Temperatures very, very cool on the coast and snow going into the mountains through the day. Some of the freeways here and highway 24 is moderately heavy and it is not completely light. The rain has been complicating things a bit and the Richmond Bridge seems lighter than usual and 80 does not and hit and miss bay bridge toll plaza backed up and check the south bay and 7 01, back to the desk. California now has 337 confirmed cases of coronavirus and more than twothirds of them are in the bay area where 239 cases have been verified. Santa clara has the most with 116 cases and last night a third person died in the virus in that county. San francisco has 37 cases san mateo 32 and contracosta 29 and other counties have ten or less cases. Napa is the only bay area county with no confirmed cases of covid19. Trading was halted the third time this morning, thats the third time this month. Investors are worrying about the coronavirus and fear it may lead to a global recession. Stocks dropped ne
This crash northbound 101 near whipple, lanes blocked. It doesnt look to be affecting speeds. Youre still seeing speeds at 65 Miles Per Hour. But speeds are affected in this crash northbound 17 near summit. A lane is blocked in that area, so you can see some red in the area. On westbound 580 it is in the red, 43 minutes from 205 to 680 right now. Slow on 4 through the macarthur maze. Metering lights are on. Im anne makovec at the live desk. We have breaking news out of missouri. 580 people were killed in a shooting including a Police Officer. And three others, the man killed himself. Somebody was shooting from a car around 11 30 last night in springfield. He ended up at a gas station, and the Police Officers who responded were the first to be shot. A second officer is now injured and is expected to survive. Back to you. Now to the coronavirus outbreak. This morning, bars, restaurants and wineries across the state are now scrambling to abide by governor Gavin Newsoms new social distanci
This coming out of china this morning. The Unemployment Rates surge to 6. 2 in china, and bank of japan is boosting stimulus this morning doubling stocks purchases. They are buy equities at the bank of japan because yield and tenure fall this morning. Were down 18 basis is point on the tenure at. 800 . Over this 200 coronavirus cases now here in america. West virginia, the only state with no known cases. More school ises are closing major restrictions are being put on businesses and travel. The cdc urging no gatherings of more than 50 people. Vaccine trials meanwhile are starting today. That is one certainly note of optimism. Trump declared National Emergency urging americans against hoarding as Grocery Store is shelveses are emptying out. The president taking part in a Video Conference of with g7 lead percent today to coordinate a response to the coronavirus pandemic. Meanwhile this, senate is expected to vote in coronavirus release bill today. They were there late until 1 a. M. Frida
Barrier. The tech the barrier is actually doing the test on a person in order to do the test, a Health Care Provider has to dress in full personal protective equipment and there the swab put all the way to back of the throat. It is then put in medium. The next person who has to get tested, that Health Care Provider has to change all the equipment. In, it isut that highly likely someone will call for sneeze. That is what were doing now, to throughput of this testing. We are working on things to make it much faster. Fromrtainly expect that thousands of people per day, be, we will be at tens of thousands of people per day. Reporter does the buck stop with you, mr. President . Normally, buteah, this has never been done. If you look at 20092011, no one has ever done things like what we are doing i think we can say that we are also getting this ready for the future so if we have a future problem, we will be starting off from a much higher plateau. We were at a very low base. We had a system
This is bloomberg surveillance. These are what the markets are doing. U. S. Stocks and bonds closed today too today due to president s day. We are edging up a bit with buoyancy on the market on the backs of investors taking encouragement from china. They will do more to support their economy which is why we in gold down and yen down. That is a good litmus that we are on a risk on. Spoke the yousef managing director of the imf about the outlook on the Global Economy and the active the coronavirus. All hear from the interview early. First, let leanne erin. Leanne japan is it possible for sex after taking another battery the sales tax hike in the last and that economy at the low end as the coronavirus it activity drunk 6. 3 in the final three months of the year. That would be the biggest slide since the previous tax increase in 2014. Tensions between the u. S. And europe over huawei ramped up another notch this weekend. The u. S. Ambassador to germany tweeted a warning to countries that u