11 and planning to close some stores permanently. This as some Grocery Store workers and employees at other American Giants get set to lose the hero pay theyve been receiving for the passed two months. Start your engines. Nascar back in action this weekend and racing fans cant wait, even though they have to watch from home. But how will they keep the drivers and their crew members safe . The president of nascar will join us live. All of that, plus mission to space. The u. S. Space force making history this morning, launching a secretive plane into orbit for the first time ever. The mission and what it hopes to accomplish. Today saturday, may 15, 2020. From nbc news this is today with peter alexander, Kristen Welker and dylan dreyer. Welcome to today. Thank you for joining us on this saturday morning. It is the weekend, whatever that means anymore. We are glad to have our friend dylan back of course as well. The days are all blending together these days. This is only your second weekend
Bay area cities over the death of george floyd. Here is what it looked like late last night. Thousands of people gathered in downtown oakland to express their outrage over the death of another black man by a black police officer. It turned into looting across oakland. This video from walgreens, the same area where last nights demonstrations began. Someone set a fire inside as dozens of people took over the store. The crowd grew to an estimated 5,000 protesters during one standoff. This one at 7th and broadway. Protesters threw fireworks and projectiles at police. It poured on to the 880 freeway. Traffic stopped in both directions. Many people told us they didnt want violence to overshadow why people are protesting all over the country. Came down here because i have sons and cousins and uncles and daughters. I just had enough, and i cant stay at home frozen with fear. Im not an advocate of burning down our own stuff, the things and the businesses that we do own, but for us to be able to
Is helping in this fire attack. That is very helpful. Distance. We fight the fire from the they have managed to save the outside. The fire came in on the first Jeremiah Obrian as you alarm assignment. Mentioned. That is a Floating Museum. It is literally lapping over 100 pier 45 itself is actually a museum. It is like the Museum Entrance. Above the air at the historic and then also a submarine that world war ii vessel. Is just off the pier here. Both of those artifacts have per my operaon observations, th been saved. As i understand, the Museum Entrance has been as well. Saved the Jeremiah Obrian. There is also some parking thats one positive thing, if toward the end of this pier. There is a lot of people who you can take a positive item out come through here and as you mention a little bit earlier, of this tragic event, especially they come through some of the on the beginning of mem morial restaurants here at Fishermans Wharf. This is the warehouse that is mostly empty for a lot of t
Are coping. Americans donating their government stimulus checks to help those in need early today starts right now good morning, im phillip mena. And im cori coffin its the start of a new week of the coronavirus pandemic, and more states are lifting, at least some, of their lockdown restrictions as testing increases, were still seeing surges in the number of infections, though confirmed cases to the u. S. Is now over 1. 1 million and more than 68,000 lives have been lost and, according to tracking by Johns Hopkins university, at least 180,000 people in the u. S. Have recovered and new York Governor Andrew Cuomo announced a coalition to purchase medical supplies. Seven states in the northeast are merging their resources and buying power the goal is to cut cost by reducing competition and price gouging. This is also part of a unified reopening strategy new york, also, paid tribute to paramedic paul kari, who died at the age of 66 due to coronavirus. Kari traveled from colorado to new yor
I call it transition to greatness. Mothers day weekend mess. Bitter cold and wintry weather, even snow this morning for the plains, to the east coast. More than 125 Million People feeling the chill with some places even colder than they were on Christmas Day. Will it warm up by tomorrow for mom . Dylan is back with your forecast. All that, plus remembering the real tiger king. Roy horn after the legendary duo Siegfried Roy dead at the age of 75 after contracting coronavirus. From his vegas stage show, the tiger attack he survived, well look back at his imagine al life today, saturday, may 9, 2020. Announcer from nbc news, this is today with peter alexander, Kristen Welker and dylan dreyer. Welcome to today. We thank you for joining us on this saturday morning. It is a big saturday morning because we could not be happier to welcome back our friend dylan from maternity leave. Welcome back and just in time for mothers day. Just in time for mothers day. Just in time for cold weather. I did