For themselves on the coronavirus pandemic and nationwide protests of Racial Injustice. What i said was that i will im going to have a choice in the first week in august, and i promise i will let you know when i do. Likely camera harris and karen bass. Senator harris has long been assumed to be the leader of the pack. But last week they voiced concern over her attacks on biden during the democratic debate last year. California democrat governor met with bidens panel and lobbied on harris behalf. We know her personally as very loyal, as very much a key player. Harris detractors described arns about her ambitiousness. Thats unfair. Nobody runs for the Vice President sy. Congresswoman karen pass talked about the vp vetting process. Over the years, what im most proud of is my ability to bring people together because i think our country needs healing. I do believe that President Biden will be a healer in chief. Ambassador susan rice has never been elected to office but she has formidable Foreign Policy credentials and served with biden. So now the wait and the wondering continuing. Sergio contana. What does the president try . Mr. Trump said last week that Kamala Harris would make a fine choice for the Vice President. The president is not known for complimenting his opponents. Senator harris railed against biden over his opposition to bussing to desegregate california schools. The two have since mended fences. We continue to follow a fire threatening about a dozen fires. It is called the stiets fire. Just love lake county, an area that had its share of devastating fires over the last few years. 1,000 acres have burned. Firefighters from sonoma, napa and cal fire are trying to contain that fire. Rob joining us now. He has been tracking the fire conditions. And, rob, earlier, about 6 00 you were talking about conditions were not good. Yeah. Conditions werent good. As these fires start to pop up, its becoming increasingly difficult to chekeep the smoke of our fires. You saw that around sunset tonight. Yes, more smoke down there. Now, technically we have good air quality for tomorrow. If you are in the inland areas, you are going to want to watch what this fire does in terms of where the smoke is headed. Look at the condition. 81 degrees. Humidity numbers still in the 21 range. Cool marine layer here. Farther inland, more damp air below. Here is a different story weatherwise. Warm and dry. 70s and 60s there overnight with very dry conditions. Even though here is cooler, the hill tops seeing dry conditions all the way to sunrise. Here cooler. 50s from sunday morning. Well talk more about maybe some light rain chances by midweek in our forecast coming up in a few minutes. Okay, rob. Thank you. In los angeles county, firefighters are battling a 40 acre fire near the freeway. The flames are burns just east of interstate five and north of state route 138. Not what you want to see as you are traveling down the highway. Drivers are being asked to avoid the area. Containment at this point is at zero percent. Evacuations in place as crews do all they can to fight back against the apple fire. Nearly 21,000 acres have burned in the area. Firefighters have been able to contain 5 of this stubborn fire. More than 1,200 firefighters are there. They headed down to the fire this morning. Now to our continuing coverage of the coronavirus pandemic. More than 700 new cases in the bay area today. 313 of them in the south bay. Marine county adding 20 new cases today. The dashes you see means those counties have not updated their numbers yet. Now, tonight, all nine bay area counties are on the governors watch list. Each county has seen a rise in cases. Restrictions are in place to try to help unflatten the curve. People and Business Owners trying to adjust to the new normal there. Top Health Officials are sending out a dire warning saying cases across the country are even more widespread than ever before. Nbc bay area pete has more. Reporter it feels like a casual sunday night in redwood city. So casual, in fact, you might forget that San Mateo County is on the states watch list as a result of an increase in coronavirus cases. A lot of people are not Wearing Masks, but i feel like everything will close back down again because the rates are getting pretty high in california. Reporter being forced to roll back the reopening of some businesses as cases surge across the entire state of california. And this uptick in cases is happening in states across the country as White House Coronavirus response coordinator dr. Deborah birx stressed the importance of taking every safety precaution, which in some cases could mean wearing a mask inside of your home. If you are in multigenerational households and there is an outbreak in your rural area or in your city, you need to consider wearing a mask at home assuming that you are positive. Were being safe, you know, having our mask on. I dont have it right now, but i have it all the time. Everyone else has a mask on. Yeah, i dont. Reporter he says he sees more people Wearing Masks than before. But he understands that everyone isnt onboard. It is one step forward and two steps back. It is people not doing what we have to do, you know. Thats what makes stuff shoot up. Reporter in redwood city, nbc bay area news. In the nations capital, the two sides working on the latest coronavirus stimulusin diy vide. The extra Sticking Point is the extra 600 per week. Democrats want to stick with that number. Democrats want to lower it to 200 a week claiming the 600 payments keep people from returning to work. New at 11 00, reporting its 21st covid19 related death. The latest inmate to die of the virus is being treated at an outside hospital like many of the recent cases. The number of active cases in the inmate population has dropped significantly in many weeks. There are 147 active cases in the prison. Nearly 2,000 cases have been resolved either by recovery or by relief skblrchlg. If you are looking to get tested, we have Important Information about free testing sites. The office has been shut down until further notice. No word on why. But others are opening on tuesday. People encouraged to arrive early at the new walkup sites. A wristband will be given, along with a testing time for later in the day so you dont have to stand there. The locations are san antonio elementary in san jose from 1 00 to 6 00 p. M. The other is the south county annex in gilroy. Stay with us for complete coverage of the pandemic and how it affects you. We are putting together all the latest headlines and updates in one place. Head over to our website. They will not be intimidated. Thats the vow made a week after vandals spray painted at a well known school. Dozens of people gathered speaking out against the vandals. Students will be painting over the spray painted messages tomorrow. San Francisco Police still investigating. They may have an excellent lead. That school has Security Camera video of the incident. Community leaders hope it will be release sod the public can help find the vandals. It wasnt one or two young kids just making fun. No. This was, it looked like, five to eight adults doing this. This is the first time in the schools history its been targeted by vandals. Community leaders say this event is connected to recent scrimmages. Facing off at a private high school after some claim that teachers were laid off for racially motivated reasons. It happened at st. Vincent Depaul High School where two black women were laid off in june. Reporters say the layoff happened after the women tried initiating talks with School Leaders about systemic racism at the campus. The schools principal and pastor say the cuts were made over increased costs of making the school ready for covid19 guidelines. We feel very strongly that pastor odonoghue and principal daily are doing a fantastic job running the school and thats why were here. What i would like to see is for everyone from the diocese to the School Administrators to the teachers to the students to the parents to the Community Engage in real, honest conversation without fear of retaliation. The two women were the only black women on the faculty. Coming up, a historic and really spectacular splash down, the thrilling return home for american astronauts. And navy seals now under scruti scrutiny. What they were seen doing to a Colin Kaepernick jersey that led to an investigation and outrage. Menutaur get a load of my southwest cheddar cheeseburger. 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For some students and parents, the about face is a let down. It is just so sad to see the rug pulled out from under him. It is a bit devastating. You really want to be in class and learn from these incredible professors. Some schools are offering a 10 discount on tuition. But others are keeping tuition exactly the same. Some students are suing for tuition refunds from the spring semester. This week nbc bay area is launching keeping up in the classroom. We will be examining the fallout of the pandemic and how it is impacting education in the bay area. We will discuss a rising trend in students taking gap years. That story and more all week right here on nbc bay area. It remains to be seen during these Uncertain Times if or when College Football will be played. But a dozen pac12 players are threatening to sit out for a variety of reasons. Among those are cal and stanford players. They made demands on four main issues for the website the players tribune. The athletes want health and safety protections during the pandemic. Primarily, the option to not play this year. They dont want to be threatened with losing eligibility or a spot on the team. Also the players want all sports protected. They say there is enough money for all sports if the conferences commissioner and others take pay cuts. The group wants to see an end to Racial Injustice in College Sports while also demanding Economic Freedom and equity. That means players want to be paid and they want health insurance. Cal players as well as stanford are among those who signed that letter. No response from any of the pac12 universities. New at 11 00, the navy seals are responding tonight after a video resurfaces online of military dogs attacking a man wearing a Colin Kaepernick jersey during a training demonstration. The video is from last year taken at an event held by the National Navy seal museum, not overseen by the video. The dog jump on a target and bring him to the ground as the crowd cheers. The statement was released on the official twitter account for the navy seals that red in part the inherit message of this video is inconsistent with the values of the u. S. Navy. We are investigating the matter fully. The navy believes no active duty personnel took part in that duty. Kaepernick faced criticism for kneeling during the national anthem, a practice that has spread to other sports. It was a thrilling return to earth for the american astronauts. The two splashing down safely in the gulf of mexico after a month long journey with enormous impact on the future of space travel. Kathy park has more. Splash down. A historic and successful splash down off the coast of florida. Welcome back to planet earth. And thanks for flying spacex. The first water landing in 45 years. What an amazing day. Today we really made history. The Spacex Dragon weathering temperatures temperatures. Slowly town the capsule from 350 to 15 miles an hour. The journey beginning two months ago with astronauts. Today marked another significant milestone in the future of space life. Three, two, one, zero. Ignition. Liftoff. In may, spacex became the first private company to send astronauts into orbit. It has been a decade since nasa launched anyone from soil. It spent spending time on the International Space station. Both of our sons are pretty happy about that, with their pet dinosaur making it into orbit. Kept the social media buzzing. It is hard to put into words just what it was like to be a part of this expedition, expedition 63. It will be kind of a memory that will last a lifetime for me. Mission accomplished with more on the horizon. Kathy park, nbc news. Well, not one but two Major Concerns for some southeastern states dealing with covid19 while a Tropical Storm bears down. Tropical storm has strengthened over florida and moving toward the carolinas. North carolinas governor warned peoples homes are the safest places to be, but that could change. Mandatory evacuations are already ordered. A hospital evacuated its Covid Patients to another hospital inland. If this was a test, you passed . We passed. And Going Forward now because were still in Hurricane Season . Yeah. Were more prepared now for the next one. Well get better and better. The Dominican Republic dealt with significant flooding. Nothing like what we have been seeing here in california. But rob joining us now. Maybe we will get some rain. Can we even call it rain, rob . Yeah. Its august. Its the driest time of the year. If we can manage some drizzle, i would call that some rain. Well talk about that in a second. The latest on the Tropical Storm off the coast of florida. The latest model projections with this particular storm have a bit of a troubling trend. Notice here as they move forward, it is staying onshore. Still with a Tropical Storm. But the winfield air, this one the european model indicating some strengthening on approach in south carolina. The current forecast now, i know the icon shows a Tropical Storm. There is a chance this may strengthen back within the next 24 hours. That is a big concern and the potential for run off and heavy rain all the way up the eastern sea board. Lets see if we can manage drizzle and rain. Were not seeing much in San Francisco. Not much in the way of low clouds either. The wind still coming off the ocean at 17 miles an hour. Notice the temperatures inland, though. Still pretty arm. 70 degrees around walnut creek. And in san jose numbers currently in the 60s. 65 degrees. Great night to see the moon, saturn and jupiter all clustered together in the sky. We have the clear skies there and in San Francisco. Air quality tomorrow at least for now looks good. We will have to watch Solano County to see some of the fires burning over there to the north. Right now that sea breeze is pushing some of the surface smoke at least away from the bay area for now and helping to pull in low clouds during the morning. For the afternoon obviously nothing but sunshine inland. So highs tomorrow may trend actually a little warmer in a few spots. San jose in the 80s. And morgan hill, tri valley over to concord. 70s closer to oakland, freemont into the low 80s. 70s around san matteo and still cold. Low to mid60s there. North bay temperatures in the 80s to 90s. Notice the trend. Still mid to upper 90s. Now notice High Pressure weakening to allow the system thats cooling to the coast, rain to the pacific northwest. Here is what were talking about. We are about to get a model update to see if this trend continues. But here is a chance heavy drizzle or brief light rain. Thats in the cards come wednesday. Watch the temperatures cooling. More wind as we head into another part of the week. San francisco seeing highs in the low 60s, which includes walnut creek, by the way. Well drop to high temperatures in the 60s to mid70s wednesday. Thats a big drop in temperatures. But will it involve any rain drops . An updated look to see what we can expect for wednesday and, yes, a bit of a warming trend as we head to next weekend. We will see those rain chances are still in that wednesday forecast. Sounds like a plan, rob. Thank you. Thanks, rob. Still ahead, get ready to tee off. The worlds best golfers make their way to the bay area. And theyre on the front lines of the pandemic, health care worker. You dont want them to get covid19. The high tech tracking method hospitals are now using to keep them safe. Feel likike youve w watchd all the ththings . Now ththeres morere to love with x xfinity x1,1, the ulultimate entertaiainment expeperience. Lilike live spsports. Theyeyre back w with the best w way to watctch. And momore streamiming apps all inin one placece. More c classics. 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