State of michigan and the Ford Motor Company by not wearing a mask as he pushes for things to return to normal. Thank you for joining us at 07 00am on this friday may 22nd, im James Fletcher and im darya folsom and were heading into memorial day weekend and Santa Clara County. Is heading into phase 2 of relaxing its restrictions for cod19 today allowing retailers to open for curbside pickup. Im really the last in the bay area to do this roll this out this relaxation also they were the worst hit in the bay and harvey standing by live in san jose with more on what we can expect coming out. Of the south bay today reyna. Good morning. A lot of progress being made out here and i want to show you the business behind me bella james a local boutique here they actually have signs it took a picture to show you what side they have at their establishment. So this one talks about wearing mask. Another sign over their talks about the importance of making sure that you call in so you can order they a
Cook. Thank you for joining us. We are glad that youre here with us. So many people are joining with us us, working from home, the roads are clear. We have a lot of good weather that is in store for writing your bike and walking, lets check in with steve. It is pretty nice today, it is not going to be that warm, next week it could be warm, as we look ahead, towards the weekend and early next week, patchy low clouds are around. When you get the low clouds it is tough to warm up too much. Santa rosa, 50s for everyone, livermore, napa, walnut creek, 78 degrees. These are pretty close to seasonal averages this time of year. Overall we are looking for the fog, san mateo, the low will be reinforced on friday, hi is on its way for the weekend and most of next week. 60s and 70s on the temperatures, your average is slightly above. Lets go over to sal and see if there is read on the maps. My guess is maybe not, but lets ask. I am looking at the commute, steve, and i see a little bit of slowing,
Golden gate park is 52, South Southwest breeze at 4 miles per hour, so a slight punch there. No big deal. On the san mateo coast, it is going to burn off to sunshine, 60s and 70s today. It will be a Beautiful Day in this ones comfort zone. And sal, anything with us going on . Youre right, it is in my comfort zone there, hoping to give you a nice look at the bay area commute if you have to go. Right now it looks all right if you are driving on the bay bridge i like the way it looks, with no major issues. Weve had a couple of construction closures, but traffic is relatively light out there. Its a little better than it has been the last few days of the week. Certainly people are out there. In fact there are more out there now in the eight or 10 weeks we have been in this pandemic than we were at the beginning, but its not stopping. Lets go back to the headlines. All right, sal, there is a new report that there are 5 million confirmed coronavirus cases around the world, according to resear
Rally yesterday dow futures are now down. Nasdaq futures lower by 64. Nasdaq up 190. Now this, former Vice President joe biden and the ukraine scandal back in the spotlight, an investigation Just Launched overseas after phone conversations between biden and then ukraine president are released. Meanwhile u. S. Senate taking a major senate in probe of Hunter Bidens role of Barisma Holdings and tesla tapping the brakes in battle with california, dropping the lawsuit after plant is allowed to open. Mornings with maria begins right now. And Global Markets this morning red cross the board, take a look at european indices as u. S. China tensions rise, the cac quarante is down 48 and dax index in germany lower by 174, there are sign that is the european economy is slowly coming back. The euro zone purchasing manager index coming above expectations this morning. In asia overnight, markets mostly lower. Take at the numbers in asia, worst performer half percent lower shanghai composite in china.
Last week. That means 38. 9 Million People have been thrown on to the unemployment lines in the last eight weeks. 38. 64 million to be precise. The only bright spot is the weekly claims have consistently come down. That implies that the layoff trend has already hit bottom. Heres the markets reaction to all of this. The dow at the moment is on the down side but not much by. Youre looking at 60 points lower. Youre looking at the nasdaq down about 16. Small losses across the board. Helping the market, astrazeneca, working with Oxford University, they have announced progress on a vaccine. They will do phase three trials with 30,000 american patients in july. If it works, they say they could deliver 300 million doses by the early fall. Then weve got three stories about open up and open up now. 600 doctors delivered a letter to the president outlining the Severe Health costs of the lockdown. They call it a mass casualty incident. Open up, they say. The front page of the New York Post blares