Begin a larger phase three trial at the end of the month, some 30,000 people take part. Two potential vaccines from u. S. Pharmaceutical Company Pfizer have also been newly fasttracked by the fda. Trials underway as well for a vaccine from Johnson Johnson as well as astrazeneca and novavax. All of those firms working at warp speed to get a vaccine to the American People as quickly as possible. The Dow Jones Industrials reflecting investor approval, climbing 228 points. The s p 500 up 29, the nasdaq rising 62 points. As for the pandemic itself, the number of cases in this country has been rising in 41 states as well as washington d. C. Those cases have fallen or remain flat in nine other states. Overall, the death rate is actually declining as testing and cases continue to increase. Over the past two months, cases have risen 131 across the country while deaths have fallen by 58 . Current data shows that altogether the china virus unleashed by the Chinese Communist party on the unsuspect
Concord most of the east bay shoreline locations, a purse or lower 60s upper 50s 50s up to the north bay but napa on the bottle getting up to 6155 San Francisco by the way. You have the left over on shore drift right now keeping the fog in place, although that is starting to wane. And this weather alert that we still have is this a heat advisory covering Solano County off the Central Valley. The Contra Costa County still be looking at hot temperatures and frankly one of the things for why its not included is this is a different forecast office this is out of sacramento in the rest of its out of the San Francisco office and monterey sometimes that is why sometimes is a difference going on there. Although up to lake county. Theyre also involved in this too we should mention. 82 at high noon by 3 oclock at 90 in plenty of 90s will have on the board will take a look at that coming up little bit later on the broadcast robert. All right, thank you dave. Well our top story that were following
Bay by comparison. We still have heat advisory in place tells a formality of Solano County but were going to see some of those effects in Contra Costa County and probably napa counties as well into this afternoon expecting more round of temperatures in the 90s today, well try about 87 by 1 oclock by 4 to 89 but reaching 90s for highs well look at some of those locations for you coming up in a bit marty. All right dave thanks a lot. Lets get right to our top story this morning, the Oakland Unified School district has voted to eliminate its Police Department at the schools. The vote happened last night kron fours reyna harvey live in oakland. She has all the details on this rain. Marty good morning that decision by the board unanimous the board citing that there are other ways to go about implementing disciplined for their students on their various campuses were going to show you the moment that the decision actually came down. You can see Community Members reacting to the boards decisio
Accused of breaking one of the officers orbital bone. Now monahans Warning Police morale is the lowest he has seen in a long time. There is a lot of animosity toward the police, and we are feeling it not just in the protests where these anarchists take over it, but on the streets. On the street corners there is a feeling that they dont have to listen to the police, and that they are willing to fight the Police Officers. Harris also, mayor bill de blasio is being asked about the surge in Violent Crime which is plaguing the city and has been for weeks. We do not accept an increase in gun violence in new york city. We may be going through one of the most painful and exceptional moments in history with this pandemic. We may be going through profound social dislocation and a breakdown of the basic functioning of our criminal justice system, in terms of our courts. That is never going to stop us from fighting back. Harris early today, new York City Police commissioner, dermot shea, laid out
Routine, some very different news, telling us that Justice Ginsburg has been undergoing chemotherapy after suffering a recurrence of cancer. In a statement from the oldest member on the court, she says that she had a scan in february. There was also a biopsy that followed up on that and that that led her to see that there were lesions on her liver. Immunotherapy we are told initially which he tried did not work with the chemotherapy seems to be doing the trick. She remains fully engaged, doing work, its been a very, very busy term for her. She says she is fully able to continue to do so. Just a reminder for folks, shes a tough cookie. Shes had a long history with several battles for cancer in a. A decade later it was pancreatic cancer. In 2018, she underwent lung cancer. It was found after she fell and broke a couple rooms. Today this announcement about chemotherapy for a recurrence of liver cancer. Shes been hospitalized this term also with gallstones and with an infection related to