Even the coast will be slightly milder in the mid to upper 60s. Around the bay were talking numbers in the mid and upper 70s and near 90 inland. Lets get right to the latest numbers in the coronavirus pandemic. Cases are going up in more than 40 states. The cdc is forecasting there could be 175,000 deaths by august 15th. Here in california for the second day in a row we reported a record daily number of deaths. Yesterday it was 159, two more than thursday with more than 8,000 deaths total. The state has more than 435,000 cases now. And the seven day positivity average going, 7. 9 . Now, some Health Experts and Decision Makers say the only way out is to shutdown again and start over. Abc 7 News Reporter amanda del castillo has that story. Reporter more than 150 Health Experts across the u. S. Say its time to hit the reset button. Sfong them dr. Travis porco at nd see this crisis for what it is. A crisis thats not gotten any better. Its only gotten worse. Reporter the message shut it dow
Rates on hold at one quarter of 1 . The rbnz saying they are going to be they are committed to reviewing their quantitative easing program. The policy committee reached consensus on this decision. They are saying they are prepared to provide additional stimulus as is necessary. All the economists we talked to the benchmark Interest Rate in new zealand staying on one quarter of 1 . Little to no reaction on the new zealand daughter new Zealand Dollar. 64 u. S. Cents. Tom lets get some of the views from our guests at the bloomberg summit. Sharing their views on the prospects of a recovery from the pandemic. I do not think anybody can be confident with the kind of uncertainties that prevail. I would put say is my odds on a v shaped recovery. How we are going to share the burden in a credible way. It is not just financial and fiscal support. It is also regulatory charges we have undertaken to support the economy. As recently as early april, i saw china could only i thought china could only
Independence day weekend along the water, our reporter dave clark, nice to see bridge. We dont see a big backup at tells us that they are raising you. Concerns about trash collection you are here a little bit later, the toll plaza. If you are driving to San Francisco it should be good. Because youre in for mike around the east bay we have a today. To fire danger, and of course, nice looking drive on highway the spread of the coronavirus. Yes, i am in for mike today. Four. Theres not a lot of slow traffic. There you go. You can see the spots where we have slow traffic are light at the moment. Lets go back to the headlines. Health experts see kyla grogan is and for skyrocketing coronavirus cases in San Francisco, city leaders steve. We have colleagues enjoying time off. It seems like they will have a are now warning travelers, do not visit the city this fourth like every fourth of july with the bay areas weekend, every Holiday Weekend, nice weekend. The moon this morning was of july week
Tumlin will talk about this, but last week we did have a press event with supervisors peskin and preston announcing that we will be delaying our fare increases. Obviously when we were voting upon that fare increase, we could not have understood the magnitude of what was before us and not to mention we didnt really have a path forward in being able to fund the operations, so i want to thank you supervisors peskin and preston for working with us to come up with solutions which i cannot tell you what they are today. But to look at how we can fill those funding gaps which primarily effect us in year two of the budget cycle, not so much in year one. That will be coming back to us in the future. And also with that we will not be having a Charter Amendment related to sfmta. Thank director tumlin for his work in working with the supervisors, and just say it was a pleasure to be there to represent the board last week at kirkland lard. And with that, i will turn it on to the next item. All right
Just fell into the 60s holding on to 70 through the evening. Oakland at 60 right now with berkeley and San Francisco in the midfifties later today, a slightly cooler day but our coolest of weather still ahead come the weekend talking about that still ahead back to you thank you john on our top story, a grim outlook for the coronavirus there are now more than 2 million cases. In the United States and doctors are afraid that were going to see a spike of new infections in the next few months. Right now we have between 800 and a 1000 people dying every single day in america. And all of the models all the data suggest that things are going to get worse in have increases the virus hasnt gone away. Its not like were looking for for the second wave. The first wave isnt gone. The Harvard Global Health Institute predicts a 100,000 more coronavirus deaths in the u. S. By september a 100,000 people dying. 12 states including california has seen hospitalization. Rise since memorial day. And theres