Concerns about jobs and especially about the coronavirus. Well talk about it all. Im connell shane, welcome to after the bell on a friday, and its time for the news thats happening at this hour. Our fox Business Team coverage, blake burman at the white house, Edward Lawrence is in washington, jer true willis in new york. Edward, we kick it off with you and the details on the jobs report. Reporter theres still some growth, plus looking forward to stimulus. Thats what the markets like. In november the economy added 245,000 jobs, almost half as much as the the experts thought. The unemployment rate, though, dropped to 6. 7 , well below what the federal are serve estimated from last summer. Now, the administration saying this is a fundamentally strong economy, and were moving very quickly in the right direction. Listen. President trump has always add slow e candidated keeping advocated keeping businesses open and keeping schools open. Thats very important. All right, thats a good point. So
Were going to take sharp turn and were going to have a lot colder and its going to be wet as we get into tomorrow, im tracking a storm system that is coming out of the Pacific Northwest going to be bringing us. Lots of wind lots of rain and colder temperatures all have all those details. Coming up in my next full head and ill have that about 10 to 15 minutes for now though lets hit the roads, the dry roads for today and say good morning to robin good morning. Rebecca, its always good to have you here in the studio with us lets head over to the bay bridge were checking the drive into San Francisco. Its packed its not Getting Better at least not right now nothing in the way to cause us and traffic is this. The typical crowd here rolling into San Francisco. So expect a backup that spills through the bottom of the maze. Were averaging 19 minutes which is crowded slow not so bad in the out for you west of Treasure Island as well were checking in on the e sure thats one of your approach is 2
Had yesterday. Heres a live shot of alcatraz was San Francisco behind it to just a little bit that was behaves there do want point out a little bit up north you might get a stray shower potentially were talking north of Sonoma County. Getting up there. It may drift a little bit to the south you might see some scattered clouds throughout the day but basically want to go with mostly sunny for much of the geography. Chilly 30s up there in the north bay again this morning, although not quite as bad as yesterday 35 up there to napa 36 santa rosa, 37 in 40s fell out much of the rest of the geography of the 37 Half Moon Bay at 11 00am were at 6068 by 2 oclock coming up a little bit were time out what you can expect into early next week marty sounds good dave get to the news this morning. We have the latest for you on the coronavirus pandemic that continues to surge across the country over the past week, the virus has claimed the lives of more than 1000 people a day. The u. S. Has recorded its
Protests and demonstrations that at times have gotten violent and destructive. Local Police Departments say theyre worried the violence might surface again on Election Night regardless of the outcome bay area businesses are either boarding up again or simply staying boarded up kron fours dan thorn is live in berkeley tonight, he joins us with more on what police have plan and what the residents are expecting to dan. Well ken and pam some bay area Police Departments say they are increasing staffing on election day and the following days and theyre also canceling any discretionary time off its been said before that this is likely going to be an election unlike any other and police are not taking any chances. Businesses throughout the bay area are boarding up or are continuing to stay that way as election day nears depending on which way the elections go police in Berkeley Oakland and San Francisco are also preparing for potential unrest by increasing staffing to help keep the peace open
This weekend kron fours gayle ong live force and walnut creek with a look at how things are going in Contra Costa County tonight. Yeah. More than half of Contra Costa County residents have already voted im here at the heather farms park and this is one of the sites where people can vote early in person. Im really im glad its done. On saturday lily wescott crossed off voting on her to do list i actually came in with my mail in ballot and didnt realize that i had the ability to just go ahead and vote early so i went ahead and took care of that right away. Early voting in person began friday in Contra Costa County jennifer look many leads the heather farms park site and says so far almost 500 people voted in person by saturday, the crowd tapered off today its been pretty well its not that slow but yesterday was earlier in the morning would have lines all the way around parks with election day fast approaching over 50 of residents in the county already voted. County officials have been enc