Goodpresident pence morning. The White House Coronavirus task force met at the department of education on our ongoing effort to save lives, meet the needs of our state and our healthcare workers, to protect the vulnerable and to safely reopen america and reopen americas schools. As you will hear today from admiral giroir, we have tested 39 million americans. Among those, or than 3 million have tested positive and more than 1. 3 million americans have recovered. 133,000re than americans have lost their lives and our sympathy is with all of the impacted families. Because of what the American People have done, the extraordinary work of our healthcare workers around the country, we are encouraged that the average fatality rate continues to be low and steady. Days earlier this week, it was 90 lower than at the height of the pandemic. Again, it is a credit to the sacrifice the American People have made, the extraordinary work that healthcare workers are doing. Forcedge that this task working
So we will be cooler today, we are down a few degrees for some already. There is patchy fog that will be on the move here pretty soon. Thits grip and still 50s on the attempts to w jose, 65. But there are more 50s, and most locations are 1 to 4 degrees, oakland airport, minus 4. Yesterday was the hottest, no doubt. We will get warm breezes this afternoon and a big temp cooling trend will roll in. Temperatures are 70s, 80s, and 90s. Over to sal now to see if things are picking up on those good morning to you, steve. As a fact we do see traffic that is a little bit slow at the bay bridge toll plaza, we can show you that now. Between and 30 and eight, 830 or so this will probably be gone, this backup, one by 8 00. This is a look at interstate 880, and that traffic is looking good. San mateo crossing the bay, those crossings are doing well, no problems reported on public transit. 7 02 lets go back to the headlines. Reporter thanks, sal, first today Memorial Services for george floyd will b
Before the days over right now the wildfire continues to burn we dont see the huge flames that we saw in the overnight hours but now that the sun is up you can clearly see what it did to this community you can see some of the firefighters right there on the hillside. It has burned so far about 90 acres, firefighters are on the scene here. Its such a remote area that you can see the hose has to go along this ridgeline here just to get to the firefighters and at one point they actually had to take to the air and drop retardant down because he was not obviously an area you drive to to access a fire. Hydrant let me show you video of whats called the colleen fire. It started late last night and its right next to thousands of homes in this community that at one point they actually had to evacuate the people just out of fear that the fire could jumped the fire line and spread throughout this neighborhood. Fortunately theyve been able to get the upper hand on the fire and the people were told
End of the day right now even though you dont see visible flames they still have their hands full. You can see up on the hillside, this was a new development that took place about a minute ago we saw them come over the ridge line and look at that theyre coming down so looks like a change. Ive shifts so more firefighters are being thrown at this. This is called the call wein fire because its on colleen drive and blossom avenue and then well zoom off in the distance look at the hillside now that the sun is up you can clearly see the damage from this fire look at that has charred on the side about 90 acres burned. We should get new containment numbers very shortly as they usually update at around 7 oclock in the morning. Let me show you video this fire happened late last night this is a very populated area and it quickly spread through the very dry terrain we havent seen rain in a long time so it didnt take very long for this fire to spread. Why they think this was arson so quickly theyre
Everything from pharmaceuticals begin to develop right now governors announce plans to reopen while others are tightening their restrictions. With the number of infected americans inching its way toward the one million mark pressure is mounting on the white house to develop a national strategy. In the bay area six counties are extending their stay at home orders until the end of the month. Authorities in california arrest two men in a multimillion dollar scheme. They tried to sell 4 million of protect i ha protective equipment that they didnt have. They even slapped fake 3m labels on empty boxes they are facing fraud charges. And its important to stay connected. Veriz veriz verizon, comcast and at t has vowed to not enforce late payment fees the franchise valued at more than 3. 7 billion decided to return the money after the loan was made public. The houwhite house is ready ramp up testing for coronavirus. They are prepared to send all 50 states enough tests to screen at least 2 of res