District canceling the first day of school after an overwhelming number of teachers said theyre not going to show up. A school just outside phoenix said more than 100 Staff Members called out ahead of the first day of classes tomorrow, indicating they did not feel safe returning to classrooms with students. And theres new signs of progress for new york, the state that was once the epicenter of the coronavirus. Governor cuomo announcing hospitalizations have dropped. Its the lowest number since march 17th. But he announced a recordhigh number of tests, over 88,000 on saturday. Thats for the eighth straight day. Less than 1 is positive. Clearly the touring business has not returned to times square. And as the u. S. Is pushing to expand its testing overnight. They granted Emergency Operation for a new salivabased test. Developers at yale are calling this a less invasive and less expensive way to test for covid19. The fascinating part, do you know who the guinea pigs are for this . The nba players. They were in the bubble and tested it. Theyre doing really well. Thats the sport to watch. Joining us now is dr. Eucha blacklock. We want to get to the saliva test. Kind of a reflection of how many teachers feel right now. In fact, i talked to three educators in new jersey about the situation for them and the possibility they were facesing returning to the classroom. Take a listen. I just felt like they were totally disregarding our roles as educators and i felt they were looking at kind of like we were expendable stoo we need the funding in order to put these things in place that we would happily come back to our buildings with and do it. Unfortunately the districts dont have the funding that they need in order to ensure what is needed in order to open school buildings. When were ready to go to an indoor restaurant, we were ready to go see a concert, then were ready to attend school in person. Since then school has got virtual. Doctor, what needs to be in place for schools to reopen for teachers to feel safe and their students too . We have to listen to the concerns of the educators as well as the families. There are two main factors. One is the Community Transmission rate. Right now we have too much of the country where the transmission rate is above 5 . Its too dangerous to reopen. They have to make sure their ventilation systems are working appropriately, hand sap advertiser, just a place to create an environment where its safe to have a lot of people indoors. Right now we dont have that. In many cases that wont be able to be done for a few months. I see this happening throughout the country. Doctor, we mentioned the new saliva test that got emergency approval. Theyre calling it a major breakthrough. You know something about this. This is something they tested on nba players who are in the bubble in orlando. How did this come about, and is this really that big of a deal . Yeah, no, absolutely. Its a gamechanger. Right now what were seeing across the country is severe backup in testing and laboratories where people are waiting 10 to 14 days to get results back. When youre waiting that long, it makes no sense to be tested. With saliva tests, you can do them very quickly, pull samples together. People will appreciate that, that you dont have to have a nasal swab being poked up your noise. And theyre overall less expense everybody because they use fewer reagents and the Gold Standard tests do. Hopefully well be seeing, you know, more testing happening as a result of these saliva tests. And quicker results to return too. Exactly. 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