To sitting in traffic. A new report finds americans lose about 88 billion each year stuck sitting behind other peoples taillights. Thats an average of 1,400 each. Those are some of our top stories on this monday, march 9th. Good morning, everybody. We hope you had a good weekend. Were sorry that you lost an hour but were glad you are here with us. We begin with new details about the coronavirus. The cruise ship thats been stuck off the coast of San Francisco with thousands of passengers and crew members on board will dock today in oakland. The 21 people who are infected will move to hospitals, the rest will be quarantined for two weeks. The outbreak is taking a toll on the stock market. Dow futures are down about 1,000 points. A likely rough start when trades begins later this morning. The tennis tournament scheduled to begin today at indian wells in Southern California has been canceled. It is the largest u. S. Sporting event so far to be called off over concerns about the spread of t
Isolation at two separate hospitals in San Francisco. Mayor london breed just spoke to the media and said her city has been prepared for this. I want to be clear that we have been planning this for weeks so we are prepared as a city. We want people to continue to do exactly what we have asked people to do and that is make sure that youre washing your hands and doing the things that are going to help to protect yourselves in the midst of what we know could continue to be a virus that spreads. We also just got an update on the cruise ship that is offshore still with thousands of passengers stranded on it, 35 passengers have shown flu like symptoms, many of them have recovered. Tests are being administered today to a select group of people, passengers and crew members. Medical experts are trying to figure out whir they may be disembarking. That location has yet to be determined. Two sisters have been slogging this entire experience. They are now on board the ship that is offshore in the p
70s going into the inland communities. I will be back with more and now, sal has your traffic. We have slow traffic on the Altamont Pass. On 205 and 580, we will look at the map so you can see the traffic will be slow. We have stop and go traffic before the Altamont Pass and better into livermore with no problems into oakland on 880 or at the bay bridge toll plaza, getting a backup and some of the cash lanes. At 4 31, back to the desk. Firefighters are looking to the cause of an overnight Apartment Fire on the peninsula with flames reported at about 2 30 this morning in a secondstory apartment on visitation avenue in brisbane. Firefighters had the fire out by 4 00 this morning on the red cross is helping those displaced. 4 31 and prosecutors are laying out their case in the trial of a man accused of killing a young woman at an oakland bart station. John lee cowell is accused of stabbing nia wilson to death and seriously injuring her sister. On the platform, two years ago, it happened a
Foggy in livermore at 42. In santa rosa, youre down to 39 degrees this morning. As we take you through your afternoon, 63 in San Francisco for a high. Okay, youll see high of 66. Low 70s for concord, livermore, as well as for san jose. 70 as you look ahead across parts of the north bay. We will talk of that coming up. House looking on the Richmond San Rafael bridge . We are getting reports of an accident. Chp enbridge crews did a good job clearing this out of the roadway. Just passed that area, we got a six car crash involved with the Richmond San Rafael bridge. Westbound direction. That is the ion pretty much to get all but one car off the span there. At one point, all lanes were blocked. At least one lane is now open. So traffic is moving through there, but it is a little bit slow. Just passed this area were youre seeing not a lot of trouble as you get towards the midspan area, thats where you see some brake light. Hopefully we will get that one last speedbump cleared out of the lane
About one mile visibility but a drop in novato and some patchy fog. Be careful if you are headed out with current temperatures showing a few spots in the 30s. Napa, they are dealing with fog and it is tough to warm up with 30s going on and 40s in berkeley and 50 in San Francisco. A quick look at the stormtracker with low clouds and we will see things get sunny and bright today with calm wind and looking pretty good. Looking at the forecast, 60 degrees at the coast and low 70s as we get inland. Talking about the extended forecast, we will talk about that in a bit. For now, over to sal. The commute has traffic moving along okay if you are driving on 80 westbound from crockett to hercules. No major problems on the benicia bridge heading to concord and the commute looks good toward the macarthur maze with a look at the Richmond Bridge having traffic off to a good start. 5 01 and back to the desk. Production is ramping up in San Francisco on the side of matrix 4 with crowds gathering over t