In the United States right now, there are more than 1600 cases of coronavirus p in Washington State has the most cases, 457. Followed by new york with 328 cases. Only three states have no confirmed cases and 41 people have died in the United States. After coming down with a virus but a number of new cases continues to rise. This morning, Santa Clara County reported that are now 79 confirmed cases in that county. Thats an increase of 36, just this week. Both inferences go and alameda counties reported four new cases yesterday, and for people have died across the state of california. Several more major bay area district have announced they are closing the campuses in the neck several ways. All in response to concerns about virus in an effort to step up social distancing. D un it is closing its campuses for the next three weeks. We will bring you our reporter live in oakland tech, where students learned about the closure during morning class. Reporter about an hour after the student here
Gatherings, urging the entire country, all 60 Million People, to stay home, shutting down travel and transforming Tourist Attractions into ghost towns. Wall street meltdown. As President Trump tries to calm the markets and fend off a recession after the worst day since the financial crisis. We will be taking care of the american public. The new promise for major stimulus to jumpstart the economy. Super showdown. Joe biden and Bernie Sanders headtohead in six states today. St unde nomination tonight . Strong storm out west. Flash flooding and mudslides threatening southern california. And near record high temperatures in the east. How long will the spring tease last . Royal split. Harry and meghan have officially said goodbye heading back to canada and baby archie after making their final appearances as senior members of the royal family. Now forever off duty. What their new life looks like and whether theyll ever be back. And it certainly is a good morning, america, because michael is
Neighborhood council hosted a safety forum to discuss ways to prevent crimes in that area of oakland kron fours gayle ong was at a Community Safety meeting that was called because of all this she joins us live from montclair gayle. Grant in cannes is safety indeed was a topic in tonights meeting it was held at the Montclair Presbyterian Church and the Church Member tells me it was one of the biggest turnouts shes ever seen. The meeting began by asking for a show of hands for those learning more about safety. Feeling concerned anger frustration and outrage or was concerned over this fellows you know i thought that. You know. I certainly that and to hear whats going on. The meeting comes a week after the deadly laptop theft at the montclair starbucks. It was the morning of new years eve, a 34 yearold Software Engineer died after chasing the thieves who stole his laptop. Oakland Police Arrested 2 men one charged with murder the other Manslaughter Police are still looking for a 3rd suspect
Overnight. Its wednesday december 18th early today starts right now good to be with you this morning. Im Frances Rivera and im phillip mena. A monumental morning in washington, d. C. , where the house will likely vote to impeach President Trump by days end. For six hours lawmakers will debate the two articles charging the president with abuse of power and obstruction of congress before casting their votes this evening if the house does impeach the president , his senate trial is expected to begin early next month. And mr. Trump will find himself in rarefied company. Only two president s have ever been impeached Andrew Johnson and bill clinton the senate acquitted both. Richard nixon did face the threat of removal, but he resigned before a full house vote expect today to closely mirror december 19th, 1998. Thats when the house voted mostly along party lines to impeach president clinton on two charges. Nbcs tracie potts joining us now with details from d. C. Tracie, weve got a historic d
Heavy rain coming down across the golden gate into San Francisco. Right over the bay bridge, some moderate to heavy rainfall right now looking at walnut creek and danville getting that heavy rain this morning. And even across the peninsula. Redwood city, woodside, you can see the moderate to heavy rain all. Most of us getting the rain this morning with downforce. Isolated thunderstorms are definitely possible as a strong cold front pushes through and we are not done yet. More wet weather this afternoon with scattered light showers as we go through the day and afternoon. Looking at drier weather with partly cloudy to mostly cloudy skies with some showers for the north bay. We will talk about timing it all out and our rain for today and possibly tomorrow coming up. We are dealing with the situation on 580 in oakland. It is a fatal crash that has all in shutdown. Eastbound 580 at lakeshore. You can see that chp is Holding Traffic and several vehicles are involved. We are hearing also of v