emily: all right, jeff thomas, nasdaq senior vice president. thanks so much for taking the time.t of your weekend. coming up, this week, celebrities ditched facebook and instagram for a day to take a stand against hate speech. what next? we will hear from one of the movement's organizers, the anti-defamation league, next. this is bloomberg. ♪ emily: as we have been covering, celebrities joined a protest over facebook over its handling of hate speech. kim kardashian west, leonardo dicaprio and moore froze their instagram accounts for a day as part of their campaign. to talk about the movement and what more social media companies can and need to do, we speak to one of the organizers, jonathan greenblatt. talk to us about how successful this was. it seemed to get less attention then blackout tuesday. what was your take? this action that happened over the last week, the instafreeze, was the second initiative for the coalition. some of the leading civil rights groups of the country. what was amazing was the call to action to call out facebook's failure to deal with hate and violence a

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thomas, nbc bay area news. >> that's helpful for us, too. >> oh, for sure. >> very good job. that's a great story. >> jeff, let's talk about air quality. wow, we saw vast improvements around the bay area today. >> so nice. that change in the upper level winds, also the surface winds really helping to kick this smoke out of here. i know everybody has been so thankful, really, to just be able to go outside today and breathe a little bit of some fresher air. now, it was unhealthy on and off at types today, but overall, much, much better. so as we begin our microclimate forecast, i thought we'd take a look back at all the unhealthy days of air quality we have had. it is longest stretch ever for the spare the air days. 29 consecutive days we have been under, and that's why it's probably been so depressing for a lot of you. i know for me each day it's been kind of a battle. we normally typically only have 13 days per year. if you look at the numbers closer, the 2020 season had a total of 33 spare the air days. so also another record for the total amount in one year. wildfire smoke also the lead pollution cause versus the traditional pollutio

thomas, nbc bay area news. >> great story, garvin. thank you. >> that is so moving. >>> all right. let's bring in chief meteorologist jeff ranieri. we have a concern going into this weekend we're going to have these hot temperatures again, jeff. >> mm-hmm. it really looks like that's gonna be the case, especially as we hit sunday, monday and tuesday of next week. and also potentially some gusty winds for the hills. i know it's not what any of us want or obviously need at this point. but let's get to a little bit of good first then we'll get to that. the air quality outside right now probably the best we have seen in weeks. at least for several hours on end we've had this good air quality. we haven't seen it sustain that kind of a level in a long time. so you can see in my live monitoring sights here from the north bay down to the south bay, everybody is good to go. live sky cameras on the left side of the screen. everyone from san jose to tiburon, morgan hill, walnut creek, lafayette, san francisco, all getting that blue sky because the storm track is positioned just over northern california. so it's helping to push this smoke an

, signed by a whole bunch of other writers — jeff yang, i believe, was one of them, he works for the wall streetjournal. he said "it is hard not to see thomashe? i don't think so, actually. first of all, my inbox is flooded with messages from people who would not be considered elites, who might be assistant book editors or associate professors without tenure at colleges, who said that the letter really was a shot in the arm or maybe even allowed them to feel that they might possibly be able to express themselves. people have written us to tell us that they have never once said what they actually think in the context of a work environment because they don't believe that they could survive that. so i think that this letter was on behalf of them and that's not a very elite project. some of the people in the letter are extraordinarily elite — there's no denying that — but what i see them having done is a kind act of generosity. they — malcolm gladwell doesn't need to sign a letter or do anything else. he doesn't have to work anymore. so him speaking up is not for himself, it's for anyone who could be benefited by his voice. thomas chatterton wi

lauren thomas got off a call >> yes i just got off the phone with jeff, finishing macy's earnings call. last i checked shares were down slightly they had jumped significantly up about 6% earlier in the morning. i think there was a lot of excitement around these better than expected online results and macy's particularly called out strength and luxury which was a little interesting considering the impact because of the pandemic that we've seen on tourism and international tourism has come to a halt when i asked about that on the call, he said look at the competitive landscape. you have neemen marcus, lauren taylor, a number of high end department stores closing stores and macy's is trying to capitalize that, particularly with blooming dales. he says that's exceeded their expectations and contributed to the better than expected results during this latest quarter and so they are looking forward. they hope to capitalize that, on that through the holiday season as well. looking at its real estate, i know that was top of mind for a lot of analysts heading into this call. macy's is still plan

attorney general jeff landry slamming the school a suspension calling it a blatant government overreach. >>> marine veteran absolutely floored. deputies in virginia replacing thomas'sls including a distinguished flying cross. his home was robbed last year. the lead detective on the case also a marine. he got the replacements in time for his 84th birthday. the decorated soldier served marines for two decades, and two years in vietnam as a helicopter pilot. those are the headlines. will: really nice story. let's check with rick reichmuth who has the weather across the country. what's up, rick? rick: more fire conditions this afternoon, into tomorrow, across all parts of the west. we've been talking about fires all summer long. all this is happening, such an incredibly dry summer. incredibly hot summer. look at the drought summer. this is where we have the worst of the drought going on es spellingsly four corner states into nevada. up towards wyoming, parts of west texas. a lot of drought going on. it is bad news for ranchers out there and bad news for the fires on going here. this week we came out, noaa came out with october through december temperature outlook. get