Surrounding the coronavirus outbreak, in the east bay, the city of hayward is issuing a call for volunteers for things like delivering food or supplies to the elderly, or working at the mblg volu the emergency volunteer center. Anyone 18 or older with transportation sign up at the website. In the north bay starting to tomorrow the catadi Rohnert Park School district is providing free drivethrough meal assistance for 18 and under, daily 11 00 a. M. To 1 00 p. M. And you can see the participating schools. Major changes to b. A. R. T. Set to kick in tomorrow, all stations run from 5 00 tom to 9 00 p. M. Every weekday, three hours less than normal. Weekend service will be reduced to 8 00 a. M. To 9 00 p. M. Starting this upcoming saturday. You have to be in the train system by 8 45 p. M. The changes are in response to a steep drop in riders and money lost during the coronavirus outbreak. B. A. R. T. Ridership is down 90 . We see the bay area normally bustling on a saturday night at bars, r
Will find that necessary. David the number of confirmed cases, 16000 and death toll rises to 216. The dow had been positive this morning though until new york Governor Cuomo announced a stayathome order for one 100 of new yorks socalled nonessential private workforce. Devastating news for the Financial Capital of the world. The dow closing down 927 points. This is bulls bears, weve got you covered on all of the latest news. David as men. Edward lawrence is looking at the 1 trilliondollar stimulus package being debated now on capitol hill. Like berman has developing news from the white house. As for that trillion dollar stimulus package, nancy pelosi spoke by phone this afternoon, earlier today at the white house, President Trump spoke with Chuck Schumer as well. The president is saying today they are not that far apart. The hope is that this trillion dollar package can get to the white house sometime next week. We had a very good telephone conversation, extremely good with each senator
Thunderstorm and the beach hazard statement going into effect. It is 49 with clouds in the south bay, with 49 in sunnyvale, 50 san 00 close, 41 sebastopol. Were in the mid50s by 10 00 and by 1 00 showers pop up along the coast, the east bay. Look what happens at 4 00, its a rainy afternoon in hayward, Mountain View and gilroy but not much going on in the north bay. As we go through the dinner hour, still showers east bay to the south bay and well see these dial back through the overnight hours. Well talk about a cooler monday and more showers for the upcoming work week in a few minutes. This morning a couple of notes surrounding the coronavirus in the east bay, hayward issues a call for volunteers for delivering food or supplies to the elderly, or working at the emergency volunteer center. Anyone 18 or older with transportation sign up at the website. In the north bay starting to tomorrow the rower in Park School District is providing free drivethrough meal assistance for 18 and under,
People who have already tested positive. They do not want the virus to spread any further so well talk more about how theyre going to handle them once they get and oakland, im darya folsom and im James Fletcher will get all that half a moment first want to check with weather and traffic find out of 30 problems out we did you will begin in the Traffic Center robin thank you we do have a hot spot that were waiting to a clear get out of the way it happened at 5 30 this morning. And that really stacking up traffic on westbound 80 its 80 west after solano avenue. Its a multi vehicle accident that theyre working with in the 3 left lanes so Traffic Alert remains in place. And its really impacting people on the upper east shore freeway its crawling out of hercules back from highway 4. But if you get on the freeway anywhere after the crash. Its going to be wide open for you 60 minutes right now total for the drive time from crockett down to the maze, heres a peek at the bay bridge toll plaza if
People. Empty store shelves becoming the norm this morning. Amazon to hire a hundred thousand workers and Major Grocery chains adding jobs as well to keep up with demand as well. More countries closing borders. Things have reversed course and dow industrials showing decline of 96. Nasdaq up 29 but s p is are youer by 12 and a half after dow, nasdaq and s p 500 had biggest oneday point loss in history. It was 13 in a day. 12 and a third percent and the s p gave up 324 points yesterday, 12 , yeah, quite a day on wall street. Primary day on ohio. Voting still taking place in arizona, florida and illinois. Mornings with maria is live right now. Maria we want to check Global Markets this morning, asian markets were mixed overnight. Remember, we did have a pretty good upswing at the end of the day coming off of the lows and into the premarket, this morning we had rally and that reversed. In china, the shanghai composite down third a percent. Oil prices rising after hitting new 52week low yes