Airlines ucsf cardiologist was returning home after treating covid19 patients in new york in one tweet he writes i guess united is relaxing their social distancing policy these days every seat full on the 7. 37 is it simply a another you know like i for united douglas kidd is the executive director of the National Association of Airline Passengers even before the coronavirus pandemic his organization petitioned for more space and safer flight he says because fewer people are flying new standards should be implemented right now. The health and safety of the passenger has to come first as a part of its social distancing policy united says theyve been limiting seat selections in all cabins so customers wont be able to select seats next to each other or middle seats where available. But as documented by doctor weiss his flight had lots of passengers the airlines are really taking a lot of measures i actually just take me to make sure answer high range aviation expert, an Airline Captain la
The university of washington kron fours noelle bellow joins us from our newsroom tonight with a closer look noel, pam and ken researchers at the universitys institute for Health Metrics and evaluation have been projecting the numbers nationally. And state by state based on a number of factors today at named california has one of a handful of states where coronavirus cases and deaths. Are going up more than researchers expected now if you take a look at this graph you can see that by june first the institutes per project 4,276 deaths in california one month after that 5,555 deaths and by august 4th. Theyre looking at 6,806 1086 deaths in california now thats a jump of 1420 deaths since the institutes previous projection now just yesterday. The state added 2,244 coronavirus cases and 64 related deaths about 900 of the new cases and 45 of the new deaths were reported in los angeles county, the. The institute is also tracking the nationwide deaths. The latest model now projecting 137,184 d
Your morning drive obviously not going to be a lot of traffic but not a huge impact theyre either but your drive home could definitely be on the slick side san francisco. Still its nice and clear right now the lights there on that in the skyline and we are still looking at a quiet it sure is like i explains here. But what we are seeing to our west as those showers starting to head our direction you see the advance of these double lines of showers that have been pushing in over the past couple of hours. So what we are seeing right off the north coast of the state right now right off the humboldt mendocino counties is where that rainfall is sitting its going to take a while to get to us so thats why were still free of it this morning. Areas further north in the bay are your most likely spots to be picking up on rainfall ahead of the rest of the bay area. We certainly got the cloud cover ahead of that raid know as you can see these bands of clouds really settling in for northern Sonoma Co
Folsom and weve got lots to cover about the pandemic today, but first we also still have some rain. Covering the bay area today so lets get calm for a meteorologist john travel, good morning john. Good morning guys, yeah talk and some rainfall first time in a while and welcome rainfall as we do still need to see a net a pretty quiet winter season, so i guess well take some more of your look outside this morning doesnt show any rain just yet though its a pretty quiet start to the day. Weve got some brightening skies but definitely overcast conditions Golden Gate Bridge quiet right now a site for some pretty strong winds that are pushing onshore gusts of winds today could be up to 25 Miles Per Hour in some of our coastal and mountain top areas, so definitely both hands on the wheel if youre traveling this morning may be feeling that winds up along the coastline. And the good news about todays weather is well its not going to be affecting as much of us hadnt been were all on the roads wil
In bay and fairfield watch out for strong gusts at times is called a cold front. Passes through along with the showers that were looking at as of right now showers are still held up well to our north on up a long the california oregon border stretching down sir, a double bed to see no counties. Bay area still remaining dry a few clouds passing overhead but as you can see a second ago weve still got some sunshine pushing through and to the afternoon thats when rainfall to us to make its way it from northern Sonoma County into around one p a 02 00pm to 03 00pm further south and the north bay and then getting the rest of the bay area around 05 06 07pm, tonight so make for some slick spots on roadways. So watch that and you must be traveling. But if you dont have to id say use of us that extra excuse just another reason to stay home and stay cozy this evening. Tomorrow, a few showers do remain at into wednesday could see a couple sprinkles cheer, 60s and 70s for highs today, a little coole