Facility is now on paid administrative leave. And as the number of deaths rises Health Officials say the virus. Could surge later this year i would anticipate that that would actually happen because of the greed of transmissibility. However if you come back in the fall. It will be a totally different ballgame our ability to go out and be able to test identify isolate. And contact race will be orders of magnitude better then what it was just a couple of months ago, im John Lawrence reporting. Will spain has suffered its worst day in the coronavirus outbreak officials there reporting 849 people died yesterday because of the virus and there were more than 9,000 new cases reported in just a 24 hour span. Spain has become the 3rd country in the world overtake chinas death toll or chinas total infection number. Theyre behind italy and the united states. More testing is done more cases in california are being reported. Take a look at the latest numbers more than 7,000 cases, according to john
Unusual sight, San Franciscos high and the shopping district today union square, the streets are mostly empty the stores are boarded up as people stay at home. These clothes to stores and offices represent a loss of jobs and now due to the pandemic huge numbers of people are filing for unemployment benefits. This all comes as lawmakers in Congress Debate how best to help the American People right now there is a trillion relief package on the table but lawmakers have not yet been able to finalize the details when it is passed it is expected to issue direct checks to American Families bailout for the Airline Industry and the billion loan program for struggling Small Businesses as that debate continues on capitol hill, millions of americans are out of jobs. We talked was loree levy with Californias Employment Development Department in sacramento today. She told us her department has been slammed with demand for unemployment claims over the past 2 weeks as of last thursday, the department
Lets find out how things are going to be looking with Steve Paulson. Hes been tracking all the latest for us. Still a little cloudy behind you, steve. A lot of low clouds, but once that burns back, then, more sunshine today than what we had over the weekend here. And temperatures starting off 50s and 60s havent changed really. And if youre far enough inland, youll start to bump out of those 70s get into the 80s. Our system with the thunderstorm activity is now moved out. So much calmer here, especially up in the mountains. 6070s and 80s on your highs and your average to a little bit below. All right, back to ali. An update on the traffic. Ali we are keeping an eye on the Road Conditions out there. Its very, very empty at the bay bridge toll plaza. No problems getting into the city. And im checking the chp log and theres really not much to tell folks about this morning. So overall, light traffic just about everywhere, including highway 24 and lafayette, you can see traffic moving smooth
Hes on. The temps are upper low which kicked his with us for the weekend is kicking out and left behind is a pretty big fog bank so low clouds but there it goes after lots of activity in the mountains, Northern California. So temperatures kind of settling into where close to where they should be, 6070s and 80s. Back to james, i believe. Yeah. Lets talk a little traffic, steve. See if we cant get you out the door this morning and thats probably not going to be too much of an issue for you today. We see a little crash entering the bay bridge there, but certainly thats not going to cause any delays as of now as we are still very early in the morning, although triple a does say expect to see a good bit of traffic later this afternoon. And of course, we still have that closure here along westbound 80. Well give you more details about that coming up a little later this morning. Time now, 401. A nevada Sheriffs Office continues to investigate the death that occurred at the burning man festiva
One east bay city frustrated over dozens of Power Outages already this summer. How pge is responding to the complaints and what it says is the reason behind them. Plus, crime and politics in San Francisco. The mayor is being called out on the issue of retail theft by the supervisor, who is challenging her for the citys top job. Live from Jack London Square this is mornington to the nine. Today is tuesday, september six. Were looking live at San Franciscos richmond district. The Golden Gate Bridge in the background, a little hazy there. The weather is going to do a slight warm up over the next few days. Should be warmer by the weekend. Coming up. Yes, its already wednesday. Hey, this seems like the middle of the week, but some people have had monday off, so kind of off anyway. The six degrees of separation phenomena has been proven true by mathematicians. A group of researchers has looked into the 1960s study from harvard, which sent around 300 identical packages across the us with inst