Now. A very good Tuesday Morning to you. Thanks for joining us. Im laura garcia. And im marcus washington. Mike will have a look at the commute in just a bit. First, lets start out with meteorologist kari hall. Coming in today, dry windows. Yes, its nice and dry for us this morning. Only a slight chance of some popup showers and a few isolated thunderstorms today. The storm system is still very close by the bay area, its something well have to watch but for the most part we are starting out dry with temperatures in the low 50s in san jose and well see it make it into the upper 60s and low 70s. Very nice. We do have a warmup in our forecast as we head into memorial day weekend. More on that is coming up in a few minutes, marcus. Thanks, kari. This morning another bay area county will open meaning more changes for millions more people. Phase two allows Retail Stores to provide things like Curbside Pickup, manufacturing can resume, and some offices are allowed to reopen. Entering that pha
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi says he shouldnt be taking it. Today in the bays tracie potts has more on that and todays testimony expected on capitol hill. Good morning, tracie. Reporter laura, good morning, and also the president tweeting this morning about the World Health Organization, tweeting part of a letter suggesting that hes threatening to permanently leave and cut funding from the World Health Organization because hes been making this argument that they knew about the virus much earlier than they let on to the u. S. And other countries. While that may get some attention today, its a big story, its perhaps not as shocking as what the president revealed about taking this drug even though the fda says it may not work and in some people it could be dangerous. So far i seem to be okay. Reporter President Trump with the stunning revelation hes been taking hydroxychloroquine, one pill a day, for the last week and a half, under a doctors care. The white house physician saying the potent
I am still watching out for a and fed chairman Jerome Powell few spots that may still get will go before the senate some rain. More on that in the forecast Banking Committee as it looks coming up if a few minutes. Into why so little of the money set aside by the c. A. R. E. S. Act has actually reached american thank you very much. Well, this morning theres mixed businesses. That hearing starts at 7 00 our reaction that were hearing from President Trumps unexpected time. The stock market rocketed upwards monday after a small announcement hes actually taking some kind of pill Company Reported positive news prevention in a sense to help about the search for a vaccine prevent coronavirus. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi says saying eight patients built a high level of antibodies against she doesnt think that the president should be taking it. Coronavirus. Airlines, hotels, any industry checking in with today in the hit by the pandemic moved bays tracie potts live in washington with more on that
Vaccinations, he expects just the opposite for covid19 vaccinations. Covid19 has a case fatality rate ten times higher than influenza. If and when we have a safe and effective vaccine, we will see people lining up. My guess is that even antivax people will be lining up to get a vaccine because of the fear. His team ranks california as above average when it comes to Overall Health and safety. And the latest cdc data backs that up. For certain vaccinations like the measles, mumps and rubella vaccine. According to an abc7 analysis, california ranks above the national average, with more than 96 of the population receiving the mmr vaccine last year. And dr. Sepulveda says its necessary for trends like that to continue as soon as a reliable Covid Vaccine is available. This virus will not go away. Now we analyzed several different safety trends across the state. One that shows california ranks second in the nation when it comes to wearing seat belts. You can find it all over on our website, a
Bay area cities over the death of george floyd. Here is what it looked like late last night. Thousands of people gathered in downtown oakland to express their outrage over the death of another black man by a black police officer. It turned into looting across oakland. This video from walgreens, the same area where last nights demonstrations began. Someone set a fire inside as dozens of people took over the store. The crowd grew to an estimated 5,000 protesters during one standoff. This one at 7th and broadway. Protesters threw fireworks and projectiles at police. It poured on to the 880 freeway. Traffic stopped in both directions. Many people told us they didnt want violence to overshadow why people are protesting all over the country. Came down here because i have sons and cousins and uncles and daughters. I just had enough, and i cant stay at home frozen with fear. Im not an advocate of burning down our own stuff, the things and the businesses that we do own, but for us to be able to