Burning statewide. And the Toronto Raptors defense of their nba title officially begins this afternoon. They are among eight teams playing on the opening day of the pandemicdelayed playoffs in orlando. Those are some of the top stories on this monday, august 17th. Thank you so much for joining us on this monday. Happy to have will reeve here, as well. Glad to be here. We begin the half hour with the Postal Service crisis in a dramatic move by House Speaker nancy pelosi. She is calling for the house to get back to work. Critics say those costcutting delivery of mail, medical prescriptions and paychecks and they could have a huge impact in november. Abcs got more. Reporter the battle over mailin ballots in the u. S. Postal service intensifying. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, cutting the august recess short to deal with the unfolding crisis. We have to do everything that we can to get rid of the new postmaster general who is a Campaign Contributor for trump trying to undermine the Postal Ser
Positive, including more than 700 cases from the cruise ship. One Infectious Disease expert is calling on people to become vigilant saying the number of seriously ill patients have been increasing. He says local medical services need to swiftly improve their capacity in case of a further spike in cases and deaths. Health officials in japan are ramping up pretesting as cases grow. Tokyo is now regularly seeing daily case numbers five times higher than those seen when internal travel restrictions were eased. There were 168 new cases in the capital on monday. Slightly fewer than the 200 plus cases it saw for many days over the past two weeks. The latest figures bring the total number of confirmed cases in the capital to over 9500. Moving forward, people who live or work in neighborhoods considered high risk will be able to get tested free of cost. Previously publicly funded tests were only available to those who had close contact with infected people. Among the latest cases are many young
That means 30 degrees hotter inland than in the coast. Let me show you specific numbers. 57 livermore. Santa rosa 53. San francisco 55. Look at the clouds in the background. Weve got a classic surge for the marine layer. Thats going to burn off by the time we get to the late morning just like yesterday. Sunshine for everybody except in the immediate coast. There are your daytime highs today. 67 San Francisco. 74 oakland. Back with the rest a few minutes. Back to you. New video this morning appears to show a white suv drive through a black lives matter rally in santa rosa over the weekend. A crowd was marching when a driver tried to make her way through. Police had spoken to the driver and said she had just finished her shift as a nurse and she said she was scared. Police believe the driver was not trying to run over protesters but the video shows she did accelerate away from the crowd. No one came forward to say they were hit by the car. Santa rosa police want to talk to the suspect wh
A dozen seriously injured. The first named storm of the season set to hit the east coast today. Were tracking its path. Early today starts right now good morning, we are just one week away from memorial day. Much of america is charging ahead with plans to reopen this week despite fears of another wave of coronavirus. More than 90,000 lives have been lost to covid19 in the u. S. As we approach 1. 5 million confirmed cases. At least 270,000 patients have recovered. During an interview with 60 minutes, the Federal Reserve chairman say the economy may not fully bounce back without a vaccine. Assuming theres not a second is wave of the coronavirus, i think youll see the economy recover steadily through the succeed half of this year. We cant fully recover until people feel confident. Industries Like Airlines and sporting events will face big challenges, but he also says he doesnt see economy entering another depression texas reported its single the day spike in confirmed cases on saturday ad
Allowing recreation to resume. At least a few weeks needed before an nicing the impact. If he have to go slow. If go fast, we are going see more spread. Many busies, waiting two more weeks can be devastating. When some of the cities and towns reopen, theyre going to have a totally different look. Because a lot of shops will be gone. They will simply go out of business. It makes the leaves shiny. Reporter the owner of this shop is semiing flowers, making no contact delivery. I have been doing it to my knowledge the right way, the safe way. Reporter mothers day is a crucial time for florists. He says he is not about to stop delivering joy. A lot of people that are shut in, they need something to lift their spirits. Reporter jodi hernandez, nbc news. The bay areas biggest county says its unlickly to ease restrictions. Tonight, telling supervisors she is looking a the governors new guidelines. The areas where we still need work to do is ensuring a 30day is up supply. He says the county nee