People came together today in martinez for a peaceful black lives matter protest. Thanks for being with us at 9 oclock everybody. Im grant lotus and im Vicki Liviakis the rally and march coming after a series of hate crimes in that city martinez. Was thrust into the National Spotlight just last week when the defacing of a black lives matter mural was caught on camera tonight activists wanted their voices to be heard kron fours dan thorn was at the protest late today, he joins us live tonight in martinez with more on what happened and. Grant vicki there was a lot of anticipation that was leading up to todays demonstration businesses were boarded up streets were closed off. But as police stood by and watched what was happening protesters remained peaceful. Hundreds of people make their way down court street waving signs and chanting for racial equality, the demonstration taking place where a man and woman recently defaced a black lives matter mural thats the disgraced that were fighting
Want their voices to be heard kron fours dan thorn was at the protest late today, he joins us tonight in martinez and dan it seems like there was some tension here at this demonstration, but but no violence or anything like that. Now i am for the most part this protest was there was a lot of anticipation that was leading up to this of course possibly protesters that might get out of hand or counter protesters here that would want to clash with them, businesses here were concerned they boarded up whether that was restaurants or shops on the cops are also standing by and watching what was happening. But throughout the day we saw nothing but peace. Hundreds of people make their way down court street waving signs and chanting for racial equality, the demonstration taking place where a man and woman recently defaced a black lives matter mural thats the disgraced that were fighting against this White Supremacy and White Supremacy in a to white people and this is unfortunate that this is wher
That cloud cover thickens up so its going to remain with us through much of the morning commute. All the way into the east bay hills out towards the coast. Before we do eventually see some clearing skies and like weve seen for the past few weeks down abundant sunshine for most of the bay as for stormtracker 4 really quiet picture you wont run into much of anything except for some coastal drizzle right along the coast and then into the hills of the east bay. Temperatures 50s and 60s for most areas conquered year at 63 livermore at 62 double in fremont the low 60s well berkeley, San Francisco and timber on in the mid 50s for your current temperatures as we make our way into the afternoon daytime highs are swiftly going to rise yet again but not quite as warm as they were for the day yesterday nor on saturday either with most inland highs remaining in the 80s today, youre still gonna have a couple of 90s which well talk about in a second. Coastal in bay areas in the 60s and 70s. I do have
Each livermore and oakland at 60 while petaluma and nevado as well as San Francisco. Each at 55 degrees looking ahead at your afternoon day time highs eventually climb into the upper 80s for most inland spots, few 90s remain on the map which ill tell you more about what you can expect there on into the rest of the forecast back to you all right john thank you 5 oh one lets begin this morning with the very latest on the coronavirus numbers show at least 33 states now seeing case new cases rise on a week to week basis in fact the map here showing us the update. The areas in deep red, those are the numbers where weve seen cases jumped by more than 50 . From the week prior 8 states are there in red and that includes as you can see california there are us 25 other states that show a 10 to 50 increase in coronavirus cases and those have been highlighted in orange right now weve got a total of more than 3. 3 million infections in more than a 135,000 deaths across the country because of covid1
Inland areas talking more about what to expect this monday. Still ahead your forecast back to you james all right, thank you john 7 oclock we do want to begin with the latest on the coronavirus and the numbers show that at least 33 states now are seeing cases rise on a week to week basis and heres a look. At the current map which shows us the number of cases compared to last week youll notice 8 states are highlighted in dark red. Those are places where weve seen a 50 increase in cases from one week to the next california is included in that group. Meanwhile 25 states are indicated in orange, those are places where were seeing a 10 to 50 increase in coronavirus numbers. Right now we have more than 3. 3 million infections with more than a 135,000 deaths reported across the country the worst by the way is in florida now surpassing a new york as the nations hot spot with the most career i co coronavirus cases. Anywhere in the bay area. We have more counties going on the states watch list a