Reopened in new york on chris james reporting. Joe biden is calling for a nationwide mask mandate saying that it could save thousands of lives in the next 3 months. Every single american. Should be wearing a mask when theyre outside. For the next 3 months at a minimum. Every governor should mandate. Every governor should mandate. Mandatory maskwearing. The estimates by the experts are will save over 40 1000 lives. The next few months. 40,000 lives. Biden goes on to say wearing a mask is less about the individual contracting the virus and more about preventing others from getting sick and tonight more than half the states in the country require people to wear masks when out in public. Here in the bay area there are more than 64,000 coronavirus cases and 924 related deaths we are seeing the most cases in Alameda County with over 14,000 infections. The virus has also been deadliest in alameda. County with 216 deaths you can find a complete list of cases by county and city on our website k
Joining us. Everybody, im Vicki Liviakis and im Catherine Heenan for grant lotus tonight pg and e is urging customers to conserve electricity during peak hours because of the high heat because of the predicted demand. They say they will not initiate a Public Safety power shutoff kron fours michelle kingston is live for us tonight with more on plans for the rest of the fire season. During these hot summer day michelle. Catherine it is hot out here and it is only going to get hotter pg and e is staging crews and equipment throughout the bay area over the next few days. So pg e is preparing for Power Outages and we want our customers to prepare for possible Power Outages as well if power goes out over the next few days pacific gas and electric says its because of the increase in electricity usage over the bay area and not because of a Public Safety power shutoff the Electric Company is sending out more crews and equipment to handle any possible outages during the extreme heat. Theyre also
Because tomorrow. Thats when the heat is really going to crank up lets take a look at temperatures out there right now tracking widespread low to mid 70s for most of the north bay in the low to mid 80s for the tribe valleys even san jose cooling down to 78 degrees mid 70s right now for oakland and hayward 81 degrees as you step outside right now low 80s for those of you in redwood city. But you cant beat the beach in fact lets take a look at temperatures right now that the San Francisco peninsula coastline. Downtown San Francisco in the mid 60s, most of us dont even need a sweater if youre heading out for your thursday night Half Moon Bay, though rebel 59 degrees out there currently because of that cool sea breeze, but fortunately this is going to be our saving grace with the heat wave wind speeds going to be about 20 per hour or less but just keep in mind even with a light sea breeze or any light breeze for that matter in the coming days with this hot and dry weather heading our way i
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Demand answers after its reviled the government knew about the explosives. How the u. S. Military is helping the relief effort. Nra under pressure. Two lawsuits allege the powerful gun groups leadership stole millions from its members. The response and why the organizations future existence could be in doubt. But first, heres todays eye opener, your world in 90 seconds. We call it the china virus. We call it the invisible enemy. We call it many different names. Got many different names, but its bad. The new model predicting u. S. Deaths from this virus will reach nearly 300,000 by december 1st. President trump says he is preparing to sign an executive order if no deal is reached on the Coronavirus Relief bill. It wont be effective. And things will get worse. The new York Attorney general filed a lawsuit seeking to dissolve the National Rifle association. I think the nra should move to texas and lead a very good and beautiful life. President trump signs an executive order to ban u. S. C