And thank you so much for joining us tonight at 5 im Justine Waldman for the first time the White House Coronavirus task force including President Trump leveled with our nation to brace ourselves for the difficult weeks ahead, chilling words, the hundreds of thousands of people will die. We also her desperate pleas from doctor anthony found she and doctor deborah birx to stay home to stop the spread of the virus kron fours theresa tells us the white house warns we need to brace for a rough 2 week periodahead. Countries in the midst of Great National trial mincing no words that americans lis e at stake. President trump in his most candid news conferee sense. The coronavirus began to spread of the country spelled out how everyone must take action now. Each of us has the power. Through our own choices and actions to save american lives and rescue the most vulnerable among us. Thats why we really have to do what we all know is right. In their estimates they had between 1. 5 million and two
Stunning message from the white house a 100,000 to 240,000 americans are likely to die over the next few weeks from this coronavirus a sobering news comes on the same day. The death toll in america surpassed chinas official count taking a look at the come from the case count tonight there have been at least 811 new deaths in the United States just today this number represents the most reported deaths in a single day in this country. That brings the death toll in the u. S. In nearly 4,000 people with a number of cases topping 189,000. Both of these numbers are greater than what has been officially reported out of china. Globally there are more than 858,000 cases of coronavirus and more than 42,000 people have died here in california. There are more than 8400 cases, 175 people have died. This is all according to the Johns Hopkins University Coronavirus tracker map for the first time the White House Coronavirus task force including President Trump told the American People to. Brace themse
Dealing with dangerously low visibility. Heres a look from our roof camera. Were here and looking down that way. So thats enveloping the bay bridge, some thick fog and the san mateo bridge. Look how thick this fog is. Fog for the morning commute. Low to mid 50s. Rain for the north bay at noon. Upper 50s. Light to moderate rain for all of us at 4 00. Most of us will be wet this evening also. Thank you. Good morning. Starting off with a look at the map here so you can see these foggy conditions spread across the bay area. Starting off in antioch, we have dense fog. Visibility is down to 100 feet. State route 160 and around there, take your time as you head out the door. Several fog advisories for several bridges, the drumbarton bridge and the san mateo bridge. Carquinez bridge and the antioch bridge. To give you a be visual here, this is what the san mateo bridge looks like. Really thick fog out there. Much better in the south bay. Theres san jose, 87, nice, clear ride for you this morni
Going to evaluate the facts and the evidence that came out from the case. We are going to take into account discussions that any jurors might have had with our trial lawyers. We will evaluate that and go forward. Reporter the next Court Hearing is on october 4. That is when the prosecution has to come up with some kind of answer. Do they want to retry Derick Almena . We will get a better answer by next month but in the meantime he continues he remains locked up santa rita jail. As for his codefendant he wont be release from santa rita jail sometime this evening. He will be released. Now lets go to kristin eris. She has been getting reaction from family members of those victims. Reporter incredibly emotional day in court today. For those families. They came slowly out of the courtroom. Some had mixed feelings. Overall there was an overriding feeling of anger. These of course other family members of the 36 people who died in that fire. Many of them have been here in the court room every
Toll rising and the flames reaching containment. But first, u. S. Attorney Merrick Garland is appointing a special counsel to investigate hunter biden who he is named and why the case is now taken this turn. From the bay station, youre watching kron. And news. Thank you so much for joining us here on kron. 4 news at noon. Im Justine Waldman and we start with some breaking news as u. S. Attorney general Merrick Garland is appointing a special counsel to investigate hunter biden. Garland says he is naming david weiss as the special counsel. Why says the u. S. Attorney in delaware who has already been probing the business dealings of the president s son. And this is coming after a plea deal broke down last month and a tax and gun case against hunter biden. So heres what the attorney general said just moments ago. Tuesday of this week, mister weiss advice me that in his judgment, investigation had reached a stage at which he could should continue his work as a special counsel. And he asked