I call it transition to greatness. Mothers day weekend mess. Bitter cold and wintry weather, even snow this morning for the plains, to the east coast. More than 125 Million People feeling the chill with some places even colder than they were on Christmas Day. Will it warm up by tomorrow for mom . Dylan is back with your forecast. All that, plus remembering the real tiger king. Roy horn after the legendary duo Siegfried Roy dead at the age of 75 after contracting coronavirus. From his vegas stage show, the tiger attack he survived, well look back at his imagine al life today, saturday, may 9, 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. It is a big saturday morning because we could not be happier to welcome back our friend dylan from maternity leave. Welcome back and just in time for mothers day. Just in time for mothers day. Just in time for cold weather. I did
Linger and it will stay cool. Only 58 degrees at half moon bay. We will look at our microclimates and talk about the weekend ahead coming up in a few minutes. Sounds good, thank you. All beaches statewide will close starting tomorrow. Heres nbc bay areas ian. After swarms of people blanketed Orange County beaches now the governor is preparing to put a stop to it and announcing all state beaches and parks will close starting may 1st. He said overcrowded beaches was in violation of the shelter in place order. Heres what the governor said monday. Those images are an example of what not to see, people, what not to do. This virus doesnt take the weekends off. Beaches have been closed and reopened in different parts of the state. We were talking to people about santa cruz being cut off. I understand it, and the beaches are becoming quite busy. If the curve is still flat, why are you making the conditions more extreme instead of less extreme and it is starting to make me question my rights as
The frontline workers of this pandemic. A powerful tribute. You cant say enough as time passes and their work continues on the front lines. We join them in thanking all of those First Responders. We sure do. Song captures it better. They certainly are the champi s champions. We are back on this saturday morning, may 2nd. Lets check the headlines. There is hope for a new potential coronavirus treatment. The fda granted emergency approval for the drug remdesivir to treat patients severely ill with the virus. This comes as states start getting back to business this weekend with malls and restaurants all across the country opening their doors. 34 states now have partial reopening plans in place with 15 still under strict stayathome orders. Prime minister Justin Trudeau announced a nationwide ban on assaultstyle weapons in canada. The move comes less than two weeks after the countrys deadliest mass shooting in history. A gunman killed 23 people in nova scotia. It includes 1500 models of the
She was helping me with my mike phone. We have the gray clouds. You saw them on the live take. This is satellite radar. We did have some showers pass just south of us. You can see it here on radar. The majority of the rain for the Central Coast of california so monterey, some areas of south san jose with showers but it wasnt really measurable rain so thats going to continue to trek eastward. Now San Francisco look at the current temperature, 55 degrees. The cameras keying out a little bit but seeing fog building in. As we head into the afternoon, though, expect to see beautiful clearing of the skies and our temperatures are once again going to be warming up into the upper 60s, a couple low 70s. The temperatures will be running just a few degrees cooler compared to yesterday but we have a couple of changes im gong to tell you about and the latest on the sierra snow pack and complete details in about 15 minutes. We still hope for actual rain. Exactly. Thanks so much. We begin with develo
The news at 11 00 starts right now. And. Evening everyone. Were in a micro climate weather alert. The bay area bracing for a massive storm expected to hit in a few hours. You can see the storm inching towards the coast. Tracking the latest. What are we talking about time wise . Were starting to the see the first of the light rain showers. Right there you see it there approaching the north coast. And behind it thats what were seeing in the afternoon, which could include thunderstorms and thats why we think its a high impact from your morning commute. All of that for the most part, coming down from 5 00 a. M. To 11 00 a. M. Tomorrow. Weve got the heavy rain component, which can cause heavy ponding on the roadways. And look at those gusts. 30 to 45 Miles Per Hour across the bay area. Some peek gusts near the hills approaching 50. That is the onetwo punch. Heavy rain and an afternoon with thunderstorms and lowering snow levels, even at the higher peeks around the bay area. Well have a full