Good morning, it is going to be a very pleasant day across the bay area. A Beautiful Day with that clearing and sunshine for most of us. We are warmer throughout the day and cooler at the coast with seasonal daytime highs. As we start off our day thursday temperatures are in the mid to upper 50s to low 60s with those clouds and in the afternoon, mid 60s in San Francisco and low 70s in oakland and low 80s in san jose and mid 80s for concord. We are where we sh are going to warm things up and i am tracking strong ridges of High Pressure to build and and details are coming up in just a few minutes. I am at the live news desk, looking at this hill where republicans say that they have reached a deal on key pieces of the new 1 trillion stimulus package and it includes more than 105 billion for schools and does not penalize people for not reopening in person. Also some funding for coronavirus testing and rpublicans pushing for another Forgivable Paycheck Protection Program loan. The democrats
Oakland 56 in San Francisco and 59 in san jose. Im looking at mild to warm temperatures around the bay area. Well have those coming up in just a bit back to the news. Thanks a lot. Lets start with the coronavirus the cdc is sounding the alarm that the number of cases in the u. S. Might be much greater than we know there was show you map which illustrates now the rise in cases. In the past week compared to the week before and you can see actually california has improved. It has been in the orange and even in the red indicating anywhere from 10 to 50 . Increase from week to week now were just in the yellow which indicates a steady rise but not an alarming one. But if you look at the total numbers across the country weve got now more than a 142,000 recorded deaths with more than 3. 9 million infections reported so far to our area. In the wake of the rising number of cases and the dropping poll numbers for the president he appears to be changing his tune. During his first covid19 briefing
Yesterday, bad news is that up to put your head off your head if youre not holding on to it looking outside of temper on skies, beautiful unclear got a nice glow overhead as the sun comes out. Breezy a spots include santa rosa, San Francisco, Half Moon Bay fairfield in oakland at times today winds will shift enough that areas that may be calm right now wont be common to the afternoon. So just know yet were continuing that breeze that weve had pretty steady now weve got a windy forecast for a couple of weeks. Were keeping that going today, clear and dry conditions today temperatures a bit cooler than they were yesterday at this point starting off the morning in the 50s for most of the bay oakland and pittsburgh at 59 right now alameda youre at 58 degrees. Later on today daytime highs will be pretty similar to yesterdays with 80s for warmest temperatures inland and 60s right along the coast talking hotter weather in the days to come and windy weather as well and the rest of your forecast
The National Hockey league is going to be up day both of these are developing stories all of this is developing as we saw how fast this all happened last night. Governor newsome is calling for large gatherings with 250 people to be rescheduled or canceled. And it is not an order only a recommendation at this point. Heres the message. She said quote not holding that concert a Community Event can have cascading effects saving dozens of lives and preserving Critical Health care resources that your family made need a month from now state Health Officials also advise smaller events can only happen. If the organizers can implement social distancing and that means keeping people says at least 6 feet away. And here in the bay area, several schools and events have been canceled over growing concerns in this includes Lake Shore Elementary School in San Francisco, the school will be closed for 2 weeks after 4 students and some Family Members reported having a respiratory illness. There arent any
Of attention. More folks are on the road in your backup now spilling through martinez and across the benicia bridge. So backed up several miles now and they have yet to get this crash out of the way so once again south 6. 80 and highway 4 a car on its side with the right lane blocked its jam all the way across the span, heres a look at highway for not as busy know as has during the week considered somewhat friday light 27 minutes for highway for west antioch to concord golden gate looks good 21 minutes nevado to the toll plaza and the bay bridge now we have a full house, but its only backed up to west grand. Safe and secure. Guest evening. The announcement of thousands of people trapped in their rooms on a cruise ship off the coast of california theyre waiting for their coronavirus test results to come in more passengers are expected to be tested for the virus later today. James has more exactly where that ship is in the status of the tests well it is closer to the coast yesterday is a