Breath easy, get outside. Look at this, the streak, 30 days and over. Everybody is green in the north bay, east light on shoer wind, that fog will spread. This is sfo this morning, foggy and a little drizzle. Temperatures pretty mild. 60s around the coast, 70s at the bay. Not as warm as yesterday. Well talk about the possibility of smoke this weekend. More on the streak ending. This is quite a difference from what we saw a week ago. The streak is finally over. Today is not a spare the air day. This is the first time this has happened in 30 days. A lot of people are out just enjoying this after weeks of unhealthy air quality in the region. It is just great being outside. Everybody should take advantage of it while they can. The previous record was just 14 days back in 2018 during the campfire. Well continue to monitor the air quality as the potential for unhealthy air will return this weekend. Showing you our air quality tracker at abc 7 news. Com. At the live desk, President Trump is o
We also have learned this afternoon about how the military is getting more involved in this response to the crisis. President trump says he is signing the defense production act which authorizes him to ramp up production of critical supplies such as medical equipment and protective gear for health care workers. We never had to even think in terms of these numbers but we need millions of masks and all of that will be ordered. We need respirators. Ventilators is a big thing. Reporter the pentagon is also deploying two Military Hospital ships. Hospital ships mercy and natis dicialerted oy of fieland expedition hospital to be prepared to deploy as well as needed based on direction from the commanderinchief. Reporter as Economic Impact from the pandemic also continues to grow, President Trump says he is working with congress to send checks to americans. It is moving along fast. Again, theres a great bipartisan effort going on i havent really seen before to this extent. Reporter the plan is
New job. We already took two weeks of no pay, because his job was close and we got a new job before we left. Before passengers leave the ship, they will be screened by healthcare workers only passengers who have symptoms or risk factors are getting the actual coronavirus test. Did they listen to any symptoms . s instructions sheet was handed up today, reminding passengers a quarantine order is a legal order, so, the cdc says it will reassess the order 72 hours after the initial order was served and will determine whether passengers can be released under less restrictive measures, the quarantine could be continued, changed or ended. What is the first thing youre going to do when you are out of quarantine, en ywh o ou francisco [ laughter ] pick up our puppy. And go to our home, which is lips a a lot bigger. Ive got to tell you, alan, that every passenger that we have faced in the past 48 hours , that have been on that ship, they really have a good attitude and that couple that you just
Oakland. A little more than an hour ago, we began seeing a flurry of activity as dozens of passengers were seen leaving the ship. They are planning to take some of them to the Travis Air Force base, or in miramar in Southern California for testing and a 14 day quarantine. The noncalifornia passengers are expected to be taken on charter flights to military facilities in texas and georgia. We have been out at the port all day long following developments there and we are live now with more. Reporter will consider this, 2400 passengers that have to be cleared roughly. If you can clear one per minute, that is going pretty fast, it was still take 40 hours to do this. This is going to be a multiday effort. The day began with a relief to some passengers, that they would not be in orbit on the north california shores anymore. The grand princess, after orbiting off the Northern California shores for three days , passed into the Golden Gate Bridge around midmorning. And headed for a dock at the p
Windy night here in the bay area strong storm keeps on rolling through. You see the radar here we also have a live picture outside this is the bay bridge toll plaza where it has been pouring for much of the night slick on the roads dangerous driving conditions. Thanks for being with us inside tonight, everybody im grant lotus im Justine Waldman pam moore and ken wayne both kept the night off. But we do have Team Coverage right now. The storm that is hitting our region. Kron fours gayle ong is in the north bay. And is in the east bay where the rain has been. Yeah first though want to get our chief meteorologist Lawrence Karnow who has been tracking this big storm large youre seeing another downpour now. Yeah, a lot of rain coming down around the bay area this time dumping imparts the bay area look what off the coastline. Start to see some lightning popping just off the coast that is not that far away just a couple 100 miles out there and certainly thats something that we may have to dea