Reporter yeah, were starting to get reaction. Its a big announcement short on details at this point. The president didnt say when although a senior official says its been in the works for some time, the president has been considering it and it will likely happen soon. Shutting down immigration, President Trump says hell sign an executive order. Officials say early this week to temp rarely suspend immigration into the United States to protect jobs and americans from the coronavirus. Senator Kamala Harris accuses him of shamelessly politicizing the pandemic. Travel was already banned from china and europe, the northern border with canada is closed and migrants from the southern border are regularly being deported. This unexpected shutdown comes as Congress Tries to add 310 billion for more Small Business loans. Overnight we learned the senate may take action this afternoon. Its pastime to get this done for the country. Reporter the house is scrambling to get lawmakers back. Representativ
Were getting ready for more allow the heat to escape. We see the same effect with sunshine, the clouds weve seen Carbon Dioxide. Recently will be moving away according to the air quality from the bay area as weve seen management district weve also a few spots getting some light seen a decrease of about 26 in rain yesterday. Right now were clearing out in our Carbon Emissions due to less the north bay, and temperatures are falling. People driving around the bay right now only at 41 degrees. Area and thats something were in santa rosa and napa, san doing in sheltering in place. Francisco, its 52. 54 in san jose. We are helping out the earth as then as we go into later today well. Its going to be really nice comi about how the bay with highs reaching into the upper 60s and low 70s. We continue to warm up over the area weather team and ill talk next few days and ill have that and the full micro clip mat to a stanford professor who will forecast thats coming up, talk more about that. Marcus
Block of ellis. This started at 6 30 this morning a couple of blocks from here at jones and ofarrell. According to officers, they made contact officer fired his gun because the man was armed and threat with a knife according to a Public Safety officer on the scene here. A command center is set up where we are right now. One employee says he and his coworkers heard sirens and watched police arriving on the scene. They took to social media to find out what was happening. We saw there was an active hodge situati hostage situation. We continued to see s. W. A. T. Cars and all sorts of craziness here on an otherwise pretty quiet day. Reporter to be clear, this is not a hostage situation, but a standoff with a man barricaded inside glide methodist church. No one else is in the room with that man, according to the Public Information officer. He said theres no evidence the suspect was wounded when the officer fired a shot. No one else was hurt either. There are a lot of homeless encampments in
Bay area news. Thank you. Kaiser is looking to rush to build a lab to deal with the rash of new tests on north berkeley, to handle 10,000 tests a day. The hospital says test results will be open in 24 hours. The lab should be up and running by june 1st. President trump revealed just in the past hour that he signed his executive order barring immigration into the u. S. The order blocks immigrants from entering the country for 60 days and bans temporary work visas. The president says he is protecting american jobs and also reserves the right extend it if the outbreak continues. And President Trump talked about how he is helping Governor Newsom with californias new testing plan. The government will be sending california swabs for the testing ability. We will get them quickly, can he get it himself . Yes, but we can get it faster and we talked about it. And he has done a good job. Governor newsom talked about the phone call with the president and appreciates the help that he is giving cali
Removing a tumor. The coronavirus is in the south bay much earlier than we had known. More information on what Health Officials are saying were the first cases in the bay area. Those first cases now it appears were the first cases in the entire country, not washington state. Scott budman is tracking the story. Reporter we now know there were three covid19 related deaths in Santa Clara County earlier than we thought. The first on february 6th, two others on february 17th and march 6th. Previously, the first death in the south bay was thought to have happened march 9th. Dr. Sarah cody says the newly known cases are likely the tip of the iceberg. What these deaths tell us is we had Community Transmission probably to a significant degree far earlier than we had known. Reporter she also says while the three victims didnt seem to travel much before they got sick, their symptoms were probably similar to the seasonal few. Robert morales of san jose thought the same thing. He thinks he may have