The thing to look at his what is going on on mount st. Helena today. The hour before it reported at 42 Miles Per Hour, virtually half the wind speed tonight compared to last night. It seems like good news to me. It is still windy, the red flag warning is still there but the wind is not as bad. We look at the wind model that tells you everything, after midnight things cool off and you see at 2 am they start to fire up, it is not as aggressive on the central and south bay as it was last night. Mostly in the Northeast Quadrant and by 9 am it is gone. Some really positive news, we are not out of the woods on this thing but if we can get through noon tomorrow with what we are seeing outside now with some of the current wind speeds i am feeling good. Hopefully it will stay that way. When i come back we will look at the forecast that includes less wind and cool overnight lows. Thousands of customers are facing another night of outages as part of the pg e Public Safety power shutoffs. Crews ar
Judge barretts for right, out of the mainstream views the generations. Her confirmation means the court will be firmly in conservative hands with a 63 majority, the vote could be crucial in deciding the fate of the Affordable Care act, which will go before the court a week after the election. Any objective standard, judge barrett deserves to be confirmed to the Supreme Court. The American People agree in just a few minutes, she will be on the Supreme Court. , President Trump is set to host the swearing in at the white house tonight, with Justice Clarence thomas giving the first of the two odes, this is a live picture of the scene there on the south lawn, you cant tell, but there is a Group Gathering for the swearing in and we have seen, for the most part, most of them wearing masks, and the chairs on the lawn, it is hard to see because it is so dark, but the chairs on the lawn are spread farther apart than they were when barretts nomination was first announced. Lawmakers say there is s
Much out. For many in the bay area, this is what they woke up to this money, if there wasnt a downed tree, many found leaves and branches scattered all over the ground, on the left, a tree fell on Market Street in san jose, damaged some Electrical Equipment and knocked out power, in the middle, those strong winds knocked a tree on 103rd avenue in oakland, it also took out power lines. On the right, city crews were busy cleaning up a downed tree in san leandro this morning. In orinda, we saw downtown banks and businesses in the dark this afternoon, the neighboring cities of moraga and lafayette were also affected, pg e turned off power in a large part of the east bay holes and contra costa and alameda counties today, including parts of berkeley, oakland, and san leandro. You can see the widespread outages indicated by the purple triangles, power was cut all across the bay area, including in sonoma, napa, solano, and marin counties, customers in san mateo and santa clara counties are als
Im Adrian Finnegan this is counting the cost on aljazeera a weekly look at the world of business and economics this week recession why an emergency fed rate cuts just isnt good enough to save the Global Economy from the impact of the fast spreading coronavirus as the World Bank Offers billions to developing nations to support Health Care Systems inside a lab thats working to find a vaccine to fight the virus and Oil Companies in the republic of congo have discovered vast oil reserves but drilling could be environmentally damaging. The worlds factory has been shuttered supply chains have been broken flights of been grounded tourism decimated thats the real world consequence of the coronavirus and the epidemic has yet to peak outside china growth could this year want the o. E. C. D. To 1. 5 percent from its previous forecast of 2. 9 percent growth below 2 and a half percent indicates a global recession as markets crashed Central Banks stepped forward to say that they were ready to suppor
Discovered vast oil reserves but drilling could be environmentally damaging. The worlds factory has been shuttered supply chains have been broken flights of been grounded tourism decimated thats the real world consequence of the coronavirus and the epidemic has yet to peak outside china growth could hard this year want the o. E. C. D. To 1. 5 percent from its previous forecast of 2. 9 percent growth below 2 and a half percent indicates a global recession as markets crashed Central Banks stepped forward to say that they were ready to support growth the Federal Reserve cut rates by a half a percentage point its 1st emergency cut since the financial crisis in 2008 now whether Central Banks have the firepower after more than 700. 00 rate cuts and trillions in buying off the financial crisis is another question after all that it. The stock markets that benefited most from the rate cuts little trickle down into the real economy but unlike the 2008 crisis where banks needed a desperate infusi