Additional deaths tied to covid19. By the end of the month. Roughly double what cemeteries normally see in one month. And current social distancing means families are struggling to connect in a time of grief and loss. Good evening. Lets get right to the i team reporter. Live in the news room with the latest on the sad preparations. Grim update we can confirm two of the bay areas largest Funeral Homes are working with county officials to see if space will be available to accommodate a surge. Preparations are under way. It comes with challenges for families mrning ineqoc distanci. Its really devastating. You could have been done something more. You want to be there. You can hear the pain in her voice. Mourning the loss of her mother. Who died alone at the hospital last week. I could have gone. I wanted to be with my mom. She tested negative for the coronavirus. But later contracted pneumonia. Because of visitation restrictions she couldnt be there to comfort her mom. It must be hard. I n
Going down but a popup shower or two may move through. Our trend over the next couple of days will be for the bay area to get a chance to dry out. Well warm up. The temperatures and whats ahead the rest of the week in a few minutes. Mike has a look at the morning commute. Light traffic volume. The green sensors are all over the bay. San mateo, the crash is on the shoulder. No injuries. Theyre not saying visibility was an issue but fog in the area. A camera by. Higher speeds now. Going to have to watch out. Be careful. President trump is pushing back on a new report hospitals are facing the critical shortage of supplies. Tracie potts is live inside her home in washington with the very latest. Tracie . Reporter hi, marcus. The report about the shortage of supplies caused a dustup at the White House Briefing yesterday when President Trump was asked about it, he seemed to suggest the person inside his administration who put that report together may have been playing politics. The states se
Get down get down. Standstill. Oh, he killed them. New details tonight about a deadly shooting rampage in texas. President ial candidates now promising change. A deadly gas exposes Hotel Workers and guests leaves one person dead. Why Authorities Say it is not a terrorist attack but are focusing on a certain chemical. Im kenny choi in san jose. And Hurricane Dorian is getting ready to pummel the bahamas. When it could make landfall in the u. S. Drivers headed eastbound on the bay bridge might be stalled in traffic tonight. These are live pictures of the western span of the bridge. You can see Police Lights flashing on the lower deck. At least two stalled cars in the left lane. Another one flipped up on its side against the tunnel wall. Crash was reported just beisnoo injuries or what caused the crash, but we will be monitoring the story closely and bring you more information as it comes into our news room. In other news now, it was a traffic stop that went terribly wrong. A man pulled o
Out. Kpix 5s emily turner is at the scene. Reporter this is a lot more excitement than they anticipated for the day and not much happens in the building. They are a customs place. Its mostly paperwork that happens here. But paperwork is exactly what caused all of this today. What started as a call for paramedics ended as a hazmat response once emergency medical workers discovered why the sick woman called. She had just recently opened a package that she noticed that it what appeared to be some white powder in the package so she was a bit alarmed with that. Reporter she was also feeling nauseous, dizzy and irritated eyes. She was taken to the hospital and two others are being evaluated. Several people were rinsed down in a portable Decontamination Center set up in the industries street as a precaution in the street as a precaution. Everyone else was evacuated while hazmat spent the afternoon trying to track down the envelope in question so they can see whats in it and who it is from. Th
People who were on that train for those 40 minutes they tell us was very stressful, trying to figure out exactly what was going on. Live in southwest, Jackie Bensen news4. More Live Team Coverage with derrick ward down at ninth and main avenue the wharf on the waterfront. An evacuation point there. Derrick, what are you seeing now . Reporter well, thing have sort of calmed down here nowhere near as i guess frenetic a scene up at the station and some of the station where is tg is. But i want you to look at the scene just a few minutes earlier. This is some video we shot when we first got here. This is at least one of those six people who were hospitalized that you just heard the gentleman talking about in jackies story. Now, we did see two people come out from an evacuation tunnel which is at this location shortly before that person was evacuated. They seemed to be okay and didnt appear to be in any sort of stress or anything like that. But, again, one person who appeared to be a firefi