Face. There are many sectors that deserve recognition will be mentioned by my colleagues, notably healthcare workers, teachers, post officer was, Grocery Store workers, Law Enforcement of course, many, many others but i want to focus for just a minute on the critical efforts of our agricultural producers, our farmers and ranchers and so many others. Maintaining the Food Supply Chain during this Public Health emergency is essential, absolutely essential. As we combat coronavirus, our farmers and ranchers have continued to provide the food, feed, fuel and fiber that we need. Americans truly benefit every single day from the highest body, lowestcost food supply in the world thanks to our producers, our farmers and our ranchers. But as operations across the country are impacted, Food Security has been a particular concern. We greatly appreciate the efforts of those working to keep, keep food on our tables from our producers, to the workers so its not only the ranchers, our farmers and ranc
Seen. She turned out to be witty and bright as well. Police have a suspect in custody in connection with the death of a local actress and yoga teacher named Tricia Mccauley. Theres a lot of questions. Her friends and family are coming to terms with this loss. We just learned the name of the suspect. Reporter the name of the suspect is adrianne duane johnson. He is 29 years old and hes from upper marlboro. Hes been charged with first degree murder. When Tricia Mccauley didnt show up for a christmas dinner, her family and friends knew something was wrong. People sharing pictures of tricia and her car. And just before midnight on monday her car was spotted. There was the car and there was the guy sitting there in the car and he was smoking something, seemed like a large kind of cigar something substantial. He had the music cranked up like full volume and hes bouncing around in the car. The suspect appeared edgy and sped off. He called Police Though and they found the suspect at this cvs.
Im Richard Jordan at the live desk. New on news4 midday, president obama signs an executive order that offers new protection to members of the lbgt community. Its an executive order that prohibits discrimination on the basis of Sexual Orientation and gender identity. This is for federal workers and federal contractors. President clinton already offered federal employees protection and president obamain colluding gender identity and extending it to include federal contractors, just federal workers. Thats the latest here at the live desk. Back to you. Now to the developing story, the israelgaza conflict is in its bloodiest days now. Israeli air strikes pounded gaza this morning. The New York Times is reporting the Israeli Military stopped two advances into its territory via tunnels from the gaza strip. Gaza returned rocket fire in southern israel. Air raid sirens blaired over tel aviv as people on the street ran for cover. More than 500 palestinians and 20 israelis, including two civilia
You will find wet spots. 78 to 84 inland east bay. 65 to 69 in the coast and San Francisco. 70 to 79. Leyla gulen has a bridge that is wet. Look at this, it is quite wet. We are getting reports of spinouts in the north bay. We have had a dry spell so oil is collecting on the roads. That is causing slick conditions. Slow down your speed this morning. They are very wet. The southbound 680 away from Pleasant Hill to highway 24 dry. The accident is in vacaville apporaching 505 eastbound 80. We have possibly one lane blocked but no delays. As mike and leyla gulen said, the rain is making for slick roads. Matt looks at that part of the story along i17. It is more wet or more drizzle than showers and wet. That can be trouble for the morning commute on highway 17 but traffic is height. Check out the video we shot from the summit into Santa Cruz Mountains this morning and it is not a lot of rain but drizzle and showery but it can help with the fire danger and dry up there. C. H. P. Has not repo
3,700 firefighters are battling the flames eat of sacramento. 2,000 homes are threatened. Mandatory evacuations expanded as the five day old place shows no sign of slowing. The governor declared a state of emergency for el dorado counties. We have a positive note highway 50 is open again. Personnel fighting the fire are from the bay area. A San Francisco strike team left and another from alameda. They have been joined by crews from utah and idaho and los angeles. The fire that devastated the town of weed, california, poes problems. Three people have been injured in the fire that destroyed 150 homes. Evacuation orders for 3,000 are in effect and firefighters have slowed the spread of the fire and have it 60 percent contained at 375 acres. A 10,000 reward is offered for information leading to the cause of the fire that broke out on monday. A different Weather Threat has a couple anxiously awaiting for a phone call. Their daughter has been missing in Cabo San Lucas since a weekend hurrica