Just how a soft and we are this morning. As we start to get closer to the lunchtime hour things will start to move and we will be opening up to a lot of sunshine for yourself a zone east bay and much of the north bay leaving all that fog hugging a lot of our coastal spots. Temperatures outside right now 50s 60s but im tracking some warm ones in some neighborhoods coming up this afternoon. I will have my full forecast in just a few minutes back to the news. Thanks a lot, lets get to the big story which is california surpassing another terrible milestone in a pandemic a 197 deaths yesterday the highest singleday total and now some doctors say the u. S. May need to hit the reset button altogether in its response to the pandemic. Whitney wild explains. It is time to reset medical experts at Johns Hopkins releasing a new report wednesday titled resetting our response urging the United States to reset its response with policy actions at the federal state and local level to get control of the
New effort to learn once and for all if there was ever life on the red planet. And final farewell. Congressman john lewis will be laid to rest in atlanta today in a ceremony attended by three former president s. Hear lewis final message to america in a new essay released this morning. Its powerful. But first, heres todays eye opener. Its your world in 90 seconds. This is the fastest a vaccine has ever been developed. Together we will end the plague from china. We will defeat the virus. The National Death toll from the coronavirus has now passed 150,000. The president has also retweeted a tweet which said that you are misleading the american public. No, categorically, i have not misled the american public. Congressman Louie Gohmert tested positive for covid19 and he had contact with william barr without his mask. I might have put some of the virus onto the mask and breathed it in. Big tech giants testified on capitol hill on a heated hearing about whether they have too much power. Big t
So far police have not said if theyre looking for a possible suspect. Im at the live news desk tracking reaction from a very bold tweet from the president this morning taking a live look from the white house. The president is suggesting we postpone the elections this year about voter fraud. He tweeted universal mail in voting is good. Referring to undermining the election process and the u. S. Postal service that deals with the mail in ballots. Michelle. Anne, thank you. The stock market is down thanks to grim new economic reports now taking a look at big board and the dow is down about 230 points. And on capital hill, negotiations over a new bill to stabilize the economy amid the pandemic have stalled. Skyler henry has the latest from washington. Coronavirus shut downs across the country led to the worst Quarterly Economic report ever recorded. Second quarter u. S. Gross domestic product plunged a record 32. 9 . If we go back to the great recession, i think our worst quarter was down
Employees who have been out of work now for months. The Second Quarter Gross Domestic Product plummeted 32. 9 between april and june. Thats almost a full third and its the sharpest decline we have seen in u. S. History. The drop in gdp is nearly 4 times worse than it was at the peak of the financial crisis in the Fourth Quarter of 2008 the previous record was 10 in the First Quarter of 1958. Turning over to the stock market and see how stocks are reacting to this dire news. The dow jones is down by almost 200 points, just a little bit more than that right now. S p is suffering a loss of not quite one half of 1 . The nasdaq is the only right spot if you count the addition of 52 points. Nasdaq is up by one half of 1 . You can see stocks mostly regained their footing after a very steep drop at the opening bell and after we got that labor news. Californias jobless claims were down last week despite a nationwide increase. Our state reported 249,000 workers filed firsttime claims during the
Mallicoat. Lets have a check on your bay area whether, and it might be a great start to the day for some folks, but we shouldup, yesterd good morning. As you mentioned, it is another great one along the coast, and inside the bay as we can to the afternoon. Temperatures are going to be right about where they should be this time of year. We are looking at seasonal temperatures. 60s opposed, 70s and 80s around the bay. A few low 90s expected inland. Temperatures take a dip tomorrow and then back up slightly on tuesday to fall again. Better details on the Current Conditions and the rest of today and thfocast coming up. Four thanks, rosemary. Its been two months since00 pe the south streets of last night in the citys latest march and rally in support of the black lives Matter Movement. Demonstration included members of the bay area all of moms who put wore bright yellow shirts and carried piece sense. Group leaders came to act as human barriers to protect the demonstrators and they say they