It is just before sunrise in Golden Gate Park and you are not hallucinating or ranoid park rangers were out in force early but to be blunt this is not any other year. We pushed everybody including media crews to the outer perimeter. Guards turned vehicles around. Only foot and bicycle traffic are around. There is fencing around the entire area. Now back to our top story, governor gavin newsom giving updates. That are not physically in the classroom but we hope and expect our learning every day. The issues of equity, the issues of access and availability of laptops and cmputers, issues of connectivity as it relates to internet and broadband, all of those issues. Particularly under the circumstances made more acute and more foundational in terms of our ability to not just promote the promise of education during this time but to actually deliver on its. I have been very proud of the work that many folks have done from the superintendent of Public Education to the president of the state school board, linda, both which are on the phone today but i have also been a very blessed by someone that i know very well. That is my wife, the first partner of the state of california. She in partnership with tony, linda, members of my team, have been working hard over the last few weeks to build on the announcement we made a few weeks ago about those 100,000 free wifi hotspots that google has committed to rolling out throughout the state of california and the 4000 chrome books they made available to build on the work that apple has been doing an 800 School Districts, 10,000 ipods that they have donated and to do even more to meet the needs of millions of californians that simply dont have access. Jen has been working the phones. She has had good days like some of us. Some days havent been as fruitful. Companies large and small, individuals that have made small contributions, some large and philanthropy and foundations and the whole package that we wao rot today thatthink ll shine oucapa to deliver and moreover i think reinforce the need certainly to do more. So with that in mind, let me introduce the first partner of the state of california, janet newsom. Im excited to be here today to help announce some fabulous commitments from the business and philanthropic communities to support Distance Learning and help close the Digital Divide for california students. Like so many parents, i had epitomized when i watched our governor stand here and share that he told our daughter she would be going back to school this spring. With four little ones ages 10 and under at home, to with diagnosed learning differences, Distance Learning has been a real challenge to say the least. A can feel overwhelming every day to keep them on task and motivated to tackle their most daunting challenges of balancing the daily demands of my own work, taking conference malls and zuma meetings. Monitoring their progress and helping them work through math problems trying to compose thoughtful emails or think through different work strategies given the new normal. Lets just say some days have been a major struggle. Im constantly having to remind myself to breathe but every day there are lessons where i learned something about them as individuals and us as a family. Most of the time im having to remind myself to stay calm and carry on no matter the stress and anxiety that comes my way. Of course, i know that as hard as this has been for me, it can only be that much harder for kids and families who do not have the same resources that we do. I wouldnt give up the opportunity for Distance Learning for anything. To that our family has pretty good Internet Access at home despite my technical challenges and we can access a treasure trove of free online Resources Available for our childrens use. We have laptops for milder children and our home is a place where our kids can learn with full bellies and full hearts. For too many california kids, this is simply not the case. One in five lakh connectivity or an appropriate device for remote instruction. As the first partner of california, i feel an incredible responsibility towards these kids and the parents who are doing everything that they can to keep their families housed and safe and seeing that they have food on the table all while ensuring their kids continue to learn. This year these parents have that their children will fall behind with out Internet Access and devices is very real. Two weeks ago, a survey found 50 of lowincome families and 42 of families of color in california are worried about distancelearning because they dont have a personal device at home. So to all of these families, i want you to know that you have been on the governors and my mind every day since this crisis started. I want you to know that we have your back and will continue to fight for you. A few weeks ago as the governor mentioned, he issued a call to close the arith a pl from lp google of 4000 chrome books. If you colleagues and i have reached out to countless individuals and companies asking them to dive deep into their pockets and see what they can do for californias most vulnerable students. I have been ved bythe genetytotep upthe atdigital div when some of them have already maxed there giving across the country and around the world. Because of these commitments, hundreds of thousands of families across the Digital Divide including 70,000 california students who have received lakh books laptops and chrome books. That means hundreds of thousands of california students can continue to learn online and become the leaders we know they are meant to be and that california needs them to be. I want to get thanks to all of those who contributed to make this possible and a special lik sprint, t, onhp, verizon and a along with tremendous gratitude for individual commitments from folks like jack dorsey, aaron levy and scott cook and so many others. We all know that education is fundamental to opportunity. Cell our mission will not end until every child in california has what they need to continue learning while physically distance. This pandemic should not get in the way of california students reaching their potential. Once again, thank you to all of you who have stepped up and have helped us create a culture of me to we in california. I especially want to thank linda, president of californias board of education, and tony come our superintendent, along with my chief of staff and cabinet secretary for the governor for their incredible support on this. Finally i want to thank the 40 million californians who are stepping up in tremendous ways to meet this moment. We know this time is incredibly challenging, but we will get through this together. Onwards california. Thank you. I want to thank the partnership and the teamwork at is demotrablet on in the work that the first partner has done but the superintendent of Public Education and the state school board. All of those individuals, there are many others that we could have listed. I want to express gratitude. This was a two week sprints to create the opportunity to provide tens of thousands of additional units, laptops, chrome books, computers, ipods and the like. We continue to need to do much much more. I will talk a little bit about what the Public Utilities commission will be doing to that and, a little bit about some partnerships we have here in the city of sacramento any moment that i wanted to express my deep gratitude as jen just did to the superintendent of Public Education for all of his hard work and his staff diligence and focus to further this collective cause. I would like to ask the superintendent to say a few words here today. Thank you governor newsom. Thank you to the first partner and thank you all californians. I want to start by thanking the governor for making this call to action and to all those who have responded to that call and to those who will continue to respond to that call even after today. I want to thank the first partner for her countless calls and her advocacy to reaching out to so many individuals and companies and others who can help and who you will hear about today who have in fact help and appreciate your First Partners comments about the importance of our parents who are working alongside our educators in support of our students. I want to thank our state board of education president and to also has been burning up the phones to individuals and the foundation and others who has worked closely with us and the governor and the governors staff to really pull together in every sector help where we can. I want to thank the governors staff. I want to thank the California Department of education staff who worked alongside the first partner and also our state board president to help make this happen. Mary from the California Department of education has been our point person literally fielding calls and emails day and night about how we move devices and devices are moving to get to School Districts into the hands of our students. A set of thanks to our foundation, our companies and individuals who you will hear from today who have made contributions to get us started on this path. Again i just want to give thanks to my entire team at the department of education who literally surveyed nearly every one of the 1000 School Districts in this states. That was done in partnership with our association of administrators and our county Superintendents Association and our California State SchoolBoard Association to help us get that information, many legislators and sending us information about what the need is. I want to thank my staff who literally was on the phone with School Districts verifying those needs and those calls. There was over 1000 School Districts. Grateful to the california Public Utilities commission. You will hear today about creative ways the state of california is leading with public finances with public dollars to make sure that students can have a laptop or a crumb book or a tablet and to make sure they can have access to a hotspot in their home. Very Creative Work on the part of the governor, the governors staff, the department of finance and our staff. We know this is a great start but our work must continue and we are committed to continue to work with the governor and the governors staff and with our business and others in the state to do so. In that respect, many of you may have heard that we created a task force on closing the Digital Divide. Simply put, we talk all the time about how we must meet the needs of our students during this pandemic and having the tools to learn from a distance are critical. Nothing replaces the importance of a great teacher but these tools connect our kids to teachers and our kids have to have them. Our Digital Divide has gone on longer than this pandemic. It has been something we dealt with for decades and so im grateful to the leadership of our governor and others who join me and believing that as we responded to the needs of our students to learn in this pandemic that we must do so anyway where we once and for all close the Digital Divide to make sure that all of our students have the tools that enhance their success and that give them the best chances to be successful, i am proud to be cochairing that task force with the senator. There are several legislators you will hear from today who joined this task force who represent areas in the state that have major issues with connectivity. This task force will essentially create a blueprint on how to close the divide and continue the work Going Forward and this task force will have its first meeting this afternoon at 4 pm and people can follow it on facebook live. Great thanks to the governor for taking this call to action and we look forward to working with those who will continue to meet the moment. Anyone can help and we welcome your help with the task force or through donations. I will turn it back to our governor. Thank you for your leadership and for making this great call to action. Thank you mr. Superintendent. Thank you for all your hard work and diligence and extending an important part of the narrative today as we are not done. This is the beginning of a process. We have a lot more work to do. Not just to close the Digital Divide in the context of this pandemic but more broadly, decades in the making, weeks now of intensive focus and unprecedented private sector supports but we are going to need to quadruple down on what we are doing in order to get where we ultimately all need to go. That includes by the way a lot of work this summer and linda is available on the phone. We will take questions about thoughts around Summer Learning and opportunities that extend beyond the technical end of this school year but we want to provide what we can in these hotspots and provide these supports so we can continue to extend that learning time even though the schools are closed. Learning and education must continue. Distance learning can be operable in the state of california. It just needs to have an equity lens, role small districts and those from a socioeconomic perspective that deserve our support. Progress here today and also progress tomorrow and over the course of the next number of months. I referenced some of that progress being advanced because of the cpuc. Rob is available for questions if people have them about it teleconnect effort. We are setting aside 25 million to advance that effort. That is hotspots, wifi, addressing the issue of Digital Divide. They will supplement the work. Google and others in that space. In addition to that, they are putting 5 million, total package 30 million, to procure additional chrome books, tablets, ipads as needed. Tools to plugin devices that will allow people to do the Distance Learning that we are promoting at this moment. So some progress. We wanted to share that with you. Alogress as relates partnership is looking at a proof of concept they will be rolling out in the next number of days right before be converting seven school buses and making them mobile hotspots to provide access. If that concept is successful, we will roll that out more broadly throughout the state of california. Is an expression of appreciation not just our ctas and teachers but for those out here that also deserve an enormous amounts of supports at this moment and those are janitors. Those far our bus drivers. Those are the custodial staff and so many support staff that make our School System work. It is so essential and critical to make the Distance Learning work in addition to our extraordinary teachers. I want to express that of you as well. So that is Broad Strokes where we are, happy to answer questions any moment. Let me give you an update. The total number of lives tragically lost, issues related to hospitalization, updates on a few other issues and of course happily answer any questions. We sadly lost 42 additional lives last night. Over the weekend, we crossed that threshold. Over 1000 people that have lost their lives. 1208 human beings as of this moment in the state of california have lost their lives due to covid19. So an expression of a deep empathy and recognition that these again are not statistics. These are human beings stories, journeys, each and every one of them precious and our heart goes out to their family and loved ones. As it relates to the broader issue of icus and issues related to hospitals, we are at 1. 9 above where we were yesterday and the total number of hospitalizations about 2. 8 above where we were yesterday a number of icu patients. Hospitalizations are beginning to flatten but still growing. We are seeing icus bouncing back and forth, modest decreases, modest increases. So again, progress is being made. You are bending the curve and beginning to flatten the curve but it is still nonetheless rising. Deaths continue to rise. Hospitalization levels modestly continue to rise and icu numbers beginning to flatten that we are not seeing that downward trend we need to see in order to provide more clarity on that roadmap to recovery which we rolled out last week. This wednesday, we rolled out mo our roadmap to recovery and you will start to see behind the curtain exactly where we believe we are in real time in terms of our ability to begin to toggle not a lightswitch but more like a dimmer to begin to move to adjust our stayathome orders but they remain in effect for good reason. Those numbers bear out a loan. And also impairs consideration that the numbers again are in aggregate and to reflect the spread of this virus in almost every part of the state of california. I say that to make this point. When you look at the top 15 counties impacted by the virus, they include fresno county. They include kern county and Orange County and riverside county. They include every part of this state and it is just incumbent upon all of us to recognize that those are just in the top 15. Many of those in the top 10 impacted by covid19. The incredible importance that we place physical distancing orders. I know how impatient people are but again, i just cannot express more gratitude for the incredible antiroll quirk all of you have done to soften the blow of this virus so far in the state of california. Lets not dream of pulling the plug too early. We are going to lean and. I am as eager as you to answer the question when and on wednesday, you will have more clarity again when we start to look at all of those six areas that are part of that transformation or rather part of that process to begin to transition into a new phase of this pandemic. I want to let folks know on friday we put out the list by facility. It is not a complete list. We have 83 of all of the facilities, 1224 Skilled Nursing facilities. We will get the rest of that information out but we provided them by facility. We are doing the same today to broaden the appropriate inquiries that we are receiving for our other adult and senior care facilities. 1224 Skilled Nursing facilities. In addition to that we have many facilities in our adult and senior care centers. Some of those are just one or two people. Others are up to six. Those facilities with more than six will be the first information patients. That is they will be the first trench of information that we provide by facility and type. We will also include in that number the number of deaths, not just the number of facilities, number of staff and number of patients impacted by covid19. As soon as we get that information, i want to make that available to you. We want to do it more broadly for the rest of the system. The death data, we are working on but we now have that data as it relates to these other facilities. So that is something forthcoming this afternoon that i wanted to preview and also i want to just extend again a preview of sorts on the work that we are doing on wednesday that includes updating on tracing, on tracking, on isolation, on quarantine, and on testing as well. We are still making progress in the testing space. We have a task force that many of you know, we convened a week plus ago. We had goals to significantly increase from just 2000 tests a day to get to 10,000 by april 14. We have been able to exceed that april 14 number in terms of the daily total of is month june. We will be updating you on wednesday. It is part of the six categories but we will be of anquarantine and that wednesday briefing so that you will be able to get a sense of where we are, get some confidence in our capacity on the tracing to build that army, not just the volunteers but of the professionals at the county level that are currently employed in that space and builds off of that workforce and their unique expertise and complement their work by scaling at by thousands and thousands of others a week that will be necessary to ultimately advance the goals that we set forth just in that one category of the six. Again on that roadmap to recovery. Within that, we are happy to answer any questions. As we open up to questions, a reminder that we have president of the skate state boar feavlable to answer questions in addition to rob osborne who is also available on the line to talk more about his program with doctor galli here as well. She is always available at a moments notice. Last week you mentioned that undocumented workers are going to get financial help and we are getting a lot of calls from viewers wondering which organizations are gogive ou monn we are contractsubmit shelley substantially more because of the partnership with philanthropy that we announced. We put out a frequently asked question list that is available on the covid19. Ca. Gov website which is also available in spanish, not just english. We will be putting that process together on an active basis meaning updating brad that site on an active basis as the distribution of those funds are made real. All of that should be happening in realtime. The Disaster Assistance funds, we set out to get out as quickly as possible. 500 for individual come up to 1000 per household distributed through the organized network of communitybased organizations so no privacy concerns are breached as it relates to providing personal information to the state of california and the fear people wipact it relates to the publrg more broadly deportation. That is the framework. That information is available and we will updated in real time morris pacifically about which cbos and which points of access to make it easier for individuals. We look forward to your partnership in helping us get that information out to there. Thank you. A couple of questions. First back to the information about covid19 along racial lines. I believe it was late last week we first started to see those disparities that hadnt yet, werent yet apparent but showing that africanamericans disproportionately affected also some data with regards to pacific islanders. So given the numbers are starting to reflect the national trend, what is being done to address the disparities within those groups . Additionally with regard to testing, i heard what you said about just working to expand testing across california but you want to dress scenarios just between bies. There are racial and ethnic disparities, but there are also geographic disparities that must be addressed as it relates to the needs of Rural Communities and as it relates to the needs across parts of the state, even within urban at underserved. And so the purpose of this task force is to define those areas. In fact, today they provided me a heat map with every one of these areas where what i would refer to is a testing desert in this state. And then strategies around that to s those ises. Is it 30minute coe, it60mite how can eak this arin wednesday new announcements specifically targeted at our Diverse Communities from a socioeconomic and geographic lens on how r