Community. Early today starts right in the race for 2020 a watershed moment for american politics, after months of peculation, jo biden made an historic pick officially naming senator Kamala Harris as his running mate, poised to become the first woman of ever on a Major Party Ticket and her opponent wasted no time going on the attack. The president unleashing a new ad overnight claiming biden has a race problem unlike the Africanamerican Community with notable exceptions the Latino Community is incredibly diverse community. In his announcement, piden sa biden said one of the reasons he chose harris is because of her focus on disparities a tenpoint lead is shown over mr. Trump, how harris will impact the numbers remains to be seen for more, Scott Macfarlane reporter a midday event in joe bidens hometown of wilmington, delaware, hes had multiple Campaign Appearance this is summer, appear together in a virtual fundraising event tonight. The appearances come one week to the day before senator harris is scheduled to speak at the Democratic National convention her fellow democrats say her records in the democratic primaries boost her and prepare her for her own debate this fall against Vice President patiences. Her debates included sharp criticism against her new running mate, a point underscored by President Trump after the announcement she was my number one draft pick and well see how she works out. She did very, very poorly in the primaries, as you know she was expected to do well. I was a little surprised he picked her she was very, very nasty to one of the reasons that surprised me, she was very disrespectful to joe biden and its hard to pick somebody thats that disrespectful. Ive had a couple face facetime me in tears being so happy about this folks never thought they would see on a ticket someone who looked like them reporter in a statement, former president Barack Obama Says joe biden nailed thiscision todays joint appearance joe biden and Kamala Harris comes one day after an historic announcement made electronically with a zoom call, a text and a tweet by joe biden live in d. C. , im Scott Macfarlane, back to you. Scott, thank you. Lets turn to the coronavirus pandemic, and the ongoing debate over reopening schools. In some cities where inperson classes have begun, districts are already being forced to quarantine students and staff. Nbcs scam brock has this report ed astudents head back to class some schools have flunked their first test on safety in cherokee county, georgia, one high school is closing through at least the end of the month after six days of school and 59 confirmed cases of covid19. Now, more than 900 students and staff are in quarantine. The district which opened last week which mandatory mask policy for adults but none for students say it anticipated positive tests which is why we put a system in place to Contact Trace and mandate quarantines. Another high school stopped inperson learning after nine positive cases i felt like our kids are used as guinea pigs and its a little enraging when you think about it that way reporter concerns about reopening are widespread with more schools opening new numbers, covid19 cases for kids 17 and under jumping more than 130 in the last month for some reason they think school say magical place reporter this Florida High School teacher Eric Rodriguez is concerned about safety they were not going to require masks, didnt want us to be the mask police but have us police other items like dress codes. Reporter the superintendent says masks are encouraged and available but not mandated which is the way it should be in the usa. Adding the district had a great first day and the policy was always to space as space allows but getting enough space is an obstacle especially in places like new york city, where samantha teaches Public High School with more than 3,000 students and says the citys reopening plan doesnt go far enough there are issues that are above the school level that need to be solved such as testing and a quick turnaround time on testing that the school as its own unit cant fix reporter and time to address those concerns is running out. Sam brock, nbc news, jacksonville russia takes a giant leap in the race for a cure. President Vladimir Putin claims russia is the first country in the world to approve a coronavirus vaccine, and that even one of his daughters has received it. The announcement has been met with international skepticism with Global Health officials saying not so fast joining from us london is chapman bell seems like russia may have skipped a critical step here reporter thats right, frances. Vladimir putin saying that daughter of his that has taken the vaccine had a fever for a day, but then it went down, claims this new vaccine called sputnik 5 named after another russian first is effective enough and is safe but the Scientific Community is saying not so fast. First no, data has been pub lshd by the researchers for this vaccine and its been approved by russian regulators before the crucial stage three trials, trials that normally are taken with thousands to tens of thousands of people like those happening in the united states, and here at oxford university. Only a small proportion of people have been injected with this so they dont know the longterm effects or the safety of this vaccine in russia. One expert saying rushing this out is a gamble that is reckless and foolish. Others in the Scientific Community point out that it risks public trust in vaccines, something that they need to maintain to make sure once there is a safe vaccine that people actually do take it. Now, russia says they do plan to start mass producing this soon and vaccination will start later in the fall on a mass scale, and they say at least 20 countries have expressed interest in around 1 billion doses but as you point out, they may be jumping the gun there though this race for a vaccine kind of playing out like the space race. Frances . And a lot of world skepticism with this claim. To lebanon, thousands of people marched in the streets of beirut, they stopped for a moment of silence near the port from the explosion killed at least 160 people in the meaning a crowd of protesters threw rocks and started fires outside the Parliament Complex the blast has fueled outrage against the countrys leaders. Documents have come to light that show top officials knew about the stockpile of explosives and did nothing about it the parents of Elijah Mcclain filed a federal lawsuit. The lawsuit alleges that elijahs civil rights were violated and names several Police Officers and two paramedics a lawyer for the family says the maclai mcclains want justice. The city could not comment crews are working to battle a Massive Wildfire near denver the Grizzly Creek fire has grown to more than 3,200 acres fueled by hot and windy weather and crossed the Colorado River and shut down a highway. The Rocky Mountain blue team which includes state and federal emergency officials will take over command today lets check in with janessa webb and see what shes watching today. A little bit of the tropics, too, good morning. Great to see you both this morning. Good morning, everyone we need some of this rain were seeing on the east coast to shift to the Pacific Northwest to really help that fire danger. Unfortunately, dry conditions will persist watching the flooding threat that is going to be enhanced across the midatlantic to the Mississippi Valley were going to see a flood threat that will spark up by today into tomorrow afternoon. We could see minor flooding from charlotte all the way into washin temperature in the mid90s. This will be the last day before cooler weather makes its way from albuquerque to central texas, 100 degrees well talk about the tropics coming up. All right, janessa, thank you. Viola davis gifted herself with an important property for her 55th birthday, not only did she buy the South Carolina home she was born in, the property is on a former slave plantation where her grandfather as a sharecropper so she bought that land as well she announced her purchase on insta xwrgram signing off with y you live long and know where you were born. Facebook is fighting fake news on coronavirus. And delay of game. 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Reporter an iconic image, a young black woman horrified when a motel owner pours acid in a Swimming Pool targeting Civil Rights Activist protesting a whites only business it was horrifying rep back then, 1964, st. Augustine, florida. This was about much more than swimming in a pool, wasnt it . Absolutely. It was about total segregation, lack of respect, lack of dignity. Reporter the swimming part of weeks prove test led by Martin Luther king jr. , building the passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 that summer. Do you want to be free tonight . Yeah reporter for jones, equal access to swimming and water safety became one of her lifes passions studies show 64 of africanamericans have little or no ability to swim and black children are five and a half times more likely to drown than their white peers. Kick, kick. Reporter in texas that huge disparity motivated the thomas twins to start a free program to children in their community. We want to blow the lid off and give access to anyone. Reporter Simone Manuel hopes to transform the sport in 2016 becoming the first africanamerican woman to win an individual olympic gold medal ig i have dealt with expersport the age of 12, i wanted to quit. Reporter shes grateful to mimi jones, who paved the way. It is heart wrenching to know that something as simple as wanting to swim would cause someone to throw acid on somebody because of the color of their skin reporter a moment that forever changed jones life. It only strengthened my resolve and my lifelong commitment to challenge racism and equality and lack of social justice for all. Reporter this turned out to be one of her last interviews. Jones died of Natural Causes a few days later, her family says, age 73 and still hopeful ive never seen social change happen in this country without a battle, but i think that theres a renewed awakening. Reporter ron allen, nbc news, new york she helped with that awakening with the barriers broken in the water and out of the water. Mimi jones, john lewis, weve lost some of our greatest americans this summer. Their legacy will live on. Thanks for being with us this morning. Im Frances Rivera and im phillip mena. Well have s by including someone who is the first black woman and south asian woman on the ticket he is walking the talk. Senator harris as running mate is getting praises this morning. A live report on the support of the bay area mayors and some concerns from voters. Plus, clearing the backlog. Now a bay area county is hoping to ramp up covid19 testing and getting results back quickly. And feeling hot, hot, hot. Oh yes. If youre not,