Republican and universally agreed upon terrible human being steve king lost his primary race on tuesday night. Good feeling to know one less racist in congress but these early winds of change my friends are not just blowing across the United States of america as n. P. R. Reports u. S. Protesters rallying against the killing of george floyd and countless other black americans are being heard around the world as demonstrators launch their own protests in the countries in countries such as the United Kingdom germany canada iran and new zealand and many more but its not only showing support for the racially and financially oppressed underclass here in the United States that has brought many of these global activists to the streets its also the violence that Law Enforcement agencies have perpetrated in their own countries yahoo news reports that protesters are also calling for domestic chart changes in france there are demonstrations in response to the killing of black frenchmen adama tarra
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
And early. This is like 1 30 a. M. So a lot of us sleep through this. But as we get into the later hours, and into the Daylight Hours of monday morning, theres still going to be rain out here to look at. Maybe even some isolated thunderstorms still to be tracked for monday. Thats also coming up in the complete forecast. In the meantime, if youre wondering how weve done so far, about a quarter inch of rain for the north bay. Oakland, youve got a quarter inch as well. Ill see you with more with the rest of the forecast in a few minutes. Our other top story at 6 00, the covid19 crisis claims a popular bay area business. If you want one last sand wish, or cookie from specialtys bakery, youd better hurry. Reporter the east bay anwas profitable before the coronavirus pandemics, still, that was not enough for specialtys to outlast the disruption from this crisis. Every sunday after church was part of his routine. But on this sunday, he drove up to an empty space. Were kind of shocked that its
Guidelines a picture and video of the hangout on Chestnut Street has raised concerns on social media i think we were blamed for when we were really not part of that, but we just happen to be open may well tis business has signs posted to remind customers to follow covid19 guidelines and to take their order to go. Hes thankful. Police busted up friday nights crowds but feels hes been caught in the crossfire of quarantine fatigue and city enforcement i cant tell from your whats going on down there whats going on over here i just can see it as narrow storefront. Some we control the area right front of our her down the block it was present and so on sunday afternoon that there were no crowds in hardly any sun and Police Looking to enforce socialdistancing rules as apd says they spoke with the Business Owners friday night about customers grouping together you know i have to admit it was excessive but there is a part of me that was happy. Finally people being out after so many months jason a
Radar is already detecting lightning out there. Were seeing the leading edge of the showers just now starting to come in to the north bay. You can see theres plenty of rain out here. So this will move across the peninsula, south bay, and east bay really over the next few hours. So youre going to notice the rain between now and sunrise. Really moret, us into t night urs. You can s band o if somes coveraf rain happens while were sleeping, as we get into tomorrow, there is still one final phase of this. That says 11 00 a. M. There are spotty showers on here. For monday theres a possibility for an isolated thunderstorm to crop up. Well talk about that. And would you believe theres a winter storm warning in the sierra right now . Were going to talk about all this in the complete forecast in a few minutes. In less than 12 hours, three more bay area counties will begin relaxing their retail rules. San francisco, marin, and san mateo counties. How retailers in different counties are getting re