Possible cases in contra costa county. Andria borba kpix 5. The number of people getting tested in the state has gone up significantly with a Record Number of 92,000 test just yesterday. More than 3 million tests have been given since midmarch. With the number of tests going up, so has the positivity rate. Thats the number of people who have tested positive divided by the total number of tests administered. The rate went from 4. 5 last monday to 4. 8 today. California governors past and present coming together to urge residents to wind those ace masts. Maybe you didnt vote for me. News flash, i voted for greg amos. No matter who you voted for our if you didnt vote at all, it doesnt change the fact that californians look out for one another. The state released this video on social media today putting safety above politics. Former governor jerry brown, greg davis, arnold schwarzenegger, pete wilson all sharing the same message. Newsom has issued a statewide order requiring masks any time
Some places are reporting record single day increases lets kick things off with meg terre terrell. Were seeing a couple days worth of data with record cases. If you look at the United States in total, now the sevenday average of new cases is starting to tick higher again meaning trends to the south and west of increasing cases are starting to overcome the positive trends coming down in the northeast as of yesterday, 27,000 new cases were reported across the United States United States. If you look at individual case, weve been getting the new case counts for today for states like arizona now up to an additional 3200 cases today california reporting 4300 additional cases today but that could be due to Testing Backlog from l. A. County we saw in the numbers yesterday. Florida also reporting record high cases today 3800 South Carolina another one of those states reporting record highs. Now in terms of the hot spots in the country, the areas with the fastest case doubling times, it is clos
Attorney general william barr is under fire after a top prosecutor is pushed out. How the president is involved, and why congress is demanding an explanation. And driven by hate. A noose is found in the garage of Bubba Wallace. Nascars only fulltime black driver. Well show you how the sport is responding. First, heres todays eye opener. Its your world in 90 seconds. How do you think history will remember donald trump . I hope it will remember him as a oneterm president. We can get over one term. White house officials are pushing back against john bolton. The president has called bolton a, quote, whacko. And the white house claimed boltons new book is full of lies. I predict this. Hell not only not get the profits from that book but he risks a jail sentence. Democrats demanding probes into the firing of a federal prosecutor investigating peee i close to the president. He was trying to follow the law and that cost him his job. Florida is becoming a hot spot for coronavirus. New numbers r
Breakthrough theyre preparing a long promise but never delivered infrastructure bill. The s p 500 is higher by 2 . Broad rally today well speak with the House Majority whip about his call for big banks to die eventualth more information about the Paycheck Protection Program and whether it favored Big Companies over Small Businesses plus, as sarah mentioned, a major breakthrough thats what searchers are calling a new study into the effectiveness of an inexpensive steroid to treat covid19 patients you dont want to miss that interview. One of the factors behind the surge in the markets today lets focus in on the big markets. Mike santoli, we have the highlights from chairman powells testimony earlier today. Courtney reagan is covering the surge in retail sales. And meg has details on those new hopes for coronavirus treatment that we just mentioned mike, lets start with you the Broader Markets are up about 2 on the s p 500. This is an impatient. 3130 is the high of the day. There is a high
Stimulus checks are heading to Bank Accounts starting today. The coronavirus has claimed the lives of 6 people and infected other another 85 a to nursing home facilities in alameda county. We begin our coverage with that story can see huge outbreak is very concerning kron 4 Sarah Stinson is in San Francisco with the details. You guys very concerning especially i mean can you imagine for the family members you know have someone there at the 2 separate Nursing Homes that have had coronavirus outbreaks still very developing situation over there as the only the county Health Department or to help us staff get through this with resources as well take a look at your screen we put all the details for you on there where you can see the numbers there at least 59 people have tested positive for coronavirus at gateway care and rehab center in hayward 24 Staff Members and 35 residents of the 35 residents 6 have died each then at east bay postacute in Castro Valley 17 employees and 9 residents have