World Health Organization suggests an adequate test positive rate should be somewhere between 3. 12 . But right now in the u. S. , its about 20 . This comes as the death toll has skyrocketed in the u. S. Last week was the deadliest sent on to say the death toll was just over 25,000 but its sort of 4300 deaths from wednesday to thursday. And over 4500 people died on friday alone. Last night we closed in on 39,000 deaths and thats more than the number of people who died in the korean war. For weeks now federal and state officials have been talking about testing shortfalls and why patients who have symptoms cant get tested. Well now we have new insight into how testing got off to such a slow start here in the u. S. Karen caifa has more. President trump says a few states are ready to ope businesses within the next week we continue to see a number of positive signs. The virus has passed its peak. The president pointing to vermont and montana and texas where the governor says a phased reopen
Good morning. Looking a little cloudy and comfortable. Im going to put comfortable in there. I am tracking a couple changes. Well remain in the 50s through about 10 00 a. M. By 11 00 a. M. Well warm up into the 60s. Today well top out in the upper 60s for san jose which two days ago we hit the 80s so that cooldown will be noticeable especially for inland areas and were tracking some shower activity. Ill have details on that coming up shortly. Back to marcus. Breaking news for you right now on the fight against the coronavirus. This morning theres word one compy i covid19. Today in the bays tracy poie potts is live from her home. The markets are responding. Reporter they are responding, marcus this is a Company Called gilead testing a drug called remdesivir. Early results from the trial, 125 people, most of them severely ill with covid19 and based on the early trial results it looks like most of those people were able to get out of the hospital in a week or less. The vast majority recov
For many and cloudy and 51 degrees up to 55 degrees. A combination of these two low pressure systems and the temperatures dropping will continue that theme a day. Highs which was above average on tuesday and wednesday not anymore. Now they are below. Is it better at 101 . It is better and they open the lane which is good news in case you was hearing me talk about northbound 101. They opened the lanes and the traffic has been pretty good. We look at the Golden Gate Bridge as you head south and that is the only thing that worries me about when the roads are wide open, when there are crashes they tend to be more serious because people are going fast. Chp has told me they are issuing citations for people going too fast. A deadly earlymorning crash on highway 4 in martinez is being investigated. Chp said a man stole a car from a 7eleven at 1 30 am this morning and took off before losing control of the car. When the Police Arrived that car had flipped over several times and ejected the drive
22 million americans now out of looking at light snow. Rain and heavy rain through a job in just one month. The Governments Emergency Fund for Small Businesses already central parts of illinois. Weve got 24 Million People empty. The latest on Recovery Efforts affected by this system as it just ahead pushes to the east with winter wind advisories. Snow across great lakes into new on the front lines this the toughest time in Law Enforcement ive seen in 30 england today. It arrives rain late for the years. Midatlantic states. Police across the country patrolling near empty streets enforcing social distancing, tomorrow a rainsnow mix ends by early afternoon. What its really like. Our exclusive ride along in the morning rain and storms in the carolinas as this pushes away. Nations second largest city we are looking for snowfall amounts anywhere from 1 to 6 of those stories plus stars align snow in some spots when you wish upon a star these are the last snowfalls on beyonce, ariana grande, t
Cases with more than 970 deaths opener sort and anger, governor and that number could surpass brown and governor wilson and 1000 by today more than 246, tom steyer said he will head 000 tests have been conducted the council i spoke about it as and the state is waiting on the well and a former president ial results of more than 13,000, candidate and entrepreneur from the governor is about to speak so lets join him. California. If you like to see more of that you know the magnitude of what has happened with this press Conference Check it out pandemic and the impact it has had on individuals in the lives on ktvu. Com. We are Live Streaming that as we speak but for now it is a friday we to lost, it also the economic find out about our Weather Forecast so that chat with consequences of this virus are just now coming into sharper focus and a sharper picture is rosemary. Hello frank and being painted about the present happy friday folks, cloudy skies overhead this afternoon and the future. As