The cdc is worried that small get togethers could turn into super spreaders. There are 88,000 people in the hospital with covid19 in the u. S. Thats a record according to the covid19 tracking project. The number of deaths yesterday topped 2100. The most since early may. And Johns Hopkins says the u. S. Has recorded 22 Straight Days of at least 100,000 daily cases. We have a reporter in washington. Health officials fear its going to get worse. Yes, tom. Because even though thanksgiving travel is way down this year over last, still, a Million People a day packed airports across the country last weekend. Many americans are scaling back thanksgiving this year. Were going to do a zoom call or face time. Well make some type of contact and, you know, give thanks just to be over the phone. Health Officials Say small gatherings are the biggest spreaders of the coronavirus. The risk is high for families. There is just no way to sugarcoat that. Still, triplea expects up to 50 million americans to
Im ann marie green. Were going to begin this morning with a preview of the final debate between President Trump and joe biden. Theyll be at Belmont University in nashville tonight making the closing arguments to the public with just 12 days to go until the election. Meantime, top intelligence officials held a rare last minute News Conference yesterday saying russia and iran used Voter Registration information to influence the election. So natalie brand is in nashville. Natalie, is there any impact at all on Election Security . This was quite a stunning press conference. It was. And National Security officials stress that integrity of the election is intact. They say the goal by adversaries was to sew chaos and distrust. All of this coming in the final critical days of election season and ahead of this final faceoff of the candidates who have taken different approaches to prepping for tonight former president barack obama held an event for him yesterday and biden took a break to prepare
Live from the cbs bay area studios, this is kpix5 news. Now at 4 30, looking live from our exclusive tower camera and we are looking east. Beautiful lights of the city in the east bay and the sparkling bay bridge. Its friday, my favorite day of the week, september 20. Awesome. Im michelle griego. And im kenny choi. Lets get a check of the forecast. If you like warm, youre going to get it. Thats right, kenny and michelle. We are looking at temperatures warming up as we head through our afternoon with plenty of sunshine. First of all, looking at our cam. You can see our Golden Gate Bridge with clear skies. Temperatures running in the 50s and 60s. 61 oakland. 53 liver more. 50 in san francisco. 59 san jose and 50 for santa rosa. Taking you through the day and what you can expect. Temperatures will be above average. For san francisco, 74. Oakland, 79. 84 in san jose. Looking at 87 in concord. Temperatures running anywhere from 3 to 4 degrees above average. Were going to continue with that
We are only going to watch our temperatures climb as we head through the week. Details coming up. Here at 5 00 lets check in with your bridges. Live with the bay bridge this morning. You are starting to see it stack up a little bit in those cash lanes but the rest of it looks really easy. Really not all to report. San mateo bridge this morning is a little bit busier but really no issues, no stalls, no crashes nothing thats going to be slowing you down. In the eastbound direction everything there looks good. Everything looks good there as well. No lane closures on your approach. All of that construction is wrapped up or at least not happening in the approach for some time. Your overall drive times are mostly in the green with the exception of the altamonte pass that is a 35minute drive. There is a wind advisory in effect for those of you headed westbound or eastbound. Two people managed to escape without major injuries after their small plane crashed in the pacific ocean. It went down a
Roadways. No major issues slowing you down here at 5 00. The were going to start with a look at your travel times where only one is in the yellow. For those of you headed westbound out of the tracy triangle that is a 31minute drive. The accident in the eastbound direction. So the non commute direction has now been cleared. Even better there. Highway 4 still clear 101 coming out of the south bay. Just a second ago out of the altamonte pass. Metering lights are not yet on at the bay bridge and you are really starting to get stacked up in those cash lanes. If youre a fastrak customer good luck to you you have pretty much the whole roadway to yourself. Thats not going to be the case for long. Looking at the san mateo bridge as well also getting busier here at this hour. We are not seeing delays or crashes or anything slowing you down once we get across the bridge. Eastbound is good to go and clear as well. The Richmond San Rafael bridge looks the best out of all the bridges. Not even on th