To lift their restrictions or else. If they dont dot i will override the governors. In america, we need more prayer, not less. The president s edict, a direct appeal to his base while legal experts say he does not have that authority. This as former Vice President joe biden apologizes for comments he made about African American voters. Pulled from the wreckage. The incredible survival story of two men who survived a plane crash. Whats believed to be the final moments caught on camera. How those two survivors are doing this morning. All that, plus going to graceland. Elvis presleys famed tennessee home opening his doors once again after being shut down because of coronavirus. Even with new guidelines in effect, its still a move that has the kings fans all shook up. Today is saturday, may 23rd, 2020. Announcer from nbc news, this is today with peter alexander, Kristen Welker and dylan dreyer. Welcome to today. We thank you for joining us on this saturday morning. As long as were speaking
Continues as more than half of the United States start to partially reopen discretion. Is given to the governors they know the u. S. States. Is no the u. S. Cities. So you want to give them a little wiggle room. But my recommendation is you know dont wiggle too much while the reopening process will likely help the struggling us economy start to rebound from the pandemic. Some say doing so too soon may lead to problems because people are going to go back to more association. In some places in the country, its very likely that theyll be future peaks as well im John Lawrence reporting. According to Johns Hopkins university there are more than 1 million cases in the United States over 50,000 of those cases right here in california. More than 2000 people have died over 1100 of those deaths happening in los angeles. Here in the bay area were seeing more than a 1000 cases and over 260 deaths, majority of those cases and deaths happening in Santa Clara County with over 2100 cases and 111 peopl
Side want to play political games senators clashed as they failed to reach an agreement on a nearly trillion coronavirus response. Bill what we have a basic philosophical conflict, democrats blocked a republican proposal oregon senator jeff merkley calls it a slush fund for big corporations like the Airline Industry so theyve invested 50 billion in profits during the good times and buying their own stock. And giving huge bonuses to to their their management. At that time they want to see what the public bail us now republican senators say bipartisan negotiations were going well until House Speaker nancy pelosi showed up back in washington and got involved and angry senator john thune of south dakota said the bill included many provisions democrats want like direct checks for americans increased Unemployment Insurance and money for Small Businesses to pay their employees that right there is billion. Going to workers. Soon says there is 500 billion worth of money for big corporations but
Its just very chilly skies offering ups partly cloudy conditions right now and will continue to see cloud cover through the day in fact cloud covers really only going to rise into the afternoon ahead of our morning showers tomorrow, this is 05 30am tomorrow morning yellow and orange indicating that heavy rainfall that scoots on through right in the midst of your morning commute 08 00am little areas of red thats your heaviest of rainfall that settles into the bay both from the peninsa east bay, north bay and eventually down into the south a little bit later than the rest of us, but you are getting that hit 2 by 10 30am heaviest of rainfall in the south bay Still Holding on to rain all across the rest of the bay area second wave trudges through right before your noon hour after that its isolated showers but a chance of even a few roles, the thunder right along the coastline to the afternoon. So a very active day tomorrow worst time to be on the road down yeah its going to be right in the
Elat winsill continue thughohe. Could be worse. Throughout the day today, high clouds and temperatures near 80 for the warmest locations. Getting a little busy out there. Were starting to ramp up a little bit. The commute is starting to get under way. The san mateo bridge, a few brake lights. A couple of hot spots out there as you might imagine. We have this fire, its a brush fire off the side of the road in the eastbound 80 direction near San Pablo Dam onramp to eastbound 80. It doesnt look like its causing a lot of slowing. A new accident in union city, southbound 880 near docoto. You can see the red sensors indicating the backup here. Breaking news in Southern California. This unbelievable fire. Burned angeles. Its the saddleridge fire, it stretches from porter ranch to sylmar. Right now all of porter ranch is under an evacuation order. Kabc has ben covering this fire all night. Heres what the fire looked like 20 minutes ago. Lets go to jade hernandez. She is in this Large Community