It's Thursday, September 3rd. I'm Achila Hughes.

And I'm Gideon Resnick and this is what the day where we are planning to grill one solitary hamburger for our socially distanced labor day.

Yeah, I'm gonna say hot dogs are ready who wants, but just to myself.

The beers are in the cooler. The cooler is my fridge and I'm also alone.

Yay, we love how it is.

All right, quick announcement before we get started. We are taking a long weekend so there won't be a show tomorrow or on Monday, but don't worry.

We'll be back in your earbuds on Tuesday. All right, on today's show, what the US is doing to prepare for a potential COVID vaccine, then some headlines.

But first, the latest later today, Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden will be in Kenosha, Wisconsin, where he'll hold a community meeting and talk with the family of Jacob Blake,

the 29 year old man who was shot in the back seven times and paralyzed by a police officer.

Yesterday, during a press conference, Biden said that at minimum, the officer who shot Blake should be charged.

Biden's visit is his first visit to Wisconsin during this campaign. He would have gone for the DNC if not for COVID.

It also comes two days after President Trump was in Kenosha despite pleased to stay away, where he toured some property damage, met with law enforcement, and said that police quote, choke sometimes.

Trump did not mention Blake's name didn't meet with his family or talk about the underlying reason why people are protesting, which is racial violence by the police.

That's right. And Trump says it got a lot of national media attention, but flying a little bit under the radar is what's actually happening within the community in Kenosha right now.

So what more do we know about that?

So protests have continued every day since Blake was shot on August 23rd. And on the day that Trump visited, there was a kind of split screen.

So on one side of the city, Trump was being greeted by his supporters, but in another part, the grieving family of Jacob Blake and others from the community held a rally at the scene of his shooting.

In addition to speakers like Reverend Jesse Jackson and state reps, Todd Onestud and Tip McGuire, both Democrats representing Kenosha, there were free COVID-19 tests, a community food drive, and a booth to register voters.

Overall, voter registration has been commonplace at protests throughout the summer.

And that led to a surge when the protests were at their height in June, though registrations are down this year compared to 2016.

And just to give you a sense of the politics in Kenosha in the last presidential election, Trump won the county by only three tenths of a percent.

One of the organizers of the rally, Tony McLean said, quote, we know Trump is here to so chaos and fear, but we are working to bring the country closer to its promise of liberty and justice for all.

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