And by tomorrow well have temperatures in the upper 50s. Today upper 50s and low 60s. Back to you. All right. Thank you, steve. New this morning, firefighters in antoch are investigating an Early Morning house fire that started shortly after 3 00 this morning at a home on hillside road. Crews managed to control the flames in just about 10 minutes. A couple of preview six. The red cross has now arrived on the scene. The request for declaration of major disaster. Here now to tell us about the declaration and how its going to help out during the coronavirus outbreak. Good morning, steve. In a statement, the governor said the impact of coronavirus in california is already severe and will continue to get worse. Now, within hours, the president approved a major disaster declaration. That means federal funding is available to state and local governments for Emergency Support like disaster aid and Legal Services. Fema will supply eight emergency medical stations in california with 2,000 beds.
Reported case to reach the first. 100,000 cases. 11 days for the second 100,000 cases. And just. For. Days for the senate. 100,000. Cases. Now its 6 those are staggering statistics from the World Health Organization coronavirus cases around the world climbing at a rapid pace. Thank you so much for joining us here on kron 4 news at 6 im justine waldman. Globally there are now more than 375,000 cases of the coronavirus and over 16,000 people have died. And then in the us there are 43,000 cases and the number of deaths has topped 500 in california alone there are more than 2000 cases and 38 people have died. This information is all according to the Johns Hopkins University Coronavirus tracker map. An Alameda County has confirmed its first death related to the Coronavirus Health Officials Say the person had no known travel or known contact was someone who had a confirmed case of the virus. Officials are releasing very limited information about the patient. Only saying that they were elderl
Down toward hollister, Southern California. It will only be for a day, we have big changes by the weekend. More on that coming up in 10 minutes. Here is an update on your traffic. Traffic is picking up a bit, it is wrapping up on some areas. He had a lighter the neutral start. We are getting more crowding here and there. This is a look at the Richmond Bridge heading over to marin. There is slow traffic here. 80 was bound, 26 minutes. That is wrapping up to the normal time. At the bay bridge, we have a delay of 20 minutes before you make it onto this span. Another update minutes ahead. New this morning, chp says a big rig driver was not paying attention when he drifted off of the freeway in vallejo and caused a train reaction crash involving half a dozen cars. This is what it was like this before 2 30 this morning when the first call came in. Chp says a semi truck driver veered off of westbound 80, went through a fence, and onto a side street. There was a loud noise in the ground starte
And well continue that today. Sal castaneda is here. Happy friday. Same to you sir. Lets go out and see what you have with the morning commute. We dont have a lot going on. This is good. Its so early we dont have any slow downs even though weve had some minor wrecks here and there. No problems on interstate 80 and athy. 4 01. Lets go back to the desk. Pete buttigieg, the democratic president ial candidate will be here today. All of this as the president ial candidates are focusing on the west coast. Ktvus joits Jana Katsuyama has the latest. This is the guy thats going to beat donald trump. Martinez mayor rob schroder is part of the growing mayors for mike group. Also a former republican says he understands why gop has left the gop. Patty mitchell is a Bloomberg Campaign staffer. She says she was a Kamala Harris supporter until she dropped out. I started looking at the polls and felt like nobody could defeat trump. Mitchell says bloombergs rising poll numbers has raised interest in the
Go down a little bit. The system flew through and is moving to the south. Partly cloudy, cool and breezy and windy. Here is mr. Sal castaneda. Good morning to you. We start with highway 24 and you can see it looks pretty good driving to the tunnel with no major problems here. This is 582 the Richmond Bridge and a good stathere and might want to give yourself five minutes but its nice at the bay bridge toll plaza. At 4 01, back to the dspeaker n later this morning meets with fellow democrats to decide what to do about the impeachment of president donald trump. Doug luzader is on capitol hill where the house may vote tomorrow or thursday on who will be the house impeachment managers and also, sending the articles of impeachment to the senate. Reporter House Democrats are expected to meet today to talk about ending what has been a delay of almost a month inollege championship game in new orleans and hours later he would be tweeting about what would happen in congress, saying, this impeach