Uncertainty about where fiscal stimulus is going to go in the future. The major stock averages are all coming off their 3rd consecutive losing week the u k apparently reported considering another National Lockdown to try to stop an increase in coronavirus cases there so that could rattle the Global Markets annalee here weve got negotiations for a second stimulus bill kind of complicated now with the passing of Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader ginsburg. So thats also sending shock waves through wall street tech shares which had been riding high are all getting hit hard today, Apple Microsoft amazon all off by at least one percent and then if youve been following the latest with shares of an electric car and Truck Company is thought to be a major competitor to tesla well we have news this morning that trevor milton, its founder is voluntarily stepping down now as executive chairman and its board member as we have the department of justice and the sec. Apparently questioning some of the c
Are still wrapping up a car fire that sparked excuse me a crash that sparked a car fire. Its just off the nimitz freeway the hakan burger offramp from 80 south. Its still close. This is video from the citizen app that shows us exactly whats going on you see that van right there it crashed and caught fire the driver was trapped inside. This is happening right at that hagan burger overcrossing that goes over the nimitz freeway so its not on the freeway, its at the top of the offramp thats why they close it, which means he will not be able to use it you need to dump off early at 66 or past the continue up to 98th avenue, but theyve issued a Traffic Alert for this and its crawling right now from high street leading up to the give you one more san jose north want to tolley injury crash blocking your drive time on the rise but not bad 31 minutes to menlo park and well check in on the bay bridge coming up in a bit darya james is 9 oh one and the breaking news from overnight weve been covering
Expect still ahead. Robin. All right, thank you. John yes, well get to the fog in just a bit but we do have a trouble spot to talk about in oakland, its a car fire that slowing down traffic a little bit we actually have some video coming up from the citizens at the shows us exactly whats happening there check this out you can see fire crews have made it out to the scene and it looks like an xfinity van that was involved in an accident there and caught fire so emergency crews are still blocking this is right along hagan burger next to the nimitz freeway so this is not on the nimitz but its the offramp so theyre requesting Traffic Control theyre shutting down the hagan burger offramp to the south only as they deal with that accident and vehicle fire so its going to be a little slow you may want to dump off before or after hagan burger, if thats your normal exit. Now the northbound side the ramp is open. But its a visual distraction and we have some commute traffic there as well to north
Change directions. It is going to become much drier and it is going to start to pick up speed. This is why there is a red flag warning. Look at the time on this. It is not in starting until 10 00 tonight. The real focus of this is going to be in the overnight hours and in the Early Morning for the northbay mountains, 1000 feet. Particularly, the mountains in and around napa and sonoma. Are very familiar story here. The mountains are included in this, but technically you are particular concern is the ut wind country. This is about as strong as the wind has been. I will be back with more on the red flag warning and what happens after all of this went. Thanks so much. It is not just the wind that is a concern, it is all of this illegal fireworks that have been going off lately. Firefighters say this is exactly what sparked this three along firm fire. No buildings were damaged, but it took 56 firefighters to put it out. Despite the danger, pg e says that they have no plans to shut off any
Here are the latest numbers broken down by county. This week. There have been nearly 400 new cases about a 4 jump. Santa clara and alameda counties both have more than 2200 cases reported the complete list of local covid19 cases can be found at our website kron 4 dot com. Tonight only 3 bay area counties have entered phase 2 in reopening their economies thats napa solano and sonoma counties. Starting monday, San Francisco and san mateo counties will begin easing into phase 2 and today marin county announced it will also move into phase 2 on monday may 18th the details on what that means will be released tomorrow. Alameda contra costa and santa clara counties remain in phase, one as the bay area begins to slowly reopen Infectious Disease experts are warning the coronavirus is not gone and people should continue to practice a Public Health directives that got us to phase 2. Kron fours gayle ong joins us now live with that part of the story gayle. And medical experts are cautiously optimi