County remains in the yellow tier tonight but that may be changing soon meantime Contra Costa County has moved from the orange tier to the more restrictive red tier an increase in cases and hospitalizations is the cause for both instances for the first time in weeks not a single california county is moving forward in the states reopening system. Contra costa counties actually moved from the orange here back to the more restrictive red tier kron fours dan kerman has more on the restrictions there everything from Retail Stores to Fitness Centers will be impacted by contra costa. Countys latest round of rollbacks and its all due to an increase in covid19 weve seen or cases go up about 25 over the last couple weeks and our test go up as well and most concerning weve seen our hospital numbers of patients in the hospital due to covid. More than double from less than 20 patients to more than 40 the move from orange back to red means beginning this friday Retail Stores will be limited to 50 ca
We need to prevent a collapse of the medical system. Stricter measures are necessary now. The request for establishments that serve alcohol to close early is expected to last for 20 days. Officials sabusiness that comp will be entitled to subsidies. Tokyo officials are also planning to suspend the campaign that offers discounts on dining and are urging residents to refrain from nonessential outings. Pub owners disappointed by the news. This is the third time april they have been asked to close early. Sgltsz the last two times i thought the measure was inevitable, but this time i feel, not again. They shouldnt just ask us to shorten our business hours, but rath take drastic steps to tackle the virus. Otherwise this will happen again. The measures come just a day after the Central Government temporarily excluded sapporo and osaka city from a Domestic Tourism campaign aimed at the stimulating the economy. Despite the spike in tokyo, it will remain part of the campaign. So far on wednesday
Thanks so much for joining us. Im laura garcia. And im marcus washington. Mike has a look at that commute. First lets start out with meteorologist kari hall with a look at the terrific tuesday forecast for us. It is looking pretty good. Lets look at what were expecting. Were still under the red flag warning for today especially for the north and east bay hills. Were going to have some warm temperatures for this afternoon just slightly above normal. Overall very comfortable and youll be happy to know we do have calmer weather for the end of the week once these winds really start to go down. As we go through the forecast today we are going to have high temperatures reaching into the mid70s for much of the inner bay and our inland valleys. A few low 80s on the map. Well be tracking that red flag warning and our high fire danger. More on that coming up in a few minutes. Mike, how is it looking now . The dumbarton bridge looking slow. I did check no construction and we often see that headin
House democrats accuse apple, google, facebook and amazon of abusing their market power and that Congress Needs to rein them in. Eli lilly asking the fda to authorize emergency use for its experimental covid19 antibody cocktail those shares are rallying ahead of the open. Jim, markets trying to do a bit of a reset now as goldman weighs in this morning and says airline stimulus likely, further ppp probably not likely. What are we . Well, i mean, i think that the market went down after what the president said the president was talking about market hitting new highs and the only person that was sending them down was him. I think he does react. I think it is probably, youre not going to get that, say, listen, the dow was down, there is really in other reason. He completely dismissed Speaker Pelosi i dont know what he did with what secretary mnuchin was speaking about, whether there were phone call going on and they were irrelevant obviously he addressed the fact that the senate was interes
Underscoring japans relationship with the asean relationship and boosting ties with the two indopacific cntris. Translator at the two summits we created japans wish to create a peaceful and prosperous future in the region together with asean nations. We agreed to deepen cooperation toward that goal. Strengthening the japanasean partnership will lead to Economic Prosperity and will become a cornerstone of a free and open indopacific. Suga stressed that japan opposes activities that endanger security in the south china sea, urging involved parties to follow the rule of law. The comments are in apparent reference to chinas increasing maritime activities in the region. Beijing and other asean countries, including vietnam, have competing territorial claims. The Prime Minister also said japan will work with vietnam and indonesia to revitalize all three economies in the wake of the coronavirus pandemic. Translator with vietnam, we agreed to resume regular flights connecting the two countries