We will have a live report. Ben traffic, forget about it. Will be a mess. Ines looks at the close roads and what we can expect. Isnt that bad . It was pretty bad. Juliet juliet huddy. Ben i am ben simmoneau. Is september 24th, thank you for being with us. Forget about it, not that bad. Is it pretty bad . Like eating pizza with a fork. Got to give it a little more. You are pretty good at impressions actually. Everyones a while. Good morning, everyone. Will be a big day out there especially later on, things are picking up energy, i can feel it already. Here is what we had with a weather yesterday, temperatures definitely got into a warm range, 77 in sussex, 80 at newark and central park, 81 in allentown, pretty decent numbers for this time of year. If you like it sunny and warm, some folks do not. Most folks enjoyed yesterday, 74 your High Temperature in bridgeport, 79 in poughkeepsie so where do we start this morning approximately where we were yesterday. 62 is your current temperature,
Before he leaves for new york he will do the first a papal address. Ben it is now 6 00 a. M. Thursday morning, september 24. Thank you for being with us. A lot of pope coverage today. Juliet we will have walltowall coverage to you today. Big 48 hours. What is the weather going to be like. Mike weather is cooperative. It is usually quite cool this time of year and morning. Today is not bad. Sixtyone central park, 66 in newark, 66 in bridgeport. High pressure is in control a beautiful day. Look for temp of 75 degrees and a high of 80 degrees this afternoon. A high of 75 degrees tomorrow, 73 degrees on friday, more clouds over the weekend with cooler temps. A chance chance of rain on sunday and monday. Lets take a look at the roads with ines. Street cleaning rules are in effect today with the pope visiting today there are more restrictions. Meters are still in effect. Suffix counting is doing good. If you are traveling on the 84 and 684 is going fine too. New jersey, route 80 traffic towa
City tomorrow into will be joy is and possibly a pen in the neck. Rosanna judges overturned a ban on styrofoam containers saying theres no evidence it cant be recycled. Who is telling that fib year . The city or the Restaurant Associates who claim theres nothing wrong . Greg we could use styrofoam again which is very delightful when you throw it in a fire, ever throw a styrofoam cup in a campfire . Rosanna we have been outraged about this for days, the ceo of Pharmaceutical Company under fire for speaking the price of a drug 5,000 . Backing off a bit, the drug has gone from 13. 50 to 750 for one tel overnight. Greg he can be a little jerky but hopefully he will tone it down. They have come down in price. Back to that in a little bit. Yogi berra age 90, what a great young life, true legend. Rosanna i had a chance to meet him. We went through the adam ward museum in new jersey. Probably greg 2008. Good for you to have been in his presence, we have highlights of your talk with him later.
From california. To the new york islanders. Saturday at noon eastern on cspan2 book tv and sunday afternoon American History tv. After one dr. Anthony fauci director of the National Institute of allergy and Infectious Disease how many years . Guest 30 after one in those 30 years 30 years have you ever had the feeling that something would get away from us when it came to one of these crises and disease . Guest not that it would get away from us but would be much more serious than anyone anticipated and that started from the beginning of my career as the director of the institute. When i 1st started seeing and taking care of hivinfected individuals in the early 80s, 1981 the fall winter of 81 and 82 as to what would happen. I got involved early on and was concerned that many people in and out of government were considering this just a fluke among gay men some strange disease. The way i saw it involved and following it it was quite scary. Unfortunately my concerns were wellfounded because
And tests are not effective. This is of course being a problem throughout the country. You told my colleague Savannah Guthrie about ten days ago that the major problem was that commercial labs were behind on the processing, that you were going to be exerting a lot of effort to get those labs up to speed with people including our own willie geist actually saying he had to wait ten days, saying that today, to get his test results. How can you get this lag time down to the optimum of 24 to 48 hours . So, thank you, and its really the Perfect Question to ask. And all of us are completely aligned on reducing that turnaround time. Were doing about 770,000 tests a day, pretty historic but we still have to work on the turnaround time. One effort is to improve point of care testing. A quarter of our tests right now are done as point of care. Youll see that going up pretty dramatically over the next month or so. Indeed we announced this week were sending point of care tests to every single nursi