Their platforms to help fight for social and racial equality. Well catch up with members of the Players Coalition who have spent years successfully lobbying lawmakers to enact reforms, ranging from voting rihts to juvenile detention. And inside jobs. On this unofficial last weekend of summer, well explore how many are falling back into a bit of normalcy. From states opening Indoor Dining to schools overseas and the workplace of the future. See how designers and scientists are helping figure out our return to work. First, we begin this morning with a look at todays eye opener, your world in 90 seconds. Lets just try and get through this one weekend and social distance, wash your hands, and were rounding the turn. Reporter a key model is forecasting there will be 410,000 coronavirus deaths in the u. S. By january. I keep saying over and over again weve got to be very careful, particularly as we enter this Holiday Weekend. Reporter the president is suggesting that former chief of staff jo
Air quality right now in san jose is hovering just under 200. But look at this image. It is supposed to be black and white. Where it is gray, that is all smoke. As we widen the view you will notice it is smoky all the way into southern california. Haze and smoke this morning, 50 toss low 60s out there. Here is a look how far you can see or get around. Really treacherous out there with visibility just under two miles everywhere or less than that. So were going to keep this for you the next few hours. The next two days, today is the worst day out of the weekend. The smoke begins to lift out of the bay area into your sunday and we hope that continues. There is a area off shore that could bring in at only the cooler weather. Better winds. Better air quality but a chance of showers into next week. Today it is hazy. Muggy. Could see 80s inland but not a good idea to try to spend a lot of timeout doors or even for the bets. Sports are highly in question this weekend for both the San Francisco
Pleased to have with us Toni Morrison for indepth conversation about her lifes work. Toni morrison, as he began, ive seen several citations that you told people that its easiest best most apt to describe you as a black woman novelist. Is that correct . Absolutely. What are we the public to take away from your choice of those three words . I think it was an attempt on my part to choose to be given the status of honorary white male writer. Generally speaking, womens work has been reduced to regional or merely or people complement ethnic writers by saying or implying that they are as good as mainstream writers and whereas i understand the complement, i thought it would be better for me to, at least in the late 60s early 70s to establish once and for all that all three of those things play, and black, i am a woman, and im a writer and they go together. Youve also always been a teacher. Yes. Why is that important to who you are and what you do . Edit quite know what else to do when i gradua
Lightningsparked fires. One is he hennessy fire, and by midafternoon, it had already consumed 750 acres, according to a spokesman for cal fire. While cal fire isnt a cant say for certain it, too, was caused by a strike from the key, the flames did start during a storm. An Evacuation Order has been issued. Theres 20 residents, but theres a number of residents below that Hennessy Ridge road. Reporter it affects those who live at Hennessy Ridge road and sage canyon road from childs pope valley rode to lower childs road. Close by neighborhoods are also under evacuation warnings, standing by just in case. As of right now, we do have resources on these fires, and then using those aircraft with weather permits. Reporter the other blaze, the gam fire at no, sirville road is in a much more rural nare at the north end of lake vari esa. An Evacuation Center was set up. We stop bid. No one had take then county up yet on the offer to use it as a structure. Trying to grapple with this fire and make
Growth play so it doesnt make sense but we will break it down. Guy we are getting some data out of the United States, wholesale inventories month on and that number has been trending lower. Trade sales coming through significantly better than anticipated, 5. 4 . The prime number was really ugly and that was 16. 9 which has been revised slightly higher but this is late data so in the rearview mirror. The claims data is more highfrequency. We got that earlier on, a little better than anticipated, lets break it down. Were looking at jobless claims coming in above one million for a 16th straight week in while it was slightly better isn what was anticipated, basically double what we saw during the first of the financial crisis. Continuing claims track the number of people claiming ongoing on a plummet benefits and that declined to the direction is encouraging. Of the hotspot states where we have seen covid flare up, texas saw a pickup in claims, arizona little changed and california dropped