it s 6:00. i m laura garcia. and i m marcus washington. meteorologist kari hall is keeping her eye on the forecast and what we can expect throughout the day. kari, hot in some places, cool and foggy in others. we are going to see the fog near the coast. spots like walnut creek will be clear and temperatures will warm up quickly. we re in the low 60s to start out this morning but we go from 61 degrees at 7:00 to the mid-80s by early in the afternoon. it continues to heat up from there as we get ready for highs in the low 90s. coastal areas will stay in the 60s today. we ll talk temperature. how is the morning commute looking? let s take a look at the big map and circled the bottom for san jose. we saw a second surge of traffic just after 6:00. looking at the bay bridge, tit a nice drive. watch for low clouds. back to you. thanks, mike. for anyone even half a sports fan it may be the biggest news yet as we travel on this road to recovery. the boys of summer are comin
high number of cases. just this morning, organizers announced they will cancel the new york city marathon, the world s largest marathon because of the pandemic. for those keeping an eye on sports news, baseball is coming back. the major league baseball players association says it has a deal with mlb, with the league and they will have a shorter season starting in late july. right now in arizona and texas, the number of coronavirus cases and hospital admissions right now are hitting new highs. arizona just reported nearly 3,600 new cases. that is a record increase, around 84% of the icu beds in the state are now occupied. in texas, that state just hit an all-time high in new coronavirus cases as well. more than 5,500 in a single day. even more concerning, hospitalizations have broken records for a second week in a row. we have our team of reporters standing by in both of these states. nbc s joe fryer is in scottsdale, arizona, nbc s priscilla thompson is in houston. joe, let
day. the w.h.o. said today that today was the largest number of new coronavirus cases reported worldwide since the start of the epidemic, but for us here at home, it s just mind-blowing that this far into it, right now on average, one in five of every new coronavirus case reported daily is a case from the united states when we are only 4% of the world s population. on the daily chart of american new cases reported each day, we had dropped down a little bit, but now we are very clearly climbing back up. we had recently hovered around 20,000, maybe 25,000 new cases each day. twice in the last few days, though, we have topped 30,000 new cases in a day. epidemiologist michael osterholm now says that we should stop thinking of this thing in terms of a first wave and a second wave because if we re just going to keep burning through 20,000, 25,000, 30,000 new infections a day, then this is less like some succession of distinct waves, and he says it s more like just a forest fire, ju
just mind blowing that this far into it, right now on average, one in five of every new coronavirus case, every new coronavirus case reported daily, is a case from the united states, when we are only 4% of the world s population. on the daily chart of american new cases reported each day, we had dropped down a little bit, but now we are very clearly climbing back up. we had recently hovered around 20, maybe 25,000 new cases each day. twice in the last few days, though, we have topped 30,000 new cases in a day. epidemiologist michael osterholm says we should stop thinking of this thing in terms of a first wave and second wave. if we re just going to keep burning through 20,000, 25,000, 30,000 new infections every day, this is less like some succession of distinct waves and he says it s more like just a forest fire. just something that is large and raging and, by the way, we re not really trying to put it out anymore. more than 20 u.s. states now have rising case numbers each d
arena s 19,000 person capacity, and according to the new york times, the president was stunned and he yelled at aides backstage. several white house officials called the rally a disaster. a broad group of advisors acknowledged that, quote, trump had not been able to will public opinion away from fears about the spread of the coronavirus in an indoor space. and they conceded that, he might be on course to lose in november. amid the fallout from tulsa, there are new questions about whether the president can count on filling up large arenas for his rallies moving forward given the ongoing threat of the coronavirus. there was also the content of the president s speech, including his talk about heritage. we are the party of law and order. you just saw it outside. you saw these thugs that came along. these people call them protesters. isn t it beautiful. these are anarchists. these are not protesters. you listen to the fake news, they say, oh, the protesters were lovely. the