Sick leave. Health Officials Say the goal is to slow the spread of the virus in Alameda County where many people who test positive continue to work for fear of getting fired. Heres a look at the numbers in the bay area. There were 973 new cases for a total of over 56,000. San francisco and santa clara had the highest numbers with about 240 new cases each. 16 deaths were reported in the bay area including six in marin county and four in contra costa county. The bay area has now seen 858 deaths. As for the state numbers today, a total of more than 524,000. And there were 202 deaths bringing in the state death toll above 9700. The superintendent of california schools says work is underway to connect up to a Million Students to help with distance learning. The state is getting help from two high tech giants to get those kids connected. The start of school is just days away for some School Districts. Hundreds of thousands of students in california dont have access to computers, have poor in
Expressway closed. Now that is actually preventing any access to the schuylkill expressway westbound. The eastbound side is doing just fine. You can see the road closed signs here so no access to the westbound schuylkill. Take girard to the schuylkill expressway just for right now and they also have local detour signs posted throughout the area. We are still dealing with 11 minute drive him heading westbound from the vine street expressway toward the blue route and eastbound side of the schuylkill expressway from the blue route up to the vine 12 minutes there. No problems on 95. 15 minute trip there from the schuylkill up to the vine street expressway. Mass transit no problems or delays so far. Indicted. Longtime congressman chalk a fa talk of philadelphia is accused of bribing and stealing money intended for charity and dates back to his failed race for mayor in philadelphia in 2007. The indictment alleges his misuse of congressional influence and misspending of taxpayer money and cha
Morning in reading and up by two in trenton and wilmington and millville six degrees warmer. Which means 70s to start with. Hourbyhour forecast we can see some clouds that are around. A few spotty showers possible this morning and storms this afternoon. Ill be back with the hourbyhour future cast in ten minutes. Jessica boyington here with your first alert traffic. We are starting things out right now in Montgomery County on 422 so right around trooper road where we see a drive time hasnt really been lifted yet. Eight minutes from 29 to the schuylkill expressway. The eastbound side here. You can see that drive time. Westbound doing just fine as well. Heading out the door on to 95 our drive times havent creeped up at all so southbound from wood haven road to the vine street expressway the same trip if youre going northbound and going the opposite direction. Arlington township fallen power cable around edge hill road. Take rockwell road to get through the area and mass transit youre free
But those have died down. That is not the main threat. This is. The storms moving through southwestern pennsylvania. Right along North Central pennsylvania too. That line of storms will be moving in. Before it gets here the temperatures will head up. You see mostly cloudy skies right now. We will see some breaks of sunshine. 79 degrees at 8 00. Middle 80s by 11 00. At 2 00 this afternoon, 90 degrees and then we will be watching for storms during the later afternoon hours in philadelphia. We will go through the future cast hourbyhour when i come back in ten minutes to show you when the storms will likely arrive in your neighborhood. If youre heading out the door right now Jessica Boyington has your first alert traffic. We are working through a work zone here on 295 in new jersey. As you can see right here around the black horse pike we are having work zone here in the center. We are losing some shoulder on either direction. Left hand shoulder. Good news the off ramp is open here. Vehicl
That tro Officials Say the father walked off. Father and he walked into a store on landover road. A Security Guard noted that and called 911. Thereafterht shortly and is now set to be in custody waited to be handed over to metro transit police. We will continue to follow the story throughout the day. At least 51 people are feared dead after a plane crash during an Emergency Landing in taiwan. Centralg to the taiwan news agency, the plane was heading from the southern port city to the island. A Civil Aviation Ministry Said the flight was operated by trans asia airways. No details are available at this time. Two fighter jets were shot down in ukraine not far from the Malaysia Airline flight 17 crash site. Some of the bodies of the victims arrived in the netherlands. In ukraine, the investigation continues. In holland today, a day of mourning. From malaysiains Airlines Flight 17 finally arriving nearly one week after the plane was shot down. The grim task of identifying the bodies is now