Aggressive strategy is working to battle continues, but the data suggested nationwide we have passed. The peak horn new cases. Today President Trump says guidelines to reopen the country are coming tomorrow afternoon. Thank you for joining us tonight at 8 oclock im grant lotus. And im Vicki Liviakis this as the president signals america might be past the pandemic peak. But despite the bending of the National Curve different areas are on different timelines today, los angeles reported record deaths and in new york your now required to wear a mask or Face Covering while in public. Meanwhile. Were up to 5600 confirmed cases of covid19 and today, San Francisco county reported. 2 new deaths in 26 2 cases, Alameda County reporting 13 new deaths today to go along with 74 new cases, Contra Costa County 2 additional deaths 15 new cases, 5 more people have died in Santa Clara County where there are 127 new cases and in Solano County there is one new case and tonight there are more than 2 million
My french toast sticks are back starting at 2. 50. Now with a sweet new twist Cinnamon Sugar churro. Dunk, bite and savor them any time of day. Or all day its totally up to you. Only for a limited time. Welcome to jack in the box wet start to the weekend as wind and rain soaks bay area cities and snow is piling up tonight in the sierra, powerful blizzard shutting down a stretch of interstate 80 and leaving hundreds of drivers stranded and just going to wait it out and see see if we can make it through. A life threatening blizzard slamming the sierra tonight. Good evening. Im greg lee and im cristina rendon, new video tonight showing the treacherous conditions for drivers heading through the mountains, car after car stuck at Donner Summit on interstate 80. This video here was shot around 7 00 tonight. It shows the whiteout conditions near lake tahoe. Strong winds whipping heavy snow right across the mountain. Well give you a live look now of 80. This is at donner lake. All roads shut do
Highway 50. And obviously, you can see why a ton of snow falling here, a blizzard warning is in effect right now up in the mountains, and we have dangerous conditions for much of the sierra. Weve been warning you about this massive storm for days now. It is now here. Welcome everyone to the for this afternoon im alex savage and im heather holmes. And already weve seen a wind gust measuring about 145mph there in the tahoe basin case. Youre wondering thats the strength of a category four hurricane. And the area could see more than ten feet of snow over the next coming days. Ktvu tom vacar has been monitoring the situation in the mountains. He joins us now live with some of the impressive pictures coming out of the tahoe area. Impressive to say the least. The stars, moon and the isobars and jet streams have all aligned to whack the mountains. Extreme caution is very much advised. Once we get to sunset. Thats where things do start to get a bit more spicy. So far, mountain winds and snow ha
Where were talking about the traffic, at least we have the hold out toward 80. And also chain controls for portions of the us highway 50. This is the radar, a very busy radar all day long, covering the sierra with moderate to heavy snowfall. These are all of the storm reports as you can see, picked out over the past day or so. Out toward this was from this morning, in fact, right around truckee reporting about 3. 5in, about a foot right around tahoe city. That was earlier today at 730 this morning, were showing you the snowfall forecast, because we do put this into motion. Look at this. This is through saturday morning, 7 00. Might back off a little bit, but its a short time deal because look what happens. It actually continues and ramps up in activity throughout the afternoon hours. And then on sunday of course, the blizzard warnings set to expire sunday morning 10 a. M. But we are expecting the snowfall to continue. And then finally into monday. Thats the day when we could see signif
2000ft. So that is a lot of snow. So the projections looking at anywhere from 5 to 10in all the way down to about colfax, as we talked here about the sierra snow lab, as you mentioned, 19in reported there since earlier this morning in a 24 hour period. And then areas in the 8700ft reporting near tahoe city at the summit last night 145 mile per hour wind gusts. So very strong winds, very hazardous and dangerous conditions right now. South lake tahoe reporting a wind gust to 39 and a gap about 5000ft. Reporting a wind gust to 41. The advise is for a blizzard warning will continue until sunday morning, expected to expire right around 10 a. M. The avalanche warning for the greater lake tahoe area goes until tomorrow morning. That may be extended, and as weve been talking about for a few days now, above 5000ft could see ten feet, maybe even 12. All said and done with snow levels expected to drop down to below 2000ft by the end of the weekend, a better look at the Current Conditions of what