Is actually familiar across a lot of the bay area tonight as many pg and e customers are bracing now for a 3rd day without power. Thank you for joining us at 10, im pam moore and im ken wayne pg needed start restoring power to some neighborhoods tonight, well bring you the latest on the shut offs in a moment, but first. Lets check in with our chief meteorologist Lawrence Karnow on the when and the heat or yet were not done with the win check in effect. Today we had some very impressive gusts around the bay area 65 mile an hour gust reported. Mount st. Louis that was early on in the morning, 57 mile an hour gust amount the album in the Santa Cruz Mountains 53 Miles Per Hour 52 healdsburg Oakland Hills almost 40 mile an hour gusts. Thats where were seen over the mountain tops especially not as windy down below, but certainly concerning as youve got very dry conditions youve got the hot temperatures record heat in place today and you got those strong offshore Winds Continuing to blow in f
California governor Gavin Newsom States response to the coronavirus outbreak. Newsom spoke to reporters in sacramento. Governor newsom good afternoon, everybody. Now in our next phase of the beginning process. Actualizing those plans in real time. Let me give you an update of where we are in the state of california. In the last four days we have seen a doubling of the number of hospitalizations related to covid19. In the last four days, double the population that has been hospitalized. We have always seen a tripling of the number of i. C. U. Patients in our system in the last four days. These have long been projected based upon our modeling and consequence. We have for weeks now been organizing ourselves around a require roughly 2 3 increase in capacity within our Hospital System. That requires three fundamental things. It requires finding new places to put people. Number two, it requires having adequate supplies from p. P. E. s to the ventilators. And importantly, number three, requir
Our retirees and people that are in the profession and havent finished licensings requirements via Nursing School or medical school. Phlebotomists, radiologist, emts , doctors, nurses, remarkable, remarkable spirit, and a remarkable number of individuals that stepped up and are willing to step in to meet covid19 headon. I want to give my comments by thinking all 25,000 and those of you that are out there that have the expertise and may have retired recently, are looking to get their license renewed check out the health course. Ca. Gov website and contribute your time and in a compensated manner to meet this moment. We are getting questions at this moment about masks. Not just and 95 masks not just surgical masks not just mass for frontline employees but healthcare professionals. People that are in the Grocery Stores wondering if they should have a mask people walking the streets and their dog and going to do essential business in the state of california weather appropriate for them or
Roth. Why are we not hearing more about this in Mainstream Media . Because the report on fox business but Mainstream Media too often, when it bleeds it leads. Businesses are expanding, they are hiring people, jobs are being created. Innovation is occurring in america, it is less sexy than you know dow plunges or recession is coming. Unfortunately not focusing on the market, 21 new highs in recent weeks, not focusing on price but focusing on story, and a lot of people missed stocks this year. I think for 2019, you had fed slashing rates that helped market as a whole, fed has not done that since toward end of the recession, tightest labor market since 1969. And heading into 2020, that is what weve been focuses on this network, is this rally going to continue . Will ure fundamentals there . It is adding up, china trade deal. And fed not admitting there are a lot of good signs that point to strength in 2020. What is amazing to me, this happening at the late cycle. You cant compare what hap
President biden. In it they describe biden as being sharp, fit and having striking stamina. Okay. Were going to take that one on. Meanwhile, former twitter Ceo Jack Dorsey endorsed robert f. Kennedy jr. And he wants to see primary debates and guess what hes predicting that kennedy will win the race. Well talk about that. Former fbi director james comey bashing President Trump and proving people are right to be concerned about partnership in our government agencies. Comey claims trump could be wearing an ankle monitor while accepting the gop nomination. Well tell you what he said also about biden. Lets take a look at oil. Big story this morning, jumping after saudi arabia Cutting Oil Production by a Million Barrels a day. That could mean of course higher prices at the gas bump, Oil Moving Higher there it is up 2. 5 . Lets take a look at the futures as the trading week kicks off with a nice rally at the end of last week. Today its all very muted a mixed bag the dow slightly down, s p sli