Hour. Fox Business Team coverage. Blake burman in washington today, Hillary Vaughn in wilmington, delaware. The president elect is meeting with a group of governors. Grady trimble in chicago where businesses brace for more lockdown related loss. First we start with Lauren Simonetti about the new cdc warning about thanksgiving travel. Lauren . Lauren good to see you, the cdc is urging americans not to travel for thanksgiving one week from today. Were in the worst of the pandemic yet. Over one million americans infected in the past seven days. 80,000 in the hospital. Still look at these numbers. 50 Million People will hit the roads to see family and friends next week. While that is 10 fewer than last year, it is still a large number of people traveling. Nearly all of them, 95 will be traveling by car. So if you are hosting a gathering, this is the cdcs recommendation. Keep it small. Keep it outside. If youre attending thanksgiving gathering, the cdc says bring your own food, drink, plate
Tonight. Im ama daetz. Im dan ashley. Good evening. More than 18,000 californians have been diagnosed with coronavirus. Imagine the entire town of maraga getting sick. Its the second record in five days. On saturday the record was 15,442 new cases. For perspective, over the past seven days, weve averaged fewer than 14,000 new cases. Over the past two weeks, the average is roughly 11,000. Here is another way to understand whats happening in this graph you can see our summer spike right there in the middle and on the right, the current surge, which eclipses anything weve experienced so far. In many ways, the timing couldnt be worse. Today is expected to be one of the busiest days of thanksgiving travel despite numerous and repeated warnings from Health Agencies against traveling or gathering. Lets take a live look at the bay bridge toll plaza, San Francisco International Airport and 101 in san jose. Sky 7 was over 680 in the east bay. You can see plenty of cars on the road at 1 00 in the
The nasdaq holds in the green up by a quarter of 1 for the week and all week long stimulus uncertainty has been hanging over this market and on that point the president elect joe biden is meeting this afternoon, nancy pelosi and Chuck Schumer, we will have more on that in the other meeting that were going to watch very closely this hour, President Trump has invited a group of state legislators from michigan into the white house. I am connell mcshane, welcomed after the bell we have a lot going on in his time to get straight to the news happening at this hour. Lauren simonetti, blake burman and Hillary Bonner standing by to cover the news, we start with you lauren on the latest figures on the virus, what are we seeing . Their moving in the wrong direction, the grid numbers coast to coast, new u. S. Pieces topping 100,000 for 17 days in a row and over the past week the u. S. Is averaging 166,000, new cases a day, this is happening right before the holidays with families gathered together
A bit of slowing as well. Contra costa county looks great. 101 northbound, both of those activities are off to the right shoulder. Theres the rest of the bay, so marcus, right over to you. Thats right, mike. New overnight, a potential make problem cleared before the morning commute. Crews have just reopened the connector to 101 and 880. This is video from just after that crash. Luckily no injuries have been reported. Parents are sending a strong message to the president of the Oakland Unified School district, bob, tell us why parents are so frustrated. Reporter parents in oakland are angry about pending School Closures and possible budget kut. The acting president for the unified school district, she spoke at a Community Meeting at emerson to let parents know tonight the board will be considering 15 million in cuts in order to meet their 3 reserve. This video provided to us by a members of oakland not for sale, a Group Opposed to those cuts. When london finished speaking last night, a
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