First tonight, the graphic images coming in. For the second day in a row, hundreds of wireless devices simultaneously exploding across lebanon. Our team in bay route, about 20 feet from one of the blasts. At least 20 people killed today, more than 30 dead now. Thousands more wounded. 24 hours ago, pagers exploding with deadly force. Today, walkietalkies exploding, too. Devices that had been given to members of hezbollah. Tonight what weve learned about the remote driger. Marcus moore witnessing the blasts in beirut firsthand. And Martha Raddatz in the Region Tonight. Also tonight, the major news back here at home. A major turn for the u. S. Economy. The federal Reserve Today cutting a key Interest Rate by half a percent. The largest cut in 16 years. Signaling the fed believes the u. S. Has turned the corner now on inflation. What this now means for mortgages, credit cards, car loans. And it comes with Gas Prices coming down, too, 48 days before the election. Breaking news in new York C
Later today, daytime highs eventually on the warm side yet again weve gotten used to this lately though upper 70s 80s right alongside the bay and 90s for a few inland spots. Daria. Thanks a lot lets get to our top story right now the fall semester for oakland is here online today, thousands of students. Well Start School Year the district spent the week distributing computers and wifi hot spots to students who need them. There are frustrations though with the Distance Learning plan has some parents reported last week that their students didnt get their laptops yet. Attendance is mandatory for students in all of their classes. The beginning of year so important for teachers to ponder students yet another stunts to get to know their backgrounds and the things they deal with outside of school. And they cant do that now because we are all this is their students. I know this is a really different than what youre used to when you were hoping for and. Were going to get there were going to mak
Sonoma counties right now temperatures are in the 50s and 60s pittsburgh conquered livermore all at 63 degrees. 50s and timber on San Francisco berkeley as well as up into napa and santa rosa. Later today, those 50s and 60s become 70s to 80s for most of the bay, a few 90s inland. Ive got more on your forecast still to come james. Very much john time now is 4. 31 our big election headline this morning. Presumptive democratic president ial nominee, joe biden is expected to announce his choice for Vice President this week. Hes promised that his running mate will be a woman and among the top candidates. In contention are california representative karen bass, former National Security adviser susan rice and california senator kamala harris. California representative Maxine Waters believes that biden will pick a black woman to be his Vice President. Its going to be stored or whoever it is do i believe that is going to be an africanamerican woman. I certainly do wait African American women hav
Its its really really didnt expect to see that at walking down. The street wouldnt expect to see something that someone can. Our top story tonight, a man caught on camera defacing street posters supporting the black lives Matter Movement. Several video shared on social media show this man riding around on a skateboard spray painting over the murals the upsetting those artists who are behind the posters are conference dan thorn live for us in palo alto tonight. He joins us with more on what happened and. Were making grant the man is seen in those videos saying patriot lives matter and justifies his actions by saying that they are antitrump and they are anti police but the youth that are behind this artwork. Thats on University Avenue says that they were trying to start a thoughtful conversation here in palo alto but instead were met with racism. The holy spirit. A police palo alto man is caught on camera spray painting over youth art posters saying black lives matter and calling for soc
The holy spirit. A police palo alto man is caught on camera spray painting over youth art posters saying black lives matter and calling for social justice patriot facing taking place on University Avenue saturday morning is unfortunate to see that happening here so close to home. And such a place where its like you expect them to just be more progressive jeremy saw the unidentified man doing this as he shouted about chinese concentration camps and how the artwork is divisive reservar shooting where is your right to it every matchup where shes trying to i guess conca promote anti racist police by being thats what thats what were seeing among the things tagged on to the posters include maggot referring to black people do more crime or show you tonight to destruction of the artwork was disappointing, but not surprising for palo alto resident my a despondent at the center of white gentrification and all of these of that light is on the youth group behind the arc protests as the defacing sh