Good morning to you, we had a little roadwork on 680 this morning causing a little bit of slow traffic and its cleared up , it looks like the traffic northbound is still just a little bit slower but for the northbound commute, southbound is not affected, when it comes to slow traffic but there were closures overnight and roadwork does continue with no problems on bay area bridges or causeways and right now, we dont have any serious crisis to report. It 6 01 am, back to davelateni at a home in south san jose look at these pictures, Elissa Harrington is working from home and is here with the details. Good morning, dave. Neighbors describe what looked like a fireball coming from the homes garage. Here is some video of the fire that broke out last night at around 1030 p. M. You can hear popping noises and you can even hear people shouting in the video. The fire started with four people inside to escape the family ran into the street calling for help and even banged on neighbors doors to wa
President s health this afternoon. The white house pool, the group of journalist that cover the daily events at the white house has been called to Walter Reid Medical Center following a weekend where the American Public got conflicting and confusing messages about the president s condition. From his doctor who first painted a rosy picture and then admitted he did it to stay positive so the president would as well. To his white house chief of staff, mark meadows who tried to correct dr. Connolly. And then reversed himself on the record to reuters saying they felt very good about his progress. This is an important day as the president continues to improve and ready to get back to a normal work schedule. Were optimistic that based on his unbelievable progress rein how strong he has been that he will be released. Unbelievable because right now you cant believe anything coming out of the white house. That timeline not making sense neerd are his constituents. The commander in chief informs a
Stores and they had a message that the president before people are going to feel comfortable going back to establishments theyre going to have to ramp up testing in the United States. That is the message that came through to the president in the call that were told lasted about an hour and a half and they had extensive discussions where they were praising the president in his efforts so far but made clear that they need to see testing ramped up before they reopen the country. Which is the primary reason the president is gathering Business Leaders together. You saw him yesterday list off about 200 people, some of them executives, critics of the president , some of them his friends that he said is part of the council that is focused on reopening the country. Though it is different than what officials had imagined where they thought it would be a much smaller group. Really this is a much larger group that were seeing play out because there were dozens of people on this call and that is ju
Virginia state capital in richmond to demand that states economy be reopened. Demonstrations took place as lawmakers held a special oneday session to discuss ways to deal with the fallout from this pandemic. New york is getting some help in its efforts to stop the spread of coronavirus. Michael bloomberg is donating 10 million to develop a regional and Contract Tracing program to reach out to people who may have been exposed. You dont have months to plan and do this. You have weeks to get this under way. Super ambitious undertaking. And mayor bloomberg will help coordinate the entire effort. Hell be working with the state. Were also keeping an eye this hour an california and maryland. Those two governors are set to hold their daily news briefings at this hour. We will monitor their comments and turn around any notable developments for you. So again were coming on the air 3 00 p. M. East coast time, noon in the west to cover the breaking news in this fight against the coronavirus. Happy
Good monday morning, everybody. It is monday, may 4th. Im yasmin vossoughian. Were going to begin with the Washington Post scorching look at the president s monthlong struggle to actually reopen the economy amid the coronavirus pandemic. In interviews with 82 administration officials, the post is outlining a story of, quote, desperation and dysfunction with a detailed look at what took place in the 34 days between march 29th, when trump actually agreed to extend social distancing guidelines to this past week. During that time, the post is noting that trump was so determined to extinguish the deadly virus that he repeatedly embraced fantasy curealls and tuned out both the reality that the first wave has yet to significantly recede and the possibility of a potentially worse second wave in the fall, as we have heard from many experts. According to the paper in early april, tensions were growing between the doctors and scientists advising the response and the president s economic and polit