Professor thanks for being with us tonight just your basic reaction we all knew she was battling cancer, but it kind of caught everybody off guard tonight didnt it. Yes, i mean i think like so Many Americans i was shocked even though of course she was 87 and had had a lot of mental, i mean excuse me physical Health Issues when i when i heard the news like many people i got very teary eyed because it was shocking and we thought of her as kind of a rock and someone who even though shes been through a lot of physical adversity an emotional unversity her husband passed away had been someone who we thought and we would be here forever. The second woman on the United States Supreme Court made quite an impact more than many of the men over these many many years why do you think that is. I think she had this really extraordinary combination incredible forward thinking this with respect to the kind of race that she wanted to promote and that was especially the rights of people who are marginali
Neighbors described this rodeo fire that broke out near highway 80 incoming skyway just before 2 oclock monday afternoon. What began as 2 small fires quickly merged into one in burned 230 acres because of strong winds wind at least one of the fires to get away from us and it burned past fortunately. They burn past all the petrochemical infrastructure. You can see behind me and also thankfully burn past a quite a few houses in north circular is. And headed out into the wilderness area thats bounded by interstate 80 on this side. Coming skyway to the north and highway 4 to the south and to the east as steve hill with Contra Costa County fire explains the wind fueled this fire but also push it away from homes nearby. Neighbors off california street say they could see the smoke and flames from their backyards. I saw the live this hour that some houses are probably getting like a 100 yards out a fire. So there are some neighborhoods neighbors back as were worried about it thankfully. No one
On the board here 63 going on for any ought not quite as lofty as it was yesterday morning. If hes up to the north bay 55 San Francisco was 60 coming in for san jose and for comparisons sake a good chunk of the bay there a couple degrees ahead of yesterday. A little cooler as you can see right there on the east bay hills looks like a little bit and up to the north bay lets break it down for you today with 64 am by 11 at 78. Were still going to revisit some of those 90s on the bigger board here however, not as much as we go into a little bit of a micro cooling into this weekend to check out on your 4 zone forecast coming up in a bit robert hecht thank you dave well to the north right now to Vacaville City Hall employees have tested positive for covid19. The first employee reported their positive test to city officials Late Wednesday afternoon. And the second reported theres thursday morning, the 2 employees work in 2 different departments. Neither of them showed symptoms while working a
Go we have a mini cool down this weekend 73 at 10 00am by one were talking 87. Yes were going to revisit those upper 80s today, some lower 90s as well which will be checking into in the later 4 zone forecast. But again breaking the back of a little heat spell here come this weekend a lot more coming up in a bit mark sounds good dave, thanks a lot to get to our top story this friday morning. The u. S. Has seen a disturbing trend. In new Coronavirus Infections on thursday there were more than 37,000 new cases reported and thats a new single day record according to Johns Hopkins University Hospital there are currently over 9 million cases around the world and 489,000 deaths in the u. S. There are over 2 million cases and over 124,000 deaths over 663,000 people have recovered from covid19 in the u. S. There are at least 30 states reporting an increase in cases now new mexico, arizona and texas are now pausing their reopening plans because of the increase. Well here in the bay area there ar
The university of washington kron fours noelle bellow joins us from our newsroom tonight with a closer look noel, pam and ken researchers at the universitys institute for Health Metrics and evaluation have been projecting the numbers nationally. And state by state based on a number of factors today at named california has one of a handful of states where coronavirus cases and deaths. Are going up more than researchers expected now if you take a look at this graph you can see that by june first the institutes per project 4,276 deaths in california one month after that 5,555 deaths and by august 4th. Theyre looking at 6,806 1086 deaths in california now thats a jump of 1420 deaths since the institutes previous projection now just yesterday. The state added 2,244 coronavirus cases and 64 related deaths about 900 of the new cases and 45 of the new deaths were reported in los angeles county, the. The institute is also tracking the nationwide deaths. The latest model now projecting 137,184 d