In southern california. Below that, low clouds. Otherss and 60s along the temperatures right now. Sal is here now. We have the springtime blues, not the summertime blues. It has been a tough one here. Whoever requested that, and i appreciate that, maybe is looking forward to summer. Good morning, everyone. Lets go out and fake a look at what we have now. This is a live look at interstate 280 and san jose. That is 280 on the right northbound. And southbound on the left, you can see traffic is move ago long very well. Not really a lot of slow traffic, and we havent had that many incidents right now around the bay. So we are off to a good quiet start on this thursday. Now, at 4 31, lets go back to the headlines. In just a few hours from now, new york city will update numbers of coronavirus cases and deaths. More than 1500 people have died there in the past two days. One researcher says the virus was likely spreading within the city as early as february and broadway theaters are announcing
And im kristen sze. Thanks for joining us. A couple of grim milestones today with the coronavirus. The state of california has well over 2,000 confirmed cases. The bay area topped the one thousand mark this morning as the virus keeps spreading that includes a San Francisco Police Sergeant with the special victims unit who worked at the hall of justice. The sergeant has tested positive. A second Oakland Police employ plo has tested positive and a fourth santa clara sheriffs deputy has been infected while Los Angeles County reported the first person under the age of 18 to die in the u. S. From coronavirus. Now here is where those cases are in the bay area. Santa claras case count went up today by 54, pushing the total to 375. There were three new fatalities there reported within the past 24 hours. The south bay continues to be the most impacted county here. Alameda county reported a second death today. Its total case count is now 135. And San Franciscos total has increased to 152. There
Welcome senator bernie sanders. [applause] low. Thank you all for coming out. And today i want to talk about some of the very important issues facing our country, but before i get to some of them, i wanted to take a moment to address the events in iraq and the escalating crisis in the middle east. Yesterday, President Trump ordered the assassination of a top iranian general, custom soleimani in iraq along with an iraqi militia. This is a dangerous escalation that brings us closer to another disastrous war in the middle east. Which could cost countless lives and trillions more dollars. And lead to even more deaths, more conflict, more displacement in that already highly volatile region of the world. When i voted against the war in iraq in 2002, i feared that it would result in greater the stabilization in that country and in the entire region. At that time i warned about the deadly socalled unintended consequences of a unilateral invasion today, 17 years later that fear has unfortunatel
The big market mover is gold, and this is a classic flight to safety. Its getting closer to 1600 an ounce. Thats a sevenyear high. 1577, up 25 bucks as of now. Price of oil, 63 a barrel. Can you imagine where the price would be if the general had been killed a few years ago, before america became Energy Independent . Got it. Here are the late news developments. The iranians threaten retaliation. Hundreds of thousands marched through tehran for the generals funeral. The iranians say they will no longer comply with Nuclear Enrichment limits contained in the nuke deal from which mr. Trump was already withdrawn. No backing down from President Trump. Oh, no. After the iraqis demanded the withdrawal of american troops, the president threatened to send them a bill for the bases we had built for them and he threatened to respond to any iranian attack by going after cultural sites. This has been hard line trump. In washington, Speaker Pelosi will organize a vote this week to restrict the presid
Committee will come to order. Let me think our witness for your patience. We are now ready to proceed under the five minute rule and i will give myself five minutes to begin the question phase of the hearing. Over the last year, has taken a number of actions to reduce the ability of fha borrowers to utilize down payment assistance programs from governments and cities. To purchase a home and has indicated that it intends to issue a proposed rule affecting down payment assistance in january. Secretary carson testified before this committee in june that he was not familiar with the hud data that identifies which Government Entity is providing down payment assistance and it appears that hud cannot determine which Government Programs are providing down payment assistance for any fha loan. Which is critical before attempting to issue new regulations of government down payment assistance programs. Will you commit to not moving forward any rulemaking or other Administrative Changes related to