Quickly found out he was right. Ive been running into quite a few different scams. So far this year the ftc received 18,235 reports of scams related to covid19 and collectively, americans have lost 13. 4 million to this type of fraud. Including fake apartment listings. Where a scammer uses social distancing as a convenient excuse. Aj showed us a series of emails from a suspected scammer named adam. He tells aj due to social distancing, he cant see the unit in person. He gets to the cell pushing aj to reserve the place before someone else does because other people are showing interest. The most interesting part about it is the price that he had on the property was probably 50 of the market rate. So it was really obvious that something was going on. So aj asked, is this a scam . Adam was ready with another excuse. This time blaming the federal government, saying the property was initially listed at a higher price but all homeowners had been asked to lower rents during the pandemic which
To get into longterm investments and later on, a staggering stat that youve got to hear around netflix that stock continues to be bought as we all binge watch tv. We are going to get to all of that, but weve got to get to breaking news that is important on the virus, and it is also moving the market after hours. Gilead sciences shares they are surging on some very promising drug news. Lets get right now to meg tirrell with more on this big story. Meg . Hi, brian this is breaking news from stat news basically, they got a glimpse from one of the hospitals thats running remdesivir at the university of chicago. Essentially what they saw in video communication with the faculty members there is on the report of the Clinical Trial it sounds like the patients according to them are making rapid recoveries at least in terms of their fever and respiratory symptoms and reported nearly all patients discharged in less than a week this is not controlled Clinical Trial data and we expect to see the fi
Theres more than more people there on the grand princess cruise ship. Passengers are expected to disembark today and head into quarantine. The ships arrival had the attention of the nation and the world yesterday. Looking live now at the white house today President Trump will meet with lawmakers about a proposed payroll tax to help boost the economy in the midst of recent selloff. More on the coronavirus outbreak including Live Team Coverage coming up in a few minutes. A look at your forecast with meteorologist kari hall. We have the storm system just to the south of us spreading some rain into parts of the south bay. Well be watching that today as it moves a little bit closer. Nice to see some rain moving at least into parts of the bay area. Not all of us will see it as we look at the models. It shows the rain moves as far north as palo alto and then weakens as it moves northward. Well talk more about this coming up. You have another bridge that has lights. More brake lights. Its in t
Lot of sweat and brainpower into figuring out what do our riders need to keep them coming back. One factor contributing to the decline, competition with Ride Share Companies like uber and lyft. But the survey of riders found the number one reason people gave is many of them werent going out as much on weekends. Number two, they didnt like the long wait between trains on the weekends. But number three was dirty trains. Number four worries about crime. Number five, concerns about the homeless. Police chief ed alvarez said crime was down 18 in january of 2019 versus january of 2018. Cell phone thefts were also down 40 over the same period. Were not declaring victory just yet, but were continuing to work on it, and were going to keep building op it. Bart is also exploring ways to get the riders back. One proposal is to offer discounted fares to certain riders like students and seniors, or even going a step further. One of the things weve been doing is handing out free passes for the weeken
San jose 39. Concord 39. Santa cruz 38. And up through santa rosa, 38 right now. So the temperature difference compared to the last 24 hours is pretty significant in some parts including livermore, ten degrees colder and napa 11 and oakland 10 and down through san jose 7 degrees colder compared to the same rain shower yesterday morning. Now were still dealing with the High Surf Advisory through 3 00 p. M. And talk about the king tides, we are expecting the high upwards of six feet around 11 54. So if you are around the coastline, be careful there is the possibility of coastal flooding potential. I know they have certain areas probably blocked off just out of safety. And then, guess what, kira, were tracking two more storms heading in our direction. Ill have the latest one an the rainmaker and the big one and low elevation sthoe. Wow. Okay. Well see you in about 15 minutes. Vianey, thanks. We begin an investigation into what a muni train continued down the track after hitting a pedestri