More from covid19 in a 24hour period. Now, the total number of american deaths reported since the start of this pandemic now just shy of 169,000 people. Health experts now say children are testing positive for the virus at an increased rate. More than 7 of all people known to be infected in the u. S. Are kids. Its the same day the state of alabama is reporting that more than 7,000 children there have tested positive, two infants and a teenager in alabama have died from covid19. And just in to cnn today, we have learned a 15yearold boy in the atlanta area has died from coronavirus complications. He has become the second youngest person to die in the state of georgia. A 7yearold boy in savannah died earlier this month as well from the pandemic. And news from the testing front. The food and Drug Administration today announcing it has granted emergency use authorization to a new method that tests a persons saliva for the coronavirus. The fda says this test is cheaper than the current nasal
Plus our brandnew nbc news wall street journal poll on the eve of the Democratic National convention. Also, as covid relief talks break down perhaps you mistook them for somebody who gave a damn. President trump says no deal, no new Postal Service funding for mailin voting. Its very simple. How are they going to do it if they dont have the money to do it . Prompting charges that hes sabotaging the mail in order to help his reelection chances. What weve never seen before is a president saying im going to actively kneecap the Postal Service. And as President Trump struggles at home, he secures a big agreement in the middle east. Ill talk to National Security adviser Robert Obrien. Joining me for insight and analysis are nbc news capitol hill correspondent kasie hunt, former Homeland Security secretary jeh johnson, carol lee, and Charles Benson from our nbc affiliate in convention city, milwaukee. Welcome to sunday and our coverage of the Democratic National convention. Its meet the press
Those folks in the unions, those folks that are taking care of us and the getting things out, getting medicine,ic it aing care of first class mail and all of those things so i appreciate your service. I appreciate the fact that you have stepped up to be able to help lead an organization that desperately needs some help, that congress has for two decades pounded on postmasters on why they are not doing reforms and why we havent found more efficiencies. You stepped into this role and have taken looks like the work from the Inspector General and the work from the Regulatory Commission and have said lets start implementing some of these things, and now Congress Seems to be shifting from beating up on postmasters for not doing work to now beating up on you for actually doing the work, so i do want to say thanks for stepping up and taking the risk to actually take this on. Do i want to run through several questions. Some of them have not been addressed yet. There was a series of stories that
Our goal is not simply to unite the democratic party. Our goal is to unite america. I can think of no better person to do that than joe biden. Harris however, President Trump is mocking democrats emphasis on unity at of tonights dnc event. These are the same people i beat last time, and theyre not going to unite. They dont know how to unite. Also, bernie is very unhappy, but actually biden went further left than bernie wanted him to, and bernie is still unhappy. Youll never make this guy happy. Harris and a new cnn poll shows joe bidens lead over President Trump has significantly narrowed since june. Its now 50 to 46 within the margin of error. We have live team fox coverage. Mark meredith is in minnesota where the president is speaking today. I first want to go to jacqui heinrich, who is live and joe bidens hometown of wilmington, delaware. Jackie harris, democrats are trying to show there is broad support across the political spectrum to vote out President Trump. From progressive sen
Shifting on beating up on postmaster generals for not doing work to you for actually doing the work. Thank you for stepping up and taking the risk to take this on. I want to run through several questions. Some of them have not been addressed yet. There was a series of stories that came out, and a trending on social media that you were locking up the post boxes in burbank to prevent people from voting. Were you locking up the post boxes in burbank to keep people from voting . Senator, the stories that i have heard of my ability and the places im able to get to in the same day are just remarkable. So, no, im not locking up any i would have nothing to do with collection boxes. So you mentioned earlier that it has been 35,000 of the blue boxes that have been retired over the past ten years. So apparently any blue boxes that have been retired over the past ten years are your responsibility over the last 65 days. You mentioned before about some of the blue boxes being retired. Are they still