Reporter this White House Press conference will now be at 5 30 p. M. Where we expect the discussion to revolve around Testing Capacity so more americans can get tested and go back to work the white house is expects to release two documents this evening. One is a chronicle of actions taken to date so far to ramp up the capacity of testing in this country. The second is essentially a blueprint for states for how they can get access to more tests, and what resources the federal government has that are available to them. The president hosted many leaders from retail and Farming Companies to talk about how to leverage the Retail Industry heres what some of these Companies Said they were willing to do. Cbs and lab corp. Are expected to provide 1,000 locations with the capacity to run 1. 5 million tests a month according to some of the promises that were released today walmart is expected to open a total of 100 sites, they say they will be able to test 20,000 a week target has provided some p
Live from the cbs bay areas studios, this is kpix5 news. Right now on kpix 5 and streaming on cbsn bay area, were looking live from our exclusive Sales Force Tower camera as we look west on this wednesday morning. Good morning, everyone. Thanks for waking up with us. It is march 18th, 2020. Im michelle griego. Im kenny choi. Good morning. 4 31 right now. Lets get a check of the forecast wait mary. Looking at some rain in some spots. Yes, a wet start to the day. Happy wednesday to you. This is very light rain, even sprinkles this morning. Lets zoom into high def doppler. You can see the very light rain pushing from san rafael across the Golden Gate Bridge into San Francisco and across the bay bridge. Richmond, oakland, alameda pushing to the south. Temperatures in the 40s. Concord at 47. Also for oakland. 41 livermore. 49 San Francisco. 43 san jose. 44 for santa rosa. As we head through the day, daytime highs below average. All of us in the 50s later on today. Mid50s San Francisco. Oakl
Happy weekend. We are practicing social distancing here so we are at chevy, we promise to do ours. Keeping our space. Were offering chevy owners complimentary onstar crisis assist services and wifi data. If you need a new chevy, interestfree financing for 84 months with deferred payments for 120 days on many of our most popular models. You may even shop online and take delivery at home. Its just our way of doing our part. How are we doing weatherwise . Happy saturday to you guys. We had some nice weather in store for your afternoon today. Today will be like yesterday. Even a tad bit warmer. Things start to change on the back end of the weekend. Rain returns to the bay area. Giving alive look over San Francisco as we look at the bay bridge and across the bay, we are looking up partly cloudy. Things in the inland cities in the 30s once again. For the afternoon, mix of sun and clouds. Mild temps. Folks get 70 degrees this afternoon. For the first full weekend of spring, rain in the foreca
Stocks will surge when this is over. Now look at this. An overnight tweet from the president. Quote, the United States will be powerfully supporting those Industries Like airlines and others that are particularly affected by the chinese virus. Big bucks coming. The president is clearly on board with the rescue plans that deliver trillions of dollars to industries and individuals. Who gets help and how its delivered, thats going to be hotly debated but there is a new sense of urgency to push that money out there. Here are the latest virus developments. Todays primary in ohio has been canceled by order of the governor. Primaries in florida, arizona and illinois will go ahead but the results are likely to be skewed by what may be a low turnout. Mcdonalds will close its dining rooms. Takeout and drivethrough okay, but no eating in. Chickfila, starbucks, they are encouraging takeout. The Kentucky Derby has been postponed. Very tight restrictions around the San Francisco bay area. Residents
More rate cuts or more could be on the way and get this a week that saw a thousand point swing in the market nearly every day was ultimately a giant round trip to no where the s p 500 ended the week pretty much exactly where it began. I think the dow was able to finish slightly higher karen finerman, this was going to be your chart of the week we were doing the next block we have to lead with it. Everything is fluid right now. What happened this week. If you look at the chart you will see a one and change move for the week imagine what a different feel we would have if every day during the week the market moved 30 backups each day and that would get us right where we are right now thats the change in the week. But thats not how it happened we have a very different market. A treacherous market, up a thousand, down a thousand day, back and forth, is it really its a scary market. And we dont know where the bottom is going to be. But it was starting to feel panicky here and so if you are a