Hd5. Hd5. Hd5. Hd5. A Good Samaritan who tried helping two stranded swimmers was swept away by a strong current. All three ended up near a sand bar near plum island between new york and massachusetts. Eventually a coast guard crew managed to rescue them. The swimmers swallowed a lot of saltwater but are expected to be okay. Turning now to the growing concern among Health Care Workers about the rising rates of coronavirus infection. Now a new call for nationwide shutdowns. I spoke earlier with dr. Ravi. More than 1,000 Health Professionals have now signed a letter to the government saying its time to reboot our fight against covid19. They argue we should shut down the country again and start over with testing and tracing. Whats your take . Kenneth, i agree with many of the tenets of the letter. I think we do need to improve our testing, i think we need to ramp up our contact tracing. I do think it is going to be difficult to go back to square one across the nation. I think we do need to
Plus, the man who wrestled a shark with his bare hands. And from the cool cub beating the heat to the toothy terrier breaking the internet, all the trending video to kick off your summer weekend. Good friday morning, everyone. Thank you for joining us. As we head into the weekend, a new poll Shows Americans from coast to coast are growing more concerned about the coronavirus and a potential crisis this sumer. New figures released overnight show a record high increase in the number of cases thursday. Nearly 40,000. It comes exactly one month after memorial day when many people attended family gatherings and parties. Heres another sign of the growing concern. The White House Coronavirus task force is holding a public briefing today for the first time in nearly two months. Now more cities and towns imposing rules to require face coverings in public, an issue thats becoming a political hot button. We begin our coverage in the surge in cases causing more states to delay reopening plans. Th
And what hes going to do about it now. Our breaking news. President trumps personal l a has now tested positive for coronavirus the valley as a member of the military unit to sign. To serve the white house. And this now raises questions about the first familys exposure to the disease. A white house spokesperson says the president and Vice President have since been tested since learning this news and that they are both still negative. Lets go to kron fours will tran for the latest developments on this well what are we now. As far as the coronavirus and has done just incredible damage to businesses not just across the country but actually right here of course in the bay area stories like this one forced to shut down for 7 weeks because the shelter in place it was just simply too dangerous. According to the governor for them too. The operations 7 now area employers to loosen up the grip a little bit of shelter in place and well find out in detail and a couple of hours from now what he pla
Pretty comfortable at 7 00 73 to 78. Well turn the corner here and take a look at what is going on with traffic and bring jobina in. Good morning. Good morning, mike. Thank you. Im following a serious situation in santa clara right now. A sig alert issued on northbound 101 and ill bring in the maps here so you can see the area just around 4 30 this morning. The entire, all of the northbound lanes were shut down where you see that purple line there. That indicates a full closure and i did get an update from the chp and they did open two lanes and now two lanes blocked and two lanes opened. Unfortunately, it looks like a pedestrian was hit by a vehicle. This is a deadly situation. So, a coroner has been called out to the scene. They do not have an estimated time as to when all lanes will reopen, so this is a death investigation. So, they expect it to take a while. Expect delays, but you will be able to get through. Ill send it over to you, kumasi. Thank you, jobina. Developing now, were
It is wednesday, may 6th. Of course, youre never more than seven minutes away from the accuweather forecast. Heres mike. I am just now seeing what youre doing. What do you call that . Sizzle. For the forecast. Just a little, not too much. I was going to say, you could do that while im doing the forecast but everybody would Pay Attention to you. Im kidding. Lets talk about the forecast. You can see the winds have calmed down considerably and theyll be back especially around the bay shoreline and the afternoon hours and high clouds quickly exiting ask the moon is down and now we just have to wait for the sunshine and sizzling temperatures. How hot it gets today. 49 to 52. Not bad this morning. Look at the 60s along the coast all day today while we hit the low to mid 70s around our bay and inland and 79 to 85 and this is just the beginning. More 80s and 90s coming up tomorrow and ill have that coming up next. Heres reggie. Also coming up tomorrow, mike, Governor Newsom expected to give us