People celebrate all things marijuana at hippie hill. Not this year. Covid testing continues to be a barrier. Part of that is a shortage of supplies. Today President Trump announced he will use the defense production act to increase the number of medical swabs being produced. Theyre key for carrying out those tests. Well, for the First Time Since the coronavirus pandemic hit the united states, an entire town will be tested, regardless if someone is showing symptoms. Its part of a Research Project put together by the marin county town of bolinas in cooperation with ucsf. Nbc bay areas Sergio Quintana spoke with the organizers who are hoping this small town idea has big results. Reporter you can see tonight im wearing a actually at whats going to be a test site. All of these tents are already set up for volunteers to start collecting samples from all 1600 bolinas town residents. Researchers want to see how widespread coronavirus is in this small town. They also want to see how they can u
On the task since the pandemic began. Good morning to everyone. I hope you had a great weekend. Thanks for joining us for today in the bay. Im laura garcia. And im marcus washington. Mike is going to get a look at the traffic in just a few minutes. First we start with meteorologist kari hall working from home for us. Kari, certainly a nice weekend. So how will the beginning of this workweek look for us . We still have some really nice weather in our forecast, but we are starting out with some light rain across parts of the bay area this morning. As we get a look at the radar that rain stretches inland, weve seen a lot of it weaken and we may not be seeing a lot of this hitting the ground but expect mist and drizzle as you head out the door earlier this morning. We can see the low clouds over the south bay right now and our temperatures in evergreen that will start out in the mid50s we will see some clouds throughout the m for a really nice day. Reaching into the 60s today but we have 8
Park where in recent years people have come to celebrate all things marijuana. They will be ought patrolling. A very good morning to you and thanks so much for joining us. Im laura garcia. And im marcus washington. Mike will have a look at traffic in about eight minutes. First kari halls look at the forecast. Were starting out this morning with light rain moving through parts of the bay area. And this is our only chance of rain for the whole week. A misty and drizzly start. Its been moving into parts of Contra Costa County from Discovery Bay extending up to santa rosa. Well be watching this over the next couple of hours but clearing out as we go throughout the day and warming up for the rest of the week. Well talk more about this in the forecast coming up in a few minutes. Back to you. Thanks, kari. Lawmakers are set to be close to a deal to fund more Small Business loans, part of tas the country begins to reopen. Today in the bays tracie potts is live for us in washington with those d
Reporter michigans governor Business Fund that ran out last is concerned protesters may be week and it looks like that deal putting others at risk. Without those important may land on the president s desk protections, it means they might have gone back to these parts of by wednesday. Our state and perhaps brought the senate could act as early as covid19 along with them. Today one would be set aside reporter Vice President pence has a Conference Call with the nations governors today. Now we have some new numbers for you from our nbc news wall street journal poll showing just over half the country, 58 these restrictions. Just under a third, 32 , do think its time to move on and loosen things up. But those numbers are differing by political party, less among republican voters, about 40 of them are concerned. Independent voters a little more. 50 . Democrats the highest with 80 of them concerned that easing the stayathome orders could lead to a second wave of virus. Marcus . I just want to
Toomey, were the only members of the committee to voice opposition to the trade deal which the house passed in december by a vote of 385 to 41. Were meeting today to consider hr5430, the United Statesmexicocanada agreement implementation act. And senator sasse isnt here but hes a new member of the committee, so i would like to welcome senator sasse to the committee. And hes in joining the committee on one of the most important pieces of legislation we can do this year. And im glad to have senator sasse as a new member of the committee. On december 13th, 2019, the senate received or the house of representatives received the bill to implement the usmca agreement. Under fast track rules, the committee cannot amend the bill. We will vote today only on whether to report the bill. Before we vote, senators who wish to make statements may do so. In the interest of time, i ask that the statements be limited to three minutes, and i know that my staff has had a discussion with everybodys staff ab