Course and called on congress to approve a series of Coronavirus Relief measures. The news came in two tweets. The president wrote, the house and senate should immediately approve 25 billion for Airline Payroll support and 1. 35 billion for the Paycheck Protection Program for Small Businesses. The president also wrote, if i am sent to a standalone bill for stimulus checks, 1200, they will go out to our great people immediately. The president s earlier message to hold talks until after the election spooked wall street. The dow ended the day down 375 points. Nasdaq lost 177 and the s p fell to seven. A change in dialogue tonight, what comes next . Reporter it was just this afternoon that the president had sent the first tweet saying negotiations were off until after his reelection. Tonight he did an aboutface and basically said that he is calling on congress to send him a relief bill. President trump turned to his messaging app on tuesday tweeting out his call for congress to pass federa
The president s message threw cold water on wall street which was positive in the early going today. The dow ended the day down 375 points, just over 1 . Nasdaq lost 177 points and the s p fell 47. House Speaker Pelosi blasted the president s move saying President Trump is putting himself ahead of the country. The coronavirus continues to impact the United States at the highest levels of government. Today the joint chiefs of staff and top u. S. Military leaders went into quarantine. This after coast guard admiral charles ray tested positive for covid19. General mark milay and the chivas the army, navy, and air force have tested negative for the virus. They attended meetings with admiral ray last week. Its not clear how the admiral contracted the virus, but its not believed to be related to the outbreak at the white house. President trumps Senior Advisor Stephen Miller has tested positive for the virus now. Miller has reportedly been working remotely for the last five days. This comes a
Of the biggest lakes in northern germany. Here to biologists are investigating a revolutionary idea. That getting help from tiny creatures in these Plastic Test Tubes their hydrous or freshwater polyps they turn out to be a good model for understanding how the micro biome of the human gut works like our intestines the skin of the polyps is covered in bacteria the researchers want to know whether the amount and kinds of nutrients in the lake influenced the organisms health. Were interested in knowing about the balance between an organism and its bacteria how they interact and if there is an imbalance whether triggers disease. When we put hydras or freshwater polyps which other bacteria on the outside into a more nutrient rich environment like this you trophic leg. We see that the creature has become ill. To lighten it from Keel University and his colleague peter diners have another hunch that this might be similar for people could excessive food intake flow the bacterial colonies and go
Beds are available for covid19 and other patients, but again, that could change at any time, and we know, when this virus takes off, it takes off fast. Testing, we continue to expand testing. Were currently conducting an average of 1762 tests over a sevenday average. Our contact tracing, we continue to follow up with 82 reaching 82 of cases, and 88 of their contacts, and our protective personal protective equipment or p. P. E. Is at 89 supply, status yellow. Now lets look at the bay area perspective. As we all know, San Francisco is not alone. We are a part of an interdependent region where people live, work, go to school and play across many counties at once. There are cases surging in communities across the region. For examp marin, 1774 cases in the past two weeks. They were put on the state watch list. Solano, 1662 cases in the last two weeks alone. They have been put on the sate watch list, and we see similar numbering increasing across the region. This pandemic does not, the virus
Studios this is kpix 5 news. Looking live from our exclusive Sales Force Tower looking east. Im michelle griego. And im anne makovec. Were tracking that for you on high def doppler. A few isolated showers before we start off our day. The locations getting a little bit of that wet weather from moraga as well as from hayward right over 238 into dublin. A few showers this morning. Temps in the 40s and the 50s as we head out the day. In the afternoon daytime highs around 53. In San Francisco 55 in oakland if i felt 7 in san jose and con sword at 56. Tracking our next stronger system coming up. And jumping to the roadways right now were off to a pretty good start. Not seeing a lot of problems. Stacking up in those cash lanes at the bay bridge. Again, this is business as usual for your morning drive. Things are clear. Same story for most of your bay area bridges. Looking live here at the san mateo bridge. The traffics looking light here. Northbound 880 off to a great start as well. This is a