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Out of his still in the but love that we may keep one another healthy and safe. It will therefore be unusual but mr. Speaker this legislation represents a bipartisan resolve to me the coronavirus challenge. It represents a focus on families and workers to the objective to make them safer and economically supported. It will protect workers and their families and our economy as we all do our part to flatten the curve. Public Health Officials made it clear that the only chance we have to prevent them from getting overwhelmed is for as Many Americans to stay home as possible. It is however necessary to be here, to pass legislation, respond on behalf of thees American People to the daunting challenge. Closure means large parts of the economy are temporarily shut down causing severe disruption for businesses and workers. We saw the impact of this yesterday with the new Unemployment Insurance claims increased by more than 3 Million People. 3million individuals. 3million families rely on them
Slicing through lee county, Sonoma County. The airflow is offshore and there is your breeze. Nap and fearful gusting up to 30. Nevada, 24. Highs today will be 74 in santa rosa. We do have traffic that is going to be okay if youre driving to the bay bridge. Lets go there. Traffic is moving along well. If you are driving up to the toll plaza it is light. We are looking at a commute where the east bay is off to a good start including the tracy commute so far and also its lets go back to the desk. Because of changes in the weather pg e now says we will not see the widespread power safety shutoffs first planned. The new plan for shutoffs will now affect 150,000 pg e customers and 18 counties around the state. That includes almost 43,000 customers in napa, solano and lake county along with part of Sonoma County. Though shutoffs are due to begin at 7 00 this morning. However pg e says later this afternoon Sonoma County will have a second phase of power safety shutoffs beginning at 4 pm. Emerg
Will be busy at the Altamont Pass with slow traffic on 205 l no major issues driving into hayward. We do have traffic that is also going to be okay here and at the bay bridge toll plaza. Is a little bit of a backup. No problems on the bridge into San Francisco. Because of changes in the weather, pg e now says we will not see the widespread power safety shutoffs that were first planned. The new plan for shutoffs will now affect 150,000 pg e customers and 18 counties across the state. That includes almost 43,000 customers in napa, solano and lake counties along with part of Sonoma County. And those shutoffs are due to begin at 7 00 this morning. However pg e says later this afternoon Sonoma County will have a second phase of power safety shutoffs beginning at 4 pm. Emergency Officials Say preparing for all of this is getting easier but its taking a toll. It is becoming a machine that we are able to quickly and efficiently put into motion. Its not getting easier for the community. We full
This morning until tomorrow morning at 7 am. Highs today in the 60s unless you get a north wind and then will be in the 70s. right now we have traffic that will be busy if you are driving on 80 westbound and driving into the macarthur maze area. I can see traffic is slow there and also unconquered, highway 4, slow traffic. We do have a look at the commute on interstate 880 and theres no major issues on the peninsula. A little bit of slowly beginning to develop in the south bay commute. Now its 6 01 am lets go back to the desk. We begin with developing news and East San Jose were police are searching for a driver behind a deadly hitand run. The collision happened shortly after 10 00 last night at the intersection of alan rock and jackson avenue. The driver of a 1999 honda hid a tesla head on and then veered into another lane and hit a dodge durango. The driver of the honda ran off but left two passengers in the car. One witness tells us he got to the victims first before paramedics a