And im kristen sze. Thanks for joining us. A couple of grim milestones today with the coronavirus. The state of california has well over 2,000 confirmed cases. The bay area topped the one thousand mark this morning as the virus keeps spreading that includes a San Francisco Police Sergeant with the special victims unit who worked at the hall of justice. The sergeant has tested positive. A second Oakland Police employ plo has tested positive and a fourth santa clara sheriffs deputy has been infected while Los Angeles County reported the first person under the age of 18 to die in the u. S. From coronavirus. Now here is where those cases are in the bay area. Santa claras case count went up today by 54, pushing the total to 375. There were three new fatalities there reported within the past 24 hours. The south bay continues to be the most impacted county here. Alameda county reported a second death today. Its total case count is now 135. And San Franciscos total has increased to 152. There
If you are one of those super commuters coming in youve got a lot of brake lights but no accidents. It is just business as usual. Slow and go ride from Mountain House towards redline. It improves dramatically in the Livermore Valley towards the dublin interchange. We are seeing some slow speeds as you work your way west bound right at the 205 580 connector. Dipping down to 30 miles per hour. Drive times at about 39 minutes ago from 20502 toward 680. Other than that if you were commuting on the eastshore freeway, into fairfield all the way to hercules you are clear all the way towards the maze and when you get to the mission will seep brake lights. In the south bay, north 101, making the trek out of gilmore you will see break lights when you get into the morgan hill area. Spieth dipping to 12 miles per hour. It gets better pass that heading into south san jose. New video out of marin county shows the extensive overnight effort to rescue a missing hiker. Kpix 5s jackie ward is in marion
Hampshire, this was his first swing on the campaign. Thank you. Im looking out there, i see some very friendly faces. Good morning nashua. Some energy, come on, i want to get going here. [applause] not that hard, its sunday morning, you slept yesterday, right . It is great to be back in the granite state, a second home for me. Ive got two second homes, iowa and New Hampshire. [laughter] i love this state. Growing up i have great memories of visiting here with friends. Squam lake, getting up the highway there toward some of your blue ice that you get to ski on sometimes and high school in concord where i would really look forward to taking that first cut of the hockey season on the black ice and now the ice doesnt even freeze, so its hard to do today, but i love the primary tradition of the state. Not just because you voted for me. It goes a lot farther back than that, folks, to be honest with you. When i was 24 years old stationed on the other side of the earth, when Radio Broadcasts a
The advisory is in effect until 8 am. Some drizzle and fog and also tracking the rain across the north day this morning. So your weather headlines, drizzle and fog this morning with increasing rain as we head to this afternoon and this evening. We have a few shower chances for your saturday. Daytime highs for today right around where we should be for this time of year. 58 in San Francisco, 59 oakland, and 61 for san jose. We are tracking a new accident this morning. This is between berkeley and emeryville on west 80. The right thing is blocked so speeds are slowing down in that area were seeing then dip to 10 Miles Per Hour. Keep that in mind if you are heading to the bay bridge. Taking a look at the fog advisory as well, highway 4 and highway 160 reduced visibility and chp is reporting 100 feet of visibility so keep that in mind as well. Take it slow especially across the bridges. 101 at the waldo tunnel also has reduced visibility and we will take a look at san mateo bridge and dunba
Francisco, off of 280 youre tapping the brakes down towards sierra park parkway. Chp says changing the flair pattern and moving and ready to open up lanes. Watch for more slowing on 101. 280 is clear. We transfer over to the bayshore freeway. Getting towards the bay bridge is easy. Backup at the metering lights. As the heat continues to build across the bay area, were under another spare the air alert. Youre actually asked to cut down on Carbon Emissions any way you can. This is because that air will be dangerous for many of us. Thousands of students heading back to school again today beginning the new school year in those triple digit temperatures. Yesterday students in other districts had their own set of challenges. Today in the bays bob redell is live in concord where kids in the mount die yed diablo schoole returning. Temperatures are expected to hit 104 today in concord, which means it will be another hot one for the 30,000 plus students returning to class here at concord high be