Theyre clearing an accident there. Traffic is going to be slow driving in from castro valley. 880 looks all right. And at the bay bridge we still dont have a big delay. 5 01. Lets go back to the desk. A Health Emergency has been declared here in california because of the coronavirus. So far, there are 53 confirmed cases of the virus. Santa clara county reported three new cases. Now, theres about 14. Meantime, a cruise ship is cutting its trip short and trying to sail back to San Francisco. Ktvus Alyssa Haring ton is at pier 26 in San Francisco to tell us about this cruise ship tied to the first coronavirus death. Good morning alyssa. Yeah, thats right. This is the cruise ship terminal. As you can see, there is no ship here. Its combg being held held off the coast of california. There are no confirmed cases of covid19 coronavirus on board. But, the cdc wants to test certain individuals before allowing the vessel to arrive here in San Francisco. A passenger who was on that saekt same gra
Bridge. Its slow. Im just looking at this and showing you that there is no break today. Traffic is going to be slow driving across here. And it has been slow getting into marin. And well talk about marin in just a moment. I can also show you the traffic on the eastshore freeway. 30minute drive right now coming in from the carquinez bridge to the macarthur maze and at the bay bridge, we have a 25minute drive. New accident in san bruno. Well talk about that and some of of these other commutes when we come back in just a few minutes. Straight to new information this morning about a fire at a highrise Apartment Building in the south of market district in San Francisco. Firefighters are now telling ktvu an electric scooter was the source of this Early Morning fire. Flames broke out before 5 a. M. Inside a building on clementina street and gallagher lane. One person was hospitalized with moderate injuries. Looks like firefighters also rescued a dog from that burning building. Time is now 7 0
Most of them in the seattle area. The latest death was reported in california. A 71yearold man with Underlying Health conditions got sick last month after taking a cruise from San Francisco to mexico. He died yesterday in placer county, a day after testing positive by a state lab. Theres more than 150 cases of coronavirus in the u. S. , at least 33 in california. Today the coast guard will fly in coronavirus testing kits to this cruise ship. A person on a previous sailing on this ship was diagnosed and then died from the virus. This ship traveled from San Francisco to hawaii, and it was headed for mexico today. Princess cruise ordered that it be rerouted to San Francisco. Amy hollyfield is at pier 27 with how passengers are reacting. Yeah. That ship was supposed to pull in to this port today, not anymore. Now they want to test the passengers on board the grand princess ship before deciding where to send them. We talked to a woman on the ship with the man who died. Heidi waters says she
237. 6 00. Lets go back to the desk. New this morning, firefighters are working to clean up a fire in a highrise Apartment Building in San Francisco. This happened just before 5 00 a. M. Near cle clementina street. We also noticed firefighters rescuing a dog from the building. At this point firefighters have not determined a cause. Californias now under a state of emergency because of the coronavirus. Now, there are 53 confirmeded cases in california. Santa clara county reported three more cases. So, now, they have 14. The emergency was declared after a man from Placer County died yesterday from the coronavirus. This marks a pro found moment in our state and most importantly a pro found moment for the family members that lost a loved one and, our hearts go out to that individual. Now, the Emergency Declaration means there will be money available, resources available, personnel and information will be shared. Also, california will get 37 million 37 million in federal grants. Its part of
The difference in temperatures as compared to yesterday daytime highs only peaking at a range of 60s to 70s as compared to the 80s in some spots we had yesterday talking more about what to expect for the rest of the week and some some rainfall just around the corner too. Still to come from an off to the golden gate taking a peek at one o one an easy trip so far from the north bay to San Francisco looks good right. We dont have any problems were 34 minutes thats normal from highway 37 to the toll plaza. Much heavier into San Francisco. We have the usual crawl here at the bay bridge toll plaza your backup spilling through the maze but it continues to be a nice trip and a quiet rip across the upper deck in over to the skyway a quick peek at shore freeway because we had a little fire burning next to the freeway at a homeless encampment so 80 east at university all lanes open traffic looks good eastbound and westbound the usual crawl. The 33 minutes from crockett down to oakland chain start