good sunday morning. it is 7:00 on the nose. it is going to be warm today. that's a live look outside, the barometer, rather the mercury will be rising, not the barometer. we are under a heat advisory and microclimate weather alert. i'm chris chmura in for kira klapper. rob mayeda has a look at your microclimate forecast and weather alert. >> inland east bay areas, off the southeast to san francisco, that's how you can avoid the heat advisory today. fog, 59 degrees. a little more sunshine to start off this morning compared to yesterday. san jose look how mild the

temperatures are, 68 degrees, off to the east mt. hamilton or northeast mt. diablo temperatures closer to 80 in the hills. warm start to the morning. for the afternoon tracking the inland east bay, the oakland east bay berkeley hills toward the tri-valley solano county east of downtown san jose and morgan hill, locations that will see mid-90s to near 100 degree temperatures for one more day before things start to cool off tomorrow. so the spread of temperatures include 60s and 70s coastside and bayside. 70s and 80s around oakland into hayward and san jose south and east of 680 where the heat advisory is for today, the numbers soaring close to 100 degrees for one more day. tomorrow big drop in temperatures, could lead to drizzle. >> thank you very much. we begin with a developing story from rome. two 19-year-olds from the bay area are in jail there facing charges of murder and extortion.

on the left here, gabriel jorth and the fight finnegan elder. they arrested the two at a rome hotel. at least one admitted to stabbing that man, a 35-year-old police officer rar yo rega, pictured there. italian police say he was killed days after his honeymoon, stabbed eight times in a quiet rome neighborhood as he confronted the two men in connection with a theft. terry mcsweeney has the rest of the story. >> reporter: two americans teenagers behind bars in rome in connection with the fatal stabbing of an italian police officer. according to italian police, the teens have confessed after they were arrested after friday in a four-star hotel in the district of rome. at this point details are unclear but according to the police, this was a drug deal gone wrong. the officer who was killed was investigating the theft of a bag. there was a brief hearing in rome afterwards. the attorney for one of the suspects said his client was

exercising his right not to answer questions in court. in addition to murder, both suspects are also being investigated for attempted extortion. in italy, much of the attention is centered on the victim. he was a 35-year-old officer named marrow cerciello rega, he was a newly wed who had just returned from his honeymoon. his killing prompted an outpouring of grief across the country, flowers left at the scene of his death. the interior minister offering condelenses on twitter. terry mcsweeney, "nbc bay area news." >> we are getting reaction from family and friends, the two teens graduated from tamalpias high school last year. thom jensen talked to a neighbor who has known one of the suspects since he was born. >> it doesn't ring true to me that -- something's wrong. >> reporter: neighbors say they can't believe the news out of rome, a crime scene where

prosecutors say 19-year-old finnegan elder admitted to stabbing a police officer and killing him. >> i've never seen him do one violent thing. >> reporter: you've seen him since he was -- >> since he was born. i was here when they brought him home. >> reporter: earl der went to a kat look school where she volunteered and graduated from tamalpias high in 2018, along with his co-defendant, gabriel natale. a young woman has known elder since they were babies told me she, too, is shocked and never witnessed any violence but declined to say more out of respect for his family. after talking to his mom she sent nbc bay area this statement from the family. "we write as a family to express our deepest condolences to the grieving family and community that loved brigadier cerciello rega.

we are shocked and dismayed at the events that have been reported but have very little independent information about these events. we have not been able to have any communication with our son. we ask that you respect our privacy during this difficult time. our thoughts are with all of those who have been impacted by this tragedy." there was no answer at gabriel york's family's mill valley home and mill valley pd won't say if either one of the teens had run-ins with the law before. gloria kely says the elder's neighbors have been concerned all day, questioning the circumstances of the arrest and the alleged confession. >> i'd just like to see it investigated thoroughly. i hope to god there's some missing link, some piece of the puzzle that hasn't come out yet. >> reporter: thom jensen, "nbc bay area news." if you're already following us on social media, you know we've been following this story since it first broke. this is one of the first tweets we posted. we will bring you more updates on air and online.

our handle @nbcbayarea. a person killed on highway 237 in north san jose. we're told the victim was standing on the highway near zanker road when a honda civic struck and killed him. eastbound lanes were closed immeely after the 3:30 a.m. collision. we just checked 237 and it seems traffic is flowing again. a follow-up now to a story in east bay, pleasanton firefighters remain on the lookout for hot spots where a brush fire caused a big scare. fire sparking up around 9:00 last night on vernal avenue. it brnd burned fo it burned four acres before it was contained. dozens of homes were threatened. some people chose to evacuate their homes out of fear the fire would quickly spread. flames could be seen miles away. >> and make sure to get the heck out of here when the fire people said go, just be ready for it, and then i watered down my house. >> we were fortunate enough to have a pretty significant fire

break on the road and having the road between the south side and the north side and of course being nighttime, temperatures being much cooler and really no wind. >> cal fire and alameda county fire departments helped pleasanton firefighters put out the flames quickly. no injuries reported and also no homes burned. follow-up to a fire in san jose, a flare-up there. more than a dozen cars destroyed in a junkyard fire. we brought this to you as breaking news last night at 6:00. the fire started just after 5:30 p.m. at the pick n pull junkyard on commercial street near highway 101. this video is from our traffic camera, where you can see the smoke. firefighters say two cars were engulfed in flames originally, that spread to 15 cars. no one hurt and the cause now under investigation. a big break in last month's bar shooting on the peninsula. police officers have arrested seven people in connection with the shooting outside club shore view in san mateo. six of them were from oakland, the other from orange county.

police say the shooting was the result of a fight outside the bar. despite dozens of shots fired, only one bystander was hurt, and not badly. a close call for two water polo players with ties to the bay area. johnny hooper and ben howlek who play for team usa water polo were hurt in a balcony collapse at a south korean nightclub. hooper played water polo for uc berkeley and howlek played for stanford. two people died and 16 others were hurt when the balcony came crashing down inside a club in guangzhou yesterday morning. they were not seriously injured. four american water polo players were hurt in the accident, they were celebrating the world's swimming championships taking place in that city. president trump continues his twitter rant against representative elijah cummings and the city he represents. this despite backlash for criticizing well-known african -- the well-known african-american congressman.

the president called cummings a brutal bully for shouting and screaming at trump administration officials testifying about border conditions. trump touted border facilities as clean, efficient and well-run, then called cummings west baltimore district a disgusting rodent-infested mess. baltimore's mayor is questioning the president's motives. >> this president has had a history on attacking minorities. 'tacked the congresswomen, he's attacking elijah cummings. who else is he going to attack? >> last week cummings called the president a racist for telling four non-white democratic lawmakers to go back to their home countries. three of them were born here, all are u.s. citizens. we have much more ahead on "today in the bay." coming up, we'll take you live to washington, d.c., for our weekly interview with chuck todd, moderator of "meet the press," plus a perfect day to go to the beach but if you live in tiburon, think twice, all because of something in the water. we'll explain, next.

welcome back. it's sunday. it's time for "meet the press" preview. our political analyst dr. larry gerston joins us and so does chuck todd, nbc news political director and moderator of "meet the press." hey, chuck, how are you doing? >> happy sunday, chris and larry. >> happy. the mueller report, has anything changed? >> well, i think you have democrats still with the same dilemma and i think you have in the house of representatives you see they're almost now evenly divided between those democrats that argue not starting an impeachment inquiry will become a long-term problem. that will be something they will regret in the long run. those arguing you're not going to remove him from office other than the 2020 election so focus your energy there. you'll hear a spirited beakian forth on the show today and two different versions of this

argument from two californians, adam schiff on one side and tom steyer believe it or not on the other. i do think we're going to end up in half measure here, which is where the house democrats feel legally they have to formally open the inquiry in order to get some of this material but i don't know if we ever see an article of impeachment voted on. >> you have bay area resident tom steyer on this morning. how does steyer's commitment to spend as much as $100 million on his campaign mesh with the effort of so many democratic candidates who base their support on numbers of small donors? >> well, actually, i asked him also about the issue, because he is in part of this interview rails on corporate interests and their influence in the political system, and i pointed out elizabeth warren loves billionaires with those corporate interests, and that this is a party that might be -- he basically pushes back on that and saying look at what he's done over the last eight years, look at how he has spent his

money, look how he devotes his resources and that will buy him some of that credibility from those democrats who think that you can't, don't buy an election, go earn it with small donors, go earn it with support, so look, i never discount somebody that's willing to spend $100 million. don't assume they're not going to make the debate stage or have an impact. i will say this. he was extraordinarily animated about impeachment, and remember, he actually is a constituent of nancy pelosi's, and he's adam ant that she is wrong about this. >> okay, staying with money, new economic data showed the growth rate far less in the recent quarter than president trump had predicted. given that people often vote with their wallets more than their hearts, what impact would a stalled economy have on trump's potential for re-election? >> well you know, the trump job rating has been, if you look in the nbc/"wall street journal" poll, larry, it is very stable, right? over the last year and a half it's been between 43% and 46% every time i think except once,

where it went ahead and one other time where it was below that little ceiling. but when you look at that 43 or 46, many people believe that number would be over 50 if there were people that didn't like it, if the president didn't always te the limits with sort of the personal attacks and things like that, and without the economy, his character flaws might have his job rating in the 30s. so if this is a slowing economy, it is hard to imagine that this is a recipe for re-election for the president. by the way, the president knows the economy is slowing. that's why he's brow beating the fed, that's why he's trying to cheapen the dollar. he's very nervous that this is going to be a slowing economy in 2020. >> all right, chuck, thank you very much. be sure to join chuck for this morning's "meet the press," his guests include am schiff, from california, florida senator rick scott of florida, yep, and larry mentioned democratic presidential candidate tom steyer. "meet the press" is at 8:00 right after this newscast.

larry will be back in 40 minutes to talk more politics. >> yes, sir. >> we'll dig into more of president trump's twitter attack on representative cummings and baltimore, the city he represents. a fall from grace for uc rk "u.s. news and world report" removed the school from the best colleges ranking. the boot came after the university notified "u.s. news" it has been misreporting data since at least 2014. it was including pledged money in its alumni giving instead of only actual donations. uc berkeley is now listed as unranked. alumni giving by the way makes up 5% of the school's ranking in "u.s. news." the 2020 rankings are due out in september. beaches in tiburon are closed because health experts say the water is unsafe. water samples collected near the beaches have shown high bacteria levels for more than two months. signs posted at the beaches warn

visitors to avoid contact with the water. state water officials have ordered an investigation to find out what's causing the contamination. they say leaking pipes or illegal dumping into storm drains might be to blame. a creative way to help support survivors from last year's devastating camp fire. a man in california state fair in sacramento is carving salvaged redwood from paradise. he uses his chainsaw to turn the wood into works of art. the art is auctioned off to benefit the paradise unified school district. the camp fire raged last fall going down as the state's deadliest and most destructive fire on record. thousands of people braved the heat in nor cal market in pleasanton last night, the most popular spot seemed to be the tent spraying mist, that makes sense. many people wore hats, held umbrellas and looked for the shade. one man told us he bought a large cool drink to try to cool

off with ice in it but that ice melted in about ten minutes. he says the heat nearly scared him off. >> wasind of thinking about not coming out just because of how hot it was, the hottest day in a while, but i just decided to come anyway. >> is anyone happy about this? the vendors selling iceees and slushies tolls us his business got a big boost. you got to figure out a way to beat the heat. this is serious stuff. >> watching the temperatures, plezanton, tri-valley, probably some of the hottest temperatures around the bay area. round two coming up today but some relief is around the corner. right now we'll take you over to san francisco, where you got the low clouds around the golden gate bridge. temperatures comfortable, 59 degrees. not much of a sea breeze. we'll watch that closely this afternoon. we think things will turn more windy this evening, the cooler changes toward monday forecast. livermore 67 degrees. hazy skies to start the morning, so a warm start in the tri-valley, and also pretty warm

in san jose, 68 degrees this sunday morning, with the sunshine in san jose. we've got 60s around san jose and livermore. the higher hills of the east bay and south bay temperatures in the 70s and 80s this morning, strong high pressure, warm air aloft is setting the stage for at least one more hot day inland. not much of a sea breeze right now. that will change as we get into the afternoon. breeze is picking up late day. should still manage 70s closer to san francisco. oakland a combination of upper 70s to 80s as we get closer to hayward and castro valley. san jose south into the 90s and mid-90s. upper 90s and near 100 degree temperatures again with the inland heat advisory for the inland east bay and areas near morgan hill this afternoon. if you can head out to the gilroy garlic festival, plenty hot, numbers easily through the 90s, as we head through the afternoon, and we'll begin to see cooler changes taking shape late today. not much in the way of low clouds right now but as we head towards tomorrow morning, notice what happens. look at that, fog makes a big comeback, spills out to the

altamont pass which will set the stage for a big drop in temperatures. compare the wind speeds, we're seeing later on this afternoon sunday looking like this at 4:00. we'll fast forward to monday now, and you see those wind speeds starting to pick up 20 to 30 miles per hour, so it's going to be much cooler, as we get into the start of the work week, from the numbers today, there is your heat advisory in the east bay valley, mid to upper 90s. upper 90s possible south of san jose. look at the comparison for monday now. that looks a will the more comfortable inland. highs in the low 80s on monday. so it's going to take at least one more day of some hot temperatures inland, spare the air day as well for the inland east bay, things improve rapidly for tomorrow. the wind will be an issue. areas of low clouds for the morning. look at the drop in inland temperatures tomorrow, low 80s after upper 90s for one more day and san francisco today a little more sunshine to start. we should see a few more low 70s

before that breeze picks up and it will be breezy and cooler with some drizzle possible for that monday morning commute, temperatures staying comfortable as we go through the week and if you're making plans next weekend a warmup but not quite as hot as the temperatures you're seeing around the bay area this weeken chris, back to you. >> thank you, rob. there is much more ahead on "today in the bay." coming up, people doing good things for others. garvin thomas has some of our favorite "bay area proud" stories over the past year. that's next.

our "bay area proud" segment is a great place to find some positive news, people doing good for our community. usually those people keep on giving. "today in the bay's" garvin thomas has a few updates on the folks we've met in previous "bay area proud" stories. >> these are the type of people of course who just keep doing good, but with the first story we're talking about, it's you,

the viewers, who stepped up to do the right thing. when we last saw may rose muna earlier this summer she was surrounded by 40,000 books. >> i'm overwhelmed. >> reporter: may rose was asking for books she could skip to schoolchildren in hawaii and redwood city school district gave her all of these. well, after our story aired, a couple of things happened. first, the district ended up giving mayrose a total of 100,000 books, and volunteers who saw the story offered to help. in the end, mayrose had so many books and so much help she was able to gave them to other organizations to share with children who need them. >> what if someone is interested -- >> reporter: last year we told but patty novaltes inspared idea to raise awareness of gun violence and honor her son, robbie, who was killed by it. patty got together with law enforcement agencies to organize

gun buy-backs, then commissioned artists to make art out of them. her first exhibit was in vallejo but since then patty has had three others including one that just opened this week at the yerba buena center for the arts in san francisco. last week, we gave you the latest on 24-year-old kayla jiminez. we've been documenting the journey of this developmentally disabled artist for the past few years, how her art is opening up her once sheltered life. her latest commission was from nasa, of a painting commemorating apollo 11's splash-down 50 years ago. it debuted a few days ago and brought one nasa official to tears. >> it's one example how we open our minds and hearts, we can bring in everyone. >> if you know of someone who is

doing something good for other people or their community, i'd love to hear about it. you can find me on facebook, twitter, or instagram, just search garvin thomas nbc bay area. >> way to go, garvin and company. much more ahead on "today in the bay." coming up, getting ready for anything. sausalito spending this weekend doing drills. we'll talk about what they're preparing for down the line. plus, oakland mayor libby schaaf coming under fire. new details about her campaign donations that have been uncovered. you know when you're at ross and you score the perfect outfit? ooooohhhh! game on! now, that's yes for less. nothing beats getting the latest trends at 20 to 60 percent off specialty store prices. at ross. yes for less.

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sitting in for kira klapper. we get right to meteorologist rob mayeda to tell us about the heat. >> the heat in the east bay and tri-valley and east of san jose, san jose foothills down to near morgan hill right now it's a warm start to the morning, 68 degrees, sunny skies, and again as we go through the day today, we'll see temperatures comfortably mild near the coast and bay, so no heat advisory for downtown san jose, san francisco and oakland but it's really the oakland hills, berkeley hills east over to the tri-valley, solano county and south along 680 you'll find temperatures in the mid-90s to near 100 degrees for one more day today, before changes arrive tomorrow. so before nbe in "nbc bay area responds" gets called out in the weather department, one more day of hot weather. big changes tomorrow. not only cooler but we'll be dealing with some wind as well. we'll look at the countdown to cooldown numbers coming up in 12 minutes. >> we'll let people know relief is on the way. thanks very much, rob. we look forward to it. we begin with a developing story from rome. two 19-year-olds from the bay area are in jail there facing charges of murder and extortion.

on the left here, gabriel hjorth and on the right finnegan elder. police arrested the two at a rome hotel. at least one admitted to stabbing 35 years old police officer mario rega, pictured there. italian police say he was killed days after his honeymoon, stabbed eight times in a quiet rome neighborhood as he confronted the two men in connection with a theft. terry mcsweeney has the rest of the story. >> reporter: two american enagers hind bars in rome in connection with the fatal stabbing of an italian police officer. according to italian police, the teens have confessed, after they were arrested after friday in a four-star hotel in the district of rome. at this pot details are unclear but according to the police, this was a drug deal gone wrong. the officer who was killed was investigating the theft of a bag. there was a brief hearing in rome afterwards. the attorney for one of the suspects said his client was

exercising his right not to answer questions in court. in addition to murder, both suspects are also being investigated for attempted extortion. in italy, much of the attention is centered on the victim. he was a 35-year-old officer named mario cerciello rega, he was a newlywed who had just returned from his honeymoon. his killing prompted an outpouring of grief across the country, flowers left at the scene of his death. the italian interior minister offering condelences on twitter. his funeral will be held monday in the very same church he was just married. terry mcsweeney, "nbc bay area news." >> we are getting reaction from family and friends, the two teens graduated from tamalpias high school in mill valley last year. "today in the bay's" thom jensen talked to a neighbor who has known one of the suspects since he was born. >> it doesn't ring true to me that -- something's wrong. >> reporter: neighbors say they can't believe the news out of rome, a crime scene where

prosecutors say 19-year-old finnegan elder admitted to stabbing a police officer and killing him. >> i've never seen him do one violent thing. >> reporter: you've seen him since he was -- >> since he was born. i was here when they brought him home. >> reporter: elder grew up across the street from gloria keeley and went to a catholic grade school where she volunteered and graduated from tamalpias high in 2018, along with his co-defendant, gabriel natale has bjork. >> there was nothing offkilter about him that i could see. >> reporter: a young woman has known elder since they were babies told me she, too, is shocked and never witnessed any violence, but declined to say more out of respect for his family. after talking to his mom, she sent nbc bay area this statement from the family. "we write as a family to express our deepest condolences to the grieving family and community that loved brigadier cerciello rega. we are shocked and dismayed at the events that have been reported but have very little

independent information about these events. we have not been able to have any communication with our son. we ask that you respect our privacy during this difficult time. our thoughts are with all of those who have been impacted by this tragedy." there was no answer at gabriel natale has bjork's family's mill valley home, and mill valley pd won't say if either one of the teens had run-ins with the law before. glo are iie iie iia gloria keeley says the elder's neighbors have been concerned all day, questioning the circumstances of the arrest and the alleged confession. >> i'd just like to see it investigated thoroughly. i hope to god there's some missing link, some piece of the puzzle that hasn't come out yet. >> reporter: thom jensen, "nbc bay area news." for some this homicide case might bring back memories of amanda knox, the american who spent four years in an italian prison for the murder of her fellow exchange student, and

roommate, in 2007. she was 20 years old at the time. knox later appealed successfully based on complaints about the prosecution's tactics, and character assassination. a second trial found knox not guilty of murder. if you're already following us on social media, you know we've been following this story since it first broke. this is one of the first tweets we posted. we will bring you more updates on air and online. our handle @nbcbayarea. new this morning, a person killed on highway 237 in north san jose. we're told the victim was standing on the highway near zanker road when a honda civic struck and killed him. eastbound lanes were closed immediately after the 3:30 a.m. collision. we just checked 237 and it seems eastbound traffic is flowing as normal again. a follow-up now to a story in east bay, pleasanton firefighters remain on the lookout for hot spots where a

brushed fire caused a big scare for a pleasanton neighborhood. fire sparking up around 9:00 last night on vernal avenue. it burned four acres before it was contained. dozens of homes were threatened. some people chose to evacuate their homes out of fear the fire would quickly spread. flames could be seen miles away. >> and make sure to get the heck out of here when the fire people said go, just be ready for it, and then i watered down my house. >> we were fortunate enough to have a pretty significant fire break on the road and having the road between the south side and the north side and of course being nighttim tempetures being much cooler and really no wind. >> all hands out there. cal fire and alameda county fire departments helped pleasanton firefighters put out the flames quickly. no injuries reported and also no homes burned. sausalito is getting ready for fire and other potential disasters. the city held its first ever emergency evacuation drill

yesterday. the practice included houseboat evacuations. neighbors were warned about the drill last week, then yesterday they received an emergency notification on their phones. fire battalion chief scott barnes says you need to know at least two ways out when you're evacuating your home. >> this drill is to educate homeowners, create some muscle memory for the residents in case they do get that phone call from our emergency notification system to evacuate. >> barnes says preparedness is key, and creating defensible space is the best way to protect your home from fire. a message of support to help undocumented immigrants feel safe, that's what sonoma county sheriff gave to a crowd of thousands friday night, took to the stage during a latino dance event in rower in park. he told party-goers the sheriffs office would not turn undocumented immigrants to

immigration agents for minor events or reporting they're a victim of the crime. he also said deputy also not help immigration and customs enforcement otherwise known as i.c.e. conduct raids or ask latinos about immigration status or ask them on a civil immigration warrant. bay area families taking a stand with a lemonade stand. in burlingame families hosted a stand to raise awareness about immigration and families in detention camps. last year, two bay area women started the stand and it took off nationwide. there are now 200-plus stands across the country selling lemonade for a cause this weekend. >> the goal is to get our children to learn about being of service to others, educate them about what's happening at the border, educate the nation and get families involved. >> organizers say the money raised will go toward legal services for children in detention centers. the stand on the corner of hillside and alvarado avenue is

scheduled to be up today. there will be stands in dozens of other locations around the bay area including san francisco, san jose and oakland. oakland mayor libby schaaf is coming under fire for donations made to her 2018 campaign. the public ethics commission found the campaign accepted donations over the legal limit. they were made by the owner of several large properties in the city. the commission has recommended that schaaf return the contributions and pay a $600 fine. schaaf's campaign is cooperating and offered to return the donations immediately. the commission is scheduled to vote whether to impose the fines at its next meeting. the twitter drama continues. the president causing controversy after attacking a member of congress and calling baltimore a rat-infested mess. chris pallone has the latest. >> reporter: president trump on the golf course and on the attack taking aim at elijah

cummings on twitter. trump called the area a disgusting rat and rodent infested mess claiming no human being would want to live there. cummings chaired the house oversight committee which issued subpoena for communications white house staffers sent from their personal accounts and devices. many democrats jumped to his defense. house speaker nancy pelosi calling the president's tweets racist attacks. just hours before, trump was in a better mood celebrating a supreme court decision which allows him to divert $2.5 billion in pentagon funds to build a wall along the southern border, a project trump has long claimed mexico will pay for. >> i've said many times that the american people will not pay for the wall and i've made that clear to the government of mexico. the wall will be paid for very easily by mexico. it will ultimately paid for by mexico. when i say mexico's going to pay for the wall, that's whey said, mexico's going to pay. >> reporter: big win for border

security and the rule of law, he tweeted. democratic psidential candate wijulian castro says the majority has given the president to ignore congress's budget decisions. >> it is wrong. i believe it's a bad decision. it's going to set bad precedent for the future when other presidents may try to use funds in a way that wasn't appropriated by congress. >> reporter: in a statement the aclu will ask for an expediteed apeel. congress refused to allocate border wall funds earl whier this year leading to the longest government shutdown in history. chris pallone, nbc news. still ahead on "today in the bay," are president trump's racially-charged comments by design or simply misunderstood? policical analyst larry gerston rejoins us live in studio in just a few minutes to discuss what might be the reason behind his recent twitter attack. but first, the giants and a's trying to keep up in the playoff race. joe castellano of nbc sports bay area will show you how both teams fared.

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they misunderstood thoughts, sentences taken out of context or the cornerstone of donald trump's presidency? we're talking about the president's recurring racially charged comments and what they might tell us about the 2020 trump re-election campaign. nbc bay area political analyst larry gerston joins us.

these tweets, they are provocative for sure. i don't think there's any debate about that, right, on either side. how much is race a tool of the trump presidency then? >> it really depends how you look at it, of course. look, there's nothing particularly offensive about the term race when it's used to neutrally define one physical's description but when race is used in an unkind or belittling way to classify the appearance, capabilities or belonging of a person or group, that's when the term has a mean-spirited application. >> so how does this discussion fit in with trump's comments? >> you know, for some, chris, it doesn't. it doesn't at all. they see trump's remarks as sticking up for american patr t patriotism and american way of life. they're race neutral in their eyes but others, others view trump quite differently. for example, when the president said that four congress wwomen color should go back to their countries because of

immigration, many regard it as raced based discrimination. yesterday we saw this earlier after prominent african-american american elijah cummings blasted the administration's border policies he said cummings should deal with his rat and rodent infested district. these are not restricted to minorities in congress. in the past, trump has spoken bitterly about barack obama being born in africa, a ban on all muslims coming to america, and mexican immigrants who are rapists and gangsters. so people that argue, chris, over whether trump is a racist, but one fact is clear. he condetermines people of color who speak out against him differently than the way he responds to whites. >> there's the president's comments viewed as unkind, if not racist, and i'm wondering what does it have to do with the election especially when we know that when we vote, we often think about our wallets before

we think about anything else. >> yes. >> anything different in 2020? >> maybe. normally you're right. normally there's an old saying that people think with their hearts but vote with their wallets. you've heard that so often. in other words, when the economy hums people are working and spending money, feeling good about themselves and with unemployment at 3.7%, most people feel pretty good about the economy, even the polls show that management of the economy is trump's greatest strength, but this election may be a little different than most in the past. >> that brings us back to race? >> yes, brings us back to race. according to a recent data from a fox poll people see the president as disrespectful of non-whites and that could make him appear un-american. the data is one-sided if you look at the whole thing, and as a matter of fact, when you look at whites, particularly even a majority of whites say that the president has been disrespectful. and then you look at the whole

question of how trump responds to, rather how trump acted when he told the four congresswomen to go back. was he over the line, not over the line? guess what? 73% say that he was over the line. that's a whopping majority, 73%, and more than that, if you look at the question of what we call cross tabs, the inside stuff, the segments people don't see often, what do we see there? 73% of suburban women, 68% of political independents say that trump went too far. these groups were critical to trump's election in 2016. >> there's been a long time since 2016, does cross the line even matter anymore? >> you know, it all depends. it depends to the extent that people view the economic climate as more important than the social climate, trump could have the upper hand especially'economy stays strong. but if trump's assaults on minority groups continue to offend large swathes of the

american public, particularly whites, particularly whites, then this may be one of those rare times when social values take precedence over economic issues. this election is getting stranger and stranger for all the kinds of things that we don't normally think about as part of the political process, but they're hitting us right in the face. >> so much to study. doctor, thank you very much. still ahead on "today in the bay," we have some local graduates who are now ready to take their first steps into adulthood. we'll explain. rob? >> and right now, we're watching a sunny start to your morning. san francisco seeing temperatures in the upper 50s. more on a heat advisory for today and a big change in your work week forecast when we come right bag.

at 7:54 on this sunday morning your microclimate weather alert is for a heat advisory but not affecting places like san francisco, where you still got that welcome sight of fog and the golden gate bridge this morning, temperatures starting off in the upper 50s. san jose looking at more sunshine but another location that isn't under the heat advisory for today at 68 degrees. pretty warm start to the morning. however, tri-valley and livermore, here is where the heat advisory is set up for our second day. inland tri-valley and inland east bay locations, livermore like san jose starting off in the upper 60s. so about that heat advisory, you could see solano county, inland contra costa, alameda county and inland santa clara county to the south, watching this now until 11:00 tonight.

temperatures in the mid-90s to near 100 degrees for another day. a spare the air day for unhealthy and sensitive groups in the inland east bay. air quality should improve tomorrow, temperatures coming down a bit as the sea breeze picks up monday. high temperatures today uncomfortable as you move further away from the bay. numbers climbing upper 90s to 100 degrees inland but 20 minutes 580 west you get into the 70s and 80s around oakland and castro valley, close to 70 in san francisco, but an increase in sea breeze will probably keep things a bit on the cool side, even if the extra sunshine to start the morning. 60s on the coast. so 60s, 70s, 80s, 90s, and 100 degree temperatures for another day. oakland a's, got the a&w root beer float day at the ball park, first pitch time early afternoon. temperatures close to 80. if you want to maybe stay hydrated with the extra root beer floats as the game gets started for the afternoon. here is the reason why things will see a big temperature drop tomorrow. high pressure starts to move out of the way.

an area of low pressure here the pacific northwest and another little system here offshore, but the net effect for the bay area will be a stronger seabreeze. we'll give a hint of this, this afternoon, as the winds pick up but by monday, you'll really start to notice a couple of changes. first watching how thick the low clouds get, and how far inland those low clouds will be for tomorrow morning. some drizzle likely to start off your monday morning commute. notice the wind speeds from 15 to 20 today, 20 to 30 tomorrow so that's going to have a big drop on our temperatures from the hot temperatures we're seeing today in the inland east bay back into the 80s by tomorrow. so big changes coming up for tomorrow, after one more hot day inland. you notice here it's really the inland locations of the inland east bay areas east of 680 that see the hottest of the temperatures today. san francisco staying pretty nice, no worries about any heat today. may get briefly close to 70 degrees. tomorrow with the cooldown we'll see some pretty gusty conditions on the coast, and drizzle making a big comeback we think for the

morning commute tomorrow. >> sounds good. seems comfortable comparatively speaking. rob, thank you very much. finally this morning, you got to see this. five baby penguins waddling their way to their permanent home on penguin island at the san francisco zoo. the penguins just graduated from fish school, where they learned how to eat whole fish, swim and socialize with their caretakers. the little chicks are named j.p., spartacus, poppy, anabelle and one yet to be named. the annual march of the penguins follows the final part of their journ journey. they are not the antarctic species so they are at home with a high of 70 in san francisco today. >> that's a good place to be if you're a penguin, one of the cooler spots around the bay area. >> exactly. pay them a visit. they are looking for you. thanks so much for including us in your sunday morning. we'll have a lot more local news tonight at 4:30, 6:00 and 11:00, plus all day coverage on

nbcbayarea.com. we hope you have a great day and find a way to beat the heat this afternoon. "meet the press" is next with adam schiff, tom steyer, and rick scott and of course chuck todd.

nothing, and i finally looked back to this entire process, un-american. >> now democrats are opening impeachment hearings. >> we will