California mark the deadliest day since the coronavirus pandemic began. New numbers from the state department of Public Health show that 197 coronavirus related deaths on tuesday. Bringing the two week average to 109 deaths a day. The cases we saw a rise earlier in the month had a number of people who had severe disease that led to deaths. We had to take this seriously. Reporter the Positivity Rate stabilize from a major surge , the daily death toll has risen dramatically. They say the averages dont tell the story of hot spots including the Central Valley and other pocket is. Even if its not in other areas where its occurring. We all have to Pay Attention to get it under control. Reporter all nine counties in the bay area are on the state monitoring list. San mateo county was added on wednesday. Exceeding the metrics of less than 100 cases per 100,000 people. If it stays there for three consecutive days, indoor operations at several businesses including hair salons and gyms would be fo
It just does not change much. It does look warmer, santa rosa, san jose. Groundhog day in july. Thats about it. We have not changed since the 13th. You and i have, but the weather has not. Overcast and sunny, 50s on the temps to 61 in san jose, livermore clear at 57. The city in santa rosa and both 56. We get to about 90, then it backs off unless you are well inland, then it gets to 100. This will continue for a while, look at travis, 35 miles per hour. That is warm, napa, west at 12, oakland, concord, a bit of a breeze, so same old same old. Same, same, but different. How is it different . I think we bump up a few temps here. Santa rosa, sent up to 82. More on that coming up later. Over to sal now. Well say good morning at 401 on a thursday, good morning, sir. Good morning, steve yeah, we are doing pretty well, here. We dont have a lot going on, and that is just the way we like it. Lets go right to the bay bridge. And you can see, traffic is moving along very nicely as you drive past
Drizzle, slightly warmer for some, not for all. Santa rosa is at 55. They will bump up san jose will as well. San jose it was 78 degrees. It has been a hot stretch inland. Concord, livermore, every day they check in at 90 degrees. That is close average, but 90 is 90. Fairfield, 29, gusting to 33. They had 95 yesterday, it will be cooler today. Behind the four corners will build and for a few days and warm up, the pacific and the northwest will start to make a move, and will cool down. One day or two days we will warm up. It looks like another cooling trend. Today it is close to average for most locations. It is still quiet out there, or is there something on your screen that you want to get to . I would say it is quiet out there. We dont see a lot going on. That is just the way we like it. I like it to be nice and quiet in the early hours. Northbound 280 and the 101, those commutes into the west valley have continued to be nice and light. Also, a look into 880, traffic is moving along
The vaccine protected monkeys with a single dose , most need two doses given two weeks apart. Of early human trials go well, Johnson Johnson plans to start to late stage trials on as many as 30,000 people in september. A leaders at a church in berkeley are speaking out after the say their house of worship was targeted because of a blacklivesmatter banner. The pastor at the way church on University Says members hung the banner tuesday afternoon, less than 12 hours later about 12 30 am on wednesday, someone deliberately set a fire behind the church the neighbor says he saw someone and called 911. Church leaders say they hope the case will be taken seriously. We are not as far from the 1960s and 70s of racial tear. Its our duty as people ra voices about the history of racial violence that has been facing black people for centuries. Berkeley police are investigating this is arson. Theyve not determined whether or not it was a hate crime. Leaders at the way church are holding a News Confere
Employees who have been out of work now for months. The Second Quarter Gross Domestic Product plummeted 32. 9 between april and june. Thats almost a full third and its the sharpest decline we have seen in u. S. History. The drop in gdp is nearly 4 times worse than it was at the peak of the financial crisis in the Fourth Quarter of 2008 the previous record was 10 in the First Quarter of 1958. Turning over to the stock market and see how stocks are reacting to this dire news. The dow jones is down by almost 200 points, just a little bit more than that right now. S p is suffering a loss of not quite one half of 1 . The nasdaq is the only right spot if you count the addition of 52 points. Nasdaq is up by one half of 1 . You can see stocks mostly regained their footing after a very steep drop at the opening bell and after we got that labor news. Californias jobless claims were down last week despite a nationwide increase. Our state reported 249,000 workers filed firsttime claims during the