Stacy talked to me a little bit about this one of the constants throughout all of our episodes of all of our various programs has been mention of my hair so just so you know in case my hair is not perfect as it usually is this is because we did not have anybody to look at me from behind until the edit situation or anything i think i have a comment on the go ahead and put the comment because this is very poor its your show youre the man in the photo i think if they if the concern is for hair i think the top and the pants are going to become louder as a way to distract attention from the air but ive been observing women for a very very long time and that was my my observation i could be wrong now well move into the serious side of the program because we have to cover the fact that we have a Global Pandemic everybody is on lockdown max and i have been on lockdown since for 29 days many people are just in lockdown for the last 2 days or so so we have many many weeks apparently ahead to go
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Charles the economy continues to be a lot stronger than the expert consensus. This morning gdup 2. 1 , beat consensus. Durable goods up. 6 a percent, beat consensus. Business investment crushed consensus. What does it mean for the markets . I would like to bring in fhn financial chief economist chris lowe and jack ablin of crescent wealth management. Let me start with you. Economic data continues for the most part coming in better than anticipated. It does the same experts. You are part of the expert pool. Say, of course it came in better. The gm strike is over. Of course it came in better but im just, i find it remarkable, it feels like it can continue . It does. And i think thats, if you take a step back, think about how the story has changed in the last three or fourmonth, the biggest thing is we were talking about recession, right . Will it come before the end of the year . Is it a 2020 story . Nobody is talking about recession anymore. The economy is fine. We are growing and i kno
5 am and he will focus on the tracy commute but i will also mention that interstate 80 is open right now. If you went to bed and did not know if it would be open for the morning commute, it is open. Lets start with 580. 580 at 205, slow traffic coming up on 205 from 11th and on 580 as you approach the Altamont Pass and then it looks all right to livermore and dublin. The problems on 680 from san ramon to pleasanton and into the snow grade. Looking at interstate 880 we have a good drive as well and getting out to the bay bridge toll plaza there is a small delay. Nothing major yet. Lets go back to the desk. An investigation is underway into what caused that massive fire at the Nustar Petroleum storage plant in crockett yesterday afternoon. The fire was contained but the effects are still being felt this morning. One example. All schools in the John Swett School district are closed for the day. Both directions of 80 are open to traffic in a shelter in place order was lifted last night. Sa
But there will be cooler conditions for the next few days. Anything you want to get to right away or just the usual . The usual and i want to remind people that interstate 80 is open and you may have gone to bed not knowing what will happen. It is open now. Lets go to the picture to show you the drive time between the carquinez bridge and the macarthur maze. It looks pretty decent. 20 minutes. Interstate 80 is open after yesterdays incident which closed for the evening commute. You can see traffic at the bay bridge toll plaza is backed up for a 1015 minute wait which is typical and you can see when we put the map up of the east making it, there is a little bit of slow traffic here and there. Highway 4 does have slow traffic and as you look at the izbicki mood we are off to a decent start. The latest on that massive fire at the Petroleum Storage facility in crockett yesterday. The fire is contained. Interstate 80 is open after it was shut down for hours. An Incident Management Team is l