The wind is not as strong as it was last night, that is the good news but it is still gusty. And the humidity is still less than 10 across much of the bay area. Last night, mount st. Helena, 80 mile an hour wind gust just before of them 30 last night. 70 miles an hour, the Oakland Hills had a wind gust close to severe thunderstorms, 57 miles an hour, not the airport measured 50 mile an hour wind gusts. So while it is not going to be this strong, tonight, still Strong Enough and the humidity is still low enough to keep us in the critical fire weather threat. We take a look at the forecast values for humidities and wind speeds across the bay area coming up in a few minutes. Strong wind took down this giant tree near the santa rita jail in dublin. People in the neighborhood say the wind was so loud it sounded like a hurricane moving through. Juliette goodrich live in san leandro where cleanup is underway after fierce wind ripped through that area. Reporter theres a lot of cleanup. We are
Absolutely spread into the community at large. Reporter out of the 8000 prisoners statewide, only a couple hundred are expected to be released here from san quentin. There is support for this, obviously as we just saw but what more can you tell us that the timing of the releases . Reporter we are hearing that 3500 prisoners are expected to be released by the end of this month and it will continue until august and possibly go into september. Thank you. California experienced its deadliest week of the pandemic yet averaging more than 80 deaths per day and that is the average. Nearly 7800 new confirmed cases yesterday and yesterday 140 new debts. The test Positivity Rate is up to 7. 4. Los angeles county remains a hotspot for the most new cases. Right now Oakland Unified School district officials are holding a Virtual Meeting to discuss plans for the start of the school year next month and the meeting is just getting underway and the first day of instruction is set for august 10 and distr
Contact by 80 to curb the spread of the virus. Theyve also asked nonessential businesses to close. A team of experts in japan is warning people not to become complacent about staying safe. The worstcase scenario could see more than 400,000 people die worldwide if no measures are taken to contain infections. Translator if the epidemic is allowed to spread without any measures being taken the number of seriously ill patients will exceed the number of artificial respirators at hand. He added that at the peak, which is still to come, 850,000 people could be in serious condition. 22 other people at the home already tested positive this week. As the government tightens travel restrictions andnd stepsp quarantine measures, the number of visitors to japan drastically dropped last month. The Japan National Tourism Organization estimate thats about 194,000 visitors arrived in the country in march, down 93 from the same month last year. Foreign travellers from china and south korea each dropped m
Save time and make things healthier. It doesnt have to be shelter in home or clean air. It can be clean air every day. Reporter in the meantime, while some crucial climate field science in places like greenland is being disrupted, the unprecedented shutdown ofjcs m cities is also proving to be a boon for other science as well. It has allowed us to really look at certain scenarios. Reporter gaby fister is a climate scientist now studying our environment in conditions no one ever thought would occur. As cars are taken off the roads, what would happen to our climate and our air quality . I mean, this is to be something we can only test in our numerical models, but then we dont have observations, though now we do. Reporter armed with this new data, scientists hope when we do return to our prepandemic life styles, well do so with Lessons Learned during the crisis. It has shown us that there are ways that we can make a significant change in the human footprint on our atmosphere and our natur
Basic duty and must be held accountable. He says a review is now under way to assess the w. H. O. s role in promoting what he called chinas disinformation that might have led to the wider spread of the coronavirus. Now to the economic fallout from the coronavirus pandemic. The International Monetary fund has drastically cut its growth forecast for the Global Economy. It warns that the world is likely to experience the worst recession since the great depression. The imf f predicts t the Global Economy will s shrink by 3 in 2020. Thats down sharply y from the 3. 3 expxpansion fororecasted i janunuary. The declinine would bebe far wo than 2009 in the aftermath of the financial crisis when the economy contracted by a fraction of a percent. The imf predicts the u. S. Economy will shrink by almost 6 . Japan is expected toto see a contraction of more than 5 . Chinas growth rate is likely to stay positive but just barely at a little over 1 . The figures for europe are equally dire. Italy is ex