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As always, we will take your calls and you can join the conversation on facebook and twitter. Washington journal is next. Host good morning, it is monday , april 6, 2020. The u. S. President warned americans to prepare for a pivotal week, with the Surgeon General drawing comparisons to the 1941 pearl harbor attack in the 9 11 terror attacks to describe the dark days likely ahead. This morning we are doing what we always do, opening up our phone lines and letting you talk about it. If you are in the eastern or central time zones, text messagesand this morning, if you would like to join us that way, the number is 2027488003. If you do, please include your name and where you are from. You can get us on twitter cspanwj and on facebook at facebook. Com cspan. Good monday morning, the front page of usa today with a picture of Surgeon General jerome adams on meet the press yesterd ....
Protect renters. He put a action in place until may. You see him welcoming the ship mercy. Its docked and ready to help the hospitals. The total number of cases statewide, 3800. That is up 25 from yesterday. Yell, tonight in the bay area, theres more than 1600 cases in the last 30 minutes. Marin county announced the first death. The patient, a man in his 70s who has been hospitalized for three weeks after being exposed on the grand princess. Santa clara county continues to see the most cases. The Santa Clara Convention center is turned in to a makeshift hospital. We need the beds and space to handle the patients. A tv Pool Reporter was allowed inside, damian joining us from san jose. Damian, this is for the people who have been exposed but that are not really that sick, dont have to be in a hospital. That is correct. They are positive for coronavirus, and so, they are ....
Im jessica aguirre. And im garvin thomas. Thank you so much for joining us. As the sun sets tonight, some relief from the heat across the bay area, it was a second day of record breaking temperatures. Some parts of the bay area topping 100 degrees. Chief meteorologist jeff ranieri has been tracking the rise in our temperatures and, jeff, we want to know when the temperatures are going to start to fall. Well, tomorrow well begin to see some, at least a little bit of relief. We are on the downward side of this heat wave. And talk about hot. I know a lot of you know just from driving around in your car, just how hot it was. You can see livermore 106, danville 105, south san jose also at 104. So with all of this heat, the numbers have kind of tckled ver at 81. Fremont 79. But notice right near the coast line were dropping down to 60s here for mill valley into San Francisco. Its part of some larger changes that eventually officially get ....
Disabled vehicle and that is reportedly blocking your right lanes, so that will be an issue, a couple lanes down, unexpectedly, so watch for the flashing lights but the Speed Sensors dont show a problem through the area. Were also tracking the incident affecting tennison and onramp and nimitz freeway and construction in san leandro. A smooth drive and getting lighter for the backup at the bay bridge cash lanes are open. Breaking news for you this morning, a busy morning for firefighters in southern Santa Clara County. A brush fire flaring up along highway 101 in gilroy, and cal fire is on the scene. So is today in the bays kris sanchez, joins us there riff with the latest. What do you know, kris . Reporter well, as of right now, cal fire is no longer here because the fire is out. The smoke smell is still really heavy in the air, and about two hours ago, that fire was inchi ....
That jam near the coliseum. Near the numbers that sound like the temperature range youre talking about, 66 here, 98 toward the bottom of the screen and at 66, we still have your right two lanes blocked by a disabled vehicle, thats jamming up traffic, counter commute unusual from the bay bridge through downtown, things are fine, then you jam up past the coliseum for southbound 880. That is the issue right there on the nimitz. Everything else moves nicely. Your commute of course takes most folks to the bay bridge, more folks to the bay bridge. Also north 680 sees slowing over the last half hour. Northbound 680 mtague expressway your two right lanes are blocked by as well as basically a delivery of a larger rig with big large payload on the back and half your freeway is blocked. Back to you. Thanks so much. 6 01 right now. Tens of thousands of people across the bay area woke up without power after losing it in the midst of the sweltering summer heat. The hardest hit was marin county. Thom ....