Good morning james and darya while were tracking a whole lot of sunshine around the bay area already with a little bit of fog rolling through you can see it souter tower camera a nice shot of the golden gate. Normally its a completely soft enough this morning you could see some of it though. And through below the deck were definitely seoing its more clear and more clear as we get through these next couple of hours temperature wise pretty nice out there 50s 60s and even low 70s already for Current Conditions and the aac youre at 7158 in oakland, 56 in San Francisco. It is going to be warm this afternoon and windy ill have all the details. Coming up in just a bit back to the news. Thanks a lot, lets get to the big story which is coronavirus california. Is now the first state in the nation to exceed half a million covid cases and we are worse off now than we ever were in the beginning of this whole thing hard to believe, but thats the way things stand and just this morning top doctors are
Morning news at 9. And happy monday to you im darya folsom and were going to check the headlines in a minute, but first want to take a peek at the weather and the late risers have a lot more sun in the early risers had this morning a backup yeah, thats right sorry were seeing nothing but sunshine everywhere across the b a a bay area. We had a real quick clearing this morning and in fact as the camera just here downtown san jose looking on the sunshine behind me, lots of blue skies were going to see a Beautiful Day in store for you no matter where youre going to be a temperatures out the door right now already mild to warm in some spots antioch youre currently at 78 69 in downtown oakland 70 degrees in downtown san jose 62 right here in San Francisco. But warmer temperatures are on the way ill have all the details coming up in that area. Thanks a lot of back and now to the latest with the pandemic california has become the first state in the country to exceed half a million covid cases.
Welcome to weekends with alex witt. Peaceful protesters clashed with federal agents as tensions boiled over in portland. Lots of fireworks were set off toward the federal courthouse downtown and that led to scenes just like this after tear gas was used on demonstrators. Marches against Racial Injustice have been taking place in portland for nearly two months now. They never really stopped after George Floyds death in minneapolis, police custody. Lets go to maura barrett. Maura has been up all night covering the protests in portland. Maura, thank you for doing that. Look, it seems pretty clear the tensions escalated more quickly than usual overnight. What was it about last night that was somewhat different from the past couple of months or so . Yeah, alex, they absolutely did. My team has been here on the ground for the past week and we have not seen the tensions escalate this quickly. Essentially thousands of people filling this block and the block past that peacefully protesting singi
Your wallet safe . Picking the best running mate. The political world waiting on joe bidens decision. So whats it like to go through that gutwrenching process . Im going to ask someone who was on Hillary Clintons short list. We begin with hurricane isaias. Now barreling toward floridas east coast and gaining strength. The categoryone storms maximum sustained winds increased to 85 Miles Per Hour this morning. And its expected to arrive at floridas Treasure Coast by this evening. Joining me with the latest, nbc News Reporter Chris Pollone and nbc news meteorologist janessa webb. Chris, well start with you. How are people preparing amidst a pandemic . Reporter yeah, hi there. Ill show you ohio theyre preparing here at how theyre preparing here at Daytona Beach. Look at what they call the worlds most famous beach. As you can see, people who live in this area are certainly taking this in stride. This is just like pretty much any other august day here in Daytona Beach, any other august satur