Essential employee meaning you work with food or you are a First Responder and well give you bigger list in just a few moments, but james terry a i want to show you this is such an eerie sight, ive been in San Francisco for 20 years and ive been here since i was 3 yearsold visiting off and on before arriving. I have never seen this site before look at this what dont you see james and area. Were on california street. Yeah, thats pretty crazy assist to chatting with robin across the studio said 8 oclock in San Francisco. And you see a parking space available. Thats incredible. And you do not see cable cars. Yeah, i mean that is as much as San Franciscos the Golden Gate Bridge and fog but no cable cars because they are trying to limit the amount of people moving about to create social dismiss this is what its all about a slowdown. The spread of coronavirus and it is spreading across at least the shelter in place for 6 bay area counties so take a look at your screen. I mean lets just face it has all of the bay area but the pinpoint it were talking San Francisco. Moore and sam a tale santa clara. Khan Contra Costa County and alameda counties. And it actually went into effect 8 hours ago and will last for 3 weeks only essential employees should be moving about im sure there are people who will disregard that and as they move along that Law Enforcement dont be surprised if they pull you over least tap on you and say why are you out and about the whole idea is for the Bigger Picture to slow down. The people coming into the hospitals to trial at the doctors and the nurses and the scientist catch up and get ahead of the curve or as they say flatten the curve but it doesnt mean you cannot have a life staying at home is not a prison sentence. Oakland mayor libby schaaf says there are a lot of things you can still do like help your fellow human being. There are many things that we as oakland ers can continue to enjoy while we do the very responsible thing and that is help prevent the spread of covid 19. We also can call on our elderly our other in from and loved ones to see what they need to make runs to the Grocery Store pharmacies for them please take this opportunity to show your care and concern for your neighbors and friends. Okay so take a look at your screen. You dont have to go hunt seen or start begging for food because Grocery Stores will be open pharmacies banks, gas stations, Police Fire Departments and hospitals of course. They will have trash pickup they want to Clean Society Clean Community and to try to stop the spread of antivirus so that will continue to happen mail service. Well also continue to happen electricians Hardware Store is believe it or not they too will be open restaurants a lot of people they might be running low on food and will be forced to go to the restaurants that is okay just think james and darya 24 hours ago. I was talking about restaurants being open so long as theyre 6 feet apart from each other and social distance and 50 fewer people 50 or fewer people. Now theyre just trying to tell people only take out and Home Delivery but just being out here james youre absolutely right whens the last time you saw free parking all over the place and no cable cars, it is quite an eerie sight and it will be that way for the next 3 weeks this is the new norm folks and jeans, i know you love Binge Watching that you can catch up on all of that. No kidding i think a lot of extra time on our hands for that thank you very much will the dmv is also saying that it will stay open, however, its encouraging you to avoid going to any of their offices for 60 days. Unless absolutely necessary they say most of the renewals can be done online or through the mail. Now there are some things you have to go in and conduct in person like smog issues or recent transfers of vehicles. The dmv is also asking Law Enforcement to to use their discretion while enforcing expired registrations and licenses. So far unclear yet if local Law Enforcement will comply with that but yeah you can always help right. The president is a joy beyond hope hes urging you not to panic buy and not to hoard sanitizer toilet paper groceries. He says theyll be enough food for everybody kron 4 Sarah Stinson is live in south San Francisco. Or the message is not been getting as for sarah. Daria not so much the line here at this costco in south San Francisco on south airport. Boulevard it is growing by the minute last time i talked to theres about a dozen people in line now i would say theres about a 100 people in line and people just continue to get into it take a look at this video you can see shot around 7. 30 so not too long ago and even then the lines seem long but the let me tell you thats nothing as compared to what it is now a lot of people in this line started at the the Business Center in south San Francisco. But apparently that was so long at 7 oclock that they came here for some better opportunities even though an employee told me that theres absolutely no products here so no to a paper no paper towels but theyre still waiting now take a look at this live look this is where the line started okay, this is the line and then 30 minutes later it was right about here and now an hour later and were talking about it wrapping around the entire building and look you can see people are wearing some people are covering their faces with a clothing and theyre trying to keep their distance but i told many of them youre definitely not 6 feet apart, and its hard to tell because of the cars but theres people all the way down here. You see right now that person is wearing gloves and all the way wrapped around the entire building here at costco and it doesnt even open for another hour or so people are willing to wait and i asked people because you dont try keep my distance to but im curious why are you waiting in line letting you just wait whats whats the dire need and i finally found a very good answer take a listen. Stocking up that we need to to get that interview i stood 6 feet apart from them and i just zoomed in to get a closer look at him thats why hes not too loud because i was far away, but that is such a good answer its because that guy has Food Allergies so if he doesnt get what he needs it could be running off of the shelves and thats scary for him. So very good answer there. But a lot of people here elderly i even talked to a woman who has a compromised immune system and still coming out here to costco and as weve heard from President Trump from mayor london breed this is what you dont want to do even just heard from a mayor libby shaft in oakland, she said hopefully other people can get to use applies if youre elderly or if you do have a compromised immune system because its not safe to be out here theyre standing within 3 to 4 feet from each other and were being told socialdistancing 6 feet apart from each other so if you are bring some sanitary wipes. I keep your distance and hopefully you know you can just go to a gersh i will give you a little bit of a good tip here in San Francisco. If you live there its better to head to some of the local Grocery Stores, larry i dont recall local anymore, but mollie stones i whole foods right some of those smaller Grocery Stores they tend actually have some stuff on the shelves and less lives just a little too. For and what a gift you know it is people are saying if people dont end up respecting each other and doing this. Maybe were going to see more groceries cost going like limiting and saying you cant take you know 10 jars of Peanut Butter i dont know and then also some stores back east theyre already doing Hannah Montana john was saying they have like senior hours where theyre not let become in you know that way they can shop without this trouble. That would be a great idea actually they do that because i am seeing some elderly people here waiting 2 hours in the cold can see my breath and let you know where its cold out here its not its not a good situation ok, thanks a lot. No need to panic. We have not even done the tip of the iceberg when it comes to testing already there are 300 confirmed cases of coronavirus in the bay area and 5 people have died. Lets take a look at county by county number Santa Clara County is the worst a 130 confirmed cases and 4 people have died San Mateo County has had 41 people test positive and one death, San Francisco county has 40 cases 34 confirmed cases of coronavirus in Contra Costa County. Alameda has 18 patients moran, 11 solano 9 Sonoma County has 6. And now up a not reporting any cases at this point, but again theyre not doing fullscale testing anywhere of the magnitude that we expect to come in the near future at this point nationwide 85 people have died in the us and confirmed cases are at 4,660 around the world. There have been 7150 deaths james. Well governor, newsome is protecting renters and homeowners impacted by the coronavirus in fact he signed an executive order that allows local governments now to halt evictions and slow down foreclosures the governor said that hes hoping other cities will follow the examples of san jose and San Francisco in terms of putting a moratorium on evictions. We brought in and understanding of the capacity for local government to move in a similar direction which we encourage over the course of the next days and weeks to protect those that have lost their jobs their incomes been impacted clearly have been impacted because of Health Related expenses. The executive order runs through may 31th it also protects customers from having their utilities shut off. Due to non payment. And dont forget our coverage of the coronavirus pandemic continues on our website. We have an entire section dedicated to providing you with the very latest on the outbreak and its impacts here in the bay area along with tips on how to stay healthy and safe during this shelter in place order you can find all of this again under the coronavirus section under the news tab of our website. And clear view on our satellite and radar right now we are going to see a few showers this afternoon though let you know when to expect them and when our next rainy days are ahead. And not everybody taking the day off we do have some folks that still need to get to work so the drive into San Francisco will be fine if youre about to use westbound 80 but Pay Attention to the parking signs and the meters because they are still be in a mans world . Maybe for the men lash blast from covergirl mega volume in an instant lashes with up to 10x volume from easy, breezy, beautiful covergirl. Dramatic choir music dramatic choir music dramatic choir music its the rush of relaxation. Introducing the allnew lincoln corsair. This is gonna be americas favorite breakfast. They just dont know it yet. ding these are a few of my favorite things. Wendys uses freshcracked eggs on all our breakfast sandwiches. Not whatever. This stuff is. ding thats right. See you in the morning you up for this . You can run liked theres no tomorrow. But tomorrow always comes. A 14 right now and we are all here in studio but. At an acceptable distance from each other, so this is the new. Wide team over there. And standing over here watch if the streets right, i feel a little lonely you talk about the parking situation because although folks dont have to work slide out parking rules are still in force. So you cant just go out there and park it anywhere sentence of a lull right team people say they on the road and 3 which they are not they are not San Francisco, but first a look at the weather everybodys home from school and work so its going to be like you know a good day to step out the back yard catch some fresh air for sure because guess what it is really nice start to the morning now well before you woke up we did have showers in areas like San Francisco in on the peninsula. Those obviously sense cleared if you look closely hour right along the coastline. You do see those clouds sitting offshore we do have some offshore shower activity this morning but its not something thats working its way inland very much a few of the shower scene right here on future cast. As well as a few on Storm Tracker just to the north of the bay area nothing more than a sprinkle or 2 mostly sitting offshore as of right now now later today after we enjoy the sunshine for a few more hours were going to start to see some clouds building vertically are going to see him growing in the horizon a lot like you did yesterday as some daytime heating occurs youre going to get vertical movement of air and isolated bursts of heavier rainfall now really looking at much of a potential of Thunderstorm Development here. But you are going to have some spotty heavy showers most of us will remain dry. But to watch list clouds you dont to be caught underneath one unprepared. Into the evening conditions calm down before tomorrow morning some showers push back in for the north bay really breaking apart as they make their way into the rest of the bay area though just a few spotty showers even less than what were about to see today so conditions gradually continue to calm and by the time we work our way into thursday, the first day of spring our of the forecast, todays daytime highs going to feel pretty familiar if you step outside it all yesterday, you felt that cool feel today air even though sunshine was returning into the afternoon. Well todays going to be a lot like that youll have times the sunshine but its still going to be cool enough for the jacket as daytime highs remain in the 50s all across the bay area. A few spots like the south bay and oakland and concord in walnut creek well approach 60 degrees but is not quite getting there definitely on the cooler side of things compared to what weve gotten used to so far this year. Now tomorrow temperatures remain the same thursday just a touch warmer but our on thursday after that it 60s as we make our way to the first few days of spring showers returning friday night and taking us through the weekend and into the start of next week. Rob all right. Thank you john for folks relying on mass transit and we do have some changes to talk about all around the bay area if youre hopping on muni. Theyve suspended several lines, especially been on. School schedule thats what theyre really focusing on because and you know schools are out so those buses are not running. The f and the cable car. They are in service but theyre being substituted by bus shuttles. So you will not see those street cars out there, barts on a regular schedule caltrain decided to reduce their service so theyre operating on a reduced schedule and then parking if youre parking in the bay area you still need to Pay Attention to those parking signs, especially in San Francisco, i know it gets a little confusing but the parking rules to apply and street cleaning areas double parking transit zones, yellow zones, but then theyve been lifted or suspended on that residential parking areas and the 72 hour limit parking area. So those have been lifted. But then you know metered parking still in place so you got to Pay Attention before you part the bay bridge looks good the drive into San Francisco delay free so some folks have to get to work if so its only 9 minutes to fremont street and 92 looks good minor crowding on the flat section but only 14 minutes to the peninsula. James. All right robin thank you 19 new this morning uber is going to be changing the way does a few things in order to help combat the coronavirus pandemic firstly its suspending its pool option. Its an effort to prevent the spread of the coronavirus and thats the option if you havent used it that allows you to share an uber with a stranger to try and you know split the difference and get a cheaper ride the tube or says im not going to do that anymore. Their goal to try and stop berkeley slow the spread of the virus in the cities they serve, regular individual overrides though are still going to be running and then when it comes to delivering you food uber east is now going to be waving the delivery fees for more than a 100,000 in depend on restaurants across north america. Its all in an effort to help local restaurants get through the coronavirus pandemic by trying to drive up demand for their food ubereats also announced that its pledging more than 300,000 free meals to Health Care Workers and for other relief efforts. Was doing great business right now is amazon, everybodys ordering stuff online so much so that they are going to hire an additional. 100,000 employees in the u s. Because its the safest go to to stock up on what you need enough to go anywhere shelter in place in california and were not the only ones in the nation in that case. So these are going to be workers at their Fulfillment Centers transportation. Deliveries all of that theyre boosting pay as well by 2 an hour for their hourly workers. And with San Francisco mayor london breeds Public Health order businesses are now trying to find ways to keep their customers and employees happy sf iron for instance is one of many gyms in San Francisco thats going to shut its doors for the next 3 weeks. The owner says that he and his staff are scrambling right now to try to find other options. Natalie for the business but for its members as well, but they agree that the shelterinplace order is the best thing to do. These things pass like i know i know its really scary right now. And theres a line from being thrown out i think the best that we can do is to try and get ahead of this as much as possible. And i think the the actions that the city is taking right now are appropriate. Kind of more concern for you know other people are like really suffering from this concerned for myself to of course most of us label like mostly conservative community. Well as have iron will begin offering virtual classes today, well see if customers take them up on that and dealing with the coronavirus can be very scary and unnerving saying and there is a help line for you if you need it you can call the National Disaster distress helpline the numbers on your screen, its 1, 809 8, 5, 5, 9, 9, 0, you can also text or if youre hearing impaired this att why Number Available as well, but put all this information on our website at kron 4 dot com. If you need the help reach out there is help for it, well be right and were back in a 24 efforts to begin the 2020 census count are under way right now, but of course concerns over the coronavirus outbreak could very well impact the survey and dependera deploying census takers into neighborhoods to knock on doors could potentially spread the virus as well and thats why the Census Bureau has formed a Coronavirus Task force to try to figure out what to do. Washington correspondent alexander le mon explains. 2020 census mailings are showing up in mailboxes all around the country a total of up to 5 mailings they will receive reminding them and one of those mailings will actually have the questionnaire the director of the us Census Bureau Steven Dillingham says because of the global coronavirus pandemic it is more important than ever to self report in addition to being able to mail in your Census Survey you can also call to complete the survey by phone or you can take it online on your computer or cell phone for the First Time Ever your senses mailing will contain and id numbers streaming the process for using the online resources. You can answer in 13 languages, including english. We also online have assistance and we have we videos etcetera to help you in 59 languages in an effort to try to slow the spread of covid 19 the us census is delaying plans to send out door knockers who can collect the survey in person we think that can be avoided. And we hope its avoided again by getting people to self respond if they do that there are no Health Concerns whatsoever before he went into selfquarantine florida senator rick scott stressed that the data gathered in the census shapes our Government Funds come from the federal government that way we get the number congressmen and women that way the 2020 census is scheduled to be completed by july 31th. But the bureau says that deadline may have to be adjusted. In washington, alexandra le mon. The 26 right now and will continue giving you the very latest on the corona virus shelterinplace order for the bay area and its effect on your life which is huge as you can see this is a commute hour. But not in todays day and age anymore look at the Golden Gate Bridge is empty. Youre only supposed to drive if you have to for an essential reason going to an essential job or getting groceries for you and your family thats why the traffic is so light will be right back. Found one laughter found one found one. A 29 is the time and were standing by for the president and his Coronavirus Task force to give a briefing and thats going to be very important will cut and as soon as it happens were socialdistancing here on the ground on morning news. We want to find out whats next. You know, i mean whats next for the bay areas the shelter in place and that happened so fast it is and the numbers well they continue to go up under the rundown 300 so and 5 deaths, lets take a look county by county. Santa clara county the worst and a 138 cases and 4 deaths, San Mateo County has 41 confirmed coronavirus cases, San Francisco has 40 patients contra costa, 34 have tested positive so far. Alameda county has 18 moran 11 Solano County 9 Sonoma County. 6 and at this time napa county is reporting 0 but again we dont have even close to the widespread testing that is on the way and again were standing by for the president s latest breathe, everything the last time he talked to ask people to stop buying things and hoarding things like toilet paper and sanitizer acting like there would be no food in the Grocery Stores. He says dont worry, were not facing a food shortage cover Sarah Stinson is live in south San Francisco. Were costco has seen lines what are they still an hour a half hour away from opening. A half hour away from opening here in south San Francisco on south airport road and people may cause a grocery shortage at this point if people keep filling up their grocery carts to the brim shes clearing out all the shells across the bay area and people are just hoarding because it makes him feel confident they think ok by of 2 dozen cans of this and then if i have 2 dozen boxes of mac and cheese all be fine only gray like ill be able to survive these 3 weeks but heres the thing you guys the Grocery Stores are staying open so its important for everybody to take it easy get what you need you can always go back say running out of the carton of eggs you can go back to the core storing good aches for the concern for a lot of people right now is that because of this hype because of this anxiety of people going in and grabbing everything off the shelves is causing more people to go. We get more stuff off the shelves thats when a guy told us last half hour and it makes a whole lot of sense that is why were seeing. So many people line up across the bay area were seeing it here in south San Francisco at the costco in novato were also seeing in concord and weve seen it all over the place and its not just costco its Grocery Stores across the bay area mayor london breed as we know announced that to shelter in place yesterday and for some reason that really got people even more panic heading to the Grocery Store when again she mentioned Grocery Stores will stay open, thanks will stay open gas stations will stay open pharmacies so a lot will staying open unfortunately i am seeing a lot of people on this line who are elderly and even a woman told me she has a compromised immune system and not a place you want to be if you are one of those 2 types of people because youre going to be touching a lot of things in the Grocery Store and that is how you cut you get the coronavirus if you can avoid going to the Grocery Store right now at the peak hours when its swarming with hundreds of people please do so because as weve heard from President Trump and the hardin thing needs to so that other people can just simply provide dinner for their families. For now live in south San Francisco Sarah Stinson kron 4 news may take yet another set of rules will see as i said were standing by. After the president speaks era. The city of San Francisco is doing something to help people who have to work as an essential jobs. How theyre going to care for their kids because the kids dont have school. So the city is opening up 37 Recreation Centers and 28 libraries to be places for people who have essential jobs to drop off their kids and for the older kids grades, 6 through 12 at rec centers, you know they can keep an eye on the little ones and that the libraries they can help your homework and that kind of thing so kids will be taking care of they say theyre going to try to do this in the healthiest way possible. So you know keeping kids washing their hands and they dont want them to exchange coronavirus on winning atlanta to passing on. And to qualify for Emergency Care for their children. 18 so that the critics people working in San Francisco base hospitals people working. The department of Public Health, its a freeze city disaster workers. We also are providing for low working families childcare options. Officials are advising parents dont send your kids to the grandparents, you know are the elderly in a pinch because that will really in danger them because remember the elderly the most vulnerable to this virus. And many essential operate during this shelter in place or and that includes Public Transportation like San Franciscos muni and bart offers taylor sackey has more on why. As retail shops closed their doors and people repair to stay at home. Transportation in San Francisco will continue running to help our Health Care Workers and First Responders its also to help you get your groceries and medications we are providing regular service once again, bart will be providing regular service with long enough trains. That will allow for social distancing you also continue to see bart Police Employees who are central for Running Service meanwhile, will still operate but with some adjustments were working to rearrange services to decrease the amount of financial district express service. In order to reallocate service to our neighborhood lines into lines that serve our Critical Health care facilities, the citys Transportation Agency also said theyre changing some of its roles in San Francisco. We understand that many of our public will be affected by this emergency and we are immediately suspending all late penalties for failure to pay citations as well stopping sending any late citations on to dmv or to collections and adjusting parking regulations that are not related to Public Health safety and accessibility Effective Immediately we are suspending enforcement of residential parking permits peak hour tow ways and parking for longer than 72 hours. We will however need to continue enforcement of rules related to Public Health safety and accessibility of services, this includes street cleaning, walking a bike lanes double parking and parking in transit only lights. Meters will continue to be enforced because our businesses will still be open as you heard some parking in the city will be more lenient now as for the Streets Police say they will be out and about you will see patrols often especially in retail areas like this to prevent set are also making sure that people are traveling in extra large groups. And paying attention to that order and San Francisco taylor kron 4 news. This or means that you can not dine in any restaurants in the bay area. They are only allowed to give you a takeout food, bars or close altogether so on restaurants are shifting their focus and ramping up the takeout and businesses like max is at the opera. They usually have about 15 of their businesses take out. And theyre going to keep offering that and im hoping that people take advantage of it because a lot of people rely on others to cook their meals, you know not everybody cooks james, no. All right. Lets also get you updated in the with the latest around the world, we have the European Union set to close its borders to all non essential travel as it tries to contain the ongoing spread of the coronavirus french president Emmanuel Macron in fact declared war on the virus during a National Address yesterday. Banning all social events across the country including family gatherings, you know there you can use your military to help transport people and maintain order in the streets. And france and just as we look the french video just wanted to say that i was reading about chinas richest man whos donating. 6 Million Masks a million testing kits and 60,000 protective suits. 2 countries around the world. So were seeing the world come together in great part as we wait for the president to tell us what the us is doing well to wait and see again the president was supposed to speak at 8. 30 well, it looks like he may be walking up to the lectern right now. Lets go and lets go ahead and take it live washington dc the president and his Coronavirus Task force. Lets go there live. Well looks like the one least the the experts that are going to be part of todays briefing are in position were still waiting for the president to enter the room. Believe weve got a 2 minute warning. So any moment now were expecting him to come in yesterday of course he made a plea to the American Public not to hoard weve been talking about that as weve seen these long lines at Grocery Stores. Its part of our live coverage, were kind of i mean is probably going to take regulation because people are not listening and he had several steps and among those was not to congregate in groups of more than 10 people which was a lot more strict than the cdcs guidelines just the day before yeah and its interesting that california is followed the bay areas lead rights to the bay area first of the shelter in place gala gathering. Now that coming out. Lets see if he takes thank you very much of gruss be made. Appreciate you joining us. Last night, the fda announced groundbreaking new policies to further increase testing for very substantially so. Well states can now authorized test developed and used within their borders in addition. To the fda the state a very much involved they have been involved from the beginning but were setting it up as much as we can and the testing going well. And within a short period of time all of the private labs will kick in this been done before. And its a its going to be something a very i think its going to be incredible if its done properly in these Great Companies are among the greatest companies in the world actually. So the states going to be through themselves and with the local government the local physicians local everybody theyre also dealing with us. We have a tremendous said testing capacity. Today were also announcing a dramatic expansion of our medicare telehealth services. Medicare patients can now visit any doctor by phone or Video Conference at no additional cost, including with commonly used Services Like face time and skype. A historic breakthrough this has not been done before either. In addition states have the authority to Cover Telehealth Services for their medical patients. Then by doing this the they should just not seeing the doctor per se but theyre seeing the doctor so the snow getting close during this time we will not enforce applicable h i p a penalties so that doctors can greatly expand care for their patients using telehealth so the penalties wont be enforced. Encourage everyone to maximize use of telehealth to limit exposure to the virus. Its been a very successful. The method of communication but never used on a scale like were going to use a telehealth. And they will be able also better maintain. Hospital capacity by doing this. Earlier this morning. I spoke with executives from americas fast food. Industry wendys all of the big ones, burger king. And they were great too were talking about the pickups in light of yesterdays guidance you to avoid eating or drinking in bars restaurants are public food courts. We discuss the Important Role that the drivethru pickup and Delivery Service can play in the weeks ahead. So happening and theyve been fantastic. They have been absolutely fantastic and theyve been doing it already keeping it open. Then the smaller staffs, very capable people in very capable companies and theyre doing it pickups. Theyre yesterday urges americans to take action for 15 days to help stem the outbreak. So its a 15 day period. I guess now would say to 14 day period. 15 days from yesterday and were asking everyone to work at home a possible postpone unnecessary travel and limit social gatherings to no more than 10 people. By making shared sacrifices and temporary changes we can protect the health of our people and we can protect our economy because i think our economy will come back very rapidly. So its 15 days from yesterday, well see what happens after that if we do this right. Our country and the world frankly, but our country can the rolling again pretty quickly pretty quickly. We have to fight that invisible. Guess unknown but were getting to know what a lot better. Today the senate is taken up coronavirus legislation that includes free testing for those who need it as well as paid sick leave and family medical leave for work is affected by the virus. Were also committed to getting Small Businesses that support that they need in fact one of the things we talked about with the fast food. Operations we spoke to the chairman and ceo of all of the companys but one of the things we discussed is exactly that getting Small Businesses support and flexibility that they need for themselves and for their workers and thats being worked on right now. At my direction. Secretary mnuchin is meeting today with senators on additional stimulus packages i can tell you hes meeting with them. Late into the. Night last night and the. For a big part of the day yesterday and did tremendous things are happening. Theres great spirit, tremendous spirit and i can say that for republicans and democrats. I can say that with respect to Governor Cuomo we had a great talk this morning with both doing a really good job. And were coordinating it. And we agree in a different the Different Things and we we agree on that a 100 but but a very good talk and i think were right down the same track. And its going to be very successful new york is a. A pretty big problem i guess would be the number one hot spot. Thats no fault of anybodys its a just the way it is but were working very closely together. Were also getting fema very much involved theyve been involved and now were getting them to a different level. Then they will have everything ready were dealing with the army corps of engineers should that be necessary we have them. Working in some cases on standby in other cases, but my conversation. With andrew cuomo a very very productive wanted a very good one. I appreciate that. We giving a relief to affected industries and Small Businesses and were ensuring that we emerge from this challenge with the prosper son growing economy because thats whats going to happen. Its going to pop one day will be standing possibly appear will say well. We won and were going to say that sure as youre sitting there were going to say that then were going to win and i think with their win faster than people think i hope. Later today on meet with the leaders from the german to the Tourism Industry as well as Industrial Supply retailers and wholesalers to discuss theyre critical roles as you know i met with the departments are people of the retail is the big ones, including walmart and others. Then there was great meeting the stocking up this to us like to have a stockton before. Were trying to get people to actually buy less of thats possible by less. Dont take everything just buy what you need for a while its taken to stay open. All hours of the day and that really been theyve been fantastic. Were taking aggressive action now as one nation one family so that america can rebound stronger. Frankly stronger than ever before. And we recognize that while Many American workers can work from home, many others cannot. Many of our Health Care Providers First Responders and men and women in the food service and manufacturing. Showing theyre showing up and standing up to provide us with goods and services we need so we want people to stay home where they can but many cases when you talk about food service and certain items in particular. They are theyre going in. And theyre practicing all of the safety rules and regulations that we talk about. So that id like to just introduce a Vice President mike pence will say a few words and they dont think some other introductions thank you very much. Thank you. Mister president good morning. We should be very clear to the American People that President Trump has initiated not only a whole of government approach for the whole of america approach. And the president s interaction even today and through the course of this day with leaders in industry around the country reflects that were not only bringing the full weight of the federal government to bear but the full weight of the American Economy and i know i speak of after the president when i say how inspired we are at the way the American People have stepped up and the way that american businesses large and small have stepped up this truly been inspiring. Our task force met this morning and we continue to focus on President Trumps priorities of testing. Prevention. And supplies. In that pleased to report that that while testing is available in all 50 states as the president just indicated to the swift action of the fda at the encouragement of governors around the country. Now a state Health Authorities can authorize labs in their state and expand existing. Testing capabilities. But also in connection with the fdas action which really more about the we now have continued to expand the public and private partnership that the president forged with vast commercial laboratories around the country increasing access to the high volume of high throughput. Coronavirus testing that is a that is greatly expanding texas even as we speak. Also our task force received a report this morning on the progress that the us Public Health service and fema are making working closely with state governments and also partners in the private sector like cvs target walgreens and walmart to expand remote testing sites. Around the country and well have a full report later this week as those come online. Its important the American People understand the testing is happening all over the country. For all of our head Health Experts wanted me to tell the American People. You dont need the results of testing. To know what you should do. And President Trumps 15 day coronavirus guidelines. Our advice for every american in every community theyre the result of the best kinds of cdc and other Health Experts as the president said we continue to urge every american over the next 15 days to put into practice, the principles in the president s coronavirus guidelines by every american practicing these principles we believe that we can slow the spread of the coronavirus in fact. Our experts have told our task force that if every american acts on the president s coronavirus guidelines we could see a substantial reduction in the spread of the coronavirus. But as the president said it will take all of us to do it. So if you feel sick stay home, this someone in your house test positive keep the entire household home. Especially if youre a person with an Underlying Health condition. We urge you to stay home and practice social distancing from people. No social gatherings of more than 10 people. You strive through as the president discussed with leaders in the industry today and every american. The specially practicing common sense and good hygiene. The American People as a whole the risk of serious illness remains low. But were asking every american to partner with us in this effort to slow the spread of the virus and especially to be mindful of seniors or others with serious Underlying Health conditions for whom the threat of the coronavirus can be very significant and very real as i said the president has continued to push our task force the to bring a whole of government a whole of america approach and we continue to be inspired to wear nations governors nation businesses are responding. We spoke just yesterday with the leaders of every broadcast network in america that will soon be unveiling a public service. Campaign using cdc guidelines. And specifically as we work on the issue of supplies. The meetings yesterday with department of defense officials about excess supplies. The president and i will be meeting today to speak about supply chain for hospitals. We would make one specific requests and that is we would urge Construction Companies to donate their inventory of the n 95 mask to your local hospital and forgo additional orders of those industrial masks because of what the president asked to be included in legislation moving through the congress today. Those industrial masks that they use on construction sites are perfectly acceptable for Health Care Workers to be protected from a respiratory disease. What were asking Construction Companies that are president knows very well from his background, were asking them to donate their own 95 masks to their local hospitals and also forgo making additional orders thats president s direction we will of we will continue to do whatever it takes well continue to marshall the best of the american the best of all the people behind me the people behind them. Our state and local officials. We will get through this and we will get through this together. Thank you miss i want to thank chad wolf and Homeland Security in the job they did at the airports was. Really incredible the screen too. Thousands and thousands of people. Weve got that cup but little bit got him out in that but everybody was screened in screen very carefully. They didnt want to rush it. They was 13 airports and use it was an incredible. They then they had a big surge also from. The uk and ireland and that went very smoothly, but they did a fantastic job they work long hours and they did a fantastic job. Id like to introduce steven engine and im going steve to leave because a hes going to the hill. Its been working very hard with the senate and with actually with the house on a very very a big bold package. Its going to be big is going to be bold in the level again of enthusiasm to get something done uh i dont think ive ever seen anything quite like it so a statement in place. That thank you mister president id like to announce some very significant actions that the president has approved today. The first i would say is earlier today i sent a letter to fed chairman powell approving his request to use 13 3 and what that will do the fed will be setting up a special Purpose Vehicle which the treasury invest 10 billion in from one of our funds that will enable the fed to guarantee the purchase of a one few one, commercial paper going for it that is a trillisn market and is critical to American Workers. Its critical to american business. And its in critical to american savers who have a lot of that money in money market funds so we heard loud and clear their liquidity issues. This is very significant and will create a i dont think we need to use it all, but we have the ability to have the fed purchase up to trillion of commercial paper is needed that has already created significant stability in the market today. The second thing i would say is you know we previously talked about. Differing irs payments, the president earlier this morning. Authorized me to announce this program i have previously announced we would defer 200 billion. The president suggested we increase that to 300 billion which will we we will be doing now let me just be clear on the specifics. We encourage those americans who can file their taxes to continue to file their taxes on april 15th, because for Many Americans you will get tax refunds and we dont want you to lose out on those tax refunds we want you to make sure you got them. Many people do this electronically which is easy for them and easy for the irs. If you owe a payment to the irs. You can defer up to a Million Dollars as an individual and the reason why were doing a Million Dollars that covers lots of pastors and Small Businesses and million to corporations interest free and penalty free for 90 days all you have to do is file your taxes you automatically. Not get charged interest and penalties. Now of course any american has the right to extend their taxes were not taking that are right that the president has asked us to go up to billion. Thats also an enormous amount of the court in the system. The 3rd thing is the president and i worked on a very significant economic stimulus plan. Thank you for being available last night throughout this morning and i will be presenting that to the republicans in the senate this morning also discussing that with the house. We look forward to having bipartisan support for now working with the senate. Pass this legislation very quickly and these will be payments to Small Businesses. Weve talked about loan guarantees said to Critical Industries such as airlines and hotels and weve also talked about a stimulus package to the american worker. You can think of this is Something Like Business Interruption payments for the American Workers. Thank you you have any questions for the secretary of the which is a stimulus package for American Workers do you need well president likes the idea of the payroll tax holiday i will tell you what weve heard from many people in the president has said we can consider this. The payroll tax holiday we get people money over the next 6 to 8 months, were looking at sending checks to americans immediately. What weve heard from hardworking americans, Many Companies have now shut down whether its bars or restaurants. Americans take cash now and the president wants to get cash now and i mean now in the next 2 weeks so much. I will be previewing match with the republicans there some numbers out there they may be a little bit bigger than whats in a place with are you going to give to and discussions with all the airline ceos this week. The airline ceos have had conversations with the senate and the house as the president said i was up with a subset of the republican senators last night to discuss that with them i think is you know this is worse than 9. 11 the for the Airline Industry. This theyre almost ground to a halt. The president wants to make sure that although we dont want people to travel what critical we want to maintain for critical travel. The right to have to match to dollars is that not going to comment on the specifics. I will tell you were very focused theres a lot of workers that is a strategically important to us and well be working with the Airline Industry will be in good shape talk 1000 checks to every american increasing support. Republicans and some democrats for that. Would you support that going to everyone or would you support some sort of income restriction on who gets a check why i think its clear we dont need to send people who make a Million Dollars a year checks. The uk. We like thats one of the ideas we like what were going to preview that today and then well be talking about details after a i think i think were going to do something that gets money to them as quickly as possible. That may not be an accurate way of doing it because obviously some people should be getting checks with 1000 will have a pretty good idea by the end of the day were going the mechanics of this work weve been talking about a payroll tax. Holiday of some billion worth was for it to me today to sign with this idea. A city people to check work with you that piece or 2 i we want to make sure americans get money in their pockets quickly. We want to make sure Small Business owners have access to funds we want to make sure that hotels. Airlines we have an entire package will be laying out those details later today, you have to say this there are 4 different ways you can do it thats it before you can hear me well magic it is certainly people held here. It is a very important people. Come to think especially people. We have 4 or 5 ways we can do it for ways in particular i think is the 5th the possibility, but there are some very good ways the getting the money out and getting it out quickly. Payroll tax is one way but it does come over a period of the months many months and we want to do something much faster than that so i think we have ways of getting money out pretty quickly and very accurately. And these how quickly you see it you can get this the president instructed me we have to do this now. So this is now with how we are going to work with the senate is in session right now actively. We will continue to have conversations with the house ive already spoken to Speaker Pelosi once today. This is stuff that needs to be done now the president has instructed me that this is no fault. 2 American Workers for medical reasons were shutting down parts of this economy and were going to use al
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