The shooting in austin was a low point during a weekend that also saw violence during marches in seattle and portland. And today the Nations Capital says goodbye to congressman john lewis. The civil rights giant and longtime lawmaker lies in state at the u. S. Capitol this morning. In a few hours, hundreds of mourners will pay their respects. Those are some of the top stories on this morning, monday, july 27th. Good morning, everyone. Kenneth moton is still enjoying his birthday and getting a welldeserved two days off. So we have alex presha joining us from d. C. Thats why he looks so familiar. You are coming to us from the nbc station in san diego. This industry is small. Pretty small. So take a look at this clip. Yeah, do you recognize her . Megan tevrizian. We recruit from that nbc station up here. This was my first time on the desk in san diego. I was with megan. Really, oh my god. We love to see it, we love to have you here. Full circle. We have him the next two days. We begin thi
And as we go through the day, check out concord and fairfield, 96 degrees for our high, 87 in san jose and around the bay warming up to 80 in oakland, 72 in San Francisco and mild along the coast at 67 degrees with plenty of sunshine. I will have the full forecast coming up. If you are going out the door, hitting the roadways, 580 is stacked up through the alatoona pass right around mount house and grant line, and we have a crash on westbound 580 at grant line road. It is to the shoulder. When anything happens in this area, it slows things down. The are extending beyond north grand. I will have a live look at conditions at the bay bridge. We just got some new unemployment numbers in, edging down slightly over the past week, 1. 3 Million People have filed for new unemployment claims. That was the current level of people getting Unemployment Benefits at about 18. 1 million. It seems to be plateauing at that level but it is historically high. We will keeping our eye on that and how it wil
Today daytime high still warm inland but cooling off near the coast talking a much cooler weekend in the works still to come back to you. Thanks a lot john 6 oclock and the top story, a grim outlook for the coronavirus there are now more than 2 million cases in the u. S. And doctors are afraid that we could see a spike of new infections over the next few months. Right now we have between 800 and a 1000 people dying every single day in america. And all of the models all the data suggest that things are going to get worse in have increases the virus hasnt gone away. Its not like were looking for for the second wave, the first wave isnt gone. The Harvard Global Health Institute predicts a 100,000 more people are going to die of the virus by september in this country and 12 states including california have seen or hospitalizations for coronavirus increase since memorial day. Plus theres been at least a 10 spike in week to week cases reported in 19 states. Despite that outlook more bay area
Berkeley and San Francisco, your fog, your spots only in the 50s. Later today it will be 70s for San Francisco and oakland. While san jose back into the 90s today, ive got more on your forecast still to come daria. The clock happening today, the bay area will celebrate the 100 55th anniversary of juneteenth it commemorates the end of slavery in america when some of the last African American slaves were finally told they were free kron fours reyna harvey is live in oakland with the details good morning rain the morning. Daria let me tell you those juneteenth celebrations are already starting off here the lake it is packed and its just a little after 9 oclock you got the vendors out here today, he got families out here today, its a stark difference from the stories that weve heard coming out of lake merritt over the past couple of days, those alleged nooses found hung up here along with that fake body that theyre currently investigating but again there are a lot of events happening today
Details rana. James and darya good morning that fire continues to burn you can see Law Enforcement have this road here closed off on east done this is in the unincorporated area out here now again that fire you can see the smoke in the background ongoing go ahead and give you guys a closer look because you can really see just how strong the fire is on the hillside then go ahead to the iris scans you guys can see there. But look at that the fire continues to burn even hours after it was started. Firefighters have been here on with a number of agencies trying to get the fire put out were going to show you that video from overnight here now the fire right now as we know is about approximately 40 acres in size that was the last update that cal fire gave out that was about 5 hours ago. So theres a strong possibility that th co since then now we do know some evacuations in the area are in progress for finley ridge road and that theres also a hard road closure like i mentioned on east done a