A lifeline for sears that may be too little, too late. And the wait is over for baby yoda fans everywhere it is friday, february 21, 2020. Worldwide exchange begins right now. Good morning. Happy friday welcome to the show. Here is how stock futures are setting up their friday today. You can see here, stock futures indicating 140point drop for the average. S p open down about 17 points. The nasdaq is off by about 75. This is after a wild ride that had the dowdown about 350 points you can see there in that time lapse, a huge volatile trade in yesterdays session. In the bond market, 10year benchmark below the 1. 5 mark. 1. 48 there. Twoyear at 1. 37 . Treasuries a key focus as people buy up the safety of u. S. Government bonds lets send it over to Joumanna Bercetche in london with an update of what is happening around the world good morning. The handover from wall street has been interesting we are seeing a little green here shanghai composite up. The tech sector slightly better up 1. 1
Lanes blocked by an overnight crash and jammed up toward aza and jammed at popular and then lanes closed toward highway 92. As we mentioned, it was a Good Samaritan. Bob, someone died as a result of the crash. They werent even in the car. Why was someone standing on the freeway out there . Reporter they were trying to help the person who was in the initial accident and that is a Good Samaritan. And he was hit and killed by a hitandrun driver. Well have more on that. His shoes are out here in the nidal of southbound 101 and if you pan up and tilt up, you could see that blue scion van, that was the initial vehicle. That driver has been taken to the hospital with major injuries. That driver bounced off the side wall and ended up here in the southbound direction of 101. A couple of other cars hit him. The Good Samaritan pulled up in his bmw and saw what was happening and trying to help the diver but when the Good Samaritan got out of the car another driver in a blue or gray scion sadly sim
Can prepare and preseotect ourselves. For one thing, keep your hands clean, also try not to touch your face. Viruses often spread when we touch our mouths and eyes and nose. Also think about family preparedness and how to take care of someone who might be sick. They also had advice for schools, telling local schools to prepare for absenteeism and explore options for telelearning. Well have more at 11 00. For now, live at valley medical center, well send it back to you. Pretty big information from the county there. The Ripple Effect from the first patient to contract the virus from an unknown origin is greater than we thought. 93 people in solano people are kept in isolation or quarantine because they had contact with this patient. Jodi hernandez is live in fairfield with the latest on that situation. Jodi . Reporter garvin, and those 93 people are just the folks from the north bay vaca valley hospital. There are numbers of that womans family and her coworker whose are now under quarant
More than days. But its also very susceptible to cleaning products. Its mostly a person to person transmission that were concerned about for the communities. Reporter now county Health Officials are stepping up community surveillance. Literal phone banks are set up with county Health Workers calling people that may have come in contact with any of these individuals as well as people who have previously reported symptoms to see literally what their temperature is. Theyre calling throughout the community. They likened it to the type of thing you see on Election Night when the get out the their symptoms pp to make sure thst okay, and thats called community surveillance. Theyre stepping up that practice here ty now. But allen, i know this is something th weve talked about that could happen in the bay area and it is here. Havethe community, and we have to tions doesnt spread or we can slow the spread. It is, but were also in the middle of cold and flu season, a lot of people are sick. They
Reporter sand the mayor said she did nothing wrong. Supervisor ronin clearly disagrees and had discussions with the City Attorney to see if the mayor should face any possible penalties. That is the latest in San Francisco, im melissa colorado, nbc bay area news. Thank you. Busy at times, volatile at times for Pete Buttigieg today in the bay area. Lets take you live to sacramento. There is a town hall underway. He is not on stage yet. These are the people getting everyone ready for him. The candidate will try to meet as many california voters as possible ahead of the march 3rd primary. He is set to be on stage soon. Hes squeezing in events in palo alto and also right now at a town hall in sacramento. Nbc bay areas robert handa joins us live from palo alto to tell us how the morning breakfast went. Reporter well that is right. The candidate knowns as mayor pete got a very enthusiastic reception in both places, especially here in palo alto. But for those who are still trying to get to kno