General suspends those controversial cutbacks until after the election and Congress Calls him to capitol hill demanding answers College Crisis notre dame, the latest university to suspend inperson classes just one week into the semester the spike in cases is very serious and we must take serious steps to address it. An entire Sorority House in oklahoma now quarantining. Just ahead what schools are trying to do to keep covid off campus state of emergency the National Guard mobilized in california with dozens of wildfires raging across the state. Evacuations underway overnight and a searing heat wave making everything worse all that plus just desserts. The Surprising New girl scout cookie thats already the toast of the town. Today, wednesday, august 19th, 2020 announcer from nbc news, this is today with Savannah Guthrie and hoda kotb live from studio 1a in rockefeller plaza. Morning, everybody welcome to today. Nice to have you with us couldnt you go for a french toast cookie got to wait
E bay, had that fog this morning. But were watching that clearing even along the coast and around the bay this afternoon. So looking at those daytime highs in the upper 60s in San Francisco and mid 70s in oakland. 87 in san jose and heating up to 96 degrees in concord. Up to 9 degrees above average for this time of year. Well see that sunshine as we go through our day and then for tomorrow, low clouds and areas of fog around the coast along the bay and catching that sunshine for your saturday with temperatures very similar to today, but we are really going to heat up on sunday. The hottest day of the week. Ill have your weekend forecast coming up. Back to you, michelle. All right, mary. Thank you. A crash and fire forced a shutdownf interstate 580 overnight at the altamonte pass. The fire started just after midnight along a median near flynn road north. The flames jumped the freeway and spread over the hills northeast and prompted Fire Fighters to close 580 in both directions and the b
Symour breaking news to tell you about. An update on the story we brought you earlier in the hour. We learn President Trump has commuted roger stones prison sentence for stone was expected to report to prison next week to begin serving his threeyear sentence for his role in the russia investigation. Oakland Unified School District announcing minutes ago that instruction will begin next school year with virtual learning. Good evening. The school year will begin on august 10 and students will be learning and communicating with their teachers online similar to the way they did at the end of the last school year. The district says it will spend the first four weeks of the school year figuring out how to reintroduce inperson and blended learning. The transition to blended learning will depend on specific safety and we will use and prioritize inperson instruction such as for special education students and other vulnerable groups. The district has set a goal for distributing computers to ever
Work on a measure that was approved by the house yesterday providing 8. 3 billion in emergency funds to combat the coronavirus. Senate lawmakers are expect today vote on that measure later this afternoon and work on a bill to reset u. S. Energy and environmental policy. And now to live coverage. U. S. Senate here on cspan 2. The president pro tempore the senate will come to order. The chaplain, dr. Barry black, will lead the senate in prayer. The chaplain let us pray. God of us all, thank you for this moment that unites us in the fellowship of prayer. Make us conscious of your presence and unite us in our efforts to do your will on earth. Inspire the hearts and minds of our lawmakers to strengthen the bonds between us, as they seek to live lives of integrity. May no partisanship mar the unity of spirit they must have to make america stronger, wiser, and better. Deliver them from every unworthy motive, as they labor to honor you. Lift their burdens, lessen their fears, and give them you
Family has become harder and more expensive than ever before. The New York Times recently reported that based on the surveyed adults between the ages of 20 to 45 who were parents or planned to be, they discovered interesting trends. One in four had fewer children. Or expected that during their lifetimes they would have fewer children than they considered to be within the range of ideal. Economic concerns were foremost among the reasons that they either fell short or believed that in the future they would fall short of what they considered ideal. Over the past few years, the joint economic committees social Capital Project has been documenting trends in what we refer to as our Association Al life as americans. The web of social relationships for which we has americans pursue various endeavors. Our families, communities, friendships, religious congregations. A critical source of meaning and social capital is, of course, the family. In fact, it is the central set of head waters for social