Which is indeed making a comeback. The latest numbers show a sharp increase in new cases, running to about 40,000 a day. The virus task force reconvenes today for the first time in two months. Some states are pausing their reopening program. That is a warning to the nations economy and the rebound. The wall street journal, this is an important warning for the president. The powerful Editorial Board bluntly said hes heading for defeat. Thats a warning for wall street, too, because a biden win would be a real challenge for stocks. So where are we this morning . Warnings duly noted. Ive got some red arrows there. The dow is down about 180. The s p down about 10. The nasdaq down about 15. Red arrows for three indicators. All right. Im going to call this a positive. Remember the mob that threatened to take down the lincoln emancipation memorial . They were supposed to attack it at 7 00 eastern last night . Well, it rained. The limited number of people who showed up retreated to shelter. The
Tonight. I m josh mcelveen. A lot of places saw aprillike temperatures today. But it didn t quite get warm enough in the right places to break records. Looking live at portsmouth right now, where it is 50 degrees. We ll get another shot at recordbreaking temperatures tomorrow. Let s start tonight with meteorologist kevin skarupa. Kevin we talked about the record highs, not quite reached today but the record have smith is 51. It is not fallen much through the evening thanks to a bank of loud. If you have impacted so visibility by Early Morning could be down to less than a halfmile but a brighter day after any on a and it sets us up for that next system out for the great lakes that will affect the second half of our weekend. Next temperatures in the sixth reason and western and either side of 50. It looks like this evening temperatures fall back between 30 545 with that patchy fog out there early tomorrow morning. Beyond that it looks like the normative is working way back in tomorrow af
Paper mache is the comet. Comets can travel up to 300 miles per second so everything is really hauling here. This is such amazing stuff we are even seeing celebrity tweets. William shatner saying simply hooray. He posted this youtube video. Good luck, rosetta and philaes going to land on, i am so excited. A lot of people are excited. This remarkable achievement is the latest step in a mission that actually began a decade ago and culminated with cheers and hugs in a control room in germany. This celebration went on for a few minutes but the crew quickly got to work Monitoring Communications from the robotic probe. Philae was launched by rosetta which has been circling the comets for week. Researchers believe the comet holds clues about the dawn of our solar system, maybe even life on earth. A time capsule telling us what were conditions like when the earth itself was just forming. Thats huge. Officials say the aircraft may have bounced once before coming to rest. Scientists hope to lear
Here is whats coming. Right now, we have increasing clouds and Little Pockets of moisture, mainly up in the clouds not hitting the ground. But there are areas of scattered sprinkles and drizzle right now in and around San Francisco and no doubt other places as well. The measurable rain has not arrived yet. Its mainly to the north, just beginning to push onto the north coast around eureka, Crescent City, in that area. Lets pull back for a looping view of the radar. You can see that moisture moving into areas west and north of us. And now lets start our forecast animation at 11 00 tonight. Conditions will be much as they are right now. Little pockets of scattered light drizzle. But later in the overnight hours, about 2 00 a. M. Or so, well see a first wave of light rain and showers. And then it will be followed by a second wave around 5 30 a. M. No doubt there will be wet spots that may slow down morning commuter. And ill show you what we can expect for the next day and the next seven da
Frazier was a standout on the Richmond High School basketball team. His death has left teammates reeling with the start of the basketball season less than two weeks away. No arrests have been made in the death. A federal judge today fast tracked leland yees trial on corruption charges. He is set to be tried along with his former fundraiser keith jackson. Raymond shrimp boy chow would be tried separately. He was suspended from the state senate after his arrest on a slew of bribery and racketeering charges. His trial could start next year. Tonight it is a waiting game. A robot landed on a comet for the first time. It wasnt without some speed bumps. Reporter amazing story. Its not science fiction. This is really happening. Its a lander called filially and it is already transmitting Scientific Data back home. But were not sure if it was stable. The harpoon that would have anchored it to the surface didnt fire off so theres a chance it could fall over. Now, all scientists can do is wait and