Prepping to set sail again right the total time to boost their new i. Q. So as u. S. China relations deteriorate decades old tensions in the South China Sea are ramping up between both countries well a number of nations have conflicting territorial claims in the region in the United States seems eager to strike that fire to the detriment of china our case alex one hell of it has that story. There from the United States armed forces are patrolling the South China Sea were conducting a lot of surveillance flights we have conducted a number of the Taiwan Strait transits we are continue to watch closely what the chinese are doing and the u. S. Is keeping an eye on china in its own neighborhood using intimidating military hardware such as b. One b. Supersonic bombers in the sky and warships in the water. The trumpet ministration also plans on deploying long range cruise missiles in the Asia Pacific Region china has called americas maneuvering and illegal trespass and has put the u. S. On no
Manufacturing, down 1. 3 million. Overall, whats striking is how fast we descended into a depressionlike situation and of course, we want to know how fast we are going to recover. White house economist larry kudlow will join us in just a few minutes. Is this as bad as it gets and whats the timetable for returning to growth . We will ask him. Before the news came out, the dow futures showed a gain of about 250 points. The moment we saw the numbers, dow futures were pretty much the same. We have now moved up a bit more. We are looking at a gain of 284 points but remember, these numbers were expected. They were already baked into stock prices. Stocks are up because investors are looking to the future, where the economys in recovery mode, and theyre looking at, what, 7 trillion worth of stimulus. That always goes down well on wall street. As we said, the dow up 280. The s p up 33. The nasdaq up 87. Lot of green despite the terrible numbers. Obviously, this is a big day for your money. Its
As of tuesday global deaths from coronavirus top 254000 the number of cases stand more than 3600000 a vaccine possibly and play now as u. S. Based Company Pfizer is working with german drug maker biotech and said theyve already started delivering doses of their experimental vaccine here in the United States will if the vaccine proves to be safe and effective it could be ready for us distribution by the end of the year well this comes as we reported yesterday the trumpet ministration is predicting a continuous surge in new cases based on a new model where up to 3000 daily deaths will occur by june 1st the white house now predicting a death toll of 134000 this is nearly double its previous estimate well the trumpet ministration is now. Reportedly looking to phase out the white houses krone task force and turning it over to Pandemic Response agencies by early june meanwhile more countries around the world are easing restrictions this includes hong kong which announced plans to relax socia
At temperatures in the 50s as we start the day with low clouds and fog along the coast and around the bay. Through the afternoon daytime highs seasonal if not above average for this time of year but not as warm as yesterday. 64 seven cisco for a high, upper 60s oakland, mid70s san jose and 77 for concorde. Around where we should be for this time of year and five degrees above average for this time. Cooler weather ahead. Details coming up. Lets check in with gianna for the latest on a Traffic Alert on the bay bridge. We have this Traffic Alert issued due to Police Activity that happened overnight on the upper deck of the bay bridge. If you are taking the commute out of the east bay into San Francisco, you will see some brake lights as you exit off this skyway. The lanes are blocked coming off of the bay bridge towards fremont. The right lane is available but they are using that to get traffic off of the bridge onto fremont. We are hoping to have one or two lanes opened up pretty soon. W
2. Is to you starting dave, sorry. Im here in my little box at home. Thank you for waking up with us in tampa. It is good to see you, i am dave clark, is the middle of the week, wednesday, april 29. Steve paulson is in his home office right now. Are you also talking about fog this morning . Let me tell you something. I just went upstairs to open up the windows because there is no doubt a seabreeze and it is warm. Its going to be cooler today, no doubt about it. Kicking on in april is unusual but not today, temperatures are on the cooldown, low clouds coming in, hire clouds above, its going to be a big dramatic change for some. After yesterday, upper ladies and low 90s. At is on sunday, a waste go here low clouds, high clouds, cooler with breezy winter, temperatures in the 50s here, i do not there changing because everybody is a cloudy to cloudy skies. There it is. 31 travis, my job is done here. It will be cooler today as soon as systems move in and that allows temperatures to take a t