Coast. Sal is here. We had an issue earlier but that got resolved. We see the traffic beginning to slow. We will see that the traffic is backed up at the toll plaza on 880 and it is also slow this hayward as you start to head south towards froa month. 101 in san jose is okay. Lets go back to the desk. The latest United States case of coronavirus is really close to home and its the first of its kind. Officials at the cdc said they do not know how the patient who is from Solano County, picked up the infection. We are at the Solano Health department to learn why there was a delay in testing that particular person. Reporter good morning. On wednesday of last week that patient was transferred from Solano County to the uc davis county medical center. Nirly they did not test for the coronavirus because the patient did not fit the profile for travel. He had no travel history connected to china or known exposure to someone who was sick, the cdc tested sunday and the cause was confirmed. It is the first case of Community Transmission in the United States, the patient is being treated at uc davis, bringing the number of confirmed cases to 15 here. There is a lot that is not known about how long the virus can exist outside of the human body. And screening people is difficult. The problem is, people are not sick but they are carriers. So there is almost no way for you to see which ones really are effected. Reporter the cdc is tracing the effected patients contacts in northern california. That persons name and address will not be released for privacy reasons. But the cdc said that the risk to the public remains low. The United States and south korea have decided to postpone their joint military exercises because of the coronavirus infection, south korea has 1200 confirmed cases including one American Service member. They have restricted their enlisted troops from leaving their military bases. Saudi arabia has placed an ban on travelers from some countries that have cases of the coronavirus from making pilgrimages to mecca and medina. Saudi arabian Officials Say that the ban is temporary but they have not said when it will be lifted or which countries are on the list, so far saudi arabia has no causes of confirmed coronavirus. Japan is closing schools nationwide to stop the spread of the coronavirus. The Prime Minister wants all elementary middle and high schools will be closed until the spring holidays start in late march. There is growing concern about untraceable cases in northern japan and elsewhere. Japan has 900 cases including 700 interest a quarantined cruise ship. Japans professional Baseball League is making changes. When the oakland as played in the pre season the ballparks were packed but now all of the remaining pre season games will be played in front of empty seats. Japans top Soccer League canceled all matches until march 15th. They wanted to see how the Health Concerns were playing out. Five deaths in japan have been connected to the coronavirus infection. Along with watching and getting information on ktvu fox 2 news we are following all of the developments on our website, ktvu. Com. You can find all of the new information right there on our home page. Today the bart board of directors is discussing plans to open a new station between fremont and warm springs, we have information on where and when the stayses may open. Reporter we are looking at the year 2026 at the earliest. Already this morning this station is busy. We see people going inside and the trains and the parking lot is already full. What if bart riders had another station to go to. The board of directors will discuss that possibility. They want to start to build an additional fremont bart station. The ir, station has been under consideration since town three. Six years ago Alameda County voters approved the project with a bond measure. Barts board will decide whether to allocate 2 million to finish steining the station. Bart could break grouped on the station in august of to 022, two and a half years from now, the project is expected to cost 205 million. This is allie rasmus, ktvu fox 2 news. San Francisco Mayor london breed will be in the bay area district today where a man was beaten and robbed. Video shows a man swinging a metal pole at the man as he was collecting cans and bottles. Then two private Security Officers appear to be telling the victim to leave after he was robbed and the other man takes the recyclables. A high school in oakland will be closed until at least march ninth while officials test for signs of chemical contamination on the school campus. People at the meeting at the west Oakland Senior Center got an update. So far the tests have not found evidence of the chemical in the area. The people at the meeting were frustrated. They say west oakland has been a toxic domping ground waiting for clean up. We appear today that we want to be accountable for what we can do today Going Forward to heal some injuries of the past. There are dozens of leaking underground storage tanks in west oakland. They were used for industrial purposes in the past. While the high school is closed, the students are going to classes at other schools in the district. Lets check in with sal. We are keeping an on on the commute. We are doing a wide sweep of the bay area. You can see traffic in the north bay is doing okay if you are driving on the Golden Gate Bridge heading south. Santa rosa, that commute looks good all the way to marin county. Highway 29 getting out of American Canyon heading to napa, there is a crash and traffic is slow on 12 and 29. We are also looking at the rest of the bay ps. You you can see that the bay bridge toll plaza is okay. 88088 is okay. Two aictd looks all right. Lets bring in steve with the weather. The problem with highway 29 is the stoplights. You cannot make any time. Right now there is a crash so its going to be worse. Record highs possible again today. You have to get out of napa by 2 30 or you are in trouble. Oakland airport. We are coming close to a record today. Sfo and san jose, you are looking at setting a record today. Its going to be close again. Our winter dry stretch continues, we are at 30 days and quowpting. If we do not get any rain this weekend, the next possibility is march ninth. Thats with the gfs so good luck with that. Crescent city has had a bit of rain, san diego had a bit the rain. Other than that, not a drop. Arizona could get rain monday. South lake tahoe there could be a bit of snow sunday morning although they are backing off on that. But after that not much. Fog is there. Water temperatures are cold, 51 to 53. We just need a west or southwest wind. Right now 30s to 50s on the peninsula. 41 in woodside. Palo alto 42, 22 in lake tahoe, 43 in las vegas, 38 in redding. The rain does not have a chance. Tomorrow the fog will start to work its way back. The clearing by the coast today. Tomorrow we start the trend of seeing the temperatures coming down. Its cooler over the weekend. The coast, 67 degrees today. We are cooler by the coast. Cloudy and cooler saturday and sunday. Thank you. Time is 6 11. People around the state continuing to play for a possible outbreak of the coronavirus, why San Francisco could get hit especially hard if there is an outbreak. Plus, pet birds are being dumped in one bay area city. Animal control officers tell us what they are seeing coming up. We have more coming up on ktvu news right after the break vo he had already taken the giving pledge to give his money to charity, when this californian walked away from his billion Dollar Company for good. He drives a chevy volt, flies commercial, and spends his days building grassroots campaigns for social and environmental justice. Why . Tom steyer believes every child deserves the same opportunities as his. A healthy planet. Good schools. Quality healthcare, living wage jobs, and life without fear of discrimination. Tom im tom steyer and i approve this message. A preuery in milwaukee will be closed today after a gunman killed five people and then himself at the molson coors complex. The shooter was a former employee at the brewery, he was around with two hand guns. His shift had just ended when he started shooting. There were five individuals who wept to work today. They thought they were going to go to work, finish their day and return to their families. They didnt. And tragically they never will. The ceo said that the complex will be should down for several days. A federal judge ruled that a safe injection site can open in philadelphia despite federal prosecutors who say they are breaking the law. Supporters say that it will help prevent Overdose Deaths and limit the spread of diseases. The United StatesAttorneys Office plans to appeal the ruling. Today san Francisco Mayor london breed will be joining legislators to create San Franciscos first Overdose Prevention program. The legislation would grant a permit to create a safe unjeks site after Overdose Deaths doubled in 2019. In San Franciscos castro district, the homeless crisis is hurting the naked, according to the people who live there. They said that the situation is so bad that many tourists see the homeless and they just turn around and leave the castro. The thing that is most distressing is the obvious psychological problems and when people are acting out. Officials in the castro said that they are doing what they can with ed castro cares, they they want to see more Police Officer and specific legislation to discourage people from sleeping on the sidewalk. Animal control in San Francisco is telling people do not dump your Domestic Animals in nature. 27 birds were turned in last weekend after being left at local parks. Dumping animals can result in a fine and possible jail time. The animals have no experience living in the wild and they can become a danger to local ecosystems. The boy scouts may have to sell off their famous paintings to paw off lawsuits in a sex abuse scandal. Rockwell created hundreds of works of art for the boy scouts dating back to 1912 and spanning the next 64 years, selling the assets could bring in a lot of money. The sale would be part of the bankruptcy agreement that the boy scouts recently filed. Lets check in with sal. We have a number of eagle scouts here at channel two. Frank and our producer eri thrks. I was a boy south. I was a girl south. I was not, i feel out of the club. We still have that problem in American Canyon in napa, right on the border. Its on 29 just after how 12. Its causing a huge delay, highway 12, i do not try it. Thats just terrible traffic. Give yourself plenty of time. You know its going to take someone by surprise. Lets talk about the east shore. There is some slowing there. Not a lot of slowing this contra costa yet. If you are driving on interstate 880 it looks all right so does 580 and the sap ma day oa, san mateo bridge. Lets check this out. Do you like my socks, it is a boring month for weather. We will embrace the record highs which are possible today. Oakland airport sets a record again today i think. Stockton was 79 yesterday for a record high. The city is before average by 9 degrees, san jose, 77 today. The record is 79 in 1992. A few high clouds trying to come out. The fog is there. If not for the north east breeze the fog ob would be flying in. 30s and 40s in the temperatures. Upper 40s in santa clara and san jose state. South san jose, 40 degrees, gilroy, 44, las vegas, 43, san diego, 52, higher clouds coming in from the west southwest but they fall apart when they run into resistance from the upper atmosphere. The fog just needs a little help. It will get it tomorrow for the coast. We have a big drop in the temperatures this weekend. 67 degrees in morgan hill. Gilroy 81, cloudy and cooler saturday then windy sunday and temperatures rebound next weekend. Thank you steve. There is a massive need for foster families in San Francisco. What it takes to help a child in need and where the kids are going as they wait for a family. Apple has strict rules on who can and cannot use his products in movies. Vo while other candidates argue about health care, Mike Bloomberg has a record of doing something. As mayor, he protected womens reproductive rights. 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Starting today jet blue will not charge fees for canceling or changing bookings so customers have confidence making travel arrangements before the coronavirus. A hollywood director is revealing inside information. In recent interviews, the director of star wars said movie villains will never be seen being used by a villain. We are just a few days away from primary voting in california. The efforts di democratic president dem hopefuls to win your vote. We are seeing record high temperatures across the bay area. The springlike weather today even though its still technically winter. Speaking of winter, do you remember last year, it was buried in tahoe, now there is no snow on the roads and none in tahoe. You are watching mornings on 2. Tom steyer will beat donald trump on the economy. His people over profits plan makes a living wage a right. Creates thousands of good paying green jobs in california. And provides a 10 tax cut for everyone making under 250,000. Toms plan also makes health care a right, by adding a public option to obamacare. Protects union negotiated plans. And ensures californians can make their own health care choices. Im tom steyer and i approve this message. From ktvu fox 2 news, this is mornings on 2. Good morning, there is the opening bell this morning on the new york stock exchange. Look for another down day with the dow set to drop about 400 points. Wow. Microsoft will not meet expected revenue targets of the its the latest company to blame the impact of the coronavirus on its supply chain. Again, the dow is set to drop 400 points. The s p and nasdaq are lower as well. We will have the numbers coming up. Thank you for joininit is thursday, february 27th. We are cabbing the traffic with sal. Good morning dave and pam. We have that problem in the American Canyon area. This is going to Effect People because people usually are coming the other way, this is in the commuting direction. Going this way is usually not an issue but look at highway 12. I would not use that right now. Also we are looking at kro costa county. We have slow traffic there. Highway to four looks good. We take a look at some of the other east bay commutes. Yesterday was a very warm day, in fact a couple of locations, like the Santa Santa Clara valley hit 80 degrees, gill gilroy was 81. Possible records for oakland, santa rosa and san jose. The forecast high is 77, the record is 79 degrees. My thursday just got better because christina is in san jose talking about the warm springlike temperatures. Reporter good morning steve. You are too kind. We are in downtown san jose, you mentioned the 77degree temperature high today. Its cool this morning but i am not wearing a jacket which is unusual for me. Its usually cold every morning. We have blue skies out here today. Its warm and dry. We really need the rain but if you are out you may as well enjoy the weather. State officials are concerned about this warm dry month. They are concerned that we are heading into the possibility of another drought. Just this morning they said a quarter of the state is considered to be in a drought. They are also concerned about an early and more intense wild fire season. This rain free february is shaping up to be the driest on record for much of the state. In the meantime people in the south bay are trying to enjoy the blue skies. I live in ohio and the weather is cold in february but here the weather is very nice, very warm. Reporter look at how dry february has been. This map shows the average rainfall across the state. The red indicates the areas with the least amount of rain. That includes the bay area and northern california. Southern california has had the most rain so far. Warm temperatures across the board today. We will be bringing more information about the drought that was just released by federal officials in the last hour. We have more on that coming up in the next hour. Thank you. The first United States case of the coronavirus is spreading without travel to an infected location or contact with a coronavirus patient is confirmed. The patient is from Solano County but officials are not telling us anything else. That has other People Living in Solano County worried. I would like to know if there is anyone diagnosed with the disease living in my town. That is very serious. It took the cdc 4 days to test the patient for coronavirus because the patient did not have travel or contact links. Public Health Officials said they do not know how long the virus can exist outside of the human body. And not everyone who has the virus is showing symptoms. Its a problem. People are not sick but they are carriers. So there is almost no way for you to see which people are effected. The cdc said its tracing the Community Contacts of the new patient and said that the health risk to the public is low but they are not giving us new other information right now. With at that confirmed case in Solano County there are 60 confirmed coronavirus cases in the United States. 14 cases involve travel to china or close contact with travelers this china. 42 cases are linked to the diamond prip ses cruise ship in japan and there are three cases from wuhan china where the coronavirus started. Bay area hospitals are preparing in case there is a large outbreak of coronavirus. A local hospital has a total of 48 insolation rooms and there is a room set up for children and another for babies, the hospital said it could ham a large number of patients if necessary. Emergency plans to use spaces in the hospital in different ways than we normally would. Triage and probably carrying for the sickest patients and whether there are people well enough that they could be cared for at home. The doctor said that the best way to prevent an infection is to wash your hands frequently. Anyone who is sick should wear a mask and stay out of Public Places but they added do not count on the mask offering complete protection from becoming feked. The cdc has its own guidelines but one of those could be hard for some people in the pay area. It says that if anyone in your home becomes ill they should be moved to a separate bedroom. In the bay area with the high cost of housing many people do not have a separate bedroom. We are following of the coronavirus developments on our website, ktvu. Com. You can find all of the latest information right there on our home page. Happening today, the two men at the center of a public Corruption Scandal in San Francisco are teu back in court. The former San Francisco public works director and a Restaurant Owner were arrested last month charged with fraud. They are accused of trying to bribe a San Francisco airport commissioner to get space for a restaurant at sfo, the hearing is to set a date for for a preliminary hearing. California Highway Patrol is looking for a driver who led them on a dangerous chase through three counties overnight. The driver did not stop and instead drove away at speeds of 130 Miles Per Hour on south bound 101. They went down the east shore freeway to the mack macarthur maze. I was cruising to work and i i saw the headlights and i thought how fast am i going . I could not see the car that they were chases because they did not have the lights on. It just blew past you is it. 100 Miles Per Hour plus. I just moved out to the right and said will let it go through. I am amazed that there was not a huge accident. I am glad you are okay. Pam and dave, we have the north bay here. Its an uneventful commute. Lets go up to American Canyon. Driving into napa today is a chore because of a crash north of highway 12 on 29. If you are driving on highway 12 away from 80 you are going to be in for a huge surprise heading that way because of the crash that is clearing. Its going to be a while before this gets back to normal. Lets talk about contra costa county. That looks more normal. Highway 24 over to the tum and at the bay bridge these are normal looking commutes. South bay a slow down approach Mountain View because of the crash near 101. Heres steve with todays weather. Thank you, sal. The Half Moon Bay airport is not reporting data any more. I wrote the folks at the National Weather service and they said the site is maintained by the faa. If you fly into this maybe you can get a status report on when the weather station will be fixed. 30s and 40s on the temperatures. 50 fewer in the city. Our dry pattern is stuck. We have had systems going to the pacific northwest. That has been a wind producer. They split into Southern California and go off the coast. That is what is going to happen this weekend. We had rain in San Francisco last on january 28th. You sigh the fog out there. Its trying. Water temperatures are cold. 22 in lake tahoe. Redding, 38. 52 in monterey. Our highs are just way above average here. That trend will continue. I brought it down a tiny bit for some on the coast and San Francisco because of the north east breeze that is in place. But we will be hard pressed to see any change except on the immediate coast. The warm pattern continues for another day. The fog is going to get help interest a system in the pacific moart west friday and saturday. Until then 60s and upper 70s to 80 degrees for morgan hill. Livermore 77. Cooler in pacifica and Half Moon Bay, the fog creeps back saturday and sunday. Look out, something new is air bitting earth. What astronomers discovered that they are calling a new moon. Plus some of the major obstacles renters face in buying a home in the area and the new organization trying to help. Lets see what is coming up on the 7 00 hour. Had. We are going to start in las vegas, we will detail the real estate move that the team just made that makes flipping a house look like child play. Also we recap last nights episode of the masked singer. No spoilers here but we are going to reveal who it is during our 7 00 hour. Plus we are shedding light on how the identities of the singers are guarded we choose to go to the moon in this decade and do the other things, not because they are easy, but because they are hard. President kennedy knew settling for halfmeasures wasnt good enough. So when candidates say we cant guarantee health care for all, make College Affordable for all, combat climate change, or create a world at peace, remember that america is best when we strive to do big things, even when its hard. Im Bernie Sanders and i approve this message. Welcome back to mornings on 2. The coronavirus continues to drive stocks around the world down. Heres a live look at the dow. Down 500 points right now. 2 . The dow was 29,000 at the beginning of the week. The nasdaq is also down more than 2 . The s p also down this morning, about 2 . Its barely hanging on to the 3,000 level. Companies are expecting a significant dip in revenue because of supply chain disruption. We have heard a number of companies talk about this in their earnings report. A new poll commissioned by ktvu fox 2 news has Bernie Sanders with a commanding lead in california with 30 sphep percent followed by elizabeth warren, joe biden, Pete Buttigieg and michael bloomberg. Several democratic president ial candidates will be in the bay area this weekend going for votes ahead of super tuesday. Today in San Francisco michael bloom bergs long term partner will be in town. Tomorrow joe bide epis wife will be in San Francisco. Tulsi gabbard will also be in the bay area. Sunday Bernie Sanders will host a rally in san jose. Joe beud epiwilljoe biden will be in california on super tuesday, california is one of seven states with big latino populations, they make up half of the democratic delts up for grabs. There is a myth that latino voters only care about immigration, we also care about income inequality, healthcare, opportunities and education for all. Now the San FranciscoLatino Democratic Club endorsed Bernie Sanders. Just like nevada, latino voters in california appear to be supporting Bernie Sanders. Stay right here with us at ktvu fox 2 news for complete coverage of super tuesday at a national and local level. On mornings on 2 we will preview some of the most important races and later in the day, the latest results beginning at 4 00 p. M. And continuing for the next seven and a half hours on ktvu fox 2 news and ktvu fox 2 news plus. The murder trial against two bay area men in italy will resume on march ninth. The men are accused of killing an italian Police Officer last july in what is described as a drug deal gone bad. They have been in rome in jail for months. They are accused of stabbing a plain clothes Police Officer. They claimed that they thought they were being attacked by drug dealers and acted out of self defense. The Italian Court system, its almost as if there was a presumption of guilt and it is more of a Fact Finding Mission to find the evidence to convict the suspects. Both men are also charged with extortion related to the drug deal. If found guilty on the murder charge they could be sentenced to life in prison. The housing shortage is one hurdle facing bay area renters. Move in costs are more than 4,000 and after more than fighter years of helping families, an Outreach Mission is itself this need of financial help. Their funding has been drained as they tried to find permanent housing for a family of six. We have is to raise what people are making and we have to get people trained into higher wage jobs or get them some basic income subsidy. Housing support groups in the south bay say with rents still rising new policies are needed to put in place to keep people in their homes. San francisco has launched a campaign to keep hundreds of children in the city. 500 children in the citys Foster Program are waiting to be placed in permanent homes. Half of them live 100 miles or more from their friends, schools and families. Officials are advertising for foster families on social media sites and on the sides of buses. If they had 100 more foft foster families, they could keep the kids in the city. We are keeping an eye on wall street. The dow has dropped 600 points. I am going to talk about some warnings from Goldman Sachs about corporate earnings coming up. Its interesting, you are talking and the ticker is going up and down. Good morning everyone, lets look at something that is not very good on the traffic scene. That is 29 heading up to napa. You probably should not use 29 if you are heading up to napa because of a long standing crash just after highway 12 on 29. Highway 12 is backed up to 80. If you drive in napa, maybe you should come up 101 and use 37 to 121. Right now you are in for a lot of slow traffic. Contra costa traffic looks okay. 24 doing fine. At the toll plaza it looks like a normal commute. Santa cruz mountains north bound 17 at the glenwood cut off, there is a crash here. Scots valley people, do you go when this happens, let me know. Lets go to steve. Sal, the first time that i saw the ticker i was watching it. I would not believe it but that was a long time ago. All right lets get going. The rainfall numbers are not so good. All right not much rain statewide. We are just not there. The projections do not look good. Maybe a bit of rain in the sierras but also in Southern California but not here. It looks like another driveway pattern for us going into the weekend then there is nothing until the ninth of march. We have 30s, 40s and 50s on the temperatures. 47 in American Canyon and vallejo. 52 in monterey, south lake tahoe, 22. There is no fog. Just a few high clouds coming through. Temperatures will start to ease up tomorrow and then take a tumble as we go into the weekend. Unfortunately it does not look like there is any rain, we are near 80 in morgan hill and gilroy. Cooler weather is on the way for the weekend. All right steve. A bay Area Environmental group is suing 10 of the worlds biggest food product makers, they are accusing Companies Like cocacola. If you use uber or lyft you may be at risk of luring an unwelcome guest into your house. Also what exterminators are saying about the ride share bed bug problem and which city has the worst problem with bed bugs. You are living in one of the culinary hot spots in america. We tell you how bay area restaurants are being recognized for all of the food and drinks that we have. But right now you want to take you outside. As the music comes on we are looking inside Yosemite National park. This is a live picture of the yosemite falls. Just beautiful down the side of the mountain. Its a bit of a trickle though. You are watching mornings on 2 on ktvu fox 2 news vo while other candidates argue about health care, Mike Bloomberg has a record of doing something. As mayor, he protected womens reproductive rights. Expanded Health Coverage to 700,000 new yorkers. And decreased infantmortality rates to historic lows. As president , hell build on obamacare, cap medical costs, and will always protect a womans right to choose. Mike bloomberg a record on Health Care Nobody can argue about. Mike im Mike Bloomberg and i approve this message. To give his money to charity, giving pledge when this californian walked away from his billion Dollar Company for good. He drives a chevy volt, flies commercial, and spends his days building grassroots campaigns for social and environmental justice. Why . Tom steyer believes every child deserves the same opportunities as his. A healthy planet. Good schools. Quality healthcare, living wage jobs, and life without fear of discrimination. Tom im tom steyer and i approve this message