And im kristen sze. Thanks for joining us. A couple of grim milestones today with the coronavirus. The state of california has well over 2,000 confirmed cases. The bay area topped the one thousand mark this morning as the virus keeps spreading that includes a San Francisco Police Sergeant with the special victims unit who worked at the hall of justice. The sergeant has tested positive. A second Oakland Police employ plo has tested positive and a fourth santa clara sheriffs deputy has been infected while Los Angeles County reported the first person under the age of 18 to die in the u. S. From coronavirus. Now here is where those cases are in the bay area. Santa claras case count went up today by 54, pushing the total to 375. There were three new fatalities there reported within the past 24 hours. The south bay continues to be the most impacted county here. Alameda county reported a second death today. Its total case count is now 135. And San Franciscos total has increased to 152. There
Its total case count is now at 135. [ closing bell ] the possibility of a deal on a stimulus package prompted a massive rally on wall street today with the dow jones recording its largest ever point gain. A look at the numbers. Te dow squlujumped more than 21 partial Government Shutdown clintons at 20,704. The s p 500 soared more than 200 points today and the nasdaq gained 557 points. Thousands of people in the bay area are out of work as a result of the covid19 pandemic, and not surprisingly, the California Employment Development Department Says its seen a spike in unemployment claims this month. As the department attempts to keep up, some requirements have been waived to help those who need it most. There is also the possibility of benefits for independent contractors who normally wouldnt qualify. Abc7 News Reporter Melanie Woodrow has the story new at 6 00. Reporter san jose mom tamara cor corbeli is spending more time with her daughter since the covid19. She is a catering director
Maria joining joining the convn fox business Dagen Mcdowell. Wall street journal assistant page editor james freeman, great to see everybody today. Great to be here. Maria we have the jobs number in 3 and a half hours. Dagen tweet get away last night. Jobs friday. Dagen we root for the american economy. Maria this week the kickoff to the Fourth Quarter, tough one for the economy and for the markets certainly dow industrials this morning looking down about 88 points, s p down 10 and nasdaq down 28, major averages on track since the worst week in august, investors waiting on jobs report, the expectations call for 125,000 jobs to have been added to the economy in the month of september with tun employment rate Holding Steady at 3. 7 , we are looking at this week that was tough because of manufacturing, ism data, the Manufacturing Sector weakening, but lets not forget this market is pretty close to alltime high. I think its 23 where it closed on christmas eve, 2018, as far as the job repor
Here in the pocono mountains, but its still in the 80s. Theres a lot of sunshine. Thats one of the big differences between yesterday and today. Yesterday the clouds held the temperature down and the high was 86. Its already 86 degrees in philadelphia and in allentown. 81 in mt. Pocono. So, going to be well into the 80s there and into the 80s near the shore. But the higher humidity is making it feel like it is in the 90s already. And that of course will go up as we go through the afternoon. By noon were 88. 3 00, 92 degrees. It will be feeling more like its 95 or 96. By 6 00 were still hot. Well see how long this heat wave gets and when the peak is for the sevenday in a few minutes. Skyforce10, meanwhile, over a broken water main in northeast philadelphia this morning. This happened just after 6 00 a. M. At roosevelt boulevard and sandy core road off cottman avenue. The Philadelphia Water Department tells us a 12inch main broke and crews are working to fix it right now. No customers wer
Politicians in our area. Pennsylvania congressman chaka fattah indicted op charges of corruption but tonight he vows to stay in office. Good evening im ukee washington. Jessica is off tonight. Federal Authorities Say fattah mishandled hundreds of thousands of dollars of charitable and campaign funds. Eyewitness News Reporter david spunt is in our Satellite Center right now with a closer look at the charges against the influential democrat. David. Reporter ukee the congressman mentioned numerous times in this 85 page indictment indictment. He denies any wrongdoing but federal officials they believe and they are confident that he will be behind bars at some point. The conduct that congressman fattah engaged in undermines public safe and government. Blunt words from us attorney zane david hem injury who laid out this case against congressman chaka fattah. Fattah and his associates engaged in a coverup lasting years in an effort to avoid detection. Reporter the 29 count indictment tells th