York city overwhelmed, today the u. S. Navy sailed the hospital ship comfort into new york harbor. And tonight that states governor is issuing a nationwide call to doctors and nurses to join what he calls the front lines of the war on the crisis. With the u. S. Still several weeks away from the peak of infections, he warned new york is a canary in the coal mine. And as we come on the air, there are already more than 160,000 confirmed cases here in the u. S. , more than 2,900 have died. There is also some movement. Tonight when it comes to testing. Abbott labs says next week it will roll out a diagnostic test with results in five minutes. Also, virginia, maryland, arizona, and tennessee issued new stayathome orders, joining 28 other states. That means three out of every four americans have now been told not to go out. All of that is leading to a sobering assessment from the Federal Reserve in st. Louis that as many as 47 million americans could be laid off in the coming months. Theres a
Meteorologist kari hall will let us know if that storm will bring a weekend washout. Plus, the new year will bring higher fares on b. A. R. T. Well break down how much more youre going to pay for your commute. And its going gaga for lady gaga. The New California popup store that the pop star just unveiled. Well show you whats in store. Today in the bay continues right now. Thanks for joining us on this soon to be rainy friday. Im kris sanchez in for laura garcia. Im marcus washington. The rain is coming our way, kari. The good thing is you have the morning and part of the afternoon to prepare for the rain. The fog is the issue right now and visibility in the trivalley and parts of the east bay cut down to about a quarter mile or less. In fact, thats a look at our dublin camera, wow, you can barely see anything. So just slow down as you make your way out the do are. Checking out storm ranger we are seeing dry conditions. Ill time it out for you, well go hour by hour coming up in a few m
Helping us track the system. Weav we have the latest. Rob . What we saw was unique when you look at the radar time lapse over my shoulder, from 2 00 to 3 00. You see the band of red, that dropped almost an inch of rain in an hour. You can take into account San Francisco, paved with the concrete and hills, that turned San Francisco into the canyon of concrete where the runoff heads to the lower elevations from 2 00 to 3 00 leading to the Flood Warning and standing water on the roads. The good news as you see, things have quieted down on the radar around San Francisco. Still busy from the eve bay hills toward the trivalley. And the heaviest rain right now is actually around the south bay, fremont, approaching san jose, poolalo alto, redwood cit. Ponding on the roads. Highway 17 a mess. Heavy rain continues to fall there. Notice in the north bay now, things have eased up a bit. The one flash it flood watch we still have up for the bay area includes the kinkaid fire burn scar and some of t
Ill look at the real cost of borrowing. Liverpooljust keep on winning in the premier league. They thumped everton 5 2 to win the Merseyside Derby at anfield, to push marco silva closer to the sack. And is your Christmas Tree up yet, and how environmentally friendly is it . I have come to a Christmas Tree farm in hertfordshire to find out. Weatherwise, a cold start but it is getting milder and wetter for many of you in the next 2a hours. I will be back with all the details on brea kfast. It is thursday 5 december. Our top story there is just one week to go until the general election, and the Political Parties are making a fresh push to win votes. This morning, the conservatives say they will cut taxes in their first 100 days in government, while labour have plans to recruit more teachers. Here to tell us more is our Political Correspondent tom barton. So time, there are more announcements being made, withjust one week to go tom. Announcements being made, withjust one week to go tom. Abs
That will roll through g koi p high winds and heavy arriving going into thee into the rest of the bay area by tonight and during that time, were looking at waves of rain, just off and on, even into tomorrow, were still going to see some scattered showers moving through. So ill talk more about how much were going to see, mike, youve got the info on those crashes youre tracking. I do but also your radar shows the amber waves of rain, i think thats not the national anthem. Were looking at a smooth drive. Amber on my map is fog. Well talk about that for contra costa in a second. The crash on 24 has cleared. That was an earlier crash at pleasant hill. This one is a crash clearing and it should be mostly out of the roadway but theres some damage i believe over on the shoulder and a distraction and perhaps one lane blocked as you exit the skyway. Were going to keep tracking that. The peninsula is fine. The crash in san mateo should be off the iverre valley, be careful because of the fog and t