Thats right. We took a look at 2020 and thought you know what might reduce our stress . A newborn baby. You know what the world needs right now . More people hey, speaking of big babies, did you hear the tape of the president saying he intentionally tried to downplay the virus even though he knew how serious it was . Well, here it is. Well, i think, bob, really, to be honest but. Sure, i want you to. I wanted to always play it down. I still like playing it down. Yes. Because i dont want to create a panic. Yes, hed like us to believe antifa is flying across the country to kill us with soup cans but does not want us to panic. By the way, thats not some leaked audio tape. Trump said that on the record to bob woodward who was writing a book about him. And he knew it my fouryearold is better at keeping secrets. Than the president. She knew we were pregnant for weeks before we announced it, and she didnt say a word to bob woodward. Trump also said that he knew the virus was airborne very ear
Right away, take a look. A black lives matter protest is under way in martin. Sky 7 overhead as we speak. Now, the city is tense after several racist incidents in recent weeks and police have been warning about the possibility of violent counterprotesters tonight. Good evening and thank you so much for joining us. Im dion lim. Im eric thomas. Issues of race and social justice are something were especially focused on here at abc 7 as part of ow efforts to build a better bay area. The protest started an hour ago and they plan to end up near the waterfront near the superior court building. Cornell barnard is there live right now. Cornell, how has it been so far . So far so good, eric. That group is braving extreme heat out here in martinez. They are on the move through the streets of downtown marching towards the waterfront. The black lives matter march started about 45 minutes ago. Several hundred people showed up and it quickly grew to several thousand. Within a couple minutes there was
Accuweather, and its a minimal threat and that will be the theme as we go throughout the day today. We are tracking an isolated shower throughout the afternoon, and live doppler 7 showing you in the east bay, we have been seeing one shower around fremont slowly moving off to the south and east and its moving at 15 miles per hour, so around 6 31 a. M. Near milpitas, and around mt. Hamilton around 7 07. San jose camera right now, mostly cloudy skies. We will find on the day planner today an isolated chance of a shower in the afternoon, mainly in the hills, and temperatures in the 60s and 70s, guys. Drew, thank you. Sports fans have been hungry for their teams to come back as soon as possible and yesterday the governor gave a little bit of light, surprising a lot of us that he seems to be indicating that sports could come back a little faster than we expected. Julian glover is live with more on how the giants are reacting. We like these kind of surprises, right, that we are moving in the
This is abc7 news. Easter goes on in the bay area but with a much different tone this year as the pandemic has many celebrating virtual celebrations. There are more than 550,000 confirmed cases in the united states. Thats three times as many as the next highest country. Spain. More than 21,000 deaths have been reported in the u. S. Which is also the highest of any country. New york city alone is nearing 7,000. Italy has the second most deaths from the virus. Now, california is reporting just over 22,000 confirmed cases which is the sixth most in the u. S. Just behind massachusetts and pennsylvania. More than 600 people have died in the state from the virus. The greater bay area now has more than 5,000 confirmed cases of coronavirus. The count right now stands at 5,079. 140 people have died. Santa clara county has the most cases with more than 1,600. North of the bay area, both lake and mendocino counties report having four confirmed cases each. So far there are no reported deaths in ei
The Santa Clara Police chief released a video urging citizens to follow the shelter in place order and said plenty of office patrolling the community. We have extra patrols out there. A lot of Police Officers out roming the streets, looking for people who are trying to take advantage of everybody else. We will find you. We will arrest you. We will prosecute you. The chief also reiterated to only call 911 if its a true emergency. We just learned about a grim milestone in new york where now more than thousand people have died from coronavirus. And as abc reporter rachel scott explains, the president s plans to reopen the country by easter is put on hold. President trump and his Coronavirus Task force addressing the nation sunday afternoon as the number of confirmed cases of covid19 in declaring victory before the victory is won. Therefore we will be extending our guidelines to april 30th to slow the spread. Nearly 125,000 cases claiming more than 2100 lives, including the death of an inf