Reopened in new york on chris james reporting. Joe biden is calling for a nationwide mask mandate saying that it could save thousands of lives in the next 3 months. Every single american. Should be wearing a mask when theyre outside. For the next 3 months at a minimum. Every governor should mandate. Every governor should mandate. Mandatory maskwearing. The estimates by the experts are will save over 40 1000 lives. The next few months. 40,000 lives. Biden goes on to say wearing a mask is less about the individual contracting the virus and more about preventing others from getting sick and tonight more than half the states in the country require people to wear masks when out in public. Here in the bay area there are more than 64,000 coronavirus cases and 924 related deaths we are seeing the most cases in Alameda County with over 14,000 infections. The virus has also been deadliest in alameda. County with 216 deaths you can find a complete list of cases by county and city on our website k
Today we are in the 60s and 70s. It is close to average for this time of year. Sally is here to see if there is anything new. Good morning. There is not a lot that is new. I do not see a lot of slow traffic. I do see some. That is at the bay bridge. The bay bridge here is the story with that, it is the slowest commuted by far. All other commutes look good. This one does not. Anecdotally, we hear that people are not wanting to take part. They want to bring their own car. I dont blame them. You want to stay in your own bubble and stay safe. We are going to get a backup at the bay bridge toll plaza of about 15 minutes for we make it onto the span. It is 6 01. Lets back to the headlines. We are still following breaking news, firefighters are battling a grass fire in clayton. It might have been started by fireworks. The flames are near the clayton palms mobile Home Community off marsh creek road. That is the same neighborhood that saw the marsh fire get dangerously close last summer. The fi
61, sunny for all today, it looks pretty good here. Any fog, there could be fog ramping up. It looks good, nice, warm, mild and that low is going to reposition itself along the west coast starting tomorrow. Today is all about sunshine and temperatures pretty close to where they should be this time of year. Lets head over to sal now. Is there a place you would like to begin besides the bay bridge toll plaza . We are going to start at the Richmond Bridge and we do have a little bit of slow traffic there as you come up on the Richmond Bridge. Traffic is going to be a little slow. It is improving a little bit but it was slower about 10 minutes ago. You can see it and this might improve right away but we will keep an eye on it for you. We are also looking at the actual toll plaza of the bay bridge westbound, and that is backed up you and the 880 over causing but 880 itself looks okay. Did a 7 01, lets go to the headlines. Breaking news coming in right now from europe about Global Travel dur
Wayne. The governor says his Administration Just started discussing the option the idea would be to make up for the time students of losses spring because of the shelter in place some fours michelle case and talk a bay area educators who say they are willing to do whatever is the best for the students. Theres been a learning loss and you can either just wrong. You know roll over and just accept that or you can do something about it so thats i think it if we can maybe start the school year low earlier that would help mind that gap a little bit close that gap a little bit at this point its just a possibility, but california governor Gavin Newsome said in his press conference on tuesday the school year may started bit earlier this summer nowhere to she comments were more like what it is. Right earlier this month, the governor also addressed with school may look like next year staggered schedules an extra cleaning obviously none of us ever could have imagined that this would be our reality
Preparedness stage. That means that all mortars, improved testing, access to protective gear and ample hospital capacity. Next up is stage 2 where retail, retail pickup can resume come along with restarting manufacturing and offices that can accommodate social distancing. Stage 3 includes higher risk environments like nail salons, movie theaters and gems. Major events like concerts and conventions are phase four and will likely remains offlimits for some time until there is immunity or some vaccine. Those in the Construction Industry tell us they anticipate the local ban on building to be lifted very soon. They have been talking to officials about the changes they have made to safely restart. New at 10 tonight, trans one tran once amber lee with what she learned. Reporter people in the Construction Industry expect the band to be listed any day and jobsites will look different. We built the little hot water stations, little insta hot , which is actually better for us and washing our han