Of snow that we certainly do need. Today a cooler one that daytime highs barely hanging on to the low 60s. A lot of us falling into the 50s rock all right. Thank you john over to the bay bridge toll plaza were checking the drive into San Francisco and its a nice steady flow of traffic thats what we like to see starting off the morning drive so no problems that you have to worry about its mood on the upper deck. Clear in downtown San Francisco and the no problems to worry about on the skyway so nows time to come on and make that trip westbound were checking in on some more numbers and they look good highway 4 at the limit 6 a nice move no problems for the southbound immense and one on one easy from san jose to menlo park daria thanks a lot rob and 5 o well lets get to the top story which is the coronavirus outbreak here in the bay area. Take a look we have outlined the headlines going on so that you know the latest. There are a handful of new cases in San Francisco and Santa Clara Count
Coronavirus and right now preparations are under way to get the ship here get the passengers off and take care of the people who are sick so here now is a tracker of exactly where the ship is right now you can see where the arrow is in that box. Thats where the grand princess is located just a few hours off of the San Francisco coast. And that ship will make the track underneath the Golden Gate Bridge through the bay underneath the bay bridge and then docked in the port of oakland you can see the map right there and that will happen on monday. Oaklands mayor and governor newsome made promises today as this process unfolds the public will be safe. Kron fours dan thorn has been following the story for us he joins us now live with what will happen after the ship docks in oakland dan. What justine governor newsome and mayor shap emphasize today that the more than 3500 passengers and crew that are on board will not be released into the city of oakland of those on board more than 900 people
Taking on a very challenging task he developed and coordinated strategies and policies to protect the American Public as a recipient of the us secretary distinguished Service Medal and to be joined by the Ranking Member senator tester we are beginning to consider the fiscal 2021 budget request and looking at further insight from you mr. Secretary in the fiscal year 2020 i hope to build on the progress made in the 2020 bill enacted december h 2019. With a 54. Six and discretionary funding and protect the homeland for years to come with billions of dollars for Border Security for a border wall system and humanitarian care requirements all add existing Border Patrol facilities. Providing 22 billion from fema to support Disaster Relief and Grant Programs to provide additional funding from terrorism prevention to combat the emerging threat. Funding the deployment of Aviation Security equipment which i actually saw myself at tsa headquarters designed to enhance global Threat Detection capabi
Calling the committee to order of the budget cycle we are pleased to be joined by acting secretary chad wolf. Named after acting secretary november 132019 before taking on the challenging task he developed coordinated strategies and policies for the Homeland Security mission protected the public through his leadership role through strategy and policy as a recipient of the secretary distinguished Service Medal for International Terrorism and throughout the duration of his career. Thank you for that. We are continuing to consider the budget request 2021 and look for further insight from you. Some of the fiscal year 2021 enacted december 20th 2019. And then 50. 46 billion of tidiscretionary funding with those investments to protect the homeland for years to come millions of dollars for Border Security including funding for border wall system humanitarian care requirements and those all add existing Border Patrol facilities. Grant programs to provide additional funding from terrorism preve
Ill is up rise, either pie. Ill summarize it. I am here to product response to the oil spill and designed with the efforts to deal with the consequences. Before i do this, however, i want to express sincere regret as to what happened on behalf of all the employees of exxon and certainly on behalf of myself i really cant tell you how say we are sympathetic and particularly those in alaska and the Prince William sound area and thats where the difficulty is creating a great deal of problems for those people. As weve by, and we will continue doing all we can can in spilling up the and theyve already been this uponment in the area, and high the skies make it a particularly different problem. A few comments about the spill to put it in perspective and its been changed many times. The spill is 240,000 barrels that occurred early on march 24. We have other factual information. The weather was clear. The ship had no known mechanical difficulty. A change was requested because of ice and the outg