I understa i understand there are certain kales Law Enforcement shouldnt handle alone. We are looking at ways surrounding Mental Health. Good afternoon to you. We heard from not just mayor but the police chief and a local pastor as well. They all had a unified message. They are calling for calm after four nights of unrest here in this community. They also talked about doubling the resources to help those having a Mental Health crisis. Richard, we have seen a lot of tension growing here in the wake of the release of that body cam footage. The mayor and police chief said this is their community. They were born here and raised here. This is their home. The mayor said shes committed to change. Here is a bit more on what she said. This work wont be done in a week or in a weekend. Today onds to do this right we will need to continue to deliver consistent progress over the coming weeks, months and years. I am committed to addressing these challenges and ensuring that change truly comes. We need to also address the immediate issues in front of us. Reporter the city leaders have faced a lot of scrutiny from here in the Community Talking about their lack of transparency. This body cam footage was back on march 23rd. A lot of people are saying the time lynn doesnt add up. The police chief said that he wanted internal and criminal investigation. The ags office is taking lead on this case but a lot of dates that are being thrown out there. That is adding to the confusion and the tension in this community. Richard. Boowell see what tonight brings. Blake offered this message. Its a lot more life to live out heere, man. Your life and not only just your life, your legs, something that you need to move around to move forward in life could be taken from you like this. 24 hours, every 24 hours, its pain. Its nothing but pain. It hurts to breathe. It hurts to sleep. It hurts to move from side to side. It hurts to eat. Please, im telling you, change yall lives out there. We can take together, make some money, maybe everything feasier for our people out here. Its so much life to live out here. The blake shooting sparked protest and rioting. This week blake spoke to joe biden on the phone during the president ial candidates trip to the city. Well have more on both of these stories later. President trump once again in clean up mode after the release of another story with serious potential to damage his reelection campaign. The Washington Post getting a sneak peek of former trump confidante Michael Cohens new book titled disloyal. Among them the main cause of trumps fixation with putin is the russians leader wealth. Trump loves putin because the russian leader had the ability to take over an entire nation and run it like it was his personal company. Like the trump organization, in fact. Nbc news kcorrespondent is at te white house. Kelly, one of the main themes is we can probably tell right now its money. How does this latest book stand out from the others . Reporter one of the things we heard from president in the last couple of days is that the combination of this book, other stories that will come out, the atlantic story that dealt with the allegations that he said disparaging things about the military, the president wants to put them all in one basket and claim it is an attack on him running up to the election. That it is the attempt from his political adversaries to chip away at his credibility or his character running up to the election. Thats how he is framing this. More specifically, the white house reacting to the book is trying to discredit cohen himself. Saying hes a convicted felon, a disbarred lawyer and was convicted of lying to congress and should not be trusted. Of course, cohen had a long relationship with donald trump, the businessman and donald trump the candidate and then had falling out as the investigations began and he was beg given closer scrutiny. Some could argue he lied to try to protect the president. This will be a test of do voters hear anything new here that changes their minds. They have known about Michael Cohen for a long time. They have known about some of the sordid allegations. This will be a deeper portrait of that in his own words, his own experiences. It may just reenforce what people already think. Thats how the whus ite house trying to treat this. It cant be good for candidate who is already in a tough position trailing in many polls, joe biden, as the incumbent. Thats a sensitivuation. Its hard to know what factors will ultimately make the difference going into november 3rd. Bad news is not always something the president can brush away but he will try. Richard. Tuesday marks eight weeks until election day and that means were about to head into the most criminal leg of campaign season. Tomorrow joe biden travels to harrisburg to participate in a vary ch virtual labor day vent. Hes looking to make end roads towards building a strong Democratic Coalition in a state he won twice with barack obama. Well have more on that a little later. Labor day, its in full swing. Youre probably knowing that. Tomorrow is the official day. Health experts across the nation are warning americans not to make the same mistakes they did over memorial day or july 4th. Stressing, backyard parties, crowded bars and packed beaches could spark a nationwide surge. Dont do it. Dr. Anthony fauci has described it as a critical point. You can have an enjoyable weekend but you can do a couple of fundamental things we talked about. Mask, distance, avoiding crowds. Out doors much more than indoors. Those types of simple things can clearly prevent the types of surges that we have seen following holiday weekends like were enter into now with labor day. The air yaz hit hard by the epidemic. Reporter this has been one of busiest days for the summer. Not a ton of masks by way of people walking around. Theres a measure being put in place from this beach Front Community especially for the beach front. A couple of the entrances between the boardwalk and the beaches were closed down today due to hitting capacity on the beach themselves from the number of people here. They are fluctuating in an out of people will move throughout the day. They will cut them down to other entrance points if people want the go to the beaches. Its a lot of young families and a lot of people. Covid does not seem to be first thing on peoples minds when coming out for this holiday weekend. Were going to listen to this. As long as we can. Its been very stressful. Its different than our normal season. A lot more requirements. Weve been through hurricane sandy. Weve been through fires. Well get through this and come out stronger on the other side. Reporter you heard a number of the Business Leaders here. They were telling me about the difficulty of this season with having so many restriks in place being able to findly open up and make the most of that summer season. They will keep the beaches open here in Seaside Heights through the month of september hoping that if the weather cooperates and theres still interest from people coming out they will continue to do that through columbus day weekend in october. Thank you so much. Preer appreciate your reporting today. As covid spreads throughout camp campus, many experts are taking drastic action to ensure students and teachers are safe. One of the harsher punishment, 11 first year students were dismissed and declined a refund for their 36,000 plus tuition after crowding together in a hotel room. Grappling with the coronavirus threat from students peat parties, the university of wisconsin madison has ordered dozens of fraternity and Sorority House members to isolate. They may face a court date as well as a 10,000 fine. We have more on how colleges and College Students are moving forward. Its very different start to the Academic Year for sure. Youre in one of those states where they are used to being out and about. Reporter they are. Its a stuff moving target. You mentioned university of wisconsin madison. In addition to what you mentioned there, that school is now trying to identify structures, facilities on campus that they can send students to who test positive for covid19 and may be sick but arent sick enough to require hospitalization. Thats just one of the problems that colleges are having to face right now as they try to balance out do we bring students back. If we do, how do we figure out course and curriculum going forward. We know a will the of them had to shift curriculum to online. They have done other situation where they have some of the classes in person trying to limit exposure as much as possible. Were already seeing the numbers start to stack up here. New york times study of universities nationwide found that there were more than 2,000 cases here in florida attributed to universities and colleges. In texas that number goes up to 6,000. Several counties that house universities, for example, texas a m in texas, the counties are now reporting their highest covid numbers yet since the start of the pandemic. Its no surprise that is likely correlated to the return of students coming back to campus. We had a chance to hear from several tunts on what they think in this ongoing struggle is like. Hear what they had to say. I really dont think the yufr thought it wouldnt spread by bringing 40,000 kids back to campus. I never heard of parties or anything. Its tough when youre living in a house with 50 people. One person can ruin it for everybody. I dont think necessarily we should all be grouped together. There are certain kids our age doing irresponsible things but theres also way more people doing the right thing. I think that gets overlooked. Reporter one of the toughest things is theres no National Database that a standardized across colleges and universities to input this data. Some of them measure positive cases differently than others. We know one school has taken it upon themselves to try to keep these numbers in check. Thats Oklahoma State university. I had chance to visit their campus over the past several weeks and theyve created a Contact Tracing program that uses wifi hot spots on campus. When a student carries their phone onto campus and it logs onto to campus wifi. They are then able, if that student tests positive to go back and look at building by building, even hallway by hallway to try to figure out who the stupt came into contact with and notify those students if they need to be isolated. We are just seeing the beginning here of what could be a very large problem. Not just from an education standpoint but from an economic standpoint as well. Quick mention of that being the iowa state choosing not to have any fans in the stands for the upcoming home game. We know that college town after college town brings in millions of dollars to all the area businesses for all those home Football Games that should be starting just, if not right now, in next few weeks. Richard. Thats great the technology when it comes to contact tracin tracing. Add on top of covid, the protes protests. How does that add on . Reporter the skochool add m stranters want to give students the right to protest and take part as they should. Schools are trying to figure out ways they can hone in on these active cases when ever they present themselves to try and enable the normal college experience. That ship may have sailed a while ago. Students on the campus of Oklahoma State telling me that they are crossing their fingers that comes finals time which will be around thanksgiving they are still on campus. Dr. Anthony fauci saying its probably not the best course of action to send the students back home when and if theres an out break because they could be seating the infection back in their home community. A variety of problems happening simultaneously making the next few weeks incredibly interesting to watch. Richard. Incredibly interesting to watch. More began, the class of 2023 will have so much to remember. Weaver just starting the story right now. Morgan, thank you so much in miami. Next as more negative stories surface from President Trump about people that claim to know him, wheal dig into what it means for his election strategy. Dangerous wildfires are r raging strong. Its hot out there. Conditions making hard to fight flames. Ns making hard to fight flames when you think of a bank, you think of people in a place. But when you have the chase mobile app, your bank can be virtually any place. So, when you get a check. You can deposit it from here. 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He has testified extensively for congress. Hes getting into details about what the president said about russia and putin as well as these payments to women like Stormy Daniels. I think also to your broader point, i think we cant discount how important the moment and the timing of this book is. Its not just what Michael Cohen is saying but when he is saying it. This comes shortly after a Republican Convention that the president add viervisers were encouraged by it. They see polls fightening. Obviously the president still behind joe biden. The president s advisers in the last few weeks have really been encouraged. Think think his law and order message working. They were pleased with the jobs numbers on friday. The issue is does stories like the one by the atlantic last week which they pushed back vigorously on and this new book from Michael Cohen, does that blunt this momentum . Nicholas, any word from congressional members. They are looking at this president and going if, if youre a republican, what can i do to defend him or should i say nothing in is the latest book. How does this one stand out differently . Ive heard mostly crickets from capitol hill so far. It still adds o the allegations we have seen. Everything from the mary trump book to the john bolton book. Democrats will use these stories in these books to add to their nar tifr ha the president is unfit for office. With the atlantic article, we did see some republicans on capitol hill express he hs hesi. Whatever it is, based on the reporting and what Michael Cohen saying it is quite serious by the words chosen. I want to play a portion of a question you asked on air force one. Do you think about the 130,000 payment to Stormy Daniels . Why did Michael Cohen pay this . Youll have to ask Michael Cohen. Its my attorney. Youll have to ask michael. The question about the adult film star and he answered it and you got the answer that many reporter would like to get. Here we are so far along and that has not stuck. Youve asked this question many times. How is this any different in terms of whether it will stick . I think it will be interesting to see in this moment how the president reacts. I can also point you, i think that was a notable moment and air force one he tried to distance himself. Another key moment i would point to was in early 2019 when the president was in vietnam for a summit with kim jongun looking to make a nuclear deal and it came at the same moment Michael Cohen was testifying on capitol hill. He did this very lengthy testimony which very detail eed and very critical. It really over shadowed the moment for the president on the world stage. He thought would be a moment of diplomacy. It became about this. He left without any kind of deal. We have seen him kcohen and his commentary affect him in ways. We have to see this week how he responds to this. This week. Im going to get to the atlantic article in a second. I want to get ahead to when we see committees back on the hill here. Thing most important to americans is will there be a stimulus. M mnuwhich you kn mnuchin says they have something. He doesnt want to call it a skeinny bill. Call it skinny bill. Its still a smaller stimulus package than democrats want. The reality of that is this bill that republicans want to introduce this week is dead on arrival because they would need democrats to break with their party in order to move it forward. What that means for any stomaims is in future is talks are still stalled out and we might not get a stimulus in next few weeks. That seems like ive heard that story before. Thank you for coming by on sunday. Coming up, raising hopes and concerns. What to make of claims that a Coronavirus