building a better bay ar, >>whta as a peaceful show of solidarity with protesters in portland took a violent turn. oakland cleaning up after windows were smashed and buildings hit with graffiti. hello, thanks for joining us. i'm eric thomas. >> and i'm dion lim. a night of unrest after a protest march threw downtown calling for racial justice turned violent. there were clashes with oakland police and a fire was set at the alameda county courthouse. abc7 news reporter cornell barnard has images and reaction. >> police say demonstrators set fire inside the alameda county courthouse in oakland saturday night. sky 7 captedth f set outside the building. the fire department put both fires out quickly. windows were broken here and at a nearby apartment building. at oakland police headquarters a

group kicked down barricade. >> people are very upset. >> vanessa dub joined the protests in support of black lives matter and police reform. and against federal agents being deployed to portland, oregon. >> there were grandpas and they're all so sick of this, you know, political police oppression. >> later some broke from the larger group, smashing windows and spray painting graffiti and pointed lasers at police officers. oakland police declared it an unlawful assembly saying we're asking agitators to stop throwing items at 7th and broadway. mayor libby schaaf says

vandalizing our downtown give us donald trump the images he wants. oaklanders need to know when they attended protests after dark, they might be providing core for agitators who are more intent on stoking civil unrest than advancing racial justice. >> protests last night was ugly. the vandalism is ugly. >> this oakland native believes the actions of some distract from the black lives matter movement. >> this is a bad image for the city of oakland this. doesn't bring floyd back. this is damage for the city of oakland, period. >> oakland police say they made several arrests but did not give details on charges. in oakland, cornell barnard, ab in seattle police arrested 45 people. seattle police said protests threw large rocks, bottles, fireworks, and other explosives, injuring 21 officers. in los angeles violence broke out between police and demonstrators there.

three protesters for injured. in portland, protesters breached a fence surrounding the city's federal courthouse building. police there declared a riot. turning to the coronavirus pandemic and another county being monitored by the state. santa cruz county was added saturday to the list. that means if cases don't drop in three days, it will have to roll back its reopening and close indoor businesses. the number of confirmed cases in california is down significantly with more than 8,200 cases. there were over 10,000 yesterday. the seven-day positivity rate also went down to 7.8%, which is back under the state's threshold of 8%. more than 145,000 americans have now died from covid-19. this is the fifth consecutive day where there have been more than 1,000 deaths as states struggle to keep up with the benefits package set to expire. >> for the fifth straight day in the u.s., more than 1,000 people

have died from covid-19 daily. according to the covid tracking project. the number of cases of the virus on the rise in 37 states, puerto rico, and washington, d.c. d dr. deborah birx spoke with wsyx with advice on how to employee the spread. >> we're asking them not to go bars, wash their hands, and do not social gather with large groups of people. >> california with most cases of the virus. >> our obsessive is to kill this virus, a shelter-in-place is difficult. but it is the medicine we need to take. >> florida surpassing new york, becoming the state with the second highest number of coronavirus cases. but business leaders in the sunshine state are still looking for ways to get bars and restaurants reopened. >> florida is still very much a global hot spot, but it is many, many weeks away from getting to a point where it can even think about bars. if they open up bars now, they're basically saying goodbye to schools for all of the fall. >> those in the medical field

also feeling the strain. shortages of health care workers are being reported nationwide. >> we are incentiveizing them with dollars, but at some point it doesn't matter how much you pay a person to work. they just can't physically do it anymore. >> with millions of americans out of work due to the pandemic, many relying on the $600 a week federal unemployment assistance, a benefit set to expire this week. >> a lot of people got more money staying at home than they would going back to work. ad so the president's been very clear, our republican senators have been very clear, we're not going to stem that provision. >> but democratic senator chuck schumer says those unemployment checks have helped the economy. >> unemployment insurance has prevented the recession from turning into the great depression. leader mcconnell has refused to put bill together and put it on the floor of the senate. we need him to act now. >> stephanie ramos, abc news, new york. community members are outraged after a woman was

caught on camera using a slur toward an asian-american u.s. postal service employee in los altos. [ bleep ]. >> hey -- >> whoa, whoa. that is not acceptable. that's not acceptable. no, it's not. >> no. that's not acceptable. >> absolutely not. >> she said [ bleep ]. you might need to go somewhere. yes, we all did, yeah. >> the video taken at the usps location on main street thursday afternoon shows the woman in the mask there yelling at the employee behind the counter. after she uses the c word, multiple people denounced her behavior, including the man who took this video. >> the reason i did it was to spread awareness and to let people know that this is happening all around us. i live in the silicon valley. this is happening in los altos, california. just because someone's different

or has different melanin doesn't mean we need to disregard the humanity of that particular person. >> i showed a usps representative the video who says they do not tolerate this kind of behavior and abusive language and provide training to employees in dealing with matters such as these. they are looking further into the incident. several schools in san francisco may get a new name. "san francisco chronicle" insider and abc7 news contributor phil matier"chronict review is under way of schools named after presidents and hysterical figures. the list includes lowell high school. the school district says he wavered on his commitment to anti-slavery. you can read phil's column in the chronicle every sunday and wednesday a. a tribute to congressman john lewis.

hundreds of mourners watched his flag-draped casket drawn across the edmund pettus bridge. it brought congressman lewis back to the spot where he almost died on march 7th, 1965, when alabama state troopers attacked him and other civil rights demonstrators on what became known as bloody sunday. >> our nation is better off because of john robert lewis. my life is better. selma is better. this nation and this world are better because of john robert lewis. >> congressman lewis is lying in state at the alabama state capitol in montgomery and will lie in state at the u.s. capitol rotunda sunday. a programming note here. this week will air at midnight

tonight because of the abc news special report honoring john lewis. chief anchor george stephanopoulos goes one-on-one with mark meadows in his first sunday show interview since becoming white house chief of staff. a star during hollywood's golden era who got her acting start in oakland has died. two-time oscar winner olivia dehalve land is best known at melanie in gone with the wind. she died peacefully of natural causes at her home in paris at the age of 104. her acting ambitions dated back to stage performing at mills college. she's credited as a pioneer who took ton studio system and won. her decision of the 1944 set and enforcement limit on employee contracts. protests can take many forms. look no further than one that was organized today in the bay area whose surfers honored with a paddleout. carl gardeno has been one of the most powerful figures in the

south bay. he announced his departure and history has been named in the selection of his replacement. another gorgeous day in the bay area. we have 60s and partly cloudy conditions at the coast. but then warm numbers and plenty of sunshine inland. i'll let you know how long this tren

more than a dozen people paddled into the bay to celebrate a 22-year-old shot and killed by vallejo police. his sister, ashley, organized the event with a city surf

projectayuta cnc t l to surf. vallejo police said they thought he had a gun when they opened fire. turned out he had a hammer. there was a covid safe caravan for army specialist vanessa guillen today. guillen is the fort hood army specialist found dead near fort hood in texas last month amount of group gathered in redwood city to call for justice in the case. authorities believe she was killed by another soldier, but guillen's family says she told them she was being sexually harassed by a supervisor. a man with a background in investment banking is the new ceo of the silicon valley leadership group ahmad thomas is the first african-american ceo of that organization. the public policy group says thomas intends to help create a more equitable silicon valley that leaves no community behind. thomas succeeds the ceo of more

than 23 years. farmers markets are slowly returning to the bay area. see how one reopened in san francisco today with social distancing and safety measures. we have the sea breeze keeping things coal at the coast at 20 miles per hour. now we've got more beautiful weather ahead this week, but a slight d

an outdoor farmers market born from one of the covid-19 street closures in san francisco is blossoming. take a look at the turnout here for the outer sunrise farmers market and mercantile. 37th street between ortega and pacheco turns into this market every sunday. the street is one of the many corridors closed by the city as part of the covid-19 slow streets program. organizers sought to bring fresh food and produce to a mostly

residential part of the city. it looked like a gorgeous day to go and you tellout and hit the farmers market or take a walk or whatever you wanted to do outside with limitations, of course. this is covid-19 era. here's frances with a look at the weather. >> yeah, that's right, eric and dion. it is great to be outdoors. of course you want to have your mask with you. i'm going to be show you live doppler 7 watt satellite radar image. we have lots of sunshine around the bay area except at the coast. that's where we have partly cloudy conditions. but i also wanted to take you up to tahoe. numerous thunderstorms there today and that will continue through tomorrow, evening until 7:00. head indoors if you are in that tahoe area. look at this gorgeous view from the east bay looking out towards san francisco. you see the low clouds at the coast. that will spill in again overnight. we're seeing that very typical summer pattern. right now in san francisco it's 64 degrees. oakland, 69. mountain view, 77. gilroy at 81 degrees. look at that pacifica down to 58

with those cool coastal clouds. we also can see the breeze blowing the trees right here on the embarcadero near ferry building, but lots of blue skies around the bay area. it's been a gorgeous day. santa rosa at 75 degrees. novato, 88. fairfield at 90 at this point. concord and livermore at 87. around 7:00 tonight we'll start to see the clouds spill in through bay into the inland areas. 7:00 tomorrow morning we'll wake up with widespread low clouds and some patchy fog as well. but then that pulls back to the coast by the afternoon. tomorrow's temperatures are actually going to be similar to today's. and then in the morning we'll see temperatures dropping into the mid-50s for the most part to upper 50s with the low clouds once again. but tomorrow, looking for 60s at the beaches to low to and comfortable weather al the bay area. here's the accuweather seven-day forecast. near average, that stays the

same except for wednesday. cooler and breezier as a trough moves through and temperatures rebound, more sunshine, and back to where we started, maybe even warmer for next weekend. eric, dion? >> all right. feeling like summer. frances, thanks. chris alvarez talking sports. and the giants we love the hate. >> giants going for a split against that blue team in l.a., the dodgers. five rubs in the first, was it enough to hold

want restand schools?pen? want the economy to get back on track? you're not alone. and you can help make it happen. stay 6 feet apart. wash your hands. wear a mask every time you leave your home. choose to join the fight against covid-19. do your part. slow the spread.

after saturday's loss, a's manager bob melvin was one hit away from getting back in the i game. a's back. matt olson brings in a run. 1-0 oakland right away. mark can nah, base hit into right field. it's 3-0, oakland. a's are going to pour it on in the first inning. robbie gloss grosman at the plate. ground ball gets through to the right side into right field. 4-0, oakland and that ends otani's day before he can even record an out. two on for mike trout and the three-time mvp says see you later. three-run shot to left. just like that, it's a 5-3 ball game. but the a's up 5-4 now. now.

sean murphy with his first home run of the year. every win is big in this shortened season. >> it's like support baseball every day. you're going out there. no matter what happens you're needing to win a game because you don't know if this is going to push you forward in the standings. definitely an odd season but i'm happy we've been able to knock two out of three out. if we do that for the rest of the year, we'll be laughing all the way to the bank. astros ace justin verlander out with a forearm strain. there were reports earlier today that verlander was going to miss the rest of the season. verlander quickly denied that report t-shirt saying he has a forearm strain. hopes with rest he'll be able to return soon. giants round out their four-game series with the dodgers in l.a. tonight. 7:00 first pitch over on espn.

after being outscored 17-2 in their first two games in the series, the giants have a chance to split with l.a. if they can win tonight. >> we're already at where we are, so we want to go out and win today and today is the only game we can focus on. taking one pitch at a time and being focused and prepared for today is going to be important. hopefully we walk away and have a happy flight. another sign baseball is different in 2020, not pictured, former giant derrick holland was ejected from the stands. he was heckling the umpire. then he has to put opposite his mask and have a safe socially distanced argument with the umpire. pirates win 5-1. final round at 3m open. pga championship soon in san francisco. tony finau misses the short par put on 13.

finished tied for third 16 under. thompson with a 4 under 67. ends with a birdie and his first win in 2,702 days. he last won in 2013. patience paying off for him. back to you. >> chris, thank you very much. next on abc7 news at 5:00, no in-person events, no problem. comic-con is we know these are challenging times.

rest assured, you are not alone. we've all had to adapt. and with summer here, your energy bills might go up with rising temperatures. together, we can save energy and money. try closing your shades during the day... setting your ac to 78° or higher... or cooling off with a fan when you can. united we are always stronger. stay well, california, and keep it golden.

as we all fight the coronavirus pandemic, california is mandating face masks to stop the spread. that's why abc7 wants to remind you to wear a mask for you, your loved ones, and your community. please wear because you care. kind of like every other big event this year, comic-con had to cancel in san diego and go virtual instead. >> but the good news is "bill & ted" are back. they delivered a preview of the third film of the series called "bill & ted face the music." keanu reeves and alex winter provided a most excellent preview through zoom. there's this little tidbit even though george carlin died in 2008. the filmmakers are using archive footage to bring back his character, rufus. >> eric, you said that with so much gusto and excitement, i feel like you were a "bill & ted" fan? >> who, me?

excellent. i'm eric thomas. >> and i'm dion lim. thanks for joining us. we'll see you right back here at 6:00. tonight, the first atlantic hurricane of the season hitting the u.s. in the heart of the pandemic. hanna sweeping across parts of texas, making landfall with 90-mile-an-hour winds. homes and structures damaged. at one point, hundreds of thousands without power. strong winds knocking over a semi on the highway. and tracking hurricane douglas, taking aim at hawaii. residents lining up at shelters as the storm closes in. our rob marciano standing by. tonight's other major headline -- coronavirus cases soaring. fema issuing an sos for skilled medical professionals in five states. america's death toll topping 146,000. more than 1,000 deaths a day for at least the fifth day in a row. and the new concerns in florida. 100 days to election day.