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Woodruff President Trump hae his Reelection Campaign to pennsylvania tonight. His democratic opponent, joe biden, spent the day in wisconsin, visiting the latest crucible in the national churning over racial justice. Lisa desjardins has our report. Reporter kenosha a Community Still reeling. On again pulled into the national limelight, this time, with democratic president ial nominee joe biden arriving. This followed President Trumps visit on tuesday. This should never happen, ali thin this should never happen. Reporter despite local objections that the city be left to recover and reflect on its own. But today at an event with enforcement officihed law former Vice President pitched himself as a unifying figure. I honest to god believe we a haenormous opportunity now that the screen, the curtain ha been pulck, address whats going on in the country, to do a lot of real positive things. Reporter protests in kenosha over policing and racism have been mostly peaceful in the past few days. Thficials last night lifte curfew they put in place after violence that left extensivest ction in the citys uptown area. Biden heard some direct words. Angry as to where people say, oh, theyre protesting, theres a difference between a protester and a riot. I only 31, and ive seen enough in the past two years to say, im tired. Reporter biden again condemned all violence, saying regardless how angry you aree you should b accountable as someone who does anything else. Period. Reporter earlier, after g in milwaukee, biden an his wife privately spent an ur with the family of jacob blake,h e shooting by Police Last Month touched off the citys protests and racial reckoning. Blake is now paralyzed, in a hospital. Biden said he spoke with blake himself by phone. President trump did not meet with blakes family during hisvi sit. Meantime, the president faced sharp scrutiny for his words in North Carolina yesterday, advising that voters send in o ilin ballots and then a vote in person as a kind ofin rance. And the vote is going to count. H you cant le take your vote away. And if its not tabulated, you vote. Reporter but some experts call that a clear path to fraud. North carolinas state board of elections issued a strong statement today, writing it is io llegalte twice in an election, underscoring it is a felony, and stressing the state has a firm system to ensure mailedin ballots are counted and not double counted. The president doubleddown today, retweeting his idea. It is the latest twist surrounding mailin ballots, with debate over whether thet presidenis addressing problems or openly creating them. There is at least confusion. Meantime, facebook announced today it will block new elitical ads the week bef the election. And the company said it will add labels to any post declaring victory before final results are in. For the pbs newshour, im lisa desjardins. Woodruff in the days other news, wall streets great tech rady hit a wall, and trigge a broad selloff. Rae Dow Jones Industrial a lost 800 points, 3 , to close a. 28,2 the nasdaq fell almost 600 points 5 . And, the s p 500 fell 3. 5 . Al today, the Labor Department reported new claims for jobless benefits hit 881,000 last week. Thats the lowest since march, but its partly due to a change in how the number is calculated. The u. S. Covid19 death toll topped 186,000 today out of 6. 1 million confirmed cases. That newcame as pandemic expert dr. Anthony fauci said it is unlikely a vaccine will be ready by late october, as th c. D. C. Has suggested. Well focus on this after the news summary. The mayor of rochesternew york, has suspended Police Involved in the death of a black man last march. Newly released video shows daniel prude ran naked into the street. Police said he was spitting. They put a hod on him, and pressed him to the pavement fore two mi he died of asphyxiation a week last night, protesrs gathered today, activists demandedrs. Charges be filed. Were not stupid. We know that if someone is murdered in march and then it takes until september for you to up. Red thatng, you thats the literal definition of it. And were not standing for it and were not tolerating it. So, were asking for the officers to be terminated anden rrested immediately. Woodruff prudes family sayn he hadl health problems, but was harmless. Er a medical exam report found p. C. P. In his system. It ruled the death a homicidly caused primay physical restraint. And, the kremlin today dismissed allegations that it ordered the poisoning of russian Opposition Leader alexei navalny. He is now hospitalized in berlin, germany, in an inducedma german Officials Say he was poisoned with a sovietera nerve agent. A spokesman for russian president Vladimir Putin said germany has not shown adequate proof. L st come on the newshour, the c. D. C. Tells states to prepare for a possible Coronavirus Vaccine by thise fall; how rline industry emntinues to struggle with the impact of the pa; we examine the president s complicated relationship with National Media plus much more. Woodruff some of the federal vernments Top Health Officials are suggesting a vaccine for covid could be sent out in less than two months. It would be done through a special emergency authorizationf of td and drug administration. But as amna nawaz tells us, the accelerating speed of this process is raising many questions. Aw in fact, the c. D. C. Confirmed it has notified public Health Officials in all 50 states and five larg fcities to pr potential vaccinest ribution. That would be for some higher risk people as early as late october or early november. But there are a number of concerns about developg and distributing a rushed vaccine, especially when the president himself has been promising one. Dr. Michael mina is an aistant professor of epidemiology, immunology and Infectious Diseases at harvards schoolf Public Health member of the center for communicable disee dynamics. And he joins me now from boston. Dr. Mina thanks for being with us. You should point out to ople the normal vaccine process takes year. Its been dramically acelerated during the pandemic. And the firms that are developing vaccine are already in phase three of the trials which is the fin palse before they are supposed to seek fda approval. So how would anergency authorizeation change the time line and the pro cess . Ll, essentially what happened is having the rgemecy authorizization as the goal to t this vaccine aroved give the manufacturer of the vaccine quite a bit more room to accelerate the yefer all design d study of this. So what we have seen, for example, is an oveg lapp the different phases. Phase one, phase two and phase ree, that normally dont overlap in nearly the same way that we have seen. And this is compressed the time window considerably bars, essentially. To actually get this vaccine, tentially over the first hurdle to get it out into the public domn. Nawaz but with an emergency authorizeation does it reduce hhedles, lower the standards in anyway. Well ideally it would in t lower t standards. Nor necessarily reduce the actual the overall hurdles that need to dpet through. It certainly allows for the evaluation to be accelerated in many ways. Of course there have been concerns about who it might be getting approved too quickly and sort of rushed through. And that is not necessarily a function of the eoan this case, those concerns are readrlly beig i think more from some of the confusion that happened at the politicalev. But it is still intended to keep safety first and fore moses, try for efficacy as well as possible before the vacs evens get out. Nawaz if e you rther accelerating the process, what is the potential risk of that . Well, the risk certainly are to if the a not necessarily recruiting and evaluating as many people as they might otherwise look at, wh we are concerned with, for example, we are talking about safety, is that phase one and two are really designed around safety. So mawk sure that pe aret getting harmed by the vaccine. We didnt see any real seious safety signals during phase one and two of this. But these wer also, these were and there is aance that when these really move out to phase three and to post market wea could see we think of as a fringe effect. What happens at t edg of the distribution if you have a bulk of people, for example, getting slight fevers, there is always a concern that in a rare pem that those fevers could become more serious in terms of advefects. So we havent really had the protocols set up and the time to reallyg riorously evaluate those pieces, so that is a risk. Nawk let me as you about some of the higher rusk communities that they say thein vacould be deployed too first we know Front Line Health Care workers, essti workers, National Security people. Alsomong the high risk, you did talk abond black brown disproportionately affected ins, the pandemic. The covid death rate is higher for latinos, for native populations, nearly two times higher for black populations versus white populations, is there a way to convhese communities that already lost face in them, to willingly accept a vaccine . I think there is a lot of concern ound that. The vaccine, unfortunately, has been polarized his certainly is it polarized bipolar particulars, the whole virus and our responsh to this viras become polarized. And i think any time we are infusing so much divisiveness into what needs to be a concerted effort, in this casep to keople meaty, to suppress the virus in to transmit to a population level torque get people to trust tha the fda and cdc and federal government are ing their due dill against to keep people safe, whether it is from the virus or from th vaccine. St not surprising that there is so much concern and confusion that is abounding in the general public. Ask you to address a claim the president himself has made and others are picking up. E th this idea that the covid19 death toll is overstated. Hospitals are misinglating that covid19 diagnoses for reimbursement incentives, is there any evidence or truth to that . No, this is all misunderstanding whether inntnal or unintentional. It is very common, by the time somebody ds from an infection, many things can go wro during that course in the hospital. And so it actually very rare that when somebody dies in hospital that they have a single cause f death necessarily written on their death certificate. So this piece of information hac been pd up and completely misconstrued. For example, somebody dying of covid, who also has diabetes, for example, we kniaw ta dbetes is a risk factor for severe infections of covid. But you still are dying of this virus. Ven if you have diabetes. The diabetes wike its way on to the certificate, perhaps, but st not the thing that is killing you. So i think that this has been, unfortunately, another piece at has been politicized, taken up by people who want to project a message that this virus isnt something to talk seriously. And that is, it is an unfortunate that we are having to even have this conversation. Nawaz we appreciate the clarification that is dr. Michael mina from Harvard School of Public Health. Thanks so much for your time. Thanks very much. Woodruff there are troubles in the skies. Major airlines are sending outug warnings aboutlosses and they are making pleas for help in a big way. Tens of thousands of flights are cancelled for the fall, plus change fees e now eliminated to attract travelers. Paul solman has the story for our series, aking sense. All of these people on the plane, i didnt get in nobodys reporter call ask wars, being waged on tarmacs everywhere. In my last flight there was actually a gentleman that refused to wear a mask, and they had to bring in Airport Security and the person from Airport Security said, like, hey, we already had this conversationd t the gate. E person said no. And so Airport Security took them off the plane. R applause repors they escorted this woman off, to a sitting ovation. No wonder so many passengers now have a fear of flying. Even nick ewen, an airlines journalist. I have personally nen a flight since march 1, and that is pretty unheard of. Reporter and if you do want to f, like n. Y. U. Professor paul glimcher. Its real hard to imagine jumping on a plane and flying out to n. Y. U. Shanghai, of course, because the Chinese Government wouldnt let me go. U. Th government wouldnt let me come back. Laughs thered be two weeks of quarantine at either end. Ee i mean, it impossible. Reporter and thus the facts on the ground passenger volume down some 70 from last year; about 2,000 planes in dry dock because Airlines Need them toat rueast 80 full to make money. Former Spirit Airlines c. E. O. Ben baldanza. Now, if theyre not going to be able to fill that much,e theying to have to get a higher price. When the prices go up, many fewer People Choose to travel. And so, if airlines are going to have to rely on a higher price enint, because the planes as full, there are going to be many fewer planes in the air because theyre not going to be able to support as big a fle. Reporter so the industry is faced with an evermorepressing question is this the new abthrmal . Itraveler is confident that they are going to have a minimal risk of contracting tcovid19 when they go airport and when they get on board a plane, thats really when we are going to see a rebound in the overall market. Reporter airlines are pushing new safety measures, disinfecting assiduously, filtering the air every few minutes. Carriers like southwetblue and delta are restricting capacity. And some passengers are ying, worryfree, like timothy strack. Approximately, i believe, nine legs. I have not contracted covid. Consistently and have not had any issues with flying and iwi do it again soon whether i reporter but many more former travelers are staying put. It would probably be a wh ie beforuly felt safe. And thats just a product of the career im in anthe things ive seen. Reporter nurse holly stettler, whos treated covid patients, was disturbed that her partners recent flight was fully booked. Erican and united airlin opting to maximize sales on the planes they are flying. The pilot made an announcement that said we have a really full, full flight today, so if you have trouble finding overhead bin spacelet us know. Which, in my opinion, during a pandemic, there should not be any flight flying that is so full that you cannot find overhead bin space. Reporter and there are the nonmask weare during this politicized pandemic. So, for all the people that may want to get off because they ent feel safe, then get heck off im staying right here. laughs reporter some are belligerent, says sara nelson of the Flight Attendants union, who told us about one of h members. The passenger hit her, assaulted her. Reporter or enforcing the mask policy. Yes. The passenger became violent against the Flight Attendants and hit her and hurt her. And she is recovering from that now. Reporter nelson says the federal government needs to impose rules and penties to force compliance. Theres not clear tocommunication about how wear to wear the masks and thatss theres consequences if you dont. Reporter leaving the policing to the airlines themselves, thspite the fact over 1,000 Flight Attendants have been infected and at least 11 have died. There is a picture of a man right behind me. Me is paul frishkorn, an he was the first Flight Attendant to die, was a friend of mine. And he stays here with me while i do this work on safety and on protecting our jobs. Reporter jobs. Ke thousands of w have already taken buyouts, with the airlines warning that more jobs tens of thousands could be cut once 25 billion in cares act aid runs out in october. To just think about not being able to fly again, its devastating. Reporter Yolanda Hughes is t flightdant for united airlines. Li as which lost 17 billion dollars in theirst half of the year is asking for another 25 billion in federal aid. Pandemic relief talks havele stin congress but the president said he will support the industry. I think it is very likely that we will see at least onebl nobankruptcy among the u. S. Airlines. It is not just because travelerare afraid to fly. Reporter and its not just because travelers are afraid to fly. Many realize they dont have to. Ben baldanza isnt afraid, but he says. Somethink that there Business Travel that is not going to come back because theyre, they will have gotten so comfortable with the way were talking right no reporter exactly and how productive they can be. Reporter yes thare just going to say, i dont need that expense. coughs excuse me. Im really sorry. Neporter if i were there person, would you be more comfortable than you are right w . Theres just more complications out it. I mean, i cougd twice in this call,