John malone with the legendary media icon has to say about the covid19 virus, direct to consum consumer, streaming, so many other topics we hit in our hour long shutdown. The ceo of goodrx, we had him last week, since then, amazon came into the business what does it mean for his business carl, well ask that question amongst others. Yeah, thats good stuff for this hour, guys. Jim, we talked for last week and a half about the fact that a path to the vaccine would face some setbacks and clearly new york city schools, new state of emergency in wisconsin, speak to that i think that one of the things that we needed was a bridge, which would be stimulus, to the vaccine we dont have the stimulus were getting terrible numbers, we have half the country that thinks the numbers are okay, given the fact that the death rate hasnt skyrocketed. We have the other half, were saying, look, if we dont do something about it, then the Healthcare System is going to be overwhelmed. In that scenario, it is ver
Middle peak is doing 30 miles an hour. And then as you look at the elevation spots, rose peak, down by san jose, 26 miles an hire. So the winds have died down. The rain will continue, light sprinkles into the evening hours and tomorrow, and then we dry out. Pack here with all of the specifics and the 5day. This wet suspect is good news for fire danger around Northern California. There is also concern about the areas burned recently by wildfires. Tuesdays transformation from sun to showers highlights the annual transition in Northern California to rainy season. Were starting to see some cold fronts move out of the gulf of alaska. We saw one a few days ago. Theres another one moving through the bay area today. A little bit more rain than the last one. And thats sort of the progression that we get into this time of year. Each successive storm tends to get a little bigger, a little wetter. Reporter from the north bay to the east to the south. Its the kind of brisk wet weather perfectly sui
Also stay the same, as well. 41 counties in california are now in the most restrictive purple tier. The vast majority of our students are still in Distance Learning right now. Reporter under the purple tier, any class that resumed in person as of tuesday can continue, but for the majority of California School districts still doing Distance Learning be reopening plans are now on hold, until conditions improve or the school gets a waiver. Primarily this has the largest impact on districts that were putting their plans in place for a return in 2021. Reporter margaret represents 77 teachers from a School District in Contra Costa County, which is doing Distance Learning, but was consider league opening january 22nd. Thats not gonna happen. Reporter the Teachers Union president said the next opportunity to make a decision is in march, and she plans to push for not reopening at all this school year. Thats moving to the purple mix, even a stronger argument that we should not consider going bac
Health officials in Contra Costa County are stepping up free covid testing. Now even though they say mixing with those outside someones household is still a risky idea. Rob roth heard from Public Health officers today and gins us now with more. Rob . Reporter yeah, heather, on one hand Health Officials are urging people to stay home over thanksgiving, but theyre also saying if youre going to visit, get tested first. Cars lined up in this parking lot in concord Tuesday Morning for what the Contra Costa Health department calls testing for turkey. This family recently lost their grandfather to covid and know too well the horrors of the virus. We just want to be safe. Were going to meet some family over the holidays, and we want to protect ourselves and protect them, as well. Reporter this is one of 13 sites in Contra Costa County offering free covid testing. The push now is to get people tested before thanksgiving, and possibly exposing others. While inviting everyone that you gather with
Could see a little bit of sun but there is the possibility of isolated thunderstorm snuck instant in the atmosphere as we head through the afternoon. Here we go with the temperatures this morning. Mid to up ears as we start off the day and head through the afternoon. In the low to mid60ss. We will talk more about what you can expect on future cast for today coming up but now lets check in with gianna. We have slick roadways out there. Just with in the last half hour i had seven new crashes reported in the bay area. Be careful as you the roads. I will hit the biggest trouble spots. One is as you work from the San Francisco area over toward the east bay. Its the noncommute direction but involving two vehicles and a larger truck. They have two lanes shut down as well as that fremont off ramp. They will try to exit the vehicles to get them off the freeway. Expect the brake lights. The other side of the bay bridge we arent seeing any delays. Traffic is moving at the limit but a lot of sick