Lets kick things off in florida. The state america dropped on its head as a baby. You may remember that two years ago the state passed a referendum allowing exconvicts to have their Voting Rights restored. But then republican officials passed a law saying that most felons had to pay all their court fines and fees before registering to vote. And even though critics said this amounted to an illegal poll tax the u. S. Supreme court refused to overturn the law. But now someone is stepping in to help the people power forward. Nba superstar lebron james is advocating for efelons to return to the the voting booth in florida. James Voting Rights group more than a vote is donating did 100,000 to help pay court debts keeping florida vetters from casting vote, now more than 700,000 floor i had danes floridians have financial obligations that render them unable to vote. Trevor welcome to 2020 where politicians dunk on people and athletes try to improve their lives. Only in government can you mess
Virus. That state senator steve glaser. He said we need to limit interactions to slow the spread of the coronavirus. The east bay lawmakers is the spread of the virus is out of control and that tougher rules are needed. Today the u. S. Passed 4 million cases of coronavirus. This comes just 15 days after we passed 3 million. Here in california the state report a second day of more than 12,000 new cases. Sadly, we set a new record with 157 more deaths in a single day. We have the call to action from state senator glaser. Reporter state senator glaser says he thinks that Governor Newsom allowed the counties to reopen too soon. He says the governor should be putting in place, basically shelter in place restrictions like we saw at the very beginning of this outbreak to try and slow the virus spread. Californias steady increase in not just a number, but also the percent of coronavirus tests from 4 in may 2 7. 6 this week is causing alarm. A stronger shelter in place order is whats required t
Rob is tracking all the conditions for us tonight. Rob . Yeah. It was a really amazing sight to see this this morning. Perhaps you woke up like many of us. We began to see these lines of very intense thunderstorms. Severe thunderstorm warnings in literally more than 2,000 lightening strikes around the bay area. We have seen a few showers here offshore. The connection is still there offshore. Just offshore to the south. This location will move to the north as we head into the overnight hours. As we head towards tomorrow morning, we will increase the shower coverage with another chance of thundershowers like you saw today. Same conditions in place tomorrow. The reason why the red flag until 11 00 a. M. Tomorrow. Wouldnt be surprised to maybe see that expanded a little bit later for north bay. More record breaking heat, too. We could see temperatures as high as 108 degrees tomorrow around livermor. Were talking heat and air quality. Were seeing localized smoke advisorie advisories. Temper
Rob . Yeah. It was a really amazing sight to now wind is picking up autoof the southwest. More thunderstorms could be on see this this morning. The way. I know the radar looks perhaps you woke up like many of relatively quiet. Us. We began to see these lines of but like we saw late last night, very intense thunderstorms. The moisture does have a history severe thunderstorm warnings in of producing some lightening. Literally more than 2,000 we are seeing signs of this out here. This is tropical moisture off to lightening strikes around the bay area. We have seen a few showers here the south moving south to north and from time to time if you look closely, you can see those lightening bolts offshore. It will be heading our way later offshore. The connection is still there on tonight. This is the area were watching. Offshore. Just offshore to the south. We think it will arrive from 3 00 a. M. To 9 00 a. M. Tomorrow. This location will move to the north as we head into the maybe more of an
Contain a spike in toronto virus infections and the number of cases in the u. S. Passes 4000000. Im sorry kelly welcome to the Program China has ordered the United States to close its consulate in the western city of chengdu the tit for tat move comes after washington told beijing to shut its consulate in Houston Texas earlier this week further escalating tensions between the 2 nations. And journalist bolling r. Is standing by for us with the view from beijing mathias what more can you tell us. Thats pretty much what we know china has ordered the closure of the consulate in chengdu this is one of 5 consulates the u. S. Has in the chinese mainland and this was expected 2 days ago the u. S. Surprised china by ordering the closure of the consulate in houston and this is now the response that china has 2 days later for its part the United States says that that was due to concerns regarding intellectual property that a close that consulate china has promised retaliation since earlier in the