Its quiet and i just want to remind people that certain parking restrictions are still being enforced. I dont think you can just go and not pay the meter. Theyre still trying to keep businesses open. This is traffic moving along very well. Transit system still working. A little rain here at the Richmond Bridge as steve has been saying. So that may complicate your drive wherever youre going. New numbers this morning. Researchers at Johns Hopkins University Say the number of coronavirus cases worldwide has passed 200,000. China, italy, iran, spain, germany have the most infections. Here in the bay area, there are 367 confirmed cases. Santa clara county has more than double any other county with 155 cases including five deaths z. San mateo is second, followed by San Francisco, contra costa, and alameda counties. Two of the bay area shelterinplace order. Once again the order says stay at home as much as possible. We expect to see empty streets and neighborhoods again and areas that are nor
Before it get better. How the governor plans to help hospitals that have reached capacity. 7 01. Im gasia mikaelian. Youre way over there. Six feet at least. Were practicing social distancing. Good morning. Im dave clark. Its a chilly wednesday morning with light rain for some people. Steve is going to tell you about the forecast and how everything is going to be. Steve . I am indeed. At last a little snow up in the sierra, just in case you have to go there. That will continue today into tomorrow. Not a lot, but maybe an additional two to four between today and tomorrow. We have some light rain around, 40s on the temperatures, livermore 42, santa rosa 44. The system to the north is sending in light rain. Theres been some pocket around the Richmond San Rafael bridge. Nothing too heavy. Its not going to do much as it moves south toward the Santa Cruz Mountains. Well see mostly cloudy skies, offandon rain, highs cool in the 50s. Anything new, sal, or still quiet . Even with the rain comin
Public health, the total number of confirmed cases in the state, 598. 13 people have died. But todays Santa Clara County did announce another death bringing the death toll to at least 14. State officials are warning the coronavirus here in california could get better before it gets worse. The governor signed a bill to spend as much as a billion dollars to help hospitals handle an expected rush of patients. He says california could need as many as 20,000 hospital beds. The governor would not comment on the shortage of supplies saying he didnt want to cause further concern. National guard troops across the country are now on notice in case theyre needed during r Governor Newsom said he guard on alert. The troops should be prepared to perform humanitarian missions. Troops will also support Public Safety when required. Today is day two of a shelterinplace order. People are being told to stay at home unless they are going out for a walk, buying groceries or picking up medication. Sky fox fl
Economy heading into recession. Well it may be one i think in terms of recession with engines and the virus kron 4 news at 5 starts right now. Thank you for joining us tonight at 5 oclock everybody im grant lotus and im Catherine Heenan and our top story tonight, slowing the spread of the coronavirus. And how you can help protect yourself and others as you can see we are practicing socialdistancing here kron 4 catherine an eye. Our different desks hi catherine high were going to be doing this for the foreseeable future we obviously have much more than the recommended 6 feet of the distance between theres lawrence over here to my right is about 8 feet away so the gangs all here but just in a little bit of a different set up at least for the time they together but not exactly. And now to our top story roughly 7 Million People are being told to stay home in the bay area. The legal order does limit activity a travel and business functions to only essential needs. Heres what it means all re
France and competitive practices. For good morning to you thanks for joining us here on r. T. And. U. S. President donald trump said the countrys economy may be heading for recession since the u. S. Stock market suffered its worst trading day since 1987 the share prices tumbling by 13 percent on monday amid fears over the coronavirus. Is the u. S. Economy heading into a recession well it may be what i think in terms of recession with thinking in terms of the virus once we stop i think theres a tremendous pent up demand both in terms of the stock market in terms of the economy and once this goes away once it goes through and were done with it i think youre going to see a tremendous tremendous surge. In the coronavirus pandemics causing turmoil in Financial Markets will wide despite drastic action from Central Banks to limit damage my colleagues kevin i when im around guess they have discussed what is driving this all off. I suppose it was to be expected to spoil all those measures that