The wait is over. Many businesses are finally allowed to reopen for Indoor Services. Including gyms and restaurants. Because of the county decision, this gym and dozens of others are closed. How that decision could put people out of business. The move to have Mental Health experts on hand. How several bay area cities plan to improve policing. Tracking heat, high winds and fire danger. Ill have your forecast coming up. Abc7 news at 11 00 starts right now. Building a better bay area for a safe and secure future. This is abc7 news. Tonight, a sobering and Unthinkable New coronavirus milestone. More than 200,000 people in the United States have now died because of the virus. Here in the bay area, there is some good news. The numbers are stabilizing. Thats allowed three more counties to join most of the region in loosening covid19 related restrictions. S tier to the red tier status on the states color coded blueprint for reopening. But the counties are taking very different approaches to re
The wait is over. Many businesses are finally allowed to reopen for Indoor Services. Including gyms and restaurants. Because of the county decision, this gym and dozens of others are closed. How that decision could put people out of business. The move to have Mental Health experts on hand. How several bay area cities plan to improve policing. Tracking heat, high winds and fire danger. Ill have your forecast coming up. Abc7 news at 11 00 starts right now. Building a better bay area for a safe and secure future. This is abc7 news. Tonight, a sobering and Unthinkable New coronavirus milestone. More than 200,000 people in the United States have now died because of the virus. Here in the bay area, there is some good news. The numbers are stabilizing. Thats allowed three more counties to join most of the region in loosening covid19 related restrictions. Today, these three counties eached a vamsed from the purple tier to the red tier status on the states color coded blueprint for reopening. B
Abramowitz, Jonathan Ferro off. Anna edwards joining us with the london perspective. The vix, 21. 59. The marketrn to overall. Yields coming in two basis points on the 30 year bond. Bond with a0 year negative yield had record interest. That is how odd that is not in the textbooks. , with a lot of things that are not in the textbooks now. The extent to which Central Banks are manipulating markets, keeping yields low, keep borrowing costs for everyone low. There is nothing normal about what we are seeing here. Incredible movement on the equity market yesterday in the United States, getting back to valentines day levels. This is the strangest recession, heard in that clip at the top of the session. The fundamentals of the economy look so daunting, but is the equity market just doing its job discounting way into the future . Tom we will have to see. It is very important to understand yields have come back. Over to a lower yield regime. Anna edwards, you have the morning brief. Anna yes i d
The store. Is it faster . Is it easier . S cheaper . Courtney rea it to the test and thats our cover story today. Retail test. Walmart and target. Macys and kohls. Home depot and lowes. Online pickup in store option. No matter which we shopped, the experience was consistent. It was the same case for each retailer we tested. 42 minutes. Target was 45. Not all experienc a call fro order is ready for pickup except for one item. That happened at chicago lowes too. Ordering online is supposed to be convenient, but each team thought it was more cumbersome part. Your pickup store, so this isnt closest. It keeps going back. Pickup was the easier part. That was pretty easy. The order was ready in one minute from the time i got to the counter. Which retailer was the fastest . Target. All four orders ready in average of 33 minutes. Kohls, the second. Averaging 46 minutes. Though when ease of ordering and pickup factored in, put kohls slightly ahead of target. He depot at one hour, 15 minutes. Mac
Price millions of americans have paid, the epidemic has had an Economic Impact as well with an estimated cost of more than 500 billion in 2015. As america grapples with this problem, innovators are coming up with solutions. Could digital pills be part of the answer . Meg tirrell has more on our cover story today. One new tool doctors hope to use in the opioid crisis, socalled digital pills, which may help by providing a clearer picture of prescription opioid use. They contain an ingestible Wireless Sensor that can notify doctors or caregivers that a medicine has been taken. The sensors send a signal to devices outside the body. Doctors at Brigham Womens hospital in boston ran a small study using the technology. They enrolled patients who had broken a bone, prescribing them seven days worth of oxycodone. Thats 21 pills. What they found, patients on average only actually took six. We were able to identify that patients dont really need nearly as many opioids as doctors think that they do