All right. All right. Everybodys got a Favorite Book from their childhood sometimes stories of adversity and triumph. But the heroes of those stories are often lacking in diversity yeah. Its true. Frustration. We just know, like, its too according to a recent study, much of a gamble straight ahead, the story actually, more childrens books from coast to coast. Massive explosion. What caused this devastating blast in the heart of beirut the mystery growing as the number of dead and injured climbs this morning. But from the rubble, a stunning story. A survivor pulled out alive. Those stories, plus phoning feature white characters than all other types of visible home the astronauts in that historic nasa Spacex Mission revealing the prank calls they made. Minorities combined. Thats one reason why jenna sat down with some really bright young minds to talk about the importance of representation especially in this particular moment by the way, these kids are probably was a pretty funny incredible to hear you have astronauts calling whoever we could call. And sharing a message of we had an eye opening inspiration for the world. Conversation about how books featuring characters of different skin colors, cultures, hope it brings a little bit and beliefs not only help of brightness to a tough 2020. Welcome to today on thisust sd underrepresented communities feel seen, they can also change attitudes towards them reporter our story begins with three avid readers. Im riley im 9 years old. I am a founder and ceo of the brown bookcase my name is sidney wednesday morning. Its great to have you with us im 14 founder and ceo of books and 5th, 2020. Announcer from nbc news, this is today with Savannah Guthrie and hoda kotb live from studio 1a in rockefeller plaza. Hi, everybody. Good morning welcome to today on this wednesday morning. Bros reporter all of these its great to have you with us we really mean that because so impressive young ones already many houses are without power making their mark in the book this morning after the storm yeah. Up and down the east coast your house lost power, my house lost power time to invest in a generator. Absolutely. Theres a lot going on today in fact, we want to take you live to the scene of that welcome back. Horrible explosion in beirut thats the scene this morning. Crews are searching for survivors and for answers as well Richard Engel is going to have als forecast is free. Rokerthon is free. You know what else is free . World. Katelyn is a popular teen book the story just ahead blogger based in the philippines those birthday wishes. Who frequently champions and promotes Diverse Voices online peacock. We begin here at home with sidneys books and bros is a i dont think it is free the devastation left by isaias subscription based book company. Focused on empowering boys and though. You have to pay for promoting africanamerican and after struggling to find characters that look like her, welcome back als forecast is free. Rokerthon is free. Blamed for six deaths as it riley opened an independent you know what else is free those birthday wishes. Online bookstore called the peacock i dont think it is free though you have to pay for it. They have a free version. Raced up the east coast. Oh. Okay, great. I just got in trouble. Theres a free level. Anyway and Power Outages lets spin the smuckers jar. First up we got a happy 100th 2. 5 million in new york, new birthday to lillian czura. Jersey, and connecticut. 14 grand kids, 20 great grand that cleanup recovery expected kids to last days perhaps weeks Gabe Gutierrez is in queens amazing. En rico caparrros. Her secret to longevity . Eating chocolate after dinner. And gene meisner worked until where the work is already brown bookcase that curates diverse childrens books underway good morning reporter good morning. Raise your hand if youve ever this storm tore through here in a hurry. There are downed trees like this had the issue where you couldnt one ripped from the ground find books with characters that she was 90 years old as you mentioned, more than 2 look like you. And colette stays active i feel like the world is changing but not enough to where i feel like it should be easy for africanamerican shirley is married to the love boys and girls to find books that represent themselves. Africanamerican children of her life for over 60 years. Should have books that theyre Million People are without power right now. And here in new york city, we saw wind gusts of up to 70 miles an hour. Happy 100th birthday to mervin able to relate to as well. Morris founded his own Department Store reporter how important is representation why does it matter representation for me is very chain. Guys, thats it. Im not free to go and do the all right. Welcome back, guys. 8 30 on wednesday morning. This morning millions across the northeast are still without power after isaias swept through. Important, because if you dont oh, my god reporter the deadly storm leaving behind a trail of we rarely make mistakes around see yourself represented how are destruction spread across a you going to see yourself as a positive figure when you do get dozen states confirmed tornadoes in new jersey here but third hour of today. It was crazy. See it forming right in front of all right. Welcome back, guys to see somebody that looks like you as the main character and yes, you are. 8 30 on wednesday morning. We rarely make mistakes around main hero, you kind of feel empowered. And dont forget, peacock you. Here but we made a doozy a few minutes ago. Like, i can be s its like, what . I would like to say craig, you did start it reporter downing trees and i did so apparently mulan is going to debut on september 4th for an starts off free. Thats what i was just blocking the garden state telling you, hoda. That you guys read about other i thought mulan rouge was a rental cultures just ahead on the third so we can normalize white not being the default. When i was younger, i thought that i was different when you really show a hour, Vanessa Williams parkway. New jerseys governor declaring perspective, like, you realize and on hoda jenna, jerry a state of emergency in north carolina, isaias oconnell. Shredded homes added fee of ou at least two people were killed. One minute youre fine, the have disney plus you can enjoy it as many times thats going to be good next minute its all hell breaks loose. As you like. Screwed up so were sorry. Reporter in pennsylvania, we want to be like the fonz. Remember he is a trip, man widespread flooding d an could never get the word out sorry. 30 bucks is still a lot that you can relate to someone whos different from you got a lot to talk about. Thats how you kind of become ignorant to a culture is by nott first before i say anything else thats going to possibly get me terminated, heres your just saying. You need to pull back understanding gap, i asked these local news three young book experts for a inside we hide in the closet because favor. It was the storm reporter trees toppled across the region knocking out all right. Meantime, we got a packed half book recommendations for their hour for you guys. We do guys, imagine this peers. M understanding it and making living a hundred years ago and false assumptions about it then waking up in present day reporter to help bridge that understanding gap, i asked these three young book experts for a favor. Book recommendations for their peers. My summer pick is i believe power to millions. The tree is actually up from brooklyn i can. Out of the sidewalk. And it came down on this house well, that is what happens to one of seth rogans characters it was like a Freight Train in his new movie called an american pickle. Seth had plenty to say about it with harry smith i picked that book because it tells a lot about what you can good morning. Try to do. No dream is too big to accomplish. My pick is ghost boys. Its a book that kind of talks its 8 56. Ooi their good chat ahead. Also jbh is here im kris sanchez. Coming through shes going to introduce us to some remarkable kids who are a standoff outside the main jail the loudest sound i ever heard reporter in delaware the powerful winds knocked over a leading a charge to change in san jose where a detainee tractortrailer. Even new york city was under a rare tornado watch a tree fell in queens killing a 60yearold man in a parked car. Managed to get ahold of a gun another building partially and fire shots still inside a childrens books for the better. They do a great job of explaining why their mission is about Police Brutality sheriffs suv only to surrender really so important. Really looking forward to this so its about a 12yearold boy one. Indeed. Plus a round up of some of the who was actually shot by the police and his ghost kind of goes to his to the Police Officers daughter and they kind of just, like, talk in a sense. This morning. Suspect accused of mail fraud the storys about their friendship its a way of understanding everything society has going on and forgery and while handcuffed collapsed in brooklyn. Next thing i know i hear a best reviewed items of the they manahe managed to grab a g boom everything just fell down. Summer and where you can find them reporter in all, at least six dead from the storm. Right now. First, we could not be more right now in a way thats not latest disaster in a tough year. Excited for something that is going to happen tomorrow on the too harsh on Young Readers as cleanup continues, dont forget that the pandemic is show i picked love from a to z. She meets a boy named adam at stored in the rear of the suv. It is the return of rokerthon the airport and its a great shots were fired but no al, what are you going to do injuries. Gathering more information about still with us. So help your neighbor, but do it who that suspect is, a live safely wear your mask report is coming up in our midday newscast. You can look for more on our oh, this is very exciting home page. Our fourth rokerthon story. Even though they dont face a also on our home page, keep your distance reporter of course with the its a virtual sandwich making relay. Weve got dozens of our favorite lot of microaggressions for pandemic, many families are at chefs and foodies. Just to name a few, martha home with children struggling this morning without power stewart, bobby flay, marcus latest from beirut where at and of course, many roads and rail lines are shut down or least 100 people were killed samuelsson, thomas keller. Being muslim, she experiences a after yesterdays horrific explosion there. Lot of joy in her life a desperate search continues now i feel like this is a Book Club Meeting and im a teacher for more survivors. Again. Im having so much fun 2,700 tons of volatile you are so inspirational delayed this morning as the so many more all of it raising awareness and every single one of you. Explosives were improperly cleanup gets underway. Savannah helping feeding america and world central kitchen. You guys can be my forever kid stored at a shipping port. A lot of work to do already gabe, thank you. Now lets turn to the scene of utter devastation in beirut, and bay area schools are now lebanon. Its still unfolding this morning. Rescue workers sifting through we are so excited about this starts at 8 30 right about 24 rushing to implement new safety hours from now starts here and goes streaming live on today all day on peacock. Guidelines. Head to our home page to see correspondents what San Jose District is doing debris from yesterdays massive warehouse explosion searching thank you i know. To keep your student safe. For possible survivors a blast that killed more than a all right i left that meeting feeling so inspired so we decided to do something hundred people and injured so in case you dont want to spend if you dont want to spend the 29. 99 for mulan, this is a bargain because peacocks about it free im excited to announce that all its free. Three books chosen by our young experts will be our official free picks for a special summer kids thousands more nbcs chief foreign free, baby edition of read with jenna. Correspondent Richard Engel has the latest on this free thank you, al hey, richard good morning reporter good morning, hoda. Free. Yeah so you are starting a book so much damage to such a okay club with them beautiful city the government has declared yes, i sure am. Thank you so much. We are excited right now you guys can find them on today. Com read with jenna and i get to say it. Lets see that big board yes three days of national mourning. Okay. There we are. 90 of the hotels in the city have been damaged. According to the governor, hundreds of thousands of people we have got some adorable our Instagram Page today show viewers all lined they got to choose the first up there they are in all their glory. Good morning three kids picks thats cool youre right. The future after interviewing have been made homeless. And hes appealing to lebanese those kids i get it to open up their homes to allow good morning, everybody all right. People to find a place to live we are looking for the brennan we got lauren and much of beirut is shattered this morning by one of the most powerful peacetime explosions family from fairfax, virginia, ever but the will to live remains up on the big board. We got lauren and jay. Got their kids aidan and keaton. Guys, i know you remember this, but we dug into the today show archives and we found that you guys have already been on our show on the plaza. Lets take a look. Strong even after this a survivor this morning found under the rubble for some, a miracle. Look closely and you can see oh. Oh, back in the day we remember. We remember. We loved when you came to see us and today you guys are back with us on our virtual plaza and you want to say happy birthday to what happened. This is the port as a fire rages, popping and sparking. It wells to a noisy roar until someone. Who is that . Happy birthday to pop pop he turns 70 years old. The second blast other angles show the blast wave crumbling buildings like sand castles. Traveling faster than the speed hes an Institution Just like the today show by the way, pop pop a retired teacher. Hes been watching our show every day for decades. So we would like to also say of sound, people couldnt get out of the way of the blast. Happy birthday happy birthday, pop pop then came the bang filmed from boats too. Love you from what they thought was a safe distance. They filmed from passing cars all right love you guys. Thanks for watching. Guys, everybody woke up really early for our plaza this miles away a Mushroom Cloud hung over morning except for the next couple i want to show you. They are up late the white family where are you guys right now were in south korea. In south korea. We are so happy to have you here right now. Weve got stephanie, hunter, your baby alyssa shes 6 months beirut its like an earthquake it was like a nuclear bomb i couldnt even take my breath reporter the governor rushed to the scene and broke down saying it reminded him of hunter, you are serving in the how are you doing . Hiroshima. Great were glad to be here. Happy to stay awake for the went through shops and a church service. But what caused it the lebanese president said it was a chemical explosion today show stephanie, i heard you had to actually get, like, a special tv connection just to make this all happen what did you do . Well, i log into my fire stick as if were in california suggesting negligence. Not terrorist or malice. That Ammonium Nitrate was stored at the port without proper and i have the nbc app so i can watch you guys. I actually watch you my morning, so its your nighttime so well watch you guys and ourselves tomorrow morning in live from studio 1a in precautions for six years. About ten hours. Rockefeller plaza, this is the local media suggests a welder set it off by accident the government demanded an investigation. Third hour of today. And a good morning to you. Hospitals couldnt cope as the injured streamed in. Welcome to the third hour of today. Craig melvin in studio 1a. Thousands hurt many by flying glass i love it al and dylan continue to work from home. Dozens were killed so we want to say good night to sheinelle enjoying a few days President Trump offering few you. Good night, baby alyssa. Details suggesting this was an off. Well see her back next week. Mr. Roker, a lot of folks in the sweet dreams thank you for your service we really appreciate it. And the whole family serves, so thank you to all of you. We love it when the big board Goes International one more look at the entire northeast, myself included, looking at a long day of attack group. We see james turning 7 today cleaning up. It was a bomb of some kind, theres the boeing family. I see the smith family from yes. Summit, new jersey thats right. Reporter beirut has seen many wars, but nothing like our yards a mess here. But thankfully this will be the summit, new jersey. Last time i say isaias, but it adorable baby sam there. The clemmons family. Came through quickly and left corys turning 12 today. Thank you, thank you, thank you boy, richard. To all of you for waking up some serious destruction behind, what a difficult recovery ahead early. By the way, you can get in on unfortunately. For the folks there. The fun today. This its we had it in one explosion. It is a catastrophe. Ive never seen Something Like that adorable baby sam there. Boy, richard. What a difficult recovery ahead the clemmons family. Corys turning 12 today. For the folks there. Thank you, thank you, thank you lebanons Prime Minister is appealing to the international to all of you for waking up early. By the way, you can get in on community asking for help. What have you been hearing the fun today. Its today. Com mytodayplaza. Reporter well, a lot of you can be part of the fun now lets go back to al countries are promising aid. Some already sending plane its free check of the weather. Loads. Announcer todays weather is brought to you by target. France, jordan, russia says its sending five plane loads israel which has fought wars against lebanon says its willing to provide humanitarian assistance the United States also saying its willing to help out all right a quick look at your weekend wherever possible. Outlook. Its not too early to start the and lebanon needs help right weekend. Showers along the midatlantic now. The country even before this blast was going through a massive economic crisis. Very hot out west. Cool as you move to the west coast. Hot and dry in parts of the southwest. Scattered showers and storms in the southeast. Sunday really nice in the northeast. Heat continues dow the currency had effectively collapsed. So many people cant afford to fix up their homes that are now good morning. Im meteorologist kari hall as we check out our high temperatures for today, staying so badly damaged. Cool and fog he near the coast all right. Richard engel. Thank you so much. Shocking to see what it looks with San Francisco only in the like this morning. Theres also concern here in this country that the low 60s today. Coronavirus is spreading now into smaller regions across the palo alto will reach 72 degrees. Country. The question is will hospitals there be able to cope with the antioch 79. Much of the north bay were hot farther to the north up to 88 degrees in clear lake and overall our inland valleys, well see mid 70s today. Coming surge in cases . Miguel almaguer has that story it gets hotter going into the for us this morning. Miguel, good morning. Reporter savannah, good morning. There is growing fear today that in the midwest and south where weekend. By saturday were reaching back states initially dodged major spikes, they could now be hit into the low 90s. Hats your lat. Savannah . All right, al. Thank you. Just ahead, whats better than one seth rogan . Harder than ever. This morning across the how about two . Heartland, a growing wave of covid cases with hospitals in he takes on dualing roles in his new movie. Thats your latest weather. The south and midwest bracing for a tsunami of infection. We must ensure that these states do not become new flareups. So were watching closely. Reporter while in many states deaths and cases are declining, in mississippi hi. Were glad you came in. Morgues are overrun. With the state on track to whats on your mind . Become number one for can you help keep these guys protected online . Easy. Connect to the xfi gateway. What about wireless data options for the family . You can customize and save. What about internet speeds coronavirus cases per capita. That can keep up with my gaming . In tennessee, a 139 increase in lets hook you up with the Fastest Internet from xfinity. Cases last month. In nebraska and north dakota, cases surging over 30 just in and now with our stores reopening, the last two weeks. In the same period in south carolina, deaths have risen were putting Healthy Practices in place. Come visit a store today. Stop in or book an appointment online at a time that works for you. Now thats simple, easy, awesome. Ask. Shop. Discover at your local xfinity store today. Nearly 90 . These are some of the sickest weve ever seen. And theyre getting younger and younger. Reporter Health Officials in illinois now begging the public to wear masks in a new psa. Not wearing a mask in public is like not wearing a seat belt because no one else is. Or not wearing a life jacket because its uncomfortable. A mask is like anything that keeps us safe. It only works if you wear it. Reporter but across the nation, many still wont comply. From house parties to raves to sanctioned events like this speedway event in south dakota drawing large, tightly packed crowds. In hot spots like california, some apparent good news. With reports of declining great day on the lake it is. Lunch is cookin and i saved a bunch of money on my boat insurance with geico. Fellas, can it get any better than this . Whoa infection. The total number of people testing positive is now going my old hairstyle grew back. Down. Reporter but the States Health department now admitting a Technical Glitch has resulted in an underreporting of covid19 so did mine. Cases. No details on how widespread the [80s music] error is. This morning progress and uncertainty shrouding the golden what . I was an 80s kid. State. It only gets better when you switch and save with geico. Miguel, any idea when that confusion over cases in california can be sorted out . What does it mean for the Bigger Picture . Reporter officials here say [upb i fell asleep tobut when i woke up. I put everything in perspective. Its likely going to take them boy hi, do you want to share my sandwich . At least a few days. While they expect the total number of cases to increase, vo good feeds our connections. Its unclear by how much. Good feeds us all. Now one key number, the amount hormel Natural Choice lunch meats. Of patients hospitalized is not expecting to change. Good news there. Welcome back. We love seth rogan for his roles in comedies like the all right. Thank you, miguel. Speaking of good news, some new signs of hope in the fight against covid19. 40yearold craig joins us now with more. Hey. Good morning. Operation warp speed to develop a vaccine has been grabbing welcome back we love seth rogan for his roles headlines, but this morning in comedies like the 40yearold virgin, knocked up. But a better thing in a movie promising therapies for people who already have the virus or were exposed to the virus. Those are also picking up steam. Nbcs sam brock joins us now is a second seth rogan he sat down with harry smith from Jackson Memorial hospital to talk to him all about it. We did some bonding, indeed this is a cool movie its a comedy with a message or a message movie with laughs. In miami. Think rip van winkle meets back good morning. Reporter good morning. Right now there are nearly 2,000 to the future but in yiddish the ditch digging loser soon people in Miamidade County hospitalized with covid19. Woos the girl of his dreams. Li but researchers say new therapies using antibodies, those proteins our bodies produce to help fight this virus could keep more people out of the hospital and help those suffering from covid for days, starts with a happy its a movie that feels like it starts with a happy ending he and his wife come to the weeks, or even months. United states. Urgent efforts to create a covid he gets a job in the pickle vaccine countering the worst medical crisis in a century have factory and then what happens . Sparked optimism from the white he falls in a pickle vat one house. Two vaccine candidates are day and is brined for 100 years. Currently in the final stage of he is unbrined 100 years later in modern day new york you were brined for like a 2020 is no and Covid Patients like kate porter continue to s clinical trials. Reporter while the medical Community Remains bullish on a breakthrough, a time line of 2020 is no guarantee and patients like kate porter continue to suffer im on day 140. As we speak, i have the highest temperature ive had all four months, actually thats why im sweating and a little shaky right now reporter the 35yearold mom so you must be pretty parched. From the boston area says shes reporter rogans character battled around 30 symptoms since learns his only living relative is a great grandson played by contracting coronavirus in midmarch making two visits to rogan. This is nuts. Reporter you shoot it simultaneously the e. R. Howd it work . We shot all the bearded stuff first and then all the nonbearded stuff. I can feel my heart skip a reporter rogan said he had beat no choice but to grow a beard reporter with elevated heart rate, shortness of breath, and for the role brain fog just a few leading to a hodgepodge of i watched the most expensive movies on earth and theyre able to do space battles but they look at a fake beard and its terrible reporter so you shave off the beard and do other scenes. Were there ever moments when youre having already recorded the bearded stuff and youre playing against yourself and youre thinking, i wish the bearded guy had done that a little better . Whats funny is we thought of, like, one literally maybe medicines. Now possible relief in the form 15second thing that we wished of antibody treatment. We had filmed. And we waited around nine months these antibodies prevent the for me to grow the beard back so virus from replicating if you get it early enough, you we could film that one thing they were like, can we just do a could essentially block that wave that occurs with covid19 reporter drug maker eli lilly and the National Institutes of health calling for fake beard volunteers its just one shot itll look the other coping at home to look at antibody treatment. Special proteins taken from the covid19 survivor that would target and lock onto the virus even worse preventing it from spreading itll be nuts if its just one if successful, the therapy could prevent some patients from ever reaching the hospital doors. And potentially block the virus from replicating any further in shot reporter the bearded seth people like kate and his less bearded self what would an effective treatment even if you have covid19 mean for your situation . Confront a series of obstacles generational, cultural, i mean, it would give me hope familial, religious. I understand why youre a again. It would give me it would religious person but i am not as uncomfortable with things just give me everything i need to kind of resume my life and just do all the things that i love so sam, this antibody treatment news, it comes along with other news related to the effectiveness of anothertake alt researchers analyzed data from treatment. What can you tell us about that . Reporter well certainly take all the news we can get researchers analyzed data from as faith and complicated as about 3,000 patients and found those things are, you can apply certain elements of religion and those who received plasma faith to your life for reasons treatments saw their mortality rates drop about 50 in seven that are helpful to you as a person, you know and thats something that yeah we wanted to explore in the film reporter in a recent conversation with pod master mark maren, rogan said a lot of funny things he also shared his candid thoughts on israel as a jewish person, i was fed huge amounts of israel my entire days the key here seems to be getting that transfusion in three days or less after diagnosis. Thanks, sam life they never tell you that, by the we have a lot to get to including an upset in missouri longtime congressman William Lacy Clay defeated by cori bush. Way, there were people there they make it seem like clay has represented the reporter boy, did you stir district for 20 years. Before that his father bill up a you know what storm clay all right. It is now 7 15 a little bit. I think me and mark had a what do you say we bring in mr. Conversation honestly that is happening at jewish dinner tables around the world. And i understand that it is a sensitive subjects, but elements roker . Of that conversation have been cherry picked and as millions are recovering from decontextualized, you know, in isaias hey, al. Good morning hey, guys good morning weve been talking about this storm for a long time. Various news outlets i am a proud jewish person and i july 28th. Am not ashamed of being jewish i talk about it constantly when we first started tracking and i also think that the country of israel should exist k it east of the Windward Islands but i also think that the palestinians have a right to human rights and to be as a tropical depression and acknowledged then makes its way over the bahamas. A tropical system. Hugs the coast of florida. Then comes on land as a hurricane category 1 reporter rogan is unapologetically open about his opinions and were the real rogan to time travel like his film counterpart, well 40 mileperhour win if anything, this storm is a if young me met future me like me, young me would be supey reminder that a Tropical Storm can still do plenty of damage. Isaias is 55 miles north of quebec city. 40 mileperhour winds and it is still moving fast north northeast at 28 Miles Per Hour psyched. Like, oh good. The one thing we dont need older me would be like, just so you know, youre probably going right now in the midatlantic is more rain. To youre going to get in got a storm system thats going to a frontal system thats some trouble over the next years. Reporter be careful. Going to stall here in the east. Afternoon showers and thunderstorms will fire up today. Into tomorrow, isolated areas of flooding possible because even though this rain wouldnt be normally considered flooding because the ground is so saturated from isaias, we have possibilities of flooding. We are looking at a widespread area of 1 to 2 inches could be even more stretching from even more stretching from georgia all the way up just to be careful out there. Rogan is pretty interesting about this whole thing ironically the film is really about finding family and finding your roots and really getting back in touch with all of those things he says its as jewish as maybe has ever been made so you want to find out more about the controversy, google. You can spend hours sifting through it all sounds like you did one thing about seth, though, that laugh hes got to iconic laugh, you know its seth rogan cant imitate it. Thank you we should mention an american pickle starts streaming on hbo new york city. Max tomorrow up next, Jenna Bush Hager in were going to get to your local forecast coming up in the next the house to share her powerful 30 seconds conversation theres jenna. Its a conversation with a group of Young Readers wise beyond their years. When you do get to see somebody who looks like you as the main character and the main hero, you kind of feel empowered. Like, i can be a superhero too thats something every kid should be able to feel their inspiring passion for good morning. Im meteorologist kari hall. Lets take a live look outside helping other kids find books that represent all of us but first this is today on with some clouds over the south bay as we check out san jose. Nbc. Were going to have a cloudy morning and then it gradually clears out, but we are looking at still some cloudy conditions and fog near the coast, even some drizzle. So our temperatures in the low 60s while our interior valleys reach into the mid70s today. As we go through the rest of the week were going to be warming up with a hot weekend ahead. I dont know about you guys, but im glad im never going to have to say isaias again were on the same page. Formerly known as. Yes thank you. Coming up, the white hot debate over schools. Nobody should be required to be somewhere that they dont feel safe or productive. We are going to hear from teachers behind the protests nationwide against reopening classrooms and the outbreaks in schools that have already reopened that are adding to their concerns and like to make history on that Spacex Mission opening the door to a new era of space travel but first this is today on [upbeat music] today was the day that i put everything in perspective. I fell asleep but when i woke up. boy hi, do you want to share my sandwich . vo good feeds our connections. Good feeds us all. Hormel Natural Choice lunch meats. Coming up, coming up, harry smiths conversation with seth rogan on his new movie. Seth playing both the leading roles. How hard was that to pull off . Were going to find out from seth after your local news really paid off this time. Nah, just got lucky. So did the thompsons. That faulty wiring couldve cost them a lot more than the mudroom. Thankfully they bundled their motorcycle with their home and auto. Theyre protected 24 7. Mm. What do you say . 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It started about 2 00 this morning when Authorities Say a detainee managed to get hold of a gun and fired shots while inside a sheriffs patrol car. The standoff lasted for about four hours. Eventually the suspect surrendered. No one was hurt and so far there are no details on the suspect or how the incident even started. Were expecting to get an update soon from the sheriffs office. Reporter good morning, im scott mcgrew. President trump at his Coronavirus Briefing said the beirut explosion was possibly some sort of military attack. The u. S. General had told him that. Thats not what were hearing from the lebanese or a lot of other sources. We are eager to find out more about which general the president said he was talking to. Now a look at that forecast from meteorologist kari hall. Some cloud cover out there this morning. Yeah, were even seeing it stretching into some of our inland areas like walnut creek where some of our valleys will have a much cooler day thanks to the coastal fog that has gotten very thick. As we go into today were looking at our high temperatures that will reach up to 60 degrees near the coastline, some low 60s in San Francisco. We go over towards the santa clara valley, the trivalley as well as some of our north bay valleys, and its going to be in the 70s but, unfortunately, it doesnt stay there over the next few days. Were going to heat up and go back to summer in time for the weekend. Laura . All right, thank you very much. Well be back were back. 7 30. Something we here at today look forward to every holiday season. The world famous rockettes. They are here giving us a taste of their christmas spectacular. But unfortunately, thats not going to happen this year. The production is being canceled for the First Time Since 1993. I mean, of course you dont know how they would ever have a gathering there. And broadways closed. Its just so disappointing. Total bummer. I know. I hope our daughters arent watching right now. That seems like just yesterday too. It does. Maybe next year. The year after. Lets get right to the headlines here at 7 30. This morning at least six people are dead in the wake of Tropical Storm isaias. It barrelled up the east coast yesterday, knocked out power to millions. The storm left behind a trail of destruction too. Spread across a dozen states. In new jersey, a tree blocking the garden state parkway. Governor phil murphy declaring a state of emergency. And in pennsylvania, dozens of residents had to be rescued after widespread flooding there. Now to the latest on the coronavirus. The l. A. County department of health has issued an order to prohibit gatherings and parties. The move comes in response to a large partmasks. Its punishable by a fine, possible jailtime as well. Need to get somewhere in a hurry . Virgin galactic says its now working with rollsroyce to make an aircraft that can travel three times the speed of sound. It would go from new york city to london in just two hours. Its designed to carry up to 19 people. Now to the urgency in the debate over how to resume classes in the new year. Nationwide, many teachers are pushing back against inperson teaching with some schools already reporting coronavirus outbreaks. Nbcs joe fryer is in los angeles with this. Morning. Reporter hey, hoda. 80 of kids are expected to start the school year by learning remotely. But in many communities across the country, including some places where infections are surging, some teachers are being pressured to go back to the classroom. Whether protesting from inside their cars or on top of them, theres a growing chorus of teachers worried about reopening schools. We want to see science that proves that its safe for our students to be in the building. Reporter as districts start to reopen, no doubt many parents are eager to put their kids back on the bus. Its going to be a good day. Reporter but some teachers fear the risk is too high. Theres no teacher who wants to be working from home behind a computer all day while also having to provide for their own families in realtime. No one wants that. But we dont want to come back to a place thats putting our lives at risk. Reporter before classes even resume in georgias Largest School district, news that 260 employees must quarantine because they either tested positive or were exposed to coronavirus. In schools that already reopened in mississippi, indiana, and tennessee are reporting covid cases. Prompting concerns nationwide. We feel its too much of a gamble. Reporter in dallas theyre looking at the possibility of inperson classes taking students temperatures, provide face shields for each student, and put plexiglass dividesers between desks. The minute we know there is an illness, we will remove the students from that classroom and disinfect and clean. Reporter classes in san jose, california, students will learn remotely but teachers will be in empty classrooms. Without us being given a choice, there seems to be an inherent lack of trust that were going to do or jobs. Reporter this agreement was reached with the Teachers Union in response to educators who had difficulty working from the home in the spring. Jody was just granted permission to work from home instead of the classroom because of Underlying Health conditions and says many teachers are upset with the new policy. Nobody should be required to be somewhere that they dont feel safe or productive. Joe, im curious about the numbers. Do we know nationwide how many kids will be taking inperson classes and how many kids will be taking Remote Learning classes . Reporter well, the numbers are constantly changing as schools assess the situation. But according to the publication education week, of the 15 Largest School districts in the u. S. Right now, at least 11 of them expect to be online only in the fall impacting more than 2. 8 million kids. Back to you guys. All right, joe. Thank you so much. I know everybodys waiting for that email from the school or the word from the governor or mayor. What is going to happen in a few weeks . Parents as well. Up next on this wednesday morning, the astronauts behind that Historic Mission for both nasa and spacex. Well, theyre going to share their stories from launch to splashdown. And wait until you hear about the dad pranks they managed to pull off. But first these messages. And c. So watch out. I got this watch me. Real people with active Psoriatic Arthritis are feeling real relief with cosentyx. Cosentyx is a different kind of targeted biologic. It treats the multiple symptoms of Psoriatic Arthritis to help you look and feel better. It even helps stop further joint damage. 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They said it seemed to go flawlessly this is all part of nasas effort to team up with the private sector spacex and eventually boeing to get to the space station, to get to the moon, and maybe to go onto mars. Three, two, one reporter from liftoff in late may liftoff of the falcon 9 reporter to the picture perfect splashdown in the gulf of mexico. Doug hurley and bob behnken said its proof that the nasa program is Mission Ready were comfortable saying crew one is ready reporter behnken describing the rapid descent back to earth aboard the aptly named crew dragon the dragon came alive it sounds like an animal coming through the atmosphere reporter feeling a jolt as parachutes deployed. Like getting hit in the back of a chair with a baseball bat reporter once in the water, a flotilla of watchers he said they had no idea and as crews readied dragon for a return to solid ground, the two men had a little fun making what hurley dubbed prank calls that probably was a pretty funny to hear that you have astronauts calling whoever we can call reporter it turns out those calls served a practical purpose testing out the capability for future missions. Among those they called, hurley and behnkens wives who are also astronauts this was a great chance to reassure them we were in the water, we were okay. Reporter itll likely be weeks before nasa and spacex officially certify this mission a success, but the space agency is already planning future flights with spacex and the effort to return to the moon one day and maybe eventually mars. Now weve got commercial crew to the International Space station and eventually were going to have a whole fleet of commercial space stations. Reporter among those set to ride in the same dragon space capsule, behnkens wife Megan Mcarthur its time for her to focus on her mission. Reporter the astronauts spent 64 days in orbit during their time on the space station, they shared the incredible perspective from more than 200 miles up. Earth. We hope it brings a little the pair hoping their historic flight inspired and provided a welcome distraction for all of us back on earth we hope it brings a little bit of brightness to 2020. Hear hear to that so how are they adjusting to life back here on our Little Planet reporter so they say they got a its going to take a little while to adjust a lot of astronauts say it can take weeks before they no longer feel like theyre on a moving ship these guys had a craving right away plan to get a puppy now. Did you notion they had a stow away on the spaceship. It was a dinosaur. His name, they say, is tremor. Now, the behnkens and hurleys have two boys about the same age. So the boys helped pick this pet dinosaur it was kind of a mascot, if you will kind of giving them an indicator of whether they were in gravity or no gravity. Now that theyre back down on earth and tremor has gone for this ride for two months, theyre going to share him kind of like the stanley cup the behnkens get him for awhile, then the hurleys get him for awhile then well see if it ends up in a museum and the guys are best friends too. Do they still want to hang out or need some space reporter you know, i got to tell you get it . Reporter i like that that was cool. As a father of daughters, i think its super cool that their wives are also astronauts, just as accomplished, and theyre on their way up eventually. I love that phone call. Honey, im home. Pretty cool. Thank you that was a mom joke. It really was super dorky. You know who would appreciate it al somewhere al was smiling right, al . I was very impressed. Very impressed you showed great mom joke skills i like that. I channelled my inner roker theyre all four astronauts thats almost like a sitcom. I love that. Anyway, lets take a look and show you what we have going on right now. Cool for august for the great lakes and into the Central Plains temperatures in minneapolis 6 degrees below average. Same in detroit at 75. Cincinnati, 80 but thats kind of nice. Going to be warmer than usual for new york city today. 88 thats 4 degrees above average thursday, though, we cool down a bit. Des moines, chicago, were looking at cleveland all the way down to memphis. Still cooler than average, but as we head into the weekend, temperatures start warming up. Look at sunday in chicago. Youll be at 90. 87 in cleveland. 91, cincinnati itll jump up to 88 in washington, d. C. New york city will be at 86 degrees. Rest of the country, weve got a fire risk out west plenty of sunshine temperatures medford, oregon, 90 degrees today. Strong storms firing up in the northern plains. Look for showers and thunderstorms along this stationary front through the great lakes and oh good morning, im meteorologist kari hall. We have foggy and windy weather near the coast and for the inland areas all of that cool air transported into the south bay. As we get a look at our high temperatures expect it to reach into the low 70s in san jose as well as livermore today. Were up to 72 and in the low 60s. 60s with a lot of fog today. Going into the forecast its heating up for the weekend. Thats your latest weather. Isaias is making a uturn, its coming no you just had to get one more in thank you so much. Just ahead, celebrating a hero youre going to want to hear Jennifer Hudsons tribute in song overnight to the late john lewis. Right after this like a bridge e you are. Just download and use the chase mobile app. E you are. Visit chase. Com mobile. Wouldnship shapeice if there was a place that kept you. Soothed comfortable restocked. And safe . Well, there is, and always has been. 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Reporter im Cierra Johnson in San Francisco with families across the bay area prepped to send their students back to school. We sat down with leaders from one San Jose District to see how theyre preparing their building. Administrators at the east Side Union High School District say theyve ordered 350,000 disposable masks for students and staff as well as face shields for every staff member. They say theyve also installed permanent hand sanitizing stations. And the district is planning to utilize social distancing within all of their classrooms. Maybe youll have a chance to social distance, getting some fresh air. Kari has a look at our forecast. And its going to be a cooler day so you will want to make plans to get out and enjoy it especially in our inland areas where we have hot weather recently. In walnut creek we start out with clouds that will linger the next couple of hours with some very dense fog near the coastline that keeps our temperatures in the low 60s. As you head across the bay in oakland expect a high of 66 degrees. And in the inland east bay were reaching into the low to mid70s, but we will have a warmup again this weekend, laura. All right, thanks so much, kari. Well be back with another local news update. Coming up, lights out. Millions waking up without power after isaias barrels up the east coast. One minute youre fine, the next minute its all hell break loose. The catastrophic storm ripping through towns leaving downs trees, mangled power lines, and destroyed homes were live with the latest on the cleanup. Plus, breaking overnight Meghan Markles big win. Britains high court sending down a win in her tabloid lawsuit. Well have all of the detail what this means for the case and oneonone with seth rogan. Right so you must be pretty parched. Harry smith sits down with the actor, their conversation covering family, faith, and facial hair. Today, august 5th, 2020. Its my 7th birthday. Celebrating from West Virginia with the today show. Waking up with today in orlando, florida we love you, hoda were huge today show fans. And were celebrating vans 1st birthday good morning good morning. A lot of august birthdays going on good morning, everybody. Its wednesday were glad youre up special good morning if youre just crawling out of bed maybe youre reaching for that coffee first cup of coffee you can do it by the way, were going to spend some timday plaza crowd coast to coast up early. Look forward to it. Lets get to the news at 8 00 millions without power this morning after isaias tore up the east coast spawning deadly tornadoes along with damaging winds, heavy flooding. In queens morning with the latest opt cleanup. Gabe, good morning. Reporter this is what were seeing aro Gabe Gutierrez is in queens this morning with the latest opt cleanup. Gabe, good morning reporter this is what were seeing around the region downed trees ripped from the ground more than 2 Million People or so are waking up without power across new jersey, connecticut, and new yorkin pennsylvania, wi flooding and a possible tornado ripped the roof off of a day care with children inside. Incredibly they all made it out safely here in new york city, we saw wind gusts up to 70 miles an hour and today many roads and rail lines are shut down or delayed as the cleanup gets underway savannah all right, gabe thank you very much. Also this morning, an alarming new wave of coronavirus cases is spreading into more rural areas of the midwest and south. Sam brock joins us with what we need to watch. Reporter hoda, good morning. Lets start with the big picture. Coronavirus cases approaching 4. 8 million for the country. The death toll topping 158,000 and as you suggest, while were seeing improvements along the coast here in florida, california as well, in the south louisiana right now, tennessee seeing big jumps and mississippi on track at the moment to have the highest level per capita of cases in the country. We also have some bad news to report out of the bay area clorox announcing that store shelves may not be stocked with disinfectant wipes until 2021. That comes after their predictions saying theyll be good to go by summer and some encouraging news to get to this morning. Eli lilly and the National Institutes of health right now are launching on antibody treatments they are calling on volunteers partly hospitalized, partly those recovering at home if its effectively it would block the progression of the virus and stop those that arent hospitalized from getting there. While fans are not allowed in stadiums these days, neither are flying objects so this was problematic. A drone there it is right there flying over target field in minneapolis that drone managed to get as low as the 300 level they cleared all the players in that game. Faa regulations prohibit drones within three miles of athletic stadiums that drone eventually flew away. The game continued and the twins won it 73 little bit creepy yeah. All right. We got the news covered. Lets do our boost all right lets go while millions along the east coast were preparing for isaias over the past couple of weeks, one person in particular caught our eye. A little boy he was all set to protect his mother from the storm. Come here, mama come in here ill protect you. Oh, thank you when its raining thank you but also dont any of us like to hear those words ill protect you yeah thats a good one thank you. Coming up, guys, well turn back to the coronavirus. Unfortunately a new crisis public Health Officials from coast to coast harassed, threatened by some of the very people theyre trying to protect. 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Just yesterday new york citys Health Commissioner resigned after months of reported tension between her department and city hall over the response to the coronavirus. Well, shes the latest in a wave of Public Health official who is have resigned, retired, or been fired since the pandemic began. Their work comes with unprecedented pressure now and in some states the pushback has become very personal kate snow has been looking into this hi, kate good morning good morning, guys. Do you even know the name of your local Public Health official did you know it before this pandemic they are the Anthony Faucis of our states, counties, and cities working to keep us safe from communicable diseases, food contamination. Theyre usually far from the spotlight. But this pandemic has put them center stage where theyve been attacked, second guessed, and even threatened. I dont want you to be afraid i am not afraid. I am determined. Reporter back in march, Ohio Health Director dr. Amy aktin was hailed as a leader in a crisis a fan club started. I am not afraid keep up the great work. Reporter little girls dressed up like her. Any questions actons got to go reporter but then came the backlash personal attacks on the unelected official protesters showing up at her home some with guns this summer she resigned when she stepped down from that position, i really thought as a tragedy for Public Health reporter dr. Charity dean used to be second in command at the California Office of Public Health hes one of 30 who resigned, retired or been fired amid political pressure imagine if protesters showed up to the home of the fire chief to protest the way they were managing a fire. That sounds ridiculous but thats whats been happening to local Public Health officers as they strive to do their job based on science im laurie from North Central washington im emily im in South Central colorado. Im dawn. Im in san antonio and im barbara, l. A. County. Reporter hi, ladies. Hi. Reporter we brought together a group of current and former Health Officials show of hands. How many of you got into this job for the money . Thats a joke reporter laurie jones has been a community Health Director in rural washington for 17 years. Is the way youre being treated right now different than anything youve experienced in your career . Absolutely. Completely different reporter i started to hear about how other colleagues that are working had their cars broken into, been followed home, had rocks thrown through the build. Reporter how many of you have had personal threats against you . Three of the four of you okay that fear, you know, ive never felt that before a person posted something to the effect f her, f them, lets start shooting reporter when jones checked in on a family shed asked to quarantine, a Facebook Post accused her of surveilling them i felt like i needed to and threats poured in. I felt like i needed to get surveillance equipment at my home it makes everybody fearful at a time where we need to show up at our best. Reporter Barbara Ferrer oversees the l. A. County Health Department shes been getting hate mail since march. One woman said using foul language somebody needed to shoot me and another person volunteered to take that task language somebody needed to shoot me and another person volunteered to take that task on. Reporter wait a second. They thr on reporter wait a second they threatened your life . Yes we all have to understand how angry people are people have lost so much reporter across the country, some of that very public anger has gotten so personal you did not listen to we the people she needs to be fired we are going to go to her front yard reporter including the protests at peoples homes that public Health Officials have been assigned security details its just been really heart breaking to see just how much our profession is being criticized and discredited when we need Public Health, more than ever right now. Reporter dawn emrick resigned from her position in san antonio in late june do you see a difference in terms of the way women are being treated . Absolutely. A lot of the hate mail that pe comes through is really so personal in nature most of my male colleagues dont get taken on in that way at all. Reporter another source of the extraordinary pressure, elected officials. When the Colorado County where emily brown ran the Health Deputy wanted to reopen, she ra found herself at odds. I felt it was much too soon for the health of our community. Reporter she was fired shortly after. So we know of at least 30 public Health Officials who have resigned, retired, or have been fired during this pandemic thats a lot it is a lot when you lose someone with decades of experience, its riskier for the community. So its really important we support the one who is are in office and that we support science. Keep in mind the stakes of he people we rely on to protect us from disease outbreaks from e. Coli theyre the ones well look to for vaccinations for covid19. What can people do to support those in their communities all those officials there said theyre doing the best to do their job based on science. And if you like the job your local Health Official is doing, what they want you to do is speak up and defend them actually come out proactive ly use your voice. All right. Kate, thank you. Nice to have you in studio. Were going to send it over to al for the latest on the weather. Hey, mr. Roker hey, guys good morning lets look at what weve got going on right in the middle of the country, weve got plenty of showers and thunderstorms. The good news, things are quieter today along the eastern seaboard although a stationary front will start to fire up and well watch those showers and thunderstorms build up look at the heat from texas, the gulf coast, all the way into the southwest. And even into the interior sections of the pacific northwest. Triple digits into the 90s 80s here in the northeast with higher humidity. Beautiful day today from the great lakes into the midmississippi and ohio river valley, Tennessee River valley as well. Strong storms through the Central Plains look for that fire risk to start to push up into the southwest. Plenty of sunshine up and down the east i should say the good morning. Im meteorologist kari hall. Lets take a live look outside in san jose. We start out with a cloudy sky. Well see the clouds linger for a little while longer, but also keep our temperatures cooler with highs today well below normal, reaching 71 degrees. Well see low 70s in the trivalley and upper 70s for inland, east bay areas and some low 70s for the north bay. As we go through this forecast, our interior valleys will be heating up, and some of our hottest temperatures will reach the 90s this weekend. And thats your latest weather. Guys all right thank you, good sir. It is that time of the morning where we devote attention to pop start. Yeah. Carsons still off. Thank you, good sir first up we got Meghan Markle, the duchess of sussex breathing a sigh of relief this morning after a High Court Ruling in her favor. Kelly cobiella live in london, pop start correspondent as carson would call you. Hey, kelly good morning reporter i sure am this morning. Good morning to you guys yeah this is all part of the lawsuit Meghan Markle has filed against the Parent Company of mail online part of her case she handed over the names of five friends and she wanted those names to remain private. The mail online wanted to publish them well, today a judge sided with megan. A big win for the duchess of sussex this morning. A british judge ruling that mail online cannot name the five friends who came to her defense anonymously in a People Magazine article printed nine months after her fairy tale wedding to prince harry. The friends told people she was trying to mend a rift with her father Thomas Markle sr. Who missed the wedding one saying she wrote her father a letter pleading please stop victimizing me through the media so we can repair our relationship that letter at the heart of meghans case against mail online and the publisher Associated Newspapers her father gave the letter to the tabloid. He says because he was misrepresented in peoples article. Meghan argues it was private and only she could give permission to publish it. It was the hardest part for me, to chase your convictions with action. Reporter the duchess staying out of the public eye after this virtual speech three weeks ago for the girl up summit quietly celebrating her 39th birthday tuesday sisterinlaw kate helping out at a baby charity in britain posting birthday wishes along with Prince William online happy birthday from the queen too. From meghans charities and even a cake from her favorite bakery. Keeping mum on the new book about meghan and harry the latest reveal . The special meeting of their black labradors name. A nod to africa where harry and meghan fell in love and where they made their final whirlwind tour as royals meghans team sent out a Statement Today about this ruling saying the duchess of sussex is happy about the decision and she was always just trying to protect her friends. All right Kelly Cobiella in london thank you. Up next whos the boss starring tony danza and alyssa milano, it ran in the late 80s. Guess what, people it is coming back. A Sequel Series is in development. Both danza and milano are on board. Theyre going to reprise their this time with milanos character all grown up and a single mom living in the house in the original series the same house 30 years later we can still expect some of the not so proud parenting moments from danza youre getting married . Yes what do you think dads going to say . You were let go from a volunteer program . I am going to need so much therapy after this sam, promise me something if i have a heart attack right now, you wash my face before the paramedics get here. See, it holds up. Good times the best. Jonathan and sam and mona. Coming up next here, some big news for the mulan live action remake. The big budget disney film that was supposed to hit theaters back in march but it was postponed because of the pandemic it was moved to the july date but then that never happened as many theaters are still closed so now mulan is going to skip theaters entirely and instead hit disney plus. But heres the thing it will not be included in the Monthly Subscription instead, its going to be available on september 4th as a. I cannot hide my disgust. Fans are happy that the movies finally being released. Others surprised by the high price tag considering the fact its a rental. You dont even own it. 30 bucks and you get to watch it on 30 rental i cannot hide my disgust fans are happy that the movies finally being released others surprised by the high price tag considering the fact its a rental. You dont even own it. 30 bucks and you get to watch it once i agree we need that little graphic that says editorial comment but youre right for 30 bucks you should own it for 30 bucks you should be in it yes. Now im getting even more worked up. We like a lathered up craig we got one more. Reese witherspoon and mindy kaling, they are starting the most appropriate meme of the year theyre kind of showing how the year has been. Reese posted this on instagram with the caption, yep. 2020. Gone viral it shows as she progresses through january in legally blond. Then she couldnt handle it. She turned into her character from wild. Mindy loved it so much she posted her own version inspired by reese we can watch how thats catching on so savannah made one for you okay. I see whats happening. So far just through september. You look perky and happy in february look at september drink in my hand lets see yours, hoda. Lets see what do we got okay. August isnt as bad as i thought. Where are those pictures from it was a drunky monkey night with jenna somewhere even when youre sad, youre still smiling. They couldnt find a sad smile of hoda. Just ahead, harry smith is going to join us to share that conversation he had with seth rogan on the challenges of playing both leading roles in his new movie. Also, jenna will introduce us to three of the most amazing kids youre going to meet in a long time leading the charge for diversity in childrens books. But first your local news. All right. Welcome back, guys 8 30 on wednesday morning. We rarely make mistakes around good morning to you. Its 8 26. Im kris sanchez. Trergesed nur registered nurses are taking part in a national day of action. This say look outside Good Samaritan hospital in san jose. Nurse there is and beyond are calling on leaders at the local and National Levels to better protect workers on the front lines of this pandemic. Workers cite a shortage of ppe and follow minimum safety standards. 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