2020 season tonight right here on nbc weve got your preview early today starts right now good morning im Frances Rivera im phillip mena. Dangerous wildfires continue to flare up and force evacuations on the west coast. Officials confirming at least six deaths in the last 24 hours. A strong winds cause these infernos to spread across multiple states. Some of the images look like theyre from another planet. These photos were taken during the day in San Francisco the sunlight blocked by the smoke and embers more than 14 now firefighters are hard at work in california battling 28 massive fires that have already destroyed a record shattering 2. 5 million acres Washington State is facing de station. One town south of spokane was almost completely marked off the map. I remember sitting on my couch praying and crying for australia and praying and crying for paradise and yeah, you dont think its going to happen to you. What did you lose inside . Everything. Oregons governor is warning that this
Sick leave. Health Officials Say the goal is to slow the spread of the virus in Alameda County where many people who test positive continue to work for fear of getting fired. Heres a look at the numbers in the bay area. There were 973 new cases for a total of over 56,000. San francisco and santa clara had the highest numbers with about 240 new cases each. 16 deaths were reported in the bay area including six in marin county and four in contra costa county. The bay area has now seen 858 deaths. As for the state numbers today, a total of more than 524,000. And there were 202 deaths bringing in the state death toll above 9700. The superintendent of california schools says work is underway to connect up to a Million Students to help with distance learning. The state is getting help from two high tech giants to get those kids connected. The start of school is just days away for some School Districts. Hundreds of thousands of students in california dont have access to computers, have poor in
This 18 day project will replace part of 101 where it crosses with 280. More on the shut down hour away. Sparks fly thursday night. This is the biggest project we had planned for 2020. Originally set for july and referred to as the they moved up the project. So it could be done now when most are sheltering and roads arent as busy. Eliminating six mile back ups in both directions. Crews will be replacing the deck of the bridge. Were seeing cracking and concrete. And its time. Traffic is still expected and so are loud sounds as workers break apart the concrete. Noises that have already impacted nearby neighborhoods. I have heard prep work. Construction. Cal transsay the contractor is using saw hammers instead of jackhammers. It will be loud and there will be back ups. Neighbors say thats okay but. The faster you do it the less noise i have to deal with. If you think its loud now it will get louder when the project gets under way at 6 00 a. M. Friday morning. Ha is when all northbound lan
They moved up the project. So it could be done now when most are sheltering and roads arent as busy. Eliminating six mile back ups in both directions. Crews will be replacing the deck of the bridge. Were seeing cracking and concrete. And its time. Traffic is still expected and so are loud sounds as workers break apart the concrete. Noises that have already impacted nearby neighborhoods. I have heard prep work. Construction. Cal transsay the contractor is using saw hammers instead of jackhammers. It will be loud and there will be back ups. Neighbors say thats okay but. The faster you do it the less noise i have to deal with. If you think its loud now it will get louder when the project gets under way at 6 00 a. M. Friday morning. Ha is when all northbound lanes will be closed. San francisco Transportation Agency is closing golden gate avenue in the tenderloin. The entire block will be closed off to give social Services Room to work. Only vehicles bringing donations can pass through. The
Scam again. Instead, they texted back askan forth and the landlord got him a code to the lock box. But he dont know it was me. Reporter were driving to meet up with the actual Property Management company that is renting that property that victor checked out. Did you know this . I didnt know that but im not surprised. Reporter he says these scammers are sophisticated. I had my tech person trace ip addresses back to nigeria or north africa or turkey and its just not much we can do. Reporter he water marks every photo and uses a Remote Access system where anyone who wants to see a property needs to sign up and even take a selfie so do the scammers do this . It will verify youre registered and give you a code to open the box and get the key. Reporter do you have that persons information in your system . Of course we do. Reporter can we check it out . I cant give it to you but if we are contacted by the police, obviously we would cooperate with that. Reporter we texted the alleged landlord