robin?> i'm robin. >> robin, i'm marcus. >> very nice to meet you. >> nice to meet you too. you guys have this place branded well. >> thanks. oh, this is jen. >> oh, hey, jen. >> hi. >> marcus. how are you? >> nice to meet you. >> so, is this pretty much... >> well, this is the front office. >> okay. >> this is my office, and when jen comes into town--'cause she's based out of the east coast-- >> oh, wow. >> and she works in here also. >> i can't imagine having a co-worker, an employee 3,000 miles away from where our business is. look, i understand phone and email, but nothing replaces human interaction. what i want to know about is, why did you start the company? >> so, in 2005, my sister was diagnosed with breast cancer. we were like, "how did she even get cancer in the first place?" i went back to be with my family and help my sister through her treatments, and there was one day where i said, "mom, i'm not gonna go with you guys to the doctors. i need a break." and she said, "you know wha

[no audio] robin: i've loved -- [applause] robin: i love this book so much. i know we want to get some questions and. we have c-span here. by the way, let's rock it. let's do something crazy here. [laughter] robin: if you have questions for stephen kinzer, feel free to ask him. >> what is your feeling about theodore roosevelt's role in the building of the panama canal? stephen: teddy roosevelt's role in the building of the canal? well, theodore roosevelt was fascinated by sea power, and the idea of a canal through panama had been around for centuries. roosevelt came in and it was knocking be any more delay. the canal was supposed to be built across nicaragua. there was a great lobbying campaign. it was quickly moved to panama for very complicated and mostly corrupt reasons. panama was then a province of columbia, not an independent country. roosevelt was dealing with columbia, but he was not getting the deal he wanted. he decided as he wrote to his secretary of state, we have two alternatives, either go back to nicaragua, or to stop dealing with the homicidal

at 16 robin decided to carry on to high school to get a diploma my father. my father was a heavy drinker and got very angry and he used to get very loud. and some day he went up into my room because of my decision to stay in school and directed everything and. that same night robin moved out he's still in good terms with his mother and sister. a confidante he couldn't study at home the television was always player and my husband would have it on while he slept we couldn't turn it off i didn't think robin would pull this off to be honest. because of me my name today robin studies months and philosophy in brown strike showing a sister around that is university. she's currently studying for a high school diploma and wants to become a teacher. sure father he's a role model because he managed to achieve all those things i want to do he's an inspiration. robin meets his former mentor she's from a private foundation called studio on campus that helps some 1300 youngsters from working class families graduated from high school and adopted to university life because i

>>well good robin i'm already there. good morning, everybody and we're off to a good start care of the morning fog that starting to mix out little bit. but let's take you up to somebody just to give you a little view of that kind of felt like some visual aspirin ifyou will start today about that that's pretty nice. >>and back to the bay, nice blue skies not much the way of a breeze we don't see their a lee started this hour. but at least clear skies prevail and fog is pretty much taken care of all right we have set up here is an offshore fl pattern due to this high presre it's an anti cyclone and so thereforeprovides us with the dry offshore winds which warm us up. od news is we've already had rain recently so everything's moisten upicely we can take it and we'll get some extra warmth from all of that too. a look at those winds for you can see it's a little breezy up there around the adult and hat's kept temperatures supported a little bit to warm up a little bit what actually have a little bit of an onshore wind will be

>>robin mar good morning. i'm live here in or end of this is one of 19 cities across contra costa county that will benefit from this newly pass dinance by the countt's board. thepassed it unnimously and this is all to help people during this time. those o have been financially impacted mabe even in their healthhas been impacted by the virus as well ptection in temporary rent freeze, the supplies to l residential and commercial properties. the ordinance will temporarily prohibited evictions of the tenants in all cities and unincorporated areas of the county who have been impacted it also establishes a month moratoum on rent increases. take a look at your screen. the edge of a list of thcomplete details. the productions include prohibit such a prohibition on evictions e to unpaid rent meaning a property owner cannot evict tenant for faire to pay re if the tenant shows proof of income loss e to the virus until y 31st as a ba on no-fault evictions property owner cannot evict a tenant for any u know faults reason e

a check in the bay area traffic robin has you covered there robin what's goingn i do indeed know big spikes in traffic, it's looking pretty good here n the san mateo bridge actually it's sending out and looking much better. >>no problems here leaving hayward over to the peninsula just a little sy, but you can make it in under 30 minutes. let's take a peek at so other bridges around the bay. we have the bay bridge 80 wesson to san francisco hot spot free so far and smooth across upper deck trouble free through downtown san francisco. marty. >>a mail carrier has been working every day during the coronavirus csis delivery medicine mail order purchases and even election ballots but the postal service is about to go broke. >>washington dc corrspondent trevor shirley has more on that. >>foa postal service already strapped for cash the corovirus has made things even worse what's happening is le revenue has basically gonna drop by about 50mark timmins teen president of the american postal workers union says the postal serve is dangerously close to going bre do so without relief from congress

robin?kay, george, the coronavirus pandemic clashing with that deadly tornado outbreak in the south where they are picking up the pieces this morning. at least 33 people killed across six states by the severe storms. victor oquendo is in monroe, louisiana and has the latest for us. good morning, victor. >> reporter: good morning, robin. more than 70 reported tornadoes, at least 8 of them confirmed here in northern louisiana. the family that lived here told me they had just finished streaming an easter service online when a twister shredded their home. they all survived but these storms were just getting started. this morning, hundreds of thousands waking up in the dark after a punishing line of storms swept across the south to the northeast made even more difficult by the ongoing coronavirus pandemic. strong winds peeling the roof right off this sports complex and this historic hotel in new jersey and toppling this tree onto a family's home just outside new york city. >> just came crashing t

>>robin.l parents and students are struggling with the new norm of doing classwork at home, it's been tough and then on top of that distance learning, you know you have challenges that some are dealing with even more one mother says that she went through several learning practices to help person who has dyslexia and hgh team nothing was really working until she found a new alive learning program that's free for everyone to use on for us taylor bisacky has more. >>stress in toward early life changing you really to you know being diligent in restructuring teachers overnight from helping her son learn at home through distance learning to losing her job because of the coronavirus outbreak shows movies gone through drastic changes. the last few weeks and majority of the day is spent in air downloading all the assignments really assignments to because he does have. >>learning differences when dyslexia and adhd and pretty much tied the knot all the responses neeson august, you know is a 5th grader at

itis tusday april 7th, i'm robin wiston. >>good morning, everybody on marty nzales is get right to our top story is morning. there's new evidence that california social-distancing policies are working and their new projections that show a significant drop in e number state want to go now kron 4 sarah stinson she's live in san francisco. she has more on this development. good morning sir. >>marty gras i'm staying home now just like thousands

>>robin at plans to close to home. well to the north bay now santa rosa police say that to me that people are just not following the stay at home orders. one sonoma county issued mandatory shelter-in-place orders last month. santa rosa p d's first steps were to educate the public about what businesses are essential and what's not but still people are just now comply. now the police department's business compliance team they are making sure that nonessential businesses remain closed. lot would rather risk it and leave their businesses open risk aligning our citation just so they can try to still make some money during these hard times and we understand we have to solve the public's health or still work. >>you know we're going out there doing our job trying to just to make sure that that their to make the public aware of how serious virus is and how easily it can spread. >>well as of thursday sonoma county has more than 100 covid-19 cases, county public health officers say that while the numbers increase 52 people have r

thank you robin. >>farmers say with restaurants undress and schoolsthat are closed now the demand for fresh produce is promising plummeting rather and even in grocery store shoprs are steering away from fresh produce that won't keep on their shelves. washington dc correspondent jessi turnure as more. >>here's that the you n equate this not the suddenness ofit when the corovirus crisis forced restaan and schools to close america's lost nearly half of their s business overght to rget the sector of e industry so broad based like itdid the should service side isn't president the bbr gunther with the united fresh produce associatn says the closures have already resulted in a billion loss product like ours. you know you've got to me that once it's it's hard says he needs to be in store within a week, the disrupted supply chains or something industry experts like sherald role with geor mason university say uld create a domino effect as demand shifts from the food industry to grocerystores. i think there's pr

what's the sign that robin is carrying?e on the paper hanger of berlin!" now, what they're doing there is they're taking a dig at hitler's personal biography. hitler had been a number of things before he became the dictator of germany. he was a want-to-be artist. he was a house painter. and he would also hang up paper in various places. so, anything that the government or cartoonists could use to make a verbal jab at hitler and also promote the war effort, they would do. so, that's where you're getting this phrase of "hang one on the paper hanger of berlin." but the thing of "fight paper waste!" now, now, now, now, americans don't waste. how do we waste paper? well, back then, before tv, you got your news through the newspaper. it's also where you got a lot of your favorite comic strips from, like dick tracy, like little orphan annie, and like superman's adventures in the newspapers. what do you do after the next day? you know, you've heard that phrase, "yesterday's news"? this is where it was derived from. it's yesterday's

robin? >> many want to know how was that animal able to get a test when so many people are unable to. >>> we begin our coverage here in hard hit new york city where the hospitals could run out of ventilators and reach capacity this week. tom llamas is outside one of those hospitals in brooklyn. good morning, tom. >> reporter: robin, good morning to you. we are entering what could be a pivotal week in the war on the coronavirus here in new york city. this hospital just behind me in brooklyn pushed to the max like so many across the city. staffers here telling us they have worked 30 days straight, and, of course, these white overflow tents, the telltale sign that the coronavirus has taken over. this morning amid warnings of the hardest and saddest week yet, new york could see its infection rate peak, this at a time when hospitals are nearly full. >> it's so different than most anything we've cared for before. >> reporter: abc news inside brooklyn's medical center, a city hospital. inside this

robin? >> all right, ginger, thank you. everybody take care out there. e in the united states rising past the half a million mark with more than 20,000 deaths. both numbers the most in the world, but it is important to consider the size of our country compared to some of the other hard-hit ones. dr. anthony fauci saying a, quote, rolling re-entry back to normal could begin next month. and in new york deaths remain high while the governor says there is evidence that the curve is indeed beginning to flatten. let's go to tom llamas who's outside the navy ship "comfort" there in new york city with more. good morning, tom. >> reporter: robin, good morning. when you speak to fodoctors acrs new york city, some say they see a slow down in patients. others are feeling the surge. governor andrew cuomo says we have to be cautiously optimistic. this as we're tracking news out of china this morning. china reporting a troubling trend, a high number of new cases now emerging. this morning, promising news n

>>all rightsir, thanks a lot for that live report robin.>well the san fraisco city attorney's office and sfpd alleged rty over the n an weekend. the suspect a video from the city's attorney's office take a look at happened at a rented warouse in the industrial part of a buick e people just going in and out investigators siege dj equipment and gambli machines. a fe i individuals had to be detained for both civil and criminal investigations. city attorney dennis hrera says that they will continue to strictly enforce the shelter in place. >>you have large carriers wou be for arty early wise, it's akin to job in the match and right can linger in our seas a it run the risk of creating outbreak think it spad like wildfire. >>have folks just don't get it. well the mild weather on easter sunday also bought out a number of people to the city's park look at this. policchief bill scott says the department issued warnings to 67 people that was just on sunday alone. police lso cited us along that was contining to operate and a liquor ste and stay open a

robin.cking off course, thanksfor staying wi us now let's take a peek at the forecast and sewhat monday has in store good morningdave. >>good morning robin marty good morning, everybody d are dealing with another bout of rain coming in from e south very much like the around to the east bay in north bay. a long, it's a little journey. th is a colder air aloft. so this means an opportunity for som local mountain snows in places like mount hamilton. and now blow there it is in the rotation form got to keep sprinkles going n for tomorrow potential before things do clear out in its wake in the mile of the week want to give you a live cture. this isa lick observatory they can kind of make it out the background there little bit as a are getting some cold weather at this hour now expect more of that today quite chilly up in thenorth bay, 32 santa rosa 37 napa coming in a 38. most of the readings across thbay are in the lower to middle 40's for today, we expect maybe little bit of sun poking out to s

what is a sign that robin is carrying? it says. fight paperweight and hang one on the paper hanger of berlin. what they are doing is taking a dig at hitler personal biography. hitler had been or done a number of things before he became a dictator he was, a wannabe artist, he was a house painter, he would also hang up paper. for various places. so, anything the government or cartoonist could used, to make a verbal job at hitler, and also promote, the war effort, they would do it. that is where you are getting this phrase of hang one on the paper hanger of berlin. the thing is, fight paper waste, now, americans don't waste how to we waste paper? well back then, before tv you got your news to the newspaper. you got a lot of your female -- famous comics from as well like the tracy little orphan annie and superman's adventures as well what you do after the next day? you heard that phrase yesterday's news? and this is where i get the line from its yesterday's newspaper what you do with yesterday's newspaper? you throw it out? not so fast

robin yeah that's right. i mean i'm live here at the ferry building usually we see this area packed with commuters. there are still some essential workers and saying using the ferry and heading to work right nowbut mainly everyone is staying and working from home during this new sustained order that we've been experiencing for a while now but take look at your screen you can see the changes that are starting today, midday service on the s a very ferry transit agency they have made these changes will imct the 11:30am and 02:30pm departures from alameda the 11:45am and 02:45pm departures from oakland and the 11 2 departures from san francisco to oakland and alameda this is top of changes that already went into efect about a month ago which includes no service on the richmond harbor bay and south san franciscoferry routes as well as no weekend service on any route and no because he's you can still hop on a ferry. >>on weekdays you can hop on earlier in the morningnd the last one i think is at 6.45. so there's pl

so we'll be ecking in on the big board for you throughout the morning, robin. >>stay at home order ctinues across the y area therare some major changes in store four's wil tran live right now in san francisco with details on those changes. well. >>well what's going to happen robin because the shelter in place that's a microphone issues have to work it out what's going to happen starting tomorrow because a shelter-in-place has been a significant dr in the ridership of bart, so they don't need as many trains and they're going to cut back. monday through friday weekend in a perfect world before e shelteng-in-place arrive in 400,000 people would ride bat every day. it's not just be a drop in the number of ridehip we're talking it is f the cliff meaning only 7%. the usual amount that's less than 40,000 people every day taking bart now with fewer trains that means they won't be arriving at thstations as quickly as ey once did so now it's going to be every 30 minutes when they arrived to the bart stations. >>monday through friday d o'clock the morning and 5 because th

robin who has at least 2 more years of studying ahead of him for his university degree. hot stuff for sale ask myself that i'm up wasting my time doing this of course it would be disappointing to take up a job but my degree is of no use to realize that i should have made a good living like cedric as i've been in fear for those are you worried about the future yes yes. taking a ride in cedric's to talk golf wondering whether they've taken the right decisions for the future. well many countries in europe are struggling to cope with immigration others are feeling the effects of emigration nations like lithuania were suffering from brain drain as young people left for opportunities elsewhere so the former soviet state came up with a plan to stem the flow and now little way india is wooing investors with its business friendly policies its capital vilnius is cosmopolitan innovative and above all affordable people like us just yet now schools are helping shape the country's future bringing lithuanians abroad back home. italy needs capital deniece is growing vertically and glowi

robin? >>> but first, we want to get to that breaking news, george. tornado warnings right now, and a trail of destruction in the south. take a look at this footage out of oklahoma. that's just one of the dozens of twisters touching down across four states. marcus moore is north of houston with more. good morning, marcus. >> reporter: well, robin, good morning. you can see what one of these twisters did to this building here in texas. the winds powerful enough to tear away the roof and knock down this wall. overnight the urgent effort to rescue people trapped in their homes. this morning, six dead and dozens injured in the south after an outbreak of 26 reported tornadoes left a trail of destruction across four states. >> we have had a large tornado. we got major damage and i do smell gas.we got >>ter: in oklahoma, this twister ripping through buildings, sending debris flying. officials co confirming at leas two people died. video capturing the moment one touched the ground and immediately gr

robin? >> okay, george. >>> dr. now to follow up on that interview. so when we hear -- good morning, jen. when we hear what mark zuckerberg is talking about, how valuable is that social data to researchers and to other officials? >> well, robin, i think it's potentially very valuable. a lot of epidemiologists feel that we'll need a lot more than just human beings to help us track and trace outbreaks, and we're going to need to use some element heavily potentially of technology. and remember, we heard dr. fauci say the key steps in containing an outbreak are you have to be able to detect, which this may help do, then diagnose, isolate, treat and trace. so that's really important. what this doesn't account for though, robin, is that we think that half of infected cases of covid-19 occur in people with no symptoms whatsoever. so if you only rely on people with symptoms, you could be missing a major driver of how this virus spreads. >> yeah, thank you for bringing up that point. we also heard with dr. fauci talking with

morning robin and erybody good we're talking again., another bauer showers so we had er the weekend of course and now stillore out see here's what looks like stormtracker 4 there's a patch out there just to the southwest of the santa cruz mountains and you get a general idea what the projected path way will be right up ainst those mountains they already had a lot from yesterdathey're going to get more today, it looks like but they will cross over to the east bay into the early afternoon looks like the shock fr u c berkeley we don't seem to have muh the way of fog issues this morning at ast that groundfog we actually had some clearing up in thert

robin you're happening.een t's cooking for a while now several hours we still have laines shut dowhere and send all southbound 6 ad. >>and koopman this is an accident involving a tanker truc that lost about 10 to 25. gallons of diesel happen early this morning. but i just got word at fire crews are on scene. ey've had hazmat crews out there as well so a traffic alert remains in pla. and yest is slowing you down the right lane is blocked. the coop an off-ramp as close as well, and they're still no estimated time of clearing this happened at 2.49 this morning so it's still working so do expe some delays from the scene and the northbound to see a little it caltrans work that is on northbound 6.80 admission north you have lanes reduced there, but if you'reheading south whch is the commute direction because of that crash in lanes being blocked read about 13 minutes now blin out to fremont a quick pe at92 traffic's recovered from a stalwhich is on the flat section. so it's a grea time to go ahead and take the san

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robin? >> that is encouraging.james, thank you. >>> while the planet is in the grips of a global pandemic, the natural world has been impacted as well. on this earth day with so many staying home, we have seen a huge drop in air pollution. ginger joins us now with some incredible before and after images. this is something. good morning, ginger. >> reporter: good morning, robin. happy earth day, everyone and, yes, we know that this has been so difficult, devastating really for the economy and so many of us. but the plants and the animals that we share this planet with are now reacting and expressing themselves in ways we haven't seen in a long time. the animals are taking over streets and wildlife is roaming with less fear. >> amazing. >> reporter: jellyfish gliding freely through nearly boatless venice canals. biologists in thailand finding the largest number of endangered sea turtles in two decades nesting on its empty beaches. >> we have been taking habitat from these animals. it might cause a sort of increased a

good morning again, rebecca. >> reporter: hi, robin.tewide shutdowns began across the country in mid-march, 30 million americans have been laid off from their jobs and many tell us they've yet to receive that unemployment insurance, and the bills are piling up. this morning, as layoffs continue across the country, a staggering surge in the number of homeowners skipping mortgage payments. 3.8 million americans newly behind on those bills. >> already starting to see magnitude of what we saw during the great recession. >> reporter: many lenders are currently offering forbearance, a temporary grace period that lets borrowers pause payments under the c.a.r.e.s. act. you have up to a year with government-backed loans which account for three out of four mortgages. but what happens when that grace period ends? >> i'd encourage homeowners to go out there, and talk to your specific servicer, and look at your specific mortgage type because it will be different for everyone. >> reporter: with fannie mae and freddie mac you won't have to pay back th

robin: yes, for the moment.on is one of the best communicators in the united kingdom in a generation, and having him with his strong parliamentary majority in power, leading the country into a coronavirus process was part of the strength britain brought to the process. having been laid low by the virus is a shock, but this is not a presidential system. we have a cabinet system and the head of state is her majesty the queen. there is a clear pecking order. raab become, the chancellor is the next person in line and then priti patel. there is a clear pecking order who stands in for the prime minister, but this is a time in which radical decisions will be difficult to take. keep in the country in the same direction it has been going in is entirely manageable, not only with cabinet but with civil service operating behind it. the what is the strength of international monetary fund right now? they have had a shift from lagarde. how is it going? how is the imf as they prepare to assist a lot of countries, the managing d

tellso, robin, that is good news right there. today, we are going to follow up on the investigative report. it's simply stunning that medical intelligence had reports r corona in china back in november yet nothing was done thatweeks and weeks and weeks. >> many were taken aback hearing about that, george. aank you. >>> george, as you know, this orning we also have some incredibly tough news to share with everyone. it's a very sad day for our gma family. we know coronavirus has affected so many of you and it has claimed one of our family members too. our talented studio camera ht ligor, tony greer has passed away from complications due to the coronavirus. he was such a bright light an sixg in our studio for more ehan six years and you could s so feel tony's beautiful spirit. you could feel it from a mile away. we love tony and there's so many things they loved. his oved his family. his beloved mother fannie, his sister janet. rs brother kevin. he loved taking his nieces, nephews, any relative who came to visit him, he'd take them

it's monday ail 27th, i'm robin winds. >>hi everybody i'm marty gonzales is get to our top story this morning, big changes a bar today because of the decrse in ridership it might affect people who are getting to their essential jobs early his moing. >>bart is just continuing that early birds service at several stations once again that starts this morning. >>kron 4 sarah stinson live in the darkness is happening in san francisco. she has all th details i sarah. >>good morning robin gave up good morning. marty that's right i'm live here at the a sales force trans center which is a great example of worry scene of major decrease in ridership of course during this stay at home order and as you said starting today service at 13 early bird express routes, well, they' they're gog to be discontinued or the going to be reproduced until further notice ofthis a big thing want listen to if this is going to impact to in mid-march there was about 1000 day so that just shows y s per that's almost a 90% drop in

robin? >> yes, whit, thank you very much and as you said in your report one of them is the governor's brother, chris cuomo, who was a former colleague of ours here at abc, and part of the "gma" family, and like everyone else, we're sending him our best and his family as well. >>> joining us now from washington is the u.s. surgeon general, dr. jerome adams. dr. adams, thank you again for joining us. we appreciate your time. we know how busy you are. want to get your thoughts on some things because at first it was said 15 days was needed to slow the spread. then the president extended it to the end of april. many people are wondering what are the chances that's going to be enough, doctor? >> well, the original 15 days was designed to slow the spread and for us to have time to reassess and we learned some good things and some bad things. the bad things that we learned are that there are places across the country, no place has been spared. no state has been spared from the spread of this disease

robin with fewer cars in you can see.s more space between the cars and for us it's a freeway rages e means to get to our destination bad according to the chp these days a lot of people are treating thfreeways light racetracks and they have seen a huge uptick and the number of peeding tickets that they've written for people going over a 100 miles per ur. 87% i should say ever since the shelter in place or it's gone on, i mean thy've done it before not often but ese days a lot of those tickets that they write for pele speeding. excess of driving is actually considered reckless drivg. caltrans they've otices is well tow truck drivers arout there they're on the side of the road.they have to fix people's cars and they've seen people flying by. many ople including caltrans say it's not just dangero. it's downright selfish people to do that. >>yeah first responders falies trying to get loved ones to dical facilities we have truck drivers delivering essential goods. so you can. >>and now it's in danger that traveling at that rate

quite a legend. >> absolute legend, robin. prayers and thoughts are with the marsalis family. >>> also this morning we have much more on george's wife ali. she's going to share her story next. how she knew she had coronavirus. her symptoms and she's going to let us now how she is doing now. >>> but first, let's go home. let's go to ginger who is at home. hey, ginger. >> major -- that's right. this is home. we're all home. rapid city, south dakota, west of there, 11 inches and severe storms possible in south texas tomorrow. let's get to the rainy cities brought to you by walmart. >>> good morning. i'm abc 7 news meteorologist mike nicco. check out all the sunshine and warmer temperatures on the way. it will be breezy around bodies of water. clear tonight, chilly and wintry weather ts temperatures and storms that could bring hail and snow. today, low to mid 60s except for inland, mid to upper 60s. the low to mid 40s around the bay tonight. two rounds of wet weather this >>> coming up how to make your own face mask. we'll tell yo

robin?> all right, martha, thank you very much. >>> now we're going to highlight some of our country's credible heroes on the front lines in honor of world health day. take a look. remember this photo we showed you last week, those brave health care workers who flew from atlanta to new york city to help? well, now they are on the front lines and they sent us a message. take a look. >> i flew in from atlanta to new york to help fight the crisis. >> why i've been a nurse, it's simple. i love helping people. >> i am proud to be a nurse. i love nursing. >> we'll get through this together. >> we're all in this together. >> please stay home. >> stay home. >> ah, you heard them there, please stay home. they left home to come to new york city and help out like that, michael. it was wonderful to hear that message and to see they are doing well. don't you think? >> it's incredible to see it, robin. we can't thank them enough for all they're doing. we really can't. you two, hang around. don't go anywhe

and also flavor of late spring and le almost the summer robin back to you like it i like to thank you dave. >>let's check in on a trouble spot over in the east b chp has issued a special traffic alert for an accident in 6.80 at the koopman exit. it happened around 2.49 this morning, a large tanker truck raoff the road. it's leaking some source lou, it's 6500 galns of fuel actuallhas spill so they have a special hazmat crew dealing with that so south 6.80 at koopman the right lane is closed as well as that koopman sunil off-ramp a sig alert has been issued so you can get through the do expect a little bit of a backup they have lot to clean up so i made linger for several hours and if you travel in that direction it will be a little slow passing the scene once again southbound 6 ad kopan special traffic alert issued for uh at crashed there bobbing a tanker truck from arly this morning, here's a peek at the san mateo bridge. it's our busiest bridge. there's a crowd. we already have some essentl workers leaving hayward heading over to the peninsula so there's a little bit of slowing onthe

itis tusday april 7th, i'm robin wiston. >>good morning, everybody on marty nzales is get right to our top story is morning. there's new evidence that california social-distancing policies are working and their new projections that show a significant drop in e number state want to go now kron 4 sarah stinson she's live in san francisco. she has more on this development. good morning sir. >>marty gras i'm staying home now just like thousands and millions of people are right now under this is a stay at home order and it's time to give ourselvea little pat on the back but that doesn't mean that it's over it just means that we ne to continue what we're doing we're looking at simply predictions d they ns also assume that we continue to stay wholeleave only for essentl reasons as well as continue to social this is 6 o all that said now we can tell you that the project in california death toll isdown 1783 people as you recall about 10 days ago reported that it was at 6100 pple and this number is going down it will only stay continu

robin?they certainly are, michael. thank you very much. ovicult decision.ebates when and the number of worldwide cases getting closer and closer to that 2 million mark. spain with more than 170,000 cases, the second most in the world. they are slowly starting to ease restrictions. ian pannell has the latest. >> reporter: this morning, europe slowly trying to return to normal. spain easing some restrictions as they see a decline in new coronavirus cases for the third day in a row.offig as as manuct work routines, even getting coffee. despite serious concerns, nearly 300,000 workers are now clocking back in, an attempt to revive the country's stalled economy. >> it's scary, you know. i wish they would wait a couple more weeks. >> reporter: ohio native julie bardy is living in barcelona and thinks spain is moving too quickly. >> i look at every additional person on the street right now as another risk to my health. >> reporter: she says she has pre-existing medicalaf until an. diffent counies t

good morning, robin.t with their peers so 24/7 at home with parents, limited access to friends, a lot of uncertainty and all the fun stuff taken away, oh, boy. these are the towels, a family of five we met in san francisco, california. with older sister anu, 15 and cole, 14. quarantine for these two have been challenging. >> we don't know when it's going to be over. i don't know if i'll ever be able to see my friends again. >> reporter: they're trying to find the good times. >> right now i'm on a zoom call with my friends and playing scrabble. >> reporter: living so cooped up is not easy. for teens it's the opposite of what experts say they should be doing. >> everything about social distancing at some level arrests what is is totally developmentally appropriate for teenagers. so we're asking them to just kind of go against their instincts, sequester themselves with parents and try to enjoy themselves and that's a really tough pivot for a lot of adolescents. >> reporter: we asked teens to record video dia

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morning robin and erybody good we're talking again. s, another bauer showers so we had er the weekend of course and now stillore out see here's what looks like stormtracker 4 there's a patch out there just to the southwest of the santa cruz mountains and you get a general idea what the projected path way will be right up ainst those mountains they already had a lot from yesterdathey're going to get more today, it looks like but they will cross over to the east bay into the early afternoon looks like the shock fr u c berkeley we don't seem to have muh the way of fog issues this morning at ast that groundfog we actually had some clearing up in the north a little bit to allow temperatures to tumble. fars currentwinds a little bit breezy in spots around the water to get the east bay shoreline little bit of an offshore wind almost upper 's to middle 30's that for the rth bay again some clearing is credited to th with some lower 40's spread out across the wider bay and even in some inland spots around the east bay. so we'll keep it cloudy fo

>>a good morning robin good morning everybody for the holiday weekend looks to be pretty good at that we've got to retire the rain for now and we'll be dealing with mild temperatures a bit on the cool side to start things off but improving there's the rain there you can see the deeper moisture from this low that's been around all week down the so cal, but it is being ill be exiting here stage throughout the day today live shot coming in from alcatraz in the foreground san francisco behind it bay bridge and what can side temperatures now look at that not bad in the 50's all over the bay area 53 santa rosa, 57 lawn for oakland with tippy for san francisco, inland temperatures. much the same so we don't have the big drop-off that we see to sometimes inland that usually is indicative of dry air. so the longer range forecast models we get past all this traffic. we've had and we go into high pressure and that's going to troll much of next week will be some scattered clouds by the end of the week and there comes that opportunity for rain this weekend now. it's not this holiday weekend. it's

this friday morning robin. we have a lot.>officials in san francisco, san mateo contra costa and alameda counties. they're recommending that wearing something you know like a mask to cover your face when you leave the house that's essential now for central travel and this comes as the number of confirmed coronavirus cases right here in the bay area hit 2800. here's a breakdown of those cases county by county check it out of your screen. we'll start off with santa clara county. it has over 1000 cases with 36 deaths, 7 tail county is reporting

still checkingon that hot spot against robin what's happened. >>yeah it's been lingering for quite some time now crews have been working for hours to deal with this tanker truck accident. i'm involving a fuel spill it happened shortl before 3 o'clock this morning. in signal southbound 6 ad a comment. they have the right lane closed the off-ramp shut down as well they've h hazmat crews and fire crews outthere so we still don't know how long this is going to take to clean up and clear at ces said10 to 25 gallons of diesel spill there on the right shoulder. so that's why it's taking so long if you have to travel along that stretch, doyou prepare for a little bit of slow traffic there southbound 6 ad approachg coupe and the rest of your trip on 6 say they will be nice and smooth only 13 minutes out of fremont a quick peek at me of our bridges the bay bridge 80 west a nice trip in san francisco and a beautiful shot of the golden gate. we're still smooth and at the limit both directions 22 minutes nevado to the toll plaza party ok robin. >>well, a fun