And im marcus washington. Mike is keeping an eye on the commute for thus morning. Lets get to meteorologist kari hall. Were talking about the lightning and thunder. How soon could we expect to see that . Weve seen it very isolated across the bay area, but were keeping a close eye on the radar because this can detect the Lightning Strike as it happens and then it plots an icon here. As we look at the bay area weve seen a couple places of rain but look over the sierra, a lot of Lightning Strikes as the thunderstorms really get going this morning and thats something well be watching throughout today, that chance of that lightning. As we get a closer look, the good thing we are seeing spotty rain. This is not enough to make a big impact on those wildfires, but the humidity is going up and we havent seen a lot of Lightning Strikes. Ill be watching that with an hourbyhour look. Mike, how is it looking getting out the door right now . Kari, the traffic is light. That light rain may affect fol
Wisconsin protests. World Central Bank Leaders coming together virtually, Federal Reserve chair jay powell speaking at key economic conference and investors closely watching what he has to say. Ahead of the speech, few hours are lower. We are taking a look at decline at start of trading. S p and nasdaq hit record highs again yesterday. This morning dow futures down 88 points. Mornings with maria live right now. Global markets this morning are red across the board. Take a look at european indices, the cac quarante down 31 and the dax index lower by 52. In asia overnight markets mostly lower, worst performer was korea down more than 1 . Top stories that we are watching this morning. Night 3 of the Republican National convention honoring americas bravest, devoting their lives defending our freedom. Since 9 11 ive seen americas heros up close. Some of them saved my life. Service, its more a word to me, its a way of life. Maria meanwhile mike pence touting President Trumps economic success
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And antioch. Lots of 90s for hayward and san jose and even in San Francisco, downtown San Francisco, into the lower 80s. Hot stretch will continue, especially inland. Look at all of these days into the weekend and next week for monday, tuesday and wednesday. For tomorrow most areas within this range are at 95 to 108 degrees. Excessive heat warning for the inland areas. The Santa Clara Valley and the north bay mountains, this from 11 00 a. M. Friday to 9 00 p. M. Wednesday and then a heat advisory for the areas in yellow basically tomorrow from 11 00 a. M. To 9 00 p. M. On friday. The highs for tomorrow, places like livermore going way up above 100 degrees and the heat will continue to stick around into the weekend. We will have more on your weekend forecast coming up. Now to Southern California where firefighters are battling a massive outofcontrol fire. The lake fire broke out yesterday afternoon and spread out across 11,000 acres and is mourning north of l. A. In the Angeles National
Surging the country recorded nearly 20000 new cases its biggest single day spike it could soon have the 2nd highest number of cases in the world its thursday and unemployment numbers are in from last week and still on the rise will nearly all 50 states have at least partially reopen and still 2400000 more americans filed for unemployment just last week that brings the 9 week total jobless claims to more than 38000000. 00 analysts are even expecting even worse numbers for the month of april now russia still seeing its cases surged deputy Prime Minister a top 10 are goalie cova reported the countrys Unemployment Rate has risen by 30 percent since the start of covert 19 the pandemic is expected to wipe out 20 percent of russians disposable income in the 2nd quarter of 2020 well the World Health Organization reported the world record in newly reported cases worldwide this week. We still have a long way to go in despondent. In the last 24 hours there have been 160000 cases reported to doubl