Probably wont do much. Warm to hot inlet and fog near the coast. Temperatures in the 50s and 60s, santa rosa 56 in oakland is 59 and conquered says 60. So a little fog but not much. It will only impact the immediate coast. 60s and also mid50s in upper 50s so note there will be no problem warming up on the interior and it is the warmest day by far so the highs will be quite aboveaverage this time of year i some 15b0 lets get over to Sal Castaneda and say good morning. Good morning steve. Right now traffic is doing okay if youre driving through. We see that traffic is looking good if you are driving on many of the bay area bridges and causeways like the san mateo bridge which looks good. Traffic also looks good on the bay bridge. Now back to pam. Topping the news, today in his Noon Press Conference Governor Newsom will outline what it will take to ease some of the statewide Children Place orders, specifically reopening businesses and schools. The hope and expectation is that we will be i
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Shelter in place order. Specifically he will address reopening businesses and schools. The hope and expectation is we will be in a position in a number of weeks to make meaningful modifications but again the data will guide that and the indicators will guide that. That was the governor yesterday talking and earlier this month Governor Newsom did lay out the six part plan to bring california back to normal life. It included widespread coronavirus testing and protecting those at most risk. Today again expected to discuss redoing floorplans at schools, childcare facilities and businesses like restaurants and to still encourage social distancing. Here in the bay area six counties are extending their stayathome orders all the way through the end of next month, alameda, contra costa, marin, San Francisco, san mateo and santa clara, and official more detailed announcement will be made later this week. No date has been given but we know when the announcement takes place it will include easing
Down to 321,000 down from 1 million. 321,000 job losses is still eight times the number we were averaging in the first two months. However it could skyrocket again if washington does not replenish state and local governments to pay public employees. Thats this sector now thats beginning to be hit. Second, temporary layoffs may be back to work sooner. We site the university of chicago jobs study that just came out. Up to 42 . 42 of the job losses are not coming back. Stocks have balance back. Thou up 750 points this week. Anytime you have investor and Consumer Confidence indicators going up, that helps in terms of job reconstruction. Spending is starting to recover. The question is, is a Consumer Spending going to be increasing enough . Versus asia do not see a resurgence of covid cases yet. It suggests that can be control. Merely opening up a few retailers for curbside business wont help much. That will have small the very minor impact. He said the federal paycheck Protection Plan whic
Governor newsom two weeks ago today we laid out a road map for reopening the california economy in a phased, thoughtful approach. We put forth six indicater to indicate dwrors drive our Decision Making. Politics wont drive our Decision Making prork tests wont drive our Decision Making, political pressure wont drive our Decision Making. The science, the data, Public Health will drive our Decision Making. We set forth a week ago a deep dive on one familiar indicater around testing and tracing, track, issues of isolation and quarantine. Today i want to update you on another indicater specific to businesses, schools and child care facilities. First i want to remind all of you what the six indicaters are. Mentioned testing as one of the principal indicaters, we have made progress in that space. Not nearly where we want to go and need to be but Real Progress we are now see in the space. 578,000 tests have been conducted in the state of california. We averaging over 20,000 tests a day. And we