Soaring. If im going to go camp out in the desert, no water, no look ups, i want to take good water with me. Hes getting familiar with the hv he just bought. He and his family are ready to roll as counties release the brakes on shelter in place orders. Theyre not the only ones. These are all class c motor homes. Sales associate robert smith says covid19 is generating another kind of surge. Sales are through the roof right now. Thats like double last year. Thats right. Rvs are selling so fast, formally this lot is full with more than 200. Today, its half empty. The vacaville store has rung up about 40 rvs each week in the last month. Motor homes ranging from 10,000 to more than 200,000 each. Customers are looking for the comforts of home. Not just kitchen basics, beds, and bathrooms, but extras like st ar power, storage, and soisis urr nyyers want str ared es ke ho we find that this is probably the safest way in terms of exposure to the virus. Its a small quarantined hotel on wheels. Na
Close in 2020. Big day yesterday. Autonomous chaos meanwhile. Seattle looking to dismantle the capitol hill occupied protests as new one pops up in washington, d. C. Plus, back to the ball game, Major League Baseball looks to assure season this year but the players still need to get on board. More on sports talk, stay with us next hour tennis pro joining me live to talk about future of u. S. Open and new bourbon venture. We will talk with one ceo who kept employees on the payroll and bringing new ones on, mornings with maria is live right now. Maria european markets are seeing uptick this morning. The ftse 100 up 65, cac quarante in paris up 72 and dax index in germany high by 76. In asia green across the board. The japanese nikkei average overnight up half of 1 . Now the top stories that we are watching this morning. Major unrest on nations capitol as protestors attempt to create what they are calling a black house autonomous zone right outside of the white house with large garbage ca
Recommending that bars like this in two bay area counties close. Their home was tagged with graffiti. The first red flag of the season is now in effect thanks to gusty wind overnight. Abc 7 news at 11 starts right now. Building a better bay area for a safe and secure future. Daclly motivateddasm incidents, across the bay area. In alameda, alm, presumably short for all lives matter, tagged on a car, neighbors say, belongs to a black family. Good evening, and thanks so much for joining us. Im dion lim. Im eric thomas. Neighbors came out in alameda to try to clean up the car. They also began a go fund me and chalked kind messages on the sidewalk. We reached out to alameda police. We have not heard back yet. It is not clear if this incident is related to one in oakland. A black man woke up this morning to find all lives matter spray painted on his house. His family has lived there dating back to the 1970s. Abc 7 reporter has the story. It was like my familys home. And for me to wake up and
Evidently investors like what they think they will see. 2. 1 million jobless claims reported about a half hour ago. That means 40,740,000 have been thrown out of work in the last ten weeks. Big number. Yet the economy is contracting at an annual rate now of 5 . Thats a big number. And orders for big ticket items absolutely plunged. Okay. Got all of that. But the dow jones average up nearly 1100 points in the last two days, going up again at the opening bell. Were looking at a gain of over 200 points right now for the dow, and the nasdaq is going to be down, down 80 points. That tells me big techs having another difficult day. Then we have the opening up movement. Its rolling on. Vegas and disney have dates for its partial reopening, but theyve got the dates for reopening soon. Boeing, theyre going to restart, wait for it, max jet production. Were not back to normal but we are clearly well into the reopening phase. Now this. Watch out, social media. The president s going to sign an exec
Im julie haener working from home tonight. It has course is announcing new efforts to combat the virus as the number of cases across the country continues to rise. There are now more than 3600 cases here in the bay area. Santa clara county has the most with more than 1200 cases. California as a whole has 15,000 cases. Thats about 1000 more than yesterday and 349 people have died statewide. In the United States there are now more than 337,000 cases and nearly 10,000 deaths. The death toll is expected to jump this week. Today the president also announced new measures to try to fight the coronavirus. Reporter the federal government implementing new measures to help bolster the countrys fight against the coronavirus outbreak as the number of covid19 cases in the u. S. Continues to climb. This is an allout military operation that weve waged. President trump in the Coronavirus Task was delivering an update on the white house, outlining some of the new steps are being taken this week includin