Group, reports Public Health officials in bay area counties are planning to extend the shelter in place order to may 1st. The official announcement could be made some time this week. At last check, there were close to 2,000 confirmed cases of coronavirus in the bay area. 49 people have died. Starting today in San Francisco, muni is stopping Light Rail Service and closed all of its subway stations and replaced trains with buses. This just in, a new opening date has been set for the tokyo summer olympics. The Opening Ceremony is expected to take place july 23rd next year. Thats 2021. So, big news for that, reggie. And relief is coming here for Health Care Workers on the front lines of covid19. Today Governor Newsom is expected to announce an initiative to boost the workforce. Right now Health Care Workers are working very long hours as we know. Starting this week Governor Newsom is scheduled to take up an update on the pandemic and he will do this every day at noon going forward. A secon
Many are relaying on insacart to get food. Workers are now demanding more protections against coronavirus. Julian glover is live with those details for us. Good morning, julian. Good morning, jobina. Convenient for us. We open up an app and place our order and someone does the Grocery Shopping for us and so many people have depended on that during this pandemic. But now many of the instacart workers are saying it is not safe for them to do their jobs and to go shopping with so many large crowds packed inside of these stores. Threatening to stay home demanding that the San Franciscobased Company Provide Hand Sanitizers and disinfectant wipes and 5 per order and expanded sick pay order. They are playing russian roulette every time they shop. If shoppers arent provided with necessary equipment to shop safely, customers are absolutely at risk. Reporter now the demand for this service has boomed in the pandemic. The Associated Press reporting that instacart ordered 50,000 new shoppers last
Down toward hollister, Southern California. It will only be for a day, we have big changes by the weekend. More on that coming up in 10 minutes. Here is an update on your traffic. Traffic is picking up a bit, it is wrapping up on some areas. He had a lighter the neutral start. We are getting more crowding here and there. This is a look at the Richmond Bridge heading over to marin. There is slow traffic here. 80 was bound, 26 minutes. That is wrapping up to the normal time. At the bay bridge, we have a delay of 20 minutes before you make it onto this span. Another update minutes ahead. New this morning, chp says a big rig driver was not paying attention when he drifted off of the freeway in vallejo and caused a train reaction crash involving half a dozen cars. This is what it was like this before 2 30 this morning when the first call came in. Chp says a semi truck driver veered off of westbound 80, went through a fence, and onto a side street. There was a loud noise in the ground starte
Quiet. Everything else is offshore. It wont stay there. Some of this moisture will lift northward gh a little warmer. 50s and 60s with scattered showers by tonight. It is 5 01 am. Checking to make sure and were looking at highway 4. Let me show you what i am seeing. It looks good. Im surprised we dont have any slow traffic. I like surprises like this. This is your opportunity. 880 oakland looking good. There is a backup at the bay bridge toll plaza. Lets go back to the desk. I want to show you a view from our live camera at San Francisco international airport. We are watching this because in the next few minutes the first flights are due to take off. Overnight there were some flight delays both arrivals and departures but with the weather Getting Better during thnit airport Officials Say there are no delays and one morning flight to Orange County has been canceled. Not clear if thats weather related. San jose airport and Oakland Airport not reporting any flight delays or cancellations
The Santa Cruz Mountains and marin county and rushing river. Snow is good but it is a wet snow now. The snow levels going up and mainly above the lake level. South lake tahoe is rain and blue canyon is all rain. It will funnel in moisture throughout the morning decreasing by tonight and then decreasing more so tomorrow. We should get a break wednesday and thursday in the neck system comes in. Santa cruz mountains looks like the bullseye. A little warmer on the thames. It is going to be slow although people are doing pretty well considering. A normallooking commute so we have slow at the bay bridge and slowing here and there. And he is going to shape up like a typical morning commute. We have had a lot of fender benders but i am trying to ce myself it is onday. The traffic on the bridges okay. We have had a number of fender benders. Because of the wet or correlated with the wet weather and this is northbound 101. More than 280 traffic looking good and wet downtown san jose. Lets go back