After nearly 50 years in politics, joe biden tonight wrapping up the last day of the Democratic National convention and the biggest night of his career in public service, delivering the acceptance speech for his partys nomination. Lets get to mary bruce in delaware where biden made his delired the most important speech of his political life. In deeplypassionate remarks he promised to unite the country and lead america out of what he described as this chapter of darkness, and he says the end of that chapter starts tonight. He cassays his priority will be getting control of the pandemic, something the current president is failing to do, failing to protect this nation. He promised to be a commander in chief americans can trust. He said its time too root out systemic racism, accepting the 30ears i the. As fireworks rained down he was wearing his mask, but byron, you could tell he was smiling underneath. Our thanks to mary. Now more on joe bidens big night. Heres my nightline coanchor, juju
That region. This was disrupted by the storm. Jeff flock first with whats going on in lake charles, louisiana, i saw the wind whipping around a little earlier today, jeff and that looked pretty strong. That looked very strong. Reporter pardon maya experience but ive been in a hurricane and youre absolutely right and how strong . Well, look what its done. I mean, power lines down, trees everywhere. Look at this tree here. Im always fascinated by up close and personal with these things. Thats the definition there, of a tree snapped like a match stick. 150mile an hour winds can you see what it did through that house . Right down through the middle of the house and this is a story in a lot of places. Everything, you know, trees everywhere down, power lines down. They are going to be forever trying to get the power back restored here, and i think these are one off. Every house that i have seen, i said this two hours ago and ive been looking at houses since then, and ever since then, ive not
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
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