Good morning. I'm James Helmin from the Washington Post and this is the Daily

2002 for Monday, September 14th. In today's news, dense smoke smothers the Pacific Northwest, hindering firefighting efforts.

Trump appointees seek greater control over CDC reports about the coronavirus.

And a postcard gets delivered to a home in Michigan

a hundred years after it was sent.

But first, the big idea. Shortly before President Trump took the stage late Sunday night

in Henderson, Nevada for his first indoor rally in months, Nevada Governor Steve Sisselac blasted the President for flouting his state's

coronavirus restrictions. Sisselac, a Democrat, said Trump and his campaign were

violating Nevada's ban on gatherings of 50 people or more. He called campaign were

violating Nevada's ban on gatherings of 50 people or more.

He called the rally quote, shameful, dangerous, and irresponsible.

Most in the crowd did not wear masks.

The exceptions were the people sitting right behind Trump on stage.

The campaign asked them to wear masks so that it would appear on television like the crowd was

complying with the guidelines.

This happened as the United States inches closer to almost 200,000 dead from COVID-19.

It was the president's first indoor rally

since that ill-fated June gathering in Tulsa.

A top state health official later said

that that Oklahoma rally more than likely contributed to Tulsa County's surge in cases.

Hermann Kane, the former pizza executive and presidential candidate, was hospitalized with COVID

less than two weeks after attending that Tulsa rally,

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