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With the key model projecting that number could nearly double by the end of this year. Coming to you live from cnn World Headquarters in atlanta, welcome to our viewers here in the United States and around the world. Im natalie allen. This is cnn newsroom. Thank you for joining us. On the very day that thousands in the u. S. Descended on washington to demand Racial Justice and proclaim black lives matter, were learning of the unexpected death of a young actor who portrayed some of historys most notable africanamericans and emerged as an influential member of the black community. Chadwick boseman lost his fouryear battle with colon cancer. The 43yearold starred in the groundbreaking superhero film black panther. He also portrayed the legendary singer james brown, the first black Supreme Court justice, thurgood marshall, and baseballs Jackie Robinson. Bozemans death fell on the same Day Major League Baseball celebrated Jackie Robinson day when the brooklyn dodgers, number 42, smashed the games color barrier. Tributes are pouring in to the actor. Oprah winfrey tweeted this, what a gentle, gifted soul. Showing us all that greatness in between surgeries and chemo. The courage, the strength, the power it takes to do that this is what dignity looks like. Joining me to talk about the death of Chadwick Boseman, host of the syndicated news Magazine Television show the list. Hello to you. Thank you so much for coming on. Thank you so much for having me. I wish it was on better terms. Absolutely. What an immense loss. So terribly sad that Chadwick Boseman has died so young. We learned that while he was filming and working, he was battling cancer, having surgeries, going through chemotherapy. He went through so much. There is a testament to the type of man that chadwick was. You know, i have friends of mine that are intimately were involved with him. A friend of mine, taitt taylor, who directed the help, directed him on get on up when he played james brown. Another good, good friend of mine, travis howard, a musician, met him on set during the filming and said chad never break character, that was chad was always james brown on set. And it speaks to the kind of actor he was. It was always about the work. And he wouldnt let cancer slow him down. I mean, this diagnosis came four years ago, and in that span of time, there were so many movies, so many projects, so many appearances. Speaks to his strength, and it also just speaks to what you hope your celebrities and the people that you admire will be. Absolutely. He found fame for his role in black panther. Groundbreaking film and what it meant. Well, as someone who is nigerianamerican myself, i look at chadwick, and not only did he give the world a superhero, he gave them an african superhero. I have nephews that are too young to remember Wesley Snipes playing blade, but they remember Chadwick Boseman. They know black panther. For people of color, for people not of color to see him up there on the big screen, the amount of money this movie grossed shows that these kinds of characters need to be seen, and what chad gave the world was just an immense character and just a look at we can forget the tarzan myth. Scientifically advanced wakanda, wakanda forever. This guy gave us a superhero that anybody could admiry aboe about especially a superhero of color. He played james brown, Jackie Robinson, and Supreme Court Justice Thurgood marshall, a plethora of remarkable people. It shows his versatility. Yeah, thats the trifecta. Youre playing Jackie Robinson, the man that, you know, desegregated baseball. Youre playing thurgood marshall, the first black Supreme Court justice. And youre playing the godfather of soul in james brown. It shows there was nothing chadwick could not do. It showed that as an audience we were hungry to see what role he was going to inhabit next. I mean, forget for a moment if you could black panther as a superhero, he played real life superheroes Jackie Robinson, thurgood marshall, james brown, reallife superheroes. Yeah. And chadwick did all of this in 43 years. He came a long way from his hometown of anderson, south carolina. Just remarkable what hed done in such a short time. What influence, what legacy does he leave behind . He is the epitome of black excellence. I dont say that lightly. This is a man that came from south carolina, went to an hbc u, howard university, represented that and took that with him everywhere he went. Here is a person that played historical and strong black figures. Heres a person that played a black superhero. As i said before, in real life or in make believe, he was a superhero, and he played giants. So the legacy that these leaves for any actor, whether you saw him in spike lees the five blood or in marshall, get on up, a plethora of movies, its excellent. Its something to strive for. Something to ask yourself can i do better, can i be better, because chad was always doing better. And its an inspiration to me. Its an inspiration to the people i know it have met him. And its a sad, sad loss. Absolutely. You get a sense that many people will be watching all of his films, hearing that we lost him. Just 43 years old. Thank you so much for your insight. We really appreciate you. Thank you. Thank you so much for having me. As always, stay safe. Thank you. You, too. Again, actor Chadwick Boseman degrees at age 43. He was a strong advocate for civil and voting rights, and his death coincided with a massive peaceful demonstration that packed washington, d. C. , friday, days after an africanamerican man was left paralyzed by a Police Shooting in wisconsin. [ chants ] marchers demanded justice for jacob blake, but they also honored the anniversary of reverend Martin Luther king jr. s march on washington in 1963. Like participants in that historic event, fridays demonstrators called for equality, better voter protection, and police reform. Crowds gathered at the Lincoln Memorial where king gave his iconic i have a dream speech 57 years ago. Among the speakers, relatives of black People Killed during encounters with police like George Floyds sister and Breonna Taylors mother. Jacob blakes relatives also spoke at the march, even as opposing narratives emerged from blakes case. There are new details about the suspect in the deadly kenosha protest shooting. For more about it, heres cnns sara sidner. Jacob blake reporter the family of jacob blake joining thousands rallying to give a washington to those taken away at the hands of police. You must stand, you must fight. But not with violence and chaos. Reporter authorities revealing new details now about jacob blakes past and the circumstances surrounding the shooting that left blake paralyzed. The sheriff saying hes cuffed to his hospital bed because he has felony warrants for his arrest including one from july for thirddegree sexual assault. The restraint highly criticized by blakes family. When i walked into that room, you know, hes paralyzed from the waist down, why do they have that cold steel on my sons ankle . He he cant get up. He couldnt get up if he wanted to. What was this a little overkill to have him shackled to the bed. That just makes no sense to me. Reporter friday afternoon, blakes local Attorney Says the cuffs were finally removed and blakes warrants vacated. And dispatch audio from the moments before blakes shooting is shedding a little before light on why police approached him. Jacob blake isnt supposed to be there, hes refusing to give give them back. Reporter and new information about the 17yearold whos accused of shooting and killing two people and wounding another during protests over blakes shooting. In the charges laid out against him, Authorities Say Kyle Rittenhouse was running away from the scene. He can be heard saying on the phone, i just killed somebody. His attorney telling nbc news, though, his client was acting in selfdefense. Hannah gittings boyfriend, showed here, died trying to stop the gunman using his skatesboards. He loved the city because it was his city and he wanted to make it better. Like he wanted to stay in this house with me and my daughter and raise her here and like make it a better place. Reporter blakes father says the two shootings are an example of two different justice systems in america. The 17yearold caucasian shot and killed two people and blew another mans arm off on his way back to antioch, illinois. He got to go home. My son got icu and paralyzed from the waist down. Those are the two justice systems right if front of us. You can compare them yourself. Reporter to that end, we are getting more details on what led up to the shooting of jacob blake. According to the Kenosha Police association, they are saying that blake indeed had knife on him, that officers asked him to drop it, that he did not comply. They also say they tried to use a taser, that he was in a us it well an officer a tussle with an officer, and he had stolen keys, according to them, and was maybe attempting to take the vehicle, as well. Obviously has three kids inside the vehicle. And he turned his back, and you can see the video from there. He turns his back, the officer grabs his shirt, ends up firing at him seven times, hitting him in the back and paralyzing him. So those are the details that are coming out now from the police association. To be clear, they are not investigating agency. That is the state department of justice who is looking into this case, and they are, of course, not the official Police Spokesman or the police chief in this case. An odd way to get some information out. It is not coming from an official source, but it is coming from the agency, the group that supports Police Officers. We have also heard from jacob blakes family about these allegations. And they are adamant, they say jacob blake did not have a weapon on him. Sara sidner, cnn, kenosha. For the First Time Since it happened nearly a week ago, President Trump has publicly addressed the blake shooting in kenosha. When ask good it by a reporter asked about it by a reporter he said, it was not a good sight, and that hes looking into it, in his words, very strongly. As for the protests that erupted after the shooting, it was the states gunner who called in the National Guard at the request of local officials. But President Trump claimed credit for calming the situation. Look at whats going on in the great state of wisconsin. Now i will tell you two days ago, we sent in the National Guard. That was the end of that problem. [ cheers ] President Trump is threatening, quote, to go in and take care of matters, end quote, in portland, oregon, if the mayor cant. There have been protests there nearly every night since George Floyds death. The president tweeting, if the incompetent mayor of portland ted wheeler, doesnt stop the looters causing great danger to innocent people we will go in and take care of matters the way they should have been taken care of 100 days ago. Lets talk about the president s words there. Joining me now from portland, oregon, sociologist dr. Randy blathack, chairman of the organization against hate crime. Thank you so much for coming on. My pleasure. Id like to begin there with your reaction to President Trumps warning to come to portland, and as he said, take care of matters. Yeah. You know, portland has had a long history of protests. I mean, its a city sort of founded on dichotomies. The protests are either happening in small sections of the city. I think theres a perception that portland is being burnt to the ground by protests. Its a small reflection of whats happening in president cull as a whole as were facing a decision about how were going to talk about race. Are we going to look at our institutions, or are we going to go do the old nixon law and order bit and clamp down and do more of the same . I think portland is sort of a reflection of this crossroads were in as a country. Absolutely. And we see video there was police at a portland riot. Are you concerned that the president s words might bring out extremist groups to these protests . Yeah, these complexes these protests have been very complex phenomenon. Weve seen a lot of different players, different agitators from both the right and the left. Weve seen tons of peaceful protests, moms and dads and grandmas and grandpas. Weve seen sort of every stripe that you can imagine. Weve also seen rightwing streamists who have shown up, members of rate groups and militia groups that who tried to agitate. Some want to take a pot shot at the black lives matter protesters like in kenosha. Some really want to create something that looks like chaos or anarchy so they can push forward their call for a second american revolution. Its a hodgepodge, and it is always sort of teetering on the edge of completely collapsing into something pretty desperate. The good news is the protesters have largely had to police themselves. Theyve had to police whos showing up at the protests, and some of those cases, the police have not done that. The protesters have been kind of making sure that the violence doesnt get out of scale, that the right wingers are identified who are there to agitate. And so its a strange organic phenomena thats emerged in the streets of portland. Right. And you call it a hodgepodge of protesters. And one can understand because there is much to protest in our country right now. The marches in portland are also in honor of jacob blake who was shot and paralyzed by police in kenosha. What does his story mean to the protests there when it comes to Police Violence . Yeah. I think its really important. What weve seen in the past is a call for reform. Were going to change one little policy here, were going to ban choke holds or have Police Officers wear body cameras. What the most recent case has shown is its deeply woven into the system, the problem of e of up in the streets of portland is no good cops in a racist system. There might be wellmeaning Police Officers who share values with some of the protesters, but the system itself is rooted in notions of racial control. And so this really helps push forward the narrative that defunding the police means reallocating resources or reconceptualizing the way that we police ourselves. Lets broaden this out away there a notion that reform and policy ataptations are the way out. Something that looks much different than the way we do policing now. And do you think that the fact that the Portland Protests are this hodgepodge, theres so much thats on the minds of different people, does that in some way dilute what they want to see happen . Its interesting because there is a lot of spectrum. There is a lot of folks who have different ideas about what the end game is, including what the concept to defund the police means. Some people think it means the complete abolition of police. More people think it means about reallocating funds to make Police Officers jobs easier. One of the things that weve seen, if we compare this to protests in the past, the more radical element, the element that sort of gets the medias attention, draws actually sort of mainstream to take a second look at the more moderate voices. The people that are kind of setting trash cans on fire may help to actually elevate the moderate position that says lets talk about reallocating resources as opposed to complete abolishing police departmentses. We really appreciate your insights as a sociologist on all of this. Professor randy blasack, thank you so much for your team. We appreciate it. Glad to join you. Next, a large crowd gathered on the white house lawn. As you can see or not see, there were not many masks. Well update you on the fight against the coronavirus in the u. S. Coming up. Ladies and gentlemen, New Hampshire executive order 63, please wear masks. [ boos ] you can hear the boos there. Jeers at a trump rally in New Hampshire. Supporters of the u. S. President booing as they were reminded to mask up. They are not the only reluctant ones. On thursday, more than 1,500 people gathered on the white house lawn in whats been called a potential superspreader event to hear President Trumps acceptance speech at the Republican National convention. Nick watt with how america these days is coping with coronavirus. Like those brave americans before us, we are meeting this challenge. Reporter but now our president is leading by bad example. No distance, few masks, and many places prohibit gatherings like these. All brushed off by a senior white house official with this everybody is going to catch this thing eventually. One prominent model now projects around 135,000 more americans could be killed by covid19 by december 1st. Remember last week, we were told youre going to start seeing the death rate really start to drop. Reporter if that new projection is true, our average daily death toll still hovering around 1,000, will actually rise. Right now were also seeing record rates of infection in the dakotas, minnesota, and iowa, where the governor just closed all bars in the hardest hit counties including some College Towns because it is increasing the virus activity in the community, and its spilling over to other segments of the population. Reporter 8,000 cases and counting on College Campuses across the country as students return. Heres the good news nationally, new case counts are falling. New yorks infection rate, the lowest since all this began. And the white house has announced the purchase and production of 150 million new 15minute tests. Really could be game changing. Before you go to school, before you go to work, it could catch a lot more of these asymptomatic cases that were currently not catching at all. Reporter plus, theres vaccine optimism, but some concern over complex logistics. We dont know exactly how many doses were going to have. We dont know at what time youre going to have those doses as we approach the end of the year. Reporter the cdc telling governors it is rapidly making preparations to implement largescale distribution of covid19 vaccines in the fall of 2020, asking states to be quick with their permitting process. But we cant afford 1,000 deaths a day until the vaccine. We need to adopt control and containment strategy in the United States. Reporter instead, the president s tacit message, up close, unmasked, totally cool. Meanwhile, in los angeles, misdemeanor charges against two tiktok stars who allegedly held house parties with hundreds of people. Now the City Attorney said that because they have 90 million followers, between them they should be setting a better example. Meanwhile, the president , who has more than 85 million followers on twitter, just hosted more than 1,000 people on the nations front lawn. Nick watt, cnn, los angeles. The coronavirus is running rampant through latin america. The number of cases in the region has now surpassed seven million. As you can see, brazil is leading the way with nearly four million cases as they added more than 43,000 in just 24 hours. These countries now make up half of the top ten in the entire world. Search and rescue operations now under way in louisiana after hurricane laura made its way through and left quite a calling card. Well have the latest. When we started our business we were paying an arm and a leg for postage. I remember setting up shipstation. One or two clicks and everything was up and running. I was printing out labels and saving money. Shipstation saves us so much time. It makes it really easy and seamless. Pick an order, print everything you need, slap the label onto the box, and its ready to go. Our costs for shipping were cut in half. Just like that. Shipstation. The 1 choice of online sellers. Go to shipstation. Com tv and get 2 months free. Shipstation. The concentration in ofwe suppohectic times. 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Are you watching cnn newsroom, and we appreciate it. While thousands of marchers gathered in washington blocks from the white house, President Trumps attention was on reelection. One day after using the white house to wrap up the Republican National convention, an unprecedented move in modern u. S. Politics, he is resuming large political rallies. We get more from cnns jim acosta. Reporter in a bit of counterprogramming from the white house to the march on washington down on the national mall, President Trump held a surprise photo op in the oval office where he issued a full pardon to alice johnson. The same criminal Justice Reform advocate whose prison sentence he commuted two years ago. We are giving alice a full pardon. I just told her. We didnt even discuss it, we just you were out there, i saw you in the audience last night. Reporter the president refused to comment on the march, and the protesters hopes to End Police Brutality in the u. S. His aides shouted over our questions. Mr. President , what is your message to the thousands of people lets go, guys. Lets go. Reporter a subject democratic Vice President ial candidate Kamala Harris addressed in a virtual message to the demonstrators. As we continue to see black men and women slain in our streets and left behind by an economy and Justice Department that have too often denied black folks or dignity and rights. They would share our anger and pain, but no doubt they would turn it into fuel. Reporter the president and his team are trying to have it both ways, with mr. Trump hammering away at his law and order message we can never allow mob rule. [ applause ] in the strongest possible terms, the Republican Party condemns the rioting, the looting, arson and violence we have seen in democratrun cities. Reporter while staffers insist mr. Trump is a examinationate leader, ignore compassionate leader, ignoring his rate baiting that stretches back decades. I wish everyone could see the deep empathy he shows to families whose loved ones were killed in senseless violence. Reporter the president also tried to pull a fast one on the coronavirus, insisting hes just following the science in the battle against covid19. My administration has a very different approach. To save as many lives as possible, we are focusing on the science, the facts, and the data. Reporter thats not true. Just look at the audience for his speech. Hundreds of supporters sitting side by side with few masks in sight. As one senior without official told cnn, everybody is going to catch this thing eventually. Chief of staff mark meadows all but said attendees were there at their own risk. Obviously any time that you have people together, theres the willingness that you make choices individually. Reporter the rnc revealed four people tested positive after attending Convention Events in charlotte. Another example of gop officials ignoring the administrations own health experts. Any crowd, whether a protest, any crowd in which you have people close together without masks is a risk. Reporter despite the real danger, Campaign Officials say the president will be holding more big events in the coming days with large crowds like the one we saw on the south lawn of the white house. And just as we saw at a rally in tulsa over the summer, Campaign Officials will be learning in the coming days whether staffers or other attendees were infected with the virus. Not everybody was tested before the event. Jim acosta, cnn, the white house. President trump on friday finally acknowledged last sundays shooting of jacob blake. He said video of the event was, in his words, not a good sight. He dismissed the protests that followed as the work of rabble rousers. Heres what he told supporters friday in New Hampshire. Protesters your i dont talk about my theyre not protesters. Those arent protesters. Those are anarchists, agitators. Lets talk about President Trump and his campaign. Right now joining me from colchester, england, professor of government at the university of essex. Good morning, natasha. Thanks for coming on. Good morning. Thanks for having me. Sure thing. President trump is campaigning as the lawandorder candidate, and his remarks there mirroring that in part with the electorate made up of hundreds of thousands of u. S. Citizens of all walks of life who have participated in rallies since George Floyds death. They are out there supporting change as they were in washington on friday. Will his words hurt him or help him . I think trumps strategy is just to appeal to his base, which he thinks is about 40 of the electorate. And to ensure that people that dont support him just dont turn out to vote. Hes also trying to play on peoples fears, and thats what the big theme was of the Republican Convention. And just the theme of the campaign in general that hes the lawandorder president , that joe biden is a pawn of the left. And that theres going to be complete chaos and mayhem if joe biden gets elected. One congressman at the Republican Convention said that ms13 is going to come to our streets. Thats a pretty hard sell to say that joe biden is if hes elected this is going to be complete chaos. But hes trying to use some of the violence and looting that has taken place at these protests to really instill deep fear among American Voters that if hes not elected, that its just going to be completely out of control. Now whats unusual from the convention and the campaign, instead of really touting the great things hes done and accomplishments, hes basically saying that under his watch, there has been just total disarray. And so this is basically a fire that he has created. But he alone is the only one that can resolve it. Well, he also disparaged the democratic Vice President ial candidate, Kamala Harris, friday saying she was incompetent. This after the Republican Convention this week focused a large portion of its program on convincing voters he is kind to women and has worked on behalf of black americans. Do you think that message helped work in his favor, or fell on deaf ears . Well, 42 of women voted for trump in 2016. In general, the Republican Party hasnt done that well with women, and theyre increasingly doing worse with women. Trump hasnt been doing well with women at all. In fact, he has about 36 , 37 Approval Rating among women. Where things are going really badly for trump is that in 2016 he won over clinton by 27 points among noncollegeeducated women. Todays Approval Rating with this group is about 50 . They dont like a lot of the rhetoric. They dont like the way hes handling the protests. And they dont like all of these fiery divisiveness. So some of his approaches may be working very well with noncollegeeducated white males where he has 70 support. That has not wavered, hasnt changed. Just his base in general seems to think his tactics are working. Hes losing a key, huge voting block, and that is the female vote. Viewership overall for his speech was lower than that for democrat joe biden. He probably doesnt like that very much because he likes those ratings. But did you find the president s speech as he wrapped the convention enlightening, invigorating in a way that will give him a postconvention momentum . Again, i think that everything that trump did with the Republican Convention is going to work really well if the base. They liked all the pomp and circumstance. They probably even liked the fact that he defied convention norms by holding it at the white house which, of course, is him using the state assets to make the electoral Playing Field unlevel. So we dont have time to talk about that. But to talk about what he actually did, his speech, he spoke with a teleprompter for over 70 minutes. It wasnt the most exciting speech. It would have been maybe more exciting had he done the sort of impromptu speeches that he likes to do. And he mentioned joe biden 41 times. So he really was focused on biden entirely throughout his speech. And thats something that he thinks works well with his supporters because he likes to create a very us v. Them, instead of focusing on unity and trying to bring the country together, he wants to create a very scary environment where there are enemies of the state and there are people who support trump. And if you dont support him, then youre on the wrong side of things, and that theres going to be complete chaos. I think everything worked well with his base. Whether or not hes going to be able to atracted more people in the middle and undecided, i dont see how it could. Well, hes about to hold more rallies around the country. Mask or no masks. Well see how that scary scenario that he does like to talk about will go over with more audiences. Thank you so much, natasha, we always appreciate your insights. Well see you again. Thanks for having me. A severe water shortage has forced a hospital in lake charles, louisiana, to move dozens of patients to safety after hurricane laura tore through this area. At the storms peak, some hospital staff stayed inside to care for 19 babies. Laura is now a tropical depression over the midwest leaving hundreds of thousands without power and at least ten people dead in louisiana alone. Cnns gary tuchman has more on rescue operations. Reporter calls keep coming in for people in the lake charles area who cant get in touch with family members or friends. These deputies are responding to as many calls as they can. We go to this house, heavily damaged from the hurricane. How you doing reporter they are looking for a 72yearold man who did not evacuate. There was great concern the man could be found dead or seriously hurt. Paramedics and a worried neighbor were there when the sheriffs deputies arrived. They found the man, gerald frush, a vietnam veteran who had indeed been hurt. I slipped and fell in the hallway. Are you feeling okay now . Feel good were worried about you. Yeah the sheriffs deputies are worried about you, and the emergency workers are worried about you. Reporter he says he believes he hurt his ribs. Walking this way reporter everyone here relieved that gerald is not seriously hurt. Sadly, different deputies earlier found a man who had died from what is believed to be Carbon Monoxide poisoning. And that is always a major concern. As the deputies go to this door Sheriffs Office reporter there is no answer. That happens quite a bit. Theres also no answer here. Then they go around to the side of this damaged house. We got a welfare check on you. I guess the family wasnt able to contact you. Reporter dotti rashard said she and her family it evacuate just before the form hit. They have no cell service, no power, no water. You have everything that you need here . My house is a total mess i tracked you down here that is a camper. I didnt recognize it. 35 foot, and we have busted it getting that thing from top to bottom reporter 15 years ago, dotti says she lost her house when hurricane rita hit. Now theyre grateful the deputies came to make sure theyre okay. I appreciate it. I really do. Were still here kind of basically by ourselves. So most of our neighbors havent come back. Reporter there are still many searches for the sheriffs deputies to do, and relief that on this particular shift nobody was found seriously hurt or dead. Gary tuchman, cnn, lake charles, louisiana. Lake charles was hit so werely. Well be thinking about all of the people there. Russian Opposition Leader Alexi Navalny is doing better after he was poisoned in russia. 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Thats according to the hospital in berlin where hes been treated after becoming suddenly ill in his home country. German doctors say their test show navalny was, indeed, poisoned. The hospital also says hes on a ventilator and is still in a medically induced coma. Cnns phil black joins me live from berlin. He is covering the story. Do we know anything more about his prognosis . Reporter so the good news is that the immediate threat to his life has passed, say the doctors here at the hospital. They say the symptoms caused by the poisoning are diminishing. But he is still seriously unwell, as you say. In a medically induced coma, on a ventilator, in the intensive care unit. Doctors say it is too early what the longterm consequences of what they describe as such a severe poisoning will be. Now russia continues to insist that it was not involved in harming Alexei Navalny. But it is also still pushing back on the need to open an investigation to find out who did it. Russias denials about harming Alexei Navalny mean nothing to his closest friends and family. Their refusal even to open up a criminal investigation proves that mr. Putin is responsible. Reporter valkayv and navalny have challenged the system for the last ten years. You believe this was the state . Based on the information i have at this point in time, i strongly believe its it was the state or some or the part of the state. So as of now, we dont have proof that putin ordered it. So it might be some of the government agents. But the level of organization, the the poisons that they used, its not something you can buy in a pharmacy. Reporter he says navalny always knew the risks, but together they desperately hoped his popularity would protect him, making it too risky for anyone to seriously think about trying to kill him. They were wrong. Last week, navalny began screaming in pain aboard a russian domestic flight. Soon after, he was in a coma. Russian doctors said there was no evidence of poison, but that was quickly contradicted when he arrived here at berlins hospital. Tests here determined poison from a group of chemicals but not the specific substance. The kremlin says thats why theres still no reason to open a criminal investigation. It only could have an intention to kill. If the Emergency Landing would take 20 more minutes, he would not be with us now. Reporter navalny is russias most prominent putin critic. Through a mix of determination, charisma, and clever use of social media, hes shown repeatedly he can call huge, angry crowds to the streets. Hes exposed state corruption and the ruling elites vast wealth. If this was an attempted assassination, why now . Valkav said the timing suggests it may have been navalnys call for russians to follow their neighbors in belarus and hold mass protests against their own government. Navalnys political machine has been working to influence coming local elections with a tactical Voting Campaign to stop proputin candidates. Whatever the reason, Alexei Navalnys supporters believe some of his enemies made a cold calculation. The benefits of his murder would outweigh the risks of creating a martyr. His friends and family have long feared for his safety. Now that someone it appears has tried to kill him, they fear it marks the start of a new era for russia one where defense is even less tolerated, and one where there is even greater willingness to use brutal repression against those who challenge the system. Natalie . Only hope that will embolden all of his millions of followers that support him. Phil black for us there in berlin. Phil, thank you so much. Pro basketball is coming back after the protests, boycot boycotts, and postponements. The National Basketball associations playoffs are set to resume, and well tell you what broke the impasse just ahead. 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And after three idle days, u. S. Pro basketball is set to resume saturday. Nine playoff games were postponed after players refused to take the court in response to the jacob blake shooting. Now the nba and the Players Union say theyll form a coalition to promote social justice, police reform, and voting initiatives. Superstar chris paul called it real change. What were doing right now in our league is huge. I think for the young guys in our league to get a chance to see how guys are really coming together and speak and see real change, real action. We all hurt we are all tired of saying the same thing over and over again. And everybody just expects us to be okay just because we get paid great money. You know, were human. We have we have real feelings. A new day for the nba. Im natalie allen. Thanks for being with me this hour. I invite you to follow me on twitter or instagram. Well see you next hour. No problem. 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