game 7-0 and game 2 is currently underway. the a's elected to postpone their game against the rangers today and they played last night is scheduled because there was an issue getting everybody together to make a cohesive decision and the shortstop, a bay area native said it was important to represent his hometown in this fashion. >> the city that we play in has a long history of fighting for what is right. that is what we are trying to do here. i feel like a lot of our fans will have our backs on this one. especially when they turn on what they think will be an a's game and it is not on there. they will understand why. >> reporter: for the second straight day, the nba playoffs have been postponed in the orlando bubble and according to reports, players voted to resume games this weekend and stay tuned for that. also today, the wnba decided to postpone their season on hold in florida while the national hockey league postponed playoff games scheduled for today and tomorrow and my understanding is evander kane, the forward, was instrumental in influencing the decision. >> a lot of conversations happening across the country because of it. thank you. reporters did ask president trump about the nba players protest during his briefing today and here is what he had to say. >> i don't know much about the nba protest. i know the ratings have been very bad because i think people are a little bit tired of the nba, frankly, but i don't know too much about the protest and they have become a political organization and it is not a good thing. i don't think it is a good thing for sports or for the country. >> a lot of reaction on social media and the warriors tremont green says i stand with my brothers continuing to stand for what is right and the niners richard sherman saying quote mac unarmed and a black is not a crime " and the io orgn says quote mac enough is enough quote mac. magic johnson said he fully supports all leagues in the protests. a lot of cleanup in downtown oakland today after protesters took their frustrations out on property. it started with several dozen people gathering at the plaza in solidarity with protesters in wisconsin. police say that group grew to 600 or 700 people. at the opd headquarters, they were told they had the right to peacefully assemble but will be arrested for vandalism or criminal activity. some carried tools and began smashing storefronts and business owners and workers we spoke to had mixed feelings about it all. >> i am conflicted. is a worker and as a human and knowing people that need to work, this shuts us down. but as a black man in this country, seeing someone ba. >> the windows were shattered at the whole foods and at the courthouse. protesters broke down the door and started a fire inside. we are live at state college in san francisco. the bay area has really been at the forefront in this fight for racial justice. >> reporter: it has been for decades. this is where one of the key members of the black panthers party got his training using art to tell the narrative and he was known as the minister of culture and he explained to us why he got involved and the fight for racial justice. >> reporter: is protest erupted in oakland once again, images from the 1960s urging brothers and sisters to seize the time are being brought back to life. emory douglas became the artistic visionary for the black panthers. >> it is police brutality and murder of lack people. >> i think his voice and becauspartf revolution. >> it was pretty intense and there were a lot of battles that went on. >> reporter: the native is featured in this documentary on netflix and the professional athletes following the footsteps of colin kaepernick making a stand, not by kneeling this time that by walking out. >> people want a distraction from shelter in place in covid- 19. so to bring that message into the living rooms of millions of americans, that is a powerful statement on behalf of that. >> i think this is some of the most powerful imagery. >> reporter: you shared some of his work in a webinar in san francisco and why he became involved with the black panthers in 1966 and how is depictions evolved. >> it took so long so i began to mimic that bold style using markers and pens and then creating a style and gave it a woodcut look to it. >> one of the things that his drawings is most famous for is the caricature of police as pigs so that historical context is so important and i think that should be used to get people to understand the severity of what we are seeing and we don't just see an isolated phenomenon. >> reporter: we will hear more from douglas and what he calls the demonization of game changers referring to those pro athletes who walked out of those games yesterday. we will also hear from a well- known bay area activists for decades who knows this artist very well and coming up tonight at 6:00. live in san francisco, kpix 5 in the last few hours, prosecutors in wisconsin charged a 17-year-old with homicide for the shooting that left two people dead and one injured. it happened during the protest and unrest tuesday night in kenosha over the shooting of jacob blake. kyle rittenhouse could face a mandatory life sentence. last nights protest in kenosha was a peaceful one, although people did stay out well past curfew. the justice department has opened a civil rights investigation into the shooting of jacob blake. the officer who opened fire, now identified and he has been with the kenosha police for seven years. on the fire watch live pictures from chopper five and we look at some hotspots from the fire burning in the santa cruz mountains. firefighters are making progress and more evacuation orders have now been lifted. that fire, lightning fire now 21% contained and in the south and east base the scu fire complex now 35% complain, contained and in the north bay they are 33% contained. crews made progress on the flames burning in sonoma county but they face tough conditions overnight in napa and the hennessey fire grew by nearly 8000 acres and the biggest concern is the northern edge and firefighters trying to keep it away from middletown. officials urging sightseers to stay out. >> this is not really a time for disaster tourism as we open up these areas that have been evacuated. please remember that there has been homes lost and people who have lost everything other than what they could carry with them and unfortunately in a few places there has been life lost as well. so we ask that you remember that if you have this desire to sort of see what happened and maybe this is a time to respect those people who have lost and ú>> absolutely. d grieving. more than 1000 structures have been destroyed. on the storm watch, widespread damage across texas and louisiana. hurricane laura has weakened to a tropical storm after blasting the louisiana coastline with high winds and heavy rain four hours. the storm is now being blamed for it east death. drone footage shows the devastation in the lake charles area and our reporters in galveston, texas, with a look at the damage. >> reporter: here in galveston, we did not see too much damage and this is what is left of the floodwater. not much compared to what happened about 150 miles east from here in southwest louisiana. >> reporter: hurricane laura ripped apart homes and uprooted trees and flooded neighborhoods as it cut its path of destruction through southwest louisiana. >> this was the most powerful storm to ever make landfall in louisiana. we have sustained a tremendous amount of damage. we have thousands and thousands of our fellow citizens whose lives are upside down. >> reporter: laura packed eight 150 mile-per-hour wind as it rolled ashore in louisiana near the texas border. she wrote out the storm in lake charles. >> they said this to be the storm of a lifetime, and i can see that is an accurate statement for sure. >> reporter: a chemical plant fire near lake charles is forcing people to shelter in place as a thick cloud of smoke blankets the area and while louisiana took the brunt of the storm, there is also damage across eastern texas. >> we dodged a bullet. it could have been far worse. >> early reports indicate the storm surge forecasters predicted was not as bad as feared. >> we would not be gathering here right now had we seen a 10 foot or higher storm surge. >> thousands are without electricity, and it could take days before it is restored. teams are out here in texas and across louisiana assessing the extent of the damage. >> this probably not the last one of the season and hopefully it is but it goes through november. >> reporter: officials say residents should not let their guard down because the hurricane season is far from over. >> what more can you tell us about some of the deaths caused by the hurricane and recovery operations now going on? >> reporter: according to louisiana governor edwards, at least four deaths were caused by trees toppling onto homes and one of the deaths is a 14- year-old girl, a teenager who is riding out the storm with her family. as far as the recovery efforts, there are a lot of things going on with fema and about 800,000 people lost power so they have to restore power and then the fact that there are roofs toppled over and trees toppled over and windows blasted out of buildings so there will be a lot of cleanup. there could be days of no power and water inside of homes. >> the devastation is heartbreaking. thank you. laura is still a tropical storm 18 hours after it made landfall and has 40 mile-per- hour wind which is barely hanging onto that categorization and now that central circulation is over seven arkansas but the influence of that spreads out as it interacts with land we do see a severe thunderstorm warning associated with tropical storm laura and far away from that center as northern alabama up into central tennessee as well and in opposition to what the governor of texas said, the storm surge was exact is that is forecasted along the louisiana coast and large parts of the coastline rearranged by the storm and that wall of water that made its way inland and as the storm continues to move further inland, it will weaken more and more because the tropical depression later on this evening and a post- tropical area of low pressure over the next few days but the flooding thread and actually the severe weather threat with isolated tornadoes still will be possible of what is left of the hurricane tracks eastward toward the atlantic coast and i will look at our air quality forecast in just a few moments. still ahead on tran five, an arrest in an ugly crime on the fire line and how the suspect showed his remorse for allegedly stealing a firefighters wallet. donald trump doesn't understand the presidency. he thinks it is all about him. well it is not. >> the gloves come off ahead of president trump's big speech tonight and what we can expect at the finale of the gop convention. rats in san let's take a live look at the white house right now are president trump will wrap up the 2020 republican national convention. he will officially accept his party's nomination for a second term. some of the other speakers taking the stage tonight, ben carson, the senate majority leader, mitch mcconnell, rudy giuliani and the presidents daughter, ivanka trump. the democratic vice presidential nominee gave her own speech today and she addressed the shooting of jacob blake by police in wisconsin and noted that republicans have yet to bring it up. >> justice. let's talk about that. because the reality is that the life of a black person in america has never been treated as fully human. and we have yet to fulfill that promise of equal justice under presidents response to the covid-19 pandemic and laid out ways in which she said the faidenprthiledt ice am erto pro american people. plain and simple. >> trump showed that we in the legal profession would call a reckless disregard for the well- being of the american people. >> we will see if the president responds when he takes the stage tonight. one thing we can expect is for the president to go after joe biden, but just how aggressive will he get? i sat down with the political correspondent major garrett. >> i have been told by sources in the trump campaign he will be incredibly tough and very aggressive and rip roaring was one way i heard it described and a very strong case against joe biden and also for the first time an articulation from the president in his own words what his second term agenda would be and that has been a conspicuous gap in a reelection campaign for trump and noticeable because most incumbents by this time have already tried to tell the country what they would do for another four years and president trump really has not and that will be a component part of the speech tonight. >> typically the opposing party stays out of the spotlight the week of the other parties convention, but with kamala harris taking on trump today and joe biden also speaking, they feeling they must stay visible during the gop convention? >> yes. the other thing about the trump factor in american politics is all of those conventions have been turned on their head. yes, historically, whatever party is not having the convention stays out of the way of the party that is what donald trump has attempted to be a big it us last week during the democratic convention counterprogramming in his own way and the democrats said we can't have them get four days so they are back in the fray now and not incidentally former vice president joe biden said yesterday that the violence in kenosha has to stop and he is opposed to it. that was a signal that he needed to say something in this moment, about the protest but about the violence surrounding them and the trump campaign interpreted that as the biden campaign becoming aware that all of this rhetoric from the republicans about law and order and lawlessness was beginning to have some positive effect for their poll numbers and joe biden had to respond in kind and that he did tells them that this will be an ongoing conversation from now until election day. >> will have full coverage tonight starting at 7:00's followed by analysis and a special newscast after cbs prime time. house speaker nancy pelosi said she thinks the joe biden should not debate president trump. >> i don't think the president of the united states has comported himself in a way that anybody has any association with truth. i wouldn't legitimize a conversation with him nor a debate in terms of the presidency of the united states. >> meanwhile, joe biden and his campaign have made it clear that he still intends to debate president. incredible video. a storm chaser had a close call with hurricane laura early this morning when a tree came crashing down on the car in newton, texas. another reporter had to face challenges well covering the hurricane from lake charles, louisiana. >> when i stepped out in this direction, out of the cover of that wall, it is windy and wet and things are blowing fast. this is hurricane laura. an iconic view of what hurricane laura is doing to the lake charles area right now. >> so powerful and most of us just hoping for some better air quality around here and our neighborhood in the north bay is like the smoke was trapped in there the last few nights like a lid was on there. that is like an inversion around the bay area and that means the temperature goes up as you go higher in the atmosphere and keeps the lower level stable and that is what traps the fog but whatever else is the seer like smoke or any kind of pollution also gets trapped and you are downwind in the north bay of some of those fires that are still smoldering but there are green dots on the map indicating improving air quality further parts of the bay area especially the tri- valley and much of the east bay and south bay in parts of santa clara valley and it will continue back and forth for the next few days but gradually and we take baby steps toward improving air quality across and it takes a while is the fire crews are trying to get a handle on the wildfires burning around the bay area and you can see some of that smoke from the view on top of mount hamilton and we see blue skies overhead and we also see some fog that has been a factor today and not quite as far inland through the afternoon but backed up more toward the coast but reluctant to leave along the coast and it will go back across the bay as we head to the rest of tonight and you can see it moving toward downtown and right now edging toward downtown as we look to the east. 62 downtown. another cooler than average day and 66 in oakland. 85 in livermore and concord and warmer spots around the area in the 80s and not bad for late august , staying below 90 and mid-70s in san jose. the future cast shows the fog pushing across the bay into some of the inland valleys as we head toward early in the morning and the relative humidity boost associated with that fog helps the fire crews and today that fog will backup. i think a little bit more and we indicate a little gap of blue that we will see some clearing along the coast by friday afternoon and temperature should warm up by a few more degrees and closer to normal for this time of year. we will start off in the 50s tomorrow but the warmer spots around 60 degrees and temperatures close to what is normal for late august as we head through friday afternoon and warmer inland and we can handle that and temperatures along the coast should reach the low to mid 60s and the lower half of the 80s around the south end of the bay and upper 80s for the santa clara valley and 85 in san jose. the tri-valley warmer with a mix of 80s and low 90s with the hottest spots east of the diablo range in the mid-90s there. in the city the temperatures should be mid 60s and the east bay hitting the upper 60s and low 70s and the north bay low 80s and close to normal but the smoke will be a factor for the north bay with that spare the air alert continuing all the way through sunday and it has been extended a bit and the hotspots for the north could be closed 100 in mendocino and lake counties and get ready to sweat there. the temperatures will drop a bit on saturday very close to normal once again and more of a warm up into next week, but it won't out of control hot early in september and warmer along the bay and coast as a brief period of offshore wind will start to kick in. at 5:30, we will take a look at the weather conditions around the various fires that are still burning around the bay area. coming up, it seems like a bizarre combination, how the world's biggest retailer may be vying for a piece of tiktok. downtown san jose neighborhood overrun by walmart is partnering with microsoft in an attempt to buy tiktok, the popular video sharing app and it seeks a u.s. buyer in the middle of political scrutiny. it said it is partnering in the negotiations with microsoft over this potential deal and the retail giant said the app could bolster its access to consumers. the ceo of tiktok is out. kevin maher announced he is leaving the company. tiktok hired him away from disney less than four months ago. unemployment claims in california have jumped just over 209,000 california workers filed for benefits. ne llworker state have filed first-time claims since shutdowns began. the area beneath the freeway here in downtown san jose has become a dumping ground and a homeless encampment and a haven for rats. the neighbors who said enough is enough and the potential solution that we saw happening in real time. and the first look at the suspect accused of stealing a firefighters wallet and draining his bank account and how he apologized. i am in danville were a local theater company has learned not only look, this isn't my first rodeo... and let me tell you something, i wouldn't be here if i thought reverse mortgages 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