Hello and welcome to nhk newsline. Im Yoshi Ogasawara in tokyo. We start this hour in new york where the United Nations is canceling all inperson General Assembly Committee Meetings scheduled for tuesday. It comes after five people of a mission of a member state tested positive for the coronavirus. Its not immediately clear which member state is involved but the u. N. Said it is conducting contact tracing. The cancelations likely mean the Committee Vote on a japansponsored resolution to abolish Nuclear Weapons will be postponed. Most u. N. Staff that operate out of the new york headquarters have been working remotely since march. But more people have been returning to the office since july. Meanwhile, a top official at the World Health Organization is expressing concern about the latest surge of infections sweeping across europe. We are seeing very, very high positivity rates and an increasing lack of capacity to do any effective form of contact tracing. The two countries with the high
They dont seem sure about where to begin. The Police Officers Association Says its officers are looking for a new chapter for the city and the department we see it as an opportunity move the department forward in a new direction, Philip Hoffman is a Union Representative says officers are on board with modern policing policies that would improve the department they position us as somehow an impediment to change and reform and to the contrary. We have reached out on numerous occasions to get the ball rolling on these reforms offices of recommendations from 2 City Commission studies are on the table. But so far none of them have been implemented. He says as crime rises across the city, the biggest need right now more officers on the streets. The department though has been plagued with several scandals in controversial shootings in recent years in just the last 6 months the department has faced the shooting death of Sean Monterrosa an investigation that was launched after evidence in that
Good air quality returning much like yesterday all across the region were off to a mild start right now with some 60s oakland at 66 san jose in pittsburgh at 67, San Francisco right now one of our cooler spots. Right at 60 degrees talking more about what to expect today still to come robin. All right, thank you john lets check in on the commute now the backup at the bay bridge toll plaza is growing it spilling beyond the atb overcrossing its all the way out to west grand. So it has reached that point words pretty packed coming in, but you wont run into any problems right now so no crashes no stalls just the fog thats the issue Poor Visibility here from the maze right through the pay gates and as we said before you got any the headlights in the wiper so just be careful dont follow anyone to closely space yourself out when youre dealing with dense fog like this here on 92 are looking good busy but not bad 13 minutes to the peninsula. And just a really quick peak at one oh one theres a st
Are still wrapping up a car fire that sparked excuse me a crash that sparked a car fire. Its just off the nimitz freeway the hakan burger offramp from 80 south. Its still close. This is video from the citizen app that shows us exactly whats going on you see that van right there it crashed and caught fire the driver was trapped inside. This is happening right at that hagan burger overcrossing that goes over the nimitz freeway so its not on the freeway, its at the top of the offramp thats why they close it, which means he will not be able to use it you need to dump off early at 66 or past the continue up to 98th avenue, but theyve issued a Traffic Alert for this and its crawling right now from high street leading up to the give you one more san jose north want to tolley injury crash blocking your drive time on the rise but not bad 31 minutes to menlo park and well check in on the bay bridge coming up in a bit darya james is 9 oh one and the breaking news from overnight weve been covering
Theyre coming from an offshore directions so their go will be problematic a little bit later on in the forecast period. Temperatures thus far midfifties lining up the east bay shoreline and 50s in fact all over the bay area except for 63 coming in for antioch so here it is in Solano County thats the area thats directly impacted with the red flag warning but were looking at dry conditions all throughout the east bay in somef the north bay which were going to be showing you later on for today, the breakdown 74 by 10 00am by 1 oclock 85. Still some inland areas could be looking at highs today in the 90s more so for tomorrow back to you. All right, thank you dave. Now to a developing story that were following for you this morning, 4 people are dead after their car went off the car keenness bridge. Kron fours reyna harvey is live near the car came as bridge with more this morning, rain and the sounds like just a horrific crash. Robin its absolutely tragic, especially when you learned just h