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Will be wonderful to have a woman or a person of color as vice president. but the most important thing i've learned from my relationship with barack, i call him barack, not president, because i don't want to confuse him with the president. but at any rate, one of the things i learned is that no president in the 21st century can handle the job all by themselves. it's just too much that lands on your plate. so you've got to be prepared to turn over significant responsibility as the president did with me on matters relating to a whole range of issues, and turn it over and run it from beginning to...

Have probably thought she was seven to ten feet tall. >> reporter: growing up with her younger sister, maya, harris was bussed across berkeley, california, for school in the 1960s. she graduated from howard university and the university of california and at 55, she's no stranger to making history. she was the first black woman to be elected district attorney in san francisco and the first woman to serve as california's attorney general. she became a senator in 2016. known for her prosecutorial style in senate hearings. today, she's also the first black woman, the first asian-american woman, on...

>> i respectfully offer you my resignation, for i need to take care of my family. i just didn't feel the district had adequate plans to keep both students and teachers safe. >> reporter: across the country, nearly 180,000 new covid cases reported in children in just the last four weeks -- an increase of 90%. 6-year-old jaden coulter of philadelphia was severely sickened by that rare multi-inflammatory syndrome. >> they had to put breathing tubes down his throat, ivs coming from his neck, his arms. they came in the room every three minutes. it was just a lot. >> reporter: jaden is now recoverin...

Before completing that crucial final phase three trial that's used to show if a vaccine will work safely in a large population. they only lined up 2,000 people for that final step. compare that to the tens of thousands now being tested with vaccines being developed by moderna, pfizer and oxford. dr. fauci shared his reaction with national geographic. >> i hope that the russians have actually definitively proven that the vaccine is safe and effective. i seriously doubt that they've done that. >> reporter: dr. fauci telling david he's optimistic there will be an effective vaccine around year's e...

And for young girls, young black girls in particular, this is a special significance. and senator harris, when she was running for president, she often credited shirley chisholm, who was the first black woman who ran for president, paving the way for her back in 1972. david? >> all right, linsey davis with us here tonight. linsey, thank you. president trump already weighing in, as you saw at the top tonight, saying he was a little surprised, given what he says, how nasty he believed she was to joe biden on that debate stage. so, i want to get right to our chief white house correspondent jona...