This could be a factor in the federal investigation into whether rate hate crime charges are warranted. Up next, why some families are concerned about their health there was a result of the violent demonstration nothing to do with social distancing. Helping oakland businesses rebuild after the fallout from the coronavirus pandemic as well as looting in the street. The new grant that Small Business owners can start applying for today. Eeeeeww dead skin cells gross so now, i grab my swiffer sweeper and heavyduty dusters. Duster extends to three feet to get all that gross stuff gotcha and for that nasty dust on my floors, my sweepers on it. The textured cloths grab and hold dirt and hair no matter where dust bunnies hide. No more heebie jeebies. Phew. Glad i stopped cleaning and started swiffering. Welcome back, weekly jobless games totaled 1. 7 million got those numbers are out again got 1. 8 7 million claims and tomorrow many economists expect the Labor Department to announce a 20 Unemp
Our country. This memorial day does come though in the context of a rolling national tragedy, with more than 97,000 dead from coronavirus. As captured by a striking front page of todays new york times, the newspaper paying tribute to some of the people who have died of the coronavirus, writing, they were not simply names on a list. They were us. In black and white the times listing 1,000 names, about 1 of the death toll, and a short line from their obituary. Also this morning, the head of the Wuhan Institute of virology is denying claims by the Trump Administration that the coronavirus leaked from its lab in the city where this Global Pandemic originated. The director calling the charge a pure fabrication. More on that in a moment. And nbc news has learned that the nba and disney are in talks for the league to restart play without fans this summer at walt Disney Resort in florida. We will have live reports with more on those stories just ahead. And later in our sunday spotlight, six fe
Firefighters have been here on the scene theyre giving us a closer look this morning of everything theyve been working on since that massive fire last night so what theyre doing right now is there working on getting those hot spots theyve got a lot of debris here on scene and what theyre doing is theyre trying to make sure that that fire any other hot spots that are left under that debris. Theyre getting access to you can see the firefighters. The air. You can see the damage that was done to this building here this is that warehouse where all those different businesses. I had hows their equipment. Im also weve got a view of bryant here on scene as well as the firefighter steel. Douse the side of the video so we want to show you. Some footage that we got in this is aerial view of the damage so its massive here this morning you can see just piles of debris lay dow certainly a a a a horrific fire yesterday now again if there was any Silver Lining here in any of this we know that there was
You can visualize it you can better understand it so weve told you about all the different incidents that have been taking place here in the persian gulf over the last several weeks how volatile this this region right here has become of late its almost like think of it this way its like this area here is like a line of demarcation between 2 countries that hate each others guts they despise each other right so heres saudi arabia on this side of the firs in golf right saudi arabia which needs United States protection here in the gulf which it offers which also needs United States protection here in yemen where its fighting a war right now let me show you the adversaries the other side right here is a wrong as you can see right there which supports the actions in yemen that are at war with saudi arabia and also what can we say about iran well they want dominion of this area of the per. And golf and are trying to establish it with its navy so both iran and saudi arabia right you have iran
The university of washington kron fours noelle bellow joins us from our newsroom tonight with a closer look noel, pam and ken researchers at the universitys institute for Health Metrics and evaluation have been projecting the numbers nationally. And state by state based on a number of factors today at named california has one of a handful of states where coronavirus cases and deaths. Are going up more than researchers expected now if you take a look at this graph you can see that by june first the institutes per project 4,276 deaths in california one month after that 5,555 deaths and by august 4th. Theyre looking at 6,806 1086 deaths in california now thats a jump of 1420 deaths since the institutes previous projection now just yesterday. The state added 2,244 coronavirus cases and 64 related deaths about 900 of the new cases and 45 of the new deaths were reported in los angeles county, the. The institute is also tracking the nationwide deaths. The latest model now projecting 137,184 d