Disaster zones opening up right in the heart of central park. States from florida to rhode island now vowing to crack down and quarantine those fleeing new york, as these Health Care Heros come to the rescue this morning. Cruise ship nightmare. The desperate situation on board the zaandam. The ship stuck on high seas as ports turn it away. Four people dying. Nearly 200 on board suffering flulike symptoms. We hear from the americans on board this morning. Instacart and amazon workers planning a big strike this morning, protesting conditions and saying they need more tekt if gear. Tornado outbreak. 22 twisters leave a trail of damage across three states. An ef3 strikes arkansas. The new Severe Weather threat this morning. Youll always be my baby and concert for america. Some of the biggest stars in the world coming together from their living rooms, from mariah carey dont let the sun go down on me to elton john. Tell me why and the backstreet boys. How theyre raising spirits and money for
And up to 200,000 deaths. The president listening to his medical advisers and he has adjusted policy. The social distancing rules will be extended until april 30th. Therefore, the shutdown of the economy will continue well beyond easter. The president says the recovery will start by june 1st. On the markets, expect continued volatility. We have certainly seen that already today. At one point early this morning, futures showed a loss of a couple hundred points. Now we are looking at a gain at the opening bell of a couple hundred points. That would be almost 1 . A similar gain, better gain, actually, for the nasdaq, up about 1. 25 and the s p also up over 1 . A rally at the opening bell. Investors seem to like the idea of more pain now so we get out of it faster. The other big financial story is the price of oil. This is apart from the virus. This is the price of oil. Look at it. Its down to 20 a barrel. Earlier it hit 19. 20. 48 is the price right now. The saudis have declared war on Am
With 646 cases. Nbc bay areas bob redell joins us live from livermore where shes sheltering from home. Bob, do we know what the governor is actually going to talk about . Reporter outside of what you mentioned, there is another issue. We have a vague notion, at noon, this news conference, governor gavin newsom will announce a major surge in the California Health care workforce. I reached out to his press office to get a better sense of what that entails. They told me to wait til noon. Here locally youll have to get used to staying at home for a little bit longer. And for nonessential businesses to stay closed. Sources tell nbc bay area news all nine bay area counties plan to extend the shelter at home order until may 1st to help slow the spread of the coronavirus and this jibes with what you were saying, marcus, about what we expect the governor to announce as well. In the east bay the head of the regional parks is pleading with people to practice better social distancing. The district
Live from the cbs bay area studios, this is kpix 5 news. Were looking live from our exclusive salesforce camera. Good morning, everyone. It is monday march 30th. I Michelle Griego in the cbsn bay area newsroom. Things for waking up with us. Lets look at weather and traffic starting off with mary lee whos working from home today. How are things working looking out there . Good morning kenny and michelle. Happy monday to you. We are starting off the day with cloudy skies and Cool Temperatures in the 40s and in the 50s. As we show you that live look oakland at 34, livermore, looking at mid 40s and offer santa rosa. As we head to the day, 60 in San Francisco, 62 oakland and 66 for san jose. I will have what you can expect for the rest of the week coming up. That is your look at weather. Lets go to gianna for a look at traffic. It is very quiet if you are an essential worker or if you have a very important errand to run today, you wont have any troubles on the roadways right now. You can se
The virus out. Is contagious work is under quarantine containing the disease is a tremendous challenge in our highly networked world. Going viral will a new type of Infectious Disease dramatically change the way we do business. Its globalization allowed. To spread around the planet at such incredible speed but now the whole concept of globalization itself is ailing the outbreak has brought Global Supply chains to a standstill including the most important one during a pandemic medical supplies and pharmaceuticals a serious example illustrating just how dependent the entire world has become on just one economy by far the biggest player in the Global Supply chain china and now countries around the world are concerned about shortages and. This pharmaceutical wholesaler currently has 130000 different medications stored in its warehouses its appliance pharmacy across germany. So what about the future. The main concern is that many pharmaceutical products and active ingredients are produced i