Good morning and welcome to Tuesday. Although the commemoration event was canceled due to COVID-19, a few hundred people gathered around the memorial in downtown Duluth to pay tribute to Elias Clayton, Elmer Jackson and Isaac McGhie, who were lynched by a mob there exactly 100 years ago. More news after weather.

Another heat wave today and tomorrow. Highs Tuesday and Wednesday will reach the upper 90s in southern Minnesota and the 80s up north. It’ll be sunny and dry with some hot breezes.

Hope, call for changes on the 100th anniversary of Duluth lynchings. Mixed in to the somber mood of the crowd in downtown Duluth was hope — hope in the fact that the state granted its first posthumous pardon to Max Mason last week, the young black man who was falsely accused and convicted of the alleged rape that led to the lynchings.

At the memorial to remember the lives and death of Clayton, Jackson and McGhie, an attorney who fought for the pardon, challenged the crowd to “get in the way when you see an injustice.” “Let's all collectively declare that we are better than this. We deserve better," said attorney Jerry Blackwell.

“I watched police not do anything to save a man,” newly released 911 call transcripts detail Floyd arrest, killing.The 911 transcripts from two bystanders who called police were made public Monday. One is from a bystander who said an officer “pretty much just killed this guy that wasn't resisting arrest.” The other was from a person who works as a first responder, who said, “I literally have it on video … They killed him.”

Will distance learning continue next school year? State education officials on Monday said they would announce plans for the next academic year by the end of July. Among the three scenarios they’ve suggested: all in-person classes, 100 percent distance learning or a hybrid of both. Officials will give schools more guidance on planning for the three scenarios this week.

Here are the latest coronavirus statistics:

30,693 cases confirmed (230 new) via 422,922 tests

1,304 deaths (6 new)

3,630 cases requiring hospitalization

353 people remain hospitalized; 186 in intensive care

26,609 patients no longer needing isolation