A bay area couple stuck on a cruise ship carrying a dozen coronavirus patients and the coast guard refuses to let the ship dock, while the situation grows more dire. The cbc joins the state of california in recommending that everyone wear a face mask in public, this comes after new information emerges about how the virus can spread. Tougher restrictions on marijuana dispensaries in Santa Clara County, why recreational users could be turned away. 6 am on this saturday, april 4, good morning im devon feeley, emily turner is off. Lets get over to the Weather Center with darren where we have some rain. Devon its a good thing that the traditional notion of the weekend doesnt apply right now cause lareweends have has rained. That rain probably is more effective than any message by Public Officials about stay out of parks and off the beach. And crowding together. This weekend Mother Nature is going to help with social distancing. Let me show you why. There is a lot of green on radar, it hasnt
Hey, connell. Cohn cohn were connell were getting hit grim milestones with the covid19 it would appear. Total number of cases will top 200,000 by end of the day. The in new york city the death toll has topped 1000. 43,000 plus infections, death toll at 1096. Now one of the issues here locally has been how to keep the firstresponders safe. If you look at the nypd, the new York City Police department, 15 of the workforce has called out sick. You know that adds up to about 5000 workers. So a little bit more than that. Over 1000 Uniformed Police officers in new york have tested covid19 positive. And some others told us they have had trouble actually getting the test or, you know, waiting a number of days to get the results back. They have to sit out on the job while they wait out the results in some cases. Similar situation at the fire department. Similar situation at ems. All of that is going on. While help is coming in on the medical side, we talked all week long about the huge hospital
Were going to clear out for a little while before that rain comes back. And in San Francisco we have some mid50s, looking at mid40s going through mid40s for the start of the day into the next few days. So well have more on this coming up in the forecast. Well also get a closer look at where and when well see the rain. Mike has been tracking the commute. Whats going on out there . Well, you know, obviously we had only the essential workers out there so a very light commute. Our concern is these people getting where theyre trying to get is even more imperative. Highway 17 where we see the speeds recovering on our maps. I believe they are just about to move the tow truck and the cleanup site and the chp investigation. The earlier deadly crash left a lot of debris. A lot of slowing. It looks like its starting to clear up. The rest of the bay scattered throughout the east bay but no real slowing. Well follow that coming up. Back to you. Back to our Team Coverage of the coronavirus pandemic
Into not only the morning but the afternoon as well. Well talk more about that in a few minumi tracking a big conce one area in the bay. Overall a great drive but we have a horrible problem southbound 17. Now were looking at the map where were showing you southbound 17 very slow heading past highway 9. Our crew, alan, our photographer got there and got information as we take a live look. Slowing, just one lane open, one lane is closed for a deadly crash investigation as were looking down, again, south. At least the freeway as one lane open. The coroner is on scene. The investigation continues. Im going to say were looking at at least 5 15 for any hope for a reopen. We havent gotten that word from chp on scene. The rest of the bay obviously very clear. Well track everything. Back to you. Thank you very much, mike. We continue our Team Coverage of the coronavirus pandemic from the Nations Capital to the bay area. First, lets get starteded with tracie potts live in washington with more of
The students. Christian yes heather, alex districts around the bay area really around the state are working on their distancelearning plants. Now that it is becoming abundantly clear though students might not be back in their classrooms before the end of the school year the bay area going growing increasingly accustomed to seeing empty School Buildings and empty schoolyard. Now the governor acknowledging it is increasingly unlikely that students will return to the classroom this year practical we should be clear that the right thing to do for our children, the right thing to do for the parents, for households, for the communities in which they reside is to make sure that we are preparing today to set our School System up where we are increasing class time but increasing it at home and fulfilling our obligation through Distance Learning the governor and ask google is stepping up providing thousands of computers and Internet Access points to facilitate Distance Learning for all students.