Only 68 icu beds available in the entire county of santa clara. That is part of the reason why Health Officials are now ramping up these enforcements no businesses because they want to keep people safe and doing this because of the Holiday Shopping season. Yesterday alone, Santa Clara County reported 512 new cases and setting a new record. 213 hospitalizations were also reported yesterday, including 45 new ones. Another new record. County believes those numbers will be even higher tomorrow. Those staggering numbers are part of the reason why enforcement efforts are being enhanced and the county Fire Department will now assist with compliance officers who have already been tasked with making sure businesses follow capacity restrictions and require face coverings and apply social distance guidelines. We are extremely concerned about what this means for our hospitals ability to care for, not only people with covid19, but for other people who need access to care in our hospitals. Reporter
A round table discussion with industry executives so thats happening or about to happen at the white house, well bring you any comments that come from the white house this hour. The major averages are up for the second week in a row. You see the numbers the dow up well over 3 almost 4 in what was a holiday shortened week, the month the dow and the s p 500 up more than 4 a piece and look at the nasdac up nearly 7 , 6. 75 all up for the second month in a row so thats how we close out the month of may at least for trading. Lots of talk about today fox Business Team coverage we have blake burman at the white house, Jackie Deangelis at our news room in new york, Edward Lawrence reporting from washington, blake . We start with you on the north lawn. Reporter hi there, connell and melissa. President trump announcing at the white house several measures against china on the one hand, for chinas handling of covid19 , on the other hand, as well, for chinas crackdown on hong kong; however, as the
In effect for our region. Some places could climb to the mid 90s. So it is no surprise that surfers are in the water. We sent skyfox up above the mavericks surf break. A lot of people there more than usual. Some big waves coming in. You have to be very experienced to do this kind of surfing and a mark tamayo group here in the bay area, big time surfer yourself, but you say not even you are going to try to brave those waves. Oh, no, that is next level stuff. As you can see off the coast of pillar point. But i will say, even if you were heading to a normal beach, even the waves can be very dangerous. So even even a ten foot wave could cause some some real some real danger. So just be extra careful. I know the coast is tempting today, but theres a lot of energy out there. Offshore october heat, its here today. Temperatures will be peaking for the week. Temperatures well up above the average. A heat advisory in place. And with the pattern, especially this time of year, fire danger is somew
Highest level since 2006. So were going back an additional year than what we have been looking at recently. 2year is down 5. 18. The 10year note is yielding 4. 8 and the 30year has ticked a little higher at 4. 95. Meantime President Biden landing in israel early this morning and met with israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. Nbcs jay gray joins us this morning from tel aviv. Jay. Reporter hey, there, good morning, guys. Yeah, the president meeting with Benjamin Netanyahu as you talked about and later today with the war council. Who hell not be meeting with is his arab allies. There will be no trip to jordan. That was something that was planned there. That was considered a pretty important part of the visit in that the president had hoped to talk about tamping down concerns that are growing right now over this becoming a much wider military conflict. You know theyre already growing escalation alord the border of lebanon. There have been casualties of soldiers on both sides. Israel
In the meantime, lets talk about the price of bitcoin. It has been volatile. Shot up yesterday in a big way and pulled back after blackrock denied the report, becky. Coin telegraph saying u. S. Regulators approved the application for the spot etf. Everybody cheered and went crazy. Coin telegraph later retracted the story and conducting an internal investigation into the inaccurate report. Blackrock reported the application is still under review. Crypto markets have been waiting news for spot coin etfs which are expected to drive investment in the sector if approved. If because we still dont know. Just because blackrock and fidelity are asking for it, doesnt mean the s. E. C. Has to give it. Do i think there is momentum . Sure. It doesnt lead to the situation. The company that put out the story is now conducting an internal investigation which makes you wonder if they suspect somebody was doing this and making trades based on the story. It wasnt how it happened. Was somebody feeding the