Toxic chemical. What you need to watch out for just ahead. Breaking overnight. Federal agents use tear gas on protesters in portland, oregon. Among them, the citys own mayor. While the president announces federal forces are being sent to other cities, like chicago, to deal with the surge in violence. Well have the very latest. Wild weather. Damaging wind and rain up and down the east coast. Thousands without power. The statue of liberty struck by lightning. This morning, a Tropical Storm watch for the texas coast, with another storm in the atlantic poised to become a hurricane today. All that, plus, the boys of summer are back. Didnt miss that one. Watched that one sail over the fence. Baseball fans coast to coast getting set to celebrate opening day. Today, thursday, july 23rd, 2020. Announcer from nbc news, this is today with Savannah Guthrie and hoda kotb, from studio 1a in rockefeller plaza. Hey, everybody. Welcome to today. So happy that youre joining us on this thursday morning.
Defends Police Officers who drove. Into a crowd of protesters. And the protests have now spread beyond the United States but thousands gathering in both london and. A very warm welcome to right wherever youre watching us youre watching International Im Daniel Hawkins thanks for joining us this hour. Now another night of violence and cities set ablaze amid protests by the death of george floyd at the hands of police 1700 people have been arrested across the United States in minneapolis where floyd died police have been struggling to maintain their curfew there with officers resorting to ever more heavy handed methods. You got the problem you got the gold. Piece into. A makeshift memorial has been set up for George Floyds mourners have been paying very respectful leaving flowers and messages the site has also become a place for peaceful protest against Police Brutality contrasting with the anger that has been borne over in other parts of the city and so how will some whose George Floyds
Might be surprised. So warm. It was in the 70s. I didnt like it. Driving in i look to see if theres fog or if the flag is moving. I saw a gentleman skateboarding with no shirt on. Why not . 3 00 in the morning doing that. And another day of record heat. And were going back to take a look at the highs from yesterday to give you an idea of how hot it was. Tripledigits towards santa rosa, concord, livermore. San francisco, 84 degrees. And the coastline in the lower 80s. Today another hot day. The heat advisory is in place for the north bay, the inland, east bay, and the santa clara valley. And another spare the air alert. Oakland, 66. And San Francisco checking in at 61. Heres a live camera above San Francisco. In this picture, fog free conditions. What could happen today, a little bit more of a sea breeze could trim back from the 84 that we had yesterday. Still always a challenge. Forecasting near the coast and the bay with the changing wind pattern. San francisco, 81. Still tripledigits
Slowdown. Well show you what the majority of cfos are predicting. Screenwriter and counterculture hero passes away 50 years after the film that made him a legend. Well look back at his career. But first we begin this morning with a look at todays eye opener. Your world in 90 seconds. Authorities in new york released the official autopsy report on billionaire financier Jeffrey Epstein. They rule his death a suicide. Protocols were clearly violated and they plan to conduct their own investigation. Passengers left waiting for hours when a system used by u. S. Customs went down at airports across the nation. I want to go back to europe. Tlaib will not go to israel after they refused to allow tlaib to see her grandmother. She does have to see her now. Sad news in tor omenfonda h. Rice cookers were found all across manhattan, sparking rush hour panic, because many people thought they were bombs. President trump wants to buy greenland from the danish government. You cant. Sorry. Thats crazy v
Sinclair and on wednesday we looked at chicken fat factories and labor production and the chicken industry here in the American South today, were going to be looking at Agricultural Labor. And as i said, those in the room were vegetarians are not off the hook. In fact, we have to of think about the ways in which agriculture, natural labor, has often been exploited and that very difficult conditions under which the vegetables that we eat are often consumed. Theres been a very large rise in the recent years about the importance of eating locally and eating more vegetarian style food and more vegetables. Michael pollan, many of you might have heard of, he wrote the omnivores dilemma as well as food rules. He had sort of a catch phrase that was very popular, which was eat food, not too much, mostly plants. And this is probably pretty good advice for those of us who are concerned about our health. But the idea was that, you know, we should eat less meat. And again, we should eat things that