U.S. Open Dominic Thiem of Austria defeated

Germany’s Alexander Zverev in a five-set

thriller to win the men’s singles title. D

TikTok picks tech partner The short-form

video app’s owner apparently selected Oracle

and rejected a bid by Microsoft. A 18

STYLE

Film frustration

As movie theaters reopen

nationwide, some

employees worry that

new safety measures

won't be enough. C

An appreciation

Toots Hibbert, the lead

singer of Toots and the

Maytals, who died at 77,

helped give reggae its

name, its sound and its

enduring grace. C

In the News

THE NATION

After deluging South

Florida, Tropical Storm

Sally is strengthening

and forecast to become a

powerful hurricane. A

THE WORLD

A U.S. Marine who

was convicted of killing

a transgender woman in

the Philippines was re-

leased and deported

from the country Sun-

day after being par-

doned by President Ro-

drigo Duterte. A

Prime Minister Benja-

min Netanyahu an-

nounced that Israel will

head into a second coro-

navirus lockdown fol-

lowing an escalation

i n the number of

infections in recent

weeks. A

THE REGION

As Congress squabbles

over how to help the

millions of struggling

businesses nationwide,

owners of small firms

are teetering on the

edge of financial ruin. B

Hundreds of election

drop boxes will be in-

stalled in the District

and surrounding sub-

urbs, providing a new

voting option for resi-

dents wary of casting

ballots in person amid

the pandemic. B

THE WEEK AHEAD

MONDAY

Belarus President Al-

exander Lukashenko

meets with Russian

President Vladimir Pu-

tin in Moscow.

TUESDAY

President Trump par-

ticipates in an ABC

News town hall.

Joe Biden holds a

presidential campaign

event in Florida.

Delaware holds pri-

mary elections.

WEDNESDAY

Federal Reserve Chair

Jerome H. Powell dis-

cusses interest rates.

Prime Minister Boris

Johnson addresses Brit-

ain’s r esponse to the

pandemic before a par-

liamentary panel.

August retail sales are

seen rising 1 percent.

THURSDAY

Jobless claims for the

week ended Sept. 12 are

estimated at 850,000.

August housing starts

may total 1,486,000 on

an annual basis.

Biden participates in a

CNN town hall.

DHS acting secretary

Chad Wolf and FBI Di-

rector Christopher A.

Wray appear before a

House Homeland Secu-

rity hearing.

FRIDAY

Trump and Biden hold

separate campaign

events in Minnesota.

Inside

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BUSINESS NEWS.......................A

COMICS.......................................C

OPINION PAGES.........................A

LOTTERIES...................................B

OBITUARIES................................B

TELEVISION.................................C

WORLD NEWS............................A

CONTENT © 2020

The Washington Post / Year 143, No. 284

1

BY SAMANTHA SCHMIDT,

DEREK HAWKINS

AND STEVEN MUFSON

portland, ore. — Massive

clouds of smoke from the Pacific

Northwest wildfires lingered over

the region Sunday, posing serious

health risks for millions of people

and complicating firefighting ef-

forts even as crews reported prog-

ress in slowing some of the blazes.

The air quality across Oregon

was listed as “hazardous” or “very

unhealthy” by state environmen-

tal officials, and a dense-smoke

advisory from the National

Weather Service remained in ef-

fect for much of the state until late

Sunday or at least noon local time

on Monday. Oregon officials said

Sunday evening that crews are

struggling to contain more than

30 fires still raging across the state

— one of them stretching more

than 55 miles wide, part of a

burned area larger than Rhode

Island.

Similar warnings about smoke

were in place from California to

Washington state. In San Francis-

co, residents were advised to re-

main indoors and block air from

seeping into their homes. In Seat-

tle, the air quality index topped

200, the level considered “very

unhealthy.”

“The sun doesn’t seem to rise or

SEE WILDFIRES ON A

In West,

smoke

worsens

crises

POOR AIR QUALITY

POSES HEALTH RISKS

Low visibility hinders

efforts to fight wildfires

JONATHAN NEWTON/THE WASHINGTON POST

Washington Football Team quarterback Dwayne Haskins and several of his teammates raise their fists during

the playing of the national anthem before their season-opening win against Philadelphia. The NFL returned in

full Sunday with various types of protests and games played almost entirely in empty stadiums. Sports, D

A new day in the NFL

BY KIMBERLY KINDY

Federal regulators knew about

serious safety problems in dozens

of the nation’s meat plants that

became deadly coronavirus hot

spots this spring but took six

months to take action, recently

citing two plants and finally re-

quiring changes to protect work-

ers.

The financial penalties for a

Smithfield Foods plant in South

Dakota and a JBS plant in Colora-

do issued last week total about

$29,000 — an amount critics said

was so small that it would fail to

serve as an incentive for the na-

tion’s meatpackers to take social

distancing and other measures to

protect their employees.

Meat plant workers, union lead-

ers and worker safety groups are

also outraged that the two plants,

with some of the most severe out-

breaks in the nation, were only

cited for a total of three safety

violations and that hundreds of

other meat plants have faced no

SEE VIRUS ON A

Few fines for

meatpackers

as outbreaks

swept plants

BY MIRANDA GREEN,

FELICIA SONMEZ

AND HANNAH KNOWLES

compton, calif. — President
Trump and Democratic presiden-
tial nominee Joe Biden on Sun-
day denounced what police
called an ambush of two Los
Angeles County sheriff’s deputies
and said the attacker, still at
large, should face harsh punish-
ment.
The sheriff expressed opti-
mism Sunday that the deputies
would recover after being shot
Saturday night as they sat in their
patrol vehicle in Compton. A
video released by authorities
shows a person walk up to a
parked police car, fire a gun into
the passenger-side window and
then run away.
Police and elected officials
have urged the community to
come together in condemnation
of the attack, which comes at a
fraught moment for law enforce-
ment across the nation and in
SEE AMBUSH ON A

Trump, Biden

condemn

shooting of

Calif. deputies

BY CHICO HARLAN AND STEFANO PITRELLI

IN BERGAMO, ITALY

T

he first wave is over, thou-

sands have been buried,

and in a city that was once

the world’s coronavirus epicen-

ter, the hospital is calling back

the survivors. It is drawing their

blood, examining their hearts,

scanning their lungs, asking

them about their lives.

Twenty people per day, it is

measuring what the novel coro-

navirus has left in its wake.

“How are you feeling?” a doc-

tor recently asked the next pa-

tient to walk in, a 54-year-old

who still can’t ascend a flight of

steps without losing her breath.

“I feel like I’m 80 years old,”

the woman said.

Six months ago, Bergamo was

a startling warning sign of the

virus’s fury, a city where sirens

rang through the night and mili-

tary trucks lined up outside the

public hospital to ferry away the

dead. Bergamo has dramatically

curtailed the virus’s spread, but it

is now offering another kind of

warning, this one about the long

aftermath, where recoveries are

proving incomplete and some-

times excruciating.

Those who survived the peak

of the outbreak in March and

April are now negative. The virus

is officially gone from their sys-

tems.

“But we are asking: Are you

feeling cured? Almost half the

patients say no,” said Serena

Venturelli, an infectious-disease

specialist at the hospital.

The follow-ups are the basis

for medical research: Data on the

patients fills 17 bankers’ boxes,

and scientific reports are on the

way. Bergamo doctors say the

SEE BERGAMO ON A

In hard-hit Italian city, painful aftermath for covid-19 survivors

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A patient takes a respirometer test at Pope John XXIII Hospital.

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BY SEAN SULLIVAN

Top Latino Democrats are voic-
ing growing concern about Joe
Biden’s campaign, warning that
lackluster efforts to win the sup-
port of their community could
have devastating consequences in
the November election.
Recent polls showing President
Trump’s inroads w ith L atinos have
set off a fresh round of frustration
and finger-pointing among Dem-
ocrats, confirming problems some
say have simmered for months.
Many Latino activists and officials
said Biden is now playing catch-
up, particularly in the pivotal state
of Florida, where he will campaign
Tuesday — the start of National
Hispanic Heritage Month — for
the first time as the presidential
nominee. Reaching out to Latino
voters will be a key focus on the
visit, according to a person with
knowledge of the trip. Biden’s
campaign said he will be in Tampa
and Kissimmee, two areas with
large Puerto Rican populations.
“Within the last two weeks,
they’ve been making an effort to
put all the pieces in place,” said
José Parra, who served as a senior
adviser to Harry M. Reid when he
was Senate majority leader and
lives in Miami. “What worries me
SEE BIDEN ON A

Latinos

have a

warning

for B iden

Sluggish outreach could

hurt campaign, especially

in vital Fla., leaders say

Spending big for Biden
Bloomberg plans to give at least
$100 million, focusing on Fla. A

BY ROSALIND S. HELDERMAN,

JOSH DAWSEY, GERRY SHIH

AND MATT ZAPOTOSKY

When federal agents arrested

former chief White House strat-

egist Stephen K. Bannon off the

coast of Connecticut on Aug. 20,

he was relaxing on a 150-foot

yacht belonging to a flashy Chi-

nese billionaire whose efforts to

obtain asylum in the United

States have divided top allies of

President Trump.

Most of the attention after

Bannon’s arrest has

been on the federal

charges alleging that he

fleeced donors to a non-

profit group that

claimed it was privately

building a wall on the

U.S.-Mexico border.

But it has been Ban-

non’s partnership with

Chinese businessman Guo Wen-

gui, on whose yacht Bannon had

told friends he had been living in

recent months, that has come to

dominate his post-White House

career — a partnership

that is now also under

scrutiny. A company

linked to both is a focus

of a separate federal in-

vestigation, according to

multiple people familiar

with the probe.

Guo, who fled China

after he was accused of

bribery and other crimes there,

forged a relationship with Ban-

non after he left the White House

in 2017. About the same time, Guo

began a vociferous campaign at-

tacking corruption in Beijing and

what he says is a politically moti-

vated prosecution against him.

In the past several years, a

company linked to the billionaire,

who also goes by Miles Kwok and

Miles Guo, has given Bannon a

consulting contract. Guo has also

publicly pledged to donate

$100 million to a Bannon-led

charity. Most recently, the month

before Bannon’s arrest, Guo an-

nounced that Bannon would

serve as chairman of a new social

SEE BANNON ON A

Bannon ties to Chinese billionaire under scrutiny

G uo Wengui