Declaring himself a president ial candidate. To discourage abortion, he says everyone who has a baby should get 1 million. He claimed Harriet Tubman never freed the slaves but had them work for other white people. Those are some of our top stories on this monday, july 20th. Thank you for joining us on this monday. We begin with the debate over coronavirus funding taking center stage as the National Death toll surpasses 140,000. Overnight the bahamas announced it is no longer welcoming american visitors. Starting wednesday its borders will be closed to travelers from the u. S. As confirmed cases of covid19 across this country continue to surge. Today people can visit the statue of liberty again as new york city enters phase 4 of reopening, but no one will be allowed to go inside. Abcs Megan Tevrizian has the latest. Reporter the number of coronavirus cases continues to climb. Nearly 64,000 new cases reported. Numbers rising in 80 of states across the u. S. , prompting Los Angeles Mayor
Like a cooler week so. Temperatures especially inland, well below average for this time of year. All right. Over to sal, 6 00. Things usually pick up at the bay bridge toll plaza. Want to speak about that or something else. I will speak about that. We will look at the approach from the east shore and look at the toll plaza itself. And also the east bay commute. So first start with interstate 80 the east shore freeway. You can see traffic is going to be moving along okay and its going to take about 17 minute to drive between the carquinez bridge and mcarthur maze. We dont have a big back upat the toll plaza but it may appear. You can see the traffic is moving well. Its 6 01. Now back to the headlines. All right california right now, has close to 400,000 coronavirus cases. More than 386,000 cases are reported and more than 7700 people died. More than 41,000 virus cases are reported in the bay area. 7100 people have died from the virus. California Hospital Health Officials Say 6900 patien
Along the coast in the low 60s and well see clouds in the mid 60s in San Francisco and low 70s in oakland and sunshine inland and looking at comfortable temperatures inland. 77 in santa rosa and 82 in san jose and looking at 85 for concord. Ill talk about the rest of the week ahead coming up in a few minutes. Len. Thank you, mary. This morning San Francisco is closing certain businesses once again in response to a spike of covid19 cases. Kpix live is reporter this this one of the Outdoor Shopping Centers that is closed. This will slow down the spread of the coronavirus and San Francisco mayor london breeze says the rise in cases can largely due to others hanging outside their immediate household. We have flattened this curve once and we must do it again. What im afraid of is the complacency. People are tired of the virus. But the virus is not tired of us. The age of people impacted is also getting younger and the average age of someone hospitalized due to covid is now 41 years old and
It coming up a little bit later on marty robin. All right dave, thank you so much in the north bay this morning marine county has seen an increase in covid19 cases, Public Health officers say that thats a sign the virus is spreading there. And now residents say that there are coronavirus cases in bolinas you may recall the town tested almost all of its residents back in april and the results came back negative kron fours gayle on reports. You know it seems like people are really anxious to get out of the house 4th of july and we cannot do what the weather was really good and it was pretty busy. Molina says known to be isolated to Scientists Say its rule setting contributed to a low infection rate of covid19 in april the town made National Headlines after testing almost all of its residents the results negative locals worked hard to keep it that way sign at the entrance telling visitors the town is closed and to turn around but word is spreading the virus is in the community i heard the
Yeah, i will. Glick look out almost two weeks into early august and the the pattern favors near normal to below normal temps and it is starting we had bump up saturday. It was warm to hot and back down on sunday. And guess what, its going to continue to keep on favoring areas that will be below normal especially inland. 62 so a cooler forecast and this week will include ukiah and by the time we get to wednesday and thursday its deep fog bank. Solid marine layer. Theres drizzle tuesday night, wednesday morning. Napa west of 146789 oakland west at 126789 these are just roaring onshore wind directions. A little low will move over us and usher in lower pressure for the week. So with that in mind, temperatures will be below average here. Coast, and inland. Over to sal at 5 01 on a non. He tells us. Well, we are off to good start i like what i see here, steve. Traffic continues to move along very well around the bay area. And we are going to look at the is a mateo bridge. Traffic is moving a