First, to mike tobin who isnt live now in kenosha, wisconsin, to begin the hour. Make it . Well build a whole town of kenosha smells like a structure fire. This is one example and as you can see there is more than a little smoke rising up among this particular business. The state is now making it an assessment about the extent of the damage and they also said they will be redeploying more National Guardsmen to the scene last night. The way it boiled down last nights support has itself seem to become the line where the demonstrators squared off with police in riot gear. A pretty typical escalation which started with the bottles, glass bottles coming over the crowd. Ultimately the demonstrators went to fireworks and they were using mortars, not military motors but the type of thing you would see at a fourth of july. Some of them with bright colors and some of them with an explosion. Police responded with things like rubber bullets and tear gas to back up the crowd. Ultimately we saw the number of the protesters at the courthouse drawdown and shortly after that, thats one of the structure fire started. By midnight there were multiple structure fires burning here in kenosha and all the fire crews had their hands full. Business owners and i left to do with aftermath. Dana there i bill therea second video thats been made public now, do we know anything about that . It doesnt set an any amount of light, but because its video thats making the rounds on social media that there was a skirmish, a struggle with police and jacob blake. Shortly after that struggle began you can see jacob like brakes contact with the police and walks rather casually from the passenger side of the vehicle over to the driver side of the vehicle. Thats when he makes the lunch for the door and to the drivers side of the boat vehicle. You see the officer tugging on his shirt and ultimately thats when shots were fired. What we once he is is cam footage from the police because even though they have the budget for it they were not wearing body cameras at the time. Billy meanwhile some rioters hijacking protests in that town and targeting local businesses. Grady trimble reports now as well. I talked to several local Business Owners today and they say they understand the frustration of the people who are protesting whats happened to jacob lake and what they dont understand is why they have become the target of angry rioters. This building behind me used to be a Mattress Store on the second floor and a banquet hall here now reduced to and there were several buildings around kenosha that were still on fire and as they still went on coming crews and other fire crews, ranchers last nights windows of buildings including used on a auto sails and furniture stores. It was my fathers legacy. I just dont get it. He spent a lifetime in this town for decades. And its just horrible. It would be so ashamed right now, he would be. If he came in here and saw this, im sorry. As mike mentioned Police Disperse those protesters from downtown using teargas last night and several of the Business Owners i talked to said they net then made their way to this area and thats where they see all this destruction. People are helping out as they try to clean up today. Several businesses still boarding up at this time our wishes preparing for what could be another violent night. But building are hoping it stays peaceful tonight. Billy indeed, thank you. Josh holmes from the chief of staff, Senate Majority mitch mcconnell. Heres the headline from politico today. The g. O. P. Convention . A surprise. Trump goes all in on race. Was a defective or were you surprised . I dont know that im surprised. The president going back to 2016 would occasionally message specifically to africanamerican voters his famous what do you have to lose argument. Problem was despite that messa messages Approval Rating amongst black voters is as low as its ever been and his favorable rating i think is about as well. So he has been trying this for a few years and it hasnt worked for him in any major or significant way but the majority of americans, disapprove. Disapprove of his handling of Race Relations and i think the way at some of the things he get throughout the course of his administration could she offered to do it a couple times. He could be exacerbated or you could have some of those feelings. Thi got a clip from him that wil be in a moment but go ahead. Are you surprised and was it effective . I was not surprised and the one great advantage that you have about these conventions as you can actually remove the media filter by which everybody gets their information and speak directly to people about what you stand for. I think too often when we approach the Trump Campaign and the media filter, it somehow that they have a blind spot for people of color and thats definitely not the case. If you look at the lineup that everybody put together tonight, you will see it again wednesday and see it again thursday and thats an important piece of information not only for voters across the country but really just a statement of value for the campaign itself. I could read that there were some very effective fee speeches last night and i look forward to some tonight as well. Billy is one of the lines that i met last night. Our nations have always been back toward fairness. We dont give in to cancel culture for the radical and factually baseless belief that things are worse today than in the 1860s. Hes talking about a relative history and where we are today. We are one of the best speakers that the Republican Party has. But heres the challenge. In trying to make an introduction to folks who might be on the fence. That was donald trump and the joe biden. The black community does not trust donald trump. Its an argument that he has not proven to be able to make until now. What about this. I agree in part with mo that the candidates themselves have to end the democratic you are hearing arguments for the first time, you are hearing about tim scott for the first time. I guaranteed nobody had heard of it all. And i think that pertains to the argument they just made. You only heard one side of the argument, its pretty difficult determination to not hear one side of the argument. Josh thank you for coming back. Mo elleithee, nice to see you as well. We look at what we get later tonight. Thank you gentlemen. Billy police in portland declaring orion for the fourth straight night after crowd set fire to cars after, outside of the police Union Building. 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So, you can start investing today wherever you are even hanging with your dog. So, what are you waiting for . Download now and get your first stock on us. Robinhood. Billy officials in the state of florida got to just run their system and set a Record Number of ballots. Phil keating picks up the reporting from key west today. Hey, bill. Happy hot, hot day from key west. Based on last tuesdays voter primary voter enthusiasm looks to be much higher than in years past and voting by mail appears to be the preferred method by a majority of voters in this historic Election Year of coronavirus. Its a flipflop of the profile. This time registered democrats voted by mail more than register republicans and republicans voted early more so than democrats doing the same. He is confident come election day that the job will get done and here he is. So we are going to be busy folk around here. You can multiply that by the state 67 counties. President trump again railed on meal and voting last night at the rnc, and of course all ballots will be priority to get delivered in time. Battleground florida is always supertight during a president ial Election Year and a trump beat clinton by just 1. 2 . If people dont do it correctly and dont get it mailed in early enough, they will of course be rejected as had happened march as president ial. Billy we will see you at lews backyard for a buddy marion key west. The Republican Convention future some big names including white house economists larry kudlow, secretary of state mark pompeo, senator rand paul and first lady of the headline or Melania Trump. The theme is a land of opportunity so we expect to hear about the economy. Hanging out in the swamp there in washington, d. C. There does not seem to be a balance for joe biden coming off of the dmca last week. Is that true and what would explain that. I think thats accurate, and we talked to the recent political history and there isnt much of a balance in the last four elections. Think about this, in the last four sets of conventions the biggest balance and there isnt much of a balance, for both bush and gore in 2,000 and trump is the one exception to the rest of these. The person who goes first tends to not have a good outcome. The person who goes second plants and bumps up to, and he actually drops in 2012, and 2008 obama goes up four but mccain who comes after him goes up six. In 2004, carries convention was first and most comes after him and then in 2,000, bush jumps up eight. Five or 6 million from four years ago but the republicans were up about four and a half or 5 million as well. I dont know if people have made up their minds already, i dont know if they dont care. Put your finger on it . I dont think its likely to be the last. One is we have a Virtual Convention and and we had the in Person Convention and we had people commenting on whats going on. You interview people on the floor and theres a lot of guys out there and a lot of swirl. The Virtual Conventions hide all that in 2016 for example, we were interviewing Bernie Sanders on the floor in the Democratic Convention expressing disinterest in supporting the democratic nominee and that, thats the republican delegation from texas. And the other one is we are watching it and different ways. How many of us are watching on our phones and how many are watching our tablets . Bill more and more. You will believe the undecided voters . Absolutely. So how many are there do you believe . And you have people who today are weakly linked to their choice and recent polls ive been looking at and battleground states, that number ranges from 1218 of the electorate who said it could conceivably they could see themselves voting for someone other than the choice today. Thats several decades and its more today than it was five elections ago for example in 2,000, a much smaller than it was in the 70s and 80s and early 90s. Still those people become more important in a close election, and thats much more important. Come on down to the swamp. Bill i shall be there. Two of the largest fires scorching thousands of acres damaging hundreds of homes. My fire Officials Say things could even get worse. And right now in the cross hairs, give you a live report as to where we think laura is headed as of this hour, coming up. Tech when youve got auto glass damage. Safelite can come to you. Tech and youll get a text when were on our way. Tech just leave your keys on the dash and well replace your windshield with safe, nocontact service. Tech schedule at safelite. Com. Singers safelite repair, safelite replace. At philof cream cheese. W what makes the perfect schmear you need only the freshest milk and cream. 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Leland vittert reports now from the louisiana shores. How goes it now at crack time . This is the low between the two storms and laura should make landfall between here and the texas border and about 36 hours. The war breaks out on the gulf of mexico have long been evacuated and the Sheriffs Department here tells me that in this county along an area the size of rhode island will be underwater. The waterline is expected with the storm surge and flooding to reach the windows of these homes that have been long boarded up. More than 5,000 people are under mandatory evacuations and people have until tomorrow morning to board up and pack up and move out. Those hunkering down at 72 hours worth of supplies. Port arthur, texas, is home to the Largest Oil Refinery and protected by levees which were no match for Hurricane Harvey is a mess of rains and the town is now under an evacuation order. Every time i hear about a storm or something im praying and i asked god, florida please dont let it fly to. Please. Please. Because oh, lord. I love everything. The National Guard is helping with sandbag, and right now we are back to high on safe ground which is roughly 40 miles. So those who decide not to leave are making a choice to be perhaps hours or even days until help arrives. Bill thank you leland. Meteorologist adam klotz has the reader now. What are you saying today . Good afternoon. We will continue to see a storm that is only going to intensify particularly now that we are out open water. Thats allowing the storm and thats a category one hurricane, but in relatively short order we expect it to intensify up to a category two. Then category three, 115 Miles Per Hour. Those are portions of central louisiana and those are all possibilities to where landfall will eventually occur with the system. These are central models and pc are very defined eye wall which would mean a lot of wind and very heavy rain. On top of that just carrying a wall of water, thats something that happens with these big storms. So a storm surge as possible seeing anywhere from 711 feet which would do a ton of damage and put large areas of the coast underwater. So no surprise when we talk about that, that we see all of the warnings that we have in place. Additionally, we are expecting some locations, on top of where we are already going to search. Again no surprises and this will probably be a mess. Its been going 812 Miles Per Hour and i would have to go back and look at the exact moment right now but we are thinking this is probably going to be there. I would say early early thursday morning if i had to nail down some of the night until 3 00 a. M. Statement we will see a little bit later. The white house tonight coming up, Melania Trump will be at the headliner after she made some changes in the rose garden that we will all sit together. Also we will talk with one of tomorrows speakers, as republicans try to showcase the economy under president trumps leadership. And hundreds of thousands that to be leaving the big apple. One famous new yorker saying the city, however, is not dead. Let me grab a pen and some paper. Know what . Im gonna switch now. Just need my desk. My chair. And my phone. Only pay for what you need. Liberty. Liberty. Liberty. Liberty. Now every bath fitter bathbath fis installed quickly, safely, and beautifully, with a lifetime warranty. Go from old to new. From worn to wow. The beautiful bath youve always wanted, done right, installed by one expert technician, all in one day. Weve been creating moments like these for 35 years, and were here to help you get started. Book your free virtual or inhome Design Consultation today. For my mouth to aim at. 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And of course we should look at all about why donald trump should get a second term in office. And according to the Government Office of special counsel absolutely go. Thats he sent out many one pages and explain what can and cant be done and Everybody Needs to do things on their own time, not using government equipment at all of those things. Also drawing fire, mike pompeo will appear from israel and his appearance is unprecedented as well. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi saying today that it sends the wrong message. The image is something thats going to say, this is something, violating our values in terms of the bipartisanship in support of israel, violating in many ways what he told his own employees that are not allowed to. A state Department Official responded to that same quote. Secretary pompeo will announce in his and staff are not prepared for her remarks. After donald trump jr. s speech, Tiffany Trump and aaron trump, there are other guests as well. She will lead off the law and order chorus and senator braun and paul will also be speaking as well. I will governor kim reynolds, thats a big one. Thank you. We are watching from here. Lets bring in linda mcmahon, serves as the head of the Small Business of administration which is now the chair of americas first and action. Thank you for come back here today. Its good to see you. You are releasing an ad, there is such an emphasis on covid for such a long time and i was the president and thats economy and whats going to happen. Thats something the president never takes his eyes off of and there is that emphasis shift to the economy. Statement your focus is always business. Whats wrong with joe bidens plan . Joe biden could be just content from what he said last night to really keep things shut down and he thinks thats the way to control covid and thats a way to keep a lid on the economy, and he will keep a lid on the economy. Bill i didnt mean to interrupt but he was asked the other night if he would shut it down if he got a second wave of sorts and thats where thats coming from. We have 9 million. Of jobs created. Both parties and recommendations from scientists on how to reopen safely. John roberts is mentioning and one of the things that happened with covid shutting down schools and moms having to take on more of the responsibility at home, it takes them out of the workforce. So there are a lot of reasons why we need to really focus on how to safely and effectively reopen our schools and i think there will be a lot more talk at the convention tonight. Im happy to be on your show today, i will have a lot of opportunity to comment on a lot of the speakers at the convention and i certainly look forward to hearing what it is they have to say. I think they will continue to hear the focus on the economy and business. One of the differences i think you saw from the Democratic Convention and the Republican Convention, when i first turned into the Democratic Convention i thought i was on a zoom call most of the time. But you see the hostages who had come back, and so natalie hart talked about the right to try. 75 billion in invested opportunity zones. Its been amazing that over a Million People have been lifted out of poverty and you dont hear a lot about it that, the president s accompaniments. I want to keep remembering those things, and what we nee need too in the next four years to keep the economy strong. Bill thank you for your time today. She will vote for joe biden. Welcome to our program and good afternoon to you. And the native of cuba came to the u. S. And was very young man assured his story this way. By the grace of god and the american dream, the greatest blessing i ever had, my dad, who only had a sixth grade education told me, dont lose this place. And speaking to you today because my family is done abandoning what we have rightfully burned. Theres no place to hide. Bill did you think about that when you heard it . Of course its immigration and people who are coming here from places of conflict and anarchy and tyranny, that has made this country what it is. That is why we are an exceptional country, because people are willing to and stick their lives and their future on becoming americans. And thats just a beautiful salute to everything our forefathers and mothers have created. Why would you not vote republican. This is not a distance and i come too easily. As you know i come from a multigenerational republican family, unlike other people who are in government or who have been a government that works for the of administration, the Bush Administration or the republic administration, we are just not comfortable with what we see. 177,000 people died from covid and yet we are just supposed to forget their lives. College is opening up and now closing and we are not paying attention to social distancing and they were defined by whether we wear masks or not masked. We have a come president its a priority shift from do you blame him for that im sorry i couldnt hear the question. Right. Of course the president didnt create covid and in the beginning, we were all learning. There were mistakes made all over the world and all over the country. We have a disease that is spread to come we have a disease that is spread and thats ignoring what mother and workers are going to go through and are going through right now. You wonder what happens with the city where you used to live in new york, the moving companies are up 160 yearoveryear. I need a quick answer because i got to go. We will have to come to terms with what happened in new york. A lot of people have left new york and realize they can do things. And i think new york, we do have to make it more appealing for businesses and individuals with regard to taxes and regulation to move back and give it another try. Susan millinery, we will talk again soon. Wildfires in california still raging and some of the plus more as protesters and police face off the street. Refinance at newday. Fits to record low rates have dropped to new all time lows. With the va streamline refi theres no appraisal, no income verification, and no money out of pocket. One call can save you 3000 a year. I got it all from you im always pushing through i know well make it to the finish line i know youre waiting on the other side im like you ondemand glucose monitoring. Because theyre always on. Another lifechanging technology from abbott. So you dont wait for life. You live it. Bill california breaking news, two of the largest fires in that state has are still burning, lightning and wind and warm weather are threatening to ignite even more flames. The governor gavin newsom says california is deploying every resource at our disposal and at least seven people died. Officials warning folks to stay out of evacuated areas so they can get fire under control. Some good news, redwood trees in california sold a state park surviving the flames, some more than 2,000 years old. Experts say the trees that did fall will help me read redwoods a group grow and animals can live under their logs. Police declaring a riot for the fourth night in a row, rioters marching on the Union Building and attempting to set it on fi fire. Not reporting from on that. Violent rioters once again targeted and set fire to this police union city hall. Police say a crowd of about 300 people, many in helmets and body armor marched to the building chanting burn it down. The place was lit o lit on fire and an accelerant caused it to rapidly explode. Over the course of several hours they repeatedly used the loud speaker to warn the crowd that fail failure to leave would result in teargas and arrests. Rioters let even more fires to the building and 25 people were arrested. Because of last nights violent riots and fires 30 officers were pulled from the usual patrols and more than 100 calls around the city including priority calls like burglary were placed on hold. That affirmative Homeland Security blames oregons governor insisting she has the ability to activate National Troops and as a Republican National convention kicked off oregons delegates took a moment to address the violence. President trump has stood up to the violent thugs and denounced those who seek to destabilize our state with anarchy and destruction. Giving us hope that we can make oregon safe again. Bill now the District Attorney in portland has chosen not to prosecute many of these violent rioters but the u. S. Attorneys office is not being as lenient. Just today they announced charges against a 20yearold man for harassing a federal employee outside of u. S. Courthouse. Spam and thank you, matt. Matt finn in seattle. Breaking news, the department of justice announced that the wisconsin authorities in the investigation of the shooting of jacob lake by Police Officers in kenosha, wisconsin. Federal Law Enforcement string that is a fox news a moment ago and we will bring you details as we get them here. Also in a moment, covid cases and you u. S. Now top 5. 7 million but some states seeing a glimmer of hope with cases falling after hitting summer highs. Details on the board coming up on that. And i will talk with the Ohio Governor mike dewine as more schools in his state reopen. Hes alive, coming up next. Book two separate qualifying stays and earn a free night. The open road is open again. And wherever youre headed, Choice Hotels is there. Book direct at choicehotels. Com. Im a delivery Operations Manager in san diego, california. 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This is the heat map going through the entire crisis. The darker the red, the more problem you had. Florida, texas, arizona certainly in that category. What were finding right now is in the state of arizona, this is so impressive, their peak was on july 6. They are going in the right direction. Over here, florida, their peak was on july 17th. Since that theyve been getting that number down as well. In the state of texas, their peak was july 22 commit cuc all within a week, governor, in mid july, they saw things, they adjusted, they change their behavior perhaps, and then you see the line go down. Let me show you one more. The trend is obvious. Their trend as your friend, what do you make of this right now because you were one of the first that really put the clampdown in ohio. I think the governor got it and they understood. Congratulations to the states, the governors that is so fantastic. Great news predicate in ohio, the schools are coming back online. You had a flareup in alabama. Alabama reported more than 500 cases there, what is going on in Franklin County . What happening in hamilton . What can you tell us about that . Schools are coming back. Our colleges and universities, and look, i think in talking to the i was on the phone with a Conference Call with every College President in ohio and, their message is pretty clear, i think theyre going to do a good job in keeping kids safe and everyone safe in classroom. I think they do it in the libraries and even do it in the dormitories. The real problem is the same probably seen many time with adults. That is we let our guard down, these kids are letting their guards down at parties, things that are occurring not during the day, not during class, but its what you do the rest of the time. I think the best hope frankly, is for College Students to kind of tell themselves they want to stay on campus. We want to stay on campus and do it in person, and the only way that will happen as if everybody stays focused on this. I think that purebred will make a difference. You gave the green light two high school sports. Here is the trend emceeing on this board. Its true fort new york and new jersey as well. The virus goes in the community, spreads everywhere for 14 days, people realize it, change their behavior and it takes about four weeks or a little bit more than a month to boil it out of you. Do you think that is the pattern we are seeing in states . I think what were seeing in ohio, you know, i think people Wearing Masks more in the urban areas, i think what we are seeing is that we are taking those numbers down more dramatically in the last month because people are being more careful. The rural areas, we have seen it expand. I think what we are trying to message folks in the rural areas, is its time now to put the mask on and keep your distance, because thats how we can knock this thing down. Were down to about 4 percent positivity in ohio, which is not bad. Its not bad, but significantly higher in some of our Rural Counties and were worried about them, particularly as School Starts back in. Waveguide to do it. Thank you for coming back today. We will keep an eye on it from new york. Never miss a report, see it your dvr, we will see you later tonight for night number two of the rnc and then back here tomorrow. You are looking live at wisconsin right now. We are waiting to hear from the family of the young black man who was shot by police at a couple of days ago on sunday. There have been two nights of backtoback violence, first in kenosha and then extended to madison, wisconsin. We expect shortly to hear from the family and the family attorney. This on the same day we got news that the department of justice as assisting now in that investigation, and separately the governor of wisconsin has called to bring in the National Guardsmen it could be up to to hund