Beyond. In the past seven days alone, we have dealt with the heatwave, dark skies, continued poor air quality, although while we are still responding to a global pandemic. Rectiv whher ne temporary rest from the poor air quality. Officials are over urging people to stay indoors as air quality is expected to get worse. Uni will be free today to make sure people have access to weather relief. As of now, the selma testing site will be closed due to poor air quality. Just look at all of that smoke across the bay area today. You can really see it. It is everywhere. San francisco, oakland, and san jose. Meteorologist mary lee has a closer look at our unhealthy conditions. Michelle, it is so bad out there. We are looking at air quality conditions unhealthy to hazardous today. It is even worse compared to yesterday. All of that heavy smoke really settling into the bay area down to the surface. You can see those purple dots, red, purple, maroon indicates unhealthy to hazardous air quality. Very
Rare session today and tackling history. Washington hires the first black president of an nfl franchise. Well talk to him about the challenges of changing the team name, cleaning up the culture, and now a Cancer Battle from their from their brandnew head coach. First, we begin this morning with a look at todays eye opener, your world in 90 seconds. My concern is that the valley will not be here. Everythings burned down as far as i can see. This is going to be the long haul as we keep saying. Reporter devastating wildfires burning and spreading out of control in northern california. Reporter cal fires been around 0, 120 this t realess bg for the gulf of mexico. Tropical storm marco and Tropical Storm lauer a. Look at that. Unheard of making a landfall so close to one another. Faced tough questi demandinghi delivery. The Postal Service is committed to delivering the election mail securely and on time. In order to keep the country running and moving and the economy growing and people empl
Some good news for tomorrow. Tomorrow will be a few degrees cooler than today au gres. But it will still be hot. Hot enough we are looking at the excessive heat warnings and advisories. Two colors on the map. The pink is the excessive heat. The difference is important. That only applies over here, pleasanton, san jose this is where the heat is more serious. This is 108. We talk about extremes. The excessive heat use a significant rest of heat related illnesses of you are not in the air conditioning and hydrating. This is the heat advisory in the day. This is in effect until 9 00 tonight. The National Weather service will probably extend this. This is about 1 degree of importance below a heap morning. It is still you have to read the fine print, theres still a risk of illness. This goes well into next week. I will show you that coming up in a bit. Look what else is on the weather map. A lot of lightning. That ties into a red flag warning for us. Coming up, we will put that red flag warn
Also, an update on congress a reliefo pass package. Also we will take your calls, and you can join the conversation on facebook and twitter. Washington journal good morning. As monday, august 10, 2020. Election day and one week until the start of the democratic convention. It is crunch time until joe biden will announce who will join him on the democratic ticket. Will open our phone line to democrats only get your thoughts on who joe biden should pick as his running mate. Democrats in the eastern and central time zones can call in, 2027488000 democrats in the pacific timezone, 2027488001. You can also send us a text. Andse include your name where you are from. Also catch up with us on social media. cspanwj. Democrats only can start calling now. We hear from you about which woman should appear with joe biden on the democratic ticket this fall. Phone lines are on your screen. Cnn editor this from at large his final Vice President rankings, his top five on the most likely picks are. Numbe
And now a new projection that we could lose another 30,000 americans to the virus by labor day. One officers view. For the first time were hearing from one of the men charged in the death of george floyd. Hear what he remembers about that day, plus see his body camera footage in the moments leading up to the deadly encounter. And wild attack. A biker gets too close to a bison and her calf while riding through a state park. Details on her injuries and why park officials had to track down the animal after the incident. First, we begin this morning with a look at todays eye opener, your world in 90 secon secon seconds. I guess harris could be bigger than you think. But in the end its not going to matters because were going to win. Reporter the democrats hit a milestone in the race for the white house. Just 80 days to go, and the Democratic National Convention Starts next week. Joe biden had the audacity to choose a black woman to be his running mate. How incredible is that . Reporter the