We are all in it together, good evening, everyone. I am julie haener, working from home. Im frank somerville. It is tough to gauge progress when the numbers continue to go up. The death toll from the coronavirus is now past 10,000 here in the United States and is approaching 11,000. In california, gov. Newsom said that he expects the outbreak will peak in midmay but he also said there are already indications that the hospitalization rate is slowing down. Signs of progress in the fight against the coronavirus in new york. Retail and travel stocks were among the biggest gainers with markets up more than 7 today. And the Prime Minister of Great Britain was put in intensive care at the hospital after his symptoms for coronavirus took a turn for the worst. Boris johnson was diagnosed with coronavirus 10 days ago, the white house is now reaching out to offer assistance. Gov. Newsom said california will be lending 500 ventilators to the National Stock file to help u. S hotspots. At the same t
To petaluma, that was the big show and we did have rain on the peninsula but that was a general area of rain. Now today there will be scattered showers but nothing like the intensity of yesterday but they will still be around. Sun and clouds in a little fog. Possibility of showers but not as much of an opportunity for thunder showers, late yesterday afternoon around petaluma it fired up right there and we did see the lightning strikes and there was decent rainfall and sfo had good rain and vallejo, redwood city, nevada, all had nice rain. Look for the possibility of 30s and 40s and possibly upper 50s, 60s and scattered showers possible today, Sal Castaneda is here right now but im sure it is pretty quiet so lets ask him. Good morning. Good morning steve, right now pretty quiet and if you drive on the san mateo bridge anytime soon you see traffic moving along nicely heading out to the highrises, no major issues driving out to the peninsula and traffic moves along well. Now back to the d
Bridge. Its slow. Im just looking at this and showing you that there is no break today. Traffic is going to be slow driving across here. And it has been slow getting into marin. And well talk about marin in just a moment. I can also show you the traffic on the eastshore freeway. 30minute drive right now coming in from the carquinez bridge to the macarthur maze and at the bay bridge, we have a 25minute drive. New accident in san bruno. Well talk about that and some of of these other commutes when we come back in just a few minutes. Straight to new information this morning about a fire at a highrise Apartment Building in the south of market district in San Francisco. Firefighters are now telling ktvu an electric scooter was the source of this Early Morning fire. Flames broke out before 5 a. M. Inside a building on clementina street and gallagher lane. One person was hospitalized with moderate injuries. Looks like firefighters also rescued a dog from that burning building. Time is now 7 0
Live from the cbs bay area studios, this is kpix 5 news. Right now on kpix and streaming on cbsn bay area, taking a live look at che center where the warriors played last night. Steph curry making his return for the team, but they did lose. It is friday, march 6, i am kenny choi. And i am anne makovec in for michelle. Lets get a check of our forecast with mary. We are looking at Cool Temperatures today for with that strong onshore flow. We do have shower chances on saturday. Here is a live look from our san jose, with cloudy skies, temperatures are in the low to mid 50s at this hour. Lets take you through the day and what to expect. Looking at 55 in pacifica, 57 in San Francisco, 59 oakland for just a high, made 60s in san jose, low 60s in santa rosa and looking at 62 in concord. We will timeout showers we are expecting with our next weather system on future cast, coming up. We are off to a decent start on the roadways. We are not seeing problems just yet. We are seeing a lot of green
Instead of home sellers being locked into a brokerage fee, which usually is around 6 , buyers and sellers could negotiate lower fees, effectively lowering the overall cost of buying a home. It makes it more complicated for everyone. Reporter she plans to continue telling sellers about the value of providing a commission. The realtors we spoke with said they were aware this could be coming soon but many of them are in meetings and talking with their trade associations about how exactly to proceed going forward. Housing experts we spoke with believed the Fee Structure change could mean thousands of dollars in savings for home buyers. Is going to shift the industry, its going to shift the market and hopefully get more people the opportunity to buy homes. Reporter berkeley professor brady summers noted the existing Fee Structure has been blamed for realtors stealing buyers to more expensive homes, where they could make commissions. Theres really, in the real estate market, there has been t