risking hilife t keep vital products flowing >> announc: thiss "nbc nighy news" th lester holt. >>> od eveng, everyone it is working. keep doing it. that's the message on this holiday weekend from authorities who fear americans lifted by encouraging headlines about the pace ocovid cases could drop their guard and send numbers soaragain. and to be very clear here, we are still deep in th woods with ameranare dying at blistering pace night as t worldwide total tops 100,000. agn, o team is fanned out t cover it all let's start with nbc's gabe gutierrez. reporter:he wave of ambulances in new york is less frequent the state announced fewer icu admissions and fewer deaths fm coronarus than the dabefore the most encouraging that t curve is flattening thgovernor ss it's to relax. want to kn i still how this happened. because the warning signs were there. and if you don't know e answer, then how do you know it's not going to haen again >> reporter: the ndemic's death toll here in the nation's epicenter could be much higher. during the first five days of oplel, morthan100 wereronounced dead home

sacrifing hilife-- try and sa a sam/vo anduing thstate in lake to save another.ocal deputy's brave efforts in lake tahoe. >> and suing the state in a sense is testify and high profile showdown, the right to die case against california heads to court. >>> plus trying to breathe life into a cold case, the san francisco mom's efforts to bring her son's killer to justice. "today in the bay" starts right now. >>> and a is he good friday morning to you. i'm laura garcia-cannon. >> and i'm sam brock. we have more on those stories in a second is. first a little bit humid out there this morning. let's get a check of the weather with meteorologist kari hall. >> good morning. starting to feel those temperatures warming up, more clouds again this morning and it will be a hot day in some

sacrifing hilife-- try and sa a sam/vo anduing thstate in lake to save another. details on a local deputy's brave efforts in lake tahoe. >> and suing the state in a sense is testify and high profile showdown, the right to die case against california heads to court. >>> plus trying to breathe life into a cold case, the san francisco mom's efforts to bring her son's killer to justice. "today in the bay" starts right now. >>> and a is he good friday morning to you. i'm laura garcia-cannon. >> and i'm sam brock. we have more on those stories in a second is. first a little bit humid out there this morning. let's get a check of the weather with meteorologist kari hall. >> good morning. starting to feel those temperatures warming up, more clouds again this morning and it will be a hot day in some spots. as we start out we are at 65 can degrees in the south bay, peninsula, east bay. service now at 62 degrees, a high of 74 degrees there, east bay 81 degrees a lot of sunshine in the east bay and south bay, it will be 89 degrees and 90 in the north bay. i will detail the we

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i can tell you jeb bush who lives hilife in a bilingual life, i think that's personally offensive to him and his family. i have a feeling he's not going to take that too well. >> chuck todd, with all the political headlines this morning. thank you. >> as chuck and savannah were discussing, speculation flying about whether clinton will have an opponent in vice president joe biden. he held his first major speech on wednesday. since buzz about a potential president run began. peter alexander has more. good morning. >> hey, willie. good morning to you from florida. joe biden is reveling in all this extra attention. it feels a lot like a campaign trip, but his aides s aides ins is not one. still, his every word, his every move is being analyzed. maybe overanalyze, including what he told college students here yesterday. that people who aren't willing to risk failing never succeed. we'll be talking about himself? for now, we wait and see. those hunting for hints will have to keep looking. vice president joe biden offering few clues about whether he'll run for president in 2016. while speaki