In southwestern louisiana, about 30 miles east as a cat 4 a storm surge forecasters say could be 20 feet deep. Good morning to you. Reporter good morning. The rain is steadily coming down here as hurricane laura moves up the coastline or state line from lake charles up to shreveport where i am the rain is coming down steadily for the past several hours this storm has been downgraded to a category 3. Many concerns remain around heavy rain that could lead to flooding and the possibility of high winds that could impact trees and cause trees to fall and lead to downed power lines and outages much like we are seeing in the southern part of the state. Shreveport is one of the places folks were evacuated to from lake charles we are here along the riverside where folks are staying in hotels to get away from the storm but the businesses here are closed casinos here are closed. The cities in the area, the surrounding area, School Districts all closed for the day as they wait out to see what exac
Visibility below a mile right now and thats what were seeing elsewhere right along the pretty foggy morning right out the coast, you may have noticed some coastal drizzles a lot of do on the streets this morning right along the pacific. So we make our way into the afternoon fog continues to burn off and lots of sunshine makes its return that will make for a really pleasant monday afternoon around the corner right now were still in the 50s 60s pretty mild start to the day but pretty familiar territory similar to where we have been starting our mornings and we are going to be much the same into the afternoon to a lot like we were this weekend with just a few 90s for inland cities, 70s, 80s and 60s elsewhere in the bay area. Daria. Thanks a lot john 71 and lets get to the top story, the fall semester for oakland is here the kids are starting school today virtually online yeah weve got the spending this last week distributing computers and wifi hot spots to students who need them. There ar
Yeah, thousands of students reported to class virtually but teachers. And their union and the district are all still trying to hash out what the plan is going to be for Distance Learning even though online instruction as daryn mentioned begins this morning. Gayle ong takes a look at whats going on. On monday thousands of students with the Oakland Unified School district will report to class virtually in the zoom call usd spokesperson john sasaki had little to say about specific teaching plans, partly because the district is still in negotiations with labor partners 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 sort of the Teachers Union and district have been negotiating logistics teachers are asking for a reduced schedule working 5 hours a day the Oakland Education Association posted their proposal on facebook as
About that, although i see some lines there so i think they may have been able to stop that as well. Taking quick action to try to save as many lives as possible after this huge explosion that happened in baltimore this morning. Well have more top stories in a minute from here in the bay area but first want to take a look at the weather with john trouble. And good morning. Daria what we are seeing this morning a blanket of fog that is surrounding a lot of the bay area this is your view of it from see short hour right here right over San Francisco. Fogs not going to last for too much longer. Its already in the process of burning off by the time we work our way through 10 to 11 00am were going to see most of our clearing. Not at the coast though it will be rain pretty foggy right along the coastline, even into the afternoon. Right now temperatures are mostly in the 50s to 60s, although livermore youre at 70 along with fairfield sharing that same number with you oakland a little warmer th
Also served as California Attorney general. She is the first black woman and first woman of indian descent to run for the vice presidency and only the third female candidate as Vice President of a major party ticket. Harris will play a key role in the Democratic National convention with beat which begins next week in wisconsin. Joining me now is our politics and government correspondent marisa lagos and scott shafer. Thank you for joining us. Thanks for having us. We have all three known and covered Kamala Harris for many years. I remember covering her in 2005 when i first came to the bay area. Tell us about your Early Experiences with Kamala Harris, what she was like and how you have seen her change she was a political novice when she ran for District Attorney in 2003. She challenged an incumbent and i think something happened early that shaped the rest of her trajectory to where she is today. A San Francisco Police Officer was shot and killed and she promised in the campaign not to s