Good morning. Welcome to Axios today. It's Thursday, August 27th. I'm Naila Boodoo. Here's how we're making you smarter today. The political presidential parallels between now and

1968, plus the economic costs of closing schools. And we're watching Hurricane

Laura again this morning, which made landfall overnight in Louisiana as an extremely

dangerous category 4 hurricane.

The director of the National Hurricane Center, Ken Graham, put it in perspective yesterday. The words that come to mind here is, you know,

catastrophic and also the other one is the storm surge. When you start looking at

the storm surge, it's not survivable.

And now today's one big thing, a historic moment for sports and the Black Lives Matter movement. Last night the Orlando Magic were set to play the Milwaukee Bucks in game five of the first round of the NBA playoffs.

The Bucks didn't play. This is why.

When we take the court and represent Milwaukee in Wisconsin, we are expected to play at a high level,

given maximum effort and hold each other accountable.

We hold ourselves to that standard, and in this this moment we are demanding the same from

lawmakers and law enforcement. We are calling for justice for Jacob Blake and demand the

officers be held accountable.

Federal civil rights investigators are looking into the police shooting of Jacob Blake

on Sunday night in Kenosha.

The buck's refusal to play last night because of the shooting

led to the postponement of all three

NBA playoff games, followed by the W NBA, Major League soccer, and the

MLB had a few teams, including the Milwaukee Brewers who also refused to play.

Both men and women's tennis associations are also pausing play today.

Kendall Baker is Axios' sports editor, and he's here to explain why this is the most historic 24 hours in sports activism history.

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