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Layer. It brought overnight drizzle to portions of the coastline as well. You may have seen that. Temperatures remain cool in the 50s and we are going to be cooler this afternoon thanks to the passing cold front. Temperatures will be climbing into the 70s for the south bay. A beautiful afternoon, however, the winds will remain a concern. The National Weather service has issued a red flag warning for the north bay mountains, for hills above 1,000 feet this will remain in effect through monday morning. It is the first of the season. Were going to be monitoring the winds and the conditions. Ill have a full forecast in a few minutes. Cierra . Bigoted and antimuslim, thats how a private social media group for Police Officers is being described. San joses mayor is calling for full and swift investigation. Here is today in the bays Marianne Favro with more. Reporter four active and several retired san jose Police Officers are accused of posting racist, antimuslim comments including mocking black lives matter on a closed facebook page. The executive director on islamic relations says she is disgusted by the post but not surprised. We are calling for these officers to be terminated. On top of that we want to be clear to warn any Police Departments across Northern California to not at all consider rehiring these Police Officers. Reporter san jose mayor sam liccardo is calling for an investigation to find out if even more officers are involved. Any officers directly involved in this kind of racist or islamic phobia should be fired. Well learn a lot more through the investigation, how many other officers have been involved, how long this has happened, and there may well be, and i expect, other officers. If thats the case, then certainly they should be fired as well. Reporter San Jose Police chief eddie garcia says hes asking the fbi to help in the investigation and issued a statement saying any current employee involved with bigoted activity online will be promptly investigated and held accountable to the fullest extent in my power. We have no place for this. The san jose Police Officers Association Says it plans to expel the accused officers from the police union. The san jose Police Officers association will provide you no shelter, no protection. We will not represent you. Because you do not represent us. Reporter mayor liccardo says while he doesnt have the authority to fire the officers, on tuesday the city council will decide whether to put a measure on the November Ballot to change that. He is also calling for Police Reforms that will make investigations into officer misconduct more transparent. In san jose, Marianne Favro, nbc bay area news. The Santa Clara County District Attorney says hes outraged by the post made by the Police Officers and is vowing a thorough investigation into previous cases. Here is a portion of the d. A. s statement. No one who expresses these types of disgusting racist comments should ever wear a badge. This offices conviction integrity unit will immediately begin a comprehensive review of every case in which these officers, active or retired, played a role. New information in the mass shooting north of sacramento. We learned that one person has died and four were injured after a man drove into a Walmart Distribution Center and started shooting at people. Weve also Learned Police shot and killed the gunman. He was 31 years old. It all started after 3 00 p. M. Yesterday at the Walmart Distribution Center near red bluff, south of redding. The Sheriffs Office says the man circled the parking lot at the walmart four times before crashing his car into the building. Thats when he opened fire with his semiautomatic rifle. A witness at the scene describes the scene as terrifying. I was more worried about the people injured by the car entering the building. I went to help a lady that was kind of trapped at the beginning and at that point i started hearing gunfire. Officials say they havent found out if this was related to one earlier in the day that left three dead. A protest calling for justice for Breonna Taylor ended in bloodshed. Video posted on social media appears to show a man opening fire into the crowd of demonstrators at a park in louisville, kentucky. At least one person can be seen seriously hurt in the video. Authorities have launched an investigation into the shooting. Police were serving a noknock warrant on her boyfriend. Were learning new details about elijah mr with officers in aurora, colorado. This is video of protests that continued well into the night, a clear sign of renewed outrage following the death of another black young man stopped by police. 23yearold mcclain was heading home from a convenience store. You can see him in this newly obtained surveillance footage. The manager says mcclain was a regular. His juice and snacks he would put on the counter and buy with cash mostly and give a bow before leaving the store. After mcclain left he was walking and dancing wearing a ski mask. Someone thought he was suspicious and called 911. Police stopped him, pinned him down using a chokehold. He was injected with a sedative and died days later in the hospital. The autopsy could not pinpoint a cause of death. An internal investigation cleared the officers who have now been reassigned to nonenforcement positions for their safety, but the governor announced a new independent investigation. Protesters are calling for charges against the officers. Back here in the bay area a memorial for black lives on the campus of stanford. These are the handmade signs placed stanford oval. They feature the faces of black People Killed by racial violence and Police Brutality. The memorial also highlights black transwomen who were victims of street crimes. Its been a busy weekend for fire crews as several brushfires broke out across the bay area. In fair field they tackled flames near gold field road and 680. More problems at benicia where a pair of fires kept crews busy. And in San Francisco a large homeless encampment fire sent clouds of smoke drifting over highway 101. Firefighters are on alert with hot weather, bonedry conditions and the fourth of july holiday. The danger couldnt be any higher. Now to our coronavirus coverage. Cases are spiking across the country. These three states are considered hot spots. You can see the number of new cases reported in each state. Arizona more than 3,500, texas more than 5,700, and florida close to 10,000 new cases. That number does follow an increase in testing but the percentage of positive tests have been steadily growing. Lets now take a look at california, the number of confirmed cases stands at 206,000 up by almost 6,000 within the last 36 hours. The u. S. Now surpassing 2. 5 million cases. Locally cases are also on the rise. Sonoma county added 86 new cases yesterday for a total of 1,092. San mateo county reported 34 new cases and now has a total of almost 3,100. Overall we are close to 22,500 cases here in the bay area. Almost 600 people have died. The s. A. P. Center usually packed with fans at sharks games and concerts were transformed into a free covid19 testing site. The sharks and Santa Clara Valley Medical Center had free walkup testing. Yesterday was the final day. You can see lots of people took advantage of it. At one point it wrapped around the shark tank. No word whether they will continue to use the s. A. P. Center as a test site. There are a lot of changes on a daily basis with this pandemic, and we have you covered with what you need to know keeping you up to speed. Head over to nbcbayarea. Com. Click on the live blog link that will take you to the latest coronavirus news. Wha today in the bay coming up. A live look at washington, d. C. , and speak with chuck todd who has a preview of meet the press. Plus, it has not been all a celebration this pride weekend. The destructive turn of events at a local lgbtq center and what happened and the clues police are revealing. Welcome back. Its time to bring in chuck todd, nbc news political director and moderator of meet the press. Good morning and thank you for joining us. California has a budget hole of 54 billion courtesy of the tax dollars lost from covid19 shelter in place order. How do you see congress dealing with this problem which impacts virtually every state . If so, when . It is going to impact every state. Were seeing the rising cases, for instance, in the state of florida. Florida doesnt have any state income tax. They have to get their revenue from visitors. You go and visit orlando to go to disneyworld and get your hotel, rental, and theyre not getting that revenue. Every state is feeling this revenue pinch whether they collect revenues via sales tax, user fees, or state income taxes. The question is going to be how does congress handle this now . It will be fighting tooth and nail for every dollar in every state. There are some concerns the president may play red state blue state politics here. With this new surge and where were headed on the curve nationally i think you may see a more generous congress and i think there will be a little more state aid because theres a sense of urgency again. And looking ahead with respect to the november 3rd president ial election, some show challenger joe biden ahead. Should biden win, what are the chances republicans will be able to hold the senate . I think its obviously possible for republicans to hold the senate if biden wins. It is hard to see how that happens. There are so many Key Senate Races that are taking place in president ial battleground states. Ditto in maine, ditto in North Carolina, iowa. You have quite a few theres two of them in georgia. Quite a few seats in the president ial battlegrounds and it does seem as if the presidency goes, so goes the control of the United States senate. Thank you for joining us, chuck. Be sure to join chuck for meet the press. Tune in to meet the press at 8 00 a. M. Right after this newscast. Its pride week in San Francisco but because of the pandemic much more muted. There is no outdoor festival or parade. The annual lighting on twin peaks got high tech. Today in the bays Sergio Quintana reports. Reporter just before the Pink Triangle lit up, several members of the sisters of perpetual indulgence carried a pink torch. I think its important to be uniting all around the world right now. Most importantly all of us are here in solidarity. Reporter it is the same work of the artist of the l. E. D. Lights on the bay bridge. A few people enjoyed some drinks during Sidewalk Service here and there but for the sake of Safety Community leaders have been encouraging people not to come to the castro this weekend. Every day of the week, but on this particular weekend what we really dont want to see is large numbers of folks coming to the castro for a party. Reporter instead a stream online and the torch relay which started in oakland. Joe hawkins, the founder of the oakland Lgbtq Community center was the first torch carrier of the day and had a heavy heart after the center was vandalized this morning. We are still under attack. The work must continue. Using a buys club, hawkins says he feels theyve been targeted. Mayor libby schaaf called it heartbreaking and shameful. Sergio quintana, bay area nbc news. This the reason to support farmworkers there. One organizer told us they are bringing food and essential supplies among other things. The news is great for the farmers. They are working dawn to dusk putting food on our tables. They make minimal money, 12,000 to 15,000 a year and a lot have been getting sick from coronavirus. More than 100 people came out to deliver the gods juods just time. This leaves only three months to store 100 Million Pounds of garlic. Its time to check in with vianey arana for a look at your microclimate forecast. Good morning, cierra. Were going to see the winds again today and the biggest thing to notice the cooler temperatures. Right now looking over San Francisco current temperatures at about 55 degrees. Wind speeds are breezy at 14 miles an hour. Over san jose, 58 degrees. Also seeing the breezy winds. Check out walnut creek. Its gusty. Wind speeds at 21 miles per hour. Wind gusts 29 to 30 plus and that will continue on tap for today. San jose a high of 77. Mind you yesterday it was still pretty warm and we have seen the temperatures cooling off since last night. Oakland, 71. San francisco, 76. And we are still considering those winds because that dry cold front that swept through yesterday brought those offshore winds. Well see a shift to onshore winds. I want to show you the peak wind gusts on saturday, the altamont pass. 56mileperhour winds. Mt. Diablo, 56. Even in San Francisco the Castro Valley area, 46mileperhour winds. Because we are still monitoring the winds keep in mind its very, very dry out there which means low humidity, a poor recovery overnight of that. Your hour by hour wind speeds will be a concern for fire danger. We saw brushfires near benicia. 36mileperhour winds in livermore, right around 12 00. Your lunch hour and i will push this to your dinner time so between 3 00 and 5 00, look at livermore. 41 miles an hour. Now ukiah 20plusmileperhour winds and for the first time this fire season the National Weather service has issued for the north bay mountains for areas above 1,000 feet a red flag warning. This is the first weve seen and this will remain in effect through 8 00 p. M. On monday. Also in place for areas like sacramento, so if you have family up there, a little bit of a heads up. Well see the gusty winds especially for the north bay mountains. Were going to see them taper off a little bit. Its going to make for a very dry monday. Temperatures will remain in the 80s. High pressure will roll back around. That will bump us back up into the upper 80s and low 90s. We are officially in fire season. Something that we stay on high alert for. Be careful out there. Enjoy your sunday. At least it will be cooler compared to the very hot week that we had earlier. Cierra . Sounds good. Much more ahead on today in the bay. Coming up a surge in cases at the bay areas most wellknown prison. We talked to an inmate recently released about the conditions on the inside. The number of covid19 cases at a san quentin prison continue to skyrocket and what some say is a looming disaster. The number of cases more than doubled in the last week and is well over 600. Families of inmates are pleading for something to change. Reporter there are no easy nights for a mother with a son in prison. It is compounded for marie whose 22yearold son is an inmate in san quentin prison which is seeing an explosion of covid19 cases. He started feeling really sick last week. Reporter her son called this morning saying he got tested for the virus and was awaiting results. Shes very concerned because i think the people are getting sick and theyre going up and going up. Reporter on june 12th the prison had 16 active covid cases. Today more than 450 inmates have tested positive along with at least 47 staff. A lot of worries and im pretty sure im not the only one. Reporter activists say the prison was covid free until a transfer from chino last month where there were 13 cases. A group of doctors said itneble the virus because of overcrowding and insufficient medical staff. I knew it was a matter of time. Reporter none comes as a surprise to john johnson who was released at the end of april as the pandemic began to spread through the prison system. We know they had the conditions that if a case of covid19 came there, it would spread like wildfires. Reporter a Spokesman Says it has tested 1,300 of the 3,200 in san quentin, five times the state and National Testing rates. Activists want the state to reduce the prison population by half. But as the numbers continue to grow there are more sleepless nights ahead for a mother. Joe rosato jr. , nbc bay area news. We have an update now from san quentin. A planned inmate transfer to north kern state prison is off. The decision comes after the outbreak at san quentin continues to grow at a rapid pace. Health officials deem any transfer too dangerous to inmates at other facilities at this point. San quentin had zero cases through march and april and now has spread to more than 600 prisoners and staff. During a town hall zoom meeting inmates said there doesnt seem to be a plan to curb the outbreak. I think everybody has a very high level of anxiety right now because theres not a lot of information about whats going to happen or how this will get better. Many activists and inmates want Early Release near the end of their sentence. Much more ahead on today in the bay. Coming up, the alarming new report that accuses russian president Vladimir Putin of putting bounties on american soldiers. How the white house is responding. Summer isnt stopping the east bay students from supporting the frontline. Theyre now helping Health Care Workers in the bay area and across the country. This virus is testing all of us. And its testing the people on the front lines of this fight most of all. So abbott is getting new tests into their hands, delivering the critical results they need. And until this fight is over, we. Will. Never. Quit. Because they never quit. Grab a box of 15 or try them loaded. Get em