Good evening. Weve got a lot to get to tonight. An hour from now most of the state goes backward to the most restrictive tier. And jessica, heres why. This graph shows the average number of cases in the bay area not quite as high as july, but you can see covid cases are spiking. The far right of your screen is the recent number. Lets begin our Team Coverage with nbc bay areas ian cull with what this means and whats changing. Reporter today Governor Newsom says hes pulling the emergency brake to slow the spread of covid19. In the last two weeks hospitalizations are up 30 . The number of cases has doubled. This is simply the fastest increase california has seen since the beginning of this pandemic. Reporter 41 of the states 51 counties including most of the bay area are pushed back into the most restrictive purple tier. San francisco, san mateo and marin fell to red. Most like santa clara jumping back two full tiers. We have done this before. We can do it again. We really need every Sing
Two people were stabbed at grace baptist church. Its a few blocks from san jose state and city hall. The attack happened at 484 east fernando street. We talked with the pastor of the church. He didnt want to talk to us on camera. He confirmed there was no Service Going on at the time. And he foalso confirmed that the were no folks playing church at the same. Police are still looking for suspects. This is homicide 40 and 41 of the city in san jose. A couple of neighbors told us recently, they have seen topdown here. One incident where someone drove into a home. Theres been car chases. Its been reform here. At 10 00, tonight, a curfew went into effect. Thank you very much. As we mentioned a moment ago, the governor and his family quarantining for 14 days after being exposed to the virus although the whole family hessed regulartive, they will quarantine 14 days. The children were exposed to hp officer. Just days ago, one of newsoms children was quarantined for the whole family. It was his
With massachusetts senator Elizabeth Warren about progressive priorities for president elect biden administration. We are joined for our final session of the day with senator Elizabeth Warren, and we couldnt be more thrilled to have her try to unpack what has gone on over these past couple of weeks and frankly, where this country is headed over the next several years. Senator, thank you so very much for joining us. Hello thank you for having me were going to have fun. Lets have fun i have so many questions selfishly to understand how you think about it. But the thing that i think were all trying to make sense of right now is the message that you think the outcome of this election really means and what i mean by that is the democrats have won the white house. But have lost ten seats in the house well see what happens in the senate and im trying to understand whether we think that this is an endorsement or a reputuation of the more progressive values that i know you have argued for or if
Edward lawrence in washington. Ashley webster waits on the disney numbers we talked about. While we wait for that, edward, well start with you on the economy and the new comment today from the fed chairman. Reporter connell, Federal Reserve chairman Jerome Powell says the economic path forward will be a challenging one and includes more help from congress. Powell on a panel with European Central bankers says that Monetary Policy needs to work with fiscal policy because the size of the economic shock with the coronavirus. Ultimately it was a job to replace lost income. I would say that our congress stepped in and there hasnt been a faster or stronger response from congress to an economic emergency since really the great depression. Reporter he is talking about the first cares act at the beginning of the summer. Last week powell said, in order to get quickly back to where we want with the economy. There needs to be a another relief package from congress. It should be targeted to those pe
We will warm up as we look to the weekend. Details on that are coming up. Gianna is tracking a crash on the bay bridge. I am. Thankfully it is a minor fender bender. A couple cars got tangled up. It looks like it is being pushed off the bridge. It is not causing a lot of delays though it is early and it is friday. We see less cars on the roadways on friday. It should be a good pace even with that trouble spot. Traffic is quiet as you head towards the pay gates. Chp is working on a crash, cesar chavez on ramp, we have a motorcycle accident that has that shut down until further notice. Main lines of 101 though are not affected. I am anne makovec. We are keeping an eye on an investigation about to commence in the south bay into this fire in san jose yesterday. Search teams are going to be going into an under ground utility facility where this erupted yesterday to try to find out how this fire started and assess the extent of the damage, flames shooting from the median at the height of the