Than 48 hours from a new president with unprecedented security in washington, and state capitols around the nation. With fears growing about a possible attack inside, the fbi now vetting all 25,000 National Guard troops sent to washington for the inauguration. So far, theres no evidence of any threats and leaders say no issues have been flagged. Today in the bays tracie potts is live at the capitol this morning, tracking the many steps being taken to make sure violence does not interrupt this transition. Tracie . Reporter laura and scott, good morning. That includes these tens of thousands of National Guard troops joining police and federal agents, some of them already on the ground. More of them on the way. Capitol hill, the perimeter expanded over the weekend, and the area right now kind of looks like a ghost town, not many vehicles on the streets, because many of those streets have been shut down. In washington, d. C. , this morning, businesses are boarded up, the National Mall and
Of whats ang out there on the roads this morning as we get a look at our traffic maps. No major problems for the commute on this holiday, and we want to make sure youre aware of high winds so keep a tight grip on that steering wheel. Well talk about whats ahead in the forecast, coming up in a few minutes. He look forward to it, thanks, kari. Were under 48 hours away from the inauguration. Tracie potts is live on capitol hill. 15,000 National Guard troops joined federal agents and police and theyre doing just everything to make sure this transition is not interrupted by any violence. Reporter exactly. I got a security update. They continue to expand the perimeter around the capitol, which is already locked down. By wednesday, there will be tens of thousands of National Guard troops here, already many of them on the ground working with police and federal agents to make sure this this is a peaceful transition of power. In washington, d. C. , this morning, businesses are boarded up, the Na
Maryland. It found that it took the u. S. 311 days to record the first 13 million cases but its only been 64 days november 27th to rack up the last 2nd half of the 13 million cases. Lets take a closer look at the covid cases here in california tonight more than 18,000 new cases reported here in the golden state in the last 24 hours with more than 15,000 californians now hospitalized. There are currently close to 4,000 californians being treated in icu for covid19. A mass vaccination site at Dodger Stadium will be back up and running tomorrow after antivax protesters shut down earlier today, dozens of protesters blocked the entrance which prevented hundreds of people from getting inside many of them had been waiting in line for hours to get their shot. For safety reasons the Los Angeles Fire Department closed the site which is one of the largest vaccination sites in the country lapd say that the protesters remain peaceful and governor gavin newsom tweeted we will not be deterred or thre
And im sierra johnson in for marcus washington. First lets start with the weather with meteorologist cary hall whos timing it all out. Weve seen the first rain rolling through the bay area. Weve seen some of the heavier rain pushing to the south. While were still left with light rain and a few pockets of some heavier downpours as we look across the bay area. Now, we are zooming in to exactly where that heavy rain is falling right now. Around morgan hill as well as gilroy, were going to see this heavy rain once again continuing to move to the south. Then we are seeing these pockets of rain that will produce some brief heavy rain, adding up on those rainfall totals around san ramon, moving over toward union city and extending over toward mt. Diablo and approaching parts of the trivalley. As we go through the morning, well still see rounds of rain moving in, but the main brunt of the storm has pushed to the south. We are going to still see this in the area before we get another wave of ra
Reporter 2000 sounds good right now but it is in the works of making that happen. This stimulus checks are going out to lanes of americans at the at direct deposit last night and paper checks started getting mail today. The bill to increase the payments as we mentioned in is 2000, hit a snag. After days of political war, the wait for the stimulus check is over. Secretary Steve Mnuchin tweeted tuesday evening that the department has delivered a payment fell to the Federal Reserve for the Economic Impact payments. These payments may begin to arrive as early as tonight. It will continue into next week. Wednesday morning, nancy posey spoke about the effort to get a pumped up. They are in denial of the hardship that americans are expressing now, healthwise, financially, in every way. The lives and livelihoods are on the brink, so they are in denial of that need in denying this benefit. For my turmoil over the amount of those checks prolong the waiting period for millions of americans who ex