The pandemic. Oil producing countries reach a deal to cut production in an effort to offset the global drop in demand and prices. Millions more people are being added to the queues of americas jobless as the wider effects of the coronavirus become clear another 6600000. 00 claimed unemployment benefit last week alone that takes the total to nearly 17000000 people in the past 3 weeks and there is fear the rate could rise to numbers not seen since the end of the Great Depression in some cities drive ins have been created for people to collect unemployment for john hendren has more from chicago. The president came out saying that the u. S. Was at the top of the hill when it comes to the coronavirus and in some cases going downward but thats not the case when it comes to the economy of and of course thats a lagging indicator here 6600000 new jobless claims 17000000 over the past 4 weeks out of work and filing new jobless claims and an Unemployment Rate of 12 to 13 percent thats a level not
It will be a pretty wet day. Good morning. Good morning. Yes, sitting here looking outside, it doesnt look bad but the rain is coming. I know we are watching that. Also anchoring at home this morning with a look at the forecast, good morning rosemary. Good morning. Youre right, the rain is on the way. Its actually moving into areas of the north bay as we speak. We have a look at whats going on outside at this time. We have rain moving in and its not going to go away. A live look over oakland where its a mostly cloudy start. Many locations are still not seeing the rain just yet. We are showing you where its beginning to move in, areas over the bay and the north bay coastline, seeing this all the way down to the inverness area. Santarosa, just the north edge of you, and farther to the east, we have some there. Getting into your bay area saturday and sunday, it will be breezy, cool and cloudy and its going to be rainy. We are looking at anywhere from a half inch to an inch for most urban
City stuck at 52. Morning low clouds and partly sunny, mostly cloudy and weak systems are staying to the north and theyre not going to make much of a move till maybe this upcoming weekend. On shore breeze or south wind in place and low clouds and not much of a storm track and the rain line and itll stay there till we get to the weekend and 60s on the temps for most and near average to slightly above and well get there till about wednesday and thursday as temperatures bump up a bit. Back to you guys. All right, steve, thank you very much. We have traffic very light and please dont speed. Chp has been issuing a lot of citations and Public Transit systems going outside and take muni metro, it wont be a train but a bus. We have more of that coming up and cal train reduced service by more than half on its lines but really there are no real backups or delays on the services. Now back to the desk. Thank you, sal. Time is 7 02 and the bay area shelter in place order is due to expire a week fro
Lockdown. Shes older, has a lung problem. Nations as they tart to implement these blanket one quarter of italys this is the advice the government is giving out. Closures, blanket restrictions savannah. Population in quarantine. Richard engel, thank you so experts say if you have ongoing unprecedented move causing some problems, avoid mass crowds, much such a huge splash effect. Avoid where you cant get social to try to flee the country over. Distance, you dont want to travel. Concern, but Everything Else the latest on the global impact. State Department Said americans in general shouldnt travel that follows on. Cruise ships, especially with Underlying Health problems, same actually in our next half hour, Bernie Sanders faces key for long flights. Tests. Weve got our coronavirus team, vicki nguyen, our consumer joe biden with new endorsements. Double think what youre doing correspondent. With Health Issues in particular. And just ahead, former mayor youve asked a lot of questions, Pete
And the world and that means anxiety as much as the covered 900. 00 virus itself staff at the worlds most Famous Museum the louvre in paris shut it down for 3 days this week demanding better protection against the virus tourists went to news to there isnt a place in the world that its not going to get to you and you cant just shut down the world and you can though shut down parts of it battling europes most prolific outbreak so far italy will close all schools and universities until mid march in an effort to stem the tide of infections and a rising death toll japan did the same last week and france has also ordered the closure of some schools affecting an estimated 35000 pupils. As dramatic for some italys decision to hold all sporting fixtures in empty stadiums spain has done so to life across the globe is changing fast the World Health Organization continues to stress the importance of containment in places with few infections in the hope of delaying the spread of the disease and to