We may have some rain by the end of the week. Well talk more about that coming up in a few minutes. Mike, how is the commute rolling . Well, kari, its not rolling so smoothly or quickly i should say at the bay bridge toll plaza. It is moving smoothly when you get to move there. The metering lights turned on just before 5 30. This may be in part due to lower visibility. Low clouds here. Theres fog across the span. Just a little closer to the middle of the screen circled west 580. The bridge from richmond to san rafael. A disabled vehicle there. A little toyota could be causing a bigger problem as the backup starts to form. The rest of the bay as you would expect. Back to you. We begin at the Walter Reed Medical Center where President Trump is being treated for covid19. Live pictures now. Also at the hospital today in the bays tracie potts. Tracie, we just heard that the decision to discharge the president will be made later on today. What will that entail . Reporter well, the president
Temperatures seasonably chilly, upper 30s and lower 40s. 32 in nashua. As youre waking up april on this saturday morning. Not too much wind. Typical gusts as you head out towards the cape and islands. Our satellite and radar view revealing mostly clear skies. A little bit of cloud cover back to the east, back to the west, even that will break up during the morning hours. A fairly bright overall. High pressure down to the south. A westerly and southerly wind flow around it and thats going to warm our temperatures back up to above normal, upper 30s, lower 40s. Those afternoon clouds roll in. And those clouds starting to move in the afternoon. But overall a dry weekend in store. Ill tell you when the rain and the 50 degree weather returns. Heather this morning, work situation that left a man trapped for hours. Escaped without injury after spending hours surrounded by 4,000 volts of electricity. Christine mccarthy is live from roslindale where crews work into the night to restore power fro
Discharged as early as tomorrow. And they discuss some other details for the first time. Like the president s condition when he was still in the white house and what led to their decision to bring him to walter reed. Thursday night into friday morning when i left the bedside, the president was doing well with only mild symptoms and his oxygen was in the high 90s. Late friday morning, when i returned to the bedside, the president had a high fever and his oxygen saturation was transiently dipping below 94 . The president s personal physician also mentioned for the first time a medication they prescribed, a steroid. Over the course of his illness, the president has experienced two episodes of transient drops in his oxygen saturation. We debated the reasons for this and whether we would even intervene. It was a determination of the team, based predominantly on the basis of the timeline of the initial diagnosis, that we would give an initial dose of dexamethasone. Thats on top of remdesivir
More than 207,000 jobs and dc more than 127,000 jobs if the sequestered takes affect. In addition to those jobs, the city could lose over 100 million in federal grants and tax revenue. One federal grant provides 23. 5 million for education. In d dr. The number of civilian d c. , the number of civilian jobs outweighs what could be considered with the department of defense. We have heard a lot about defense jobs and a defense cuts that could happen. If it does happen, it could hurt the needest person the most. This is the axe food pan tree in bump free. It is part of the axe food center which helped 77,000 people last year, people who were hungry, homeless, job loss or from domestic violence. A third of its budget come from state or county funds. If sequestration happens,. That is direct services to the people we help. The is he questerred cuts total evenly divided between domestic and defense spending. The defense communithas rallied against the cuts. Economy mists have said 150,000 job
Clocked going 90 miles per hour. At least one if not two Virginia State police attempted to follow the vehicle but were stopped short. The woman pulled into the Walter Read Medical Center and neighed a u turn right made a u turn right in front of the guard booth. Law personnel tried to speak with her. We were told they noticed her biting or attempting to eat a bar of soap. She took off and hit a car and headed south before turning around and heading into the medical center. At that point the military Security Officer approached her. She refused to roll down her window, the officer knocked down a window out of her car. The woman started driving away on a grassy area next to the sidewalk. We were told there was a Naval Security person here. The car was coming towards that person. I think he was on foot. He discharged his firearm once. The round struck the vehicle. Once again the woman that allegely took off this time heading northbound in the busy southbound lanes of wisconsin avenue. Sh