And for james it was travel and prolonged exposure, he had been to italy multiple times. When you selfquarantine, the premise is that youre positive, that you actually have been infected. Thats why it has to be rigid, it has to be by the book, there has to be significant and aggressive distancing if you live in a home with other people. Its not like youre having family meals, its not like youre all in the kitchen together, its not like youre sitting on the sofa together. Its hard. Its logistically hard, its psychologically hard. Its done out of an abundance of caution, assuming a person thats exposed will in fact become positive. In terms of what were seeing here in westchester, outside of new york city in that hot zone or epicenter, that is done for three reasons. Number one, from an epidemiologic standpoint. We call it flattening the curve. What that does is slows the spread of the virus, which then does two things as a result. Number one, it protects the vulnerable populations, beca
Gavin newsom is asking state lawmakers for 20 million to fight the virus and right now the state has received 1,000 testing kits, that is enough to test about 400 patients. The big story, decision 2020. Super tuesday finally here. A live look at a Voting Center in virginia. Where the polls are already open. Here in california the polls will open in just a matter of hours. Just moments away for what you need to know before you head out to cast your ballot. Breaking news out east. Two tornados touched down in the nashville, tennessee, area overnight. At least six people were killed. At one point firefighters were responding to at least 40 structure collapses. Tennessee is a super tuesday state and this could impact the vote. Right now we want to get a look at our forecast in the bay area. And kari hall is tracking that. What with can we expect on super tuesday. It is a great day with sunshine and warm temperatures. As we get a live look outside in san jose, heading to campbell for the te
So it is slowing down long the flat section. 84, the dumbarton bridge just fine but getting over there from the bridge toward marsh we see slowing already. The rest of the bay shows a smooth drive. A crash near the dublin interchange. Perhaps near san ramon, well track that down as well. Back to you. Thanks, mike. Well now back to the growing coronavirus outbreak. We have Live Team Coverage for you. In team two minutes well take you live with a Infectious Disease doctor with more on the story. And Sharon Katsuda is tracking what bay area leaders will do this morning to prepare. But first lets check in with tracie potts live in washington this morning with more on actions President Trump is taking. Tracie . Reporter laura and marcus, the president wants to limit who is coming into the country with coronavirus by rescreening people when they hit the ground. But also hes been talking with drugmakers to try to speed up development of a vaccine, Health Experts telling us that typically take
This never before seen virus has already killed at least two people. Nbc bay areas jean elle is at sfo where Health Screenings begin tomorrow. Reporter thats right, raj and jessica. The concern tonight is this virus can spread from person to person, so the cdc is coming here to sfo tomorrow to begin screening passengers arriving from wuhan, china, where this virus originated. Travelers from china arriving at sfo tonight. With the Chinese New Year approaching, its a popular time to visit loved ones. Fever and cold or flu symptoms. At sfo, Health Screenings begin saturday when the first direct flight from wuhan arrives. In the pligflight arrives, er connecting or nonstop passengers from wuhan would be diversitied to a separate area inside the customs facility where they would go through this interview and screening process. Reporter 45 cases of the virus have been reported with two deaths. This is a virus that affects the lungs, so it sounds a little bit like influenza. Fever, chills, ac
Is cold. Its in the 30s. I know people are wondering about the forecast because of the niners game, but heres a nice shot of sfo. You dont have to worry about any delayed flights today. Look at the current temperatures. 30 degrees in santa rosa. 39 in san jose. 39 degrees as well in santa cruz, San Francisco at 44. What can we expect . I want to show you the 24hour temperature change and its running a few degrees warmer in some spots including San Francisco, oakland and pacifica and we will warm up a little bit more into the afternoon. Yesterday, we only topped out in the low 50s and today well be in the upper 50s and it will be a good day, very calm weather and not as breezy or windy and with the passing system and we do have a system passing just to our north and that will bring cloud cover into the afternoon and ill break down your womans march forecast and your niners forecast and your sierras forecast coming up in 15 minutes. We look forward to seeing you. Vianey, thanks. This mor