Healthcare community including hospitals. This morning i spoke to the president , speaking on the almost daily basis, sometimes several times a day im a and asked him about the state of the situation in her home state of illinois. Unfortunately, there still desperate for testing kits. Illinois has about 5000 more kids that were provided yesterday by private company. In the printing of our government but weve never seen the number of test kits that we believe are necessary to measure the current state of this coronavirus in her home state of illinois. The official count, and i might add that word official, is that we have had88 288 billing audiee infected into one totality. I believe the number of infections in the official report closely understates the in my home state of illinois. And once more tests are administered and we received results im afraid we are going to see a dramatic increase in the number of reported state. These cases yesterday, one to eight new cases were announced h
And if you are going out, a quick look shows low clouds clearing out into the day today because we are warming up with plenty of sunshine for everyone today. At the coast, 60 degrees and mid60s around the bay and low 70s into the inland communities. That is just the beginning of the warm up and i will talk about that in a bit. For now, we will see how the traffic is doing. We do have slow traffic at the bay bridge, not unusual. Its coming up on 6 00. 6 01 to be exact with slow traffic, as you might expect. Interstate 880, looking good into downtown oakland with some other commutes waking up. 680 out of pleasanton is slow heading south. 6 01 and back to the desk. The Oakland Unified School district officials will hold two meetings for parents and neighbors to update them on the temporary closure of Mcclymonds High School after a cancercausing chemical was detected under the school. Allie rasmus is live in oakland where district officials are waiting for test results. Reporter these two
Outside of china sent investors running for safety. Stocks are down following a selloff of overseas markets. For it ended at was down more than 1000 points. Right now, it is down by almost 3 losing 830 points. Depending on china for much of the business down about 3 1 2 right now, the nasdaq taking heavy losses done by three full percentage points. More than 70,000 people worldwide have been affected by the coronavirus. China is where the virus originated and it still has the majority of cases and deaths. However, the rapid spread to other countries is raising anxiety about the threat the outbreak may pose to the global economy. South korea is now on the highest alert after flu cases spike. Italy reported a sharp rise in cases and the northern part of the country is under quarantine. The new widow of nba legend kobe bryant sue the owner of the helicopter the crashed last month during her husband like. The lawsuit filed by Vanessa Bryant said the pilot was careless and negligent flying
Great military equipment, however, does not mean we have to use it. Reporter the president said he would be responding with economic sanctions after iran launched more than a dozen missiles at two iraqi bases housing u. S. Troops. These powerful sanctions will remain until iran changes its behavior. Reporter the white house now wants to negotiate a new nuclear deal. Yesterday there was a closed door meeting with administration lcied gofeneral qassem soleimanini. That was insulting. Reporter two republican senators spoke out saying the president needs to be held in check if theres further military escalation. It is not acceptable for officials within the executive branch to come in and tell us that we cant debate and discuss the appropriateness of military intervention against iran. Reporter in a rare act of defiance utah senator mike lee and kentuckys rand paul now say they will join democrats in voting for a war powers resolution. We need to have a debate about separation of powers. R
At new america for this Book Discussion of the book franchise that we will learn more about but learning about the black community over the past 60 years. A fascinating book of fellow in the class of 2017 in new america for go it was in then study africanamerican studies in georgetown and then teaches about women and girls history. I do a lot of work with the program here my favorite thing about the Fellows Program you look at it and say this is something i havent thought about. And that has always been my reaction to this story. Then its relationship to the Civil Rights Movement. And to help us understand the relationship. And my other favorite thing to be supportive of the colleagues. And then when you see that kind of cross pollination. So thats why im particularly excited. But this is in the same category as the center for justice and also the fellow at new america and has also been super engaged and those complexities of the economic experience. And then to get the conversation go