The fight. Plus, the popular Pressure Cooker being recalled because of safety concerns. The growing backlash over the grammy nominations, the big snubs and why one singer claims the awards are corrupt. And a big update on the little owl named rocky found hiding in the Rockefeller Christmas tree. Good wednesday morning, everyone. We begin with a new number overnight, 2,000. Thats how many deaths we saw yesterday in this country from the coronavirus. Thats the highest number since early may, and for the 15th consecutive day, the number of people in the hospital with covid has set a record. Were seeing even longer lines for testing. People are waiting longer than five hours in their cars or on the street. Many of them are hoping to see family for thanksgiving tomorrow. This morning, the Holiday Travel rush in full swing despite doctors pleading with americans to stay home as covid infections soar. We are going to see the Health Care System overwhelmed. Reporter 47 million americans are ex
For your commute that traffic theres pretty stop and go you can see some of the traffic starting to back up there along that bridge and then move into the Golden Gate Bridge, this definitely is the lightest bridge out of all of them 37 to the tolls about 23 minutes for your morning commute there. And in the bay bridge here we go the maze to fremont you can see back to here definitely reaching past me on that overpass about 14 minutes for your drive. Daryn james thanks reyna. To one lets get to some breaking news from overnight and sad to say the u. S. Has set a new record now for the most covid related deaths in a single day you see the number on the screen behind us more than 3100 people have died now from the virus on wednesday alone most deadliest day we have seen in the pandemic and for the first time. More americans than ever in the hospital with covid a 100,000 plus americans are hospitalized in 20,000 of them. Or in the icu and this comes after california set records for numbers
But we will be told to proceed with caution and dow closing for the first time in history over 30,000 the question tonight, are we headed yes, thats right, are we heading higher and higher . There are positives. The president ial transition is under way. We have three coronavirus vaccines ready to rock so, is the next 10 move higher and higher or are we headed lower and lower . Well that song, thats a miserable song thats why we chose it. Please dont at me on twitter. In the list of bullish things we talk about, the peaceful transfer of power as being a bullish thing. You would think that would be a given. I find the market took that as a positive today fascinating. I will be the first to say in terms of the Broader Market, i have been dead wrong we have had individuals stocks we have done a good job with Broader Market not so much we are so over it in terms of valuation, euphoria, the things that can go right, not just the head winds out there despite it has bnsecause i been market we
Valley, down to the 20s and 30s this morning. It is definitely a colder start than what we have been noticing. One of the coldest mornings this season. 31 right now in santa rosa. 38 in napa. Right now, 39 in redwood city. Down to 33 in mountain view. 36 in san jose. Right now, 39 in in San Francisco lets talk about that frost advisory for the northbay Interior Valleys. Temperatures down to the 20s and 30s. So, below freezing. That is why the frost advisory is in effect until 9 00 am today. As we go through the afternoon, we will see the sunshine cool below average. Daytime highs in the mid to upper 50s to low 60s this afternoon. I will let you know how long this will last and when we see our next chance for showers coming up. It is cold and windy. Plus, we have a Traffic Alert around westbound 4. Right in martinez, we still have lanes blocked because of this trouble spot involving some sand in the roadway. Caltrans should be on scene shortly but in the meantime, you have quite a bit o
Gods of silicon valley. Plus, amazon launches a digital pharmacy that includes discounts and deliveries for prime members. It promises to upend the pharmacy business as we know it and may smell may spell trouble for thousands of small pharmacies across the country. Plus, what are your children watching . A new study finds if it is childrens content on youtube, it is probably littered with ads promoting violence and providing no educational content. New cases ofrge in covid19 and lockdown measures. Pharmacy stocks took a beating after amazon announced it is getting into the pharma business. Markets generally and the day down but it was a big update for amazon. How much influence did that have . Abigail lots of great headlines that you were mentioning. It was a fairly quiet day. It started risk off and ended mildly risk off with the s p 500 index down about half a percent. Betweenaq flipflopping gains and losses. At the end of the day, a very small loss. At the end of the day, amazon up