In napa and clear lake and weve seen cold temperatures elsewhere as well. Well continue to watch that as well as the fog. How is it looking for the commute . Things are changing right now. We do have that deadly crash at camino diablo. Fog registering in the south bay. The metering lights just turned on before 6 00. Quickly filled in all of these lanes right here and a bigger factor looking at the oakland camera with that fog. The low clouds creeping down across the nimitz, the peninsula, south bay and east bay. Stay with us. Well give you updates. Back to you. Thank you very much. We begin with the rising number of covid patients. Today in the bays Cierra Johnson live in San Francisco this morning monitoring the already overloaded hospitals. And i know state Health Leaders there are being very clear the next few weeks could be critical especially as we move into the winter months which could make things worse. Reporter weve been talking about that surge expected after thanksgiving and
Helping to mentor over 7,000 students welcome to december. Early today starts right now. Good morning. Im phillip mena. Glad youre with us im Frances Rivera the next few months could be devastating. More than 13. 5 million have been infected and fatalities have surpassed 258,000. Officials expect to see new infections spike in the next five to ten days new yorks Governor Andrew Cuomo called the covid the grinch as they prepare for new restrictions meanwhile california is on the brink of new stayathome orders about 75 of the states beds are occupied nbcs Miguel Almaguer has more. Reporter the end of the month marks the most dire month of the pandemic with a grim 35,000 fatalities. Now as tens of millions of americans return home from the holiday, the darkest days may be yet to come. As we go for the next couple of weeks in december, we might see a surge superimposed upon that surge were already in. Reporter expecting to see new infections spike in the next five to ten days, in states li
Ofodollar getting a bit traction. The dollar is going down. This is part and parcel of the yellen trade, which seems to be getting reaction now. It will be interesting to see how she works handinhand with the fed chair. Minutes,e last few crude went through 45. This is wti. We are backing off the little bit, but that line in the sand is the highest level we have seen since march 6, which gives you an idea of the turnaround we are seeing. The big question, is it running too far, too fast . Alix some analysts starting to scratch their heads a little bit, particularly as they look at the curve. President elect joe biden said to announce his selection of former fed chair janet yellen as secretary of the treasury. Joining us as michael mckee, Bloomberg International policy and economic correspondent. What about this appointment is giving confidence to the markets specifically . Theael janet yellen ticks most important box for investors, she makes them money. Take a look at what happened whe
The open this morning we will get really close again to 30000 on the dow. Heres another positive in all the transition from trump to biden has begun and investors like it, the dow was up 1 , 300 points, s p up three quarters in the nasdaq up close to half a percentage point, lots of green this morning and theres this, john kerry is back, the climate envoy and will sit on the National Security council, not good news for Americas Energy independence. Kerry will try to take us back into the paris climate record, but here is a guy taking us to the future, elon musk, yesterday as tesla stock rallied musk gained 7 billion in one day, he is worth 128 billion in the last week he surpassed Mark Zuckerberg and bill gates to become the second richest in the world, jeff bezos remains firmly in the number one spot. On todays show lets celebrate thanksgiving, the timing on the restrictions but resistance is growing, scott shalit he will join us from arizona hes part of the great exodus and will take
Flying into space theres always risk. I never knew another crisis. In their own words. Life on the front lines. Meet the icu nurses volunteering to fight covid19 far from home. People are running out of unemployment checks. And the biden team talks. The plan to fight the pandemic and bring our economy back. Announcer live from cnbc global headgaurs, the news with Shepard Smith the pandemic is spiringal out of control forcing cities and states to issue new initiatives to slow the spread the United States topped more than 11 million cases. Johns hopkins reports the latest million added in the past six days alone for context, mexico reported about a million cases since the pandemic began that means weve added mexicos total caseload in less than a week and the cases arent just surging. Theyre getting more severe. At least 26 states hit alltime highs for hospitalizations last week all the ones in red here thats from the covid tracking project. More than 1,100 americans die on average each d