And up to 200,000 deaths. The president listening to his medical advisers and he has adjusted policy. The social distancing rules will be extended until april 30th. Therefore, the shutdown of the economy will continue well beyond easter. The president says the recovery will start by june 1st. On the markets, expect continued volatility. We have certainly seen that already today. At one point early this morning, futures showed a loss of a couple hundred points. Now we are looking at a gain at the opening bell of a couple hundred points. That would be almost 1 . A similar gain, better gain, actually, for the nasdaq, up about 1. 25 and the s p also up over 1 . A rally at the opening bell. Investors seem to like the idea of more pain now so we get out of it faster. The other big financial story is the price of oil. This is apart from the virus. This is the price of oil. Look at it. Its down to 20 a barrel. Earlier it hit 19. 20. 48 is the price right now. The saudis have declared war on Am
Not until tonight so in advance of that it will be sunny to mostly sunny in the morning and will turn partly cloudy to mostly cloudy by this afternoon. Temps running 1 to 4 degrees colder than yesterday at this time. Its only santa rosas plus one. But the wind chills at 29 degrees. We do have a system on its way that will weaken and give us some light rain late tonight. Sals here. 6 01 getting busy and he will start with. The bay bridge. If you are driving into San Francisco about a 10 to 15 minute delay. No major issues. I can show it to you. You can see traffic is going to be slow here as you drive through. Were also looking at san jose. Northbound 101 recovering from a crash near 880 and its still pretty traffics going to stay that way for a bit. When we come back well take a bigger look at the east bay. 6 01. Lets go back to the desk. New this morning a deadly stampede in iran has killed 40 mourners at the funeral for the iranian general killed in last weeks air strike. Ktvus Chris
Oakland san mateo and now San Francisco. All in the 60s too sweet a nice chilly start to the morning. Thanks to some dry air in place last night were going to have a warm day ahead of us look at 70s in San Francisco, mid 70s, comfortable and sunny all throughout the day oakland upper 70s warm day and near 80 degree temperatures right there by the day, san jose nearing 90 today with a few inland spots in the 90s today and a lot more 90s in the forecast ahead of us which ill get to still to come all right the fair for a slow drive into San Francisco, it is still quite heavy at the bay bridge toll plaza backed up all the way through the maze 5 8024 the is sure the nimitz its going to stay heavy right through the toll plaza up the incline in pockets over toward fremont street. So you want to leave extra early because its only getting heavier by the minute over to the nimitz i have an accident still active its left over from the last hour union city 80 north alvarado nows your right lane is
By some notes written during jury selection are raising concerns about prosecutors. Its time now for a look at this mornings top stories, propel ist indian protesters are making their stand at uc berkeley as they vowed to stay put until the university meets their demands. To divest from companies with ties to israel and to cut its Study Abroad Program there. Theyre just some of the hundreds of protesters from yesterdays rally that you see here at the steps of the campus of sprawls plaza. Dozens of tents set up now this is all part of the gaza solidarity and camp mint movement, which has swept College Campuses across the nation. Nicolepresident biden spoke on the unrest condemning the protest nationwide. Calling it blatantly anti semitic and dangerous. Yeah. Cal poly humble also seeing protesters gathering for a late night protest. Campus, police says it caused a shutdown through tomorrow, they said they received reports of dozens of protesters. Occupying seamans hall right before 5 00
To friends of the victim. Reporter and they all say he was a kind and wonderful guy and theyre deeply grieving about his untimely passing. He was a father of two. He passed away after being hit by a hitandrun driver at this gas station on monday afternoon and an intense manhunt continues tonight for the hitandrun driver who never stopped and looked back at what hed done. Local police and Mercer County prosecutor need help in finding the suspect who left man to ultimately die. Charles nevius jr. Resided in trenton but he was most popular here in Lawrence Township where he long worked as a gas attendant at this quick check. A hitandrun driver struck him monday afternoon while he was trying to flee a separate hitandrun of a vehicle seconds earlier here on the stations lot. Witnesses say negative yes was trying to say nevius was trying to stop the driver. The Good Samaritan known as simply chucky the father of two passed away the next day at age 28. Him trying to intervene with a Traffic O