Testimony before the House Judiciary Committee was delayed by almost an hour yesterday after the panels chairman, congressman jerry nadler, was involved in a car accident turns out, he was wearing his mask wrong during barrs appearance yesterday, chairman jerry nadler accused barr of politicizing the Justice Department said barr, objection. During attorney general William Barrs appearance yesterday before the House Judiciary Committee, barr said he does not believe that there is systemic racism in Law Enforcement but he did go on to say, thank you for the suggestion well certainly certainly give it a try. When asked yesterday about Infectious Disease expert dr. Anthony faucis Approval Rating, President Trump said, hes got this high Approval Rating so why dont i have a high Approval Rating with respect to the virus . Which is kind of like a jets player saying, i dont get it the patriots are winning this game i mean, how come were not winning this game . Same ball, same field. I dont get
Redell. Hes live for us in san jose. Bob, i know most of those businesses, they were closed for months, only to open for just two days because of that recent order. Reporter correct, marcus. Lets take the owner of the westcott gym behind me in downtown san jose. He is frustrated and unhappy, to say the least. He was finally able to reopen yesterday after being shut down for four months. He doesnt know if he will or even can follow the order to shut down again tomorrow. As of now were just confused. Were upset. Were sad. Reporter westcott gym owner doesnt know if his business can survive another shutdown. He is still paying full rent, has spent thousands to make his gym safely and socially distanced for his customers. Theres a temperature scan and uv light disinfection at checkin. Personal disinfections for customers to wipe down their equipment after each use. Thats on top of the regular cleaning by employees. Capacity is limited. He went above and beyond the safety guidelines. Now he
And a good morning to you on this wednesday. Thanks for joining us. Im marcus washington. Morning. Lets say good morning to kari. She has a look at the forecast. Good morning. We are going to have another really nice day. Some high clouds moving in yesterday and a little bit more humidity. Well just do it all over again today. As we start out with a cloudy sky taking a live look outside in the south bay our temperatures will be in the upper 50s. Well see it clearing out throughout the morning and slowly warming up as we reach into the upper 70s for the south bay, low 80s for the inland east bay, and then for napa expect a high of 79 degrees. Well get a look at our microclimates and whats ahead coming up. Mike, how is the Early Morning commute looking . Its looking great but i have to remind folks about the closure for highway 101. Were looking at what you would expect from the big view even just mild slowing out of the eight days from now the nba altamont. We are looking in San Francis
This morning. Mike is keeping an eye on that commute for you. Meteorologist kari hall is tracking the weather. Yesterday, kari, the weather was nice. I did not work out, but i did take a walk outside to a restaurant. Oh, nice. We are doing whatever we can to take in our nice weather, enjoying a little bit more time outside. Thats where we are safest as we are trying to socially distance, too. A live look outside in walnut creek were starting out with some clouds and temperatures mostly in the upper 50s around the bay area as you head out the door. Well see it slowly warming up. A repeat of yesterday as we see cool coastal temperatures with fog, sunshine inland and a little bit warmer there. Well get a look at our microclimates and whats ahead for the rest of the week coming up. Mike, whats going on for the rest of the commute . We still have the construction going on in San Francisco, so lets take you to the maps where the sensors look pretty much green everywhere. Ive circled the alem
Moving west, the strawberry fire in southwest utah is holding at 15 contained. Lightning sparked the flames, which have burned more than 40 acres. The heat continues across the east coast with heat advisories and excessive heat warnings from South Carolina all the way to maryland. Now to the coronavirus and so Many Americans asking if theyre safe even eating outdoors. It comes amid new speculation that the Coronavirus Infection rate could actually be as much as 2,000 higher than reported. I spoke earlier with dr. Gharahbaghian. As we reported, the cdc is now saying there could be 10 times more Coronavirus Infections across this country than reported. In some areas, that number could be 20 times more. What does this say about the spread of the virus, and does this mean the death rate is lower than we thought . Its not surprising, actually, that the number of cases are actually more than what is reported, for a variety of reasons. We had changing testing algorithms. It used to be more st