Seeing its a and running right now eureka even parts of ukiah right now are getting some of that rainfall at the 7 oclock hour. But so we are not far off as to the bay areas going to be seeing some of that by 9 oclock thats were going to see the entire north bay looks like its a big going to be covered with this light to moderate shower activity and then by noontime we could see the entire bay area covered with it so i will give you more details on that about the timing of the storm system how long its going to last and how much rain were going to be seeing over the next couple of days, ill have that in just a bit for now, lets say good morning and pass it over to robin good morning to you as well the rains not even here yet and we already have problems with overturn crashes and downed trees and its still dry right so were down in san jose, this is the newest problem, northbound one i want to tally. Injury accident here one of the vehicles involved flipped over so we have crews on scen
Hold tight to those umbrellas if youre going to be outside stormtracker 4 live radar right now were seeing exactly where it is falling mainly in our north zone, so folks in santa rosa Nevado Petaluma getting showered on along one oh one and then also along the peninsula were pacifica get a little bit of this rain so far san Mateo Burlingame and its going to continue to move southeast and get the entire bay area and you can see that line of showers just behind it and that is on the way as well bringing us pockets of heavy rainfall times. Have the timing of system ill track it hour by hour. Let you know about that coming up in just a bit and how windy it is going to get in your neighborhood all and about 10 to 15 minutes from now for now head over to the Traffic Center and an update on the roadways. Yes, looking pretty good on the roads i do have some capital quarter delays. They had some mechanical issues earlier this morning so several trains are still behind schedule, especially 5. 23
Take a hit. The covid consumer, walmart, home depot and kohls among retailers reporting earnings today. Walmart says ecommerce sales up 79 . And elon musks billions, tesla getting a spot in the s p 500. It is among the highest valued companies to ever enter the benchmark index and musk is on top to become number three, that is the third richest person in the world. Indeed, guys. Well start with the retail picture this morning, jim, youve been vocal as to the investor response on home depot and walmart. I guess thats related to the news out of amazon. Look, by the way, those stocks do tend to run up in the quarter and sell off thats nothing new a more aggressive amazon is always something we have to Pay Attention to i remember when amazon bought pill packs, the drug stores got killed i also point out that walmarts online david, thats not going to go away you can argue someone is going to argue thats the peak i would argue that amazon and walmart have taken so much share in this country,
I thought it was and i originally set out the title of early treatments for covid essential component of a covid solution. It was inevitable was inevitable that the coronavirus pandemic would be politicized and this is a tragedy that it was paid from the start i knew it was impossible to have a perfect response and we are facing a new virus that caused an entirely new disease. No one wanted to under react and as a result i fear the tendency would be to overreact and create Unrealistic Expectations regarding our ability to stop a highly contagious pathogen. The challenges facing us were daunting and our National Strategic stockpile have been reduced during the h1n1 pandemic and had not been replenished. It took time to develop reliable tests and even more time to Scale Production to meet the demand. The fact that a large percentage of people that become infected exhibited no symptoms made the coronavirus even more difficult to detect and contain. I have tried not to criticize the electe
Cases, we talk about it every day. We need to im starting, i dont know what youre hearing, im starting to see anecdotal evidence that things are slowing down a bit in the economy. Im getting that too. Im getting people who are saying, i really would want to make a big spend, this is in terms of the big tech spend, for instance, i got to figure out what is going on or when are people coming back, are people ever going to come back . This stay at home versus go back to work, we thought it was resolved, we thought that things it was just a matter of time before you go back to work and those involve big Corporate Capital spending decisions and i think that those decisions are right now on the balance, because people dont know whether this thing is just going to continue to rage. I think we can expect it to continue to rage for the foreseeable future until the vaccine is widely available. There are people people are starting to curb their behavior thats what im referring to, and there are c